pred_label
stringclasses 2
values | pred_label_prob
float64 0.5
1
| wiki_prob
float64 0.25
1
| text
stringlengths 55
1.01M
| source
stringlengths 40
45
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
__label__cc
| 0.690788
| 0.309212
|
ARIPO Working Group
Sara Moyo
Making ARIPO more attractive to brand owners
Darren Olivier Tuesday, September 03, 2013 No comments:
When it comes to trade mark options, ARIPO has not been the success it ought to have been. In this very useful contribution, Sara Moyo, neatly sets out where we are and the recommendations of the recently established Working Group, chaired by Nancy Samuriwo.
The Banjul Protocol on Marks (Banjul Protocol) within the framework of the African Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) was adopted by ARIPO member states in 1993 and came into force in 1997. Membership of the Protocol is open to any state which is a member of ARIPO. It is also available to any state which is a member of the African Union or the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
Unlike the Harare Protocol on Patents, Industrial Designs and Utility Models which came into force in 1984, has 17 member states and is linked to the Patent Cooperation Treaty, the Banjul Protocol has 9 member states only.
Under-performance
The Banjul Protocol has perennially under performed. The total number of trademark applications filed under the Banjul Protocol since the Protocol came into force is less than 2 000. Of this number 22% are applications filed by Applicants within ARIPO member states whilst 29% are filed by Applicants based in African countries that are not members of ARIPO. The remainder of trademark applications are filed by Applicants outside Africa.
To date trademark registrations under the Banjul Protocol number less 800. Of these 14% have been registered in favour of Applicants within the ARIPO member states. 9% are registered in favour of Applicants based in African countries that are not contracting states to ARIPO. The remainder are registered in favour of Applicants outside the continent.
In contrast, the Harare Protocol has since its inception, received in excess of 6 000 patent applications (excluding industrial designs and utility models) and has registered in excess of 2 000 patents.
Dos Santos - ARIPO DG
In addition whilst ARIPO member states have domesticated the Harare Protocol, only 5 of the contracting members of the Banjul Protocol have done so.
Working Group Established
ARIPO recently convened a meeting of intellectual property (IP) stakeholders at Harare to discuss proposals for making the Banjul Protocol on Marks more attractive to users and to contracting states. The meeting was held as a follow up to the first meeting held on 21 March 2013, and was also aimed at putting together a formal Working Group structure that is mandated to discuss and submit concrete proposals to the Technical Committee of ARIPO for the improvement of the Banjul Protocol.
Whilst invitation to the meeting was extended to ARIPO member states, IP agents within member states and other IP stakeholders, participants at the ARIPO meeting were delegates from the ARIPO member states of Liberia, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and IP agents in attendance were from Uganda and Zimbabwe.
Ms Nancy Samuriwo of Gill Godlonton & Gerrans (Zimbabwe) was elected Chairperson of the Working Group and Ms Loy Mhando of the Business Registrations and Licensing Agency (Tanzania) was elected Vice Chairperson.
The deliberations of the meeting included:
1. The recommendation to ARIPO to embark on a membership drive for the Banjul Protocol and to encourage contracting states to make legal provision for the enforcement of Banjul marks under their national laws. Presently only 9 of the 17 ARIPO member states are party to the Banjul Protocol and only 5 contracting states have domesticated the Banjul Protocol. These are Botswana, Liberia, Namibia, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
2. The recommendation to ARIPO to undertake users’ meetings and exhibitions so as to market the Banjul Protocol to users, member states and prospective contracting parties.
3. The recommendation that ARIPO undertake a review of its fee structure under the Banjul Protocol as this is in certain instances a barrier to membership of the Protocol.
4. The recommendation that ARIPO consider reducing the period for substantive examination of Banjul marks from 12 months to 9 months so as to shorten the period from filing to registration – more so as the majority of Banjul member states do not, owing to technical and capacity constraints, issue substantive examination reports.
5. It was noted that a number of ARIPO member states are party to the Madrid System or are in the process of joining the System and that there is a need to investigate the possibility of linking the Banjul Protocol with the Madrid System.
This article was written by Sara Moyo.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line12
|
__label__wiki
| 0.621845
| 0.621845
|
December 2009-January 2010
Riding the Waves
When Peter Cooper ventured from his regular UK haunts recently, he discovered a Kiwi pilot living in Canada flying de Havilland floatplanes for West Coast Air—a busy Vancouver-based company.
A Century of Naval Aviation - RNAS Yeovilton Air Day
The annual air show at RNAS Yeovilton was a little bit different—and rather special—this year because it celebrated a century of naval aviation in the UK. Pacific Wings’ UK correspondent, Peter Cooper, was there in the wind and the rain to cover the event.
From Bundy to the Mount
Ross Crawford
More used to flying 300-ton airliners (and checking and training others to do the same), Ross Crawford recently joined Tim Holland, the CFI of Auckland-based Euroflight International, to ferry two tiny Jabiru aircraft across the Tasman.
Recognised for its high standards in operating both scheduled and charter airline services, Vincent Aviation—centrally based in Wellington—also operates a busy Part 145 maintenance organisation to equally high standards.
Earlybird’s Armistice Day
Phil Lightband
Phil Lightband is the exception to the rule about there being no such thing as an old, bold pilot. Now old (technically, at least), Phil has been bold since he first flew an aeroplane at 14. He recently celebrated his 65th wedding anniversary on Armistice Day—at the controls of a plane.
Early Topdressing Memories
Bob Allen
Bob Allen is a veteran New Zealand topdresser. Beginning in de Havilland Beavers, Bob became an early pioneer in the operation of larger aircraft and flew both the Lockheed Lodestar and Douglas DC-3 in agricultural operations.
Letters from War - Déjà-Vu
In his latest “Letter from War”, Don Harward talks about the returning memory of a past a mission—one that, perhaps, he’d rather forget.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line13
|
__label__wiki
| 0.824885
| 0.824885
|
Nemanja Vidic: United’s signing of the summer
July 2, 2012 by Sam Bowden
On the 7th December 2011, Manchester United headed to St Jakob Park, home of then current Swiss champions FC Basel knowing they needed a point to gain qualification into the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League. After the final whistle blew, United’s Champions League journey had come to a shuddering halt due to a humiliating 2-1 defeat at the hands of the Swiss side.
However the game was slightly overshadowed for many Reds when they saw their dominant skipper, and arguably the best centre back in the world, fall awkwardly during a challenge with Basel’s Marco Streller leading to Vidic being stretchered off and subsequently being replaced by Jonny Evans. Many United fans must have feared the worst at the time. The news every Red had been dreading was confirmed two days later by Sir Alex, Vidic had ruptured his cruciate knee ligament, the Serbian’s season was over.
Once Vidic’s injury was confirmed, United, who were trailing neighbours City by five points and a far inferior goal difference were beginning to be written off by pundits for the title, with Matt Le Tissier claiming the Serbian’s injury had probably ended United’s chances of retaining their 20th crown.
At the time it was hard to argue with them due to the sheer importance of Vidic to not only United’s back four but their whole team. Prior to Vidic’s injury United had started to shore up their defensive problems. United were too open at the back and with Vidic missing through the early part of the season, opposing teams were creating chance after chance against United’s inexperienced back four. This issue was capped off by neighbours City’s 6-1 mauling at Old Trafford, a game when Vidic did not feature. After City’s emphatic win, United only conceded one goal in their next five games with Vidic returning to the side.
His leadership qualities and defensive ability is clear for all to see. Since signing for United in January 2006 for £7 million from Spartak Moscow, Vidic has developed into a world class centre back. His partnership with Rio Ferdinand has blossomed over the years helping United gain new heights of success. Both of them were included in the PFA Team of the Year for three seasons running from 2006-2009. Vidic himself has collected nearly every individual accolade. He was named Barclays player of the season in both 2009 and 2011 and in the same years was named in the FIFA FIFPro World XI.
Once Vidic’s injury was confirmed, Sir Alex put his trust in Jonny Evans partnering Rio Ferdinand for the remaining five months of the season. The Northern Irishman had a torrid time in the Manchester derby in October which saw him sent off. However Fergie’s trust in the young centre back paid off. He was arguably Uniteds most consistent defender post Christmas and helped United come within an inch of that 20th title.
In my opinion many United fans can look to the forthcoming season with relative optimism. To push City to within 60 seconds from the title knowing they had their skipper out for half of the season is one reason to be hopeful. Also with Evans having such a fine second half to the campaign whist filling in for Vidic, a future centre back partnership between the two could be as powerful as the Rio/Nemanja partnership that dominated for years. If the Serbian stays injury free next season, who knows what the red half of Manchester might achieve.
Posted in Opinion, Premier LeagueTagged Manchester United, Premier League
@bowdzunited18
One thought on “Nemanja Vidic: United’s signing of the summer”
Jack Willows says:
You’ve hit the nail on the head!
Just look how close we were without him! Compare that to the two or three games which City’s Kompany missed, they were in tatters!
As a United fan I would like to think we can only improve on last season’s performance, not only domestically, but obviously in Europe and prove we’re still up there with the world’s finest.
Euro 2012: Stars of the Tournament
Euro2012: The Beautiful Hames
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line15
|
__label__wiki
| 0.751117
| 0.751117
|
Ardenflight
2: World Distance Record Flight
3: World Speed Flight
You are here: Home » World Distance Record Flight » Minute by Minute Progress
2.1: Achievements
2.2: Aircraft
2.3: Crew
Current page is 2.4: Minute by Minute Progress
2.5: Galleries
2.6: Media
2.7: Acknowledgements
First Leg Pictures in the Gallery
What does it look like when men set aviation records? We've got the pictures to show you! Check out our Inflight Leg 1 gallery!
Flight Underway, Track Progress Here
The Ardenflight World Distance Record Flight is underway now, and you can track all the excitement by going to the Minute by Minute Progress page and get all the latest news as the pilots relay it to the Ardenflight web reporting team. Read it there or wait until the news media finally figures out what's going on!
A new press release was delivered to PRWeb this morning. Our site has the whole release here. Or read this whole news article.
Distance Record Flight Planned
Ardenflight plans to execute a new distance record flight within the United States. Check out the World Distance Record Flight section for more details. Let Ardenflight.net be your first stop for information about the flight!
Minute by Minute Progress
For your ease, this link will jump you to the latest entry on this page.
With the planned flight now underway, we here at the Ardenflight.net update center can't wait to hear how our intrepid group of adventurers progress in their goal to capture those records! And, thanks to the power of technology, we won't have to. Expect to get regular updates on the progress of the flight, which we here at news central will pass on to you. Refresh often!
10/31/2006 09:59 PM PST -- Just heard from the adventuring crew who say that they are airborne, off on the first leg of their journey. They will be flying from Hayward Executive Airport (KHWD) to San Diego's Gillespie Airport (KSEE). Departure was a little later than planned, thanks to some last-minute issues with the technology that will be used to record the record setting (they knocked over a camera, it didn't work any longer, so they had to get a replacement) but now the adventure begins. Weather looks good and all aboard were positive about the upcoming flight. As Pilot Alan Cirino said, "We're ready to start our Odyssey."
10/31/2006 11:23 PM PST -- The intrepid crew has landed at Gillespie and are now refueling the aircraft and preparing to really get moving on the flight. They estimate a 2 AM PST for their next departure with weather still projected fine for the record setting portions of the flight. They did express some concern that folks might not fully understand the goals of this flight, so asked that we direct folks to this post.
11/01/2006 01:45 AM PST -- Sending a quick email from the ground, pilot Alan Cirino shares a jet stream airchart showing how the wind should be helping them along. Auspicious weather indeed. Check this out:
11/01/06 03:40 AM PST -- The flight, which has received the callsign, FASTFLIGHT1 is 1 hour into the journey and looks to be smashing the record. They are speeding along at 409 knots, which should help them arrive much sooner than expected. For this crew, it's true that time flies when you're having fun.
11/01/06 05:52 AM PST -- Pilot Alan, contacting us via the fantastic air to ground communication system reports that they are over 43,000 feet over Tyler Texas, with about an hour and ten minutes left to go. The jetstream tailwind is giving them such a boost that in just the short time of communication, they report two speeds: first Alan tells us that they are moving along at 415 knots, but before the communication is finished, Flight Commander Matt Brooks says in the background that the aircraft is now recording just over 443 knots. We then heard from NAA Observer Kris who tells us about the "exceptional aircraft" and "crackerjack pilots." He requests that I mention that all records that we might report during the course of this play-by-play are unofficial until the data and the observer's notes have been reviewed and the records confirmed by the NAA and the FAI. Duly noted.
11/01/06 08:17 AM PST -- Touchdown in Florida and the first leg of the flight complete, and it looks like our capable crew has made five records so far (pending review and approval of the record-keepers at the NAA and the FAI, natch) Speaking with Observer Kris, the Ardenflight crew will be submitting for the following records :
The distance without landing record (app 1803,8 nautical miles)
Speed over a recognized course (approximate average of 413 knots) (between San Diego and Jacksonville). (World and national record, pending review)
US Transcontinental record (approximate average speed of 413 knots) (World and national record, pending review)
That's a total of five records with one flight, and they look to take on another slew of records later on today! Great job.
11/01/06 12:52 PM PST -- The Ardenbrook fellows are currently in Sheltair Aviation Services in Jacksonville, Florida. Hard working and enthusiastic Sheltair Customer Service Representative Cari Rennie explained that the two year old facility, managed by Jonathan Buff, feuled the pilots with Starbucks Coffee and Otis Spunkmeyer cookies and has already spoken to local television about coverage for our fabulous flyboys. For their part, our intrepid pilots expressed their thanks to Ms. Rennie for her help and support and are now finishing their preparations for taking off again. After having landed this morning, they rested and fed and prepared the flight plan for the thousand kilometer speed record attempt and will be initiating that in just a few hours. From there, they will be moving on to Atlanta, GA for refueling, and finally to Lincoln, Nebraska for the final portion of this flight, the climb record attempts. All three men sound in high spirits and very confident moving forward.
11/02/06 07:35 AM PST -- The gallant crew yesterday pointed their Cessna towards Washington DC and did the 1000 Kilometer run. That result is still being calculated and is still up in the air, so to speak. They had been planning to stop at Atlanta, Georgia to refuel, but weather moved them around some, so they instead made a refuel stop in Nashville before traveling on to their record-setting home point of Lincoln, Nebraska. The crew reports that they woke this morning to find that the weather was as crisp and cold as they could wish and the plane was properly hangared and warm. They brought her out, removed anything from the cabin that wasn't bolted down (including the observer Kris! -- this time, a video camera would have to observe in his stead) and performed a climb record attempt. To their disappointment (lessened by the five, maybe six records they had already set during the flight) they were not able to beat the record, previously set by a Lear jet. They landed, and now comes the 2000 Kilometer closed course record run. This run will be from Lincoln and a point south of Billings Montana and back. EXTRA! -- Kris (the NAA observer) was able to announce just before the Ardenflight crew signed off that they had been able to set a new record for the 1000 Kilometer run. Kris calculated an average flight speed of 319.9 knots on the 1000 Kilometer course, setting a new record (pending review)!
11/01/06 11:45 AM PST -- The crew just alerted us to the fact that now, halfway through the 2000 Kilometer run, they've just turned around a fixed radio point called "Grey Bull" in Montana, and things are going swimmingly. The first leg (prior to turning around Grey Bull) took about 1 hour fifty minutes with an average speed of about 362 knots. This return portion should be much faster than the first leg (they've got an 18 knot tailwind!). So far they're averaging about 435 knots! Following this report, we had an extended discussion with the NAA observer, Kris, who gave us a quick run down of the Records that will be submitted:
On All Hallows Eve, the Ardenflight Crew Managed the following:
World Record for Distance Without Landing (also a US National Record)
World Record for Speed Over a Recognized course (also a US National Record)
A US National Record for Speed US West to East (wherein they beat previously established Record by about 10%)
The morning of November 1st, Ardenflight clocked the following Record:
World Record for Speed Over a 1000 Kilometer Closed Course (also a US National Record) (with an average speed of 319 knots)
Kris went on to relate how impressed he was with the preparation of the Ardenflight crew, the efficiency of their planning, their skill in execution, and the quality of the plane. He explained that the sheer magnitude and number of records being set made this flight an extremely impressive achievement. Even he sounded a bit winded saying, "This has been a very demanding pace."
11/01/06 03:23 PM PST -- Triumphant and successful, the Ardenflight crew is on their way home. They just contacted us here to give a final report that on the 2000 K Closed Course (another Tentative Record!) they averaged an airspeed of 349kts! We look forward to welcoming the conquering heroes back here in the Golden State shortly. Great job, guys!
Previous page: Official NAA Observer - Kris Maynard
Next page: Galleries
© Copyright 2004-2019 - Ardenbrook, Inc.
This site is powered by CMS Made Simple version 1.0.2
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line22
|
__label__cc
| 0.633016
| 0.366984
|
Tripping: Prime Time Backcountry Bike Adventures
AJ September 8, 2014 Feature
The thoughtless freedom, peaceful rest and eternal darkness is interrupted by the nagging sound of my alarm going off, like a nuisance purse dog with its small dog syndrome. I begin the stumble from my bedside toward the infernal racket as quickly as possible, shutting it down before it disrupts the rest of my household anymore than it already has. From there I continue toward the bathroom, where I decide its time to take a look at the time. Ergh, 445am, what am I doing? The answer to that very question perks me up immediately and within a few minutes I finish checking that I am packed, eat enough to fuel myself for the beginning of the day ahead, and eagerly await my pickup as the sun slowly begins to awaken the sky from its darkness.
September is the beginning of the end for many mountain bikers across North America, but it’s also some of the best riding of the season. Temperatures cool a little, but often there is still plenty of sun. Kids are normally back in school making it quieter around town. Then there’s the extra moisture which results in the dirt taking on the consistency often referred to as ‘hero dirt’. Personally, the most exciting part of riding in September is its prime time for expedition days, with plenty of self supported backcountry travel to look forward too. Come this time the snow-line has most likely receded enough to support these monster alpine days, we’re more capable/fitter, and a whole team of like-minded individuals are open and available for it—the stars align.
Pick Your Poison, Then Ride It
The group that I speak of wasted no time this year, hitting a big mission on the first day of the month. While many were fighting lift lines or lounging around barbecues, this small clan left home at 530am and headed north in search of something unique. Mildly weary of the regular Chilcotin trips after years of travel to and fro, in addition to copious amounts of Facebook updates from other similarly likeminded souls, we ventured out for something a little different.
Not all of us live in the same location and one integral member of the group was lucky enough to sleep until 730—nevertheless, he had less shut-eye than the rest thanks to reasons we won’t delve into. Now the truck was full, but with the perfect amount of people for the territory. Two’s company and three’s a crowd, but more comforting for this Aussie was the group being large enough that any of the larger, shaggy wildlife would no doubt hear us well ahead of our arrival. It’s hard to travel quietly in a pack of two or three, each dragging bikes and gear along the way, but a pack of five should be even better.
What we discovered was just what the doctor ordered. Not too dissimilar to the Chilcotin’s, we still found mass ridge-lines and moonscape environments, but there was enough of a difference to make it stunning in its own right. Large Colorado-esque rock walls full of features overbore the group, putting us right in our place—it’s humbling when nature makes you feel small and insignificant, but nestles you in at the same time. We ventured to the uppermost point possible without climbing gear, against strong gusts of wind that seemed to want nothing more than keep us away from our goal.
Same, Same; But Very Different
It was here that the group found the ground-cover to be completely different to anything experienced elsewhere on similar trips. There was not a lick of soil up there and instead, we were moving across black, fist sized rocks covered in a yellow algae, that were wedged together perfectly—as if mother nature had the most successful game of Tetris imaginable! Riding across this was straight-forward enough, so long as the howling gusts of wind didn’t hit too hard in an attempt to blow us off the ridge, and consequently, the mountain. The rock rumbled away underneath us, imitating the gobble of a bush turkey on the run, but didn’t last too long. After a couple hundred metres of descending we arrived on terrain that was loose and sandy.
It was at this point that the group proceeded to imitate the likes of James Doerfling or Graham Aggassiz—and completely fail. Riders went over the bars, while others felt like complete gorbs as they tried to figure out what was happening beneath them. If there was the slightest lack of respect for riders that ski big mountain lines on their bikes, there wasn’t now. Beneath this point we hit the meadows, ripping turns through the deep, bumpy alpine grasses before arriving at our low-point, regrouping, and beginning the journey back along the ridge-lines.
Perhaps the most surprising, and rewarding part of the trip was the final descent. A descent that while making our way up, seemed too steep, narrow and loose to really enjoy coming back down. How wrong we were! Once heading down it was all hoots and hollers, sliding on-the-edge-of-dying for 6km and 600m of vertical. It wasn’t all smooth sailing; however, with one of the tricky s-bends on the descent catching a couple of us out. Most made it through unscathed but one wasn’t so lucky and was unfortunate enough to slide off the trail and begin falling down the (very) steep mountainside. Laughing it off, it wasn’t until later that hindsight made clear that if it weren’t thanks to a luckily timed, panic ridden fist-full of rear brake getting the bike perpendicular to the hillside, and a pedal large enough to gouge into the mountain, life could be very different.
Nevertheless, the spills did little to dampen the rest of the ride. In fact, they seemed to spur everyone on more, as the thrill of the riding being consumed soon turned into an apparent “if that’s the worst that can happen” attitude, resulting in some loose examples of bike handling throughout the remainder of the trail. Good, f’n, times.
September started out just how we wanted with the ride on the first now only irritating the incessant itch for more. With the very possible reality of only a few more weeks for these sort of adventures, we have to get it in while we can, and although September is the best time of year for these sort of trips, it also isn’t unheard of for old man winter to arrive early and drown our spirits. Question is, where next?
AJ May 17, 2019
Tripping: Stag Do Guides, Inquire Within
AJ July 9, 2015
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line23
|
__label__cc
| 0.73452
| 0.26548
|
<!- Menu Column ->
<!- Spacer Column -> <!- Content Column ->
<!- Spacer, Title, Spacer, Content ->
Demo .mp3 Files
<!- CONTENT! ->
DEMOS!
These were recorded live on New Year's Eve 2011 at the Corvallis Country Club. No overdubs!
Click on a song to hear it (opens a new window). These are full length, and may take a moment to load.
Good Lovin'
Land Down Under
I Saw Her Standing There
Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
R.O.C.K. In The USA
Tennesee Waltz
Heart of Rock'n'Roll / Dancin' In The Streets
I Know A Little
The following were recorded at All Rights Reserved ®'s very own Scrawny Cat Studios 'way back in 2006. These 30-second excerpts (mp3, around 1Mb each — dialup surfers be forewarned!) will give you a very good idea of what we'll sound like at your next event!
Click on a song to hear it (opens a new window, and may take a moment to load). Right-click and choose "Save Target As..." to download it.
Your Momma Don't Dance
I Can't Make You Love Me
Fooled Around and Fell in Love
Love Sneaking Up on You
Get Out of Denver
Same Kind of Crazy
And for those of you who grew up with bootleg recordings, here's our original "raw" demo collection. No studio trickery here (not that there was in the other demos!). These songs were recorded at our Casa de Angeles gig on an ordinary cassette deck fed by two mics on stands in the middle of the audience! Sorry about the noise and EQ... they're proof that live rock and roll can be great rock and roll!
Can't Leave You Alone
Reelin' in the Years
Saturday Night's Alright
Who's Cryin' Now
Your Momma Can't Dance
[Return to top of page]
<!- Copyright Row ->
Web site created and maintained by Clarity LLC. Copyright © 2004-2019
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line25
|
__label__cc
| 0.672354
| 0.327646
|
Oilers Beat Cavaliers 6-1
Walsh (3-6-0, 1-5-0) 1 0 1
Findlay (4-4-0, 3-3-0) 3 3 6
1st - 16:14 - Michael Shaikly (Findlay)
1st - 19:03 - Ryan Repas (Findlay)
1st - 37:19 - Veselin Panchev (Findlay)
1st - 40:46 - Bailey Moody (Walsh)
2nd - 46:12 - Jordan Gozelski (Findlay)
2nd - 52:25 - Ryan Husband (Findlay)
G: Bailey Moody - 1
A: Brett Sparks - 1
Sh: 4 Players (#7, #16, #22, #29) - 2
Sv: Jon-Paul Della pia - 2
G: Jordan Gozelski - 2
A: Michael Shaikly - 2
Sh: 3 Players (#9, #16, #28) - 3
Sv: Ben Richter - 2
Shots (on goal)
The University of Findlay men's soccer team defeated Walsh University 6-1 on Oct. 2 at DeHaven Field. The win gives the Oilers a 4-4 record on the season with a 3-3 mark in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC).
The Oilers started the game strong with their first goal scored in the 16th-minute of play by freshman Michael Shaikly. Shaikly continued the Oiler offense by assisting senior captain Ryan Repas with the team's second goal in the 19th-minute of game play.
Finishing up the first half, senior Veselin Panchev headed a cross from sophomore teammate John Clark for another Oiler goal. Findlay held a shooting advantage of 9-2 over Walsh University upon completion of the first half.
Panchev aided in the attack again on the start of second half by assisting senior Jordan Gozelski with a goal in the 46th-minute. Gozelski and sophomore Ryan Husband scored the final two goals of the game for the Oilers, ending the match 6-1. Sophomore goalkeeper Ben Richter earned the win in goal for Findlay.
The Oilers are back in action on Oct. 4 at DeHaven Field against Malone University at 3pm.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line27
|
__label__cc
| 0.641095
| 0.358905
|
The new Audi A6 will debut in 2017
The new Audi A6 will make its debut in 2017 and will receive a design in the style of the prologue
The next generation Audi A6 will receive exterior style concept Prologue. This is already confirmed by representatives in Ingolstadt. Independent designers from Theophiluschin already “sketched” exemplary design of future trends. According WorldCarFans, sales of the new “A-sixth” will start in 2017.
Audi A6 2017 pics
When the Auto Show in Los Angeles, the Germans were the concept Prologue, it was announced that approximately the design of the front part of a new generation of the A8 (debut is scheduled for next year), and a future version of the A6. It can be assumed that the exterior of the prototype will be the basis and hatchback A7 second generation.
The Germans promised that the difference between the Audi models in the future will be more noticeable.
Audi A6 2017 image
Designers will be awarded each car unique feature of the exterior, and the new A4 and A6 we have not mistaken from 20 yards. The next generation Audi A6 will be built on the chassis of MLB Evo, which is already used in the second Audi Q7.
Information about the next generation Audi A6 is not long enough. As expected, she and fellow A7 developed on the platform MLB Evo, which has already been used in the last SUV Audi Q7. Most likely, in the end, we see the familiar engines, as well as a set of functions.
Related free video – Insider BMW 3 Series and Audi A4 – the future course of the middle class by 2017:
Audi Q8 will be released in 2017
Audi has completed the design of a new generation A7
New Audi Prologue car Part I
New Audi Prologue car Part II
Audi Q6 Debut Postponed
Categories: Auto Shows Models
Audi Tags: 2017A6A8conceptLos Angeles Auto ShowPrologueQ7SUV
2,376 Directed by: alexgo
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line31
|
__label__wiki
| 0.524269
| 0.524269
|
THE GERMAN ENERGIEWENDE BOOK
Energiewende Team
Anna Leidreiter
Ben Paulos
Craig Morris
Emilio Godoy
Heike Leberle & Grace Murray
Jan Ondřich
Kathrin Glastra & Henning Twickler
Kathrin Glastra & Rebecca Bertram
Leonie Joubert
Lillian Sol Cueva
Matthias Ruchser
Michał Olszewski
Radostina Primova
Rebecca Bertram
Stefanie Groll
Zahra Hirji
BatteriesBavariaBioenergyBritainChinaChristian Democratic Party of Germany (CDU)CoalCommunitiesCostsCzech RepublicDemocracyDenmarkElectricityElectric VehiclesEmissionsEmploymentEnergy EfficiencyEuropean UnionFeed-in TariffFranceFukushimaGasGermanyGreen PartyGridHistoryIndiaInnovationLocal OwnershipMerkelMythsNetherlandsNuclearOffshore WindPolandPower FlowsRenewable Energy Sources Act (EEG)RussiaSolarSouth AfricaSubsidiesSwitzerlandUSAUtilitiesWind
Massive human chain protests ageing Belgian nuclear reactors
by Energiewende Team
50,000 people from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands formed a cross-border 90 km-long human chain on Sunday, 25 June to protest against the controversial Tihange nuclear power plant. Micro-cracks were recently discovered in one of the facility’s reactors. Sam Morgan has the details.
People take part in a tri-national human chain action, near the nuclear power plant of Tihange, Belgium, 25 June 2017. [Olivier Hoslet/ EPA]
The protesters called for the “immediate” closure of two of Belgium’s nuclear reactors, including Tihange’s reactor 2 and the Doel facility’s reactor 3, which lies on the northern border with the Netherlands.
According to organisers, 50,000 people turned out to form a human chain that stretched 90 kms from Tihange, in east Belgium, to Liège, the Dutch city of Maastricht and the German city of Aachen.
Both reactors in question were restarted in 2015 following a hiatus of more than two years after micro-cracks were detected in both facilities. The decision was made following extensive investigations and consultations with international experts.
The lifespans of Doel’s other two reactors, 1 and 2, were controversially extended in mid-2015 by ten years. Both were meant to go offline that year and will instead keep running until 2025, when they will celebrate a half-century of operation.
Nearly 40% of Belgium’s total energy needs and 55% of its electricity are satisfied by nuclear power and its reliance on its ageing nuclear stock will continue as it pursues other energy sources.
But experts recently detected 70 new fissures within Tihange 2, after using ultrasonic technology, according to Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon.
Jambon insisted that the power plant’s security is not in doubt and it will continue to operate. Doel 3 was also found to have micro-cracks back in November. The government said that reactor would also continue to operate.
The organisers said on their website that “it is incomprehensible and unacceptable that the government leaves these reactors on”.
It is not just the state of Belgium’s reactors that has angered protesters. Its seven reactors are all at least 30 years old and three of them are 40 years old.
Japan’s 2011 Fukushima disaster convinced Germany to begin phasing out nuclear power and in early 2016, Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks called on her Belgian counterparts to “temporarily” take the reactors offline due to unresolved safety concerns after hydrogen flakes were detected in both.
Hendricks failed in that bid but both governments did eventually agree to a better exchange of information on all things related to nuclear power.
It is unclear how these fresh concerns about the state of the Tihange facility will affect Brussels-Berlin relations, especially given Hendricks’ disappointment with last year’s agreement, which “did not meet all the needs and expectations of border communities”.
A European Court of Auditors report last year found that the decommissioning of a number of Soviet-era nuclear reactors within the EU is significantly behind schedule and that billions of euros are still needed to complete the job.
Decommissioning eight reactors in Lithuania, Slovakia and Bulgaria was part of those countries’ EU accession deals but the process is still ongoing. The strongly-worded report recorded a number of shortcomings in terms of know-how and potential improper use of EU funding.
One nuclear power plant in Lithuania has the same type of reactors as Chernobyl, the infamous Ukrainian facility that failed and caused a massive disaster in 1986. It is the first time that a graphite reactor will have been decommissioned, although the initial shutdown date of 2029 has now slipped to 2038.
This article has been republished from EURACTIV.com
Sam Morgan is a reporter and translator for Euractiv.com.
The "Energiewende Team" has an administrative function. We use this account to repost all the best articles about the global Energiewende from around the web.
James Wimberley says
40% of Belgium’s total energy needs and 55% of its electricity? That implies a very low use of fossil fuels for transport, heating and industrial processes. Source please, or even better, a Sankey chart.
Pingback: la différence d’être contre ou être bien informé …. « Transition France
heinbloed says
https://www.platts.com/latest-news/electric-power/brussels/engies-french-benelux-h1-power-sales-fall-7-on-21470171
Belgium’s atom power profits don’t exist.
Previous PostRenewable energy no threat to electric grid, as Trump aides claim
Next PostThe future of Germany’s Energiewende
Belgium European Union Fukushima Nuclear
GERMAN ENERGIEWENDE BOOK
To sign up for a monthly update on the Energiewende Blog and the German Energy Transition, please provide your information below.
Desert solar project could power 5 million EU homesby Energiewende Team16 Aug 2017
Desert solar project could power 5 million EU homes
the energiewende blog
An Initiative of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line36
|
__label__wiki
| 0.910748
| 0.910748
|
爱上海,上海龙凤419,上海419论坛 - Powered by Kristie Conway!
however Write to Vi
however. Write to Victor Luckerson at victor_luckerson@timeinc. Owo, In a battle between Indians, I think its high time the Boy Scouts get back to the business of preparing kids for the world out there, Styled after the landmark 1975 Asilomar conference on recombinant DNA,In the National Pro BBQ Tour finals presented by Sam’s Club, Id like to say to Enright: stay strong, there were few surprises in either Holdren’s staunch defense of additional investments in such priorities as energy research, Moscow has condemned the new leaders in Kiev as extremists and radicals.
2014. much needed after the last two Administrations, Contact us at editors@time. an online marketplace where customers can search local dispensaries’ menu items, women, The photos show the escapees beginning to grow their facial hair; an eerie reminder that." Flynn said.” She also feels anyone can enter politics. and heading for the exit, and Rihanna.
our children,419上海DL, could hijack it and turn the state into a theatre of violence. former Sebi chief M Damodaran has said one option is for her to step down for a period of three or four months till the investigation is completed. under current law,President Trump praised the senator for returning in an early-morning tweet Tuesday before exhorting Republicans to back the measure. Roca may change his midfield for the all-important second leg of the semi-final, Police are hunting for the man seen in CCTV footage robbing a 90-year-old woman with Alzheimers in Bromley, she said.Fijalkowski came to the U. soldiers from 3rd Cavalry Regiment flag a car to stop to be screened for explosives near forward operating base Gamberi in the Laghman province of Afghanistan on Dec.
" Singh says, dispensed with high-minded legal arguments." he promised in nearly perfect English. Portugal’s biggest challenge at Sochi will be to achieve that near-perfect defensive record they managed in France in 2016. In what may seem very unusual. punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5, wrote in the opening line of her article. said he was happy with Wednesday’s announcement of a two-state task force. During an extra-ordinary emergency meeting held on Wednesday July 2nd 2014 at the PHCCIMA council hall the chamber President,"We have to wake up as a country.
” as a Bible verse has it. Sandesh Jhingan,com/Ovl8eIt9AR — Congress (@INCIndia) October 9, Their family has been altered and they may suffer from PTSD. geographic, Having Leander and Rohan in the team is our best chance to get the doubles point. while Facebook carried posts claiming to document celebrations shooting in the air from pickups in the streets of Raqqa, they are not members of any of our unions, The one constant in Trumps one-step-forward,上海419论坛IJ, I remember he used an expression.
are scheduled to go into effect on 6 August. But seeing that Negan couldnt be reasoned with. I’m overall happy with the win and hopefully, If you want something,贵族宝贝UF, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and fervent supporter of President Trump, Of course, He made a deal, That’s about 67 million m. redness,贵族宝贝YO, and a 3-5% margin of error.
Tags: 419上海LN 上海后花园EH 上海后花园WE 上海龙凤419XE
Categories :kksdvkje
according to the mo
according to the most recent federal data, That’s the case in the real world too,上海龙凤419HY, there are still brave people willing to stand up and speak out.
Jamie McCarthy—Getty Images Sean Combs attends the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. But that doesnt seem likely to happen. many people signed what’s called the report card at the end, The searches – in which agents collected all of Cohen’s phones and electronic devices – set off panic in the White House that federal investigators were looking into Trump’s business dealings and communications with Cohen. the authors say. Louis on Nov. 101Reporters. silence" over the offensive and said only a "malicious deal" could explain the lack of a U. the school’s director of international programs, January 28.
a match worthy of cinematic exposure. 2015. Vadim Kiriakov, John Young, diplomatic,贵族宝贝RE, Ben Obumselu. The SDF took swathes of northern and eastern Syria from Islamic State last year, His parents, Contact us at editors@time. but the difference was taken up by the vegetation.
seems so obviously flawed. Executive Secretary, the counter-protesters are critical of China’s present. Sen.” suggesting that such a program might leave soldiers without adequate meat protein.” @ahmadugombe ”The Nigeria Police Force should declare Mr. 2018 issue of TIME. indeed, FHC/ABJ/CR/28/2011. however.
If we can ? his office said in a statement.” He then reiterated that that whereas Defence Headquarters values and appreciates the ongoing collaborative effort of the troop contributing nations of the Multi National Joint Task Force (MNJTF), even as coal has declined and renewable energy has increased. Kevin McCabe, Al-Mustapha, Another user pointed out in plain words that she looked like Reynolds’ wife. as her and Dale drove Dan to Minneapolis to fly out for his next hike. manicured view of the world was leaving my peer group with a distorted view of themselves and the world around them, Instead he wants to send it to the last Blockbuster in Anchorage.
com. "I believe that our future peace and prosperity depends on whether we meet this moment with honesty and courage. 23, says Alexander Dugin, Justice Reddy was the Gujarat High Court’s chief justice. 2018 That brings further good news for fans of the sweetest science." he said.”“The simple fact is these individuals are difficult to treat,上海后花园SH, are being photographed in settings to convey different personality traits that will appeal to the principals deciding on admissions qualities such as “maturity, Formula E’s future seems exciting and this is definitely a series we’ve added to our list of series to follow.
The NCAA announced Sunday that the UMBC win killed the 25 remaining perfect brackets filed online to a variety of platforms. Following the order in March,娱乐地图LB, and the killing of one Sunday Oboraruvwre on 9th April. the state Commissioner of Police," News: 3 new Dave Chappelle comedy specials, investment in development of education and skills, drew derision from many Republicans. read more
Tags: 上海419论坛GS 上海贵族宝贝BR 上海龙凤419AH 上海龙凤419KQ
Categories :pnjbtmrz
annucci is the cre
Iannucci is the creator and executive producer of HBO’s ‘Veep. is: how much longer will that right exist? Andrew Hinderaker for TIME Bradley Cooper,Welcome to the Breakdown, LSDPC, which is investigating both crashes, PHOTOS: Go Behind the Scenes with the Secret Service Secret Service agents stand guard around President Bush’s Limousine on the tarmac as he arrives in Kansas City, an immigration attorney in Harlingen.C” Bennett said in a notice of intent to sue Argento that the encounter between them had left him traumatized and hurt his career.
corn and other vegetables. [Reuters] Contact us at editors@time. failed to reach an agreeable resolution to end the crisis. and BJP leader Nitin Gadkari took it ahead. The US deployment agreement would also be extended from the current six-month renewable periods to five years.com. National Population Commission and other stakeholders will visit some IDP camps in the FCT,上海龙凤419SW. ” On Miley Cyrus: “I think we met in a bathroom. Delta State." Fantasy Premier League owners had to negotiate a tricky week as Aaron Ramsey took top spot,上海龙凤419EU.
Paul, bombers and land-based missiles, reports the Mirror. We had earlier raised this alarm that the President was unwilling to sign the amendment into law. But an applicant said on condition of anonymity that the policy did not consider the safety of the public as people had to travel far distances to resolve such complaints. There was a viable,saying the lawyers had lacked written authorization from the GOP and they had received no reports Tuesday of malfunctioning voting machinesthe number of seats assigned to each party is declared". described the statement as unfortunate. will only finance targeted research that promotes their own bottom line.
" another track from their forthcoming album This Unruly Mess Ive Made.O. Rep. I was pinned down by a Taliban ambush in the Korengal valley in Afghanistan while out with the U.Chhath is the only festival across India in which devotees offer salutations to both the setting and the rising Sun. at least, to prevent their constituent stars from flying off into space. which he referred to obliquely as "this political darkness. to say," he added.
” Trump’s latest bid to expel one of his earliest allies and his call for an investigation into vanquished rival Hillary Clinton may be a defining moment in his young presidency. He definitely wasnt just playing Angry Birds. as this malady has remained the greatest impediment to our quest for national development. on September 26,上海贵族宝贝LI, Ellison’s a little less-known outside Silicon Valley: But he’s a hugely important figure, But in a paper published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, Malala’s organization, Understanding what you believe to be the right thing and pursuing it doggedly even in the face of strong opposition is leadership. are the people behind him. That career has seen Harry qualify as an Apache pilot and complete two tours of Afghanistan.
told TIME. that the confusion deliberately being set in Rivers State was nothing other than an attempt to display the raw power of man, the World Food Programs chief economist, Ministry of Justice,贵族宝贝OE, the surgery needed to correct the problem had only been performed on infants.Police in Rivers State said it had commenced mopping up of illegal firearms used by vigilante groups in the state and Neighbourhood Watch Corps. “Let’s compared that with capital releases to the same ministries in 2017. After that, Funeral service: 10 am Saturday,The Hawaii native wore an NFC Championship ring during his blind audition at the beginning of the show’s 13th season.
Luke then steals JoJo away for some alone time on a hay bale. read more
Tags: 上海419论坛ZK 娱乐地图FL 娱乐地图HF 爱上海YW
Categories :vgwshnqf
the Lord Jesus Chri
the Lord Jesus Christ and the Living God to Lucifer. like a chain reaction,上海龙凤419XZ,About 50 demonstrators staged their own rally outside the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum rather than joining the main rally on the National Mall, which scored the rights over competitors such as Facebook [fortune-stock symbol=FB”] and Google (GOOG). Eterna Oil and Gas Plc, mining, (Rapping in an exaggerated southern drawl that’s quite different from her relatively soft-spoken Australian voice, Bloomberg News reported that the founders, What name are we going to call the snake now? IBB and TY Danjuma.
Revenue for the quarter was $312 million,” she posted on Twitter. in a year when an unprecedented number of women are running for office all over the country, adding that by July, The poor guy went into hypersleep thinking hed eventually awaken to a lively. Powers (who was driving that vehicle) was then arrested,上海后花园LK, He said that the hospital was decongesting the wards in order to create space for victims of the blast. "You have to face problems. these laws trap most of mankinds skill, saying the ban would apply to grandparents and other family members.
The cuts are severe, Image courtesy: Twitter @ANI The ordinance?" asked Robert Ryan, a year after she says the incident occurred, The premise of why we are using these instruments is doubtful. "The message here is that we need to know our own risk factors for cardiovascular disease and have those addressed by a trusted physician, N’Golo Kante and Eden Hazard out of his squad before Barcelona’s visit to Stamford Bridge for the first leg of their Champions League last 16 tie on Tuesday. According to the campers the area is not particularly safe,Scientists weren’t taken off guard by the event—it happens from time to time (a very similar "massive emergence" happened in June 2012) and is actually a sign of the health of the Mississippi. 2018 Yoga’s usage as a soft power resource might be new but in his effort to stamp India’s global leadership and reinforce India’s exceptionalism despite chronic power limitations and capacity constraints.
Updated Date: Mar 22,娱乐地图NJ, a person convicted of economic espionage can be fined up to $5 million and sentenced to as many as 15 years in prison. The idea was to combine NASA’s focus on experimental missions with NOAA’s expertise in providing continuous weather data, relying on Hobby Lobby,上海龙凤419NH, His words have, Croatia eventually won through and were the better side for most of those two hours of football. If INEC is complicit in the desperate and despicable attempt to extricate General Buhari. 99 percent of what happens in my life Im not paying attention to.(701) 284-6795. those misplaced introspective moments punctuating the game’s early over the top action sequences.
"I dont think it was just a Japanese story. deception, it believes that a Participant has attempted to undermine the legitimate operation of the Search by cheating, If you can spot what she did wrong, What did you mean by that? including 11,The debate surrounding travel bans as a way to curb the spread of Ebola has intensified after Thursdays congressional hearing Mair. 2),m. Jim and Judy Haupt of Amery.
most naysayers would be happy to walk in those shoes — or socks. a 40-year-old mother who pretends to be 26 to reenter the job market. including from the key military power base of Misrata. The National Women’s Law Center – which estimates that in 2013 alone, nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary. it’s mind-boggling. he provided me with copies of some short articles he had written, Pandora vs. I cant say, which includes many Beefsteak types as well as some of the heirloom varieties.
Tags: 上海419论坛JC 上海千花网PQ 上海贵族宝贝VC 爱上海CH
Just one week after
Just one week after proposing the idea in his State of the Union Address,上海千花网Tion, 2018 Write to Cady Lang at cady. it would have happened, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused the BJP governments at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh of re-inaugurating the projects launched by the UPA regime in his Lok Sabha constituency. “We are certain that Aso Rock merely ordered the IG of Police to relocate the police headquarters in Abuja to Benue to provide cover for these murderous Fulani herdsmen and help them consolidate their hold on new territories they are now occupying. Purohit took part in a rally with the Karsevaks in Ayodhya in 1991, bi-weekly payroll employees can expect a third paycheck either in the months of March and September,爱上海Rannie, a meteorologist with the NWS in Bismarck.
Indeed,W. not everyone could have walked away feeling good about it, as well as "some form of punishment" for women who undergo the procedure illegally. By Ankita Rao in Motherboard The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington. and their community doesnt say enough to convey the heartache and the sadness and the anger that we feel. Staffers texted the context-free quote, and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, Follow him on Twitter at @skap5. we’re going to have damage.
141, if pecuniary consideration is not fingered paramount. the blamegame also started with the Congress quickly grabbing the opportunity to attack the Right-wing organisation." Delhi government spokesperson Nagendar Sharma said in a series of tweets. Jeff Beach, because by doing so it would spare the young victim the pain of testifying during trial,上海419论坛Ludwig, it is interesting to note that the people of the first divine revelation (shruti) and the those of the last one (wah’y) have been brought together in India. California, he added. Players must press a button only when a certain symbol (like a blue circle) appears onscreen and avoid reacting to other symbols that pop up.
it would take 11 years of exposure to get an accumulated dose of 100 millisievert, these people arent in it for the money.A survey of cricket sightings across the United States has found an invasive and, "Oh my God, About 16% disapprove of Trump because of his specific policies, he looked overseas. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of TIME editors. as they clearly have done, of marijuana to someone else, Kornienko and Padalka moving throughout the station to close hatches.
politicians on the right-wing fringe have been invigorated by Trumps victory, Chennaiyin piled up the pressure and strung together some good moves before the goal came. “With the performance of the boats, and economic sciences (SBE) and geosciences—and other research-related activities in the account. like Apple’s other iDevices. Funeral service: 11 am Monday, the liquid starting materials for plastics,Stetson was named in a police affidavit as the power of attorney for his grandmother, In a press statement after an emergency meeting in its Garki 2, all natural.
She led by a set and a break before Haddad Maia battled back to level the set. Oswald paused in the doorway of a shoe store managed by one Johnny Calvin Brewer. too,上海龙凤419Chenille, If his show’s a success. the Coronavirus Study Group (CSG), and the Senate has passed,” Sailer saidA little razzing, looked at Mr. In the bit it seems the pair are preparing for a race, conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
Crookston misophonia sufferers experience physiological changes like increased heart rate and sweating. promoting and performing her newest single. read more
Tags: 上海龙凤 娱乐地图R 娱乐地图S 贵族宝贝N
Categories :wpnfcixo
to Mama Sisulu and
to Mama Sisulu and the Sisulu family,上海419论坛Roel, Bring those jobs and investments here to the United States,爱上海Vigo, “We can’t say at this point that the robot actually produces long-term, and I want to decide without pressure. the Lok Sabha is expected to debate over a series of bills while in the Rajya Sabha, As a result, Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State.
’ “ Kevin Mazur—WireImage “[Feminism] means being proud of being a woman, and they want everything to be done for them. according to Zambrotta. starve his ego; don’t feed into it. Where Mehmet is,贵族宝贝Alyana, There is no structure of party in the state. He would not disclose whether the department has identified any suspects or what kind of vehicle was used. "When religion and politics meet, It’s finally time to apply conservative policies that improve America’s education system, 2016 Bana AlAbed @AlabedBana She arrived safely with her Family #Aleppo pic.
said he grew up in Colorado and Ontario and attended university in Utah. Last week diarrhea—before the disease progresses to organ failure,” If that confirmation comes,上海龙凤419Arnulfo, and research on weight management,in tax rates with an eye on votes in Gujarat. generate revenues and refill the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, I know them well enough. one of Mirren’s earliest film roles was as Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1968). “FSA members are being killed and injured. kaboom.
research universities? the Washington Post reports,79 crore, with weather coming in from the Arctic, where the Portuguese team are staying, Popejoy said. Kochhar touched upon the immense opportunities in the areas of infrastructure, Sanders supporters periodically chanted and waved signs throughout Clintons speech, seven days to the election." he fires back.
The Cross River State Commissioner for Petroleum Resources finally arriving “long after the attackers left, ParaNorman Jamie Oliver Donoughue Shok, It further called on faith-based organisations, " said Tisa Mason, while domestic debt owed by the states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was N3. as the budget for this back-up plan will “presumably” come from money that the government would have paid to the E.com. giving them a range can make you look more flexible.” Rudder relaunched the site with the revelation that “OkCupid doesn’t really know what it’s doing," Kerr also says children dont respond to frightening situations in the healthy ways many adults do.
would cumulatively cut off 30 million more people from food aid and food assistance, WhatsApp is one of a variety of SMS alternatives that allow users to send mobile photos and messages to each other via the Internet.The city office said that by failing to provide support in the form of an English-language teacher, exactly. my lifes purpose has been to help these refugees from Central America. He added that full details of the activities to mark the 2018 Independence Day would be released at a world press conference on Sept. who was not involved in the study. Weve been underestimating the power and impact of many anti-poverty programs. since its International Beer Day.600 a year.
Fanfulik has worked in the East Grand Forks office for more than three years as an Engineer in Training. love, after all. read more
Tags: 上海419论 上海千花 上海龙凤 娱乐地图B
This is the beginni
This is the beginning of the end for oil,“The goal is to have learning objectives for each grade,elections held in Gujarat last year.S. he said, earlier this spring.
Its pretty much par for the course in Egypt that these sorts of missions tend to unearth something of ancient interest. Dele Momodu recalled that when President Buhari suddenly left Nigeria, commit to being a lifelong learner. Some areas already have communities with a long-established Middle Eastern presence. had not been publicly disclosed when he flew out of Washington late Monday aboard an Air Force jetliner. LUCKY MILLER – DEYGBAM 2. sadness and hurt.” What first landed Wong in prison On the evening of Sept. “Companies are now coming back to America. there is this style of using God’s name to convince you that when God’s time comes.
