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__label__wiki	0.978955	0.978955	Talking from experience EDITORIAL 05/22/2010 Talking from experience The Palace has raised the possibility of a political firestorm similar to the one that formed in the aftermath of the “Hello Garci” scandal as allegations of cheating in the country’s first automated polls continue to build up. In the 2005 controversy, the allegations of fraud became too evident that Gloria appeared on nationwide television to say her infamous “I am sorry” and the protests that accompanied it resulted in calls for her to step down and triggered a coup in 2006 that was averted only after Gloria allegedly bought off the allegiance of military brass. Despite fending off an ouster, Gloria plodded through the six years of her extended presidency by keeping herself on the saddle. Noynoy Aquino, if he is proclaimed president-elect by Congress as a National Canvass Board, may face the same curse of public distrust if he assumes the presidency and consigns the fraud allegations as part of gripes among the losers in the just concluded elections. The outrage shown by Makati Rep. Teddy Boy Locsin on automated poll supplier Smartmatic’s nonchalant admission of errors in the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines as readouts, passed off as “unforeseen” would likely be a precursor to a similar level of public outrage as more defects, intentional or not, of the expensive poll system come out in the open.... MORE Still evasive Thai government must engage Thaksin to heal divides Still evasive FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 05/22/2010 It seems pretty clear that the electronic fraud was probably massive, given the evidence being presented in the congressional hearing and the evident evasive and unsatisfactory answers given by Smartmatic tend to show that the poll officials as well as its partner in automation knew just how massive this fraud is. But even as clearly the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines failed in ensuring fraud-free polls, there went the Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioners, still claiming that the fraud couldn’t have been massive, and even as the evidence was being presented before the body, and saying that such would not alter the results of the polls. In other words, Comelec officials were there, still defending the failed automated polls and naturally, their partner, Smartmatic, even taking the same line of the partner that the time logs in the transmission of the election returns are of no importance. There was absolutely no anti-fraud security system in this first ever automated election which is now being discovered to be a big flop, as well as perhaps being the dirtiest automated polls ever. So who should be held responsible and accountable? Smartmatic, for certain. But the Comelec officials, they too, very definitely should be held accountable, as it was they who had approved the removal of all the security features, giving the Comelec cheating syndicate, led by the Big Four, all the opportunity to manipulate the results of the polls. While it was fairly clear, from the start, that these Comelec commissioners were pretty clueless, or at least playing cluelessness, about automation and relied heavily on whatever Smartmatic did, as did the PPCRV, that always looked the other way, the fact is that it is just common sense for a poll body, given its history of having been marked with fraudulent practices, to ensure that all the security features were retained.... MORE Thai government must engage Thaksin to heal divides ANALYSIS 05/22/2010 BANGKOK — Thailand’s government must engage former Premier Thaksin Shinawatra in reconciliation efforts after a bloody crackdown on his “Red Shirts” supporters, or risk inflaming the nation’s crisis, analysts said. The government has accused Thaksin, a billionaire tycoon ousted in a 2006 coup, of bankrolling and masterminding Thailand’s worst political violence in decades which has left 83 dead since Reds rallies erupted in March. Thaksin lives in exile to avoid a jail sentence for corruption, but the government has exerted pressure on countries he has visited, moved to freeze his finances and sought a warrant for his arrest on terrorism charges. But political observers said the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, appointed with the army’s backing after Thaksin’s allies were ejected by a 2008 court ruling, must now change tack. “This government keeps making wrong decisions, including the crackdown. Squeezing Thaksin is another wrong decision,” said Pavin Chachavalpongpun, from the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, in Singapore. “Thaksin is not the only problem here. For the government to squeeze him, to punish him, it won’t solve the current crisis.”... MORE Temperature Range: vs Comelec, Smartmatic By Gerry Baldo 05/22/2010 ATONG ANG’S NAME SURFACES IN PROBE Temperature Range: vs Comelec, Smartmatic By Gerry Baldo Legislators zeroed in on more anomalies in the recent automated polls ranging from empty “back up memory cards,” election returns found in junk yard to questionable technology subcontractors at the resumption yesterday of the hearing conducted by the House committee on suffrage and electoral reforms on allegations of massive electronic poll fraud. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) and automated poll supplier Smartmatic Corp. continued to get the blame for the flawed automated elections even as lawmakers raised more questions about alleged anomalies in the conduct of the recent polls. Abakada Guro Rep. Jonathan de la Cruz said the Comelec and Smartmatic should come out with a list of all its subcontractors for information technology because some of them could be questionable. He added he received information that one of those who subcontracted the IT system was a company owned by Atong Ang and this was deployed in Rizal province and Region IV. “Is it true that Atong Ang was among the subcontractors in Rizal and in Region IV?” De la Cruz asked Comelec officials. He said that Ang’s involvement in the elections could have resulted in former President Estrada’s loss in Laguna, Rizal and Region IV. “Who is Atong Ang? Is he now involved in information technology? Who were his technicians in Rizal and Region 4?” De La Cruz asked.... MORE Locsin says koala Locsin says koala Chavez, The Firm trade barbs anew US vows to work closely with new RP leader House forms panel to canvass votes Palace concedes Lakas lacks numbers to get top House post Locsin says koala Locsin says koala By Marie Surbano and Aytch S. de la Cruz 05/22/2010 By Marie Surbano and Aytch S. de la Cruz The hunt for the identity of the koala, or the poll fraud whistleblower sporting a mask similar to the Australian marsupial, is on with the Commission on Elections (Comelec), saying yesterday it already had clues on who unleashed him while Makati Rep. Teodoro Locsin Jr. claimed at a House hearing yesterday that the supposed witness is a creature of the Palace. “I know who you are. Do not provoke me to name you,” Locsin said, referring to personalities in Malacañang. The Palace quickly denied Locsin’s allegations. The whistleblower who hid behind the name Robin recounted a supposed elaborate and systematic operations of electronic vote shaving in the May 10 elections which Liberal Party (LP) standard bearer Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino leads in the Comelec tally. Comelec spokesman James Jimenez said the person behind the whistleblower is “a losing candidate” without specifically identifying anybody. Jimenez refused to divulge details on its supposed findings saying initial reports that they received from several government agencies point to a “losing presidential candidate” as the mastermind behind the masked man nicknamed by Congressman Teddy Boy Locsin as a koala bear. “The information is still very very difficult to substantiate but we trust our sources,” said Jimenez. The Comelec, according to Jimenez, is still verifying the identity of the whistleblower. Asked what they will do if they find out who engineered the masked man’s revelation, Jimenez said, the mastermind face sanctions for undermining the credibility of the elections.... MORE House forms panel to canvass votes 05/22/2010 The House of Representatives has formed a nine-member group that would work hand-in-hand with the Senate in canvassing the votes for president and vice president beginning Tuesday. Speaker Prospero Nograles, in a text message, yesterday said the group will be composed of himself as chairman, Majority Leader Arthur Defensor, Minority Leader Ronaldo Zamora, Senior Deputy Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II, Senior Deputy Minority Leader Roilo Golez, Representatives Crispin Remulla( Cavite), Didagen Dilangalen (Shariff Kabunsuan with Cotabato City), Matias Defensor (Quezon City) and Michael John Duavit (Rizal). In case of absences, alternate members include Representatives Teodoro Locsin Jr. (Makati), Rufus Rodriguez (Cagayan de Oro), Lorenzo Tañada III (Quezon), Liwayway Vinzons-Chato (Camarines Norte), Simeon Datumanong (Maguindanao), Giorgidi Aggabao (Isabela), Pedro Romualdo (Camiguin), Joseph Emilio Abaya (Cavite) and Eduardo Zialcita (Parañaque). Nograles said both the House and the Senate, convening separately, are set to approve the draft rules of canvassing on Monday, hence, he expects the National Board of Canvassers to start official canvassing the day after or on Tuesday. Nograles and Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile will serve as co-chairman of the special canvassing committee. Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, meanwhile, is seeking to inhibit herself from the Senate panel of the joint congressional committee to canvass the votes cast for presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 10 May 2010 elections. The reelected senator sent a letter on Friday to Enrile requesting for her exclusion from the Senate contingent, citing her being a guest candidate of four political parties.... MORE DPWH urged to build wrecked Cainta ripraps 05/22/2010 DPWH urged to build wrecked Cainta ripraps Cainta homeowners are calling on the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in this province to act swiftly to construct the ripraps of their village which were washed out by typhoon “Ondoy” last year. Daniel Rafael Prats, president of the Village East Homeowners Association Inc. (Vehai), said the DPWH could have done the construction of the ripraps immediately after its destruction to prevent a repeat of the nightmarish flooding that happened last year. “More than 2,000 homeowners of the village conveyed their apprehension to DPWH and even to Rizal leaders and officials that if possible they should build the destroyed ripraps during summer or before rainy season comes but they did nothing about it,” Prats said. He cited the construction of the ripraps at the adjacent village by the DPWH though the site was an open corn field and far away from the residents. “If the DPWH did the construction why not in our village when its destroyed ripraps are within the perimeter where the houses of the homeowners are located?” he said. The village homeowners are now in great fear as the rainy season is coming and the destroyed ripraps still lay in waste and any time the village will be flooded by a heavy down pour.... MORE Congress poll fraud probe won’t affect transition of gov’t NPA tortures, executes two captured militiamen PDEA warns public anew on proliferation of cocaine Noynoy, Mar headed for win in absentee polls abroad SC: Aquino taking oath before another justice OK Binay’s camp chides Roxas for ‘copycat ad’ Army to make changes in training after cadet dies of heat stroke Transmission error causes proclamation of wrong winner ‘Clearing, of landmines in Mindanao a herculean job' Congress poll fraud probe won’t affect transition of gov’t 05/22/2010 Preparations for the smooth transition of power to the next administration will not be affected by reported moves in Congress to reschedule the proclamation of the next President and Vice President in deference to the committee investigation into reports of alleged electronic fraud in the May 10 polls. Deputy presidential spokesman Charito Planas said Malacañang is “ready and just waiting” for the next administration even as it recognizes the fact that only Congress has the power to proclaim the incoming President and Vice President. “The Arroyo administration is ready and prepared to receive, and so it is up to the incoming President and Vice President to name their counterparts who will sit down with us for the transition,” Planas said. The Senate and the House of Representatives have reportedly agreed to move the proclamation of winning candidates for President and Vice President from the earlier reported date of June 4, possibly to June 30, in deference to the ongoing committee inquiry into allegations of electronic fraud. Under the Constitution, President Arroyo’s successor has to take the oath of office at noon of June 30. Planas said the Palace respects the decision of Congress, being an independent and co-equal power of the Executive branch of the government.... MORE Binay’s camp chides Roxas for ‘copycat ad’ 05/22/2010 The camp of leading Vice Presidential candidate Jejomar Binay has described the “copycat” print advertisement of Sen. Manuel Roxas as “less than truthful” since it failed to say that Binay won in 66 of the country’s 81 provinces during the May 10 elections. “We don’t really mind if they copied the ad, but they should have been more truthful in presenting the provincial results,” Binay’s spokesman Lito Anzures said. The ad, which appeared in several newspapers Friday, copied the format of the Binay ad, which showed the United Opposition bet winning in 14 out of 17 regions. He also noted that the ad included Roxas votes from cities, thus “bloating” the figures. “I though the Roxas camp had said we should all wait for the results of the canvass. But here they are again, misleading the public,” he said. Anzures said the Roxas camp has earlier failed to say that the votes from their bailiwick, which they claim would swing the tide in their favor, account for only less than 20 per cent of the total number of votes cast.... MORE Army to make changes in training after cadet dies of heat stroke 05/22/2010 The Army leadership will be making adjustments in training activities for soldier-applicants following the death by heat stroke of one trainee in Isabela province on Wednesday, a military spokesman said yesterday. “We have to study (what changes should we make in the training procedures) because of climate change and intense temperature nowadays. We have to make adjustments in schedule of training if trainees are undergoing strenuous activities,” Armed Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos Jr. said. On Wednesday, prospective Army recruit Ericson Pascua, of Cordon town, Isabela, died of heat stroke after almost completing initial exercises during reception day training at the Army’s 5th Infantry Division (ID) headquarters in Camp Melchor dela Cruz in Gamu town, Isabela. Pascua passed out in the last stages of the reception exercises while 16 other fellow trainees of his suffered heat exhaustion and dehydration. He later on died despite hours of attempts to revive him in a private hospital in Isabela. The 16 other trainees were declared out of danger and were back training. A total of 350 prospective recruits are undergoing training under the 5th ID. On Wednesday morning, the temperature in Tuguegarao City, which was 100 kilometers away from the training facility, was registered at 39.7 degree Celsius. Burgos said Army chief Lt. Gen. Reynaldo Mapagu has already issued a guidance not to conduct strenuous activities during the intense heat.... MORE Transmission error causes proclamation of wrong winner 05/22/2010 An administration mayoralty aspirant in Maasim town in Sarangani province has asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to immediately nullify the earlier proclamation of the town’s winning mayor due to noted discrepancies in the town’s total vote count that were supposedly caused by the erroneous transmission of election returns from one of the polling precincts in the area. Maasim mayoralty candidate Arturo Lawa yesterday said he filed a petition before the Comelec en banc in Manila for the rectification of alleged errors in the town’s voting results after the Municipal Board of Canvassers (MBoC) supposedly failed to properly count the votes cast from clustered precinct number 21 of Barangay Kablakan in Maasim. He claimed the MBoC erroneously counted the votes cast during the mock elections or the testing and sealing of the deployed precinct count optical scan or PCOS machine in the polling precinct and not the actual votes cast during the May 10 automated elections. Based on the MBoC’s official count, Lawa, who ran under administration coalition Sarangani Reconciliation and Reformation Organization-Lakas-Kampi-CMD (Sarro-Lakas), trailed the proclaimed winning mayor Jose Zamorro by only 15 votes. Zamorro, who ran as an independent, received 5,321 votes while Lawa only got 5,306 votes. But Lawa, who is an outgoing provincial board member, said it turned out that the MBOC only counted the nine votes cast during the mock polls at precinct number 21 as shown in the statement of votes that it earlier released. He said the questioned clustered precinct, which covered four established precincts in Barangay Kablakan, had 800 registered voters, wherein 616 of them actually voted in the May 10 elections based on the copies of election returns printed from the PCOS machine.... MORE ‘Clearing, of landmines in Mindanao a herculean job’ 05/22/2010 ‘Clearing, of landmines in Mindanao a herculean job’ The head of the government Ad Hoc Joint Action Group (AHJAG) yesterday described as a “herculean job” its and the Moro Islamic Liberation’s (MILF) task of locating and ensuring the safe disposal of landmines and unexploded ordnance scattered in various areas in Central Mindanao at the height of the fighting in the region. Brig. Gen. Jose Vizcarra, AHJAG chairman representing the Philippine government and concurrent deputy commander of the peace process of the Western Mindanao Command of the Armed Forces, said many of these deadly devices could be found in the vast Linguasan marshland and jungles in the region. Vizcarra welcomed the move to ban the use and the clearing of landmines and unexploded ordnance in conflict-affected areas in Mindanao, which, he said, will strengthen the peace process between the government and the MILF. A group called Philippine Campaign to Ban Landmines (PCBL) and the Foundation Suisse de Deminage (FSD), or the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action, are supporting this noble project. The implementing guidelines for the PCBL-FSD project, signed last May 5 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was pursuant to the joint statement of both panels in November 2007 relative to the clearing of landmines and unexploded ordnance (unexploded ordnance). Vizcarra said the government and MILF teams will jointly conduct tracking and defusing of landmines and unexploded devices to ensure that people in Central Mindanao and other areas will not be hurt by them. He said many live mortar and cannon shells were dropped in the Linguasan marshland during the fighting but did not explode and they will try to recover and defuse them. Vizcarra also appealed to the MILF to report to the AHJAG any landmine and unexploded ordnance they find in their areas so that these explosives can be defused properly. Another task the AHJAG will have to contend with is to find unexploded bombs dropped in Mindanao during World War II. “These explosives must be located and defused,” Vizcarra said.... MORE URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100522nat10.html Still evasive FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 05/... Thai government must engage Thaksin to heal divide... Temperature Range: vs Comelec, Smartmatic By Gerr... 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__label__wiki	0.965746	0.965746	Foul play EDITORIAL 01/05/2012 House prosecutors are into dirty play, aided moreover, by the yellow media, what with the lead prosecutor, Iloilo Rep. Niel Tupas Jr., at a media forum, coming up with a deed of sale document of a condominium said to belong to Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, and claiming four more Corona properties that he said the prosecution is in the process of verifying while calling on the CJ to make public his Statement of Assets and Liabilities Networth (SALn). The next day, the yellow media had a photo of an empty Taguig penthouse which is not even the condo that the CJ owns, and which condo, incidentally, he had earlier disclosed in his reply to the impeachment complaint..... MORE ‘America preparing military intervention in Syria’ Damascus is criticizing the US for sending an envoy to Cairo's Arab League discussions about ending the Assad regime’s crackdown on dissent. London-based political analyst Chris Bambery says the US is preparing for a military intervention in Syria. According to Barbery, sanctions against Syria are only the beginning of Western intervention. "The key ally in this enterprise, Turkey, has been involved with the Free Syrian Army – training them, and we know there are also American advisers in those camps in Turkey," he says. And, "when you combine all that – sanctions, diplomatic moves, the involvement with the Free Syrian Army, it begins to create a dynamic that though perhaps the Americans don’t want involvement in the military operation in Syria, they can pull it in that direction.”.... MORE URL: http://rt.com/news/military-syria-arab-america-223/ ‘EU lacks sense of society to politically unite’ “A monetary union without political union is impossible to maintain,” economist Arjo Klamer said 20 years ago. And as Europe struggles to deal with the euro crisis, the EU countries are still too different to politically unite, Klamer told RT. Klamer, who is a professor of the Economics of Art and Culture at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, says a political union should be formed now, because stronger fiscal coordination and better social policy would support the euro. However, “There is too much heterogeneity. The countries are too different. Countries are too attached to their own sovereignty,” he told RT..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/news/eu-political-union-failure-237/ Libya: Collapse of justice leaves at least 7,000 behind bars (w/ Video) Libya: Collapse of justice leaves at least 7,000 behind bars With their common enemy dead and gone, the uniting factor which bound Libya’s former rebels in their fight against Muammar Gaddafi has melted away. Now, in-fighting among the different armed factions is spilling onto the streets. Meanwhile, thousands of Libyans remain behind bars waiting for the new rulers to try them for their crime of failing to jump ship. One of the first amnesties of the new Libya was when hundreds of men and women, many of them sub-Saharan immigrants, were released from a makeshift prison. Most of them had spent several months in captivity for the crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/news/libya-justice-collapse-tripoli-227/ CNN censors vet that supports Ron Paul (w/ Video) CNN censors vet that supports Ron Paul The establishment’s war against Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has been evident since the Texas congressman began surging in the polls, but the previously privy attack on the candidate was made public to millions Wednesday night. During a live interview Wednesday night from an Iowa caucus location, CNN briefly spoke to an US military veteran and adamant supporter of Rep. Ron Paul until the soldier began praising Paul for the non-interventionist ideals that separate the congressman from the mainstream candidates endorsed by the establishment..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/cnn-ron-paul-thorsen-207/ Poor Bart I.N.S.I.D.E . C.O.N.G.R.E.S.S Charlie Manalo 01/05/2012 Poor Bart I.N.S.I.D.E . C.O.N.G.R.E.S.S Charlie Manalo He may enjoy the title Chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) but Nicanor Bartolome may be far from one. According to reliable sources inside Camp Crame, ex-fugitive, Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson, who is reportedly being eyed by President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino to take over the helm of Department of Interior and Local Government, is already wielding his influence in the force, particularly on the appointment of officers in juicy positions. According to the source, Ping, who went into hiding after being implicated in the Corbito-Dacer double murder case, only to surface later after Noynoy assumed the presidency, is imposing himself on Bartolome, allegedly dictating on the PNP chief on who to appoint to certain positions in the police organization, prompting one official to described Lacson as the “de facto chief PNP.”.... MORE Noy gives green light to ‘shaved’ FoI By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 01/05/2012 Noy gives green light to ‘shaved’ FoI By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 01/05/2012 A watered-down version of a controversial bill seen crucial in achieving transparency in government transactions was approved yesterday by President Aquino. Press Undersecretary Manolo Quezon III admitted that the original version of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Bill has been defaced and many of its crucial provisions that promote free access to information have been removed. The Malacañang version of the bill includes giving special shield for the President and his official family from being scrutinized on the basis of an FoI Law..... MORE Pinoys in Syria reject return, say no jobs in RP By Michaela P. del Callar 01/05/2012 Pinoys in Syria reject return, say no jobs in RP Majority of Filipino workers in Syria have rejected the Philippine government’s offer to repatriate them to the Philippines for free amid the worsening political security situation in the troubled Middle East state, citing scant employment opportunities back home, Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario admitted yesterday. Del Rosario, who flew to Syria last weekend to personally check on the progress of evacuation efforts of the Philippine Embassy there, said many Filipinos have expressed their desire to remain even as the government declared the highest crisis alert in the country that calls for mandatory repatriation of all its nationals.... MORE Flood victims, kids compete for use schools 01/05/2012 Flood victims, kids compete for use schools Flood evacuees and pupils competed for space of schools yesterday, with both wanting to use the buildings following the Christmas break, officials said. In some cases, survivors of last month’s floods from tropical storm “Sendong” were moved to alternative shelters as children returned to schoolhouses that had been used as evacuation centers. But in other instances, hundreds of the evacuees refused to leave, forcing school officials to find novel ways of conducting classes..... MORE For not getting ‘pulutan,’ drunken man kills 3 women 01/05/2012 For not getting ‘pulutan,’ drunken man kills 3 women A drunken man went on a shooting spree and killed three women and wounded an American after he was not given “pulutan” (appetizer) last Tuesday night in Tondo, Manila. The suspect was identified as Ronald Cruz, 37, of 1220 Masinop St., Tondo, a former seaman and a messenger of Philippine Reclamation Authority..... MORE Katipunan heroine’s remains brought to QC hall today 01/05/2012 Katipunan heroine’s remains brought to QC hall today The remains of Melchora Aquino, more popularly known as Tandang Sora, are laid today at the Quezon City Hall after their exhumation from Himlayang Pilipino before they are brought to their final resting place at a shrine exactly where she was born 200 years ago. At a press conference, Mayor Herbert “Bistek” Bautista and Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte, who heads the Task Force Tandang Sora, said the relics of the Grand Old Lady of Katipunan, who was said to be a look-alike of actress Dawn Zulueta when the city’s lone heroine was in her 20s, will be brought to the city hall in a flag-draped casket and on a horse-drawn carriage..... MORE ‘America preparing military intervention in Syria’... 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__label__wiki	0.902821	0.902821	CSX donates boxcars for 4-8-4 restoration RELATED TOPICS: CSX \| STEAM PRESERVATION NASHVILLE, Tenn. — CSX Transportation has once again made a significant contribution to the restoration of No. 576, the legendary Nashville steam locomotive currently undergoing a full restoration. As the successor company to the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad where “The Stripe” ran the rails in the 1940s and ‘50s, CSX supported the locomotive’s relocation from Centennial Park to the restoration site, and earlier this year donated a turntable that will facilitate future excursions once the locomotive is hauling passengers again. Now the third-largest railroad in North America has donated two boxcars that will allow the Nashville Steam Preservation Society to secure valuable equipment and key materials throughout the restoration process. “CSX has been a tremendous partner to the Nashville Steam Preservation Society, and our success to date has been a tribute to that support,” said NSPS President Shane Meador. “From the planning stages through the move across town in January, down CSX rails to Union Station in March, and continuing today through additional contributions that make the restoration possible, our friends at CSX have been generously supportive and willing to help. We couldn’t be more appreciative of their care and support, for the benefit of future generations.” Designed at the Nashville headquarters of the NC&StL, No. 576 was built and delivered to Nashville just in time to haul troop and supply trains throughout the southeast as America entered World War II. After the war, The Stripe operated in revenue service for 10 years before being donated to the people of Nashville. Over the years, it became an iconic backdrop for countless childhood memories and photographs in Centennial Park, including a 1960s LIFE Magazine cover featuring Johnny Cash. The Nashville Steam Preservation Society formed in 2015 to preserve and celebrate the artifacts of Nashville’s rail heritage. NSPS secured an agreement with Metro Nashville in 2016 to lease the locomotive with the intention to restore and operate the steam engine for special excursions out of downtown Nashville. Over the last two years, NSPS has raised more than $800,000 of the approximately $2 million needed for restoration, and thousands of volunteer hours have been dedicated to moving the engine across town and the ongoing restoration. To learn more and get involved, visit www.nashvillesteam.org. Source: NSPS press release Oregon House passes oil-train legislation Delaware-Lackawanna named NS ‘Short Line Of The Year’ Maryland short line to reopen stretch after 7 years Bombardier to open railcar assembly plant in California Operator cleared in MBTA Red Line derailment; service delays continue Diesels from two railroads honoring first responders will headline fire truck festival in N.C. Four railroads combine to offer interline intermodal service to Central Florida Strasburg's Craig Lefever passes on Connecticut observes one-year anniversary of CTrail Hartford Line service Outside review of MBTA derailments could take three months Wasatch Railroad Contractors celebrates 20th anniversary Wisconsin depot burns New York governor assigns 500 more police to transit duty First scouts arrive at Raton, N.M., on the Amtrak 'Southwest Chief' AAR: Overall carload and intermodal traffic down more than 5% for the week of June 15 Port Authority completes ExpressRail project PTC stalls Tri-Rail move to MiamiCentral station MBTA continues work on Red Line, ends special commuter trains Diesel Days to feature Alco and GE locomotives in western Pennsylvania Halifax kills commuter rail proposal Former Rio Grande business cars find a haven at Grand Canyon Power outages hit Amtrak, commuter operations on Northeast Corridor UP train carrying munitions derails in Nevada, briefly closing Interstate 80	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line415
__label__wiki	0.93207	0.93207	TIPP Indexes About TIPP Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year 2008 2009 2010 2011 5 10 15 20 25 30 50 100 All Jobs A Factor In Immigration Debate Published: Wednesday, 26 May 2010 20:04 Written by Raghavan Mayur in Investor's Business Daily If you're wondering why Arizona's new immigration law has drawn such strong support from Americans in other states, look no further than the nation's high rate of unemployment. Incumbents' Achilles' Heel: Job Sensitivity The country is once again divided into haves and have-nots. This time, however, the haves are not those with wealth but those with jobs, and have-nots are those who don't have jobs or fear they'll soon lose the jobs they have. Consumer Confidence Edges Up in May Written by IBD/TIPP Press Release LOS ANGELES (May 11, 2010) — The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index increased 0.3 points, or 0.6%, in May posting 48.7 vs. 48.4 in April. This month's reading puts the index 0.2 points above its 12-month average of 48.5 and 4.3 points above its... High (Job) Anxiety Written by Investor's Business Daily Editorial Economy: The addition of 290,000 new jobs is great news for the economy and for those Americans who have struggled during the recession. But as good as it is, we're not out of the woods yet. Not by a long shot. 290,000 New Jobs Added Last Month, Most In Four Years Written by Scott Stoddard in Investor's Business Daily Employers hired the most in four years in April, the government said Friday, on growing confidence that the economic recovery was on solid footing. Drill, Baby, Still Published: Thursday, 06 May 2010 19:39 Energy: After BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, federal and state governments moved quickly to shelve plans to drill off the U.S. coast. But a new poll taken after the spill suggests Americans still support drilling. IBD/TIPP Poll: 60% Favor New Arizona Immigration Law Written by Sean Higgins, Investor's Business Daily Editorial pages may rage against the Arizona immigration law, but a solid majority of Americans support it, an IBD/TIPP poll found. Now Who's Afraid Of The S Word? Published: Monday, 26 April 2010 20:00 IBD/TIPP: How dare you use the S word? they gasped in 2008 when we ran a series about Barack Obama titled "The Audacity Of Socialism." But now, more Americans than not think that's how our future is spelled. Will They Take 'No' As Answer To VAT? Published: Wednesday, 21 April 2010 20:00 Taxation: Ask almost anyone — economists, politicians, entrepreneurs, average Americans — and they'll tell you a value-added tax is a bad idea. So why does the White House continue to consider it? Dynamics Of The Midterm Election Are Working In Republicans' Favor Responses to the latest IBD/TIPP Poll suggest that the economy, one-party rule, the health care bill and the ascendancy of conservatism will be the four defining corners of the square in the political game coming in November. TIPPONLINE.com - © 2016 TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line418
__label__cc	0.703814	0.296186	Nupical Face Powder Box Comments (0) Filed under: Face Powder Boxes, LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE Tags: 1930s, Creola McCarter Milner, Gin Marriage I found this Nupcial Face Powder box (c. 1920s) in a booth at an Orange County antique mall several years ago. I paid $30 for it. I’d never seen the brand before and expected never to see it again, but I was wrong. Earlier this week I discovered four Nupcial product labels for sale at an online auction site. I happily spent $95 for the labels in various sizes and shapes—they will look absolutely splendid framed. What interests me about the powder box is its unusual mash-up of styles. Here, brightly colored geometric shapes, the hallmarks of Art Deco style, surround a classic 1920s bride. But while the graphics are era appropriate, they seem jarring. Brightly colored spears are attacking the poor woman! The peculiar design of the Nupcial box sends a mixed message. Was the product meant to appeal to a traditional bride or to someone more fashion forward? The effect symbolizes the social chaos that characterized the Jazz Age, probably unintentionally so. Inspired by the box to learn more about marriage during the 1920s, I did some digging. Apparently the widespread fear of moral decay that resulted in Prohibition led California legislators to pass a “gin marriage” law in 1927. The law was well meaning—it mandated a three day waiting period to discourage couples from drinking in speakeasies then making a mad dash for a local preacher to unite them in matrimony while three sheets to the wind. Enacting a law may seem like a drastic step, but concerns about inebriated brides and grooms weren’t entirely unfounded. On December 19, 1930, the Los Angeles Times reported the story of a failed gin marriage. A pretty blonde stenographer, Creola McCarter Milner, sought an annulment from her husband of a few months. Creola told the judge that she had become intoxicated on the eve of her marriage and awakened four days later to find herself married to someone other than her intended. Many women’s and religious groups believed that the law would lead to more and better marriages. Instead, it drove couples out of state to places like Yuma, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada where they could marry on a whim; the marriage rate in California declined precipitously and the divorce rate increased. Legislators came their senses and repealed the gin marriage law in 1943. Upon second reflection, I think the graphics on the Nupcial face powder box conveys a decipherable message after all. The design may be a jumble of traditional and trendy, but it works in its own quirky way. I think the same can be said of marriage. My husband and I are a mixed bag of idiosyncrasies, yet our marriage thrives. And before you ask, we were sober when we exchanged our vows.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line424
__label__cc	0.582285	0.417715	Films and Podcasts Round-the-World Record Attempt Match The Miles Jenny Graham Kendal Mountain Tour Brighton The Old Market (map) The Old Market 11a Upper Market Street Hove, England, BN3 1AS In the summer of 2018 Jenny Graham rode her way into the Guinness Book of World Records by becoming the fastest woman to circumnavigate the world by bike. Completing her ride solo and unsupported she covered 18,000 miles in 124days, knocking almost three weeks off the previous (supported) record of 144 days set by Italy’s Paola Gianotti in 2014. Starting her journey in Berlin on 16 June 2018, Jenny cycled 15 hours a day, often riding through the night when the roads were quieter. She managed an average of 156 miles a day and an average speed of 14mph a day. The 18,000 mile route took her over four continents and into 16 countries. Battling through tornados, bear country and Russian traffic, Jenny tells her story with a humorous take on the highs and lows of the ventures she endured. Join Jenny Graham at the Kendal Mountain Festival for an evening of tales of adventure. http://www.kendalmountaintour.com/brighton-19 Sign up to receive our newsletter and updates.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line437
__label__cc	0.559486	0.440514	911:Book of Revelation Revision as of 12:30, 25 August 2012 by Commendatori (Talk \| contribs) Bro. Terry's Home page The Birth of Idolatry Astrotheology Worship of the Heavens Catholic Heresies Heresies Timeline Occultists Mystery Religions Magic Squares and Sigils New Age agenda New Age Terminology Titles of Yahshua Awareness control Mass neurosis Geophysical warfare Trauma mind control Persuasion and Brainwashing Joris Demmink scandal Media mind control False media Tavistock Formula Occult symbolism Intro part I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII. DIA murals Occult etymology History of oppression Insider literature Covenant of evil Science of fascism Social terrorism Population stress Homosexual Agenda Environmental terrorism Political trap Financial scandals Vatican network Jesuits In America Various Jesuits Jesuits Coadjutor Quotations: Jesuit Order Black nobility SMOM network Pilgrim Society Order of the Garter Prominent masons Co-masons Masonic ladder Order Rosae Crucis The Boule Masonic Judaism Masonic Islam Shia muslim genocide Masonic Buddism Masonic media agents Masonic politicians Masonic judiciary Global banking BIS bank Military and arms trade It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. - Proverbs 25:2 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. Revelation 1:3 Behold, I come quickly: blessed [is] he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. Revelation 22:7 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams - Acts 2:17 & Joel 2:28 Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings I Thessalonians 5:19-20 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Revelation 19:10 1.1 Is the book of Revelation literal or symbolic? 2 The woman riding the Beast 2.1 The Woman 2.1.1 Whore of Babylon (MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT) 2.1.1.1 Mother of Harlots 2.1.2 Gold Cup 2.1.3 Abominations and filthiness of her fornication 2.1.4 Blood of the Martyrs and the Saints 2.1.5 Death of the Whore 2.1.5.1 Destruction of Rome 2.2 The Beast 2.2.1 Authority from the dragon 2.2.2 Resemble a Leopard, a Bear and a Lion 2.2.3 7 Heads and 10 Horns and 7 crowns 2.2.3.1 Seven heads 2.2.3.2 Ten horns 2.2.3.3 Seven crowns 2.2.4 Everyone will worship this beast 3 Number of the Beast 3.1 Mark of the beast 3.1.1 Material Mark 3.1.1.1 Tattoo 3.1.2 Non Material Mark 3.1.3 Uncertainity 4 Solomon's Temple 4.1 Tabernacle 4.2 Solomon's Temple 4.3 Second Temple 4.4 Third Temple 5 Man of Sin 5.1 Pope 6 Seven seals 6.1 White horse 6.2 Red horse 6.3 Black horse 6.4 Pale (green) horse 6.5 Souls under altar 6.6 Sun/moon/star event 6.7 Silence ½ hour 7 Seven Trumpet Judgments 7.1 1/3 Trees 7.2 1/3 Sea 7.3 1/3 waters wormwood 7.4 1/3 Sun/moon/stars 7.5 Abaddon from pit & locust 7.6 Euphrates 4 angels 7.7 Days of voice & kingdoms are Lord's 8 Seven vial (bowl) judgments 8.1 Mark of beast sore 8.2 Sea blood 8.3 Rivers water blood 8.4 Scorching sun 8.5 Seat of the beast 8.6 Kings of east & gathering to 8.7 It is done Prophecies involving the Pope as the seat of the Antichrist: interpreting the meanings of the symbols of the Beast and of the Whore of Babylon (woman riding the beast) pictured in the chapter of Revelations. Is the book of Revelation literal or symbolic? The key for understanding the Book of Revelation is found at the front doorstep of the Book. Verse 1 says: "The Revelation...signified [Greek, sema--a sign] by his angel to his servant John." Revelation is a book of signs, that is, symbolic language. No wonder, Jesus always spoke in parables Matthew 13:34-35! He was not talking about literal "wheat" or "tares." Neither did Jesus speak to John in vision about literal beasts or "locusts." Only once in awhile are the parables or the symbols of Revelation translated. "The waters. . .are peoples." (Revelation 17:15). Outsiders will not otherwise understand this symbolic language (Mark 4:10-12). "And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them" [21] [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter. Proverbs 25:2 The woman riding the Beast Who is the woman riding a beast with a gold cup in her hand? Revelation 17:3 "So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns." Revelation 17:4 "And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication" Revelation 17:5 "And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." Revelation 17:6 "And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration." Revelation 17:7 "And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns." Revelation 17:9 "And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth." Revelation 17:18 "And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." Whore of Babylon (MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT) Jean Paul II Funeral mass. Revelation 17: And the woman (the church) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour These are the colors of the Holy See, or the administrative arm of the Vatican. The Pope's aides wear purple vestments , with shirt sleeves that are scarlet from the elbow to the wrist and purple skull caps , while Cardinal Bishops wear black and scarlet. As for the Pontiff, he generally wears white under garments with a scarlet cape when he is there. Judges 8:26 "...and purple raiment that was on the kings.. Purple is also used by the Vatican-Jesuit led Freemasons. Inside the Executive Chamber of the "House of the Temple", Home of The Supreme Council, 33°, Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Catholics pray repetitive words with Rosary Beads that were first invented in 1090 AD, by "Peter the Hermit" and made popular by St. Dominic in 1208 AD. Catholics believe that Mary appeared to St. Dominic in 1208 AD, at the church of Prouille and revealed the Rosary Beads to him. From this time, Catholics prayed 15 sets of 10 consecutive "hail Marys" in a row (150 times), in the Rosary. However, in 2003 AD, Pope John Paul added a new set of Mysteries, so now it is 20 sets of 10 "Hail Marys", (200 times in the Rosary, in total.) Catholics will vainly appeal to Psalm 136 that alternates the same phrase 26 times with 26 different blessings God gives us. It is not 26 in a row as with the rosary! This is also a song, not a prayer. Revelation 4:8 has "angels singing" not "men praying". [1] Jean Paul II holding a Monstrance. The Roman Catholic Church even admits the Monstrance to be a sunburst: "During the baroque period, it took on a rayed form of a sun-monstrance with a circular window surrounded by a silver or gold frame with rays." Source: The Dictionary of the Liturgy by Rev. Jovian P. Lang, OFM., published and copyrighted © 1989 by Catholic Book Publishing Co., New York, ISBN 0-89942-273-X, page 436. [2] The inscription of the columns on the central entrance door of St. John Lateran, the Cathedral of the Bishop of Rome. It translates to “Sacred Lateran Church, Universally for the City and the World, Supreme Mother of Churches”, or “Holy Lateran Church, Mother and Head of all Churches in the City and the World”, a fulfillment of Revelation 17:5. "Supreme Mother of Churches = Mother of Harlots" And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. Woman is a Church in prophetic language Woman, Pure = True Church (Jeremiah 6:2 - "daughter of Zion, 2Corinthians 11:2, Ephesians 5:23-27, Revelation 12:1-2) Woman, Corrupt = Apostate Church also called "Harlot" (Ezekiel 16:15-58; Ezekiel 23:2-21, Hosea 2:5; 3:1, Revelation 14:4) The woman still symbolizes a church, but one which has committed spiritual adultery. Her cup is filled with fornications. According to the Bible, this represents a turning away from Christ and unfaithfulness to His Word. "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that friendship of the world is enmity with God?" James 4:4. Although married to Christ, this church has been disobedient to His Word, taken the teachings of the world, His enemy, and therefore become a spiritual harlot. The fornications in the cup would constitute false teachings and doctrines that would be contrary to Christ, the true husband [22] Woman is a Church and THE great (spiritual) city (of ROME) Rev 17:18 "And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." Other References for "great city": Revelation: 14:816:1918:1018:1618:1818:1918:21 She wears Purple and Scarlet colors Revelation 17:4: "The woman was robed in purple and scarlet and bedecked with gold..." Revelation 18:12: "Their merchandise is of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet..." Revelation 18:16: "Alas, alas for the great city that was robed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet..." Scarlet is the color of sin Isaiah 1:18 "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow." Purple is the color for a king's garments. Judges 8:26 "...and purple raiment that was on the kings.." Mark 15:17 "And they clothed him (Jesus) with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head..." Aslo see: Tyrian Purple (Imperial Purple (1,200 BCE)), Monsignor, Cardinal, Clergy (Archbishop & Bishop), Abbot > pervesion of the word "Abba" ( Matthew 23:9: "And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven") MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT "MYSTERY" This self-proclaimed "mother" church is also Mystery Babylon, the apostate church of Mysteries and the purveyor of Babylonian doctrinal confusion. (Note this quote of John Paul II from the Vatican Information Service press release dated 17 September, 1997): Thanks to greater attention to the mystery of the Church and Mary's relationship with her, the Virgin has begun to be invoked more frequently as 'Mother of the Church.' Mystery is also the term used by the Roman Catholic Church to refer to the Mass, specifically the Transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. It is a key part of Catholic dogma. These are the words of the priest in Latin or English: Hic est enim caix sanguinis mei, novi et aeterni testamenti: mysterium fidei, qui pro vobis et pro multis effendetur in remissionum peccatorum. For this is the chalice of my blood, of the new and eternal testament: the mystery of faith', which for you and for many shall be shad unto the remission of sins. The Catholic is also well familiar with many "mysteries" through the recitation of their Hail Marys and the rosary. There are 15 decades of prayer (150 recitations) and during each decade of ten recitations, the Catholic contemplates on one of the "mysteries" of the church, which are the Luminous Mysteries Historical note: Roman Catholics borrowed the idea of praying with beads from the pagan religions who were already using them hundreds of years before: In 456 AD, Hindus are thought to have introduced the concept of praying with beads to the world. The earliest reference to a rosary (boberkhas) is in their "Jain Canon" (456 AD) These boberkhas had various numbers of beads 6,9,12,18,36 (any sub-multiple of 108) Islam (610 AD) uses a rosary of 99 beads, one for each of the names of God. Buddhists have 108 prayer beads on the string. The Rosary is of pagan origin and no Christian prior to 1000 AD used beads to pray. [23] This, of course, is totally opposed to the teaching of the Bible, as per Matthew 6:7 "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking." "BABYLON THE GREAT" todo: Roman Catholicism as occult/babylonian/sun worship/luciferian/pagan based religion of the antichrist Similarities between the Pagan Sun Gods doctrines and Catholic Church Doctrines Pagan Influence Upon Roman Catholicism video: The Wine of Babylon Since the Vatican Doctrines are not Christians (Not inspired from Scriptures) but from the Mystery Religions (man made religions), the beast is really a Pagan Sun/Stars Worshiping system, and all other "Sun worship" / Babylon types system / Astro-Mythology religions fall in the same category, thus making almost everyone worship the beast. See: Vatican & Jesuits (Occultism) See: Number of the Beast See: Vatican City and Catholicism See: The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop Mother of Harlots "When the early church departed from God and imbibed pagan errors, she became Babylon." --Quoted From -- the International Sabbath School Quarterly, Feb. 29, 1896 "It was by departure from the LORD, and alliance with the heathen that the...church became a harlot, and Rome, corrupting herself in like manner by seeking the support of worldly powers, receives a like condemnation. " --Quoted From-- The Great Controversy, Pg 382 [24] "There is but one universal (Roman Catholic) Church of the faithful, outside of which no one at all can be saved" (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215.) "[The Holy Roman Church] firmly believes, professes and teaches that none of those who are not within the Catholic Church, not only Pagans, but Jews, heretics and schismatics, can ever be partakers of eternal life, but are to go into the eternal fire 'prepared for the devil, and his angels' (Mt. xxv. 41), unless before the close of their lives they shall have entered into that Church; also that the unity of the Ecclesiastical body is such that the Church's Sacraments avail only those abiding in that Church, and that fasts, alms-deeds, and other works of piety which play their part in the Christian combat are in her alone productive of eternal rewards; moreover, that no one, no matter what alms he may have given, not even if he were to shed his blood for Christ's sake, can be saved unless he abide in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church." (Mansi, Concilia, xxxi, 1739.) (Pope Eugene IV, Bull Cantate Domino, 1441). [25] The inscription at the base of the columns on either side of the central entrance door of St. John Lateran, the Cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, the pope. It reads: SACROS(ANCTA) LATERAN(ENSIS) ECCLES(IA) OMNIUM URBIS ET ORBIS ECCLESIARUM MATER ET CAPUT. And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. Another proof that she is a mother of Harlots [26] Revelation 18:6-7: "Repay to her what she herself has paid [to others] and double [her doom] in accordance with what she has done. Mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed [for others]. To the degree that she glorified herself and reveled in her wantonness [living deliciously and luxuriously], to that measure impose on her torment and anguish and tears and mourning. Since in her heart she boasts, I am not a widow; as a queen [on a throne] I sit, and I shall never see suffering or experience sorrow" Isaiah 47:7-8: "And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children." The Vatican said on Tuesday Christian denominations outside Roman Catholicism were not full churches of Jesus Christ. See Also:Sister Churches (ecclesiology) Pope John Paul II, dressed in purple, holds a golden cup, during the Papal Apology Mass on March 12th, 2000. Some Cardinals in attendance wore both prophetic colors of purple and scarlet. Eucharist wafer ritual based on the transubstantiation illusion - a symbolic form of cannibalism [3] (bread -> flesh, wine -> blood). This is an occult ritual enacting the repetition of the sacrifice that Yah'shua (Jesus Christ) did once for the sins of the world Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord's hand, making all the earth drunken. The nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: Gold Cup represent: "I wondered with great admiration having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication": Revelation 17:6 "The golden cup" (Chalice (cup) - Holy Chalice) the woman holds represents false doctrines A List of Catholic heresies and Human traditions adopted and perpetuated by the Roman Catholic Church in the course of 1600 years (Main Article) Transubstantiation, Ecumenism, The Birth of Idolatry (see also:Idolatry and Christianity), Marian devotions, [27] (Also see: Roman Catholic Mariology, Co-Redemptrix), Eucharist, the Mass: The blood of Jesus Christ was shed at the cross, and is not present in the Catholic Mass except in a symbolic way. Claiming the Mass is the same sacrifice, the true body and blood of Christ, but in an unbloody manner is nonsensical and a corruption of the truth and Atonement, through "faith and the sacraments" (Vs Protestant Salvation through Sola fide only) "The errors of the popery arose, for the most part, in times of great ignorance. And as from their very nature they could not stand the light, it became the settled policy of Romish ecclesiastcs, to exclude that ligth as much as possible from the midst of the minds of men. The conversion of preacher into the priest, the saying of the mass in the stead of proclaiming salvation, the invention of numerous and burdensome ceremonies, the introduction of saint and image worship, and especialy the interdicts placed upon the reading of the scriptures all these were so many means invented by crafty mens to shut out the light of the gospel from the dupes of this dreadful delusion" Pope proved to be AntiChrist by Sam Cassells, p 330. Cardinal Newman admits in his book that the "temples, incense, oil lamps, votive offerings, holy water, holidays and seasons of devotion, processions, blessings of the fields, priestly vestments, the tonsure (of priests, nuns and munks) pictures and statues … are all of pagan origin. " - The development of the Christian Religion Cardinal Newman p.359 [28] A woman holding a cup main symbol on vatican coins which depict Fides (the Catholic Faith) This medal of Pope Innocent XI was struck in 1680, the 4th year of his reign. On the reverse side is Fides (mythology) representing the Catholic Church. Again she is holding the golden cup of the Mass and a cross. The inscription translates to "Safe and Steadfast". Left side: INNOCENT XI PONT - M - A - IIII Right side: IN SECVRVM STABIT A gold Scudo minted during the reign of Pope Clement XI in 1718 (Anno XVIII) with a cup holding Fides on the reverse. Bronze papal medal of Pope Leo XII, minted to commemorate the second year of his reign, the jubilee year of 1825. Again the Roman Catholic Church is portrayed as a woman seated on the globe with a cup in her hand. The inscription on the reverse reads SEDET SUPER UNIVERSUM, declaring that her seat of authority is universal, i.e., over the entire globe. Illustrations of two more coins (gold - 2 Zecchini) minted during the reign of Leo XII, which depict Fides (the Catholic Faith) as a woman on the reverse side, also holding the golden cup of the Mass. Pope Leo XII - 1828 (Anno V) - "Supra Firmam Petram" Papal medal minted by Pius XI in 1929 to commemorate both the Lateran Treaty, which restored Papal sovereignty and made Vatican City an independent state, and the 50th jubilee of his priesthood. The sunburst wafer of the Eucharist that appears in the sky above the Lateran and St. Peter's basilicas, over the cup of the Mass is the Black Sun symbol of the Jesuits. Note: This commemorates the restablishment of the papal power by the Jesuits after Napoleon dethroned the pope in 1798 along with General Berthier Pope Pius the 12th - 1958 Pope John the 23rd - 1959 Pope Paul the 6th - 1963 Abominations and filthiness of her fornication One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. With her the kings of the earth committed adultery and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.” Revelation 17:2 Todo: "filthiness of her fornication" represents the meddling of the Vatican and Jesuits with the world politcal affairs See: Jesuit operations See: Vatican: Popes See: Spiritual and Temporal Powers Blood of the Martyrs and the Saints Revelation 17:6: " I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus" Hundreds of Protestant Christians were promptly burned at the stake for adhering to such anti-Catholic and, according to the papacy, “evil” thoughts; and many more Protestants had to flee for their lives into neighboring countries. But it was pope Innocent_III who first instituted the office of the inquisition, which was also officially sanctioned by subsequent popes — Gregory IX in 1233, Clement VII in 1380, Leo X in 1531, et al. The slaughter of countless thousands (millions by some accounts) of innocent Bible believing Christians was the result of this ‘holy’ inquisition, a diabolical practice that continued for several centuries in various countries (France, Spain, Holland, Portugal, Italy, et al). The members of this order, the Dominicans, have ever since been the principal inquisitors in every country into which that horrible tribunal has been introduced (American Dictionary of the English Language, Webster, 1828, 1911; Dictionary of Saints 1980; Book of Martyres, Charles A. Goodrich, Hartford, printed by Philemon Canfield, 1830, pp.85,86,103; Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 1999). Authorized by the Pope(s), the Crusades — the so called “Holy Wars” (1095-1272); the French Wars of Religion (1562-98); the Thirty Years' War (1618-48) — were a series of wars fought against Bible believing Christians and others who opposed the papacy and rejected the teachings of the Roman Catholic church (The Cambridge Factfinder 1994, pp. 175,176). Unfortunately, this information has been largely suppressed in the Catholic community, as Catholic apologists have used diversion techniques and other methods to steer both Catholics and non-Catholics alike away from the truth. With the amount of misinformation and distortion of facts being disseminated over the years, it is no wonder why most Catholics know little or nothing about the true history of their church, as the hierarchy of the church of Rome has done its best to conceal these disturbing facts and re-write its own history. [29] Carcassonne, bastille and headquarters of the papal inquisition in southern France during the 13th Century. The focal point of persecution were the Waldenses and Albigenses, keepers of the 7th day Sabbath. [4] In the 1100s and 1200s, a gradual renewal of the true gospel in Europe prompted persecution from the “official” Church. This led to one of the bloodiest periods in known history. For the next few hundred years, the Vatican’s pursuit of “heretics” was relentless. The Roman church was able to maintain and enhance its political strength by torturing and executing Christians who opposed them. Truly Christian groups such as the Waldenses and Albigenses, who would not bow to Rome’s authority, were hunted down and put to death. This persecution of the saints has been recorded in Foxes Book of Martyrs and other historical writings. [30] Numerous Popes promulgated bulls, official documents, which encouraged torture and murder of those who opposed the Roman Catholic religious system. The methods of gruesome torture devised during the period of the Inquisition are a testimony to the corrupt influence of Satanically-inspired human beings apart from God. Ten thousand Huguenots (French Protestants) were killed in the bloody Paris massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day, 1572. The French king went to mass to return solemn thanks that so many heretics were slain. The papal court rejoiced at the news, and Pope Gregory XIII in grand procession, went to the Church of St. Louis to offer thanks. Inquisition was ordered by papal decree and confirmed by Pope after Pope. The medieval castle of Carcassonne, housed the famous bastille of the inquisition in southern France. Being the center of persecution of the Albigenses and Waldenses, the castle now houses the largest collection of torture implements of Europe in its museum. At the present time it is closed to the public. [5] "There was no village of the Vaudois valleys but had its martyrs. The Waldenses were burned; they were cast into damp and horrid dungeons; they were smothered in crowds in mountain caverns, mothers and babes, and old men and women together; they were sent out into exile in the winter night, unclothed and unfed, to climb the snowy mountains; they were hurled over the rocks; their houses and lands were taken from them; their children were stolen to be indoctrinated with the religion which they abhorred. Rapacious individuals were sent among them to strip them of their property, to persecute and exterminate them. Thousands of heretics" or Waldenses, "old men, women and children, were hung, quartered, broken upon the wheel, or burned alive and their property confiscated for the benefit of the king, and Holy See."-Thompson - The Papacy and the Civil Power [31] This does not detract from Hitler's Pope, Pius XII, who abetted the Nazi regime. Hitler would never have come to power had it not been for Catholic support. While Jews and others died in Nazi concentration camps, the Pope and others who knew what was going on were silent. And, after the war, the church was instrumental in helping Nazis to escape via the infamous ratlines. There appears to be nothing new, no change of heart, in the Roman system. Repentance, not political apologies, is the only avenue for those enmeshed in the Romish system of Babylon. The way to repent for papists is to renounce the Babylonish system, to come out of her. The castle of Montsegur in the French Pyrenees mountains was the final refuge of the Albigenses in the 13th Century. These are the ruins of the fortified walls of the castle where the last of the Albigenses were exterminated. Who do the Catholic Church say are heretics? - “Heretics (those who are not members of the Catholic Church or who do not hold to Catholic doctrine) worship a God who is a liar, and a Christ who is a liar.” — St. Augustine, (quoted in “Patrologiae Cursus Completus: Series Graca”, by Fr. J. P. Migne, Paris: 1866, 42:207). - "Whoever does not agree with the Apostolic See is without doubt a heretic." Pope Paschal II: (1099-1118) - Todo: Council of trent -> Dave Hunt "Woman who rides the beast" How does the Papal Church say they should deal with heretics? - “When confronted with heresy, she (Catholic Church) does not content herself with persuasion, arguments of an intellectual and moral order appear to her insufficient, and she has recourse to force, to corporal punishment, to torture.” — The Rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris, H.M.A. Baudrillart, quoted in The Catholic Church, The Renassance, and Protestantism, p 182-183. - “A heretic merits the pains of fire....By the Gospel, the canons, civil law, and custom, heretics must be burned.” — The American Textbook of Popery, p 164 (quoting from the “Directory for the Inquisitors”). - “The Catholic Church has the right and duty to kill heretics because it is by fire and sword that heresy can be extirpated. . . . for the highest good of the Church is the unity of the faith, and this cannot be preserved unless heretics are put to death..” — Institutes of Public Ecclesiastical Law, Marianus de Luce, 1901. [32] "And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations." (Revelation 13:7) This verse says the beast would fight against God’s people and defeat them. This coming statement is not intended to foster any ill towards another as this would be contrary to Christian teaching and not only that but over the centuries, many wonderful Christian people from the Catholic Church have done many outstanding deeds. But truth is truth and the sad truth is the Roman Catholic Church murdered and tortured between 50 and 150 million people as heretics. The City of Trent in northern Italy was the place where the papal Council convened to break the power of the Protestant Reformation. At the Council, dominated by the newly organized Jesuit order, the bishop of Rheggio announced on January 18, 1562, that the Protestants could never defend Sunday sacredness if they continued to offer as their authority, "the Bible and the Bible only, for there is no Bible command for the sanctification of Sunday". The bishop claimed it was the power of the papacy that changed the day of worship.[6] Wheels were adapted to many torturous uses. They could be part of a stretching rack, but medieval torturers were far too creative to leave it at that. Early torturers were fond of tying someone to a large wooden wheel, then pushing it down a rocky hillside. A more elaborate method involved a wheel mounted to an A-frame that allowed it to swing freely. The victim would be tied to the wheel, and then swung across some undesirable thing below — fire was always a good choice, but dragging the victim’s flesh across metal spikes also worked well. The wheel itself could also have spikes mounted on it, so the pain came from all directions. Instead of swinging, the wheel might turn on an axle. The difference was likely immaterial to the victims. [7] The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) (Congregatio pro Doctrina Fidei), previously known as the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition, and sometimes simply called the Holy Office, is the oldest of the nine congregations of the Roman Curia. Among the most active of the congregations, it oversees Catholic doctrine. Papal war against other religions The Great Inquisition Persecution of Christians crusades.wikia.com In-Quiz-ition video: The Catholic Torture Inquisition Medieval Inquisition (Papal Inquisition 1233) Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834) Portuguese Inquisition Roman Inquisition (1542-1700) Counter reformation Marian Persecutions French Wars of Religion St. Bartholomew's Day massacre Mexican Inquisition Peruvian Inquisition Goa Inquisition Death of the Whore "This statue (European Parliament building), standing in front of the Winston Churchill building, refers to ancient mythology and depicts one the most ancient representation of Europa. Its based on a story where Zeus disguised himself as a white bull in order to seduce the princess Europa who was gathering flowers. When she approached the bull and got on its back, the bull seized the occasion to run away with her and eventually rape her (I’m giving you the non-censored version of the story). So the woman (who represents Europe) on top of this bull is about to get raped. [8] See also: Europa (mythology) And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Destruction of Rome The great city "made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication" is ROME sitting on the seven hills. And as per Revelation 18:7-9 she will be "utterly burned with fire". Does Un-biblical Zohar also agrees? According to "Dr. J.R." of "Church of Prophecy in the News", ancient orthodox Jewish prophets in the Zohar had predicted the arrival of their Messiah in the year 2012. This ancient rabbinical dissertation claims that Rome will be destroyed in the Jewish calendar year 5773, which, in our calendar begins with the new moon of September 2012 and concludes a year later. [33] "In the year seventy-three [2012 / 2013] the kings of the world will assemble in the great city of Rome, and the Holy One will shower on them fire and hail and meteoric stones until they are all destroyed, with the exception of those who will not yet have arrived there." Besides the obvious revelations of the Zohar prophecies, another thing that immediately stood out to me was how among other scholars of the implications of the year 2012, a few have pointed to a prophecy by Malachy O’Morgair, or "St. Malachy" as he is known to Catholics, having to do with "the last pope." This prophecy, taken from St. Malachy’s "Prophecy of the Popes," is among a list of verses predicting each of the Roman Catholic popes from Pope Celestine II to the final pope, "Peter the Roman," whose reign would end in the destruction of Rome. According to Malachy’s prophecy, the next pope (following Benedict the 16th) is to be the final pontiff, Petrus Romanus, or "Peter the Roman." He will assume authority during a time of great tribulation, and then "the "city of seven hills" will be destroyed, and the terrible and fearsome Judge will judge his people." [34] Revelation 13:1-5 (King James Version) And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? What is less appreciated is that in this type of genre, an ancient style of writing called Apocalyptic writings, much of the imagery is well known and can fairly straightforwardly be interpreted. I cannot go into everything here so will sketch a few highlights. The first beast is said to: Get its authority from the dragon, Resemble a leopard, a bear and a lion, Have 7 heads and 10 horns (with 10 crowns), we know also that Everyone will worship this beast and no one can defeat it in battle. Authority from the dragon The Great Dragon lies at the heart of the Vatican. Curiously, one of the Popes adopted the winged serpent or dragon as his symbol on his heraldic shield. Here is the heraldic coat of arms of Pope Gregory XIII, 1572-1585 A.D., who is most known for initiating the calendar reform in use today, the Gregorian calendar. This is something you can confirm in the book The Pope Encyclopedia by Matthew Bunsen, published by Crown Trade Paperbacks page 163. [9] The first point is fairly straightforward. The dragon, is identified as “the ancient serpent.” The allusion here is to the story of Adam and Eve in the first three chapters of Genesis; there the serpent is a crafty creature that tempts Adam and Eve to try to be like God and encourages them to disobey God’s commands. Occult symbolism: Dragon/Serpent Titles of the Devil/Satan In Christianity video: NEPHILIM – The Sons of God and the Antichrist And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth :the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Resemble a Leopard, a Bear and a Lion Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream and Daniel’s Vision [10] & [11] There is a broad agreement among Jewish and Christian scholars that the kingdoms represented by Daniel's lion, bear and leopard, are the successive ancient kingdoms of Babylon, Medo-Persia and Greece, followed by the fourth "terrible" beast, that is understood to be the Roman Empire. This conclusion is reached within the traditional continuous-historic context of prophecy. This is simply the view that bible prophecy is fulfilled steadily, as the era about which it is written gradually unfolds. This is the context in which virtually all Christians and Jews understand Old Testament prophecy. [35] World Powers of Bible History Daniel 2: Identification of the four kingdoms Lion - Babylon Daniel 7:4 The first [was] like a lion, and had eagle's wings... Bear - Medo-Persia Daniel 7:5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear... Leopard - Greece Daniel 7:6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard... Fourth "dreadful" - The Roman Empire Daniel 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly... Eschatology: Jewish eschatology Book of Daniel: The Book of Daniel lays the framework for the study of the tribulation period and Daniel alone gives the two critical preconditions for the beginning of the period: 1) the existence of Israel as a national entity; and 2) the re-emergence of a future form of the Roman Empire under the leadership of a small group of ten leaders from which the Antichrist will ultimately derive his authority to rule and emerge as a satanically empowered dictator (Dan. 9:26-27), with the full knowledge and assistance of these ten leaders (Rev. 17:12-13). [36] Daniel 3 - Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego Daniel 5 - The writing on the wall Daniel 7 - Prophecy of the beasts Daniel 8 - Prophecy of goat/ram/horn Daniel 9 - Seventy-week prophecy Daniel 11 - Prophecy of Kings Literary parallels in the Book of Daniel 7 Heads and 10 Horns and 7 crowns The Seven hills of Rome represent the seven heads of that beast. "Mussolini and (Cardinal) Gasspari sign historic Roman pact. Pope Becomes Ruler Of A State Again". Rome, June 7.--From 11 o' clock this morning there was another sovereign independent State in the world. At that time Premier Mussolini, as Italian Foreign Minister representing King Victor Emmanuel--the first Italian Premier ever to cross the threshold of the Vatican--exchanged with Cardinal Gasparri, Papal Secretary of State, representing Pope Pius XI, ratifications of the treaties signed at the Lateran Palace on Feb. 11. By that simple act the sovereign independent State of Vatican City came into existence. -New York Times July 7, 1929 Revelation 12:3 (King James Version) And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. Seven heads Seven heads seven heads The Woman (church) who is sitting on the seven heads (mountains) represent 7 mountains/hills. The City of the Seven Hills is Rome with the Seven hills of Rome Revelation 12:3 "Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads." Revelation 13:1 "The Beast out of the Sea The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name." Revelation 17:3 "Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns." Revelation 17:7 "Then the angel said to me: “Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns." Revelation 17:9, "And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth." Ten horns Ten horns ten horns with Ten crowns 10 kings An animal's horn may represent both a king and a kingdom 10 Horns = 10 kingdom/regions? 10 Jesuit Assistencies - Club of Rome World 10 Divisions - 10 toes of the statue interpreted by Daniel Revelation 17:12: "The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. Daniel 7:24: "And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. The 10 crowns represent the 10 kings that will rule the 10 kingdom/regions (10 horns) for one hour with the beast [ The Beast out of the Sea ] And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. Seven crowns Seven crowns seven crowns The Beast with 7 heads and 7 kings (Revelation 17:10) and 10 horns (Revelation 17:12) The seven crowns represent 7 kings. But a king must need a kingdom! This is why in 1929 the Lateran treaty was signed and the Vatican became a sovereign state and the Popes became kings. The 7 crowns represent successive kings [37]: Revelation 17:10 And there are seven kings: "five are fallen", and "one is", "and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space". Since 1929 there has been 7 popes: "five are fallen" Pope Pius XI - Pope Pius XII - Pope John XXIII - Pope Paul VI - Pope John Paul I "one is" Pope John Paul II, was pope for 26 years, no doubt has been the most influential popes, has traveled around the world and met all major head of states in his time. This also corelates to Revelation 18:3 "For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her"... and Revelation 14:8 "And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication." "and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space" Everyone will worship this beast Statue in the sanctuary of the Jesuit Church of Rome, depicting the church's authority over kings, and her destruction of what she considered Protestant heresy.[12] All are adjoined under the vatican umbrella, worshiping their Pontifex Maximus. Jesus said there is no peace on THIS Earth. [13] The Universal Church.: The word Catholic means Universal. So the Roman Catholic Church is claiming to be the Universal or Worldwide Christian Church, a claim of authority over all the Christians of the world. Catholics Currently 1.1 Billions (largest single church denomination) The woman (church in prophetic language) of Revelation 17 sits on many waters (multitudes of people and tongues), representing authority over many people: 'Revelation 17:15 The significance of Rome lies primarily in the fact that it is the city of the pope. The Bishop of Rome, as the successor of St. Peter, is the Vicar of Christ on earth and the visible head of the Catholic Church. Rome is consequently the centre of unity in belief, the source of ecclesiastical jurisdiction and the seat of the supreme authority which can bind by its enactments the faithful throughout the world. The Vatican and the Ecumenical Movement Catholic ecumenism Started with Nicene Creed (325/381) & the The first seven ecumenical councils (325/787), Councils recognised as ecumenical in the Roman Catholic Church (869/1965), World Methodist Council (1881), ([38]), the Mennonite World Conference (1925, Switzerland, see also: [39]), World Jewish Congress (1936, Switzerland, see also: [40], [41]), World Council of Churches (1937, 340 churches), Lutheran World Federation (1947, 140 churches), Conference of European Churches (1959, 125 churches) meetings, World Alliance of Reformed Churches (1970, 214 churches), Charta Oecumenica [42] [43] (2001), United Religions Initiative [44] [45], International 'Christian' organizations, ENI supporters, ecumenical community with inter-religious orientation [46] for the repossession of Jerusalem throught the Jerusalem-Project. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French philosopher and Jesuit priest) set the stage for the renewal movement which came to flower in the era of Vatican II. Vatican II is the document that lauched the Ecumenical Movement Is Ecumenism the Great Apostasy of the church? Also see: Synchretism & World councils of Churches video: Mystery Babylon Ecumenical Movement by William Cooper. video: Only way-Ecumenical Movement video: Pushing a One World Secular Religion video: Catholic Jesuit Ecumenical Anti-Christ One World Religion Part 1 Part 2 Number of the Beast “Sigilla Solis” or “Sun Seal” This amulet has the god of the sun standing on the lion. This indicated the sun's position in the constellation of Leo during the hot days of August. The back is inscribed “Nachyel,” meaning “intelligence of the sun” and the numbers 1 to 36. These numbers are arranged in such a way that the sum of any given row, column or diagonal is 111, and therefore the sum of all six rows or all six columns is 666. This illustration is also a solar seal, but it honors the star Basilisco, which was the diminutive form of the Greek Basileus (king), thus meaning the same as the Latin regulus. Regulus is the only first magnitude star in the constellation of Leo. The sun and the moon are again clearly seen on this amulet and on the reverse side is the same arrangement of numerals with the actual figure 666 given as the total. There is no doubt that the number of the beast is 666 and not 616 nor 216 (6x6x6) because threescore is an expression meaning three times 20. Revelation 13:18 "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." Magic Squares and Sigils: Magic Square of 6 Babylonian Astrology Mark of the Beast Prophecy Tables 666 and Sun Worship and why God calls the Catholic Church Babylon Historically, pagan Babylon worshipped the sun as a deity, and pagan Rome also worshipped the invincible sun. Sun Worship-Satan’s Ancient Counterfeit Occult symbolism (Sun) Solar deities 666 is found in ALL standard barcodes (excluding postal barcodes) "Now in those days a decree went forth from Caesar Augustus for all the inhabited earth to be registered" (Luke 2:1) [14] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Material Mark "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond" This will be mandatory "no man might buy or sell" unified economic systems - global economy - one currency? purely economic reasons no financial transaction possible loss of economic liberty ...in their right hand, or in their foreheads. "the mark" (microchip? See: Networks) "the name of the beast" (One world religious symbol/mark?) "number of his name" (invisible code bar tattoo for those who don't want the microchip?) The U.S. Department of Commerce Patent and Trademark Office which currently posts an "abstract for a Method for verifying human identity during electronic sale transactions": United States Patent 5,878,155 "A method is presented for facilitating sales transactions by electronic media. A bar code or a design is tattooed on an individual. Before the sales transaction can be consummated, the tattoo is scanned with a scanner. Characteristics about the scanned tattoo are compared to characteristics about other tattoos stored on a computer database in order to verify the identity of the buyer. Once verified, the seller may be authorized to debit the buyer's electronic bank account in order to consummate the transaction. The seller's electronic bank account may be similarly updated." [47] Tattoos are an ancient tradition of pagan initiation rites. The tattoo bonds the initiate with the entity symbolized by the tattoo and enables him to communicate with that demonic power. The meaning and function of tattoos in initiation rites are explained in Chevalier's Dictionary of Symbols, which defines the tattoo as "the permanent mark of that initiation." "In some pictures of a tattooed man we are faced by a permanent prayer to and identification with the heavenly powers, at the same time as a basic means of communication with them. Such is the most generalized meaning of tattooing bestowed in consequence of a rite of initiation which allows this communication to take place. At the same time, this initiation is a rite of admission into a social group and the tattoo is the permanent mark of that initiation, the badge of the tribe. "All in all, tattooing belongs among symbols of identification and is interfused with all their magic and mystic potency. Identification always carries a double meaning: it tends to invest the individual concerned with the properties and strength of the creature or thing to which that person is assimilated and, at the same time, to immunize the latter against its potential power to cause harm. This is why tattoos depict dangerous creatures such as serpents or scorpions, or animals which are symbols of fertility, such as bulls or of power, such as lions, and so on. Identification also carries a sense of surrender or even of consecration to whatever the tattoo symbolically depicts. It then becomes a badge of fealty." Like a wedding band which represents an indissoluble union of two people, the initiate's tattoo "becomes a badge of fealty" to the "creature or thing to which that person is assimilated". Since Lucifer aspires to be "like God", in his pride he will orchestrate a counterfeit fulfillment of the Bible prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. The terminology used in the Dictionary of Symbols to describe the initiation tattoo suggests that Lucifer will bond his followers to himself in a sacred marriage rite --- the Satanic equivalent of the Marriage of the Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ, to His Bride. [48] Non Material Mark Sunday as a mark of authority of the Catholic church over Christianity Another "Mark" but that doesn't fit with this prophecy, is the change of worship from Saturday to Sun-day. All those trying to explain the prophecies and proposing this hypothesis (that the mark of the beast is the change of the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday) exclude the unique part of "And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name". The reasoning is only accurate in a spiritual or religious realm, just as God made his Sabbath in the Old Testament required by the 10 commandments. Even in a future theocratic one world order if some dictator impose a total commerce shutdown on Sundays to worship him, there is no relationship a priori to the commercial act of of buying and selling. Although Roger Morneau stated in his interview A Trip Into The Supernatural the future anti Christ will establish a one world religion, in which the Sunday will be sanctified. ANY religion will be tolerated as long as you keep Sunday as the worship day and not the Sabbath according to the 10 commandments. Sunday is NOT the Sabbath! Who Changed The Sabbath to Sunday? Uncertainity According to Daniel Daniel 12:4 "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." Some prophecies are sealed until the end of times, meaning some prophecies of the bible are not meant to be known/understood until close to the the time of it's fulfillment. Taking as a focal point that "And that no man might buy or sell" for now we can only estimate/guess what some of the prophecies are about. In this case the best guess considering the evolution of money through history (barter > gold > cash > cashless) that the Mark of the beast is most probably a microchip/GPS or tattoo (combined with forced vaccinations?) that will be used for transactions purposes. Various: Verichip and the Mark of the Beast An introduction to New Technologies (Part I) by Patrick Redmond Mark of the Beast – Ivy connection: According to Maccabees Chapter 2 verses 27-30 27: He (Philopater/Ptolemy IV)* proposed to inflict public disgrace upon the Jewish community, and he set up a stone on the tower in the courtyard with this inscription: 28: “None of those who do not sacrifice shall enter their sanctuaries, and all Jews shall be subjected to a registration involving poll tax and to the status of slaves. Those who object to this are to be taken by force and put to death; 29: those who are registered are also to be branded on their bodies by fire with the ivy-leaf symbol of Dionysus, and they shall also be reduced to their former limited status.” Four Marks of the Church Jesuit Order: Primary Goals of the Order Vatican Agenda, Timeline behind temple mount deal The structure and Dimensions of the Tabernacle [15] The Tabernacle in the Wilderness, God's Plan of Salvation - The Everlasting Covenant: Article with diagram shows the Salvation Plan of God in relation to the Tabernacle in the Wilderness Before Solomon's Temple was the Tabernacle Todo: verses "Temple of God" Illustration of Solomon's temple Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple, was the temple in Jerusalem, on the Temple Mount (also known as Mount Zion), before its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar II after the Siege of Jerusalem of 587 BCE. solomonstemple.com Solomon's sins ( See also: 666 ) Second Temple The Second Temple stood between 516 BCE and 70 CE, during which time it was the center of Jewish sacrificial worship. It was the second temple in Jerusalem, built to replace the First Temple which was destroyed in 586 BCE when the Jewish nation was exiled to Babylon. Jesuit Novitiate studying the second Jerusalem temple [16] Illustration from solomonstemple.com depicting a future 3rd temple of Solomon where the actual Dome of the Rock is located. This Temple would be built in the end days, and would then fulfill the prophecy upon which a future world (religious) leader impersonated by Lucifer/Satan (Man of Sin, Son of perdition) would declare himself to be God 2 Thessalonians 2:3-5 This is the model of the Third Temple fully designed and ready to be erected on Jerusalem's Temple Mount (under the Rome's legal power since 1993) after the Pope's present war on Islam. The men standing are all high-level American Scottish-Rite Freemasons. The Temple model is inside a Masonic temple evidenced by the Black and White checkerboard floor---the same kind of floor used in the torture rooms of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Nuremberg, Bavaria. The gold to be used is now being stored in the major central banks of the world---especially the Jesuit Order's New York Federal Reserve Bank pictured in The Godfather I [17] The view is north east looking at the outer courtyard and the main temple yard. The three outer gates which stand 10 stories tall each are can be clearly seen. The main temple is covered completely in gold and is 20 stories tall. [18] The third temple in Jerusalem will be rebuilt in order for the Antichrist to declare himself to be God "in the house of god" which is Jerusalem (the city chosen by God that reflects the fulfillment of multiple prophecies concerning this remarkable city and its unique place in Gods will) where Solomon's Temple will be rebuilt. Jerusalem is mentionned over 750 times in the KJV. video: Jerusalem:The Building Of The Third Temple The Temple Institute & Red Heifer Daniel 9:25-27 : "Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." Abomination of Desolation Matt 24:15 & Mark 13:14 : "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand)." Daniel 12:11: "And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days." 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 : "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the Son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God." The Solomon Temple is the heart and soul of Freemasonry (See: Masonic symbolism) It is known to every reader of the Bible and student of Solomon's days, that an amazingly detailed description of the Temple and its associated structures has been carried down from the mists of antiquity by the Scriptures. Lineal measurements, materials employed, and ornamental detail are so graphically presented that restoration of the Temple, at any time within a score of centuries past, awaited only the coming of a man with the vision to recognize its historic value, and the imagination to undertake the task." (Foreword, "The Bible and King Solomon's Temple in Masonry," by John Wesley Kelchner.)[49] "Of all the objects which constitute the Masonic science of symbolism, the most important, the most cherished, by the Mason, and by far the most significant, is the Temple of Jerusalem. The spiritualizing of the Temple is the first, the most prominent and the most pervading, of all symbols of Freemasonry ... Take from Freemasonry its dependence on the Temple; leave out of its ritual all references to that sacred edifice, and to the legends and traditions connected with it, and the system itself would at once decay and die ... " ["Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry", by Albert Mackey, MD, 33º and Charles T. McClenachan, 33º, Revised Edition, by Edward L. Hawkins, 30º and William J. Hughan, 32º, Volume II, M-Z, published by The Masonic History Company, Chicago, New York, London, 1873, A.G. Mackey, 1927, by the Masonic History Company.] Mackey makes this fact quite clear also: "Masonry has derived its temple symbolism, as it has almost all its symbolic ideas, from the Hebrew type ..." [Ibid] Since the Old Testament was written originally in the Hebrew, and the New Testament in the Greek, Mackey is clearly stating that Freemasonry is rooted in the Old Testament! "The Freemasons have, at all events, seized with avidity the idea of representing in their symbolic language the interior and spiritual man by a material temple ... The great body of the Masonic Craft, looking only to this first Temple erected by the wisdom of King Solomon, make it the symbol of life; and as the great object of Masonry is the search after truth, they are directed to build up this temple as a fitting receptacle for truth ..." ["Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry", by Albert Mackey, MD, 33º and Charles T. McClenachan, 33º, Revised Edition, by Edward L. Hawkins, 30º and William J. Hughan, 32º, Volume II, M-Z, published by The Masonic History Company, Chicago, New York, London, 1873, A.G. Mackey, 1927, by the Masonic History Company, p. 774] "...the appointed time has arrived for the Jesuit General to destroy both the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, secretly using his CIA/Nazi-trained, Masonic Zionist Mossad in conjunction with his CIA/Nazi-trained, Masonic Islamic Intelligence Agencies, including Osama bin Laden’s MAK and Pakistan’s ISI, while shrouded in the confusion of a huge aerial war yet to come. This will enable the General’s crusading Knights Templars (the present day Shriner Freemasons) to rebuild Solomon’s Temple — for the Papal Caesar in Rome’s Vatican" [50] Eric Jon Phelps, author of Vatican Assassins Israeli excavations under Al-Aqsa Excavations at the Temple Mount Israel Builds Synagogue Under Al-Aqsa: Palestinians All this goes hand in hand with Albert Pike plan for the New World Order ( through 3 World Wars ) explained in his letter to Giuseppe Mazzini [51] "The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time." Threeworldwars.com Important: Remember that on 9/11 in NYC 3 buildings fell. The twin towers as well as the WTC building 7 called Salomon Brothers building. The twin towers could be viewed as the twin pillars of Freemasonry (boaz and jachin) thus converting 9/11 into a freemason ritual, using the destruction of the "fake" salomon's building in NYC as a call for the reconstruction of the Third Temple in Jerusalem (and initiate the turmoil in the arabic countries). video: 911 Iluminati Ritual (eye of horus) Todo: [52] Hal Lindsey, Chuck Missler, Chuck Smith, the Temple Mount Faithful, Balfour Declaration, SRI project in Israel, Lambert Dolphin (former senior research physicist at SRI International) [53] , more details [54] Man of Sin Not Jesus, but rather the Beast ascending from the Bttomless Pit [19] See previous, with Pope.