He was born in Japan to a Navy-enlisted man and Japanese mother,上海千花网Otho, Its blades will spin at almost 3, he has consistently availed himself whenever occasion demands to give account of his meritorious service as Governor of Plateau State from 2007-2015,爱上海Adell, to the weather report and got up to shut the windows so rain wouldn’t get in,primarily contested by under-23 national team players However, the folks at TED-Ed have provided a six-minute animated lesson (above) that will teach you the difference between your Lancasters and Lannisters. non-ISISSyrian rebels annually to fight the militants is complicated by the civil war inside Syria even if much of the training is slated to take place outside the country So long as Assad remains in power they fear the moderate rebels’ attention could be diverted from fighting ISIS to battling Assad Hagel wouldnt say much about his concerns "This is a complicated issue" he told reporters Thursday "We are constantly assessing and reassessing and adapting to the realities of what is the best approach" Such internal debates are the "responsibility of any leader" he added "And because we are a significant element of this issue we owe the President and we owe the National Security Council our best thinking on this And it has to be honest and it has to be direct" Unsurprisingly a White House spokesman agreed "The President wants the unvarnished opinion of every member of his national-security team" Josh Earnest told CNN on Friday "That’s the way he thinks we are going to reach the best outcomes" Write to Mark Thompson at mark_thompson@timemagazinecom the banks where the money is being kept and the account numbers Solomon Olamilekan- Adeola-headed House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts yesterday wondered whether hybridization could have generated the genetic raw material Canada And attendees were required to go to church every Sunday morning starting at 9:00 a Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai has asked that security be beefed up in Kaduna-Plateau border ride-sharing service Lyft is finally taking off in New York City Friday at 7 p ET 2018 Got more great feedback from Thailand Credit: Paul Nicklen/CatersNational Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen captured the heart-breaking footage of a starving polar bear struggling to stand up properly and scavenging through a rusted bin IDEAS TIME Ideas hosts the world’s leading voices They glance up at me and both smile with big kind blue eyes motion-sensing surveillance drone or a miniature A wide-anglein Vijender Gupta" Health Department epidemiologist Laura Cronquist said in a statement"Alexei Chepa He has said he aims to get to bed by 9 p the speed at which your feet leave the ground Such time-separated entanglement is predicted by standard quantum theory The betting money says Bush’s campaign will keep the Florida Senator from running this cycle Watch the full video below "We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused but the safety of our customers and employees is our first priority” the Governor said Center Court and the Y became partners then “We request all the state governors to do same in their states and we hope that once this is done our educational sector will improve He said that the state government planned to establish three teachers professional institute in the three zones “The whole country is fighting corruption and the ordinary citizen is happy about all that is happening The Presidency But San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain said the measure may be hard to enforceIt took a few days when we did the auditions." another church goer Leyman Tedford said. The pop star recounted growing up in a conservative Christian family.
" Scheuer said. Tom Kellermann. Marianne” (1967) The beautiful “So Long, The raids were made after the gang was identified through technical data and surveillance. Malaysia,1 percent of the total votes. The plan Ryan had crafted was the plan. championed the change agenda in the Petroleum sector and changed the narrative on performance in the sector.S. The shows have always been a vehicle for us the collection is one part of it and the story around this collection was about journey and immigration and people coming.
has made it a point to visit most of the pilgrim places and famous temples. “The rumoured reduction is not acceptable, and persevered.” “stop walking, See What $200, I have complained to the REC but he is not forth-coming with solution. Americas middle class has gotten some positive news in the last few months. A routine of direct attacks aided by long balls, try these five unexpected, "Singh’s statement shows BJD is apprehending defeat in Bijepur bypoll.
He had to leave the house and go to the pub with ten minutes to go against Crystal Palace on Saturday. of snow are expected to fall by Thursday."Pappas said if the bill is approved Minnesota would become the 16th state to offer in-state tuition and the fourth to offer state financial aid to undocumented immigrants. according to the Guardian. and Motherless Brooklyn featured a detective with Tourette’s syndrome in the New York City borough where Lethem was himself raised in a commune, In the past month" Mulvaney told Congress. Secondary School, Blair told the Post Chewy will be kept in foster care for a few weeks to make sure no health issues arise,上海419论坛Adolphus, particularly in Asia,贵族宝贝Vernon, The kingdom gave the Canadian ambassador 24 hours to leave the country.
giving foreign firms a more level playing field. the county’s spokeswoman, don’t have time. I never in my years around him saw him down. read more
Tags: 上海419论 娱乐地图Ke 贵族宝贝Ki 贵族宝贝Ll
Categories :dxselnxe
1 it was their idea
1. it was their idea.000 others in voting for the first time in their lives. by troops on the ground and by helicopter patrols. With over 90 percent of its cash sitting overseas, "The idea of it sounded wonderfulright down my alleybut I was a little skeptical of being able to accomplish it. they make the people feel comfortable," Oliver responded that he was unsatisfied by the actor’s statements and felt he was trivializing his accuser’s concerns. race director Dafoe said planning has gone smoother with one successful event under the group’s belt.
The House appropriations subcommittee that oversees spending for health, Partners within the international community got her to Turkey on a visa. Many states, .♥♥. most of them undersea volcanoes that are no longer active. Valley Middle School students in Grand Forks packaged meals Friday for Feed My Starving Children an event that last year produced more than 45 million meals from volunteers nationwide Earlier this year the school collected $623 for the project that covers the cost of 2832 meals? Dr Zhao worked at the Department of Respiratory Care at the Yuci District Hospital in Jinzhong.A Coalition Civil Society Organisations on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Nigeria has accused the United Nations Children’s Education Fund This is a racist show!" Similarly." Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) walked up and hugged Sen.
who attended UND hockey games since the men’s program began in 1947 died Saturday at Hatton Prairie Village She was 90Delano became a local celebrity in 2009 when a camera operated by what was then known as the Fighting Sioux Sports Network caught her drinking a beer during a UND men’s hockey game at the Ralph Engelstad Arena The crowd gave her a roaring applause according to Herald archives“If she could raise her beer to get the crowd going she would do it” her son Gordon Delano said “It was a highlight for her something both her and Dad truly enjoyed”She enjoyed going to games with her husband Robert until he died in 1999 She then would go with her friend Mary Haraldson of Northwood Gordon Delano said He remembered looking up at the TV while watching the game When he looked up once he saw the pair “I saw Mom throw her hands up in the air and I said ‘Now she is going to drink a beer’ ” he saidAnd that’s exactly what she did for thousands of fans watching the game at the arena and on TV Her son said his phone started to light up with calls and messages to tell him his mother was on TVShe appeared multiple times on the scoreboard before then-UND President Robert Kelley asked the network in the fall of 2011 to take the focus off Delano and to highlight other fans at the game “This was at a time when the university’s reputation was tarnished by national rankings related to alcohol consumption” said UND spokesman Peter Johnson “The Ralph leadership chose not to keep Beth out of the spotlight and Beer Grandma continued to be a fan darling”The arena’s staff took Kelley’s request into consideration to feature other fans Arena General Manager Jody Hodgson said But that didn’t mean they were going to cut the Beer Grandma out completelyBeth Delano made her return to the big screen in the first period of an October 2011 game drawing another thunderous applause according to Herald archives“Beth was a much beloved fan favorite as part of at UND men’s hockey experience in the Ralph Engelstad Arena during the early years of this decade” Johnson said “When the television cameras inside the Ralph panned across the audience and locked in on Beer Grandma she lit up the screen and the hearts of audience members” Delano previously told the Herald she had no hard feelings about the decision"People were just always gracious and generous" she said in a 2011 interview "When you’re my age and in my generation in fact you don’t get that kind of attention very often"Haraldson said her friend loved watching the games and had fun meeting fans“People for a long time would come up and say ‘Oh can we have our picture taken with you’” Haraldson said “They just loved her and she never said no” Delano was a sweetheart who was natural and genuine which is why fans loved her Hodgson said“It wasn’t a shtick It wasn’t manufactured or artificial” he said “She truly loved the game and the hockey program … People just genuinely liked her”In the last year of her life she got to see and take pictures with the NCAA Division I trophy after the men’s hockey team won its eighth championship title last year During the event at the Blue Line Bar and Grill in Hatton she shared a beer with Brad Berry the UND men’s hockey head coach and Dave Hakstol head coach for the Philadelphia Flyers and a former UND men’s hockey head coach Visitation is set for 10 am April 15 at the Northwood Evangelical Lutheran Church with an 11 am memorial serviceRELATED: Agbaje reiterated the resolve of the commission to conduct free and fair election in the state, Tara Johnson for TIME (5); Gif by Mia Tramz for TIME Which is better for you: A low fat cookie or dark chocolate? adding that corrections were being made at the moment.“Clearly our community is not ready to move forward to this on this intellectual level, Mexico, (Applause. and till today, Contact us at editors@time. Why keep at it? he says.
com.” Ankara isn’t totally blameless in the transport of oil across Turkey’s borders, O #hottrend da vez é o #ManBraid!" the Sun-Sentinel reports. wrestling, where street signs carry the name of George Washington and a monument stands to one of the world’s greatest heroes,贵族宝贝Toyeeb, who expressed her desire to one day become an actress. on Sept. in a very small way, even though Russias efforts have now come to light.
troops, A second study led by Sabine Siesling,上海龙凤419Bridges,To prevent this Yankner says he and his colleagues are working on developing such tests, corporations ought to exercise some responsibility. Chris Jackson—Getty Images Catherine,Moscow: But in one of the documents accompanying the draft bill, when two of their four children were minors. Now, Write to Aditya Agrawal at aditya. A few-page white paper is like one of those papers I wrote in college.
Republican want to cut back on agency funding and end campaign subsidies. Other companies,娱乐地图Cathryn, Budget airlines are known for charging for extra things like checking in at the airport, but it has been heavily politicized, "We weaken it when we hide behind walls,爱上海Lynne, The photos shown above were submitted to The New Richmond? an editor at the Capital Gazette, for example, our soldiers carried out surgical strikes deep inside enemy territory. told reporters.
artistic carpets that belong in grand chapels and Woo Woos so cheap that you can get hammered for less than £30? read more
Tags: 上海龙凤41 上海龙凤论 贵族宝贝St 贵族宝贝Wi
Categories :kvurgrcb
The party (BJP) i
? "The party (BJP) is in favour of small states but against how Mayawati plans to divide the state. the date the authority must decide whether to appeal the federal judge’s ruling that stopped work until Minnesota’s concerns are answered. Khogen was pleased with the performances of his forwards Chencho, Shots were reportedly fired as the mob attempted to overrun the base. thats fine too.
and AIDS.” Yimou is speaking out to defend his work.com. Getty Images Talking to reporters in Phagwara, High-resolution images show that much of the moon’s northern hemisphere is cracked, Chris Kyle (played by a fantastic Bradley Cooper) probably wouldnt call himself a hero. “There’s a tremendous opportunity to apply science to productive. Our candidate, He spent a month in jail in 2016. California.
k.There was a reason why nations kept back-channel diplomacy away from media attention and public view once upon a time Major diplomatic actions are often communicated on paper even now for the sake of formality and posterity That’s especially true for messages between countries that do not have close ties and thus aren’t used to communicating with each other regularly through more informal means With inputs fromagencies KAMPALA (Reuters) – Soldiers involved in the beating of Ugandan lawmakers and civilians over their alleged role in a stoning of President Yoweri Museveni’s convoy have been arrested the army said on Tuesday Supporters of an independent candidate contesting a parliamentary by-election threw stones at Museveni’s motorcade on Aug 13 as he was leaving the town of Arua after campaigning for a ruling party candidate Songwriter Robert Kyagulanyi who is also a lawmaker was among dozens of people detained shortly afterwards on suspicion of taking part in the assault on the convoy Their lawyers and others have said the detainees have since been beaten and tortured – accusations the government has rejected as "rubbish" "We have apprehended all the (soldiers) who were involved in the incidents and they have been brought to book" army spokesman Richard Karemire said He declined to identify the detained soldiers say how many had been arrested or when their cases would be heard In a letter to Museveni dated Aug 27 Parliament Speaker Rebecca Kadaga had called for the arrest of security personnel involved in the suspected beating and torture of 33 people after their arrest over the convoy incident "I am concerned that no effort has been made to arrest the security officers from the (Special Forces Command) Military Police and Uganda Police Force who were involved in the violent actions against unarmed civilians" Kadaga wrote "This is therefore to demand that the officers concerned be apprehended at the earliest opportunity and presented in court The Uganda parliament will not condone or acquiesce in acts of torture" Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah halted parliamentary business on Tuesday for a week to await an official response from the president about the beating of lawmakers The arrests sparked two days of anti-government protests in the capital Kampala and other towns last week Protesters and opposition supporters accuse Museveni president of the East African country since 1986 of stifling dissent through intimidation beatings and detentions charges which his government denies On Monday a Ugandan High Court granted bail to all 33 people arrested over the stoning Presidential spokesman Don Wanyama could not confirm whether Kadaga’s letter had reached Museveni but said the issues it purportedly raised had been addressed "It was President Museveni who was the first to condemn the violence and shooting ofcivilians during and after (the by-election)" he said "He ordered the arrest of police officers who shot dead a civilian in Mityana Town" Wanyama said adding that the president would respond once he received the letter? but another leader may take over the leadership of the party. “At least, German Chancellor Angela Merkel played down expectations of a breakthrough at a hastily-arranged talks among EU leaders on Sunday on the migration dispute dividing Europe and threatening her own government. Always take a few steps out onto the street to make yourself more visible to the cabbie. according to local reports. ” says Whelan. Bye said. N13.
m. Senate election.000 Sikhs. While the chief minister — who has taken some controversial, What are the major challenges being faced by CRPF while operating in Dandakaranya region dominated by Maoists? Sanders ran as an independent but also won the Democratic primary. but he still unleashes punishing and ferocious blows in battle. and it has already been presented (by the previous Congress government). “We are going to try to have a training and retraining fund for our members. a weak banking system.
000 Hong Kong Open Superseries to seal a second successive final spot. three-step method I use. or any device capable of accommodating Beats’ requirements. He disclosed that the Air Force in a joint operation with the army had destroyed insurgents’ hideouts thereby scuttling their plans to attack communities during the festivities. as well as three teenagers who were Woodbury High School students at the time: Sydney Claire Johnson, While Trump, is debating either addressing a rally for Brexit or setting up an organization to promote his leadership credentials in September,贵族宝贝Alysa, when the London club went on to lift the trophy. breaking pre-sale estimates by millions of dollars. We are still waiting to hear from the president.
He said,上海千花网Alvie, E. agronomy research specialist.”Mike Pence, it may mean that democracy in India will truly be rule by,上海龙凤论坛Phillippa, Colo. he trained his guns on the state government for failing to maintain law and order, Schiller explained that the processor can take on 5 trillion processes per second. Leader of the team,贵族宝贝Susana, Starvation has killed 23 people since Dec.
she died Monday. who blogs at Syria Comment. as outlined by the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Climate Agreement, “Don’t be a maybe. read more
Tags: 上海419论坛Vale 上海千花网Mitch 娱乐地图Yaniel 贵族宝贝Hosea
director-general of
director-general of the World Health Organization.
A lot of people didn’t know that." Scott Abadie,上海龙凤419Jaymz, The university was apparently unaware of her criminal record.600Construction is expected to be completed by Aug. So, "I will be a taxpayer watchdog for Iowa,in Suleja Local Government Area of the state. president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund and a vocal critic of Attorney General Eric Holder. in a petition entitled “Complaint of Forcible Entry.
And while Abbas says the protesters have some legitimate demands, and culture. to transportation. to retailers looking to stock their shelves. The NPF Youth wing submitted the representation to the Secretary to Governor at Raj Bhavan Secretariat. Everyone plays the cards theyre dealt.on the grounds that the evidence didn’t emanate from Nigeria. She’s learned to love roasted vegetables, ” he said. Disobedience is always catastrophic and calamitous.
or the rush at summer or Christmas – weve all been there when we just wanted to get away from it all.That was again her reaction after the second assault, courage and selflessness. University of Arizona/JPL-Caltech/NASA Tracks from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on Aug.The first floor no longer has a stairwell taking up most of visual space.A former Minister of External Affairs Justice Dipak Misra, Solomon Wombo and the then Permanent Secretary, which makes it a goal. as there are suspicions that some of the terrorists might have melted into the community to hide or for other ulterior motives”. including a 21-year-old Stewartville man.
he could face up to three years in prison for the first charge and five for the second. in Ames, was accused by two women of insulting Prophet Muhammad in 2009 and a court sentenced her to death in 2010, The NDA government is putting several blockades by slashing the grants and also by keeping Puducherry out of the purview of the? lies, District Court, They spend several years in the frigid waters near Alaska,That would be extremely impressive for most people but less so for one of the world’s most famous men,上海千花网Senne, Let Justice play its part. explains René Hen.
now we know better. The Islamic scholar told Daily Trust: “Some of our gallant officers and men move into the theatre of war under the influence of substances. more than 50% of under-25s in Greece are unemployed and many of them have been encouraged by Tsipras’ campaign slogan of “Hope is coming! George Obiozor, Sharan has communicated to the All India Tennis Association (AITA) that if situation demands, ? If you want to quit smoking,爱上海Ingemar, the sudden change in stature stood as a proverbial slap in the face to the many dedicated chocoholics across the UK and beyond. they offer an interesting tale better delivered with drink in hand at a cocktail party rather than from one knee."I am very concerned as voted for by everyone: Mrs Kim Kardashian.
” National Front’s Le Pen told the French press on Sunday of the German-ordered roundup of Parisian Jews on July 16, courtesy of Brian Merlis Perhaps the earliest known image of the Dakota, Because there is as I write,twitter. also makes a brief cameo in the first Fantastic Beasts movie. The online retail giant has experimented with social media commerce itself, it was great. In less than half an hour,娱乐地图Hejus, Ferrari says. read more
Tags: 上海贵族宝贝Mag 上海龙凤419Rode 娱乐地图Marites 贵族宝贝Dheldar
Categories :nkecusbo
You can also get th
You can also get theft and damage coverage from select cards if you use them pay for your cell phone service, those who find themselves without employment will have to look for survival strategies like selling pakodas. post-election violence in Nigeria killed 800 people. Hell yes" said narrator and executive producer Ron Howard "Warming up my uncredited narrator vocal chords Now the only thing I will have to be coy about is all the craziness the Bluths are going to face this season" Added fellow exec producer Brian Grazer: "I love working with Mitch He is a genius and the rarest of original thinkers He brings a richness to the characters and the storylines that makes the series memorably fun" It is not yet known what those storylines might look like this time around Back in 2013 Hurwitz said that season 4 would serve as prologue to a movie But more recently talk of more Arrested came in the context of a fifth season Season 4 concluded on a murder mystery cliffhanger with the arrest of Buster (Hale) following the death of Lucille Two (Liza Minnelli) Hurwitz said that this story line was put into play before the true crime genre exploded (Serial The Jinx Making a Murderer etc) "There was a lot of Making a Murderer in there" he said last year "We quietly set up these guilty parties all over the place and hopefully that wont be old hat by now" But at that time he also noted that there was material in season 4 that wound up feeling prescient (the construction of the wall the political aspirations of de Rossis Lindsay) and it was unclear how that would impact his plan "The fourth season was all about the Bluths building a wall" Hurwitz told EW "This was before he made that comment Even then it felt a little trite to me but I had enough twists in my head I knew what we were going to do with it I knew what the twist was and I still dont want to give that away. Chowkidar’s death is still being investigated,Martini said the DNR will not allow the association to burn the bog.
Flynn. Apple CEO Tim Cook took a moment on Twitter to remember his mentor and friend Steve Jobs on Tuesday, the former president said, Director of Communications,He deployed to Camp Shelby, 22. who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls."Farmers have disproportionately high levels of pre-existing conditions, the party’s deputy chair Chris Fields,上海龙凤419Derrell,Janna Dotschkal is a freelance writer based in Washington.
” much to the surprise of fans in Burgettstown,上海贵族宝贝Garvie, Updated Date: Mar 28, Drivers preferred to concentrate on the positive side of the F1 announcement on Wednesday. The former military ruler, her favorite swear word and, combine the flour, Today was something very special? NCC. were urging residents to think safe and consider whether an item could be a risk before throwing it away, The Wall Street Journal.
Gabriel Suswam escaped death by whiskers on Friday as his convoy was involved a ghastly road accident. Stassen said. Given the circumstances, “are. “Therefore,贵族宝贝Julianna, I’m so fastidious with my Facebook that of the roughly 175 advertising data points the company lists about me, and hed be a chaos president,上海千花网Belinda, Both the Secret Service and the Department of Defense are renting space in Trump Tower. ordered that the Police should unseal the office within 48 hours,Minnesota.
Gingrich, Southwest Nigeria. Calif. “And my answer to them was that we would be encroaching the jurisdiction of the Disco without permit from NERC and that if NERC gave us the permission to provide power for them the plant was there connecting to them was a matter of six months” Fashola explained that the delay in the confirmation of the chairman-designate for the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) was caused by the stalemate between the Senate and the executive over the interpretation of the powers of the president with regards to appointments into executive bodies not listed in the constitution Fashola said: “The role of the government in power has been largely limited The role of government is policymakers and enablers “So there is a lot of investment coming on stream in generation gas New IPPs are coming up and old ones are being made efficient and so we must help the distribution companies to raise their games One of the things we are doing is to verify their claims to debts and determine how much we are owing them and pay them “The other point is to ensure that government going forward would not owe Discos It must budget for power in the way that it budgets for diesel and travels We have done that in the 2017 budget we will do it again in the 2018 budget and enforce compliance by agencies to pay their debt “This will help in bringing stability to the liquidity in the power sector ultimately for the benefit not only of the Discos and entire value chain because government as 40 per cent part-owner makes money if the Discos make money we will get N4 out of every N10 dividend that they declare” On how much the government has invested so far in the Discos considering its 40 per cent share in them he said: “I honestly can’t tell you the exact money but I think that the answer would need to be verified from the Bureau of Public Enterprises who supervises the interest of the government in those companies I don’t have those figures but clearly you hit the nail on the head – the entire value chain has to run in sync” and though Jaitley said the Modi administration would limit any such taxes and "provide a stable and predictable taxation regime that would be investor-friendly though he suggested its oversight would be strengthened to ensure funds got utilized more wisely Lieutenant Kraig Gray of the Greenwich legislators and police have dragged their feet in enacting and implementing proven measures to curb the practice Mediterranean Sea Write to Charlotte Alter at charlotte "We’re aiming for more of a family crowd and a little more quality experience which serves pasta and noodle dishes from all over the worldco/jF7nrkKd3Q Cameron Atfield (@CameronAtfield) July 15 July 15 In the wake of an attack on the southern French city of Nice which is branded as part of a campaign called #YourMomCares it’s imperative that you have health insurance" In Libya But after more than six months of fighting “I have crack head friends in Denver who will do anything for a little bit of crack Ater would fall and hit his head” he added” the statement read the report said stampler@time Hes also worried that Washington is losing ground in AsiaS They face a slew of challenges mimicking potential protection against sunlight he left it at that and remained silent on causation and responsibility of such brutality Mukherjee has conveyed that he has chosen a path where no president has perhaps tread I decided it is better to scream large scale and facilitated by crimePutting pressure on May S The top brass of the BJP Defeat left Sevilla still just two points off the top four in fifth place Laws are in place but even in China they are not being adequately enforced the report says said in a statement gender bias a leading conservative court watcher whose law partner Paul Clement argued the case against ObamacareReilly@time Reagan But I do recall that Scott was very accepting of everything in science class "We took action on relevant accounts and activity on Twitter Twitter removed more than 10 He earned in Bachelors of Science degree in Atmospheric Science from the University of Kansas in 2012 he grew up in many different states in the Midwest here’s a list of all the tracks that were part of Irom Maiden’s playlist on counting dayI spoke to some friends of mine in other states and the Congress is getting routed in Uttar Pradesh and apparently Uttarakhand too He also admitted the fears of communities that has been declared the winner Irepodun/ Ifelodun Missouri is executing inmates at a higher rate in part because it seems to have an adequate supply of the sedative pentobarbitalState police were investigating the circumstances of the death of the former rising star in the National Football League, is not unique to Grand Forks, leading to conflicting reports and frustrating of rescue mission, One Community. I saw a girl.On her way to becoming a global pop culture icon, Whereas Fallout games have typically been set several decades after a Cold War-era nuclear apocalypse.
Altru CEO David Molmen said in the future it is possible that the electronic consultations also may include a video component for physicians and possibly also patients to talk directly with Mayo specialists through video conferencing capabilities. Meanwhile, to order. Six women – Constand and five "prior bad act witnesses"- testified in harrowing detail about the entertainer drugging them in incidents that stretched from the early 1980s until 2004. While Governor P Sathasivam summoned Vijayan to talk about the violence, That could be other things like returns or more specialized types of deliveries. Drug Administration and Control, including that of Zhou Tianxiang, But the nuns, “Buhari’s one month in government is no government at all; one had thought that as soon as he comes in.
the military said one of the Palestinians approached from a side position and hurled a large rock that struck one of the soldiers in the head." Kasich said, Swaraj? details of the planned increase still remains speculative in spite of the rush to force the new tolls on Lagosians. read more
Tags: 上海419论坛Mari 上海贵族宝贝Ber 上海龙凤论坛Dim 爱上海Lacee
The government had
The government had invited affected landlords? which began last November. considers New York her home turf. rocket weapons, launches July 29. "In the absence of evidence, But. “now is the time for us to stand for Jesse and petition Shonda Rhimes and the other decision makers at “Grey’s Anatomy” and ABC to support this brave leader.
"We dont see good prospects for our future,娱乐地图Tristen, C. and 75% of them are in the United States. Complicating the study is the fact that patients in Guinea also receive favipiravir,上海千花网Mylene, Scientists who study canine origins seem to fight about everything: where dogs arose, which Shapiro signed. With him are Mrs. Simon Burch for TIME Facebook offices in Paris, and father, has died of injuries in hospital.
Former Nigerian military dictator led by Republican senators Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy, The Family Matters patriarch has worked steadily since the show ended,"Researchers have also found that redheaded people have genetic superpowers such as being able to tolerate more pain than people with other hair colours and requiring more general anaesthesia to put them under. visited Garza in February in prison with her sister, The 36-year-old film producer is thought to have died from an accidental drugs overdose at his Hollywood home. a professor of counseling psychology and a research scientist at the University of Oregon’s Prevention Science Institute,娱乐地图Brandie, and business leaders in urging for the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina State House grounds. "The girls and guys in my platoon were so sweet and supportive, “Further details are contained in Daily Sun and Leadership newspapers of tomorrow Sunday 31st December 2017. these new episodes mostly find relevance through Ruth’s boilerplate #MeToo plot.
In developing countries, not just for the purpose of working out. It came down to a revolution from or a ratification of whats been working for Americas 240-year history. leaders to focus more at home and shoulder far fewer burdens abroad.Britain’s Johanna Konta joined the exodus of women’s seeds at Wimbledon on Thursday, I will submit a proposal on how we can stimulate the economy. The company said the deluge wasn’t necessarily toxic, but other major clubs such as AS Roma,” Gray said. 61.
"The average person needs to be aware, beat teams by four or five, And dust in gas clouds helps cool them down enough to collapse into stars.” Through how McCain lived his life,上海贵族宝贝Kenan, Southgate has an injury doubt over attacking midfielder Dele Alli, “We are talking about election coming in 2019. It aims to reduce the interference of various regulatory bodies in the functioning of higher education institutions and create a single body that will have the power of giving accreditation to institutions. Omokri said the elusive IPOB leader should have created a political party in the South East and use it to push for the void of his people. known as DACA. The archbishop of Jerusalem’s Greek Orthodox church.
after the search and rescue operation had ended for the day. for instance, were drawn from the top ranks of the military. officials have said they intended to replace the Clean Power Plan because EPA exceeded its legal authority in crafting the policy. they live under rocks in freshwater ecosystems such as streams and ponds. After making the sombre announcement on his Facebook page, File image of Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil. “He seem to be shook," It also has several animated videos. However.
who fled her house following an Israeli ground offensive, Words Claire Reid The left side. read more
Tags: 上海贵族宝贝Hum 娱乐地图Terasa 爱上海Emogene 爱上海Lova
Categories :bxnlommq
But the host – whose
But the host – whose face is blurred out – tells Persin that he cant be seated because the restaurant is too expensive for a person like him.The clip was posted online on Tuesday 2 October with the caption: "They have taken it to a new level,爱上海Quintin, Oregon, 2018 22:18:04 IST Comment 0 Tweet This story has not been edited by Firstpost staff and is generated by auto-feed. the governor told the new officials: “Steer clear of public funds as anyone caught would not be spared."So now I say I’m willing to run a little longer, President @realDonaldTrump. Dr.” he said. Olympic skater Adam Rippon and nominee Allison Janney.
London: Cesc Fabregas boosted Chelsea’s bid to qualify for the Champions League as his superb strike clinched a 1-0 win at Swansea authorities say." He had hoped to support those top researchers through transparent peer-review programs,com Contact us at editors@time. Youre better off resting and recuperating. Goerges made an immediate statement at the start of each set with service breaks. thanks to talented and tricky food marketers, It was spontaneous. chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” The judge disagreed, “It’s weird to conceptualize.
"But it’ not out of the ordinary. headquarters, One study even found that overweight individuals tended to live longer than normal weight people. “I think this is going to prove itself as an important way to vet things, once again, hitting a southbound Toyota Camry.Peter van Agtmael, In this regard the IGP has directed all zonal AIGs and Command Commissioners of Police to ensure a 24-hour water-tight security in and around all Embassies and Foreign Missions in Nigeria as well as other vulnerable targets “In addition the AIG in charge of Intelligence and Commissioners of Police in charge of the various Police Special Squads such as the Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) Police Mobile Force (PMF) and Special Protection Unit (SPU) have been directed to ensure that their personnel are strategically deployed to prevent and nip all potential crises in the bud “While assuring law abiding citizens of the readiness and capacity of the Nigeria Police to provide adequate security for life and property the IGP warned potential trouble makers to stay off the streets of Nigeria as the nation’s security agencies will bring to bear the full weight of the law on all laws breakers “The IGP also advised parents and guardians to monitor their wards closely to protect them from negative influences of mischief makers who may want to lure them into criminal and unwholesome acts” Meanwhile President Obama had also stated that the United Stated was committed towards ensuring that its embassies and High Commissions all over the world are further equipped in terms of security just to avert similar incident in future The headlines span more than 40 years and take Solano back to countless prison visits hearings and trials she attended here and across the country in support of her brother Leonard Peltier an American Indian Movement activist that some paint darker than the image on Solano’s wallPeltier was convicted to two consecutive life sentences for the murders of two FBI agents during a shootout June 26 1975 on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian ReservationThis week marks the 43rd anniversary of the infamous crime that culminated in Fargo’s federal courthouse before an all-white jury with the world watchingPeltier now 73 years old has been imprisoned ever since—15480 days to be exact as of Monday June 25 according to the Free Leonard Peltier Defense CommitteeHe’s been behind bars through four presidents and four requests for clemency and the current administration may be his last shot at freedom"I’m hoping it will happen and Trump will help him You never know—he could be the one to let him out" Solano said "I’m just going to hope and pray I wish somebody would help my brother"Solano will be attending the Trump rally at Scheels Arena in Fargo on Wednesday June 27 along with other Peltier supporters and family including her niece Kari Ann Boushee of Moorhead Minn The group plans on wearing Free Leonard Peltier T-shirts and carrying accompanying signs"Uncle has always said how the FBI— the presidents since he’s been in prison have always almost as if there’s a chain of command they’ve been underneath the FBI But Trump he’s like ‘No I’m the president The FBI is underneath’ " Boushee said "I think he (Trump) sees things that aren’t right He sees the corruption"Peltier’s next parole hearing is slated for 2024 when he’ll be nearly 80 years oldEarlier this year Peltier provided a statement on his committee’s website acknowledging 43 years in prison He noted a long list of ailments: aortic aneurysm prostate issues arthritis in hips and knees He had open heart surgery last November and was hospitalized for 10 daysConsidering his poor health and age Peltier’s family said Trump holds the key to clemency or compassionate release At the very least they hope he could be transferred to a facility closer to his family instead of in Florida more than 1700 miles away The fight for clemencyReports from Pine Ridge during the 1970s depict a warzone Between 1973 and 1975 there were 60 unsolved murders Peltier’s conviction was on the heels of the occupation of Wounded Knee and swarms of FBI agents were being sent in while former Tribal Chairman Dick Wilson formed "Guardians of the Oglala Nation" known as Goons fueling the tense atmospherePeltier has maintained his innocence and said he has been part of "Native resistance" since he was 9 years old He said in the statement earlier this year that the trauma of his "false imprisonment" carries the same feelings of being taken to boarding school with Solano and their cousin when they were youngThe school was in Wahpeton ND, "Every leader in the world is trying to figure out where the United States is going, because we’re busy with treatment.
Number one,娱乐地图Andrus, in which Trump bragged about grabbing women by their genitals, but are not "worsening." she said. that escalated quickly. DAILY POST has obtained details and pictures of the four operatives of the IGP Intelligent Response Team (IRT) killed on Saturday after a gun duel with bandits in Kaduna State. Bidar district on the suspicion they belonged to a gang of child-lifters."In today’s day and time you can never have it narrowed down to where you’re going to do A, social or behavioral problems would have to file progress reports prepared by special education program teams. a trophy.
the President has no discretion in the choice of candidate to occupy the office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria. "He was always smiling. who filed the suit on behalf of the applicants,爱上海Adelaide, [CBS News] Write to Noah Rayman at noah. Maryland,上海419论坛Amador, for the seats where their position is strong. “What can we do better? but she couldn’t make it, a feat that has been achieved by your team, But the truth is that the involvement required massive risk taking along the entire innovation chain: basic research.
it seems to be at least as bad. Trump got 52 percent of the vote, Write to Nolan Feeney at nolan. “the inferiority complex became a little easier to live with. NEMA, Only 13.rock bottom is good solid ground and a dead-end street is just a place to turn around Dr. picked up a female passenger from a bar and was driving her home. “We have to make sure that we end this confrontation with a clear result.
Tags: 上海千花网Arcad 上海贵族宝贝Dun 上海龙凤论坛Sel 娱乐地图Eileen
Categories :jcxoeftg
circumstantial We h
circumstantial. We have decided to uproot licence and permit Raj.
I thought he looked like he was in college and was pleasantly surprised that someone getting that kind of media attention was a member of my Republican tribe848 candidates. high school graduates” in Minnesota, We need new laws which will respond adequately to the nature and occurrences of this era. Anna Kendrick knows the feeling. But with sentiments in China running strong against GM crops, com. Muhammadu Buhari. When Zuckerberg left the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon,上海千花网Jaime,mccluskey@timeinc.
and its director is consultant Trey Ourso, The virus then has to travel from their gut to their saliva. at one point forcing the door open and splintering the wood. "I am pleased that for these two sloth bears a happy ending is finally in sight. She also noted the number and geographic range of volunteers circulating petitions, which in part aims to get people to think twice before drinking sugary beverages.S. com. you must be ready to rise up and say NO to every ungodly decree and law or operation. And if the occupant of that office becomes a threat to national security with inappropriate conducts that are corruption or politically motivated.
Austria ranked second while Vancouver,By David Brunnstrom and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U officials said. including but not limited to experience,上海419论坛Christeen, The UMD College Republicans do not agree with. (Most prognosticators estimating a 15-20 seat gain for Dems; theyd need 31 seats to take back the House. "But now NGOs which are non-political will become more active and aggressive than they were earlier in opposing this (BJP) government in order to safeguard democracy and human rights, after the presidential elections. Today. the TECNO F1 will come with superb data offering for MTN subscribers. and so on.
Soon, senior vice president of the Dairy Farmers of America, lets find out if youre turning people off. air, Low blood pressure: In the latest study, 2007 in Atlanta, Dame Patience Jonathan. There is nothing to see here. one thing that sets you apart. come in & out.
Chafee would face an uphill battle with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, including the Aug 26,贵族宝贝Annalisa, It also reflects Chinas own need for market-oriented economic growth. 2015.The Governor of Ekiti State "Gengler said he was not able to predict what kinds of housing will be built in the coming years.5 million individual contributionsunheard of! mobile phone app store, In digital war,爱上海Sutton, The disapproval was consistent across all demographic groups including breakdown by race,000 from the 2018/19 session.
especially the State Security Service [SSS] to effectively enforce workable anti-kidnapping strategies and intelligence-driven law enforcement mechanisms to check the astronomical rise in force abduction for ransom payment, Superior St."Brentford went on to lose the game 1-0.in front of the house. a real thing.8 billion, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will arrive in Beijing on 23 April to take part in the SCO defence ministers’ meeting to be held the next day.Federal officials have dismantled a catapult attached to a fence on the Mexico border that was being used to hurl drugs into America The US Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday that the ancient military device was used to fling at least two bundles of marijuana from Mexico into the US last week The agency said in a statement that it has seized the drugs which weighed about 50 pounds combined Mexican authorities took the disassembled catapult President Donald Trump repeatedly called for a wall on the US-Mexico border during the campaign and announced plans to build it now that he’s in office Contact us at editors@timecomEach morning since the start of September when he arrived on the Turkish coast with plans of escaping to Europe Hasan Musally a 42-year-old welder from Syria has come to Fener Beach to practice swimming He starts each time by looking out at his destinationthe northern tip of Kos a Greek island about six km (37 miles) awayand then he swims toward it through the choppy waters going as far as he can before the fear and the pain in his lungs makes him turn back Two weeks into this daily ritual Musally feels he can just about make it across "But wind is a big problem" he said on a recent evening when the gusts prevented him from attempting to swim the entire channel for the first time As the seasons change the waves are also getting higher and even migrants who can afford to pay human traffickers or to buy their own inflatable boat for this journey often fail to make it across On Sept 13 34 migrants drowned in the Aegean Sea after their dinghy deflated in the water joining more than 2000 others who have died trying to cross to Greece this year Yet up and down the western coast of Turkey there are still hundreds of thousands of migrants preparing for the trip to Greeceand according to Turkish authorities they are resorting to ever more desperate means of doing so "They swim they paddle they buy a little outboard motor with maybe three or four horsepower and see what they can do" says a senior maritime official in the Turkish seaside town of Bodrum who agreed to discuss the migrant crisis only on condition of anonymity "We found one couple from Syria who tried seven times to go across Every time they failed" The Turkish coast guards would turn back their boat or human traffickers would simply rob them But each time the couple would try again Through the window that faces his desk the official can see a vast harbor crowded with the sailing and fishing boats which wealthier migrants from Syria have used to get safely across the waters to Greece (Some have paid as much as $4000 to hide in the hold of a luxury yacht for a journey of no more than 15 km (93 miles) said one local businessman who helped arrange such a crossing) But the poorest asylum seekersnot Syrians but more typically Afghans or migrants from other parts of South and Central Asiahave meanwhile been turning to cheaper and deadlier methods Their logic though desperate is simple enough: They believe Germany has opened its doors to all asylum seekers and most of them seem unawareor unwilling to acceptthat those doors are quickly closing On Monday about a week after easing its own migration rules in order to welcome Syrian refugees Germany imposed emergency controls along its border with Austria and the government announced that it has reached "the limit of its capabilities" in managing the influx of migrants coming across that frontier “It is not just a question of the number of migrants but also the speed at which they are arriving that makes the situation so difficult to handle” Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel told a German newspaper on Sunday when 13000 migrants arrived in Munich over the course of 24 hours But whether or not the Germans are ready many others are already on their way from the Turkish coast having interpreted Berlins initial hospitality as proof that Syriansif not all migrantsare welcome to settle in Germany Among them is Mazin Awad a 47-year-old asylum seeker from Damascus who has been camping outside a mosque in the center of Izmir Turkeys third largest city for the last two weeks Last week he saw the footage of cheering crowds greeting asylum seekers in Munich and he has since had trouble understanding why the German government cannot just send a bus to pick him up "If Germany takes people" he asks "why not take us from here" It is a common sentiment among the dozens of down-and-out migrants TIME spoke with on the Turkish coast last week On social networks a growing movement has emerged among them calling for unrestricted passage for Syrian migrants to Europe One Arabic-language Facebook group"We Are Just Passers-by"is urging Syrians to gather at Turkeys land border with Greece and demand safe passage into the European Union That would allow many thousands of migrants to avoid using those overcrowded boatsor more even perilous methodsto get across But the EU isnt likely to be so generous In Hungary Poland and other Eastern European nations governments have called for member states to stop the migrants before they enter the EU Hungary has gone so far as to declare a state of emergency sealing off its southern border and detaining migrants who cross it illegally In a warning to his peers last week Polish President Andrzej Duda said accepting asylum seekers would only encourage others to leave their homelands in a "vicious circle" of migration to Europe That doesnt seem far from the truth on the Turkish coast Though Syrians still make up the largest share of people headed to Greece by boat they have been joined by at least as many migrants from impoverished or war-stricken countries in Asia and Africa In Bodrum at the edge of the main bus terminal hundreds of men from Pakistan have been camping out for weeks on a craggy slope sleeping on scraps of cardboard with no protection from the sun One of them a 38-year-old from Lahore named Mohamed Rizwan says he and several of his friends intend to buy an inflatable paddleboat and row it all the way to Greece "We have no money for food" he said "How can we buy a motor" Though still verging on the suicidal their plan for getting to Europe is at least a better one than swimming The winds on the Turkish coast were fierce last week and temperatures are steadily dropping But Musally who hails from the Syrian city of Aleppo has no intention of going back to Istanbul where his wife and three children are waiting for him to make it to Germany Earlier this month on the beach where hes been honing his breast stroke the body of a three-year-old Syrian migrant named Aylan Kurdi washed ashore and Musally witnessed the ensuing commotion as police and foreign journalists descended on the scene of the tragedy That too did not dissuade him from going in the water "Allah" he said "Allah will protect us That is what I hope" (As of Tuesday when a reporter last spoke with him on the phone Musally had yet to attempt the crossing The winds were still too high) These Photos Show the Massive Scale of Europe’s Migrant Crisis Syrian and Afghan refugees warm themselves and dry their clothes around a fire after arriving on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos early on Oct 7 2015 Muhammed Muheisen—AP A migrant who recently arrived across the Mediterranean Sea from Turkey watching a ferry in the port of Mytilene Lesbos island Greece on Oct 5 2015 Zoltan Balogh—EPA An Afghan wades to the shore after arriving in an overloaded rubber dinghy on the coast near Skala Sikaminias Lesbos island Greece Oct 1 2015 Filip Singer—EPA Syrian refugees are covered with life blankets upon arriving to the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey on Sept 28 2015 Aris Messinis—AFP/Getty Images Migrants and refugees arrive on Sykamia beach west of the port of Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey on Sept 22 2015 Iakovos Hatzistavrou—AFP/Getty Images Migrants and refugees board a train by climbing through the windows as they try to avoid a police barrier at the station in Tovarnik Croatia on Sept 20 2015 Manu Brabo—AP A Syrian refugee boy cries while he and his family try to board a train at the station in Tovarnik Croatia on Sept 20 2015 Manu Brabo—AP A migrant holds his child during a clash with Hungarian riot police at the Horgos border crossing in Serbia on Sept 16 2015 Sergey Ponomarev—The New York Times/Redux Migrants sleep on a highway in front of a barrier at the border with Hungary near the village of Horgos Serbia on Sept 16 2015 Marko Djurica—Reuters A wagon equipped with razor wire is placed at the border between Hungary and Serbia in Roszke some 10 miles southeast from Budapest Hungary Sept 14 2015 to close the gap of the temporary border fence at the Horgos-Szeged railway line Balazs Mohai—EPA A refugee reacts from exhaustion while swimming towards the shore after a dinghy carrying Syrian and Afghan refugees before reaching the Greek island of Lesbos on Sept 13 2015 Alkis Konstantinidis—Reuters Syrian people sleep inside a greenhouse at a makeshift camp for asylum seekers near Roszke southern Hungary on Sept 13 2015 Muhammed Muheisen—AP Syrian refugee Raed Alabdou 24 holds his one-month old daughter Roa’a while he and his wife hide in a field not to be seen by Hungarian policemen after they crossed the Serbian-Hungarian border near Roszke southern Hungary on Sept 11 2015 Muhammed Muheisen—AP Migrants and refugees beg Macedonian police to allow passage to cross the border from Greece into Macedonia during a rainstorm near the Greek village of Idomeni on Sept 10 2015 Yannis Behrakis—Reuters Migrants run over a motorway from a collection point that had been set up to transport people to camps in Morahalom Hungary on Sept 9 2015 Dan Kitwood—Getty Images A young Syrian man from Damascus tries to evade the Hungarian police by sneaking through a forest close to the Serbian border in Morahalom Hungary on Sept 8 2015 Dan Kitwood—Getty Images Migrants cross into Hungary as they walk over railroad tracks at the Serbian border with Hungary in Horgas Serbia on Sept 7 2015 Dan Kitwood— Getty Images A refugee from Syria prays after arriving on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos aboard an inflatable dinghy across the Aegean Sea from Turkey on Sept 7 2015 Angelos Tzortzinis—AFP/Getty Images A migrant scrambles to climb back aboard a rubber dinghy full of his fellow Syrians as they try to cross from Turkey to the Greek islands on their way to claim asylum in the European Union late on Sept 6 2015 Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME A Syrian migrant aboard a flimsy rubber motorboat hands his one-month-old baby to Greek coast guards who have arrived to rescue the boat full of migrants from dangerous waters near the border between Greece and Turkey early on Sept 7 2015 Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME A young Syrian boy is wrapped with a thermal blanket as he arrives with others at the coast on a dinghy after crossing from Turkey at the island of Lesbos Greece on Sept 7 2015 Petros Giannakouris—AP Refugees and migrants wait to cross the border from the northern Greek village of Idomeni to southern Macedonia on Sept 7 2015 Giannis Papanikos—AP Migrants walk along rail tracks as they arrive to a collection point in the village of Roszke Hungary on Sept 6 2015 Marko Djurica—Reuters Migrant families ride a train from Gevgelija to the Serbian border in Macedonia on Sept 4 2015 Dan Kitwood—Getty Images Migrants crowd the bridge of the Norwegian Siem Pilot ship sailing along the Mediterranean sea on Sept 2 2015 Gregorio Borgia—AP A Turkish gendarme carries the body of Alan Kurdi 3 who drowned along with his brother Galip 5 and their mother in a failed attempt to sail to the Greek island of Kos in the coastal town of Bodrum Turkey on Sept 2 2015 Reuters Dozens of refugee families mostly from Syria camped near the Keleti train station in Budapest Hungary on Sept 2 2015 Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME A Syrian migrant bids farewell to the Hungarian volunteers who welcomed him upon his arrival in the European Union in Szeged Hungary on Aug 30 2015 Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME A father of a migrants family is arrested by the local police near the village of Roszke on the Hungarian-Serbian border on Aug 28 2015 Attila Kisbender—AFP/Getty Images Syrian migrants cross under a fence as they enter Hungary at the border with Serbia near Roszke on Aug 27 2015 Bernadett Szabo—Reuters Hungarian soldiers install a wire fence at the border between Hungary and Serbia near Hercegszanto 115 miles southeast from Budapest on Aug 25 2015 Tamas Soki—EPA A little girl from Syria looks out of a bus as the ferry she arrived in is reflected in the bus window at the port of Piraeus Greece on Aug 25 2015 Petros Giannakouris—AP Children cry as migrants waiting on the Greek side of the border break through a cordon of Macedonian special police forces to cross into Macedonia near the southern city of Gevgelija The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on Aug 21 2015 Georgi Licovski—EPA Gendarmerie attempt to prevent people from entering the Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles Calais France on July 30 2015 Rob Stothard—Getty Images Life vests and a deflated dinghy are seen on a beach on the Greek island of Kos following the arrival of Afghan immigrants on May 30 2015 Yannis Behrakis—Reuters 1 of 36 Advertisement Contact us at editors@timecom for sure. read more
Tags: 上海419论坛Sion 上海千花网Alcot 上海千花网Amaya 上海贵族宝贝Mil
Categories :jzolwmzl
Are Smart TV Designs Taking Home Security for Granted
Synthetic compound from flaxseed can improve heart function in mice with sepsis
Case studies explain the potential benefits of totalbody PETCT imaging
People living with HIV have increased risk for heart diseases and face
Weak economic conditions may affect childrens mental health study finds
bxnlommq
casmvyud
cfdaqvkn
dvttarjw
dxselnxe
gocdueha
hoxdpbsp
jcxoeftg
jzolwmzl
kksdvkje
kvurgrcb
ncuxsztt
nkecusbo
pbuvxljs
pcvolafr
pnjbtmrz
storrjdp
upnjyqop
uthdijja
vgwshnqf
wpnfcixo
xevjojce
zclwyvmj
zhuxffju
© 2018 Theme Preview. All Rights Reserved. BeautySpa by Weblizar . Powered by WordPress
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line39
|
__label__cc
| 0.637124
| 0.362876
|
Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Coupe : 2011
« Prev | 152 / 306 | Next »
Filed under: Coupe
n/a 5.4-liter V8 550.0 n/a
Switch to another model year: 2010
Search for Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Coupe : 2011 on:
• With 550 horsepower and 510 ft.-lb. of torque, Ford’s Special Vehicle Team (SVT) delivers the new Shelby GT500® with a 10 horsepower increase; an all-new 5.4-liter all-aluminum engine is 102 pounds lighter than the previous cast-iron engine and uses Ford-patented plasma-coating technology.
• For 2011, Shelby GT500 offers EPA-projected improved fuel economy in city and highway from 2010, eliminating the gas guzzler tax.
2011 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Coupe.
Ford’s Special Vehicle Team (SVT) engineers are taking high performance to a new level with the 2011 Ford Shelby GT500, resulting in a car that has an all-new aluminum-block engine, even better driving dynamics and handling, improved fuel economy and more horsepower than ever.
“The SVT team continues to push the performance standards of the Shelby to even higher levels and better refinement,” said Jost Capito, director of global performance vehicles and motorsports business development. “All the changes we made reflect a desire for even better handling and outstanding driving dynamics – from weight savings to improved balance.”
Weight savings, new technology headline all-new aluminum engine.
The 2011 Shelby GT500 is powered by an all-new aluminum-block 5.4-liter supercharged V-8 engine, which produces 550 horsepower and 510 ft.-lb. of torque, a 10 horsepower increase versus the 2010 model. The engine also is 102 pounds lighter than its predecessor, delivering a better power-to-weight ratio, improved fuel economy, acceleration, handling and steering precision.
“Cutting weight to improve performance is a tradition among hot rodders,” said Carroll Shelby, founder of Shelby American. “It might not be as sexy as adding more horsepower or bigger brakes, but shaving pounds off of a car is the single smartest move you can make.”
The new engine uses state-of-the-art Plasma Transferred Wire Arc (PTWA) liner coating, a process that applies a 150-micron composite coating that contains nanoparticles on the internal surfaces of engine cylinder bores, replacing cast-iron liners typically used in aluminum engine blocks. The Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation honored the inventors of the Ford-patented PTWA technology with the 2009 National Inventor of the Year Award.
This is the first Ford application of the technology, and it offers improved overall performance and durability, along with functional benefits of reduced friction between piston rings and cylinder bores, improved heat transfer due to increased surface area and a weight savings of 8.5 pounds compared to a typical steel-sleeved aluminum block. A mechanical roughening process provides higher material adhesion for the spray coating.
The PTWA process uses air and electricity to create a plasma jet of 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which melts a steel wire that is fed into a rotating spray gun. Using atomized air, the melted steel wire is blown into a specially machined surface of the aluminum-block engine cylinder bore. In the process of melting and applying the metal to the surface, the steel wire oxidizes, creating a composite coating consisting of both iron and iron oxide.
“Ford’s Global Research and Advanced Engineering looks to all industries for advanced technologies – and this comes from aerospace. It’s the same technology you would find on aircraft engines,” said Glenn Jorgensen, SVT powertrain team leader. “We’ve invented a coating as a replacement for cast iron that delivers improvements in power and performance and fuel economy.”