[20] The notion of the Son of Perdition / Man of Sin (John 17:12, 2 Thessalonians 2:3) and is a name commonly associated with the Antichrist (1 John 2:18 and 2 John 1:7), the Lawless One (Dan. 7 and 8), and the Beast of Revelation (Rev 13). The Unholy Trinity ( See also: Alice Bailey "Hierarchy of Ascended Masters" ) The Unholy Trinity represents Satan, Antichrist, and the False Prophet. The separation of those 3 entities can be verified in the verses Revelation Rev 19:20: "And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone" Rev 20:1-2 "And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years". Pope (Main Article) Popes claim to be God on earth Occult symbolism: Fish Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse In Revelation chapter 4 we see God seated on the throne in heaven, it is he who is sovereign over earthly events. We should notice first that only the Lamb (Jesus) is able to take the scroll from God and to break the seals and reveal its contents. Each of the four riders is summoned onto human history by one of the heavenly living creatures. Notice the phase -he was given a crown-, -was given power-, -do not damage the oil and the wine-, -were given power over-, all of this indicates that the four riders are under the sovereignty of God. [55] Revelation 6:1 says: "I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest." (6:1-2) Another translation says, "a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer" (NKJ). There are three different interpretations of this rider. [56] The International Bible Commentary, F.F. Bruce general editor, says, One long-established interpretation understands this of the victorious progress of the gospel, the rider on the white horse being Christ, as in 19:11. (p. 1607) The Zondervan NIV Bible Commentary puts forth the dominate evangelical view today, that it is the Antichrist. The commentator admits that the symbolism of the white horse is always "associated with righteousness and Christ," but rejects it because the other three horses clearly represent war and judgments. He goes on to say: The references in 19:11-16 to the rider on the white horse as "Faithful and True" and as one who judges and makes war with justice stands in contrast to the rider in 6:2, who is not faithful or true and who wages war for unjust conquest. Moreover, the Lamb opens the seals and would not be one of the riders, nor would it be proper to have an angelic being call forth Christ. Again, a "bow" would most naturally be connected with the enemy of God's people (Eze 39:3). . . . The evidence, however, seems to favor . . . the Antichrist and his forces that seek to conquer the followers of Christ. (Vol. 2, p. 1160-1161) The Wycliffe Bible Commentary by Moody Press, first published in 1962, also says it cannot be Christ because of the other three horses and quotes another commentator saying: "Can there be any doubt that this is the vision of antiChrist? It so resembles the real Christ that it deceives people, even many a reader of this passage!" (Thomas F. Torrance, The Apocalypse Today, p. 44). Then the rider on a white horse is seen. This rider represents the leader of a peace movement; the color white represents peace. Then one can see that this particular rider has a bow but no arrows; he conquers without bloodshed and destruction. He is a great ruler for a crown is given to him. [57] This would also confirm the prophecy of a One World Goverment where a peace agreement has been made, the 7 years covenant with the AntiChrist which will be broken at the middle point (3 1/2 years. ) Although he will be against faithful Christians and will mock God’s Word, the world will view him as a great leader and a man of peace. This man will be Satan’s counterfeit messiah (false prophet?). He will use deception and lies to "spin" his web of deceit and to conceal his true motives. [58] This "man of peace" is most probably the same as the vision Daniel had in: And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. Differences between the white horse in Revelation 6 and Jesus on the white Horse in Revelation 19 In Revelation 19 Jesus has many crowns, but in Revelation 6 the rider has just one. Revelation 6:2: "And I looked, and saw there a white horse whose rider carried a bow. And a crown was given him, and he rode forth conquering and to conquer" Revelation 19:11-12: "After that I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse [appeared]! The One Who was riding it is called Faithful (Trustworthy, Loyal, Incorruptible, Steady) and True, and He passes judgment and wages war in righteousness (holiness, justice, and uprightness). His eyes [blaze] like a flame of fire, and on His head are many kingly crowns (diadems); and He has a title (name) inscribed which He alone knows or can understand." Revelation 6:3-4: And when He broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature call out, Come! And another horse came out, flaming red. And its rider was empowered to take the peace from the earth, so that men slaughtered one another; and he was given a huge sword. Also see: Denver international Airport Murals: Act I - Tribulations Part 1 Revelation 6:5-6: When He broke open the third seal, I heard the third living creature call out, Come and look ! And I saw, and behold, a black horse, and in his hand the rider had a pair of scales (a balance). And I heard what seemed to be a voice from the midst of the four living creatures, saying, A quart of wheat for a denarius [a whole day's wages], and three quarts of barley for a denarius; but do not harm the oil and the wine! [II Kings 6:25] Pale (green) horse Revelation 6:7-8: When the Lamb broke open the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature call out, Come! So I looked, and behold, an ashy pale horse [black and blue as if made so by bruising], and its rider's name was Death, and Hades (the realm of the dead) followed him closely. And they were given authority and power over a fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword and with famine and with plague (pestilence, disease) and with wild beasts of the earth. Souls under altar Revelation 6:9-11: When the Lamb broke open the fifth seal, I saw at the foot of the altar the souls of those whose lives had been sacrificed for [adhering to] the Word of God and for the testimony they had borne. They cried in a loud voice, O [Sovereign] Lord, holy and true, how long now before You will sit in judgment and avenge our blood upon those who dwell on the earth? Then they were each given a long and flowing and festive white robe and told to rest and wait patiently a little while longer, until the number should be complete of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed as they themselves had been. Sun/moon/star event Revelation 6:12-17: When He [the Lamb] broke open the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun grew black as sackcloth of hair, [the full disc of] the moon became like blood. And the stars of the sky dropped to the earth like a fig tree shedding its unripe fruit out of season when shaken by a strong wind. And the sky rolled up like a scroll and vanished, and every mountain and island was dislodged from its place. Then the kings of the earth and their noblemen and their magnates and their military chiefs and the wealthy and the strong and [everyone, whether] slave or free hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, And they called to the mountains and the rocks, Fall on (before) us and hide us from the face of Him Who sits on the throne and from the deep-seated indignation and wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of His wrath (vengeance, retribution, indignation) has come, and who is able to stand before it? Cross references of black sun [59] Todo: Link with BlueBeam Project and the lighting up of Saturn + new agers quotes (todo: Arthur C. Clarke movie with quote about 2 suns/jupiter exploding - 2010 ending "2 Suns") [60] “There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.” (Luke 21:11) “There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken.” (Luke 21:25-26) TO check [61][62] Silence ½ hour Revelation 8:1-2: WHEN HE [the Lamb] broke open the seventh seal, there was silence for about half an hour in heaven. Revelation 8:6: Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets ... Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them. Seven Trumpet Judgments There are three key differences between the Trumpet judgements and the Vial/Bowl judgments: Firstly, the Trumpet judgments are plagues upon nature, while the Vial/Bowl judgments are direct assaults against humanity. Secondly, the Trumpet judgments are partial (namely, they affect 1/3 of what they plague) while the Vial/Bowl judgements will destroy or harm all of what they assault. Lastly, the Trumpet judgments offer a possibility of redemption, while the Vial judgments do not; the Vial judgments are a literal assault on those who have taken the mark of the Beast, and those who take it are irredeemable. (wikipedia) 1/3 Trees "The first angel blew [his] trumpet, and there was a storm of hail and fire mingled with blood cast upon the earth. And a third part of the earth was burned up and a third of the trees was burned up and all the green grass was burned up.(A)" 1/3 Sea Revelation 8:8-9 "The second angel blew [his] trumpet, and something resembling a great mountain, blazing with fire, was hurled into the sea. And a third of the sea was turned to blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea perished, and a third of the ships were destroyed." 1/3 waters wormwood "And the name of the star is Wormwood. A third part of the waters was changed into wormwood, and many people died from using the water, because it had become bitter." 1/3 Sun/moon/stars "Then the fourth angel blew [his] trumpet, and a third of the sun was smitten, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that [the light of] a third of them was darkened, and a third of the daylight [itself] was withdrawn, and likewise a third [of the light] of the night was kept from shining." Abaddon from pit & locust Revelation 9:1-3, 9:11 "Then the fifth angel blew [his] trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth; and to the angel was given the key of the shaft of the Abyss (the bottomless pit). He opened the long shaft of the Abyss (the bottomless pit), and smoke like the smoke of a huge furnace puffed out of the long shaft, so that the sun and the atmosphere were darkened by the smoke from the long shaft. Then out of the smoke locusts came forth on the earth, and such power was granted them as the power the earth's scorpions have." "Over them as king they have the angel of the Abyss (of the bottomless pit). In Hebrew his name is Abaddon [destruction], but in Greek he is called Apollyon [destroyer]." The bottomless pit/shaft might be the center of the earth. See Hollow Earth theory Euphrates 4 angels Then the sixth angel blew [his] trumpet, and from the four horns of the golden altar which stands before God I heard a solitary voice, Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Liberate the the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates. Is there a similitude/paralellism between the 4 angels of Revelation 9:13-14 with the 4 Horsmen of the apocalypse? Days of voice & kingdoms are Lord's "The seventh angel then blew [his] trumpet, and there were mighty voices in heaven, shouting, The dominion (kingdom, sovereignty, rule) of the world has now come into the possession and become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ (the Messiah), and He shall reign forever and ever (for the eternities of the eternities)!" Seven vial (bowl) judgments Revelation 16:1: THEN I heard a mighty voice from the temple sanctuary saying to the seven angels, Go and empty out on the earth the seven bowls of God's wrath and indignation. Mark of beast sore Revelation 16:2: So the first [angel] went and emptied his bowl on the earth, and foul and painful ulcers (sores) came on the people who were marked with the stamp of the beast and who did homage to his image. Sea blood Revelation 16:3: The second [angel] emptied his bowl into the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a corpse [thick, corrupt, ill-smelling, and disgusting], and every living thing that was in the sea perished. Rivers water blood Revelation 16:4:Then the third [angel] emptied out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into (became) blood. Scorching sun Revelation 16:8-9:Then the fourth [angel] emptied out his bowl upon the sun, and it was permitted to burn (scorch) humanity with [fierce, glowing] heat (fire). People were severely burned (scorched) by the fiery heat, and they reviled and blasphemed the name of God, Who has control of these plagues, and they did not repent of their sins [felt no regret, contrition, and compunction for their waywardness, refusing to amend their ways] to give Him glory. Seat of the beast Revelation 16:10-11:Then the fifth [angel] emptied his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was [plunged] in darkness; and people gnawed their tongues for the torment [of their excruciating distress and severe pain]. And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their anguish and their ulcers (sores), and they did not deplore their wicked deeds or repent [for what they had done]. Kings of east & gathering to Revelation 16:12:Then the sixth [angel] emptied his bowl on the mighty river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to make ready a road for [the coming of] the kings of the east (from the rising sun). Revelation 16:17-21:Then the seventh [angel] emptied out his bowl into the air, and a mighty voice came out of the sanctuary of heaven from the throne [of God], saying, It is done! [It is all over, it is all accomplished, it has come!] And there followed lightning flashes, loud rumblings, peals of thunder, and a tremendous earthquake; nothing like it has ever occurred since men dwelt on the earth, so severe and far-reaching was that earthquake. The mighty city was broken into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And God kept in mind mighty Babylon, to make her drain the cup of His furious wrath and indignation. And every island fled and no mountains could be found. And great (excessively oppressive) hailstones, as heavy as a talent [between fifty and sixty pounds], of immense size, fell from the sky on the people; and men blasphemed God for the plague of the hail, so very great was [the torture] of that plague. Retrieved from "http://thebabylonmatrix.com/index.php?title=911:Book_of_Revelation"	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line440
__label__wiki	0.844752	0.844752	A career update from TJ Miller Posted by Sean L. McCarthy \| Sep 18, 2008 \| Uncategorized \| 0 \| Hey comedy fans, perhaps you remember reading or hearing a rumor about comedian TJ Miller and his audition this summer for SNL. Or the "baloney and fibs," as Miller tells me. When I saw him a day or two after his audition, he said he would be more than OK getting over a rejection because he had plenty of projects in his comedy pipeline. Miller tells me today: "I just got a part in the next Mike Judge film, EXTRACT, with Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Ben Affleck, Kristin Wiig and Gene Simmons. Word up." Indeed. Judge has made comedy classics already out of Office Space and Idiocracy. The Chicago comedian who helped frame the madness of Cloverfield as Hud and stole scenes in TV’s Carpoolers as Marmaduke also has parts in two other films coming up. He’ll play Stainer in the upcoming comedy, She’s Out of My League, and also has a part in next spring’s The Goods: The Don Ready Story, directed by Neal Brennan and starring Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, David Koechner, Ed Helms, Rob Riggle and more. And he’ll be on tour doing stand-up in November. PreviousWill Ferrell responds to Internet questions NextMicrosoft boots Seinfeld, reboots ad campaign RIP: Leslie Nielsen, 1926-2010 Colbert’s first 2008 Word: Good Bad Journalism UCB Comedy takes on Sasquatch Festival, and more TBS orders eight episodes of Marlon Wayans’ “Funniest Wins” comedy competition series	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line442
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__label__wiki	0.888138	0.888138	VenturaRocks1.com Ventura Music Scene Polly Music Muse Who is VenturaRocks.com Chris Jay on “The Bet” by venturarocks \| Jul 11, 2016 \| Interviews \| 1 comment Ventura Rocks has been a big Army of Freshmen fan for years, and so when we heard that fellow bandmates Chris Jay and Aaron Goldberg had a new project which was a movie being filmed entirely in Ventura, we had to get on board! Initially, Polly Hoganson did an interview with Chris Jay before they even started filming, and then Ventura Rocks showed up for one of their first (see photos) and final scenes being shot at Camino Real Park baseball field using lots of locals and musicians as extras. Ventura Rocks: Your film is finally ready for the world to see. How are you and Aaron holding up? Chris Jay: Holding up but… barely. We’re now wearing the hat of publicists, party planners, marketers, social media promoters and trying to hold down part time jobs to pay full time bills. We’re three weeks away from release as of this interview and two weeks away from the premiere so it’s just insane but kind of exciting too! Ventura Rocks: Taking a look at what your vision was before you started filming, and the final product, are the two pretty close or did it turn out totally different? Chris Jay: Good question. We can’t complain. Is it exactly how we envisioned or wrote it? No but it’s not that far off which by all accounts we are really lucky to be able to say that. We hear horror stories from other filmmakers that what they set out to make ends up completely different when it gets released. If anything it’s just some scenes and locations that had to be cut due to time and budget. We basically wrote a studio comedy but we only had a micro budget. So the flashback scenes of each girl in The Bet when they were back in school all had to go and we couldn’t get all the characters back to be in the stands at the final ballgame, like a bigger movie would, but all things considered we’re very happy with it. I think any artist be it a songwriter or filmmaker always has something they wished they did different but you have work with what you got and to pull off a feature with multiple locations in 13 days is pretty amazing in it’s self. Ventura Rocks: Tell me about the support you’ve received from Army of Freshmen fans, local musicians, family and friends. Chris Jay: We simply could not have made this movie anywhere but Ventura. I mean that. Locations were donated, which is unheard of in LA, then from all the bands we are friends with, we were able to have a ton of extras where most small movies barely have any in the background, and when it comes to family the first people willing to invest in the film were family. This really was a grassroots effort and so many people went out of their way to help us. I also think we pissed off a few people in the process, half kidding, but no… this really is testament to Ventura and the support that’s here. We were able to save so much money on locations, catering, extras, props that overall made it a better looking film then when should expect on our small budget. I think people got inspired by how insane the undertaking was and wanted to help us. Ventura Rocks: I know you had a producer and you did a lot of fundraising for the film, how did that go? Meet your budget? Chris Jay: Flat out the most difficult aspect of filmmaking is finding the money. That’s most difficult aspect of a lot of things in life of course, but we did raise enough to get it done. We were lucky to land two amazing executive producers, Craig and Teresa Beech who produce theater productions in the United Kingdom but they believed in the project and along with some smaller investments from family and friends, we got it done. But it is a rabbit hole, at every corner you spend money you didn’t expect to for example we frankly weren’t prepared for how long post production would take and how expensive it is to do right. Ventura Rocks: Originally you thought you’d need only 13 days to film, but in reality, how many days did it take? Chris Jay: We filmed 13 days in Ventura. Then we did an afternoon of some pick up shots with a drone, then an afternoon of no dialogue pick up shots, then at the last minute we had to replace our baseball crowd footage, long story but it involved not having releases for some young kids that snuck into the shot who we possible couldn’t find, so we shot an hour or so of a new just recently to fill like 10 seconds. But ultimately it was not a deal where we did a ton of filming after the fact, 98% of the movie was done in those 13 days in Ventura. Ventura Rocks: How about post production? How long did that take? Chris Jay: I shudder at the word. Aaron and I were very naive to how long post takes. On top of that we (by that I mean myself, Aaron, the director Ryan Ederer and the producer Reza Riazi were all very passionate about virtually every single aspect of the movie and I think that drug things out sometimes as opposed to a dictator making all the calls but ultimately it’s for the best. There’s a world where this movie could have come out a year ago but no way it’s as good as it is now. Ventura Rocks: There were a few name changes for The Bet, how come? Chris Jay: Urgh. The film was shot under the name, Baker’s Dozen. The generic title aspect made us change it to Betting on Baker shortly after filming. Then when we got distribution, our distribution company asked for a more generic title that didn’t have the word “Baker,” as quite frankly, if you don’t know that’s the character’s name then you think it’s a movie about a baker. So we went with The Bet and right now I’m thrilled. It’s easy to remember. It’s quick to type for hash tags and social media. It’s doesn’t take up a lot of space on adds and designs. As much as I went kicking and screaming each time a name change came, I am really starting to love it. I still find myself calling it Baker a lot thought and I need to break that habit before all the press starts. Ventura Rocks: Tell me about the main actors. Chris Jay: If there’s one thing I think we knocked out of the park, it was the casting. We spent so much time on it. Much more than the average movie our size does. It was incredibly important for us to love the people that played these characters we invented and were so connected to. We did auditions in LA. We scoured casting sites. We contacted friends who were actors and ultimately it paid off. Our two leads, Alex Klein and Amanda Clayton who are just wonderful actors both went on to land parts in big movies. Alex has a role in the Guardians of the Galaxy sequel and Amanda is currently starring in Tyler Perry’s If Loving You Is Wrong and the upcoming Marin Scorsese produced movie, Bleed For This. Not too mention the lead character’s friends, who are played by a trio of three incredibly funny comedians and actors all who have a lot going on. Yassir Lester, Jeremiah Watkins, Brian Allen. Oh and our bad guys, Michael Consiglio and Paul Natonek are great too. Lot of new faces in the movie but they are clearly the type you’ll be hearing a lot more of. Then of course we got some great cameos from the wrestlers, Chuck D, Gerry Bednob, Dave England. We called in all the favors! Ventura Rocks: I found it quite endearing how the guys (local musicians) were jazzed to see wrestlers involved in the movie. What inspired you to get Jake “the snake” Roberts, Tommy Dreamer and Diamond Dallas Page involved? They just happened to be available? Chris Jay: From day one writing the script I had a vision of the two dads in the film being played by wrestlers. I am an out-of-the-womb pro wrestling fan so it was important to me to get a wrestler or two in the movie. The story how they got involved is epic with twists and turns but the long and the short of it is, I was aiming for Mick Foley and Roddy Piper, two of my all time favorites to play the roles. I landed Piper and thought I had won the lottery and cause of him got DDP. Then days before we shot, Piper got called to the WWE and clearly he couldn’t turn that down. DDP was awesome, stayed on board when he didn’t have to and helped get us Jake 48 hours before we shot. In the hunt for wrestlers, I reached out to Tommy and even though we had just filled the dad role with Jake, he agreed to come out to do a cameo. Then during filming Roddy reached out to ask how it was going and I begged him to come to a cameo when he got back to LA, he agreed. Got to spend the whole day with Roddy in the car on the way back and forth from LA. We became friends after that and kept in touch and then he tragically he passed aways last year which affected me quite a bit. To have him in our film even for that short scene and it’s one of the last, if not the last, film he ever made is something I will be proud of forever. The guest bedroom where he stayed at my house is forever known as The Roddy Room. I got one of his action figures on the shelf. It’s an amazing thing when you meet a childhood hero and he exceeds every expectation. He was and is a special human being. Ventura Rocks: Is there a soundtrack? If so, what music was used? Chris Jay: Yes! It’s coming two weeks before release on iTunes and Spotify for those cheap millennial types! It’s got 5 original comedy songs we wrote for the film, including the greatest song I have ever been a part of recording, “Sneaky Beej” and 5 songs from local bands who are in the movie. In addition it’s got an intro, interlude and outro from one of the characters which I think is pretty amazing. It’s more a promotional tool for the movie than a proper soundtrack you buy at Salzers but we can’t be musicians who makes a movie and not have a soundtrack. We have some locals helping out on the comedy songs, we got Frank Barajas to do a song in Spanish and Aaron Orbit to sing an 80’s hair metal love anthem. We spent a lot of time working on this soundtrack, we almost drove our music supervisor, Michael Mason to the nuthouse but he never bailed on us. We also got an amazing composer, Michael Leslie who helped give the film the big movie score feel and not just 25 rock songs in the background which is common for lot of small comedies. Ventura Rocks: How will The Bet be distributed? Chris Jay: The film will be coming out July 26, 2016 via Screen Media Films on all cable VOD outlets, iTunes, Amazon Prime, Fandango Now, Xbox, Playstation and more. Then there will be a DVD/Blu-Ray release August 23 then if all goes well a streaming and cable TV deal in the fall. In this day and age at least right now, Netflix is the goal, at least when it comes to the amount of people that see your film. Ventura Rocks: What were some of the surprising aspects of becoming a filmmaker? I’m sure you went in thinking, “How hard could this be?!” Chris Jay: There’s never enough money. There’s never enough people. There’s not enough time for pre production and there’s way too much time for post production. Ventura Rocks: Who helped walk your through the process of getting a film out the door? Chris Jay: While Aaron and I wrote the film and co-produced, the head producer was Reza Riazi. Reza worked with Aaron and I and guided us through everything since we first told him we wanted to write a screenplay. He was with us every step of the way and I think he was so close to the damn thing that he didn’t have any other option but to produce it when the script was ready. When many producers would of long ago bailed and moved onto the next project, Reza has stayed in the trenches with us. His company is called Balding Penguin and I truly believe in a few years that company will be synonymous with comedy films and TV. He’s just a gifted hard working and funny guy. Look forward to forcing him to work on our next movie, Wedding Or Not. Ventura Rocks: What was the most valuable lesson you’ve learned? Chris Jay: Wow. The big question. I will look at the glass half full and say… why not? Why not write a movie even if you’ve never done it before. Why not try and film it even if people think you’re crazy. Why not spend two years of your life making no money but doing something you love that no one can ever take away from you. Granted we’re talking about a raunchy comedy but I think it holds true whether you want to be an astronaut and walk on the moon or write dick and fart jokes to make your friends laugh… somebody’s gotta do… why not you? The Bet Official Website The Bet Facebook Page Official Trailer for The Bet Gary Gordon Goff on August 2, 2016 at 10:54 am Flat Out Enjoyed The Bet! 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__label__cc	0.695052	0.304948	Stefano Noferini Diumenge 19:00 20:00 Known to have a golden touch when it comes to dance floor destroyers, Noferini is a shining example that true talent rises to the top. Hailing from Italy, Stefano Noferini is one of the nation’s most respected DJs and producers. Having been a pivotal force in Italy’s burgeoning house music scene with his national radio show, Stefano forged a musical symbiosis with his homeland that still exists today. Years of top productions have cemented his status at the top of the dance music food chain. One peek inside ANY DJs CD wallet and you can bet they’re packing something from this hit maker. Technical prowess notwithstanding, Stefano Noferini is truly a DJs DJ. When he takes charge of the wheels of steel, everyone is absorbed in the musical journey. Fellow DJs, who would normally hide in their dressing rooms, are always sure to catch Stefano if they share the bill with him. Something magical happens with Stefano on the decks, a real energy takes hold and people get connected to music in a way that is beautifully pure. If you want to lose yourself in music, Stefano is for you! Of course, Stefano is also a top seller on Beatport, holding numerous #1 positions in just about every genre they have. His original music and remixes are charted heavily by a diverse range of talented DJs both of the commercial and underground variety. He’s also been named Beatports «Breakout Artist of the Year» in 2010, and was nominated as their «Artist of the Year» in 2011. He has even crossed into a more commercial territory by overtaking artists like Pitbull, Shakira, Lady Gaga and Beyoncé to score a #1 hit on Billboard’s Hot Dance chart. On the clubbing circuit, Stefano Noferini is a top draw. Ministry of Sound, Euphoria, H20, F-135, Space Miami, Space Ibiza, Cocoon Frankfurt, Lief Festival, Sankeys and Row 14 have all seen Noferini pack the house on any night he plays. His infectious driving rhythms and brilliant command of the music he plays keeps people dancing until the very last beat drops. And then they want more! It seems there is only an upward momentum swirling around this incredible talent, but the man at the center of it all stays humbled by all the attention. He continues to expand his global reach by growing his well-known radio program, Club Edition, into new territories each month. The show currently is heard by millions of people in some 15 countries worldwide. His imprint, Deeperfect Records is bringing superior sounds to the masses with sexy tech inspired grooves penned by today’s most relevant producers: Stefano Noferini, Wally Lopez and Paolo Mojo to name a few. It is one of the most respected dance labels today, no question. But it’s Stefano’s incredible DJ sets that keep fans clamoring for more from this innovative Italian master. While other DJs just mix music, Stefano Noferini takes the art of the DJ to a whole other level. Stefano has the ability to tap right into our primal need to dance, you may miss the subtle expertise filling your mind with proper house grooves, but your body will hail the call, understand, and you’ll be dancing like you’ve never danced before. He is what dance music is all about. http://www.stefanonoferini.it/ En:House / Tech-House / Techno	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line452
__label__wiki	0.64584	0.64584	Alan Mandel Email: allreeds@hotmail.com To teach students the enjoyable experiences in performing, writing, and listening to music of all different types. I would like to conduct various ensembles, as well as write for those groups, and teach music lessons on various instruments as well as perform both in and out of the school location. 2007 Tidewater Tech Online(Centura College) , VA , currently taking courses in Computer Network Management, anticipating receiving an AA degree in August 2009. All online coursework. 2005 CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan, New York DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts), Jazz Performance (woodwinds),Arranging/Composition 1989 Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, New York M.A. in Jazz Performance Studies with: Jimmy Heath, Jimmy Owens, Slide Hampton, Cecil Bridgewater. 4.0 Grade Point Average State University of New York at Potsdam Graduate coursework in Music History and Literature (30 graduate credits) and completed the requirements for New York State Teaching Certificate. 1976 State University of New York at Oswego B.A. in Music 1995 Induction into Phi Sigma Eta Honor Society at Five Towns College 1976 Most Outstanding Music Student; award presented by the music faculty at SUNY Oswego 1975 Winner of the First Annual Music Scholarship at SUNY Oswego Currently: {as of July 2008} Teaching music lessons in three music stores to include: Mainline Music, EastLake Music, Music and Arts, these were half hour lessons on a one to one basis on all band instruments, as well as piano, guitar, bass guitar and banjo. Teaching jazz improvisation and jazz theory to saxophone students as an adjunct professor, at Hobart and Willam Smith College, on a semester basis. May 2003 to Present Teaching students in their own homes, once a week, for half hour lessons. September 2004 to June 2005 Teaching a music part of an after school program in Romulus Central Schools, Romulus, NY. Also became Assistant Director of the program, scheduling activities, concerts, family dinners, homework help,etc. to students from 4th through 12th grade. April 2000 to May 2003 Murphy’s Music Store - Huntington, NY Taught private lessons to all age students, 30 mins. each, once a week. Taught Brass, Woodwind, String and Piano Lessons. Approximately 40 lessons a week from 4 – 9PM. Fall 1993 to May 2003 Five Towns College Dix Hills, New York Promoted to Professor from Associate Professor (2000) Director of Instrumental Ensembles Director of Online Courses/Long Distance Learning – using Blackboard, E-Learning, and Jenzabar software Promoted to Associate Professor (1995) from Assistant Professor Formed and conducted the stage band, numerous small jazz ensembles. The stage band performed at Carnegie Hall and the Hotel Roosevelt. Accompanied various shows and functions, as well as, performing in several faculty recitals. Taught courses in the following areas: Keyboard skills Sight singing Private lessons – ALL woodwinds Theory, Arranging and Composition Music History and Appreciation South Huntington Schools, South Huntington, New York Instrumental Instructor, Rehearsal Pianist, Musical Theater Arranger/Conductor/Composer (Summer Music Program) Taught band instruments to beginning and advanced students, accompanied musical presentations, arranged, composed, and conducted musical theater performances. Private Music Teacher Taught private music lessons, in the following areas: flutes, double reeds, single reeds, guitar, piano, arranging/composing, theory, jazz improvisation. Fall 1992 to Spring 1993 Catholic Schools Music Service, Syosset, New York Taught instrumental music at various private elementary schools including: lessons, and conducted concert band rehearsals. USDAN Camp for the Performing Arts - Wheatley Heights, N.Y. Accompanist / Pit Orchestra Director Accompanied various musical shows on various keyboards, conducted and arranged music for a small pit orchestra. Suffolk Community College - Ammerman Campus, Selden, N. Y. Taught the following courses: Sight-singing I and II Piano I "The American Musical" Assisted and performed with Concert Band, Chamber Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble. Merrick Public Schools, Merrick, New York Elementary School Band/Orchestra Director Instrumental (woodwinds, brass, percussion, strings) instruction for Elementary (grades 4-6) students, accompanied various shows and performances on piano. Sacred Heart School, Merrick, New York Instrumental Instructor (grades 4-8) Taught one day per week band instruments to beginners and advanced students. St. Joseph's School, Hewlett, New York Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, Roosevelt, New York Instrumental Instructor Taught one day per week, in each school, band instruments to beginners and advanced students. (grades 4 – 8) Franklin Elementary School, Hewlett, New York Taught violin (Suzuki Method) to kindergarten students. Harborfields School District, Greenlawn, New York Half Hollow Hills School District, Dix Hills, New York Commack School District, Commack, New York Elwood School District, East Northport, New York Substitute Music Teacher Taught band, orchestra, vocal, and general music. Taught at all levels of public school: elementary, junior, and senior high. (grades 4-12) 1977 North Syracuse School District, North Syracuse, New York North Syracuse Central High School Roxboro Junior High School Student Teacher Taught instrumental lessons, conducted concert and marching bands, formed and conducted jazz band. (grades 7-12) Taught woodwind class consisting of college age beginners on all woodwind instruments. PERFORMING EXPERIENCE Hal Hoffman Orchestra Multi-woodwind soloist and Musical Director Composer/Arranger/Conductor Played and arranged for band (19 piece dance band). Performed with such artists as: Sol Yaged, Patrice Munsel, Bob Eberly, Bob Eberly Jr., Janice Harper, Helen Reddy, Laura Branigan, Henny Youngman, Margaret Whiting, Joy Behar, others. The band has appeared on radio, television and has been featured in magazines and newspapers. Played upwards of 13 instruments with this group. Club Date Musician Studio Musician Played for various records, CD's, and tapes. Five Towns College Stage Band International Brass Convention--Hotel Roosevelt, New York The stage band was the only Long Island group selected to perform at this prestigious convention. Fall 1994 Carnegie Hall, Main Stage, New York The stage band was selected to perform a concert program, that also featured a Japanese group sponsored by the KORG corporation. Fall 1992 Arranger/Composer Commissioned to write an orchestral piece for the Senior Citizen’s Pops Orchestra of Long Island. Conducted and performed the composition. Queens College, CUNY Tenor Saxophonist, Arranger/Composer/Conductor Guest Saxophonist Other performances to include: Master's recital and school functions. 1976 to1978 Player, Coach, and Instructor Crane School of Music Jazz Ensemble Lead Alto Saxophonist and Composer/Arranger State University of New York at Oswego Solid State - Lab Jazz Ensemble Lead Alto Saxophonist and Arranger Clarinet and Saxophone Soloist Oboe and English Horn Soloist Member of various pit/chamber orchestras VOLUNTEER AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES 1976 to 1977 Disk Jockey/Announcer WRPS, Potsdam 1968 to 1972 Huntington Fire Department Concert Band Clarinet Soloist and Assistant Conductor AF of M: American Federation of Musicians Local 802 IAJE: International Association of Jazz Educators MENC: Music Educators National Conference NASA: North American Saxophone Alliance LIFA: Long Island Flute Association NFA: National Flute Association NYSSMA: New York State School Music Association New York State Teacher's License Music Teacher K-12 New York City Teacher's License Instrumental Music SPECIAL TALENTS Computer Programming: IBM and Macintosh Music Programs, and numerous computer languages and software. Electronic music synthesis and modern recording techniques. Instrumental repairs and maintenance. Arranging, composing and performance practices of different eras on the various woodwind instruments. Twentieth century performance practices and aleatoric techniques are a specialty.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line453
__label__wiki	0.773058	0.773058	own doubts about his future, Sp OKLAHOMA CITY -- Jeff Teague scored eight of his 30 points in overtime and the Indiana beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 115-111 on Sunday night for their first road victory of the season. Cheap Shoes Australia .Oklahoma Citys Russell Westbrook had his fifth triple-double of the season -- as many as the rest of the NBA combined -- with 31 points, 15 assists and 10 rebounds, but went 13 of 34 from the field.Teague matched his season scoring high and added nine assists and six steals. He hit two free throws with 4.6 seconds left in regulation to put the Pacers up three.Westbrook hit a 3-pointer with 2.4 seconds left to tie it for the Thunder and Glenn Robinson III missed a well-guarded 10-footer at the buzzer, forcing overtime. Teagues 3-pointer in the first minute of overtime put Indiana ahead for good. 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McCollum scored 33 points, Evan Turner had 19 and Portland beat Brooklyn.Portland snapped a three-game losing streak and extended Brooklyns skid to four.Damian Lillard added 18 points for the Trail Blazers, and Allen Crabbe had 14. Brook Lopez had 21 points for the Nets. Clearance Asics Shoes Australia . Robredo, ranked No. 16, bounced back from an upset loss to Leonardo Mayer in the second round of the Royal Guard Open in Chile last week to down Carreno Busta in 1 hour, 25 minutes. On a day filled mostly with qualifying matches, fifth-seeded Marcel Granollers of Spain also entered the second with a 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 win over Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia, while Guido Pella of Argentina defeated Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain 7-6 (6), 6-4 to advance. Cheap Asics Australia .com) - The game was all punts and field goals before Kodi Whitfields catch. http://www.saleasicsaustralia.com/ . -- San Francisco 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks was fined $15,570 by the NFL on Wednesday for his hit on Saints quarterback Drew Brees last Sunday. ASHBURN, Va. -- Last year Martrell Spaight was so sensitive to light that he darkened his sunglasses with a black marker.He is set to make his first NFL start for the Washington Redskins under the Monday night spotlight against Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers. After missing his entire rookie season with concussion problems, Spaight earned the trust of the coaching staff to fill in for Will Compton at middle linebacker.Hes a young football player still with limited starting reps, but this is a great opportunity for him, coach Jay Gruden said Thursday. He hasnt had that opportunity other than preseason and a little bit here and there, so Im excited to see him. I love his energy. I like the way he hits, he hustles and hes good in pass defense.Spaight just being on the field is an accomplishment. A fifth-round pick out of Arkansas in 2015, he tried to play through concussion symptoms before Washington placed him on injured reserve and he went to great lengths to get back to normal.When he couldnt find dark enough sunglasses, Spaight grabbed a sharpie and darkened them so he could go about his rehab. In his bleakest moments of reflection, including the return of symptoms in September, he wondered if this whole football thing was going to work out after all.It was very difficult for me mentally because you work so hard and after a while you start questioning yourself, `Is it meant for me to play this game? Spaight recalled Friday.The 23-year-old got his answer last week at Philadelphia when he heard a coach yell out, Spaight, get your helmet. 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Recognizing that hes still effectively a rookie, defensive coordinator Joe Barry, a former linebackers coach, still sees the linebacker intuition in Spaight.Its hard to teach instincts, its hard to teach awareness, Barry said. You can teach a guy how to key better, use his eyes, use his hands, use his feet, break on the ball better, take on blocks. You can coach and teach those things. You cant teach instincts. You cant teach awareness and thats always the toughest thing to evaluate because you really never know if a guy has those instincts and awareness until youre truly around him.Being around Spaight is enough to make Compton confident in his understudy. Working under Compton is one reason for Grudens faith in Spaight, but his game preparation is on another level, too.Hes always very adamant and humble in his approach to preparing for a game, Compton said. I have total faith in him. For him itll just be staying calm, staying focused, just not getting too high in the moment and just playing his game because when he plays he can play.After burying his own doubts about his future, Spaight will get the chance to play against a former league MVP in front of a national audience at the center of the defense.Just seeing that everythings better than it was, it just opened my eyes and showed that Im meant to play this game and I feel like this is my calling, Spaight said. Im anxious to go out there and show the world what I can get done.Game notes Along with Compton, rookie linebacker Sua Cravens didnt practice Friday because of an upper-arm/elbow injury. ... Tight end Jordan Reed is progressing from a sprained left shoulder that has limited him. Reed participated in one-on-one drills Friday. ... Left guard Shawn Lauvao (groin) and center Spencer Long (concussion) practiced and could be available to face the Panthers. 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__label__cc	0.575442	0.424558	The Fifth Cord - The Arrow Video Story Uploaded on 8 Feb 2019 Order in the UK: http://bit.ly/2KF6GR3 Order in the US: http://bit.ly/2SfYGsc The success of Dario Argento’s The Bird with the Crystal Plumage ushered in a host of imitators, seeking to capitalise on this new, modern take on the giallo thriller. Many were highly derivative, but a number nonetheless rose above the crowd thanks to skilful execution and a willingness to experiment stylistically. Once such example is The Fifth Cord ¬– which, in the hands of director Luigi Bazzoni (The Possessed, Footprints on the Moon), turns a conventional premise into a visually stunning exploration of alienation and isolation. When a man barely survives a brutal assault en route home from a New Year’s party, washed-up, whisky-swilling journalist Andrea Bild (Franco Nero, Django) is assigned to report on the case. Before long, the maniac strikes again, this time with fatal results. As the body count rises, Andrea falls under suspicion himself, making it even more imperative that he crack the case. His only clue lies in a series of black gloves found at the location of every attack, each with a finger cut off… Adapted from a novel by David McDonald Devine, The Fifth Cord boasts a complex, Agatha Christie-esque plot, outstanding cinematography courtesy of future Oscar-winner Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now) and supporting appearances by a raft of genre stalwarts, including Silvia Monti (A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin), Edmund Purdom (Nightmare City) and Rossella Falk (Sleepless). Debuting here in high definition, arguably the most visually stunning giallo ever made now shines like never before. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArrowFi... Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ar... Follows us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/arrow... Shop now: https://www.arrowfilms.com Channel Arrow Video The Loveless - The Arrow Video Story ENNIO MORRICONE -"Trafelato" (1971) MorriconeRocks WORST Movie Mistakes That Slipped Through Editing TheScreeny Black Moon Rising - The Arrow Video Story Arrow Video Stories Stephen Chow - Raja Pengemis \| King of Beggars 武狀元蘇乞兒 \| Subindo Movie Subindo Movie Outlaw: Gangster VIP Original Trailer (Toshio Masuda, 1968) The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast - The Arrow Video Story Sci-Fi Short Film "Iteration 1" presented by DUST George Romero Between Night and Dawn - The Arrow Video Story JIM CARREY IS BACK!! And He Deserves An Oscar For This Acting!! Tow Truck Killer: movie in 39 minutes Car Chase Wonderland 2	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line458
__label__cc	0.530865	0.469135	CLR's Investor Presentation, May 2013 #1 producer where it counts #1 producer in the Rockies (according to RMOJ) #1 producer in the Williston Basin (according to RMOJ) #1 producer in the Bakken (according to RMOJ) Proved reserves: 785 million boe year-end 2012; 54% YOY gain Cash margins: 1Q13: 74% 2012: 73% #1 producer, driller, and leasehold owner 77,000 boepd net for 1Q13 22 CLR operated rigs 3,439 locations (net unrisked potential; based on 320-acre spacing) 1.2 million net acres, 1Q13; 25% yoy since 1Q12 MB +TF1: "massive field of unprecedented magnitude" 24 billion boe technical recoverable: 24 BBoe = 2BBo (3.5%) +4 Bboe natural gas at 320-acre spacing; does not include any reserves from the lower TF benches Prior to lower TF: 57 BBo in place (2010); 3.5% recoverable; 320-acre spacing Now: estimate +57%; 903 BBo in place (2012) 32 BBo recoverable at 3.5% (unless otherwise stated, CLR uses 3.5% recovery rate) 36 BBo at 4% The slide shows four benches in the TF, and then the Nisku Bakken producers at MB, TF1, TF2, and TF3 Special projects, tests, pilot projects Productivity project: 20 gross wells; $123 million net cost Pilot density projects (2): 34 gross wells, 3 -320-acre density tests; one 160-acre density test, $36 million, 13 gross wells; Cost per well (completed well cost): non-operated CWC: $11.3 million operated CWC: $9.2 million targeted CWC: $8.2 million actual CWC: $8.3 million (average) as of April, 2013 Bakken crude: America's premium light sweet crude Bakken: almost 50% of each barrel of oil --> gasoline WTI: about 30$ of each barrel of oil --> gasoline US National Security Officials Among The Best In The World From that CNN story on the aircraft mishap at San Francisco: There are no signs of terrorism related to the crash, a national security official told CNN. It is amazing how fast our national security officials can come to these conclusions. At the time of the story, the plane was still burning. Along that line, this is an interesting tweet from the WSJ: Breaking: 2 dead, up to 100 wounded in San Francisco plane crash. Generally speaking, if it is a mishap or an accident, "wounded" are referred to as "injured." In combat, fights, attempted homicide, and terrorist acts, the "injured" are referred to as "wounded." (From the freedictionary.com: suffering from wounds; injured, esp in a battle or fight.) Runaway Freight Train Carrying Bakken Crude Destroys Center of Canadian Town July 9, 2013: the locomotive of this train was on first some hours earlier, Rigzone is reporting. Okay. July 9, 2013: the train may have been tampered with. CNN is reporting: The chairman of the company whose driverless train barreled into the small Quebec town of Lac-Megantic and unleashed a deadly inferno told a Montreal newspaper he believes it had been tampered with. "We have evidence of this," Ed Burkhardt said in an interview published by the Montreal Gazette. "But this is an item that needs further investigation. We need to talk to some people we believe to have knowledge of this." July 9, 2013: From Platts: Analysts also pointed to the dearth of hard facts about the incident, including the question of how a cargo of crude, which is not particularly flammable, was ignited. I've wondered the same; great question. Weren't just four (4) tank cars of the 73 tank cars involved? I can't remember; seems I read something along that line. The 73-crude-oil-tank train had come to a stop; the engineer had parked the train some distance from town, when he got out, waiting for "his relief," somehow the train "escaped." The story follows. A driverless freight train carrying tankers of crude oil derailed at high speed and exploded into a giant fireball in the middle of a small Canadian town early on Saturday, destroying dozens of buildings and leaving an unknown number of people feared missing. The disaster occurred shortly after 1 a.m. (0500 GMT) when the runaway train with 73 cars sped into Lac-Megantic, a picturesque lakeside town of about 6,000 people near the border with Maine, and came off the rails. Witnesses said the town center was crowded at the time. Four of the cars caught fire and blew up in a fireball that mushroomed many hundreds of feet up into the air. Montreal, Maine & Atlantic's vice president of marketing, Joseph R. McGonigle, said the train was transporting crude oil from North Dakota to Canada, likely to New Brunswick, news that is bound to revive questions about the safest way to carry the oil needed to service North America's economies. Runaway, The Traveling Wilburgs/Del Shannon Labels: Derails; Spills; Developing The Middle Bakken And The Multiple Benches Of The Three Forks: Idle Rambling On Well Density A reader sent me the following note: Hearing 20657 for CLR in Jim Creek actually includes two overlapping spacing units of 14 wells each. What really makes this case interesting, in my opinion, is that a year ago CLR got an overlapping spacing unit approved that fully developed the MB and TF with 320-acre spacing on both of these same units. It now appears that CLR is attempting to add another two benches which would allow 28 wells (+/-) per unit. See Case 18102, Order 20371. Also: note that the northern unit appears to be in a much sweeter area as it is closer to the Oakdale field. The southern unit is in an area that appears not to have any "good" Three Forks wells tbut maps show the thickness of the TF in that area to be as thick as any area. These are the two cases the reader is referencing: July 31, 2013 -- 20657: Application of Continental Resources, Inc. for an order authorizing the drilling, completing and producing of a total not to exceed fourteen wells on an overlapping 2560-acre spacing unit described as Sections 12, 13, 24 and 25, T.146N., R.96W., and Sections 7, 18, 19 and 30, T.145N., R.96W., Jim Creek-Bakken Pool, Dunn County, ND, eliminating ... Jun 28, 2012 -- 18102: Application of Continental Resources, Inc. for an order amending the field rules for the Jim Creek-Bakken Pool to create two overlapping 2560-acre spacing units comprised of Sections 12, 13, 24 and 25, T.146N., R.96W.; and Sections 7, 18, 19 and 30, T.145N., R.96W., Dunn County, ND,authorizing the drilling of multiple wells from each well pad within each overlapping 2560-acre spacing unit; eliminating ... My reply: Great observation. I completely missed that typographical error. Last year, in case 18102, CLR mentioned two overlapping spacing units, and this year in case 20657, they describe two overlapping spacing units, but only mention "an" (as in one) overlapping unit. It appears they should have said "two" overlapping spacing units. That was the first observation which I missed and you picked up on. Thank you. The second observation which you noted and I missed, is how CLR is probably going to target deeper benches. Your comments are excellent: that some areas seem better than others. I assume the operators have noticed the same thing and just as they were defining the sweet areas of the middle Bakken when the boom began, they have a lot of work defining the sweet spots for the various benches. I really appreciate readers sending in these observations. I hope I interpret their comments correctly. This "idle rambling" helps me really understand the administrative process of developing the Bakken/Three Forks better. In this case (actually two cases), mineral owners in this area now see that we are moving toward 28 wells in each 2560-acre spacing unit. And since these are overlapping spacing units, there will actually be additional wells in the original spacing units (which in this area, are 1280-acre spacing units). One can easily see that if an individual is currently participating in ONE well in one of these sections, he/she may eventually be participating in thirty to forty wells (or more?) before it's all over. Obviously the participation will be greater in a 1280-acre spacing unit than in a 2560-acre spacing unit, but the newer wells seem to be getting better. Who's to say? With better wells and better prices for oil, future wells on 2560-acre spacing unit may return more dollars to mineral owners than old wells on 1280-acre spacing. Labels: Well_Density The Canary In The Coal Mine -- WTI-Bitumen Spread Early on in the Bakken, a lot of folks were concerned whether the boom could last if the price of oil fell. I always maintained that as long as they were mining bitumen in western Canada, the Bakken boom was "safe." The premise is that the margin on Bakken oil is much better than the margin on bitumen. If operators can make a profit, or stay in business long enough for the price to come back in the Canadian sands, they can do as well or better in the Bakken. So, this was a nice article to see (sent to me by Don -- thank you). The Calgary Herald is reporting: Alberta bitumen passed the $85 per barrel mark this week. That's almost double what Alberta was getting for its raw bitumen in January, when prices were about $45 per barrel. And since all prices are based on U.S. dollars, and the loonie has dropped in value compared to its American counterpart, Thursday's price of $85.50 looks even sweeter. The most important international benchmark, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil at Cushing, OK, was trading for $101 per barrel. And Western Canada Select (WCS), the benchmark blend that includes bitumen, was $91 per barrel at the Hardisty terminal, according to trading data from Flint Hills Resources. The resulting differential of just $10 per barrel is considered excellent for western Canadian producers, and an improvement over the $16.50 average differential last month. In January, it was as high as $40. An earlier article noted how bad the spread can be. Labels: WTI_WCS_Spread Analyst Warns On OXY; Analyst Bets On OXY To The Upside; Analyze This -- For Investors Only I hate videos without the transcript. On the price of oil: $106 in the near term ... then $110. How much is on fundamentals, not on speculation (Egypt)? Technicals: it should still move toward $110 on fundamentals. But watch out. Speculators: extremely long; hitting new records; makes analysts cautious. But fundamentals support higher prices. One stock: OXY Petroleum. Confirmed for a 10% move up. But investors need to be careful -- a "bearish backdrop." OXY flirting with $100. If it breaks past its all-time high of $114, it could have massive upside to $153. Same with oil. But if OXY were to move back to the $80's, watch out. If it then moved to the mid-70's, OXY could actually go back to single digits. Extreme volatility. Comment: well that's a pretty safe bet by this analyst -- OXY shares could pop to $153 or fall all the way back to single digits. LOL. I think I just wasted five minutes. Disclaimer: this is not an investment site. Do not make any investment decisions on anything you read here or anything you thought you might have read here. Week 27: June 30, 2013 -- July 6, 2013 Perhaps the most frequent item blogged about this past week: the price of oil as it increased in price to finish the week over $103. Five Bakken wells with revenues over $17 million in less then two years - Filloon Random update on two Emerald wells Montana completions: Oasis drilling double lateral wells (two horizontals from same well) Samson Resources to request some very large spacing units in Divide County Slawson to drill wells with multiple laterals; vertical open to the Lodgepole formation XTO to drill as many as 10 wells on one 640-acre spacing unit (one section) Other formations Random look at an old Madison well; >750,000 bbls since 1972 Random update on BNSF capital improvements; many of them along the Montana border with North Dakota New $12 million water treatment plant for Parshall Washington State: more refineries preparing for Bakken oil Homebuilding on the upswing in Carpio, north of Minot July dockets posted: XTO to drill another 300 wells in Siverston oil field Breitling Oil & Gas could be bought by a Chinese company WTI over $103/bbl at the end of the week Review: the "central corridor" Trivia on naming Burlington Resources wells Saturday Morning Links, News & Views Wow, what a great way to start! The travel section in Section D (Off Duty) has an article on "truly novel bookstores" around the world. And the very last one highlighted, is the largest, and it is in Los Angeles where I just happen to be for a couple of weeks. Christie's puts ten (10) products from Apple's history, including an Apple 1, Apple SE and Apple Lisa, on the auction block. An end to another column in Review; this is very sad. Matt Ridley has written his last "Mind and Matter" column, and it's a good one. I may re-post it as a stand-alone post. Not much in Business & Finance today; just this one article: Apple and Samsung: some phones are smarter than others. Lead story in the Front Section has a headline that surprises me: job gains show staying power. Considering it's a WSJ article, it's a pretty shallow analysis. The violence is spreading in Egypt; stories everywhere, no links necessary. By the way, whatever happened to Syria. Will the Egyptian story be on the front page two weeks from now? The strike in San Francisco is over, but the bargaining is not. The union and the transit agency are still working on the new contract. Update on the Detroit "bankruptcy" or whatever it's being called: the city sues a bond insurer amid an effort to reach deal with creditors. In the latest move, the city sued Syncora Guarantee Inc., a bond insurer, over access to the city's casino tax revenue, estimated at $170 million a year. The city claims Syncora improperly told a bank controlling the funds to keep the money from Detroit. The city sees the insurer as a roadblock to a proposed deal to pay UBS AG and Bank of America Merrill Lynch more than 70 cents on the dollar on nearly $340 million in secured debt, according to people familiar with the matter. In exchange, the city would get back $11 million a month in tax revenue from the city's three casinos originally used as collateral to back the debt. The pending deal would be the first time one of the city's creditors has agreed to new terms since Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr took office in March. Mr. Orr may have a tougher time reaching agreement with the city's unsecured creditors, who he has offered roughly 10 cents on the dollar. In the middle are insurers like Syncora trying to recoup as much as they can of what the city owes. The insurer is concerned it may have to make up the difference between what the city is willing to pay its secured creditors and the amount originally owed by the city, a person familiar with the matter said. Meanwhile, China is taking a tough line with the EU on solar-panel tariffs. Op-Ed. With the economy improving in many states, these same states are back to spending levels that got them in trouble in the first place: Oil-rich North Dakota is also celebrating Christmas early. The Republican legislature and Gov. Jack Dalrymple approved budgets this spring for the next two years that pump up spending by more than 50%. The budget finances a massive expansion of Medicaid and pork projects, such as the purchase of a marina at a state park. "It's hard to imagine Democrats would have spent this much," laments Rob Port, the state's top taxpayer watchdog and creator of the popular political blog, Say Anything. Science Is About Evidence, Not Consensus -- Matt Ridley, WSJ And that is where the problem lies with climate change. A decade ago, I was persuaded by two pieces of data to drop my skepticism and accept that dangerous climate change was likely. The first, based on the Vostok ice core, was a graph showing carbon dioxide and temperature varying in lock step over the last half million years. The second, the famous "hockey stick" graph, showed recent temperatures shooting up faster and higher than at any time in the past millennium. Within a few years, however, I discovered that the first of these graphs told the opposite story from what I had inferred. In the ice cores, it is now clear that temperature drives changes in the level of carbon dioxide, not vice versa. As for the "hockey stick" graph, it was effectively critiqued by Steven McIntyre, a Canadian businessman with a mathematical interest in climatology. He showed that the graph depended heavily on unreliable data, especially samples of tree rings from bristlecone pine trees, the growth patterns of which were often not responding to temperature at all. It also depended on a type of statistical filter that overweighted any samples showing sharp rises in the 20th century. I followed the story after that and was not persuaded by those defending the various hockey-stick graphs. They brought in a lake-sediment sample from Finland, which had to be turned upside down to show a temperature spike in the 20th century; they added a sample of larch trees from Siberia that turned out to be affected by one tree that had grown faster in recent decades, perhaps because its neighbor had died. Just last week, the Siberian larch data were finally corrected by the University of East Anglia to remove all signs of hockey-stick upticks, quietly conceding that Mr. McIntyre was right about that, too. Labels: GlobalWarming Random Update Of Two Emerald Wells Though it is still on the confidential list, it is being reported that Emerald's third operated Bakken well (Caper 1-15-22H) produced 16,137 BOE during the first 11 days: 24922, conf, Emerald Oil, Caper 1-15-22H, Boxcar Butte and, Emerald's 2nd operated Bakken well (Arsenal 1-17-20H) produced 22,558 barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) during the first 30 days of production: 23909, drl, Emerald Oil, Arsenal (Federal) 1-17-20H, Charbonneau, Source: corporate press release. Another One Bites The Dust -- Solar Panel Maker Conergy Files For Insolvency Phys.org is reporting: German solar panel manufacturer Conergy said it will file for insolvency on Friday, the latest victim of ferocious competition from Asia in the industry. A reminder, posted almost exactly one year ago, there was another solar company that suffered a similar fate about a year ago. South Korea's Hanwha bought Q-Cells, the flagship German solar business. 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__label__cc	0.545849	0.454151	Allied Forces Take Out Storage Tanks In Syria To Enforce Oil Embargo -- May 31, 2019 A "war" we don't hear much about: May 31, 2019, allied aircraft take out storage tankers, oilprice. May 3, 2019, Syria scrambling, AP News. April 25, 2019, Damascus, misery, Bloomberg. Back on March 22, 2019, another incident in which oil to Syria was turned back; in The Wall Street Journal. I'm sure Iran is watching. "Fed" Watch Reminder: when the China trade war began, there were stories that as bad as this would be for the US, it would be worse for the Chinese. Some suggested the China-US trade war would end when Chinese bankers started jumping out of windows. Hold that thought. Now, from zerohedge comes this: US banks and the recession panic. As we await for Goldman to throw in the towel and admit its forecast of one rate hike in 2020 (and no cuts in 2019), was overly... optimistic, moments ago Barclays had a "hold my beer" moment, and just hours after JPMorgan changed its forecast, and as a result of an economic slowdown resulting from the escalating trade war now expects 2 rate cuts in 2019, Barclays has one-upped the largest US bank, and moments ago revised its FOMC forecast, now expecting 3 rate cuts in 2019. Now, while some may debate whether a curve inversion begins the clock on an upcoming recession, one things is undisputable (sic): while many analysts will caution that it is the Fed's rate hikes that ultimately catalyze the next recession and that every Fed tightening ends with a financial "event", the truth is that there is one step missing from this analysis, and it may come as a surprise to many that the last three recessions all took place with 3 months of the first rate cut after a hiking cycle! Conclusion: the US will enter a recession somewhere around January, 2020. If so, it will be one of the shortest recessions on record. Having said that, we're back to the "chicken and egg" problem/question. How does a rate cut "catalyze" a recession. My hunch is the writer has that all wrong. My hunch is that by the time the Fed gets around to a rate cut they are too late: they see the recession coming, react too late, and by the time they make the rate cut, the recession is already in motion. By the way, if the Chinese trade war does not end soon (like by the end of June), it will be a very, very bad Christmas for US retailers in 2019. US retailers are making their Chinese buying decisions by the end of June, perhaps by the end of July at the latest. US retailers go to trade shows to find out what's hot, to make their bets on what to order early in the summer. The Chinese need time to make the products, and then time to ship the products in time for Christmas. We are now down to less than six months when these Chinese products need to be on US store shelves. The EU As "bad" as it might be in the US regarding a "Fed" rate cut, the Europeans have an even bigger problem. Europe has no more arrows in their quiver. For five years, European nations have been trying to jump-start their ailing economies with what was supposed to be a radical, short-term remedy—negative interest rates. Instead, central banks haven’t been able to wean their economies off them. Increasingly, they appear to be a permanent feature of the landscape. No major bank that introduced negative rates during Europe’s debt crisis has turned main policy rates positive again. “Overall, we are on a painkiller,” said Tamaz Georgadze, chief executive of Raisin GmbH in Berlin, which provides a platform for consumers and businesses to deposit through 77 banks in 25 countries, “and it’s very hard to get off it.” Wow, look at Switzerland -- I never would have expected that. Labels: Mideast2019 WTI Plummets; Trades Below $54; Twelve New Permits In North Dakota -- May 31, 2019 Newbies: note the number of active rigs, 64, which seems about right in North Dakota when WTI ranges between $55 and $65. Note how few active rigs there were in 2016 -- that was during the "trillion-dollar mistake" by the Saudis when they tried to crush US shale by opening their spigots. More important than the number of active rigs is the number of wells not producing for operational reasons. As of the the most recent Director's Cut, the March, 2019, data: DUCs: 968, up 74 from last report inactive: 1,697, up 30 from last report total: 2,665 (up from 2,561 last month; this represents about 1,000 more wells than will be drilled this calendar year; 2,561 is about what North Dakota will complete every three years) Active Rigs 64 61 48 28 80 Twelve new permits: Operators: Hess (6); RimRock (6) Fields: Alkali Creek (Mountrail); Heart Butte (Dunn) RimRock has permits for a 6-well Skunk Creek pad in lot 2/section 7-148-92; Hess has permits for a 6-well EN-Sorenson B pad in section 35-155-94, Alkali Creek; One well did come of the confidential list today: 35242, SI/NC, WPX, Badlands 5-32-29HT, Heart Butte, no production data, Five permits renewed: Slawson: five Gunslinger Federal permits, all in McKenzie County A Note To The Readers -- May 31, 2019 Disclaimer: I remain inappropriately exuberant about the Bakken. I love Big Oil and I love the independents. I see the world through oil-covered glasses. I love to blog. I do troll. I've talked about that before. I am occasionally (probably too often) snarky. After the fact I feel badly and often apologize. It's hard for me to "suffer fools." I "love" Trump. I think I "get him." It's my opinion that his adversaries, for the most part, do not "get him." I agree with Jon Voigt regarding Trump. I'm among the older, white, male generation who are stereotyped -- that the world has passed them by -- or however the millennials and the NY Times phrase it. That's fine. I'm pretty content. I have no "bucket list." I used to live one day at a time. I now live one hour at a time. Seriously. When my wife tells me the schedule for the weekend on Thursday, I tune her out. I'm only concerned about the schedule for Thursday night. Calendars? Instead of weekly calendars, I have "what's happening now?" calendars. My dad at age 92 years of age said he never bought any green bananas. I don't buy green bananas and I don't buy ice cubes. I make ice cubes when I need them. My only goal now is to live long enough to make sure Sophia has a driver to get her wherever she needs to be. That's about ten more years. I've become an Uber driver without the app or the pay. A bucket list sounds like work and when I retired, I decided never to work again. Having said that, I never considered my 30 years and one day in the USAF "work." I went into the office (or the tent, or the hardened shelter, or the Tab-V) seven days a week, except when I had a headquarters job, and never considered it work. One exception: working the emergency room. Wow, talk about an experience. Being the only physician in a busy ER overseas ... in an American hospital ... in Turkey. A digression: I just finished reading Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer, c. 2006. Explains a lot why the US military is as good as it is. Mike Flynn, good, bad, or indifferent, was railroaded. And I say that, even though I probably would not have liked him and would not have wanted to serve under him (grammar?). The note: A huge "thank you" to those who read the blog and another huge "thank you" to those who write. I sometimes feel guilty that I don't provide a full and appropriate response to those who send in comments to posts or send me e-mail notes. I'm not always able to respond as much as I would like due to family commitments. Social media is such that if one does not respond immediately, it seems too late to respond later. Now, about those family commitments. Almost all of them involve driving the three granddaughters somewhere. Some of the trips are routine, scheduled, and daily, e.g., Sophia back and forth to TutorTime -- one of my favorite activities. Other scheduled trips are taking Arianna to water polo two or three nights a week. [By the way, Walt Disney found time to drive his two teenage daughters to high school even when he was "breaking out" into the "big time." I'm in good company.] The unscheduled trips are pop-ups. For example, I thought I was "free" today. Already, Olivia has three trips for me that are "pop-ups." But, wow, talk about triply blessed. Arianna, the thinker, knows something about everything and I'm always surprised by what she comes up with. I think as a sophomore she knows more academically than I did when I graduated from high school. Certainly in writing, history, and the social sciences that would be true. Olivia, the student-athlete. No one in the family "takes her on." She is in a world of her own and most of us just try to avoid being knocked out of our own orbit by her energy. Finally, Sophia, age 4 (fifth birthday in a month or so): she could be the cleverest of the three. We'll see. She is certainly the most empathetic. I missed the game last night. I was told the first game was this weekend. Toronto won. Next game Sunday. And it continues. Phil Mickelson, holy mackerel, drops 82 spots; played seven over today, is +5 for the tournament, tied at 105, finished for the day and finished for the tournament. He will miss the cut. Tiger Woods bogied the first hole, is now one under for the tournament. The cut line will probably be one over, so it's likely he will be playing the weekend. The sponsors and the advertisers are counting on Woods being around. Not NASCAR but "indy" racing comes to the Texas Motor Speedway June 8, 2019. I know I won't go, but I can dream. $59 for two tickets -- are being advertised on the radio. I could take Sophia. The other two granddaughters will be out of town. Yes, I'm going to do it. $10-tickets along the track. I need to get hearing protection for Sophia and me. The Daily Note Polling: Real Clear Politics 115th US Congress Second 100 Days Days 151 - 200 July 17, 2019,T+47: Congressional Dems have ceded control to four idiots. Based on what I read in mainstream media, only Pelosi is standing up to them. And she's not getting much support. Huge referendum on Ill-Hand Omar and Occasional-Cortex; this was not a vote about Trump: July 16, 2019, T+46: polls starting to show Biden, Bernie, Pocahontas, Harris in a statistical 4-way tie in early-primary states. Three words: circular firing squad. Two words: brokered convention. It's hard to believe Biden lost his overwhelming lead this quickly. I thought it might take another month or so. Or another debate. Beto? 0.0% in New Hampshire. Buttigieg? 1.0%. It appears we have our Final Four. July 15, 2019, T+45: entire US House now supporting the ultra-left libs. Pretty funny how Trump does this. Biden slips below 30% for first time in poll commissioned by The Hill. Buttigieg has crashed and burned: "Buttigieg, who ranked as high as third place in one earlier poll, slipped to sixth place, garnering just 1 percent of support." I guess folks were concerned about his First Lady. July 14, 2019, T+44: the increasing animosity among the far left Democrats and the simply left Democrats suggests to me that there is growing realization that they will lose to Trump. They are becoming frantic. July 13, 2019, T+43: it's very possible Bernie could run as an independent in the 2020 election. Not likely, but an even bigger scare for the Democrat nominee: more than one "Democrat" might run as independents. Could one add Tom Steyer to that list? There is talk that Howard Schultz could run as an independent. July 12, 2019, T+42, most recent poll -- Biden: significant drop; now at 26.8% Harris: stays at 15% but drops to fourth place Bernie: tied for second place after recovering a bit to 15.2% Pocahontas: tied for second with crazy Bernie, at 15.2% Buttigieg: another flash in the pan, stays at 5.3% Beto: drops another 0.5%; now at 2.2%; he's done; stick a fork in him July 11, 2019, T+41: huge win for Trump (won't be reported in mainstream media) -- Trump scored a big win on Wednesday when the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to throw out a case that accused him of violating the Constitution through earnings from D.C. businesses including the Trump International Hotel. The lawsuit, brought by the attorneys general of Maryland and Washington, D.C., claimed that earnings from the hotel and its related businesses violated prohibitions against receiving benefits from foreign governments, the U.S., or individual states. The Fourth Circuit declared that Maryland and D.C. lacked standing to bring the case in the first place, and ordered the lower court to dismiss the complaint. July 10, 2019, T+40: a reminder -- https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-10/trumps-geographic-landslide. new poll: Biden: down slightly to 27.1% Harris: stays at15% but drops to third Bernie: recovers, moves back into second at 15.3% Pocahontas: 13.7% --trending down Buttigieg: trending down, 5% Beto: down slightly to 2.6% Tom Steyer: 0.0000000% July 9, 2019, T+39: new polls out -- Biden holds on, extends -- Biden: recovers a bit; stops the slide; back to 27.3% Harris: still in second but slips to 15%; insignificant except for the trend Bernie: recovers a bit, at 14.9% Pocahontas: 13.9% -- pretty much unchanged Buttigieg: another flash in the pan, at 5.3% Beto: 2.7% Tom Steyer: announces: omg i hope he takes the Democrat nomination July 8, 2019, T+38: Fox contributor -- Obama behind Kamala's surge in the polls. It may be Obama but I still think Hillary's war room is behind much of this. July 7, 2019, T+37: either the numbers have been updated -- this is stunning: Kamala Harris now out-polls crazy Bernie. Biden: continues to drop; now at 26.0% -- after his apology tour begins Harris: 15.2% and now out-polling Sanders Bernie: 14.0% July 6, 2019, T+36: the 4th of July celebration on the Washington Mall was one of the best ever based on limited reporting; I am told that none of the major networks covered it in their nightly news reports. The general consensus is that the mainstream media and the Left conspired to denigrate the US flag and Independence Day (4th of July). July 5, 2019, T+35: I haven't read the stories but the headlines suggest the July 4th celebrations in DC were a huge success. Making America great. Wow, Bernie plunging. Bernie is polling as low as 9% in the Economist, one of the most liberal mainstream publications out there: Biden: continues to drop; now at 27.2% Bernie: below 15%, at 14.7% Pocahontas: unchanged at 13.5% Harris: another big jump, to 14.7%; Americans are apparently ready for another Obama - this time a woman; something tells me the Hillary war room is in a panic; looks like it's about time for Harris to start moving to the center ("busing should be considered, but not mandatory") Biggigieg: plunging; now at 5.3% Beto: continues to drop; now at 2.3%; stick a fork in him; he's done; the Atlantic is looking more and more foolish; July 4, 2019, T+34: California earthquake, 6.4; largest in decades. The Northridge earthquake was 6.6 in '94 -- 25 years ago. July 3, 2019, T+33: quiet. July 2, 2019, T+32: Latest Quinnipiac University poll shows Kamala Harris/Joe Biden in a virtual tie at 20/22 (percent). This has to scare Hillary -- more and more it looks like a brokered convention, but now, Hillary has a real competitor: Kamala Harris. July 1, 2019, T+31: with the CNN poll out today showing Biden dropping significantly and Kamala Harris surging, it's time for the Hillary war room to jump into action. And it has. There are now stories that there is backlash against Kamala because she "hit Joe Biden below the belt in the first debate." Most recent polls, after the CNN poll came out: Biden: drops below 30%, down to 29.9% which I think is the first time Biden has dropped below 30% Bernie: unchanged, at 17% Pocahontas: has indeed polled better; now at 13.4% Harris: big jump from 7.0% to 10.0% Biggigieg: continues to drop; now down to 6.0% Beto: continues to drop; now below 3.0%; polling at 2.6%, about where Booker (2.3%) is June 30, 2019, T+30: following first Democrat debates, first polls show: Biden: drops slightly to 31.4% (from 32.1%) Bernie: unchanged, at 16.9% (was 16.5%) Pocahontas: everyone said she was the big winner; supposedly surged, but poll shows 12.6%, up from 12.4% earlier Harris: up to 7.8% from 7.0% Buttigieg: drops from 7.0% to 6.5% Beto: the faux Hispanic drops back to 3.0% (from 3.3%); takes him campaign into northern Mexico to visit "turned away" immigrants; perhaps to show that Trump's efforts are working? Will promise them free health care if they can sneak in. He probably knows the shortcuts across the border; this is where he bicycled as a teenager June 29, 2019, T+29: Trump: 1) tariffs on hold while Chinese - US negotiations resume; ii) China to import "huge" amounts of US agricultural products; iii) Trump to visit North Korea; iv) OPEC agrees to keep oil production cuts through early 2020. June 28, 2019, T+28: G-20; Trump shines. June 27, 2019, T+27: Biden? Mister Magoo? June 26, 2019, T+26: first Democrat debate. Beto crashes and burns. June 25, 2019, T+25: new polls, unchanged for most part. First Democrat debates will be held later this week. Biden unchanged, from 32.0% to 32.1% -- below his peak after he announced Bernie: from 15% back to where he was a week earlier, 16.5% Pocahontas: continues to "surge"; from 11.9% to 12.4% now Harris: bouncing around; back to 7.0% Buttigieg: maintains, no change; at 7.0% Beto: the faux Hispanic drops from 3.6% to 3.3% June 24, 2019, T+24: quiet. June 23, 2019, T+23: more irons in the fire of any peacetime president. I don't hear much in the mainstream media about the WH being disorganized, chaotic. The WH seems to be doing just fine, thank you. June 22, 2019, T+22: the never-Trumpers appear to be unhappy that the president did not retaliate last week. Senator Schumer was worried Trump would "bumble" into war with Iran; then upset nothing happened. LOL. Pelosi said we live in "difficult" times; then went out for lunch. By the way, haven't heard much about impeachment lately. USA Today poll: Trump's popularity at all-time high. President Donald Trump has scored his highest approval rating ever in a key national poll, but the media outlet that produces it, USA Today, never mentioned that fact in its write-up. This week’s USA/Suffolk poll, taken from June 11 through June 15 and presented by RealClearPolitics along with other polling, had the president at a 49 percent approval rating versus 48 percent who disapprove. The rating is a marked increase from the president’s lowest points in that particular poll. August 2018 saw Trump’s approval at 40 percent, and his score of 38 percent in February 2018 was the lowest rating of his presidency. June 21, 2019, T+21: wow, wow, wow -- confirmed that the Hillary war room has taken out Joe Biden. ABC News/Good Morning America now reporting that Biden's son Hunter profiting on his dad's name while working in the Ukraine. The ABC hit on Hunter was incredibly harsh; clearly put together by the Hillary war room; there's no way a single reporter could have written this by himself/herself. When you listen to the actual audio it is clear that the Hillary war room put this out. Page 6 of the New York Times --- Hunter Biden fathers out-of-wedlock child, Arkansas woman ... clearly oppositional research developed by Hillary war room. June 20, 2019, T+20: Circular firing squad -- Biden suffers flesh wound -- Pocahontas now seen as compromise candidate to Bernie / Biden. Iran claims to have shot down US drone; WTI surges. 9th Circuit Court supports Trump: he can defund Planned Parenthood. June 19, 2019, T+19: new poll out. Hillary war room working. Biden falls: Biden continues his slide; now down to 32.0%; after announcement, peaked at 33.4% Bernie: wow -- from 16.5%, now at 15.0%; who was the beneficiary? Pocahontas: held on; from 11.8% to 11.9% Buttigieg: media favorite; was 7.8%; now back to 7.0%; Hillary war room stopped him cold; Beto: following him only because he was interesting early on; the faux Hispanic at 3.6% June 18, 2019, T+18: Acting Defense Secretary Shanahan won't go forward with confirmation, Trump says. Shanahan wants to spend more time with his family. March 28, 2019, article: When will Trump nominate a permanent defense secretary? June 17, 2019, T+17: Trump supporters lining up / camping out 40 hours before his re-election announcement rally later this week. The impeachment rallies held around the country this past weekend were a complete bust -- at best, no more than twenty folks turned up at any rally. June 16, 2019, T+16: see previous note. The debates are in Pocahontas' favor. Not only is Pocahontas debating the first night, she is not on stage with either Biden or Bernie. She should have a blow-out debate. However, one would bet the Nielsen ratings will be very, very low. Other than Pocahontas, no one is in the hunt -- but there could be a nice turnout based on curiosity: Flailing-arms Beto will be on stage with Pocahontas. The second night will be a face-off between Bernie and Biden but with ten folks on the stage each night, it's hard to imagine how much we will actually learn. Bernie and Biden will be on stage with Buttigieg and Harris. June 15, 2019, T+15: one has to assume the DNC political stories are originating in Hillary's war room. The one person that most wants a circular firing squad right now: Hillary. The only person that can prevent a brokered convention: Biden. Hillary is still betting on a brokered convention and diva ex machina. If one accepts that, this weekend's buzz that Pocahontas is surging makes sense. Several media outlets, including The New Yorker, suggest that Pocahontas could end up taking it all. So, let's check the most recent poll that has just come out: Biden: down from 33.4% to 32.3% Bernie: back to 16.5%; he had moved up slightly (to 17%) in the previous poll Pocahontas: yes, she has surged; after tending down to 8.0%, takes a significant jump, up to 11.8%; if Biden and Bernie pretty much stayed the same, who gave up points to Pocahontas? It turns out it was Harris -- the big change Harris: previous poll it was noted that she was really down, from almost 8% to nearly 7%; at 7.2%; but now, in the most recent poll, down to 6.3%, falling behind Buttgieg Buttigieg: continues to move up; from 7.0% to 7.8%; most interestingly, The Economist is in line with the other polls, 7 - 8%; Beto: trending down; now at 3.5% Bottom line: Kamala Harris has peaked; Hillary is now pushing Warren by the way, who was featured this past week as supporting Pocahontas? Occasional-Cortex June 14, 2019, T+14: twenty candidates for first DNC debate, June 26 - 27, 2019, Miami, FL -- how many can you identify? It's hard to believe, but in addition to these twenty, there were another four who did not meet the threshold to be on stage for the first debate. June 13, 2019, T+13: Iran torpedoes two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. Price of WTI barely changes. June 12, 2019, T+12: June 11, 2019, T+11: it is now being reported that North Korea leader's slain brother (2017) was a CIA source. Anyone who isn't interested in the CIA - Obama "story" is wearing blinders. New Democratic presidential polls are out: Biden: unchanged at 33.4% (down if anything) Bernie: up slightly at 17% Pocahontas: continues to trend down, now at 8.0% -- from 8.4% to 8.2% and now, down to 8.0% Harris: really down, from almost 8% to nearly 7%; at 7.2% Buttigieg: moving up, from 6.8%; surges to ... 7.0% -- this is after must media fawning, but again, throw out the most liberal Economist, and he's down to 25/4, he's down to 6.25% Beto: unchanged at 3.8% June 10, 2019, T+10: Financial markets continue to surge. Legislation passed by the US House subsequently passed by the US Senate: . And we move on. June 9, 2019, T+9: quiet. June 8, 2019, T+8: Beto is introduced as "blank slate" in Iowa. We now know why Buttigieg is running for higher office: Buttigiege and her husband have $131,000 in student debt. LOL. June 7, 2019, T+7: Trump wins again. Mexico blinks. Mexico will work to stop the southern surge. Trump suspends tariffs on Mexican goods. June 6, 2019, T+6: new poll -- Biden: slips slightly to 33.5% Sanders steady at 16.7% Pocahontas (and this is the important one): drops from 8.4% to 8.2% (see this post) Harris: up slightly from 7.3% to 7.8% Buttigieg: from 6% to 6.8% Beto: unchanged, from 3.9% to 3.8% From Reuters, June 6, 2019: "Beto O'Rourke, a Democratic darling in 2018, struggling on national stage." Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman who nearly won a U.S. Senate seat last year in the reliably conservative state, is struggling in his White House bid and has lost support from young voters and minorities, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos national poll. The public opinion poll released on Thursday shows support for O’Rourke among registered Democratic and independent voters slipped by 3 percentage points since a May survey to 3% overall. During the same time, other leading Democratic presidential candidates saw their support increase. The poll found 31% of Democratic and independent voters would vote for former Vice President Joe Biden, 14% supported U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and 9% backed U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, netted 6% and 5%, respectively, making O’Rourke the sixth most popular choice in a field of 24 candidates. And it gets worse after that. CNN viewership drops another 16%. Only 761,000 viewers in a country of more than 300 million. Meanwhile, Rachel Madcow is at a Trump-era low. June 5, 2019, T+5: another win for Trump. The US House by itself cannot stop Trump's emergency funding of the wall. Congress is composed of two bodies: US House and US Senate. US House cannot act unilaterally. What a great country. Biden charged with plagiarism: stealing AOC's Nude Green Eel climate change plan. Pelosi says she wants to see Trump in prison, not impeached. What movie is she watching? Two years of investigation by Hillary''s lawyers at $40 million: and no collusion found. Exactly what is Trump guilty of? June 4, 2019, T+4: is it just me or has anyone else noticed that the mainstream media is not mentioning the ethnicity of Virginia shooter who killed twelve innocent people? Or even showing his face? Instead, the media is showing the faces of the victims, an eclectic mix. Most recent Democratic presidential poll: Biden: at 35%, unchanged Sanders: at 17%, up slightly Pocahontas, drops, after admitting "she is not a person of color, not a member of any tribe" but says putting "Native American" on her resume did not help her get into Harvard; drops below 9%; now at 8.4%; donors will soon get tired of sending her money; Kamala: drops to 7.3% Buttigieg: flat at 6%; media says his polling numbers have surged; not seeing it; Beto: moving up -- now at 3.9% June 3, 2019, T+3: Another win for President Trump. Trump announces, while in Great Britain, that Russia says it has removed most of its personnel from Venezuela. If true, Putin blinked. June 2, 2019, T+2: the tea leaves suggest Mueller did a half-ass job investigating the origin of the "dossier." Mueller failed to investigate the origin of the "dossier." Considering who made up the "Mueller team" this should not be a bit surprising. Wow, wow, wow: impeachment is off the table. Pelosi has "always" said no. Last week Nadler said the American public won't accept impeachment. Now, today, Schiff agrees that impeachment efforts would fail -- blames it on the GOP but in fact, the majority of US House is all that is needed. The fact is that not enough Dems in the US House would have voted for impeachment. Mueller won't help the Dems. Have we finally seen the fifth stage of grief for the Dems in the US House? June 1, 2019, T+1: : this will be longer than usual. This is quite interesting. Quite some time ago I wanted to do a post on the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) and how it related to the Trump victory. It is quite interesting how events unfolded after the election results were in -- and how they seemed to follow the five stages of grief almost perfectly, beginning with denial. Remember the "meltdown" as the results started coming in. Television anchors could not believe it. And then through anger, bargaining, depression, but I never thought we would get to acceptance. But Rep Nadler's comments yesterday were very, very interesting. He seems to be stepping back from impeachment also, stating that impeachment is a political act, and the American public has not "yet" accepted impeachment as an option. He says that because Americans don't yet have all the facts, but that's another story. But the five stages of grief and the reaction to Trump being elected is very, very interesting. At least for me. WTI Will Test $55 Today -- No Wells Coming Off Confidential List Today -- May 31, 2019 Later, 12:02 p.m. CT: well, that didn't take long. WTI drops below $55, now trading at $54.89. There's a bit of smoke and mirrors with OPEC production numbers. "They" (Reuters) say that OPEC's total production dropped in May to a record low (since 2015) -- even though Saudi's production increased. Reuters suggests that even though Saudi Arabia increased its production, it was not enough to offset the loss of production by Iran. Oh, give me a break. Does one really think that Iran has not found a way to off-load their "sanctioned" oil? LOL. But, Saudi Arabia production, all things being equal, starts to increase in the summer due to increased a/c demands, so who knows where we really stand? The bottom line is that regardless of how much the Mideast produces, America has a glut of light oil, can't get enough heavy oil from Canada (thank you, Mr Obama) and with new tariffs on Mexico, WTI is now below $55. Brent? Saudi needs $70-Brent. Brent is now trading for about $64. "OPEC basket" is trading for about $68. MRO denied: link here. See this post for background and graphics. North Dakota's Board of University and School Lands has denied a leasing extension to an oil company that has sought to develop several Badlands mineral tracts since 2013. The panel of five state elected officials chaired by Gov. Doug Burgum voted unanimously at its meeting Thursday morning to deny Marathon Oil's request for another 360-day leasing extension. The company has faced rough terrain, mixed landownership and protected species requirements in siting a drill pad. Not surprising. From Rigzone, independents dominate US energy markets. Data points: independents account for 83% of the nation's oil output and 90% of domestic natural gas / NGL production independents accounted for almost $600 billion in 2018 or almost 3% of US GDP Not over until it's over: Icahn sues OXY, threatens fight for sale. Link to Bloomberg. Activist investor Carl Icahn launched a lawsuit against Occidental Petroleum Corp. with the goal of potentially seeking board seats and a sale of the company. Politics trumps common sense: EPA will issue rule allowing E15 gasoline to be sold nationwide year-round -- a huge nod to Iowa voters prior to the 2020 election. Big Oil probably won't be buying Permian stragglers any time soon. Bloomberg. Seems at odds with what we all thought six months ago. Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Chevron Corp. and ConocoPhillips are all on record saying they are wary of scooping up smaller rivals at a time when would-be sellers are demanding premium payouts and global crude prices are under pressure from ample supplies. There is “not always alignment among buyers and sellers,” Exxon Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods said Wednesday. He suggested Permian drillers may have to be squeezed by weak prices for a bit longer before they dial down their expectations. “That’s often the case in a market, particularly in one that’s in transition,” Woods said. In other words: the vultures will continue to circle. Back to the Bakken No wells coming off the confidential list today (there was no November 31 six months ago). RBN Energy: what's driving new propane dehydrogenation projects in North America? Global demand for propylene is rising, but lighter crude slates at U.S. refineries and the use of more ethane at U.S. (and overseas) steam crackers has reduced propylene production from these plants. That has led to the development of more “on-purpose” propylene production facilities — especially propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plants — in both the U.S. and Canada. More than 2 million metric tons/year of new PDH capacity has come online in North America since 2010, another 1.6 MMtpa is under development, and propane/propylene economics may well support still more capacity being built by the mid-2020s, maintaining the U.S. and Canada’s position as propylene and propylene-derivative exporters. Today, we begin a series looking at “on-purpose” production of propylene by PDH plants and what the development of these facilities will mean for U.S., Canadian and overseas markets. Propylene — a particularly useful chemical building block — is used in downstream petrochemical processes to make a number of important materials, including polypropylene; acrylonitrile (used for acrylic fibers and coatings); propylene oxide (used for polyurethanes and other chemicals); oxo alcohols (used in PVC plasticizers and coatings); cumene (used to make epoxy resins and polycarbonate); and isopropyl alcohol (used as a solvent). About two-thirds of the propylene produced is used to make polypropylene — one of the best-selling plastics, second only to polyethylene. Polypropylene (or PP) is used extensively in automobiles and in the manufacture of packaging films, bottle caps, fiber ropes, as well as bicycle helmets and diapers. Global demand for propylene has been increasing at an average of about 5.2 MMtpa — a 3.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) — while North American demand is growing at a more modest average of 390,000 metric tons per year, for a CAGR of 2.2%. However, as we’ll get to in a moment, the traditional “co-product” sources of propylene supply have not kept up with demand — a situation that has led to the development of on-purpose propylene capacity on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border. The Physics Page One of the best books I ever read on quantum theory was The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Born, Louisa Gilder, c. 2008. The book was criticized by some readers because the "conversations" were fictional, made up by the author based on her reading of the source documents. Whatever. It appears that Jim Baggott, in 2011, provided a great, great follow-up to the book. Baggott's book traces the history of development of quantum. I don't understand much of the science and none of the math but the historical vignettes of the various players are incredible. I'm not sure it's the book I would recommend for newcomers to quantum, but for those who have followed the subject for years, this is a great summary of how the science developed. Allied Forces Take Out Storage Tanks In Syria To E... WTI Plummets; Trades Below $54; Twelve New Permits... WTI Will Test $55 Today -- No Wells Coming Off Con...