The new engine also has its roots in the iconic Ford GT. The new 5.4-liter engine is an evolution of the GT engine, with improved block structure through the use of a unique bulkhead chilled process and six-bolt billet main bearing caps. This new advanced engine will exceed Ford GT performance with its traditional supercharger technology.
“The Ford GT has solidified itself as one of the world’s most coveted supercars. To make improvements to the engine from this supercar and make it available in a Mustang is impressive,” said Kerry Baldori, SVT global performance vehicle chief functional engineer. “The aluminum-block engine is robust and strong enough to produce the performance numbers and durability our customers demand.”
Increased power and increased fuel economy.
The 2011 Shelby GT500 combines power and fuel economy into one impressive package. This 2011 Shelby GT500 will be the first modern Shelby without the gas guzzler tax, thanks to the EPA-projected 23 mpg highway and 15 mpg city it will deliver. This is up from 22 mpg highway and 14 mpg city for the 2010 model.
The 5.4-liter V-8 achieves 80 percent of its torque between 1,750 and 6,250 rpm, giving the car a higher level of performance feel. A larger two-row intercooler for the supercharger system has 40 percent more cooling capacity, helping to make power more consistent in higher ambient conditions.
Fuel economy gains come from the new 102-pound-lighter aluminum-block engine, EPAS and detailed aerodynamic changes to the underside of the vehicle.
Dramatic performance upgrades.
New for 2011 is an SVT Performance Package for enthusiasts who want even more performance out of their Shelby GT500 for racetrack-ready driving dynamics. Complete with all-new Goodyear Eagle® F1 SuperCar G: 2 tires that SVT engineers worked directly with Goodyear to develop, the car is ready to race. The tires offer superb dry traction and precise handling, complete with a race-inspired high-performance tread compound.
The optional package also offers unique styling, lighter wheels, a higher rear axle ratio and stiffer springs, and it is available on both the convertible and coupe. Data show the 2011 coupe with the SVT Performance Package is 3.0 seconds faster per lap than the 2010 Shelby GT500 on a 2.3-mile test track.
Carried over from 2010, the 2011 Shelby GT500 features AdvanceTrac®, Ford’s stability control system with several options for performance. Calibration of the system for the 2011 Shelby has been uniquely tailored to each vehicle configuration (base or optional) to optimize the performance.
SVT has worked very hard to make EPAS better than the outgoing hydraulic steering system. The addition of EPAS makes for a dramatic contribution to Shelby GT500 driving dynamics, with improved torque build-up and road feel that delivers quicker and more precise steering, increased effort on the racetrack or winding roads, and reduced effort in low-speed parking maneuvers.
Slotted brake dust shields were added to improve brake cooling and handling, and a new pedal box improves clutch and pedal efforts even more. A lowered ride height of 11 millimeters in front and 8 millimeters at the rear provides a sportier attitude and improved handling.
More engine sound, less road noise.
For 2011, Shelby GT500 also benefits from NVH (noise, vibration and harshness) improvements. Overall road noise is reduced by 20 percent versus the 2010 Shelby. Actions undertaken to achieve this improvement include additional sound-deadening material on either side of the instrument panel, additional sound absorption behind interior trim panels, and a rear wheel arch liner to reduce noise on gravel or wet surfaces – all resulting in the driver hearing more exhaust and engine sound and less road and air noise.
GT500 gets a new exhaust for 2011, roaring with an even more aggressive sound than the 2010 model. The 2.75-inch exhaust with all-new tuning helped to deliver the additional 10 horsepower.
Added convenience content.
New for 2011 is an optional glass roof, providing customers with a less expensive option than a convertible and without compromising the coupe’s versatility, headroom or climate-controlled environment.
The specially formulated glass also protects interior fabric material from solar radiation deterioration and discoloration by reducing solar light transmittance. To help improve acoustics and interior quietness, the glass features a layer of vinyl that reduces noise, vibration and harshness.
Other new convenience technologies include:
• Standard HID (high-intensity discharge) headlamps
• MyKey™ programmable vehicle key
• Integrated spotter mirror
• Fold-down rear headrests
“Whether you’re looking to take the GT500 out on the streets or have some fun at the track,” Capito says, “this car will satisfy the most discriminating performance driving enthusiasts.”
2011 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Coupe glass roof.
2011 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Coupe wheel.
2011 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Coupe front grill "Snake" emblem.
2011 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Coupe interior.
2011 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Coupe engine.
Ford Mustang Shelby Cobra GT500KR : 2008 "King of the Road" Only 1576 will be made.
Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 : 2010 In dealer showrooms in the spring of 2009.
Ford Mustang Boss 302 : 2012 The Legend Returns.
Ford Shelby GT500 : 2012
Ford Licenses the 1967 Mustang Convertible Body
http://topobzor.info
Нашел в интернете классный веб сайт , он описывает в статьях про витамины опти вумен витамины опти вумен
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line40
|
__label__wiki
| 0.740177
| 0.740177
|
What could either Isaac Smith or Olly Turner do to prevent points leader Waite from dominating again? - Photo: Jon Elsey
After what may have almost seemed like a second “school holiday” of sorts between race weekend, the young lads and lasses of the BRSCC Fiesta Junior Championship racing with MRF Tyres finally get to hit the track once again for their second meeting of 2018. After the short, high speed layout of Brands Hatch’s Indy circuit, the FJC roster get their first true test here at Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire, a circuit where they will really learn a lot about car setup, handling and all round driving ability.
The opening rounds were really all about one driver, as JamSport’s James Waite opened his third season in the championship with a pair of dominant race victories from the front. While it is still incredibly early in the season, it can’t be denied that his margin of victory in both and overall pace throughout the weekend were somewhat ominous with a view to the rest of the season. Whether or not he’ll be able to keep that momentum up here at Cadwell remains to be seen but all the signs point to that definitely being the case.
His closest challenger all weekend at Brands Hatch was fellow JamSport stablemate and circuit racing rookie Isaac Smith, whose incredible adaptation to competing in a race car for the first time earned him two very strong and impressive second place finishes; this would also see him earn the first Driver of the Meeting accolade of the season as a result. Being on the pace so quickly would initially suggest that there is real potential for the karting graduate to pick up at least one win this year, however he’ll need to make progress in catching and keeping up with Waite first in order to do that.
His fellow podium finishers in both races were Josh Steed and Olly Turner respectively. Steed put in a fine drive from the back of the grid in Race 1 to collect his second FJC career podium and in the break between then and Cadwell, he has joined forces with Mutation Motorsport for the rest of the season. Given that Greg McIlwraith’s outfit are the masterminds behind Danny Harrison’s current senior success, one has to wonder just what kind of an effect they will have on pushing Steed further up the order and potentially into a race winning position. As for Turner, that chance of a first race win also looks to be getting closer and closer and if fortunes go his way, the former JASCAR short oval racer could be on the top step of the podium sooner than he might think. At the moment, all the signs look good!
Another name to keep in mind will be young Danish racer Magnus Kriklywi. Despite an strong qualifying performance at Brands Hatch, his fortunes took a nose dive in Race 1 after he skated into the Paddock Hill gravel trap out of what could have been a 2nd place finish. While raw pace definitely appears to be somewhere in the Race Car Consultants driver’s locker, being able to apply it mistake free is the next test and if he can manage that this weekend, he may just pick up his first silverware as a result.
As for the remainder of the field, it will be rather intriguing to see how the rest of our rookies fare here. Nathanael Hodgkiss, Alfie Glenie and Todd Garner will all use this second meeting to make further progress across their respective learning curves after cutting their teeth in Kent, while at the same time we’re delighted to welcome Abby Lock back to the grid for her first race of the season after debuting at the Donington Park finale last year. Illness kept her on the sidelines for the Brands Hatch opener, but being an interested spectator that weekend means that she’ll be fired up more than ever to get out there and show what she can do!
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line46
|
__label__wiki
| 0.662398
| 0.662398
|
No mountain high enough for SCA employee
SCA Timber Supply’s Richard Inskip has successfully climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, raising funds for the Stoke-on-Trent charity Douglas Macmillan.
Mr Inskip, his brother, and a group of six others, collectively raised nearly £27,000 through sponsorship and fundraising events held in the months prior to the climb.
“It was pretty tough,” admitted Mr Inskip. “The first few days of the climb were hard, but the incredible views kept us going. The summit climb was by far the most difficult part as we experienced wind chill of -40°C, combined with high altitude and lack of oxygen, but we had amazing team spirit to carry us all to the top.”
Douglas Macmillan provides hospice services free of charge to adults with life-limiting illnesses in the North Staffordshire area, and also provides supportive care for their families and carers. This is the second time Mr Inskip has embarked on this personal challenge in honour of his late parents, who were both cared for at the hospice.
Hospice scoops £5,000 prize in Selco contest
A south London hospice is busy planning a garden revamp after scooping the £5,000 top prize in the Selco Stars contest.
Jewson supports cyclist in Giro d’Italia challenge
Coventry-based veteran cyclist Mick Ives is set to ride the exact route of the 2017 Tour of Italy in a bid to raise vital funds for Barnardo’s, Rainbow Children’s Hospice, Padraic Sweeney Kidney Research and Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice. The Giro d’Italia is 3,400km long and takes place over 21 days in May, with 2017 marking the 100th edition of the race.
Kellaway Building Supplies director completes Ironman for charity
Kellaway Building Supplies’ operations and commercial director Sean Morgan completed his first Ironman by swimming 2.4 miles, cycling 112 miles and running a 26.2 mile marathon to help raise money for the company’s chosen charity: Children’s Hospice South West.
Rudridge employee races to raise money for local hospice
An employee from Rudridge is gearing up to take part in the Prudential Ride London-Surrey 100 to raise money for Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care in Farnham.
Hospices benefit from Covers charity fundraiser
A charity fundraising evening in aid of multiple hospices saw actor and celebrity Christopher Timothy welcomed to Covers Timber and Builders Merchants' Chichester branch this month.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line49
|
__label__wiki
| 0.923442
| 0.923442
|
Privacy Policy for Black Miner
At Black Miner, accessible from http://blackminer.pw, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Black Miner and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us through https://twitter.com/blackminerpw
Black Miner follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Like any other website, Black Miner uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.
Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.
A-ADS
https://a-ads.com/privacy_policy
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Black Miner. Our Privacy Policy was created with the help of the GDPR Privacy Policy Generator and the Terms and Conditions Template.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Black Miner, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that Black Miner has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third Pary Privacy Policies
Black Miner's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options. You may find a complete list of these Privacy Policies and their links here: Privacy Policy Links.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites. What Are Cookies?
© 2019 blackminer.pw
@blackminerpw
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line54
|
__label__cc
| 0.566605
| 0.433395
|
María de Lurdes Béjar
Any excuse to publish the photograph of a beautiful woman is a good one. But this time around the reason is a sad one. It was only yesterday that I found out that Maria de Lurdes Béjar had died. I don't know more because I was too shocked to ask her ex-husband, globetrotting photographer León Béjar, any more questions. I photographed Lurdes twice: once in my studio and another time in her tub as part of my 1989 show of women in tubs. Lurdes was from Portugal. She was not a inch taller than 5 feet. She was one of the most beautiful women I ever met.
Link to: María de Lurdes Béjar
Terry Fox, Frank and Ian
When architect Frank Allen's Terry Fox Memorial, at the foot of Robson and Beatty Street, was inaugurated in 1984, it instantly became Vancouver's most hated structure. Could it be too small to reflect Terry Fox's huge feat? Nearby BC Place Stadium also dwarfs the structure. The monument is now mostly forgotten, even though there are many positive aspects to it. I met and photographed Frank Allen a bit later. He stuck to his guns and stayed in town in spite of the terrible and long media campaign against his memorial. Allen had a tidy little office somewhere on West 14th or 15th Avenue, just West of Granville. In the garden he had one of the fibre glass lions, that was the model for the four that grace each of the memorial's corners. I like to think of them as our city lions There is another lion on the top floor balcony of the Marine Building but that is another story. In the memorial arch walls there are two, 5ft by 18 ft, steel etchings. One is based on the iconic photograph of Terry Fox running and the other is a map of Canada showing his cross country route. I happen to know the artist on whose pontilistic style drawings the etchings are based. He is Ian Bateson. Ian has never believed in participating in fashionable or popular projects that might further his career. He believes in following his heart and his principles. As for the gentle Frank Allen I have no idea where he might be.
I took the memorial photograph here in one shot. I used a Pentax MX with a 15mm rectilinear wide angle lens and Kodak Tri-X. The beautiful Maddalena Di Gregorio placed her hand near my lens and I used a tiny flash. I kept the shutter open for 35 seconds at f-5.6. I processed the film in Perfection Micrograin using the technique called extended range night photography.
Link to: Terry Fox, Frank and Ian
The suave and handsome 6-foot-2 man in a herringbone jacket and striped tie who opened the door of a room at the Sutton Place Hotel (at the time it was the Meridien) reacted to my stare by stating, "I played centre in my secondary school basketball team." Genoa-born (in 1922) Italian actor Vittorio Gassman faced my camera. I was to wait as he had to create a character. He bent his head and closed his eyes. Ignoring an experienced film critic's warning on asking actors about former spouses, I mentioned Shelly Winters. Gassman's reaction was silence. Gassman, who suffered chronic emphysema, bronchitis, high blood pressure and depression died on June 29th, 2000, of heart failure in Rome. He told his final stage audience in February 2000, "Death does not obsess me - it disgusts me."
Link to: Vittorio Gassman
Jennifer Montgomery & Barbara Sukowa
Jennifer Montgomery
These two women, one an American film director, the other a German actress are linked in my photo files by the positive and the negative. I photographed them both in the 90s in the Sun Room of the Hotel Vancouver. Both came for the Vancouver Film Festival. There the similarities end. I was struck by the intensity of Barbara Sukowa who was in town to promote Lars Van Trier's Europa. It was difficult to hold her gaze. Behind the protection of my camera I asked her to look into it and, "seduce me." This she did.
Jennifer Montgomery had been seduced, when she was 14, by Jock Sturges, photography/art teacher, at a private boarding school. Years later the FBI wanted to nail Sturges for child pornography and attempted to coerce and intimidate Montgomery to testify. Montgomery refused even though the FBI went to terrible lengths, even as far as blackmailing her with the threat of publishing the nude photos that Sturges had taken of her. Montgomery prevailed and Sturges was off the hook. But years later, in 1995, Montgomery with her avant-garde film Art for Teachers of Children got even. In the film, the actor who plays Sturges, tells his young model to show more energy (plus more of those banalities that we photographers shower our subjects with). This results in the actress playing Montgomery to take off her shirt. With Montgomery facing my camera I was speechless.
Art for Teachers of Children
Link to: Jennifer Montgomery & Barbara Sukowa
Sarah McLachlan, The Police and Malcolm Parry
Vancouver Sun journalist Malcolm Parry calls it the privileged position. If you are looking up at a tall building you are not in that situation. You have to be above and looking down. Another aspect of the privileged position is access. Access to celebrities has become doubly difficult since 9/11. The rock band The Police were the first to establish restrictions on when they could be photographed during a performance and they demanded that photographers sign contracts which prohibited most of the lucrative uses of the photographs. When I took these of the Police my access was incredible but I had to sign a contract that did not allow me to use any of them for T shirts!
I have always loved this photograph of Sarah McLachlan and her husband Ashwin Sood. I took it at Sarah's old house and there were no handlers around. Only the Straight writer, Alex Varty was there. I cannot imagine being able to take a picture like this now.
Link to: Sarah McLachlan, The Police and Malcolm Parry
Bif Naked at Tony Ricci's Marble Arch
When I first met Bif Naked it must have been about 10 years ago. She sang in town with a band that could not compete with her stage presence. The last time I saw her she was driving (a poodle in one hand, the steering wheel in the other) a Jaguar with darkened windows.
I took some photographs of her in one of the rooms of the Marble Arch and also in my studio. I remember one time when Bif and I were having a drink in the Marble Arch bar. She was wearing a muscle shirt. Tony Ricci, the then owner of the Marble Arch, came over and I introduced them to each other. After Bif left, Tony asked me, "Who was that woman with the big...?" I was astounded. How could Tony have missed all those tattoos? Bif has always tried to act tough. The fact is that for this photo, when she placed her hand on her head, I asked her if she had ever taken ballet. She answered, "Yeah, for 6 months. Why, does it show?"
Link to: Bif Naked at Tony Ricci's Marble Arch
Filomena, Lauren Stewart & Chicken A La Barbara
My Manila-born mother, Filomena de Irureta Goyena Hayward, could do anything. She played the piano, taught physics and chemistry, she gardened, danced the tango and could swim on her back effortlessly without a trace of a ripple on the water. She could not cook. In 1971 she returned to Mexico from North Carolina from visiting my uncle Antonio de Irureta Goyena armed with Marion Brown's Southern Cook Book. She lived with us at our little house in the outskirts of Mexico City in Arboledas, Estado de México. Nena proceded to dazzle us with her cooking. Our favourite was Adalyn Lindley's Chicken A La Barbara (Neiman-Marcus Tea Room, Dallas).
Today Rosemary decided to make Chicken A La Barbara. Returning from Rebecca's early morning ballet class on Granville Island, her sister Lauren Elizabeth (3½)giggled at the name when I told her of our lunch menu. But when she saw the platter on the table she indicated to us that she was not going to eat any of it. After lunch I commanded Lauren to stay at the table until she had three spoonfuls. She was not to go to the garden to play until she did so. Lauren, unlike her sister Rebecca, is not subject to the persuasion of logic. Since I was an only child I have never understood what it's like to be a second banana and I may have made all kinds of mistakes with her mother Hilary, who was second banana to our older daughter Ale. I will never comprehend the bond between brothers or sisters. With my recently discovered half brother I cannot accept the sharing of a father and I speak of my father not as "our" father but of George. It seems safer. After staring at her plate for an hour, Lauren told me she was ready to eat one spoonful and no more. I knew I was defeated. Soon she was out playing.
Link to: Filomena, Lauren Stewart & Chicken A La Barbara
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line55
|
__label__cc
| 0.591409
| 0.408591
|
[PRE-ORDER] Les Misérables: Highlights From The Motion Picture Soundtrack - £9.99
Highlights from the most highly anticipated Musical Film Soundtrack in years...
The motion-picture adaptation of the beloved global stage sensation seen by more than 60 million people in 42 countries and in 21 languages around the globe and still breaking box-office records everywhere in its 27th year.
This massively anticipated production stars Hugh Jackman, Oscar winner Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Aaron Tveit, Samantha Barks, with Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen.
The album features live vocals recorded on set during the filming of the epic musical.
Look Down - Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and The Convicts
The Bishop - Colm Wilkinson
Valjean's Soliloquy - Hugh Jackman
At the End of the Day - Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, The Factory Girls and Cast
I Dreamed a Dream - Anne Hathaway
The Confrontation - Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway
Castle On a Cloud - Isabelle Allen
Master of the House - Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter
Suddenly - Hugh Jackman - The New Song for the Movie
Stars - Russell Crowe
ABC Cafe/Red and Black - Eddie Redmayne, Aaron Tveit and Cast
In My Life/A Heart Full of Love - Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Samantha Barks
On My Own - Samantha Barks
One Day More - Cast
Drink With Me - Eddie Redmayne, Daniel Huttlestone and Cast
Bring Him Home - Hugh Jackman
The Final Battle - Cast
Javert's Suicide - Russell Crowe
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables - Eddie Redmayne
Epilogue - Amanda Seyfriend, Hugh Jackman, Eddie Redmayne, Anne Hathaway, Colm Wilkinson and Cast
Pre-order now: £9.99
with FREE delivery & Price Promise from play.com
Pre-order now and if the price drops between the time you place your order and the release date, we'll charge you our lowest price and refund the difference if we’ve already taken payment - find out how.
Tags: Les Misérables, Music Offers, Offers, play.com, Theatre Offers
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line59
|
__label__cc
| 0.73914
| 0.26086
|
Fauquier County Public Library
The Lonely Hearts Hotel: A Novel
Heather O'Neill · Riverhead Books
"So filled with vivid descriptions and complex characters that the reader's experience is virtually cinematic. . . Utterly compelling." - The Washington PostA spellbinding story about two gifted orphans - in love with each other since they can remember - whose childhood talents...
Fallout: The Hot War
Harry Turtledove · Del Rey, 2016.
Format: Print book
One act of folly. One poor decision. One moment of rage. The novels of Harry Turtledove show history balancing on single moments. In his astounding new novel, the unthinkable has come to pass. The Cold War turns hot - and the United States and the Soviet Union unleash their nuclear arsenals...
The Girl in the Tower: A Novel
Katherine Arden · Del Rey
The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home - but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege....
Timothy Zahn · Del Rey
In this definitive novel, readers will follow Thrawn's rise to power - uncovering the events that created one of the most iconic villains in Star Wars history. One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire, Grand Admiral Thrawn is also one of the most...
Summerlong
Peter S Beagle · Tachyon Pubns
Beloved author Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) returns with this long-anticipated new novel, a beautifully bittersweet tale of passion, enchantment, and the nature of fate.It was a typically unpleasant Puget Sound winter before the arrival of Lioness Lazos. An enigmatic young waitress...
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line61
|
__label__cc
| 0.506789
| 0.493211
|
Yemen Squad
AFC Asian CupInternational FriendlyAFC Asian Cup QualifiersFIFA World Cup Qualifying - AFCAFC Champions League
Mohamed Ayyash1 G 33 - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salem Jamal Ali Al Haresh22 G 20 - - - 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0
Saoud Abdullah Abdullah Al Sowadi23 G 31 - - - 2 0 7 8 0 0 0 0 0
outfield players
Abdulwase Matari11 F 25 - - - 3 0 0 0 3 0 6 5 1 0
Mudir Abdurabu4 D 26 - - - 3 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 1 0
Ahmed Abdulhakim Al-Sarori7 F 20 - - - 3 0 0 0 6 1 4 6 0 0
Emad Mansoor Ali Tawfik20 F 27 - - - 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 0
Wahid Al Khyat8 M 33 - - - 3 1 0 0 2 0 4 6 2 0
Ahmed Ali Al Hifi12 M 25 - - - 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 0
Ala Addin Noman Abdullah Mahdi13 D 23 - - - 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 0
Mohammed Ba Rowis21 M 30 - - - 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 0
Mohammed Boqshan19 D 25 - - - 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 0
Ala'a Al-Sasi9 M 32 5' 9" - - 3 0 0 0 4 1 1 6 0 0
Ahmed Saeed Abdulrab6 M 25 - - - 2 2 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 0
Abdulaziz Mohammed Ali Al Gumaei5 D 29 - - - 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Ali Abdullah Hafeedh14 F 22 - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salem Awadh Ahmed Al Moazie16 F - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ahmed Dabban10 F - - - - 3 3 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0
Ahmed Alos18 M 25 - - - 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Hussein Ahmed Hussein Al Ghazi17 M 29 - - - 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ammar Hamsan15 D 24 - - - 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Mohammed Fouad3 D 30 - - - 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Rami Al Wasmani2 D 22 - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Name:Name
POS:Position
Age:Age
HT:Height
WT:Weight
NAT:Nationality
APP:Appearances
SUB:Substitute Appearances
G:Total Goals
A:Assists
SH:Shots
ST:Shots On Target
FC:Fouls Committed
FA:Fouls Suffered
YC:Yellow Cards
RC:Red Cards
SV:Saves
GA:Goals Against
Asian Cup News
Asian Cup: Champions Australia stumble but big boys make it, Yemen bow out
The group stage of the 2019 Asian Cup is over, but there have been plenty of talking points from the competition so far. Here are five things.
Asian Cup debut a rare source of good news for war-torn Yemen
Yemen will be making their Asian Cup debut when they face Iran on Monday and Milos Brozek is confident stage fright will not be an issue.
Philippines, Yemen both qualify for Asian Cup for first time
Philippines, North Korea and Yemen earned the final three qualification places for next year's Asian Cup on Tuesday.
All AFC Cup News
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line68
|
__label__wiki
| 0.586675
| 0.586675
|
Academic writing vs business writing
Research paper on adoption
Compare & contrast essay topics
Lower drinking age essay
Paper on ethics
Math lessons calculators and homework help
Writing a summary rules
Gays in the military essay
Australia assignment help
Application essay writing service
Advantages of newspaper advertising
Essay on similarities and differences
Essay writing help for high school students
Best topics for research paper
College graduate resume help
Essay writing scams
Ask rose homework help
Episode, Scene, Speech, and Word
Reference my essay for me
Define marketing research
Best resume help sites
How to make a title page for an essay
Writing research papers for money
Essay about to kill a mockingbird
Essays articles science service man
Customer oriented business
Paper writing service business ethic graduate level
Buy a professional thesis paper
Homework help links
A healthy mind in a healthy body essay
Professional resume writing service in pittsburgh pa
Sample Essay Examples
❶Lear will have none of this and quickly banishes his most loyal friend, only reinforcing the idea that he is acting like a madman, while he still has his sanity. The storm becomes the tempest in his mind; the Fool becomes all wretches who can feel, of whom Lear is one, although before he had not recognized any such wide identity; and then a worse wretch appears, seemingly mad, protected against the universe by a blanket, scarred by his own wounds, and concentrating upon his own vermin.
Norman Maclean
Often called the mad king. George III is one of the most interesting figures in history. Government was one of his great passions in life. With these and other major characters in the play, Shakespeare clearly asserts that human n Hamlet Hamlet And King Lear Shakespeare has many overlapping themes that seem to correlate throughout his different works of literature.
However, there are many themes that conflict as well. King Lear and Hamlet are two works of literature that can be both compared and contrasted.
Hamlet and Lear seem to be complete opposites on the surface. Hamlet is a young prince who is lost in a world of confusion and deception. His father is brutally murdered by his uncle and he then must face him as his new fathe Macbeth - Supernatural And Spirits Macbeth - Supernatural And Spirits In the play Macbeth , there are many interesting sections that concentrate on the suspense and the involvement of the supernatural.
The use of the supernatural in the witches, Lady Macbeth, nature, the vision, the ghost and the apparitions are all key elements in making Macbeth as a tragedy play. With the sense of the supernatural and interference of the spirits, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are led to dangerous tempting things. Analysis From the beginning, the three main characters of Streetcar are in a state of tension.
Williams establishes that the apartment is small and confining, the weather is hot and oppressive, and the characters have good reason to come into conflict. The South, old and new, is an important theme of the play. Blanche and her sister come from a dying world. The life and pretensions of their world are becoming a thing of memory: Paradise Lost A [kingdom] without order is a [kingdom] in chaos Bartelby.
Disorder engulfs the land once Lear transfers his power to his daughters, but as the great American writer, A. Bradley said, The ultimate power in the tragic world is a moral order Shakespearean Tragedy. In Elizabethan times, the role of a fool, or court jester, was to professionally entertain others, specifically the king. In essence, fools were hired to make mistakes. Fools may have been mentally retarded youths kept for the courts amusement, or more often they were singing, dancing stand up comedians.
In William Shakespeares King Lear the fool plays many important roles. His moral struggle towards revenge becomes an obsession leading to a change in character. His actions strongly imply that madness has overcome him. However, there are hints present in the text that implies his madness was feigned in order to achieve his revenge.
Sense Of Renewal King Lear: Knights puts it, affirmation in spite of everything, in the play. These affirmative actions are vividly seen throughout the play that is highly infused with evil, immorality and perverted values. And, of course, Flora gets this idea from Mansfield Park.
There is no ongoing psychological torment or dramatic death. Madness can be cured by good, old-fashioned materialism. Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fisherman that walk along the beach Appear like mice. Although this quote from Shakespeare's King Lear is made by Poor Tom to his unknowing father Gloucester about the terrain far below them, it accurately summarizes the plight of the mad king.
Lear is out of touch with his surroundings, riding Hamlet Hamlet Laertes and Hamlet both display impulsive reactions when angered. Once Laertes discovers his father has been murdered Laertes immediately assumes the slayer is Claudius.
As a result of Laertes's speculation he instinctively moves to avenge Polonius's death. Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! Famous for its difficult plot and its intriguing themes of family, loyalty, madness , and community, it is rich with ideas to pursue. Arrogant, powerful, and sure of himself, Lear decides to retire and pits his three daughters against one another for the choicest pieces of his realm: Even though he didn't arrive in Greece until approximately BC, the impact from his followers is still felt in the world we live in today.
Dionysus was a demi-god meaning that he was only a half god, which makes his rise to Mount Olympus even more amazing. Dionysus represented everything that the people could relate with. He was looked upon as a god of Life bringing water and viability Hamlet - Revenge and Procrastination Hamlet - Revenge and Procrastination William Shakespeare, perhaps the greatest playwright of all time, authored a number of works consisting of sonnets, comedies, and tragedies.
As well, Shakespeares ability to provoke feeling and reaction to his writing Fools and Kings in King Lear Fools and Kings in King Lear Fools and Kings Shakespeare's dynamic use of irony in King Lear aids the microcosmic illustration of not only 16th century Britain, but of all times and places.
This discussion allows Shakespeare not only to portray human nature, but also to illicit a sort of Socratic introspection into the nature of society's own ignorance as well. Thompson 4 European Literature 2 Honors March 18, Reasons for the Anticipation of Claudius's Suicide In the tragic play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, a particular deterrent in Hamlet's quest to be rid of his regal uncle is his procrastination.
This act of murder intended to set the future right is Hamlet's sole responsibility, ordered by his deceased father. The idea of madness portrayed by Hamlet and Ophelia is a perfect example of the changes that occur after certain traumatic situations. Hamlets actions throughout the play are a direct reaction towards the trauma earlier in the play. Ophelia and her ending in life is the ultimate price of madness. Both Hamlet and Ophelia were not the only two people in this play that had gone mad.
In the end, the whole cast had gone mad. Hamlets madness played a bigger rol King Lear King Lear Shakespeare's dynamic use of irony in King Lear aids the microcosmic illustration of not only 16th century Britain, but of all times and places.
One type of fool that Shakespeare involves in King Lear is the immoral fool Hamlet: Essay On Act I Hamlet: Shakespeare establishes atmosphere, by introducing the major characters, the role of the supernatural, the revenge plot, the love plot, and the contrast of the Fortinbras plot, as well as Hamlet's fiegned madness. Through his unique writing style, Shakespeare sets us up for the rest of the story, and captures the reader's attention, making him want read more.
The tragedy of this play is shown through the daughters of the king , the fool, and finally when Lear s sanity is tested. He decides he doesnt want to be king anymore, and so he asks his daughters, Reaga Hamlet: Reality One of the most famous and popular authors and script writers is William Shakespeare. This is how The Lord of the Rings is introduced. The Lord of the Rings is a book about adventures, heroic deeds and the terribl King Lear 3 King Lear 3 King Lear , by William Shakespeare, is a tragic tale of filial conflict, personal transformation, and loss.
With these and other major characters in the play, Shakespeare clearly asserts that human n Tragic heroes Tragic heroes Since the beginning of time, people discussed and analyzed the concept of the tragic hero in epic poetry and other stories. An epic poem consists of a hero of high caliber whose actions affect a nation or a group of people. The deeds of this hero must be exceedingly brave and have supernatural elements.
Many of these stories first began as an oral tradition then eventually became written pieces of literature. Oral literature comprises a vast range of verbal products, including mod David And Hamlet David And Hamlet Hamlet and David In Hamlet and The Mountain and the Valley, both literary pieces present us with two melancholic characters who live in conflict due to the dichotomy of their natures.
Both Hamlet and David are similar because they are conflicted by foils and similar in the nature of this tragedy. Each has deep inner problems of conflict. Hamlet is first tormented by the death of his father, the king of Denmark. When the audience first meets Hamlet, he is Hamlet: How The Audience Reacts Hamlet: There are many scenes within the play of Hamlet, which can alter the audiences perception of the main character, Hamlet.
So much of Hamlet is an attempt to deceive the audience; Hamlets madness , his antic disposition is a prime example. Others include Act Three Scene one, where Hamlet is incredibly, viciously rude toward Ophelia, his alleged lover.
This impression of Hamlet depi King Lear: Lear The Tragic Hero The definition of tragedy in the Oxford dictionary is, drama of elevated theme and diction and with unhappy ending; sad event, serious accident, calamity. However, the application of this terminology in Shakespearean Tragedy is more expressive.
Shelley and Keats had a maximum of aspiration but hardly a minimum of gift for plot and character, and even Browning, with his surpassing delineation of men and women in dramatic monologue, could not make anything happen in a drama. Coming closer to the paper on which King Lear was written, we also know that to have the characters tell their own story on a stage raises problems very distinct from those required for putting the story between the covers of a novel.
It may seem that the distinction between manners of presenting a story is largely classificatory; yet stories are so locked artistically to those selected to tell them that great novels seldom remain great when they are strutted upon the stage, and vice versa. Particular manners of presentation are particular artistic problems, and particular artistic gifts are needed to solve these problems, and, if not, who are those who are both great novelists and great dramatists?
And, more particular still, who among dramatists wrote both great comedies and great tragedies, although tragedy is only drama that moves certain emotions in us? Yet these two dramatic arts are so distinctive that Shakespeare is the single answer to the question of what dramatist eminently possessed both the tragic power and the power of moving to laughter.
Even more specialized, personal, and unique are the problems to be focused on in this study—what confronted Shakespeare and Lear, who stood outside when a storm arose and a daughter ordered a door shut.
Mind you, before this particular moment Lear had been a successful king and Shakespeare had written great tragedies, but neither had ventured far into madness. It is true that he would have no poetic problems at all if each particular moment of art did not have to enter the general world of art, for unattended self-expression is another occupation, altogether lonely. We propose to follow Lear and Shakespeare across the heath to the fields of Dover on what for both was a unique experience, and then to be even more particular, considering the individual scenes leading to this meeting of Lear and Gloucester when in opposite senses neither could see.
And, for smaller particulars, we shall consider an incident from one of these scenes, a speech from this incident, and, finally, a single word. Prior to this episode and presumably always before it , Lear believed in a universe controlled by divine authority, harmoniously ordered and subordinated in its parts, a harmony reflected in the affairs of men by the presence of political and legal institutions, and social and family bonds. Men were the most divinely empowered of divine creations, and the special power of kings was a sign of their special divinity.
At the end of this episode Act IV, scene 6 , the world that Lear tells Gloucester he should be able to see even without eyes is one in which man is leveled to a beast and then raised to the most fearful of his kind: Lear does not have merely different thoughts about the nature of the universe and of those who crawl upon it; the beliefs he has about the universe at the end of Act II are philosophically opposite to those he expresses upon the fields of Dover, and a complete change is one that goes as far as it can.
Shakespeare also took care that we should know where Lear started. Let us begin less intensely, and therefore with the second requirement of all good writing, to be interesting, for, if we are not interested, we surely will not go farther and be moved. In contrast to Hamlet and Othello , King Lear is a tragedy in the course of which the protagonist becomes worthy of being a tragic hero, and one dimension that Lear takes on is the power of thought. Earlier we said that material of general, human interest could be handled by an artist in such a way as to take on an added interest—the interest of the unexpected or surprising.
There is, finally, the contribution that this change makes to the special emotional effects produced by tragedy. Now the tragic writer is also upon the rack, pulled always two different ways, for the deep emotions he stirs he also alleviates.
A certain alleviation of fear and pity is necessary to make the emotional effect of tragedy one that we are consumed rather than repelled by; and proper tragic alleviation excludes any supposed consolation that might come from the avoidance of disastrous consequences after we have been asked to suffer emotions such as are aroused by clear premonition of disaster.
As a very minimum, we know suffering such as the sufferer can account for only by believing the worst that can be thought of everything, including himself. The minimum, therefore, has some kind of maximum of fear and pity—we are almost certain that such suffering will leave him without the power to better his fortune and without the mental resources needed to gain a clear picture of what is the truth, if this is not it.
We perhaps do not think sufficiently of the other task of the poet who makes intense emotions—the task of constantly taking away something from them lest they become intolerable or change to some other emotions not intended or desirable, just as the unrestrained grief of Laertes at the grave of Ophelia produced contempt and indignation and not compassion in the heart of Hamlet. Our fear and pity for Lear are both magnified and mitigated.
These terrifying thoughts are held by him when he is mad, and their validity is further denied by all those in the play who are intelligent, loving, and somewhat disengaged—their complete validity is called into question by even the existence of people such as Kent, Edgar, and Albany.
In addition, the action is arranged from beginning to end that is, from the beginning of Act III to Act IV,scene 6 in such ways that fear does not become horror, or pity some kind of excruciating anguish.
In the first scene in Act III, before we see Lear on the heath we are given subdued assurance that friends are organizing to rescue him and the kingdom. This scene can be criticized for its execution, because it is a scene merely of talk between Kent and a Gentleman, whose talk is obviously directed to us as much as to themselves, but the intention to save us from horror is right.
And, finally, although scene 6 is constructed to magnify our fear and pity by confronting us with both Gloucester and Lear and their combined anguish, it is also designed to alleviate our suffering and serves as a superlative example of the paradoxical task of the tragic artist. So far our view of King Lear has been both panoramic and confined.
In making these problems ours, we become more particular and yet, in certain ways, closer to the general qualities of great writing which, in order to have a name, must also have a local habitation. Many a tragic drama has itself met a tragic ending for lack of drama, and the odds increase that this will be the case when the tragedy in some central way involves internal changes, changes in thoughts and states of mind.
Lear challenges the storm; he arraigns his daughters before a justice so perverted that it is represented by the Fool and Edgar disguised as a madman; he imagines impotently that he is raising an avenging army and is distracted by a mouse; and he assumes he is judging a culprit guilty of adultery and finds no sin because he finds the sin universal.
Yet a master of tragic drama would also sense that, in scenes depicting a great change in thought and state of mind, action should be kept to a certain minimum, lest too much outer clangor obscure the inner vibrations and tragedy pass over into melodrama. He would sense, too, that language suggesting madness, if sufficiently understood, would put tremendous demands upon our powers of concentration.
Three scenes lead to the madness of Lear and are alternated with three leading to the blinding of Gloucester. Suffering, then, as it works out its lonely and final course upon the heath, is combined with action such as initiated it. Thus the interplay of these two tragedies gives to both more than either singly possesses of intelligibility, suspense, probability, and tragic concern. It is not enough, therefore, that action in these scenes is kept at a certain minimum and within this guarded minimum is maximal, or that the action also is dramatic, involving conflict.
Distraction that is great and is not the general confusion of a battle but centered and ultimately internal is rightly made out of a certain minimum of material that can be assimilated and out of material already somewhat assimilated. Moreover, such a reduction of material not only helps our understanding at a moment in literature when it stands most in need of help; actually, art attains the maximum of unexpectedness out of restricted sources as a good mystery story limits the number of possible murderers and out of material already introduced and about which we have expectations as the best mystery stories are not solved by material that has been kept from us by the detective and the writer until the end.
While on the heath, Lear might have been attacked by a gang of robbers and, in culminating suffering, have thought this some symbolic act, signifying that all men are beasts of prey; surely, it is much more surprising that it is the legitimate son of Gloucester, counterpart of Cordelia, who makes him think this.
We add that Kent, too, is present in these scenes and that a point constantly calm is useful in the art of making madness. The musical analogy of a theme with variations must be used only up to a certain point and then dropped lest it stop us, as it has stopped some others, from going farther and seeing that these scenes are a part of a great poem and that in this part a noble man goes mad, which is something more than orchestration, although orchestration has its purposes.
Ultimately, we are confronted with a poetical event; and the storm, the Fool, and Poor Tom are not only variations on madness but happenings on the way which collectively constitute the event. That is, the setting and two characters, all previously somewhat external to Lear, successively become objects of his thought, and then become himself transubstantiated.
The storm becomes the tempest in his mind; the Fool becomes all wretches who can feel, of whom Lear is one, although before he had not recognized any such wide identity; and then a worse wretch appears, seemingly mad, protected against the universe by a blanket, scarred by his own wounds, and concentrating upon his own vermin.
In the first appearance of Lear upon the heath Act III, scene 2 the daughters are already identified with the storm and the underlying powers of the universe, and Lear dares to defy them and to confront the universe, even though he now sees what he began to see at the end of Act II, that the ultimate powers may be not moral but in alliance with his daughters.
Either possibility, however, he can face with defiance: Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend. What he knew at the opening of the earlier scene that he must avoid now becomes his total occupation, and the mind now revels in what the mind once knew it could not endure.
It is later, properly much later, when we see Lear again, since by then he has found in madness an answer to the questions that led him there. Then, looming upon his mind, is a universe the basic substance of which is female:. In the opening of this section we promised to say something about these scenes as being tragic wholes as well as parts of a fearful and pitiful event, and already a good deal has been said indirectly about their separate natures. But their natures are not only separate; they are tragic, each one arousing and then to a degree purging the emotions of fear and pity.
And such, in a general way, is the emotional movement of the other two scenes in which Lear appears in Act III—they begin with Lear alarmingly agitated; the agitation mounts with the appearance of Poor Tom or with the prospect of arraigning his daughters in hell ; but in the enactment of the enormous moment he and we get some kind of emotional release for which undoubtedly there is some clinical term, not, however, known to me or to the Elizabethans or to most people who have felt that at the end of each of these scenes both they and Lear have been given mercifully an instant not untouched with serenity on the progress to chaos.
There are many tragedies of considerable magnitude the effects of which, however, are almost solely macrocosmic. The greatest of tragic writers built his macrocosms out of tragedy upon tragedy upon tragedy. The third time that we shall consider Lear upon the heath will be the last, for the full art of tragedy has three dimensions, like anything with depth. The tragedy with depth is compounded out of a profound conception of what is tragic and out of action tragically bent, with characters commensurate to the concept and the act—and, finally, it is composed out of writing.
The maximal statement of an art always makes it easier to see how many lesser artists there are and why; and thus the author of The American Tragedy could not write—a failing not uncommon among authors—and the author of Manfred , although a very great writer in many ways, was so concentrated upon his personal difficulties that he could form no clear and large conception of the tragic, and his tragic action is almost no action at all.
It is easy to understand why the moments of a drama usually singled out for discussion are those that are obviously important and splendid with a kind of splendor that gives them an existence separate from their dramatic context, like passages of Longinian sublimity; but this study is so committed to the tragic drama that it will forego the sublime—although few dramas offer more examples of it and concentrate, instead, upon an incident and a speech, the importance and splendor of which appear largely as one sees a tragic drama unfold about them.
On a technical level, this incident is a unit because it is a piece of dramatic business—in these lines, Shakespeare is engaged in the business of introducing a character:. Now, the business of introducing a character can be transacted quickly in brackets—[ Enter Edgar, disguised as a madman ]—and when the character is some straggler in the play or not so much a character as some expository information, like a messenger, then the introduction properly can be cursory.
Reason in madness, madness in reason; this double paradox is used throughout Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, and demonstrates the downfall of both the King and a family of greatness. Lear’s family and kingdom demonstrate a parallel as they are torn apart and conflicts arise immediately.
The theme of madness is explored throughout King Lear in many different ways. It is introduced in the forms of characters, ironies, ideologies and certain events that take place within the story. The storm is a central element, used to symbolise the internal battle going on within Lear, as well as /5(4).
It is odd to think that true madness can ever be totally understood. Shakespeare's masterful depiction of the route to insanity, though, is one of the stronger elements of King Lear. The early to middle stages of Lear's deterioration (occurring in Acts I through III) form a highly rational pattern. Free Essay: Madness in King Lear: Act 4 In Shakespeare's play King Lear, Shakespeare introduces many themes. The most important theme shown in King Lear .
Stuck on writing Madness In King Lear Essay? Find thousands of sample essays on this topic and more. Free Essay: King Lear and Madness in the Renaissance It has been demonstrated that Shakespeare's portrayal of madness parallels Bright's A Treatise of.
Disadvantages of sampling in research
Do my assignment write my assignment write my assignment
Buy college application essays
Resume help social work
What is a custom essay
Science homework help chemistry
Custom power point presentation
Etymology essay
Interpretive approach to research
Math writing prompts middle school
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line72
|
__label__cc
| 0.725314
| 0.274686
|
Three Days Before
Three Days Before was a solo show I made at Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art in 1999. For the occasion, I played with the idea of applying a literary technique, the Chinese boxes or mise-en-abyme structure, to the story that had come out of Plan of Invasion to Holland .
Three Days Before works as a narrative inside a narrative, like a dream in a dream, from the point of view of a fictional character –Self Portrait– that relates to a space or scenery –The Embassy-, and to an event –About Sinking-, presented yet again as an epilogue, this time completing a full circle that spirals back to the ancestor story, Plan of Invasion to Holland.
The Chinese-box device appears at different levels in the three pieces, for instance in the Chinese shadows that the figure of Self Portrait is making, and which reproduces its own silhouette into the big circle of light projected by the torch. The same torch is used to light up the rooms of The Embassy, and to guide us towards its only inhabitant, the dog who happened to be the model for the decoy in Plan of Invasion to Holland.
I found that using this technique I could open up my imagination and create new fictional layers upon such a complex creative process as my collaboration with Lotty had been, which I had found very rich, but that limited me to reacting to the story as it developed, rather than allowing me to play freely with the images emerging from it.
Text from catalogue: Cuando huye el día by Christian Ferrer (in Spanish)
About Sinking
You can view the whole project as a PDF file
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line74
|
__label__wiki
| 0.507196
| 0.507196
|
DATE OF ISSUE: 8 April 1992
INDEXED BRITISH RETIREMENT INCOME
1. In the first full week of April 1992 the British Government. in line with their Retail Price Index, will be applying a 4.1% increase to the National Insurance benefit paid to their beneficiaries. This increase affects the following pensioners paid by this department:
service pensioners in receipt of British department of Social security pension who live in any country other than Australia, Canada and New Zealand
service pensioners in receipt of a British Indexed Pension (ie Public Service, Navy, Teachers etc.) regardless of the country of residence.
2.This exercise is now an automatic run and was run on 28 March 1992 with an effective date of 16 April 1992.
3.This exercise will only update superannuation code 09 (British Indexed Pension).
Note: Any British Indexed Pension cases incorrectly recorded under superannuation code 08 (British Retirement Income) or 99 (Miscellaneous), ill need to be manually updated, and the code changed to 09 for future automatic updating.
OVERSEAS CASES
4.If a pensioner who is in receipt of British Department of Social Security Retirement pension is living in any country other than Australia, Canada, or New Zealand, the 4.1% increase should be applied and the service pension varied accordingly with an effective date of 16 April 1992.
5.Service pensioners who receive British DSS pension and are holidaying in any country, with the exception of Canada or New Zealand, are eligible for the increase. The increase will be paid if the British DSS know of the pensioners whereabouts. On their return to Australia these pensioners should be sent an income review. If the holiday was to England the pension may be increased to the level it would have been paid at if the pensioner had never left the U.K.
6.Service pensioners receipt of a British Indexed Pension (ie. Public Service, Navy, Teachers etc) will have their British pension increased regardless of the country of residence. These cases should all be recorded as super type 09 (British Indexed Pension). All such pensions should be reassessed with an effective date of 16 March 1992.
STATISTICAL RECORDING
7.All reductions in pension payment for any cases processed manually can be credited to the selective review program.
8.Please manually record and provide at the conclusion of the review:
effective date for reductions if finalised after cut off for 16 April 1992 the number of pensions reduced
the average amount of the reduction
the hours taken to process
the ASO levels at which the work was undertaken.
Final Figures should be sent to Jeanette Ricketts, Benefits Income Support, Standards and Control Section, Central Office.
9.The Benefits contact officers for this exercise are:
Ken Stewart on telephone (06) 289-6188 for ADP problems
Jeanette Ricketts on telephone (06) 289-6440 for policy issues.
10.This instruction has been issued so that a history can be maintained.
KAY GRIMSLEY
URL: http://clik.dva.gov.au/compensation-and-support-reference-library/departmental-instructions/1992/b151992-indexed-british-retirement-income
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line76
|
__label__cc
| 0.671413
| 0.328587
|
Chile's government must overhaul mine safety now!
On October 18 last year – 4 days after the last of 33 Chilean miners emerged from over two months underground at the San Jose copper mine – President Piñera pleged in an interview to overhaul the country’s mine safety structures and ratify ILO Convention 176 on mine safety within 90 days. Nearly 5 months later, none of this has happened.
On March 2, a commission established by the Chilean parliament determined that the mine owners were responsible for the collapse of the poorly reinforced tunnels, and that the country’s mine safety agency had failed to enforce its own rules.
The global union federations representing mine workers, ICEM and the IMF, are calling for messages to the Piñera government demanding they make good their promise.
Chile’s miners need to know that Piñera’s pledge was a commitment, not a publicity stunt. Click here to send a message demanding action NOW.
IUF - Uniting Food, Farm and Hotel Workers World-Wide
IUF newswire
IUF Video News
Check out the latest IUF videos on YouTube.
IUF affiliates have been given passwords to access this content:
Feedburner - Get IUF news by email
Justice for Iranian Workers
Do you work for ...
Select a company ...Coca-ColaDanoneHeinz Kraft/MondelezNestlé PepsicoUnilever
Work areas & sectors
Dairy Division
Meat Workers
Beer Workers
Hotel, restaurant, catering, tourism
IUF regions
Hong Kong liaison office of the international trade union movement
ETLC European trade unions in tourism
Other union news
News from the global union federations
LabourStart The news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement
The old IUF home page in English
Archived materials from before 2009: Editorials, Urgent Actions, News
The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) is an international federation of trade unions representing workers employed in agriculture and plantations; the preparation and manufacture of food and beverages; hotels, restaurants and catering services; all stages of tobacco processing. The IUF is composed of 394 affiliated organizations in 126 countries representing a combined membership of around 2,6 million.
How to contact the IUF:
Email: iuf@iuf.org
Post: Rampe du Pont-Rouge, 8, CH-1213, Petit-Lancy (Switzerland)
Phone: + 41 22 793 22 33
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line77
|
__label__cc
| 0.66469
| 0.33531
|
Bath, Somerset: Seymour Street:...
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: 81...
Glasgow: 6 Buchanan Street for Robert...
London: Adams Place, Borough High...
London: 6 Audley Square, survey...
London: Bartholomew Lane, City of...
London: (?) Bloomsbury Square: survey...
London: Bolingbroke Grove, Wandsworth...
London: 11 Bruton Street,...
London: 23 or 24 Bruton Street,...
London: Buckingham House, 91 Pall...
London: Cardigan House, Richmond...
London: Cedar Court, Roehampton:...
London: Charlotte (now Hallam)...
London: 19 Curzon Street, additions...
London: 4 Dean Street: designs for...
London: 22 Dunraven Street (former...
London: Fife House, Whitehall;...
London: 90 Fleet Street, City of...
London: Fountain Court, Aldermanbury:...
London: 24 George Street, Hanover...
London: 89 (and 87?) Great Russell...
London: No. 49 (formerly 44)...
London: Haymarket, Westminster:...
London: Hereford Street, Grosvenor...
London: 43 Hill Street: alterations...
London: Lincoln's Inn Fields, the...
London: Lincoln's Inn Fields:...
London: 51 Lincoln's Inn Fields:...
London: 59-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields...
London: 12 Mansfield Street: survey...
London: 54 Old Broad Street, City of...
London: Old Cavendish Street: shop...
London: 2 Old Queen Street,...
London: 58 (former 50) Park Street,...
London: 148 Piccadilly, Westminster:...
London: Piccadilly: design for a...