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line469
__label__wiki	0.599157	0.599157	Men who have sex with men (MSM) Multi-drug resistant Shigella detected in the UK and USA, mostly in gay men Public health authorities in the UK have issued a warning about a highly drug-resistant strain of a serious bacterial gut infection that can be contracted through sex. Between March and November last year, 17 cases of Shigella dysentery with resistance to several first-line antibiotics were detected. It appears that transmission is clustered among gay and other men who have sex with men (MSM). Fourteen of the 17 UK cases involve men and nine further cases have been identified in the United States, all involving MSM. Standard treatment with first line antibiotics such as azithromycin and ceftriaxone may not be effective, though other oral antibiotics will still work. Shigella causes severe, prolonged diarrhoea and stomach cramps. It's transmitted by contact with very small amounts of human faeces and can be passed on during certain sexual activities. Rimming, fingering, fisting, anal sex, handling sex toys after use in the anus, and occasionally oral sex can all carry a risk. The bacteria may pass from fingers to the mouth. Symptoms typically occur within three days of exposure and include: Frequent diarrhoea lasting more than 48 hours General weakness and tiredness. Shigella can be especially serious in HIV-positive individuals who have a low CD4 count. Individuals who have these symptoms should see their GP or a sexual health clinic, mentioning Shigella. The doctor should request a stool sample for appropriate tests (faecal PCR and culture). The multi-drug resistant cases were identified between March and November last year. Eight of the cases were in London, but smaller numbers have also been diagnosed in all other UK regions. Doctors treating patients with severe diarrhoea need to be aware of this predominately male cluster of multi-drug resistant cases, and ask patients about their sexual activity and recent travel. If appropriate, samples should be obtained for laboratory testing to check for resistance. Enhanced public health surveillance has also been activated. Symptoms of this strain of multi-drug resistant shigella typically include diarrhoea lasting for more than a week, despite treatment with antibiotics. Although resistant to several antibiotics, the strain remains susceptible to other drugs including chloramphenicol, ertapenem, temocillin, mecillinam and fosfomycin. The risk of sexual transmission can be reduced by avoiding oral-faecal contact and by washing hands and showering after sex. Using protection for fingering, rimming and fisting, including gloves and changing condoms between anal and oral sex also help reduce the risk of transmission. Public Health England have yet to assemble full information about the risk factors associated with contracting the drug-resistant strain. However, several behavioural characteristics were associated with a serious outbreak of Shigella among MSM in the UK in 2014, including: High numbers of sexual partners met online or at sex parties. Chemsex, especially the use of mephedrone, methamphetamine, ketamine and GBL. Injecting drug use. More information on Shigella More information on Shigella is available in our factsheet. NHS advice for people diagnosed with Shigella includes important advice about how to prevent onward transmission Links between stigma, suicidal thoughts and less HIV testing in Nigerian men who have sex with men31 December 2018 'Alarmingly high' HIV incidence among MSM and transgender women in sub-Saharan Africa19 November 2018 PROUD qualitative findings: PrEP’s impact on sexual behaviour 13 November 2018 HIV and chronic HCV co-infection prevalence in England highest among MSM15 August 2018 In Haiti, gay men infected with HIV are targets of discriminationThe Conversation - 01 July 2019 Fear and stigma mark life for gays in conservative Malawi Channel News Asia - 17 June 2019 Kenyan High Court Rules Against Gay RightsMPact - 27 May 2019 UNAIDS calls on countries to remove discriminatory laws and enact laws that protect people from discriminationUNAIDS - 16 May 2019 More editors' picks on men who have sex with men (MSM) > Related country news More news from United Kingdom > More news from United States >	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line478
__label__wiki	0.90682	0.90682	Imamo 56 gosta na mreži SETimes.com / 21.01.2011. SEFIK ALIC, FORMER MUSLIM COMMANDER, SENTENCED TO PRISON The appeals chamber of the Court of BiH sentenced a former Bosnian Muslim commander to ten years in prison Thursday (January 20th) for war crimes committed against Croatian Serb soldiers in 1995. Sefik Alic was found guilty of inhuman treatment of four detainees and failing to prevent their killing. Alic served in the Fifth Corps of the Muslim-led Bosnian Army. A first instance court had cleared him of responsibility for the crimes in April 2008. Alic's lawyer vows to appeal this latest ruling. (RTRS, Srna, Fena, BHRT, Reuters - 20/01/11) RASMUSSEN SAYS NATO WILL REMAIN GUARANTOR OF PEACE, SECURITY IN KOSOVO The division of Kosovo is not an option and NATO will remain the primary guarantor for peace and security, Alliance Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in an exclusive interview with the newspaper Koha Ditore on Friday (January 21st). Urging Kosovo institutions to act with responsibility and maturity, he also reassured the public that despite the decreased number of NATO troops in Kosovo, the security situation will not be affected in any way. "From the view point of the security -- and this is the part where it has to do with NATO and KFOR -- what we are expecting, and further what I would say also what we request from Kosovo leadership, is to continue with a moderate and constructive approach," Rasmussen said. As for the recent controversial report by Council of Europe Rapporteur Dick Marty, Rasmussen said he believes that if Marty has proof of his accusations, he will present it to the relevant institutions. (Koha Ditore, Telegrafi, Kohavision, RTK - 21/01/11) EU'S ASHTON: MARTY TO BRING EVIDENCE TO EULEX EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Thursday (January 20th) that there is no need for an additional prosecutor to investigate allegations made by Council of Europe Rapporteur Dick Marty, since the EULEX Mission already has independent prosecutors working in the area. Ashton was responding to a request from Human Rights Watch that the EU name an independent prosecutor to probe Marty's allegations of human organs trafficking. Ashton also says there should be more evidence from Marty before any new investigation could be launched, Radio Free Europe reports. Any prosecutor, she says, has to base investigations on evidence admissible in court. "If indeed Marty, or anybody else, has found substantial evidence of criminal activities, we do encourage him to bring those forward to the appropriate authorities, including EULEX," Ashton stated. (Zeri, Koha Ditore - 21/01/11; TV 21, Kohavision, Arta TV - 20/01/11) CROATIA DECIDES NOT TO SEEK PURDA'S EXTRADITION Prosecutors in the town of Osijek announced on Thursday (January 20th) they will not seek the extradition of war veteran Tihomir Purda, as there are no grounds for opening a criminal investigation against him. Purda, who fought in the eastern town of Vukovar, was detained earlier this month at the border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, based on a Serbian arrest warrant. Authorities in Belgrade suspect him of involvement in war crimes committed against Serbs in Vukovar early in the war. Serbia has said that it will seek his extradition if Croatia does not. (HRT, Vecernji List, RTS, Tanjug, Beta - 20/01/11)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line480
__label__cc	0.562385	0.437615	Android - Android App - Facebook - Internet - Mobile Fast Facebook (Beta) Is A Beautiful Unofficial Facebook Client With ICS Based Interface [Android] July 18, 2012 \| By Anonymous \| No Comment Fast Facebook (Beta) is an unofficial Facebook client for Android with beautiful user interface and menus. Compared to most of the apps th... Fast Facebook (Beta) is an unofficial Facebook client for Android with beautiful user interface and menus. Compared to most of the apps that offer access to social networking, it certainly stands out and is well worth the download. All functions bring icons quite clear and if you're already accustomed to using Facebook, should have no difficulty identifying the Tools menu of the images. Even if you take a while to get used to the format of navigation, the Fast Facebook (Beta) is not that difficult to understand. The minimalist interface does not leave aside the most important tools of the network, however, the app disappoints for not having basic possibilities in the use of Facebook, how to add captions to photos posted via the app. The ability to customize the background of the application gives more positive points to the application and if you do not have images that suit, do not worry, because the Fast Facebook (Beta) brings quality pictures to make the look of your profile even better, but remember that the substantive changes made here do not affect how others view your profile. Being in beta phrase, the application still shows some errors, but the trend is that developers bring news and updates until the system reaches the final version without bugs. If you do not mind bumping into buttons that do not work, the Fast Facebook (Beta) is certainly a very interesting alternative to access Facebook. Otherwise, run it as the final version does not reach Google Play. Fast Facebook (Beta) is an application made as to who links the visual apps you use. It has a ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) based minimal and beautiful. This leaves the app with a minimalist look and lightweight, ideal for those looking for an alternative to Facebook applications, almost all very similar. To use the app you need not be an expert in operating system: just install the application, login with your account and authorize the application so you can access the network and make publications through Fast Facebook (Beta). All you need is in the menus at the bottom and top of the screen. If wanted, you can also customize the Facebook Fast (Beta) by putting your own photos or choosing background themes predefined by the developers. Fast Facebook (Beta) is a beautiful tool to use Facebook from your Android device. What impresses most is the astonishing minimal look of the app. Fast Facebook (Beta) works on Android 2.1 or later and available for free on Google Play. Download Fast Facebook (Beta) By Anonymous At: July 18, 2012	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line486
__label__cc	0.741153	0.258847	On a Dark Wing (Early Review) On a Dark Wing by Jordan Dane "The choices I had made led to the moment when fate took over. I would learn a lesson I wasn’t prepared for. And Death would be my willing teacher." Five years ago Abbey Chandler cheated Death. She survived a horrific car accident, but her lucky break came at the expense of her mother’s life and changed everything. After she crossed paths with Death—by taking the hand of an ethereal boy made of clouds and sky—she would never be normal again. Now she’s the target of Death’s Ravens and an innocent boy’s life is on the line. When Nate Holden—Abbey’s secret crush—starts to climb Alaska’s Denali, the Angel of Death is with him because of her. Abbey finds out the hard way that Death never forgets. Five years ago Abbey's life was changed forever when she survived a car accident and her mom didn't. Barely trudging through her life full of guilt, her relationship with her father is very strained. On their yearly retreat to remember her mother she runs into Death himself. Of course this isn't their first meeting as she took his hand five years ago at that car wreck. Now he is following her, and that puts her secret crush in the crossfire as Death uses him to get closer to her. With Nate's life in the balance Abbey will have to learn how to open up and let go before it is too late. Abbey has been simply existing at the bare minimum since her mother's death. Her grieving is dysfunctional at its best as she blames herself. The only bright spots in her life are her friendship with Tanner, and her crush on Nate. In fact that crush leads to her spending hours imagining time with him. It really should be creepy stalker material, but somehow it isn't. I think that had a lot to do with it being her coping mechanism for when things are bad in her life (granted, that is almost constantly). But getting back to Tanner, her best friend. That boy would move heaven and earth for Abbey. As much as she appreciates this and doesn't know what she would do without him, there is still her low self worth due to her guilt, at play. She just doesn't feel she deserves him, which really is something she has to overcome. Prior to reading On a Dark Wing, Death had almost always been seen as a bad guy to me. Of course there are other books that have reapers as important characters, but that just isn't the same. As much as I enjoyed watching Abbey on her slow road of healing, what really took the cake for me was the changes in Death himself. The idea of him being such an aloof entity without emotion and then being changed by Abbey's mother's love is really intriguing. Of course that led into some pretty selfish choices that put lives on the line as Death wanted to feel Abbey's love for himself. As horrible as the situation was, my heart really went out to him. I cannot blame him for not wanting to suffer alone anymore. Any eternity of being completely alone is a prospect most people would do just about anything to prevent. The beginning of On a Dark Wing was rather slow, but once it picked up I was completely engrossed. Even though things ended really how they should, I can't help wishing things had been a little different in the end. There was so much growth and healing, but I'm afraid one character was still left hurting. I'm pretty sure On a Dark Wind is a stand alone novel, but I would love to see a future installment with some sort of resolution for that character. (Sorry to be vague, I just don't want to spoil anything) Perhaps I will just have to imagine it for myself. Full of mystery and suspense, On a Dark Wing gives a unique perspective into what happens after death, as well as a powerful journey on the long road of healing, that you won't want to miss. I know I will be on the lookout for more titles by Jordan Dane in the near future. (Received a copy from Netgalley) Pre-order from Amazon: On a Dark Wing (Harlequin Teen) Other Reviews: The Bookoholic Joyous Reads Maji Bookshelf Challenge Categories: Outdo Yourself New Author Katie Review YA Kt Clapsadl Katie\|Review\|YA\| Sins of the Demon (Early Review) Best of 2011 Giveaway Hop Charmfall (Early Review) Hexbound Firespell The Demon Lover (Early Review) Silver-Tongued Devil (Early Review) The Mortal Bone (Early Review) Shadow Heir (Early Review) Kiss of Frost Shadowhunters Poster Giveaway Touch of Frost Every Other Day (Early Review) Immortal Rider Touch of Power (Early Review) It's Monday! What Are You Reading?(72) Winging it (Early Review) December R.A.K.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line487
__label__wiki	0.504767	0.504767	Putin offers Estonia for Trump Summer White House By Igor G. Laskovich on July 25, 2016 absrdNews, Politics, Real Putin MARTHA’S VINEYARD, USA (RPN) – In a surprise visit to the island where President Obama takes his August vacations, Russian President Vladimir Putin today offered Estonia as the Summer White House for “the next president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.” Putin, whose campaign for Trump has included his recent hack of Democratic National Committee emails that have embarrassed Hillary Clinton on the eve of her convention, said he came up with the idea after Trump last week in an interview with The New York Times suggested that if Russia invaded any of the Baltic states, he would not defend them. Trump has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Putin, at one point calling him “the object of my bromance. Sorry, Melania.” In return, Putin has pledged to “rig” the 2016 U.S. presidential election. “Donald talks rigged system,” Putin said. “I rig.” Reminded by reporters that Estonia, a Baltic country of 1.3 million, is an independent, sovereign nation, Putin said: “Your point is?” Asked by a reporter why Trump would not want a summer White House on idyllic Martha’s Vineyard, Putin said “too many book-loving progressives and bad memory of Chappaquiddick. Not many people of color, though. And island; no need for wall. Maybe I reconsider.” Read all the Putin articles Real Putin – a satirical news series covering Putin at absrdCOMEDY.com For breaking Real Putin news, visit @RealPutinNews Before you go, don't miss anything absrd! Get the funny sent to your inbox! Stay up-to-date on all the funny as it happens.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line488
__label__cc	0.668344	0.331656	mainArmor/AFVAnti-Aircraft ZU-23-2 'Sergey' ammunition ZU-23-2 'Sergey' ammunition - shells (20pcs) and two types of rounds (10pcs of each type) by: Mario Matijasic [ MAKI ] The ZU-23-2 "Sergey", is a light towed 23 mm anti-aircraft twin-barreled autocannon. Developed by the Soviet Union in late 1950s, it was designed to engage low-flying targets at a range of 2.5 km as well as armored vehicles at a range of 2 km, and for direct defense of troops and strategic locations against air assault. The ZU-23-2 design is centered around the pairing of two 2A14 series Afanasyev-Yakushev 23x152mm autocannons on a towed two-wheel carriage. The excellent portability of the ZU-23-2 means that the system can be towed by a vehicle but also mounted onto a variety of vehicle types – particularly flatbed trucks or improvised fighting pickup vehicles known as “Technicals”. This makes the ZU-23-2 a highly-mobile, low cost and easy to operate air-defense gunnery platform solution which is still used by the Russian Army and by more than 20 other armies, seeing active performance in hot spots of Africa and Middle East. Master Model is an aftermarket company from Poland, specialized in producing high quality metal turned barrels for model scale aircraft and ships. The company recently ventured into 1/35 scale with their new “Ground Master” line. This review covers their third release in the new 1/35 scale series: ZU-23-2 'Sergey' ammunition - shells and two types of rounds (35003), which compliments nicely Master Model 'Sergey' metal turned barrels reviewed here: link. Master Model sets are packed in a zip-lock bag supported by a hard cardboard backing. This particular set consists of: - 20 shells, - 10 rounds (type I), - 10 rounds (type II), - instruction sheet. Wow! is the first thing that comes to mind after close examination of the kit contents. The details on these tiny 1/35 scale shells and rounds is absolutely astonishing. The set includes 20 empty shell casings and 10 rounds of two types of ZU-23-2 ammunition: high-explosive incendiary (HEI, or OFZ) and armor-piercing incendiary-tracer (API-T, or BZT). The instruction sheet shows the rounds making it easy to detect visual differences between two types. The ammo is fed to the ZU-23-2 system by a belt from ammunition boxes located on the sides of the twin autocannons. Each belt carries 50 rounds, with a typical loading of ammunition belt consists of 40 OFZ and 10 BZT rounds. This realy is a no brainer: every ZU-23-2 in 1/35 scale craves for a set of Master Model barrels and a set of 23mm shells and rounds. These two aftermarket additions will inevitably take the Russian air-defense gunnery platform to a next level of realism. Highs: Realistic and accurate, with impressive details. A great set of spent casings and rounds to compliment Master Model's ZU-23-2 barrels, and a perfect addition to any 1/35 scale model featuring ZU-23-2. Lows: None. Verdict: Highly recommended. Mfg. ID: GM-35-003 Related Link: Master Model website Our Thanks to Master! About Mario Matijasic (Maki) FROM: CROATIA HRVATSKA You wonder how did this addiction start? I was a kid when my dad broght home a 1/72 Concord airplane; we built it together as well as couple of other airplanes after that. This phase was just pure fun: glue, paint, decals in no particular order... everything was finished in a day or two. Then I disc... Copyright ©2019 text by Mario Matijasic [ MAKI ]. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line496
__label__wiki	0.617355	0.617355	Lois Medina, Zia, Polychrome jar with bird and geometric design Artist: Lois Medina Pueblo: Zia Item Number: lfzad9347 Description: Polychrome jar with bird and geometric design Signature: Lois Medina Zia A typical view on the Zia Reservation Zia Pueblo is situated in the Jemez Mountains with Jemez Pueblo to the north and Santa Ana Pueblo to the south. Despite its picture postcard setting, Zia's history for the last four hundred years has been difficult. Antonio de Espejo led a small troop of Spanish explorers up the Jemez River and discovered Zia Pueblo in 1583. Espejo estimated there were about 4,000 inhabitants in a city of house blocks up to three and four stories high with five major plazas and many smaller ones. "The people are clean. The women wear a blanket over their shoulders tied with a sash at their waist - their hair cut in front, and the rest plaited so that it forms two braids, and above a blanket of turkey feathers," is how Espejo's scribe recorded it. Zia today is a water-poor community of about 800, most of whose residents work away from the pueblo. The people of Zia participated in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and when Spanish troops returned in 1682 and 1687, the Zias were able to repulse them. When more Spanish troops returned in 1688 they were finally successful in conquering the Zias. The Spanish killed many people, burned the pueblo and took many slaves back to Mexico with them. When Don Diego de Vargas returned to northern Nuevo Mexico in 1692, the Zias sued for peace and accepted the rule of Spain almost immediately. However, the new Spanish government did little to protect the pueblos from the raids of nomadic Ute, Apache, Comanche and Navajo warriors. Zia fortunes slid in many ways and by the 1890's the tribe was down to just 98 members. Today, the Pueblo of Zia numbers about 800 people, many of whom are active artists producing everything from pottery to jewelry to baskets to paintings, sculptures and wood carvings. Pottery was a Zia mainstay as for at least two hundred years. The balance of trade was food from Santa Ana, Jemez and San Felipe in return for pottery from Zia. Pottery still remains Zia's largest home-grown cash crop. Zia pottery is Keresan and, as such, shares design characteristics with other important Keresan pottery, especially Acoma and Laguna ware. They all have their favorite geometric patterns, stylized birds, rainbows and flowers, but each maintains its own individual images and colors. Where Acoma and Laguna's bird is a parrot, Zia's is a roadrunner. Acoma's black and orange on stark white is contrasted by Zia's dark brown and brownish red on creamy white. Further, Acoma's hard, paper-thin, white clay ollas differ greatly from Zia's sturdy, slightly granular, basalt-tempered red clay jars. Because of their unique local clay and their traditional designs and shapes, Zia pottery is unique and easily distinguished from the pottery of other pueblos. When New Mexico became a territory (and then a state), some of the symbols involved were sourced from Zia Pueblo. The roadrunner often pictured on Zia pottery became the official New Mexico state bird and the Zia sun symbol (a circle with four parallel lines in four groups pointing in the four directions) became a state symbol depicted in many places, including the state flag. Zia Pueblo at Wikipedia Photo courtesy of Jared Tarbell, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License Medina Family Tree Rosalea Medina Toribio Juanita Toribio Pino Sofia Medina (1932-2010) & Raphael Medina (1929-1998) Marcellus Medina & Elizabeth Medina (b. 1956) Kimberly Medina (b. 1973) Marcella Medina (b. 1974) Edna Medina Galiford (b. 1957) Lois Medina (1959-2002) Andrea Toribio Gachupin (1896-1956) & Jose Gachupin (ca. 1890-1953) Gloria Gachupin Chinana (b. 1940) Helen Gachupin (1931-1992) Maria Bridgett Candelaria (b. 1908) & Antonio Gachupin Dora Tse-Pe & Tse-Pe (San Ildefonso) Candace Tse-Pe Gerri Tse-Pe Irene Tse-Pe Trinidad Medina (Antonio Gachupin's sister, mother-in-law of Dora Tse Pe, grandmother of Raphael Medina and teacher of Sofia Medina)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line499
__label__wiki	0.651154	0.651154	Monterrey: Azarenka downs Angie to reach final Victoria Azarenka will contest her first singles final in over three years at the Abierto GNP Seguros on Sunday. The No.5 seed came through a semifinal match of former World No.1s and Grand Slam champions against top seed Angelique Kerber, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 to reach her first singles final since returning to the WTA after the birth of her son Leo in December of 2016. Azarenka improved her head-to-head against Kerber to 8-1 overall, as she first rallied from a break down in the first set by winning the final four games. Angie will next play in Stuttgart, Madrid and Rome. Wimbledon: Angie stunned by Davis in Round 2 Wimbledon: Angie makes winning start Runner-up finish for Angie in Eastbourne	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line500
__label__cc	0.50469	0.49531	Filtering by Tag: floating population #Supercrawl2015 #FloatingPopulation Added on September 18, 2015 by Annie Ling. So grateful for an incredible exhibition and all who came out to the opening in Hamilton! None of this would have happened without good friends and volunteers who were willing to pitch in, assist with transportation, installation and take down of a epic show with near ninety images in one action-packed week in Canada. It's an honor to be named Alumni of the Year and receive the Distinguished Alumni Award. Thanks RUC for your support of this exhibition! In award, exhibition Tags solo exhibition, installation, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, floating population, award A Floating Population at Hamilton SuperCrawl Friends in Hamilton, Ontario and beyond, it's my pleasure to bring you an epic reincarnation of last year's solo exhibition "A Floating Population" at MOCA museum in NYC, this weekend only at #SuperCrawl2015 the largest art crawl event of the year! Except this time the venue won't be a polished museum, the exhibition will be gloriously re-imagined in an expansive vacant furniture show room (formerly Ricca's Furniture) at the center of the one and only James St. in Hamilton with an expected near 200,000 art crawl attendees. Around 90 images from "A Floating Population" will be on display Sept 11-12, for 2 days only! It takes much longer to transport and install the show, just to give you an idea of the scope of our ambition! It's especially a joy and privilege to bring this show to Hamilton and to you, friends who have rallied and supported me through so much, but have not been able to travel long distances to shows in NY and abroad. This show is for you, and I'm looking forward to seeing you there! OPENING RECEPTION: This Friday, Sept 11th -- 7-9pm 245 James Street N., Hamilton, ON *Street entrance to show on 2nd floor (above The Forge) Hamilton Spectator feature In exhibition, events Tags solo exhibition, floating population, Hamilton, Ontario, Supercrawl, Art Crawl, award, Canada "A Floating Population" in Fast Co. Design & Epsilon Magazine Added on February 21, 2014 by Annie Ling. It's hard to believe we're already at the halfway mark of my first major solo exhibition "A Floating Population" since it opened at MOCA this past December. We've received remarkable enthusiasm and support both in the community and beyond for the show, which features around eighty images spanning four years of work in Chinatown. Through public programming, panel discussions and walking tours around the exhibition at the museum, we're able to engage audiences with this body of work in a richer and more dynamic way than ever before. What's especially exciting to me is that all new current exhibits at the museum ("Portraits of New York Chinatown" by Tomie Arai, and "The Lee Family Since 1888" show) are taking a closer look at contemporary Chinatown, making this a distinctly historical season for the museum and the neighborhood. The show is up till April 13th, so I wholly encourage a visit to MOCA in Chinatown soon! In the meantime, thank you Fast Company Design, Epsilon Magazine (below) and countless visitors for highlighting the show thus far. In exhibition, editorial, media Tags floating population, MOCA, exhibition, chinatown, nyc, editorial, magazine, press	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line502
__label__cc	0.650906	0.349094	Mumbai Airport To Resume Operations After 21-Day Shutdown For Runway Repairs GVK led Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) has completed its runway re-carpeting and maintenance work at the intersection and the Mumbai international airport will resume regular normal operations today (Saturday) 5:00 pm onward, after a 21-day shutdown. The airport was able to complete the re-carpeting work of the runway within its stipulated six-hour shutdowns thrice a week, maintaining Mumbai’s challenging flight schedule. The re-carpeting of the 50,000 sq. m intersection was carried out using state-of-the-art technology, which allows easy application, quick-setting features and enables airports to take a load of normal air traffic immediately after application. To Raed the News in Full.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line505
__label__wiki	0.519693	0.519693	Home » Tag Archives: Famous Tag Archives: Famous Kanye West’s ‘Famous’ Gets an Adorable Puppy Remake This is the version of Kanye West‘s “Famous” we never knew we needed. In a special promotion for (RED), a charity that dedicates their efforts towards combatting AIDS, a bunch of famous social media pups tested out their acting chops. Kanye West’s original video for “Famous” features a bunch of naked celebrities like Donald Trump, Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian ... Kanye West Can’t Shut Up About Taylor Swift, Even in Nashville Is anybody else getting pretty sick of Kanye West‘s jabs at Taylor Swift? You’d think after seven years he’d have learned to let things go, already. Not that we particularly like Swift either, but the whole situation of them continuously sniping about each other is getting tedious. Needless to say, West still can’t let go of the drama. In his ... Kim Kardashian Says She Has ‘No Shade’ for Taylor Swift – Yeah, Right! In what is quite possibly the biggest lie of the century, Kim Kardashian has claimed she has no bad feelings about Taylor Swift. After publicly embarrassing Swift by revealing the pop star’s conversation with Kanye West about the song “Famous” over Snapchat, Kardashian apparently thinks she didn’t do anything wrong. “I never publicly talk bad about people,” she said in ... Kanye West’s ‘Famous’ Sculpture for Sale? Taylor Swift Will Probably Buy It & Burn It September 2, 2016 Leave a comment Ever since Kanye West premiered his video for “Famous,” we’ve been wondering how the heck he created all those naked celebrities. Were they digital? Lookalikes? Some sort of sculpture? Turns out it was a giant sculpture, and it’s now up for grabs for the measly price tag of $4 million. For those of you who missed the video or chose ... Uzo Aduba is One of Taylor Swift’s Few Defenders Even if the rest of the world is starting to hate Taylor Swift, she still has a couple friends coming to her defense. Uzo Aduba of Orange is the New Black fame is the latest to join those speaking out in Swift’s favor. The actress has been in Swift’s good graces for some time now, and even scored an invite to the ... Watch: Kanye West Leaks Video Proving Taylor Swift Gave Permission for ‘Famous’ It all started when Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift‘s MTV Video Music Awards acceptance speech in 2009. Since then, the pair of music moguls have been at odds almost non-stop. The most recent source of argumentation between the two was a line in West’s song “Famous.” The lyrics go, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why? ... Kanye West’s New Music Video Has Naked Taylor Swift, Donald Trump In Bed Together It seems artists these days like to test the limits on how far they can go before somebody takes legal action, but Kanye West is literally asking for a lawsuit. Yes, literally. West’s music video for the song “Famous” is scheduled to make its broadcast debut tonight, but some lucky people who got tickets to the L.A. Forum on Friday ... Watch: Charli XCX Parodies Internet Culture In ‘Famous’ Video March 24, 2015 Leave a comment Charli XCX’s just released a new video for “Famous,” one of the singles from her “Sucker” album. The video was created for the YouTube Music Awards, which after a season of non-stop award shows, we’re not sure anyone even watched. Fittingly enough, the video is a parody of our self-obsessed Internet selfie culture. Charli turns the camera on ourselves to ...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line507
__label__wiki	0.774864	0.774864	Maria's travel ban lifted, lawyer concerned with arbitrary decision Hafiz Yatim Published Today 2:30 pm Updated Today 4:11 pm The Immigration Department has lifted the overseas travel ban on Bersih 2.0 chairperson Maria Chin Abdullah, but her lawyer has raised concerns over the arbitrariness of the department and the Home Ministry's decision to impose the ban. Maria's counsel, Gurdial Singh Nijar, told the High Court in Kuala Lumpur today that his client's application is not academic, despite the ban being lifted. This follows one of the prayers she sought, to restrain the department and the government from issuing the ban arbitrarily. Gurdial said the Immigration Department issued the ban on Maria sometime on Jan 15 last year, and this was due to her participation in a protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) and also for organising another event. “The fact is permit was given by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall for the TPPA assembly that occurred on Jan 23. Hence, there was no illegal assembly. How can the immigration impose a ban earlier, when the event (TPPA protest) had yet to take place,” he asked. Gurdial said there was procedural unfairness in the department and government imposing the ban on the grounds of criticism against the government. The department, he added, relied on a circular that a person to whom the government issues a passport cannot bad mouth the government. Cannot rely on authorities “What we are saying is that you cannot rely on the authorities to impose a right not to travel abroad. The procedural fairness is not there. This is also against the principal of natural justice, for them to impose the ban, when proper permit was gained for the Jan 23 rally and that Maria was not given the right to be heard on why the ban was imposed,” he said. He further cited the decision in the the case of Abdul Ghani Haroon (of PKR) in the High Court in Shah Alam in 2001. “In that case, Justice Mohd Hishamudin Mohd Yunus (now retired Court of Appeal judge) issued a restraining order to the police to not re-arrest Abdul Ghani. Hence, the court can make such orders (restrain the authorities).” It was reported that the authorities prohibited the Bersih 2.0 chairperson from going to South Korea to receive the Gwanju Human Rights Prize on behalf of the electoral watchdog on May 15 last year. Following that, Maria filed the judicial review application, where she named the director-general of Immigration and the Home Ministry as respondents. Besides seeking the removal of the ban, Maria is also seeking a declaration that the travel ban is against her constitutional right regarding liberty of a person (Article 5 of the Federal Constitution), equality (Article 8) and Article 10(1)(a) regarding freedom of speech and expression and hence, the travel ban is unconstitutional and should be declared null and void. She also sought a declaration that the two respondents acted beyond their jurisdiction and they have unfettered discretion to arrive at a decision in dispute. The travel ban was lifted on Maria on May 17, two days after the South Korean award was given and the government lawyers only informed her lawyers of this last week, when submissions were filed. This led to Gurdial raising the curious nature of the lifting of the ban in court, as leave was granted for Maria to challenge the order last October. “Why does it take the government almost three quarters of a year to tell the other party that the ban is lifted?" he asked. On the constitutional point, the lawyer, who was formerly an academician, said although Section 59 and Section 59A of the Immigration Act 1959/63 state the exclusion of the right to be heard and also exclusion of judicial review, the travel ban had violated Maria's constitutional right. He cited Article 4(1) of the Federal Constitution that any law after the commencement of Merdeka shall be void if it is inconsistent with the constitution. Here, Gurdial said, the Immigration Act came two or six years' after independence and it must be ruled as void. Passport is a privilege Meanwhile, senior federal counsel Shamsul Bolhassan told the court that a passport does not give the person a right to travel overseas, but that it is a privilege. “Personal liberty does not confer the personal right to leave the country to travel overseas; it is not a form of discrimination if one (who possesses a) passport is not allowed to travel overseas,” he said. Shamsul also cited Sections 59 and 59A of the Immigration Act, where decisions by the department cannot be challenged by judicial review. He also said that the government had also introduced a system where a person can check with the department before he or she travels out of the country. The government lawyer also cited the Federal Court decision which states personal liberty in Article 5 means liberty relating to a person or individual. “That article does not confer on the citizen a fundamental right to leave the country,” Shamsul said, adding that Maria's application now is considered academic. Justice Nik Hasmat Nik Mohamad said she will deliver her decision on April 27. Read more: https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/374660#ixzz4aXqhTOOo Suhakam: Beatings may have caused detainee's death... BARU BIAN: RUU355 NOT ACCEPTABLE EVEN IF EAST MALA... BARU BIAN: DEATH PENALTY SHOULD BE ABOLISHED Ahmad Fairuz’s stand on Islamic law misplaced, say... DUN Answers November 2016 DUN Answer November 2016 BARU BIAN: EX CJ’S STATEMENTS GROSSLY ERRONEOUS... BARU BIAN: LAWAS ROAD IN APPALLING CONDITION Islam for Muslims or Islam for all? Sarawak BN objections may doom Act 355 Strengthen the independence of the judiciary Baru concurs with Abg Jo on concerns over proposed... Opposition puts on united front with Pakatan Harap... Sarawak timber firm loses 30-year case over timber... Natives lose NCR land case against S'wak Forestry ... Affirmative action is morally wrong Rafizi: Najib's petrol income spending highest of ... Inaccurate to say PPBM agrees to Hadi’s bill, says... Orang Asli appeal to get back customary land in Is... PKR: Politicians the source of corruption Jill Ireland case: Court rejects religious body as... BARU BIAN: PAN BORNEO HIGHWAY PROJECT MUST BENEF... Federal Court dismisses Jawi's appeal in Kassim Ah... Maria's travel ban lifted, lawyer concerned with a... Drug arrest a step in right direction – Baru SIS' challenge against 'deviant' fatwa sent back t... Thirty-km logjam in S'wak blamed on commercial log... Hadi's unamended motion in Parliament order paper Gov't breaches fiduciary duties to Seletar tribe, ...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line508
__label__cc	0.510798	0.489202	The Editorial Process \| Clinical trial registry \| Authorship Criteria \| Contribution Details \| Conflicts of Interest/ Competing Interests \| Submission of Manuscripts \| Preparation of Manuscripts \| Copies of any permission(s) \| Types of Manuscripts \| Protection of Patients' Rights..\| Sending a revised manuscript \| Reprints and proofs \| Copyrights \| Checklist \| Contributors' form The Editorial Process A manuscript will be reviewed for possible publication with the understanding that it is being submitted to Airway alone at that point in time and has not been published anywhere, simultaneously submitted, or already accepted for publication elsewhere. The journal expects that authors would authorize one of them to correspond with the Journal for all matters related to the manuscript. All manuscripts received are duly acknowledged. On submission, editors review all submitted manuscripts initially for suitability for formal review. 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__label__cc	0.611389	0.388611	The Ice Child Electr’opera Music: Zack Settel L’Enfant des glaces [The Ice Child] (2000) Invited to take part in a residency program by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in 2000, Pauline Vaillancourt, inspired by a true event, created this metaphorical Electr’opera about duality and the passage of time. L’Enfant des glaces (The Ice Child), a mommy, the victim of an Incan sacrifice ritual, was discovered at the summit of the Andes Mountains at the end of the 20th century. Zack Settel presents the electroacoustic music in real time. The spacialization of the sound creates a “sound body”, and the use of voice modification software in real time supports the drama Two short poems by De Nerval and Quevedo — translated into Armenian, Japonese, Persian, Russian, Finnish and Pular — become modified and fragmented sonic materials Yves Labelle’s video, projected on a water screen, supports the set design as an electronic set element “Through the clouds being chased away by the wind, I saw many moons passing by very rapidly. I thought that the Earth had left its orbit and that it had become like a boat without sails, travelling to, or away, from the stars that were getting bigger or smaller.” — Gérard de Nerval “Yesterday has left, tomorrow does not yet exist, Today is advancing without rest: I am one, who was, who will be, who is, very tired.” — Francisco de Quevedo Press kit (pdf) 2007 — Finalist for the Prix Opus du Conseil québécois de la musique: DVD/Video of the Year for L’Enfant des glaces. L’enfant des glaces (The Ice Child) — New commercial (February 2013) L’enfant des glaces (The Ice Child) — Commercial of the premiere (September 2000) Extrait de L’Enfant des glaces, œuvre de Zack Settel September 08, 2000, 38s Stage design: Pauline Vaillancourt, Martin Boisjoly Lighting: François Roupinian Costumes: Caroline Mercier Choreography: Johanne Madore Video: Yves Labelle Sculpture design & production: Alain Cadieux Mummy & prosthetic design & production: Sylvie Boucher Pauline Vaillancourt, soprano Jean Maheux, actor, baritone L’Enfant des glaces (DVD-Video, 2006) Électr’opéra Stage direction: Pauline Vaillancourt Page prod@enfant generated by litk 0.600 on Monday, March 4, 2019. Development & maintenance: DIM.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line523
__label__cc	0.665304	0.334696	Home NEWS ACCOMMODATION Branded residences: Dubai’s fast growing asset class Branded residences: Dubai’s fast growing asset class By Safeena Rangooni Lakdawala, Freelance Writer, Property Monthly www.gulfnews.com Branded residences are no stranger to the UAE market, with launches of celebrity and brand-themed properties commonplace in Dubai, particularly during the boom years. * The Armani Residences, designed exclusively by Giorgio Armani, showcases his signature style * Image Credit: GN archives These properties aim to emulate a celebrity or brand’s standards, style and personality. Movie stars, sports people as well as fashion designers like Armani and Versace and businessmen such as Donald Trump have lent their brands to various projects in Dubai. But in the wake of the downturn, what are the prospects of such projects? Hotel branded residences are typically managed by well-known hospitality brands and often sold through fractional ownership or full ownership schemes, with an option to lease back to the hotel. In certain cases, developers retain the units and offer these for lease on a long- or short-term basis. Buyers are attracted to the associated brand promise and the notion that the product and service levels will be comparable to the particular hotel brand. Owners can enjoy the security, services and facilities associated with hotels, which would be cost prohibitive to deliver in a regular residential environment. Hotel branded residences offer a sense of reliability — especially for investors and end-users purchasing homes in foreign countries, since they can be assured the property will be taken care of, whether it’s rented out or left vacant for occasional use. Branded residences also make sense for developers. Freestanding hotels are expensive to build, with no inflow of cash until operations start, followed by a minimum of three years to reach a stable income. In the current climate, finance for these projects is hard to come by. Branded residences make new projects more economic, since the proceeds from the sales of the residential component reduce the financing requirements on the development. Also, the premium from being associated with branded residences may offset other parts of the project and help lift its perceived quality. Worldwide, hotel branded residences are typically located in popular tourist locations or cities with a multicultural population, but are not suited to all locations. The market is mature in the US and Europe, while the sector has evolved in South East Asia over the last decade and is now entering the Middle East. The scene in Dubai Dubai is an established tourist destination; besides Egypt, it attracts the largest number of visitors of any Arab destination. Its room rates are among the highest in the world and more than 135 airlines operate through the Dubai International Airport. Given this background, Dubai seemed a solid option for branded residences. Business travellers, consultants on short-term contracts, newly arrived expat families and the elite looking for year-round refined living — these were all targets. As such, hotels started introducing branded residences into their conventional developments, with many offered for sale to individual and institutional investors looking for annuity income, as well as to second home and holiday home buyers. Jesse Downs, director of research and advisory services at Landmark Advisory, says Dubai has a market for branded residences, as the emirate attracts high net-worth individuals looking to establish a primary or secondary residence. “Demand for branded units comes from within the UAE, the region and beyond.” Existing properties While most of these projects are still under construction, a few such as the Dusit Residence Dubai Marina, Jumeirah Living World Trade Centre Residences and the Armani Burj Khalifa Residences have proved popular despite the downturn. The next couple of years will see more branded residences being delivered, with preliminary estimates predicting that more than 4,000 units will be delivered in 2010 and 2011. The Jumeirah Living Residences feature duplex apartments, designer B&B Italia furniture, a fully-equipped kitchen, a washer and dryer, a Jacuzzi bath and an iPod docking station. Both the Dusit and the Jumeirah Living properties have not been offered for sale and operate more as hotels, with apartment rents currently ranging from Dh1,000 to Dh1,200 per night for a two-bedroom apartment and from Dh1,300 to Dh1,600 per night for a three-bedroom apartment. The 144 Armani Residences in Burj Khalifa which were completely sold out in 2007, with prices reportedly reaching a whopping Dh14,000 per square foot, are the newest entrants in the branded residences space, having been delivered in April 2010. While the hotel occupies floors concourse to level 8 and levels 38 and 39 of Burj Khalifa, the residences are located between levels 9 to 16. Under construction properties While most branded residences under construction such as Royal Amwaj, Ritz Carlton, Rosewood and Palazzo Versace are likely to operate as long-stay hotel apartments, others such as The Fairmont Palm Residences, Movenpick Laguna Tower, Grandeur Residences and Jumeirah Al Fattan have been sold outright. The Fairmont Palm Residence are currently being handed over. Units are currently available in the secondary market at prices ranging from Dh1,700 to Dh2,200 per square foot. The Grandeur Residences, due in the first quarter of 2011, are located on the crescent of the Palm Jumeirah, with residents having access to the services and facilities of the neighbouring Taj Exotica. The project comprises one-, two- and three-bedroom units and beachfront signature villas with prices ranging from Dh1,400 to Dh2,200 per square foot. The Jumeirah Al Fattan Residences, priced from Dh1,800 to Dh2,200 per square foot, consist of townhouses, penthouses, two- and three-bedroom apartments and will be managed by the Jumeirah Group. Abu Dhabi joins the bandwagon The UAE capital is venturing into the sector too. “Given the concentration of wealth in Abu Dhabi and potential for regional demand, there is a compelling argument for the extension of this trend into the capital,” says Downs. The Rosewood Abu Dhabi on Sowwah Island will have about 140 branded residences. The Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Saadiyat Island, due to be opened in 2013, will also include 180 branded residences. Aldar’s Gurm Resort (72 rooms), Four Seasons Saadiyat (125 rooms), MGM Hotel Residences (500 rooms) and St Regis Saadiyat (280 rooms) are other projects which will include hotel branded residences. Worldwide, branded residential developments typically command a premium due to their high quality designs and finishes and lavish services and amenities. This premium is estimated to range between 20 and 40 percent compared to similar unbranded residential developments and in exceptional cases as much as 50 to 100 per cent. Downs says, “Premier hotel branded units typically rent for 30 to 40 per cent premium over similar non-branded units. Since the units are furnished and serviced, the premium is derived from the brand and facilities available as well as the furnishing and additional services provided”. In Dubai, most hotel branded residences are under construction with very few actual sales transactions taking place. As such, it’s difficult to determine whether they command a premium over non-branded properties. The Armani Residences is probably the only project that can provide some form of comparison. Currently, listed prices for non-branded properties in the Burj Khalifa range from Dh2,800 to Dh3,500 per square foot while the listed prices for the Armani Residences range from Dh6,000 and Dh7,000 per square foot. The prices indicate that the Armani Residences command a substantial premium over the non-branded units. It remains to be seen if rents from branded residences will also enjoy the additional premium, with investors having to shell out high service, maintenance and master community charges, reducing rental yields to about 5 to 6 per cent. As such, confidence in these residences is low, with buyers focusing on niche developments for the captive high net-worth GCC market. Fairmont Palm Residences, tentative completion 2010, 558 units Ritz Carlton DIFC, 2010, 121 units Rixos Ottoman Palace, 2010, 38 units Movenpick Royal Amwaj Palm Jumeirah, 2010, 521 units Kempinski Palm Jumeirah Residences, 2010, 325 units Palazzo Versace Dubai, 2010, 169 units Movenpick Laguna Tower JLT, 2011, 296 units Grandeur Residences at the Palm, 2011, 222 units Jumeirah Al Fattan Palm Resort, 2011, 106 units Rosewood Dubai, 2011, 55 units Fairmont Kingdom of Sheba, 2011, 875 Armani Burj Khalifa Residences Dusit Residence Dubai Marina Fairmont Palm Residence Jumeirah Living World Trade Centre Residences Previous articleDevelopers clueless as strata registration deadline looms Next articleNumber of GCC hotel projects falls from April-June Armani hotel: House of fashion Emaar launches Sky Collection residences at The Address The BLVD, Downtown... Live in Dubai’s Burj Khalifa for just Dh995 a day	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line528
__label__wiki	0.927175	0.927175	Home NEWS ACCOMMODATION Burj Khalifa accommodation news journalist - April 22, 2010 Emaar plans to bring ‘The Address’ to India ACCOMMODATION journalist - April 17, 2011 Dubai-based Emaar Hospitality Group is scouting for partners to make its India foray. The company plans to bring in its five star hotel brand ‘The Address’ in the Indian market. “We are at discussion stage with some companies,” Marc Francois-Dardenne, Chief Executive Officer, Emaar Hospitality told Business Standard. ACCOMMODATION journalist - January 11, 2017 The view says it all! A gleaming tower only moments away from world-famous shopping, entertainment, and restaurants, Downtown Views II promises the pinnacle of urban living in the Middle East. DOWNTOWN... French hospitality giant inks deal for new Downtown Dubai hotel ACCOMMODATION journalist - October 29, 2016 French hospitality giant AccorHotels has announced the signing of a management agreement with Acropole Holdings Limited for the Novotel Downtown Dubai. Construction work on the hotel will start in February... ACCOMMODATION journalist - May 2, 2017 Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group is to manage a second luxury hotel and branded residences in Dubai, due to open in 2020, the group announced on Tuesday. The hotel, located in... Future Openings by The Address Hotels + Resorts: The Address Boulevard Dubai ACCOMMODATION journalist - October 2, 2016 Located centrally in Downtown Dubai, described as ‘The Centre of Now,’ The Address Boulevard Dubai features 196 rooms including 35 one- and two-bedroom suites. A sterling addition to Dubai’s... Hukama wins ‘Best Chinese Restaurant’ and Amatista adjudged city’s ‘Best New Lounge’ at Time... Hukama at The Address Downtown Dubai won 'Best New Chinese Restaurant' and Amatista at The Address Dubai Mall won 'Best New Lounge' at the Time Out Restaurant's and Nightlife Awards 2010 respectively. Both venues offer a lively ambience, superior service and delectable cuisine. Armani Hotel Dubai restaurants In time, we'll have full reviews of all of the outlets for you, but for now, here's a quick rundown of the restaurants housed in the new Armani Hotel Dubai. Future Openings by The Address Hotels + Resorts: The Address Fountain Views Dubai Part of a three-tower complex, The Address Fountain Views Dubai has 193 elegantly designed hotel rooms with amenities including five food and beverage outlets encompassing all-day dining and signature... Travelog: First Armani Hotel to open in Burj Dubai ACCOMMODATION journalist - January 7, 2010 Armani Hotel Dubai, the first hotel to open under the collaboration between Giorgio Armani S.p.A. and Emaar Properties PJSC, will be launched on March 18, 2010. Armani: coming soon to an airport near you ACCOMMODATION journalist - May 11, 2010 The 75-year-old designer opened his first hotel at the world's tallest tower in Dubai last month and plans a new hotel in Milan in 2011, as he keeps investors guessing on the future of his company.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line529
__label__wiki	0.805105	0.805105	Ohanaeze, YCE, SMBL knock FG as court stops CJN’s trial January 15, 2019 News, Politics No comments The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday stopped the Federal Government’s arraignment of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal on charges of non-declaration of assets. But as the case was going on in Abuja, more groups including the Yoruba Council of Elders, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Southern and Middle Belt Forum and the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, came hard on the Federal Government for planning to plunge the country into crisis with the CJN’s trial. The groups stated this on Monday while commenting on the arraignment of Justice Onnoghen on charges of non-declaration of assets. They said the way the matter was being handled could plunge the nation into anarchy, saying due process must be followed so that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration would not be seen as being desperate to ease out the CJN. However, ruling on two separate ex parte applications brought before her by different groups, Justice N.E. Maha, made an order restraining the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami, the CCT and its chairman, Danladi Umar; the Code of Conduct Bureau, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris; and others from taking steps in respect of the case till January 17. Also restrained from taking steps concerning the court order were the National Judicial Council and the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki. The judge ordered that the defendants be served with the processes filed by the defendants in the two suits. She ordered the defendants to appear in court on January 17 for the hearing of the separate applications for interlocutory injunction to stop the prosecution from proceeding with the planned trial of the CJN. She ruled in respect of the application filed by the incorporated trustees of the International Association of Student Economists and Management, on Monday, “It is hereby ordered as follows: “That the defendants shall be served with all the processes filed in this suit and shall appear on January 17, 2019 for the hearing of the motion on notice. “That in the meantime, parties shall maintain the status quo that exists as of today, January 14, 2019 and shall not take any steps that will interfere with the res or subject matter of the suit pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice. “That the matter is adjourned till January 17, 2019 for hearing.” The Federal Government, had through the Code of Conduct Bureau, on Friday, January 11, filed six counts of non-declaration of assets against the CJN. Justice Onnoghen was due for arraignment before the CCT on Monday but he was absent. His absence, which his defence team led by Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), anchored on faulty service on court summons on him and their motion challenging the CCT’s jurisdiction, forced the tribunal to adjourn till January 22. While the CCT proceedings were ongoing on Monday, the plaintiffs who obtained an order against the proceedings were filing their papers before the Federal High Court in Abuja. Shortly after the filing, the matters were assigned to Justice Maha who heard the plaintiffs at about the time the CCT was concluding its Monday’s proceedings. One of the two suits marked FHC/ABJ/CS/27/2019 was filed before the judge by incorporated trustees of the Centre for Justice and Peace Initiative. Those joined as defendants in the suit are the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, the Chairman of CCT, Danladi Umar; the National Judicial Council, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, and the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki. The other suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/28/2019 was filed by the incorporated trustees of the International Association of Student Economists and Management. The suit has as the defendants, the AGF Malami; the CCT, the CCB, the Chairman of CCT, Umar; and the Inspector-General of Police, Idris. While the ex parte application in the suit FHC/ABJ/CS/27/2019 was moved by Mr. R.A. Lawal-Rabana (SAN), before Justice Maha on Monday, the one filed in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/28/2019 was moved by Mr Jeph Njikonye. The two plaintiffs have pending before the court their motions on notice seeking an interim injunction restraining the defendants in both suits from proceeding with the trial of the CJN pending the determination of their substantive suit. By the Monday’s order of Justice Maha, the defendants are to appear before the court on Thursday to show cause why the order of interim injunction should not be granted. The plaintiffs in both suits argued in their applications that the CJN, as a serving judicial officer, could not be prosecuted without first being disciplined by the NJC. They argued that the CCT charges were null and void. The affidavit filed in support of the application by the International Association of Student Economists and Management, read in part, “That the Honourable Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen is not subject to the criminal jurisdiction of the 2nd defendant (CCT) unless and until he has been subjected to the disciplinary jurisdiction of the National Judicial Council, which has not been done in this case. “That in view of the foregoing, the 2nd defendant does not have any jurisdiction to try , arraign, charge or prosecute Honourable Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen in respect of Charge No CCT/ABJ/01/19. “That subjecting a sitting judicial officer to the National Judicial Council is a condition precedent to the exercise of jurisdiction by the 2nd defendant. That in view of the above, Charge Number CCT/ABJ//01/19 is null and void and ultra vires; the powers of the defendant and ought to be set aside by this honourable court.” It added that the tribunal had on the basis of the reasons dismissed the charges against a Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, in a ruling delivered on January 9, 2018 by applying the Court of Appeal in the case of Ngajiwa v. FRN. Similarly, the CJN has filed before the tribunal a motion challenging its jurisdiction and asking for an order “striking out and/or dismissing in its entirety, the charge” preferred against him. Onnoghen, who filed the application through his battery of lawyers led by Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), said the tribunal should be bound by its ruling delivered on January 9, 2018, in Justice Ngwuta’s case in which it applied the Court of Appeal’s judgment in the case of Nganjiwa v. FRN. He argued that the Court of Appeal in the Nganjiwa v FRN (2018) had ruled that “no criminal investigation or prosecution can be initiated or instituted in any court of law or tribunal against a serving judicial officer without first presenting such allegations to the National Judicial Council and a determination thereof by the National Judicial Council.” He added, “Under the doctrine of stairs decisis, the decision of the Court of Appeal is binding on all courts and the tribunals in Nigeria, which are subordinate to the Court of Appeal, including and particularly, this honourable tribunal. “In the unreported ruling of this honourable tribunal in Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Sylvester Nwali Ngwuta, charge number CCT/ABJ/01/2017, delivered on January 9, 2018, this honourable tribunal applied the binding decision of the Court of Appeal in Nganjiwa v. FRN (supra) struck out the charge preferred against a judicial officer and discharged the said judicial officer accordingly. “This honourable tribunal neither has the jurisdiction nor vires to countenance or entertain the charge preferred against the applicant by the respondent.” Court restrains AGF, others from sacking Onnoghen In a separate ruling on Monday, the National Industrial Court in Abuja ordered that Onnoghen must not be forced out of office. The court presided over by Justice Sanusi Kado, while ruling on an ex-parte application by a Nigerian citizen, Mr Peter Abang, also stopped the planned trial of the CJN on charges of non-declaration of assets before the CCT. The court held that the orders were necessary to avert a “threat” and constitutional breaches “regarding the position of the number one judicial officer of the country.” The court restrained all the seven defendants including the AGF joined in the suit from attempting to force Onnoghen out office pending the hearing and determination of the plaintiff’s motion for interlocutory injunction. Justice Kado noted after hearing the plaintiff’s lawyer, J.U.K. Igwe (SAN), on Monday, “The court observed that it is a fact of common knowledge that since January 12, 2019, the print, electronic and social media have been awash with issue of threat of constitutional breaches regarding the position of the current Chief Justice of Nigeria, without due regard to the extant provisions of the constitution.” He added, “The case law regarding the issue is not in any doubt, as to how a judicial officer should be prosecuted in a situation where there is need for him to be tried or dealt with in a criminal court. “In view of the importance of the constitutional issues involved in this matter regarding the threat to the position of the number one judicial officer of the country, I hereby grant the application for interim injunction in the terms stated below: “An order of interim injunction restraining the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 6th defendants (AGF, CCT chairman, CCB, and the IGP) from proceeding with the hearing of charge number CCT/ABJ/01/19 between the Federal Government of Nigeria v. Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen pending the determination of the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction. “An order of interim injunction restraining the defendants in this suit, either by themselves, their privies, servants, agents, assigns or whatsoever described from forcing the Honourable Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen from vacating his office as Chief Justice of Nigeria pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction.” CCT adjourns proceedings Meanwhile, the Danladi Umar-led three-man Code of Conduct Tribunal on Monday adjourned proceedings involving the charges of non-declaration of assets preferred against the CJN till January 22. Umar ruled that the tribunal would hear Onnoghen’s motion challenging the jurisdiction of the tribunal at the next proceedings. The tribunal adjourned the case after the lead prosecuting counsel, Mr Aliyu Umar (SAN), a former Director of Public Prosecutions conceded that Onnoghen was improperly served with the charges and the summons. Umar conceded that the CJN was not personally served with the charges and the court’s summons as required by law. He therefore requested the three-man tribunal led by Danladi Umar to direct a fresh service on the CJN. CJN absent from CCT Onnoghen was absent from Monday’s proceedings. Upon an inquiry by the tribunal chairman about Onnoghen’s absence from court, the defence team led by Olanipekun said the CJN needed not to be present having filed a motion to challenge the tribunal’s jurisdiction. Olanipekun said he and other defence lawyers only appeared in court in protest against the jurisdiction of the tribunal. He also said from the account given by the court officials earlier in the proceedings, the CJN was not served with the charges and summons personally but through his aide. Olanipekun insisted that the law required that the defendant should be personally served. But the prosecuting counsel said the law only required the defendant to be aware of the pending charges, and that it was the CJN’s choice to ask his aide to receive the charges and summons on his behalf. But after a back-and-forth argument that went on for about 45 minutes, the prosecuting counsel conceded that the service of the charges and the summons ought to have been personally served on Onnoghen. Monday’s proceedings of the scheduled arraignment of the CJN started with the arrival of the three members of the tribunal at 10am. At 10.01am, the matter was called. The court official who announced the case observed that the CJN was not present and then notified the tribunal chairman of the development. After the lead prosecuting counsel, Mr Aliyu Umar (SAN), announced his appearance, the tribunal asked the court official whether the CJN had been served with the charges and summons. The court official confirmed that the CJN was served through his personal assistant. He said, “He was served through his personal assistant. We went to his house and the defendant directed his personal assistant to collect the charges and other processes on his behalf. So, the defendant has been served.” 87 lawyers appear for CJN Meanwhile, about 87 lawyers led by Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) appeared for the CJN at the CCT on Monday. Among the 87 lawyers were about 40 SANs. They appeared against the prosecuting team with only one SAN, who is a private legal practitioner, and four lawyers from the CCB. Aliyu Umar, the SAN leading the prosecuting team, is a former Director of Public Prosecutions in Kano State. Buhari prefers his kinsman as CJN -South, M’Belt leaders Meanwhile, the SMBL has castigated the Federal Government over the criminal charges filed against Onnoghen. The SMBLF spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, said the conspiracy against Onnoghen was to help Buhari replace him with a judicial officer from the North. Odumakin said, “The petition filed within 72 hours received accelerated investigation and charges were filed against the CJN by a government which had not prosecuted Babachir Lawal, a government which did not try Maina or probe Governor Ganduje of Kano State.” Yoruba elders, Ohanaeze knock FG Also, the Secretary-General of YCE, Dr Kunle Olajide, in an interview with one of our correspondents in Lagos condemned the move to arraign Onnogehn without following the laid down procedures. The YCE secretary said, “It is imperative that every effort must be made to preserve the sacredness and the sanctity of the judiciary because the judiciary, as it is often said, is the last hope of the common man. “Moreover, our economy is still in the woods and we are seeking foreign investors. So, this is not the time, to deliberately or otherwise , do what can tarnish the image of our judiciary because foreign investors must have confidence in the judiciary before they come in. “We will appeal to Mr President to act swiftly in this matter and perhaps revert to the status quo ante and then seek wider consultations from legal experts to know how to proceed if the CJN has been found to have breached the laws of the land.” Also, the spokesperson for the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Uche Achi-Okpaga, condemned the way the petition against the CJN was handled, adding, “We are not saying they should not prosecute anybody who has stolen but there are laid down procedures to be followed. Let them follow due process in this matter. “I agree that the President is not a lawyer but the attorney general who is a senior lawyer should be de-robed for this. They should not plunge the nation into anarchy because this is election period. People are saying they want to change the CJN by all means and put their person in charge so their man, who would be in charge would use his position to discard any petition against his benefactors.” Take CJN’s case to NJC, SERAP tells FG But SERAP in a statement on Monday by its Senior Legal Adviser, Bamisope Adeyanju, advised Buhari to direct the AGF to withdraw the charges against the CJN and then file a petition against Onnoghen before the NJC. Adeyanju said he believed that the laws on asset declaration by public officers should be enforced to the letter, but urged the Federal Government to follow due process in Onnoghen’s case. SERAP advised that after submitting a petition to the NJC, Justice Onnoghen, who is the body’s current chairman, should be asked to recuse himself while other members of the NJC investigate the matter. CJN must face trial But the APC has insisted that Onnoghen must face trial at the CCT. The APC, during a press conference on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, berated the PDP. It stated, “While we would not want to be lured into discussing issues that are presently before the courts and for which any respectable political party hoping to hold positions of responsibility should restrain itself, we regret to suggest that the PDP’s attempt to hoodwink Nigerians into believing that there is a political motive behind the allegations brought against the CJN might itself be indicative of some unholy alliances.” According to the APC, the likely affinity existing between the PDP and a section of the judiciary “is further accentuated by the non-appearance of Justice Onnoghen before the CCT on Monday in line with the suggestions made by the PDP governors from the South-South on Sunday.” The APC rejected what it called a “dangerous attempt to designate the CJN’s arraignment along ethnic and religious lines thereby trying to heat up the polity by evoking primordial sentiments.” The party stated, “The CCT trial is a legal matter, let the law run its course. The CJN must go through the instrumentalities of the courts, more importantly as an institution he represents. Indeed, this is the true test of our constitution, rule of law and will deepen democracy.” Meanwhile, the Coalition of United Political Parties on Monday hailed the ruling of a Federal High Court that restrained the CCT from proceeding with Onnoghen’s trial. The coalition, in a statement by its first national spokesman, Imo Ugochinyere, described the development as victory for democracy and rule of law. Managed By webmirandum \| Theme Designed by: lamaison-immobiliare.net \| Thanks to http://www.0592tea.org, http://www.ushcgdietplan.com and ubiquitanyc.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line530
__label__wiki	0.93825	0.93825	http://www.canada24news.com/politics/ruling-in-trudeau-aga-khan-case-could-change-rules-for-unpaid-lobbyists/263163-news Ruling in Trudeau-Aga Khan case could change rules for unpaid lobbyists A Federal Court ruling in a case that centres on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's controversial vacation on the Aga Khan's private island in the Bahamas has opened the door to bringing unpaid lobbyists under Canada's lobbying law. In his 50-page ruling, Justice Patrick Gleeson ordered Commissioner of Lobbying Nancy Bélanger to reconsider her predecessor Karen Shepherd's decision not to investigate a complaint about the trip. Trudeau's January 2017 trip to the island came at a time when the Aga Khan was discussing funding for projects with Trudeau's government. Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson found in December 2017 that Trudeau violated ethics rules by accepting the trip to the Aga Khan's island. However, Shepherd declined to investigate, saying the Aga Khan was not paid to lobby the government and, as a result, did not fall under the Lobbying Act. Gleeson ruled that Shepherd's definition of 'payment' was too narrow. "The Act's definition of 'payment' might reasonably encompass things of value that fall outside the scope of 'remuneration,'" Gleeson wrote. "For example, and without expressing any view on the question, 'anything of value' might reasonably include a directorship within a corporation or organization, even in circumstances where the position is voluntary." While the Aga Khan was not paid, he was a member of the Aga Khan Foundation's board. A foundation employee was registered to lobby on behalf of the organization. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Bell Island in the Bahamas with his family in December 2016 to January 2017. (CBC) Gleeson said that should have flagged the incident for review. "I am of the view, in light of the purposes and objectives of the Lobbying Act and the Code and the investigative obligation imposed by section 10.4 of the Act, that the Commissioner was required to take a broad view of the circumstances in addressing the complaint," Gleeson wrote. "Instead, the record before the Court reflects a narrow, technical and targeted analysis that is lacking in transparency, justification and intelligibility when considered in the context of the Commissioner's duties and functions. The decision is unreasonable." Gleeson's decision is dated March 29 and was made public by Democracy Watch Tuesday. In a statement, Democracy Watch co-founder Duff Conacher said Gleeson's ruling "broadens the scope of the Lobbying Act" and closes a loophole in Canada's lobbying rules. "There are 394 businesses and 581 organizations currently registered in the (lobbying) Registry, and so board members who lobby for any of these businesses or organizations are now required to disclose their lobbying in the Registry." The terrace overlooking the the Exumas chain of Islands in the Bahamas at Bell Island. (CBC) Conacher called on the lobbying commissioner to "ensure a full, independent investigation into the Aga Khan's Bahamas trip gifts to Prime Minister Trudeau and Liberal MP Seamus O'Regan in the wake of the ruling. "Democracy Watch's opinion is, based on the facts and the law and the ruling, it is very likely that the senior officer of the Aga Khan Foundation violated the lobbying code by allowing the Aga Khan to give the trip gifts." Manon Dion, spokeswoman for the lobbying commissioner's office, said the government is studying the ruling. "We are awaiting to hear whether the Attorney General will appeal the decision before assessing any next steps." Asked about the ruling during an event in Kitchener, Ontario, Trudeau said he trusts the system. "We trust in the process in place and respect the work that the court and the lobbying commissioner will do." Elizabeth Thompson can be reached at [email protected] The Pollcast: Will the Liberals be stampeded out of Alberta? Justin Trudeau says he's made mistakes. Is that a mistake? Maverick Democrat's attempt to impeach Trump fails vote Ethics czar erred in approving LeBlanc's use of Irving plane: Democracy Watch Former Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence begins hunger strike over state of community Republicans defend Trump tweets, say 'squad' engages in personal attacks University of Manitoba drops faculty member amid RCMP investigation Toronto candidate seeks federal election date change due to Jewish holiday NATO secretary general visits Canada for Trudeau meeting, base tour	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line535
__label__cc	0.637097	0.362903	The golden compass (Paperback) Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want. But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help on of them will be to betray the other... A masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which contintues with The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. Author: Pullman, Philip Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want. But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help on of them will be to betray the other... A masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which contintues with The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line540
__label__cc	0.650133	0.349867	Kiss and Tell Tour: Author Interview & Review: Deceive Her with Desire by Nina Pierce Please join me for the Kiss & Tell Virtual Book Tour (Hosted by Bewitching Book Tours), today we have an promotional stop for Nina Pierce Deceive Her with Desire. A woman determined to protect her heart. An agent hell bent on proving himself. One night that will change their lives forever... Landscaper, DEIRDRE TILLING had no way of knowing that attending her friend's party would throw her into a dangerous world of corrupt businessmen and police stings. Of course her sexual romp with undercover DEA agent, AYDEN SCOTT only pushes her deeper into the drug smuggling ring running up the Maine coast. As the heat rises between Deirdre and Ayden, one thing becomes painfully obvious...their relationship has jeopardized his mission and now someone wants them both dead. BUY Link for KINDLE Lovers: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0057XV0F4 BUY Link for NOOK Lovers: http://tinyurl.com/6a8fqvy Also Available at ARe: http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-deceiveherwithdesire-643952-152.html Book Excerpt: The condo they entered was utilitarian, the living room furniture leather and heavy wood and very masculine. The whole first floor was visible from the front door where she stood frozen, too flustered by her own audacity to move. Austin closed the door and stepped around her, heading to the other side of the condo and into the small kitchen area. “Can I get you something to drink?” He ducked his head into the fridge, his jeans pulling snug across a nicely curved ass. “I don't have much. Coffee. Water. Wine.” He stood up and looked at her. She almost giggled at the way he tilted his head to one side, sort of that lost puppy, take-me-home kind of look. His blue eyes mirrored her confusion. “Deirdre, can I get you anything?” Yeah, those luscious lips between my thighs. Deirdre shook her head. Coffee. She was here for a cup of coffee before she drove home. Nothing more. But her body was screaming for something else. “Wine sounds nice.” “A New York Riesling or an Australian Pinot Noir?” Austin held up two bottles. No, just coffee. She couldn't drive home with more alcohol in her system. It was rutting season and even this late at night the moose would be on the move. Her little Toyota truck was no match for one of those behemoths. “Whichever one is white,” she said, wondering why she was letting her body make all the decisions. Deirdre walked over to the stereo system, perusing the CDs haphazardly strewn about on the receiver. It was the only thing out of place in his condo. “I have Mozart and Def Leopard and everything in between. Choose your poison.” Austin's voice washed over her shoulder as he stepped up behind her. She could feel the heat of his chest against her back. Not the soft, round, plump feeling of a woman, but the steel power of a man. Heat shot through her veins, hitching her breath and pressing her nipples against her lace bra. She took the glass he offered, moving to the couch and away from the intoxicating scent of his spicy cologne. “Something quiet.” she said. “After the loud bands at the party, it would be nice.” Actually, she needed something to soothe her pulsing nerves. “You live here long?” Deirdre sipped the wine, grateful Austin's attention on the stereo kept him from seeing her shaking hand. What was she doing here? “A few months. I have some business up and down the coast. When it's over I'll head back to Boston.” He turned and lifted his glass of ice water. “Here's to enjoying the beautiful Maine autumn.” “You're not drinking?” “Too many wild nights. I'm giving my liver a rest.” The quiet strains of piano music filled the room. She recognized the artist as one of her father's favorites. Immediately, her brooding thoughts turned to her family. There had been so many nights in the last few months she'd sat with her father in the quiet of their home in town. She and her two sisters rotated nights, giving their mother a short reprieve from the hopelessness of growing old. Deidre couldn't count the number of times she'd played the CDs, hoping to give him strength and courage in the memory of who he once was. But it seemed he'd given up on life. Now, they all watched as his body withered its way to death. “…Deirdre, yoo-hoo, you okay?” Austin was bent over, intently staring into her eyes, only inches from her nose. “Sorry, Austin. Drifted off for a moment. What were you saying?” “I was talking about my consulting firm, but obviously that put you to sleep.” He sat on the leather couch, lacing his fingers through hers, pulling her down next to him. “Sit. Enjoy the wine and the music.” Though Deirdre had had only two one-night stands in her lifetime, one in college, and of course, Bobby, she could distinguish genuine interest from lust. It was concern she saw in the cobalt pools of Austin's eyes and the gentle curve of his mouth. She leaned against him seeking solace in the solid feeling of his body. Interview of Nina Pierce If you were a superhero, what name would you go by? What powers would you have? Cyclona! I would be able to clean through my house in 5 minutes flat including laundry, dishes (ick), vacuuming and dusting (quadruple ick!) And I’d morph into a body that could wear a bikini while I did it all! That would leave me plenty of time to write and hang out with my friends. Suppose you're a spy, what would be your codename? What would be the name of your make believe organization? What are the must-have gadgets in your arsenal? Sexy Thang and the Thongs. We’d pounce on unsuspecting men, teach them how to be romantic and turn them into real life romance heroes. Of course we’d be armed with dreamy-eye transformers, sexy voice equalizers, romantic talk vocalizing wands, and error free erogenous zone finders. Oh yeah, we’d have our work cut out for us, but women everywhere would be eternally grateful for our covert operation. What type of music or song makes you want to get up and dance regardless of where you are? The song for the MacIntosh laptop, “New Soul” by Yael Naim. It makes me dance in my chair. Here’s the YouTube addie http://youtube.com/watch?v I just love, love, love, that song! Oh, and I looove the Monkey’s version of “I’m a Believer. It makes me dance every time! If you were a world ruler and you were given a choice of 5 laws to enact, what would they be? 1) No fighting or arguing. 2) Fair pay for fair work. 3) No child goes hungry or unloved. 4) All red tape and hoops would be taken away from medical insurance companies. This would eliminate the wasted phone conversations and the jumping people would need to do to make claims. 5) I have the last say on everything … any questions, see #1 Would you have a Hottie Harem and who would you invite to join? Oh, I get to choose. Okay, cracks knuckles Adrian Paul - just to stare at. Sean Connery - love his voice! He could read the cereal box and sound sexy to me! Matthew Mcconaughey - to make me laugh. I love when he laughs Vin Diesel - Because every harem needs a bad boy Will Smith – Admit it, the man exudes sex appeal! Who would you love to write a book with? If you mean like actually write words together, I’m not sure I could do that. I don’t play nice on the keyboard! cackle I wouldn’t mind having my work along side the world building greats of Anne McCaffrey or Larissa Ione, or the incredible imaginations of DeanKoontz.r Jessica Andersen or Nalini Singh… yeah, I could keep going, but I’ll stop there. If you could choose one of your characters to live happily-ever-after with, who would you choose and which book is he from? (No, you cannot pick your significant other or hubby. We’re living in fantasy land, so fantasize already.) Oh, fantasy … me like! I love my heroes. I fall in love with them every time as they fall in love with their ladies. But I think if it were forever, I’d like to go to the 22nd century and be with Brenimyn from The Healer’s Garden. sigh He’s strong and fighting for a cause, but he’s so tender at the same time. He’s willing to sacrifice everything for the woman he loves. Oh, and the man knows how to satisfy a woman. Yeah, I definitely pick him! If you were making a reality show, what name would you give it? What would it be about? And who from your “circle of friends” would be there to back you up? I’d love to see a reality show titled “Housewives in Leather”. 10 housewives live in a BDSM club for a month. For the sake of the innocent I couldn’t tell you who would be there with me. cackle But I know for sure … none of us would want to leave! Last question: There's a major battle between Harry Potter and his gang, the crew from the Lord of the Rings, Pokemon and The Smurfs. Who would you back to win in a no holds barred battle? Why? Harry Potter and his cronies … hands down. Have you seen what they do with those wands? Impressive stuff. And with things like poly-juice potion in their arsenal they can pretend to be anyone they want and infiltrate the other factions. Yeah, definitely that gang. And poor Papa Smurf wouldn’t know what hit him in that battle. About the only group they could beat would be the Care Bears. But in reality those two groups probably couldn’t work up a good case of mad between them! My newest romantic suspense series, Tilling Passions, involves three sisters, family relationships, and the angst and mystery of finding “forever” love. The second book, DECEIVE HER WITH DESIRE, is available now in most digital formats. Award-winning romance author, Nina Pierce, grew up in a house full of readers. So becoming enamored with books was only natural. She discovered romance stories in her early teens, falling hopelessly in love with knights in shining armor and the damsels who saved them. Eventually, reading about alpha males and the journey to find their happy-ever-after endings wasn’t enough. She needed to pen her own stories of fated loves and soul mates. Nina’s discovered the passionate side of romance with her sexy stories. For her, it’s all about the sweet scent of seduction mixed with the heart warming aroma of romance. Nina resides in southern New England with her high school sweetheart and soul mate of twenty-seven years, their three grown children and several very spoiled cats who consider her “staff”. Website: http://www.NinaPierce.com Blog: http://www.NinaPierce.com/blog Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/author.Nina.Pierce Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/NinaPierce Thank you so much for stopping by Nina! and now for My Review: A quick sexxy read I enjoyed. The story plot was straight to the point and I like that. Added in, you have a DEA agent out for revenge and looking for love as well. A woman who is trying to get over the heartbreak of her ex-girlfriend. After they meet at party, Andyian and Dedire have a one night stand, both trying to forget the stresses and worries going on in their lives at the moment. They both end up with more than what the other was looking for. There was a lot going on this one and I gotta say I was a little confused through some of the book, but that didn't take away from the authors awesome writing style and the great way she weaved the story together. This one gets 3 Black Orchids Sex scenes were off the chart sexxy (though I wish there was at least one scene with Deidre and her ex girlfriend) Author Interview Virtual Book Tour Kathryn Merkel December 2, 2011 at 1:11 PM OMG, your hottie list is almost a perfect mirror to my own, although I picked a younger vocal talent, so that he could do something more than just read to me. I watch The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, just to hear his voice & he's a lot closer to my age then Sean. drainbamaged.gyzmo at gmail.com marybelle December 2, 2011 at 6:18 PM What's not to love?? The excerpt was delicious!! Just how I like it.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line543
__label__wiki	0.666488	0.666488	Vol. 8, No. 1, 2005, pp. 63-65 Bioline Code: md05011 African Journal of Biomedical Research, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2005, pp. 63-65 en Short report - Serum Electrolyte Changes In West African Dwarf (WAD) Sheep with Single or Concurrent ( Babesia ovis and Trypanosome congolense ) Infections TELLA, M.A Electrolyte play significant roles in inter - compartment water balance. Serum samples from protozoa infected West African Dwarf (WAD) sheep were analyzed for electrolyte levels; Na+, K+, Ca2+, HCO3-, Cl- and PO4-. Intermittent changes in the levels of these electrolytes were observed in single or concurrent T. congolense or B. ovis infected WAD sheep. In animals infected with B. ovis, the effect was chronic while in animals (group II) infected with T. congolense effect was acute. Intermittent changes were observed in single infectious but absent in concurrent infection. The intermittent changes observed in single infections were similar but it is of low amplitude of variation in B. ovis infected sheep. The observed values in T. congolense infected ones. There were significant changes in the levels of Na+, K+, Ca22+, HCO3-, Cl- and PO4- (P< 0.05) in both infections except that Ca2+ remains unchanged in single infections. The implication of this finding is discussed. West African Dwarf (WAD) Sheep, Babesia ovis, Trypanosome congolense, infection	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line545
__label__wiki	0.69995	0.69995	First and Third Tuesday of each month City Council Workshops are held: Second Tuesday of each month The governing body of Green River consists of a mayor and six elected Council members. The City is divided into three wards, with two council members representing each ward. Email the Council Select the name to email the Mayor or a specific Councilmember: 307-872-0599 (City Hall) 307-871-3175 (Cell Phone) Ward I Council Members Ward II Council Members Ward III Council Members Email Tom Murphy Term expires: 12/31/2020 Email Lisa Maes Term expires:12/31/2020 Email Robert Berg Email Jim Zimmerman Email Mike Shutran Email Gary Killpack City Council Elections To run for election to a City Council position a citizen must live within the ward to which election is sought, be properly registered as a Sweetwater County voter, and file an application with the City Clerk at City Hall. By state statute, the filing must be completed within the prescribed deadline. Citizens elect Council members to staggered, four-year terms. There is no limit to the number of terms a Council Member may serve. Council members may also serve on standing committees appointed by the Mayor. Functions & Duties The Council's major functions and duties are primarily legislative. Council directs City affairs by passing ordinances or adopting resolutions. Either may be introduced by a Council member at a business meeting, but ideas for them also may originate from citizens or City staff. The Mayor of Green River is the chief elected official of the City with all the powers and duties of a Council member. The Mayor appoints Council members to inter-agency committees and citizen volunteers to City advisory boards and commissions, with Council approval. The Mayor signs all ordinances and bonds authorized by the Council. The Council elects one of its members as Council President to serve temporarily in the Mayor's absence or disability. Agendas Minutes & Video Agendas Minutes & Video - Prior to April 2012	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line547
__label__wiki	0.589896	0.589896	Detail of the Sitting area rug. Part of Ann Muntages's Skewed Perspective. (Click to enlarge.) Skewed Perspective: Anne Muntges at Big Orbit Jack Foran / Jun. 24, 2015 12am EST Anne Muntges’s domestication and its discontents feminist art installation currently at Big Orbit includes a radical recapitulation of the entire modernist art project. The exhibit consists of a whole house interior. A kind of stage set kitchen with sink and table and microwave oven, parlor with overstuffed easy chair and fireplace, and bedroom with bed and dresser. And most notably, everything in the exact same black-and-white hatch pattern motif. Table, chairs, sink, dishes, walls, doors, bed, rugs, quilt, even food, some apples in a dish, a bunch of grapes. All in the same black-and-white pattern, occasionally offset by some all-black contrast element or item, border beading on the overstuffed chair, quilt pattern segments, rug pattern segments, an all-black picture in an all-black frame. Simultaneously exotic and monotonous. Bedroom Install. Like the distaff existence envisioned in the setting. Symbolized by the range of furnishings and accessories, from drudgery disesteem work items—the kitchen sink and adjacent ironing board—to moderate-esteem items—fabric work, the bed quilt, a handwork carpet—to symbolically specifically sexual, the bed. Unmade, as it happens. Rumpled. On the dresser are some enigmatic items that could have sexual significance. One of them for sure. A set of four carpentered wooden letters, f, u, c, and k. Both common senses of the word they spell out applicable in the installation context. In a brief artist’s statement, Muntges cites Simone de Beauvoir, her book The Second Sex, as inspirational, and describes the installation as “a home I built that reflects the confidence and confusion of what it means to be a female.” The recapitulation of the modernist art project inheres first and foremost in the tension between two and three dimensions. The stage set installation is literally three-dimensional, but the hatch pattern decorative motif acts precisely as camouflage, visually reducing three dimensions to two. (The principle of camouflage not coincidentally was discovered just prior to World War I, precisely when Picasso and Braque were inventing Cubism, the key modern art strategy, the main objective and effect of which was to problematize two and three dimensions.) But also in the occurrence of some modern art reference iconic items. Most prominently a skull, but also a plate of apples, evoking Cezanne, the beginnings of the modernist project. And the all-black painting, evoking Ad Reinhardt, whose black paintings were an effectual end of the modernist project. He called them “the last paintings” possible. Kitchen detail. And simultaneously comical absurd and deadly serious. Comical absurd in the bizarre decorative scheme that perhaps not even the most imperious decorator would attempt to foist on his most gullible client. But deadly serious about a complex of issues with regard to personal freedom—including the freedom to be an artist—versus traditional feminine role domestic slavery. Signaled by various death symbols among the furnishings. The skull. The Ad Reinhardt all-black painting. An all-black doily on the overstuffed chair. (Like the bed quilt, more traditional women’s artwork than painting or sculpture, but moderate-esteem work, typically anonymous.) In The Second Sex, de Beauvoir writes about the different significations of house/home for women, for men, and for artists. “The home’s champions are often women,” she writes, “since it is their task to assure the happiness of the familial group…their role is to be ‘mistress of the house.’” Whereas, “for men, [a house] is simply a place to live.” Whereas “artists are completely insensitive to the surroundings in which they live.” She quotes the poet Rilke writing about the sculptor Rodin. “‘When I first came to Rodin…I knew that his house was nothing to him, a paltry little necessity perhaps, a roof for a time of rain and sleep; and that it was no care to him and no weight upon his solitude and composure. Deep in himself he bore the darkness, shelter, and peace of a house, and he himself had become sky above it, and woods around it, and distance, and great stream flowing by.’” Elsewhere in the same book she considers the matter in economic terms, referencing Friedrich Engels. “Engels shows that woman’s lot is closely linked to the history of private property; a catastrophe substituted patriarchy for matriarchy and enslaved women to the patrimony…[Engels] writes: ‘Woman cannot be emancipated unless she takes part in production on a large social scale, and is only incidentally bound to domestic work…’” The Anne Muntges exhibit is entitled Skewed Perspective. It continues through August 9. Ann Muntges at Big Orbit 30d Essex St cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line556
__label__wiki	0.534981	0.534981	Home » Is the 2016 Mustang GT350R Carbon Fiber wheel suitable for HPDE? Is the 2016 Mustang GT350R Carbon Fiber wheel suitable for HPDE? Driving Enthusiasts planning to use the Shelby GT350 as for open track (“HPDE”) events are eagerly anticipating the availability of the GT350 and all of its features, centered around the 5.2 liter flat-plane V-8 engine. But also (and more importantly for these events) the extraordinary work Ford has put into the suspension of the GT350. Altogether it’s a tremendous package that is by far the most comprehensively designed Mustang ever built, one that totally eclipses and obsoletes the Boss 302 Mustangs of a few years ago (which looks like a Model T sitting next to a GT350 – and we’re speaking as an owner whose Boss 302 is obsoleted by the 2015 Mustang GT with the Track Pack option). But the GT350 is also a Mustang with a weight problem, since the structure of the last Mustang was reused for this car. Comparing two bodies-in-white, you’ll find the same hard points and the same overall size, with a tiny bit less weight. However, add in the new-generation independent suspension and all of the options that are typically snapped up by buyers and you’ll end up with a significantly heavier car than it’s predecessor. Weight is the enemy of track cars, so Ford has taken several steps to (very slightly) reduce weight in the GT350. The new carbon fiber wheels, offered only on the hyper-expressive GT350R model, is one such step. And given Ford’s philosophy that advanced technologies have to “trickle down” to production cars (as Ford has stated for the advanced technologies being developed for the upcoming Ford GT), it’s important that “field experience” is gained so that such wheels can be mass-produced and offered on pedestrian Mustangs and other Fords. Much more durability testing in the outside world is going to be needed, with years of experience, along with further research into manufacturing methods that will significantly drive down the cost. Where better to test but on the racetrack? Ford’s press release below is a fascinating read, with several particularly interesting facts (and we appreciate that information: enthusiasts need to understand). First is fact that the magnetorheological shocks had to be tuned specifically to the ultra light weight of these wheels. That’s expected since shocks work by controlling the velocity of the suspension motion. But for HPDE events, most enthusiasts will want to use a second set of wheels with mounted race rubber. Given that the carbon fiber wheels will certainly have an ungodly price (the internet is full of speculation; we’d throw out the wild guess of $2000/wheel), that second set of wheels will probably be aluminum. Preferably spun or forged aluminum to keep the strength up and weight down. That suggests that then the shock tuning will be less than optimal with the replacement wheels since the unsprung mass will now be heavier. Don’t misinterpret us: magnetorheological shocks are “miracle” shocks, the ultimate shock, and it’s a tremendous opportunity that for us that Ford is using them on the GT350 (and we’d like to see them as an option on the GT, since the 2016 Camaro will offer them as an option on their model equivalent to the Mustang GT). Short of turning the GT350R into an actual race care, there should be no reason why an enthusiast would ever want to replace them. Ford Press Release follows (italics are ours): Ford Releases Details on World’s First Mass-Produced Carbon Fiber Wheels for Shelby GT350R Mustang Ford Shelby® GT350R is the most track-capable Mustang ever and the first vehicle from a major automaker to offer carbon fiber wheels as standard equipment Ford Performance developed ultra high-performance wheels on the most track-ready street legal Mustang ever Ceramic plasma arc spray on the front wheels – the same process used on the original Space Shuttle main engine turbine blades – provides thermal protection from brake heat With a little help from Space Shuttle technology, Ford helped reinvent the wheel. For the all-new Shelby® GT350R, the most track-ready road-going production Mustang ever, Ford dreamed of using the ultimate high-performance material for its unique wheels – carbon fiber. But while the automotive aftermarket and a low-volume supercar manufacturer have offered carbon fiber wheels, Ford and Australian supplier Carbon Revolution took on the challenge of crafting the first mass-produced, track-capable carbon fiber wheels as standard equipment for Shelby GT350R. Designed, developed and tested with the highest of quality standards in mind, these first-of-a-kind wheels deliver unprecedented chassis performance, massive weight savings and improved driving dynamics. In early testing with benchmark vehicles, prototype wheels showed significant potential – improving suspension response times, chassis dynamics, steering feel and ride quality. When the decision was made to pursue this technology for use in a production vehicle, the engineering team was challenged to develop a wheel that met Ford’s strict standards for durability, quality, craftsmanship and premium finish. Why carbon fiber? Among sports car enthusiasts, carbon fiber wheels are on the short list of dream components for high-performance vehicles. In the rarefied world of supercars only Koenigsegg has offered optional carbon fiber wheels. Lowering overall curb weight in general is beneficial to a car’s dynamics, but a reduction in unsprung weight (those components not supported by the suspension) can have a significant impact on handling and performance. Less unsprung weight helps vehicles start, stop and turn faster by reducing wheel rotational inertia, dramatically improving response time to driver input. Lower unsprung weight also translates to suspension components not having to work so hard to keep the tires in contact with the road over undulating or broken surfaces. Developing new benchmarks Although Carbon Revolution has been the leading manufacturer of carbon fiber wheels, both Ford and the supplier recognized significant innovation was needed to meet Shelby GT350R program needs. This project would set the standard for mass-produced carbon fiber wheels. Ford sets extremely high testing requirements for its wheels. Ford wheels must endure tests that include curb strikes, UV and chemical exposure, and extreme heat durability testing. The GT350R wheels would need to fulfill all of these demands in order to proceed to production. A common misconception of carbon fiber is that while it’s strong, it’s also a brittle material. Some formulations may have this characteristic, but carbon fiber’s durability is a feature of the type of resin and design intent of the part. The wheels of Shelby GT350R are designed to be stiff, light and resilient. One of the most severe tests for wheels in the Ford development process involves striking a curb at speed – a test that, without proper design, can cause serious wheel and tire damage. Because of the light weight, advanced construction methods and resins in the wheels, along with the highly-developed MagneRide dampers, the suspension was able to react so fast that the driver wasn’t sure the test had been carried out correctly and ran it twice to be sure. The suspension response was fast enough to greatly diminish the severity of the impact – that’s the power of minimizing unsprung weight. During track testing the extreme performance capabilities of the braking system developed heat which required the maximum technology available from Carbon Revolution. When brake temperature measurements were taken, it was revealed Shelby GT350R’s ultra-powerful brakes were creating rotor temperatures in excess of 900 degrees Celsius. As a result, the wheel design was elevated from a road car specification to a thermal standard more suitable for motorsports. For decades aerospace companies have treated turbine blade materials subject to extreme heat with ceramic coatings to help improve durability. The technology is also used in top-tier open-wheel racing environments. A thermal barrier coating system developed by Carbon Revolution uses this same technology. Created specifically for motorsport and aerospace applications where extreme temperature conditions are encountered, Carbon Revolution’s thermal barrier coating system uses a multistage, multimaterial coating formulation that provides an excellent thermal barrier. Using a plasma arc gun to liquefy a ceramic material, the wheels are coated at critical points around the inner wheel “barrel” and on the back of the spokes. The result is an incredibly thin, nearly diamond-hard coating that reliably shields the resin from heat – reducing maximum wheel temperatures and allowing continuous track use by even the most aggressive drivers. But that’s not the end of the story with regard to testing. Upon extreme exposure to harsh UV environments, corrosive salts and road chemicals, it became apparent that to achieve the durability required by Ford, a special coating would need to be developed to protect the resin from the environment. Carbon fiber parts are notoriously challenging when it comes to delivering a flawlessly smooth painted surface – the kind of finish Ford demands for all of its vehicles. Several proprietary new processes were developed that resulted in a robust, high-gloss black finish that not only looks good, but ensures a long life for the wheels. Produced to high standards – tested to ensure quality Manufacturing carbon fiber wheels begins with the creation of the preformed internal carbon structure, composed of precisely manufactured carbon strands arrayed into woven fabrics. The elements are then placed into a mold using state of the art manufacturing techniques. An RFID chip with a unique tracking number is embedded in this structure, and each wheel is individually entered into a quality assurance system. Once this structure is assembled, it’s infused with resin and cured at high temperatures. This process results in a one-piece wheel that ensures maximum strength – eliminating the need to bond or glue the wheel’s spokes and barrel components together. As the wheel cures, 61 individual checks and more than 246,000 data points are logged before it’s released from the machine. To guarantee quality parts, the cured wheels are analyzed using a 3D computerized tomography (CT) imaging process in which more than 18,000 X-ray images are taken. If the wheel passes inspection, it undergoes machining for the valve stem and mounting hardware holes before it gets painted, coated, assembled, dimensionally checked and shipped to Flat Rock Assembly Plant for installation on a new Shelby GT350R Mustang. That the new Ford Shelby GT350R Mustang will be rocketship-fast should come as no surprise, but by cutting the weight of each wheel nearly in half compared to an equivalent aluminum wheel (18 pounds versus 33 pounds), handling and acceleration performance see serious benefits. The wheels also provide a reduction in rotational inertia of more than 40 percent, which positively impacts acceleration and braking performance. The wheels are so light, the springs and MagneRide dampers had to be recalibrated because the suspension can respond considerably faster to road inputs. “The GT350R wheels and tires were developed to be the most track-capable parts we’ve ever produced,” said Adam Wirth, chassis supervisor, Ford Performance. “The carbon fiber wheels reduce vehicle weight by 60 pounds compared to aluminum, yet are stiffer for better steering response. “We believe this is a game changer for the industry,” he added, “a great example of improved performance through innovation.” The classic battle: Camaro triumphs over Mustang First look analysis: 2016 Mustang Shelby GT350 engine... Ford introduces the 2016 Shelby GT350 Mustang Ford releases official power figures for 2015 Mustang Ford releases official weight figures for 2015 Mustang 2015 Mustang order banks open, price starts at... 2015 Mustang 2.3 EcoBoost: super high-res engine images 2015 Mustang in the Long Term: Coyote and... 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__label__wiki	0.819613	0.819613	2 B 1 Ask 1 Duke History Lodge Artifacts The Embossing Seal Press The Theodore Unmack Firing Glass The History of Irish Freemasonry and The Grand Lodge of Ireland Famous Australian Freemasons UGLQ calendar Initiation of Bro Scott Barbour The Duke welcomed Bro Scott Barbour as a candidate for (re)initiation at their October meeting held on October 18, 2017. Bro Scott was made a Freemason in Moscow and is an ex-member of Aurora Lodge from the Grand Lodge of Russia. Scott is pursuing a career working with large multinational corporations and assisting them navigate new challenges presented by the emergence of Crypto currencies. Originally hailing from Brisbane, Scott has been living and working on Moscow and has recently returned to Brisbane to live. Scott has been welcomed at the Duke previously as a visitor a number of times and the Duke of Leinster Lodge is thrilled that he has decided to return to Lodge and join as a member at the Duke of Leinster. As Scott voiced a desire to re-learn the secrets and important teachings of the 1st of Entered Apprentice Degree, the Lodge was happy to utilise its planned 1st degree emulation (practice) meeting to impart these lessons to Scott. Bro Scott did an excellent job as candidate for the night and the Duke of Lodge officers performed admirably, ably assisted by members of Theodore Unmack Lodge who helped support the evening and helped with the work at hand. The Duke of Leinster Lodge greatly appreciates the continued support of our Irish Lodge friends from Theodore Unmack No. 60 and looks forward to sharing good Freemasonry together into the future. Both the Duke of Leinster and Theodore Unmack Lodge wish Bro Scott Barbour every success in his Freemasonry. 2017-10-19T16:13:05+00:00October 19th, 2017\|1st\| Search the Duke blog From the Duke Blog Sacred geometry lecture video- The Art of Number by Jain108 RW Bro Lou Grimshaw presented with the Grand Master’s Order of Service to Masonry (OSM) Fraternal visit to Lodge St George Presentation: The Art of Number The Gnostic Kabbalah lecture presented by Adam Mistry Brisbane’s oldest Irish Lodge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuIXProYjHA History & Revelation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vqu-dJARyg The benefits of Freemasonry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJUBj9nKeX8 4ZZZ Radio Interview April 18, 2019 A men's group which operates like a medieval court, has very happy meetings & is a sincere pleasure to be a member of. Joining it was the best thing I ever did (besides doing a year as WM) Darren. It's just part of my Life, it helps me strive to be better each day:) Graham S. Like minded men who help and support each other and do good work for the benefit of the wider community A peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory, illustrated by symbols. A brotherhood of men, committed to their personal and moral development, each other, their family, workplace, community, and humanity. Duke of Leinster Lodge Email: want to know more? Email us! 150th album brisbane Freemason History Initiation installation Irish Irish Lodges Photo symbolism theodure unmack UGLQ Video Webexa	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line567
__label__wiki	0.902708	0.902708	"ROLLIN' OFF THE DOME THE SKILL THAT BE SHOWN BE THE HOMEGROWN BE KNOWN" Diggis’ passion as an emcee is strong, it has directed him in what he calls a meaningful and entertaining way of life. Creating soulful and conscious lyrics has helped him grow as a person and steer him clear of negative choices and situations. Diggis has been crafting rhymes for over a decade now, his enthusiasm for beat making kicked off in 2008 and is still a big part of his love for Hip Hop. Diggis draws inspiration from his surrounds and upbringing in the rainforest village of Kuranda in tropical far north Australia. Growing up listening to his parents music collection combined with lots of Hip Hop and Reggae also influences his style. Record digging, sampling and exploring different music genres from around the world has now made an impact on how he creates lyrics and beats. Over the years as a solo artist and apart of the groups Jungle Funk Trio and Basement Grits Diggis has performed alongside and supported a variety of Australian and international artists. After multiple trips to the mecca of Hip Hop (New York City) Diggis has grown as an artist and collaborated with some underground legends. Through the love and respect for Hip Hop culture he has established these connections which drive him to continue to represent his origins and unique flavour of music.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line571
__label__wiki	0.798418	0.798418	Awesome: 100% Worth A Look: 0% Pretty Bad: 0% by Jay Seaver "Beautiful and bloody." Zhang Yimou's "Shadow" is probably the most visually striking wuxia film since "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", so striking that when it gets off to a bit of a halting start, one might be tempted to consider that an acceptable trade-off for just being able to look at the thing for a couple hours. That it would quickly becomes more was not guaranteed, but it does, offering up palace intrigue an spurts of action that make it one of the best films that the genre has produced in recent years. It opens in a time of tension between the Wei and Yang kingdoms; though technically allied, Yang occupies Jing City, traditionally Wei territory. The Wei king (Ryan Zheng Kai) accepts this, not wishing to endanger the peace, but his Commander (Deng Chao) has just foolishly proposed to duel with Yang (Hu Jun), which could lead to war. It seems like an absurd mistake for this seasoned and respected general to make, but there is a secret few outside "Madam" (Sun Li), the Commander's wife, know: The Commander has a double, trained since childhood to stand in for him, but since he was wounded in his last battle this shadow (Deng) has been posing as the Commander full time. The king attempts to counter this situation by arranging a marriage between Yang's son Ping (Leo Wu Lei) and his sister (Guan Xiaotong), but despite all the wheels turning within wheels, a showdown between master swordsman Yang and the Commander's less-accomplished doppelganger. Zhang and co-writer Li Wei sometimes waver a bit in how to communicate this - some bits of the backstory are dropped as text in the beginning, and some is initially left for the audience to figure out before someone spells it out just to make sure - but the imagery is built to make sure that what's going on-screen has one's attention. Costumes, props, and settings are all blacks, whites, grays, and silvers, and considering the pallor of many character, there are times when one might initially think that the whole film was shot in black-and-white. The flesh tones betray that it wasn't, and that's jarring for a second, but there's apparent purpose to it - you can tell which characters are creatures of the palace and which spend time in the outside world by their pallor or lack thereof. When other colors start showing up in the palette, it's to clear purpose - red blood to boldface the violence, and a bit of gold to dazzle and distract, as much a signal to the audience that there is subterfuge going on as something to genuinely draw the eye. There are relatively few clean whites and blacks in the wardrobe; the costume design tends toward ink washes that, akin to the yin-yang symbols that adorn the combat grounds indicate the combination of various traits. The general design of the movie is brilliant both in general and in how it uses the monochrome color scheme, with the catacombs where the Commander lives in hiding looking like something out of a German Impressionist silent and the sheer tapestries in the throne room letting the Princess and others be semi-obscured, symbols of hidden power. There are wounds ugly enough to mark their bearers as broken and dangerous weapons, none more sublime than the umbrellas that take center stage as the film continues. That this can be the case is kind of absurd, a callback to the crazy weapons of more bloodily straightforward kung fu flicks and a reminder that Zhang Yimou doesn't mind a little fun in his action (he is only a few years removed from The Great Wall). There's creativity and thought to how they're deployed that there might not be in something more conventional, though - it's not just that an umbrella is a shield, even when it's given jagged edges to attack; it's about diversion and repulsion. Zhang and his action team demonstrate this brilliantly in the scene where Madam intuits the tactic that may make it the key to success, which is just fantastic all around - it may be the action scene with the lowest stakes in terms of life and death, but it's built as a demonstration of tactics on one hand and an expression of character on the other (shadow Jing and Madam intertwined while the Commander tests them doesn't just signal where parts of the movie are heading, it's sexy as heck). Zhang uses slow motion to show that Deng Chao and Hu Jun have some moves that he wants the audience to be able to follow, and he gets characters to pack emotion into certain blows. At other times, he's satisfied to make eyes go wide with gambits that probably have little basis in actual history but which have a deadly pulp whimsy. One thing he doesn't do is have a lot of scenes where Jing and the Commander clash directly, and not having to do a lot of complicated special effects to make that happen means it's easy to miss that Deng Chao is, in fact, playing a dual role despite the way the Commander being described as aged and weakened by his wound. It's a fun chance to do a bit of everything, with one seemingly being driven mad by being forced behind the scenes while the other is starting to get some ego to go with his simmering resentment. Sun Li plays Madam's uncomfortable (initially) false intimacy with Jing with hints of the sly woman who might have been a natural match with the Commander when they married, although she seldom gets many chances to show the bond with her husband that the audience is told is incredibly strong. Ryan Zheng Kai and Guan Xiaotong are a fun pair of royals, both playing their characters as very headstrong and used to having their own way but also very distinct. Hu Jun and Leo Wu Lei are able to make their characters from the rival kingdom a bit of a breath of fresh air when they show up - not simple, but confident, seeming admirably direct even as they talk of plans, spies, and subterfuge. It leads to a finale bloody enough that it might seem to undercut the precise, beautiful visuals - is this high art or genre excess? Zhang has never been one to draw much of a line between the two, whether it's Gong Li and Chow Yun-fat chewing scenery in "Curse of the Golden Flower" or the way "The Great Wall" caught people flat-footed by just how insane it was. <I>Shadow</I> may have too much action or too much melodrama for different parts of the audience, but in the moments those come together behind all that gorgeous design, it's exciting in a way few other movies can top. OFFICIAL SELECTION: Independent Film Festival Boston 2019 For more in the Independent Film Festival Boston 2019 series, click here. 5/27/19 Bob Dog A breathtaking masterpiece. N/A (MA) Wei Li Jingchun Wang Jun Hu	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line579
__label__wiki	0.641038	0.641038	GreenCircle Award Recipients 1998 Government/Institutional Related Name of Government or Institutional Entity Category/Activity Town of Newington Newington, CT Purchase alternative fuel vehicles Over the past several years, the town introduced a significant number of alternative fuel motor vehicles into its fleet of rolling stock. They now have five police cruisers, nine administrative vehicles, and one Youth Services van (with a capacity of up to 15 people). Vehicles are either fully dedicated or bi-fuel natural gas units. U.S. Postal Service CT District Hartford, CT Convert buses or other fleet vehicles to natural gas or electricity Between 1996 and 1998, 76 vehicles in Norwalk and Greenwich were converted to natural gas. In 1998, 76 vehicles in Norwalk and Greenwich were upgraded with new CNG regulators. Also in 1998 the Norwalk Post Office fueling station was dedicated. The Post Office will also demonstrate a new dedicated CNG conversion kit at the New Britain Post Office. The effort involves six vehicles and, if successful, will be implemented nationwide. Greenwich, CT Purchase an alternative fueled vehicle that generates lower emissions The town purchased its first dedicated CNG OEM pick-up truck in 1997 as an initial pilot program. The department that was assigned the vehicle has been very happy with it. Consequently, the town is now planning to add additional dedicated CNG OEM vehicles in the upcoming budget cycle. Town of Berlin Berlin, CT Convert buses or other fleet vehicles to natural gas or electricity The Town Council voted to appropriate money to work in conjunction with CNG to build an Alternative Fuel Station. Since then the town has purchased several police and municipal vehicles that run on natural gas. The town will be purchasing more vehicles for 1998-99 and hope to open the pumps to other businesses and the public. Presbyterian Church of Coventry Coventry, CT Implement facility-wide IPM program In early 1997, the church switched from monthly pesticide applications for carpenter ants by a commercial vendor, to treating the soil with diatomaceous earth. Haddam Republican Town Committee Haddam, CT Separate organic materials at schools and other cafeterias for composting To reduce landfill waste and promote recycling, HRTC did a town-wide truck sale to sell Earth Machine composters. Part of the proceeds helped finish a town green gazebo project and at the same time promoted conservation. DEP Composters Hartford, CT Separate organic materials at schools and other cafeterias for composting Since September 1997, more than 750 DEP employees have had the opportunity to participate in an on-site in-vessel composting program for food scraps at their 79 Elm Street office building in Hartford. Although any employee can contribute by separating their organics, approximately 100 volunteers actually manage the program. They do this by emptying collection buckets and turning the compost on a daily basis, and harvesting the "black gold" every four months. To date, approximately 9,000 pounds (4 ½ tons) of food scraps have been diverted from waste disposal and turned into a useable product. The finished compost is used to amend the building's flower beds and establish gardens in state parks, and is given to employees to promote pollution prevention, recycling and source reduction. Hamden, CT Voluntarily contribute significant time and/or resources to environmental instructional programs; donate time and resources to assist with environmental enhancement projects; and implement habitat enhancement for wildlife on private property The Forest Service has participated with DEP in preparing, testing and teaching the Forest Ecology Program of Project Learning Tree. The Forest Service has sponsored coordinators, instructors and monitors in the CT Envirothon Program. The Forest Service has an active teaching program at Camp Sequassen for the Boy Scouts summer camp session. It also participates annually in the Norwalk Scouting Organization Special Scouting Outing for disabled children. CT Conservation Education and Firearms Safety Program Burlington, CT Voluntarily contribute significant time and/or resources to environmental instructional programs 320 volunteer instructors annually train about 5,000 students in 180 or more courses. In 1997, 15,241 hours were contributed by the instructor corps. Over the past 16 years, more than 85,000 sportsmen have been trained in the basic concepts of wildlife management, ethical behavior, and the proper use of hunting equipment. Southington Water Department and the Town of Southington Southington, CT Open large tracts of private land for public recreation The town purchased 269.9 acres of Crescent Lake Reservoir and watershed from the Plainville Water Company to open it up for public recreation and streamflow supplementation of the Quinnipiac River. The area is used by local fisherman and hikers. Shelton Youth Services Bureau and the City of Shelton Shelton, CT Adopt a park, a stretch of highway, or beach for a period of twelve months The City of Shelton began an "Adopt a Park" program in an effort to beautify and clean up various spots around the city. The Youth Services Bureau adopted the memorial site that is located along the entrance walkway of the police station. The group painted lightposts, added white landscape rocks and red cedar mulch, and planted many flowers. The site is maintained on a year-round basis as an ongoing project. 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__label__cc	0.623015	0.376985	The Continuing Education of Lucas Duda Posted By Jason Fry On June 24, 2012 @ 12:43 am In 1 \| Comments Disabled OK, first of all: Ouch. We had the bastards … or so it seemed. Going into the game, I was nervous about Chris Young’s fly-ball tendencies given where fly balls hit by the Yankees tend to land, as last night’s Cano/A-Rod/Andruw barrage demonstrated. I didn’t have to be: Young was great, stifling the Yankees through six innings before moving to the seventh. In that frame Young started by walking Mark Teixeira on a close pitch, but then went back to work, getting Nick Swisher to lift a fly ball to right … only Lucas Duda broke back instead of in, and the ball dropped and got past him for what the official scorer nonsensically ruled a double. With Frank Francisco unavailable because his left oblique stiffened up on him (uh-oh), Terry Collins opted to stay with Young against Raul Ibanez instead of calling on Tim Byrdak. Young then made the only pitch of the night he wanted back, one Ibanez hit on a line just over the wall in what’s been rechristened Swisherville. Bang, just like that it was 3-3. An out later, Jon Rauch had pinch-hitter Eric Chavez in an 0-2 hole and threw a shoulder-high fastball Chavez was meant to chase. It wasn’t a bad pitch at all, and Chavez chased it — somehow depositing it just inside the left-field foul pole for the lead. The Mets then were stymied in the final three innings. First, with Jordany Valdespin on third and one out in the seventh, Boone Logan erased Lucas Duda and Daniel Murphy (sporting a horrific pool-guy mustache) on a flurry of evil breaking pitches. In the eighth, David Robertson’s eventful inning took place entirely at home plate: He struck out Scott Hairston, walked Omar Quintanilla and Josh Thole, then struck out Justin Turner and Kirk Nieuwenhuis. In the ninth, David Wright singled with one out, but Duda looked overeager and struck out against Rafael Soriano, and then Murph got under a pitch just enough to bring it down in Swisher’s glove on the warning track instead of in the hands of a jubilant Mets fan or a bitter Yankee drone. Ballgame [1], cue trying not to throw stuff across the room and mar a beautiful New York night with screamed obscenities. Poor Duda is wearing the goat horns, and not undeservedly so. And after watching his latest misadventures in the outfield, I’m determined that the Mets need to … leave him right where he is. Tim Marchman wrote a terrific article [2] this morning in The Wall Street Journal, one of the best appraisals of the 2012 Mets I’ve read. In wondering whether the Mets are the National League’s worst good team or its best bad one, Marchman has this to say: “Third baseman Daniel Murphy is playing second and first baseman Lucas Duda is playing right, and this is admirable, not a good idea and better than any alternative, all at once.” All true. Both Murph and Lucas look better on defense nearly three full months into the season, which is not at all the same thing as saying they look good out there, because they don’t. But there are no real alternatives. Murphy is blocked at third by Wright, as we hope he will continue to be, blocked at first by Ike Davis (ditto) and it would be unfair to send him back out to left without a long spell in winter ball at the very least. The Mets’ only real option is to be patient with Murph at second, and hope he can grow into a Dan Uggla type. (Though if Murph doesn’t start driving the ball with more authority, he’s going to be a supersub.) The Mets are in the same trap with Duda — he’s blocked at first, even without considering that Ike probably has a lot to do with Wright’s marked improvement across the diamond at third. The Mets would arguably be better off with Duda in left and Hairston in right, but Jason Bay’s contract means he’ll continue to play left when he’s able for the next season and a half, and it’s unfair to jerk Duda between two positions he’s not particularly adept at. Unless Sandy Alderson has some trade in mind that will reshuffle the deck, the Mets are stuck with the fact that Duda’s medium-term future, at least, is in right. To make the best of that medium-term future, he has to stay there and learn and improve as best he can. And we have to accept that sometimes those lessons will be measured in plays not made and games lost. Anyway, the Mets will play something we haven’t seen in a while: a rubber game. And it promises to be a fascinating one, with R.A. Dickey and his recently magical knuckler against CC Sabathia, his missing periods and his live fastball. But then this series has been quietly fascinating. Game 1 [3] turned on a misplay by one right fielder on a ball hit just over the fence. Game 2 turned on a misplay by the other right fielder, setting the stage for a ball hit just over that same fence in approximately the same spot. The Mets jumped out to a Game 2 lead on a home run off a pretty good pitch that curled around the left-field pole. The Yankees took a Game 2 lead for good on a home run off a pretty good pitch that landed in more or less the same place. Stranger than fiction, but then baseball often is. URL to article: http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2012/06/24/the-continuing-education-of-lucas-duda/ [1] Ballgame: http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/recap?gameId=320623121 [2] a terrific article: http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304765304577483120377442662.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet&mg=reno64-wsj [3] Game 1: http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2012/06/23/walking-the-talk-but-only-one-yankee/	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line589
__label__cc	0.616149	0.383851	FeralPost Art and Politics Ain’t No One Here But Us Chickens There is a world parallel to our own whose small inhabitants fret over toxic shock syndrome, swoon over Fabergé eggs, and hoard pet cats. This world is filled with objects of convincing density: a Louis Vuitton shopping bag; a crystal ball; a tutu; a telephone; a dunce cap; an igloo; and a feathered turban. Characters speak with the languorous wit of Tallulah Bankhead; the screechy frustration of the stay-at-home mother; the precociousness of a child studying vocabulary years in advance of her SATs. In many ways, this world is entirely our own with the exception of the size and, well, the chenille and pipe cleaner consistency of its occupants. Richly detailed tableaux are filled with sassy chickens, the only actors in Sloane Tanen’s four art books: Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same: The Life and Times of Some Chickens (2003); Going for the Bronze: Still Bitter, More Baggage (2005); Hatched!: The Big Push from Pregnancy to Motherhood (2007); and Appetite for Detention (2008). (The titles are satisfying in translation: Splendeurs et misérès d’une starlette de poulailler, Poussez for Hatched, and Küken im Goldrausch.) The store-bought chickens pop up as novelty items in craft and toy stores around Easter. Tanen sculpts them to reflect emaciation, obesity and plain old bad hair days. Bits and pieces from dollhouse collections, like baby strollers and polar bears, texture the dioramas. The small fuzzies seem sometimes to stagger under the weight of their emotional baggage. The word ‘tizzy’ comes to mind. (Tanen laughs at the necessity of the word ‘adult’ in relation to some of her books and its misleading connotations: the phrase “adult chicken book” is especially intriguing. Tanen wrote another chicken-based children’s series featuring naughty Coco the child chick, who learns her letters and numbers and travels the globe, ending up at every child’s utopia: grandma’s house.) The chickens’ world is pluralist, even multicultural. There are Orthodox Jews with curls who break fasts with hotdogs; a gay couple who fuss over their physiques; and even green Martians. Prince Charles and Camilla appear on their wedding day, Camilla Chicken wearing her distinctive agrarian-themed bridal tiara, smelling faintly of guacamole. And there are note-perfect references to popular culture, with the grim menstruation-in-the-showers scene from the horror movie Carrie. (“It was one of those scenes that was sort of iconic and traumatic to me when I was a kid,” she explains on the phone from Oakland, California.) There is also pathos and black comedy, as a tiny boy chicken, in the spelling bee’s harsh spotlight, labours over the word “dissapointmint”. Blue Chinese immigrant chickens splash perilously in their rowboat, trying to buck up by singing “New York, New York” in Mandarin. (The chicks are actually made in China.) The legendary cartoon editor of the New Yorker, Robert Mankoff, once buzzed around Tanen’s work as a new, avant-garde cartoon, unlike any of the magazine’s past submissions. Her work is original and identifiable at a glance and is ready to appear in any setting in which cartoons are found. Its stagy, intricate settings (“little movie sets” says Tanen), are more obviously artistic than cartoonish, and ultimately maximalist where drawings are minimalist. Each image, deriving from a 3-D set, is trickily sculptural and takes up to an hour to shoot. Though Tanen refers to herself as a “3-D cartoonist”, her work seems to bring a little more to the table than cartooning. In the end, the New Yorker did not put out a special issue of multimedia cartoons, and the project was shelved. “The editor-in-chief [David Remnick] sees the New Yorker as a traditional magazine using traditional line-drawn cartoons,” explains Tanen. She calls the meeting with Mankoff a high point for the chicken series, saying “I do think that cartooning is an art form: I definitely do”, and names Charles Addams a particular inspiration. In their ability to form stand-alone universes, the chickens perhaps best resemble Gary Larson’s classic cartoon “The Far Side”. A commissioned composition (“Subway Chicks”) has appeared on New York City subways and billboards, as part of a series of MTA Arts for Transit subway posters. Tanen produced a tapestry of metropolitan life in this close depiction of Mayor George B. McLennan Jr.’s inaugural subway ride from City Hall Station in October 1904. For the Spring 2006 collection, The Sak, a mid-range handbag line, ran a series of chicken ads. Sloane Tanen’s life is bicoastal and bicultural. Her father, Ned Tanen, was a studio head with a massive Hollywood career (Animal House, Jaws, Fatal Attraction), which kept Sloane in LA until age 18. Her education is diverse, and she began attending a string of exclusive institutions with the private co-ed Brentwood School. She did her undergrad at Sarah Lawrence, majoring in visual art. Tanen’s paintings feature black and white “architectural landscapes”, and appear in corporate and private collections. Her time in Manhattan was prolific. She did two Master’s degrees, one at Columbia in art history and another at NYU in literature. She went on to University of Virginia where she began her Ph.D. with the intention of becoming a professor, but she eventually left due to a lifelong fear of public speaking. (A shy, apprehensive theme returns when she talks about reading Amazon reviews: “When you go out in public, you gotta be ready to get your head blown off.”) Her reading schedule remains heavy: a list on Twitter takes in Joyce Carol Oates, Herman Kock, Donna Tartt and Tom Rachman. She returned to California, to Berkeley for a few years, and now she resides in Oakland. (“I’m having a harder time relating to it because it’s not my kind of crazy. It’s nice, it’s different, a good place for the kids.”) The captions of Tanen’s chicken images reflect her ability to toggle between two dialects: New York hipster and California flake. The chicken work was born in New York, at Tanen’s Greenwich Village studio. Tanen’s artistic career was underway, and she was showing her work in galleries. Unable to paint large-scale works after an injury, Tanen began making model houses and painting their small rooms. Tanen had bought a few of the little chenille figurines every Easter, and stuck a few in her miniature rooms, sending the resulting pictures on cards to friends. They were a hit, and Tanen soon got more inquiries for her chicks than for her serious painting. Her friends requested personal situations rendered in chickens, and Tanen discovered that any embarrassment depicted in chenille lost its power to offend, but not its power to amuse. It takes a surgeon’s dexterity and attention to detail to assemble the dioramas and pose the charismatic chenille, and some of the original sets sold at auction raising funds for a cancer charity. At first she made all of the little props used by the chicks, and then Tanen discovered that she could buy many in the strange, obsessive world of dolls and dollhouses. “I am a better painter than a line drawer and the chickens just came very easily. They were kind of an accident, as are the best things in life and art.” Editor Amy Scheibe approached her to produce a book, and she soon had her choice of publishers. Tanen connected with German photographer Stefan Hagen and a deal was signed with Bloomsbury. Hagen, who worked in advertising shooting jewelry and shampoo bottles, was the first successful chicken photographer. He knew exactly how to light the dioramas, and he would collaborate with Tanen throughout the chicken period. Tanen’s chicks are tucked away in their roost for now. The publisher and editor have left, and Tanen is now separated by geography from her collaborator-photographer in New York. Though the first books sold well, the classification of her books in stores created a problem. “These are gift books, and they end up shelved in the humour section of a bookstore and nobody sees them. When they are viewed as a novelty item and the booksellers put them out, then they do sell. Otherwise they can get lost in a bookstore.” Tanen was frustrated when the most accomplished chicken book, Hatched, suffered such a fate. An attractive, youthful brunette, Tanen is married to Gary Taubes, an award-winning science writer who has appeared on the cover of New York Times Magazine. His research into the Nobel Prizes and Cold Fusion has been followed by a predictably best-selling, controversial book called Why We Get Fat. They have two young boys, Harry and Nick, and Tanen remains close to her older sister, Tracy James. In 2011, she published a young adult novel, Are You Going to Kiss Me Now? (Sourcebooks Fire). High School Junior, Francesca Manning, is an aspiring writer who crash lands on a desert island with five celebrities, one an obvious Perez Hilton figure and another a Lindsay Lohan. She had won the rendezvous with celebs through a Seventeen magazine biography contest, for which she falsely wrote that her father, who had just impregnated his girlfriend, was dead. This is the essential Sloane Tanen detail: small stakes, huge results. As she moves onto another literary work, Tanen hasn’t forgotten the chickens what brung her to the dance. “I’m the chicken lady. It’s quite a label to carry around.” Tags: Bob Mankoff, Carl Faberge, Carrie, Charles Addams, Chas Addams, children's literature, David Remnick, Faberge, Gary Larson, Jaws, Ned Tanen, New Yorker, Robert Mankoff, Sloane Tanen, Stefan Hagen, The Far Side, Young Adult Posted in Art \| 2 Comments » Watchdog. 2014. Posted in Photography \| No Comments » Man with Poodle Face. 2014. The Library of Maria Callas: short fiction Some time after her death, it came to me to explore the archive that Miss Callas had assembled over the course of her life. The library, a room in her apartment at 36 Avenue Georges Mandel, documented Maria’s attempt to internalize the musical world for the sake of her art. It was required of Callas, she believed, to swallow the world entirely in order to emit Norma or Medea. Her archive was not yet picked over. It looked mad, crooked, and it contained many of her possessions, her letters and scores, which would later disappear. Everything stopped abruptly Over the wide room, a hologram of Aristotle Onassis sprang up here and there, recommending spy fiction and a catalogue from Van Cleef & Arpels. He addressed the camera, and thus me, in a “get a load of this” tone. He blew me a kiss. A glance took in her collection of scores and a stack of 8-track tapes for language acquisition (Introductions to Turkish, Persian, German). She spoke Greek, French, English and the Italian dialect of Veronese, usually in a blend, multidimensionally, rising and falling like the keys of a typewriter. I saw copies of Macbeth and a biography of Nicholas and Alexandra, dog-eared, which she had carried around for a while, moving from one carry-on bag to another. This is disgusting, said Ari, looking around. This is a disgrace, said Ari. (In the end, I would find several cremated poodles who were lost in the shelves.) Ha, he said suddenly. Mincing, he held up a trashy biography of Jackie Kennedy mid-1970s, and raffishly kissed her paper cheek. His head is the head of the minotaur, and people whisper how can she sleep with him? Jackie Kennedy is a bag of bones, he once not only told Maria, but told her in front of guests. An incalculable gift. My assistant asked if we might come across some special map of Greece to lead us to hidden archeological treasures. Of course not, you idiot, I said. He and I congratulated each other on the significant finds, like a purple metal garbage can sporting a silkscreened picture of Jackie at JFK’s funeral. Should I throw out the inevitable junk? I wondered if the word theft could be applied, as we shuttled away piles of hotel room stationery, covered in notes and lists and letters. Jackie Kennedy bled into the real Kennedys, Jack and Bobby, JFK and RFK And everything was confidential (FBI agents burst through a tear in time) And life was lived like something snapped off The other woman was more interesting than Ari himself. This is for whom he would leave me, wrote Callas on Excelsior Hotel paper. This is my weight in gold. This is my value in couture. This is my bag of secrets. This is our Hisarlik, I tell my assistant. This is our Hisarlik, this is our Troy, this is our flaming library, Alexandria under our feet, this Knossos, this is our old religion. Tags: Aristotle Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, Maria Callas Posted in Music, Short Fiction \| 6 Comments » Study after Francis Bacon’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X Tags: cats Evolution. 2013. Milking Mayfair: Daphne Guinness at SHOWstudio Daphne Guinness milking video Nowhere is the possibility of milking as self-annihilation more evident than when it involves a beautiful woman with flawless styling. Daphne Guinness remarks later that ‘self-annihilation is a prerequisite to growth’. The milking of a model is the fashion equivalent to Pete Townshend smashing his guitar. Here, Guinness performs a wipe-out gesture of her own. Milking began as an in-joke among young male Newcastle University students, a little light relief during exam time. Young people took bottles full of litres of milk and emptied them on their heads, for no discernible purpose other than that, for a time, it seemed like the thing to do. Milking quickly caught on through YouTube, generating tens of thousands of views, and spread to other British cities and towns, including Edinburgh, Oxford and Cirencester. People milked in trees and from a second floor window, soaking the man below and his cereal. Participants competed in choosing the funniest, most unexpected locations for their milkings, just as others had done with the phenomenon of ‘planking’. Planking involved lying stiff as a board in a surprising spot, and became the quintessential Internet meme. Because of a rush to outdo other ‘plankers’ in choosing an outlandish site, a variety of injuries and one fatality resulted. So far milking has proven harmless, unless you consider the fate of the milk itself. In fact, milking was displaced by the invention of ‘porting’ at Durham University, in which male students pour a bottle of port over their white dress shirts (which are thus ruined) and dark suit pants. Although port is much more expensive than milk, no one can construct much of an argument regarding the importance of its preservation. It is hard to argue that those who waste milk are improving the world, but some might see a virtue in those who waste alcohol. These competing memes (from competing universities) can be seen on YouTube, which critic Wayne Koestenbaum refers to as a kind of ‘shame-kiln’ in his book Humiliation (2011),[1] Director Nick Knight’s suggestion began as a joke on the geographic spread of the milking craze, from its origin in Newcastle to Bruton Place, Mayfair, one of the most expensive neighborhoods in London. Multimedia artist and model Daphne Guinness hadn’t heard of milking before, but quickly latched onto the idea and saw that it was the best way to celebrate a pending move. Location was on Knight’s mind. In fact, on the next day (1 February 2013), SHOWstudio itself moved to a new site on Motcomb Street, Belgravia. Milking Mayfair had the adults paying tribute to a meme developed by youth, and restaging it in a formidably expensive, grown-up context. Tags: Bernard-Henri Levy, BHL, Daphne Guinness, Detmar Blow, Fashion, Isabelle Blow, London, Milking, Planking, Porting, SHOWstudio Posted in Fashion, Film Reviews \| 2 Comments » We come to inform Grandad again of our good fortune: short fiction I try to tell him again, but he is not listening. They’re coming to get her. Who, grandad, I ask sadly. He points with his nose at Catherine/Kate on TV. Aristocrat, he says decidedly in the TV room. He leans back in the armchair with a palm on one armrest, his legs lavishly crossed. He is grand. Soon the sentences will stop, so we try to avoid cutting off any in formation. We wait a while. His name is Jock, a name not really in use anymore. He is a thing without a relevant name. And Kate is no aristocrat. What we don’t know is that, for his Royal Wedding day, the nurses have given him a secret to chew on like a horse on a bouquet of flowers. The secret, about which he is right: she should wear an off-white dress. Posted in Short Fiction \| 2 Comments » Ins & Outs for December 2010 OUT IN Greece Germany Mount Athos Greece Kate Middleton’s ghastly mother Camilla Parker-Bowles decorative political morons the end of Christine O’Donnell the Burmese military Aung San Suu Kyi limos Town Cars less getting to know the royal couple let’s have the wedding already Tavi: child fashionista Karl Lagerfeld in every capacity the red carpet Lagerfeld’s private lunch with Princess Caroline in “Lagerfeld Confidential” robocalls Shepard Fairey’s Suu Kyi poster Vampire squid and your mortgage Matt Taibbi: an expert on both In Treatment: new season In Treatment’s “Sunil” character Spain Italy Portugal Spain Animal shelters need $$$ now: give Zenyatta: the magnificent racehorse freak pets that end up in shelters fish: always room for a bowl hopping Asian carp The first ever Census of Marine Life Law and Order: LA Law and Order: SVU Facebook The Facebook Movie letting Buck House slowly collapse weak jobless “recovery” throughout Europe & NA George Michael not making music Nicki Minaj subway streetcar The Event: I give up Oprah Abandonment Syndrome the dying art of hiding schlock embarrassing bits on iPod lists: Tom Jones, anyone?!? CNN BBC Marc Jacob’s “Bang” campaign Creed: Spice and Wood visuals Kathy Griffin (just kidding) Cher Thierry Mugler’s “Angel” Solange Azagury-Partridge lips ring Blackglama PETA interviewing MJ’s kids journalistic ethics: get some judges lawyers doctors nurses Mick Jagger Keith Richards Sarah Palin, forever Hillary is all that remains Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Eminem, Karl Lagerfeld, Kate Middleton, Mount Athos, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Shepard Fairey, Thierry Mugler Posted in Ins & Outs \| 10 Comments » “Boy with a Toy Grenade in Central Park” (1962) by Diane Arbus Summoning up all the wildness he possesses in his tiny frame, the little boy with the crenelated mouth is caught in a nanosecond of indecision, just before he winds up and hurls his grenade. His empty hand, often referred to as a “claw”, forms the shape of another grenade, as successfully as a mime’s. The tension in this hand is astonishing: he grips a shape so solid and particular through empty air that you think of the circumference of an aluminum can, or a back-up grenade. Indeed, there had been a back-up grenade, lost when the boy attempted to blow up the alley next to his building (1). Tags: Diane Arbus, Germaine Greer, JFK, Vietnam War Posted in Photography \| 11 Comments » About Erin O’Brien Erin O’Brien lives in Toronto, Canada. She attended the University of Toronto, studying English literature, art history and comparative literature. 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__label__wiki	0.524551	0.524551	Personalia and visits Permanent Institutions FIG Members Honorary Presidents Honorary Ambassador Peer Review Journal Articles about FIG UNGGIM-Geospatial Societies (JB-GIS) Regional and Cultural Partners FIG Foundation 2019 Course Development grant Commission Support Grant The recipients List of Donators FIG Working Week 2019 Previous FIG Conferences About FIG FIG in Brief FIG Office XXIII FIG Congress in Munich, Germany Shaping the Change - Biggest FIG Congress in History The XXIII FIG Congress was organised in Munich, Germany 8-13 October 2006. The congress was attended by 1,300 delegates from about 100 countries. Together with the INTERGEO conference and other simultaneous events the congress was attended by 3,000 participants. The INTERGEO trade fair attracted about 19,500. These were the biggest numbers to any FIG event in the history. Also many of the individual events had record attendance - e.g. the opening ceremony attracted a full hall of 1,400 participants and the joint INTERGEO-Treff and FIG Foundation Dinner sold out the hall at the Löwenbräukeller with more than 1,800 delegates. Also the memorable Farewell Dinner at Hofbräuhaus was sold out allowing 600 delegates to enjoy Bavarian hospitality. At the opening ceremony the welcome address was given by Dr. Edmund Stoiber, Bavarian Minister President. Prof. Holger Magel, FIG President gave the Presidential Address "Shaping the Change 2002 to 2006 – The German Period of FIG" focussing on the policies and achievements of FIG during the German presidency. The keynote address at the opening ceremony was given by Dr. Klaus Töpfer, long-time Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In his welcome greeting Dr. Stoiber highlighted that the surveyors contribution is essential for the development of a country. An important message when it comes from a high level politician. In the keynote address Dr. Töpfer focussed on "For a More Just World – the Surveyors’ Role for Achieving Sustainable Development" which was considered as the highlight of the congress and many participants ranked it among the top speeches over many years. In his presentation he linked measuring with the perception of ideologies. This in a world today with unprecedented changes. In a world with big differences in income, in a world where 2 of 3 babies are born in cities. In Germany, and in Europe, the difference in prosperity between ‘east’ and ‘west’ had to be managed – the difference worldwide is much bigger. It is not only charity, it is obligation and investment which are relevant. The Millennium Development Goals are about decreasing poverty: the western world throws away daily more food then needed by all people without food. Access to water is an issue. There is no doubt that there is a lot of progress but there are many pockets of remaining problems. There is a lot of work to be done in the implementation of rule based systems on property right registration and secure tenure: “if you want a conflict then destroy the cadastre”. Clear and accepted property situations are a basis for freedom and a basis for (peace) investment; this is the highest priority on the development agenda. Slum upgrading is not successful without secure tenure. Forced evictions… Surveyors knowledge is needed: FIG is a premium partner of UN because of the needs for surveyors knowledge. We need better land management systems with better data; governments should make money available for that as they do for other infrastructures. The price of globalisation can not be that people loose their identity. The presentations included also a welcome address by Mr. Hagen Graeff, President of German DVW that has hosted FIG Council for the past four years. The two congress directors Thomas Gollwitzer for FIG 2006 and Walter Henninger for INTERGEO shared the responsibility to chair the opening ceremony which was a joint event for FIG and INTERGEO. This joint activity resulted in record attendance to the opening ceremony where the doors need to be closed after 1,400 participants had filled in the main hall at ICM. The FIG Congress Prize was awarded to Ms. Nsame Nsemiwe from Zambia forher two papers: "Gender Dimensions of Land Customary Inheritance under Customary Tenure in Zambia" which has also been published as the FIG article of the month. The other awareded paper is "Negotiating the Interface: Struggles Involved in the Upgrading of Informal Settlements -a Case Study of Nkandabwe in Kitwe, Zambia". The DVW Prize was given to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Schlemmer by Rolf Richter, President of the Rural Development Office Under Franconia. The entertainment during the opening ceremony was performed by double-bass ensemble Bassiona Amorosa that played both classical favourites and a new arrangement of the FIG fanfare with great success. Technical programme The technical and scientific programme of the congress consisted of four plenary sessions (three jointly with Intergeo and one also with IAG), 90 technical sessions and couple of workshops (history of surveying, quality management for geodata and hydrography as well as ESRI workshop): in the technical sessions about 500 papers were presented and in addition almost 100 displayed in the poster exhibition. The first plenary session focussed on "Urban and Rural Inter-relationship in Land Administration" with keynote speakers Dr. Lars Reutersward, Director, UN-HABITAT, Maximilian Geierhos, Head of the Bavarian Administration for Rural Development, and Rob Mahoney presenting the FIG Marrakech Declaration and its outcome. This session was chaired by President Magel. The second plenary session was on "Disaster und Risk Management" chaired by Peter Creuzer, President of UN ECE WPLA and Dr. Andreas Drees, FIG Vice President as rapporteur. Speakers included Dr. Lutz Cleemann, Allianz Zentrum für Technik GmbH, David B. Zilkoski, NOAA, discussing "Earth Observations: Bringing Together Critical Information for Disaster Preparedness and Response" and Prof. Jochen Zschau, GFZ presenting the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System for the Indian Ocean. In conjunction to this session the FIG publication on "The Contribution of the Surveying Profession to Disaster Risk Management" was launched. The third plenary session was about "Geoinformation on Demand" with Prof. Josef Frankenberger, Head of the Bavarian Land Survey Administration, Prof. Joseph Salukvadze, Tbilisi State University and Berik Davies, Shell International Exploration & Production B.V. as main speakers. This session was chaired by Dr. Drees with Dr. Chryssy Potsiou as rapporteur. GIS and SDI were also key topic for some invited sessions introducing international experts like Jack Dangermond, President of ESRI, Jarmo Ratia, President Elect of GSDI, Prof. Milan Konecny, President of ICA etc. Also many other sister organisations were present at the congress including Prof. Ian Dowman, President of ISPRS, Prof. Gerhard Beutler, President of IHO and representatives of IHO, Eurogeomatics, IFHP, IFHS, ISM, CLGE, GE, FGF etc. The Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies had two meeting during the congress on disaster management and on capacity building. The last plenary session on "Global Change" focussed on new technologies with speakers Prof. Reiner Rummel, Permanent Secretary of the German Geodetic Commission, Prof. Hermann Drewes, President of IAG Commission 1 and Prof. Hans Haubold, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UN-OOSA). This session organised jointly with IAG and the Geodetic Week was chaired by Prof. Gerhard Beutler, President of IAG with Prof. Rudolf Staiger as the rapporteur. The general opinion on the technical sessions seemed to be that the quality of papers was in general higher than at some previous events and that attendance in many sessions was surprisingly good. This applies especially to commissions 8, 9 and 10. Naturally there were also comments that there were too many papers in the sessions allowing not enough time for presentation and for discussion. There was also some last minute drop-outs based on different reasons, most financial and visa problems. The organisers were pleased also to the joint sessions organised together with the World Bank and FAO and also with partners like GSDI and IAG. All commissions had also several internal meetings during the week to discuss their work plans and future projects. As normally several technical tours offered good opportunities to learn about German surveying and technology. The Congress week was also full of social highlights starting with the welcome reception at the Holiday Inn after the General Assembly. About 700 delegates arrived in time to attend this successful get together party - tasteful food and drinks made people to enjoy the reception long beyond the closing time. On Monday heads of national delegations were invited to lunch reception at the City Hall of Munich,, hosted by the mayor of Munich. The reception allowed participants to admire this central point of Munich. The Bavarian State Reception was organised in the famous Kaisersaal of the Residenz castle. These royal rooms gave an impression of the great history of Bavaria. Almost 700 guests crowded in these impressive rooms. In the evening of the opening of FIG 2006 and INTERGEO the traditional INTERGEO-Treff was organised in the Löwenbräukeller, one of the most famous breweries in Munich. This time the "geodätentreff" was also an FIG Foundation event. The evening with Bavarian music, food and beer fulfilled expectations of more than 1,800 participants. Because of the FIG presence the Treff was this time even more impressive than normally. The congress was concluded with the Farewell Dinner at the famous Hofbräuhaus. About 600 participants followed the invitation to enjoy the Bavarian hospitality once more, discuss the experiences of the week and make friends with new surveyors from all over the world. The very final social event was organised by FIG 2010. This reception at the Holiday Inn after the closing ceremony gave a taste of "aussie" hospitality and food and allowed to meet with the Australian team with young ambassadors - young surveyors were in focus during the whole FIG 2006 - and the nature represented by a grown-up koala. The exhibition of the FIG Congress was this time combined to the annual INTERGEO Trade Show. The exhibition attracted more than 19,500 visitors to the exhibition that expanded to three hall at the ICM covering 30,000 sqm of exhibition space and introducing 550 exhibitors. The conference part of INTERGEO collected 1,800 participants to its technical sessions and forums. The conference was open to all FIG participants but because of the fully packed FIG programme the time did not allow many delegates to attend many of these interesting sessions. The FIG General Assembly met in two sessions on Sunday 8 October and on Friday 13 October 2006 at the Holiday Inn. Major decisions of the General Assembly include: Prof. Stig Enemark from Denmark was elected as the new President of FIG 2007-2010. In the election Stig Enemark won over Ken Allred from Canada and TN Wong from Hong Kong. Mr. Matt Higgins (Australia) and Dr. Dalal S. Alnaggar (Egypt) were elected as Vice Presidents for 2007-2010. Prof. Paul van der Molen was elected as Vice President for the two years term of office (2007-2008) that became open after Stig Enemark was elected as the new President. The fourth Vice President is Mr. Ken Allred who will continue in the new Council for next two years. Dr. Chryssy Potsiou has been appointed as the ACCO representative in the Council for 2007-2008. The new Council will start its work 1.1.2007. Mr. Jürg Kaufmann (Switzerland) and Prof. Kazimierz Czarnecki (posthumously) were appointed as Honorary Members of FIG. The FIG Working Week 2011 was admitted to ONIGT from Morocco to be held in Marrakech in April/May 2011. Marrakech won Rome, Puerto Rico and Nigeria in the toughest competition ever for an FIG event. The decision must have been difficult to the member associations. The 6th FIG Regional Conference will be organised in San Jose, Costa Rica, 11-15 November 2007. During the General Assembly four new FIG publications were launched. FIG publication 35: Enhancing the Representation of Under-Represented Groups in FIG FIG Publication no 36 - Administering Marine Spaces: International Issues FIG Publication no 37 - Guide on the Development of a Vertical Reference Surface for Hydrography FIG Publication # 38 - The Contribution of the Surveying Profession to Disaster Risk Management http://www.fig.net/pub/figpub/pub38/figpub38.htm Several new members were adopted and endorsed during the General Assembly. After the meetings in Munich number of member associations has increased to 102 from 85 countries. The new member associations approved in Munich are: Institution of Surveyors of Tanzania, Syndicat National des Géomètres-Topographes et Assimilés du Bénin, Iranian Society of Surveyors, Federation des Ingenieurs Géomètres-Topographes (Congo D. R.), Mongolian Association of Geodesy and Cartography, Society of Professionals of Land Information Technologies (Georgia), China Institute of Real Estate Appraisers and Agents and FENEA – Federação Nacional dos Engenheiros Agrimensores from Brazil. After a tight vote also the Hong Kong Institution of Engineering Surveyors was adopted as a new member association. New affiliates members were endorsed from Iceland, Macedonia FYROM, Mongolia and Romania, in addition ANZLIC from Australia and New Zealand was adopted as a new affiliate member. Totally 7 new corporate members were approved raising the number of corporate members to 34, this includes also the first member from Sudan. 13 universities and institutions were endorsed as academic members. The General Assembly also endorsed the final report from ACCO and ten technical commissions and noted the draft work plans of new commission chairs for 2007-2010, these work plans will be endorsed in Hong Kong in May 2007. At the closing ceremony President Magel presented the Conference Summary. Apart from the impressive number of participants he could report that many young professionals attended the congress and that FIG has now a plan to integrate a students'/young surveyors' forum now. The relations with sister organisations and international partner organisations are and will be strong. Many new delegates from several countries were welcomed during the congress. The President reminded the audience on a statement by Kofi Annan: fundamental…: Freedom from Poverty, Freedom from Fear, Freedom to live in Human Dignity and the importance for the profession to take initiative and responsibility on this topic. FIG has already acted by producing a broadly recognised and accepted set of publications and a broad co-operation with the United Nations, the World Bank, NGOs and sister organisations. FIG needs task forces to further develop this co-operation based on professional engagement. Of specific importance is the FIG statement on Disaster Risk Management (to be endorsed in Hong Kong). A lot has been achieved and a lot has to be done. The changes surveyors are facing are: global economy, financial and new business paradigms; climatic risks and environmental disasters, social patterns of poverty and migration. The challenges are: re-balancing economic aspirations across regions, leaving a liveable planet to our children, creating a peaceful and just world and engaging with mass information portals. According to President Magel following actions will shape the future: Energised Leadership; Effective Policies and Organisations; Ethical Cultures and Values; Equitable Models for Cooperation; and Expert Knowledge to Share and Influence. President Magel reminded the surveyors to contribute to Millennium Development Goals (appropriate engagement and tool creation), design and implementation (accurate reference systems and creation of virtual infrastructures), upgrading settlements and slum, eServices, engagement with Urban-Rural, and awareness: increasing knowledge of spatial solutions for other client-groups and customers and the relevance of both geoinformation acquisition and use of data from ‘Mash Ups’ to high quality data. As final conclusion President Magel summarised: "Surveyors can shape the change by collaboration, communication and cooperation. Surveyors can shape the change with Passion, energy and enthusiasm by working in many dimensions. Surveyors need wings for flying in the air and boots for walking on the rough ground”. Links to documents and reports of the FIG Congress in Munich Report of the Conference Picture Gallery 1 - Opening Ceremony - 10 October 2006 Picture Gallery 2 - General Assembly I - Sunday 8 October 2006 Picture Gallery 3 - General Assembly II - Friday 13 October 2006 Picture Gallery 4 - Administrative Meetings (President's meeting 10 October, Council and ACCO meetings) Picture Gallery 5 - Pictures of new members Picture Gallery 6 - Plenary Sessions, Technical Programme and Exhibition Picture Gallery 7 - Closing Ceremony Picture Gallery 8 - Social Events - Welcome Reception, City Reception, State Reception and other receptions Picture Gallery 9 - Social Events - Intergeo-treff and FIG Foundation Dinner, Farewell Dinner and FIG 2010 Party Picture Gallery 10 - Venues, pictures of Munich and impressions Video of the Opening Ceremony Preliminary list of participants Main addresses Shaping the Change 2002-2006 – The German Period of FIG. FIG President’s Address by Prof. Holger Magel, FIG President at the Opening Ceremony of the XXIII FIG Congress in Munich on 10 October 2006. Eröffnungsansprache des Bayerischen Ministerpräsidenten Dr. Edmund Stoiber anlässlich des 23. Internationalen FIG Kongresses am 10. Oktober 2006 in München For a More Just World – the Surveyors’ Role for Achieving Sustainable Development. Keynote Address at the Opening Ceremony by Dr. Klaus Töpfer Shaping the Change - Congress Summary. 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__label__wiki	0.856877	0.856877	Students for a Democratic Society calls on students to counter the KKK in Stone Mountain GA Students for a Democratic Society \| Georgia \| 4/23/16 Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) TAGS: Anti-Racism, KKK, Student Movement, Students for a Democratic Society Angelina SDS rally and march demands “Education for all!” staff \| Lufkin, TX \| 4/15/16 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at Angelina College held a rally and march as part of a national day of action. They marched demanding “Education... TAGS: Angelina SDS Milwaukee pushes for DAPA/DACA+ implementation Isabella Beaupré \| Milwaukee, WI \| 4/09/16 On April 6, members and affiliates of immigrant rights activist group United We Dream held actions around the country to raise awareness of a significant... TAGS: DACA, DAPA, United We Dream, Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES) Norovirus hits dorms, U of MN policy punishes workers who call in sick staff \| Minneapolis, MN \| 4/08/16 University of Minnesota officials are investigating a suspected outbreak of the norovirus in Minneapolis campus residential halls, according to workers... TAGS: Labor, Minnesota, norovirus, University of Minnesota Marquette University students host gala for undocumented student scholarships Ella Davis \| Milwaukee, WI \| 4/08/16 The Marquette University student organization Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES) hosted its first annual “Together We Dream” Gala, March 31. TAGS: Milwaukee, Student Movement, Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES) UPenn students shut down ex-CIA Director Brennan staff \| Philadelphia, PA \| 4/04/16 CIA Director John Brennan came to the University of Pennsylvania, April 1, for a talk on “modern foreign policy issues, national security, and the future... TAGS: anti-war, CIA, Pennsylvania, Students for a Democratic Society Tampa students host vigil, oppose building named for homophobe and warmonger Elizabeth Kramer \| Tampa, FL \| 4/03/16 Over 30 students gathered for a vigil, March 29, in remembrance of the LGBTQIA+ people murdered by U.S. militarism. TAGS: LGBTQ Rights, Student Movement, Students for a Democratic Society, Tampa Angelina Texas SDS demands free tuition, no student debt, $15 per hour, and end to U.S. wars Ian Cox \| Lufkin, TX \| 4/01/16 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at Angelina College held a banner making party on March 29. The local SDS chapter is preparing for a march on... TAGS: Million Student March, SDS MEChA National Conference unites for future fights Sol Marquez \| Tucson, AZ \| 3/24/16 Over 400 students from all over the country traveled to the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) National Conference, held in University of... TAGS: legalization for all, MECHA, Student Movement, Tucson Tampa Students for a Democratic Society remember the invasion of Iraq staff \| Tampa, Fl \| 3/23/16 Over a dozen students from Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held signs and chanted on March 22 to mark the 13th anniversary of the U.S.... TAGS: Anti War, Iraq, SDS, Students for a Democratic Society, University of South Florida, USF	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line592
__label__wiki	0.524309	0.524309	Solange Sior Fox Valley Music Studio students are great achievers! Several of them have won competitions including the annual Granquist Music Competition held in Geneva, the Kane County Talent Show, the IAAF talent competition, and Elgin Opera Vocal Competition. They have been cast as lead singers with Children’s Theatre of Elgin, Fox Valley Rep, Christian Theater of Elgin and of Crystal Lake, Cirque du Soleil, Goodman Theater, Chamber Opera Theater and Elgin Opera. Students pursuing college educations in opera or musical theater have received $30,000 - $45,000 in scholarships due to the quality of their training. Erica Roti Already an accomplished singer at nine years old, Erica Roti began taking voice lessons with Solange Sior when she was only seven years old. Her mother signed her up for group voice lessons once Erica told her she wanted to be a singer when she grew up. Solange identified Erica’s raw talent during the very first lesson. She spoke with Erica’s mother and Erica began private lessons every week. Erica describes Solange as "one of the best teachers ever!" Although Erica is taking a short break from singing right now, she "can’t wait to go back there. I have so much fun there!" Through Solange’s encouragement, Erica entered into Elgin Opera’s Annual Voice Competition at seven years old. Solange prepared her to sing "Mother Dear," which enabled her to win the "Twinkle Little Star" division. Erica also took part in The Elixir of Love production with Solange. She loved this experience, which included rehearsals in Italian and the opportunity to act. Erica relished rehearsals and performing so much that she was sad once it ended. "I got used to going there all the time. It was so much fun! Singing is fun and the people are so nice! I was so sad when it was over," Erica said. With a passion for singing and performing, Erica’s dream is to own her performance hall in order to perform all the time. She would also like to be involved with various shows every few months. Solange helped Erica see what her full potential could be, and now she wants to make singing her career! Potential studients may contact Solange Sior at: solangesior@gmail.com 17N405 Oak Ave	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line593
__label__wiki	0.954578	0.954578	About Fisher Season Tickets 2019/20 Matchday Menu New to the Fish? Fisher Board Members & Staff First Team Management 12th Man Fund Fisher Youth Management Team Fisher FC Junior Football – Under 7 & Under 8 teams Saturday Morning Soccer Club Fixtures 2018/19 Season Results – 2018/19 Season Press & Scout ticket requests SCEFL – Premier Division 2019/20 Membership SCEFL Premier Division K Sports 1 - 1 Fisher Saturday 20 April 2019 - 15:00K Sports Cobdown, Aylesford Kent K Sports 1-1 Fisher K Sports: Sam Stace 26 Fisher: Jacob Skelly 6 Attn: 80 Keep up-to-date with all Fisher FC activities:.............................. Become a member - Own your own football club: http://www.fisherfc.org/membership/ Donate to the 12th Man Fund: http://www.fisherfc.org/2018/01/11/your-club-needs-you-support-the-12th-man-fund/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FisherFC Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FisherFC/ SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL FAN-OWNED FOOTBALL CLUB 1st Team Fixture List 2018/19 >> View all this season’s fixtures and results 1 AFC Croydon Ath. 0 0 0 0 2 Bearsted 0 0 0 0 3 Beckenham Town 0 0 0 0 4 Canterbury City 0 0 0 0 5 Chatham Town 0 0 0 0 6 Corinthian 0 0 0 0 7 Crowborough Ath. 0 0 0 0 8 Deal Town 0 0 0 0 9 Erith & Belvedere 0 0 0 0 10 Erith Town 0 0 0 0 11 Fisher FC 0 0 0 0 12 Glebe 0 0 0 0 13 Greenwich Boro 0 0 0 0 14 Hollands & Blair 0 0 0 0 15 K Sports 0 0 0 0 16 Lordswood 0 0 0 0 17 Punjab United 0 0 0 0 18 Sheppey United 0 0 0 0 19 Tunbridge Wells 0 0 0 0 20 Welling Town 0 0 0 0 Fisher 4-0 Glebe – Saturday 13 October 2018 Fisher 0-1 Lordswood – Saturday 22 September 2018 Fisher 2-1 Sheppey United – Saturday 8 September 2018 Fisher FC is a supporter owned and run football club originating from Bermondsey, in the London Borough of Southwark. The club is owned and run by Fisher FC Society Limited, a registered society. A registered society, a type of mutual society, is a democratic, not-for-profit organisation of members that provides a set of rules by which the Society, and therefore the Club, must be run. These rules ensure that full members of the Society have a direct say in who makes up the board of the club and that the club is democratically run for the good of the community. The club currently play in the Southern Counties East Football League which is step 5 of the non-league pyramid and step 9 of the entire English football pyramid. We are affiliated to the London FA. Fisher FC Society Limited is a registered society under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014. For feedback, comments, enquiries or suggestions please email us at: fisherfcmedia@gmail.com For Player and Trial enquiries please email us at: fisherfcplayers@gmail.com If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities with Fisher FC email: fisherfcmedia@gmail.com If you would like to get involved and help the club in some way then we would love to hear from you. Please email: fisherfcmedia@gmail.com St Paul’s Sports Ground Salter Road London SE16 5EF [Sat Nav friendly postcode: SE16 6NT] fisherfcmedia@gmail.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line598
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__label__cc	0.622534	0.377466	FlowerMound Forums http://www.flowermound.net/cgi-bin/flowermound/YaBB.pl General >> General Discussions >> Electioneering in Flower Mound http://www.flowermound.net/cgi-bin/flowermound/YaBB.pl?num=1273890752 Message started by UmmYeahOk on May 14th, 2010 at 9:32pm Title: Electioneering in Flower Mound Post by UmmYeahOk on May 14th, 2010 at 9:32pm § 85.036. ELECTIONEERING PROHIBITED. (a) During the time an early voting polling place is open for the conduct of early voting, a person may not electioneer for or against any candidate, measure, or political party in or within 100 feet of an outside door through which a voter may enter the building or structure in which the early voting polling place is located (b) Repealed by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 639, § 2 (c) During the early voting period, the early voting clerk shall keep continuously posted: (1) at the entrance to the room or area, as applicable, in which the early voting polling place is located, a sign on which is printed in large letters "Early Voting Polling Place"; and (2) at the outer limits of the area within which electioneering is prohibited, a sign on which is printed in large letters "Distance Marker. No electioneering between this point and the entrance to the early voting polling place." (d) A person commits an offense if the person electioneers in violation of Subsection (a). (e) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor. (f) Repealed by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 639, § 2 Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986. Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 203, § 1.09; Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 554, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 498, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 639, § 1, 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2003. § 61.003. ELECTIONEERING AND LOITERING NEAR POLLING PLACE PROHIBITED. (a) A person commits an offense if, during the voting period and within 100 feet of an outside door through which a voter may enter the building in which a polling place is located, the (1) loiters; or (2) electioneers for or against any candidate, measure, or political party. (b) In this section, "voting period" means the period beginning when the polls open for voting and ending when the polls close or the last voter has voted, whichever is later. (c) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986. It seems that our new town officials were elected through illegal means. I decided to vote the very first day of early voting. I noticed how most of them stayed within a certain area (this was both groups) but a couple of the NFL group were what I considered "way too close." They were polite and all, so I just assumed the rule was 50 ft. I still felt uncomfortable about it though getting back into my car, especially since the Smith group wasn't that close which is why I did the research. I would of taken pictures and reported them (or even just given them a friendly reminder) but again, I wasnt sure about what was in the books. I had to park in the third parking space from the door because one of the NFL people was standing in the second. There's was also a decorated NFL SUV, and a few other NFL people who were standing close but I did my measurements against that one fellow since he was the closest. If you will find a satellite map of the court, you'll find that the 2 parking space is way too close, maybe not if the rule was 50 but definitely not 100. Without a ruler and a compass, I can't tell exactly how close he and the others were. Since I felt uncomfortable about it, and didn't want someone winning an election illegally, I called the court. She explained that they did mark off the area by I explained how I didn't notice (mostly because I was more concerned about running over all the political boosters). She wasn't sure either what the law was but agreed that she also felt that they were too close, as she also mentioned her own parking issue since she couldn't park closer since they were there. Her supervisor was out to lunch, so she told me she'd let her/him look into it when they returned. I asked my husband about it since he voted earlier that day. He remembered them being close, but again, its not like we run around town with tape measures in our pockets. And even if we did, again, we ourselves, werent sure what the rule was, and its not like we wanted to argue with a large extremist group over it. He did tell me that they conveniently gave him an NFL card which told him who not to vote for. On election day, my mother waited an hour to vote. My brother gave up and left. My mom mentioned that she witnessed the NFL group shuttling people in with a decorated golf cart and dropping them off right at the DOOR!!! That is in fact VERY illegal. You can shuttle people in, yes, but not that close, or if its truly necessary, not advertising their political parties. If there's anything worse than having the other side win, its having them win ILLEGALLY!!! Man if I had known about all the illegal tactics I would of just wasted my whole Saturday reporting each violation one by one. Heck, I would of even got the press involved. Unfortunately I could not do this during early election because unlike all the political violators, I had to work. I was only lucky enough to vote on my lunch break. I read a blog comment from the shilohareadrilling.com site that the NFL group were also polling people who were standing in line asking them who they were voting for. This individual claims to have photographic evidence. I will link here when they post them. Title: Re: Electioneering in Flower Mound Post by haleycart on Feb 20th, 2012 at 1:18am why through illegal means?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line600
__label__wiki	0.961139	0.961139	'Pollution Crawl' tour hits Hamilton environmental hotspots - CBC Hamilton posted by Angela Tran \| 68sc By Kelly Bennett CBC News - Hamilton Posted: Nov 29, 2015 Hamilton's first "Pollution Crawl" brought about 30 people out to Burlington Street on Sunday morning to learn about what's in and on the city's air, water and land. What's in the air? "Not only the water and the soil is polluted, but the politics is polluted sometimes." - Jim Howlett, longtime Hamilton environmental activist Lynda Lukasic welcomed about 30 attendees to a Pollution Crawl along Hamilton's industrial core on Sunday morning. She and others carried particulate monitors, which Lukasic's organization, Environment Hamilton, uses to measure Hamilton's air quality. Lukasic talked about the "amazing potential" that the industrial parts of the city has. Sherman Inlet Jim Howlett has been a longtime environmental activist on the beach strip and was chair of the Hamilton Conservation Authority for 17 years until this summer. He's attended decades of meetings about Randle Reef and Sherman Inlet, which he called a "hidden gem" as the tour stopped there. He told a story of following a truck into the inlet once, only to find it dumping a substance that left an oily rainbow on top of the water. Though it's been the port's plan and promise since the mid-1990s to develop Sherman Inlet in a similar vein to Bayfront Park, Howlett said, little has happened. In Hamilton, "not only the water and the soil is polluted, but the politics is polluted sometimes," he said. "The whole concept of Sherman Inlet becoming a revitalized community place" has fallen by the wayside while Randle Reef gets developed, Howlett said. "The wildlife are waiting to get some of this back," Howlett said, "and they're not waiting too well sometimes." Participants passed around photos of what Sherman Inlet looked like a century ago. The Hamilton Port Authority confirmed Sunday that Randle Reef is taking priority for port "full internal resources." The port contributed $14 million to that project, said spokeswoman Larissa Fenn. "Once that project is further along, we will look for a way forward on the Sherman Inlet that addresses up-to-date factors of security, environmental protection, community interest and cost," said Larissa Fenn, a port spokeswoman. Gasification plant Across the street from U.S. Steel Canada, Coun. Matthew Green spoke about a proposed waste-to-energy gasification plant, which he opposes. The project's developer, Port Fuels, says the plant is high-tech, will create jobs and generate little pollution, and is already working through an intense environmental screening process with the province. But city councillors, public health officials and some activists worry about the image and health impacts the plant would have on Hamilton and have asked the province to give the plant a more rigorous review. "I don't think any of us are questioning the value of the legacy of industry in Hamilton," Green said. "I don't think any of us are shy about the fact that we built this city on steel and we built this city on industry. But we've seen the shift now." That shift referred to the environmental remediation ahead for Hamilton on former Stelco, then U.S. Steel, lands, as well as the social burden to shoudler for retirees who find themselves without their pension benefits while the company restructures. An industrial-residential juxtaposition The tour crossed Burlington Street and stopped in front of the Air Liquide plant, which is across the street from several residential homes. Organizers played on that juxtaposition to talk about the fact that much of Hamilton's industrial lands are right next door to residential properties. Sandra Ingertsa lives on K Street and showed photos of the dust that collects on her house's windowsills and exterior. What the Port says Not all of the sites visited and stories told on the crawl were on Hamilton Port Authority lands. But catching wind of the event, Hamilton Port Authority issued a statement to media highlighting several waste mitigation, energy reduction and habitat restoration initiatives the port has undertaken under an environmental stewardship aim. The port is part of the Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan (RAP), said spokeswoman Larissa Fenn, as well as the Randle Reef project listed above. There are strict rules and monitoring for tenants, and it and some of its tenant businesses participate in an initiative that holds them to higher standards than just what's regulated, she said. "HPA's mandate is to operate a commercial port, and that means attracting and supporting industrial uses," Fenn said. "We need to maintain our harbour industrial lands for the kinds of activities that create good jobs, attract investment, and relieve pressure on the residential tax base." See the original article at http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/pollution-crawl-tour-hits-hamilton-environmental-hotspots-1.3342710	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line607
__label__wiki	0.904116	0.904116	The series is called Southland and Arts and Entertainment Editor Bob Sokolsky says it is possible you may have seen it before. A few seasons ago it had a brief run on NBC. Then it came to TNT where it was also dropped, recovered and almost dropped again. Sokolsky says it may last a while this time. Maybe. Thats because it is a police series, once a mainstay of TV schedules now its a decent show that seems designed to fill in until another reality show arrives with its spotlight on non-entertainers who hope to become real entertainers. Sokolsky says he wonders whether this is why Southland, while a well done show, seems to be doing so many familiar stories. But, he adds, Gilbert and Sullivan seemed to be warning us about this many years ago when they wrote about A Policemans Lot.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line609
__label__wiki	0.764295	0.764295	Home Hardware Intel Aims to Replace Cabling With Fiber Optics Intel Aims to Replace Cabling With Fiber Optics By Andy Patrizio \| September 24, 2009 Intel is pushing fiber optics as a new standard for cabling. Source: Intel SAN FRANCISCO -- Day two of the Intel Developer Forum opened with news of the latest, fastest processors, but it was an low key announcement at the end of the keynote that may be the one that changes your life the most. David "Dadi" Perlmutter, the newly-promoted co-lead of the Intel Architecture Group, disclosed "Light Peak," an Intel project to use fiber optic cables as replacements for the external cables used by PCs today. Instead of the thick, hard to bend cables that connect monitors to PCs, short-range USB cables or the CAT-5 network wiring that can literally cause a datacenter floor to sag when used en masse, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is proposing replacing all of those with fiber optics, which is literally as thin as a fiber and weighs next to nothing. The fiber optic cables would initially have 10 gigabits of bi-directional bandwidth and could go to 100 gigabits, and could stretch more than 100 meters, according to Jason Ziller, director of the optical I/O program office at Intel. Monitor cables generally run less than 10 feet and USB 3.0 cabling is limited to just three meters, although USB 2.0 ran up to five meters. "That's an example of why we need fiber in the future because as you go higher speed, you are sending signals over wires that are shorter and shorter," he explained. In theory, these cables could carry data for multiple devices. This means data to the SAN, data to the network, audio, video and electricity. Ziller said there are two options for using fiber optic connections: either a single hub that connects numerous devices, or multiple ports into a computer, all using fiber. When all is done, it could mean monitors that have one connector to the PC, not two (one for video out and one for power), and it would also mean no more using the large, multi-pin connections like SVGA in old monitors or DVI used in modern monitors. Ziller said Intel will begin working with other hardware vendors to create new products as well as talk to standards bodies to make the fiber connections a standard. "We want to work with the industry to standardize this technology for all market segments. As part of this standards process the companies we would work with would decide how it was powered and how the cables were used," he said. Intel expects the components, such as discrete controllers and cables, to come out next year. Perlmutter had no estimated date on when product might come out. Mobile power from Nehalem During his keynote, Perlmutter also introduced the first mobile processors under the Nehalem architecture, all of them quad-core. The chips are from the "Clarksfield" line of Nehalem processors for mobile and will be sold under the names Core i7-920Xm Extreme, Core i7-820QM and Core i7-720Qm. The processors come with Turbo Boost, a technology that cranks up the clock speed when fewer cores are in use. The 920Mx runs normally at 2.0GHz, but in single-core operation, it can reach 3.2GHz. These new processors support two-channel DDR3 1333MHz memory and PCI Express 2.0 graphics. PC makers Asus, Dell, HP and Toshiba are the first to announce availability. It won't come cheap, at least on the high end. Pricing for OEMs in lots of 1,000 is $1,054 for the Core i7-920XM, $546 for the Core i7-820QM and $364 for the Core i7-720QM. Perlmutter also said that Intel will release "Arrandale" early next year. This mobile processor will be the first 32nm Nehalem mobile chip and will come with 45nm graphics chip and chipset on the CPU. IDF runs through Thursday.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line611
__label__cc	0.693916	0.306084	Klara Hobza Departure Diary en Klara Hobza DEPARTING AMERICA - Departure Diary Dear Till, Attached I'm sending you my proposal for the exhibition. What do you think? Is it doable? All the best from the Swedish forest, What a plan! Yes, absolutely, count us in. There has been good progress on my research on shipping! I was able to speak with some experts and so far found out: The only international port is Port Newark in New Jersey. Having a closer look at the East River is frightening. Pricing among shipping agencies varies significantly. All suggests that the freight business is a dirty one. I was advised to send all as private household goods and hobby supplies, not to insure anything and either way, to keep my hopes low. Timing might be another problem. One company claimed 3 weeks, and the next one 8-10 weeks. I have to look into that better. For now, all the best, Lieber Till, Thank you very much for your fast reply. Actually, it would be yet better to wait for another few days, as here things are changing on a nearly hourly basis. For example, there might even be a flicker of hope, that I have already found the perfect raft! Happily, five young men docked around the corner of my apartment, at the smelly Newtown creek. I was advised to consider the likelihood of my raft, including its freight, sinking in the East River. And even if I did manage to make it to Port Newark: An employee reported that it was common to throw containers overboard during storms. Which explains the vast price differences: The further down and the further in the middle, the pricier.... I'm sure, my container will be the one way on top way on the outside. It looks like another group of young people has docked right outside of our studio at the Navy Yard. They came on a retired tugboat where they are keeping chickens. A colleague who means well is trying to put me in touch with them. You would not believe how expensive and difficult it is to dock in the New York waters! Rumor has it that they spent several tens of thousands of dollars. The good thing is that they might consider giving me a ride. Either way, my cut-off date for getting the packages out is September the 15th.. In general, I am confident that the vulnerability of this enterprise is going to work in favor of the exhibition. The consequences of related efforts and possible mistakes will end up being of good use, I believe. Warm greetings from Brooklyn and have a good trip, PS. Attached you can find a possible docking spot in front of my studio. Just a quick update --- with much luck, I have met a couple of hippies. They have rafted down the Hudson River for three weeks and just arrived in New York. It looks like, in exchange for a modest amount, I can talk them into rafting me and my packages over to Port Newark. If they will indeed do it, then the whole thing will go down as soon as tomorrow! That would indeed be the best case scenario. Attached please see the hippies and their raft. Note the buffalo skull. All the best from Brooklyn, ...and a strong engine... (Till) I am embarrassed to admit that today, the hippies bailed out on me. They claim to be scared of the authorities, whatever that means. I believe, they're just too lazy. Never trust a hippie. And don't get me started on the maritime artists. They are the worst. From the get go there was no co-operation to be had from them. Only one week left, but I remain in confidence, Good news from New York: I just came back from a very promising meeting with John McGarvey, artist, activist and maritime expert. He is a friend of Erwin Redl, for whom I had been working as artist assistant. John is director of a local kayaking club, and organizes many ambitious projects in the waters of NYC, such as http://www.thewaterpod.org/. He really got into my plans and promised to leave no stone unturned to get me a docking permit at the Navy Yard. There was even talk of a documentary team. Let's see how far we get. Perhaps I will have to revise my attitude towards hippies. In any case, the packages are sealed! All the best and talk to you on Wednesday, You should see the poverty ridden docks of Port Newark! My faithful friend Annie and I went to scout out docking spots, getting utterly lost in industrial maze. The tough truckers were rather concerned with our fate. Good hearted souls kept stopping “Are you alright?”, “Do you need help?”, “Are you lost?”