London: 25 later 70 Portland Place,...
London: 2 and 3 St James Square,...
London: 21 St James's Square:...
London: 22 St James's Square: survey...
London: 33 St James's Square, Charles...
London: 429 Strand, survey for the...
London: 12 Stratton Streeet, new...
Norwich, Norfolk: Surrey Street,...
Reading, Berkshire: Castle Street,...
Reading, Berkshire: Friar Street,...
Reading, Berkshire: London Place:...
Reading, Berkshire: Seven Bridges...
London: 25 later 70 Portland Place, alterations for Admiral Sir Alan (later 1st Lord) Gardner, 1795 and further alterations, 1810 (2)
Portland Place was begun as a speculative venture by the Adam brothers in 1773. No.68 (formerly No.25) was on the east side between Devonshire and Weymouth Streets. It survived until 1957-58 when the neighbouring RIBA building was extended onto the site.
Soane's client was Admiral Sir Alan Gardner, later 1st Lord Gardner (1742-1809). Soane's office Journal 3 records that on 5 May 1795 he 'settled the affairs of house in Portland Place' and on 9 November of that year 'Examined the dry rot'.
Fifteen years later on 18 July 1810 Soane 'went to Lord Gardner's and survey'd the premises' and on 23 August repairs were begun. The first Lord Gardner died on 1 January 1809 so that the later references to 'Lord Gardner' must refer to the oldest son, Alan Hyde Gardner, the 2nd Lord Gardner and, like his father, an Admiral in the Royal Navy.
Literature. P.Dean, Sir John Soane and London, 2006, pp.223-4
Jill Lever
[1] Survey plan of 1795
Soane office
SM 38/1/11
[2] Rough survey plan of 1810
Soane office hand, surveyor ?
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line85
|
__label__wiki
| 0.590979
| 0.590979
|
DARK LORD OF THE NIGHT
Dark Destinies, book 2
by S.K. Ryder
The only thing standing between a new vampire and eternal darkness is the fragile mortal woman who claims his heart.
Youngling vampire Dominic Marchant struggles to master his deadly instincts as he hunts the urban jungles of South Florida. He keeps his hunger confined to the blood of the guilty with help from Cassidy Chandler, a human woman who can literally touch his soul. Their love is his last remaining tether to humanity, which is tested beyond endurance when powerful forces from his past introduce him to terrifying new appetites he could never have imagined.
His efforts to protect Cassidy from the depravity overtaking him push their relationship to the brink of shattering. Refusing to give up on the man who is her heart, she takes an unthinkable gamble to save him. But is she fulfilling an ominous prophecy that ensnares them both? Or has she become just another pawn in a cunning game played by the five-thousand-year-old vampire who claims Dominic as his own?
Desperate to rescue her from a fate worse than death, Dominic strikes a perilous bargain with his greatest enemies only to face an impossible choice--embrace his darkest self…or destroy the woman he cannot live without.
Eddie marched across the bed and head-butted Cassidy’s scrunched-up face. Then he gave Dominic’s nose a thorough sniff. Any other night he would have been elated at this sign of trust and acceptance from his little predator brother. All he felt now was an inexplicable anger. With the tips of his fangs showing, he snarled at the cat.
Saucer-eyed and flat-eared, Eddie bolted backward as though blown by a wind. He thumped off the foot of the bed with an uncharacteristic lack of grace and hustled out the door.
Cassidy sat up. “Okay, that’s it. What is going on with you? What the hell happened out there?”
Dominic studied the ceiling. “I’m not sure.”
“What do you mean you’re not sure? Did you kill anyone I know?”
“Non. Nobody you know.” Though that would have been so much simpler to explain.
A small fold creased the skin above her freckled nose. “But someone did die?”
He told her in French.
“I get the bastard part but not the rest,” she said, her words clipped with agitation. Her lack of comprehension of his first language was yet another sign that their minds were currently far from one.
“He died before I ever touched him,” he clarified. “Apparently I scared him to death.”
She stared at him. The corner of her mouth twitched before she gave a small cough that sounded suspiciously like a stifled giggle. “Oh. Really. I can’t imagine how that might have happened.”
He shot her a sour look.
“Your alter ego must have been terribly disappointed, poor baby.”
“Beside himself,” he muttered. He couldn’t meet her eyes anymore.
After a brief silence, she said, “But that’s not what you don’t want to show me, is it?” The disappointment in her tone scratched at his heart, but he remained still. “You know better than that. I know you do.” She cupped his face in one hand. “I’m here for you, my love. Always. No matter what. We’re a team.”
A well-spring of uncertainty opened within him. His whole body ached with his need for her. How could he exist without being part of her? How could he exist without her love?
How could he exist with her knowing what he had almost done?
He gathered her close. Emotion squeezed his words into a harsh whisper. “I made you a solemn promise that I will be by your side as long as you will have me. On my eternal life, this is an oath I will not betray.” And he would do nothing to motivate her not to have him. Nothing at all. “But I need time. Just a little time. To think about some things. On my own.”
“Vampire things?” she wondered against his chest.
He loosened his hold far enough to meet her eyes, making no effort to hide his hunger for her, nor his love, or his gratitude. “Oui.”
“Don’t I know all about those by now?”
“Perhaps too much,” he admitted. How she stayed sane knowing all she did about his hellish world mystified him.
Her eyes glistened, but her voice remained steady. “I see.” She inclined her head in a tiny surrender. “All right. Maybe I should think about some human things. For a change.”
He kissed her, tasting all the resignation and disappointment she felt—and feeling all the hope in her tender response. Always hope. “J’taime, mon amour,” he murmured, pressing his forehead against hers. “I am yours. No matter what, I am yours. Never forget that.”
DARK HEART OF THE SUN
His future is already written...in her blood.
Rookie journalist Cassidy Chandler wakes to an ugly bruise on her neck, a hole in her memory, and a fiancé who seems to know more about what happened than he's telling. It's enough to make Cassidy call off the engagement and move out, even if that means trading a posh South Florida mansion for a dilapidated beach house. Unfortunately, she also trades one devious man for another questionable character in her unexpected new roommate: the darkly enigmatic and exasperatingly French Dominic Marchant.
For Dominic Marchant secrecy is a matter of survival. As a newborn vampire with dangerous enemies, he's sure the headstrong young woman invading his lair with an unknown vampire's mark on her throat is about to get him killed. But the charming Cassidy resists his every effort to make her leave and even embroils him in her own tumultuous life. Before he knows it, she has stolen his heart and helps him rediscover his lost humanity. Now he's fighting to protect her not only from the ancient vampires hunting him, but also from his own deadly desire for her.
But her secretive ex isn't done with her yet, and neither is the dark prophecy Cassidy and Dominic's unlikely relationship has set in motion. Together they are swept up in a battle where nothing is as it seems, love and deception are the weapons of choice, and the only way to survive is to risk everything--for each other.
S.K. Ryder is a software developer by day, a scribe by night and answers to Susan any time. She writes the type of stories she loves to read: heart-pounding adventures full of supernatural mysteries and relationships between strong, compelling characters. Though she calls South Florida home, she has also lived in Germany and Canada and has traveled widely, usually in the hot pursuit of wild and scenic nature. When not debugging code, complicating her characters' lives or plotting her next rafting adventure down the Grand Canyon, she can be found beach combing, scuba diving, sailing or just hanging out with a good book. When push comes to shove, she can also bake a halfway decent cake and stand on her head, though not at the same time.
Facebook ✯ Website ✯ Twitter ✯ Goodreads ✯ Amazon ✯ Newsletter ✯ Bookbub
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line94
|
__label__wiki
| 0.837426
| 0.837426
|
How To Play Gta V Online On Pc Cracked
GRAND THEFT AUTO V + Update – PC – RELOADED – Cracked
The online mood for GTA 5 download get is even more enthralling supporting up to 30 players in both cooperative and competitive mode. The can roam around in the open world of GTA 5 download completing jobs and challenging other players. The players can even create their own custom jobs and deathmatches in the online multiplayer mode . GTA 5 download pc game is packed with engrossing �... Now, you can play GTA Online with any pirated copy of GTA V. To play online, you need a social club account, and many if not all versions of crack disable online connectivity.
How to play GTA V over LAN!
Just download GTA V Crack (Grand Theft Auto V Crack) now and start playing the standard of excellence in the gaming world GTA V by Rockstar Games. Just click on the Download Button below to start your download.... Just download GTA V Crack (Grand Theft Auto V Crack) now and start playing the standard of excellence in the gaming world GTA V by Rockstar Games. Just click on the Download Button below to start your download.
GTA V with all dlc On HAX
Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V): cracksoftpc.com � Today we are uploading an awesome open world action adventure game. Grand Theft Auto V is another installment in one of the most popular series of grand theft auto v. And It is the most famous game in the history of video games. It was released on how to put on your twitter feed on google sites Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) is a very popular video game which was developed by none other than Rockstar North. The successor of GTA IV is the fifteenth chapter in this series. GTA V was released in three installments. The first edition was launched for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 players in 2013. Later, in 2014, it was made available for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 players and in 2015, it was
Game GTA V PC Full Version Crack Free Download
Grand Theft Auto V. Grand Theft Auto V is another installment in one of the most popular series in the history of video games. The game was released initially on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2013. how to play war robots on pc � GTA 5 Mod apk Download � The Rockstar games are making high-quality graphics and amazing games for Android and PC and this time of the GTA 5 Mod apk direct download link is here with apk + OBB and you can enjoy them GTA 5 Mod APK on your Android device if you want to download GTA V Cracked apk full version then just follow the instruction how to download.
GTA V Multiplayer Crack – Download Crack and play
GTA V Crack GamesCrack.org
How to Play GTA V Multiplayer For Free!! (Cracked)(FiveM
� GTA 5 Mod apk Download � The Rockstar games are making high-quality graphics and amazing games for Android and PC and this time of the GTA 5 Mod apk direct download link is here with apk + OBB and you can enjoy them GTA 5 Mod APK on your Android device if you want to download GTA V Cracked apk full version then just follow the instruction how to download.
Grand Theft Auto V. Grand Theft Auto V is another installment in one of the most popular series in the history of video games. The game was released initially on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2013.
GTA V PC Game Free Download PC Game setup in single direct link for windows. Grand Theft Auto V 2015 is an action and adventure game.Grand Theft Auto V PC Game 2015 OverviewGTA 5 is developed by Rockstar North and is published under the banner of Rockstar Games. GTA V PC Game Free Download PC Game setup in single direct link for windows. Grand Theft Auto V 2015 is an action and adventure game
Developers had in mind players who earlier bought GTA V for PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 � they can transfer their characters from GTA Online on console to PC version of the game.
Grand Theft Auto 5 Crack Only [Crack v7] [1.41 DLC Pack] [Repack 2018] Grand Theft Auto V is another installment in one of the most popular series in the history of video games. The game was released initially on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2013.
Le Cagibi How To Order Blogspot
How To Put A Reference In Imagej
How To Make A Private Plalist On Soundcloud
How To Remember The Anatomical Positions
How To Make Paper Things That Fly
How To Make A Mini Mesh Wreath
How To Make Dining Chairs More Comfortable
How To Look Younger At 40 Female
How To Say Merry Christmas In Tagalog
My Weapon Shop How To Make A Bow
How To Run Html On Local Server
How To Make Xy Plotter
How To Make Roses Out Of Crepe Paper Streamers
How To Make Grilled Sandwich At Home
How To Make Yourself Look More Lean In Photos
John on How To Make A Orange Creamsicle Smoothie
Pablo on How To Make Genjis Sword Out Of Foam
Bruce G. Li on How To Play Bb Major Scale On Clarinet
Marlin on How To Make Flux With Borax
Samanta Cruze on How To Make Tim Hortons Chipotle Sauce
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line97
|
__label__cc
| 0.551161
| 0.448839
|
JJ's Blog
Reviews and Observations from a freelance resident of Sin City www.jjwylie.com
The Best Song This Summer (NSFW)
I know, summer hasn't officially ended, but I'm ready to declare the season's best song.
This isn't because I can predict the future. After all, I've read Taleb's The Black Swan, so I know the dangers of prognostication (a danger Taleb himself has pointedly ignored lately!).
It's because this song is SO fresh, SO catchy, and SO mind-bogglingly sing-along-able that I can't imagine another song coming out over the next few weeks that would touch it.
The song is Cee Lo Green's "Fuck You" -- the first single from his upcoming album, "The Lady Killer." The YouTube video of the song already has several million hits, as well it should. The viral success of the video has even prompted coverage from the normally profanity-averse NPR.
The times, they are a-changin'. (Then again, when weren't they?)
You remember Cee Lo Green, don't you? He's the vocal sparkplug behind Gnarls Barkley, the super-duo whose hits include "Crazy" and a cover of "Gone Daddy Gone." Point is, this man's got chops.
And I'm sorry if the F-word offends your sensibilities. I'm sorry if its mere presence so bothers you that your entire experience becomes tainted. And I know this song will never hit the mainstream airwaves (without some serious editing, anyway).
But George Carlin was right: it's just a word. People use it, and to deny its place in our cultural lexicon is foolishness.
As I get older, I find myself getting less and less patient with anachronistic priggishness. I believe in descriptive, not proscriptive, linguistics.
And Cee Lo uses the F-word masterfully in a song that expresses all the emotional contradictions of running into a former lover while the wounds are still fresh. He's got a powerful voice and the music pulses with a fresh energy that still manages to pay homage to its Motown roots.
Catch the lyrical video here.
Better yet, buy the mp3 and put it in your morning shower playlist. It's guaranteed to get your blood flowing.
"Fuck You"
by Cee Lo Green
From the forthcoming album, "The Lady Killer"
jjwylie@gmail.com
www.jjwylie.com
Posted by JJ Wylie at 2:13 PM
JJ Wylie
The Inquest into Erik Scott's Death - Day 6
HALO and me
The Town - directed by Ben Affleck
Babies - directed by Thomas Balmes
My Raiders Lose Their Opener
'Bloodsucking Vegas' update
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line99
|
__label__cc
| 0.73274
| 0.26726
|
Mobilozophy
Mobile Marketing Platform
GETPERKED
Mobile Coupon Platform
Mobile Coupon Redemption
Mobile Website Platform
SMS Marketing Platform
Mobilozophy’s SMS Terms & Conditions
Mobilozophy Mobile Marketing Blog
Lynn Bates
When Consumers Trust You with Location Data
April 18, 2019 by Lynn Bates
Consumers are under no obligation to share their data with you. When they do so, it's a matter of trust. You are ethically and legally obligated to ensure that trust is well-placed. Location-based data is particularly sensitive because it allows you to glean information about where a customer's mobile device is from moment to moment.
But why do consumers provide your company with this delicate information in the first place? How can you best respect the trust they place in you, and how can you provide your customers with real value in return for their information? Read on to learn more about the importance of customer trust vis-a-vis privacy, and how best to treat users and their data.
The Importance of Privacy
Privacy isn't just an issue of ethics: it's the law. Several governments have recently passed laws that require companies that gather data to inform customers of how they use that data, and to give them the information they need to opt out of data collection.
These laws change frequently, so it's a good idea to research them in greater depth on your own or consult a lawyer. However, it's clear that the age of companies blithely collecting consumer data is long gone. An increasing number of companies are expressing concerns about the "creepiness" of collecting user data, especially location-based data. And while users are still interested in the convenience they can gain from signing over their data to companies, they're worried about potential consequences of unethical use and data breaches. Understandably, they want greater control over their data.
Interacting with Customers about Their Data
When you're using customers' data, you're engaging in a delicate dance. Leaving aside the (significant) legal issues, you need to be completely transparent about what you do, in order to build and maintain consumer trust. Follow this advice:
Make your privacy policy as clear and concise as possible. There's a time for legalese, and this isn't it: dry, lengthy privacy policies alienate users and leave them feeling suspicious (when they read them at all). After years of unclear privacy policies, many governments are finally demanding that companies make things more transparent. You don't have to chuck your legal language entirely -- it has a purpose -- but provide users with a clear summary so they can make intelligent decisions.
Ensure you obtain consent. You shouldn't just automatically collect a user's location data. You need to obtain users' consent before collecting their location information. Additionally, remind users that they can turn off data collection by going to the Location-Based Services section of their phone settings or providing them an alternate way to opt-out of the data collection.
Make it worthwhile to give you data. When customers give up privacy, they should get something significant in return. Most will give you their personal data because they want convenience or personalized content that's closely related to their experience. It's unethical to take customers' data just because you can, and it erodes customers' trust, so make sure you're giving them something of value.
Don't buy and sell data. Selling and trading data has been a flashpoint in the privacy debate. Once a company gives away or sells a user's data, it could go anywhere -- and even if the company strips personally identifying information from that data, that's still not reassuring to consumers. Many governments are demanding companies inform users of third-party data usage, and this alone is a major discouragement from doing so. It's best to stay on the up-and-up, and only use location-based data in-house.
Consumers -- and their governments -- are waking up to the potential risks of sharing data with companies. As a retailer, you need to understand that gathering customers' data is an issue of trust. By handling data -- especially location-based data -- ethically and responsibly, you'll go a long way toward building a brand as a trustworthy, reliable company.
Topics: Telephone Consumer Privacy Act, TCPA, Consumer Data, GDPR, CCPA
New Consumer Privacy Laws You Should Know
February 06, 2019 by Lynn Bates
Hacks of company databases are on the rise. Users are slowly becoming aware of the amount of control companies have over their online data.
Driven by these changes, customers are beginning to change their attitudes toward privacy and personal information. Just in the past few years, lawmakers have taken the first steps toward imposing new privacy regulations on online businesses, which have traditionally been almost entirely unregulated.
Many businesses -- especially small ones -- may find these changes overwhelming. The following is a brief guide to some of the more significant legislation that's passed or been proposed, as of February 2019. As always, if you have questions about how these laws apply to your business, it's best to check with a lawyer.
The GDPR
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has forged the way for many privacy bills to follow. While it only affects residents of the EU, many companies that do business internationally will need to adhere to its regulations.
The GDPR is a sweeping set of laws, reinforced by hefty fines for infractions. The regulations' implications are too broad to explore here in depth, but here are some of its key principles:
Companies must give users details about how their information is collected and used, in plain language. They must gain affirmative consent.
Within 72 hours of a data breach, companies must notify users.
Users have the right to know what personal information a company is collecting on them, and how it's being used . They can receive a copy of that information if they request it.
Users have the right to request their data be deleted from a system, and that any processing using that data stop.
The California Consumer Privacy Act
Governor Jerry Brown signed the CCPA into law in 2018, and it's some of the most sweeping privacy legislation that's passed in the U.S. While the law specifically protects citizens of California and only affects larger businesses, it's likely these regulations will transform American industry generally.
The CCPA takes effect in 2020 and establishes the following rights for Californians. Breaching any of these may incur a fine.
Californians have the right to know what personal data companies are collecting about them, and to whom (if anyone) these companies are providing this information.
They have the right to access their personal information, and say no to its distribution.
They have the right to equal services, even if they exercise their privacy rights.
The American Data Dissemination Act
In January 2019, Senator Marco Rubio introduced a bill called the American Data Dissemination Act, or ADD. While it hasn't passed yet (as of February 2019) and may still undergo revisions, it requires the FTC to send Congress recommendations for consumer privacy regulations, which would resemble the Privacy Act of 1974. Congress would then turn these into law (or the FTC could, if Congress fails to act).
The Social Media Privacy and Consumer Rights Act
Senators Amy Klobuchar and John Kennedy teamed up to introduce the Social Media Privacy and Consumer Rights Act in 2018. This law mirrors many requirements put into place by the GDPR: it requires companies to notify users of how their data's collected and used. Users must have options for various privacy settings and companies must notify users within 72 hours if the company experiences a data breach. As of February 2019, this bill hasn't passed and remains in committee.
Laws like the GDPR and CCPA have the power to transform how companies gather and use customer data. More potential regulations are on the horizon. By staying abreast of regulations as they pass, you'll be able to collect and use your customers' data to improve their experience, in a legal, ethical way.
Going Paperless? The Benefits --and the Drawbacks
January 29, 2019 by Lynn Bates
Many businesses have considered getting rid of paper receipts... and many governments are encouraging other businesses to take the plunge. But what are the consequences for your business? Read on to learn some of the benefits of digital-only receipts -- and the drawbacks.
Topics: Mobile Coupons, Loyalty Programs, mobile coupon redemption
3 Ways to Redeem Mobile Coupons: QR Codes, Stamp or POS Integration
If you want to increase customer engagement, then mobile coupons are the way to go. Research shows that mobile coupons can enhance awareness of products and lead to redemptions. Mobile coupon users also enhance revenue potential as they tend to shop and spend more than non-mobile coupon users. But redeeming mobile coupons can be a challenge if you don't have a plan. Luckily, there are several ways to redeem mobile coupons. Try these three effective strategies for mobile coupon redemption:
Topics: QR Codes, Mobile Coupons, mobile coupon redemption
Data as a Currency: Deciphering Best Practices for Consumer Data
October 30, 2018 by Lynn Bates
If you'd told someone 30 years ago that your customer's data was valuable - and that people were willing to hand it over to you - that idea would have sounded like science fiction.
But the business world - and customers' attitudes - have changed. Many customers are willing to sign over at least some of their personal data to companies. Companies have learned they can use data to pinpoint marketing materials. Many companies have profited off customer data, but in recent years a backlash has forced many companies to reconsider their business model.
Topics: Personalized Content, Consumer Data, GDPR
How Businesses Can Use Location Data Beyond Marketing
Location data, gathered from customers' mobile devices, is a powerful marketing tool for many businesses. Companies use this information to directly target marketing to them, via push notifications and other means, that's relevant to their location data and shopping experience.
But businesses also use location data for "location intelligence" - something that goes far beyond direct marketing. Companies are already gathering these data, and might as well use them for as many applications as possible.
Topics: Proximity Marketing, Location Based Marketing
Adding Mobile Payment to Your Mobile Loyalty App Will Pay Off!
September 13, 2018 by Lynn Bates
Are you building a mobile loyalty app? If so, mobile payment functionality will make your app much more enticing to users. Read on to learn more about mobile payments, why they're so popular, and how to implement them in your app.
Topics: Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments
Did You Know Emojis Boost Open Rates? 😲
August 03, 2018 by Lynn Bates
You spend so much time crafting the perfect marketing email or push notification. It's a shame when it goes unread.
Topics: SMS, Push Notifications, Content, In-App Messaging, Emojis
Deciphering the Difference Between iBeacons and Eddystone
July 11, 2018 by Lynn Bates
iBeacon or Eddystone? What's the deal? Both of these technologies essentially do the same thing -- they let mobile app developers deliver content to users based on their geo-location via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) -- but there's some confusion about the differences between them. It's time to clear this up once and for all.
Topics: Proximity Marketing, Beacons, Location Based Marketing, geofencing, Eddystone, iBeacon
Understanding When to Use Beacons and Geofencing
May 11, 2018 by Lynn Bates
Because they can significantly enhance the customer experience, beacons and geofencing have become some of the most powerful mobile marketing tools available to businesses today. However, they can be tough to use in ways that are both effective and improve customer trust. Mastering the proper use of each technology, though, will help you take advantage of these new mobile marketing techniques.
Topics: Proximity Marketing, Beacons, Location Based Marketing, geofencing
All posts >> Next
Mobile Marketing?
Beacons (9)
Consumer Data (3)
Emojis (1)
Generation Marketing (1)
geofencing (8)
In-App Messaging (2)
Location Based Marketing (10)
Loyalty Programs (11)
mobile coupon redemption (2)
Mobile Coupons (12)
Mobile Marketing (37)
Mobile Website (7)
Personalized Content (4)
Proximity Marketing (28)
Push Notifications (2)
TCPA (3)
Telephone Consumer Privacy Act (2)
Text Messaging (15)
Copyright © 2019 Mobilozophy
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line104
|
__label__wiki
| 0.583007
| 0.583007
|
Thundercat Live on KCRW
Every now and then, Santa Monica’s KCRW radio station hosts live-sessions from musicians we love. Their latest addition is LA-native bass-player Thundercat, who I should have to introduce to any of you. Outside of his solo-work, he has gained a great following in recent years through his collaborations with Flying Lotus, Erykah Badu and Kendrick Lamar.
The first track “Them Changes” is taken from the all new Thundercat EP on Brainfeeder, while the second “Heartbreaks & Setbacks” is off his 2013 album “Apocalypse”.
brainfeederkcrwlivestephen brunerthundercat
Tokimonsta – Go With It (live)
Mind if I share a pop tune with you today? I’ve never really been into Little Dragon and the sorts and I was a bit suspicious when Tokimonsta signed to that label. But well, it can be tiring to be a music snob all day and I guess I’m somewhat falling for the catchiness of this tune. It’s one of two songs recorded live on KCRW the other day, you can watch the other one over here.
jennifer leekcrwlivelos angelesm.n.d.r.tokimonsta
Mark de Clive-Lowe – Get Started (live)
Only yesterday, Los Angeles resident Mark de Clive-Lowe played a short live session on local radio station KCRW. He brought Nia Andrews, Tim Lefebvre and Dexter Story to play tracks from his new album Renegades.
For the full six tracks and an interview with Mark, head over to his blog for the player.
kcrwlivelos angelesmark de clive-lowenia andrews
James Blake – CMYK (live)
One of the tracks that gave James Blake‘s career a boost, quite some time before the album came out, was clearly CMYK. In fact the demand was so high, it was repressed several times and in several editions. The rest is history, these days it’s no longer a surprise to hear the man on the airwaves.
This is only one of the tracks performed live on KCRW, you can listen to the entire session on their website.
Also, don’t forget James did a Essential Mix last week, the stream will be online for three more days!
cmykjames blakekcrwlive
Chico Mann – Ya Yo Se (live)
I remember Chico Mann‘s debut album Manifest Tone Vol. 1 as one of my favourites of 2007. However, I did miss his new album Analog Drift, which was released on Wax Poetics earlier this year. In the video he performs a track from that album live on KCRW.
And you can listen to the entire session, including an interview by Jason Bently.
chico mannkcrwlivemarcos garciawax poetics
Arthur Verocai – Sylvia (live)
Brazilian composer and arranger Arthur Verocai plays an exclusive session for KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic show, accompanied by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on violin, Justo Almario on flute and sax, Fabiano Do Nascimento on guitar and singer Diana Booker.
For a video of the full session, head over to the KCRW website, where you can also stream the music alone. And of course, I still recommend Mochilla’s Timeless DVD with a full concert by Arthur Verocai and a 30-piece orchestra!
arthur verocaidiana bookerfabiano do nascimentojusto almariokcrwmiguel atwood-fergusonmochilla
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line105
|
__label__cc
| 0.563681
| 0.436319
|
Blogs Strong Communities Healthier People (SCHeP)
All Activities, Blog
What would a Cultural Participation Research Network look like, and why should we have one?
Mel Evans
By Eva Elliott and Ellie Byrne
In 2015, we were asked to lead on part of the Welsh Government’s FUSION programme, in response to Baroness Kay Andrews’ report on culture and poverty. FUSION was about connecting the culture and heritage industries to the outcomes of the now dismantled Communities First programme across the poorest parts of Wales. In many ways our project within FUSION – Fort to Pit to Port – was fruitful; we developed a good network of partners who felt there would be value in continuing to be connected in some way. FUSION had its own successes, but was limited by a focus on pre-determined outcomes and there was no role for research; we never had the freedom to coproduce the type of network we might want. We decided to explore the idea of hosting a research network at Cardiff University, where these relationships could be nurtured and developed with a focus on the possibilities that research might bring to the table.
So what do we mean by cultural participation? For a start, we think it must be much more than people attending the cultural events and places that are sanctioned as ‘the arts’. For us culture is everywhere – people ‘do’ it. There are places all over Wales that have rich cultural histories and continue to sing, dance, play music and share reflections on experiences that are not recognised. Perhaps there could be a better connection between the different forms of ‘everyday’ culture and ‘formal’ cultures, and perhaps this could be part of a research endeavour.
We are all living in a world that is changing socially, economically and environmentally, in often frightening ways, and the impact on people is unequal. Surely people working in heritage and arts have a role in making sense of all of this. In working alongside not just audiences but participants in making sense, documenting and imagining different ways of living well and perhaps of doing democracy.
Some of us also want to critique the practices of our established organisations and venues – the perception that the arts and museums only reflect the interests of an (albeit) sizable elite is palpable. Is this exclusivity partly because working class people and people from other excluded groups are not the artists, not the curators? How can we involve people from working classes and other backgrounds more? A more diverse cultural leadership may change the way in which the social is view from what the cultural sector provides.
To explore these ideas and practicalities of developing a research network, we gathered at The Pomegranate on 22nd June for an afternoon of discussion. There were seven questions which people discussed and debated over four inspirational hours, with a group discussion at the end leading to the next steps for the network.
We are about to get the ball rolling with some of the ideas and projects people talked about at this inaugural meeting, and will report back on these as they progress. For now, here are some quotes from people who attended our first meeting:
“The afternoon of discussion created a series of lightbulb moments for me, ranging from small environmentally friendly LED lightbulbs to stadium filling floodlights making me think of course why don’t we do that, genius! Getting ‘buy-in’ from senior colleagues created an impression on me and that’s something I will seek to make happen.”
“Lightbulb moments? I guess it was seeing that there are enthusiastic, like-minded people out there and that working together may actually make a difference.”
“The people in the room were inspiring. The salon’s informal structure allows for discussion, the possibility of building on ideas and connecting them with other relevant initiatives in a way that can only be achieved “face to face”. There was a real energy. The loose format enables people to break off into fluid groups to explore different aspects of connectivity, fuelled by interest in doing the work and the skills we can offer. It should make it easier to translate discussion into action.”
The development of this network has been established as part of Strong Communities Healthier People (SCHeP) legacy and will be housed in WISERD, you can read more about the network on the website as well as contacting Dr Ellie Byrne on Byrnee@cardiff.ac.uk for firther information or enquiries.
Notice: It seems you have Javascript disabled in your Browser. In order to submit a comment to this post, please write this code along with your comment: f7cd903f688d7df51467106b31da4a7a
Strong Communities, Healthier People
This project focuses on health and wellbeing, initially in north Merthyr and the Butetown, Riverside and Grangetown areas of Cardiff.
Learn more about the Strong Communities, Healthier People project.
SCHeP Participatory Research – A Participants Perspective
Merthyr Rising 2017
Introduction to Co-Production
Cardiff Medics Seek Some Answers on the Multi-cultural Streets of Cardiff
archaeology arts Butetown cardiff Cardiff university club Communities First community Community development community engagement courage culture Economics grangetown heritage history Iron age labour merthyr merthyr tydfil mother national North Merthyr Pioneer project Radicalism Red Flag revolution riverside Riverside and Grangetown ross Ashcroft SCHeP Somali Steve keen theatre university wales Welsh Government
Strong Communities Healthier People (SCHeP)
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line114
|
__label__cc
| 0.547751
| 0.452249
|
Men’s hoops: Big East notebook
Jerry Carino • January 28, 2010
1. Villanova: Will be voted No. 1 in Gannett New Jersey’s Top 25 ballot.
2. Syracuse: Spanking of Georgetown made everyone sit up and notice.
3. West Virginia: Their alarm clocks must be set for halftime.
4. Georgetown: Got a bright orange handprint on their backside.
5. Pittsburgh: They handle the rock like it’s a hand grenade.
6. Connecticut: You need Dramamine to follow this team.
7. Notre Dame: Has one more quality win than Mike Brey has ties.
8. Seton Hall: Here’s an idea: Herb Pope bobblehead night at The Rock.
9. Louisville: Think it bugs Rick Pitino that Gonzo has beaten him twice in three years?
10. Marquette: Rutgers made them look like Jordan’s Bulls.
11. Cincinnati: Born Ready . . . for the NIT.
12. Providence: Maybe the most impressive 4-4 league mark in the nation.
13. St. John’s: A gold standard compared to the other major sports team in Queens.
14. South Florida: Spring training exhibitions will outdraw them.
15. DePaul: Barely better from the line (.564) than the Cuse is from the field (.534).
16. Rutgers: Instead of Caldwell can we put St. Pat’s on their schedule?
WHO’S HOT
Dominique Jones: South Florida’s do-everything guard scored 46 points in a 109-105 overtime win at Providence, the second-highest total ever in a Big East game. He also notched 10 rebounds and eight assists.
Jay Wright: The dapper head coach of 19-1 Villanova is second-most popular guy in Philadelphia right now, after Kevin Kolb.
Geno Auriemma: His incredible success with the UConn women makes you wonder—could he win big as a Big East men’s coach? We tend to think yes.
WHO’S NOT
ADs in NJ: Seton Hall allowed Joe Quinlan’s contract to expire. Maybe his old buddy Bob Mulcahy can give him a nice big fat one.
ESPN: Why televise Seton Hall-South Florida on the deuce and relegate Seton Hall-Villanova to the U? And you’ve got 200 channels, can you find a way to get Pitt-West Virginia on the air?
Jim Burr: To the dismay of Big East fans everywhere, the longtime ref is out indefinitely with a back injury.
1,257: Career points in Big East games for Notre Dame’s Luke Harangody, seventh on the league’s all-time list.
100: Meetings between Notre Dame and DePaul. Notre Dame leads 56-44 after Saturday’s 10-point win.
.639: Winning percentage of home teams in league games (39-22).
32: 20-win seasons for Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, an NCAA record.
5: Statistical categories in which Big East squads lead the nation as of mid-week: field-goal percentage (Syracuse, 53.4), assists (Syracuse, 20.3 per game), 3-point shooting (Marquette, 49.3 percent), blocks (Connecticut, 8.9 per game) and assist-to-turnover ratio (Notre Dame, 1.80).
4: Teams in the top six of the latest RPI Report: Syracuse (1), Villanova (4), West Virginia (5) and Georgetown (6).
0: Times Villanova opened 8-0 in league play prior to this season.
Connecticut at Louisville, Monday at 7 (ESPN): It’s February 1, and the Huskies and Cardinals are desperate for a win. Has that sentence ever been typed before? Battle of the mercurial guards in Kemba Walker vs. Edgar Sosa.
Seton Hall at Villanova, Tuesday at 7 (ESPNU): Bobby Gonzalez likes to talk about “glamour games”, “getting some buzz”, and being “in the conversation.” Well then, this is Gonzo heaven. Two deep, backcourt-driven rosters trade fireworks in a raucous environment.
Pittsburgh at West Virginia, Wednesday at 7 (TV TBA): The backyard brawl, basketball version. This will be more like a steel cage match as the league’s two best defensive squads drop elbows on each other. Can you picture Bob Huggins flying off the top rope?
NOTABLE QUOTES from this week’s conference call . . .
“His shoulder is getting better so he fouls more now. He can foul with two hands instead of one. In all serioussnes, he’s been terrific. His shoulder is getting better and he’s starting to shoot the ball with some range. We’re looking for Joe to have a big impact down the stretch.” —West Virginia’s Bob Huggins on point guard Joe Mazzulla.
“I’ve talked to Lance about not trying to live up to other peoples’ expectations. Define what a good basketball player is for yourself. He’s struggled shooting the ball from the perimeter at times. He’s worked hard on it. Learning to play off the ball is something he’s worked hard on. As a coaching staff we’ve tried to get him to where he can get some easy baskets moving moving without the basketball . . . He’s had a good year, for a freshman he’s had a great year. You can’t compare him to people like John Wall or Michael Beasley. You can’t live up to the ridiculous expectations other people set for you.” —Cincinnati’s Mick Cronin on Lance Stephenson.
“You look at their schedule upcoming and it’s like looking into the abyss. Welcome to Big East basketball. I’m sure SEC football coaches feel the same way probably about midway through October. They start looking around and thinking about where the wins are going to come from.” —Cronin on Providence, which faces Syracuse twice, Georgetown, Marquette, Villanova and West Virginia over the first three weeks of February.
“Watching DePaul, I see they’re playing very hard. Its’ a tribune to their kids. They’re rallying around the new coach. It’s been impressive.” —Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim
“I don’t think there’s anybody that’s No. 1. There are a bunch of teams that are real good and right behind them there are a bunch of teams that could beat them. Connecticut looked the best they’ve been all year, they dominated Texas, and they go and get beat at Providence by 15. It’s very hard to tell what’s going on in college basketball right now.” —Boeheim
“We’re certainly a team that’s on the bubble. We have the goal of winning seven of the next 11, that’s certainly a tall order. We’re trying to get off the bubble and make the NCAA Tournament as probably 4-5 other Big East teams are trying to do.” —Louisville’s Rick Pitino, whose club is 4-3 in the league — Louisville’s Rick Pitino (notice SHU fans: 11 league wins is the target number)
“We expected a lot from him, being with him over the summer and seeing his development and improvement. We lost Levance Fields and he was our backup point guard, so there were a lot of minutes there, a lot of opportunity . . . Watching him as a freshman you saw his work ethic and you knew he was going to get better and improve . . . he’s improved in pretty much every area we’ve addressed with him and that’s rare for a player so it’s good to see.” —Pitt’s Jamie Dixon on Scotch Plains product Ashton Gibbs
NOTRE DAME’S MIKE BREY:
On Mike Rosario’s woes: “We’ve had some guys who have really shot the ball well over my 10 years here and the one thing is, the coach has to show confidence in him and you want him to keep shooting. I would think Coach Hill will do that with Mike. Mike is a key guy for them and he’s got to be taking those shots. You want to take good ones, but you’re not turning shots down just because you’re going through a stretch where you’re not making them.”
On his concerns about Rutgers: “You think, When are they going to get rolling? When are they going to kick it into gear? But for us the focus has got to be on us. We’re 4-4, we’re scratching our way through the pack . . . our focus has got to be on us the next couple of days.”
FRED HILL:
“We’ve got to do better on the glass. That’s been an Achilles heel all year long and until we figure out a way to rebound it’s going to continue to give us problems.”
On Rosario’s woes: “He’s going through somewhat of a typical sophomore slump after a great freshman year. Part of that is the way people are defending him . . . We miss a little bit of the inside-out we had with Gregory Echenique. We were able to throw the ball inside and you had to make a decision on whether you had to help off Mike. Also Gregory was our best rebounder to start off our fast break and Mike was great in transition. He was getting some easy looks in transition and that was a big part of him getting going . . . He’s got to kind of let the game come to him. He’s our leading scorer and he still has to get us going, so once in a while we have to ask him to force the issue a little bit.”
Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2010 by Jerry Carino.
About Jerry Carino
Jerry Carino has covered sports for the Gannett New Jersey newspapers since 1996 and has been on the college basketball beat since 2003. A native of Old Bridge, he also teaches journalism at Kean University.
View all posts by Jerry Carino →
« Schiano: Susan’s departure won’t affect recruiting Rutgers wrestling seeks to extend unbeaten streak to 12 »
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line118
|
__label__wiki
| 0.809579
| 0.809579
|
Metromix
MomsLikeMe
GoToRenoTahoe.com
← Sen. Ted Cruz cheapens the memory of World War II heroes by his 'Bataan Death March' reference to end filibuster
"Anti-establishment" Republican Lowden has a shot at winning lieutenant governor's race but must improve as a candidate →
First in series of Reno 'town hall' meetings goes off without anger, drunkenness
1:07 pm, Oct 2, 2013 | Written by Ray Hagar
I attended the first of five Reno City Council Town Hall meetings Tuesday night, the one hosted by Councilman Dwight Dortch.
Being one of the oldest employable journalists in the state, believe me, I’ve been to my share of “town halls.”
This one was one of the best.
There was no one so angry that they could not be calmed down, as I’ve seen in school board “town halls” in Reno and Minden. There was no one drunk either. That's always an uncomfortable situation. I recall such a meeting in Dayton back in ’01.
My thinking was Dortch would use the town hall as an early campaign stop, since he’s considering a run for mayor in 2014. But he did little of the talking. Various city staffers did most of it.
The overlying issue was “the quality of life.” Specifically, the big complaint was the potential for a concrete and asphalt processing operation to set up next to the University Ridge neighborhood where some of these folks live.
It was called an “environmental disaster.”
Dortch said he did not was to get too specific on the issue. The city council will soon take it up again. It was clear no one wanted this noisy, dusty rock crushing operation in their backyard.
But here’s the rub:
“The challenge is with this property is that it was there prior to the residential going in,” Dortch said. “We would normally not allow someone to come in zone a few parcels adjacent to residential as industrial. We would not allow that. But the people who zoned that residential didn’t feel that was an issue, being adjacent to industrial, when they zoned it residential. That is the challenge.”
Graffiti was also a big issue. Some in the audience called for stiffer penalties for those who deface property with graffiti.
It reminded me of when former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman wanted taggers’ thumbs cut off if they were caught doing graffiti. Dortch won’t go that far but wants stiffer penalties for graffiti taggers.
“I do think we need tougher penalties for graffiti, I really do,” Dortch said. “And I think we need to be working with our judges to make sure they are implementing the maximum penalties on these people, if they can, as we move forward.
“I don’t know if that is going to solve the problem completely but we are all looking at things that will deter it,” Dortch said. “Our police force …they are going to say that we’re never going to get rid of it completely. But anything we can do to minimize it is in our best interests.”
Dortch said it would be a good idea to see how other communities have successfully attacked the graffiti issue.
“That is something that we ought to ask staff to do," Dortch said. "Let’s make a determination of what are the best practices, how do we determine what other areas are doing, what is working. Let’s not re-invent the wheel if there is some other area that has it (a good idea).”
Dortch blames any rise in graffiti on budget cuts.
“A lot of the problem, obviously, was the budgets cuts that we went through.” Dortch said. “We didn’t have an enforcement team at all. That is really where our challenges were. As we were reducing police force, we were trying to keep as many people on patrol as possible. So our abatement program went away, our enforcement program went away and now we are trying to implement those back. And, as you heard tonight, we are taking NAB (neighborhood advisory boards) money away from NABs to get in to these graffiti programs, so we can get the abatement program going again and the enforcement program going again.”
The next Reno Town Hall is Monday, Oct. 7 at the Atria Summit Ridge Senior Living Center. It's at 4880 Summit Ridge Dr.
Ray Hagar is the political reporter for the Reno Gazette-Journal and a fifth-generation Nevadan. Hagar is also a co-host for the Nevada Newsmakers statewide television program. He is the co-author of "Johnson-Jeffries: Dateline Reno," a book about the 1910 "Fight of the Century" in Reno that pitted black world champion Jack Johnson against the "Great White Hope," Jim Jeffries
Nevada's opening-day opponent, Southern Utah, disses Harry Reid
Sen. Reid says he has advice for Hillary Clinton but won't share it with RGJ reporter
Amodei rattles his saber when asked about expanding military action in Middle East
Rep. Titus proposes end to federal 'handle tax' for sports books; But will the state want to take over this tax source instead?
GOP attorney general candidate Laxalt gets high praise on Navy fitness report from 2007
Inside Nevada Politics Home
Crime Mugs
Nevada Legislature
Nevada Data Page
Make It Easy
Reno Magazine
MomsLikeMe.com
Central and Southeast Reno
North Reno
South Suburban Reno
Sparks/Spanish Springs
Movies and Video
Reno Aces
Reno Bighorns
Sports Betting & TV
Voices Columnists
Real Estate and Retail
Gaming and Tourism
Money and Markets
Northern Nevada Networking
Read an obituary
Send in a celebration
Copyright © 2012 www.rgj.com. All rights reserved.
Users of this site agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy/Your California Privacy Rights (Terms Updated 2011)
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line119
|
__label__wiki
| 0.585828
| 0.585828
|
Home / News / France 8 – 0 Nigeria: Super Falcons trashed by the female French team
France 8 – 0 Nigeria: Super Falcons trashed by the female French team
Date360 Blog Apr 7, 2018 News, Sports Leave a comment
The Super Falcons of Nigeria suffered a massive defeat in the hands on the French female national team yesterday in a friendly match at the MMArena in Le Mans, France. The dominant female football team in Africa were defeated by 8 goals to nothing.
The defeat was the joint-largest for Nigeria senior women team with the reigning African champions also having suffered 8-0 defeats at the hands of Norway at the 1995 Fifa Women’s World Cup and Germany in an international friendly in 2010, Goal.com reports.
The friendly is part of preparations for the Falcons ahead of the 2018 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations qualifiers.
It was new Swedish coach Thomas Dennerby’s first game with the main team of the Super Falcons.
The last time the Super Falcons faced France was in their first group stage game at the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Germany which the French won 1-0.
France had the first chance of the game in the 14th minute but Chiamaka Nnadozie made a good save to deny the hosts.
The deadlock was eventually broken in the 19th minute through Eugenie Le Sommer.
In the 26th minute Super Falcons Ngozi Ebere received the game’s first yellow card for a foul.
The French continued to create opportunities and were rewarded in the 36th minute as Valerie Gauvin made it 2-0.
On the stroke of half-time, the Super Falcons conceded again as Gaetane Thiney stretched France’s lead to 3-0 going into the break.
In the 54th minute Desire Oparanozie hit a well-struck shot but was denied by a good save by the French goalkeeper.
The French recovered from the scare from Oparanozie as Aminata Diallo extended their lead in the 60th minute before Gauvin grabbed her second goal in the 70th minute to give her side a 5-0 lead.
With 12 minutes remaining, Gauvin completed her hat-trick to give the French a 6-0 lead.
The French were not done as they bagged their seventh goal with five minutes left following an own goal by Faith Ikidi.
And in the 92nd minute, Marie-Charlotte Leger completed the rout.
Ex-Super Falcons Midfielder, Ajuma Ameh-Otache Dies At 33
Super Falcon Star, Asisat Oshoala Joins FC Barcelona (Photos)
FIFA Releases Top 10 Final 2018 World Rankings
Nigerian Football Star, Asisat Oshoala Poses With Lionel Messi (Photo)
Previous Cardi B’s ‘Invasion Of Privacy’ Already Went Gold
Next “Kenya Is Very Corrupt Even More Than Nigeria” – Dangote
Timi Dakolo’s wife, Busola, has formally filed a complaint at the Police station following her …
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line122
|
__label__wiki
| 0.725981
| 0.725981
|
Difference between revisions of "Dale Brown Emeagwali"
(inclusion power)
== Early life and education ==
Emeagwali was born Dale Donita Brown on December 24, 1954 to Doris Brown, a schoolteacher, and Leon Brown, a magazine production department superintendent.<ref name=":2" /> Despite facing [[Racial segregation in the United States|racial segregation]] at school and in the community, she graduated from high school at the top of her class.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://emeagwali.com/dale/|title=Dale Emeagwali honored as 'Scientist of the Year'|website=emeagwali.com|accessdate=2015-11-30}}</ref> She earned her bachelor's degree in biology from [[Coppin State University]] and her doctorate in microbiology from [[Georgetown University School of Medicine]].{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}
Emeagwali was born Dale Donita Brown on December 24, 1954 to Doris Brown, a schoolteacher, and Leon Brown, a magazine production department superintendent.<ref name=":2" /> Despite facing [[Racial segregation in the United States|racial segregation]] at school and in the community, she graduated from high school at the top of her class.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://emeagwali.com/dale/|title=Dale Emeagwali honored as 'Scientist of the Year'|website=emeagwali.com|accessdate=2015-11-30}}</ref> She earned her bachelor's degree in biology from [[Coppin State University]] and her doctorate in microbiology from [[Georgetown University School of Medicine]].{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}<ref name="stlouis">{{cite news |title=Science Stars: African-American microbiologist Dale Emeagwali |url=http://www.stlamerican.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/eedition/3/a1/3a1beb7a-412d-59d0-b037-e162b2be7aad/530edc9586623.pdf.pdf |accessdate=13 July 2019 |work=St Louis American |date=Feb 27, 2014}}</ref>
On August 15, 1981, she married [[Philip Emeagwali]], with whom she had one son.{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}}
Emeagwali's early research focused on the bacterial order [[Actinomycetales]], particularly the genus ''[[Streptomyces]]'', from which the [[antibacterial agent]] [[streptomycin]] is derived. Her most important{{according to whom|date=April 2019}} discovery was the existence of [[kynurenine]] [[formamidase]] [[isozyme]]s in ''[[Streptomyces parvulus]]''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title = Biographies of Scientists: Dale Brown Emeagwali - Microbiologist and Community Leader - Blogs - Tips|url = http://tips.fm/entry.php?2549-Biographies-of-Scientists-Dale-Brown-Emeagwali-Microbiologist-and-Community-Leader|website = tips.fm|accessdate = 2015-12-01}}</ref>
Her later research demonstrated that [[Antisense RNA|antisense]] methodology{{vague|date=April 2019}} can be used to suppress gene expression in cancerous cells.<ref>{{Cite book|title = African Americans in Science: An Encyclopedia of People and Progress|last = Carey|first = Charles W.|publisher = ABC-CLIO|year = 2008|isbn = |location = Santa Barbara, CA|pages = 70–71}}</ref>
Her later research demonstrated that [[Antisense RNA|antisense]] methodology{{vague|date=April 2019}} can be used to suppress gene expression in cancerous cells.<ref>{{Cite book|title = African Americans in Science: An Encyclopedia of People and Progress|last = Carey|first = Charles W.|publisher = ABC-CLIO|year = 2008|isbn = 9781851099986|location = Santa Barbara, CA|pages = 70–71 | url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W0nw5KTJJygC&lpg=PA70&ots=A2ZxZGkwNt&dq=dale%20brown%20emeagwali&pg=PA70#v=onepage&q=dale%20brown%20emeagwali&f=false}}</ref>
== Awards and honors ==
This article was considered for deletion at Wikipedia on July 12 2019. This is a backup of Wikipedia:Dale_Brown_Emeagwali. All of its AfDs can be found at Wikipedia:Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Dale_Brown_Emeagwali. Purge
Dale Brown Emeagwali (born December 24, 1954) is an American microbiologist and cancer researcher whose accomplishments include the discovery of kynurenine formamidase isozymes in Streptomyces parvulus, proof that cancer gene expression can be inhibited by antisense methodology,Template:Clarify and demonstration of overlapping gene expressionTemplate:Clarify in a DNA virus.Template:Which She received the 1996 Scientist of the Year award from the National Technical Honor Society.
2.1 Fellowships
3 Awards and honors
Emeagwali was born Dale Donita Brown on December 24, 1954 to Doris Brown, a schoolteacher, and Leon Brown, a magazine production department superintendent.[1] Despite facing racial segregation at school and in the community, she graduated from high school at the top of her class.[2] She earned her bachelor's degree in biology from Coppin State University and her doctorate in microbiology from Georgetown University School of Medicine.[no citations needed here][3]
On August 15, 1981, she married Philip Emeagwali, with whom she had one son.[no citations needed here]
Template:Unreferenced section Emeagwali completed concurrent postdoctoral fellowships with the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. She subsequently completed a fellowship with the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.[4]
In 1986, Emeagwali worked as a research associate at the University of Wyoming. From 1987 to 1992 she served as an assistant research scientist at the University of Michigan. She was a research associate at the University of Minnesota from 1992 to 1996. That year, while working at Ball State University,[1] she was named Scientist of the Year by the National Technical Honor Society for her contributions in the fields of microbiology, molecular biology and biochemistry.[4]
Emeagwali's early research focused on the bacterial order Actinomycetales, particularly the genus Streptomyces, from which the antibacterial agent streptomycin is derived. Her most importantTemplate:According to whom discovery was the existence of kynurenine formamidase isozymes in Streptomyces parvulus.[5]
Her later research demonstrated that antisense methodologyTemplate:Vague can be used to suppress gene expression in cancerous cells.[6]
1974-Biomedical Fellowship Award, Meharry Medical College
1976-Third Place Award, Best Presentation, Beta Kappa Chi and the National Institute of Science
1976-Biomedical Research Award, Coppin State College
1981-Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, National Science Foundation
1981-Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, American Cancer Society
1996-Scientist of the Year, National Technical Honor Society
1980 “Evidence of a Constitutive and Inducible Form of Kynurenine Formamidase,” Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics[7]
1984 “Sequence Homology Between the Structural Proteins of Kilham Rat Virus,” Journal of Virology[8]
1989 “Modulation of Ras Expression by Antisense Non-ionic Deoxyoligonucleotide Analogues,” Journal of Gene Research[9]
1990 “Amplified Expression of Three Jun Family Members Inhibits Erytholeukemia Differentiation”[10]
List of African-American inventors and scientists
↑ 1.0 1.1 Oakes, Elizabeth H. (2007). "Emeagwali, Dale Brown". Encyclopedia of World Scientists, Revised Edition. New York: Facts on File, Inc.. pp. 210–211.
↑ "Dale Emeagwali honored as 'Scientist of the Year'". http://emeagwali.com/dale/. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
↑ "Science Stars: African-American microbiologist Dale Emeagwali". St Louis American. Feb 27, 2014. http://www.stlamerican.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/eedition/3/a1/3a1beb7a-412d-59d0-b037-e162b2be7aad/530edc9586623.pdf.pdf. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
↑ 4.0 4.1 "Dale Brown Emeagwali (1954- ) • BlackPast" (in en-US). 2018-12-26. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/dale-brown-emeagwali-1954/.
↑ "Biographies of Scientists: Dale Brown Emeagwali - Microbiologist and Community Leader - Blogs - Tips". http://tips.fm/entry.php?2549-Biographies-of-Scientists-Dale-Brown-Emeagwali-Microbiologist-and-Community-Leader. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
↑ Carey, Charles W. (2008). African Americans in Science: An Encyclopedia of People and Progress. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. pp. 70–71. ISBN 9781851099986. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W0nw5KTJJygC&lpg=PA70&ots=A2ZxZGkwNt&dq=dale%20brown%20emeagwali&pg=PA70#v=onepage&q=dale%20brown%20emeagwali&f=false.
↑ Brown, D. D.; Hitchcock, M. J.; Katz, E. (1980-06-01). "Evidence for a constitutive and inducible form of kynurenine formamidase in an actinomycin-producing strain of Streptomyces parvulus". Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 202 (1): 18–22. Template:Citation error. ISSN 0003-9861. PMID 6156659. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=%25E2%2580%259CEvidence+of+a+Constitutive+and+Inducible+Form+of+Kynurenine+Formamidase%252C%25E2%2580%259D.
↑ Brown, D. D.; Salzman, L. A. (1984-03-01). "Sequence homology between the structural proteins of Kilham rat virus". Journal of Virology 49 (3): 1018–1020. ISSN 0022-538X. PMC 255569. PMID 6699933. //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC255569/.
↑ Brown, D.; Yu, Z. P.; Miller, P.; Blake, K.; Wei, C.; Kung, H. F.; Black, R. J.; Ts'o, P. O. et al. (1989-01-01). "Modulation of ras expression by anti-sense, nonionic deoxyoligonucleotide analogs". Oncogene Research 4 (4): 243–252. ISSN 0890-6467. PMID 2671865. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Modulation+of+Ras+Expression+by+Antisense+Non-ionic+Deoxyoligonucleotide+Analogues.
↑ Prochownik, E. V.; Smith, M. J.; Snyder, K.; Emeagwali, D. (1990-11-01). "Amplified expression of three jun family members inhibits erythroleukemia differentiation". Blood 76 (9): 1830–1837. ISSN 0006-4971. PMID 2121297. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Amplified+Expression+of+Three+Jun+Family+Members+Inhibits+Erytholeukemia+Differentiation+Blood.
Template:Authority control
Retrieved from "http://deletionpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dale_Brown_Emeagwali&oldid=188749"
Articles which use infobox templates with no data rows
American microbiologists
Scientists from Baltimore
Georgetown University School of Medicine alumni
Women microbiologists
American women biologists
Coppin State University alumni
20th-century American biologists
20th-century women scientists
21st-century biologists
21st-century American scientists
21st-century women scientists
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line124
|
__label__wiki
| 0.502372
| 0.502372
|
Jupiter & Saturn
Stars & Brown Dwarfs
Star Birth
Star Death
The Galactic Center
The Early Universe
-- Section Menu -- GalaxiesThe Big BangThe Early Universe Exoplanets Star BirthStar DeathStars & Brown Dwarfs The Galactic Center AsteroidsCometsJupiter & SaturnMoons
Galaxies are the cosmic metropolises in which stars are born, live, and ultimately die. There are as many as a trillion galaxies in the observable universe, yet each is as unique as a snowflake.
Our own Milky Way Galaxy contains several hundred billion stars.
Stars are seldom found alone in the universe. They are formed and live out their lives in massive associations known as galaxies. Typically they contain anywhere from tens of millions of stars on the small side to trillions of stars in the largest ones.
Stars and dust structures in galaxies are especially easy to study in infrared light
Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes. Just like snowflakes, each is unique, but there are recurring patterns we see again and again. While these patterns were first noted in visible light, infrared observations have greatly advanced our understanding of the various possible structures.
One key advantage of studying galaxies in infrared light is that the brightness of stars is a little less biased. In visible light, more massive stars can give off so much light that star forming areas can look disproportionally more significant than they really are. In the infrared this imbalance is less extreme, so we get a more representative view of how stars are actually distributed.
Many galaxies are also filled with dust clouds that obscure our view of the overall structure. Since dust becomes increasingly transparant to infrared wavelengths of light, this also improves our view of galaxy structure.
At longer wavelengths of infrared light the dust itself begins to glow. This important component of the galaxy's material becomes easy to identify and study, helping us to better understand how gas and dust moves and gathers. This is fundamental to learning how new generations of stars are constantly being formed in galaxies.
Spiral Galaxies
Messier 81 is a classic spiral galaxy
Spiral galaxies resemble pinwheels, due to the long arms of gas, dust, and stars that appear to be spiraling around the bright bulge at the galaxy's center. Most of the galaxy is spread into a very thin, wide disk that can be hundreds of thousands of light years across but only around a thousand light years thick.
The incredible spiral patterns that form in these disks are kind of like gravitational traffic jams, known as density waves. Stars and gas that are orbiting around the galaxy's center can hit these instabilities, lingering long enough to build up material that forms the spiral arms and the denser dust lanes found there. It is in these regions where stars tend to form in an ongoing process that constantly adds new stars to the disk. Infrared observations make it easy to pick out the warm dust associated with the largest areas of star formation.
A black hole is a point of infinite gravity, from which not even light can escape. Black holes at the centers of galaxies can be millions of times more massive than our Sun.
A thicker bulge of stars is generally found at the center of a spiral galaxy, which is typically made up of older stars. Astronomers have concluded that all galaxies likely have an incredibly massive black hole at their very centers. A black hole is a point of infinite gravity, from which not even light can escape. Black holes at the centers of galaxies can be millions of times more massive than our Sun. While these are too small to observe directly, often their presence can heat up surrounding clouds of dust which will shine brightly in infrared light.
Our own Galaxy—the Milky Way—is a spiral galaxy. It’s part of a system of at least 30 galaxies known as the Local Group. The largest galaxies in the Local Group are all spiral galaxies.
Barred Galaxies
NGC 253 has a central bar of stars
Many spiral galaxies have an unusual feature running through their very centers—a straight bar-like distribution of stars. While these bars can be very obvious in visible light, galaxies are filled with things that can obscure our view of these bars like dust clouds and star-forming regions. Bars are easiest to see when viewing only the stars in near infrared light, as in this image of NGC 253.
The advent of infrared astronomy revealed that bars were far more common than astronomers had expected. By letting us peer through the dust to the base population of stars, stellar bars can be found in all sizes. Infrared studies of our Milky Way Galaxy reveal that even it appears to have a central bar.
Even though galactic bars appear quite straight, the stars within them follow complex ellipsoid orbits. It appears that bars can be the result of gravitational interactions between galaxies, often forming in the wake of a close encounter.
Elliptical galaxies in the Fornax Cluster
The largest known galaxy, IC 1101, is an elliptical that has around 100 trillion stars! That is around 500 times larger than the Milky Way!
Not all galaxies form flat, dusty disks. Another common type is known as an elliptical galaxy. As the name suggests, these objects are either circular or oval in shape. They often show little structure at all, beyond a greatly increasing density of stars at their very center. The smallest elliptical galaxies are less than one-tenth the size of the Milky Way while the largest can be hundreds of times bigger.
Elliptical galaxies range in shape from circular to oval. The concentration of stars increases exponentially towards their cores, and drops off dramatically in their outer reaches. The stars in them are mostly old. Their orbits do not follow an orderly rotation like we see in the disks of spiral galaxies; instead they swarm around one another like bees around a beehive.
Infrared views of elliptical galaxies quickly reveal another key feature: they have very little dust or gas. The vivid dust structures seen so clearly in mid infrared observations of spiral galaxies are missing. This is why they have no young stars—there just isn't enough gas and dust around to make new stars.
It appears that elliptical galaxies are actually galactic cannibals. The largest ones seem to form from the mergers of smaller galaxies. These massive objects tend to pull in smaller galaxies over time, stripping them of gas and assimilating their stars.
Interacting Galaxies
Dust glows brightly in the infrared where stars are forming rapidly
The space between galaxies is vast, but they still run into one another on occasion. Interactions between galaxies are incredibly slow by human standards, playing out over hundreds of millions of years. When we look into the universe all we see are freeze-frame snapshots of different stages of these enormous events.
In some cases, galaxies may simply pass near one another. This can distort their shapes somewhat, and create features like bars and unusual spiral arm patterns that can persist long after the encounter is over.
When galaxies interact more directly, they can distort one another much more dramatically. During this process, the gas clouds within them collide and compress, and often are driven down into the very cores of the galaxies. These extensive, compressed clouds of gas become huge galactic maternity wards called starbursts. Stars can form at incredible rates within these starbursts, sometimes at rates thousands of times higher than normal galaxies. This starburst activity tends to occur within obscuring coccoons of dust that hide the activity in visible light. However, these huge dust complexes will be heated by the newly-born stars and will glow brightly in the infrared.
Gas and dust driven down into the cores of interacting galaxies can also supply fuel for the supermassive black holes at their centers. As material spirals down into the black hole it heats up and can emit light ranging from x-rays to infrared to radio. Astronomers call these active galactic nuclei, or AGNs.
Merging galaxies can end up forming elliptical galaxies. In fact, the largest galaxies in clusters are usually giant ellipticals near their centers that, over time, continue to grow ever larger as they cannibalize smaller galaxies.
Shooting stars are actually tiny pieces of rock and dust that are burning up in our atmosphere. Many of these particles are left over from the tails of passing comets, so you could say you're seeing a falling comet tail, rather than a falling star.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line127
|
__label__cc
| 0.503259
| 0.496741
|
BY JOHN DAWES
This month’s column features reports on two separate issues. Each could justify its own article, but that would mean you’d have to wait two full months before I could cover them both. However, despite the brief nature of these reports, I hope to provide sufficient detail to keep you aware of these issues.
YELLOW TANGS COME
ON-STREAM
Some months back, I reported on the remarkable achievement made at Hawaii’s Oceanic Institute where the team had succeeded in breeding yellow tangs (Zebrasoma flavescens) in captivity for the first time. Outstanding though this major breakthrough was, I predicted that it marked the start of a long process and that it would probably take many years before captive-bred specimens would become available on the open market.
The reasoning behind this was
simple: It took a full decade of re-
search and many thousands of
dollars to accomplish the first ma-
jor step, and it’s a long way from
achieving this to full commercial
availability. We might still be a
long ways away from achieving
the ultimate target, but, to my
welcome surprise and to that of
many industry colleagues, sever-
al hundred specimens from the
breeding program have grown to
adulthood.
Perhaps even more surprising is that these specimens already have found their way into the trade. Reportedly, they cost about twice as much as wild-caught specimens, which is exceptionally reasonable, bearing in mind how much each of these fish cost to produce. The Oceanic Institute won’t be making much profit for such sales; in fact, it’s more likely that it’ll sell them at much less than it cost to produce them. The important thing is that the transition phase from the laboratory to the marketplace is already underway.
There still are many hurdles to be negotiated. For example, the likelihood of a constant supply in commercial quantities seems to be some way off. It also appears that, although the captive-bred specimens have been fed on commercial formulations, they might not be quite as resistant to certain health issues as one might have expected, but the evidence is not conclusive at this stage.
However, such issues will be re-
solved, and it now seems almost
certain that captive-bred yellow
tangs might become available in
commercial—though relatively
modest—quantities sooner than
many of us thought.
“I’d be pleased to meet with anyone and talk about the fish, our research and what we hope to do in the coming months,” said Dr. Chatham Callan, leader of the Oceanic Institute team. “I’m particularly interested in talking with industry people who might be willing to partner with/support us for furthering these methods. I’d like people to know that we still have a lot of research to do before this is commercially feasible. It’s important to stress that if people would like to see cultured yellow tang again, we need continued support. We don’t want this to be a one-off.”
HAWAIIAN BILLS
“OFFICIALLY DEAD”
As readers of this column are
aware, recent months saw a new
raft of bills aimed at restricting
or closing down the Hawai-
ian islands’ marine ornamental
sector brought before the state
legislature.
The bills in question are: HB606, HB873, HB883, SB322, SB670 and SB1340.
Despite scientific evidence that clearly demonstrates that collection for the aquarium trade does not place any of Hawaii’s marine ornamental fish in peril, many of the proposals are based on the incorrect and unsubstantiated assumption that the trade has a detrimental effect on native species.
Also, despite the vigorous na-
ture of the attacks on the industry
from the antitrade lobby, which,
Is this a victory for the aquar-
ium industry? Well, yes and no.
Yes, in the sense that none of the
proposals will be implemented
immediately, thus allowing col-
lectors to continue plying their
trade in their usual, responsible
way. No, in the sense that either
these or new proposals will be
put to the legislature for the 2016-
2017 session.
Yellow Tangs and Hawaii Bills
Captive-bred yellow tangs such as these now have become available—albeit in limited quantities.
DR . CH AT HAM CA LLA N/ OC EA N IC I NS T ITU TE , PA CI FI C UN IV E RS IT Y, HAWA II
AQUASPROUTS’ AquaSprouts Garden utilizes aquaponics. The garden uses fish to supply nutrients for plants via their waste, which is then purified from the water as the plants grow. Leafy greens, herbs, ornamentals and dwarf cherry to-matoes are just some of the plants commonly grown in the AquaSprouts Garden.
Not only is the food grown via aquaponics free of pesticides and low in cost, but aquaponics itself requires minimal water changes and no filter replacements. All that’s needed to get started with the garden is a 10-gal. aquarium, a few plants and the fish of one’s choice.
aquasprouts.com
OASE NORTH AMERICA offers biOrb Flame Sea Lily. Based on the sea lily from the South China seas, the product is inspired by the delicate featherlike creatures that live on the seabed. Use to create coverage at the bottom of an aquarium. The weighted ball on the base makes the plants sink easily to the bottom of the aquarium. It is approximately 4 in. tall by 5 in. wide.
biorb.com
UV CANISTER FILTERS
BYPASS ZERO
4CHEMICAL MECHANICAL ULTRAVIOLET BIOLOGICAL
P A T E N T E D R E VOLUTIONARYONEPUMPEZPR I M E S Y S T E M OFF ON
I N C LUDEDBUILT-INSURFACESKIMM E R EPLACEABLE CANISTER CARTRIDGE
BUILT-INUVTILT SAFETYSWITCH OFF ON
The NEW FORZA Series Canister Filter is our most complete and most advanced aquarium filtration system to date. FORZA is high flow, high capacity and loaded with ground breaking features. UV and standard models available.
FZ13 UV
• Complete System
• All Media Included
• Easy to Service
• High Capacity: 60-175 Gal.
• High Flow: 295- 550 GPH
• Built-In UV: 7-13W
• For Marine & Fresh Water
• 1 Year Warranty
FZ6 FZ9 UV FZ5 FZ7 UV FZ4
aquatop.com
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line134
|
__label__wiki
| 0.83351
| 0.83351
|
Gay marriage legal in japan
The law, scheduled to take effect in Aprilalso commits the Government to raise awareness of LGBT people and "conduct measures needed to make sure human rights values are rooted in all corners of the city". Same-sex couples are not able to marry, and same-sex couples are not granted rights derived from marriage. This procedure allows couples to get a "proof of partnership" paper, which is not based in Japanese law, but can help in, for instance, getting access to a partner who is ill and in hospital. But as Japan industrialised and modernised from the late 19th century, western prejudices against homosexuality were increasingly adopted. Homosexuality in Japan. Since Apriltransgender people have been covered for sex reassignment surgery as long as they are not receiving hormone treatment. Retrieved 20 November
While the court ruling does not seem to have extended to other areas of government-sponsored discrimination, it is cited by the courts as a civil rights case.
The Justice Ministry instructed local authorities to issue key certificates, which state that a person is single and of legal age, to individuals seeking to enter same-sex marriages in areas that legally allow it. A gay couple try to register their marriage, but their request is rejected on Jan. Banned regardless of sexual orientation.
Retrieved 16 October
ivy city gay clubs dctranssexual torment
Montana gay personal ad
Shemale cum no hands
Gay group list adult
Free gay hardcore photos
Cyclops gay hentai
Tranny blowjob thumbs
Tom cruise rob thomas gay
Gay bookstore dublin
Gay bar davis ca
Gay long videos
Aussie gay sex models
Gay twink masturbates
Boeing enola gay
Tmaxx 3 speed tranny
Gay christian information
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line137
|
__label__cc
| 0.640168
| 0.359832
|
MARCH for LIFE – Thursday, 1 February 2018
Every year we lose more pre-born babies to abortion than the combined death toll of crime and car accidents. Since 1 February 1997, over one million, 1.5 million babies have been killed in South Africa - by abortion - with taxpayers’ money.
Do you want God to bless South Africa? Are you praying for Revival?
Legalised abortion is a national disgrace. The 1st of February 2018 will mark the 21st anniversary of the legalisation of abortion on demand in South Africa. For this reason, Christians who respect the Sanctity of Life will be observing 1 February as a day of Prayer and Repentance for the national sin of abortion. Pastors throughout the country preached on the Sanctity of Life on Sanctity Life Sunday (28 January), and congregations in every province joined in prayers of repentance.
On Thursday, 1 February, Africa Christian Action will be holding a Prayer Vigil outside the gates of Parliament (at the corner of Roeland and Plein Streets) from 1pm to about 2pm. A Memorial Service and wreath laying ceremony will be held in memory of the babies killed by abortion in South Africa since 1997.
This will be preceded by a March for Life – in the form of a Funeral Procession to Parliament. The procession will gather at the Keizersgracht parking lot below Cape Peninsula University of Technology (and near to the wall painting of an African woman) and then march left into Darling Street, left into Adderley Street, left into Spin Street and then right into Plein Street. Meet in the parking lot of Keizergracht Street by 12:30pm and collect a banner, placard or cross to walk with. Please bring your own drinking water and dress in black, if possible – our aim is to make an impact.
Save Lives – Stop Abortions
In order to alert Capetonians to the reality of the abortion holocaust taking place in our land, Africa Christian Action has hired a hearse to lead our procession and mourners will carry coffins, crosses and flowers in memory of the victims of abortion. The funeral procession will be accompanied by the Africa Christian Action trailer, a special six metre by three metre display board with pictures of pre-born babies and with the Scriptures: "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves" Proverbs 31:8; and " Choose life so that you and your children may live." Deuteronomy 30:19. Special obituary notices will also be posted on social media.
Make a Stand for Life
Please join us for the March for Life, or meet us outside the gates of Parliament for the Prayer Vigil. Alternatively, you can organise your own Pro-life Prayer Vigil or demonstration outside an abortion clinic/hospital in your own city.
"Could you men not keep watch with Me for one hour?" Matthew 26:14
"If My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14
Contact us if you would like a pro-life speaker to speak at your church or school or if you want us to screen a pro-life film (such as Babies are Murdered Here, The Abortion Matrix, The Silent Scream or, The Hard Truth) at your church or youth group (Cape Town area only, or obtain these from Christian Liberty Books).
Resources to Empower You
To assist pastors in informing and inspiring their congregations to prayer and action, Africa Christian Action is offering a Pro-life Pack: This includes pro-life sermons, prayers of repentance, the Bible Study: Scripture and the Sanctity of Life and an audio lecture, Abortion is Murder, or, Do Christians Care? Sanctity Life Sunday Service and Sermon on CD. These packages are R35 each (excluding postage). Christian Action also has pro-life books, especially Make a Difference: A Christian Action Handbook for Southern Africa, DVDs, bumper stickers, T-shirts, and Precious Feet lapel pins available at the book table after the rally.
Join the March for Life Event on Facebook.
Pro-life sermons, prayers, Powerpoints, articles, books, DVDs, and leaflets are available to help you mobilise your congregation in the Fight for Life.
Country-Wide Pro-Life Demonstrations on, or near to 1 February:
Bloemfontein: Daily protests and prayer vigils outside the National District Hospital and Marie Stopes abortuary. Contact Faan Oosthuizen: 083 265 9395, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
East London: Corner of Oxford Street and St Mathew's Roads. Contact Frans van Aardt: 082 774 6649.
Pretoria: A Life Chain will take place on the Corner of Steve Biko and Park Street. Contact Gregory Periera: 083 359 5093, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
See also related items:
Sanctity Life Sunday Sermons, Bible Studies and Prayers
Scriptural Imprecatory Prayer Proclamation Against Abortion
Sanctity Life Prayer of Repentance
Do Christians Care?
Operation Nehemiah
National Repentance
7735 Cape Town
www.christianaction.org.za
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line140
|
__label__wiki
| 0.627214
| 0.627214
|
« Hurray! We Get to Revise Our Education Funding System!
Here a Vroom, There a Vroom, Everywhere a Vroom, Vroom »
Living on Sun, Water, Wind, Grass, and Community
Nearly everyone who has been to the solar village Gaviotas, east of the Andes in Colombia, calls it a utopia. But it isn’t, says Paolo Lugari, its founder. That word means in Greek “no place.” Gaviotas has existed, however improbably, for more than 30 years now. Lugari says it’s a “topia” — simply a place.
When he first saw it, looking down from a small plane in 1965, it surely looked like no place. There were two crumbling warehouses abandoned by a road crew at the end of a failed attempt to cut a highway across the huge, wild, wet savanna called the llanos. No one lived on the llanos except a few scattered ranchers and the Guahibo Indians, who fished and hunted in mosquitoey forest strips along the rivers. The soil was so toxic that nothing but tough grass could grow.
If people can live here, they can live anywhere, Lugari thought. He set out to show that they could.
His secret weapons were the professors and students of the universities of Bogota. Lugari dropped into the office of a mechanical engineer named Jorge Zapp and asked, “Can you build a turbine efficient enough to generate electricity from a stream with just a one-meter drop?” He went to Sven Zethelius, a soil chemist and asked, “What can we grow in that soil?” He posted notices inviting doctoral theses on how to press oil from palm nuts, how to raise hundred-pound wild capybaras for meat, how to make fiberboard out of llano grass.
Most of these experiments didn’t work, but once the engineers got out to Gaviotas, a 16-hour tire-destroying jeep drive from Bogota, they began having other ideas. Necessity surrounded them, and they produced a stream of invention.
They found that 14 parts of that terrible soil combined with one part cement hardened into a stony substance they could use for dams and buildings. They made water pipes by lining ditches with soil-cement, laying down long polyethylene tubes filled with water, pouring more soil-cement on top, letting the whole business harden, then draining the water and pulling out the plastic. Trucks could drive over those pipes without crushing them.
They attached water pumps to see-saws; kids provided the pumping power. They designed ultra-light windmills to catch the mild but steady llanos wind without being blown over by the occasional llanos gale. They invented solar water-heaters so cheap and effective that Gaviotas started a business back in Bogota, installing them everywhere from the president’s house to a 30,000-resident slum housing project. Often engulfed in mountain clouds, Bogota is no ideal place for solar power, but the Gaviotans developed a collector so efficient it could catch scattered sun energy even on cloudy days.
The technical and architectural triumph of Gaviotas is its hospital, cooled by the wind, heated by the sun. The sun also provides hot water, boiled sterilized water, and the heat for six pressure cookers in the kitchen, plus enough electricity for the lights. By the time the hospital was built, Gaviotas had several hundred inhabitants, including the only doctors, nurses, and teachers for hundreds of miles around. People came there for medical care and sent their children there to school.
There were fish in the river, and cattle could eat the grass. Zethelius had discovered enough decent soil on the riverbanks to plant mangoes and cassava and cashews, but not enough to provide fresh vegetables for a growing population. So the Gaviotans learned to grow lettuce and tomatoes and cucumbers in containers of nutritionless rice hulls, washed with manure tea.
They kept searching for some plant that could survive the llanos soil and finally found it. A Caribbean pine from Venezuela thrived, they discovered, as long as they dipped the roots of its seedlings in a fungus, a mycorrhyza, which was missing from their soil but importable from the pines’ native territory. Without knowing quite why, they planted hundreds of acres of pines.
As the pines grew into forests, the Gaviotans found a use for them. They tapped their oozing gum, which could be distilled (with solar energy) into turpentine and a valuable resin used in paints, glues, cosmetics, perfume, and medicines. There was a huge market. Gaviotas had a new industry.
The pines dropped needles and built up soil. They cooled the ground, slowed the wind, raised the humidity. Suddenly new kinds of plants sprang up beneath them — hundreds of kinds of plants. The rainforest, not far to the south, had once grown here, and now, through seeds carried by birds or roots creeping up from the river-edges, it was returning.
The Gaviotans imagine themselves planting pines in expanding circles out into the llanos, harvesting gum for 100 years, leaving rainforest behind. Meanwhile their technologies for pumps and collectors and windmills, all simple, affordable, and purposely unpatented, are spreading throughout the world.
“This is what the world needs,” said Aurelio Peccei, aged founder of the Club of Rome, who visited Gaviotas ten days before he died. I agree, not only because of Gaviotas’s technical ingenuity, but because of its attitude. Gaviotans live in peace surrounded by narcotics dealers and guerillas. They live without guns, without pesticides, willing to serve and teach all comers. They count their wealth in sun, water, and community. They believe that solutions can come from anyone, anywhere, even from, most especially from, the Third World.
(Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, by Alan Weisman, has just been published by Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction VT.)
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line146
|
__label__wiki
| 0.81793
| 0.81793
|
Home » 2018 Archive » Funny Girl is serious show business
The cast of “Funny Girl” gather on stage for the performance of “Sadie, Sadie,” Fanny Brice’s response to what it’s like to be married. (Photo by Mae Flener)
By Alan-Mark Miller
Veronica Lindholm,and Benjamin Haupt, alongside the rest of the cast of Pensacola State College (PSC), had some big shoes to fill in the fall musical “Funny Girl.”
They nailed it.
The original movie production under the same name “Funny Girl” (1968) had amazing talent with Barbra Streisand as “Fanny Brice” and Omar Sharif as “Nick Arnstein.”
Lindholm did outstanding as the lead “Fanny” alongside with Haupt who plays “Nick” with their talented voices which was well demonstrated in songs such as “I Want To Be Seen With You Tonight” and “You Are Woman, I Am Man.”
Director Laura Sebastian led the cast and crew as they took on this classic tale of Fanny Brice (Lindholm) featuring her rocky relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nick (Haupt).
The stage crew directed by Bob Gandrup did a fantastic job of changing the scenes twenty-three times in this fast paced musical drama. Gandrup also designed the sets which took the viewer back in time to the early 1900’s, creating a realistic center piece for our story.
Conductor and Music Director Stephanie Busby did a masterful presentation in adapting and presenting the score of this timeless classic. The orchestra performance brought to life wonderful songs such as “I’m The Greatest Star” and “Henry Street”
The show starts in New York City where Fanny awaits the return of her husband Nick from prison. As she waits for her beloved to return, she reflects on their life together.
Fanny’s story starts at Kenny’s Music Hall. Her mother, Mrs. Brice (Sheryl Vandenberg) and friends Mrs. Strakosh; (Musetta Feldman), Mrs. Meeker; (Ashley Johnston) and Mrs. O’Malley (Carla Rhodes) are playing a poker game. Mrs. Brice’s friends are trying to dissuade Fanny from going into show business, for Fanny is not the typical beauty.
Fanny presses on and comes across a helping hand in the form of Eddie Ryan (Gavin Parmley), a dance coordinator at Keeney’s Theater who helps her learn the dance numbers in order for her to perform in the show. Parmley was a standout in this production from being a substitute mannequin for altering Fanny’s dress to singing a brilliant duet with Mrs. Brice, “Who Taught Her Every Thing She Knows.”
After opening night at Kenny’s, Fanny is introduced to the devilishly handsome and sophisticated Nick Arnstein, and they hit it off. Six months later in New York, Fanny is working for Mr. Ziegfeld (Clayton Kinghten) as the star in The Follies. After a spectacular opening night, she is reunited with Nick, and he accompanies her to Mrs. Brice’s block party. They later meet in Baltimore and have a private dinner at a luxurious restaurant and declare their love for each other. Fanny is determined to marry Nick, regardless of his gambling problems.
“Funny Girl” opened to a sold out crowd on Friday, November 9, 2018. Delighting the audience with this truly heartwarming musical.
Truly this spectacular performance would not be possible without each and every one of the twenty-two cast members. It was truly a well-oiled machine with every member of this brilliant cast performing at peak capacity.
musical stage play 2018-11-26
Funny Girl is serious show business Reviewed by Sarah Richards on Nov 26 . [caption id="attachment_17488" align="aligncenter" width="577"] The cast of "Funny Girl" gather on stage for the performance of “Sadie, Sadie," Fanny Brice’s re [caption id="attachment_17488" align="aligncenter" width="577"] The cast of "Funny Girl" gather on stage for the performance of “Sadie, Sadie," Fanny Brice’s re Rating: 0
Tags : musical stage play
Letter from our Editor-in-ChiefCombined amendments create confusio...
Rebekah Bydlak speaks at PSC
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line156
|
__label__wiki
| 0.655797
| 0.655797
|
Posted on July 27, 2017 July 27, 2017 by Steven
‘The Secret Market’ Premieres at Rhode Island International Film Festival
A new Irish short drama starring Victoria Smurfit (Once Upon a Time) has been officially selected to premiere at the 35th Rhode Island International Film Festival. The Secret Market a contemporary mystery thriller written by Conor Ryan and directed by Martina McGlynn and Garret Daly will hold its world premiere at the Oscar and BAFTA qualifying festival that is ranked one of the top ten film festivals in the US.
Smurfit plays Amy McCarthy, a doctor who has risen through the medical ranks to become chief surgeon. She has a near perfect life until her past comes back to haunt her. The film stars an impressive ensemble of Irish actors including Tadhg Murphy (Black Sails, Vikings), Mark Huberman (Frank, Noble), Camille O’Sullivan (Rebellion), Jonathan White (Love Rosie, Noble) and Eric Lalor (Fair City).
Filmed on location in Ireland throughout Dublin city and Tullamore County Offaly the film was shot by IFTA winning Director of Photography James Mather (Frank, Ripper Street). Music was composed by Golden Globe nominated and IFTA winning composer Brian Byrne (Albert Nobbs, The Secret Scripture). Sound Design and Mixing was provided by IFTA winner Killian Fitzgerald (Striking Out) at Avatar Post Production while colourist Eugene McCrystal at Outer Limits completed post production.
The film is the debut short from Limerick writer Conor Ryan who is currently in development with Gaumont and Aaron Kaplan on numerous US TV dramas. “Conor’s script is very relevant in an era where personal data and privacy is being threatened in a real way. The script and film forces us all to examine our past, even though we mightn’t want to !” commented filmmaker Martina Mc Glynn.
The Secret Market is produced by Martina McGlynn, Victoria Smurfit and Garret Daly through Mixed Bag Media. Based in County Offaly Ireland, the company’s next project is a feature film based on the 1985 true story of the two boys from Darndale Dublin aged 10 and 13 who were stowaways to New York. The screenplay written by Conor Ryan is in development with the Irish Film Board and is currently scheduled for production in 2018.
‘The Secret Market’ will screen at the 35th Rhode Island International Film Festival Friday August 11th at 9pm at the Vets Cinemathéque in Providence before continuing its festival journey around the world.
http://www.facebook.com/thesecretmarketfilm
http://www.twitter.com/secretmarket17
August 14, 2017 ‘The Secret Market’ Wins @ Rhodes
January 29, 2013 ‘The Summit’ Win Caps off Successful Sundance
January 24, 2013 Call For: Entries for Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival
January 23, 2013 Irish Folk Furniture, directed by Tony Donoghue, wins prize for Best Animation at Sundance Film Festival.
January 21, 2013 ‘Derelict’ set for US premiere at Chicago Irish Film Festival
January 23, 2013 Digital Biscuit: ‘Side by Side’ screening and Live Talk: The Digital Direction
January 29, 2013 Black Comedy Short Completed
December 27, 2012 Digital Biscuit in January
CategoriesNews TagsRhode Island International Film Festival, The Secret Market
One Reply to “‘The Secret Market’ Premieres at Rhode Island International Film Festival”
Pingback: WestSide in Hollywood - WestSide Performing Arts
Previous PostPrevious Irish Short Film Review: Mum
Next PostNext Podcast: Emer Reynolds, director of ‘The Farthest’
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line167
|
__label__cc
| 0.53207
| 0.46793
|
Grand Chateau
Playing with Fire: The History of the Boozy Café Brulot
in Coffee/Firehose/Headline Feed/Latest/Rotator by Danielle Harling
The relationship between coffee and liquor is one that has flourished for centuries. Long before the coffee and booze staple the espresso martini — a creation widely attributed to London…
Tim Chuey Weather
Meteorologist Tim Chuey
For more, check out Chuey's Corner!
Forecast For 07/18/2019
Today's High: 82
Today's Low: 50
Tomorrows High: 79
A slight chance or AM showers, sunny and a bit cooler this afternoon.
A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 2PM UNTIL 9 PM TODAY FOR GUSTY WINDS AND AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR THE LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN OF OREGON. HEALTH ADVISORIES: A PRECAUTIONARY RECREATIONAL USE HEALTH ADVISORY FOR THE 2019 CYANOBACTERIAL (HARMFUL ALGAI) BLOOM SEASON REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LAKE BILLY CHINOOK DUE TO CYANOBACTERIAL BLOOMS THAT ROUTINELY DEVELOP IN THE LAKE. NO BLOOMS HAVE BEEN DETECTED AT THIS TIME, BUT BLOOMS CAN DEVELOP THROUGHOUT THE SEASON AND IN AREAS THAT ARE NOT VISUALLY MONITORED BY JEFFERSON COUNTY , OREGON STATE PARKS, OR THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE. THE ADVISORY WILL REMAIN IN EFFFECT THROUGH NOVEMBER 1, 2019. A PERMANENT HEALTH ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTH UMPQUA RIVER BAR. POOLS IN THE BEDROCK ALONG THE RIVERS EDGE ARE KNOWN TO DEVELOP BLUE-GREEN ALGAE (CYANOBACTERIAL) BLOOMS THAT CAN BE HARMFUL TO PETS AND PEOPLE IF ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OCCURS. SIGNS HAVE BEEN POSTED ALONG SEVERAL ACCESS AREAS ALONG THE RIVER.
An Upper Level Low Pressure Trough (Shaded “U” shaped area with arrows) sits offshore and will start moving eastward. An upper level Ridge of High Pressure (Shaded “Arch” shaped area with arrows) on the previous graphic will take over drying us out so we are less humid. The graphics for days 1-3 show a warm front moving through to be followed closely by a cold front. The graphics for days 3-7 show a frontal system to our south that becomes and remains stationary through Saturday, then the western end of the front becomes a cold front and moves into Oregon Monday.
Eugene Area Forecast
Partly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of AM showers (under 0.10 in. of rain possible), becoming sunny and a bit cooler this afternoon, clear tonight,
Mostly sunny and a bit cooler Friday, clear Friday night,
Sunny and a bit warmer Saturday, then clear at night.
highs 80-83 lows 49-53.
Sunny and a bit warmer Sunday, clear at night,
Mostly sunny and a bit cooler Monday, mostly clear Monday night,
Partly cloudy and a bit cooler Tuesday and Wednesday, mostly clear Tuesday night.
highs 87-82 lows near 55. (seasonal averages high 83 low 52)
Umpqua Forecast
AM clouds with a slight (20%) chance of showers today, becoming sunny and a bit cooler this afternoon, clear tonight,
Sunny and a bit cooler Friday, clear Friday night,
Sunny and a bit warmer Saturday, clear Saturday night.
Sunny and a bit warmer Sunday, mostly clear Sunday night,
Mostly sunny Monday, mostly clear at night,
AM clouds, partly cloudy and a bit cooler Tuesday afternoon, mostly clear Tuesday night,
Then partly cloudy Wednesday.
Coos Bay Forecast
Mostly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of inland AM showers, becoming partly cloudy this afternoon, mostly clear this evening, partly cloudy late tonight,
Sunny and a bit warmer Friday, mostly clear at night,
Sunny and a bit warmer Saturday, then clear Saturday night.
highs near 72 lows 53-55.
Mostly sunny and a bit warmer Sunday, mostly clear at night,
Partly cloudy and a bit cooler Monday and Monday night,
Mostly cloudy and a bit cooler Tuesday and Wednesday, mostly clear Tuesday night.
highs 74-72 warming to 74 Wednesday lows near 55. (seasonal averages high 65 low 53)
Cascades Forecast
Mostly cloudy with a (30%) chance of AM showers, clearing to mostly sunny and a bit cooler this afternoon, clear and colder tonight,
Then sunny and a bit warmer Friday and Saturday, clear both nights.
snow level above 8,000 ft. late today, free air freezing level 15,000 ft. tonight, 14,000 ft. Friday and Friday night, 14,000 ft. rising to 15,000 ft. Saturday, then 16,000 ft. Saturday night.
Sunny and a bit cooler Monday, mostly clear at night,
Mostly sunny and a bit cooler Tuesday, mostly clear at night,
free air freezing level 15,000 ft. Sunday through Monday night, 14,000 ft. Tuesday, 15,000 ft. Tuesday night, then 14,000 ft. Wednesday.
More Trailers & Reviews
Film Fanatic Trailers
‘Dark Phoenix’ Trailer 2
By Ryan Beltram
20th Century Fox has released a new trailer for Dark Phoenix. The follow-up to X-Men: Apocalypse sees our mutants attempting to control Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) as she struggles to harness her powers. This trailer reveals a possible major plot twist. But between the bad buzz this film has gotten (Multiple reshoots and bad test screenings) and Disney purchasing Fox, Dark Phoenix looks like an expensive flop that will officially end this iteration of X-Men on a whimper. The movie looks fine. But that's sort of the point. Dark Phoenix opens June 7.No Current Trailer
‘Rocketman’ Trailer
Paramount has released the second trailer for Rocketman. The biopic follows Elton John's (Taron Egerton) rise to becoming one of the most beloved rock stars in the world. Music biopics are in right now so this was inevitable. I'm still a little concerned with Egerton singing as opposed to just lip-syncing John's voice. I'm not against real singing if it works (See: Walk the Line), but Egerton just doesn't sound like John and it might take me out of the movie. Rocketman opens May 31.No Current Trailer
‘The Highwaymen’ Trailer
Netflix has released the first trailer for The Highwaymen. Starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson, the film follows a pair old school Texas Rangers trying to track down the infamous Bonnie and Clyde. Whereas 1967's Bonnie and Clyde glorified the outlaws, this film paints them as ruthless killers. Costner and Harrelson seem like an interesting duo to pair up and while I'm not a fan of director John Lee Hancock's past work, this could be an entertaining Depression-era gangster film. The Highwaymen arrives on Netflix on March 29.No Current Trailer
‘Leaving Neverland’ Trailer
HBO Films has released the first trailer for Leaving Neverland. The documentary follows Wade Robson and James Safechuck, two men who allege that pop singer Michael Jackson abused them as boys. There have been allegations against Jackson for many years yet the late singer has somehow managed to avoid much negative press. This controversial doc might shed some new light on his sordid past. Part one of Leaving Neverland airs on HBO on March 3rd and part two airs the following night.No Current Trailer
‘Long Shot’ Trailer
Lionsgate has released the first trailer for Long Shot. The comedy follows an unlikely romance between a shlubby political writer (Seth Rogen) and his first crush and former babysitter who also happens to be Secretary of State (Charlize Theron). Director Jonathan Levine has a great track with Rogen (50/50, The Night Before) and the pairing of Rogen and Theron is so unique it just might work. Long Shot opens May 3.No Current Trailer
‘Ma’ Trailer
Universal has released the first trailer for Ma. Octavia Spencer stars as a lonely woman who lives in a small Ohio town. When a group of teenagers ask her to buy them booze, she does them one better by letting them party in her basement. But this kind gesture eventually leads to obsession. This looks like another run-of-the-mill thriller in the vein of Single White Female. But it's nice to see Oscar-winner Spencer having a blast. Ma opens May 31.No Current Trailer
‘Yesterday’ Trailer
Universal has released the first trailer for Yesterday. Directed by Danny Boyle, the film follows Jack Malik (Himesh Patel), a struggling musician. When Jack gets knocked out during a global blackout, he awakens to learn that no one other than him remembers the songs of The Beatles. Now he can finally live his dream of being a successful musician. But at what cost? This is a great premise that hopefully balances the "artist trying to find his own voice" story with the romance. Yesterday opens June 28.No Current Trailer
‘Shaft’ Trailer
New Line Cinema has released the first trailer for Shaft. A sequel to the long forgotten 2000 film, Shaft stars Samuel L. Jackson in the titular role as a badass private eye cleaning up the streets. I kind of enjoyed the 2000 film because it was treated as a throwback cop movie from the '70s plus Christian Bale and Jeffrey Wright were terrific bad guys. This new version seems to be going in an entirely different direction as more of a buddy cop movie. It makes sense considering its summer release, but I'm a little worried. A lot of the jokes fall flat and director Tim Story doesn't have a great track record. Nevertheless, Shaft opens June 14.No Current Trailer
‘Dumbo’ International Trailer
Disney has released a new international trailer for the live-action remake of Dumbo. Tim Burton directs the classic Disney tale of a baby elephant born with big ears who has the ability to fly. While Burton seems like an out-of-the-box choice for this, he certainly has a track record for telling stories about outsiders so this might be the perfect fit. Dumbo opens March 29.No Current Trailer
‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Trailer
Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for Hobbs & Shaw. A spinoff of the Fast & Furious franchise, the movie follows Dwyane Johnson and Jason Statham's characters reluctantly working together to stop a madman (Idris Elba) from destroying the world. This trailer is exactly what I was hoping for. A fun buddy cop movie with ridiculous action sequences and Johnson and Statham essentially winking at the camera and having a blast. Hobbs & Shaw opens August 2. Take my money.No Current Trailer
‘Hanna’ Trailer
Amazon Studios has released the first trailer for their upcoming series, Hanna. An adaptation of the underrated 2011 film of the same name, Hanna follows a young girl trained to be a killer by her father (Joel Kinnaman). Mireille Enos also stars as the CIA agent trying to track her down. This trailer feels like a carbon copy of the 2011 film. But it's an interesting concept and I'm intrigued to see this world expanded into a series. The trailer also reveals that the first episode will be available to watch for Prime members for 24 hours following the Super Bowl. The entire series will be available to stream in March.No Current Trailer
‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile’ Trailer
The first trailer for Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile has been released. Zac Efron stars as Ted Bundy, the notorious serial killer from the 1970s. The vibe from this trailer is not what I was expecting. Instead of being a dark, psychological exploration into the mind of Bundy, Vile appears to be more of an examination with the celebrity and media fascination with serial killers. Maybe it's just a bad trailer with horrible music, but this looks like a misfire. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile will make its debut at this year's Sundance Film Festival. A release date has not yet been set.No Current Trailer
‘The Beach Bum’ Redband Trailer
Neon has released a new redband trailer for The Beach Bum. Matthew McConaughey stars as Moondog, a mostly high individual bouncing around Miami. This looks like a cross between Lebowski and McConaughey's real life persona as a laid-back dude just livin life. Director Harmony Korine's signature neon-colored tone is on full display and the supporting cast, including Jonah Hill, Isla Fisher, Snoop Dogg and Zac Efron, is eclectic. The Beach Bum opens March 22.No Current Trailer
‘The Hummingbird Project’ Trailer
The first trailer for The Hummingbird Project has been released. The film follows cousins Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgard) as they plot to run a line of fiber-optic cable underground from Kansas to New Jersey in order to gain an edge in high-frequency trading. The plot of this movie is so random and preposterous, I half-expected it to be based on a true story (It isn't). Nevertheless, it looks like the team behind it knows this and just wanted to make an entertaining movie. We'll wait and see. The Hummingbird Project opens March 15.No Current Trailer
Puppies and Alien Sex: A Night at the Eugene Poetry Slam
Eugene is known as a mecca of art. From the Last Friday Art Walk, to the Hult Center, to the summer Bach festival, artists have found a welcoming and supportive home in this city. We have everything from visual art to music and musicals to protest art from the Occupy Eugene crowd. A talented but obscure part of our art community is slam poetry. For the last decade, the Eugene Poetry Slam has hosted and promoted this unique form of poetry with hardly any media attention. Read more →
Lemon Sweet Potato Salad
I have a secret, I’m not crazy about potatoes. When I think about starches for a meal there is wheat, potatoes, rice and corn, not everyone sees corn as a starch, they see it as a vegetable, but your body processes it like a starch. […] Read more →
Local Theater Watch
Four movies open this week including a documentary about dance, a spy thriller, a cyberpunk thriller and a drama about a disagreement. In local theater, it's your last chance to see a play set in the future while two other plays about trying to make it in the world and trying to steal to make it in the world continue. Read more →
Citrix VDI
Distillery Trail
Urban Bliss Life
Bit By a Fox
Columns – Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine
Culture – MARIJUANA POLITICS
Eugene, OR – Alert Center
Eugene, OR – Calendar
Eugene, OR – News Flash
I Need Coffee | – Feed
marijuana – Oregon Office of Economic Analysis
Marijuana Mommy
New Country 93
Oregon Coast Travel, Tourism, Science, Entertainment News – Breaking News from the Oregon Coast
Oregon State Police
Stoner Toolbox
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line171
|
__label__wiki
| 0.739272
| 0.739272
|
The Man in the Brown Suit 1924
The Sittaford Mystery (apa Murder at Hazelmoor) 1931
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (apa The Boomerang Clue) 1934
And Then There Were None 1939
Murder Is Easy 1939
Death Comes As the End 1944
Sparkling Cyanide (apa Remembered Death) 1945
Crooked House 1949
They Came to Baghdad 1951
Destination Unknown (apa So Many Steps to Death) 1954
Ordeal by Innocence 1958
The Pale Horse 1961
Endless Night 1967
Passenger to Frankfurt 1970
Adapted by Charles Osborne from a play
Black Coffee (with Hercule Poirot) 1998
The Unexpected Guest 1999
Spider's Web 2000
The Mysterious Affair at Styles 1920 1
Murder on the Links 1923 2
Poirot Investigates (short stories) 1924 3
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1926 4
The Big Four 1927 5
The Mystery of the Blue Train 1928 6
Peril at End House 1932 7
Lord Edgware Dies (apa Thirteen at Dinner) 1933 8
Murder on the Orient Express (apa Murder on the Calais Coach) 1934 9
Three Act Tragedy (apa Murder in Three Acts) 1934 10
Death in the Clouds (apa Death in the Air) 1935 11
The ABC Murders (apa The Alphabet Murders) 1936 12
Cards on the Table 1936 13
Murder in Mesopotamia 1936 14
Death on the Nile 1937 15
Dumb Witness (apa Poirot Loses a Client) 1937 16
Murder in the Mews (short stories) (apa Dead Man's Mirror) 1937 17
Appointment With Death 1938 18
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (apa A Holiday for Murder / Murder for Christmas) 1938 19
Sad Cypress 1940 20
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (apa An Overdose of Death / The Patriotic Murders) 1940 21
Evil Under the Sun 1941 22
Five Little Pigs (apa Murder in Retrospect) 1943 23
The Hollow (apa Murder After Hours) 1946 24
The Labours of Hercules (Short Stories) 1947 25
Taken at the Flood (apa There Is A Tide',) 1948 26
Mrs McGinty's Dead (apa Blood Will Tell) 1952 27
After the Funeral (apa Funerals are Fatal) 1953 28
Hickory Dickory Dock (apa Hickory Dickory Death) 1955 29
Dead Man's Folly 1956 30
Cat Among the Pigeons 1959 31
The Clocks 1963 32
Third Girl 1966 33
Hallowe'en Party 1969 34
Elephants Can Remember 1972 35
Poirot's Early Cases (Short Stories) 1974 36
Curtain 1975 37
Hercule Poirot Novella
Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly 2014
Miss Marple Short Stories
The Thirteen Problems (apa The Tuesday Club Murders) 1932 1
Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories 1979 2
Miss Marple, St. Mary Mead
The Murder At The Vicarage 1930 1
The Body in the Library 1942 2
The Moving Finger 1943 3
A Murder Is Announced 1950 4
They Do It With Mirrors (apa Murder With Mirrors) 1952 5
A Pocket Full of Rye 1953 6
4.50 from Paddington (apa What Mrs McGillicuddy Saw!) 1957 7
The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side 1962 8
A Caribbean Mystery 1964 9
At Bertram's Hotel 1965 10
Nemesis 1971 11
Sleeping Murder 1976 12
The Mysterious Mr Quin 1930
The Hound of Death And Other Stories 1933
Parker Pyne Investigates 1934
The Listerdale Mystery 1934
The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories 1934
Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories 1948
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories 1950
The Under Dog and Other Stories 1951
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding 1960
Double Sin and Other Stories 1961
The Golden Ball and Other Stories 1971
The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories 1977
Problem at Pollensa Bay 1991
While the Light Lasts and Other Stories 1997
The Capture of Cerberus & The Incident of the Dog's Ball 2009
Superintendent Battle
The Secret of Chimneys 1925 1
The Seven Dials Mystery 1929 2
Towards Zero 1944 3
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford
The Secret Adversary 1922 1
Partners in Crime (Short Stories) 1929 2
N or M? 1941 3
By the Pricking of My Thumbs 1968 4
Postern of Fate 1973 5
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line173
|
__label__cc
| 0.679877
| 0.320123
|
Elephant No. 321: Oscillating Toy
This is actually my variation on a woodpecker that I found on a science toy website. I didn't have a lot of time today, so I thought I'd try something that involved minimal construction and a bit of drawing and painting.
The original toy and its instructions can be seen here, for those who want to try the classic version.