. Finally, a toothless prophet who was camping at the edge of at a gas station pointed us to the gates of Hell. We kept choking on the foul, fermented smells of the docks. Cameras were strictly forbidden, but in the attachment, you can see some pictures we later took from across the water. So glad to have made it back. As I'm eating my sandwich, I can still taste the grime of poverty. Attached please find the transcript from the radio: Czech-born artist Klara Hobza has lived and worked in New York for the last 7 years. With a heavy heart, she now has to say goodbye and return to Europe. Hobza is headed to Hamburg, where, in her first solo exhibition, she will present the art she has created in New York. The artist decided to chose a rather unconventional way of transporting her works. Teaming up with maritime activist Paul Lerin, she will tie her art onto a makeshift raft which will be tugged by a small boat from her studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. They will head south through the heavy currents of the East River to lower Manhattan, where Hobza will pay tribute to the Statue of Liberty, an eternal symbol of migration. The journey will then continue around the southern tip of Bayonne, New Jersey until it reaches Port Newark, the location of New York's international shipyard. Finally, Hobza will load her art and raft onto a container ship bound for Hamburg, Germany. Hobza will meet the gallery's organizer Till Krause upon arrival at the shipyard in Hamburg, where she will once again load her artwork onto the raft. Towed by a smaller boat, they will ship the freight through Hamburg’s river Elbe until they reach the foot of the gallery, which happens to sit right on a canal in the city center. They will pull the artworks—along with the raft—up into the gallery through its windows. The raft will then be transformed into a display structure for Hobza's art. Klara Hobza's exhibition will open on November 13th at Galerie für Landschaftskunst [www.gflk.de]. Finally some tailwind: Veteran and environmental activist Paul Lerin agreed to take me to New Jersey! In the attachment is the boat for tugging and he even has a raft I can use! PS. about Lerin's activities... http://www.waterfrontalliance.org/partners/bionautics-corp Fwd: From Paul Lerin: pic's of vessel ....... K, This will be the Tow boat just real quick, have to get back to raft building – attached the Dublin Express. She will bring my freight over the Atlantic! Two poetic moments amidst a hectic day of raft building: My studio mate Zach moved here from Kansas. In need of vast space, in need of a horizon line, he saved his sanity and learned to navigate the New York waters. Liz noted that I could always send the art works in a bottle. Thank you very much for your supportive emails! This is how things stand at the moment: The ship is supposed to depart from Port Newark on September 23rd, and supposedly takes 15 days. (As if!). The confirmation number is NYHAM10054. Attached please find the Seaway Bill, as well as our route from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Port Newark. Talk to you very soon! Dear New York City friends and fellow art colleagues! As you might already know, I'm leaving New York. Tomorrow, at 10 AM, I'm departing on a boat from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, tugging my art works on a raft behind me. I will sail off to Port Newark, where the international shipping port is awaiting me. It's too late to celebrate a good-bye party. However, if you should have time, come on over tomorrow morning, for a farewell shot of my Grandfather's Slivovic, and for waving me good-bye. You can find me at 10 AM (sharp), departing from the Fire Department's dock, in front of building 292. When you enter the Navy Yard, you will be asked to show an I.D. and to give a company name. This code name is "Sibony". Then, just follow the signs to building 292, in front of which you cannot miss the firefighter's docks. If you should get lost, call 917-599-7873. For more info on how to get to the Navy Yard: http://www.brooklynnavyyard.org/direction.html Hope to see you tomorrow, otherwise - farewell, dear friends! Wow, Klara, it's happening! How I wish I could be there! Most of all, I regret not to get any of the Slivovic, as I profoundly enjoy the good home brew. Can't wait to hear how things will turn out today! The transport was in danger up to the last moment. John, my maritime adviser, had hooked me up with Paul, war veteran and maritime environmental activist. Paul agreed to come with a boat, tugging a raft. In the meantime, John was supposed to secure a docking permit with his buddies at the Navy Yard. However, in the last three days, neither John nor Paul called back. In my panic, I started collecting materials at the Navy Yard to throw together a raft. Finally, Paul called the afternoon before the big action. Yet, still no word from John. (Note: Later it turned out that John was involved in a political action at the UN and had gotten arrested.) So, Monday morning, I rushed around the Navy Yard like a beheaded chicken, trying to secure a docking permit, walking up to any security guard I could spot. I tried to explain the urgency of returning to Europe with my things. A couple of compassionate souls tried to convince their boss, but he said “No. We never do that.” As they saw me turn pale, they thought of one last chance: The firefighters! Incidentally, the N.Y.F.D. parks their boats right in front of my studio building! So I leaped over to their office, and really, Till, I worked it! I mean, anything I could do to win them over to my plan. Indeed some of them were rather grouchy, but once the doughnuts arrived, they reluctantly agreed to help me. Probably to finally get rid of me. You see, I just barely made it happen! At least that's what I thought. The big day arrived and a few loyal friends came in the morning to say farewell. While we and the packages were waiting for Paul to arrive, we raised our mugs with coffee and Grandpa's homemade Slivovic. Before coming to the United States, I had taken one bottle with me, as a reminder of my roots. Now we could finish it off, as there will be no shortage in Europe. Suddenly, a guard comes running, stressing out: “what are you doing there”, “who is responsible for this”, “you can't just do that”! I explained that I had been talking to security and the fire fighters the day before. But he retorted: "You have to talk to the suits. Don't you realize which building that is, right behind you? It's the main security office. Right there, behind these rows of tinted windows, you have at least 20 suits staring down at you, as we speak!" Still, I felt the man had a sweet side to him, and I wholeheartedly explained: “It is my way of saying good-bye to my beloved New York.” He then picked up his walkie talkie, and, in a dignified, celebratory voice announced to his supervisors: "This young lady here is departing America." After a while he returned, beaming with joy: "You are golden! You are officially free to do anything you want." At last, Paul arrived, followed by the fire fighters. Their triumphant smiles gave away their victory over the suits. They jumped right in, helped with loading and wished me a good journey and much success in my new country over in Europe. Together with my friends, they waved good-bye. Later Zach reported to me that my undertaking was entirely clear and natural to the fire fighters. “Of course she has to do this.” On the water, I then understood my friends' concerns—the East River is no joke! Besides the Atlantic's tidal waves, big currents and turbulences work against one another. In addition, the dense ship traffic causes large waves which hit you from the most undesirable angles. We navigated underneath the bridges: Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, then along the Southern tip of Manhattan, around Governor's Island, and straight towards the Statue of Liberty. I took in this grand moment of reversed migration, contemplating the fate of immigrants before me. We passed Staten Island and then went around the southern shores of Bayonne, New Jersey, back North again, finally docking in Newark. Again, security wanted to give us trouble, and again luck was on my side: Paul's wife is in politics and dropping her name sufficed to give us time to unload. Attached, you can see some pictures of the journey, in chronological order. Supposedly, the Dublin Express leaves Port Newark September 23rd, though delays should be expected. I'll let you know more soon, also about the contact info in Germany. The exhibition DEPARTING AMERICA Von „http://www.gflk.de/index.php?title=Klara_Hobza_Departure_Diary_en&oldid=9065“	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line616
__label__cc	0.721652	0.278348	GoldmanSachs666 Message Board Fraud* According to the Collins English Dictionary 10th Edition fraud can be defined as: "deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage".[1] In the broadest sense, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and also a civil law violation. Defrauding people or entities of money or valuables is a common purpose of fraud, but there have also been fraudulent "discoveries", e.g. in science, to gain prestige rather than immediate monetary gain As defined in Wikipedia Goldman Sachs v. Mike Morgan It looks like Goldman Sachs is not happy with this website I created to post information about Goldman Sachs. I received the letter below from their attorney today, and my Intellectual Property attorney will be responding accordingly. We will publish the truth. Feel free to visit the blog and leave your comments. You may also submit posts through the blog or our blog email address Mike@GoldmandSachs666.com The website has only been up about a week, and there is not much on there yet, but I invite everyone to submit articles and posts to the website relevant to Goldman Sachs. All posts will be reviewed, but unless they are clearly false or malicious, we will post them. Needless to say, we will most likely fight this one in court with Goldman Sachs and now we will expedite adding relevant content to this website. We have followed all of the legal requirements to own and maintain the website under the address we have selected. If you have any media contact you want to forward this to, be my guest. It's just another example of how a bully like Goldman Sachs tries to throw their weight around and this is a clear violation of our Constitutional Rights. Posted by Mike Morgan Further proof that 'we are being watched' interesting....If they are listening and watching they sure as heck don't care what we think or that we know their evil plots! you should just go ahead and change the name of the site to goldmansuks666.com I agree with above Anonymous. I love the idea of "goldmansuks," and there is nothing they can do about it. ssfink said... "Very truly yours," WTF is that supposed to mean? Maybe it's foreplay before he violates you ;-P the stockbroker said... the 14k scrotum Gold Man Sach Citizen said... AIG is nothing compared to Goldman Sachs's thievery. Hang in there and keep up the good fight. These Goldman Sachs bastards and their ilk are incorregible and out of control. As more and more people awaken to the intricate details of what's going on behind the scenes with these bailouts of the very same people who provoked the problem in the first place I sense the OUTRAGE slowly building up to eruption. The mere fact that they've threatened you proves you're on the right track and they've noticed. Hope your website helps tear them a new one. It is so shocking to observe none of the institutions or individuals from Wall Street is investigated or prosecuted for the monumental fraud that they committed on our nation and indeed on most of the world. In fact, they are still being rewarded with tax payer money. Shows how the political patronage works. I am surprised they are complaining about trademark violation of "goldmansachs". I would have expected them to have actually objected to your use of "666", which as we all know is the mark of the same people!!! Financial terrorism at best. Treason against the people of the United States deserves severe punishment. How about goldmangangsters666.com? What a bunch of a-holes!!!!! fodder for your response letter: http://www.newmedia.org/categories/Hot-Topics-&-Issues/Corporate-Hate-Sites/ Where hate site owners use a company's mark solely to criticize a company, the owner will usually defeat traditional trademark infringement and FTDA claims.Such use is considered noncommercial and is protected free speech under the First Amendment.The view is that "trademark law cannot be used to suppress criticism of a company or products…on the Internet." (4) Keep up the good work, Mike. "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson RobertM said... I'm glad to see you're taking on this challenge Mike. I've have enjoyed listening to your conference calls for almost a year now and I hope this website becomes a valuable resource in chronicling the despicable behavior of GS. In China, all of those pricks would be EXECUTED. Please fight them, fight them for the rest of us. Their efforts to silence those who would illuminate the unseemly and unethical actions in which they find comfort indicate we are looking at the right place. One can only hope that the people eventually rise up and stand together against this oppression and subjugation, and companies such as this fail under the scrutiny of true justice Change it to GolmanSUCKS666.... OneDustyCowboy said... Look into Drudge Retort name as a counter to Drudge Report.com. The liberal Drudge Retort disparages Drudge and gets away with it. Otherwise, GoldmanSuks sounds pretty good to me. As much as you think this is a conspirarcy of sorts, being an IT guy, this is S.O.P. from any large corporation. Any domain that comes close to their website name, they try to reserve or stop others. I remember being told to reserve 100's of domains that came close to "real" name. This is a form letter and I doubt it will go anywhere after this. Of course "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean people aren't watching you". I hope you know that Goldman Sachs doesn't give a crap about your site. If you'd made a site called goldmansachsisgreat.com you would've gotten the same letter. Companies outsource copyright protection web trolling all the time. My wife got dinged with a form letter like you got for posting a song she sang on YouTube. I think you have nothing to worry about. They just want to scare you. In their own letter, the attorney states "[GS] is the owner of a family of [GS] trademarks for use in connection with financial services" Are you offering financial services or in any way profiting from their name. No. I think they have nothing. OMG, from Chadbourne and Parke. That's all Goldman can muster? Both those guys finished well below me in law school and I was a 50th percentile graduate. I'm trying to remember if either of them even passed Torts. They most certainly didn't understand the class. I like goldman-sucks.com :) ml-implode-o-meter is having challenges too - however, I think they will win on appeal. If the author of the letter to you had any sense of propriety, he would sign off in the fashion "Very truly yours" commands. It should always be proceeded by a conclusive statement of action such as . . . "In my continuing efforts to frighten and intimidate you, and along the way trample over your rights of free speech, I remain" the comes the "Very truly yours." Just change the domain name and you should be fine. There is nothing illegal with using their name in blog posts. GOLD MAN IN BED WITH TREASURY.COM the people versus goldman sachs. Be careful. Mark Mitchell has written a 3 part exposé of the dangers: http://www.deepcapture.com/email-exposes-short-seller-plot-to-destroy-a-public-company/ Does this remnd anyone of the Wizard of Oz? Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!!! Pay attention to what I "want you to believe"... They ttake I'd all for fools. You have correctly used the Goldman Sachs trademark to identify the company's goods and services. You are not incorrectly implying that you are Goldman Sachs or offering goods and services as if you are Goldman Sachs, or attempting to profit from Goldman Sachs' reputation. You can safely tell them to go to hell, at least as far as trade marks are concerned. If they take you to court just turn up with your site and defend yourself you don't even need to waste money on lawyers. Maggie Knowles said... here's another name that could be used that I'm quite fond of: GOLDMAN SACKS-USA Another way to beat them is for a large number of people to start Goldman Sachs information websites like this one. Strength in numbers. They can't shut everyone down. You have hit the jackpot! GS has already brought down more bad PR on themselves by making this an issue (the "Streisand effect"). The outcome here can only get worse for them. An interesting follow up to this thread might be a chart of the number of hits your blog got before and after their ill-conceived threat. With this increased traffic I think you can expect to get a lot more good expose`s. How would you like to call for a few million people to short sell goldman? Is there a way that we can come together and nuke them in their own territory: the marketplace? Man: we could even buy them and sack them! I just saw the piece in The Telegraph here in the UK. You have at least one supporter on this side of the pond! Goldmansucks666 has a certain ring to it, as mentioned. Without yours and mine taxpayers dollars and pounds these clowns wouldn't even exist, so tell them to get on their knees and give thanks for their jobs. Merchant Bankers the lot of them! BlastarrBXIII said... Talk about the 'Streisand effect'. just came over for a visit, [got any coffee!] from a UK, Daily Telegraph news article..... Are not these people run by the Mafia. As are 'our' Mr MORGAN 's namesake..... As for Chadbourne and Park. who's up for a Chadbourne and Park666.com website!!..... See what other lawyers meddle with 'Natural Justice' then..... They will spend thousands to try to thwart your efforts while adding millions in PR value to your cause. If I was you I would send them a big thank you!!!!! In 1908, the year after a national money panic purportedly created by J. P. Morgan, Congress established, in 1908, a National Monetary Authority. In 1910 another, more secretive, group was formed consisting of the chiefs of major corporations and banks in this country. Its coming up On their 100 year anniversary.Citizens of the usa need to piss on their parade lets crash the party! >Are not these people run by the Mafia.< That is a vile slander of Italians and Sicilians. Goldman Sachs is not rooted in the Italian community. You have the wrong ethnic/racial/religious group. But you're getting warmer... Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Brillianto! Goldman Sachs v The Internet Don't they know who is bigger? Boy! Have they dug a hole for themselves with this one. I don't see a "trade name" infringement in this site, only that as a reference point to comments of how the company operates. See this read on "trade names"... http://www.answers.com/topic/trade-name AntiNWO said... Get them Mike! Goldman Sachs = EVIL! Please also publish the numeric IP address of your blog just in case GoDaddy cooperates. Soak 'em, Mike! Goldman Sachs is a cancer on America. Legal counsel: "Goldman, Sachs & Co. is the owner of a family of Goldman Sachs trademarks for use in connection with financial services, including its famous house mark GOLDMAN SACHS, U.S. Registered Trademark No. 1975880." You are not violating their trademark rights. You are not using their registered trademark "GOLDMAN SACHS" on your web site as you are not using their "family of Goldman Sachs trademarks" (Where are the Registered Trademark Numbers for these?) in connection with financial services. Make sure you post on your web site, that you are using their trademarked names in connection with your opinion and that you are giving them all their rights - "All Rights Reserved to ....list their names you use.... in your rants." They are just harassing you, if they file the suit, it is only to destroy your finances with malicious and frivolous law-sue, so you have to spend money on defence. We speak about Microsoft, Frito-Lay, Enron, WorldCom, Wall-mart, Cisco, Bank of America, and others ...... all these are Registered Trademarks. Free discussion will be limited, I say impossible, if we would not able to use their names in our free speech. Just write them letter, stating they are in error because you are not using GOLDMAN SACHS Trade Mark and that you are naming their business on your site in unpopular free speech, which is your natural right granted to you by your creator. Send copy to W. Hanchuk; GoDaddy, INC. Awesome work Mike! The people are beginning to wake up with the help of sites like these and minds like your who are outraged at the current state of things. They think we are complete chumps, they think we are idiots, and they have been correct in the past. Let us change that. KNOW YOUR ENEMY. I think Goldman Sucks should be outsourced to China where they can face the firing squad. Good riddance to these lying Sachs of $hit! "If all goes well, and we accumulate enough information, I want to write a book . . . How Goldman Sachs Destroyed the World." I would hope that in the end, your book will read: "How the world rose up and destroyed Goldman Sachs" terrorpatriot said... Mike, Stand your ground. Thousands of us in North Florida have your back man.You could be the spark we need to get on with business. TP. www.TerrorPatriot.blogspot.com If Goldman Sachs has a problem with whatever, they should have gone out and bought every url(goldmansachsxxxxxxx)and every combination thereof to get ahead of Mike M. Lord knows they have enough taxpayer money and other ill gotten gains to do so. Go get em Mike. GS is a threat to our national security. If I were Mike I would fire off a form letter to GS first thing Monday morning, to cease and desist in their actions and anything else I could think of. Give them a deadline of April 17TH to respond or else without further notice bal bla bla. Goldman is a PARASITE on the working people of this country. Goldman Sachs sues because they fear you and any that would stand up and tell the truth, as well they should. Stay strong, fight the good fight, and maybe you and others like you can wake the rest of us from our deep sleep. It's time for everyone to make the realization that these companies are out to profit not by giving us something we need in return for money, but to profit simply by taking our money and manipulating it in such a way as to get more of our money with it. Thank You, Sir You are not un-noticed or un-appreciated. Cynthia In Florida said... Mike DO NOT let these fat cats get away with this. FIGHT them to the bloody end. If they can't handle the truth about themselves, well then THEY should be shut down ---not you. YOU ARE MUCH BETTER THAN THEY ARE!! Freedom of speech baby!! Take it to the wall. Legally, the copyrighted name is in all caps. I would continue to go with Goldman Sachs and ask the lawyers if Goldman Sachs BY LAW is equivalent to GOLDMAN SACHS. I assure you, it is not. SackGoldmanSachs.com US TM 1975880, you can use it for your purposes. The problem now is with ICANN UDRP, under which a trademarked name, (i) [...] identical or confusingly similar, [...] to the complainant, (ii) you have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name, and (iii) your domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith, they may transfer the domain to the Goldman Sachs. Good luck Mike although as I understand it if you are not in competition or making any money through the blog then they don't have a leg to stand on. There are precedents at the link already posted above: Go get 'em! One piece of advice: get your domain _off_ GoDaddy as soon as possible. GoDaddy will shut down a customer's domain without notice. Pick a registrar that's willing to stand up to legal threats -- more info at nodaddy.com . GoldmanSucks still the best representation bearmaster said... I am very concerned about your neck being on the line. All well and good for readers to cheer you on, but they aren't the ones who are in the crosshairs. This is a gray area at best. Are you sure you want to divert your energy into what could potentially be an exhausting battle over a trademark and a domain name? Even if your facts are 100% correct (and I would not expect otherwise) this could STILL be a legal tar pit. Even if you have the financial resources to fight back, I'd hate to see your time sucked up into this legal black hole. Goldman Sachs == 666 I am no lawyer, but from what I can see you arnt using goldmansachs your using goldmansachs666 which is a totally different name, and doesn't imply anything. thats like trying to tell Stuart to stop using the name Stewart because it imply s the same name, and hence could mean that Stewart is representing Stuart, and therefore misleading the people who deal with Stuart. They have no precedence, and don't have a leg to stand on. you have a disclaimer stating you are not involved with nor do you represent the views expressed by Goldmansachs if it does go to court counter sue them. I wonder if Florida has anti SLAPP statutes? If so, you may end up with a chunk of Goldman. Unfortunately the wealthy politicians in USA (that's virtually all of them) are clients of Goldman Sachs. So I guess Goldman can run whatever market manipulations they want. We all saw what they did to the oil price and commodity markets in general last summer. Gail B said... Mike, I am proud of you, and I will be praying for your success in this. martin Jerisat said... Mike: I think you may want to consider filing a declaratory Judgment Action in FL against these guys asking the Court to find that there is no trademark infringement. Martin Jerisat martin@thinkingip.com I feel compelled to point out that the nominative fair use doctrine would allow incorporating the trademarked "Goldman Sachs" name in the title of a book about Goldman Sachs. See New Kids on the Block v. News America Publishing, Inc., 971 F.2d 302 (9th Cir. 1992). More recently, Century 21 Real Estate v. Lendingtree, Inc., No. 03-4700 (3d Circuit Oct. 11, 2005). SEC Commissioner testimony from last month is below. There are some very interesting investigations going on. The US Attorney's Office is involved -- they can put people in jail -- unlike the toothless SEC ... so white collar types may flip, and this could actually go somewhere. Goldman has exposure here. Whatever you may think of short selling in the abstract, financials are a special case. Rumor mongering can lead to runs, even when not deserved. In 2008, there were allegations of this around Bear Stearns. This was later repeated with Lehman and others. In 2008, it was relatively easy to manipulate prices for CDSs -- to make it look like a particular company had increasing credit default risk. If you had shorted the stock, you made money as everyone fled for the exits. This went on a lot in 2008. Only question is how intentional it was. Did the market do it, or were particular firms spreading rumors with a plan. Many fingers pointed to Goldman while this was happening -- Goldman may just have been executing orders -- but Schwartz and Fuld were blaming Goldman while it was happening. If it was intentionally done by the likes of Goldman, what should be their punishment? In any event, the big firm i-bank model got broken. Goldman shouldn't be a pirate ship hedge fund and a bank holding company at the same time. Paulson spent a ton of US money to save the likes of Goldman -- he may have thought he had to -- but his motives can be questioned and should. Between Goldman alumni and the Chicago Democratic mob, God save us. Commissioner Elisse B. Walter testimony follows. Note that the SEC didn't want to go public at all, but had to tell Congress something. When these investigations end, they'll either be a fizzle or a bombshell. "Among other rumors investigations, SEC also opened a group of related investigations into the possible manipulation of the securities of six large financial issuers involved in the recent market turbulence (collectively, the "21(a) investigation"). On September 19, 2008, the Commission approved a relatively uncommon order under Section 21(a) of the Exchange Act that required numerous hedge funds, broker-dealers and institutional investors to file statements under oath regarding trading and market activity in the securities of financial firms. The order covers not only equities but also CDSs and other derivative instruments. In October 2008, the Enforcement Division formed a nationwide Rumors and Market Manipulation Working Group to analyze data obtained through the 21(a) Order, with particular focus on claims that CDSs were being used to manipulate equities prices. The SEC's 21(a) investigation has been split into six separate investigations, which are proceeding as expeditiously as possible. The SEC's Rumors and Market Manipulation Working Group is also coordinating its investigation with parallel investigations being conducted by FINRA and the NYSE regarding the conduct of their member firms and marketplaces, as well as with another parallel investigation being conducted jointly by the New York Attorney General's Office and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York." I love that their litigation has actually created your website go viral. I found it on The HuffPo. I always thought that they were a pretty good company....my eyes have been opened. No longer can companies hide their dishonesty. There is now a fail proof safeguard called the internet. Terrible said... Mike, great site. Thanks for the work you do here! It's somewhat ironic that Goldman Sachs efforts to silence you are spreading the word of the good work that you are doing. Tim Knight said... I've gotten the word out on Slope of Hope. Here's a Great site to help your cause Mike. http://behind-the-matrix.blogspot.com/ Mike, this is a great site for your information. http://behind-the-matrix.blogspot.com/ In China, all of US would be executed. As Goldman Sachs would be part of the ruling class. Don't be fools. It is important to keep our form of government from going socialist or communist. Goldman and their ilk would like nothing more than to see government merged with their interests. Instead of government fascism, they want corporate fascism. The difference isn't much, but the results will be the same. You should blot out your home address in the letter, dude. If Sachs didn't sue I probably wouldn't have heard about this site. I know one thing I would have never connect Goldman Sach to goldmanscahs666 - heh besides being greedy power mongers are they stupid? or was this their attempt at intimidation? My guess is the latter. Too bad they have created such a bad reputation for themselves in the main stream media. Don't need this site to point out their questionable behavior and their current PR disaster. Someone has to watch these guys the US Congress and Justice Department do not seem to be doing their job. Time to dismantle the revolving door between NYC to DC. First, thanks to Tim Night at slopeofhope.com for linking to this blog from his site. On the surface it would appear to me that you are in the right in this case. Although I have no legal degree and can only express my opinion. That said, I recall a case in Omaha, Nebraska back around 1980 where a young entrepreneur created teeshirts with a satirical logo from Mutual of Omaha and called it Mutant of Omaha. Mutual of Omaha sued and lost in a lower court. So they took it to the Nebraska State Supreme Court and finally won. They won mostly because they had the resources to keep filing appeals and bankrupt a young teeshirt seller. I still think he was in the right had he been able to go to the U. S. Supreme Court but they were still able to force him out of business. I also thought it was interesting that they copied GoDaddy on the letter. Obviously trying to go in through the back door and get them to do their dirty work. Good Luck Mike! Keep tickin off GS and see what happens. You are causing a divide and trying to give the little guys a voice. That will fuel their fire even more to stamp out the little man. If you think that is bad...wait until all this mess clears and they punish us even more! Now they have a reason to commit even MORE fraud against the people. Thanks. Don't you people get it? We are not FREE. We are slaves to the rich and corrupt Elite Class. They are laughing in our faces every single day. WHAT ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO DO TO STOP THEM? NOTHING HAS WORKED YET. Let's just leave them alone, hand them our wallets, ask them to give us back how much they think WE should have, and try to live in peace without calling them out again so they will leave us common folks alone. gnomic said... The compliant only aledges that you are using the trademark (the name in the square), not that the use of your domain name violates anything. If you are using the trademark, stop doing it and send them a letter. Case closed. The complaint from GS only says that your blog is using their trademark, not that your domain name is a violation of the trademark. If you have their trademark posted, remove it and send them a letter. Case closed. You have the right to use their name in your web site. Let them try to sue you for it. And if Godaddy attempts to shut you down, they are violating thier agreement with ICANN. I'm currently running a deep scan of your site and capturing it's content. If you go offline, this content will be available elsewhere. (I can reimport into a separate wordpress) Suck on that, Goldman Sachs thieves and haters of American free speech! Keep up your great work! Cool work, but is it foolish? I mean you're paying your expenses, and through congress, paying their legal bills. It's like blowing yourself up to win the war. I got into a tussle with another ....man and had one of their snipers patrolling my place of business. It took quite a bit of work to force them to lay off. So be careful Mike, these people play for keeps. You do Good Job !! Please fight them, fight them for the rest of us. The idiot lawyers at Goldman Sachs just gave this site the best advertising you'll ever get. Squeeze it for every drop of promotion it's worth... Think "Sex Pistols" etc. I think you should make sure that you own goldmansachs666 and reroute it to goddamnedsachs666. Positive thought for the day: This is excellent proof that bloggers are smarter than companies that are out-dated and corrupt. Rally on! goldmantay-sachs.com would be appropriate vlad said... I think it may be the "666" that is causing the problem as im sure that monument to humanity and only democracy in the middle east and its people have had that particular sequence of numbers covered for centuries! Like George Carlin and now Bill Maure have said...string up a few of these guys and you will see results. The only way these guys will understand we are sick of their corruption is when a few of them are found floating in the river. That is the ONLY thing they value, their own life. This is all about the First Amendment. Let's not follow the gov't down the path of censorship. After all, censorship is becoming America's favorite past-time. The US gov't (and their corporate friends), already place protesters in fenced-in cages, ban books like "America Deceived" from Wikipedia, Amazon and Facebook, and shut down Ron Paul. Free Speech forever. Last link (before Google Books caves to pressure and drops the title): America Deceived (book) I am surprised people have not begun to take matters into their own hands as the feared "lone wolf" attackers. It would not take too many one shot one kill examples to get someones attention and once these criminals are forced to live inside a wall of security, they are effectively in jail. The gentile is loving and these parasites take advantage of that. The gentile is also everywhere and when they tire of the tyrants they tend to clean house as it were. History repeats itself over and over. Harvey said... Great work - stay strong Mike! Found you through The Telegraph - you're the 4th most read article today... shows that "normal folk" are interested in this stuff.... I honestly think the power is transferring.... people just won't put up with the nonsense anymore! And more and more folk are waking up to the fact that it may not be a "conspiracy theory" that certain corporate interests have much more power over policy (US and UK) than we'd like to imagine! GOOD WORK!! we in holland think the SAME!! There is already a precedence set. Eric Pepin and the Higher Balance Institute against Signs of the Times, (http://www.sott.net/). To say the least, Sott came out victorious. Information here in the forum (http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=1360.0), with all good info on how to fight this. Just get all your ducks in a row. It's freedom of speech. Keep up the good work of exposing the real criminals. I have already posted this on Twitter and would hope everyone does. Twitter is the fastest way to get this out. Spread the Truth - The World will be better for it !!! Goldman Sucks Best of luck Mike! Have a look at how Sir Alex Ferguson's son got his got a job a GS. St Pauls, london... both offices THE HELL WITH GOLDMAN SACHS.....WHY DONT THEY ADMIT THAT THEY THEY RECEIVED FREE TAXPAYER MONEY VIA THOSE SHAM "MAIDEN LANE" ENTITIES....THE FED DUMPED $$$ INTO THOSE ENTITIES, THOSE ENTITIES TRANSFERED THE MONEY TO GOLDMAN SACHS SO THAT THEY COULD BE MADE WHOLE ON THEIR AIG EXPOSURE AND THE "LOSS" THAT WAS GENERATED WAS STUFFED ONTO THE BALANCE SHEET OF THE FED...DISGUSTING... Goldman sachs, lehman, rubin, greenspan,madoff, bernanke, etc.All unethical and driven by avarice. Well worth a read, it’s long but very interesting and revealing. From,the Far EAST. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/ Mark Herpel said... Screw them push ahead, I'll get you mirror servers in friendly jurisdictions, no charge. "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32 editor@dgcmagazine.com MuleKist / ErthMa said... Just tell them that you are indigent,...then they should leave you alone. Remind them that even if you did take down your website, there would be HUNDREDS maybe even THOUSANDS more like it as the idea of EXPOSING GREED is catching on. Here is my contribution to that cause; http://greedybastardsclub.blogspot.com/ So sue me. I aint got no money either, but I got a GREAT BIG mouth and aint nothin in the world gonna stop it! Good luck tryin, ya'all. great work! very refreshing to read. has anyone ever won a lawsuit against goldman sachs? it would be interesting to see if they have ever settled and admitted fault for something. when is the site on citigroup up. I am waiting to be a voluteer for the same. I am so glad to come accross your site. They all need to be exposed the so called money managers opps (money damagers) i would like to know if it was goldman sachs who screamed for the initial 700 billion from paulsen. Are they behind every crash since the 20's. Rolling Stone article!! a must read http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/07/rolling-stone-expose-goldman-sachs-behind-every-market-crash-since-1920s/ Goldman share price said... Visit http://www.stocknod.com/gs-Goldman-Sachs-Group-stock-prices.aspx for Glodman share price. If there were justice in the U.S., investing in orange jump suits would be a good bet. We must have real fucking idiots running our government. Who gives a save-your-ass loan for a mere 23% "annualized" return. WTF does annualized mean in this case - if we risk billions for you each day with the risk of losing it all we get 23% if you survive and you and your employees get millions for perpetuity. What dumb ass would fund that investment? Great work very much appreciated here in Europe as well because the Eu is a copy of US financial system. ECB is founded as the Fed so Europe is the same mess.Goldman is in a London anyway with direct links to C B of England and there printing. Talk about the Fractional Reserve Banking, who started it and why and how it decides today life and death of a many. Many people criticize France for WW2, but make no mistake, the French don't f*k around when corruption and greed took over. Believe me, they''d have guillatuines outside of GS headquarters on Wall Street. Heads would be rolling a long time ago! Love to see this discussion! It’s great to see you all working through the issues and also, it’s great to see recommendations for testing. In the end, it’s what your actual users do and prefer that should be your biggest driver in making these decisions. Great article and discussion! money and profit These people make me sick. 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__label__cc	0.522547	0.477453	COP21 Update: Focus on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants Fast action by governments and industry could avoid 0.6C warming by 2050 Paris, 4 December 2015 – National delegations and private sectors committed to new and increased actions to reduce short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPS) at the COP21 climate conference today. Among the fast action initiatives announced under the Lima Paris Action Agenda (LPAA) were sector commitments to reduce hydrofluorocarbons (potent greenhouse gases also known as HFCs) by 30 to 50% in the next 10 years. Panelist at the event included French Minister of Environment Ségolène Royal, Nobel Laureate Mario Molina, Distinguished Professor V. Ramanathan, Ministries from Russia, Chile, Kenya, Mexico, Togo, Maldives, and New Zealand, as well as regional and private sector representatives. “It will be much easier to reach our 2°C goal if we deal not only with carbon dioxide but also with short-lived climate pollutants,” said Dr. Molina. Short-lived climate pollutants, which include black carbon, HFCs, methane, and tropospheric ozone, contribute as much as 40% to the current warming rate. Because short-lived climate pollutants have a life span of only days to fifteen years, their mitigation benefits will be felt within days to a decade of implementation. Short-lived climate pollutants, are also largely responsible for air pollution, which is the cause of 7 million deaths per year, according to the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) and the World Health Organization. “The CCAC will be the champion of the post-Paris pivot for fast mitigation,” said Durwood Zaelke, IGSD President and a moderator of the SLCP event today. “Aggressive cuts to short-lived climate pollutants could avoid up to 0.6°C of warming by mid-century, a significant part of the mitigation needed to keep the planet from warming more than 2°C above pre-Industrial levels.” « COP21 Leaders Event: President Obama Reminds World of Progress via Montreal At Paris climate talks, experts cite looming risk from industrial coolants, methane »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line626
__label__wiki	0.627327	0.627327	Home > Politics > Money, filth and blood About France, read also What for? Suspense in the French Presidential Primaries Death on Prescription for Local Analysis Laboratories In favour of a free Internet, open and accessible to all! The Neo-fascist Far-Right in France: Racism and Violence Under the National-Identity Mask Economic Statistics Explode Fantasies About Immigration Does Work Still Work on the Big Screen? The Literary Temptation of French Ethnologists The Faults in the French Educational System Aggravate Social Inequality “The Police Force Has Become an Instrument for the Promotion of Those in Power” Pierre Bergounioux’ s Double Track and Double First Revelation : Haitians Unwanted in France Return to Clichy-sous-Bois, Five Years After the Riots About Corruption, read also Algeria. Austerity, corruption and social injustice spill over into anger Journalism is not just investigation Israeli Scandals Taking politics with philosophy With Emmanuel Macron as President, What to Expect? Yellow Vests: The Rich are ever more Rich, and we are Abandoned LEFT. THE PCF MOBILIZES "FOR PEOPLE, NOT FOR MONEY" INSTITUTIONS. « IL FAUT ASSAINIR LE SYSTÈME DE FINANCEMENT DE LA DÉMOCRATIE » Red Vests or Yellow Vests, We must be more Numerous to Win European Council. Manipulations around the necessary fight against anti-Semitism The Luxury of Another Political Stance, To Believe in What You Say and Do ... But Damn, it’s Hard! Saturday, December 8. Government censorship in the street FABIEN ROUSSEL . A MORALE OF STEEL FORGED IN THE MINING BASIN The logic of the "Friendly Amendments", compared with the logic illustrated in the case of Olivier Dartigolles with his "Hostile Amendments". There are two opposing approaches to amendments! Congress. The PCF Enters the Heart of the Debate ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE: Argent, boue et sang by Patrick Apel-Muller Money, filth and blood Translated Friday 25 March 2011, by David Preece and reviewed by David Preece Francophone Africa has doubtless known more lucrative schemes. The incident certainly seems negligible in the long series of collusions between politicians, notably on the right, and the world of business. But the trip made by Michèle Alliot-Marie and Patrick Ollier, two high-ranking ministers who mix shady investments and friendship with the Ben Ali clan on a bed of lies, is the final straw. Wealth should be encouraged, proclaimed Nicolas Sarkozy, setting an example by flashing Rolex watches on a yacht cruise with a CAC 40 billionaire, then by relaxing at the Mexican hacienda of a wheeler-dealer suspected of involvement in the drug trade. These days it seems that almost anything can turn the latest unhealthy connection between money and power into dynamite. The crisis threw a glaring light on the frenzied rush for wealth among shareholders in the big corporations, the pillaging of the economy by capital and the carve-up of public life in the interests of the rich. During the retirement age reform debacle, the majority of the public became aware of who was hiding behind our government officials. The strangling of entire countries by the financial markets and the bloodletting inflicted by the Diafoirus of the IMF and the World Bank made this vision of public officials bogged down in murky affairs even more intolerable. Let’s not dwell on the Woerth affair, where successive lines of defence gave way one after another among revelations of the favours granted to the First Circle of donors to the UMP. Or the solid friendship between Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Servier, the man behind Isomeride and Mediator. But we understand that the French government found the dictator Ben Ali virtuous to the point of offering him, during his final days, the comfort of French savoir-faire in the matter of repression. This is the same world where money has no smell, and where blood dries quickly when the coffers are being filled. Isn’t it said that during her working holiday in North Africa the French minister personally consulted by phone with her dear friend Ben Ali? To quote Marx’s description of XIXth century France: ’Since the finance aristocracy made the laws, was at the head of the administration of the State, had command of all the organised public authorities, dominated public opinion through the actual state of affairs and through the press, the same prostitution, the same shameless cheating, the same mania to get rich was repeated in every sphere, from the court to the Café Borgne, to get rich not by production, but by pocketing the already available wealth of others, clashing every moment with the bourgeois laws themselves, an unbridled assertion of unhealthy and dissolute appetites manifested itself, particularly at the top of bourgeois society – lusts wherein wealth derived from gambling naturally seeks its satisfaction, where pleasure becomes debauched, where money, filth, and blood commingle .’ Who would claim that we are speaking about the past here? There is very much something rotten in Sarkozy’s kingdom, just like in that of his neighbour Berlusconi. In a survey carried out by Harris Interactive for l’Humanité Dimanche, 58 % of respondents expressed the wish for a ’revolt’ in France. The need for a fairer economic system has become inseparable from the demand for restored public morality in a republic founded on the public interest and the rejection of presidentialism, which is an open to door to all sorts of abuse.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line634
__label__wiki	0.590546	0.590546	1 \| 2 \| 3 \| > \| >> Catalan Independence Demonstration; Barcelona, Spain, Sept 2015 Featured above is a scene from a large pro-Catalan independence demonstration in Barcelona on 'La Diada' - Catalan National Day. The demonstration comes 2 weeks before parliamentary elections that are being framed as a 'de facto' referendum on independence. Catalan Secessionists claim that a win would gie them a mandate to start drafting a Catalan constitution and begin negotiations for secession with the Spanish government. Source: Revolutionnews/twitter Toxic Orange Cloud over Catalonia after Factory Accident, Feb 2015 More than 60,000 residents in north-eastern Spain have been told to stay indoors after an explosion at a chemical warehouse sent a dense orange cloud into the sky that hovered over their municipalities for hours. Source: ricard/Twitter Republican Grave Uncovered in Excavation, Estepar Spain, July 2014 Twenty-six republicans were assassinated by fascists that belonged to Franco's Nationalists at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, between August and September of 1936. This mass grave is placed at the small town named as Estépar, in Northern Spain. The excavation occurred in July–August of 2014. Source: Mario Modesto Mata Catalan Firemen Protest in Barcelona 2014 Fireman light a fire in front of a Catalan Government building in Barcelona to protest reforms that they believe are weakening their ability to effectively fight forest fires and endangering their lives. Source: Fotomovimientos Uploaded by MicroscopeLens on 2014-05-08 Human Chain for Catalonian Independence Section number 235 of the human chain organized by the ANC (Catalonia's National Assembly) to claim Catalonia's independence. Celebrated on september the 11th of 2013. The Catalan Way (Via Catalana) was a 480 km human chain down the old Via Agusta, from Le Perthus in France to Alcanar in Spain. An estimated 1.6 million people participated. Source: Clara Polo Indignant People's March to Madrid All the columns from different directions in Spain unite to march to Puerte del Sol, Madrid. Eastern route: from Valencia on 20 June. Murcia route: from Murcia on 20 June. Northern route: from Santander, Bilbao and Pamplona on 23 and 29 June. Northwest route: from Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, Ferrol, Avilés and Gijón between 24 and 30 June. Southern route: from Cádiz on 24 June. Southeastern route: from Málaga and Motril. on 25 June. Northeastern route: from Barcelona on 25 June. N-II route: from Zaragoza on 7 July. Source: Nemo (wikicommons) Protesters brave the Spanish summer heat to march on Madrid from Cadiz (Southern Column). The goal of the march was to collect rural people's ideas, to add to the demands of the movement, and organize local assemblies. Protesters brave the Spanish summer heat to march on Madrid from Barcelona (Northeastern Column). The goal of the march was to collect rural people's ideas, to add to the demands of the movement, and organize local assemblies. Spanish Protests 2011: Cordoba Starting point of the demonstration on 19th June, 2011 in Córdoba (Spain). 8,000 people attended the demonstration. Protests occured concurrently in 80 Spanish cities and towns. Source: Javi S&M (flikr) Barcelona Protest 2011 Protesters had spent the previous night in front of the entrance to the Catalan Parliament to prevent a vote on cuts to Health and Education. Police units, Mossos d'Esquadra, started in the morning. Source: Guillaume DArribau Barcelona Protest Camp Crackdown 2011 Ahead of a Champion League final game between FC Barcelona and Manchester United, the city council of Barcelona decided to clear Plaça de Catalunya from protest camps to clean the square. Security forces cleared the tents set up by protesters, and forced them off the premises. 121 light wounds were suffered from police truncheons. The action was televised and spread via social media. By the end of the day, the square was occupied again. Source: Sytsew (Fotomovimientos-Flikr)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line635
__label__wiki	0.992953	0.992953	Automode Hyundai Rotem wins 1 trillion won deal in India By Korea Herald Published : Apr 2, 2013 - 20:03 Updated : Apr 2, 2013 - 20:03 Hyundai Rotem, a local train maker affiliated with Hyundai Motor Group, said Tuesday that it recently won India’s largest-ever train project worth about 1 trillion won ($900 million). The company is to deliver a total of 636 trains by 2017 to the state-run Delhi Metro Rail Corporation for the city’s two new subway lines, Nos. 7 and 8. The competition to win the lucrative deal was fierce, with global big names such as Canada’s Bombardier, France’s Alstom and Germany’s Siemens heating up the race. Hyundai Rotem, though a relative latecomer to the market, said it could outpace its powerful rivals, especially the world’s largest train maker Bombardier, with its advanced power efficiency technology. With the new deal, the Korean company now claims 60 percent of the train market in India, beating the previous leader Bombardier. “The latest deal proves our technology and product quality. It has become more likely for us to secure additional orders in India,” said a Hyundai Rotem official. Hyundai Rotem secured more than 2 trillion won in orders from overseas projects out of the total 3 trillion won in orders it logged last year in three business areas ― rail, plant and machinery. By 2017, the company aims to elevate its global market share to 5 percent that would allow it to become one of the five biggest players in the 70 trillion won global train market. By Lee Ji-yoon (jylee@heraldcorp.com)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line636
__label__cc	0.573209	0.426791	Parks in port st lucie fl Brian wheeler tijuana flats Ipad air keyboard zagg Breakfast restaurants in blowing rock nc Puma faas 100 review St paul saints new stadium location The name Midway refers to both an earlier stadium of the same name and the fact that the location is midway between Downtown Minneapolis and Downtown St Paul. CHS Field Tickets, 2019 2020 Schedule, Seating Chart Map Field trip! St Paul Saints game Labor Day Sept 7 1105am Paul Saints and Hamline University Pipers Baseball teams, is a 7,210 seat ballpark in located in Lowertown Saint Paul.On Tuesday, CHS Field announced it would have eight new dishes for the St. The new home for the Saint Paul Saints lives in lowertown St.The location of the 10th is held in the main Midway Stadium parking lot. CHS Field is 1st Class! - Review of CHS Field, Saint Paul Tickets are selling like hotcakes so the only game that has a fair amount of tickets left, is the Labor Day Sept 7 game at 1105am.There are 67 comments on the TwinCities.com story from Oct 20, 2010, titled Support growing for new St.Paul Saints tickets. All St. Paul Saints tickets are on sale with lower prices at BigStub. Every month there is news about a new soccer stadium being built or proposed somewhere in this country.This is subject to parking availability which is highly variable given Saints crowds and turnout.Paul right next to the farmers market and a short walk to great bars and food.Posts about st. paul saints written by Jensen Moore, Ph.D. I am probably going to cry at graduation this year. St. Paul Saints on Twitter: "For The Fun Of The Game is The loft-space with high ceilings, giant windows, exposed brick and an open kitchen is spacious and welcoming. Opened in 2015 CHS Field takes some chances with the classic ballpark design. Stadium Journey Saints Kids Club Getting to Minneapolis Those flying to Minneapolis will fly into the Minneapolis-St. Or maybe we will get the story of how it has been around for many decades and nobody noticed it until now. Saints Travel Guides \| New Orleans Saints Midway Stadium is the name of two different minor league baseball parks in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, both now demolished. Tfc Stadium in Saint Paul, MN with Reviews - YP.com The proposed 7,500 seat stadium would be located in the Lowertown neighborhood near a planned maintenance facility for the METRO Green Line light rail.In addition to the Saints and the Pipers, CHS Field is home to the 4. St. Paul Saints CHS Field - ticketsinventory.com St. Paul Saints Tickets - Saint Paul - CHS Field CHS Field Seating Chart & Map \| SeatGeek In the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., you can see the Minnesota Twins and St. Bill Murray Greets St. Paul Saints Fans At Stadium CHS Field, St. Paul, MN Happy Hour Specials They certainly did not become popular because of their stadium, however. CHS Field Find tickets from 52 dollars to Chicago Dogs at St. In 2005, it was decided to tear the stadium down and construct a new one in its place.This past month has been no exceptions with stadiums proposed from the MLS to the USL. In June 2009 the Saints began a push to build a new stadium in Downtown Saint Paul. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. with a family-friendly movie on the big screen, followed by fireworks around 10:00 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and stadium concessions will be open throughout the evening. Midway Stadium, Saint Paul, Minn. - charliesballparks.com Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. Rotery watches Connect promo code 2018 Foot pedi scholl Samsung 39 1080p led hdtv Pennisula hotel beverly hills Naples restaurant guide Loves tree removal Parfum versace homme Red wok restaurant menu	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line652
__label__cc	0.546508	0.453492	Essity Invests in Sustainable Alternative Fiber Technology May 29, 2019 12:35 PM ET From Farm to Factory - @Essity Invests in Sustainable Fiber Technology To Integrate Alternative Fiber into Consumer and Professional Hygiene Tissue Products http://bit.ly/2I51JQF From Farm to Factory - Essity Invests in Sustainable Fiber Technology To Integrate Alternative Fiber into Consumer and Professional Hygiene Tissue Products PHILADELPHIA, May 29, 2019 /3BL Media/ - Essity, a leading global hygiene and health company with a commitment to a circular society, will invest approximately MSEK 400 in a sustainable alternative fiber facility at its tissue manufacturing plant in Mannheim, Germany. This investment will enable the company to produce high quality consumer and professional hygiene tissue products from wheat straw, a renewable resource that is an agricultural by-product. This process is a circular innovation that will improve the overall environmental impact of tissue products produced there. Production is set to begin in the second half of 2020. “To support our sustainability ambitions, we continuously assess new production methods. This is one example of how innovation can contribute to a sustainable and circular society,” says Magnus Groth, Essity’s President and CEO. Essity, one of the world’s largest tissue manufacturers and the world’s largest purchaser of fresh pulp, also uses recycled fiber in its tissue production. Wheat straw is the stalk leftover after the grain is harvested from wheat. While some wheat straw is used as animal bedding or ground cover, about half the wheat straw worldwide goes to waste. Essity will source wheat straw from farmers in and around Mannheim. New Process Produces Tissue Comparable in Quality to Fresh Wood Pulp Essity has signed an exclusive license agreement with US-based Sustainable Fiber Technologies (SFT). The global agreement will give Essity access to SFT’s Phoenix Process™, a technology that converts plant-based renewable sources to pulp suitable for manufacturing tissue products. Tissue produced with wheat straw using this process is as bright, soft and strong as tissue produced from fresh wood pulp. Using wheat straw has significant sustainability benefits including a significant reduction in the use of water and energy. “This process will enable Essity to replace some certified fresh wood fiber with renewable wheat straw. This will result in an environmental benefit as the process uses significantly less water and energy. Additionally, it transforms an unused agricultural by-product into a scalable new tissue fiber source,” said Don Lewis, President, Essity Professional Hygiene. A New Example of Essity’s Commitment to Circularity Additionally, the by-product from producing the wheat straw pulp can be used in many ways, creating a circular outcome for this resource. Examples include fertilizer and soil enhancement, a sustainable alternative to the petroleum used in synthetic products and industrial and construction additives. Essity´s ambitions are to reduce our environmental footprint of our products with 33% by 2030 and our expanded targets for carbon emissions have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative that align with the Paris Agreement on reduction of climate impact. Today Essity manufactures tissue products for the consumer and professional hygiene segments with about 60% from fresh wood fiber from certified sources and 40% from recycled fiber tissue. About Essity Essity is a leading global hygiene and health company dedicated to improving well-being through products and services, essentials for everydaylife. The name Essity stems from the words essentials and necessities. Our sustainable business model creates value for people and nature.Sales are conducted in approximately 150 countries under the leading global brands TENA and Tork, and other strong brands, such as JOBST,Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo, Vinda and Zewa. Essity has about 47,000 employees and net sales in 2018 amounted to approximately $40 million. The headquarters is located in Stockholm, Sweden, and the company is listed onNasdaq Stockholm. More information at www.essity.com. Amy Bellcourt Vice President Corporate Communications, Essity Professional Hygiene Amy.Bellcourt@essity.com Eco-Living, Consumption & Travel Supply Chain & the Circular Economy OTC:ESSYY More from Essity Do Patients Care About Sustainability? Jun 7, 2019 11:00 AM ET Essity Invests in Wheat Straw Technology to Improve Circularity of Tissue Products Ugly Produce Gets Some Love! May 7, 2019 8:00 AM ET New Survey Reveals Importance of Hand Hygiene	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line653
__label__cc	0.520405	0.479595	忠泰建築文化藝術基金會 Main menu (en) Project Urbancore Museum of Tomorrow Jut Art Museum Jut Architecture Academy The JUT Foundation for Arts and Architecture was founded in 2007 in the support of its parent company, JUT Land Development Group. Outreaching from small minority areas to larger communal ones, it aims to use experimental and diverse architectural, artistic and cultural perspectives to discover the possibilities for a better living spaces. By its professions and resources from the field of architecture, and collaborations with various architects, artists, designers, cultural workers and scholars, the foundation is devoted to raising the awareness about the development of city environments and the importance of architecture and art industry. Through various exhibitions, events, workshops, lectures and publications, it keeps provoking ideas on living aesthetics and nourishing local art and culture. Since the establishment, JUT Foundation has organized projects such as Museum of Tomorrow, Project Urbancore, JUT Architecture Academy and Jut Art Museum, to create various platforms for architects, designers and artists to showcase their creative works and, at the same time, to serve the social functions of arts and culture for public to learn. On the basis of architectural and artistic projects, the foundation hopes to build up a more vivid relationship between city dwellers and the city and to invite more people to imagine a better tomorrow for our society. JUT Group © 2016 JFAA All rights reserved. E-MAIL：jfaa@jutfoundation.org.tw ADD：10666 No.178, Sec. 3, Civic Blvd., Da'an Dist., Taipei City	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line654
__label__cc	0.697658	0.302342	Home » Whisky Book Whisky Book Here is the quintessential guide to everything you wanted to know about Scotch whisky. Inside you will find all the relevant facts to do with your favourite classic malts, how ‘the water of life’ had its origins in mystic medieval times in ancient Caledonia, how bold smugglers risked life and limb to escape the dreaded customs men, the real story behind the fortuitous shipwreck of Whisky Galore!, a tour of the top distilleries and much, much more… So sit down, relax and savour this appreciation of the world’s favourite tipple. Within, you will find all you wanted to know about Scotch whisky, including how it is made, the colourful history, many redoubtable characters and wild incidents associated with the drink and how to invest in this modern success story, plus a comprehensive guide, details and background to the major malt distilleries. Exports are currently generating more than £4.5 billion annually for the UK balance of trade, a record high, and 40 bottles a second are shipped abroad, while Scotch now accounts for a quarter of UK food and drinks exports. There are 108 distilleries in operation in Scotland with 10,000 people directly employed, plus a further 35,000 jobs supported throughout Britain. Markets are expanding everywhere worldwide, especially in the Far East as the merits of discerning whisky appreciation spreads to different cultures. Vintage and quality are coming once more into their own with the retreat of recession. So sit down with a neat dram – or indeed any other refreshing libation – and relax, turn the pages at leisure and enjoy… George Forbes Product Code: WBZ001 Scotlands Commonwealth Games in Glasgow 2014 Mar 05, 2014 With the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in summer 2014 we have decided to celebrate the occasion with the publication of book 'The Wee Book of Scotla.. whisky scottish scotch	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line658
__label__cc	0.531089	0.468911	Home Large Print Books Fiction Adventure & thriller Black Light (Large Print Edition) Black Light (Large Print Edition) (large print) Patrick MeltonMarcus DunstanStephen Romano Released: 18 December 2012 Publisher: Hachette Book Group ISBN: 9780316248143-POD Availability: Usually delivered within 14 days. Format(inches): 9x6 Product Weight: 650gm Publisher Statement: large type edition The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51. This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top secret clearances. For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets, to divine other nations' secrets, and even to predict future threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and military services involved include CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the Navy, Air Force, and Army -- and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now, for the first time, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen tells the story of these radical, controversial programs, using never before seen declassified documents as well as exclusive interviews with, and unprecedented access to, more than fifty of the individuals involved. Speaking on the record, many for the first time, are former CIA and Defense Department scientists, analysts, and program managers, as well as the government psychics themselves. Who did the U.S. government hire for these top secret programs, and how do they explain their military and intelligence work? How do scientists approach such enigmatic subject matter? What interested the government in these supposed powers and does the research continue? Phenomena is a riveting investigation into how far governments will go in the name of national security. Other books by Patrick MeltonMarcus DunstanStephen Romano No Book Found All large print books by Patrick MeltonMarcus DunstanStephen Romano Large print Adventure & thriller books by Patrick MeltonMarcus DunstanStephen Romano Some Veil Did Fall	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line659
__label__cc	0.613395	0.386605	Facebook Live, The New 'Witness' to Crime? By Nethani Palmani Feb 16, 2017 02:04 PM EST Facebook, Facebook live, Social Media, Chicago torture video, special-needs teen, Crime, evidence, Witness, Snapchat, Detectives, Communications Decency Act The recent torture of a special-needs teen, streamed live on Facebook Live has raised concerns about the illicit use of social media as a platform of abuse and humiliation. However, instead of pointing fingers at social media, people should be thrilled that these outlets are actually enticing criminals to post evidences witnessing their own crimes. Social media platforms like Facebook and Snapchat appears to be one of the first places detectives often look for key witness and evidences. Some cases would be completely unwinnable for the state if not for the defendant providing all the incriminating evidence against himself on social media. The tragic Chicago torture video reported by CNN is a perfect example. It seems at this point that there might never have been a criminal case to begin with, without Facebook Live. Even if the disabled victim had tried identifying his assailants to police, a defense attorney might have picked the victim apart on cross-examination and raised reasonable doubt as he was the sole eyewitness to this event. In contrary to that, having a Facebook Live video that is created, co-created and published by the defendants themselves, will likely singlehandedly convict them. This is being said, with the added bonus of giving a judge plenty of witnessing support for maxing them out at sentencing. However, as a society interested in retributive justice, incidents replicating the Chicago case still cause some to demand that social media companies such as Facebook do more to police and prevent this kind of content being posted by users. What many do not know is the Communications Decency Act "interactive computer services providers" such as Facebook, from liability for what others post which includes Facebook Live videos, even if the social media sites have been notified about damaging material and fail to remove it, according to the Legal Information Institute. Despite the abuse of social media, it shouldn't be hard for people to accept that at least now, social media witnesses evidence of crimes, often supplied by the self-sabotaging criminals themselves. When people post this kind of content especially through live videos that of which Facebook offers, they only help law enforcement update their "status" from citizen, to defendant and, ultimately, convicted criminal. Suspect Arrested in Ohio State Student Murder Florida Man Suspected in 4 killings Found Dead; Female Accomplice Arrested 3 Men Arrested in Sweden Over Live Facebook Broadcast of Gang Rape Mark Zuckerberg Sues Dead Hawaiian Neighbours Elon Musk Vows To Help Rewrite Trump’s Immigration Policy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line660
__label__wiki	0.925092	0.925092	Metallica’s Black album closing in on 16 million US sales Metallica’s 1991 self-titled release – generally referred to as the “Black” album because of its cover – is closing in on sales of 16 million copies in the US. Billboard reports the album moved from No. 166 to No. 146 on the Billboard 200 chart this week and says at its current rate of sales (about 2,000 to 3,000 per week), “Metallica” should surpass 16 million in about three or four months. The project is already the best-selling album of the SoundScan era, and has been since the week ending Dec. 20, 2009. “Metallica” has been on the Billboard 200 chart for 294 weeks and is the group's best-selling album with 30 million copies worldwide. The album debuted at number one in ten countries, and spent four consecutive weeks at the top spot of the Billboard 200, making it Metallica's first release to top album charts. The album featured five hit singles, including "Enter Sandman", "The Unforgiven", "Nothing Else Matters", "Wherever I May Roam", and "Sad But True." Metallica bassist’s “Jaco” documentary named Official Film of Record Store Day http://www.hennemusic.com/2014/02/metallica-bassists-jaco-documentary.html Metallica: Lang Lang discusses Grammy Awards performance Metallica holding fan vote for new Metallica Pinball machine songs Metallica release Grammy rehearsal of One with Lang Lang VIDEO: Metallica guitarist performs with Death Angel at Fear FestEvil VIDEO: Metallica guitarist performs with Exodus at Fear FestEvil VIDEO: Metallica guitarist shares stories at Guitar Center VIDEO: Metallica’s Grammys rehearsals with Lang Lang VIDEO: Metallica frontman visits Guitar Center Metallica: No more Orion Music + More festivals VIDEO: Metallica perform at the Grammy Awards PHOTOS: Metallica rehearse for the Grammy Awards VIDEO: Metallica’s Enter Sandman featured in Dragster 800 motorcycle preview Metallica discuss upcoming Grammy performance Metallica planning to start work on new album Jason Newsted reveals why he left Metallica Metallica to perform at the Grammy Awards Metallica guitarist updates Fear FestEvil plans Metallica release Antarctica concert VIDEO: Metallica share Antarctica soundcheck footage Metallica top the hennemusic Hot 10 Metallica visit Russian research station in Antarctica VIDEO: Metallica perform in Antarctica PHOTOS: Metallica perform in Antarctica Metallica’s Through The Never snags Grammy Award nomination Metallica reveal full Metallica By Request European tour Metallica: 2014 Orion Music + More Festival update Metallica and Iron Maiden to headline Sonisphere Festival Metallica fans to pick setlist for European shows Metallica post rare Garage Inc. video press package Metallica: Through The Never soundtrack coming to vinyl Metallica feature film Through The Never coming to DVD San Francisco Giants to host 2nd annual Metallica Night in 2014 VIDEO: Metallica’s James Hetfield honored by Little Kids Rock Metallica to release Through The Never soundtrack vinyl on Black Friday Metallica to host Orion 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Puppets from Through The Never VIDEO: Metallica – Watch complete Rock In Rio performance VIDEO: Metallica – San Diego Comic-Con panel for Through The Never Metallica to guest on The Howard Stern Show VIDEO: Metallica – Through The Never Q&A at Toronto International Film Festival VIDEO: Metallica share Jakarta concert footage VIDEO: Metallica – Making of Through The Never part 3 VIDEO: Metallica release Singapore concert footage VIDEO: Metallica share Kuala Lumpur concert footage Metallica to screen Through The Never at Fantastic Fest Metallica premiere Master Of Puppets from Through The Never soundtrack VIDEO: Metallica share Seoul concert footage VIDEO: Metallica share Shanghai concert footage Metallica rumored to play at Mariano Rivera ceremony Metallica announce Apollo Theater show VIDEO: Metallica share Osaka concert footage VIDEO: Metallica unveil new motion poster for Through The Never Metallica: Through The Never to premiere at Toronto International Film Festival VIDEO: Metallica share Tokyo concert footage Metallica perform first concerts in China Metallica video titles now available via iTunes Metallica announce Australian screenings for Through The Never Metallica release secret San Diego show Metallica to release Through The Never soundtrack VIDEO: Metallica release Comic-Con secret show footage VIDEO: Metallica play secret show following Comic-Con appearance VIDEO: Metallica release Through The Never trailer VIDEO: Metallica perform Master Of Puppets at Orion Music festival VIDEO: Metallica perform 1986 classic at Orion Music festival VIDEO: Metallica perform I Disappear at Orion Music festival VIDEO: Metallica perform Harvester Of Sorrow at Orion Music festival Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich engaged VIDEO: Metallica release Roskilde festival footage Metallica Pro Pinball to debut at Comic-Con VIDEO: Metallica perform For Whom The Bell Tolls at Orion Music festival VIDEO: Metallica perform classic 1988 track at Orion Music + More festival Metallica to perform secret show during Comic-Con VIDEO: Metallica play Roskilde festival for first time in 10 years Metallica to discuss Through The Never 3D film at Comic-Con Metallica add second Shanghai date to Asian tour Metallica announce first-ever Kuala Lumpur show VIDEO: Metallica release Revolver Golden Gods footage VIDEO: Metallica perform classics in South Africa VIDEO: Metallica perform in South Africa VIDEO: Metallica perform Master Of Puppets in Abu Dhabi VIDEO: Metallica release Perth concert footage VIDEO: Metallica bassist rocks Orion Music festival Metallica adds Singapore date to Asian tour VIDEO: Metallica release Adelaide concert footage VIDEO: Metallica – Orion Music + More day 2 recap VIDEO: Metallica – Watch full Kill ‘Em All set at Orion Music festival VIDEO: Metallica share footage of surprise set at Orion Music + More VIDEO: Metallica share Melbourne concert footage VIDEO: Metallica share Soundwave Sydney concert footage VIDEO: Metallica share Brisbane concert footage VIDEO: Metallica – Orion Music + More festival recap VIDEO: Metallica close Orion Music + More festival VIDEO: Metallica play surprise afternoon set at Orion Music + More festival VIDEO: Metallica – Orion Music + More press conference Ronnie James Dio Cancer Fund to launch awareness program at Orion Music + More Metallica to perform in China for the first time Metallica offer fans a 2013 Orion Music + More festival checklist Metallica offer free download of Star-Spangled Banner performance Metallica to play Roskilde Festival VIDEO: Metallica release trailer for Through The Never 3D film Metallica talk about plans for new album VIDEO: Metallica promotes Through The Never 3D film at Cannes Film Festival PHOTO: Metallica’s Lars Ulrich at Cannes Film Festival Video preview of Metallica Pinball Metallica: Orion Music + More festival Art Contest deadline this weekend Metallica: James Hetfield’s former home for sale Metallica to screen Through The Never at Cannes Film Festival VIDEO: Metallica preview Kirk’s Crypt for upcoming Orion Music fest PHOTO: Metallica – First look at Through The Never 3D film VIDEO: Metallica drummer throws out first pitch in San Francisco VIDEO: Metallica perform national anthem in San Francisco VIDEO: Metallica receive Lifetime Achievement at Golden Gods Awards Metallica announce performance schedules for Orion Music + More VIDEO: Metallica jam with San Francisco Giants pitcher Barry Zito Metallica Night at AT&T Park adds National Anthem Guitar Auction Metallica: 3D film to debut on IMAX in September Metallica: Kirk’s Crypt returns for Orion Music festival VIDEO: Metallica prepare for Orion Custom Car & Motorcycle Show Metallica Pinball games coming next month Metallica Pinball coming soon Metallica bringing Vans Vert Ramp to Orion Music festival VIDEO: Metallica drummer interviewed for Mission To Lars DVD VIDEO: Metallica guitarist joins Anthrax for AC/DC classic in San Francisco Metallica Museum returning for Orion Music + More 2013 Metallica: The Complete Illustrated History book due this fall Rare 1995 video of Metallica celebrating Lemmy’s 50th birthday Metallica: Orion Custom Car + Motorcycle show applications open Metallica frontman says 2013 Orion Music festival will be edgy Metallica’s 3D film described as concert movie meets The Wall Metallica introduce Kill ‘Em All 30th Anniversary Vans shoes VIDEO: Metallica frontman interviewed at Soundwave in Sydney Metallica: Brisbane & Sydney Soundwave shows available for download Metallica drummer looking forward to Orion Music + More 2013 Metallica announce 2013 Orion Music + More festival lineup Soundwave: Girl suffers burns after flare lit in Sydney mosh pit VIDEO: Metallica kick off Australia’s Soundwave festival in Brisbane Metallica never asked military to stop using their music San Francisco Giants to host Metallica night Metallica unveil signature Vans shoes Metallica not performing Black album at Soundwave Metallica to headline 5th annual Revolver 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The drummer’s sophomore solo effort follows 2004’s “Hollywood Zen” project. “Stratosphere” can be pre-ordered via the Amazon link below. In November, Sorum premiered a new track, "The Sea", at a benefit concert billed as "Tokyo Celebrates The Dolphin"; he continues to be an outspoken activist for animal rights. Guns N’ Roses: Axl Rose to be honored at Revolver Golden Gods Awards Guns N’ Roses: Gilby Clarke recalls playing Rock Hall induction without Axl Rose VIDEO: Guns N’ Roses preview Las Vegas residency VIDEO: Matt Sorum previews new solo album Search Guns N Roses at hennemusic Labels: Guns N Roses Anthrax launch limited-edition Persistence Of Time guitar Anthrax are launching a limited-edition “Persistence Of Time” guitar as part of the Artist Series Guitar line. The axe is inspired by Anthrax’s fifth album, 1990’s “Persistence of Time”, which ushered in a new age in Thrash and a new direction for the band. The project was nominated in 1991 for a Grammy Award in the Best Metal Performance category. The album included the singles, "Got The Time" (a Joe Jackson cover) and "In My World" (which was performed by the band on the Married... with Children episode, "My Dinner with Anthrax"). “Persistence Of Time” was the last full Anthrax album to feature vocalist Joey Belladonna until 2011's "Worship Music." ASG is producing a limited-edition of 100 hand-numbered “Persistence of Time” models, each finished by master craftsmen and shipped with a certificate of authenticity. The album’s iconic cover art bursts off the hand-carved mahogany top, complimenting the single cutaway guitar’s solid mahogany body, rosewood fingerboard, Mother-of-Pearl trapezoid inlays, Gravedigger headstock, custom ASG Arsenal pickups and chrome ASG headstock emblem. Learn more about the model at artistseriesguitar.com Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian recently launched a spoken-word tour of North America. The show, billed as “Speaking Words”, sees the guitarist recount tales from his 30-year music career. Ian will publish his autobiography, “I'm The Man”, in October. Anthrax guitarist supports KISS not playing Rock Hall induction Anthrax guitarist discusses upcoming autobiography Anthrax reveal plans for new album Anthrax to film live DVD in Chile this week Search Anthrax at hennemusic Posted by Bruce Henne at 5:50 PM Labels: Anthrax Beady Eye part ways with manager Oasis offshoot Beady Eye have parted ways with manager Scott Rodger. NME reports the band, fronted by Liam Gallagher and featuring former Oasis members Gem Archer and Andy Bell, were managed by Scott Rodger, who also works with Arcade Fire and Paul McCartney, for the duration of their “BE” campaign. However, their working relationship has come to an end following the end of the contract signed by both parties. "Beady Eye are one of the last great British rock bands,” said Rodger in a statement. “It has been a pleasure to have worked with them on this album campaign. They are in complete control of their future as a band with many exciting new projects on the horizon. We've just about reached the end of the 'BE' album cycle and it's the right time for the band to make a change. Our paths will cross again in the future I'm sure. I wish them continued success in everything they do." Beady Eye released their second album, “BE”, in June, 2013; their debut, “Different Gear, Still Speeding”, was released in 2011. The group are set to play two shows in Japan at the end of March. Gallagher’s former band, Oasis, will release a 20th anniversary edition of their 1994 debut, “Definitely Maybe”, on May 20. The reissue will be available as a standard CD and digital download of the original album; a three-disc Special Edition version including rare recordings and demos; a 12" vinyl LP featuring all the bonus CD content as a free download; and a Deluxe Box Set which features the LP and the CDs. Learn more about the reissue here. Oasis to release Definitely Maybe 20th anniversary edition VIDEO: Noel Gallagher slams Oasis videos Noel Gallagher turns down £20 million offer for Oasis reunion Beady Eye announce European tour Search Oasis at hennemusic Search Beady Eye at hennemusic Labels: Beady Eye, Oasis Iron Maiden singer helps launch world’s largest aircraft Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson is helping launch the world’s biggest aircraft. The BBC reports the singer is both an investor and spokesperson for The Hybrid Air Vehicle (HAV), named Airlander, which can stay airborne for up to three weeks and will be vital in delivering several tons of humanitarian aid. With a length of 302ft (92m), the new airship is about 60ft longer than the biggest airliners, the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-8. It is also almost 30ft longer than the massive cargo-carrying Antonov An-225, which until now was the longest aircraft ever built. "It's a game changer, in terms of things we can have in the air and things we can do," explains Dickinson. "The airship has always been with us, it's just been waiting for the technology to catch up." The pilot and Iron Maiden singer wants to drum up publicity with the kind of trip Richard Branson would dream up: a non-stop flight around the world - twice. "It seizes my imagination. I want to get in this thing and fly it pole to pole," he says. "We'll fly over the Amazon at 20ft, over some of the world's greatest cities and stream the whole thing on the internet." In the spring of 2012, Dickinson and partner Mario Fulgoni launched Cardiff Aviation as a major commercial airline maintenance repair and overhaul operation in South Wales. The company is based at the Twin Peaks hangar at St. Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan. Iron Maiden kick off their 2014 live dates May 31 at the Fortarock Festival in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The summer tour will round off the band’s Maiden England World Tour, which will end with a headline performance at the UK Sonisphere Festival in July as part of the 40th Anniversary celebrations at Knebworth Park. By the end of the tour the band will have played 102 shows in 32 countries to well over two million fans since starting in the USA in June 2012. Iron Maiden add dates to summer tour Iron Maiden bassist’s Bahamas property raided by armed robbers Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Aerosmith to headline Hellfest 2014 Search Iron Maiden at hennemusic Labels: Iron Maiden Rob Zombie to direct Charles Manson mini-series Rob Zombie has teamed with American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis to develop a mini-series about the Charles Manson Family murder-spree in the summer of 1969. Variety reports the series, in the early stage of development for FOX TV, will see Zombie direct and Ellis write the script. Zombie has long been fascinated by the Manson Family slayings, which left seven people dead in the Los Angeles area. Among the victims were actress Sharon Tate, who was eight and a half months pregnant at the time with the child of director Roman Polanski, and prominent Hollywood hairstylist Jay Sebring. “I have been obsessed with this insane story since I was a kid, so obviously I jumped at the chance to be involved in this incredible project,” said Zombie. “After speaking with Bret, I immediately realized that we shared the same vision for this epic madness.” The killings were so gruesome, and the stories of Charles Manson’s level of control of his drug-addled young followers so disturbing, that Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy charges even though he was never found to have committed a homicide himself. Manson was sentenced to death in 1971, but the sentence changed to life in prison when the U.S. Supreme Court deemed the death penalty unconstitutional the following year (the court later reversed itself, and California reinstated the death penalty, but Manson’s life-in-prisonment sentence was left standing). He has been denied parole 12 times. To date, Zombie has directed several movies, including “House Of 1000 Corpses” (2003), “The Devil’s Rejects” (2005), and “The Lords Of Salem” (2013). On the road to promote his latest album, “Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor”, the rocker just completed playing shows on Australia’s traveling Soundwave festival and will launch a spring US tour April 26 in Fort Myers, Florida. Zombie will also release a forthcoming live DVD, “The Zombie Horror Picture Show”, in May. Rob Zombie reveals tracklisting for new live DVD Rob Zombie unveils cover of new live DVD VIDEO: Rob Zombie previews forthcoming live DVD Rob Zombie announces US tour Search Rob Zombie at hennemusic Labels: Rob Zombie Allman Brothers: New Duane Allman book due next week “Please Be With Me: A Song For My Father Duane Allman”, a new book about the legendary guitarist written by his daughter, will be published March 3. Galadrielle Allman went to her first concert as an infant in diapers, held in her teenage mother’s arms. Playing was her father, Duane Allman, who would become one of the most influential and sought-after musicians of his time. Just a few short years into his remarkable career, he was killed in a motorcycle accident at the age of twenty-four. His daughter was two years old. Galadrielle was raised in the shadow of his loss and his fame. Her mother sought solace in a bohemian life. Friends and family found it too painful to talk about Duane. Galadrielle listened intently to his music, read articles about him, steeped herself in the mythic stories, and yet the spotlight rendered him too simple and too perfect to know. She felt a strange kinship to the fans who longed for him, but she needed to know more. It took her many years to accept that his life and his legacy were hers, so she began to ask for stories—from family, fellow musicians, friends—and they began to flow. Galadrielle Allman’s memoir is billed as an intimate account of one of the greatest guitar prodigies of all time, the story of the birth of a band that redefined the American musical landscape, and a tale of a daughter searching for her father in the memories of others. “Please Be With Me: A Song For My Father Duane Allman” can be pre-ordered via the Amazon link below. Gregg Allman recently confirmed that the Allman Brothers Band will stop touring after marking their 45th anniversary this year. The group will launch their final residency at New York City’s Beacon Theatre on March 7; they’ll play 14 dates at the venue before hosting their 10th annual Wanee Music Festival in Florida in April. Gregg Allman biopic filming shut down following fatal crash Crew member killed on set of Gregg Allman film Gregg Allman biopic adds three more actors Allman Brothers biography due next week Search The Allman Brothers at hennemusic Labels: Gregg Allman, The Allman Brothers Queen and Adam Lambert to make announcement next week Queen and Adam Lambert will make an announcement at a scheduled press event at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Thursday, March 6. Based on recent comments by guitarist Brian May, it is anticipated that the pairing will formally announce a series of US concert dates for this summer. "We've been talking to Adam Lambert, you know we've already done some gigs with Adam, who is amazing," May recently told BBC Radio 2 host Steve Wright. “We are ongoing, we can't help it. I think we all protested too much in the sense when Freddie went and we didn't want to talk about it and didn't want to be Queen for a while." "But after a while,” he continued, “you realize that people wanna hear the songs and see us do things. So, no matter what you call it, Roger and I do do stuff, and I think we'll be doing some more stuff this summer in fact, probably in the States." Queen have previously toured Europe with Lambert, the former American Idol contestant, and played the iHeart Radio Music Festival in Las Vegas last fall. Queen planning US tour with Adam Lambert Queen’s Greatest Hits becomes first album to sell 6 million in UK Queen guitarist issues cancer update VIDEO: Queen share Live In Rio 1985 concert film Search Queen at hennemusic Labels: Adam Lambert, Queen VIDEO: Rolling Stones play first of three shows in Japan The Rolling Stones brought their 14 On Fire Tour to Japan this week, where they played the first of three shows at the Tokyo Dome on Wednesday, and video from the event has surfaced. Starting with their 1965 hit, “Get Off Of My Cloud”, the Stones rocked the sold-out crowd with a twenty-song set that included the fan-voted track, “Bitch.” “Loved the opening show at the Tokyo Dome last night!,” posted Mick Jagger. “There were some great costumes! Hope my Japanese is better next show!” The Stones will play two more sold-out dates at the Tokyo Dome next Tuesday and Thursday before heading to Macau, Shanghai, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. VIDEO: The Rolling Stones arrive in Japan for 14 On Fire shows The Rolling Stones top the hennemusic Hot 10 VIDEO: Rolling Stones launch 14 On Fire Tour in Adu Dhabi Rolling Stones prepare to launch 14 On Fire tour Search Rolling Stones at hennemusic Posted by Bruce Henne at 12:05 AM Labels: Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian has come out in support of the decision by KISS members Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons to pull the plug on a live performance at the band’s upcoming induction into the 2014 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. KISS released a statement explaining their decision (read it here) after original guitarist Ace Frehley broke the news on Eddie Trunk’s radio show (details here) and original drummer Peter Criss released a statement of his own (here). "Look, I've got Gene Simmons tattooed on my leg, so whatever Gene says is what goes,” Ian tells WMMS Cleveland’s Rover’s Morning Glory show while promoting his spoken-word tour, “Speaking Words.” "I'm a fan, just like everyone else, and would I wanna see, if I was going… I'm not going to the Hall Of Fame thing, so would I wanna see the four original dudes back in makeup one more time? Of course I would, as a fan. But bands don't do things dictated by what the audience wants. A band would last about a year if that's how you worked. You have to do things the way you wanna do them.” "KISS has been around for 40 years and are bigger now than they were in 1977 because Gene and Paul make smart business decisions — that's why,” continued Ian. “So, as a fan, and if you love them, you have to abide by the decisions that Gene and Paul are making for their brand and their band. So, why people get so upset over these things, I really don't understand. Like, if they decided they were playing with [current KISS members] Tommy [Thayer] and Eric [Singer], so fine. That's what they're doing. This is their band. This has been the lineup for a long time now.” "I get it — those two guys [Tommy and Eric] aren't the guys who are getting into the Hall Of Fame [with Paul and Gene], it's Ace and Peter… you know, I get it,” summed up the guitarist. “So I think they made the right decision now by saying, 'We're just not gonna play. You can't please everybody. We're just gonna shut it down and just not do it.' I get it. I understand." On April 10, KISS will be inducted into the 2014 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame at a ceremony in New York, along with Nirvana, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, Cat Stevens and Linda Ronstadt. KISS: Paul Stanley memoir recommended by Motley Crue bassist KISS: Paul Stanley previews Face The Music memoir KISS to play rare acoustic show without makeup Original KISS manager’s partner speaks out on Rock Hall controversy Search KISS at hennemusic Labels: Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, Kiss Jimi Hendrix photo exhibit to open next month A new Jimi Hendrix photo exhibit featuring the works of legendary rock and roll photographer Gered Mankowitz will open in Leeds, UK next month. The Yorkshire Evening Post reports the exhibition, entitled “The Jimi Hendrix Experience”, will be presented at White Cloth Gallery on Aire Street. Gered’s photos were taken at a pivotal point in Hendrix’s short career. These iconic portraits capture the mystery and otherworldliness defining his public image, just as Gered’s 1965-67 portraits of the Rolling Stones defined them as the antithesis of the Beatles. This Hendrix exhibition gives a clear insight into the real Jimi relaxing upbeat, smiling and happy. “Jimi was so positive and excited about what was happening to him,” said Mankowitz. “He was easy to work with and a pleasure to be around. Jimi was very shy and retiring, humble and modest. Not starry or assertive and that pretty well remained the case during the time that I knew him. There was a complete contrast between the man on stage and the man in person.” “The Jimi Hendrix Experience” exhibit opens Wednesday, March 5. The show will help to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and guests will be entertained with three exhibitions plus a performance from a live band. Prints will also be available for sale on site – for full event details, visit whiteclothgallery.com Jimi Hendrix to be featured on US postage stamp Jimi Hendrix to reissue Purple Haze single VIDEO: Jimi Hendrix’s final interview gets animated by PBS VIDEO: Jimi Hendrix classic featured in Winter Olympics commercial Search Jimi Hendrix at hennemusic Hendrix on the way Labels: Jimi Hendrix Slash not interested in a Guns N’ Roses biopic Despite turning movie producer with the release of last year’s “Nothing Left To Fear”, guitar icon Slash says he doesn't want to see a biopic made about his former band, Guns N' Roses. "I would not like to see a Guns N' Roses biopic,” Slash tells the Belfast Telegraph. “It's really rare where you see actors portraying live musicians (well). I don't think rock and roll translates in the movies, I don't think they really get the gritty vibe of what it's like." Slash played his last show with Guns N' Roses at River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina on July 17, 1993 and officially left the band in 1996. In 2010, the guitarist started Slasher Films, a horror film production company he formed in partnership with Michael Williams and Rob Eric of Scout Productions. The company’s first project, "Nothing Left To Fear", is a harrowing tale in the spirit of the terrifying horror films of the 1970s. The movie is inspired by the legend of Stull, Kansas, which is surrounded by internet folklore proclaiming the town to be one of the Seven Gateways to Hell. The film’s original motion picture soundtrack was written and produced by Slash and Nick O'Toole. It included the film score plus two original songs: "Nothing Left To Fear", which features vocalist Myles Kennedy, and the instrumental "Welcome To Stull." Slash is currently in the studio recording his third solo album; the sessions are being documented in a new web series, “Real To Reel” – learn more here. VIDEO: Slash album sessions documented in new web series AUDIO: Slash and Aaron Freeman cover Bob Dylan Slash, Alice Cooper, Vince Neil and more to perform at MSA Benefit Slash announces first-ever artist-focused hackathon Search Slash at hennemusic Labels: Slash VIDEO: Eddie Vedder joins Bruce Springsteen for AC/DC classic in Brisbane Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder joined Bruce Springsteen in Brisbane, Australia Wednesday night for a cover of the AC/DC classic, “Highway To Hell”, and video of the performance is available. The Brisbane show marked the final date of Springsteen’s Australian tour in support of his new album, “High Hopes”, and the second time Vedder joined the rocker on the trek for the AC/DC track – they also played it in Melbourne on February 15 (see video here). Vedder wrapped up a solo tour of the country last weekend, following recent shows there with Pearl Jam. Springsteen now moves on to New Zealand for a pair of concert this weekend. Bruce Springsteen tribute concert coming to DVD Bruce Springsteen to release 4 new songs on Record Store Day EP VIDEO: Bruce Springsteen covers INXS classic in Sydney Bruce Springsteen releases 10 remastered albums on iTunes Search Bruce Springsteen at hennemusic Labels: AC/DC, Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam Led Zeppelin: Unreleased Physical Graffiti tapes to be auctioned Unreleased studio mixes from the recording sessions for Led Zeppelin’s 1975 double-album, “Physical Graffiti”, are going up for sale next month, and Amherst, New Hampshire-based RR Auction has posted an audio preview for interested buyers. The auction house will sell the tapes – from the collection of audio engineer Ron Nevison – as part of its Marvels Of Modern Music auction, which runs March 13 – 20. Led Zeppelin recorded the “Physical Graffiti” tracks in the Ronnie Lane Mobile Studio that Nevison designed in an Airstream trailer. Structurally, many tracks are not very far along – most of the guitars and vocals were redone later, and some lack the vocals entirely. Additional orchestration was also added, and many times only the drum tracks from the recordings were used in the final product. Most notably, one of the tapes features the drums from “Kashmir” (then entitled “Driving To Kashmir”). Because bass player and keyboardist John Paul Jones had been late for the recording sessions, guitarist Jimmy Page used the time to work on the riff with drummer John Bonham. Nevison recorded Bonham’s drums on a separate track, running the cymbals through a phaser as an experiment; the band liked the results and used it on the final song. In addition to the drums, the fully-instrumental “Driving To Kashmir” recording also features the instantly recognizable guitar riff. “Nevison's Physical Graffiti tapes provide a window into the creative process behind one the greatest albums ever produced,” says RR Auction VP Bobby Livingston. “An absolutely remarkable piece of modern music history.” The Marvels Of Modern Music auction will feature more than 800 items – for details, visit rrauction.com Alter Bridge singer reveals details of Led Zeppelin audition Led Zeppelin book spotlights 1979 Knebworth Festival shows Robert Plant announces summer tour to support new album Led Zeppelin win Grammy Award for Celebration Day Search Led Zeppelin at hennemusic Labels: Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant VIDEO: Asia preview new album Gravitas Asia are previewing their forthcoming new album, “Gravitas”, with the release of a behind-the-scenes video package on the project. Produced and written by John Wetton and Geoff Downes, “Gravitas” introduces the band's new guitarist, Sam Coulson, who replaced Steve Howe last year following his return to the Yes lineup. Scheduled for release on March 5th (Japan), March 21st (Europe). and March 25th (North America), “Gravitas” will be available in two configurations: a standard CD and a Deluxe Edition, that will include two bonus tracks and a DVD containing the “Valkyrie” music video, a promotional film, and footage of classic live Asia tracks such as “Heat of the Moment,” recorded with the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria. This week, the band released the video for the album’s lead single, “Valkyrie.” Asia will launch a world tour to support “Gravitas” in June. “Gravitas” can be pre-ordered via the Amazon link below. Asia release video for new single Valkyrie Asia to release new album Steve Howe quits Asia to focus on Yes and other projects VIDEO: Asia – original lineup returns with new song Search Asia at hennemusic Labels: Asia Black Crowes: Chris Robinson Brotherhood release new single The Chris Robinson Brotherhood have released “Shore Power”, the first single from the band’s forthcoming third album, “Phosphorescent Harvest.” Produced by Thom Monahan and due April 29, the project features 10 songs, including several the band has road-tested over the last few years; they've performed over 230 shows since forming in 2011. Led by Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson, the band features guitarist Neal Casal, keyboardist Adam MacDougall, drummer George Sluppick and bassist Mark Dutton. "The best perspective I have on what's going on in my life - good and bad - is what comes out in the songs," says Robinson. "As you move on in time, you get older, you have relationships. Some of them are good, some fail. Friends. Drugs. Life. Death. People come, people go. Songwriting is a completely different emotional response to your life and to what it means, to in some poetic nature, put it out there." The Chris Robinson Brotherhood will hit the road fort live dates starting April 12 with an appearance at the Wanee Festival in Live Oak, Florida, with shows confirmed into late May and more to be announced. Check out the track listing for “Phosphorescent Harvest” and the band’s tour schedule here. Black Crowes: Chris Robinson Brotherhood announce new album Black Crowes guitarist to release third solo album The Black Crowes: Father of the Robinson brothers passes away The Black Crowes announce special guests for New York shows Search The Black Crowes at hennemusic Labels: The Black Crowes Deep Purple: Made In Japan deluxe reissue due this spring Deep Purple will reissue deluxe editions of their seminal 1972 live album, “Made In Japan”, in multiple formats on May 19. "Made In Japan" was recorded live over three nights during August 15–17, 1972 at Festival Hall, Osaka and Budokan, Tokyo; four of the tracks come from the band's 1972 "Machine Head" album. The project featured the classic Deep Purple MK II lineup of Ian Gillan (vocals), Ritchie Blackmore (guitar), Roger Glover (bass), Jon Lord (organ) and Ian Paice (drums). “Made In Japan” will be reissued in a number of special formats and will include previously unseen footage on DVD, bonus material and mixes, memorabilia and a hardback book. The "Made In Japan" formats include: * Limited Edition Super Deluxe 4 CD+DVD+7" Boxed Set * Limited-Edition Super Deluxe 9LP Boxed Set * Deluxe Edition 2CD * 180g 2LP * Blu-ray Pure Audio * HD Download * MFiT * Standard Digital format Deep Purple just wrapped up a month-long series of European shows in support of their latest album, “NOW What?!” The group returns to live action in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg on April 1. Deep Purple: Jon Lord photobook preview Deep Purple members to appear in finale of Isreali TV series Atlantica Deep Purple: Now What?! box set sees North American release this month Deep Purple release NOW What?! Gold Edition Search Deep Purple at hennemusic Labels: Deep Purple	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line665
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See short news from our members for our latest news about inspiring actions taken every day by ebbf members around the world. ebbf offers you the opportunity to either use or contribute to one of the nine ebbf key activities and over 250 events are created for you every year, attend or organize one of them. Enpact 6+ countries Empowering responsible entrepreneurs to shape sustainable societies worldwide. We are looking for outstanding start-ups from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East who are motivated to take matters into their own hands Entrepreneur Organization The Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) is a global business network of 10,000+ leading entrepreneurs in 144 chapters and 46 countries. Founded in 1987 by a group of young entrepreneurs, EO enables business owners to learn from each other, leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life. G-20Y The G-20Y Generation of young and successful business leaders cares about the prosperity of their immediate business environment as well as the development of their communities and countries. The G-20Y Vision is based on greater international cooperation, innovative ideas and mid- and long-term global economic prosperity. Global WINConference The WINConference is not only about connecting you to a magic energy and a sense that everything is possible. It is about business, about how to run the world and companies in a more integrated fashion, where women’s voices are heard and our common future taken seriously. WINConference offers you a chance to integrate your feminine values, contribute authentically and grasp our global interconnectedness. It gives space for more mindful networking, learning, sharing, creating and co-creating. We are passionate about offering practical tools for women to express their creativity, acknowledge their authentic strengths and develop new competencies. We carefully select at least 42 workshops and 5 forum panel discussions to provide the best and most diverse learning opportunities for you as a leader. Past topics have included; Diversity and Inclusion, Authentic Branding, Entrepreneurship, Women on Boards, Feminine Leadership, Find your mission, Storytelling and much more. 15+ cities The HBA mission is to further the advancement and impact of women in healthcare worldwide. Networking forums to build relationships Knowledge-sharing and access to thought leaders to broaden perspective. Educational programs to develop leadership skills and cutting edge industry knowledge. Recognition of outstanding women and companies to promote visibility of their achievements. The HBA has become a powerful instrument for effecting change, from advancing careers to maximizing personal potential. 