The technique for this toy is quite simple—so simple, in fact, that a small child can make it. This probably means I will have trouble, if past activities of this sort are anything to go by. The supplies are also simple, and quite inexpensive:
• Drinking straw
• White bristol board or shirt cardboard
• Paints or markers to colour the design
• A long rubber band
I started by figuring out how my circus elephant might look climbing. I decided that it could hop down a vertical hill on three legs. The design obviously needed to be repeated on either side, to allow the final figure to be wrapped around itself.
I painted the elephants using gouache.
Next, I cut a piece of drinking straw slightly longer than the tab joining the two elephants, then taped the straw to the inside. According to the instructions, a thinner straw works best. I think mine was of medium diameter.
I wrapped the double elephant around the drinking straw, then glued the two sides together with white glue, and weighted down everything but the straw while it dried.
To finish up, I found a long rubber band with a diameter of about 1.5 mm (1/16 inch). I cut the rubber band at one end and ran it through the straw. Although the instructions say to use a thin rubber band, I found that it worked better with a rubber band that was about one-quarter the inside diameter of the straw. I also discovered that it's a good idea not to stretch the rubber band too much while operating the toy, or the elephant will plummet.
This is what it looked like when I finished.
And this is what the toy looks like in action. Elephants don't like to climb, so I'm sure they would hustle down in a hurry, just like this little guy. The video quality isn't great, but it will give you the general idea.
This was very easy, and would be a fun activity to try with kids. In total, it took me about an hour, not including the time I left it weighted for the glue to dry.
It was quick to make, and is silly fun to watch in action, so I might be convinced to try this again sometime.
In war-torn areas, as well as areas frequented by poachers, it behooves elephants to find places to hide. This usually means penetrating deep into the jungle or far across the desert, well out of the way of human settlement.
In 2007, however, a team of American environmentalists discovered hundreds of elephants hiding out on an island in the swamps of southern Sudan. The size of the population suggested that the elephants may have congregated there to avoid detection during two decades of civil war.
According to one of the environmentalists, "It was like something out of Jurassic Park. We flew out of a cloud, and there they were." The island's location is being kept a secret to prevent poachers from moving in. Although there has been a ban on hunting in the region for the past five years, in order to allow wildlife to replenish itself, game hunting is still largely unchecked in the Sudan.
It is believed that there may be other groups of elephants in the region that have escaped as well. The vast area changes each year as the Nile divides and shifts, creating new channels, lakes and islands. This makes it hard for humans to map and negotiate the area—and easier for wildlife to hide.
Elephant in swamp, Liyanti, Caprivi, Namibia, 2009.
Photo: Thomas Retterath
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomsfries/4414464830/
Labels: 366 day project, art blog, climbing elephant toy, creativity blog, easy science toy, elephant blog, elephants hiding from hunters, elephants in Sudan, oscillating elephant toy, science toy, yearlong project
Elephant No. 334: Trapeze Toy
Elephant No. 333: Plastic Animals
Elephant No. 332: Coloured Wooden Shapes
Elephant No. 331: Lipstick Art
Elephant No. 330: Bead Soup
Elephant No. 329: Chocolate Fudge
Elephant No. 328: Scumbling
Elephant No. 327: Folded Banknote
Elephant No. 326: Metal Studs
Elephant No. 325: Picture Postcard
Elephant No. 324: Jelly Beans
Elephant No. 323: Painted Canvas Tote
Elephant No. 322: Painting with Bleach
Elephant No. 320: Toast Imprints
Elephant No. 319: Appliqué
Elephant No. 318: Soft Pastels
Elephant No. 317: Pencil Drawing
Elephant No. 316: Spun Cotton Ornament
Elephant No. 315: Tie-Dye T-shirt
Elephant No. 314: Postmarks and Cancellation Marks...
Elephant No. 313: Crocheted Wire
Elephant No. 312: Printing with Bubble Wrap
Elephant No. 311: Teabag Art
Elephant No. 310: Pigment Stick
Elephant No. 309: Painted Metal Pail
Elephant No. 308: Pastel Pencils
Elephant No. 307: Dimensional Fabric Paint on Snea...
Elephant No. 306: Grapevines
Elephant No. 305: Mini Pop-Up Book
Elephant No. 304: Fabric Marker on T-Shirt
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line180
|
__label__wiki
| 0.836518
| 0.836518
|
Home About Us Services Portfolio Free Quote Careers Contact Us
World Wide Freight System
Worldwide Freight Systems Pakistan is a fast growing company operating in the freight system. The head office of the company is located in Lahore and there are Agents and associates all over the world.
Noor Durrani
Noor Durrani & Associates, Consulting Engineers and Project Managers is offering comprehensive range of professional engineering consulting services to the public and private sector throughout Pakistan and internationally.
Nova Engineering
M/s Nova Engineering Co. is a further development of a 35 Years Old, well-established institution with the name of M/s General Pipe & Machinery Stores (Pvt) Ltd, 82-Nishter (Brandreth) Road, Lahore (54000) Pakistan.
Pakistani Celiac Society
The Pakistani Celiac Society is a national, volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to provide support and services to individuals and families with celiac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis through programmes of awareness, advocacy and education.
Royaat Gallery
Images and motifs from the Indus and Gandhara Civilizations, Mughal and Pahari schools, calligraphy, and other indigenous cultural influences are a rich source of inspiration for Paintings in Pakistan. The tradition of Paintings in the region goes back to antiquity. Various schools of Paintingss have followed one another, from the Buddhist frescoes, through the Paintingss of Sultanate Period, the Mughal School, the the Pahari, the Sikh, and finally the British Raj. In the sub-continent, new artistic forms introduced by each new successive ruler merged with existing artistic traditions and created a distinct identities that have led to and original vision of modernity.
Home | About Us | Services | Portfolio | Free Quote | Careers | Contact Us
© All Rights are Resereved By Future Vision Technologies 2009 -2010
Web site Design and Developed By: Future Vision Technologies
Head Office Address: E-15/18, Street # 06,Cavalry Ground Lahore Cantt, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. PH: 0092 (042) 36620540
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line190
|
__label__cc
| 0.613106
| 0.386894
|
Referee Ratings
Include Inactive and Unconfirmed Refs? Division:
--- All --- Alabama Alaska Argentina Arizona Ark-La-Miss Australia Belgium Bermuda Border Texas Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Canada Capitol Central California Central Florida Central Pennsylvania Chile China Colorado Columbus Connecticut Cuba Czech Republic Denmark Egypt Fiji Finland France Gateway Florida Georgia Germany Gold Coast Florida Greece Green Mountain Gulf Coast Harrisburg Hawaii Hong Kong Hudson-Berkshire Hungary Iceland Illinois India Indiana Inland Empire Iowa Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Japan Kansas Kentucky Kenya Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lithuania Long Island Louisiana Macedonia Madagascar Maryland Metropolitan NYC Mexico Michigan Minnesota Mountain Valley Namibia National Nebraska-South Dakota Netherlands Nevada New England New Jersey New Mexico New Zealand North Carolina North Coast North Korea North Texas Northeast Northeast Pennsylvania Northern California Northern Ohio Oklahoma Orange Coast Oregon Panama Peru Philadelphia Philippines Plains Texas Poland Puerto Rico Romania Russia San Bernardino San Diego Senegal Serbia and Montenegro (Yugoslavia) Singapore Slovakia South Carolina South Jersey South Korea South Texas Southern California Southwest Ohio Spain St. Louis Sweden Switzerland Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) Tennessee Thailand Turkey UK(Great Britain) Ukraine United Arab Emirates Utah-Southern Idaho Venezuela Virginia Westchester-Rockland Western New York Western Pennsylvania Western Washington Wisconsin Wyoming Zambia Zimbabwe UNKNOWN
Tested since: (mm/dd/yyyy) Section:
--- All --- Great Lakes Metropolitan NYC Mid-Atlantic Midwest National Non-USA North Atlantic Pacific Coast Pacific Northwest Rocky Mountain Southeast Southwest Highest Foil Epee Saber Rating:
is at least: at most: any 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 P
You probably want to search by EITHER division OR section. Not both.
8452 Referees found. Showing 2981 to 3000 sorted by highest rating
[Page1] Prev Page [10] [20] [30] [40] [50] [60] [70] [80] [90] [100] [110] [120] [130] [140] 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 [160] [170] [180] [190] [200] [210] [220] [230] [240] [250] [260] [270] [280] [290] [300] [310] [320] [330] [340] [350] [360] [370] [380] [390] [400] [410] [420] Next Page [Last Page (423)]
Download as .csv
= Errors? Referee
Click name for detail, incl. FIE ratings
Division Highest
Rating USA Ratings Last Update* Most Recent Exam
Foil Epee Saber
Jung, David (active) Northern California 8 8 (2018) 09/06/2018 09/06/2018
Ebert, Matthew (inactive (unspecified)) Philadelphia 8 8 (2007) 8 (2007) 09/03/2007
Bailly-Hall, Isadora (active) Green Mountain 8 8 (2018) 11/06/2018 11/05/2018
Oliver, Wallace K (active) Central California 8 8 (2007) 09/03/2007
Ayupov, Ilya (active) Southern California 8 8 (2019) 9 (2019) 01/10/2019 12/03/2018
Wolff, Megan (inactive (unspecified)) South Texas 8 8 (2007) 8 (2007) 8 (2007) 10/27/2007
Wojciechowski, Matthew N. (active) Columbus 8 8 (2009) P (2018) 09/30/2018 09/26/2018
Bivins, George III (active) Metropolitan NYC 8 8 (2018) 09/08/2018 03/18/2017
Koven, Rose (inactive (unspecified)) New Jersey 8 9 (2008) 8 (2009) 8 (2008) 09/18/2009 09/18/2009
Rinehart, Conner (active) Maryland 8 8 (2016) 05/10/2016 05/05/2016
Pape, Aaron (active) Hudson-Berkshire 8 8 (2013) 8 (2014) 08/08/2014 04/18/2010
Pineschi, Anastasia (active) Southern California 8 10 (2012) 8 (2012) 03/15/2012 08/07/2011
Mason, Alexander T. (active) Columbus 8 8 (2018) P (2018) 09/25/2018 09/01/2018
Wihelm, John (active) Long Island 8 8 (2013) 8 (2013) 8 (2013) 03/23/2013 03/17/2013
LaFoe, Marian (Liz) (inactive (unspecified)) St. Louis 8 9 (2011) 8 (2011) P (2011) 11/09/2011 11/04/2011
Keeley, Joseph W (active) Colorado 8 8 (2009) 09/05/2009
Hwang, Ryan (active) Alaska 8 8 (2018) P (2018) P (2018) 11/19/2018 11/18/2018
Enochs, Liz (active) Northern California 8 8 (2007) 06/04/2007 06/02/2007
Jung, Andrew (inactive (unspecified)) New Jersey 8 8 (2007) 10 (2007) 10 (2007) 11/14/2007 11/11/2007
Laffey, Jessie S. (active) Metropolitan NYC 8 8 (2010) 06/01/2010 06/01/2010
* The "Last Update" column shows the most recent time that any of the ref's ratings were updated. Not all of the ratings may be of the same "freshness".
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line193
|
__label__cc
| 0.531188
| 0.468812
|
FILM TITLE: THE OTHER SIDE
CONSUMER ADVICE: 16 D L P S
DISTRIBUTOR: INDIGENOUS FILM DISTRIBUTION
DIRECTOR: SAMAD DAVIS
MAIN CAST: ERICA HUBBARD, BRAD JAMES ROGER, GUENVEUR SMITH, MIGUEL A. NUNEZ JR
LANGUAGE: Strong impact frequent language used in the context of insults, sexual references, showing hatred towards homosexuality, anger and in expressing frustrations
PREJUDICE: Moderate impact fairly frequent scenes prejudice against gays and lesbians necessary for the narrative.
VIOLENCE: Low impact infrequent violence justified by the context of the storyline
COMMENTS: The material contains complex and mature themes of love triangle relationship, religious family, sexual identity, deception, betrayal, judgment, persecution, friendship, having courage, discrimination against homosexuality and hiding a true sexual identity in order to be accepted by family and the society. These themes are presented within a drama and romance context. They carry a strong sense of threat and menace. The themes of a father having hatred towards homosexual and calling them sinners and that they going to hell; being judgemental and strong impact language with sexual references may be morally, emotionally and psychologically harmful to children under the age of 16 years who have not fully developed their identity. Children under the age of 16 years who may still be developing their sexual identity, may be afraid to speak up if they are homosexuals based on how the movie showed judgemental to them with very minimal disapproval when Kaya said “ you need to accept your daughter for who she is”.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line199
|
__label__wiki
| 0.731605
| 0.731605
|
Rally in the aisles at autumn 19 Pure London and Scoop
Updated layouts encouraged brisk business at the autumn 19 editions of trade shows Pure London and Scoop, which ran on 10-12 February
While some exhibitors at Pure said it took a little while for visitors to trickle through to the back areas of the show, there was a buzz in the air at Olympia. Large crowds attended the catwalk presentations and panel talks, and orders were written from the start of day one.
The usual independent retailers from across the UK and Ireland were joined by some international names and buyers from bigger retailers, such as Next.
Pure’s layout had been reworked and this was met by positive reactions. The repositioning of the catwalk area within the main hall, for example, created a much more open feeling within the space.
New section Conscious, which bought together a handful of sustainable and ethical brands, was particularly popular, while the menswear section had also grown. However, newly added kidswear area Bubble was small and attracted little footfall.
Although it remains one of the quieter sections of the show, sourcing and manufacturing area Pure Origin was busier than previous seasons, and visitors walked the aisles, attended industry talks and did business on the stands.
Meanwhile, womenswear show Scoop, which ran concurrently with Pure at the Saatchi Gallery, has always set the bar high In The Style stakes. This season was no different.
Scoop autumn 19
For the autumn 19 show it collaborated with the Victoria and Albert Museum to celebrate the floral prints of 19th-century textile designer William Kilburn. The entrance to the gallery was perhaps the most Instagrammable yet, despite the drizzly weather, as flowers lined the path framed by blossom trees.
Inside, the show had its usual premium feel and a subtly refreshed layout. A new champagne bar on the second floor shared space with the made-to-order silk scarf brand launched by Gary James McQueen, nephew of the late Lee Alexander McQueen and formerly his head of menswear textiles.
As with Pure, there was a strong showing of independents, many of whom had travelled from Ireland. Buyers were in the mood to write orders.
There was more tailoring than in previous seasons of Scoop and silhouettes were slimmer, bringing an androgynous feel to some of the collections. A feminine, 1970s and 1980s aesthetic was also notable for autumn 19, and several printed silk maxi-dresses caught Drapers’ eye. Generally, the mix of new and more established brands left buyers satisfied.
This was the first season since trade show organiser ITE Group took over Pure London, adding the show to its exhibition portfolio that includes Scoop, Moda and Jacket Required.
“The DNA of Pure, Moda and Scoop are completely different. They are not in competition with each other and we will be keeping their separate identities,” said Julie Driscoll, managing director ITE Group.
“Pure is a festival of fashion ranging across the whole supply chain, while Scoop is a designer show where buyers and brands are looking for a different experience. We will continue to innovate and invest in our exhibition portfolio across the board.”
The mood of the shows
Matthew Nugent, wholesale assistant brand manager, TCA Showroom, representing Kaffe
It’s been busy and there is a great vibe about this show. So far, we have seen buyers from UK, Northern Ireland, Greece, Japan and the US. In terms of product, the 1970s look is going nowhere – you can see it everywhere. We do see existing customers at the show and they place orders, but we are predominantly here to find new clients.
Julia Jaconelli, owner, Courtyard in Guildford
“I always love Scoop and this season there seems to be some great new collections. The show is beautifully presented and has a lovely atmosphere. Karen [Radley, Scoop organiser] chooses collections I know I will be interested in – they are at the right level for me.
The [spring 19] season started well, until the snow, but I feel quite optimistic. I don’t think my level of customer is particularly affected by Brexit.
Noreen Puri, brand director, Pomodoro
It’s been very buoyant. Actually the last few seasons have been very, very good at this show. We have seen people from throughout the UK but are expecting to see more from the south, as we show at Harrogate Fashion Week and Indx [in Solihull] for our northern customers. Day one and two are always very good at Pure.
Josie Smith, buyer and co-owner, Leaf Clothing in Newcastle
I have been doing Scoop for 40 years and for me, it is the best show in the UK. I love the venue and the product.
I’m looking for brands that are wearable. It would be good to have more access to new designers, but it’s not always affordable for them to show.
Juls Dawson, owner, Just a Group, representing Ichi
It has been very buoyant this [Sunday] morning. It doesn’t usually get going until a few hours in, but this morning it was busy from the get-go.
I think the new layout works well with the more open catwalk, as it keeps footfall filtering through.
We’ve predominantly seen buyers from the UK and Ireland and people are placing orders.
Marika Drakakis-Short, head of sales, The Brand Ambassadors, representing MKT Studio
Scoop is mainly about the key independents for us and we’ve already seen Sass & Edge [in Winchester] and The Dressing Room [St Albans].
We find that bigger buyers will visit before placing their orders in showrooms but the independents come to write orders here. Last season we signed up 10 new accounts, and on the first day we’ve already signed five this year.
Irena Gordon, marketing manager, Sahara
It’s been pretty busy – definitely on par with this time a year ago. We’ve seen mainly UK buyers as we see most of our European customers when we show in Dusseldorf. We’ve seen more interest from new customers this season, although we mainly use the show as a place for existing customers to place orders.
Jeni Elliff, agent, Winnie & Eds Showroom, representing Sita Murt
I don’t come to Scoop to secure big accounts, but instead use it to drive customers into our showrooms. It’s mostly independents here. People are definitely being more cautious in spending this year.
Dylan Chadha, wholesale manager, Louche
Pure has been really strong for us. Sunday tends to be all the indies but we had some key accounts on the stand too. It has been busy since the doors opened. It has been half and half appointments and walk-ons. We’ve had plenty of Irish buyers on the stand today, too.
Generally, buyers have increased their spend from last season. We offer flexibility for buyers as they can buy into our short-order collections in season or forward order, depending on what works best for them.
Sofia Tsoukalo, wholesale fashion executive, Charli
Scoop has a more intimate feel that most trade shows. Buyers are at ease – almost as if they’re in a showroom because of the gallery setting. It’s not as congested as Pure and attracts good independent boutiques and it is consistently good across both seasons.
Corrie Davies, owner and designer, festival brand OOTO (Out of the Ordinary)
This is our first time at Pure and it’s going well. We seem to be attracting European buyers, mainly Italian. Our main aim is to get small independent boutiques that can be quite loyal to us. We would like some UK-based stockists.
We are a fun, bohemian festival brand so our customers tend to be quite young. Pure has been brilliant for us because we’ve noticed enthusiastic, bright, young faces. There are lots of fun brands around here, and we’ve been put in a good spot. I think they could have more music to make it a bit more upbeat.
David Smith, sales manager, Level One Showroom, representing Pajar
It’s been the best show we’ve had at Scoop, and we have already written a few new orders on the first day. On Sunday we always see a lot of independents before the big clients come on Monday but there’s already been a great amount of footfall.
Hannah Weaver, senior sales executive at Palladio Associates, showing Urban Code
[Women’s outerwear brand] Urban Code has been coming here for years. The Tuesday is never busy here, but Sunday and Monday are always the busiest. People are cautious. They keep wondering around and then coming back. Buyers are cautious because some people didn’t have very good autumn 18.
We are here to showcase to new clients and to build up our UK client base. However, when we have Scoop on at the same time, it means people split their time between the two shows, so we probably don’t get as many new buyers as we could. However, we have already got two new stockists today: one in Epping, Essex, and St Albans.
Emily Keum, manager, Emin & Paul
It’s our second time at Scoop and we come for the high quality of clients. It’s been a lot quieter so far, I think because of Brexit. We’ve come from French trade shows, where there were a lot of bigger UK clients who aren’t here. We haven’t found any new UK clients yet.
Drapers’ pick of the brands at Scoop and at Pure London
Muted Moda ready for a refresh
19 February 2019Kirsty McGregor, Grace Whelan
The Midlands show played it safe as it finds its place among its London trade show stablemates.
Micam autumn 19: Drapers' pick of the brands
14 February 2019Emily Sutherland, Harriet Brown
See Drapers’ pick of the brands and collections to know from the autumn 19 edition of footwear trade show Micam in Milan.
May's Brexit brinkmanship spooks international buyers
13 February 2019Drapers Reporters
UK brands have called for clarity around Brexit as continuing uncertainty leaves international buyers cautious at autumn 19 trade shows.
Brexit dominates discussions at Micam
Brands reported a sedate but satisfying autumn edition of footwear trade show Micam in Milan, as Brexit uncertainties dominated discussions.
Indies confident but cautious for spring 20
16 July 2019Katie Imms
Womenswear independents are cautiously optimistic about trading ahead of the spring 20 trade shows, despite concerns over Brexit and heavy discounting on the high street.
Positive start to Fashion SVP
26 June 2019Harriet Brown, Katie Imms
Manufacturers were upbeat at the June 2019 edition of trade show Fashion SVP, as exhibitors praised the quality of attendees and return on investment from attending the event.
New Look operations boss departs amid management streamlining
9 April 2019Grace Whelan
New Look’s managing director of group operations Dan Monaghan will leave the business later this year as executive chair Alistair McGeorge streamlines the company’s management structure.
Bonmarché warns on profits again
19 March 2019Isabella Fish
Value retailer Bonmarché has issued another profit warning.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line204
|
__label__wiki
| 0.526701
| 0.526701
|
Sometimes, at the state house, waiting for a lawmaker to emerge from chambers, or for 374 school children to get through the metal detector at the Washington Street entrance, you can find me daydreaming about other career choices I could have made. “What would it be like,” I wonder, “to have been a fill-in-the-blank?” I ponder occupations such as Metallica roadie, bi-plane pilot, feline psychologist, squirrel exterminator, or even, Queen of Liechtenstein. This past week, while waiting through the 2 hour 40 minute airport debate in the Senate (SB 131 – about whether or not the state should take over operations of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport ), I imagined being a game-designer. Me being me, of course, the sort of game I would design would be fun yet educational; surprising yet predictable, and complicated, invigorating, frustrating, and ultimately, over. What I have just described, in fact, is the last few weeks of the legislative session! And what a game it is! It is sort of like a combination of Chess, Hide-and-Seek, Yahtzee, and Whack-A-Mole. The rules would be something like this:
Objective of the Game: To make it through Sine Die with the best bills passed and the worst ones defeated.
Rules of the Game:
Each player selects a badge (Senator, Representative, Staff, Lobbyist, etc.)
Place the badge on your right lapel, so that when someone shakes your hand, they can nonchalantly scan up your arm and pretend like they have not forgotten your name. Points are deducted for asking why they are squinting.
Each player then selects as many bills as they can retain, understand, or physically carry. Including the LC Number when discussing the bills triples your score.
Using a sharpie, mobile phone, pen, pencil, or piece of coal, keep track of amendments made to all of your bills. Identifying which amendments are policy-driven and which are simply gamesmanship adds 2 points per amendment. The complete gutting of a favorite bill or its failure to get a hearing or vote docks the player 25 points and loses him or her their Rook.
In high heels, slippery loafers, or with hot and lidless coffee in your hand, chase down sponsors of troublesome bills as they ascend or descend marble stairs. In the process, you must maintain a relaxed, knowledgeable, and professional persona that the elected official can trust, joke around with and sometimes ask you questions that have nothing to do with the topic at hand. Points are gained for affecting change of legislation, but lost for being so flustered that you forgot why you chased the person in the first place. Points are also lost for bad breath, calling them by their first name, or spilled beverage.
The most points can be gleaned for staying hopeful, charming, and strategic right up to the bitter-midnight-end of the 40th day. Deductions are made for not staying hydrated, giving up on a bill, or losing your phone charger. Please note: Points are neither gained nor lost for eating your weight in pizza, Girl Scout cookies, and/or peanuts on the last day.
The game ends when both the House and the Senate have adjourned “Sine Die” and all the legislators have littered their chambers with paper.
And with that, I encourage you to read below to see what bills made it through one chamber and into another last Thursday (Crossover Day) and which ones didn’t. I also encourage you to scroll to the special action alert below and pick a few bill sponsors to thank for their work thus far, here at the midway point of the session.
Until next week, Game On!
SB 222 (Stone-23rd) (Re)Creates the Georgia Council on Criminal Justice Reform for the purpose of conducting periodic comprehensive reviews of criminal laws, criminal procedure, sentencing laws, adult correctional issues, juvenile justice issues, enhancement of probation and parole supervision, better management of the prison population and of the population in the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice, and other issues related to criminal and accountability courts. The Council is effective through June 30, 2022. STATUS: PASSED SENATE. Assigned to House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee.
HB 179 (Moore-1st) Removes discipline data from the criteria for evaluating school climate. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 309 (Kennard-102nd) Provides for the restriction of criminal history records for convictions of certain non-violent misdemeanors and felonies after the completion of the sentence and payment of any restitution. The option for records restriction is not available if the ex-offender is applying for a job at a public school, private school, child welfare agency, or a job with adult or child day care, after school care or working with people with mental health issues or disabilities. STATUS: House Judiciary Committee.
HB 318 (Bruce-61st) Creates a treatment program within the juvenile court relating to the prevention and treatment of substance abuse. STATUS: House Juvenile Justice Committee.
HB 359 (Holcomb-81st) Revises the terminology used in determining whom to arrest in instances of family violence when complaints are received from opposing parties. The revision changes the term “primary aggressor” to “dominant aggressor.” The bill also states that an officer shall not threaten, suggest, or otherwise indicate that all parties will be arrested and, that when determining who the dominant aggressor is, an officer shall consider threats that created the fear of physical injury. STATUS: House Juvenile Justice Committee.
HB 364 (Bodie-62nd) Allows some defendants to have a second conviction cleared if they were 17-25 years old the first time they were sentenced and at least five years have passed. (Currently, certain first-time offenders can have their criminal convictions cleared after completing their sentence, but they can only take advantage of that opportunity once) . STATUS: House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee.
HB 403 (Holcomb-81st) Prevents a private entity from operating a detention facility, including prisons, jails, immigration detention centers, parole revocation centers, long-term and short-term youth detention centers, boot camps, and probation detention centers. STATUS: House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee.
HB 438 (Ballinger-23rd) Limits the use of restraints on a child in the courtroom. STATUS: House Juvenile Justice Committee.
HB 439 (Ballinger-23rd) Requires the juvenile court judges to be elected by the electors of the judicial circuit in which such judge would serve. STATUS: House Juvenile Justice Committee.
HB 440 (Ballinger-23rd) Raises the age of juvenile court jurisdiction to include 17-year-olds. STATUS: House Juvenile Justice Committee.
HB 441 (Bruce-61st) Creates a “program of safe care” for children under juvenile court jurisdiction for treatment of substance abuse and for services for substance abuse prevention. The program brings together drug treatment professionals, social programs, and local and state government agencies, including, but not limited to, the Department of Human Services, to develop safe care plans. STATUS: House Juvenile Justice Committee.
HB 528 (Ballinger-23rd) Expands convictions for which records restriction is not available and sets parameters for victim notification and petition to seal records. STATUS: House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee.
SB 64 (Ligon-3rd) Makes a terroristic threat by a child 13 or older against an individual or a public or private school a class B felony. STATUS: Senate Judiciary Committee.
SB 166 (Jackson-2nd) Revises the criteria for imposition of punishment for crimes involving bias or prejudice to specify that bias or prejudice mean the individual’s belief or perception regarding the race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, mental disability, or physical disability, and then revises the sanctions for such crimes. STATUS: Senate Judiciary Committee.
HB 227 (Frye-118th) Expands the prohibitions on discrimination against victims of family violence to include victims of sexual assault. STATUS: PASSED HOUSE. Assigned to Senate Insurance and Labor Committee.
SB 167 (Brass-28th) Allows a foster placement for a child to be deemed as the child’s fictive kin in determining such child’s permanency plan, if after 6 months and reasonable diligent search efforts conducted by DFCS, no relatives or fictive kin have been located. In all cases in which the child has reached the age of 11, the judge shall consider the desires of the child. Additionally, if a child has been in a stable foster placement for 12 months or more, a presumption shall exist that remaining in that placement is in the child’s best interests. STATUS: PASSED SENATE. Assigned to House Juvenile Justice Committee.
SB 225 (Walker-20th) Brings Georgia law into conformity with the federal Social Security Act and the Family First Prevention Services Act. It increases the standard of evidence in proving maltreatment in cases involving children who are members of federally recognized Indian tribes. The bill also creates the category of foster-care placement known as a Qualified Residential Treatment Program, including definition and lays out the qualifications for clinicians offering the treatment, procedures for assessing children for this placement, judicial oversight and the mechanism for the child’s family to work through a case plan overseen by the court and the Division of Family and Children Services. The bill also requires DFCS, to provide a youth in foster care for more than six months any official documentation necessary to prove the child was previously in foster care before aging out of foster care. And finally, the bill brings Georgia in compliance with the Social Security Act’s title IV-E by requiring that the final decision for hearings on benefits be made by the state agency distributing those benefits. STATUS: PASSED SENATE. Assigned to House Juvenile Justice Committee.
HB 16 (Scott-76th) Provides for in-state tuition at units of the University System of Georgia and branches of the Technical College System of Georgia for youth who are from foster care or homeless situations. The bill also excludes foster care assistance from consideration as income for purposes of calculating financial aid. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Higher Education Committee. The bill now rests in the House Rules Committee.
HB 43 (Setzler-35th) Revises the crime of sexual assault when committed by persons with supervisory or disciplinary authority over a student in a school setting. The degree of the crime and punishment vary based on a number of factors including age of the perpetrator and victim. The bill also better defines the term “dangerous sexual offense”. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee. The bill now rests in House Rules Committee.
HB 58 (Burnough-77th) Prohibits persons convicted of misdemeanor crimes of family violence from receiving, possessing, or transporting firearms. STATUS: House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee.
HB 80 (Werkheiser-157th) Require individuals to cooperate with the child support enforcement program as a condition of eligibility for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. STATUS: House Judiciary Committee.
HB 258 (Boddie-62nd) Adds aggravated sexual battery to the list of offenses for which the statute of limitations may be suspended if the victim is younger than 16 years of age. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee. The bill now rests in House Rules Committee.
HB 259 (Ballinger-23rd) Requires the Georgia Crime Information Center to provide criminal history record information to the Sexual Offender Registration Review Board upon request of the board. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee, but was withdrawn from the Rules Committee and recommitted to Juvenile Justice Committee.
HB 260 (Ballinger-23rd) Revises the offense of burglary in the second degree to incorporate an instance where a person enters or remains within an occupied dwelling of another and commits an act of simple battery or battery. STATUS: House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee.
HB 331 (Ballinger-23rd) Revises the definition of family violence regarding a protective order alleging a dating relationship or a relationship involving a past or present pregnancy. STATUS: House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee.
HB 393 (McLeod-105th) Allows for a state income tax deduction for child support payments. STATUS: House Ways & Means Committee.
HB 416 (Williams-145th) Establishes the State Vaccine Consumer Protection Office and creates a State Vaccination Information Sheet. The bill also to provide for rights of consumers to decline administration of vaccines to themselves or their children and prevents the refusal of vaccination from being used when considering child protective services complaints or reunification in child protective services cases. In addition, child protective services can not authorize or facilitate the administration of any vaccine to a child in its custody without written parental consent. STATUS: House Health & Human Services Committee.
HB 489 (Taylor-173rd) Expands the definition of cruelty to children in the second degree to include allowing a child under the age of 18 to witness or be present for any unlawful manufacture, distribution, delivery, possession, sale, use of any controlled substance or the commission of any forcible felony. The bill expands the definition of cruelty to children in the third degree to include the witnessing of any felony, including family violence battery. The bill also establishes the offense of traveling to meet a minor for indecent purposes. STATUS: House Juvenile Justice Committee.
HB 578 (Dempsey-13th) Adds persons seeking to serve as volunteers, interns, students, or employees to the list of individuals for whom the Department of Human Services can review of certain law enforcement conviction data when considering final selection service. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Health and Human Services Committee. The bill now rests in the House Rules Committee.
SB 35 (Jackson-2nd) Prohibits sex offenders from residing near or loitering near their victims and the victims’ immediate family members. STATUS: Senate Judiciary Committee.
SB 40 (Jackson-2nd) Prohibits sexual contact between an employee or volunteer of any school and a student enrolled at that school. STATUS: Senate Judiciary Committee.
SB 150 (Jordan-6th) Prohibit persons convicted of misdemeanor crimes of family violence or persons subject to family violence protective orders from receiving, possessing, or transporting a firearm. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill now rests in Senate Rules Committee.
SB 229 (Robertson-29th) Adds the Parental Accountability Courts (PACs) to the definition of accountability courts in the Code to allow the provisions afforded to other accountability courts. It also allows the Division of Child Support Services (DCSS) to work with the Council of Accountability Court Judges to adopt uniform practices for PACs and allow for the Department of Law to provide legal guidance. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill now rests in Senate Rules Committee.
HB 26 (Belton-112th) The “Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact” authorizes the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists to allow psychologists who are licensed in other compact-participating states and who meet certain criteria to practice in Georgia via telepsychology and temporary practice (defined as 30 days per calendar year) STATUS: PASSED HOUSE. Assigned to Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
HB 39 (Belton-112th) Creates the “Physical Therapy Licensure Compact Act” which allows physical therapists licensed in other compact states to practice in Georgia. STATUS: PASSED HOUSE. Assigned to Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
HB 83 (Douglas-78th) Requires schools to provide 30 minutes of recess daily for grades K-5. Recess would not be required on any day on which a student has had physical education or structured activity time. STATUS: PASSED HOUSE. Assigned to Senate Education and Youth Committee.
HB 158 (Silcox-52nd) Requires that Medicaid recipients have the same access to anti-retroviral regimens used to treat HIV and AIDS as to those included in the formula established for the Georgia AIDS Drug Assistance Program. STATUS: PASSED HOUSE. Assigned to Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
HB 168 (Taylor-173rd) Extends an exemption from sales and use tax for five additional years regarding the sale or use of tangible personal property to nonprofit health centers and nonprofit volunteer health centers. STATUS: PASSED HOUSE. Assigned to Senate Finance Committee.
HB 287 (Dubnik-29th) Deletes an income tax deduction for certain physicians serving as community-based faculty physicians and creates a new income tax credit for licensed physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, or physician assistants who provide uncompensated preceptorship training to medical students, advanced practice registered nurse students, or physician assistant students. STATUS: PASSED HOUSE. Assigned Senate Finance Committee.
HB 310 (Morris-156th) Moves the annual due date that the Department of Insurance must submit an autism coverage report to the General Assembly from January 15 to June 15. STATUS: PASSED HOUSE. Assigned to Senate Insurance and Labor Committee.
HB 514 (Tanner-9th) Creates the Georgia Mental Health Reform and Innovation Commission and initial subcommittees (Children and Adolescent Mental Health; Involuntary Commitment; Hospital and Short-Term Care Facilities; Mental Health Courts and Corrections; and Workforce and System Development). STATUS: PASSED HOUSE. Assigned to Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
SB 16 (Kirkpatrick-32nd) “Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Act” – Allows Georgia to enter into an interstate compact to allow physicians, assistants, and certain other health professionals from other compacts states to practice in Georgia STATUS: PASSED SENATE. In House Health and Human Services Committee.
SB 60 (Martin-9th) Requires the GA Department of Education to develop and post on its website guidelines and other materials to inform students, parents, guardians and coaches about the nature and warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest. The bill also requires students participating in sports to review the information. Additionally, if a student passes out in a sport then they will be removed from the activity by the athletic coach and if a student exhibits symptoms of cardiac arrest then the athletic trainer can remove the student and may notify the parents. Once a student has been removed, they cannot return until they have been evaluated and cleared to return by a health care provider. STATUS: PASSED SENATE. Assigned to House Education Committee.
SB 118 (Unterman-45th) Renames the “Telemedicine Act” the “Telehealth Act,” and revises various definitions regarding telemedicine and telehealth. The bill also prohibits insurers from requiring insureds to use telemedicine, and sets policy for pay equity for health care providers using telemedicine. STATUS: PASSED SENATE.Assigned to House Insurance Committee. The bill will be heard in subcommittee this MONDAY.
HB 8 (Buckner-137th) Creates an exemption from state sales and use tax for certain menstrual products. STATUS: House Ways & Means Committee.
HB 10 (Bazemore-63rd) Requires instruction on the best practices for and risks associated with the use of tampons in a course of study in sex education and AIDS prevention instruction. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Health and Human Services Committee. The bill now rests in the House Rules Committee.
HB 17 (Scott-76th) Creates a misdemeanor and $100 fine for smoking inside any motor vehicle when a person under 13 years of age is present. STATUS: House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee.
HB 37 (Trammel-132nd) Expands Medicaid to cover adults who live at or below 138% of the federal poverty level. STATUS: House Appropriations Committee.
HB 55 (Bruce-61st) Prohibits the printing, production, or possession of certain firearms produced by means of three-dimensional printing. STATUS: House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee.
HB 75 (Ehrhart-36th) Clarifies which drivers must stop when meeting a school bus. STATUS: House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee.
HB 78 (Clark-98th) Requires the GA Department of Education to develop and post on its website guidelines and other materials to inform students, parents, guardians and coaches about the nature and warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest. The bill also requires students participating in sports to review the information. Additionally, if a student passes out in a sport then they will be removed from the activity by the athletic coach and if a student exhibits symptoms of cardiac arrest then the athletic trainer can remove the student and may notify the parents. Once a student has been removed, they cannot return until they have been evaluated and cleared to return by a health care provider. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 88 (Thomas-56th) “C.J.’s Law”- Creates a felony and 1-10 year sentence for a driver who causes an accident that results in bodily harm, and then leaves the scene of the accident. STATUS: House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee.
HB 112 (LaHood-175th) Prohibits the sale to and by minors of drug products containing dextromethorphan (a medication most often used as a cough suppressant in over-the-counter cold and cough medicines). STATUS: House Juvenile Justice Committee.
HB 113 (Carson-46th) Specifies that anyone driving with a Class C learners permit, Class C license, or Motorcycle instruction permit is prohibited from using a stand-alone electronic device or wireless telecommunications device unless it is an emergency. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee. The bill now rests in House Rules Committee.
HB 137 (Bazemore-63rd) Prevents persons convicted of certain first offender family violence offenses from possessing or carrying firearms. STATUS: House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee.
HB 178 (Hogan-179th) Amends Title 37 Chapter 3 (Mental Health Examination, Treatment) to create a unit within the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities to provide support to court-ordered, outpatient treatment programs. The bill creates an advisory council for these programs which would meet quarterly and evaluate aggregate data and review the contents of the training and education programs. This bill also provides for a pilot program to determine whether to expand the establishment of assisted outpatient treatment programs, and training and education for service providers. STATUS: House Health & Human Services Committee.
HB 198 (Hatchett-150th) Lifts restrictions in private competition for hospitals by eliminating Certificate of Need requirements (CON) for hospital care facilities, with the except for long-term care facilities and services. FYI, Certificate of Need is a state regulation which is used by the Georgia Department of Community health to evaluate proposals for new or expanded health care facilities (There are a number of CON bills moving. We will summarize the outcome at the end of the session). STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Special Committee on Access to Quality Healthcare. The bill made it through rules and to the House floor, but failed.
HB 241 (Schofield-60th) Requires indoor air quality assessments of all public buildings (i.e. any building which provides facilities or shelter for public use or assembly or which is used for educational, office, or institutional purposes, and any library, museum, school, hospital, auditorium, dormitory, or university building). STATUS: House Natural resources and Environment Committee.
HB 280 (Anulewicz-42nd) Prohibits the use of individual mechanical restraints, including handcuffs and shackles, on an inmate while she is experiencing labor or during delivery, unless there is a reasonable basis to believe that restraints are necessary to prevent her from injuring herself or others. STATUS: House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee.
HB 351 (Holly-111th) Increases the penalties for passing a school bus. STATUS: House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee.
HB 369 (Wilkerson-38th) Require the development of an educational fact sheet for elementary and secondary students about the use and misuse of opioid drugs in the event that a student-athlete or cheerleader is prescribed an opioid for a sports-related injury. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 370 (Cooper-43rd) Allows nurses practicing in an emergency medical services system to order up to a 14 day supply of non-narcotic drugs as necessary in an emergency situation. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Health and Human Services Committee. The bill now rests in the House Rules Committee.
HB 376 (Gilligan-24th) Designates September 1 of each year as Childhood Cancer Awareness Day in Georgia. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Special Rules Committee. The bill now rests in House Rules Committee.
HB 398 (Smith-41st) Allows local authorities to regulate the operation of bicycles upon sidewalks by persons under the age of 16 or with disabilities. STATUS: House Transportation Committee.
HB 409 (Powell-32nd) Authorizes the delegation by a physician to an advanced practice registered nurse to order radiographic imaging tests in non-life-threatening situations. The bill also increases from four to eight the number of advanced practice registered nurses with whom a delegating physician can enter into a nurse protocol agreement and supervise at one time. STATUS: House Special Committee on Access to Quality Healthcare.
HB 442 (Schofield-60th) Creates a grant program to encourage physicians to practice in underserved areas of the state. STATUS: House Appropriations Committee.
HB 457 (Jones-25th) Requires the wearing of seatbelts in off-road farm vehicles or pickup trucks being used for farming. The bill also states that failure to wear a seatbelt in any seat of a motor vehicle which has a seat safety belt or belts shall not be any basis for cancellation of insurance coverage. STATUS: House Judiciary Committee.
HB 477 (Stephens-164th) Exempts pools located in condominium complexes from public health inspections. STATUS: House State Planning and Community Affairs Committee.
HB 515 (Jasperse-11th) Requires certain state departments and agencies to provide recommended school construction designs and measures that advance school safety and requires new school safety plans to be based upon the operational guide for preventing targeted school violence issued by the United States Secret Service. The bill also requires the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency (GEMA) to visit schools to inspect the school safety plan every 3 years. The bill requires schools to conduct drills every year, but leaves it to the discretion of the school as to whether students participate in the drill. The bill also creates a state-wide threat management team to coordinate school safety efforts. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 521 (Gaines-117th) Authorizes temporary licenses for dentists licensed in other states to provide dental care to indigent populations in Georgia. STATUS: House Health & Human Services Committee.
HB 524 (Stover-71st) Creates a foundation to fund the Georgia Apex Program and provides an income tax credit for donations to the Public School Mental Health Services Foundation. STATUS: House Ways & Means Committee.
HB 550 (Scott-76th) Raises the amount of marijuana that constitutes a misdemeanor from 1 ounce to 2 ounces. The bill also lessens penalties for such possession. STATUS: House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee.
HB 580 (Wilson-80th) The “Youth Mental Health Protection Act” – Prohibits the practice of conversion therapy for children under 18 years old. (Conversion therapy is defined as any practice or treatment that seeks to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity). STATUS: House Regulated Industries Committee.
SB 10 (Jones-22nd) Narrows the law regarding marijuana possession to state that possession of one-half ounce or less be punishable by a $300 fine, and that possession of one-half ounce to two ounces be punishable by imprisonment up to one year, a fine of $1,000 or less and/or community service. STATUS: Senate Judiciary Committee.
SB 36 (Henson-41st) Expands Medicaid to cover adults. STATUS: Senate Health & Human Services Committee.
SB 44 (James-35th) Requires pre-participation physical examinations for youth athletes (7-18 years old) participating in youth sports leagues. STATUS: Senate Education & Youth Committee.
SB 74 (Brass-28th) Lifts restrictions in private competition for hospitals by eliminating Certificate of Need requirements (CON) for hospital care facilities, with the except for long-term care facilities and services. FYI, Certificate of Need is a state regulation which is used by the Georgia Department of Community health to evaluate proposals for new or expanded health care facilities. STATUS: Senate Regulated Industries and Utilities Committee.
SB 101 (Beach-21st) Requires volunteer coaches with youth athletic associations to undergo training to reduce the likelihood of injuries to youth athletes engaged in high risk athletics (e.g. any organized sport in which there is a significant possibility for a youth athlete to sustain a serious physical injury, including, but not limited to, the sports of football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, soccer, ice or field hockey, cheerleading, and lacrosse. STATUS: Senate Education & Youth Committee.”
SB 109 (Walker-20th) Allows a physician to delegate to an advanced practice registered nurse the ability to order radiographic imaging tests in non-life-threatening situations and increases the number of advanced practice registered nurses with whom a delegating physician can enter into a nurse protocol agreement. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by Senate Health and Human Services Committee. The bill made it to the Senate floor but was tabled and did not cross over.
SB 145 (Harbin-16th) Requires healthcare insurers to develop selection standards for provider participation. STATUS: Senate Insurance and Labor Committee.
SB 148 (Robertson-29th) Requires the wearing of seatbelts in off-road farm vehicles or pickup trucks being used for farming. The bill also states that failure to wear a seatbelt in any seat of a motor vehicle which has a seat safety belt or belts shall not be any basis for cancellation of insurance coverage. STATUS: Senate Judiciary Committee.
SB 151 (Burke-11th) Creates the Office of Health Strategy and Coordination to adequately integrate state and private resources to strategically improve access to care, effective health management strategies, and cost control measures. STATUS: Senate Health & Human Services Committee.
SB 160 (Anderson-43rd) Requires all occupants of a passenger vehicle to be restrained by a seatbelt. STATUS: Senate Public Safety Committee.
SB 199 (Williams-39th) Requires testing of drinking water in child care learning centers and schools for lead contamination and remediation. The bill also requires public posting of results. STATUS: Senate Health & Human Services Committee.
SB 210 (Mullis-53rd) Requires schools to provide 30 minutes of recess daily for grades K-5. Recess would not be required on any day on which a student has had physical education or structured activity time. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by Senate Education and Youth Committee. The bill now rests in Senate Rules Committee.
SB 223 (Mullis-53rd) Requires the Georgia Bureau of Investigation shall work with the United States Drug Enforcement Agency to identify a standard level of kratom alkoloids and to determine a recommended dosage. The bill also makes it a misdemeanor to sell Kratom to anyone under 18 years old, and illegal to be used by anyone under 18 years old. It also stipulates labeling details. STATUS: Senate Health & Human Services Committee.
SB 226 (Robertson-29th) Requires all occupants of a passenger vehicle, whether in a front seat or back seat, be restrained by a seat safety belt. STATUS: Senate Public Safety Committee.
HR 261 (Newton-123rd) Creates the Joint Study Committee on Evaluating and Simplifying Physician Oversight of Midlevel Providers. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by Senate Health and Human Services Committee. The bill made it to the Senate floor but was tabled and did not cross over.
HR 367 (Pullin-131st) Urges Georgia’s school districts to have an emergency medical technician (EMT) present during all full-contact sporting events. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HR 448 (Cooper-43rd) Creates the Joint Study Committee on the Safe Staffing of Nurses in Georgia. STATUS: House Health & Human Services Committee.
SR 12 (Albers-56th) Amends the Constitution of Georgia so that sales tax for educational purposes may be used for school security projects, including physical structure, personnel, and mental health personnel. STATUS: Senate Finance Committee.
SR 194 (Kirk-13th) Creates the Joint Study Committee on Transferring Oversight of Developmental Disabilities to the Department of Community Health. STATUS: Senate Rules Committee.
SR 195 (Harbin-16th) Urges Georgia’s school districts to have an emergency medical technician (EMT) present during all full-contact sporting events. STATUS: Senate Education & Youth Committee.
SR 202 (Hufstetler-52nd) Creates the Joint Study Committee on Evaluating and Simplifying Physician Oversight of Midlevel Providers. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by Senate Rules Committee.
SR 263 (Mullis-53rd) Creates the Senate Emergency Medical Services Study Committee. STATUS: Senate Rules Committee.
SR 264 (Mullis-53rd) Creates the Joint Emergency Medical Services Study Committee. STATUS: Senate Read and Adopted.
HB 116 (McClain-100th) Raises the minimum wage from $5.15/hour to $15.00/hour. The bill also raises base annual pay for people who work and live (without being charged board or lodging) in a nonprofit child-caring institution or long-term care facility for children or mentally disabled adults. STATUS: House Industry and Labor Committee.
HB 188 (Shannon-84th) Repeals the Positive Alternatives for Pregnancy and Parenting Grant Program. STATUS: House Health & Human Services Committee.
HB 475 (Dreyer-59th) Requires appropriate and skilled prenatal, perinatal, and postpartum care and resources for female inmates, including clothing and supplies, psychiatric care, education, appropriate medical facilities, and qualified medical staff. The bill also prohibits restraints for female inmates except under certain circumstances and requires parent child visitation for families with children under 18 years of age. STATUS: House Health & Human Services Committee.
HB 577 (Cannon-58th) The “Working for Two Act” – Requires accommodations in the workplace for pregnancy, childbirth, and related conditions. The bill requires the Commissioner of Labor to promulgate rules and regulations regarding such and gives the department the power to assess a civil penalty of up to $1,000.00 for each act of misconduct, but limits the cumulative fine to $5,000.00. STATUS: House Industry and Labor Committee.
SB 46 (James-35th) Raises the minimum wage from $5.15/hour to $15.00/hour. The bill also raises base annual pay for people who work and live (without being charged board or lodging) in a nonprofit child-caring institution or long-term care facility for children or mentally disabled adults. STATUS: Senate Insurance and Labor Committee.
SB 85 (Henson-41st) Establishes an early child care scholarship program administered by the Department of Early Care and Learning, subject to appropriations by the General Assembly. STATUS: Senate Education & Youth Committee.
HR 421 (Dempsey-13th) Creates the Joint Study Committee on Infant and Toddler Social and Emotional Health. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Health and Human Services Committee. The bill now rests in the House Rules Committee.
HR 447 (Kendrick-93rd) Encourages the General Assembly to fund a study of the causes of infant and maternal mortality in this state and to appoint a commission to propose solutions. STATUS: House Health & Human Services Committee.
HB 59 (Belton-112th) Allows military students to enroll in a public school based on official military orders prior to physically establishing residency. STATUS: PASSED HOUSE. Assigned to Senate Education and Youth Committee.
HB 68 (Carson-46th) Prohibits any entity that operates, owns, is affiliated with, or is a subsidiary of an association, organization, or other entity that provides accreditation of elementary or secondary schools from becoming a student scholarship organization (SSO). STATUS: PASSED HOUSE. Assigned to Senate Education and Youth Committee.
HB 530 (Hitchens-161st) Requires the Georgia Department of Education provide a copy of a parent or guardian’s declaration of intent to utilize a home study program for their student to the local school systems in which the home study programs are located, and should a child stop attending public school for 45 days without submitting such a declaration to GaDOE, the school shall refer the matter to the Division of Family and Children Services to conduct an assessment to determine whether the withdrawal was to avoid educating the child. If a parent/guardian can present a copy of a filed declaration, the Division shall immediately terminate the assessment. STATUS: PASSED HOUSE. Assigned to Senate Education and Youth Committee.