63+ cities / 5 continents An innovation lab. A business Incubator. A social enterprise community center. Impact Hub offers you a unique ecosystem of resources, inspiration, and collaboration opportunities to grow the positive impact of your work. Joining our diverse community of members and collaborators will inspire, connect, and enable you to develop your best work every step of the way. Live Your Legend 200+ cities / 57+ countries Change the world by doing work you love. TO LIVE EACH DAY MAKING YOUR UNIQUE DENT IN THE WORLD, USING YOUR NATURAL STRENGTHS, PASSIONS AND TALENTS. Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute 12+ cities / 6+ countries The mind is the root of all things. SIY provides evidence-based practices to grow in self-mastery. It’s about navigating our opportunities and challenges with more resilience, more engagement, and more happiness. seedstarsworld Seedstars World is the only global startup competition in emerging markets and fast growing startup scenes A global start-up community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. The mission of Summit Series, Summit's flagship event series, is to unite the leaders of today and tomorrow through environments and events designed to catalyze positive personal and collective growth. The community we serve — a collection of entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, artists, scientists, athletes, and other change makers — is at the heart of everything we do. Through an annual conference, we set the stage for these people to forge lifelong friendships, spawn new business ideas, tackle global issues, and, in turn, make our world a better place. Past series include: Summit Outside (Utah), Summit Basecamp (California), Summit at Sea (International Waters), DC10 (Washington). 500+ cities / 100+ countries Techstars is the global ecosystem that helps entrepreneurs build great businesses TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading - through TED.com, our annual conferences, the annual TED Prize and local TEDx events. The Strategic Coach The Strategic Coach® Program is designed to make your 10x possibilities a reality. Working closely with over 16,000 entrepreneurs from more than 60 industries over the past 25 years, we have evolved a complete, proven support systemto help you transform your business and your quality of life. Every Coach session, you’ll get to strategize about what’s most pressing in your business right now and get lots of new insights from people in other industries and other parts of the world. You’ll also come away with prioritized, concrete action steps, new tools and capabilities, and a plan for the next 90 days to share with your team. New ideas can leave you energized and excited, but it’s the clarity about the action steps—and having them written down—that gets things done. The Titan Summit Hi, it’s Robin Sharma. Join me and a faculty of the World’s top experts to take your business and life to truly world-class… …Presenting The Titan Summit 2015, December 5-8 at the Ritz-Carlton in Toronto. Widely considered one of the best live events on Earth for people who want to build epic businesses, live legendary lives and network with the most successful people in the world… The Womanity Foundation The Womanity Foundation has a hands-on approach. With the collaboration of our partners and field staff, we identify local needs, design programs and supervise the implementation of our initiatives. While aiming at generating systemic change in the beneficiaries’ communities, we focus on innovation as well as potential for growth, sustainability and replicability. Lift Conference The first Lift conference edition was created in 2006 in Geneva; it has since become one of the leading European digital innovation conferences. It attracts innovators from around the world for three memorable days of inspirational speeches, interactive workshops, informal networking and knowledge-sharing. Over 1000 participants - from entrepreneurs to senior managers, engineers to scientists, researchers to artists - gather to learn about key trends, to share the knowledge and experience that fuel innovation. MakeSense MakeSense is a rapidly growing, global open-source community of passionate individuals who use their skills, knowledge and connections to tackle business, design and technology challenges of social entrepreneurs. Joining the gang, you’ll be part of a global movement: Hold-Ups have happened more than 1500 times in over 100 cities across the planet, with with some of the most active centers in Paris, Mexico, London, Sao Paolo, Brussels, and Dakar. Wisdom 2.0 USA, Singapore Wisdom 2.0 addresses the great challenge of our age: to not only live connected to one another through technology, but to do so in ways that are beneficial to our own well-being, effective in our work, and useful to the world. Through our series of conferences, meet-ups, and workshops, Wisdom 2.0 strives to bring this conversation to the world in an accessible, innovative, and inclusive way. 4onemankind 4onemanknd is a meeting place for change makers worldwide Changemakers Forward Build empowering connections with changemakers from around the world! We’re creating a unique and empowering community for the world’s changemakers. Connecting and empowering Changemakers to sustainably move forward on the path to making the world a better place. ChangeMakers Network This is a community for ChangeMakers - leaders and coaches who create positive change - to help you connect and collaborate to have an exponentially bigger impact together. We share best practices, experiences, insights, connections and perspectives to support each other in building inspiring and remarkable businesses. Changemakrs What inspires you? What ideas are changing the world? These are the questions behind Changemakrs, a place for you to discover and share ideas from the world's most inspiring leaders and thinkers. Coaching For Social Change We empower rising stars in social & environmental justice movements to thrive and grow their impact. Want to get a feel for us? Check out “Be a Powerhouse for Social Change,” our free online training for leaders ready to jumpstart, revive, or see through their big ideas. In one hour, you’ll get something you can use every day to experience less isolation, struggle, frustration, dread, & stuck-ness… and more fulfillment, effectiveness, confidence, & creativity. Sermons on life, love, consciousness, some cash, and every day liberation. And desire. It all goes back to desire. Design Impact Design Impact is a non-profit social innovation firm made up of designers, community development practitioners, social entrepreneurs, and educators. We collaborate with passionate people, bring design and innovation practice to the table, and work together to design a better world. • INCUBATE projects that transform communities, • EQUIP leaders with social innovation tools, and • ADVANCE methods of creative community change. Genius Network Genius Network® Is An Ever Expanding System Of Increasing Cooperation And Creativity Among Unique Ability Achievers. Your Ultimate Resource To Creating An ELF™ (Easy, Lucrative, & Fun) Business. YOU are at the epicenter of a GENIUS NETWORK® of people, ideas and actions. This combined Genius Network® has led to thousands of relationships and business connections that have resulted in many millions of dollars in revenues for many Entrepreneurs. Global Gratitude Alliance A small tagline We sponsor projects led by an amazing network of local changemakers. Global Opportunity Network People change the world, not papers. The Global Opportunity Network develops and animates the opportunities presented in the Global Opportunity Report, creating new synergies and partnerships to pave the way towards even more opportunities. High Performance Academy High Performance Academy teaches you advanced achievement principles and strategies so that you can master your mind, energize your body and brain, become wildly more productive, and influence more people quickly and easily. Hosting Transformation The International Partnership for Transformative Learning (IPTL) is a social network of practitioners and hosts of transformative learning. IPTL articulates this new paradigm of learning, develops and implements new tools for addressing it, and brings together the practitioners who have the power and skills to host this transformation. The IPTL started in 2011 as an alliance of eight European organizations funded as Learning Partnership by the EU Grundtvig Programme. In 2013, the IPTL organized the yearly ChangeMaker Festival and started to invite new partners in. Get A 'Backstage Pass' to Ramit's Inner Circle Of Successful Friends, Advisors, And Confidants. Mankind Project International The ManKind Project supports a global network of over 1,000 peer-facilitated men's groups serving close to 10,000 men each week. In an MKP men's group, men mentor men through the passages of their lives. The ManKind Project empowers men to missions of service, supporting men to make a difference in the lives of others - men, women, and children around the world. We help men through any transition, men at all levels of success, men facing almost any challenge. Our flagship training, described by many as the most powerful men's training available, is the New Warrior Training Adventure. The ManKind Project (MKP) is not affiliated with any religious practice or political party. We strive to be increasingly inclusive and affirming of cultural differences, especially with respect to color, class, sexual orientation, faith, age, ability, ethnicity, and nationality. The easiest way to find out more is to talk to men and women whose lives have been affected by MKP. If you would like to connect to people in your local area, please see our Communities Page Maverick 1000 Maverick1000 is an invitation only, global network of industry transforming entrepreneurs connecting in bold new ways to challenge and collectively support each other's biggest business goals, engage in reinvigorating experiences and co-create a worldwide multiplier impact. Mindvalley Academy From mindfulness to well-being, health, fitness and longevity, discover knowledge to help elevate your human potential so you can lead truly epic lives and learn the skills you should have learnt in school but never got a chance to. One million by one million One Million by One Million (1M/1M) offers access to Silicon Valley’s knowledge, methodology, and network to entrepreneurs all over the world. Anywhere. Anytime. 1M/1M is a global virtual incubator/accelerator that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs to reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. Platform University Reach More People. Create More Impact. PLF Live Learn How to Launch Your Product or Business With Nearly-Instant Sales and Momentum Responsive Org Creating a fundamental shift in the way we work and organize in the 21st Century. Smart Marketer The Smart Marketer eCommerce Community and Blue Ribbon Mastermind groups provide coaching in all areas of marketing and eCommerce. This is where business owners go to stay on the forefront of what’s working now in the industry, and where professional can find a sense of community in the world of eCommerce and digital marketing. Social Entrepreneur Empowerment Whether you're a new entrepreneur or a veteran business owner, a social change leader or just someone interested in learning more about the cutting edge of conscious business, we know you'll find these interviews with leading social entrepreneurs and business mentors inspiring and empowering, leaving you with numerous valuable strategies you can implement right away. Our expert speakers are masters of the business practices, marketing methods, structures, and systems every business owner needs to thrive in this economy. Individually, each speaker is deeply inspiring. Together, they offer a holistic model for reaching more people, making a bigger difference, and prospering financially. We create content that examines the roots of our unsustainable society and educates people about the interconnection of all life. Tallberg Foundation The Tällberg Foundation is a non-profit international organization that was established in 1981 to become a platform for a free and open exchange of ideas and experiences. The Change School Summit The inaugural TCK Summit We are more than separate nations of individuals and cultures… From Obama to Uma (Thurman), more and more TCKs and CCKs play an increasingly visible and important role in both public and private sectors. This inaugural Summit is a year-long series of monthly online discussions with subject experts, practitioners and influencers to build deeper insights into the web of TCK-dom, one connection at a time. Each month will cover a different theme and topics for discussion that will be shared on our website. Join us and our Chief Nomad Eddie Harran as we build this growing community and shape the future of global citizenship for greater impact. How to turn your passion & purpose into a business you love even if you don’t know where to start & feel overwhelmed with information. The Foundation is a six month online program for starting a software business from nothing… without an idea, coding skills, or funding. The Smart Exit Blueprint The Smart Exit Blueprint course is designed to show you how to go from employee to entrepreneur in a step-by-step exit plan. This is a website for you if you have lost your passion for your job and you are burning with a desire to work on something you can be excited about. Because what you need first and foremost is a smart exit plan out of where you are to where you are headed. The Smart Exit Blueprint course and resources show you how to make your transition with a clear roadmap from the wrong job into the right place to do your dream work. World Changers International We are a leadership development centered organization. We match mentors to mentees based on the mentor having results in that area and understanding the underlying principles of what the mentee is looking to accomplish. If someone has had success in an area it does not mean they are a good mentor. If they understand the underlying principle, and not just their own techniques, then they can be an effective mentor. This also facilitates the mentee moving on to mentoring others. Their understanding of the underlying success principles allows them to help people from all walks of life. XPrize XPRIZE is an innovation engine. A facilitator of exponential change. A catalyst for the benefit of humanity. We believe in the power of competition. That it’s part of our DNA. Of humanity itself. That tapping into that indomitable spirit of competition brings about breakthroughs and solutions that once seemed unimaginable. Impossible. We believe that you get what you incentivize. And that without a target, you will miss it every time. 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__label__cc	0.54664	0.45336	Leisure and Lifestyle News / NYKB NYKB Donates New Kitchen to Storefront Academy to Promote Health & Education Updated 11:08 AM CST, Tue, March 05,2019 New York, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/05/2019 -- New York Kitchen and Bath (NYKB), a leading high-end general contractor and proponent of providing health and education is giving back to the community with a donation of brand-new top-quality full kitchen donation and installation to Storefront Academy South Bronx. Storefront Academy South Bronx is a public charter school which opened to students and families in fall 2015. Located at 609 Jackson Avenue of the South Bronx, SASB educates urban youth of all learning abilities, and in the 2018-2019 hosts students in kindergarten through fourth grade all from low income families, many of whom are homeless. Storefront Academy seeks to provide children of varied academic strengths quality educational opportunities, preparing them academically, socially and emotionally to become critical thinkers, high-achieving students and well-rounded individuals. "New York is so big and yet it can be so small. It's so easy to be relegated to your own neighborhood. The gift this kitchen is providing our families is so much larger than food...it's access. Access to healthy options, access to building relationships and strengthening families over the meals we will create in it and greatest of all, access to sharing each other's cultures." Nicole Richardson-Garcia, School Principle of Storefront Academy, South Bronx. With an expected 250 children attending this fall, the addition of a kitchen provides the school not only with the means for cooking nutritious meals on site but will serve as a focus for the teaching about nutrition, healthy living and home economics. "We are glad to be partnering with Storefront academy to give these children a happy and healthy childhood, education, and a meaningful future" says Perry Hiiman NYKB, Co-owner. It is planned that the kitchen will also be utilized for family breakfasts, community events and family-oriented nutrition and healthy cooking classes. "With the partnership with NYKB, we are sure that the local community and New York City will become aware of how NYKB fulfills its mission of working with the community and supporting the education and health of all New Yorkers, including children who face significant challenges." Says Jonathan Stearns, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. About NYKB For almost 20 years New York Kitchen and Bath has been remodeling NYC from concept to completion. Located in the Flatiron district on Manhattan at 8 West 25th Street, the magnificent NYKB kitchen and bath showroom is a first stop for any home renovation. In addition to the many kitchen remodeling, bathroom renovations and full apartment remodels, NYKB has completed restaurant and commercial renovations in Manhattan and around New York. NYC-licensed contractors take care of everything – from obtaining the permits to installing plumbing, electrical and more. Teaming up with the top names in European and American cabinetry makers, countertops and flooring materials combined with quality workmanship and steller customer service, NYKB has made its name in NYC as the number one home improvement and general contractor in the city. For more information on NYKB visit the website https://www.nykb.com or call 212-242-3500. NYKB Showroom http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/nykb-donates-new-kitchen-to-storefront-academy-to-promote-health-education-1164331.htm Moshe Amos Email: Click to Email Moshe Amos Web: https://www.nykb.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line668
__label__wiki	0.914138	0.914138	Usually eaten between 11 A.M. & 3 P.M., this meal is a combination of breakfast & lunch Mike Tom Phil Show #2048 - Wednesday, June 30, 1993 Phil Somerset, a PC consultant from Gaithersburg, Maryland Tom Davidson, a consultant from Tampa, Florida Mike Boyd, a video tape operator originally from Galesburg, Illinois (1-day champion whose cash winnings total $21,601) CELEBRITY RELATIVES THE GARFIELD ERA (Alex: These clues have to do with events that took place during the short presidency of Garfield.) In 1982 the Jarvik-7, the first permanent one of these, was implanted in patient Barney Clark Detective novelist Tony Hillerman is this "Magnum, P.I." co-star's second cousin In art this "Enlightened One" is often depicted in the lotus position in deep meditation 9 days after Garfield's inauguration, Alexander II of this country was assassinated A style of pants with tight-fitting legs, or a type of high-crowned hat worn by Lincoln This country leads the world in the production of cultured pearls Using a kite antenna, he received the first transatlantic wireless message in 1901, the letter S This director was born to a mother named Italia & has a sister named Talia When this evangelist died in 1944, her son Rolf McPherson took over as head of her church This institute in Alabama opened July 4, 1881 as a school to train black teachers Wedgies should be worn only on these body parts Commissioned U.S. Army officers are sworn to support & defend this document against all enemies In 1611 Johannes Kepler introduced a second convex lens, giving this instrument greater power Jason Patric is the grandson of this late TV star who was famous for playing a bus driver Most of what we know about this Chinese leader comes from a book called the "Analects" Turkey ceded Thessaly to this country The usual color of the 19th century women's blouses inspired by Giuseppe Garibaldi The world's longest of these floating bridges spans 7,518' across Lake Washington Buckminster Fuller used "energetic synergetic geometry" to build these structures This actress' son Sean Astin found a caveman in his back yard in the 1992 film "Encino Man" According to Franciscan tradition, he received marks of Christ's wounds on his body in 1224 On April 5, 1881 the Treaty of Pretoria granted independence to this country The duffel coat was named for a fabric made in the town of Duffel in this Low Country Scientifically, this tall grass is called Saccharum officinarum The 1st automated instrument to analyze this genetic material's structure was developed in the mid-1980s She's Don Johnson's famous mother-in-law; a little "bird" told us The full name of his church is the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity This British bacteriologist born August 6, 1881 "molded" the lives of future generations Some of these facial decorations worn in the 1600s & 1700s were star-shaped In 1993 people sent letters with these stamps to fake addresses so they would be marked "return to sender" $1,500 $300 $1,100 PEOPLE IN HISTORY DOWN EASTERS MYTHOLOGY BOOKS & AUTHORS Lightning struck when this 18th century inventor met Deborah Read & their common law marriage lasted 44 years In a list of dictionary abbreviations, this language is often listed as Lith. This palace's Hall of Mirrors was once flanked by the state apartments of the king & queen The governor's mansion in this capital city was formerly the home of James G. Blaine In the 6th century B.C., Greeks used his "Iliad" & "Odyssey" as textbooks Ixtlilxochitl II, a chief of Texcoco in Mexico, became an ally of this Conquistador Of Balinese, Bengali or Bulgarian, the one that has the most speakers by far Consecrated in 1094, this basilica was named for the patron saint of Venice In the Orient this part of a shark is used to make an expensive & popular soup Explorers who came in from the cold to summer in Maine include Robert Peary & this South Pole visitor Bullfinch's "Mythology" includes "The Age of Fable", &, covering knights, "The Age of" this In 1910 he & his sister Agnes co-founded the Girl Guides The famous operetta "The Gondoliers" was written in this language The 70-story GE Building is the central structure in this NYC building complex This company markets Velveeta & Cracker Barrel cheeses This poet who wrote "I shot an arrow in the air..." was born in Portland In an essay Albert Camus compared the human condition to the myth of this rock pusher The name of this Grand Inquisitor became synonymous with the horror of the Spanish Inquisition DD: $1,400 9 Portuguese, Sardinian & Ladino belong to this group of Indo-European languages This 12th century temple built by King Suryavarman appears on the Cambodian flag Named for a South American country, this 3-sided nut is the fruit of the bertholettia tree In 1980 & 1981 this man from the State of Maine was U.S. Secretary of State Bill Moyers' conversations with him were published as "The Power of Myth" Encyclopedia Americana says this Medici bore King Henry IV "six children and much ill will" Guarani is both a language & the basic unit of currency in this landlocked South American country This 7th century Muslim building in Jerusalem is also known as the Mosque of Umar This French term for a tiny pickle means "little horn" This woman born in Hampden helped open hospitals for the mentally ill in over 15 states This "I, Claudius" author later set his eye on "The Greek Myths" & "The Hebrew Myths" $10,300 $3,100 $9,200 A 1920s French production of this musical about 19th c. entertainers was titled "Mississippi" $18,401 $4,100 $18,400 2-day champion: $40,002 3rd place: Michael C. 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__label__cc	0.735537	0.264463	author: Amanda Brisco Lake Shore Welcomes a New Substitute Lake Shore’s new sub, Ms.Chabriel, is teaching biology this year. She will be here for the year while Mrs. Rathburn is at home with her new daughter. She has a very interesting and educational background, beginning with her navy background. She was very informative about her navy background by saying “[it’s] A lot like working a job, except you have a uniform and more rigid standards and the day never ends” She went into further detail by saying ”They can call you anytime and make you come to work. You are never truly ‘off’ unless you are on liberty.” However she says “we had a great deal of fun. Lots of traveling. In many ways military is its own family. Immediately all ex-military and current are bond.” Chabriel also felt “Navy becomes my immediate family and the other branches the extended family. In many ways we help each other so much all the time.” Chabriel said, “I really like the Lake Shore community. Everyone is laid back and accepting. I love being invited to various school functions, like games. I wish I could go to more.” Chabriel has been trying to be very active with sports and supporting her students as they are her own children. She has told many, ”I am learning as I am teaching my students, so it is a learning experience for me personally as well as them”. Her personality is very uplifting and serious at the exact same time. This being her very first time teaching in the Lake Shore she has expressed many feelings about her transition from the navy to a sub at Lake Shore she started by telling her students about the transition by simply saying “When I got out of the Navy I first raised my kids for a while and when they started school, I started/finished college. It was very hard to transition from being a full time working military woman to the civilian sector as a mom!” Chabriel also said “I will say though becoming a teacher is not a transition as much. There is a schedule and I keep it! Discipline and order to accomplish a mission.” Chabriel mentioned “This is my first sub job, it has been like teaching, but I imagine if I were to sub for one day at a time it would be a very hard transition.” Chabriel says “ miss the support and friendships you automatically get when you step onto a base as an active duty member.”she is still the empowering and wonderful teacher that her students love regardless of her transitional process. Chabriel says she feels her teaching methods will be different from other teachers by simply saying “I get loud more for sure. I think when I worked as a drill sergeant I was a very different teacher than I am now.” She also feels “I think moving a lot makes my teaching methods different. I have been around a lot of different students and cultures. I do like timelines and attention to detail and I definitely think that is a Navy thing more than a teacher thing.” Chabriel says that she does not have many goals for this school year but she wants her students to know “ I want them to reach their potential. To realize they can do more than they can do more than they thought. I want them to challenge their perceptions of their ability and achieve what they thought they could not.” She confidently says “I don’t care about Biology as much as I care about the student. Of course I want them to learn and retain many of the fundamental concepts from the NGSS(Next Generation Science Standards) because they will need them to graduate, but most importantly I want them to learn how to think and have their own thoughts and ideas”. She undoubtedly feels” If I can inspire them to reach for the stars and learn to work hard to achieve a goal I am happy. I would also love them to raise the standards to where they set their own expectations high.” Chabriel is an confident ,beautiful and empowering teacher. Many believe these characteristics definitely approved that she deserves and loves her job. Shorians Take Home the Victory at this Year's Homecoming Game Lake Shore's New Four-Legged Friend Smart Students Receiving Scholarships Girls of Lacrosse All About Backyard Ecosystems Promposals at Lake Shore Julia Munger: Lake Shore’s Superstar Max Bozarth: A Tour of Satellyte City	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line683
__label__wiki	0.54772	0.54772	My GOTY 2018 by Steven Meng \| posted in: Games, Games Review, Highlights, top 10 \| 0 There was simultaneously too much to play this year, and not really enough. Whilst I didn’t play a lot of the new games this year, for the most part I just didn’t want to, outside of a few (RDR2, Donut County, Tetris Effect) Thanks to my brother I did at least manage to play a lot of the large PS4 releases, however on PC i spent most of the year just playing older games and wrestling with my backlog, whilst trying to play all of the humble monthly games. So, here are my personal top 5 picks of the year – You can see a list of games I would have liked to try, but didn’t get to below, as well as games which I did play but didn’t make the list. 5. God of War 2018 (PS4) God of War was just an all around good game, I don’t really think it did anything too special but what was there was all well refined and good. I think it won a soundtrack award, but i’ll be honest I don’t remember anything about that, however I do remember smashing a lot of undead face, and the incredible first boss fight. GoW was also much more of a story driven game than previous titles (from what I remember anyway), which some people will find offputting but I kind of enjoyed the downtime between fights. 4. Yakuza 6 (PS4) The Yakuza series in general will unfortunately go unrecognized again this year, but Yakuza 6 was a surprisingly good game. The story is one of the better ones in my opinion, and the new characters introduced are all interesting and quirky in their own ways. The switch to the new engine breathes new life into the series, helping to reduce downtime and allow you to explore with more freedom without worrying about being bogged down with load screens, as well as speed up fighting random thugs on the street as you can transition from exploring to face smashing seemlessly, with only a brief pause to transition out. The minigames are good fun this time round also, with an RTS squad battle one, a fishing minigame which plays like a sega lightgun game, a baseball simulator, and others which i haven’t the space to talk about (the camgirl chatroom minigame is fantastic though). 3. Return of the Obra Dinn (PC) Obra Dinn is unlike anything you’ve ever played or seen before – The art style is obviously the most common thing you’ll see or read about this game, but the gameplay is the real treat here. For those unaware (I wasn’t), Obra dinn is a puzzle detective game, where you basically travel through time and see 3d pictures of each person’s final moments, over the course of the game you then have to piece together what happened to them, and who everyone in the scene is – this may be by something obvious, a crewmate saying “Jack, watch out!” for example may easily slap a name on them, but for the most part, the game really makes you work for it. Obra dinn runs at about 8-10 hours and is truly a unique ride, you need to check this out. 2. Celeste (Multi) I bought Celeste on a whim after being bored one day and seeing the game on sale, and i’m so glad that I did. The main story is a decent length for this sort of game, and is a brilliant blend of challenge and new mechanics, without messing with the core mechanics of your character – the game will pass you through chapters, introduce a mechanic and then pull and replace it with a different one to keep things fresh. I enjoyed the story and thought there was a surprising amount of character development considering the amount of text in the game could probably fit on a single A4 paper. The soundtrack is also really memorable, and does that thing where the music subtly changes over time based on your progress, I love that shit. If you go into the game blind, you will be shocked at the additional content, the game and challenge just keeps going for hours after you’ve completed the main campaign, after the 175 strawberries to the B-Side Challenge levels you’re looking at maybe 20-30 hours of solid platforming satisfaction. Be warned that the game is brutally hard (i’m at 6000 deaths and counting), but the achievement of clearing a hard room is on par with reaching a bonfire in Dark Souls or winning a fight with magic pixel health. 1. Monster Hunter World (PC) It would be hard to not give first place to Monster Hunter World, which I personally spent around 200 hours with during the month of it’s PC release. I’ve never really understood or gotten into the previous monster hunter games, but the latest entry with it’s lush graphics and quality of life improvements really sucked me in. I spent a good amount of time playing the game on my own but by far the standout experience was playing as a full group of 4 and experiencing the content fresh for the first time without using guides, without worrying about builds or tier lists, just pure “how do we kill it, and how do we not get killed by it”. MHW was genuinely the most multiplayer fun I’ve had in a long time – the horror of seeing Diablos explode out of the desert, making fun of the commander’s voice, and trying not to get carpet bombed by blazblue, are all moments i’ll remember for a long time. Didn’t play list: AC Odyssey, Gris, Obra Dinn,into the breach, Hitman 2, A way out, Red Dead 2, The messenger, Forza horizon 4, Tetris Effect, Guacamelee 2, Octopath Traveler, Frost punk, CrossCode, Wandersong, Iconoclasts, COD blops4, Overcooked 2, Far Cry 5, La-Mulana 2, Pokemon Lets go, Battletech, Shadow of the tomb raider, Detroit Become Human, Battlefield 5, Fallout 76, Donut County, Didn’t make list: Smash Ultimate, Deltarune, DJmax Respect, Florence, Spiderman, Dead Cells, Subnautica, Lethal League Blaze Top 10 Games of 2017 by Steven Meng \| posted in: Games \| 0 Disclaimer: I definitely didn’t play all of the notable games in 2017, I had nowhere near enough time to do so. So the below list is the top 10 of games which I played. Missing from the list (unplayed) is: Zelda BOTW, Mario Odyssey, Mario rabbids battle, Golf Story, Nioh, AC Origins, Wolfenstein 2, Finding Paradise, South Park FBH, Hellblade, Prey, Evil Within 2, Destiny 2, Edith Finch, PUBG, Fortnite Special Mention – Hidden folks Wheres Wally for a digital era. A little bit short, but while it lasts, Hidden Folks is fantastic. The maps are huge, yet the clues provided make the finding fair. it’s also casual friendly for those with girlfriends. Short but fun, and something a bit different to the normal gaming fare. 10 – Snake Pass Fantastic looking Rare style platformer game, with a super unique control scheme which I’ve never seen before. Snake pass was a fantastic way to chill out and just collect some stuff after work while snaking around. 9 – Resident Evil 7 Just the right amount of spook, action and exploration. The first arc of the game is survival horror masterclass and gets the game onto the top 10 list on it’s own, the game unfortunately starts to taper off once you leave the house but nonetheless still an enjoyable game. (though i’m not sure it needed to be called Resident Evil) 8 – Sonic Mania Hooo boy, nostalgia to the core. Best 2d sonic game since Sonic and knuckles, and imo better than Sonic CD. Great music, cool levels and the physics and mechanics all felt spot on – which is my main issue with every other sonic game – even the ones that have 2d segments. 7 – Doki Doki Literature Club There aren’t many games like Doki Doki Literature Club – and it’s hard to really say anything further without spoiling things. It’s probably unlike anything you’ve ever played. Also, it’s completely FREE. 2-3 hour experience, soldier through the first 90 minutes. 6 – Horizon Zero Dawn Self explanatory dinosaur free roam game? It’s really expansive, the combat is fun, the visuals are stunning for a PS4 game… It just feels like a good all rounder, not really going to win awards for gameplay originality (though the world is kind of cool) but sometimes you want to play a AAA adventure game and I think HZD will have me occupied for as long as I let it. 5 – Hollow Knight just a really really solid Metroidvania. super polished, interesting areas, good level design and progression, easy on the eyes, varied enemies etc. Has everything you would want from this style of game. 4 – Persona 5 Admittedly, I haven’t actually managed to finish Persona 5 yet. Is it because the game is bad? Hell no. It’s just because i’m old. I am 80 hours or so in and the game keeps refusing to end, this game is long and unfortunately I’ve already romanced all of my favourite characters and so the remainder of the game left for me is dungeon crawling and personamon catch-em-all stuff. Persona 5 is fantastic, and probably the only JRPG I’ve had the patience to sit through in the past few years. 3 – Cuphead Just solid platforming boss rush action. Brutally tough at times, yet almost always fair. Cuphead has a great difficulty curve and some fantastic fights. My only complaint was that it only took me 4 hours or so to complete. 2 – Yakuza 0 This was my entry point to the Yakuza series, as I suspect it will be for many others. The story was cliche but I really enjoyed watching it play out, the characters were ridiculous caricatures and I loved all of them, the combat is repetitive and yet varied enough to still illicit a verbal “ooooh” response after 20 hours. Yakuza 0 has loads of great reviews, and after a few hours running around and doing a few of the quirky side missions, it’s so easy to understand why. 1 – A Hat in time Literally cannot think of a better 3d platforming game that I can play on pc without using an emulator – and honestly even then I think i’d have a hard time picking a favourite between Mario Galaxy 2 and A hat in Time. Beautiful colours and art, memorable and catchy soundtrack, charming design, interesting and varied levels, A Hat in Time is pure gaming bliss for the 10 hours it lasts, and my personal favourite game of 2017. The best PC games of 2016 by Steven Meng \| posted in: Games, Highlights, top 10 \| 1 Notable PC games this year: Overwatch, Dark Souls 3, Owlboy, Stardew Valley, Battlefield 1, The Witness, Inside, Dishonored 2, Gears of War 4, Titanfall 2, DOOM, Abzu, Planet Coaster, Hitman, SUPERHOT, Overcooked, The Division, Zero Escape 3: ZTD, Mirrors Edge Catalyst, COD Infinite, Steep, Quantum Break, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Firewatch, Civilization 6, Darkest Dungeon, Thumper, Dead rising 4, Oxenfree, Watch Dogs 2, Street fighter 5 Top 5 Games of the Year 5. Battlerite How the hell did this sneak on here? I may have mentioned before that when I bought Battlerite a few months ago, I literally set a timer so I could decide whether or not to refund it just before the 2 hour mark. I’m now at 61 hours or so, which is more than everything else on this list. It’s a MOBA arena game which just manages to do everything pretty well – Any complaints of ‘not enough characters’ and ‘shit cosmetics’ will almost certainly be resolved later on down the line, as will the ‘high’ price tag of £15. 4. Planet Coaster It has been X years since Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, and naturally we were itching for a modern release (as, let’s be honest, RCT3 was pretty barebones in terms of 3d graphics). Then just at the right time, along comes Planet Coaster, with all of it’s gorgeous visuals, it’s curved paths, it’s ‘how fucking many?’ Rollercoaster types and practically infinite ways to decorate your park and shops (provided you have the time). Aside from optimization and maybe some more variation in shops/rides, it’s hard to really think what else could be improved on in Planet Coaster as far as single player experiences go. 3. Zero Escape 3: Zero Time Dilemma Kotaro Uchikoshi does it again. Whilst not quite on the same level as it’s predecessors, ZE3 has some great puzzling, and interesting branching story. Best of all, even though you know there is some weird shit going on, the revelation moment will still manage to catch you off guard and give you that holy shit moment. I have to say though that eric in team Q is literally the most irritating character i’ve come across. 2. DOOM Doom did not mess around, it threw you into this linear world filled with hellspawn, gave you a shotgun and then proceeded to just wail guitar and dubstep noises at you relentlessly until you finished the game. It was in your face, dumb and myself and just about everyone else who played doom fucking loved it’s straightforward nature. Shoot things in the face, move on, repeat – No cover, No long story sequences, No vehicle traversal between areas. Anyone looking for a fantastic singleplayer FPS campaign should give this a play. 1. The Witness The witness undoubtedly gave me the most ‘holy shit’ moments in gaming this year, whilst I wasn’t particularly fond of the ending, the puzzles and the unique ways in which you need to approach them are absolutely amazing, similarly the world and it’s mystery and secrets provided plenty of additional things to do between getting stuck. I also really loved that the game basically doesn’t tell you anything, even the tutorials I don’t remember the game explicitly giving me any directions but rather ‘here is something simple, figure out the rules for yourself’ – and I love that, especially in an age of videogaming where developers feel the need to really hand hold the whole way through out of fear of losing the player, Blow’s masterpiece does the polar opposite and sets off with or without you. I’d imagine anyone who has played through the game will agree that it’s puzzles are genius in both creativity and design, and those who have played through and doesn’t probably didn’t ‘get it’, which is of course is a big problem in a game where all of the enjoyment is derived from eventually ‘getting it’. Just missed the list: Inside – Short and sweet, I completed it in a sitting or two and it was a fantastic experience throughout. Didn’t really do anything groundbreaking but it was incredibly polished and had just the right quantity of mystery to push you forward. Hitman – A fantastic return to form for the series, it’s a shame there are so few levels, but the levels that are there are some of the best in the series. The new detection system works well too, making more sense than the old blood money system while not being as daft as the absolution ‘ima just hide my face’ system. Dark Souls 3 – More of the same, and that’s hardly a bad thing, though I have to admit it’s not gripped me quite as well as it’s predecessors. Biggest Disappointment: Titanfall 2 – I absolutely adored the first Titanfall, hitting the level cap multiple times over, so when Titanfall 2 was announced I was super hype, the potential for basically the same game with new maps, more weapons, more abilities, customization and so on sounded awesome. And then the beta dropped, and somehow they had just gotten everything wrong, the movement was slower, they changed certain mechanics, and whilst the retail version of the game has fixed some of these changes, the result is still more ‘Call of Titanfall’ than the Titanfall I fell in love with. I’m yet to really clock much time with it because I just have no urge to play, the gunplay is as solid as ever but it feels like TTK is down, the titans are crazy fragile and rarer, the new abilities are rubbish, no custom titan loadout choices, can’t change the AI voice and the maps are all really forgettable and boring. A cry everytime. Best Singleplayer Experience: Titanfall 2 – Okay so yeah I just finished talking about everything I’m not keen on with Titanfall 2, but you’ll notice there was no mention of the campaign that they added. The campaign was awesome, i’d actually argue better than DOOM’s. It was literally the opposite of everything I just said in the paragraph above. Awesome level design, titans feel satisfying to play with the added shield, clever use of game mechanics and a super interesting part which you won’t see coming. The short but sweet campaign was memorable and great fun. Most Overhyped: Overwatch – I’m still struggling to see the appeal of Overwatch, the time i’ve spent with it was ‘okay’ at best, lacking much satisfaction when you do well and being a real slog if you are on the back foot. Game whose servers are going to be empty by this time next year Steep – Calling it now. that game is boring, people just haven’t realised it yet (or maybe they have?). Analysing Battlerite by Steven Meng \| posted in: Games, Highlights \| 0 So I’ve been playing Battlerite for the last 2 weeks or so, and I have to say, I’ve been really impressed by it. Unlike some other games where I spend my non-playing downtime thinking about what the hell the developers were thinking, Battlerite has a really shocking amount of fantastic design choices, and I wanted to talk about some of them. You are always left side Through some crazy wizardry, Battlerite has you always spawn from the left. Your enemies will always run at you from the right. I’m guessing it does this through some mirroring and client side magic but god is it cool. The maps are, of course, completely symmetrical. You only get coins for winning I’m guessing this is primarily to combat botting or any form of ‘cant be bothered’ attitude. If you don’t win, you won’t get any money. This effectively rules out most bots or any form of AFKing or low effort game joins, as they are essentially pointless. Maximum health, and fulfilling the counterplay trifecta Your maximum health can only ever be +X from your current health. What does this actually mean? Say you start at 200hp and take 20dmg, your max hp is still 200 and you can be healed to full, if you were to take 80 damage, your maxhp will drop to 150ish. So why is this particularly clever? Because similar to other MOBA’s where you particular playstyles have counters, they exist in Battlerite as well. Heal beats poke, Burst beats heal, and poke beats burst (usually). It also means people can’t whore 3 support/healer teams, which is nice. Chat is disabled by default Because nobody really needs to get called a retard. 3v3 Matchmaking tries to give a balanced team comp Playing solo, about 90% of the time you’ll get matched into a team with 1 support, 1 melee and 1 ranged. Which you would think is just common sense, but other games have shown us otherwise. Everything is as obvious as possible All the big damage spells have obvious casting animations and noises, all the buffs and debuffs are obvious. This basically means you always have the opportunity to counterplay. No shared vision Holy shit the jukes. 1vs3? still not impossible. The centre orb keeps the action where it needs to be Essentially king of the hill all the time, the orb in the middle provides massive benefits and basically keeps the action in the centre. Battlerites let people play how they want, diversifying the champions they have by 2 or 3 The perks system is fantastic. You want a damage support? You want a super slippery Ranged? The battlerites provide plenty of choices, and mostly none of them are wrong. As an aside, The community is surprisingly nice, and everyone seems to acknowledge that if you lose, it’s almost certainly because you got outplayed. Even the few times we’ve seen people leave or AFK, the games have mostly descended into ‘1v1 me’. Whilst it may be on the expensive side for what will eventually be a free to play game, it’s so much fun. Week 40 2016 – New best endeavours by Steven Meng \| posted in: blog, Games \| 0 Poor blog has been neglected a lot this year, I guess maintaining it was never going to be easy once I got out of education and into the ‘real world’ but this year in particular it’s taken a real back seat since I moved out of home and started my new IT career. And so, Starting from this week, i’m going to try and make, at minimum, one blog post a week which will focus on life stuff. Weekly posts will likely come out every Sunday, unless i’m away doing other things or have another post scheduled. The past month has been fairly uneventful but i’ve managed to get plenty of hours in with my bro GrantDN in various games, we played a ton of The Crew (maybe 30 hours) or so and completed the campaign, bought the DLC, completed some of the new mission stuff, did some extra shit, bought drag cars, drifted round mountains at night, and all that good stuff. Genuinely had a blast with that game, it reminded me of the best parts of Fuel and little bit of the joy from Midnight Club. We also picked up the very entertaining and intense Battlerite, a 2v2 or 3v3 arena brawler, best described as a game build completely around MOBA teamfights. Have had a lot of fun with it, but god is that game hard. The small teams make it really hard to pin blame as well, as losses will almost certainly have something to do with your own competence – be it just a missed skillshot or not positioning properly. It’s currently a little bit steep at £15 but I believe it’s going free to play eventually, best enjoyed with a friend though, im not sure i’d want to play this solo. On the games backlog we also have Indigo Prophecy, which I started with bae but then we haven’t picked it up in a little while, I also started playing Quantum Break – which is fantastic, and then there is Mirrors Edge Catalyst as well, which I started yesterday but it didn’t really strike me as anything too special. Oh man, TV, Did you guys see Stranger Things yet? holy shit that show is good. go watch it. Mr robot is fantastic as well, though I’ve still not had a chance to finish season 2. New anime season started last week, blog post to be written very shortly, I skipped last season, but this season everyhthing is garbage so it’ll take me like 15 minutes to gather photos because nothing is worth watching. On the korean front, GF and family coerced me into watching ‘W’ Which is actually kind of a neat concept, it’s about a comicbook artist who is trying to kill off his character so he can end the story, but he manages to keep resisting death, eventually people from the real world get sucked into the comic world and shit happens. It’s a really cool concept, but because it’s K drama I can almost guarantee that it’s just going to turn into a generic romance story eventually. Did I mention i’ve got a trip booked for the first week of December? We are going to Vienna (Austria) and then getting the train over to Prague (CzechRep), should hopefully be really good. However I’ve been kind of worked hard lately, so a few weeks ago I thought i’d try and get a quick holiday in before my real holiday (as you do), some quick deciding later and we’ve decided to go to Belfast for a few days this coming weekend. We’ve booked an excursion out to do a game of thrones sightseeing thing (apparently a bunch of castles and stuff were filmed in northern ireland) and the tour also includes the incredible looking Giants Causeway. 7 Knights You know how some games are garbage but you stick with them anyway for whatever reason? 7 knights has been that for me. Unlike something like Puzzle&Dragons which I spent ages playing and loved, 7 Knights has been a boring grind for as long as I can remember, yet for whatever stupid reason, I stuck it out and have been playing it almost daily for the last 1 or 2 years. Part of it was for the rush of slowly climbing my way up the PVP ladder I guess, but the other part was I suppose some obligation to the guild I was leading. I slowly raised this guild from level 1 to 10, and upgraded a bunch of the other extras like guild castle and so on, and we were pretty regularly fighting amongst the top 1% of guilds, I think we ended this season a little outside the top 100 – which, not bad considering there is only 1 server outside of korea. I used to hate going through and pruning inactives, but eventually we started getting more dedicated players, people who would play as much as me, which was fantastic as I could basically just delegate that shit and chill. But alas, eventually we attracted people that were too dedicated, who would literally no life that shit, go wild on IAP, and play all day. One particular member took it upon himself to advertise the guild on reddit, create a facebook group, and try to force everyone into the fb group to chat about the game daily. He actually PM’d me on facebook one time when I didn’t log in for 2 days. About a month ago now, I got this new job, and subsequently had less time to spend on trash, I started playing less and basically ignored the facebook chat because I couldn’t care less. Then, rather entertainingly, I log in today to find there has been a mutiny! Ironically the most entertaining thing to happen in the game since I installed it. A bunch of the more hardcore players had left overnight, and to my surprise, I felt a wave of relief rather than sadness. I realised that the last few weeks I was practically logging in to start up the autoplay just so that people over the internet wouldn’t harass me – You know something else you often force yourself to do daily? fuckin’ work! This shit was a chore! And so, what better time to ‘retire’ and remove the game from my phone. I set someone else as delegate leader on the guild and don’t intend on re-opening the app any time soon. I won’t disband or pass over leadership of the guild of course, that shit is my legacy now. it was entertaining while it lasted, but god that’s the last time I start a guild on a phone game. So i’m incredibly torn on Pokemon GO right now, On one hand, it’s great to see impromptu gaming communities appearing out on the streets all of a sudden, you can walk around town and practically point out people who are walking around looking at their phone a little bit tooooo closely. and the game is kind of fun too, finding a new pokemon or leveling up feels genuinely pretty good, moreso if you have some friends you can show off to. But for every good point, it feels like there are two bad points. The game eats data for breakfast, the GPS is janky as fuck, half the time you’ll see nothing but pidgeys and rattatas, you’ll find rare pokemon and then not be able to catch them because the game bugs out on you or you lose signal, the pokestops don’t work properly half the time, and practically none of the game is explained to the player at all! (seriously, PokeGO is where mechanic explanations go to die). But for now… it’s fun I guess, the gimmick is just enough, and when it works, it’s good – though hayfever has been a very aggressive reminder from mother nature that my place is indoors. I’d put up a picture of my team but the game can’t log in right now, which… says a lot I guess. Top 10 PC Games of 2015 by Steven Meng \| posted in: Games, top 10 \| 0 Perhaps getting more and more jaded each year, but haven’t had a chance to play many of this years big releases :( That and a bunch of this years big games were only on console- bloodborne, until dawn, splatoon, xenoblade chronicles X, GH Live…. Still haven’t really had much incentive to buy a new console, especially considering how underpowered they seem to be, 20something FPS on games only a few years after release doesn’t really bode well for the future of the console. Majority of the games thankfully have had PC releases as well. So without further ado, here are the best games i’ve played this year – emphasis on ‘I’ve played’, i’ll list a list a bunch of the big releases that I haven’t played at the bottom for reference. #10 – The Beginners Guide Walking Game // Everything unlimited ltd // £7 Something of an alternate game, The Beginners guide sends you on a rollercoaster of emotions and twists in the 90 minute or so runtime, while it’s undoubtably the least ‘fun’ game on this list, it’s (hopefully) fictional story elicits emotions rarely found on this medium, and that’s impressive in it’s own right. #9 Fallout 4 Action RPG // Bethesda // £40 Yeah, sure, it’s more Fallout, it’s a good game, the base building stuff was a nice addition, as well as generally streamlining a bunch of stuff, the gunplay is more satisfying this time round as well which is always a good thing. Yet in true fallout fashion, at some point I left the game for a week or so and just found myself fed up and tired of it all, the 40something hours I spent with it were great though. #8 Her Story Puzzle? // Sam Barlow // £5 Surprise indie hit this year, Her Story did a lot of neato things we haven’t really seen before in video games, including lack of a proper video game ending, letting you simply finish when you think you are done. Her Story doesn’t hold your hand at all, doesn’t remind you what has happened or well… do anything aside from present a chopped up bit of video and let the player have at it. That said, the story and the unique way it unfolds is incredibly memorable, as instead of having key points of plot revealed to you, you have to piece it all together yourself, making you really feel like a detective. #7 Keep talking and nobody explodes Party/Puzzle // Steel Crate Games // £11 Oh man, best local co-op experience of 2015? I think so! KTANE is a truly genius game, and one that isn’t out of place at a party or small social gathering filled with ‘normies’. This bomb defusing puzzle game is equal parts accessible, challenging and hilarious, regardless of which side of the asymetrical gameplay you are a part of. For those unfamiliar, one player sits at the computer and defuses a complicated bomb with the help of experts – and by experts I mean your idiot friends sitting on the couch in your room with you, staring at an equally complicated defusal manual where they must use logic to decipher the correct steps to relay to the defuser. #6 Invisible Inc Stealth Strategy // Klei Entertainment // £15 I did a full review of it way earlier in the year, but Invisible inc was a surprise gem this year, with it’s turn based stealth action and roguelike features, Invisible Inc was metal gear solid meets FTL in the best of ways, providing a challenging but fair game with some great rewards and replayability for those that get invested. #5 Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Shooter // Treyarch // £40 Surprisingly, this year’s Call of Duty instalment is genuinely fun and the first title where i’ve truly enjoyed the multiplayer since MW2. There is some fair value for money here, with a full 4 player co-op campaign, zombies co-op campaign, dead ops 2, zombies, and of course the multiplayer (though good luck finding much other than TDM/Domination on PC). Guns in online seem fairly balanced and specialist weapons are less annoying than expected (though that flamethrower quite desperately needs a nerf), it’s still not as good as TItanfall in my opinion, but it’s probably still the best online shooter i’ve played this year. #4 – Cities Skylines City Builder // Colossal Order // £23 A fantastic city builder, after the fiasco that was the latest Sim City I think everyone was really gagging for this sort of game, and developer Colossal order’s stance on modding really helped push Cities Skylines to it’s maximum potential, with the community fixing all of the minor gripes people had issues with. #3 Life is Strange Story Adventure // DONTNOD entertainment // £18 I’m a sucker for a good time travel story, and Life is strange hooked me in from the first episode with it’s interesting approach to being able to see all of the decisions you can make. My biggest mistake was not waiting for all of the episodes to be out before playing it, but thankfully that’s now a non-issue. The plot is a real rollercoaster of emotions, in a good way, and though there were a few tedious segments which slowed down the pace of the game (i’m looking at you, bottles and stealth sections) LIS was a very enjoyable 10 hours or so. #2 – Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Stealth Action // Konami // £46 It was a painful shame that the latter part of the game wasn’t as good as the first, but thankfully the first 20 hours of the game are so good that you’ll probably be able to forgive it’s lackluster ending and unfinished story. #1 – Undertale RPG // Toby Fox // £7 Don’t let the very vocal diehard community put you off, Undertale is an incredible game – fantastic gameplay coupled with brilliant writing, lovable characters and a great soundtrack, the game is short but oh so memorable, and undoubtedly this year’s must play game, and game of the year. I was still getting chills down my spine listening to bits of the soundtrack weeks later. Special mention: Grand Theft Auto V (PC) Only just got released for PC this year, but obviously the game has been out for much longer than that, Seeing release in 2013 originally, 2014 for next gen, and 2015 for PC. I held out and didn’t play it until this year and holy shit the amount of content and sheer enjoyment packed into this game is fantastic, so glad I waited for this version. If I was treating this game as being released in 2015, it would probably be number 1. Unplayed: Bloodborne, Witcher 3, Arkham Knight, SW Battlefront, Rise of the tomb raider, Rainbow Six Siege, AC Syndicate, Halo 5, Until Dawn, Rocket League, Pillars of Eternity, Mad Max, Xenoblade Chronicles X, GH Live, Amplitude, Helldivers, Undertale (PC) Review by Steven Meng \| posted in: Games, Games Review \| 0 Just a quickie, because it deserves it. I played through undertale a few days ago, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it’s metacritic score of 94 was completely warranted, this plain and dull looking game that I kept seeing screenshots of. A short 5 hour playthrough later, and I was sold, it’s incredible. Probably the best game this year, probably one of the best games of all time… Lovingly crafted and likable characters, hilarious dialogue, unexpected comical twists and turns, a battle system which is 50% puzzle and 50% shmup, and topped off by a soundtrack which is easily on par with your favourite chiptunes. 3 days on, i’m sitting in my van listening to the soundtrack and getting goosebumps, and thinking of the characters and smiling to myself. I dont know who the hell Toby Fox is, but the man is a true wizard. I expect people in 20 years will still pick this game up and enjoy it just as much as we are today, because unlike some other games which rely on jokes, undertales humour doesn’t need to rely on pop culture references or similar external factors. Go play it. It’s £7, that’s a ridiculous price for this gem. You’ll thank me later. ps. papyrus and sans are the fucking best. A rant about Metal Gear Solid V by Steven Meng \| posted in: Games, Games Review, rant \| 0 So thanks to the wonders of internet companionship I’ve spent essentially the last week or so playing through the wondrous metal Gear solid 5, and thought I’d do a little rant about it. The gameplay itself is so very solid (ahem), going into outposts and abducting entire squads of guards and any vehicles they have is a incredibly addictive, and the core sneaking stuff is really good as well, however the game starts to rapidly fall apart once you have completed the main story and become left with just the side missions. Speaking of the story, the game barely even feels like a metal Gear solid game, the core story is light at best and a complete joke once you hit the end of chapter one. It is probably the only game to pleasantly delight and then brutally disappoint me with its game length, in the space of only a few hours. For those who haven’t played it, after maybe 30 hours/missions of gameplay and a major boss fight, the game rolls its credits, practically nothing in the story has been explained and you are left feeling confused and upset… But then you get a ‘trailer’ for chapter 2! And the game swiftly transitions into chapter 2! Fantastic! And then in an almost taunting fashion the game takes that joy away over the next few hours. Where the previous 30 missions were interesting and somewhat advance the plot, the next 20 missions consist of 14 hard mode missions you have already played, and 6 proper story missions, of which manage to introduce more questions rather than answers – and then the game ends. Apparently people have dug into game files and found art for chapter 3, suggesting that the game was due a significant amount more content, and behind the scenes footage which show an episode 51 would have at least provided some closure to one of the games many plotlines. Playing the postgame content becomes almost upsetting afterwards, a selection of maybe 6 different objectives which all play out more or less the same way, sneak in, neutralise everyone and then escape with prisoner /Intel. The open world offers nothing but a collection of barren land and a collection of outposts and structures you have been to during the story. I also have grown to despise the mother base expansion system, with the game requiring you to have X amount of materials before you can upgrade to increase your population cap, these materials are only generated while you play, and you will only recieve a relative trickle compared to how much is required for the later upgrades. There is almost no doubt that the latter is formulated in such a way to make way for their shitty microtransaction crap, the same stuff they claim is not required – a new base requires 1000+ mb coins, yet you will recieve maybe 20 or so per day for a login (this tiny amount of coin isn’t even guaranteed, as the login bonus is often a bunch of plants or irrelevant material). The game has a dispaych system which lets you send out your recruited soldiers to do stuff for reward, but the majority of them run on ingame time, there is another selection of missions which run on real time but these take 1-2 whole days to complete, and will contribute towards your teams limit (which is, again, linked to bases you can only really build with real money). The ridiculous amount of time it takes for these real time missions to complete is so ridiculous that is you are playing the game even vaguely regularly its more efficient just to pick the ingame time missions, so why even put the real time ones in the game? =/ The FOB / PVP stuff seems pretty silly as well, you can invade each others bases and steal their resources and men, fair enough, a tried and tested formula which worked well in Dark Souls… except the part where you get invaded while you’re offline and there isn’t much you can do to stop it because the AI guards are useless as fuck. Seriously mindblowing, I log in every day to see that my resources and men have been stolen and theres fuck all I can do about it. 10/10 PVP. Spoilers below this point : Did i mention how unfinished the story is yet? What happens to psycho mantis and the man on fire, what happens to huey? What about quiet who carrying the English strain of the virus (you know, the virus that the whole game is basically based on). I also really REALLY hate that quiet leaves and essentially locks you out of using her for the postgame, you can supposedly hack her back in on PC but god it’s so ridiculous that you even have to consider it. MGS5 is one of the best games this year, even in it’s half finished state with it’s bad design choices – however the fact that this is the last game in the series by Kojima makes me sad that it just wasn’t as good as it could have been. Small tweaks here and there could have easily taken this game to legendary status, but instead we are left with a collection of ‘extract X’ missions tied together by the weakest metal gear storyline in the series. This has been an awful rant typed up on my phone while waiting for a package to be delivered at work, it’s probably painful to read, you have my sympathies. An Untapped game genre: The factory builder So in very late 2013 we used to play a lot of Minecraft, the tekkit modpack in particular – this modpack included a ton of smaller mods within it, but the jist of it is that you gained access to factory machinery, electricity, pipes, pumps, conveyor belts, build things from blueprints, and a ton of other things which are less relevant to this blog post. Going on a personal mission to build a self sustaining mining/farming operation in tekkit was genuinely one of the greatest video game experiences i’ve had – planning out individual areas, before linking them into a carefully designed production line, to be broken down or sorted for later use (or stockpiling because you can). For those unfamiliar, a vague example of something you could do would be like… an automatic mining operation produces gold and silver -> send it to the pulverizer to turn it into powder -> powders go into a machine to mix them into a powder blend -> blend goes into a smelter to make electrum ingots -> ingots go to another machine to turn them into ??? However of course in the above example, how do you seperate the gold and silver from everything else being mined, how do you select for those two powders to go into the mixing machine together, what happens if the smelter is full, etc etc. This stuff has been around for years now, why then are there still hardly any games in this subgenre? One could argue that the subgenre has always been a part of games like city builders or other games with digitial economies but they don’t quite function in the same way, (eg. Commercial business in cities skylines require Industrial goods, which require staff from residential) and they certainly don’t have the magic I experienced back in 2013. Zachtronics have gone a kind of offshoot with most of their recent games; spacechem and infinifactory – these games provide a single element of what I believe to be the factory genre, that being the complex engineering part, zachtronics takes it to the extreme making it a goddamn nightmare to even produce a single product in most cases, and while it’s very satisfying to admire your assembly once it’s finally done, most of the levels in these games are just that – levels, single compartmented achievements. spacechem I haven’t really found much else that is similar and fully released, perhaps this genre is too niche? A few searches on google have suggested OTTD, but that’s about it. There are two on the way. Big Pharma is one of the games i’ve had my eye on for maybe a year or so now? It looks to be similar to what i’m looking for, though i’m yet to go out and buy it because I want to wait for the full release. The jist of it however is to design and make a drugs factory – a mix of business sim and logistics puzzle, probably with some quirky machinery involved. [kad_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85I89ZrwIfU” ] Factorio is the other one, which I only very recently found out about (It’s still in Alpha). Unlike Big Pharma, it sticks with the mining theme i’m more used to, and drops the business simulation stuff for what appears to be some form of base defence mechanic. I haven’t actually played this one yet either, but i’ll be keeping an eye on it to see how it turns out, because it definitely seems to have the massive factory thing that i’m looking for. [kad_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yDZM0diiYc” ] It’ll be interesting to see if these two games do well upon release, Many people never played tekkit as it was kind of an oxymoron – a very grown up and complicated mod in a game primarily played by children and those that watch pewdiepie videos. It certainly wouldn’t be a surprise to me if it suddenly kicks off it’s own genre and set of clones in a way that minecraft introduced the open world crafting/survival bullshit phase that indie games are finally starting to phase out of. Long story short: It’s strangely satisfying spending 2 hours designing something that will do a 3 minute task over and over again. I want to play more games like these. Why you should consider Heroes of the Storm Take everything you hate about traditional MOBA, then leave the shit teammates in, and then… actually wait, put the stealth characters back too. Long story short, Heroes of the Storm might be the MOBA that gets you on the train, or gets you to change trains if you already play one of the other big MOBAs. A quick summary of the game in comparison with other moba’s, is that blizzard seem to have tried hard to streamline the entire experience into ‘just the fun’, which results in almost a combination between traditional 3 lane MOBA, and arena style TDM. Heres a list of things which are different, and that I liked: – Recharging fountains just behind first tower to help with laning phase – Getting outplayed rather than Outgeared – Skirmishes / Baron dance all day – No need to fuck around with items, lets be real, you’d buy the same shit every game anyway – No need to last hit creeps, now you can focus on last hitting your enemy in the face – No Wards, so ganks are more effective – Gates along with towers which introduce blind spots – Towers have ammo systems, meaning pushing the lane to the tower is always the optimal strategy – Talents which augment your abilities, think Diablo 3 style – – Forgo talents for additional spells if you need them, these include poly’s, attack buffs, cooldown refreshes, and blinks. Everyone knows a spell like Blink is strong, so do you want safety or do you want carry power or an even crazier ult. – Choice of two ults to fit your playstyle, as an example, Raynors Ult1 is great for sieging and teamfights, while Ult2 is great for single target DPS. – Free palette swaps on skins – Side objectives are meaningful and always give the teams something to fight over, focusing the action. 1 Man split push is rarely the correct strategy. – Pick your hero and the game matchmakes you into a party, means you play what you want, rather than what others force you to pick – Less reliance on an established meta – ‘Jungle camps’ grant your team additional push/siege capabilities – 3 Skills and 1 talent point at level 1 – – Full scale 5v5 battle over recon point at level 1 – Mana costs feel about right. – Not played all of them yet, but i’m yet to find a hero I dislike playing as. – No postgame chat or All Chat means you can’t flame your enemies, avoiding unnecessary salt and drama – Granted im still relatively low level, but toxicity seems lower than other MOBA, this might change when i hit ranked/max level though. At the very least, there aren’t legions of smurf accounts waiting to fuck me up. Here’s some things that are bad about it – Some Lag compensation / choppiness issues (Though these seem to be better on the 32bit client) – Pricing model, Not enough ingame gold generation for the price of heroes. – Less heroes than other games in genre (35) – Still closed beta – Can’t hard carry due to shared XP and no items. 13 Reasons why Resi Revelations 2 is awful So against my better judgement I decided to continue on with the game, playing through the other episodes.. eventually finding myself towards the end of Episode 4, when something tipped me over the edge and I just said ‘fuck it. I can’t deal with this game anymore’ and I exited out and probably won’t ever launch it again. It gets that bad. As odd as it is to say, Revelations 2 somehow manages to feel like a poor resident evil clone of the recent ‘Evil Within’ game. Anyway, Have some bullet points. – The story is fucking retarded, even by resident evil standards – Moiras dialogue is fucking retarded, even teenagers don’t say the dumb shit she says, you can’t just write normal angsty dialogue and then throw ‘fuck’ in there every now and then “I’m going to survive the fuck out of this”. WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. – The level design is terribly linear and this only gets worse after the first episode – The level design is also retarded, with enemies and traps in places seemingly only put there to annoy. – There are enemies which are completely invisible and kill you instantly if you get to close to them, and then the level designers thought it would be a good idea to throw these into timed escape sequences, where the average player is going to be holding the run button. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU WHO THOUGHT THIS IS A GOOD IDEA. I HATE YOU. – Natalia (the little girl) apparently has enough physical strength to pick up and carry a generator unit which has dimensions probably 1m3, this annoyed me more than it probably should have. – The game has serious pacing issues – Episode 4 featured possibly the most boring 10 minute area/segment i’ve ever played in a video game ever – and i’ve played a lot of video games. – There are lengthy segments clearly designed for co-op play… the co-op play is of course missing from the PC version – There was a part where the AI decided to fall off a cliff, causing me to get a game over. – Overabundance of items which are completely useless without ‘bottles’, and then an item system which refused to let me discard said useless items. I wasn’t aware this shitty rag of cloth was important to the overarching story of the game. – Unexplained inconsistencies toward the end of the story, bitches be teleporting around location wise or coming back to life etc. – Bosses are lazily made, having only 2 or 3 attacks. – – The boss in the claire campaign would regularly manage to attack me through terrain – – One of the bosses in the barry campaign features an instant kill grab attack and is fought in a small enclosed area, and you bet your AI partner is just going to be standing around. – Fucking hell did I mention how bad the story was? Astro’s Rhythm Game Q1 Meet, and the end of Programmed World Just remembered I haven’t done a post about Q1 yet, Astro City were conducting their quarterly community meetup, I turned up on the saturday and stayed overnight. RIP corin Lots of antics as usual, we also had a larger selection of home setups available than last time, with people bringing along Sound Voltex, Reflec Beat, and Jubeat – making the arcade very busy indeed, and making sure there was more or less something for everyone to play at all times. I previously remember Reflec beat not being a whole lot of fun when I played it in Japan, but I actually rather enjoyed it this time round, though the green notes at the top still threw me off. I still don’t think i’d properly spend too much money on it, but it was definitely pretty fun. (oh, and it has ‘Watching you’ by LIL and a bunch of other neato songs, KPP anyone?) Jubeat actually ended up being the opposite, I remembered it being fun in the arcade but playing it again properly and having a longer go with it, I don’t really like that game much at all as it feels too hard to properly read. Maybe i’m just getting old. Q1 also coincided with my birthday, so there was lots of birthday love given out, which was honestly a really nice change compared ot the usual treatment I get when I basically just go to work, or sit at home and do nothing at all (I’ve never been big on birthday celebrations if i’m honest.) Alex previously bet me a free curry if I was able to pass IIDX’s 7th Dan before/on Q1, and I actually somehow managed to pull it off! I guess a good sign that i’m slowly improving, my gauge dropped down to 12% or so at one point. Lua was manning the stream computer so I even got a video copy of it as a souvineer! [kad_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7rYakieW7A” ] Woo! So basically, I passed a major milestone AND got a free dinner on my birthday. Group selfie. Obviously. DDR was pretty busy throughout the night Me being coached by Alex It was a really fun night, and fantastic to see everyone again…. It’s sad then, that as of last night, the community start to fizzle again. Without going into too much detail, basically we in the UK don’t have proper access to the latest versions of the arcade games, and we don’t have proper access to the online features as they all go through Konami – who don’t operate outside of Japan (and recently, some patches of NA). We were kind of able to circumvent this through what was basically server emulation, however over the last weekend Konami have decided to take the banhammer to the service (Programmed World), which basically means we are going to lose access to the latest versions of the games we’ve been playing, along with all of the online features – Paseli (digital currency), Score saving, Rivals (data comparison), Clear Lamps… Basically everything which gives the games proper longevity and replayability. Imagine having a version of guitar hero with 4000 songs that you can go through and clear, and it’ll save your hi-score etc… then suddenly that is replaced with a version that only has 3000 songs and wont save your scores or info in any way. The main worry right now, is that the arcades that supported the games, and in turn relied on the game’s income and playerbase, are now in a position where they will lose much of their custom. Considering there are other ways of playing the games that do have the aforementioned features, it puts people in a position where there isn’t a massive advantage of going to the arcade rather than just playing at home or similar. It’s really kind of sad because for us, there isn’t even the option of joining konami’s E-amuse service, so we’re just shit out of luck. I’d hate to see the community kind of stop going to the arcade because of this, but honestly, even for me i’m probably less likely to go as a result. Dragonball Xenoverse (PC) Review It’s been a hell of a long time since i’ve played a Dragonball game, probably the last one I remember was one of the Budokai’s or Tenkaichi on the PS2, with some 15 games and 10 years since my last foray into the series, I was intrigued and excited. Dragonball Xenoverse is for new gen consoles and PC, and starts the game with a hype as fuck metal version of the anime’s original japanese song, Cha-La Head cha-la, which really gets you into the mood for punching dudes. From there on, it’s a collection of new story, ingame and anime cutscenes and a slew of campaign and free missions to play. Xenoverse is a 3rd person fighter, and plays similarly to the zone of the enders series (lock on, and mash buttons dynasty warriors style, or use some of the many Ki attacks). So what do you need to know about Xenoverse… The story is an interesting ‘history is being rewritten’ one, and has you travelling back in time to all of the famous battles you watched as a child, only something plays out differently – the end result is almost always the same of course, kill the enemy, but the way in which these scenarios are presented (well animated cutscenes) is a nice touch and helps explain why you are fighting with X, and why you are fighting against Y. The core of the game is set out almost like an MMO – after creating your character, you progress through the story which unlocks the free missions, you get exp for playing anything, and can use this to buff your core stats in whatever way you choose (I like.). Your cosmetic choices are generally governed by your money (also gained from missions) or can be random drops in free missions, similarly all of the skills in the game can be equipped, but are dropped randomly by their respective user in free missions, or they can be provided by ‘trainers’ which are basically the named characters which appear in the hub world. It’s a pretty cool choice, and a nice change from ‘oh ok, i’m Krillin, i guess i have destructo disk, solar flare, etc’, as now you can dress vaguely how you want (tied down to lore based dresswear of course) and pick whatever skills you desire – You’re free to go for a heavy melee fighter with physical combo skills and breakout moves, or you can put 4 variations of the kamehameha as your spells (why.). There is online multiplayer as well, with co-op free missions, as well as online 3v3 battles and a tournament mode, which I assume is either 8 player rumble or perhaps a structured 1v1 tourney, i’m honestly not sure. I get the feeling this game will be great fun to play with friends, and either really fun or really frustrating to play against people online depending on the level of your character and how good you are at comboing/evading. The main part of the game then, if not already implied, is combat – everything else is kind of this facade for the actual game which is just a 3d fighting game. Is it any fun? Ehhh… It’s OK. And that’s where Dragonball Xenoverse sort of starts to come apart. I love almost everything else about the game, the characters, the skill selection, the grindy nature of it… but the main dish, the actual thing you’ll be doing 90% of the time, feels lacking. There are only so many combos available to your character, and then you can select 4 special moves, and 3 ultimate moves, everything after that just turns into rushing down your opponent, mashing 2 buttons and finishing with a skill – occasionally holding block or tapping A to evade out of an enemies combo. It’s pretty binary and doesn’t really lack the strategy that traditional fighting games has, and where everyone has such large health pools, you’ll find yourself having to do the same thing over and over before they go down. As a side criticism, there is this gigantic hub world, but it’s filled with pretty much nothing, theres no way to teleport or dash around, and so you end up wasting a lot of time running between counters for shops/missions. As a final note, the artstyle is awesome – a nice cel shaded look which is clear to read and fitting for the series. The game also runs really well, at a straight 60 for me even with AA – it also supports 4k resolutions and 120/144 fps, so theres that too. Oh yeah, theres a shit load of characters (I was shocked when I found out the character select menu could scroll horizontally), there are around 40+ I believe – Personally, i’ve never wanted to play as any of the smaller members of the Ginyu Force, but y’know, that’s an option here. If you can get over the somewhat mediocre combat, Dragonball Xenoverse has a ton of stuff to do, as well as online battles for you to show off your character and skills once you’ve geared up. The art style is spot on and the game is fun in short bursts – though you’ll often find those short bursts turning into hours of play due to the length of battles and grindy nature of the game. If Xenoverse were a cheaper price (like £20, £25 max), i’d totally buy it, and I’m only the bare minimum of a Dragonball fan. Approximate Game Length : Long Actual Worth / Steam Price: £20 / £40 = 0.5 Should you play it : For series fans only The Talos Principle (PC) Review I feel like Talos Principle went kind of under the radar late last year, and I suppose why wouldn’t it, the game had practically zero marketing and is a puzzle made by Croteam – yeah, THAT Croteam, the one with the long history of making deep puzzle games, OH WAIT. all they have made are serious sam games which involve headless men trying to jihad you. It was a surprise then, when Talos Principle actually turned out to be an incredibly competent 3d puzzle game; even more surprising is the massive amount of lore and storytelling they have managed to throw into the game. The core of the game involves small individual puzzles inside hubs which are inside other hubs, you’ll use lasers, jammers, fans, timed clones and more to make your way around doors, enemies, turrets and so on. There are a ton of puzzles, probably somewhere in the region of 100+ normal puzzles, then there are super hard puzzles which are unlocked by collecting star pieces, and these star pieces basically augment the normal puzzles and make them harder or require thinking outside of the box. Wall in the way? Put a laser transmitter on top of a box, and then float the box using a fan. Duh. The hub worlds and the route of progression is pretty unique – each puzzle awards a tetromino which is used in the main hub to unlock new items or doors (to other hubs), it’s a strange world within world within worlds concept that ultimately really works in both a difficulty limiting fashion as well as a gated progression fashion, ensuring just enough of the world is left tucked away to keep you wanting to push forward. As expected, the further you get into the game, the harder and longer the puzzles become, however I felt the game did a fairly good job of introducing concepts gradually and letting the player figure out the rest – that is of course assuming you play the levels in order, which you don’t really have to. There are definitely some challenging levels in Talos Principle though, I personally found myself looking up hints/solutions about 5 times through my 9 hour playthrough, which isn’t too bad really, and shows that most of the puzzles can be fairly logically solved. The story/narrative are also very impressively well done, and are not forced upon the player in any way – which is my favorite type of story. All of the lore and story are tucked away in obvious audio logs, or stored on computer terminals which are not required for progression – however the more you put in, the more you will get out, as the lore and world in Talos Principle is actually really interesting and mysterious (though I won’t say much more than that for spoiler reasons). I really did love the start of the game where nothing is explained, and everything is a mystery. While there isn’t a massive amount of replay value, the game does it’s best at extending the game through natural means instead, as already mentioned there are a ton of crazy hard puzzles available, hidden behind extra hard puzzles. There is also just in general a lot of ground to cover and an expansive world to explore. Then finally there is a massive amount of easter eggs hidden away in the game, along with 3 endings. While Talos Principle might not have the strong storytelling of the portal series, or the more interesting mechanics of Quantum Conundrum, i’d argue that it has one of the more interesting worlds to wander through and has this mysterious tone throughout – and on the more obvious side, it’s really fucking long compared to everything else in it’s genre that i’ve seen, while being good enough that you’ll want to see it through. The game ran me approximately 9 hours for a normal clear, and probably much longer if you want to go for the stars and star levels. Oh, as an ‘and finally’ note for the PC version, there are options in the graphical settings to change contrast, brightness etc, but also saturation, which I thought was really neat. More games should let me make them more colourful. Talos Principle is a shockingly good 3d Puzzler from Croteam, and easily puts up a good fight against it’s genre rivals like Portal. It’s filled with some great level design and game mechanics, beautiful environments, relaxing music and intriguing story. Approximate Game Length : 9 Hours for basic clear with minimal extras Actual Worth / Steam Price: £16 / £30 = 0.533 Should you play it : Yes, especially if you enjoy the genre. Rating: 4.5 / 5 ps. At £30 normal price, the game is maybe a little on the steep side, but is probably a good buy at £20 or below. Resi Revelations 2 Ep1 (PC) Review Mmmm.. So Resident Evil Revelations 2, admittedly I feel like i’m a tad out of the loop nowadays when it comes to Resi games, I didn’t get very far in Revelations 1, and I barely touched Resi 6 (for reasons we won’t get into right now). I did recently finish REmake HD again, but that’s a resi game from another time so i’m not entirely sure if it counts. And so, here we have Revelations 2, a new episodic title in the franchise – As I understand it, there are 4 episodes to this game, each available for £5, or the whole lot for £20. These episodes, rather surprisingly, are also coming out on a weekly basis rather than the telltale style of waiting until everyone has forgotten what happened on the last episode before releasing the new one. I guess I’d better start talking about the game itself. It’s very similar to all of the recent Resi games, you run in a mostly linear fashion, you shoot zombies in the head, there is a second character with you (though done in a less clever way than Resi 0), you mostly don’t have ammo problems, there are grenades, you find items to progress and then there’s probably a climax event where you have to survive because everyone talks about that opening sequence of resi4 and so they just can’t let that shit go. The differences in Revelations 2 (at least in the PC version) is that there is a mysterious lack of co-op – despite there being 2 characters throughout the game, the second character also does not have a firearm but will instead possess a unique ability. There’s also a weapon parts/upgrade system, which is actually kind of cool and works by letting you add parts to your weapon to upgrade it. For some reason also, they have decided to put in a skill tree, I vaguely remember something like this being in one of the other recent games, so maybe this isn’t new at all, but you can spend your bp (exp) to unlock some small buffs – it’s worth mentioning that these aren’t your conventional skills, in that none of them actually straight up increase your health or damage, but rather work by changing the way your abilities work, or add bonus damage in special circumstances. Other new features include the ability to combine items to make new ones, alcohol can be combined with a bottle for the obvious firebomb, or combined with some cloth for a dressing – which is practically a necessity due to the new bleed system. The new bleed system occurs at a fairly low frequency, but will fill your screen with annoying blood splats and make your character drain health (seemingly rapidly) over time, I only got inflicted with bleed once by a large enemy, but it was highly annoying. An unfortunate consequence of being part of the revelations series, seems to be that the game has kept in the item scouter from Revelations 1 – a laborious way of introducing extra items into the area, provided you scout them out, Revelations 2 does this by forcing you to use your second, defenceless character to point at items so that blind claire/barry can pick them up. Failure to play this shitty minigame of theirs will result in you having less ammo to fire, less herbs to use, etc. Episode 1 takes place in a prison kind of area, and then a forest, with gameplay divided fairly equally between the Claire / Moira team, and Barry / Little Girl team (yeah, I forgot her name. always a good sign that you’ve made a memorable character and tried your hardest to integrate her into the story OH WAIT.). There is some overlap between the two, which I actually thought was kind of cool – seeing the consequences of one journey affect the next. Unfortunately the game kind of ends just as you start to get into it – the problem with episodic games I suppose. The title runs at exactly 90 minutes for me, though I imagine if you wanted to zerg it you could manage it in 30-45min on your first attempt. Raid mode is unlocked on completion, which appears to be this title’s taken on the Mercenaries concept – However I remember mercenaries being more… intense, the raid mode in this feels more akin to running a low level dungeon in a PVE mmo on your own. The missions provide you with a linear path and then puts randomly spawning enemies in your area for you to kill, and these zombies (at the start of the mode at least) are the lowest of the low – providing absolutely no challenge whatsoever. So you run around, kill zombies, and then there are chests around the place which provide you with unidentified weapons/parts which you can use on your character, I imagine you can see where this is going. So what we have then, is a character who needs to level up to equip skills/items, we have a gold system, and then we have random item drops, and zombies with levels and life bars above their heads. Welcome what can only be described as a free to play Resident Evil game! …. Except its single player only… and you have to pay for it… As a final note, many people on steam are complaining about bad frame rate issues and crashes, I didn’t experience any of these, but then again I was using a.. uhh.. ‘offline review copy’ we’ll say. If you do want to purchase this, it might be worth looking into patchnotes and stuff to make sure your experience isn’t marred. Personally, I had no issues running this on high settings @ 1080/60 stable. Ehhh. The campaign mode of this episode can only be described as ‘adequate’, it’s not particularly scary, the new character doesn’t add a whole lot to the gameplay, and it’s terribly short. Raid mode has some interesting ideas, and would genuinely be a game I would play if it were online and free, but sadly it is neither of these. It’s a solid modern Resi game, but that sadly doesn’t count for a whole lot nowadays. Approximate Game Length : 1.5 Hours for this episodes campaign. Putting the estimate for the full game at 6-8 Hours Actual Worth / Steam Price: £2 / £5 = 0.4 Should you play it : Nothing special. Fans of the series should wait for the inevitable steam sale when all the episodes are out. ps. Moira’s dialogue isn’t as bad as I anticipated from the early footage, majority of her lines are badly written to the point where it’s comical though, perhaps they are trying to establish shit dialogue as a Resident Evil feature? 