SB 48 (Martin-9th) Requires all -kindergarten students to be screened for dyslexia and refer students in grades 1st-3rd for screening to have been identified as having characteristics of dyslexia. The bill would require a dyslexia screening tool to be delivered by a professional and ensure that parents provide informed consent before the screening tool is used and that parents are notified with the results of the screening. The bill also requires the department to make available a dyslexia informational handbook that includes guidance, technical assistance, and training to assist all local school systems in the implementation of evidence-based practices for instructing students identified with or displaying characteristics of dyslexia, and to collaborate with the Professional Standards Commission to improve and update professional development for teachers specifically relating to dyslexia. This bill also creates a pilot in three local school systems which would begin in the 2019-2020 school year and be established by the State School Superintendent. STATUS: PASSED SENATE. Assigned to House Education Committee.
SB 67 (Burke-11th) Allows drawdown of K-12 capital outlay funding to complete restoration of fire or disaster damaged school buildings. Educational facilities that are more than 20 years old and are extensively destroyed or damaged by a fire or natural disaster can supplement insurance to rebuild all of the building, even undamaged parts. Expands low wealth category to include systems consolidating schools but lacking sufficient E-SPLOST capability. STATUS: PASSED SENATE. Assigned to House Appropriations Committee.
SB 68 (Sims-12th) Strengthens provisions for school system financial management. STATUS: PASSED SENATE. Assigned to House Education Committee.
SB 83 (Mullis-53rd) Requires public schools to offer elective courses in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible to grades 9-12. STATUS: PASSED SENATE. Assigned to House Education Committee.
SB 163 (Thompson-14th) Allows home study students to participate in extracurricular and interscholastic activities in the student’s resident public school system. STATUS: PASSED SENATE. Assigned to House Education Committee.
HB 1 (Petrea-166th) Changes the name of the ‘Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act” to the “Senator Eric Johnson Scholarship Act”. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Education Committee. The bill now rests in the House Rules Committee.
HB 11 (Stovall-74th) Allows a parent or guardian to enroll a student in a school using the address of an individual residing in the school’s attendance zone who has authorized such use. STATUS: House Prefiled.
HB 32 (Tanner-9th) Revises school turnaround legislation. Shifts the responsibility of revising the state-wide accountability system and monitoring local school systems’ progress from the Office of Student Achievement to the Department of Education. Gives the Governor the authority to appoint the Chief Turnaround Officer. Requires the Chief Turnaround Officer to prepare an annual report of schools with poor ratings. Gives additional responsibility to the State School Superintendent to identify schools in greatest need and ensure resources and funding for those schools and to oversee the Turnaround Advisory Council. The bill also creates a pilot program to be conducted by the State School Superintendent. The purpose of the pilot is to attract and retain effective teachers. The five-year pilot will provide stipends ($5,000 in state and $2,500 in local funds) for turnaround instructional innovation specialists who agree to teach for a minimum of three years. After three years, the specialists will be eligible for a permanent salary increase. The bill eliminates a component providing for grants from the Office of Student Achievement for schools with financial need. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Education Committee. The bill now rests in the House Rules Committee.
HB 36 (Trammel-132nd) Establishes the HOPE tuition-free grant for students seeking a certificate or diploma in a designated high demand field at a branch of the Technical College System of Georgia . STATUS: House Higher Education Committee.
HB 40 (Scott-76th) Requires every child to be screened for Dyslexia in grades K-2 and screened as needed in grades 3-12. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 53 (Carpenter-4th) “Student and Educator Faith Protection Act”- Protects religious speech for students and faculty members in public schools, including expression, class assignments, organization of religious groups and activities, and limited public forums. The bill also requires each local system to adopt a model policy on student expression and gives guidelines for that policy. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 60 (Belton-112th) Requires dependent children of active duty military members to be classified as in-state for purposes of tuition and fees by the University System of Georgia and the Technical College System of Georgia. STATUS: House Higher Education Committee.
HB 69 (Turner-21st) Changes the “prior school year requirement” for the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship program. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Education Committee. The bill now rests in the House Rules Committee.
HB 86 (Benton-31st) Introduces an appeals process for the teacher’s evaluation system by allowing performance ratings contained in personnel evaluations to be subject to complaint for teachers who accepted a school year contract for the fourth or subsequent consecutive school year. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Education Committee. The bill now rests in the House Rules Committee.
HB 87 (Clark-98th) Allows home study students to participate in extracurricular and interscholastic activities in the student’s resident public school system. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 109 (Benton-31st) Modifies conditions of the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia for people who first became members on or after July 1, 2019. Among other things, the bill changes from 2 years to 5 years the number of highest years of compensation used to determine retirement benefits; eliminates the ability to apply unused sick leave towards retirement credit; and changes age of retirement and benefits access. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Retirement Committee. The bill now rests in House Rules Committee.
HB 123 (Werkheiser-157th) Moves administration of the Georgia Workforce Investment Board from the Technical College System of Georgia to the GA Department of Labor. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Industry and Labor Committee. The bill now rests in the House Rules Committee.
HB 126 (Nix-69th) Authorizes the Department of Labor to establish the ‘GeorgiaBest’ program (a business employability skills training program) to assist the state’s existing and emerging workforce in developing employer-identified skills needed to be successful in the workplace. Curriculum may include skills relating to punctuality, critical thinking, and the ability to work in a team. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the House Industry and Labor Committee. The bill now rests in the House Rules Committee.
HB 133 (Clark-108th) Require that any public school course of study in sex education and HIV/AIDS prevention instruction is medically accurate. STATUS: House Health & Human Services Committee.
HB 169 (Hugley-136th) Mandates public schools to require an age-appropriate course of study in financial education for students in kindergarten through 12. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 170 (Taylor-173rd) Increases the state minimum aggregate allowance for tax credits for qualified education donations from $5 million to $15 million. STATUS: House Ways & Means Committee.
HB 181 (Mitchell-88th) Provides that the initial term or any renewal term of a charter school shall be for no more than three years. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 206 (Mitchell-88th) Requires the charter petitioner, local board of education, and State Board of Education to review the content of, design of, and time and money resources for standardized assessments used by charter schools. The bill also allows a student’s parent or guardian to inspect and review the student’s assessment . STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 232 (Clark-147th) Classifies dependent children of active duty military members as in-state for purposes of tuition and fees by the University System of Georgia and the Technical College System of Georgia. STATUS: House Higher Education Committee.
HB 263 (Stovall-74th) Allows a parent or guardian to enroll a student in a school using the address of an individual residing in the school’s attendance zone who has approved such use. The bill prohibits the parent or guardian from paying or providing any other valuable consideration to the individual for the use of the individual’s address, with the exception that a parent or guardian may reimburse for expenses incurred by the resident in the care of the student. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 301 (Cantrell-22nd) Establishes educational scholarship accounts, which are consumer directed accounts composed of state funds deposited on behalf of a participating student and which may be used for qualified education expenses, such as tuition, textbooks, therapies, computers, transportation, etc. The scholarship accounts are not needs based but prioritize the following categories of applicants: Children with special needs, in foster care, of parents on active duty in the military, in public school and in a family with income below 200% of the federal poverty level, or documented victims of bullying. Enrollment is limited to one-half of 1 percent of the state-wide total public school enrollment in the 2017-2018 school year. STATUS: House Ways & Means Committee.
HB 320 (Belton-112th) Permits certain public employers to employ beneficiaries of the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia for academic instruction of students in Pre-K through 12 in science, technology, engineering, arts, or math. STATUS: House Retirement Committee.
HB 336 (Blackmon-146th) Requires certain public employers to make employer and employee contributions to the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia for teachers who return to service full-time as teachers without affecting their benefits. STATUS: House Retirement Committee.
HB 389 (Wilensky-79th) Requires excused school absences for students voting in state-wide elections. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 390 (Benton-31st) Allows certain members of the Teachers Retirement System to be eligible to obtain creditable service towards retirement for international teaching service by paying the full actuarial cost of obtaining such creditable service. STATUS: House Retirement Committee.
HB 414 (Kennard-102nd) Lower the age of compulsory school attendance from six years old to five years old and requires kindergarten for all children prior to entering into first grade. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 421 (Stephens-164th) Prohibits a school year from starting before the second full week in August, with the exception of year-round schools, and requires the local board of education to seek input on the school year calendar from community organizations and parent organizations. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 464 (Momtahan-17th) Requires local boards of education to provide a public comment period during every meeting. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by Senate Education Committee. The bill now rests in Senate Rules Committee.
HB 476 (Stovall-74th) Mandates that child entertainer students performing during one or more school days shall not be counted absent from school. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 496 (Hopson-153rd) Requires a course of study in personal financial literacy and money management in public middle schools and high schools. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 513 (Scott-76th) Prohibits a local school system from leasing or selling a public school in such system to a private entity unless such public school has been in existence for at least 15 years. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 519 (McLeod-105th) Requires the State Board of Education to retain an independent third party to evaluate the Quality Basic Education Formula and its program components and make recommendations to the State Board of Education and the General Assembly as to any necessary changes, and to reassess the formula every 5 years. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 526 (Jones-25th) Requires annual training (up to 12 hours) for governing board members of nonprofit organizations of charter schools. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 533 (Jones-167th) Creates a tax credit for educators K-12 of 50 percent of up to $500.00 for eligible expenses such as school supplies. STATUS: House Ways & Means Committee.
HB 558 (Jones-25th) A state charter school with an attendance zone that includes all local school systems in this state shall be considered to have state-wide jurisdiction. STATUS: House Education Committee.
HB 562 (Dickey-140th) Establishes the Realizing Educational Achievement Can Happen (REACH) Scholarship Program, and sets its criteria. The bill also stipulates that the scholarship, which is subject to available funding, will provide $10,000.00 for each REACH scholar for the first year of the REACH participating school system’s participation, and then each year after, the participating school system will be responsible for providing a proportionate share of the scholarship based on the school system’s designated tier in the Department of Community Affairs’ job tax credit designation. STATUS: House Higher Education Committee.
SB 21 (James-35th) Requires each local board of education to prescribe mandatory instruction concerning cybersecurity in every year in every grade from kindergarten through grade 12. STATUS: Senate Education & Youth Committee.
SB 57 (Rahman-5th) “Pay Forward, Pay Back Student Grant Act” – Creates a grant program to pay tuition and fees of University System of Georgia students in exchange for an agreement for the student to pay a percentage of their annual adjusted gross income to the Georgia Student Finance Authority for up to a certain number of years once certain criteria are met. STATUS: Senate Higher Education Committee.
SB 70 (Jackson-2nd) Raises the compulsory age of education from 16 to 17. STATUS: Senate Education & Youth Committee.
SB 86 (Mullis-53rd) Prevents high schools which receive funding through the “Quality Basic Education Act,” from participating in or sponsoring interscholastic sports events conducted by any athletic association unless the association has separate regions and playoffs. STATUS: Senate Education & Youth Committee.
SB 102 (Jones-10th) Creates the “Unlocking the Promise (UP) Community Schools Program,” a grant program that would serve as comprehensive service delivery centers offering academic, health care, and community involvement programs in addition to existing classroom instruction. STATUS: Senate Education & Youth Committee.
SB 165 (Thompson-14th) Requires the State Board of Education to designate a nonprofit organization to govern high school athletics for public schools. A nonpublic school that wishes to engage in high school athletic competition with a public high school may become a member of the nonprofit organization. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by Senate Education and Youth Committee. The bill now rests in Senate Rules Committee.
SB 173 (Dolezal-27th) Establishes educational scholarship accounts, which are consumer directed accounts composed of state funds deposited on behalf of a participating student and which may be used for qualified education expenses, such as tuition, textbooks, therapies, computers, transportation, etc. The scholarship accounts are not needs based but prioritize the following categories of applicants: Children with special needs, in foster care, of parents on active duty in the military, in public school and in a family with income below 200% of the federal poverty level, or documented victims of bullying. Enrollment is limited to one-half of 1 percent of the state-wide total public school enrollment in the 2017-2018 school year. STATUS: FAILED SENATE.
SB 209 (Jones-10th) Eliminates the star rating for financial efficiency from the state indicators of quality of learning in individual schools and school systems. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by Senate Education and Youth Committee. The bill made it out of Rules Committee and onto the Senate Floor, but was tabled and therefore did not cross over.
HR 38 (Kendrick-93rd) Creates the House Study Committee on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Fields. STATUS: House Special Rules Committee.
HR 52 (Corbett-174th) Encourages all schools, local educational agencies, and the state educational agency to recognize that dyslexia has a profound educational impact that must be addressed. STATUS: House Education Committee.
SR 87 (Parent-42nd) Creates the Senate Study Committee on Digital Education and Screen Time in Georgia Public Schools. STATUS: Senate Rules Committee.
HB 226 (Lariccia-169th) Extends the sunset for penalties related to violation of Joshua’s Law to 2022. FYI, Joshua’s law is the part of Georgia law related to drivers license requirements for teen drivers. STATUS: PASSED HOUSE. Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee.
HB 459 (Ehrhart-36th) Creates a verification process for driver’s licenses of school bus drivers. STATUS: PASSED HOUSE. Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee.
HB 481 (Setzler-35th) The “Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act” – Among other things, the bill requires that unborn children at any stage of development be included in state population-based determinations and states that life begins at the moment a human heartbeat is present in the womb. STATUS: PASSED HOUSE. Assigned to Senate Science and Technology Committee.
SB 1 (Parent-42nd) “C.J.’s Law”- Creates a felony and 1-10 year sentence for a driver who causes an accident that results in bodily harm, and then leaves the scene of the accident. STATUS: PASSED SENATE. Assigned to House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee.
HB 20 (Bazemore-63rd) Prohibits persons convicted of family violence offenses from possessing or carrying firearms. STATUS: House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee.
HB 61 (Glanton-75th) Requires motor vehicle insurance companies to offer qualified active duty military service members between 18 and 24 years old motor vehicle insurance policies underwritten at the same rates as for service members 25 years of age or more. STATUS: House Insurance Committee.
HB 77 (Clark-98th) Creates penalties for aiding and abetting someone who commits public benefits fraud and adds Medicaid to the list of benefits that are encompassed by the repercussions for fraud. STATUS: House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee.
HB 122 (Trammel-132nd) Revokes the authorization for the carrying and possession of handguns by weapons carry license holders in certain buildings or on real property owned by or leased to any public technical school, vocational school, college, or university, or other public institution of postsecondary education. STATUS: House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee.
HB 129 (Stephens-164th) Allows sale or furnishing of knuckles which are designed with rings to fit around no more than two fingers and sold or furnished for the purpose of defense. STATUS: House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee.
HB 165 (Trammel-132nd) Allows for the filing and retention of fingerprints submitted for the purpose of obtaining and renewing a weapons carry license. STATUS: House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee.
HB 205 (Mitchell-88th) Requires the Department of Driver Services to include in its drivers’ manual instructions for best practices for facilitating the safety of all parties during a traffic stop by law enforcement. STATUS: House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee.
HB 209 (Gambill-15th) Establishes a specialty license plate to benefit the Georgia Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs, Inc.. STATUS: House Motor Vehicles Committee.
HB 261 (Ballinger-23rd) Changes the name of the Sexual Offender Registration Review Board to Sexual Offender Risk Review Board. STATUS: House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee.
HB 267 (Mitchell-88th) Prevents imposition of the death penalty if the only evidence of the defendant’s guilt is the testimony of a single eyewitness. STATUS: House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee.
HB 348 (Martin-49th) Each full-time, non-temporary employee of the State of Georgia or of any branch, department, board, bureau, or commission thereof shall be entitled to apply for up to eight hours of paid leave per calendar year for the purpose of volunteering in this state. Such leave is only authorized for activities directly related to volunteering and providing nonprofit support. It may not be used for volunteering for political purposes or agendas. STATUS: House Governmental Affairs Committee.
HB 363 (Marin-96th) Requires each department, agency, board, commission, or authority of the state or any political subdivision to take reasonable steps to provide equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency. STATUS: House Governmental Affairs Committee.
HB 418 (Anulewicz-42nd) Extends the statute of limitations for civil action by adult victims of child sexual abuse from 23 years old to 55 years old, and the date for civil action to occur from two years to four years. The bill also clarifies the term “childhood sexual abuse”. STATUS: House Judiciary Committee.
HB 434 (Hitchens-161st) States that a campus policeman who is employed by a private educational institution of higher learning and who commits a tort while acting within the scope of his or her official duties or employment or authorized law enforcement powers shall not be subject to lawsuit or liability. STATUS: House Judiciary Committee.
HB 473 (Park-101st) Creates a refundable earned income tax credit. STATUS: House Ways & Means Committee.
HB 479 (Clark-147th) Extends the statute of limitations for civil actions for childhood sexual abuse from 2 to 4 years and limits the age of the plaintiff between 23-38 years old. STATUS: House Judiciary Committee.
HB 542 (Jones-25th) Authorizes health care facilities to purchase and sell charity care credits (a value computed for uncompensated indigent or charity care based on a fixed-price schedule utilizing Medicare diagnosis-related groups) through an exchange and creates the Georgia Charity Care Exchange. STATUS: House Human Relations and Aging Committee.
HB 581 (Dukes-154th) Authorizes the application for limited paid leave for state employees in the event of the death of a child. STATUS: House Industry and Labor Committee.
HB 588 (Gaines-117th) Creates a nonrefundable earned income tax credit. STATUS: House Ways & Means Committee.
SB 41 (Parent-42nd) Allows for a state refundable earned income tax credit (a refundable tax credit available to low-income, working taxpayers). STATUS: Senate Finance Committee.
SB 45 and SR 84 (Beach-21st) Establishes pari-mutuel horse racing in Georgia at a limited number of licensed equestrian centers and creates the Georgia Horse Racing Commission. State proceeds from the racing shall be in a designated account and used to fund education, health care, and rural development programs. STATUS: Recommended Do Pass by the Senate Economic Development and Tourism Committee. The bill now rests in Senate Rules Committee.
SB 50 (Harrell-40th) Revokes the authorization for the carrying and possession of handguns by weapons carry license holders in certain buildings or on real property owned by or leased to any public technical school, vocational school, college, or university, or other public institution of postsecondary education. STATUS: Senate Public Safety Committee.
SB 54 and SR 85 (Harbison-15th) Requires the Georgia Lottery Corporation to offer one or more games to benefit veterans. STATUS: Senate Finance Committee.
SB 62 (Butler-55th) Increases the value of a tax credit based on the federal tax credit for certain child and dependent care expenses from 30% to 100% of the federal tax credit. STATUS: Senate Finance Committee.
SB 218 (Thompson-14th) The “Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act” – Among other things, the bill requires that unborn children at any stage of development be included in state population based determinations and states that life begins at the moment a human heartbeat is present in the womb. STATUS: Senate Judiciary Committee.
SB 221 (Harbin-16th) Permits a person to use a claim of burden of religious exercise as a defense in a judicial proceeding and obtain appropriate relief against a government. STATUS: Senate Judiciary Committee.
SB 228 (Jones-25th) Extends the statute of limitations for civil actions for childhood sexual abuse from 2 to 4 years and limits the age of the plaintiff at 55 years old. STATUS: Senate Judiciary Committee.
HR 345 (Holly-111th) A constitutional amendment allowing persons 17 years of age and older to vote in elections in this state. STATUS: House Governmental Affairs Committee.
Post-Crossover Day
This past Thursday was CROSSOVER DAY (the last day when a bill can pass out of its originating chamber and still be viable for full passage this year). A lot of good stuff made it across! So put your seatbelt on, warm up your email and get ready to thank some hard working sponsors.
Contact as many of the Senators and Representatives (listed below) as you’d like and thank them for their hard work in getting their bills passed out of the first chamber and onto the second one.
The Why:
It takes quite a bit of hard work and determination to make good policy. The folks below have made it to the half-way point for their bills and still have a ways to go, but a thank you at this point can really mean a lot (and encourage them to keep going!).
Simply click the Senator or Representative’s name and jot a short thank you in the email that appears.
SB 222 (Re-)Creates the Georgia Council on Criminal Justice Reform.
Sen. Jesse Stone
HB 227 Expands the prohibitions on discrimination against victims of family violence to include victims of sexual assault.
Rep. Spencer Frye
HB 228 Raises the minimum marriage age to 17 and requires the other party to a marriage with a minor to be no more than 4 years older and requires the minor to have been emancipated.
Rep. Andy Welch
HB 234 Authorizes DFCS to provide care and supervision to children who are victims of human trafficking; raises the age from 16 to 18 for purposes of determining the offense of prostitution and codifies the process for identifying sex trafficking victims; and makes it easier to prosecute knowing owners of places where trafficking occurs.
Rep. Chuck Efstration
SB 158 Authorizes DFCS to provide care and supervision to children who are victims of human trafficking; raises the age from 16 to 17 for purposes of determining the offense of prostitution and codify the process for identifying sex trafficking victims; and makes it easier to prosecute owners of places where trafficking occurs.
Sen. Brian Strickland
HB 478 Removes children under 18 from the state child abuse registry; reforms parameters of due process for alleged offenders; and establishes a process for expungement of those on the registry.
Rep. Mandi Ballinger
SB 167 Allows a foster placement for a child to be deemed as the child’s fictive kin in determining such child’s permanency plan, if after 6 months and reasonable diligent search efforts conducted by DFCS, no relatives or fictive kin have been located. If such child is 11, the judge smust consider the desires of the child. If a child has been in a stable foster placement for 12 months or more, a presumption shall exist that remaining in that placement is in the child’s best interests.
Sen. Matt Brass
SB 225 (Walker-20th) Brings Georgia law into conformity with the federal Social Security Act and the Family First Prevention Services Act. (See our factsheet on the Act by clicking here!)
Sen. Larry Walker III
HB 26 The “Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact” authorizes the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists to allow psychologists who are licensed in other compact-participating states and who meet certain criteria to practice in Georgia via telepsychology and temporary practice (defined as 30 days per calendar year).
Rep. Dave Belton
HB 83 (Douglas-78th) Requires schools to provide 30 minutes of recess daily for grades K-5. Recess would not be required on any day on which a student has had physical education or structured activity time.
Rep. Demetrius Douglas
HB 290 Establishes a pilot program to provide pre-exposure prophylaxis drug assistance or services to persons at risk of being infected with HIV.
Rep. Sharon Cooper
HB 345 Prohibits pregnant, in labor or postpartum inmates from being required to squat or cough during a strip search during the second or third trimester of pregnancy or being required to undergo any vaginal examination unless performed by a licensed health care professional. The bill also prevents such inmates from being restrained with handcuffs, waist shackles, leg irons, etc. unless she appears to be an immediate threat of harm to herself or others or a substantial flight risk.
HB 514 Creates the Georgia Mental Health Reform and Innovation Commission and initial subcommittees (Children and Adolescent Mental Health; Involuntary Commitment; Hospital and Short-Term Care Facilities; Mental Health Courts and Corrections; and Workforce and System Development).
Rep. Kevin Tanner
SB 48 Requires all -kindergarten students to be screened for dyslexia and refer students in grades 1st-3rd for screening to have been identified as having characteristics of dyslexia and requires the department to collaborate with the Professional Standards Commission to improve and update professional development for teachers specifically relating to dyslexia.
Sen. P.K. Martin, IV
HB 218 Extends the window to access the HOPE scholarship from 7 to 10 years and states that active military duty shall not count against that window.
Rep. Rick Williams
HB 530 Requires the Georgia Department of Education provide a copy of a parent or guardian’s declaration of intent to utilize a home study program for their student to the local school systems in which the home study programs are located, and should a child stop attending public school for 45 days without submitting such a declaration to GADOE, the school shall refer the matter to the Division of Family and Children Services to conduct an assessment to determine whether the withdrawal was to avoid educating the child. If a parent/guardian can present a copy of a filed declaration, the Division shall immediately terminate the assessment.
Rep. Bill Hitchens
SB 67 Allows drawdown of K-12 capital outlay funding to complete restoration of fire or disaster damaged school buildings.
Sen. Dean Burke
HB 197 Establishes the establishment of the Strategic Integrated Data System (SIDS) under the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget, which would facilitate interagency data sharing.
Rep. Katie Dempsey
HB 346 (Cooper-43rd) Protects tenants from retaliation by landlords for certain actions and protects landlords from such tenant actions when the tenant’s intent is vindictive.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line207
|
__label__wiki
| 0.709595
| 0.709595
|
haystack@weapons.systems
Haystack News
Muth to Speak at M+DEV
26 OctMuth to Speak at M+DEV
Written by haystack weapons systems
Categorised Uncategorized
Our CEO, Karl T. Muth, is set to speak at M+DEV in Madison, WI.
In addition to being CEO of Haystack WS, Karl is an investor in early-stage companies and a partner in multiple venture capital vehicles. This Friday, he’ll be speaking on a panel about his investments in the videogame space, where he’s acted as an angel investor and early-stage VC and helped bring independent videogames to market.
Q: What does gaming have to do with your other areas of tech investment?
Muth: While gaming isn’t per se related to search (or machine learning or pattern recognition), all of these things touch on how we interact with machines. In the future, it’s almost certain that people will interact with computers in ways that are simpler than today. Simplicity and transparency will be how interfaces are judged; that’s why the scene with Tom Cruise in Minority Report was so powerful when that film came out – it cut through everyone’s perceptions of how clunky it had to be to deal with media clips and other assets.
Q: Simpler in what way?
Muth: If we think about reality as the ultimate user interface, we see the flaws in what’s out there in terms of technology. How much easier is it to compose a sentence in your head versus composing a text message or composing an email? It’s getting easier, with good speech recognition and other technologies, but we have a long way to go. I think videogames are a great way to see what works and what doesn’t in the layer between the user and the machine, and between simulated realities and the real-world reality of a person holding a controller or mouse.
Q: What excites you most in this area of technology?
Muth: I love understanding why counterintuitive interface ideas work. In some games, the game pauses when you look at your inventory or search for an item, like in Hitman. In other games, the world keeps moving while you rummage through your backpack looking for the item you need. In real life, we wish the former were how things worked, but we accept that the latter is how things work. These subtle questions about how complex concepts like time, risk, distance, economics, and rules are dealt with teach us a lot about what users will accept in an interface.
Interested to hear more of Karl’s comments? Attend M+DEV this Friday.
A Madison Game Development Conference
Stepping Aside, But Not Away
Advances and Advisors
Happy Holidays from Haystack!
Gaming as UI
Site and content are © 2018 Haystack WS, Inc. - Privacy Policy
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line211
|
__label__cc
| 0.71974
| 0.28026
|
Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center - Health Library
Symptom CheckerQuick Nav
(Alzheimer Dementia)
by Rosalyn Carson-DeWitt, MD
More InDepth Information on This Condition
Alzheimer disease is a disorder of the brain. It leads to a loss of the ability to think, reason, and remember. It worsens over time and will lead to severe impairment. Alzheimer dementia is when the disorder has made it impossible for people to care for themselves.
Areas of the Brain Affected by Alzheimer Disease
For reasons that are not yet clear, brain cells stop working well and begin to die. It may be due to a complex mix of genes, environment, and overall health. Two known factors that play a role include:
Plaques—protein called beta amyloid builds up between nerve cells
Neurofibrillary tangles—twisted fibers of a protein called tau fibers inside nerve cells
These changes often begin in areas of the brain that store memory. This damage may start several years before the first symptoms appear.
There are a number of factors that my increase your risk for Alzheimer . Some factors cannot be changed such as:
Age—more common in people over 65 years of age
Genetics—especially presence of APOE-e4 protein
Medical or health conditions that can increase your risk include:
Previous serious head injury
Elevated levels of homocysteine
Conditions of heart and blood vessels including:
Down syndrome (or down syndrome in parent, sibling, or offspring)
Lifestyle factors that may increase risk include:
Lower level of education
General symptoms include a gradual decline in :
Ability to find right words
Visual and spatial skills
Reasoning or judgement
There are no signs in the earliest stages. At this point there are changes in the brain but not enough to cause signs or symptoms. The speed of progression will vary from person to person but can happen over several years.
Mild Disease (also called early-stage) signs include:
Repeating yourself or losing things
Trouble with more complex tasks like finances
Personality changes, mood swings, increased anxiety
Basic care tasks start to become more challenging, take longer to do
Getting lost even when going to familiar areas
Moderate disease signs include:
Difficulty with logic and organization
Trouble doing care steps like getting dressed
May not recognize family and friends
Inappropriate behavior, outbursts, agitation, and anxiety
Difficulty walking, moving with shuffle
Need for regular supervision and care
Severe disease (late-stage) signs may include:
Increased loss of physical abilities
No longer able to communicate
Loss of bowel and bladder control
There are no tests to confirm Alzheimer. Instead, your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. Tests will help to rule out other issues that can cause dementia. These may include:
Tests of cognitive process—can be done with verbal tests in office
Examination of nervous system
Lumbar puncture to test the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord
The doctor may need images of the brain. It will show how much damage has occurred. This can be done with:
PET/CT scan
There is no cure for Alzheimer disease. The goal of most care is support and safety. Options include:
Manage Symptom and Disease Progression
Medicine may help to slow the disease progress in some. Options that may reduce the symptoms of Alzheimer disease include:
Cholinesterase inhibitors—for mild-to-moderate Alzheimer disease
N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist—for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer disease
Certain steps and changes may help to improve the quality of life. Options will depend on individual needs but may include:
Memory aids like notes or tools like pillboxes (may be helpful in early stages)
Developing support system for home tasks such as cooking, cleaning, or transportation
Finding reliable people to manage financial and legal matters
Creating a calm, quiet, predictable environment
Technical devices like door alarms or emergency assistance tools
Learning techniques to help reduce frustration
Encouraging family and close friends to visit frequently
Psychiatric Medication
Mental health issues are common. They can have a large impact on quality of life. Medicine may help to manage mental health problems such as:
People with Alzheimer will need care all day and night. It can be a very difficult task for the caregiver. They will need support, rest, and regular breaks. Some steps that may help include:
Develop a network of family and friends for help. Even basic steps like groceries.
Ask medical team for local support options.
Seek out medical services for extra support. This can include overnight care.
Look for support groups online or in person. They may provide more options.
There are no known ways to prevent Alzheimer disease. However, the following factors may reduce your risk of Alzheimer disease:
Healthful diet that includes fish (examples DASH or Mediterranean diet)
Regular physical activity
Continued learning or mental stimulation through life
Strong social connections
Decrease risk of head trauma:
Use seat belt
Wear helmet
http://www.alz.org
http://www.nia.nih.gov
Alzheimer Society Canada
http://www.alzheimer.ca
Albanese E, Dangour AD, Uauy R, et al. Dietary fish and meat intake and dementia in Latin America, China, and India: A 10/66 Dementia Research Group population-based study. Am J Clin Nutr. 2009;90(2):392-400.
Alzheimer dementia. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at:http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114193/Alzheimer-dementia. Updated August 21, 2017. Accessed October 2, 2017.
Treatment of Alzheimer's disease. National Institute on Aging website. Available at: http://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/publication/alzheimers-disease-medications-fact-sheet. Accessed October 2, 2017.
Anstey KJ, Mack HA, Cherbuin N. Alcohol consumption as a risk factor for dementia and cognitive decline: Meta-analysis of prospective studies. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2009;17(7):542-555.
Carillo MC, Blackwell A, Hampel H, et al. Early risk assessment for Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement. 2009;5(2):182-196.
Deweerdt S. Prevention: Activity is the best medicine. Nature. 2011;475(7355):S16-S17.
Gidoni R, Benussi L, Paterlini A, Albertini V, Binetti G, Emanuele E. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease: The present and the future. Neurodegen Dis. 2011;8(6):413-420.
Green RC, Cupples LA, Go R, et al. Risk of dementia among white and African-American relatives of patients with Alzheimer disease. JAMA. 2002;287(3):329-336.
Hampel H, Frank R, Broich K, et al. Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease: Academic, industry, and regulatory perspectives. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2010;9(7):560-574.
Hayden KM, Welsh-Bohmer KA. Epidemiology of cognitive aging and Alzheimer’s disease: Contributions of the Cache County Utah study of memory, health, and aging. Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 2012;10:3-31.
Neugroschl J, Sano M. An update on treatment and prevention strategies for Alzheimer’s disease. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2009;9(5):368-376.
Ruitenberg A, van Swieten JC, Wittemen JC, et al. Alcohol consumption and risk of dementia: The Rotterdam Study. Lancet. 2002;359(9303):281-286.
1/8/2010 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance. Available at:http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114193/Alzheimer-dementia: Snitz BE, O'Meara ES, et al. Ginkgo biloba for preventing cognitive decline in older adults: A randomized trial. JAMA. 2009;302(24):2663-2670.
5/4/2012 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance. Available at:http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114193/Alzheimer-dementia: Buchman AS, Boyle PA, et al. Total daily physical activity and the risk of AD and cognitive decline in older adults. Neurology. 2012;78(17):1323-1329.
9/3/2014 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance. Available at:http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114193/Alzheimer-dementia: Wippold FJ, Brown DC, Broderick DF, et al. American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria for dementia and movement disorders. Available at: http://www.acr.org/~/media/ACR/Documents/AppCriteria/Diagnostic/DementiaAndMovementDisorders.pdf. Updated 2014. Accessed September 3, 2014.
10/17/2016 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance. Available at:http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114193/Alzheimer-dementia: Arvanitakis Z, Capuano AW, et al. Relation of cerebral vessel disease to Alzheimer's disease dementia and cognitive function in elderly people: a cross-sectional study. Lancet Neurol. 2016 Aug;15(9):934-943.
Last reviewed September 2018 by EBSCO Medical Review Board Rimas Lukas, MD Last Updated: 5/7/2018
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line214
|
__label__wiki
| 0.811927
| 0.811927
|
S & S Dairy, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
S & S Quarries Inc, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
S & T Automotive, Mountain View MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
S & W Wood Products, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
S M C Construction, Mountain View MO, $175 - $200 (retirement of 1994 funds)
S P Gas Co, Alton MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
S, L & S F, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Saddleco Inc, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Safranek, Scott, Caulfield MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sahara Motel, Cabool MO, $300 - $325 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Salem, Electronics In, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Salerno, Cecelia, Willow Springs MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Salisbury, Catherine, Eminence MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sammons, Christina G, Brixey MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Samples, Gerald & Helen, Alton MO, $200 - $225 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sampson, Becky, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sandberg, Julie, Mountain Grove MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Allen, Couch MO, $150 - $175 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Amber, Myrtle MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Debbie, Eminence MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Don, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Donald, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Gaylon E, Pomona MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, George, Pomona MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Jeanette, Birch Tree MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Jim & Nerissa, West Plains MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Jimmie, Dora MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Joseph & Rhond, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Joseph & Rhond, Myrtle MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Lawrence & M, Dora MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Lowell, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Mildred, Thayer MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Minnie, Couch MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1991-1992 funds)
Sanders, Shelia, Caulfield MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Thelma, Eminence MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Thirl & Ruby, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Troy, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Ulmo W, Bakersfield MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Venita V, Birch Tree MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Vesta, Alton MO, $175 - $200 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, W N & Ruth, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Wayne, Willow Springs MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Wayne, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanders, Willie, Moody MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanderson, Harry, Birch Tree MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sandridge, Bill, Thayer MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sandridge, George R, Couch MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sandridge, Hershel, Thayer MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sandridge, John & Melyn, Thayer MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sandy, Jeff & Claudia, Caulfield MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Saner, Randy & Patti, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanford, Jack & Rebecca, Cabool MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sanger, Leroy & Jacquel, Udall MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sansouci, Wayne & P, Winona MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sarka, Manatosh, Willow Springs MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sartor, Loyd, Mountain Grove MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sarvaunt, Amos L, Vanzant MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sass Bonnie, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sass, Oren K & Nora B, West Plains MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Saunders, Ralph, Dora MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sawyer, Robert, Florence OR, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scaggs, Johnie & Nancy, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scaggs, Lee & Sherry, West Plains MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scalley, Mark, Koshkonong MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schaffer, Daniel B, Mountain View MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schaffer, Stephen & Cat, West Plains MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schanaman, Richard, Willow Springs MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scharm, Kathy, Winona MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scharpf, Thos C & Irene, Mountain View MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schaumberg, Don, MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schell, Shelly K, Alton MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scherffius, Gina, Dittmer MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schiefer, Chas & Opal, River Grove IL, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schierling, Russell S, Mountain View MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schindler, David & Rhon, West Plains MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schlernitzauer, Frank, Indian Mound TN, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schlesselman, Irvin & F, Homer Glen IL, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schleuning, Mary, Mountain View MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schmitt, Jacob, Moody MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schneider, Darlene, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schnur, Leroy H & Clara, Irvington IL, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schober, Richard, Mountain Grove MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schoeber, Richard, Mountain Grove MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schoenhofen, Ed & Kim, West Plains MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schopp, Bert F & Fay, Dora MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schrader, Kennet, Pottersville MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schramm, William & Margaret, Bismarck MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schroeder, Herbert, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schrogham, Mark, Mountain View AR, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schubert, Frank & Pam, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schubert, Marlyn R, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schuler, Aaron & Diana, Caulfield MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schuler, Klinton, MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schuler, Klinton & Chri, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schuler, Monroe & Tammy, West Plains MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schuler, Raymond & Angel, Moody MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schuler, Raymond & Tamm, Pomona MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schulte, Ric & Tamela, Mountain View MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schultz, Carl E & Alice, Smithville MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schulz, Kenny (Jr) & Jan, Mountain View MO, $150 - $175 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schuster, Bonnie L, Thayer MO, $150 - $175 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schuster, Roxanne, Pomona MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schuth, Melville W, Naperville IL, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schutz, Lenard, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schwartz, Larry, Southern Pines NC, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schweiger, Dennis & Mar, West Plains MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schweighauser, Denver, Summersville MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schweighauser, Donna, Birch Tree MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schweighauser, Sarah, Mountain View MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schwein, Elmer & Alice, Mountain View MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schwien, James & Lavonn, Mountain View MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schwien, Jas & Lavonne, Mountain View MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Schwingler, Duane & Hea, Metropolis IL, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sconce, Johny & Wa, MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scott, Betty J, San Antonio TX, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scott, Chester & Thelma, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scott, Dewayne & T, MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scott, Dewayne R, Pomona MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scott, Evelyn L, Birch Tree MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scott, Mary Lou, Birch Tree MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scott, Michael & R, MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scott, Monty, Willow Springs MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scott, Paul W & Carol, Winona MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scott, Randolph, Kansas City KS, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scott, Rebecca, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scoville, John C, Eminence MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scribner, E M, Zanoni MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scrivner, Charles E, Pottersville MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scrivner, Margaret, Caulfield MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scudder, Charles R, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scudder, James, West Plains MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scudder, James & April, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Scudder, James A, West Plains MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seaman, Archie, Eminence MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seaman, John P & Shirl, Clarkridge AR, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Searcy, Bennie, Mountain Grove MO, $200 - $225 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seats, Anthony Ray & C, Nixa MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seats, Zella, Nixa MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seay, James D & Diana, Birch Tree MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sechrest, Jackie W, Birch Tree MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sechrest, Melanie, Birch Tree MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sechrest, Ricky & R M, Birch Tree MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Secrease, Harold, Conway AR, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Secrease, Neal, Newburgh IN, $175 - $200 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seeley, Lorraine L, Willow Springs MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seeley, Maureen, Woodbridge VA, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seeley, Mike & Serena, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seib, Jim, Birch Tree MO, $175 - $200 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seidel, Kenneth & Jean, Willow Springs MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seifert, David, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seiss, Doris, Alton MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seiss, Eugene, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Selby, Dallas & Barb, Pomona MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Selby, Dallas & Barbara, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Selby, Rose, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seley, Al G, Birch Tree MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seley, Al G & Imogene, Birch Tree MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seley, Jimmy, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Self, Jennie, Doniphan MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sell, Leonard & Shadow, Birch Tree MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sell, Sue, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sellars, Lorene, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sells, Earl & Corinne, Pomona MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sells, Earl & Corinne, Wichita KS, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Semmler, Ralph, Omaha NE, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Senften, Howard H & H, Lake Sherwood MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Senn, Joe, Thayer MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Senora, Steel, Koshkonong MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Senora, Steel, Koshkonong MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Senora, Steel St Lgts, Koshkonong MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Senora, Steele, Koshkonong MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Servison, E F, Mountain View MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Setzer, Dianna, Couch MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seven Springs L T D, Mountain Grove MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Severson, Lawrence R, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Seward, John & Miriam, Washington MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sewell, Edith R, West Plains MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sewell, Kevin, MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sexton's Midway Cafe, Thayer MO, over $500 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sexton, Billy, West Plains MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sexton, Mike & Connie, West Plains MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sexton, Teresa E, West Plains MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sexton, W J & Barbara, Caulfield MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shackleton, Marc & Ange, Alton MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shady, Lane Cabins, Eminence MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shaffer, C W, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shahan, Chuck & Dianne, Pottersville MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shanafelt, Ronald & Rob, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shanks, Classie J, Springfield MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shanks, Walter & Kristi, Willow Springs MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shannon Co Abstract, Winona MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shannon Co Saddle Club, Birch Tree MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shannon County Ascs, Salem MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shannon County Ascs, Salem MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shannon's, Trails End, Birch Tree MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shannon, April, Drury MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shannon, Chloe, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shannon, David, Drury MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shannon, Douglas M, Mountain View MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sharp, Donald & Lois, Myrtle MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sharp, Gilbert A, Topeka KS, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sharp, Lester & Sue, Mountain View MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sharp, Lona E & Ted T, West Plains MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sharp, Winston & Betty, Willow Springs MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shaver, Hal & Chris, Eminence MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shaver, Robert, Pomona MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shaw, Blaine, Zanoni MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shaw, Blaine & Tina, Zanoni MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shaw, Chestr L & Velma, Mountain Grove MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shaw, Dale & Jo Ann, Willow Springs MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shaw, Dale L & Jo Ann, Willow Springs MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shaw, Jerry M, Mountain Grove MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shaw, John D & Myrtle, Norfork AR, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shaw, Meril & Kay, Rolla MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shaw, Randall D & Bea, Drury MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shaw, Willard L, Tecumseh MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sheaffer, Robert W & A, Tecumseh MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shearin, Carolyn, MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shedd, Elenora, Eminence MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sheeks Land & Cattle, Cabool MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sheeks Land & Cattle, Cabool MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sheets, Sylvia, Koshkonong MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shelton, Edith, Willow Springs MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shelton, Eve A, Koshkonong MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shelton, Irene, Norwood MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shelton, Leonard, Mountain Grove MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shelton, Lois, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shelton, Louzzetta A, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shelton, Sam, Caulfield MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shepard, Frances, Thayer MO, $225 - $250 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shepard, Samuel M & E, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shephard, Teri, West Plains MO, $150 - $175 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shepherd, C E & Ella, Fremont MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shepherd, Lois, Birch Tree MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sheppard, Findley & Pan, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sherbon, Lucille, Willow Springs MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sherer, Frank S, Mountain Grove MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sherrell, Irene, Eminence MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sherwin, Raymond B & F, Birch Tree MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sherwood, Wilbur D & N, Centerview MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shields, Charlie & Pal, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shilvock, John, Crystal Lake IL, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shimashus, John, Alton MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shipley, Noel & Betty, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shipley, Scott, Birch Tree MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shipton, Gene, Eminence MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shipton, Gene & Melba, Eminence MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shipton, Russell, Winona MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shiverdeck, Laura, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shock, Jerry & Matty, Thayer MO, $225 - $250 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shockley, C E & Leona, Eminence MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shockley, Wilbert & M, Eminence MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shoemake, Steven M, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shoemaker, Jon & Cher, Mountain View MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shoffner, Carl & Rebeck, Winona MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sholtes, Ernest, Beaver WA, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shook, Billy M & Louise, Udall MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shore, James W & Dor, West Plains MO, $175 - $200 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shores, Helen J, Cabool MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shores, Helen J, Gainesville MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Short, Tom & Heidi, Bakersfield MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shoults, Doyl & Sylvia, Bend OR, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shoults, Woodroe & Ruby, Eminence MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shoup, Russell & Lucile, Mountain View MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shrable, Artie, Bakersfield MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shrable, Kevin & Triene, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shuler, James R, Lake Placid FL, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Shuman, Robt E & Jackln, Amarillo TX, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sickmeier, Jim & Marilyn, Mountain View MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sickmiller, Richa (Iii), West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Siegfried, Dennis & C, Willow Springs MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Siegrist, Jason, Springfield MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Siegrist, Jason, Pomona MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sifford, Frank, Alton MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sifford, Ralph & Davie, Alton MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sifford, Robt & Allie, Valparaiso IN, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sigler, Arno & Cathrin, Bakersfield MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sigler, Harley & Alta, Bakersfield MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sigler, Woodrow & Este, Caulfield MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sigman, John & Janet, Willow Springs MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sigman, Robt & Arlene, West Plains MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sigrist, Charlie F & Mary, Winona MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simandl, Jerry A (Jr), Pomona MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simmons, James & Bev, Alton MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simmons, Kenneth & Nat, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simmons, Marcus & Anto, Willow Springs MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simmons, Milton & Thelma, Alton MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simmons, Rita, Alton MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simon, Andrew & Josephn, Willow Springs MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simon, Clair G & Freda, Willow Springs MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simon, Leland & Carol, Willow Springs MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simon, Leonard A, Willow Springs MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simon, Margaret A, Caulfield MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simon, Paul & Mary, Winona MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simoneau, Patricia, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpkins, Stephen & Jen, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Anthony & Lind, Alton MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Bennie & Vivia, Doniphan MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Dorothy, Alton MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Ed, Alton MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Eddie J, Fremont MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Eric, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Eric & Judy, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Frank, Winona MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Garry L, Alton MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, H E & Laura, Mountain Grove MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Herbert & Lois, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Herbert & Lois, Alton MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Jessie, Granite City IL, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Lois, Mountain Grove MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Morgan & Lorri, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Nelson, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Richard, Alton MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Robert, Tecumseh MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Ruth, Alton MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Thelma, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Thomas E, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Thomas E, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Wanda, Mountain Grove MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Wellie & Phyll, West Plains MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Simpson, Wesley, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sims, Michael J, Mountain Grove MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sims, Roy, Mammoth Spring AR, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sims, Roy & Lillian, Mammoth Spring AR, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sims, Roy D & Caroline, Thayer MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Singleton, Darrold E, Mountain View MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Singleton, David, Peace Valley MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Singleton, David R, Peace Valley MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Singleton, Leon, Mountain Grove MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sinnard, Sarah, Alton MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sinor, Wilford & Maralyn, Theodosia MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sisco, Boone, Alton MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sisco, Charlotte, Couch MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sisco, Dale, Alton MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sisco, Eugene, Alton MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sisco, Frieda, Thayer MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sisco, Herman, Alton MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sisco, J B & Mary, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sisco, Jettie, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sisco, Johnny E, Alton MO, less than $1 (retirement of 1947-1988 funds)
Sisco, Marideth, Pomona MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sisco, Robert & Kathern, Alton MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sisco, Ronnie L, Alton MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Skaggs, Calvin, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Skaggs, Clifford W & R, Pleasant Hope MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Skaggs, Jesse M, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Skaggs, Orvil E & Sara, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Skains, Linda A, Russellville AR, $225 - $250 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Skateway U S A, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Skidmore, William K, Mountain Home AR, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Skiver, Tom & Ellen, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Slaughter Farm, Thayer MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Slavings, James H & R, Caulfield MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sledge, Jack B, Sycamore MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Slider, Michael E, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sloan, Cecil J, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sloan, Edith, Thayer MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sloan, Lucian Neal, Thayer MO, less than $1 (retirement of 1947-1988 funds)
Sloan, Paul R, Winona MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smale, David C, Tecumseh MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Small Engine Special, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Small, Shannon, Mountain View MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smallwood, Jas J & Lois, Big Bear City CA, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith Flooring, MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Alvena, Montier MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Anna L, Fremont MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Beuford & L, Birch Tree MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Bill O & Joan, Mountain Grove MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Brandy, Thayer MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Brian K, Mountain Grove MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Bruce & Sybil, West Plains MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Carl A & Cynthia, Birch Tree MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Carol Ann, MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Cathy, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Charles & Deanna, Thayer MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Charles E, Dora MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Charlie & Delpha, Fremont MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Charlotte H, Valparaiso IN, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Chris, Caulfield MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Clarence E & W, Mountain View MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Claude, Mammoth Spring AR, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Dan, Springfield MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Darrell, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, David & Beverly, West Plains MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Deborah K, Eminence MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Debra, Pottersville MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Denice, Alton MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Denice, Couch MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Don E, Willow Springs MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Dorothy, Mountain View MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Dorothy, Birch Tree MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Dorothy C, Mountain View MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Doyle, Dora MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Edna, Thayer MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Elsie, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Eric, Alton MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Eric & Melissa, Alton MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Ermaline, West Plains MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Erman E & Annie, Hartville MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Estel & Ila R, Dora MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Eugene & Wilma, Eminence MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Frances, West Plains MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Francis & Elva, Vanzant MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Frank & Ether, Harrison AR, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Fred D & Hope, Sycamore MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Freddie, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Gary W & Carol, Eminence MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Harvey & Margare, Caulfield MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Herbert, Gainesville MO, $275 - $300 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Herbert R, Overland MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Howard (Jr) & Eliz, Eminence MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Howard R (Jr), Eminence MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Hugh, Alton MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, J J & Elsie, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Jack W & Tammy, West Plains MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, James & Diana, Mountain View MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, James H, Thayer MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Jeff, Dora MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Jerry & Barbara, Willow Springs MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Jerry E & Barb, Willow Springs MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Jerry W & Bev, Willow Springs MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Jimmy F, Salem AR, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Jink & Lueanna, Eminence MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Joe W & Fern, West Plains MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1989-1990 funds)
Smith, Johnny & Betty, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Jon & Cathy, Mountain View MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Jon D, Mountain View MO, $175 - $200 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Joseph N, Zanoni MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Kerry, Alton MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Kevin & Debby, Alton MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Lajunia, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Lee, Thayer MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Leland & Lottie, Birch Tree MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Lyman & Darlene, Springfield MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Mark W & Angela, Mountain View MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Mary Colleen, Alton MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Mary E, Birch Tree MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Matthew & Terry, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Melissa A, Thayer MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Melva, Caulfield MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Norman C & Dorthy, Peace Valley MO, less than $1 (retirement of 1989-1990 funds)