3DS Games rundown (1) Now, I actually had a reasonable amount of 3DS games from before, but nonetheless, after 2 years of owning the console I had only purchased what I deemed to be the true essentials, as at £20-£35 a game, it’s just not really something I felt I wanted to spend money on that often. Buying a Gateway has let me play games I wouldn’t otherwise even consider spending money on, and even removes region locking so I can dick around with some japanese games too, and as an added bonus – even opens up the door to free DLC and modified games such as UnDubs (At this point, i’ve become SO used to Persona 4’s japanese voices, that the English ones just don’t sound right). Here’s what I’ve been playing lately: Pokemon Alpha Sapphire – Which has been mostly disappointing, especially after playing Pokemon Y and all the new features that had, many of these have been stripped back for some odd reason. The ability to be able to catch most of the Legendaries is a nice touch though I guess. Persona Q – Which, again, has been disappointing, it seems like an incredibly stripped down version of a Persona game, leaving only the dungeon crawling intact, which IMO is actually the weakest part of the game. Maybe deep down inside, i’m just waiting for a Persona dating sim. Fantasy Life – Not the most fun game in the world, but certainly has enough pull and appeal to keep me engaged for 30 hours or so, it very much reminds me of leveling trade skills in WoW, running around trying to gather materials as multiple professions before coming back to blacksmith your way to OP status and get rich. Tetris Ultimate – Which is shit. How did they mess up a Tetris game? Fuck sake ubisoft. Whats wrong with it? It’s plain, its a downgrade from Nintendo’s Tetris DS, and it has a shit colour scheme which makes it hard to make out the outlines of blocks. Can Akira just port TGM3 to everything? Puyo Puyo Tetris – Which has made me realise just how bad I am at Puyo Puyo. Sadly seems to be missing marathon modes unless I’m just being blind. Luigi’s Mansion 2 – Theres a good game in here somewhere, but Nintendo’s pandering to children and casuals have marred the experience somewhat with an overbearing amount of unskippable tutorial dialogue. I’m also not a massive fan of the episodic nature of each Mansion, which often results in you exploring the same area multiple times, instead of being like the original Luigi’s Mansion which felt more akin to a more lighthearted Resident Evil and letting the mansion itself become a massive play area itself. Hatsune Miku Project Mirai 2 – Decent Rhythm game, filled with an adorable chibi miku. Having to unlock all the difficulties and songs is a bit of a chore. New Super Mario Bros 2 – Meh. Fairly uninspired level design, it’s nothing you haven’t already played multiple times. Weapon Shoppe de Omasse – I like the principle of the game, and enjoy the forging aspect, but the game rarely lets you do it, instead having you stand around waiting for text to scroll, or polishing weapons. Zelda Majoras Mask 3D – Fantastic game, and I can definitely see why it’s a cult favorite. From what I hear, the remake has added in a lot of useful features and cleaned up the UI which i’m thankful for. Project X Zone – It’s alright, though not as good as the average Disgaea game, and certainly not as good as Fire Emblem Awakening. The combat gets stale pretty quick, though the battle animations and large character roster are entertaining. So of these, which would I actually deem as worth my money after playing? Honestly probably only Fantasy Life and Majoras Mask, everything else is pretty average or disappointing, which is quite a shame.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line684
__label__cc	0.743255	0.256745	9th October 2018 by Regula Leave a Comment I first came into contact with these bright orange berries on one of my trips to Sweden last year. We visited a pick your own farm where the hedges of Sea buckthorn were plenty and laden with fruit. I wondered where these rough looking shrubs with their vicious thorns as dangerous as barb wire normally grow. Sea Buckthorn grows in coastal areas in Europe and Asia, in dunes and on moors. Their Flemish name translates to ‘Dune thorn’, other names are Sand Thorn and Siberian pineapple. Their roughness reflects the landscape in which they thrive. Brisk winds and cold, draught, desolate plains. Their root system is invasive, but improves marginal soil. In some areas the bushes have even been used for soil erosion control and land reclamation projects. It sort off feels like their thorns tell us to let them be, so that they can do good for the surrounding earth, the wildlife and to bring a highly healthy berry to the people that live around them. Birds can nest in the branches, benefiting from the piercing thorns as protection agains predators. The oval berries are tart, bitter and have little sweetness to them. They have been used for medicinal purposes for centuries, they are full of anti-oxidants, beta-carotene, vitamine C, A and E and they battle inflammation. A concentrated puree from the berries can be used to relief sunburn and some say it could be good for some skin conditions. You could call them a super food, but lets forget about that horrible hipster term shall we? The young leaves can be used for tea because of their amino-acids, fatty acids, minerals and ability to boosting the immune system. An oil is made from the berries and seeds and used for all kinds of ails. In a nutshell, the berries are good for you and the shrub is a good one to have around. I enjoy the flavour, the mild tartness, their lack of sweetness. I bought a jar of Sea Buckthorn jam on my last trip to Sweden when I visited an apple orchard by the Baltic Sea. Of course because of their location they must have had a lot of Sea Buckthorn bushes around and in their shop they sold a jam called “Marmalat” which was more compote textured than jammy because they added a small amount of apple to the Sea Buckthorn. The jam was spread on toast and the jar empty much too soon so I started to look forward to the new Sea Buckthorn season and searched for a farm that grows the trees. On an evening in late august my husband and I set out to visit a man with a passion for peculiar and otherwise difficult to find fruit bushes. Together we spent nearly half an hour harvesting just 500 grams of berries. The cruel thorns make harvesting very troublesome and the tree doesn’t like to let go of its berries very easily. The best method to harvest these berries and to prevent cuts in your hands from the thorns is to prune the bushes – that need a lot of pruning anyway – and freeze the branches whole. When frozen the berries are suddenly incredibly easy to pick and most just fall from the branches. I wanted to make the jam and at the same time make as much of the fruit as I could. The jam was made by boiling the fruit, then straining the pulp. The pulp just keeps on giving, to the pulp of 500 g berries I added 1 liter of boiling water and left it to brew for half an hour. The juice that is left can be consumed as tea or juice and it is also makes a very good aperitif mixed with sparkling wine. My favourite thing to do with the juice however is to make a sorbet out of it. I’m not an ice cream lover because I’m not too fond of its sweetness but since these berries aren’t really sweet it makes for a perfect sorbet for me. Just freeze the juice in a shallow container and stir every 30 minutes until ready – or use a machine if you have one. Come to think of it, a slushy would work great too!… Filed Under: preserving, Uncategorized, Winter Tagged With: fruit, preserves, preserving, sea buckthorn, winter 27th March 2018 by Regula 7 Comments Marmalade is like Marmite, you either love it or loathe it. Marmalade is loved in Britain, smeared on golden toast as the last course of the English Breakfast. The humble jar of sunshine even has its own Marmalade Awards each year in Cumbria in the North of England. Anyone can send in their jar to be judged by marmalade royalty, and my friend Lisa from All Hallows Cookery School in Dorset just won with hers. In a time when bitter flavour is bred out of vegetables and fruits, you would think many people are not that fond of marmalade. Marmalade is traditionally made from bitter Seville oranges. Originally from Asia, the Moors introduced these oranges in Spain around the 10th century. They are quite inedible in their raw state and if you can manage I salute you. Because of their sourness Seville oranges contain a high amount of pectin. In 17 and 18th century cookery books they get a mention as ‘bitter oranges’ and it wouldn’t be an British classic without a story. In the mid 18th century a Spanish ship carrying Seville oranges was damaged by storm. The ship sought refuge in the harbour of Dundee in Scotland where the load deemed unfit for sale were sold to a local merchant called James Keiller. James’ mother turned the bitter orange fruit into jam and so created the iconic James Keiller Dundee Marmalade. It wasn’t a coincidence that James mother made marmalade, in the 1760s her son ran a confectionery shop producing jams in Seagate, Dundee. In 1797 he founded the world’s first marmalade factory producing the first commercial brand of marmalade. In 1828, the company became James Keiller and Son, when his son joined the business. Today you can see stone James Keiller and Son marmalade jars pop up at every carboot sale and antiques market. But the marmalade is still in production, only now in glass jars that off the beautiful radiant orange colour that is so typical of marmalade. The truth as clear as marmalade According to Ivan Day, a prominent food historian who I was lucky to do a course with, one of the earliest known recipe for a Marmelet of Oranges dates from around 1677 and it can be found in the recipe book of Eliza Cholmondeley held in the Cheshire Archives and Local Studies. The earliest recipe in Scotland is titled ‘How to make orange marmalat’ and dates back 1683. It can be found in the earliest Scottish manuscript recipe book which is believed to have been written by Helen, Countess of Sutherland of the Clan Sutherland. The book is dedicated entirely to fruit preservation and jelly making. According to The Scotsman “The Countess was married to John Gordon, the 16th Earl of Sutherland, an army officer who was honoured following the defeat of the 1715 Jacobite rebellion.” This bit of information transports me right to the wuthering heights of Scotland. This early Scottish as well as English recipe debunks the myth that mother Keiller invented marmalade. Recipes for similar preserves even date back earlier in history. But the Keiller family definitely deserve a prominent spot in marmalade history. But why do we call it marmalade and not jam? As you maybe remember from my posting about ‘Quince Cheese’ here > , quinces are responsible for the word marmalade as their Portuguese word is ‘marmelo’ and they were made into fruit cheeses named marmalades. In Spain they call it ‘Membrillo’. Quince just like bitter Seville oranges, contain a lot of pectin and they are both too sour to eat raw. From both of these fruits the pips and peels are used to get a good set, and if you don’t have quince you could easily make a fruit cheese out of these oranges…. Filed Under: Breakfast, Food & Social history, preserving, Uncategorized, Winter Tagged With: Best of British, februari, Food history, food traditions, fruit, januari, marlalade, preserves, preserving, Social history, winter How to make Quince Cheese 9th December 2016 by Regula 1 Comment I’m not the biggest fan of sweet desserts after mains, I prefer an afternoon tea where the treats become the star of the show. That way you can enjoy them to the full and they do not become that thing you eat last when you’re actually too full to enjoy it. For an afternoon tea you can dress up, wear a hat, and pretend to be a lady of good breeding. Drinking tea with your pinky in the air, back straight, having polite conversations and enjoying the experience of eating from fine bone china. I’m also a sucker for a multi-tiered cake stand, and for clotted cream – lots of it. Cheese and biscuits are my choice of afters and with a decent fruit cheese and port this quickly becomes my perfect kind of dessert. Fruit cheeses are reduced jams or pastes. Centuries ago they were served after dinner as a digestive and they were often prescribed by apothecaries to cure minor ailments. The fruit paste was often pressed in a mould with fancy engravings and could look rather stunning. Moulds of this sort are rare to come by, I only know one person who has a mould and I believe he even carved it himself. Although fruit cheeses should be thick and hold their shape, they should still be spreadable. You can make them into small cake trays for a nice shape or just in a large tray, you can then cut squares of the fruit cheese to wrap them and keep them. They are the most delectable accompaniment to blue cheese, but they can also be eaten all on their own, as a sweetie. A nice idea if you want to know what your child puts in its mouth, factory made sweets can contain all sorts of horrible additives. But it’s still sugar, make no mistake, to call it healthy would be wrong, but eaten and treated as a treat it is just fine. My favourite fruit cheese is made of Quince. Quince are usually cooked and conserved. They look like otherworldly lanterns, large yellow pears with a strange downy covering. Raw they are considered quite unpalatable because of their tartness, but they are high in pectin which makes them ideal for making jams, jellies and fruit cheese. The pectin is most strong in the pips of the fruit, often ground up pips would be used to set other jelly like creations. But this is something I would not recommend you do as the seeds contain nitriles which turns poisonous when it comes in contact with your guts enzymes and acid. A few pips from your batch of quince are fine, just don’t chuck in a jar of ground up pips. Quince and quince cheese was popular all over Europe since Medieval times. In Spain they call it ‘Membrillo’, in Italy ‘cotognata’ from the Italian word for quince ‘mele cotogne’ quince apple, the French call it ‘cotignac’ or ‘paté de coing’ from the French ‘coing’ for quince. Quinces are responsible for the word marmalade as their Portuguese word is ‘marmelo’ and they were made into fruit cheeses named marmalades. … Filed Under: 17th century, 18th century, Historical recipes, Medieval, preserving, Sweet, Uncategorized, Winter Tagged With: 17th century, edible gifts, Food history, fruit, Medieval, preserves, preserving, quince, sweet, winter Quince Ratafia 14th November 2015 by Regula 12 Comments Quince really are a mystical fruit. They hang like lanterns from the trees, forcing the branches to bend down with their weight. One can not ignore their smell, how they fill your kitchen with that sweet incense-like scent. The smell far sweeter than they really are, because as far as fruits go, they are very tart. So tart that they are considered inedible raw. Recipes over time always require you to cook quinces, and cook them long and slow. Some authors claim you should never put spices with quinces but most instruct you to add cinnamon, cloves, peper and more sweet spices. Quinces are responsible for the word marmalade as their Portuguese word is ‘marmelo’ and they were made into fruit cheeses named marmalades. The marmalades were served after dinner as a digestive and they were often prescribed by apothecaries to cure minor ailments. The pear shaped yellow fruits were made into pies, preserved whole and in form of a syrup and they were also made into Ratafia. Ratafias were infused alcohols much like the Amaretto we know today. It could be made with apricot kernels, bitter almonds – which produce the original Amaretto, cherry kernels and cherries, and our beautiful quinces. Ratafia of quinces was popular in the 18th century in England, and in the 17th and 18th in France. The following recipe is that of Vincent La Chapelle, the master cook to the fourth earl of Chesterfield, William IV, the Prince of Orange, John V of Portugal and even the mistress of Louis XV of France: Madamme de Pompadour. Like with so many historical writers, he borrowed a lot of his recipes of another author, in this case the French Francois Massialot who published a book on court cookery and confectionery in 1692. These two gentlemen both share recipes for Quince Ratafia, but La Chapelle instructs us to bring the quince juice to a boil, while Massialot does not. They also use different spices, making the end result not the same drink at all. You must have some Quinces, and rasp them with a Grater; all being grated, you must have a Piece of strong Cloth, put in a small handful, and squeese it with all your Might, that the Juice may come from it; when all is squeesed and you have all the Juice, put it in a Preserving pan, let it take just one single Boiling, and let it cool; being cooled, measure two Quarts of Juice and two Quarts of Brandy, Measure by Measure, and clarify some Sugar; to each two Quarts, ten Ounces of Sugar, a Piece of Cinnamon, four Cloves, and three or four Grains of white Pepper whole; stop up your Jug very close, put it aside for two or three Months, put it through a Straining-bag, until it come very clear, and put it up in Bottles flopped very close. Vincent la Chapelle, The Modern Cook, London, 1733 In 1830 ‘The Cook’s Dictionary’ by Richard Dolby instructs us to leave the scrapings of quince for 24 hours until they start to ferment, then extract the juice and add it to spiced brandy. We’re not going to ferment the quince, I will try that next year as I just caught the last of the quinces of the year at the market. And I’m going to leave out the spices because I want to know how it tastes like without them, quince have such a delicate flavour. What is your favourite quince recipe?… Filed Under: 18th century, Drinks, preserving, Uncategorized, Winter Tagged With: booze, fruit, preserving, quince Blaeberry pie – Going back in time 29th July 2012 by Regula 24 Comments The first time I baked this pie it felt like magic when I took it out of the oven. Not only has this dish been around for centuries, I got to taste a bit of Britain’s beautiful food heritage. There are quite a few cookery books around that were written more than hundreds of years ago and are still influencing cooks today. Like in politics, we are supposed to learn from our history. So whenever I am cooking a dish I research it to find out how it was prepared by the Elizabethans, Victorians, Edwardians and learn about how tastes changed and some things just stayed the same. I am eternally grateful to Florence White who wrote the book ‘Good things in England’. Born in 1863 she was the first ever freelance journalist specializing in food and English cooking in particular. For the creation of the book she went out looking for traditional British recipes that were handed down in families for generations. Some of the regional recipes that she found or had been sent by her readers, dated back as far as the 14th century. In 1931 she founded the ‘English Folk Cookery Association’ and later she set up a cookery and domestic training school in Fareham. Another interesting read about English traditional cooking are the books from Jane Grigson, some of the recipes in her books are from or inspired by Isabella Beeton, the author of the book ‘Mrs Beetons’s Book of Household Management‘ in 1861. Both White and Beeton’s books influenced the work of Elizabeth David and so do we go on to keep British food heritage alive. This pie is inspired by Jane Grigson‘s Blaeberry pie from the 70s. These days puff pastry is more popular for fruit pies but in the old days Shortcrust pastry would have been used. I am not a big fan of puff pastry and when I read about Flaky Shortcrust pastry in Beeton’s book I thought I would give it a try. The recipe was very similar to my recipe for savoury pie pastry. The pie worked best with the Flaky Shortcrust pastry, I added a pinch of sugar to the dough and used sparkling water instead of still water. Blaeberries are known in England by various of local names, these include Bilberries, Wimberries and myrtle blueberries. In Ireland they are known as Fraughan and are traditionally picked on Fraughan sunday on the last sunday of july. Bilberries were gathered by the Gaelic on the feast of Lughnasadh which is celebrated on the first of August. The Bilberries were gathered to bake pies and make wine. Lughnasadh is a harvest celebration, a time when food is plenty and has to be preserved for the more lean days ahead in the year. I am fascinated by these feasts which all celebrate food, fertility and life. Things were so simple and so straight forward. People were looking forward to the first berries and now we can buy them all year long. We are losing our connection with the seasons… By chance while I write this, it’s the last sunday of July. So this pie is for the harvest and the start of a whole new chapter in my life… but more on that at a later date. a 22 cm pie dish, I used enamelware For the pastry this recipe is for a pie in a 22 cm pie dish, including the bottom part, I only use the top for this pie so you will have some leftover dough to freeze or make little pies with • 250 g plain white flour • 150 g cold butter • 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice • 100ml ice cold sparklingwater • pinch of sugar • 1 egg white for egg washing the pastry You can do this with a food processor, but I like to do it by hand. Mix flour and sugar. Finely slice half of the butter finely into the flour, shake the bowl so the butter is covered in flour. Use a round knife to cut the butter into smaller pieces until the mixture resembles crumbs. You can also use a fork to do this. Put in the fridge for 30 minutes Now add the other half of the butter and do the same thing, cutting the butter into smaller pieces. Add the lemon juice to the water Start adding the water to the flour and butter, bring the dough together. Make sure you don’t over handle the dough, when it gets sticky, refrigerate again. The dough needs to stay cool. When you’ve managed to bring the dough together into a large lump, wrap in clingfilm and refrigerate for 1 hour. Now prepare your pie filling • 500 g blueberries • 85 g cane sugar (you can add 100g if you like things very sweet) • 1 level tablespoon of cornflour (cornstarch) Mix the sugar with the cornflour Add a layer of berries to the pie dish Add a layer of sugar and cornflour mixture and keep on doing this until the pie dish is slightly heaped with fruit. When the dough has rested enough. Preheat your oven to 220° Roll out your dough on a flowered surface. It should be half a cm thick. Line the pastry over the pie dish filled with fruit and trim the edges. Give the pastry a generous egg wash score the middle of the pastry with a sharp knife so the steam can get out. Put the pie in the bottom part of the oven for 15 min at 220° After 15 min reduce the heat to 180° and bake for 20-30 minutes When ready, leave it to rest for 20 minutes so the fruit can set a bit. Enjoy with a dollop of clotted cream, double cream or ice cream. The magic that is opening the lid of a pie and discovering color… Please leave a comment, I enjoy reading them Chicken and tarragon pie Victoria sandwich cake for Queenie Filed Under: Pudding, Sweet, Uncategorized Tagged With: baking, Best of British, blaeberries, British food, dessert, Food history, fruit, recipes, sweet pie, tart	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line687
__label__wiki	0.51032	0.51032	Cholera emergency 8/5/10; http://www.theage.com.au/world/cholera-emergency-20100507-ujt5.html Papua New Guinea authorities have declared a public health emergency in response to the prolonged cholera outbreak in the capital Port Moresby after five more people died. There are fears the outbreak could become a major epidemic. Health Minister Sasa Zibe said yesterday the declaration gave health authorities greater powers to contain the outbreak. The government can shut down food and drink stalls and prevent people moving to and from infected areas, he said. Up to 100 deaths have been blamed on the outbreak. health, PNG	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line688
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__label__cc	0.734948	0.265052	Hotel Ancienville French Version : Hotel Ancienville Picardie > Aisne > Ancienville > Ancienville Here is the list of the hotels near Ancienville. Book your hotel near Ancienville today, Wednesday 07 August for the best price, reservation and cancellation free of charge thanks to our partner Booking.com, leader in on-line hotels reservation. To help you find available hotels, you can follow these links to check the list of hotels in nearby towns of Ancienville : - hotels of Noroy-sur-Ourcq (02600) : town located at 1.26 km - hotels of Faverolles (02600) : town located at 2.82 km - hotels of Chouy (02210) : town located at 2.82 km - hotels of Corcy (02600) : town located at 3.95 km - hotels of Marizy-Sainte-Geneviève (02470) : town located at 3.97 km - hotels of Troësnes (02460) : town located at 4.00 km - hotels of Marizy-Saint-Mard (02470) : town located at 4.29 km - hotels of Louâtre (02600) : town located at 5.10 km - hotels of Dampleux (02600) : town located at 5.13 km - hotels of Silly-la-Poterie (02460) : town located at 5.30 km - hotels of Oigny-en-Valois (02600) : town located at 5.50 km - pictures of Ancienville : photo Ancienville - the map of Ancienville : map Ancienville - the road map of Ancienville : road map Ancienville Below here is the list the 50 closest hotels of Ancienville, sortable according your criteria. You will find the position of these accommodations on the Ancienville hotels map. Ancienville ! Hotels near Ancienville Les Bulles De Fleury Bed and Breakfast Fleury Located in Fleury, 6 km from Villers-Cotterêts, LES BULLES DE FLEURY features a garden and barbecue. Compiègne is 36 km from the property. All tents feature a seating area. A breakfast is served every morning and evening meals can be prepared upon request at an extra cost. Meaux is 47 km from LES BULLES DE FLEURY. The nearest airport, Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport, is 45 minute's drive away. Bed and Breakfast Ancienville : Address : 6 Rue de la Cavee 02600 Fleury Distance on map, Hotel - Ancienville : 5.95 kilometers HOTEL DE L'ABBAYE DE LONGPONT Hotel Longpont HOTEL DE L'ABBAYE DE LONGPONT in Longpont has a garden and a terrace. This 3-star hotel offers a 24-hour front desk and free WiFi. The in-house restaurant serves French cuisine. At the hotel, every room has a desk and a flat-screen TV. The private bathroom is equipped with free toiletries. All guest rooms at HOTEL DE L'ABBAYE DE LONGPONT are equipped with a seating area. Hiking is among the activities that guests can enjoy near the accommodation. Compiègne is 40 km from HOTEL DE L'ABBAYE DE LONGPONT, while Meaux is 47 km from the property. The nearest airport is Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport, 65 km from the property. Hotel Ancienville : Location : 8 Rue des Tourelles 02600 Longpont Route on map, Hotel - Ancienville : 6.31 kilometer Gîtes De Saint Rémy Guest accommodation Villers-Cotterêts Gîtes De Saint Rémy is located in Villers-Cotterêts, 50 km from Parc Astérix. Free Wi-Fi access is available in this holiday home. Guests stay in fully furnished holiday homes, each with a private kitchen, living room and bathroom. Featuring a shower, private bathrooms also come with a hairdryer and towels. Some rooms have a garden view. At Gîtes De Saint Rémy you will find a garden and a terrace. Other facilities offered at the property include a laundry. Restaurants and cafes can be reached within 4 km of the property. It can serve as an excellent base from which to discover the surrounding castles, medieval towns and Gallo-Roman ruins. Hiking, cycling, horseback riding and hunting are popular activities in the area. This holiday home is 55 km from Charles De Gaulle Airport, 50 km from Reims and 70 km from Paris. It offers free parking. Guest accommodation Ancienville : Address : 42 Route De Vivières 02600 Villers-Cotterêts Distance on map between hotel and center of Ancienville : 9.58 km Hôtel Le Régent Hotel Villers-Cotterêts This charming hotel situated in a former post coach station welcomes you in the heart of the Picardy, area near a large forest and many historic sites like castles, abbeys and churches. Boasting two indoor courtyards, the Hotel Le Regent offers traditional and modern guest rooms fittes with kitchenette, flat-screen television and Wi-Fi Internet access. Some of them also have private balcony. A bicycle rental service is available on-site, allowing you to fully discover the nearby area. Location : 26 Rue Du Général Mangin 02600 Villers-Cotterêts Distance between hotel and center of Ancienville : 9.62 kms Hotel Bonanite The Bonanite hotel is located in Villers Cotterêts, a 45-minute drive from Paris and Charles-de-Gaulle Paris Airport. Guestrooms have a private bathroom, TV and free Wi-Fi. This family run hotel serves a range of French and international cuisine in the restaurant. Guests can relax with a drink in the hotel bar or on the terrace. The François I Castle and Alexandre Dumas’ house are within easy reach from the Bonanite. The Château de Pierrefonds is 16 km away and free private parking is provided by the hotel. Le Translon Guest accommodation Saint-Pierre-Aigle Set on a 2-hectare park, Le Translon is located in Saint-Pierre-Aigle, just a 10-minute drive from the centre of Soissons. It features a spa area with a sauna, hammam, hot tub and massages can also be arranged. Both the apartment and the house have 2 bedrooms and are decorated with antique furniture. Free WiFi access is provided and you can enjoy garden views from both of the accommodations. At Le Translon you will find a lounge bar and there is a terrace in the park. The property offers free private parking and Charles de Gaulle Airport is 59 km from these holiday homes. Location : Le Translon 02600 Saint-Pierre-Aigle Route on map, Hotel - Ancienville : 10.18 kilometer Gite du Moulin d'Icare Guest accommodation Puiseux-en-Retz Preferred hotel ! Offering free WiFi and garden views, Gite du Moulin d'Icare is an accommodation located in Puiseux-en-Retz. Guests staying at this holiday home have access to a fully equipped kitchen. This holiday home is equipped with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms with a bath, a shower and free toiletries. A flat-screen TV with cable channels is featured. The holiday home offers a barbecue. Guests can relax in the garden at the property. Compiègne is 35 km from Gite du Moulin d'Icare, while Meaux is 48 km from the property. The nearest airport is Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport, 60 km from the property. Address : 6 Chemin du Moulin 02600 Puiseux-en-Retz Distance on map between hotel and center of Ancienville : 10.99 km Chambres d'Hôtes La Couronne Located in the centre of Saint-Pierre-Aigle, Chambres d’Hôtes La Couronne is 21 km from Pierrefonds and its château. It offers free Wi-Fi, a garden and a terrace with an outdoor seating area. All the soundproofed rooms are individually decorated and some include antique-style furniture. The bathroom is complete with free toiletries and a bath or shower. A continental breakfast with brioche, fruit and hot drinks can be enjoyed every morning at Chambres d’Hôtes La Couronne. The hosts can prepare a homemade, 3-course evening meal including wine and coffee or herbal tea, if reserved in advance. Activities in the area include tree climbing and horse riding. This property is 34 km from Compiègne and 16 km from Soissons. Free private parking is available on site. Location : 1 rue Paul Bazin 02600 Saint-Pierre-Aigle Distance between hotel and center of Ancienville : 11.78 kms Manoir du Plessis au Bois Bed and Breakfast Vauciennes Preferred hotel ! Offering free bikes, Manoir du Plessis au Bois is located in Vauciennes. It offers free WiFi access, a flowered garden and a terrace. Rooms are individually decorated and feature a wardrobe, garden views and a seating area. Private bathrooms are complete with a bath or shower. Guests are invited to enjoy breakfast every morning at Manoir du Plessis au Bois. This property is 9 km from Villers-Cotterêts and 43 km from Meaux. Free parking is available on site. Bed and Breakfast of Ancienville or nearby towns : Address : 4 rue du Château le Plessis au Bois 60117 Vauciennes Distance on map, Hotel - Ancienville : 13.99 kilometers Casa La Palma II COURMELLETTE Guest accommodation Courmelles Located in the heart of Courmelles and near its 12th-century church, Casa La Palma II COURMELLETTE offers a barbecue, views of the garden and is 40 km from Compiègne. The rooms features a flat-screen TV and a coffee machine. For your comfort, you will find free toiletries and a hairdryer. Casa La Palma II COURMELLETTE features free WiFi throughout the property. You will find a shared kitchen at the property. Laon is 38 km from Casa La Palma II COURMELLETTE, Soissons is 4.5 km away, while Château-Thierry is 38 km from the property. The nearest airport is Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport, 69 km from the property. Guest accommodation of Ancienville or nearby municipalities : Location : 1058 Rue Gambetta 02200 Courmelles Bed and Breakfast Cuvergnon Offering a flowered garden and a tennis table, La Maison Blanche is a bed & breakfast located in Cuvergnon, a 50-minute drive from Disneyland Paris and a 45-minute drive from Parc Astérix. Free WiFi access is available. You can discover the area with the free bicycles or relax in the shared lounge. Rooms at the bed & breakfast feature a TV, a garden view and a fireplace. Each room has a private bathroom with a hairdryer and free toiletries. Breakfast is included in the rate and served each morning in the dining room. Dinners with traditional dishes from the region can be enjoyed on site, upon prior reservation. Other onsite facilites include a piano, a children's play area with swings, a sandpit and a slide, a zipwire, a trampoline and a table football table. Free private parking is available onsite. Charles De Gaulle Airport is 38 km away. An array of activities can be enjoyed on site or in the surroundings, including cycling, hiking and table tennis. Address : 79 rue des Marronniers - Villers les potees 60620 Cuvergnon La Barbotine Bed and Breakfast Septmonts La Barbotine offers rooms in a country house with a large garden, a swimming pool and a pottery workshop, located 7 km from Soissons. Free Wi-Fi access is provided in all areas and massages are available, with an additional cost. Each room includes a flat-screen TV, a wardrobe and a private bathroom with a hairdryer, free toiletries and bathrobes. You can enjoy a continental or English breakfast, made with eggs from the property’s hens and homemade jams. You can also make use of the barbecue facilities in the garden and the shared kitchen. Bicycles can be borrowed free of charge, and the property has a collection of books, which can be borrowed on site, or bought to take away with you. A welcome drink is provided to each guest upon arrival. Free, private parking is possible on site. Paris is 100 km away, and Soissons Train Station is at 7 km. Bed and Breakfast of Ancienville or nearby municipalities : Location : 21-23 rue de Noyant 02200 Septmonts Casa La Palma Bed and Breakfast Vauxbuin This bed and breakfast offers rooms with free Wi-Fi access, that overlook the floral garden. It is situated in Vauxbuin-Soissons, in the heart of the Picardy region. Guest rooms at Casa La Palma are individually decorated in an exotic style and they have wooden or marble floors. They are each equipped with a flat-screen TV, a minibar an electric kettle and a telephone. All rooms have a private mosaic or marble bathroom. Guests can enjoy a continental buffet breakfast every morning. This meal can be served in the dining room, on the terraces or in the comfort of the guest rooms. Casa La Palma provides a library, a barbecue area and free private parking. La Palma is a 35-minute drive from Charles De Gaulle Airport. Central Paris is a 1-hour train journey away and the property is a 20-minute drive from Compiègne Castle. Loan, Reims, Senlis and Chantilly Castle are all a 30-minute drive away. Address : 61, Rue De La Fabrique 02200 Vauxbuin Gite Casa La Palma Guest accommodation Soissons Gite Casa La Palma is 4 km from the centre of Soissons and 40 km from Compiègne. This detached holiday home offers free WiFi, a garden and a large terrace with outdoor furniture. With 2 bedrooms, Gite Casa La Palma features garden views and includes a living room with a flat-screen TV. The 2 marble bathrooms are fitted with a hairdryer, free toiletries and a shower. The rooms also include a minibar and a flat-screen TV. The property also has a red and grey equipped kitchen with a stove, a microwave and a fridge. A coffee machine and a toaster are also provided. The kitchen overlooks a terrace with palm trees, olive trees and exotic plants. This holiday home is 20 km Villers-Cotterêts and a 35-minute drive from Charles de Gaulle Airport. You can choose to visit the chateau in Chantilly, 30 minutes away by car. Free private parking is available on site. Location : 61, rue de la Fabrique 02200 Soissons La Carrière l'Evêque Guest accommodation Septmonts Set in a private house with a large, tree-lined garden, La Carrière l'Evêque is located in Septmonts, 5 km from Soissons. Epernay and its champagne cellars is 67 km away. The site features a renovated farmhouse that is classified as an historical monument. Free WiFi access is available. The house offers 8 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms and an open-plan kitchen. A living room with a TV is also provided. Bed linen and towels are provided. Local restaurants can be found nearby. Retz Forest is only 5 km from the property and local activities in Septmonts include fishing and horse riding. Val Secret Golf Club is a 35-minute drive away and Chemin des Dames is a 15-minute drive away. Guest accommodation of Ancienville or nearby towns : Address : Carrière l'Evêque 02200 Septmonts La chambre au Château Bed and Breakfast Pernant Situated in Pernant, La chambre au Château offers accommodation with free WiFi, as well as access to a hot tub. The accommodation features a sauna and a hot tub. Some units have a seating area and/or a terrace. A continental breakfast can be enjoyed at the property. Guests can make use of the hammam. Guests can enjoy the indoor pool and garden at the bed and breakfast. Compiègne is 34 km from La chambre au Château, while Laon is 45 km from the property. The nearest airport is Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport, 82 km from the accommodation. Location : lieudit le vieux château 10-14 rue du Château 02200 Pernant Premiere Classe Soissons Hotel Soissons Between Paris and Picardie. Easily accessible from the N2, our hotel is a few minutes from the centre of Soissons and less than an hour from Paris and Parc Asterix and Disneyland Paris. All the rooms come with a work area, an en suite shower and a TV with built-in alarm. Bunk beds are available in some of our rooms for a third guest at no extra charge.Two rooms are specially designed with wheelchair access and other features for the disabled. It is an ideal stopping place to discover Soissons and the region. "The highest levels of comfort await you in our 72 rooms for an enjoyable stay with a name you can trust. Hotel of Ancienville or nearby towns : Address : Rue Jacques Brel - Espace De L'archer - Zac De Cheveux 02200 Soissons Campanile Soissons Situated in a business area on the outskirts of Soissons, this friendly hotel offers affordable accommodation in a convenient location, easily accessible from the E46/N31 motorway and other major roads. It is also 2 km from the city centre. The modern guest rooms at Campanile Soissons are equipped with a flat-screen TV, cable channels and free Wi-Fi internet access. The private bathrooms include a shower and free toiletries. A buffet breakfast is served every morning, and lunch and dinner can be enjoyed in the hotel’s restaurant. Whether you are looking for affordable accommodation in the ancient town of Soissons, or seeking a convenient place to stay while travelling through the Picardy region, the excellent location and affordable rates makes Campanile Soissons a great choice. Hotel of Ancienville or nearby municipalities : Location : Rue Jacques Brel, Zac De Chevreux 02200 Soissons ibis Soissons Hotel ibis Soissons is located 2 km from the historic centre of Soissons and the Abbaye of St Jean-des-Vignes. It offers free Wi-Fi access throughout, a bar and free private parking. Soissons Cathedral is only a 5-minute drive away. All rooms are air-conditioned and feature a flat-screen TV with cable channels, a wardrobe and a desk. The en suite bathroom includes a hairdryer. Some of the rooms are adapted for guests with reduced mobility. A buffet breakfast composed of sweet and savoury dishes such as eggs, fruit salad, yogurts and juices is served every day. Pastries baked on site and fresh French Madeleine cakes are also on offer, as well as a hot beverage and a piece of fruit to take away. Outside of regular breakfast hours guests can also enjoy a lighter option, available from 04:00. Guests can relax in the bar lounge and enjoy dishes from snack bar on site. Soissons Train Station is 2 km away and Compiègne is a 40-minute drive from the hotel. Additional features include an ele Address : Rue Jacques Brel ZAC de Chevreux 02200 Soissons Le Terminus Set a 1-minute walk from the train station, Le Terminus is located in Soissons and offers hotel guestrooms with a flat-screen TV. Guests can play table football in the reception area and free public parking is possible nearby. The rooms at Le Terminus are individually decorated and are equipped with a wardrobe, a work desk and a private bathroom with a shower. Every morning a continental breakfast is served. Guests can enjoy traditional French cuisine in the on-site restaurant and relax with a drink at the bar. Location : 56 avenue du Général de Gaulle 02200 Soissons Best Western Plus Hotel des Francs Hotel Soissons Preferred hotel ! Best Western Plus Hôtel des Francs is located just 500 metres from Soissons city centre, between Paris and Reims. It features a fitness centre, indoor swimming pool and hammam. Guest rooms at Best Western Plus Hôtel des Francs have a modern décor and a private bathroom. They each have a free Wi-Fi internet access and a TV. The hotel's restaurant serves a daily breakfast buffet and regional cuisine prepared with seasonal ingredients. The hotel also provides a lounge bar and a 24-hour reception. Free private parking is available on site at the Best Western Plus Hôtel des Francs. It is an hour’s drive from Reims and easily accessible by the N31 or N2 motorways. Address : 62 Boulevard Jeanne d'Arc 02200 Soissons Maison d'Hôtes Ferme d'Issonges B&B Bed and Breakfast Marigny-en-Orxois Preferred hotel ! Located halfway between Paris and Reims, this former farmhouse provides B&B accommodation with free Wi-Fi. It also offers a children’s playground, horse riding, a hot tub and massages. The rooms at Ferme d'Issonges feature wooden floor boards and exposed beams. Each has a private bathroom and some have a clawfoot bathtub. A bar is provided in the common area. Guests at Ferme d'Issonges also have access to a TV lounge and a library. The hosts can also prepare evening meals or packed lunches upon request. Ferme d'Issonges is 16 km from Château-Thierry and 47 km from Disneyland Paris. Free private parking is available on site. Location : Rue d'Issonges 02810 Marigny-en-Orxois Le petit Paris Apartment Soissons Le petit Paris is set in Soissons. Housed in a building dating from 1945, this apartment offers free WiFi. The property includes a living room with a flat-screen TV. Compiègne is 39 km from the apartment. The nearest airport is Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport, 77 km from Le petit Paris. Apartment of Ancienville or nearby towns : Address : 46, rue st Martin 02200 Soissons Hotel le Rallye Located only 400 metres from the very centre of Soissons and 40 km from Compiègne, Hotel le Rallye offers non-smoking accommodation, a bar, and private parking is available an additional cost. Wi-Fi is provided at the reception and in the breakfast room, and a computer is available. The rooms at Hotel le Rallye feature a flat-screen TV. Some of the rooms have a private bathroom with a shower and toilet, while others feature a shared bathroom on the landing. The continental breakfast is served daily and includes bread, marmalade, butter, fruit juices, croissants and hot beverages. Restaurants can be found in Soissons near the hotel, and some do have partnership with the property. Hotel le Rallye is 1.5 km from Soissons Tran Station, and there is a swimming pool 2 km from the property. The Saint-Waast quarter is just a 5-minute walk away. Location : 10 bd de Strasbourg 02200 Soissons Résidence Champs Bouillant Situated in Soissons, Résidence Champs Bouillant provides accommodation with a flat-screen TV. Free WiFi is available. All units comprise a seating area, and a fully equipped kitchen with various cooking facilities, including an oven, a microwave and a toaster. A fridge and stovetop are also featured, as well as a coffee machine. The apartment offers a terrace. Guests can relax in the garden at the property. Compiègne is 40 km from Résidence Champs Bouillant, while Laon is 33 km from the property. The nearest airport is Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport, 77 km from the accommodation. Address : 27 rue du Champ Bouillant 02220 Soissons Domaine de Scipion Bed and Breakfast Rosoy-en-Multien Offering free WiFi and garden views, Domaine de Scipion is an accommodation situated in Rosoy-en-Multien. The accommodation is 40 km from Marne-la-Vallée. The bed and breakfast includes 2 bedrooms, a living room, and 1 bathroom with free toiletries and a shower. A flat-screen TV is featured. A buffet breakfast can be enjoyed at the property. Compiègne is 44 km from the bed and breakfast, while Chantilly is 45 km away. The nearest airport is Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport, 49 km from Domaine de Scipion. Location : 13 grande rue 60620 Rosoy-en-Multien Appartement des Vieilles Halles Apartment Fère-en-Tardenois Appartement des Vieilles Halles offers pet-friendly accommodation in Fère-en-Tardenois, 38 km from Reims and 37 km from Épernay. The property boasts views of the city is 41 km from Laon. Free WiFi is featured throughout the property. There is a dining area and a kitchenette complete with an oven, a microwave and toaster. Towels and bed linen are provided in this self-catering accommodation. Other facilities at Appartement des Vieilles Halles include a terrace. Bike hire is available at the property and the area is popular for horse riding. Château-Thierry is 20 km from Appartement des Vieilles Halles, while Soissons is 24 km from the property. A number of activities are offered in the area, such as cycling and fishing. Vatry International Airport is 69 km away. Address : 7 rue des Marchands 02130 Fère-en-Tardenois Campanile Château-Thierry Hotel Château-Thierry The hotel offers excellent value for money and functional accommodation and the dedicated staff welcome you in a friendly atmosphere. On arrival, you are welcomed by a couple of caring hosts that will try their best to make your stay as pleasant as possible. There is a restaurant on site. Welcome to Château Thierry, situated in the middle of the Champagne vineyards, in the country of Jean de La Fontaine, an area with a rich past and future. Free and closed private parking is available on-site. Location : 139 avenue De Soissons 02400 Château-Thierry Le Nid Dans Les Bruyères Guest accommodation Fère-en-Tardenois Situated in a 5-hectares park in Fère-en-Tardenois in the Picardy region, this guest house offers accommodation in wooden cottages and tree houses with a kitchenette and a terrace. The houses also include a dining area and a continental breakfast is served every morning. A private bathroom is provided and the tree house is set on stilts 5 metres above the ground in an oak tree. Free private parking is available on site and the guest house is 2.5 km from Château de Fère-en-Tardenois. Soissons is 28 km from the property. Address : 37, Rue du Château 02130 Fère-en-Tardenois Hotel Akena City Hotel Crépy-en-Valois This hotel is a 6-minute drive from the centre of Crépy-en-Valois and 2 km from the train station. It offers en suite accommodation and a free Internet hotspot. All rooms at Hotel Akena Crépy-en-Valois feature carpeted floors, a wardrobe and a TV with satellite channels. A private bathroom with free toiletries and a shower is also provided. Some rooms are suitable for guests with reduced mobility. A daily buffet breakfast can be enjoyed at Hotel Akena Crépy-en-Valois. Le Relais du Valois, which is near the hotel, serves traditional cuisine. Vending machines are available at the hotel. This hotel is a 20-minute drive from the A1 motorway and 24 km from the Halatte Forest. Free private parking is available on site. Location : rue Henri Laroche 60800 Crépy-en-Valois Bed and Breakfast Pierrefonds IL ETAIT UNE FOIS is set in Pierrefonds, 100 metres from the grounds of Chateau de Pierrefonds. Every room has a flat-screen TV. Extras include free toiletries and a hairdryer. The nearest airport is Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport, 48 km from IL ETAIT UNE FOIS. Address : 6 Rue Viollet le Duc 60350 Pierrefonds Résidence Clairbois, Chambres d'Hôtes Bed and Breakfast Fère-en-Tardenois Sitting in a 7-hectare garden, Maison d'Hôtes Résidence Clairbois is located in the countryside of Fère-en-Tardenois. You can enjoy the tennis court, fish in the fishing pond and relax in the living room. All of the rooms at Maison d'hôtes Résidence Clairbois are uniquely decorated. Each room features a TV and a private bathroom. A continental breakfast is included and served every morning in the dining room. Traditional dinners from the region are also available, upon prior reservation. Free Wi-Fi is provided in public areas. Free private parking is also possible on site and Soissons is 36 km from the B&B. Location : Résidence Clairbois, Chambres d'hôtes 02130 Fère-en-Tardenois Best Western Hotel Ile de France Best Western Hotel Ile de France has an indoor swimming pool and spa centre. It is just 6 km from the city centre of Chateau-Thierry in the Picardie region, and offers spacious accommodation. Guest rooms at Best Western Hotel Ile de France are decorated in a classical style with wooden furnishings. They are equipped with satellite TV, free Wi-Fi access and a private bathroom. Some of the rooms also feature a balcony. Guests can enjoy regional cuisine in the bright restaurant and relax with a drink at the bar. Massage treatments are available and there is also a fitness centre on site. Disneyland Paris is 45 km away and the hotel is 6 km from Chateau Thierry train station. For guests arriving by car, free private parking is available onsite. Address : 60 rue Leon Lhermitte 02400 Château-Thierry Aux Blés d'Or Hotel Pierrefonds Aux Blés d'Or is a former windmill, dating back to the 14th century and is located in the centre of the medieval village of Pierrefonds, set beside Lac Pierrefonds. It offers a furnished terrace with views over the village and its castle. Each room is in a simple and colourful décor and has views over the village, lake or castle. They are equipped with free Wi-Fi access, a TV, and a private bathroom. Aux Blés d'Or’s restaurant serves traditional French cuisine. Guests can dine in the dining room or on the terrace. Activities in the nearby area include hiking and cycling. Explore the town with sites such as Château de Pierrefonds, which is 270 metres away. Compiègne with its train station is 13 km from Aux Blés d'Or. Location : 8 rue Jules Michelet 60350 Pierrefonds Guest accommodation Pierrefonds Dafna provides rooms in Pierrefonds. Among the various facilities of this property are a garden and a terrace. Free WiFi is available. At the guest house every room has a seating area, a flat-screen TV with cable channels, a kitchen, a dining area and a private bathroom with free toiletries, a bath and a hair dryer. All guest rooms will provide guests with a wardrobe and a coffee machine. Chateau de Pierrefonds is 1 km from Dafna. The nearest airport is Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport, 71 km from the accommodation. Address : 8 Rue du Mont Berny 60350 Pierrefonds Fasthotel - Soissons Nord Hotel Crouy New Access Hotel is situated in Crouy, just 5 km from central Soissons and 30 km from Laon. The hotel offers a free Wi-Fi internet access, a 24-hour reception and simply decorated rooms. The guest rooms at New Access Hotel feature a TV, a wardrobe and carpet flooring. A work desk is provided and guests have access to shared bathroom facilities. A microwave is available for use at reception. A buffet-style breakfast with brioche, jam, juice and hot drinks is served every morning from 06.30. A restaurant, a supermarket and shops can be found just 50 metres from the hotel. Free private parking is possible on site and Soissons Cathedral is 4 km away. The property is a 1-hour drive from Charles de Gaulle Airport, Disneyland and Astérix Park. Location : 3 rue du Stade 02880 Crouy Ma Gentilhommière Bed and Breakfast Croutoy Ma Gentilhommière bed and breakfast is set in Croutoy, in the countryside just 17 km from Compiègne. It features a shaded terrace and barbecue facilities in the garden, while free private parking is available on site. Offering views of the garden and the village, the guest rooms all have free WiFi access and a seating area. Each room has a different decoration and the private bathrooms include a hairdryer and free toiletries. A continental breakfast is served every morning, and the hosts can prepare evening meals for you if reserved in advance. Special diet menus can be prepared on request. An array of activities can be enjoyed in the surroundings, including cycling and hiking. The town of Soissons is 20 km from this B&B. Address : 1, Rue du Général de France 60350 Croutoy Logis Hotel Beaudon Situated 15 minutes from Compiègne, the Hotel Beaudon enjoys a privileged location opposite the lake and the Château de Pierrefonds. The guest rooms at the Hotel Beaudon present simple and cosy living spaces. They all include en suite facilities. Modern amenities such as free Wi-Fi internet access are included. The Hotel Beaudon features an on-site restaurant and a fully equipped meeting room for up to 25 people. Location : 10 Rue Du Beaudon 60350 Pierrefonds Le Coeur De La Foret Featuring free WiFi, Le Coeur De La Foret offers accommodation in Pierrefonds, 13 km from Compiègne. Free private parking is available on site. All rooms feature a kitchenette with kitchenware, an eletric kettle and a microwave. A terrace with outdoor furniture is also provided in each room. A selection of activities are offered in the area, such as cycling and hiking. The bed and breakfast also offers bike hire. Chantilly is 41 km from Le Coeur de la Foret, while Meaux is 44 km away. The nearest airport is Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport, 49 km from Le Coeur De La Foret. Address : 34 rue de l'Armistice 60350 Pierrefonds Holiday Home Castle View Boasting accommodation with a terrace, Holiday Home Castle View is situated in Pierrefonds. The accommodation is 1.6 km from the Chateau de Pierrefonds and features free WiFi. This holiday home comes with a kitchen, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 2 bathrooms. Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport is 71 km away. Location : 1 Chemin de la Foret 60350 Pierrefonds Gites Le Roosevelt - Côte 204 Guest accommodation Château-Thierry Located in Château-Thierry, a 5-minute drive from the Champagne Pannier cellar sand 3 km from Gare de Château-Thierry SNCF Train station, these cottages have simple rooms and free Wi-Fi access. Gites Le Roosevelt - Côte 204 have a private bathroom. The cottages have a seating area with a sofa and a TV, and guests have access to a kitchen. Free private parking is provided upon request. The property is a 10-minute walk from the Chateau-Thierry American Monument and 2 km from Jean de la Fontaine Museum. It is 2.5 km from Château-Thierry Medieval Castle and 10 km from Belleau Forest. Address : 19, rue Quentin Roosevelt 02400 Château-Thierry Villa Mélaine Villa Mélaine is set in Château-Thierry and offers barbecue facilities and a garden. This property offers access to a terrace and free WiFi. The villa consists of 5 separate bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and a seating area. A flat-screen TV is available. The villa offers a children's playground. Guests can also relax in the shared lounge area. Épernay is 49 km from Villa Mélaine, while Meaux is 48 km from the property. Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport is 80 km away. Location : 19 bis rue Jules Maciet 02400 Château-Thierry L'Eugenie Featuring a garden, private pool and garden views, L'Eugenie is situated in Pierrefonds. Guests staying at this holiday home have access to a fully equipped kitchen and a terrace. The property includes a living room with a flat-screen TV. The holiday home offers an outdoor pool. Chateau de Pierrefonds is 1.9 km from L'Eugenie. The nearest airport is Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport, 72 km from the property. Address : 68 Rue Imperatrice Eugenie 60350 Pierrefonds Chateau De Fere Hotel Fère-en-Tardenois Preferred hotel ! Chateau de Fere is located just a 1 hour drive from Paris. This castle dating back to the 17th century offers a gastronomic restaurant, swimming pool and spa facilities. It is set in 60 acres of parkland with a tennis court and opportunities for hiking and cycling. All the rooms are equipped with en suite facilities. They have views over the castle’s fortress and gardens. There is a gastronomic restaurant and in the summer, guests can enjoy their meals on the terrace. The Chateau de Fere is ideally located in beautiful countryside and just 45 minutes from Disneyland Paris. Free private parking with video surveillance is available on site. Location : Route Du Château 02130 Fère-en-Tardenois Contact Hotel Hexagone Hotel Château-Thierry Preferred hotel ! Located in the centre of Château-Thierry, the Hotel Hexagone offers well-equipped rooms with en suite facilities, free Wi-Fi internet access and a flat-screen TV with Canal+. Free private parking is provided at the Hotel Hexagone, making it easy to explore the Picardie region by car. After a busy day sightseeing you can enjoy a delicious meal in the hotel restaurant, serving traditional cuisine. Address : 50 Avenue D'essômes 02400 Château-Thierry Studio Royal L'abbé Apartment Château-Thierry Studio Royal L'abbé is located in Château-Thierry. Guests staying at this apartment have access to a fully equipped kitchenette. Composed of 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom, this apartment is equipped with a flat-screen TV with cable channels. Épernay is 49 km from the apartment, while Meaux is 48 km away. Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport is 80 km from the property. Apartment of Ancienville or nearby municipalities : Location : 8 Rue de la Folie l'Abbe 02400 Château-Thierry Le Jardin des Fables This 16th-century guest house is located in the centre of Chateau-Thierry, just 50 metres from the town hall. It offers individually-decorated rooms, a terrace and free private parking. Free Wi-Fi is available. Rooms at Le Jardin des Fables are equipped with a TV and private bathroom. The buildings thick walls help keep the rooms cool during the summer. Le Jardin des Fables serves breakfast and dinner on the patio during warmer months. Jardin des Fables guest house is near the Jean de la Fontaine museum. Address : 10 rue du Château 02400 Château-Thierry ibis Château-Thierry Hotel Essômes-sur-Marne Located in the heart of Champagne, just 20 metres from ChÃ¢teau-Thierry, ibis ChÃ¢teau-Thierry offers a terrace with River Marne views, garden and bar. The champagne cellars are just 1 km away. All rooms feature a view of the River Marne or a vineyard, a flat-screen TV, wardrobe, desk and parquet flooring. The en suite bathroom includes a hairdryer and free toiletries. A buffet breakfast composed of sweet and savoury dishes such as eggs, fruit salad, yogurts and juices is served every day. Pastries baked on site and fresh French Madeleine cakes are also on offer, as well as a hot beverage and a piece of fruit to take away. Outside of regular breakfast hours guests can also enjoy a lighter option, available from 04:00. Additional features include a luggage room, safety deposit box and free Wi-Fi access. The A4 motorway is a 10-minute drive away and Disneyland Paris is 65 km from the hotel. Location : 60, Avenue du Général de Gaulle 02400 Essômes-sur-Marne Gîtes de l'isle Apartment Château-Thierry Preferred hotel ! Appartement Carnot Style Urbain offers accommodation in Château-Thierry. Appartement Carnot Style Urbain boasts views of the city and is 40 km from Épernay. Free WiFi is provided throughout the property. The unit is fitted with a kitchen, a dishwasher and an oven. Towels and bed linen are offered in this apartment. There is a private bathroom with a shower. The area is popular for its vineyards, champagnes and golf courses. Meaux is 38 km from Appartement Carnot Style Urbain, while Soissons is 38 km from the property. Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport is 61 km away. Address : 15 rue Carnot 02400 Château-Thierry Two-Bedroom Apartment in Ocquerre Apartment Ocquerre Located in Ocquerre in the Ile de France region, Two-Bedroom Apartment in Ocquerre is a 4-star property boasting free WiFi. Guests staying at this apartment have access to a fully equipped kitchen. The apartment comes with a TV. The apartment offers an outdoor pool. Marne-la-Vallée is 43 km from Two-Bedroom Apartment in Ocquerre, while Villepinte is 48 km away. The nearest airport is Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport, 50 km from the property. Location : 77440 Ocquerre Ancienville hotels map Below here is the hotels map of Ancienville. Names and details of Ancienville hotels can be shown on the map clicking on the prices icons. 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__label__wiki	0.92838	0.92838	New stills released of Kevorkian's sci-fi thriller AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS The producers of recently-wrapped sci-fi thriller AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS, directed by Johnny Kevorkian, have released more images and announced the participation of Red Rock Entertainment and Premiere Picture (John Carpenter's 'The Ward'), who have climbed on board as key investors as the film goes into post-production. Producer Jack Tarling said today: “As we enter post production, we're thrilled to be joined by executive producers Red Rock Entertainment and Premiere Picture who will provide completion funding. Both have fantastic records of backing strong genre cinema and this new support is further testament to the bold and disturbing new vision that Johnny Kevorkian has brought to the screen”. Red Rock Entertainment CEO Gary Collins added: "This is our fourth collaboration with the producers of Await Further Instructions, who are really pushing the bar for independent film in the UK." Sam Gittins plays Nick, who brings his girlfriend Annji (Neerja Naik) into the family house from hell, where the television exerts a sinister grip, leading to paranoia and bloody carnage. The Milgram family, gathered for a Christmas celebration, find themselves controlled by the television – and it’s not the Queen’s Speech… David Bradley & Neerja Naik don’t see eye to eye in a darkly monstrous tale of tyranny and television. (Right) Abigail Cruttenden plays Beth, who tries, against all the odds, to keep her family from self-destructing. (Left) Grant Masters plays head of the house Tony, messed up and not to be messed with,,, Recently shot at GSP Studios in York, the story revolves around the Milgram family, who have gathered to celebrate Christmas, only to find a mysterious black substance has surrounded their house. Something monumental is clearly happening right outside their door, but what exactly - an industrial accident, a terrorist attack, nuclear war? Descending into terrified arguments, they turn on the television, desperate for any information. On screen a message glows ominously: 'Stay Indoors and Await Further Instructions”…. Produced by Jack Tarling of Shudder Films and Alan Latham of GSP Studios and directed by Johnny Kevorkian (The Disappeared) from a screenplay by Gavin Williams, the cast includes David Bradley (Games of Thrones), Sam Gittins (The Smoke), Holly Weston (Howl), Kris Saddler (The Hour), Neerja Naik (Hackney’s Finest), Abigail Cruttenden (Theory of Everything) & Grant Masters (Silent Witness). Key crew members include: Annika Summerson (DOP), Niina Topp (Production Designer), Dan Martin (Special Effects) & Ben Louden (VFX). Labels: AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS New stills released of Kevorkian's sci-fi thriller... Film News: Horror Channel reveal 4 UK premieres fo... Competition: Win Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! on DVD Visit the UK Festival of Zombie Culture Film News: Horror Channel unleashes UK TV premiere... Competition: Win Maneater on DVD	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line694
__label__wiki	0.58706	0.58706	Maxis collaborates with world-renowned eSports team to empower next generation of world-class players in Malaysia Shell sets hearts racing with its latest Limited-Edition Ferrari Collection Gadgets Review Review – Apple Watch Series 4, is it a truly next-gen watch? Review : Apple iPhone XS Max, is it a big enough reason to upgrade? Honda Malaysia presents “Frontier of Innovation” at KLIMS 2018 By Reon / 8 months ago / Drive / No Comments Honda Malaysia is once again spearheading the introduction of advanced technologies to Malaysians through its showcase at the Kuala Lumpur International Motor Show 2018 (KLIMS 2018). Clustered under the mega theme of “Frontier of Innovation”, Honda’s booth No.1001 on Level 1 of Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre (MITEC) of KLIMS 2018 is ready to warmly welcome visitors with an experiential set-up of the technology revolutions that Honda has pioneered for future mobility. Honda Malaysia will be displaying new and concept model for the first time in Malaysia, including the most advanced Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV), Clarity Fuel Cell. Visitors will also be treated to models and technologies that include the Sport Hybrid i-MMD cut body system, Jazz and CR-V Mugen concepts alongside the popular models of Accord, CR-V, Civic, Civic Type-R, City Hybrid and new model HR-V RS. Special Sport Hybrid and VTEC Turbocharged game towers have also been set up for visitors to experience the efficiency and performance of both hybrid and turbo. Honda enthusiasts will also be able to purchase exclusive Honda merchandise at the booth. Honda Malaysia Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Toichi Ishiyama said, “We are delighted to be in KLIMS 2018 as it is a great platform for Honda to showcase our advanced technologies. Honda continuously challenges to develop Next Generation Advanced Technologies to ease mobility by making lives more comfortable while being environmentally friendly. We want to share our breakthroughs through our “Frontier of Innovation” showcase, which is inspired by our No.1 position in the Non-National segment and pioneering spirit in introducing hybrid cars to Malaysians as early as 2004. “Since then, Honda Malaysia has also introduced turbocharged and Honda SENSING technologies in our models. We aim to provide greater driving performance with improved safety for everyone and hope visitors will enjoy the new models while taking time to understand the technologies demonstrated”, Mr. Ishiyama added. List of Honda’s Advanced Technologies and models that will be showcased in KLIMS 2018 1. CONCEPT MODEL Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV) – Clarity Fuel Cell The Clarity Fuel Cell, an advanced model developed by Honda that powers the electric motor by converting hydrogen into electricity, giving instant acceleration with zero emission. This is in line with Honda’s Vision 2030 strategy that aims to tackle the global market with more enhanced electrification technologies in its models. Visitors will have the chance to get up close with a model that has taken the technology of mobility to a whole new level. 2. Honda SENSING Another advanced technology that will take centre stage at KLIMS 2018 is Honda SENSING. Honda SENSING offers intelligent assistance for drivers while on the road by providing warnings and aiding them to avoid or mitigate the severity of a collision. This technology is uniquely designed as it uses both monocular camera and millimeter wave radar for a more complete view of the road and as an added safety measure. There are seven safety features in Honda SENSING, which are Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), Low Speed Follow (LSF)*, Forward Collision Warning (FCW), Collision Mitigation Braking System (CMBS), Lane Keep Assist System (LKAS), Road Departure Mitigation (RDM) and Lane Departure Warning (LDW). This Next Generation Advanced Safety Technology was first introduced last year in the CR-V, followed by Accord and Odyssey. Visitors can experience the real-time Honda SENSING functions at Honda Malaysia’s booth in KLIMS 2018. 3. VTEC TURBOCHARGED High-grade performance is the essence for Honda. In 2016, Honda became the first Non-National Japanese mass manufacturer to introduce the turbocharged engine in a Civic to Malaysians, and extended it to the CR-V in 2017. The brand has developed the turbocharged engine that can offer powerful acceleration and driving satisfaction for drivers who enjoy a thrilling ride. Honda combined the turbocharger with a direct injection system and variable valve timing mechanism for more power even from low revs, delivering power equivalent to that of a 2.4L engine in a 1.5L VTEC Turbocharged engine. Despite the downsize in engine, Honda managed to achieve superior performance without compromising fuel efficiency. Also set to wow crowds is the record holder for the Fastest Front-Wheel-Drive (FWD) Production Car in the world – the Civic Type R, which broke the Nürburgring record in April 2017. When it was launched last year, it made waves among Honda enthusiasts; it has the most powerful engine among Honda Malaysia’s models. The Civic Type R is powered by a 2.0L VTEC Turbocharged engine that provides 310PS and 400Nm of torque and is one of the best engines Honda has ever developed. Visitors are welcome for closer look at the Civic and Civic Type R. 4. SPORT HYBRID Intelligent Dual-Clutch Drive (i-DCD) To encourage the continuous healthy growth of hybrid technology acceptance, Honda introduced the Intelligent Dual-Clutch Drive (i-DCD) in Malaysia in 2017, making Malaysia the only country outside Japan to offer this technology. The Sport Hybrid i-DCD system integrates a 1.5L DOHC i-VTEC, electric motor and Lithium-ion battery with a 7-Speed Dual Clutch (DCT) Transmission for an exhilarating drive. The DCT employs Shift-by-Wire electronic gear shifting system for sportier and quicker response feel and feedback without lag or clutch slip. Intelligent Multi-Mode Drive (i-MMD) Pushing the advanced technology envelope, Honda developed the Next Generation Hybrid System, the Sport Hybrid i-MMD (Intelligent Multi-Mode Drive), which will also be on display in a cut body system at KLIMS 2018. Honda Sport Hybrid i-MMD consists of five worldleading systems working together. This technology will offer superior acceleration in terms of performance and higher efficiency. 5. JAZZ AND CR-V MUGEN CONCEPT Honda Malaysia will feature two models, the Jazz and the CR-V with Mugen concept at KLIMS 2018. Jazz, the leader in the Compact Hatchback segment, which has carved a name for itself as a versatile hatch will make its appearance with Mugen concept bodykit, enhancing its sportiness. The Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) segment leader CR-V, will also be featured with Mugen concept bodykit extending its dynamic design while looking tough and bold. Both the Jazz and CR-V with Mugen concept will be displayed in the new Passion Red Pearl colour. 6. HR-V RS The popular compact SUV, the HR-V, will be making a public appearance in the RS variant with an exciting new exterior. The ‘RS’ also known as Road Sailing, appears sportier and bolder with a range of new features including Honda LaneWatch. Visitors can get up close with this model which will be displayed in KLIMS 2018. 7. “FRONTIER OF INNOVATION” SENSORY ROOM Honda Malaysia has also created a SENSORY Room for visitors to experience Honda’s advanced technologies of VTEC Turbocharged, Sport Hybrid and Honda SENSING. This special area reenacts the Customer Journey Experience using digital dimensions for public to visualize the Advanced Technologies that will enrich the lives of everyone. Reon Photo Journalist Gadgets, Photography, Automobile, Lifestyle exhibitionexpohondahybridinnovationklimslaunchmotorshowshowcasevtec Previous: BenQ releases the New Integrated Display Solutions to satisfy the Needs of Interactive Visual Experiences in Any Meeting Room and Classroom Next: WD My Passport Wireless SSD Review	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line695
__label__wiki	0.883838	0.883838	Home Entertainment The Sky is Pink: Priyanka Chopra and her latest choices Prove that... The Sky is Pink: Priyanka Chopra and her latest choices Prove that she is a Game Changer A few weeks ago, it was reported that Priyanka Chopra has left the Salman Khan starrer Bharat due to some personal reasons. Recently, the actress started shooting for the upcoming Bollywood film The Sky is Pink along with Zaira Wasim and Farhan Akhtar. While the former is a typical Bollywood masala film featuring Salman Khan, the latter is a heart touching story of Aisha Chaudhary, a teenager who went on to become a motivational speaker after being diagnosed with Pulmonary Fibrosis. Clearly, it’s a bold choice to make in a film industry ruled by the Khans and most of the actresses remain eager to work with stars like Salman Khan. It has been seen in various cases that people who take a panga with Salman Bhai often have to go through a tough time, like Vivek Oberoi. However, Priyanka Chopra is at a stage where she has earned enough respect and fame for herself by bagging some major projects in Hollywood after her show Quantico. Certainly, she doesn’t need any support from a hero and she isn’t threatened by anyone as she can efficiently carry a film on her shoulders. With the movie The Sky is Pink, Priyanka Chopra is going to play a mother of a teenage girl which indicates how much she values the roles that she takes up. Earlier also, she had refused Salman’s Mr. and Mrs. Khanna that led to a cold war between the two. While some believe that the reason for her exit from Bharat at the very last moment is that she is planning to marry the rockstar Nick Jonas later this year. However, some suggest that the decision could also be a result of the fact that the actress has bagged a role opposite Chris Pratt in the upcoming Hollywood movie Cowboy Ninja Viking. Well whatever may be the reason, one thing is sure that Priyanka surely knows how to take risks and how to make her own way to success. As per the reports, she hasn’t charged any fee for the film, rather she will be sharing a percentage of profit in the film. Aisha Chaudhary Cowboy Ninja Wiking Priyanka Chopra upcoming films The Sky is Pink Previous articleWorld Tribal Day: Rajasthan CM announces holiday on World Tribal Day Next articleRajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje slams Rahul Gandhi for becoming face of polls in state Kangana Ranaut celebrates Modi’s Victory with Chai-Pakora treat at home Akshay Kumar shares first look of horror-comedy “Laxmmi Bomb”, Amitabh to play this role Cannes 2019: Hina Khan’s debut, Kangana lost 5kgs, Sonam Kapoor’s special diet; all interesting leads Miss world Manushi Chhillar to make her debut opposite Akshay Kumar, Know in which film? It’s Kangana-Hritik clash again: ‘Mental hai kya’ vs ‘Super 30’ on July 26 Bollywood celebs post selfies with Ink and urge fans to vote in Phase 4, SEE pics	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line698
__label__cc	0.735777	0.264223	Gloria Ferrer’s New Wine Country Visitors Center Sparkles With Light By Annette Hanami / 07/02/15 at 1:34 pm / Comments All photos by Michael Woolsey, courtesy of Gloria Ferrer Nearly 30 years after its original opening and 150 years after the Ferrer family first produced Spain’s most famous sparkling wine, Cava, Gloria Ferrer re-opens its doors to a more modern, spacious, and light-filled visitors center without losing any of its familial Catalan farmhouse charm. One of the major goals for the remodel, designed by Valley Architects, was to introduce more light into the interior space which was marked by dark wood counters and seating, earthen floor tiles, and a central fireplace alcove. The new Visitors Center is now flooded with light from new windows that provide beautiful views of the Carneros landscape and San Pablo Bay beyond. The fireplace alcove was also removed and replaced with windows to create a cleaner look and flow indoors and out. Overall, the square footage was increased by nearly a third to provide a more elegant sense of spaciousness and greater room for private guest experiences. We love the expansive Vista Terrace which epitomizes the Mediterranean lifestyle. Now double the size, the patio has well-defined spaces under the large shaded pergola and separate areas for club members. Whether indoors or out on the patio, guests can sip on refreshing glasses of Gloria Ferrer bubbly by-the-glass, in flights, or by-the-bottle. The Ferrer family, which makes Spanish Cava and other sparkling wines around the world, is one of the world’s largest producers of sparkling wine made in the distinctive traditional method. To accompany their sparkling wines, Gloria Ferrer has expanded their offerings of nibbles such as local or Spanish cheese selections and a charcuterie plate. In addition to a la carte offerings, Gloria Ferrer offers several private guest experiences including the food and wine “Bubbles & Bites Pairing Tour” ($60 per person) which takes place in the new private room. They also offer private production and tasting tours ($20 to $30 per person) with advance reservation, as well as daily tours ($20 per person) which can be booked on a same-day basis. Check the website for details. While there, make sure to check out Gloria Ferrer’s personal collection of sparkling wine glasses, an endeavor she began in 1956 when, one night, her father slipped away from a dinner in Venice to purchase an exquisite red Murano crystal glass for her. Since then, she’s collected one-of-a-kind glassware from around the world, including a 3rd Cent. Persian stem. In the Sonoma location, about 100 of the total collection exceeding 2,000 glasses are displayed. Gloria’s passion for glassware grew as she observed the transformation of organic materials, through heat and craftsmanship, into something beautiful, a process similar to the art of making fine wine. Visit: Gloria Ferrer is open daily from 10am-4:45pm, 23555 Highway 121, Sonoma Keywords: Wine Country, Gloria Ferrer, tasting room, design destinations, wine The Soul Of Napa Valley's Festival del Sole: Kevin Spacey A World Classic Revealed in Joseph Phelps New Guest Center A Summer Retreat On Round Pond	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line700
__label__cc	0.627626	0.372374	Olson on Bush and Churchill Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader has still not left for the beach. In part his delay is due to his having a wee bout of the summer pestilence. He doesn’t know how he picked up this virus, but he has been hacking, coughing, and sniffling something horrible. He’s not been fun to be around by any stretch. He’s felt so bad over yesterday and today that he’s only now gotten out of bed. He will have to say that Villainette #1 (soon to be ten years old) was a tremendous help. She has a strong “mothering” streak to begin with (which sometimes is a problem when she attempts to dominate her younger siblings) but today her mothering streak was a great help to her father. She was able to bring water and flat ginger ale to him when he needed; and she kept a close eye on her younger brother while Mrs Villain was out. It was a blessing to have her. So… Your Maximum Leader has been in bed and watching the crap that passes for tv programming. He has been watching the news about the (almost) car bombs in London and the car bombing in Glasgow. Both horrible events. Your Maximum Leader only hopes that the British people don’t draw the wrong conclusion from these events. The wrong conclusion being that an immediate withdrawal from Iraq will suddenly make the Islamists look to bomb other nations. Immediate withdrawal from Iraq by Britain would be a type of appeasement. And as Winston Churchill once noted, to paraphrase, appeasers feed the crocodile in the hopes that it will eat them last. That was your Maximum Leader’s pathetic segue into an interesting column he read on the Washington Post site entitled: “Why Winston Wouldn’t Stand for W.” In the peice Lynn Olson makes a number of observations with which your Maximum Leader agrees. Indeed, he agrees with more of Olson’s commentary that one might suspect. But, he feels that Olson is herself guilty of that which she describes as: Writing about Churchill and Chamberlain, I’ve discovered, is like administering a Rorschach test to one’s readers. People see in Churchill and Chamberlain what they want to see. They draw parallels between the 1930s and the events of today according to their own political philosophy. In drawing her own parallels between how dissimilar George W Bush is from Winston S Churchill, she doesn’t attempt to show that there might be some similarities as well. While your Maximum Leader is congnizant that Olson’s point in her peice is more to show Bush supporters (as well as Bush himself?) how you shouldn’t wrap Bush in the mantle of Churchill. Now… Allow your Maximum Leader to go on the record. He is a great Churchill admirer. He keeps a smaller version of the same bust of Churchill on his desk as President Bush does in the Oval Office. And as he types this, the bust of Churchill stares at him from across the desk, and the Karsh photo of Churchill glowers down at him from the wall. And you know something else, your Maximum Leader would never have thought to compare Churchill and George W Bush. Ever. As much as your Maximum Leader loves Ronald Reagan, he would never compare Churchill and Reagan. Perhaps your Maximum Leader keeps his idols in their own temples and doesn’t like mixing them up. But, these figures are so different that comparisons will always fall short. Now, your Maximum Leader does want to address some points which Olson makes in her piece. Frist off she writes: Like Bush and unlike Churchill, [Neville] Chamberlain came to office with almost no understanding of foreign affairs or experience in dealing with international leaders. Nonetheless, he was convinced that he alone could bring Hitler and Benito Mussolini to heel. He surrounded himself with like-minded advisers and refused to heed anyone who told him otherwise. Your Maximum Leader agrees that Bush had no foreign affairs experience on becoming President. But, this is a generally unfair characterization of the early Bush Administration. Does Olson forget that to compensate for his lack of experience Bush did bring on what (on paper at least) appeared to be one of the strongest foreign policy teams in recent memory. Your Maximum Leader remembers that as late as 2003 many of his liberal/Democratic friends felt that particularly in foreign affairs that Bush had the best team possible. Dick Cheney. Colin Powell. Condi Rice. That is one hell of a lineup. Your Maximum Leader doesn’t think that Olson’s comparison here rings true. In the next paragraphs Olson states that: Unlike Bush and Chamberlain, Churchill was never in favor of his country going it alone. Throughout the 1930s, while urging Britain to rearm, he also strongly supported using the newborn League of Nations — the forerunner to today’s United Nations — to provide one-for-all-and-all-for-one security to smaller countries. After the League failed to stop fascism’s march, Churchill was adamant that, to beat Hitler, Britain must form a true partnership with France and even reach agreement with the despised Soviet Union, neither of which Chamberlain was willing to do. Your Maximum Leader agrees with Olson’s point. But he thinks it is important to point out the historical context here. Churchill knew that Britain couldn’t “go it alone.” Britain was deficient in air power and men-at-arms. Britain’s sea power was strong, but would likely come under great stress when war came. Churchill knew that Britain had to have allies - because she didn’t have the resources to fight. Britain in the 1930s is not America of 2001 or 2003. Your Maximum Leader believes that if Britain’s situation in 1939 was one of supreme economic and military ascendence (as one can argue America’s situation was in 2001) Churchill would have still sought an alliance with France and other European nations against Hitler. What troubles your Maximum Leader about Olson’s point here is that the casual reader might think that Britain’s situation was stronger than it was. Of course, we all know that for a time Britain did have to “go it alone.” From the fall of France in June 1940 until America entered the war in December 1941, Britain was (mostly) on her own. What most American’s don’t know is that after the fall of France the consensus of the British political establishment was that Britain ought to seek terms for ending the war. Among Churchill’s cabinet there was (in May/June 1940) a majority that wanted to sue for peace with Hitler. Indeed, it was Churchill (and to his credit Clement Atlee) who wanted to fight on. This stubbornness is a similarity between Bush and Churchill that Olson didn’t feel the need to mention in her piece. Olson again compares Bush to Chamberlain when she says that Like Bush, Chamberlain also laid claim to unprecedented executive authority, evading the checks and balances that are supposed to constrain the office of prime minister. He scorned dissenting views, both inside and outside government. When Chamberlain arranged his face-to-face meetings with Hitler in 1938 that ended in the catastrophic Munich conference, he did so without consulting his cabinet, which, under the British system, is responsible for making policy. All in all your Maximum Leader thinks this is a fair characterization, but again one that lacks historical context. Olson points out in the peice that Chamberlain’s Tories had a large majority in the Commons. But having a large Parliamentary majority isn’t quite the same as having a majority in the Congress. And executive power in a Parliamentary system is much different than our Constitutional system. Churchill himself was accused by many of wielding too much executive authority once he became Prime Minister. He wasn’t just Prime Minister, but was also the Minister of Defence. The closest analogy to this in our system would be George W Bush being President and Secretary of Defence at the same time. (But even that analogy isn’t all that exact.) It is interesting to note that one of the biggest criticisms of former-Prime Minister Tony Blair was that he acted more like a President than a Prime Minister. All in all, the most troubling aspect of Olson’s essay in the Post (at least for your Maximum Leader) is that she oversimplifies the historical context to make her points. Of course, by adding context she diminishes the force of her argument; but if she fancies herself a serious historian she ought to stick to history and leave the political commentary to someone else. Zombie Quiz Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader hasn’t yet departed for the beach… But he is still taking quizzes on other blogs… Your Maximum Leader is: Mingle2 - Free Online Dating Although 68% chance of survival is not too bad, your Maximum Leader’s failings are that he is out of shape, he lives in a moderately sized city, and he would try and find loved ones in the event of a zombie apocalypse. Of course, he wouldn’t go out and try and find loved ones without packing serious heat. But he would forsake shelter to find his family and (he hopes) save them from the zombies. Evidently Joan has fewer problems with her survival. In the worst case senario, your Maximum Leader would have to find Joan and hunker down… So proclaimeth The Maximum Leader \| Quizzes \| Feudal Tributes (1) \| Link Goin’ to the beach Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader wanted to let you know that he is going to the beach soon. Possibly tonight. Possibly tomorrow. Staying through Thursday of next week. It is likely you’ll see little of him here. He is bringing a laptop with him to the beach… So there is a possibility of posting… But no promises. So proclaimeth The Maximum Leader \| Villainy \| Feudal Tributes (0) \| Link Wrong hunch. Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader must admit he was wrong about something. He may yet prove to be right, but it seems less and less likely as we move ahead… Your Maximum Leader is sure that you have probably read about the case of Jessie Davis. She was the 9 months pregnant Ohio woman who’s body - and that of her unborn child - were discovered over the weekend. Davis’ boyfriend, Bobby Cutts, Jr, has been arrested, charged, and is being held for the murder. Excursus: Isn’t it quaint that the AP referres to the unborn child as a fetus and explains how in Ohio someone can be charged with murder if they kill a fetus? Very quaint. Your Maximum Leader must admit that he was wrong when he speculated last week to Mrs Villain that he thought Cutts wasn’t the killer. Normally, your Maximum Leader would immediately suspect the boyfriend/lover/spouse in a case like this. But he didn’t in this case. Why? At first your Maximum Leader thought it might be because Cutts was a police officer. Now, before you start thinking that your Maximum Leader is willing to ascribe a lofty status to law officers; please know that your Maximum Leader is often willing to believe pretty horrible things that police are accused of. Of the police officers that your Maximum Leader has known, there has sometimes been a streak of believing that because they are an authority unto themselves. (Not unlike your Maximum Leader…) Your Maximum Leader is sure that in some (perhaps many) cases, police to exceed their authority. But not in this case. In the case of Cutts, your Maximum Leader thought that the knowledge of procedures and the fact that he would immediately be the primary suspect might have kept Cutts from committing a crime. Of course, Cutts has only been accused at this point. That means he is innocent until the state proves otherwise. It may be that he didn’t commit the crime of which he’s been accused. Time, and the judicial system, will tell. There is something else that might have influenced your Maximum Leader’s thoughts unconsciously. Perhaps your Maximum Leader was willing to extend the benefit of the doubt to Cutts because he is black. Perhaps there was some subconscious process that wanted to avoid a racial sterotype? Afterall, doesn’t society tell us that it is always the black man who is the killer? What racial overtones are there when the accused is black and the victim is white? Could your Maximum Leader have been trying to make himself feel like he wasn’t entertaining racist thoughts by giving the black man the benefit of the doubt? Your Maximum Leader is sure that any thinking along these lines was definately unconscious… If we discover that Cutts did the crime, he ought to be fast-tracked for execution. Humm… Was that last line laden with subconscious racism? Your Maximum Leader doesn’t think so. Frankly, we should execute more people. Regardless of their race, socio-economic status, or sex. But not everyone agrees with your Maximum Leader on that count. So proclaimeth The Maximum Leader \| Current Events \| Feudal Tributes (0) \| Link Kilt licenses? Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader was perusing various blogs today and found a startling story over at Outside the Beltway. James Joyner finds that Scotland is toying with licensing sporrans. The original BBC article that Joyner cites states that the license will be required to show that sporrans produced after 1994 out of the hides of “endangered” animals were humanely harvested. Specifically the piece reads: The laws are designed to protect endangered species like badgers and otters, whose fur used to be favoured by sporran makers. The legislation applies to animals killed after 1994. Applicants must prove that the animal was killed lawfully before they will be able to get a licence. The conservation regulations were designed to close a number of loopholes and bring Scotland into line with other EU members. They also apply to other vulnerable animals like deer, wildcats, hedgehogs, bats, lynx, moles, seals, whales, dolphins and porpoises. The regulations require anyone who owns any part of a protected animal to obtain a licence. The maximum penalties for breaking the law are a fine of £5,000 and six months in prison. Oy! £5,000 and six months in prison is a bit much for the unlawful taking of an otter or badger. Of course, it isn’t all that bad if you think that a few hundred years ago you could be killed for hunting in the King’s forest… Well… That would be a King’s forest in England, not in Scotland. And they rarely ever did put anyone to death for it… Walter Scott and countless showings of Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood not withstanding. Frankly this story, like so many many others, is just another sign of what is wrong in Europe. This law is being promulgated to bring Scotland in line with other EU countries. Is there anything good coming out of the EU Congress in Brussels? Your Maximum Leader isn’t sure of any. By the way… How the hell would you find out that a sporran was pre or post 1994? Your Maximum Leader has a sporran for his kilt. He bought it in 1985. (It is leather - so presumably a license is not required.) But what is to keep a Scot from claiming that the sporran was pre-1994? Why make it retroactive? It seems senseless. If you are going to be “better stewards” of the wee beasties in the forest why not just start your licensing at a specific future date? It makes a heck of a lot more sense. This makes your Maximum Leader want to run out and get a badger/otter/deer/lynx/wildcat/mole/dolphin/seal/whale/bat sporran… Just to have one. So proclaimeth The Maximum Leader \| Culture, Current Events \| Feudal Tributes (1) \| Link 50 ft way to go. Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader is busy entertaining the Big Hominid at the Villainschloss now, and is neglecting blogging. But this article could not pass without note… Naked couple die from S.C. rooftop fall. COLUMBIA, S.C. - Police on Wednesday were investigating how a naked couple fell 50 feet from the roof of a downtown office building to their deaths. The bodies were found on the road by a passing cabdriver around 5 a.m. Wednesday. Clothing was discovered on the roof, leading authorities to suspect the man and woman, in their early 20s, may have been having sex. Their identities were not released. “It’s too early to rule out anything,” Columbia police Sgt. Florence McCants said, but McCants said a preliminary investigation didn’t show any sign of foul play. What a way to go. Kein sprechender Deutscher Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader read something in his local paper today that he felt was blogworthy. Although he’s been unable to confirm this factoid on everyone’s favourite free reference site, Wikipedia, he feels the local paper is trustworthy enough to republish this as a factoid, if not an out and out fact… Apparently on this day in 1916, King George V of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India changed his family name from the oh-so-tuetonic “Saxe-Coburg-Gotha” to the oh-so-Anglo-Saxon “Windsor.” That has got to be worth at least a few words on this blog… Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader has very little for you now. Nothing in fact. He thinks that his own laziness, family, the weather, and Medieval 2 Total War have been consipiring to keep him from blogging. Your Maximum Leader has been lazy (at least in regards to blogging) because he’s found it more entertaining to plop down on a sofa and read a Flashman book or watch TV than blog. He’s had a lot of familial engagements to attend to as well. School ending for the Villainettes. Getting various birthday and Father’s Day celebrations under control. Planning (packing for) trips to grandparent’s house for Villainettes. When you Maximum Leader has found himself in the mood to blog… He’s be thwarted by thunderstorms. They seem to pop up at the most inopportune times for blogging. (But they do give a good excuse to just sit and read.) And, finally, your Maximum Leader has been engaged in the most engrossing game of Medieval 2 Total War. (Playing the Danes and really digging the “Norse War Cleric” units. Priests wearing chainmail, on warhorses, with big ole maces just bashing your enemies. Somehow your Maximum Leader doubts that Benedict XVI would condone such activities nowadays. But if he did, your Maximum Leader would personally try and outfit a brigade of War Clerics.) Excursus: Did you know that on July 14th, 1789 that Louis XVI’s diary contained a one word entry? Rien. (As in “nothing of interest happened today.”) In all fairness to Louis, he was not in Paris that day and word of the storming of the Bastille might not have reached him in Versailles. Just because your Maximum Leader hasn’t been writing doesn’t mean he hasn’t been reading. Indeed, he’s been reading many blogs. Here are some more linky-related thoughts… There are many bloggers your Maximum Leader is just going to have to make the time to visit and meet. Many… For example… Your Maximum Leader wants to meet Eric, perhaps go the YMCA with him and work out some, and then go and sit on his porch and sip fine Scotch Whisky. Your Maximum Leader would also like to meet Christina and her Mom. Your Maximum Leader feels like he already knows Christina’s mom somehow. Perhaps he’s known people like her and is projecting their traits on her. But every time Christina writes about and encounter with her mom your Maximum Leader feels like he knows exactly what is going on. It is a strange knowing feeling. Regardless, your Maximum Leader would like to meet both of these fine ladies. Your Maximum Leader would also like to meet (specifically go out dining with) Bobgirl. Fallow deer wrapped in pork. Yumma. Your Maximum Leader has been reading Steve’s site now for a long time. And recently he’s found that Steve’s posts on growing tomatos and peppers to be completely engrossing. Your Maximum Leader isn’t sure what it is about South Florida that makes smart people with a keen sense of observation such good writers. But soemthing must. Sure your Maximum Leader knows that South Florida is filled with vapid party-goers and cubans too; but Steve seems to be coming out of an environment that has produced a number of great writers. Did you know that a few days ago the Dictionary.com word of the day was eructation? Your Maximum Leader had never heard the word before. (Sadly, he knows most of the words of the day.) Let him say he likes the word eructation. Oh… One more thing… Two more actually… Patton at the Ministry of Minor Perfidy wrote a piece that was very similar to one that your Maximum Leader was thinking of. Here is Patton’s post on Brendlin v California While reading the accounts of the ruling in the Washington Post, your Maximum Leader found that the mention of Mr Brendlin’s race to be somewhat gratuitous. Having said that, your Maximum Leader was gratified by the outcome of the case. A small victory for individual rights… Also, if you are a DC area blogger… And a war/board game geek… You might want to see about playing Axis and Allies at Casa de Buckethead on Bastille Day… That is about it for now… If the mood alights on your Maximum Leader, he might write more… So proclaimeth The Maximum Leader \| Blogging \| Feudal Tributes (2) \| Link Links! Links! And some more links! Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader is running short on original content. Well… He is running short of original content that he feels is worth posting. (And frankly, if you’ve been reading what passes for posting here lately that should tell you that what he’s got ain’t all that…) So, your Maximum Leader decided that he needed to showcase some links to other bloggers that he’s enjoyed reading lately. Today’s HMQ post made your Maximum Leader laugh quite hard. He’s tried to think up his own pithy t-shirt sayings for young female co-eds. All he could come up with was: (MORALLY) LIBERAL. Not all that good, surely not as good as those of the HMQ’s Crack Young Staff. But your Maximum Leader feels his own self-esteem improving because he tried… And as we all know, just trying is all that matters. Your Maximum Leader thought that Phin’s post about Bear Grylls at Agent Bedhead’s site was a hoot as well. Although your Maximum Leader likes to think that Bear could easily triumph in Episode 4 wherein Bear insults a Texan. He doesn’t think that Bear would fare well in Episode 5 in Compton. Your Maximum Leader thinks it is mostly the fact that the Bloods would just outnumber Bear. He could take one or two in a fight… But a whole gang… Prolly not… And then the horror of Episode 6… It is unspeakable… Did you read Buckethead’s post about battleships and air power? Excellent work. All in all your Maximum Leader completely agrees. But, your Maximum Leader does believe that there is a limited utility for a fairly large gun/missile ship/sub in our naval arsenal. Although he doubts that any ship we come up with will be as aesthetically pleasing as an Iowa Class battleship. Also… Show Buckethead a little B-day love and send him money for his Jesus phone. Is it possible to improve on bloggy perfection? Well… It seems as though Mrs P has figured out a way. Patum Peperium is one of your Maximum Leader’s favourite blogs, and now with more contributors it is even more better (as kids with a poor grasp of grammar would say). And finally… If you are all for grown up reading (with some NSFW photos and language that the FCC now says is more or less okay if it is off the cuff and live) you should check out Skippy on Paris Hilton’s jail term (your Maximum Leader shocked Mrs Villain by agreeing with Skippy’s assessment that Paris is being treated more harshly than others in her situation and that is bad). You might also check out Skippy’s take on President Bush’s statement about Kossovar independence. (That link is work safe.) Your Maximum Leader has to say he agrees with Skippy on that too… Just to show your Maximum Leader isn’t always in agreement with Skippy… Your Maximum Leader doesn’t think Lindsay Lohan is at all attractive in any way… So there… Wilburys Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader was listening (as is his habit) to his trusty iPod today. It was randomly selecting songs… And picked this particular ditty to dish out to my waiting ears. Since then, your Maximum Leader has been listening to The Traveling Wilburys all afternoon… It is a shame that the quality of this video on You Tube is so sucky… So proclaimeth The Maximum Leader \| Entertainment \| Feudal Tributes (0) \| Link We’re gonna (have to) keep Vermont Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader must thank the many readers who commented on the Vermont Secession posts. Your Maximum Leader had no idea that there were so many hotbeds of secession around the nation. Although, to be honest, most of these movements are people wanting to create their own new state out of a portion of their old state (the Ole West Virginia/Virginia situation). Very few, including some secessionists in Texas and the aforementioned Vermont, actually seem to want out of the United States. Well… Your Maximum Leader, as he’s stated before, will not let Vermont go peacefully. He’ll fight to keep Vermont in the Union. He’ll fight to maintain the Northeast Dairy Compact. Heck, we might need those Vermont dairy farmers to help keep the price of milk down (provided we could let market forces work outside of the Northeast Dairy Compact). Have you noticed food prices recently? Your Maximum Leader has. He spend $1.99 on a gallon of milk about three months ago. Today, he had to buy a gallon of milk (1% in case you care) and it was $2.95. Insanity! The people at the Christian Science Monitor (and Yahoo News) have also noticed this price spike in food. In case you are too lazy to clicky on the linky: The reason people are smarting: Inflation in grocery aisles is up by more in the first six months of 2007 than in all of 2006. That means food costs are on track for the biggest annual percentage hike since 1980, according to the Labor Department. The anticipated 7.5 percent increase would readily outflank the 2.6 percent core inflation rate to date, which excludes food and energy. It’s across every grocery aisle, too, from burgers to bagels, from duck to dumpling. Added to sticker shock at the gas pump, high food prices, especially for meat, are forcing consumers to scrimp, coupon-clip, and ponder the possibilities of a deep freeze to take advantage of discounts, says Boyd Brady, an extension agent at Auburn University in Alabama. “There’s a … combination of higher demand, natural disasters, higher energy prices – just a myriad of factors driving what price increases we’re seeing across the food sector,” says Chad Hart, an agricultural economist at the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development in Ames, Iowa. The chief culprit is corn, namely No. 2 feed corn, the staple of the breadbasket. In answer to President Bush’s call for greater oil independence, the amount of feed corn distilled into ethanol is expected to double in the next five to six years. Distillation is already sucking up 18 percent of the total crop. The ethanol gambit, in turn, is sending corn prices to historic levels – topping $4 per bushel earlier this year, and remaining high. All of this trickles down to the boards at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, affecting the price of everything from sirloin to eggs (which are up, by the way, 18.6 percent across the nation). In a welcome response, US farmers told the government in April they plan a record-breaking 93-million-acre corn crop, though its true size won’t be known until the end of June. But corn alone does not explain the number of products that have become more expensive of late. Facing higher costs at the farm and shareholder pressure to maintain profits, companies such as Tyson Chicken and Coca-Cola are raising prices. The fact that fuel prices remain relatively high hasn’t helped either, allowing no break in the cost of transporting perishable goods. For fruit and vegetable growers, labor shortages are also a factor. A $2 cantaloupe sold for $3 at the South Carolina Farmer’s Market in Greenville recently, largely because of labor woes, says Thompson Smith of the South Carolina Farm Bureau. Winter cold snaps and hard freezes in California and the Southeast have made peaches, apples, and oranges pricier. In the heartland, low yields on winter wheat mean cookies and baguettes are more expensive. Meat costs are up by 15 percent in some regions, in part because of drought that, as in Alabama, caused a cattle sell-off. Milk prices are up in part because of a global shortage, with milk exporters such as New Zealand unable to add capacity and Australia enduring a debilitating drought, even as demand rises in Europe, China, and India. Damn those people in Europe and China and India. Drinkin’ our friggin milk! Don’t they have clean drinking water over there? Oh… Yeah… Anyho… Although your Maximum Leader isn’t sure how a $2 cantaloupe is actually a $3 dollar cantaloupe (did some important information get edited out of that line?), he does see the price increases with frightening regularity. One wonders if we are going to see record price increases on victuals this year does that mean that farm subsidies will be lower? After all, some of these record prices must get to a farmer’s pocketbook… Your Maximum Leader was joking there… He knows that subsidies aren’t changing… (Thanks Congress!) Anyho… Moving back to the first point of this post… With record dairy prices coming and demand growing, we must keep Vermont in the Union. Damn those Vermalcontents, Your Maximum Leader will go up there and secure those dairy farms and keep the milk and cheese flowing. He’ll make sure that those cows are fed and milked at gunpoint if need be. By the way… For those of you wondering what your Maximum Leader’s Colonel-in-Chief outfits might look like… We have a few styles to choose from… Here we go: Your Maximum Leader in the style of the Virginia Militia (Colonial Era): Your Maximum Leader in the style of British Colonial officer: And your Maximum Leader in the style of a 1930s dictator (a la Ian McKellan’s Richard III): You can take your choice as to which one you like best… Your Maximum Leader will make sure to take them all with him on campaign… Watch out Vermoonbats! Your Maximum Leader’s got your number! So proclaimeth The Maximum Leader \| Agriculture, Politics, Current Events \| Feudal Tributes (3) \| Link Ancient Rome Virtually Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader is sure that some of you out there are wondering “Hey! When will my Maximum Leader post something?” Well, all your dreams are coming true right now… New content on Naked Villainy… Your Maximum Leader had lots of stuff he was going to try and post last night, but he did not blog because of a powerful thunderstorm. Call him crazy, but after losing a TV to a lightining-related power surge (through a surge protector by the way) he doesn’t turn on the computer during bad thunderstorms. (In fact, he unplugs TVs and computers from the wall… Interesting tidbit there…) Your Maximum Leader does appreciate what the good people at UVA are doing to help our understanding of what ancient Rome looked like. Perhaps you saw the piece which went in part: “Rome Reborn” was unveiled on Monday in a first release showing the city at its peak in 320 AD, under the Emperor Constantine when it had grown to a million inhabitants. Brainchild of the University of Virginia’s Bernard Frischer, Rome Reborn (www.romereborn.virginia.edu) will eventually show its evolution from Bronze Age hut settlements to the Sack of Rome in the 5th century AD and the devastating Gothic Wars. Reproduced for tourists on satellite-guided handsets and 3-D orientation movies in a theatre to be opened near the Colosseum, Frischer says his model “will prepare them for their visit to the Colosseum, the Forum, the imperial palaces on the Palatine, so that they can understand the ruins a lot better.” “We can take people under the Colosseum and show them how the elevators worked to bring the animals up from underground chambers for the animal hunts they held,” he said, referring to the great Roman amphitheatre inaugurated by Titus in 80 AD. Your Maximum Leader has looked over some of the images. Very cool. The navigation interface on the website could use a little work, but all in all it is very interesting. Now if only they could add a “sounds and smells” track to the virtural tour to give people a real flavor of what ancient Rome was like… 100 Below: Card Shark Joe was tired of losing money to the stranger. The stranger seemed clever. Too clever by half. “Listen feller,” Joe stated, “I’m of a mind to think you’re cheatin’.” The stranger smiled wide. “My dear boy, I’m not cheating. I am using both of my brains to figure you out.” “Both yer brains?” “Yes, the one I was born with, and the other I stole from an itinerant I killed back in ‘68. My two brains are quite superior to your one.” Joe thought about it. Yup. Two brains would ’splain everything. So proclaimeth The Maximum Leader \| 100 Below \| Feudal Tributes (1) \| Link Bad Dad Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader has not been himself for the past few days. He has been rather weary and sometimes short tempered with people. He thinks he lost it a little bit last night. EDITIED OUT BY YOUR MAXIMUM LEADER Well, loyal readers… Your Maximum Leader wrote a rather lengthy post describing how and why he “lost it” last night. But after hitting the publish button, he decided he didn’t want to be that candid. So he is editing himself. Let it suffice to say that your Maximum Leader’s not in a great mood. He’ll probably just take the weekend off from thoughts of posting. Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader loves japanese cuisine. He wishes there was a good japanese place here in his area. Alas, the best one is a long way away… Anyhow… A long time ago your Maximum Leader lived in a place with one good japanese restaurant. And that place would do Bento Boxes for lunch for $10.99. He would treat himself from time to time… If you are interested in bento boxes, you should check out this piece in the Washington Post today about the healthy lunchtime alternative a Bento Box represents… All this talk of Bento Boxes makes your Maximum Leader hungry… He will get some lunch now… So proclaimeth The Maximum Leader \| Cuisine \| Feudal Tributes (2) \| Link Dispassionate Conservatism.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line702
__label__cc	0.733789	0.266211	Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader thought this was very funny. Sadly, your Maximum Leader closed the tab containing the link to the blog where he first saw this video. Sadly, he cannot give appropriate linkage to the blog author. He apologizes for this… So proclaimeth The Maximum Leader \| History, Religion \| Feudal Tributes (0) \| Link Triumphant! NB: This is nearly a complete repost of the entry for October 21, 2009. Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader will be lifting his glass today to toast Admiral Lord Nelson and the hearty tars of the Royal Navy as he celebrates the 204th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. On this day in 1805, Lord Nelson led the fleet into combat against the combined French and Spanish fleets off Cape Trafalgar. By the end of the day the Franco-Spanish force was destroyed or driven to port. Any hope Napoleon had for invading Britain was dashed that day. The battle also resulted in about 100 years of complete naval supremacy by Britain over the seas of the world. The late and very lamented hero of the hour: Lord Nelson. Nelson’s plan called for the fleet to be divided into two columns. The two columns would be sailed (under tremendous fire) into the Franco-Spanish line in a way that would bisect that line in two places. Before the battle Nelson’s flagship, HMS Victory, flew the following signal: England expects that every man will do his D - U - T - Y. And over the course of the day, every British sailor did his duty. During the course of the fighting Nelson was killed by a sniper. Nelson’s body was preserved in rum and returned to a joyful nation who interred the hero in the crypt of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Your Maximum Leader hopes that all you Anglophiles (and lovers of the fruits of the Anglo-Western tradition that we continue to enjoy in the US) will remember the great service done on behalf of civilization by Lord Nelson and the men of the Royal Navy over two hundred years ago. Two years ago when this post first ran, there was some discussion in the comments as to whether Trafalgar was (as you Maximum Leader billed it) the greatest naval victory in the history of the world. Among the other contenders were: Salamis, Actium, Lepanto, Tsushima and Midway. Your Maximum Leader will let you all decide which of these famous battles might be the greatest naval battle in the history of the world… Democracy equals Rule of Law? Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader was reading the Washington Post the other day and this piece by Anne Applebaum provoked him to want to write a post… This is that post. In the Applebaum piece one part stood out to your Maximum Leader. She wrote: “Democracy is based on the rule of law. Democracy works only within distinct borders and among people who feel themselves to be part of the same nation.” Your Maximum Leader completely agrees with the second sentance there; but was lost by the first. Is democracy based on rule of law? If you are talking broadly about those nations that are part of the Anglo-Western tradition (the UK, USA, Canada and Austrailia); then you might have a point that rule of law and democracy go hand in hand. But in and of itself, there is nothing inherent in democracy that would lead one to assume that rule of law is part of said democracy. One could have an open democratic process to elect a dictator with sweeping and arbitrary powers. Democracy is only means that the people vote on things. In most countries that are fully-functioning (or seemingly functioning) democracies the people elect leaders to “rule” them. But again… Rule of law, while we take it for granted here, is not part or parcel of democracy. This line of thinking also applies to “rights.” We have politicians talking about a “right” to healthcare in our democracy. There is nothing in a democracy that grants rights to people. Rights are (depending on your outlook) either given to you by the state or are granted to you by God/Nature/outside forces. Your Maximum Leader doesn’t disagree with the general thrust of Applebaum’s argument; but it annoys him that she (and so many others) think that democracy is so much more than it is. Let’s just say that if you believe in the political system we’ve worked on in the United States for over 200 years; then you need to work on change within that political system to get the outcome you desire. Street protests are fine to call attention to a problem, but the protests don’t do anything to fix a problem. Unless of course the protests lead to widespread discontent and revolution. But your Maximum Leader isn’t sure that is what the Occupy (fill in name of street) people are looking to do… Strange dream Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader woke this morning from the strangest and most real seeming dream he’s had in a long time. It goes like this… Your Maximum Leader is going to the liquor store to buy some Scotch. He buys some and notices that right next to the liquor store is a church. The name on the church sign is “Saint Garrioch’s Anglican Church and Scottish Cultural Center.” Of course, your Maximum Leader goes in. He sat down in a pew and realized that the whole congregation seemed very lively and animated and very “scottish looking.” The pastor came out from behind an altar screen and invited everyone to come down into the common room downstairs. So we all got up and went downstairs. Once downstairs we were in a large room that vaugely resembled my paternal grandparents basement. It had late 60’s wood composite paneling and a dark colored shag carpet. There were chairs and sofas and more pews in the room. Your Maximum Leader sat down again in a pew. The pastor reappeared in clerical robes that seemed to be tucked down into a Royal Stewart tartan kilt. Around this point various bottles of whisky started to appear and everyone started drinking. The pastor began a sermon on drunkeness. Mid-way through his sermon he called out for our good lesbian friend “Michelle” to start the karaoke contest. Your Maximum Leader looked to his left and saw a very masculine woman stand up. As he looked at her more carefully, she seemed very familiar. Then he realized that the lesbian karaoke leader looked like a cross between your Maximum Leader and his great-aunt. At this point the pastor came over to your Maximum Leader, hugged him and declared “Laddie, your mum over there [pointing to the lesbian] is a fine lookin’ woman.” Around this time your Maximum Leader awoke… Very strange… So proclaimeth The Maximum Leader \| Ranting \| Feudal Tributes (2) \| Link Blathering. Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader has not forsaken this blog. Well… You wouldn’t know it from looking at how rapidly he’s been updating it recently. He keeps thinking of a good post here and there, but doesn’t get around to writing. He knows he’s been playing this tune for over a year… But it is the tune of the moment so it will keep playing. Your Maximum Leader sees that FLG is now on Twitter… Huzzah. Follow him here. Are you following your Maximum Leader on Twitter? You can get him @maximumleader. Your Maximum Leader has had three urges lately. The first is to watch Dr. Zhivago. The second is to go to Venice for Christmas. (You are all getting pretty sick of hearing that one and wondering when your Maximum Leader will just go already…) The third was to cure some bacon. That third urge was a little more difficult than he suspected. Normally, your Maximum Leader goes to his local butcher and grabs some pork bellies and gets to curing. Sadly, the butcher has been running out of pork bellies of late. Apparently, lots to people are buying pork bellies for various uses. It is crazy but now your Maximum Leader is on a waiting list to get some when it comes in. (He could have had some on Wednesday, but didn’t feel like paying an extra $2.50/pound to get it special ordered.) Your Maximum Leader’s church is beginning to roll out some of the changes to the Mass. Today we got the new Gloria, Memorial Acclamation and Great Amen. In a few weeks they will be remembered. The big problem for your Maximum Leader will be the new translation of the Nicene Creed. That will be a toughie. Speaking (a little) about religion… Rick Perry ought to get some of his more religious followers to shut the hell up. Your Maximum Leader isn’t sure there is a polite way of saying that Mormonism is a cult. And if you can’t be polite about it, you might as well just shut the hell up about it. Of course, your Maximum Leader doesn’t much care that Rick Perry is faltering in the polls. If your Maximum Leader may be frank (and it is his blog so he will be frank), there is not a circumstance under which your Maximum Leader would ever (EVER!) vote for Rick Perry to hold any office of public trust at any level. Your Maximum Leader would no sooner vote for Rick Perry for dog catcher than he would for President of the United States. If (in the seemingly more and more unlikely event) Rick Perry gets the Republican nomination for the Presidency your Maximum Leader would throw his vote away on a third party candidate - or even write someone in on the ballot. Your Maximum Leader knows that the great Commonwealth of Virginia might be close next year. Even that knowledge would not lead him to change his mind. You see, your Maximum Leader believes Rick Perry is unfit to hold any public office after his involvement in the case of Cameron Todd Willingham. If you haven’t read or do not know about Cameron Todd Willingham, you would do well to start with this article from the New Yorker magazine. You might also check out the Innocence Project’s page on Cameron Todd Willingham for more information on this heinous miscarriage of justice. The case of Cameron Todd Willingham horrifies your Maximum Leader so much that he is continually rethinking his support of the death penalty. For the record your Maximum Leader has long supported the death penalty. He knows that it is quite possible that people have been executed for crimes they did not commit. But often those executed had long track records of hideous criminal behavior and while perhaps not guilty of the crime for which they were executed; they likely had it coming. (Which your Maximum Leader knows is no justification for being “satisfied” with an execution. This is nothing more than a salve for his conscience.) But as best your Maximum Leader can tell Cameron Todd Willingham was executed having committed no capital crime whatsoever. (NB: Willingham did have a criminal record including theft and other petty crimes. Not anything that would rise to the level of a capital offense.) Rick Perry is at least partially responsible for Willingham’s death, and as such he is not qualified to be President. While your Maximum Leader is going on about those who are not qualified to be President… He is glad that Sarah Palin is not going to run. But he is saddened by the fact that she still has a soapbox from which to speak to the masses. While your Maximum Leader can’t imagine voting for Sarah Palin for President, he would consider he for other political positions. County Council or City Council leap to mind. She might also be an effective mayor of a small to medium sized town. She would even be okay in Congress; but your Maximum Leader couldn’t imagine casting a vote for her to any federal office. Regrettably, plenty of news outlets continue to give her time/coverage and we have to listen to her… Your Maximum Leader was listening to APM’s Marketplace recently. On Marketplace, David Frum has been a longtime commentator who spoke “on behalf of the right.” Your Maximum Leader wrote “spoke” there because Frum has left Marketplace. The reason? He no longer feels as though he speaks on behalf of the majority of the right. Your Maximum Leader knows how he feels. Your Maximum Leader doesn’t really feel at home in the current iteration of the Republican party; and feels marginalized on the political right. Your Maximum Leader is not a Tea Party type of fellow. He doesn’t think President Obama is a full-out Socialist. He doesn’t deny evolution. He is an old fashioned conservative. He would likely be labeled a RINO by many. Or a “Rockefeller Republican.” Or even a “Moderate.” Your Maximum Leader doesn’t think that he is any of those three things… But he is thinking that more and more he is becoming the old man yelling for the kids to get off his yard. Only in this case he is yelling at the kids that he is a true conservative and they are something else… Your Maximum Leader believes in small government. But there is a role for government in society and it is possible for government to be too small. (Ours is too big now, by the way.) Your Maximum Leader believes that taxes are a price we pay for civilization. But he doesn’t see that tax cuts now will help our economic situation. (Neither will a tax increase by the way. Uncertainty - about all things economic is at the heart of our current crisis.) Your Maximum Leader is in favor of a strong national defense. And currently the US is overextended around the world and in need of a rethink of priorities. Your Maximum Leader is pro-life. But the best outcome a pro-lifer can hope for in the nation today are some restrictions of some types of abortion. Your Maximum Leader is a pretty traditional guy and does believe that permissiveness in many areas of civil society is damaging to that society in the long run. But he also believes that government is not the agent of social change many think it is and should be. Your Maximum Leader appreciates science and learning and is put off by those who seem to flaunt their ignorance. So what is he to think? Your Maximum Leader likes to think he is a rational right-leaning fellow. That said he certainly doesn’t think that he is in the mainstream of the political right. Neither is he off to the far right. He thinks that the right have moved further right and he is looking to be more of a centre-right type of guy. Of course, this is all from his perspective… To many it would look like your Maximum Leader has moved left and become a squishy centrist… Ah well… So proclaimeth The Maximum Leader \| Blogging, Politics, Religion \| Feudal Tributes (1) \| Link Well Educated. Well Informed. Well Fed. Well Hung.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line703
__label__wiki	0.76163	0.76163	Bryan Carpender “Buffy” Star Tom Lenk Still Slays For Gays As Tilda Swinton The Instagram trashion icon takes the stage in “Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist.” by Brandon Voss 3/16/2018 Those who follow his WOWie Award-winning Instagram account will have no problem picturing Tom Lenk as Tilda Swinton. Lenk, who recreates celebrity fashions using household items and trash in his popular photo series “Lenk Lewks for Less,” channels the otherworldly British actress in Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist, which has transferred to New York following its successful Los Angeles premiere. Get the #tildaswinton @cfda red carpet #LenkLewkForLess with a sweater on backwards: $FREE from the closet. 2 bottles of sunscreen as shoulder pads: $FREE from the bathroom but at one point I think I spent like $12 on this organic shit at @wholefoods. Also, WEAR SUNBLOCK OK?! Clearly Tilda does and SEW SHUD YEW! Ribbon on my pants: $FREE from the craft bin. BLOCK OUT YER BROWS KWEEN! BLOCK OUT MOAR, and LYV LAHNGER with #LenkLewkForLess and quality sunblock. A post shared by Tom Lenk (@tommylenk) on Jun 8, 2016 at 12:59pm PDT Byron Lane, the playwright, co-stars as Swinton’s new gay roommate. Directed by Tom DeTrinis, the stage comedy also features Jayne Entwistle and Mark Jude Sullivan. Before making his Broadway debut in Rock of Ages, Lenk became a geek icon playing queer villain Andrew Wells on TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off, Angel. Almost 10 years after coming out publicly in an interview with The Advocate, the 41-year-old actor explains why he’s serious about not taking himself—or drag—too seriously. Why did you want to bring Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist to NYC? We were asked, so we had to do it. Sometimes you just have to take a chance on New York City, you know? Honestly, I love doing this show so much and I want more people to see it. What’s the premise? The character of Tilda Swinton basically swoops in and helps a depressed gay man try to figure out his life. It’s like Mary Poppins meets Our Town meets A Christmas Carol. It’s a surreal comedy that makes fun of Hollywood and theater, but it also has a lot of heart. Thanks to all who voted for me for the coveted title of BEST INSTAGRAM! I shall treasure this GORJUS soup can award until maybe I get both hungry and curious as to what flavor soup this is? I think it's nice that it's a trophy but it's also food. Which makes it more intrinsically valuable then let's say, an Oscar, because after an earthquake can you eat your Oscar? No. Not really. So thank you @wowreport and as always thank you skinny legend @trixiemattel for her subtle, natural beauty. And thank all of you. I'm SOUPS grateful. #wowieawards #wow #worldofwonder #wowpresents #wowreport #trixiemattel #skinnylegend A post shared by Tom Lenk (@tommylenk) on Dec 8, 2017 at 9:00am PST Jennifer Garner Answers an Ad on Craigslist probably wouldn’t pack the same punch. What makes Tilda Swinton the perfect celebrity to spoof in this context? I’ve done a lot of unauthorized parodies, and the ones that really work are always making fun of something serious. That’s not to say Tilda Swinton isn’t funny or doesn’t have a sense of humor, but we have this idea of her as a very serious actress who takes herself very seriously. Tell me about your take on Tilda. It’s similar to Drew Droege’s Chloe Sevigny impersonation in that it’s not really an impersonation at all. I’m giving you what Tilda Swinton is like in my imagination, and I think that’s more fun. How have you captured her essence? I watched a lot of her movies and her interviews on YouTube, but then I threw that research away. Something I really embrace in my comedy and in my life is not over-preparing. Overthinking and overworking can kill the magic. Everyone tries to be so fucking perfect, but when I’m creating, I’m like, “Let’s just get the show up! Let’s post the video today!” Everything always comes together. ALEENE IS A BOSS. A BRAND. AND A BUSINESSWOMAN. She premiered on my @instagram stories but I thought you might want to visit with her again. She is is full of #NUBBINSOFTRUTH and is ready to help you GLEW your life back together. A post shared by Tom Lenk (@tommylenk) on Jan 16, 2017 at 10:34pm PST Is Tilda aware of this show’s existence? I think word has gotten back to her. We’ve had a couple of her friends come to the show, and they’ve said, “She’d love it!” I said, “Please tell her we’ll fly out to whatever Scottish castle and do a command performance.” I have a fantasy where she secretly buys out an entire performance and it’s just her in the audience by herself. That’s basically the sequel to the play. You have other drag personas besides Tilda and the many female celebs you spoof on Instagram, including Aleene the crafting maven and Shawna the makeup vlogger. Why are you so drawn to these crazy female characters? Well, my favorite people in L.A. and I all come from a sketch comedy background, creating silly characters, so you have to have a wig box. When I moved to Hollywood, a manager who saw one of my shows told me it was too gay and that I needed to be more palatable and marketable for a mainstream audience. I was like, “Isn’t an LGBT dollar still a dollar?” My style is unpolished and hodgepodge, so I just decided I was going to do what I think is funny, and that involves lady characters with wigs and garbage costumes. I love that I finally have an audience for it. Don’t you also have a drag role in the upcoming Girls Will Be Girls sequel? Yes, alongside legendary drag performers Coco Peru and Varla Jean Merman, as well as Jack Plotnick’s amazing drag character, Evie Harris. But I wouldn’t classify what I do as drag. I wish I had the skills and artistry it takes to be an amazing drag queen. I haven’t had a drag education from a drag mother. I’m still figuring out how to do makeup, and I can’t remember the words to any songs. Buffy/WB I’m not sure if this will be horrifying or refreshing, but I’ve never seen an episode of Buffy. Does that make me a terrible gay person? Maybe. We’ll have to consult the LGBT community at large. The show did feature a groundbreaking lesbian character, you know. But I certainly don’t mind. There’s a little crossover between my Buffy audience and my Instagram followers, but I think most people just think I’m some obnoxious person who like to wear trash. I don’t want Buffy fans coming for me on Twitter. Yeah, good luck! It’s a great show, if you ever want to watch it. And I’m amazing in it. There’s been some buzz about a potential Buffy revival. Would you like to be a part of that? Oh, sure. I know there was also talk of a reboot, but I think they’d be smart to give that fandom what it wants: more stories with the same characters and actors. It doesn’t have to be everybody, though. They should just bring me back and do a spin-off. Come see me this weekend in NYC as TILDA Swinton. And if you can't well at least you have this video @directed by @byronlanedotcom starring me and @jayneentwistle who are both in the play along with @markjudesullivan and our play director @detrinis! TIX LINK IN MY PROFILE! opens on Friday!!! #LenkLewkForLess #tildaswinton #tilda A post shared by Tom Lenk (@tommylenk) on Mar 13, 2018 at 2:56pm PDT Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist runs through March 25 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York. Tilda Swinton On Living Through The AIDS Crisis, Identifying As Queer Tags: TheaterTilda SwintonTom LenkBuffy The Vampire Slayer	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line707
__label__cc	0.554041	0.445959	Esmir Hadzic Esmir is a Project Engineer at PC Construction and played for Nordic for 10 years where he won State Cup titles as a U13, U14, U16 and U17 as well as Nordic Cup as a U15. Esmir started his Nordic coaching career with our U10’s and Academy whilst in his High School Junior year and continued through his Senior year before heading to RPI to play college soccer where he was a 4 year varsity player. After college, Esmir moved to Boston for a year to work before moving back home to VT where he started coaching at Nordic again as an assistant to Wade Jean for the 2001 Boys. Fun Fact - Esmir is an avid cross fitter and loves the outdoors. He spends the winters snowboarding and competing at Bolton in the corporate ski race league and spends the summers kayaking in the Winooski River. He does not have a middle name! Coaching Qualications. United States Soccer Federation "F" license. © Nordic Soccer Club. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line709
__label__wiki	0.571851	0.571851	Lula Couch[1, 2, 3, 4] Birth 24 Jun 1871 Tennessee, United States [5] Born 24 Jun 1872 Tennessee, United States [3, 4, 6, 7, 8] Residence 1900 Civil District 8, Lewis, Tennessee [3] Residence 1930 District 8, Lewis, Tennessee [4] Residence 1 Apr 1940 Lewis, Tennessee, United States [8] Died 20 May 1967 Lawrenceburg, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States Death 15 Jun 1967 Hohenwald, Lewis, Tennessee, United States of America [5] Name Lorena Reed [7] Name Lula Reed [5] Name Sula Reed [8] Name Tula Reed [6] Person ID P297 Main Tree Family Joseph Reed, b. 08 Feb 1870, Tennessee, United States , d. 21 Jan 1956, Lewis, Tennessee, United States Married 23 Jan 1891 Lewis, Tennessee [2, 9] 1. James Walter Walter Reed, b. 4 Dec 1891, Tennessee, United States , d. 20 Oct 1974 2. Charles H Herbert Reed, b. 25 Aug 1895, Tennessee, United States , d. 8 Sep 1980 3. Robert Leslie Les Reed, b. 26 Sep 1897, Tennessee, United States , d. 27 Feb 1989, Weirton, Hancock, West Virginia, United States 4. Nettie Reed, b. 15 Sep 1900, Tennessee, United States , d. 4 Jan 1994, Lawrenceburg, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States of America 5. Joseph Tom Reed, b. 26 May 1903, Tennessee, United States , d. 6 Aug 1990, Lewis, Tennessee, United States 7. Fred Edward Reed, b. 18 May 1909, Tennessee, United States , d. 26 Jul 1994, Mt Pleasant, Maury, Tennessee, United States 8. Edith E. Reed, b. 1911, Tennessee, United States , d. 1996 9. Hattie Louise Reed, b. 26 Oct 1915, Tennessee, United States , d. 21 Jun 2008, Hohenwald, Lewis, Tennessee, United States [S-1369377507] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. 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T623, 18), Year: 1900; Census Place: Civil District 8, Lewis, Tennessee; Roll: T623_1584; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 64; FHL microfilm: 1241584.. Birth date: 1873 Birth place: Tennessee Marriage date: 1891 Marriage place: Residence date: 1900 Residence place: Civil District 8, Lewis, Tennessee [S-1364473426] 1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, ), Year: 1930; Census Place: District 8, Lewis, Tennessee; Roll: 2261; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 11; Image: 192.0; FHL microfilm: 2341995.. Birth date: abt 1872 Birth place: Tennessee Residence date: 1930 Residence place: District 8, Lewis, Tennessee [S-1369340412] Social Security Death Index, Ancestry.com, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.Original data - Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security D), Number: 413-84-7696; Issue State: Tennessee; Issue Date: 1966.. Birth date: 24 Jun 1871 Birth place: Death date: 15 Jun 1967 Death place: Hohenwald, Lewis, Tennessee, United States of America [S-1369341723] 1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Was), Year: 1910; Census Place: Civil District 8, Lewis, Tennessee; Roll: T624_1509; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 0093; Image: 1088; FHL microfilm: 1375522.. Birth date: 1874 Birth place: Tennessee Residence date: 1910 Residence place: Civil District 8, Lewis, Tennessee [S-1369339230] 1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Reco), Year: 1920; Census Place: Civil District 8, Lewis, Tennessee; Roll: T625_1751; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 104; Image: 1140.. Birth date: abt 1873 Birth place: Tennessee Residence date: 1920 Residence place: Civil District 8, Lewis, Tennessee [S-1328947940] 1940 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627), Year: 1940; Census Place: , Lewis, Tennessee; Roll: T627_3912; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 51-13.. Birth date: abt 1873 Birth place: Tennessee Residence date: 1 Apr 1940 Residence place: Lewis, Tennessee, United States Birth date: Feb 1871 Birth place: Tennessee Marriage date: 1891 Marriage place: Residence date: 1900 Residence place: Civil District 8, Lewis, Tennessee	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line710
__label__wiki	0.730552	0.730552	You are here: Home / Pro-Life / California Abortionist Accused of Homicide In Patient Death California Abortionist Accused of Homicide In Patient Death July 30, 2010 By Operation Rescue 2 Comments Rutland blames Operation Rescue/local activists for his troubles while failing to take responsibility for his own negligence By Cheryl Sullenger San Diego, CA – The Medical Board of California amended a complaint on Wednesday against troubled abortionist Andrew Rutland to include the charge of homicide in the death of Ying Chen. The action came after the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office reclassified Chen’s death as a homicide in June. A revocation hearing before the Medical Board is scheduled for February, 2011. Rutland had committed a second trimester abortion on Ying Chen at a dirty, unlicensed acupuncture clinic in San Gabriel, California, during which he administered an overdose of lidocaine. He failed to recognize the symptoms of the overdose and the patient went into cardiac arrest. He and his staff were untrained and unequipped to handle the medical emergency. After a “significant delay” in contacting 911, the woman was transported to a local hospital where she died six days later. Chen’s death was originally classified as accidental. Rutland has a long history of Board discipline and other problems. His medical license was revoked in 2003 for severing a baby’s spinal column during a forceps delivery, then lying to the parents by telling them that their baby suffered a stroke. The baby later died. His license was reinstated in 2007 and Rutland was placed on 5 years probation with the restriction that he operate only under the supervision of another physician. Last October, Operation Rescue reported that Rutland was violating his probation by engaging in the solo practice of medicine at an abortion clinic in Chula Vista. We asked our supporters to contact the California Medical Board and demand that his medical license be revoked. On November 3, 2009, an Inspector from the California Medical Board attempted to inspect Rutland’s stock of drugs and his records at his Chula Vista clinic, but was refused access by Rutland’s staff. In January, the Medical Board asked for an emergency suspension of Rutland’s license until the Board could work through the lengthy process to finalize revocation. During that hearing, a judge blocked Rutland from doing abortions, but allowed him to continue office consultations. Operation Rescue learned in February that Rutland was continuing to administer the abortion pill and contacted the Board with the evidence. Judge James Ahler later amended his order to allow Rutland to continue to the chemical abortions, as long as he did not engage in surgical abortions. In response the reclassification of Chen’s death as a homicide, Rutland sent an angry letter to a list of elected officials and others, including Oprah Winfrey, demanding an investigation into “clandestine collaborations of national antiabortion group organizations and local antiabortion activists with the Medical Board of California.” Rutland singles out Operation Rescue and complains that we used “clandestine political collaborations” to force several abortionists out of business. He opines that everyone from the Medical Examiner, to the hospital, to the police officer who investigated Chen’s death were all involved in some plot against him. “Rutland has proven himself to be a dishonest man who presents an ongoing danger to the public. It was his own negligence and attitude that he is above the law that has landed him in repeated trouble with the Medical Board,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “Rutland complains that his problems are somehow the result of an anti-abortion plot. He is upset that authorities would hold him accountable to the law, but what he really wants is to be treated as if no laws apply to him. People are dying due to his shoddy work and Operation Rescue is proud of any small part we may have played in bringing him to justice.” Read Amended Complaint Read Rutland’s Letter (courtesy of CaliforniaWatch.org) Filed Under: Pro-Life Tagged With: abortion, abortion death, abortion debate, botched abortion, Operation Rescue, Rutland	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line711
__label__wiki	0.593533	0.593533	Metronome: Friend or Foe? The Metronome is a device that clicks or ticks regularly at the speed it is set to. Like a clock, it divides time into equal units. Sounds harmless, but many music students cringe at hearing that word, and it is a word that unfortunately for them, keeps coming up. The device was developed in the 19th century. A wooden pyramid -like box had a pendulum that swung mechanically at whatever tempo the user chose. The numbers on the metronome indicated the number of ticks per minute. Set at 60 for instance, the ticks would be at the speed of one per second. 120 would mean two ticks per second. Later on electronic metronomes were invented and nowadays you have numerous free metronome apps. The digital metronomes are more precise than the mechanical ones but the idea is the same: Time is divided into equal , identical units. Humans have a so called metronome built into them in the form of their heartbeat. A healthy person will have a regular steady heart beat, which is where the regular steady beat comes from in music of all cultures. If the heartbeat goes off track, our life is in danger. But, and this is the big but, the heart beat is not mechanical. In fact, no heart beat comes on the same time interval as the next one. When we are happy and excited, the heart beats faster. Sad, in a meditative mood or relaxed, and it's slower. While moving from one state to the other, the heart gradually builds the tempo up or down. This is the beat of life. Our emotions keep changing and so does the beat of our bodies. The metronome offers the beat of a lifeless machine. When playing music to the ticks or clicks of the metronome, you may be improving your playing and making progress on many levels, but you are not playing music. You can only play music when you take the metronome out of your system and listen to the life and breathing of the music. So why use the metronome at all? Because although we have our built in rhythmical system, we are not always connected to it. Sometimes it is necessary to have an external, objective beat to get the pulse of the piece straightened out. When coming across technical difficulties in a piece, we are often not aware of our unsteady pace, and the metronome gives us the cruel and merciless truth. With the practice speed controlled by the metronome many technical difficulties can be overcome. Adjusting to an external rhythm takes some practice. Most people find playing with the metronome quite challenging at first and need a while to learn how to use it. With too much metronome usage however, your playing becomes mechanical and lifeless. Not enough metronome and it could get out of control with no steady beat. Like medicine, it's all about the right dosage! - The Secret of slow Practice - What happens when we practice? Pianoways Facebook page	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line720
__label__cc	0.649655	0.350345	Dudley performs in area theatre productions Kelly Malone Dudley ’95 performs as Lady India Capulet in Wolfbane Productions’ Romeo and Juliet. (Photo by Wolfbane Productions) Kelly Malone Dudley ’95, senior lecturer in dance at Randolph, recently performed in Wolfbane Productions’ Romeo and Juliet, where she played Lady India Capulet. Presented during the month of June in both 2017 and 2018 at the Appomattox Courthouse National Historic Park, this play was an adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic play retold and set during the Civil War. She also plays Duke Frederick and Amiens in Endstation Theatre Company’s As You Like It, which opened July 5 and is set in the Randolph College Dell. Tags: Dance, faculty, Kelly Dudley	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line737
__label__cc	0.71617	0.28383	Boykin: ‘The Bible is Referenced Four Times More Than Any Other Document in our Constitution’ By Kyle Mantyla \| August 13, 2012 3:26 pm The problem with David Barton’s false statements and pseudo-history is not simply that it receives support from leaders like Glenn Beck, Michele Bachmann,Mike Huckabee, and Newt Gingrich; it is that his claims get picked up by other Religious Right speakers and, in doing so, get twisted even beyond Barton’s original bogus claims. Case in point: today we came across these recent remarks delivered by Jerry Boykin where he claimed that “there is no question that there was divine inspiration” behind the writing of the Constitution, which is why “the Bible is referenced four times more than any other document in our Constitution”: Of course, the Bible is not referenced at all in the Constitution … but you will not be surprised to learn that Boykin’s claim finds its inspiration in Barton’s “America’s Godly Heritage” (skip ahead to the 4:00 mark) though Barton simply claims that the Bible was cited by the Founding Fathers four times more than they cited figures like Montesquieu and Blackstone. Yet even Barton’s original claim was itself problematic and Boykin has only made it worse by falsely claiming that the Constitution directly references the Bible multiple times, when it obviously does nothing of the sort. Tags: David Barton Jerry Boykin Glenn Beck: ‘The Founders Used The Bible As The Compass’ For Writing The Constitution Bryan Fischer Falsely Claims ‘The Constitution Rested On The Foundation Of The Bible’ David Barton Falsely Claims Justice Breyer Acknowledged That ‘The Bill Of Rights Came Out Of The Bible’ Jeffress: Gay Marriage Is ‘The Greatest Sign Of The End Times That We See In Our Country Right Now’	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line743
__label__wiki	0.763856	0.763856	Sarah Kaplan on "The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation" Professional Development > Upcoming Public Events > Big Ideas Speaker Series at Rotman - Sarah Kaplan 4:15-4:59pm check-in; 5:00pm sharp to 6:00pm book talk (in Desautels Hall); 6:00-7:00pm book signing, book sale and drinks reception (in Fleck Atrium) Thursday September 26, 2019 \| 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM Sarah Kaplan, Director and Professor - Institute for Gender and the Economy, Distinguished Professor of Gender and the Economy and Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto; Senior Fellow – Mack Institute for Innovation Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; New York Times Best-Selling Author "The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation" (Stanford Business Books, Sept. 3, 2019) Desautels Hall (Second Floor, South Building) \| map Rotman School of Management, U of Toronto, 105 St George Street $36.00 plus HST per person (includes 1 signed hardcover copy of "The 360° Corporation", 1 seat for the book talk and the drinks reception) Book Synopsis: The business world is no longer entirely a “total returns to shareholders” game. Corporations are increasingly expected to address the interests of multiple stakeholders through corporate social responsibility. This pressure comes from “clicktivists,” socially-conscious consumers, Millennials, and a new generation of investors focused on ESG (environmental, social and governance) standards. The urgency for moving beyond the “bottom line” mindset has never been greater. Yet, the popular “shared value” framework uses a business case logic to inspire companies to find win-win solutions. But what if there is no win-win? How can companies cope when the interests of the shareholder and those of other stakeholders such as communities, workers, consumers, suppliers, and the environment conflict irreconcilably? This book is designed to provide answers to these questions, showing leaders how to engage with stakeholders to create possibilities for everyone, and to foster innovative business model transformation. Companies can look through the lenses of different stakeholders—taking a 360° view—and see new ways of doing business. The 360° Corporation is an organization that can tackle the tensions created by these trade-offs, and this book offers signposts to leaders who want to spearhead the 360° revolution. Using rich case studies of Walmart, Nike and other leading companies, this book shows every organization can address its trade-offs. Sometimes there’s a “win-win”; sometimes, creative thinking may lead to innovation; and, other times companies will have to thrive in irreconcilable tensions. The 360° Corporation addresses all of these modes of action, serving as a comprehensive playbook for managers, CEOs, and innovators who are burned out by constantly being tugged in many different directions. About Our Speaker: Sarah Kaplan is Director and Professor - Institute for Gender and the Economy, Distinguished Professor of Gender and the Economy and Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. She is a Senior Fellow with the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. Sarah is co-author of the New York Times best-seller Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market--And How to Successfully Transform Them (Broadway Business, 2003) and co-author of Survive and Thrive: Winning Against Strategic Threats to Your Business (Dog Ear Publishing, 2017). Her new book The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation will be published by Stanford Business Books on September 3, 2019. Series Host: Rotman Events Session Co-Hosts: Institute for Gender & the Economy at Rotman (GATE), Rotman Management Magazine QUESTIONS: events@rotman.utoronto.ca, Megan Murphy, (416) 978-6122 Cancellations received in writing to events@rotman.utoronto.ca 24 hours prior to the event will receive a refund less a $10 administration fee per person. If we do not receive written notice of your cancellation, you will be charged the full amount for this session. Substitutions are always welcome. Rotman's Event Privacy Policy We adhere to both FIPPA and CASL. Read our Event Privacy Statement for details.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line746
__label__cc	0.568736	0.431264	SafeHaven Inc. Educational Classes and Support Groups Organizational Payeeship HOPE-Line Free Transportation Agency Tour Darke County Site (Greenville) Miami County Site (Piqua) Shelby County Site (Sidney) Partner Agencies and Community Asistance Health Facts and Inspiration Stigma and Statistics on Mental Illness Additional Mental Illness Facts Changing Lives Through Recovery Since 1996 "Before SafeHaven, I was lost in my mental illness." "SafeHaven has given me a safe, low-stress place to work. Everyone there is great!" "It has given me a place to meet a lot of good friends, learn a lot at groups, and have fun at our parties." "Because of SafeHaven, I no longer isolate myself in my apartment and from friends and family." "It gives me people to talk to everyday, which makes my problems a lot smaller." "It's a place where there's people who understand me, don't judge me, and are all there for me." "I now believe in myself and understand that my mental illness is just like any other illness." "I've learned how to deal with my symptoms and problems better, and it feels great to volunteer and give back to others." "It gives me a reason to get out of bed over my depression every morning." "SafeHaven has helped me eliminate a lot of stress and taught me how to deal with other things that used to make me worry all the time." "SafeHaven has taught me to be more considerate of others, and most importantly myself. I didn't used to care about myself, because no one ever seemed to before SafeHaven." "SafeHaven, you've made my life worth while, and I love everybody here." "At SafeHaven I learned to slow down so I can make better decisions and so I can see all I have to be thankful for, instead of going so fast with bad decisions." "Since my mental health has gotten so much better at SafeHaven, I'm getting many of my physical health problems under control, too. I haven't been this happy in a long time." "SafeHaven helped me make it through some really tough times in life when I did not feel like going on." "SafeHaven has helped me make friends, get my G.E.D, and find a way to deal with emotions and so much stress. I'm so glad I came here. I'm not sure if I'd be alive any more without help from SafeHaven and my mental health center."	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line749
__label__cc	0.744995	0.255005	When the specifications to Microsoft’s Xbox One were first unveiled to the public, the console received a lot of criticism due to the perceived gap between it and its rival, Sony’s Playstation 4. It’s hard to argue the difference in specs hasn’t hurt the Xbox One’s sales figures, despite the rather nice bump the Kinect-less SKU has given. Several readers and viewers have requested I write a more detailed (basics) of what difference there are between the two GPU’s. Let’s spend a bit of time looking at the hardware (specifically, focused on the GPU’s) of both machines and seeing what all the fuss is really about. Please keep in mind several important factors. The first is higher GPU performance doesn’t equal either better games, a better selling console or a better experience. It does however equal to more pixels on screen, or higher frame rates. With that said, if you’re looking to buy a console and all of your buddies own an Xbox One or you just prefer the look of Microsoft’s games, the X1 is the better buy. Similarly, neither the PS4 or X1 can be judged solely on the merit of their respective GPU’s. A myriad of other factors including skill of the programming team, the rest of the hardware, API’s and the application that’s being run ultimately make a huge difference. An indie game with a retro 8-bit style will run at 60 FPS and 1080P on both for example. Xbox One and Playstation 4 Basic GPU Specs AMD power the hearts of both the X1 and Ps4, as they supply the custom APU (which is co-designed with Microsoft or Sony, respectively). The APU features a slew of components, including the CPU, Move Engines, Audio Processors and the main focus of this article – the GPU’s. The GPU’s for both are based on AMD’s GCN (Graphic Core Next) technology. Both machines however have slight difference in their GPU architecture, with the X1 being based on Bonaire and the PS4 Pitcairn. The GCN architecture is powerful and like all modern GPU’s features programmable shaders which can be assigned to a variety of different tasks, be it compute (say calculating physics) or drawing (say drawing a blade of grass). The Xbox One features 768 shaders, while the Playstation 4 GPU contains 1152. These are split up into CU (Compute Units), each housing 64 Stream Processors (to give the shaders AMD’s official name) each. Both consoles do have 2 additional CU’s (meaning 14 for the Xbox One, and 20 for the Playstation 4) but these are disabled to provide fault tolerance due to yields. In other words, out of the twenty only eighteen need to function, meaning less wasted silicone. For other factors, the Xbox One features 16 ROPS (Raster Operators) which are responsible of effectively piecing together a scene and adding post processing / Anti-Aliasing. The PS4 features 32 ROPS, double the amount. This doesn’t ‘double’ the PS4’s performance, in theory 1080P can easily be handled by 16 ROPS, but if a game does happen to feature heavy levels of Anti-Aliasing (AA), Texture Filtering and the like then the additional ROPS can be invaluable. The X1 also features fewer Texture Mapping Units, 48 versus the Playstation 4’s 72 TMU’s. The additional TMU’s mean a higher level of texture fill rate, a nice advantage for the PS4’s GPU spec. It’s calculation is also fairly simple – the GPU’s clock speed is multiplied by the number of TMU’s. Since we know the clock speeds of both GPU’s, we can easily verify the performance numbers both Microsoft and Sony have given us regarding their peak performance. For the Playstation 4 – the GPU runs at 800 MHZ, so you do the following: 800 MHZ multiply by 1152 by 2. This gives you 1.84 TFLOPS. For the Xbox One, using a similar formula we arrive at the peak of 1.32 TFLOPS. In case you’re wondering, you multiply by two because the GCN architecture handles two instructions per clock. Why GPU Computing is Important For Consoles There are a few reasons compute is now a ‘big deal’ with this generation of consoles. The first has little to do with the platforms themselves, but everything to do with how games and hardware operate. Think of the CPU as a general purpose workhorse, able to accept a wide variety of different commands and process them intelligently. To do so, it has fantastic decision making potential, allowing it to handle complex program control structures. In a nutshell, this means the CPU is “smarter” and able to handle a very wide variety of tasks. The downside is this takes a lot of room up on the CPU’s die. Certain programs or functions don’t require lots of smart decisions, instead they focus on raw performance. The GPU features lots of cores (shaders), but the GPU itself isn’t that smart and requires the CPU to issue it commands. Originally, Unified Shaders were created because not all parts in the graphics pipeline are equal – in other words, the fixed functions of the earlier GPU’s had the inherent limitation of the GPU creator having to ‘guess’ which way game development would go. Because all game engines and games are designed differently, you would often get times were either the dedicated Vertex or Pixel Shaders were doing very little. Therefore the decision to unify the shaders into multiple flexible processors was a logical one. Additionally, neither the PS4 or X1 feature a particularly beefy CPU. Both feature AMD’s Jaguar, which is a low cost, low power CPU. Both consoles have a custom version, and both are in-fact very similar. They’re both eight CPU cores, each handling one hardware thread each. These X86-64 CPU cores just aren’t capable of throwing their weight around too much, and are ‘quite slow’ compared to desktop CPU’s according to developers. Playstation 4 vs Xbox One GPU Compute The PS4 features three advantages over the X1’s GPU specs when it comes to GPGPU performance. The first is one we’ve already covered – the raw performance of the GPU. The higher raw FLOP count of the PS4 means more data can be processed at once, which does lead to an obvious advantage to the PS4. The second area is the so called volatile bit, which was implemented on the consoles Level 2 cache. It was first mentioned by the consoles lead architect, Mark Cerny and the basic idea is that compute data is effectively ‘tagged’ in the cache. Because compute data regularly needs to be flushed or updated this leads to a boost in performance as they can selectively do so a single line at a time. The Xbox One’s GPU doesn’t feature this ability, or a similar one as far as we know. Finally, and the big advantage are the additional ACE’s inside the PS4’s GPU. ACE – Asynchronous Compute Units, are responsible for telling scheduling when data should be processed by the shaders. The Xbox One features two, while the Playstation 4 features eight ACE’s. These, at least theoretically, improve the scheduling of when GPGPU can run on the PS4’s graphics processor compared to the Xbox One. Each ACE holds eight queues, providing the Xbox One a total of 16, while the Playstation 4 can hold 64. This allows the GPU to schedule the GPGPU commands at times where there’s less ‘stuff going on’ – but it’s important to remember that while this can be handled automatically by the PS4 or X1, developers do have the option to run this themselves. More info is available in Our Sucker Punch Post Mortem Analysis of Infamous Second Son. Console Specs Xbox One Playstation 4 CPU Type AMD Jaguar X86-64 AMD Jaguar X86-64 CPU Clock Speed 1.75 GHZ 1.6 GHZ (estimation – Sony won’t confirm) CPU Cores / Thread Count 8 CPU cores, 1 thread each – 8 threads total 8 CPU cores, 1 thread each – 8 threads total GPU Cores and Clock Speed 768 Shaders From 12 Compute Units (853 MHZ) 1152 Shaders From 18 Compute Units (800MHZ) System Memory 8GB DDR3 2133MHZ 8GB GDDR5 5500MHZ Memory Bandwidth 68.3 GB/S for 8GB of DDR3 and a further 204GB/S (PEAK) for the 32MB eSRAM 176GB/s Unified Memory Peak Shader Power 1.32 TFLOPS 1.84 TFLOPS Next Generation Memory Bandwidth & ESRAM While the major focus of this article is the GPU’s of both machines, there needs to be at least a brief discussion on the memory and memory bandwidth of both systems. Though fairly common knowledge, so we’re all on the same page both machines utilize a 256-bit memory bus, but the difference in memory bandwidth (68GB/s vs 176GB/s) comes down to the type of memory. The PS4 uses GDDR5 while Microsoft opted to use DDR3 for the X1. Despite arguments regarding the latency of GDDR5 having a bad effect on the CPU of the PS4, in our analysis we’ve shown the difference is very little and likely won’t negatively impact the system. The Xbox One does have the rather infamous eSRAM to try and make up the gap in memory bandwidth, and it’s fairly flexible. It can be used for storage on a massive variety of data, from render targets to textures and compute data. It’s also exclusive to the GPU, so the CPU (for instance) doesn’t get a look in. The problem isn’t it’s speed or exclusivity, but the fact its 32MB of RAM are fairly constraining. A few render targets, a few assets and the eSRAM is bulging at the seems. It’s not impossible to work around, despite what critics say – developers are understanding it better. But it’s adding another level of complexity to the Xbox One which frankly, the PS4 is better off not having. For more info on this, check out Xbox One dev day breakdown. Of course, the total amount of RAM available on both consoles is another consideration. All the memory bandwidth in the world doesn’t help if the system has 1GB for developers to work with. Both the PS4 and X1 have 8GB total, but they both allocate a rather large amount for OS functions. It’s not known how much is reserved for the Xbox One precisely has. What we do know is that the Playstation 4 has 4.5GB available memory, with 512MB additional RAM as flexible memory, and virtual memory too. For more info check out our Infamous Analysis. One area the PS4 does have an advantage with is the HUMA design is a little more advanced that the Xbox One’s. For more info on the Playstation 4’s HUMA click. DirectX12 vs GNM – the API Factor DX12’s impact on the Xbox One is up for debate, with some heralding it as the Xbox One’s messiah and others quickly keen to sweep it under the rug. In reality, we’ll probably have a situation that’s in between the two. The Xbox One’s API is already fairly low level, with Microsoft pointing out there are extensions to “take you to the metal” (which is such a trendy phrase these days). The Xbox One’s DX11.2 actually has a few DX12 features already (see the dev day link above for more info on that). The GNMX and GNM API’s from Sony are proving to be extremely popular and easy to use by developers. GNMX is a simplified version of the API, hiding many of the custom features behind a “high level language” – in effect, it makes it user friendly and easy to develop for. GNM is low level, and allows developers to better control each and every aspect of the GPU. It’s hard to know which API or SDK is better. Early on Sony’s software ran rings around Microsoft’s, but recent improvements to the SDK’s have left the Xbox One in a much better position. Of course the June 2014 SDK update has also beefed up the amount of GPU performance available to developers. Previously 10 percent was cordoned off to allow Kinect to do its thing, where as now developers can use that to move pixels around on screen instead. One advantage that’s hard to argue with is porting PC code over to Xbox One will certainly become a lot easier – it’ll mean of course work to optimize the game for the systems memory configuration, and lower GPU performance (compared to a PC) but certainly a nice feature. The Playstation 4’s GPU is faster and has a number of little tricks up its sleeve which help it stay on top. Ultimately though, making use of the hardware really comes down to the developer in question. In the case of indie games for example, the additional GPU performance won’t really help. The games aren’t graphically (or GPGPU compute intensive) enough on consoles CPU or graphics cards to make the difference. Although there are lots of websites which are quoting developers who’re boasting at 1080P / 60FPS on their games, it’s not a very good yard stick. The PS4’s GPU can push a greater amount of pixels (or push the same number of pixels but faster), but the real advantage will likely come from the Playstation 4’s first party developers. Bungee and other devs usually like to use the parity card, and even during our own testing of say Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs neither the graphics or the frame rates were that much different. Slightly nicer looking shadows here or there, but nothing to write home back. With that said, Sniper Elite 3 is graphically superior on the PS4 – but mostly because of the better AF and higher frame rate. Taking a look at our explanation on how frame rate and resolutions work you’ll see that simply going from 720P to 792P requires the GPU to do about 1.21 times more work. Meanwhile, 900P to 1080P is 1.44 times more work… or, around the difference between the Xbox One and the Playstation 4’s GPU specs. Boiling all of this down to the basics – don’t buy a console based purely on how fast a GPU is. Do buy a console based on the platform exclusives, which offers you the better experience and also perhaps which one your friends own. If you’re judging the systems purely on their ability to ‘look the best’ then really, you’d be better off with a gaming PC. As we regularly put together PC component buyers guides, we’ve shown that for around the $700 mark you can build a very powerful gaming PC, complete with a GTX 770 (easily capable of playing at 1440P in most games). Even a mid range GPU is over double the performance of a next generation console. My point being simple – buy a console for its unique features first and foremost, worry about the shiny graphics second. Is This Gen The Last With Local Compute? No Says Microsoft (9) Inside The Xbox One \| AMD & Microsoft Developer Day Analysis & Breakdown \| Tech Tribunal Part 1 (9) Xbox One eSRAM “Not Complex, Just a Bottleneck”, Claims Developer (9) Bink Video Provides Benchmarks to the PS4, X1 and PC (8) Xbox One’s eSRAM Performance Discussed by Wolfgang Engel (7) This article was filed under Gaming News. Tagged with AMD, compute, esram, GCN, GPGPU, gpu, gpu comparison, memory bandwidth, playstation 4, PS4, x1, xbone, XBox one.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line758
__label__wiki	0.733818	0.733818	Christians in the Age of Outrage: How to Bring Our Best When the World Is at Its Worst By: Stetzer, Ed Tyndale Momentum 2018 Hardcover Christian Living Contemporary Issues Are you tired of reading another news story about Christians acting their worst? Today there are too many examples of those claiming to follow Christ being caustic, divisive, and irrational, contributing to dismissals of the Christian faith as hypocritical, self-interested, and politically co-opted. What has happened in our society? It seems one short outrageous video or pithy post can trigger an avalanche of comments on social media. Welcome to the new age of outrage. In this groundbreaking look at our current cultural moment, social commentator and popular speaker Ed Stetzer describes the contours of the new age of outrage--and a new way forward for Christians. It is clear that our knee-jerk reactions--withdrawing, becoming defensive, or going on the offensive--are feeding the headlines and not serving the cause of Christ well. In Christians in the Age of Outrage, you will discover a comprehensive road map to avoid the attractive dead ends our society presents to Christians. You won't want to miss Ed's insightful analysis of our chaotic age, his commonsensical understanding of the cultural currents, and his compelling challenge to Christians to live in a refreshingly different way. Publisher: Tyndale Momentum Ed Stetzer, PhD, holds the Billy Graham Distinguished Chair for Church, Mission, and Evangelism at Wheaton College and is the dean of the School of Mission, Ministry, and Leadership at Wheaton College. He also serves as the executive director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton. Ed Stetzer is a prolific author and a well-known conference speaker. He has planted, revitalized, and pastored churches; trained pastors and church planters on six continents; holds two master's degrees and two doctorates; and has written or co-written more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles. Ed is a contributing editor for Christianity Today and a columnist for Outreach magazine. He is frequently interviewed for or cited in news outlets such as USA Today and CNN. He is also the general editor of The Gospel Project, a bible study curriculum used by more than one million people each week. Ed cohosts BreakPoint This Week, a radio broadcast that airs on more than four hundred media outlets. He serves as the interim teaching pastor at The Moody Church in Chicago. Ed lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with his wife, Donna, and their three daughters. Christians in the Age of Outrage: How to Stetzer, Ed Christians at Our Best Discussion Guide: Planting Missional Churches: Your Guide Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Subversive Kingdom: A Rebel's Guide to Comeback Churches: How 300 Churches Transformational Groups: Creating a New The Power of a Heartbeat: My Journey to Robinson, Victoria The Divine Design Knight/Getzinger Jesus Among Secular Gods--DVD Leader Kit 100 Things God Loves About You And Why I From Point Guard to Prophet - Hardcover Ruffin, Sophia Is God Anti-Gay?: And Other Questions Allberry, Sam The Theft of America's Soul: Blowing the Robertson, Phil St. Joseph Pocket Prayer Book-20pk Donaghy, Thomas J.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line768
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__label__wiki	0.906643	0.906643	The Society of St Augustine of Canterbury The Society of St Augustine of Canterbury exists to promote and advance the Roman Catholic Religion in England and Wales with its key aim to help with the maintenance of a fund whose capital is used to assist with the expenditure and upkeep of Archbishop’s House, the official residence of the Archbishop of Westminster. Cardinal Vincent Nichols Archbishop’s House To contact us, please write to the Secretary at the following address or send an email using the form below. Richard Collyer-Hamlin Secretary, SSAC 77 Gibbon Road KT2 6AE Enter the characters in the box below Copyright \| Site map \| Design \| Privacy Statement The Society of St Augustine of Canterbury is Registered Charity No. 249033.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line772
__label__wiki	0.730341	0.730341	by St. Louis Regional Chamber \| Sep 23, 2016 St. Louis Gaming Startup Pixel Press Scores With Mattel Partnership (Huffington Post, 9/21/16) After recently being cited by FiveThirtyEight as being America’s “New Startup Frontier,” St. Louis’ entrepreneurial ecosystem got yet another shot in the arm when gaming technology startup Pixel Press — with a high profile deals already on the books with Cartoon Network, Toys-R-Us and GameStop among others — this week announced a new partnership with Mattel. >> CLICK FOR MORE Following Ikea’s opening, state sales tax revenue climbs 40% in 63110 (St. Louis Business Journal, 9/22/16) Ikea is noted for its ready-to-assemble furniture and inexpensive home gadgets, but in its Midtown neighborhood it’s becoming known as a big driver of revenue since opening Sept. 30, 2015. >> CLICK FOR MORE IBEW St. Louis Convention Gives Back to the Gateway City (Construction Forum STL, 9/22/16) The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) International Convention in St. Louis continues this week, providing a significant economic boost to the Gateway City. 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St. Louis is the right place In many ways, St. Louis banks are doing the best they have done since before the recession. >> CLICK FOR MORE TheBANK of Edwardsville honored with national award (Riverbender.com, 9/22/16) TheBANK of Edwardsville has been nationally recognized by the American Bankers Association Foundation for its Fairmont City Center with a 2016 Community Commitment Award. >> CLICK FOR MORE Capital Innovators Announces Fall 2016 Accelerator Class (EQ, 9/19/16) St. Louis-based Capital Innovators announced at an event at CIC that the accelerator program has invested in six high-growth companies for its Fall 2016 cohort. >> CLICK FOR MORE Stadia Ventures Announces Fall 2016 Cohort In Sports Business Accelerator After receiving over 200 applications from around the world, Stadia Ventures announces its Fall 2016 cohort for the Stadia Sports Business Accelerator today. >> CLICK FOR MORE Lewis & Clark leads $6.5 million investment in health care startup Lewis & Clark Ventures, the venture capital firm founded by Tom Hillman last year, has led a $6.5 million Series B financing round for Wisconsin-based health care startup called Catalyze. >> CLICK FOR MORE St. Louis Economic Development Partnership expands startup incubator with $2 million grant The St. Louis Economic Development Partnership has received a $2 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to expand its Wellston startup incubator. >> CLICK FOR MORE Washington University launches seed fund to invest in startups Washington University has launched a $2 million seed fund named after its founder William Greenleaf Eliot. >> CLICK FOR MORE St. Louis gives Ireland a look for ag tech innovation (St. Louis Public Radio, 9/22/16) In a glass-encased room under a white tent, ag tech startups took to a stage in a pitch competition on Tuesday. 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__label__wiki	0.990185	0.990185	UK to give Military Training to Sri Lankan forces, NO Political package for Tamils. 30th November 2015 Karu LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, UK NEWS, Uncategorized 0 The British Government has decided to appoint a non-resident defence attaché and access provided to UK military training courses to help support Sri Lankan military reform. The British Government however also said that it is clear that credible investigations into alleged war crimes during Sri Lanka’s civil war are vital. “We are already playing a key role in encouraging progress on this, including through the UNHRC resolution which set Sri Lanka on a new path towards reconciliation and a more prosperous and inclusive future,” a UK Government statement said. Last week UK Prime Minister David Cameron held bilateral talks with President Sirisena at the Commonwealth Summit in Malta, and announced a significant increase in UK support for reconciliation and human rights, recognising the considerable progress Sri Lanka has made since it hosted the last Commonwealth Meeting in 2013. Britain says building on the pivotal role played by the UK in promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka since CHOGM 2013 and the Prime Minister’s last visit there where he spoke of Sri Lanka’s immense potential, this funding will help to ensure that President Sirisena can advance the important reform work he has already begun. UK says this will build on August’s peaceful parliamentary elections and help to deliver the commitments set out in the historic UNHRC resolution that was adopted in October including demilitarisation and land returns. (Colombo Gazette) Widen Dialogue & Act Faster To Meet Imperatives Of Reconciliation Vasu urges to release all Tamil political prisoners	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line777
__label__wiki	0.555204	0.555204	Finding the Art in Phuket Anthony S. Cameron Doin’ Time in Phuket Jail – Part 1 The last place I was expecting to end up was in jail. And a jail in Phuket, Thailand was definitely not on the list of places I wanted to go to, let alone imagine. Now here I was being body searched by a grinning prison warden under the old arched entrance whilst hundreds of relatives of the imprisoned looked on with the dulled curiosity that comes from waiting in queues for most of your life. And from the other side of the massive steel door came the deafening hum of a thousand captive men. I was given the all clear by the warden with a friendly tap on the shoulder, given back my bag full of audio gear and, as the big doors opened, he said, “Bpai”(Go!). So I did. Probably not going to forget that walk to the infirmary for a while. I felt like a springbok that had wandered into the lion’s camp by mistake and was trying to be invisible, yet every eye was on me. Every utterance muttered under the breath of the men that lined my journey seemed directed at me, and it was a mix of Southern Thai drawl with Burmese Thai so I wasn’t catching more than the odd word. Ladyboys whistled and leaned provocatively on doorways, hoping I was going to be incarcerated so they could unleash their charms on me. Hard faced white men swore and spat at my feet, one of whom I recognised as ‘the bull terrier’: a mad English Muai Thai fighter who’d got the cocktails of drugs and ego wrong, ending up with blood on his hands, a body he couldn’t bury quick enough and his face plastered all over the media. I kept my eyes down and focussed on the warden’s fat neck poking out of his skin- tight collar as he walked ahead of me. The band was already in the sauna-like infirmary when we finally made it through the door, and after the obligatory Wei’s and bowing of heads, we got to work turning the infirmary into a recording space: mattresses were leaned against walls and windows; bed frames tipped on their sides as sound absorption for drums and horn sections; and chairs were laid out in a small arc in front of the stereo microphone for guitars and vocals. We were going at it old school style: one mic with musicians placed in terms of loudness and position in the mix. And there wasn’t going to be any mixdown time to tidy it up. We had to get it as close as we could. The band started rehearsing, chatting and joking as they got used to the stained prison mattresses standing up like forgotten girlfriends between them. The trumpet guy was way off in the corner, playing into two mattresses 45’d into each other, scratching around for a note and sometimes finding it. The two guitarists either side of the vocalist had tuned up and were looking ready, the drummer had stopped faffing with his stool, the bass player had tripped through a run of ‘Superstition’ as a warm-up and had settled for that. Looked like we were ready. I put on the headphones, gave them the thumbs up, and hit record. What came through the cans blew me away. The placement had really worked wonders, there was a warmth to the sounds I hadn’t expected, it was well balanced, and they were great players too. The guitarists weaved these little runs through the groove whilst the drumming was gentle and percussive and the bass a rock to which it all held. The trumpet dude just crouched facing his mattresses and waited. Then the vocalist came in with his first lines and they were tentative, crackly, not confident at all and I was about to suggest we go for another take when he miraculously found it: He climbed up through his atonal squeaking into the same key as the band and somehow the transition worked, giving it something more, like he had exposed the struggle to get there. The words themselves were full of remorse and sorrow and guilt and longing for lost love and, even though it was syrupy stuff, the way this guy wailed made me believe him. The look on his scarred and heavily tattooed face was the horror of the streets, it was the horror of a bad decision at the wrong time. The atonement he had sought with the Buddhist tattoos hadn’t keep him out of this zoo, and now he was singing about it. Finding another way through it. And I could see it all in his face. When the trumpet dude finally let rip all the hairs on the back of my neck stood up immediately. He had a mute in the bell of the trumpet and was pulling these insane notes that ripped my heart out every time he blew; the kind that strip your ordinary world and lay you bare. The kind that you cannot fake. The kind that sound like a soul screaming for attention. He climbed one impossible mountain of riffs after another, all whilst staring at those dirty mattresses in front of him. He was barely moving. I stared at a spot on the floor and listened to the music that these broken men had made together, and had emerged out of their struggle. Their stories had worked their way into every chord they played, which had given them a reason, and me another glimpse, of the great art that occurs every day in the most bizarre of places. Underneath it all, I could hear the hum and whir of the washing machines in the distance and the unsettling rumble of a thousand human voices outside this room. And at times I swear I could hear the sound of their feet tapping. Anthony S. Cameron is an Australian ex-pat living in Phuket, Thailand, and the author of two novels, Driftwood (2014) and Butterfly on Bangla (2015). Born in Melbourne, he escaped in his early twenties to central Victoria, where he designed and built a sustainable house and raised two sustainable children. His books are available on Amazon here. Anthony S Cameron music Phuket Thailand travel Salon JUNE 2016 A Moment with Marilyn – Part 2 Finding the Art in Phuket September 8, 2018 \| troublemag Finding the Art in Phuket May 2, 2018 \| troublemag	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line785
__label__cc	0.612583	0.387417	indiegames We've launched a Kickstarter, and we're coming to OUYA, PC & Mac via Steam Simultaneously! The game has come a long way in the past year. We have just a few scenes left to build before we can work on fixing bugs and polishing the game for release and we’ve taken a hard look at our budget and decided that we need to raise more funds to finish game in the way we believe it should to be finished. This also means that we will be delaying the release until mid-late 2015. The most important way in which the design has changed in the last year is how we’ve incorporated and encoded interaction with Joel into the experience. We did not start out the design of our game with much animation. In the demo scene we showed last year, we didn’t represent Joel visually at all. That has changed drastically. We have Joel dancing, and clapping, laughing, and playing in the park or playing catch with a dog. Our newest member of the team, Ryan Cousins, who has been working with us since January, has brought the expertise we needed to be able to do this and we find the interactions we get to create in the game very rewarding. That’s just one example of how the game has grown since we started. We also have a few more scenes than we planned, but we believe they are necessary because they tell a more complete story, the story that needs to be told more than the one we set out to tell. We started this project while Joel was still with us. Joel’s death this year made us realize that the details of what happened to Joel do not matter as much as just being with Joel mattered, and we desire to reflect that truth in every scene of the game. Our Kickstarter is live right now, along with this campaign and with help from OUYA, Indie Fund and a private investor loan, we feel that we will be able to finish this game well. http://thatdragoncancer.com/funding We’ve been given this amazing platform to tell Joel’s story and we want to tell yours too, so we’ve made space for you in the game through our backer rewards. We want to enable you to really participate in the creation of That Dragon, Cancer. We need about 3,000 backers who will contribute $30 to our campaign in order to be fully funded. Will you be one of them? We’re Launching on OUYA, Windows, and Mac Simultaneously! Also, we are very happy to announce that, in association with OUYA, we will be releasing the game for PC and MAC download through Steam on the same day we release on OUYA. OUYA has been really great about working with us and our desire to bring this game to as many people as possible as soon as possible and were willing to change our exclusivity terms to do that. I’m not sure how many companies would be open to that so late in a project, but I believe we’ve found a special partner in OUYA. They believe in games, they believe in indies, and they believe in us. So please, share the kickstarter page on your social networks and with your friends and family, and be a day one backer. We need your help to make this happen. Thank you. "The Day I Faced That Dragon:" A call for visual stories. The bustle of PAX Prime is upon us. It is hard to believe it has been a year already. I am grateful that in the Indie MEGABOOTH this year, we were assigned the same booth location. There is a small storage area in that corner of the floor. I will use it again to hide. It will be my refuge when my throat gets too tight. For when I have to explain yet again that Joel is no longer with us. For when I tire of the latest overheard and flippant joke of “what’s dragon cancer?” and the sea of faces and funny hats becomes too stormy to remain afloat in the life raft of hugs and tears that surround our booth. I am grateful. To have a space to memorialize Joel. We get to tell our story. I get to tell the world why MY son mattered. Why should I get to do that? Why me and not someone else. Because he was MY son. And he mattered to ME. And I miss him. I am not alone. And I know that there is a deluge of tears shed every day for the soul that inhabited that room; that car seat; that pair of pants; that bit of air that was filled with his laughter or her voice. So we want to make space for your story. “The Day I Faced That Dragon.” What do you miss the most? How did it change you? Where do you find hope? What do you do with your anger? Maybe guilt? Where is joy to be found? Bottle it up, pour it into a cup. Make something beautiful. Make Art. We’ll serve it at PAX on your behalf. This year we’re raising money. This time with Extra Life. They love games, you love games. They love kids, they raise money for children’s hospitals. Here’s what we’re asking for: Create a work of art that can be printed. Email us about the day you faced “that dragon” in what ever form it came it does not have to be cancer. Any “dragon” will suffice. Attach your art, send it via email to info@thatdragoncancer.com Do this by Monday, August 25th, 2014 9am pacific time. We’ll curate the work and get posters and postcards printed at our expense. All submissions will be posted on-line with your story. These posters and postcards will be given out for free as thank you’s for folks who donate directly to Extra Life at PAX Prime, we don’t take the money, folks who donate will just show us the receipt. We’ll provide a donation “kiosk” at our booth. That’s it. Tell us your story, we’ll tell it to others and raise money for hospitals that save children’s lives. Because the ones we loved matter to us. Here is my submission: “The sun still rose in spite of my strong recommendation it not.” - Ryan Green - August 19, 2014 Written March 13, 2014 - joelevangreen.com Amy and I did not get much sleep last night. As the hours flew by faster than I could catch them, we prayed, we grieved, I cuddled my sweet son as tightly as I dared, examining his face and hands and toes and belly button, taking pictures of us that I will never show anyone else, and sweeping the hair across his forehead over and over again. Joel fell asleep at home. Surrounded by his family and friends, only hours after we had filled our home with songs of worship to our God and prayers for mercy and healing for Joel and for ourselves from the voices of our church and friends and family. As I awoke this morning after an hour of sleep, I lingered in the early morning light of our room, his body cradled, as always, in the crook of my arm. Except instead of the sweet sighs of comfort and the warmth of his little body against mine, the moors of death had tightened, leaving Joel’s earthly tent, cold and breathless. And so now we mourn, and we weep, we rage and we argue with the God who knows how the story will end. And we laugh with our family and friends, and sob in the quiet moments, and wrap ourselves in his blankets and wrap ourselves in His peace. The kind that passes all understanding as we make the decisions that will lay Joel to rest. Message In A Bottle Concept “Message in a PediaSure Bottle” Concept.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line789

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