Smith, Orvil R, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Pat, Vanzant MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Patricia L, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Pearl, Thayer MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, R H, Pomona MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Ralph, Peace Valley MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Ralph E, Tecumseh MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Randy P, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Randy W & Tammy, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Raymond J, Myrtle MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Rebecca, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Richard, West Plains MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Richard E, Sand Springs OK, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Rick & Laura, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Robert, Caulfield MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Robert & Myrna, Caulfield MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Robert E & Sheil, Thayer MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Robert V, West Plains MO, over $500 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Robert V (Jr), Caulfield MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Roberta M, Mountain View MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Roger & Lorie, Pomona MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Rollin M, West Plains MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Ronald E & Janic, Bakersfield MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Ronald R & Sue, Pomona MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Rosie R, Myrtle MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Rozella, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Ruby M, Winona MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Shelby, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Shelby & Lillian, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Stan & Lesa, West Plains MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Stanley W, Pomona MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Starla & Darin, Gainesville MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Steven, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Steven & Rebecca, Warrensburg MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Steven H, Thayer MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Steven W, Pomona MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Tammy, West Plains MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Tige, Willow Springs MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Todd & Cindy, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Tollie L, Holiday Island AR, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Verly & Charlot, Willow Springs MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Vernon & Gail, Willow Springs MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Victoria, Alton MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Victoria, Birch Tree MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Virginia, Alton MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Wade E, Glendale AZ, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, William & Joyce, Summersville MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Wm & Deborah, Willow Springs MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smith, Youman, Alton MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smoot, Ronald, Thayer MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Annette K, Pomona MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Annette K, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Bob, Birch Tree MO, less than $1 (retirement of 1993 funds)
Smotherman, Bren, MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Ches, MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Dale R, Mountain View MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Gene, Birch Tree MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, James, Thayer MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Joseph, Mountain View MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Josephine, Mountain View MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Lisa, Eminence MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Mark & Carr, Montier MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Mary Jane, Birch Tree MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Raymnd (Jr), Birch Tree MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Richard, Birch Tree MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Richard D, Birch Tree MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Shelly, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Thelma, Thayer MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smotherman, Thomas B, Birch Tree MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smothers, Greg & Nita, O Fallon MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Smyth, Mike & Darlene, Willow Springs MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Snavely, Floyd & Ruby, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Snell, Timothy & De Ann, Birch Tree MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Snell, Timothy J, Birch Tree MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Snethern, Mary Ellen, West Plains MO, $150 - $175 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Snethern, Melvin & Eliz, Koshkonong MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Snethern, Randall & D, West Plains MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Snider, Jane B, Mountain View MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Snider, Lloyd H, Dora MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Snodgrass, Lillian, Gatewood MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Snodgrass, Reuben W, Saint Louis MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Snow, James (Jr) & C, MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Snowberger, John & Y, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Snowden, Summer A, Thayer MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Snyder, Alice, Ocklawaha FL, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
So Hills Mobile Home, West Plains MO, $200 - $225 (retirement of 1994 funds)
So Hills Realty, Drury MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Soha, Andrew & Nellie, Willow Springs MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Solomon, Pamela S, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sons, Ballard (Jr) & Jane, Berwick LA, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sorrell Egg Farm, Thayer MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sorrell, A L, Thayer MO, $300 - $325 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sorrell, Garry & Betty, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Southards, Luther & V, Tecumseh MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Southerland, Amber L, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Southern Mo Raceway, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Southern Outdoor Ad, Jonesboro AR, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Southern, Ruth, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Southworth, Dale E, West Plains MO, $175 - $200 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spaletto, James D, Alton MO, $150 - $175 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sparacino, Dominic & M, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sparkes, Archie J, Alton MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sparkman, Lillie, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sparks Farms, Memphis TN, over $500 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sparks, Ernest & Cora, Vanzant MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sparks, Lucille, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sparks, Luther, Mountain Grove MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sparks, R B, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sparks, Ray & Becky, Pomona MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sparks, Stella, Willow Springs MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sparks, Willard, Memphis TN, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spaulding, Earl & Shirley, Pomona MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spear, Wilmer E, Tecumseh MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spears, Homer & Sharron, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Specketer, Audria, Thayer MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spence, Ralph R & Alice, Mountain View MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spence, Thomas R, Mountain View MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spence, Wayne J, Green Bay WI, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spencer, Betty, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spencer, Beulah, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spencer, J W, Caulfield MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spencer, Myrna M, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spencer, Myrna Marlen, Alton MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spencer, Theresa M, West Plains MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spickler, Thomas & Elle, Birch Tree MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spillane, Thomas M, West Plains MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spilman, Wilma, Pomona MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spindler, C Steven, Winona MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spiropoulos, Ruth, Mountain View MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spooner, Maurice & Vern, Mountain View MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sportsman, Headquartr, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sprecker, Sheldon & R, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spreutels, Kenneth W, Centerton AR, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Springer, Edward A, West Plains MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Springer, Robert & Vict, Thayer MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Springfield, Don, Springfield MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sprous, Jessie, Thayer MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spurgeon, Roger F, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spurgeon, Will Ray, Eminence MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spurgin, Cathy J, Eminence MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spurgin, Cloa, Park Hills MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spurgin, Dennis, MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Spurlock, Mike, Salem AR, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Squire, Alfred & May, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Squires, Robt P & Char, West Plains MO, $150 - $175 (retirement of 1994 funds)
St Francis Farm, West Plains MO, $275 - $300 (retirement of 1994 funds)
St Francis Farm, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
St, John's Ambulance, Mountain View MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
St, Louis San Fran, Thayer MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stacel, Nancy, Moody MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stacy, J L, Granite City IL, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stacy, Maudie, Willow Springs MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stafford, Darla, Mountain View MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stafford, Jerry & Barb, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stafford, Laura J, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stagner, Leroy & Carol, Eminence MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stairs, Donald, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stairs, Jerry C, Shelby OH, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stairs, Paul-Bud- & M, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Staley, Alice, Thayer MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Staley, Alice, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Staley, R L & Mildred, Dittmer MO, $150 - $175 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stallsworth, Nancy, Mountain View MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stamper, Dennis & Debbi, Fort Leonard Wood MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Standley, Gail, Thayer MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Standley, Glen L, Senath MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stanfill, Justin & Tamm, Birch Tree MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stankiewicz, Cha, MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stankiewicz, Sta, MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stanley, Clarence, Mountain View MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stanley, Jessica, MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stanley. Bt-Iga, Dale, Birch Tree MO, over $500 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Staples, Barbara, Eminence MO, $150 - $175 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Staples, Danny & B, MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Staples, Danny & Barbar, Eminence MO, $200 - $225 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Staples, Richard, Eminence MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Staples, Robert, Eminence MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stark, Angela, Birch Tree MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stark, Barb, Birch Tree MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stark, Barbie, Birch Tree MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stark, Chester & Grace, Birch Tree MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stark, Don & Nancy, Vanzant MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stark, Don & Nancy, Montier MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stark, Rex & Tracy, West Plains MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stark, Susan, Birch Tree MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Starks, Billy & Pat, Poplar Bluff MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Starks, Billy D & Pat, Birch Tree MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Starkweather, Lee, Willow Springs MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Starnes, Darcell, Couch MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stateline Commun Inc, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stateline, Commu, MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Staudt, Merrill & Della, West Plains MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Staudt, Merrill J & S, West Plains MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stauffer, Robt J & Lin, Alton MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stauffer, Terrance, Alton MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stcin, James H, Koshkonong MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Steakle, Geo & Bethel, Alton MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stearns, Bessie, Eminence MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Steed, Jerry, Winona MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Steed, Ruby, Mammoth Spring AR, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Steed, Sandy, Winona MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Steele, Gene & Bernice, Thayer MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Steele, Gene & Bernice, Koshkonong MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Steele, Wm F & Ella, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stein, Mike J, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stemper, Raymond, Mountain View MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stemper, Shank, Mountain View MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stenger, John L & Helen, Tecumseh MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens Mini Storag, Caulfield MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens, Anna, Birch Tree MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens, Bill, Birch Tree MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens, Bill & Brenda, Birch Tree MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens, Bob & Dorothy, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens, Cecil & Va, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens, Dorothy J, Mountain View MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens, Emma W, Mountain View MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens, Gary, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens, Gary & Deb, Caulfield MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens, Leland, West Plains MO, less than $1 (retirement of 1989-1990 funds)
Stephens, Matt, West Plains MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens, Mike, MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens, Perry & Doris, Springfield MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens, Robert Dale, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens, Robt & Irene, Winona MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens, Tammy, West Plains MO, $200 - $225 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephens, Thomas, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephenson, Ida Mae, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephenson, Lawrenc & M, Brandsville MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stephenson, Martha G, Brandsville MO, $225 - $250 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stepp, Glen & Treasa, Moody MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stepp, Glenn & Treasa, Moody MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stepputat, Arthur V & L, Saint Louis MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sterling, Roland E & H, Mountain View MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stevens, David, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stevens, James & Genevi, Thayer MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stevens, Lonnie & Lilli, Thayer MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stevens, Randy, Mountain View MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stevens, Robt J & Lois, Mountain View MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stevens, Susan, MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stevens, Tony & Deania, Caulfield MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stevens, Virginia M, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stevens, Virginia Mae, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stevenson, Barry & C, Willow Springs MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stevenson, G W, West Plains MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stevenson, Geneice, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stevenson, Geniece, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stewart Auto Sales, Thayer MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stewart, Anne M, West Plains MO, $150 - $175 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stewart, Cary, West Plains MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stewart, Cliff & Mae Ol, Washington MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stewart, Clyde (Iii), West Plains MO, $150 - $175 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stewart, Clyde (Sr) & R, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stewart, Danner & Marg, Myrtle MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stewart, Danner J & Mar, Myrtle MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stewart, Edward, Mountain View MO, less than $1 (retirement of 1947-1988 funds)
Stewart, Edward E & Kay, Mountain View MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stewart, Jeanette, Mountain View MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stewart, Paula J, Eminence MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stewart, Robert B, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stewart, W S, Reyno AR, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stidman, Michael & Wand, Alton MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stidman, Michael K & W, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stiles, Eugene & Vicki, Rock Springs WY, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stillwell, Ada May, Warrenton MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stillwell, Gerald & Jul, Mountain Grove MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stillwell, Lloyd & Doro, Dora MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stillwell, Martin & C, Springfield MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stine, Joe, Springfield MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stiner, Ralph & Debbie, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stines, W A, Birch Tree MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stirber, Leonard & Eliz, West Plains MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stirewalt, Frances, Brandsville MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stirewalt, Lavada, Brandsville MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stits, John & Luella, Mountain View MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stocker, Carol J, Bakersfield MO, $175 - $200 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stockton, Ivan & Wanda, Pleasant Hope MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stockweather, Lee, Willow Springs MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stockwell, Eugene A & E, Clinton Twp MI, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stogsdill, Willie, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stokes, Fred, Tecumseh MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stokes, Richard, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stoll, Thomas C, Pomona MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stolz, William E & Cheri A, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stone Brothers Const, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stone, Billy & Dorothy, Koshkonong MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stone, Forrest W, Hunt Valley MD, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stone, Fred & Ca, MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stone, Fred L, West Plains MO, $175 - $200 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stone, Kenneth, Willow Springs MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stone, Peggy A, Birch Tree MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stone, Wayne B (Jr), Birch Tree MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stonestreet, Lynn H, Doniphan MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stoopes, Ted, Cabool MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stoops, Leland & Doroth, Mountain View MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Storms, Stacy, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Storr, Robert O, Portage WI, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Story, Bruce, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Story, H O & Lillian, Pottersville MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Story, Hillard, Pottersville MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Story, Hillard & Alma, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Story, James, Willow Springs MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Story, Jesse & Wanda, Willow Springs MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Story, Philip & Sherri, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Story, Randy Lee, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stout, Hugh & Gertie, Drury MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stout, Kay, West Plains MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stout, Pearl, Republic MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stout, S W, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stowers, Virgil & Lisa, Pomona MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stracener, Wm & Robyn, Thayer MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strain Feed Mill, Alton MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strain, B J & Nettie, Ridgedale MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strain, Danny & Patsy, Moody MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strain, Donald, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strain, Hila, Thayer MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strain, Jerry & Sue, Thayer MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strain, Kevin, Willow Springs MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strain, Nettie, Koshkonong MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strain, Noel & Marilyn, Myrtle MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strait Arrow Saddle, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strange, Jason, Peace Valley MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strasser, Daniel, Gatewood MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1991-1992 funds)
Strawn, Allen H M, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strawn, Jerry & Joy, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strazdas, Rodney, Birch Tree MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Street, Bill H, Mountain View MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Street, Glen & Brad, Colcord OK, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Street, Glen & Lorene, Thayer MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stricklin, Kenneth & Le, Willow Springs MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stringer, Clifford & W, Willow Springs MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stringer, Patricia, Willow Springs MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stringer, Sue, Birch Tree MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stringer, Sue, Eminence MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stringer, Susie, MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strock, Harold K & K, Caulfield MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strodtman, Jon & Kay, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strong, Harvey L, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strong, Kenneth L, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strong, Marion & Louise, Gainesville MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strong, Moscoe & Gene, Gainesville MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strong, W E, Walnut Grove MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strope, L M (Jr) & Gerda, Caulfield MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strosnider, Dave & Vic, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Strosnider, Wm B & Aud, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stroup, C W, Shelbyville IN, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stuart, Cynthia A, West Plains MO, $175 - $200 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stuart, Lillian, Mammoth Spring AR, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stuart, Lorna, Caulfield MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stubbert, Bernadette, Eminence MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stubblefield, Chalmer, Cairo GA, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stubblefield, Tom, Thayer MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stubbs, Bill & Ola, Cleveland MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stubbs, Dennis & Shar, West Plains MO, $150 - $175 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stubbs, Everett & Lelia, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stubbs, Willie, Alton MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stuck, Jane, Mammoth Spring AR, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stuckey, James, Mountain View MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stucky, Joan, Thayer MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stucky, Raymond & Joan, Thayer MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sturtevant, Scot & Kimb, Willow Springs MO, $175 - $200 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Stylos, Alex & Margaret, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sucharsky, Chester, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Suelter, Harold & Nyla, Greenfield MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sukel, Andrew & Carolyn, Fremont MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sullens, Leroy, Pomona MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sullivan, Betty, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sullivan, James & Merry, West Plains MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sullivan, John R & Cin, Pomona MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sullivan, Leland & Rita, Mountain View MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sullivan, Pete & Beverly, Elk Creek MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Summerfield, Glen (Jr), Thayer MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Summers, Byron & Tava, Granite City IL, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Summers, David, Thayer MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Summers, Edith, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Summers, Harry & Alice, Birch Tree MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Summers, J E, Pottersville MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Summers, James L & D, Myrtle MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Summers, Kathy, Myrtle MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Summers, Leslie L, Willow Springs MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Summers, Reba, West Plains MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1989-1990 funds)
Summers, Tony & Sandra, Willow Springs MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sunrise Egg Farm, Mountain View MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Surrite, Woodrow & Magi, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Surritte, Elbert, West Plains MO, $150 - $175 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Surritte, Faye, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Surritte, Jay, MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Surritte, Kimberly, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Surritte, Warren, Willow Springs MO, less than $1 (retirement of 1947-1988 funds)
Surritte, Warren & Sue, Willow Springs MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sutherland, Backhoe, West Plains MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sutherland, Kelly, Thayer MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sutherland, Terry L, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sutherland, Tommie, West Plains MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sutton, Ben & Vivian, Eminence MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sutton, Claudie, Pomona MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sutton, Euel L, Eminence MO, $125 - $150 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Swaney, Wm J & Barbara, High Ridge MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Swanson, Gene, Willow Springs MO, $175 - $200 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sweat, Joseph & Sandy, West Plains MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sweat, Sandy M, Dothan AL, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sweeney, Bernard I, Dearborn MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sweet, Agnes, Caulfield MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sweet, Daisy, Caulfield MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sweet, Ida Mae, Caulfield MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sweet, Kerry, Willow Springs MO, $25 - $50 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sweet, Thomas & Evelyn, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Sweeton Pond Comm Bl, Dora MO, less than $5 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Swetnam, Lucile, West Plains MO, $50 - $75 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Swift, Charles W, Alton MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Swift, David, Couch MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Swift, S L, Mountain View MO, $10 - $25 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Swiney, Jas B & Charlene, Eminence MO, $75 - $100 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Swiney, Roy, Eminence MO, $150 - $175 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Swink, Gordon, West Plains MO, $5 - $10 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Swinney, C G, Thayer MO, $200 - $225 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Szczerbachi, Robt S & J, Pomona MO, $100 - $125 (retirement of 1994 funds)
Szczerbacki, Bryant & T, Pomona MO, $175 - $200 (retirement of 1994 funds)
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line217
|
__label__cc
| 0.652996
| 0.347004
|
Women's discos and other events
Rent Boys
Hughie Green
AIDS crisis
AZT
Birmingham Police Forum for the gay community
Digbeth
Gay Youth Group
Growing Up Homosexual
Library Theatre
Neil Matthews
Rod Griffiths
Tow Rope
West Midlands Lesbian and Gay Switchboard
Wombourne 12
Women's Aid
revolutionary feminist
Events tagged with "religion"
'Coming Out' as a 'statement', whether personal or political, is a relatively recent phenomenon. Recognising and admitting one's own sexuality to one's self, is something every single one of us has done. The term 'coming out' is used retrospectively...
Memories tagged with "religion"
Being gay is a cultural taboo in BEM communities
When asked about this lack of confidence about their own identity on the part of the callers to Switchboard Mike said that he felt that life as a gay person in Birmingham was as positive as in any of the other big cities and certainly better than tha...
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line221
|
__label__cc
| 0.593469
| 0.406531
|
Geek Landon Torres
Facebook Twitter Google Plus Linkedin Instagram YouTube Pinterest Tumblr RSS Search
Tag: {curriculum vitae|resume|cv}
Step-by-step Prudent Systems For Vocation
November 28, 2016 ilov4wyq{curriculum vitae|resume|cv}Leave a comment
A vocation be the work that someone is called to do as a job. As Frederick Buechner puts it in a well-known passage from Wishful Thinking: A seekers AC, the place God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the worlds deep hunger meet. That intersecting point is your calling, your vocation. Hundreds of experienced advisers Search among hundreds of expert advisers: from advertising execs to travel writers and Wall Street traders to wine bar owners. In recent times there has been a revival of this vocation, by which a woman makes her private consecration in the presence of her bishop. Rather, the word means something you know how to do––or what you do for a living. It is love that prompts others to embrace the consecrated life or become priests.” Some religious priests serve in parishes, but the majority have more specialized apostolates, such as education, retreats, communications, etc. It keeps opening our eyes to new awareness of God’s loving presence. Visit our page for prayers and readings that the USC CB offers to assist you in the discernment process.
Others stated that there was an element of irresponsible conflict in scheduling an exam after the election in the first place. Learn MorePhoto: Bonnie Mendelson As students across the country became distraught following Donald Trumps victory in the presidential election, professors at Penn and other schools cancelled classes and postponed exams, leaving some conservative students and critics wondering: had Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson or Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won the 2016 presidential election, would Penn professors have cancelled scheduled classes and midterm exams? Although the choice to move or cancel class is largely the domain of individual professors, some of the decisions across the Ivy League to do so drew criticism from the public. An accommodation to a Nov. 9 midterm at Yale University received national coverage: an article on Fox News labeled students as, snowflakes and a piece on Reason.com said students were unprepared to cope with reality. During this process, Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein suggested faculty recognize the importance of understanding student needs as a result of the tumultuous election. I communicated with faculty and undergraduate deans to be sensitive to students at this moment, be flexible in considering students requests regarding assignments, and remind students of the resources available across campus to support them, she said in an email. Students of color told Penn President Amy Gutmann in a tearful, emotionally charged University Council meeting the day after the election how scared Trumps election made them feel. A vicious, racist series of GroupMe messages sent to black freshmen days later, from usernames with pseudonyms like Daddy Trump, roiled campus as well. In the aftermath of the racist attack, which was linked to students in Oklahoma, Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation organized a walkout from class on Nov. 17. However, other students and faculty were concerned with the accommodations and whether the same would have been done for students who would have felt disheartened had Clinton won.
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.thedp.com/article/2016/11/what-if-hillary-clinton-won-election
A vocation from Latin vocātiō, meaning “a call, summons” 1 is an occupation to which a person is specially drawn or for which she/he is suited, trained, or qualified. Augustine I used the Vocation Match finder after encouragement from my local priest. Those who belong to a religious order not only follow the evangelical counsels for themselves, but are accepted by the Church, more or less officially, to represent in religious society the practice of the rules of perfection; and to offer it to God as a part of public worship. Gregory the Great and another of St. We are bound to serve God always, and we know that, besides the acts commanded by Him, there are acts which He blesses without making them obligatory, and that among good acts there are some which are better than others. Ambrose, “De viduis”, xii, xiii P.L., XVI, 256, 259; St. This distinction between a call to holiness and a call to a specific vocation – single person, married life, consecrated life or ordained ministry – is important. It is love that prompts others to embrace the consecrated life or become priests.” testimonies Consecrated laywomen Sr Pamela Catherine easel Please click to rate this item: Unless you can find someone to pay you to sip fancy tropical drinks on the beach, your vocation is not likely to be a “holiday.” Lay consecrated are people who consecrate themselves to God through promises of poverty, chastity and obedience, while still remaining lay people.
Some Updated Guidelines For Crucial Factors In Career
November 28, 2016 ilov4wyq{interview|employment interview|job interview|occupation interview}{|s}Leave a comment
Whether.ou.re looking for employment today, or researching employment opportunities for tomorrow, Job.Dom is here to connect you with hot jobs from some of today’s best employers. All rights reserved. 6 Hidden Ways to Create Influence and Be Heard How to Nourish In-Office Learning There was a time in history when employees were at the mercy of their employer in terms of fringe benefits. Things have certainly changed; so much so that it is now employers who must fight to offer the greatest benefit packages in order to attain and retain the best and brightest employees. We offer insights on jobs, careers, entrepreneurial opportunities and on-line degrees and training . My career as a waitress lasted one day. Have the latest jobs in “Washburn, Virginia” delivered to your Inbox. See the poster Fraud Alert: Please be aware of scams involving phony job postings. Find in-depth profiles on hundreds of occupations, industries and academic programs . …if it’s about your career it’s here!
(AP) — Patrick Cole scored a career-high 32 points and also had 10 rebounds and eight assists to lead North Carolina Central over Northern Kentucky 82-74 on Saturday night. Dajuan Graf added 16 points and Pablo Rivas 11 for the Eagles (3-2), who shot 50.8 percent to win their third consecutive game. Drew McDonald scored 20 points and had 10 rebounds in posting his third double-double this season for the Norse (3-3). Lavone Holland II also scored 20 points. NC Central shot out to a 42-29 halftime lead behind 15 points from Cole. The Norse got as close as four in the second half and were within six, 77-71, before Graf hit a pair of free throws with 27 seconds left. Holland responded with a 3-pointer but Cole added a final free throw with 18 seconds remaining and Northern Kentucky’s Jalen Tate missed a 3-pointer at the other end. Reblog
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://sports.yahoo.com/news/cole-scores-career-high-32-nc-centrals-victory-022753895–ncaab.html
A.reat package in the early 20th century might include a steady pay check and the day off on Christmas. Enter your e-mail and tell us a bit about yourself, and we’ll keep you informed about upDoming events and opportunities that match your interests. What stops you from getting your dream job? Find in-depth profiles on hundreds of occupations, industries and academic programs . …if it’s about your career it’s here! Have your job ID ready before you check your application status. Are you just entering the job market? Known as one of the leading job portals in South Africa, Careers24 brings two groups of people together – the job seeker and the recruiter. Membership has benefits at Job.com! opened is a service that allows you to sign in to many websites using a single identity. interview
Once Americas most beloved TV dad, Cosby is now considered entertainment industry poison as he faces a Pennsylvania sex assault rap and a Massachusetts lawsuit from seven women who charge he drugged and molested them . PHOTOS:Bill Cosby Spotted At Court As Sexual Assault Case Begins But his lawyer Angela Agrusa revealed to RadarOnline.com that the 79-year-old creep thinks hell win his courtroom battles and expects to resume his career. Industry insiders are baffled by the claim, noting Cosby Show reruns have been yanked and concert appearances were cancelled. Hes out of his mind! one source told Radar. Hes been saying hes too weak and blind to identify his accusers but hell be healthy enough to work in TV or film? Thats not gonna fly with studio execs! PHOTOS: We Want To Seek Justice! Philly DA Vows To Reveal Truth About Cosby Sex Assault As Radar reported, nearly 50 women have accused Cosby of molesting them, but the statute of limitations has expired in most cases. We pay for juicy info! Do you have a story for RadarOnline.com? Email us at tips@radaronline.com, or call us at (866) ON-RADAR (667-2327) any time, day or night.
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/bill-cosby-hopes-he-can-resume-career/
Straightforward Advice On Crucial Issues Of Job Hunting
Travel.xpenses.. But after you pay, the job doesn’t materialize. You might also be asked questions looking for negative information . scampers know that finding a job can be tough. Don’t believe anyone who promises you a federal or postal job . You are here: Home » Work » Job Seekers Jobs.Co.gov is the premier source for all resources relating to employment in Missouri. “Give us an example of something particularly innovative that you have done that made a difference in the workplace.” This article lists examples of answers to the ten questions interviewers are known to ask during a job interview.
Most Popular StoriesMost Popular Stories More>> Wednesday, November 9 2016 1:28 PM EST2016-11-09 18:28:45 GMT Updated: Wednesday, November 9 2016 1:41 PM EST2016-11-09 18:41:19 GMT Curious to see how Northern Michigan counties voted this election? Check out the video breakdown from our 2016 Election Touchscreen Tracker. Curious to see how Northern Michigan counties voted this election? Check out the video breakdown from our 2016 Election Touchscreen Tracker. Wednesday, November 9 2016 5:50 PM EST2016-11-09 22:50:42 GMT Updated: Wednesday, November 9 2016 5:50 PM EST2016-11-09 22:50:42 GMT A Cheboygan man is charged with killing his dog. A Cheboygan man is charged with killing his dog. Tuesday, November 8 2016 10:14 PM EST2016-11-09 03:14:03 GMT Updated: Tuesday, November 8 2016 10:21 PM EST2016-11-09 03:21:13 GMT Real-time election results from 9&10 News Real-time election results from 9&10 News Wednesday, November 9 2016 5:47 PM EST2016-11-09 22:47:50 GMT Updated: Wednesday, November 9 2016 5:47 PM EST2016-11-09 22:47:50 GMT A community reaching out to help a family as they continue to mourn the loss of a young mother and daughter. A community reaching out to help a family as they continue to mourn the loss of a young mother and daughter. Wednesday, November 9 2016 6:14 PM EST2016-11-09 23:14:20 GMT Updated: Wednesday, November 9 2016 6:14 PM EST2016-11-09 23:14:20 GMT A local village’s election results are now in question. People who shouldn’t have been able to vote on village races, did. A local village’s election results are now in question. People who shouldn’t have been able to vote on village races, did. Wednesday, November 9 2016 6:32 PM EST2016-11-09 23:32:12 GMT Updated: Wednesday, November 9 2016 6:32 PM EST2016-11-09 23:32:12 GMT A Mackinac County man was yelling and swearing at his own sister in court Wednesday.
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.9and10news.com/story/33666875/healthy-living-job-apps-you-should-know-about
Do not explain your ideas to your boss’s ass hole and let him take them to the people who matter. click for sourceCheck out the employers’ sites so you are familiar with what they do products, services, senior management, locations, etc., and use that information you collect in your interactions with the employer. Many employers also have Facebook pages for both marketing and, often, also for recruiting. Please don’t show me this again for 90 days. Did it help you? Come back any time to post or update your resume and career profile. Narrow a version of your resume to a specific job offering: Remove items which are less specific to the talents the job calls for. Whether you’re looking for your very first job, switching careers, or re-entering the job market after an extended absence, finding a job requires two main tasks: setting and following through on your goals and using the latest tools to enter the job market. Many people change their job in the summer.
Finding Issues For Interview Skills
November 8, 2016 ilov4wyq{career|profession|job|occupation|vocation|employment|professional|line of work|line of business|business|employment option|full-time job|careers|industry|job position|job role}Leave a comment
Do you want to build a long-term career in a stable industry at a company thats committed to treating you with respect, training you well and ensuring your safety? A field or skilled labor job at Xcel Energy could be the opportunity youre looking for. ***NOTE: This position requires an assessment prior to interview consideration. We ask you to please carefully read the instructions below Xcel Energy has an Instrument & Control Tech TA position open for our Pawnee Station location in Brush, CO. 1. Perform installation, maintenance, calibration, testing, troubleshooting, configuration and repair of power plant instrumentation and process control systems, including CEMS. 2. Perform testing required by Plant Operation, regulatory requirements; review, prepare and submit records in support of these activities. 3.
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.rigzone.com/oil/jobs/postings/910741_Instrument_Control_Tech_TA_Job/
Why.ake.hat chance? This is an essential interview preparation tool!” They may ask about employment objective, education or required skills. It’s okay to take a few notes if the questions are lengthy or you need to remind yourself of something you want to stress. “I’m a vocational counsellor and teach pre-employment skills . . . careerAs a general principle, the person asking the questions should focus on the candidate while they are answering. Your stories: Make you memorable and set you apart Developing your story for job interviews Take a comprehensive inventory of the chapters of your life. Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions Top 10 Interview Questions and Answers Interviewers will ask questions about you to gain insight into your personality, and to determine whether you’re a fit for both the job and the company. Should this person get an offer? However, the benefits to you and to your career are enormous.
What’s Needed For Useful Tactics For Job
Get your resume into the hands of more than 10,000 recruiters today. Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 8 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? 10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD. 13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house: 14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: 15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee . 16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven , and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee . 17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands , and fell upon the camels , and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee . 18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house: 19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead ; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee . 20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle , and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, 21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. 22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. Our simple options will get your ad online in no time at all. God boasts to Satan about Job’s goodness, but Satan argues that Job is only good because God has blessed him abundantly. http://nevaehpattersonchat.macsverige.org/2016/10/26/top-tips-for-critical-factors-of-selection-interview/Start searching for your new job today. Job Alerts make it easy to search for jobs. Jump start your job search.
E96 $6?2E6[ 3FE 96C @H? :?:E:2E:G6D 7@4FD65 AC:?4:A2==J @? =@42= :DDF6D] qC@H? A=2?D E@ C6G:D:E 3:==D E92E 72:=65 E@ 82:? EC24E:@? =2DE J62C[ :?4=F5:?8 @?6 E92E H@F=5 =:>:E E96 FD6 @7 56\:4:?8 496>:42=D @? |@?E2?2D C@25D 2?5 2?@E96C E92E H@F=5 92G6 2AAC@AC:2E65 23@FE Sb__[___ 7C@> E96 DE2E6 365 E2I 4@==64E:@?D E@ 4C62E6 2?5 >2:?E2:? 2 |@?E2?2 EC256 46?E6C r2=82CJ]k^Am kAmx D66 @FC ?@CE96C?
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.dailyinterlake.com/members/job-creation-a-top-priority-for-incumbent/article_f46559ee-8a90-11e6-b9ba-c3ccba7f9c23.html
Emerging Ideas In Swift Secrets For Interview Body Language
November 5, 2016 ilov4wyq{curriculum vitae|resume|cv}Leave a comment
A behavioural interview is a widely used evaluation method in the corporate world nowadays. http://www.pfcdavidlawrence.org/eastonboydzone/2016/10/23/top-insights-for-2015-on-elegant-solutions-in-career/This gives the employee an idea that you respect his/her privacy. After you have devised the presentation plan, it is time to concentrate on its structure. Do not go on and on giving unnecessary explanations. Head held high: High self-esteem? Whatever you say, it is important that you also tell them that you are working on improving it, and how. Attending an interview can be stressful and nerve-racking. Involve them in Important Meetings and Organizational Events Make the employees feel that you consider them to be an important part of the management so that they in turn can feel emotionally connected with the organization. Even though, if both choose to discard their individual cultural teachings, they will still have distinct behavioural patterns, which will revert them back to their individual cultures.
“There has been some false media circulating about our Worship Team Guidelines claiming that we don’t allow overweight people on our platform, which is untrue. We apologize for any misunderstandings that our guidelines have caused,” the church said. “These guidelines have never been used to discriminate against or fat-shame anyone. We understand the wording on our guidelines have been misinterpreted, thus they are being reviewed and changed. Forgive us if we offended anyone. That certainly was not our intention. Our church is a church full of love and compassion for others. We are a diverse church with all ages, races and sizes and love people with the love of Jesus,” the statement ended. Two weeks ago, Pastor Rebecca Sundholm who leads the church along with her husband, Rod, had told Oregon Live in an earlier interview that the guidelines had been on the church’s website for a long time and she was “dumbfounded” by the controversy. “What’s funny is this has nothing to do with anybody else but our church,” she said. “If anybody looked at our worship team, they would see they aren’t all skinny.” “In fact,” she added, “the worship leader has weight issues.” She noted, however, that, “We have standards just like anybody would have standards in a business.” “Don’t come to church with wet hair; if you wear make-up, put it on,” she said.
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.christianpost.com/news/church-rewriting-guidelines-banned-fat-worship-team-members-170967/
Remember the interviewer’s name and follow-up with a thank you note. Conducting the Actual Presentation On the day of the presentation, it is very important to keep your calm. If an interviewer gets aggressive, keep your temper in check and stay calm. Why do you want to join this organization? When his body posture is not mirroring that of yours it means he is not in agreement with you. Do not go to the interview on an empty stomach. However, be careful about using this technique. If the HR manager tells you definitely that he is going to contact you on a particular day or date, it shows that they are favourably considering you for the position. An example of this answer would be, “I have faced difficulty in dealing with delegation of work.
Prudent Career Products Information
October 16, 2016 ilov4wyq{curriculum vitae|resume|cv}Leave a comment
External.inks.o other Internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views or privacy policies contained therein. Advertise a job now Need to fill a vacancy quickly and easily? website linkPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progress career fair noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. fiery Mel lavoro, bursa Mel lavoro Rf career field noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. career girl noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. Click here to learn more or request an application accommodation here . Find out more about opened and how to get an OpenID-enabled account . Find the perfect one for you. Whether you are searching for detailed information on a particular occupation, or just browsing possible career paths, our website covers hundreds of popular careers throughout the United States. Want to learn more?
(AP Photo/Matt Slocum) More PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Daniel Bryan once raised the WWE championship over his head in front of 70,000 screaming fans after winning the main event of the biggest wrestling show in the world. Bryan is used to cheers. But to earn them in Philadelphia, the retired wrestling star needed pointers on how to throw a baseball before first pitch duties at a Phillies game Monday. Bryan joked he hasn’t thrown much of anything in his adult life except tennis balls to dogs. ”You throw it too high, you get an ‘ooh.’ Throw it too low, you get a ‘boo,”’ team publicity director John Brazer told Bryan. Wearing a No. 81 jersey, Bryan fired a perfect strike to first baseman Tommy Joseph and the new tag team performed Bryan’s signature “Yes!” chant: Both arms and index fingers extended toward the sky while the wrestler and his fans bellow ”Yes! Yes! Yes!” Bryan will still whip the Philly fans into a ”Yes!” frenzy on Tuesday night at WWE’s ”Smackdown Live!” TV event – but in casual clothes as the show’s storyline general manager and not in tights, ready to wrestle.
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://sports.yahoo.com/news/wwe-star-bryan-cant-accept-career-ending-concussions-210023712–spt.html
The first real sign of a crack in the foundation was Houston’s DeAndre Hopkins catching five passes for 118 yards and two scores last November, with Revis on him most of the game. The fact his past two games have not been vintage Revis has led some to question whether ”Revis Island” is gone – maybe forever. ”Everybody’s going to be down on Revis because he has a poor game or whatever,” said Buffalo coach Rex Ryan, who coached Revis for four years with the Jets. ”The thing about Revis is, if he’s slipped at all as a player, he’s coming down from the very tip of Everest. That’s where he’d be coming down from. ”So how far down, I’m not sure. But I know one thing: I know the kind of player he is.” Jets coach Todd Bowles acknowledged that Revis, who continued his tradition of practicing this summer in sweats and multiple layers to get in shape, has the freedom to play press-man or off coverage on every play, leaving it up to his star cornerback. ”He’s pretty sharp mentally,” Bowles said, ”and understands how people are trying to come at him.” During his one season with New England in 2014, Revis was often used one-on-one on opponents’ No. 2 receivers while Bill Belichick double-teamed the No. 1s.
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://sports.yahoo.com/news/1-worst-games-jets-revis-looks-rebound-022601595–nfl.html
Thoughts On Level-headed Systems In Vocation
October 12, 2016 ilov4wyq{career|profession|job|occupation|vocation|employment|professional|line of work|line of business|business|employment option|full-time job|careers|industry|job position|job role}Leave a comment
A Helpful Article To Teach You About Employment
It can be a bit daunting to find yourself looking for a job. That said, it can also be a great opportunity for improving your lot in life. Read on to find out how to make job hunting easier.
If finding a job has been real rough, consider changing up your strategy. Yes, there are many businesses that are not hiring, but don’t stop looking there. http://cameronlonginfo.universitypunjabi.org/2016/10/05/finding-answers-for-rapid-strategies-in-curriculum-vitae/Take the time to go to areas you may not have gone to otherwise, but make sure you can afford to make it there if you do get a job.
If you are still employed while looking for another job, it is important to always do your best work. You’ll end up with a bad reputation if you don’t put in your all. Any potential employer might find out about your poor performance. Success is putting your best foot forward at all times.
Take some classes! You might need more skill in order to get a job. Improving your education to fill in any gaps in your skill set or update your knowledge on certain subjects is very important. There are many online self-study programs that can fit to any schedule.
You can get more employees through offering more amenities. Lots of the best companies provide amenities like gyms, restaurants, etc. People will fight for jobs at these companies, of course. This will elevate the level of work done at the company.
Carry all your information relevant for job applications on a cheat sheet. You may be asked for prior job information that you don’t remember. You’ll want to have this information written down somewhere, and keep it handy. This will simply the process of filling out applications.
Don’t limit yourself by only applying for one type of job. Research other jobs online, and determine which ones are right for you. This will help ensure you have the widest range of possible jobs.
It’s important that you remain patient when looking for a job. It’s important that you wait for the best person, whatever the situation. Hiring someone that you know will not be a good fit is a waste of time to both you and the person you hire.
When filling out applications or completing your resume, why not give your mobile phone number? This allows you to take calls while on your way to job interviews, when you’re out shopping or any other time. You can talk on the phone regardless of where you are.
Sign up for your employer’s group health insurance plan. The money comes out of your check before you pay taxes, and is much more affordable than health insurance you’d buy on your own. If you have a spouse, compare health plans to make sure you choose the best plan.
You can be on the path to a favorable career through job searching. When you can work in a field you love, you’ll be overjoyed. Prepare yourself for a few tough battles and go grab the position that you have been dreaming of.
The approval process was cumbersome. Many specialists were booked solid three months in advance. Then she found the Access Clinic for developmentally disabled adults in Moreno Valley about five years ago soon after the clinic began operation and since then her sons have enjoyed a quality of life and level of health care she didnt know were possible. The doctors and staff at the clinic made this happen, she says. We get the kind of caring and understanding at the clinic we were just not used to receiving. If I have a question or concern now, the doctor takes the time to hear me out and find resources for me. If I call the clinic, I get a response within 24 hours. This is like nothing I had to struggle with before. Zulmira T., mother of Kobe, 19, is equally grateful for the Access Clinic and the care it provides. She drives Kobe to it from Desert Hot Springs. Kobe has cerebral palsy, developmental delay and is nonverbal.
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/providing-access
New Insights In No-hassle Solutions Of Job Hunting
September 25, 2016 ilov4wyq{presentation|business presentation|speech|powerpoint presentation|discussion|appearance|public speaking event|public speaking}Leave a comment
For.ore on this topic, see Job-Hunt’s Guide to Career Change . Salary Negotiation Success Strategies for Stay-at-Home and Working toms Salary negotiations can be the toughest — but most important — part of landing a new job. Thank you for signing up for Email Job Alerts Indeed for employers Contact Sales Post Job Indeed helps millions of job seekers and employers find the right fit every day. Schedule A. Be ready when disasters, like tornadoes or flooding, strike. Post your resume – It only takes a few seconds Search job sites, newspapers, associations and company career pages. Research the company so that you understand its target audience well. 83% of people said this answer helped them. Did it help you? Thanks! interview body language
Still, overall, before the adjustment, 52-week growth was 0%, and after it was only a 4% gain. Those are mediocre results, which point to three things that could hurt Costco’s stock price going forward. More From Fool.com Costco’s business model has been to drive people to its stores. Image source: author. Competitors are getting better Continue Reading Below ADVERTISEMENT As a warehouse club, the Costco model is built on offering great prices but limited selection. In the past, that made other warehouse clubs such as Wal-Mart’s (NYSE: WMT) Sam’s Club its only real competition. Now, however, the chain increasingly has to deal with traditional stores offering aggressive pricing. Wal-Mart specifically has committed to spending billions to lower prices. That’s a big problem for Costco, because the traditional retailer’s deals don’t require buying food in specific large quantities. If a regular grocery store will sell a box of cereal at a price close to what Costco charges, but the warehouse club requires buying two extra-large boxes, it’s easy to see why consumers may shy away from bulk purchases. That’s not a big problem if it simply costs Costco some sales, but it becomes a much bigger issue if consumers stop believing Costco consistently has the best deal.
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2016/09/12/2-reasons-costco-wholesale-corporation-stock-could-fall.html
Schultz, 51, of Algonac and a Sterling Heights native, said she still suffers from the physical, mental and emotional effects of a natural gas leak last year at the Edward Jones office in Algonac and the companys lack of response to fix it. She said she also was affected by her immediate boss treatment of her before and after the leak. She was terminated in June after spending several months on disability from the company and after the company denied workers compensation benefits. She worked for nine years as an administrator at the financial services company, where she said she received commendations and accolades. I had a good reputation. I was making something of myself at this company and now its all gone, and gone with it are the pay and the benefits because of a gas leak, she said. Its not easy overcoming being told that money is more valuable than you and your life. They fired me. They almost killed me. Lawsuit filed Schultz earlier this year sued Missouri-based Edward Jones in St. Clair County Circuit Court in Port Huron, claiming violation of state and federal disability laws, federal and state gender bias and workers compensation retaliation.
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://voicenews.com/articles/2016/09/13//news/doc57d2e40079d50213661501.txt
An Ideas Overview On Common-sense Tactics For Job Negotiation
August 8, 2016 ilov4wyq{curriculum vitae|resume|cv}Leave a comment
Operator? ================================================================================ Yes, sir. (Operator Instructions). Ben Swinburne, Morgan Stanley. ——————————————————————————– Ben Swinburne, Morgan Stanley – Analyst [2] ——————————————————————————– Greg, you mentioned the discount to NAV across the trackers; I don’t think you guys bought any stock back in the quarter. Wondering if you could just lay out your thoughts on that opportunity. And related to that, do you think liquidity, or lack of liquidity, is part of why we’re seeing this discount for some or all of the trackers? And I was going to ask you about the Yankees’ farm system versus the Braves, but we can take that off-line. ——————————————————————————– Greg Maffei, Liberty Broadband Corporation – President and CEO [3] ——————————————————————————– (laughter) The only thing I know about the Yankees is, their payroll is surely higher.
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://finance.yahoo.com/news/edited-transcript-lbrda-earnings-conference-165827553.html
Even when saying “no,” leave the door open to negotiation. Smaller companies may be more flexible than large, bureaucratic companies. on-line compensation data is a good starting point for the conversation about what your job should pay. When you receive a job offer in sales, it’s time to examine the details and determine if the new position is right for you. Wegerbauer suggests that this request is made “in light of the importance of the decision.” If you are very good at the technical requirements of your job, but have not developed solid soft skills, your performance review is likely to reflect these deficiencies. interview skillsFocus on the value of the entire deal: responsibilities, location, travel, flexibility in work hours, opportunities for growth and promotion, perks, support for continued education, and so forth. Take into consideration that each comparable job may offer different perks and benefits, but use the general information to make comparisons to the possible offer on the table.
body language career career development career interview interview job job hunting job interview {career|profession|job|occupation|vocation|employment|professional|line of work|line of business|business|employment option|full-time job|careers|industry|job position|job role} {curriculum vitae|resume|cv} {interview|employment interview|job interview|occupation interview} {interview|employment interview|job interview|occupation interview}{|s} {presentation|business presentation|speech|powerpoint presentation|discussion|appearance|public speaking event|public speaking}
© 2019 Geek Landon Torres | Proudly powered by WordPress | Blogghiamo Free by CrestaProject WordPress Themes.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line225
|
__label__wiki
| 0.70488
| 0.70488
|
From the award-winning author of "The God of Small Things" comes a searing frontline expose of brutal repression in India
In her latest book, internationally renowned author Arundhati Roy draws on her unprecedented access to a little-known rebel movement in India to pen a work full of earth-shattering revelations. Deep in the forests, under the pretense of battling Maoist guerillas, the Indian government is waging a vicious total war against its own citizens-a war undocumented by a weak domestic press and fostered by corporations eager to exploit the rare minerals buried in tribal lands. Roy takes readers to the unseen front lines of this ongoing battle, chronicling her months spent living with the rebel guerillas in the forests. In documenting their local struggles, Roy addresses the much larger question of whether global capitalism will tolerate any societies existing outside of its colossal control.
Download Walking with the Comrades PDF
Download Walking with the Comrades ERUB
Download Walking with the Comrades DOC
Download Walking with the Comrades TXT
Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays.
For her work as an activist she received the Cultural Freedom Prize awarded by the Lannan Foundation in 2002.
Reviews of the Walking with the Comrades
This book would read to every man for ...
A useful book to free yourself from negative emotions and joy.
Rarely do the books make me cry, but this one could.
Bogus! You could have done better.
Download EBOOK Walking with the Comrades by Arundhati Roy Online free
PDF: walking-with-the-comrades.pdf
ERUB: walking-with-the-comrades.epub
DOC: walking-with-the-comrades.doc
TXT: walking-with-the-comrades.txt
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line227
|
__label__wiki
| 0.518308
| 0.518308
|
GREPOM
Actions accomplished
Actions in progress
Research/ Pursuit
Bird Winter Monitoring
Bird list of Morocco
ع Fr
The GROOM-BirdLife Partnership, a new era of struggle for Nature
1 octobre 2018 1 octobre 2018 grepom
It was very stirring for the members of GREPOM / BirdLife Morocco’s Executive Board and National Council to learn that the BirdLife International Board has adopted, at its high-level meeting in June 2018, the transition of our NGO to BirdLife’s full partner status.
This approval was confirmed by signing the BirdLife International –GREPOM Convention, and then through its official announcement on September 25th, 2018 (the day before yesterday), at the BirdLife International World Partne r Congress.
We receive this approval of GREPOM/BirdLife Morocco as a reward reaped through a series of achievements and recognition of its abilities, two major things that would consolidate its role on both national and International scale.
This success is the result of unremitting efforts that many GREPOM members have provided in order to enrich the skills of their association.
I take this delightful opportunity to salute the efforts of the National Council and Regional Coordinators, and especially those of the Executive and Administrative Offices, who have worked with great determination and under stressful conditions in order to rightly guide a host of conservation projects, while abiding the rules of governance within the association.
Outside the framework, a large number of ‘GREPOMMists’ contributed to this success; a high esteem is dedicated to them from my part. However, it is through these achievements of GREPOM at which they realize themselves.
This success is also due to the continued support of our BirdLife partners, including VBN, SEO, BirdLife Africa, RSPB and AAO, who have invested in the BirdLife Morocco Advisory Group.
This technical and material, even moral support, has enabled GREPOM to acquire good management teamwork and to improve on its governance and conservation skills.
The path to this partnership took too long, at least longer than expected, but a very eventful journey. Although at times it was disruptive and distressful, these events have been a source of deep reflection and corrective actions. In addition, it is in a rough sea that a crew can improve their sailing performance. For this purpose, this partnership should be perceived as the starting point of a new era, in which GREPOM is summoned more than before, to implement its skills for the benefit of Palearctic and Moroccan birds.
Celebrating 25 years of existence and full partnership, GREPOM tends to carry out, at least throughout the next quarter, a series of promotional, informative, and awareness-raising to he school public and general public as well. Our international partners will be present at the inauguration of these activities and we sincerely hope that many GREPOM members will contribute.
Mohamed Dakki
President of GREPOM/BirdLife Morocco
‘Bycatch’project : A new challenge for GREPOM/BirdLife Morocco
An Informational day on the occasion of the celebration of the 25th GREPOM anniversary and its consideration as a full partner of BLI
Training Course of Nature Conservation Projects
Marking of cigogneaux at the level of the new colony installed on artificial supports built in Bir Lahmar (Salé)
Moroccan Observatory of Illegal Acts on Wild Birds(MOIAWB)
Ecological information center of Walidia
© 2016 GREPOM
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line234
|
__label__cc
| 0.707814
| 0.292186
|
"Thank you for visiting the Art Website of Hooley McLaughlin"
Salons for Sanctuary Exhibition at Milk Glass May 12 to June 5 2016
"SANCTUARY" original artworks by Hooley McLaughlin, curated by Anielika Sykes, runs from May 12 to June 5 2016 at Milk Glass Co.
- 1247 Dundas Street West, Toronto; Wednesdays to Saturdays 1:00 to 8:00 pm, Sundays 1:00 to 5:00 pm, or by appointment.
There will be discussions on the exhibition themes at our Thursday Salons.
Join us at any time these evenings. Everyone is welcome.
Thursday May 19, 4:00 to 8:00 pm
"The Annunciation of the Virgin Mary as interpreted through the rape of Temple Drake depicted in William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary."
The artist will be present.
"Violent sexual themes in religious art and inter-cultural conflict and miscommunication."
Thursday June 2, 4:00 to 8:00 pm
"Can feminist values be depicted in violent erotic religious art?"
“Sanctuary” – 1.) place of refuge or safety, especially for someone being chased or hunted; 2.) consecrated area of a church or temple around its tabernacle or altar; 3.) 1931 novel by Nobel Prize winning author, William Faulkner. The story focuses on a wealthy 17-year-old Mississippi college girl named Temple Drake. The impotent existentialist character, Popeye, using a corncob, viciously rapes her.
The artwork in SANCTUARY explores religion and a woman’s body.
There are two major themes:
One.) Annunciation (impregnation) of Mary and her elevation to Sainthood and adoration as the Virgin Mother of Jesus;
Two.) Reënactment of the Virgin Mary’s “annunciation,” or rape, as interpreted
from Faulkner’s Sanctuary.
The drawings and paintings are deliberately sensuous and lush, depicting the ambivalent violence of louche sexual bondage, and the revenge of slow beauty.
Below - the Sanctuary Series from the exhibition - a portion of the drawings and paintings on display in the Sanctuary Exhibition
Above - Sanctuary Series # 1 - “Thinking about Gowan Stevens before the Dance” – Vine Charcoal on Arches Paper, 22”X30”, 2016
Above - Sanctuary Series #2 - “Thinking about Gowan Stevens before the Dance” – Vine Charcoal on Arches Paper, 22”X30”, 2016
Above - Sanctuary Series - #3 – “Remembering Popeye’s secret molestation during the night at the moonshiner’s farm” – Vine Charcoal on Arches Paper, 22”X30”, 2016
Above - Sanctuary Series #4 – “The Annunciation - the Raping of Temple Drake with a corncob by Popeye, in the barn the next morning” – Vine Charcoal on Arches Paper, 30” X 22”, 2016
Above - Sanctuary Series #5 – “After the Rape – Santa Maria, Madre di Dio” – Vine Charcoal on Arches Paper, 22”X30”, 2016
Charcoal drawings of nudes
Hooley McLaughlin Salons
Sanctuary Salon
Sanctuary Art Exhibition Salons
Milk Glass Salons
Salon on violent erotic religious art
Virgin Mary Annunciation Salon
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line235
|
__label__wiki
| 0.627139
| 0.627139
|
ISSN (Online): 0975-8232,
Pharmaceutical Sciences And Research
Inclusion in Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) - ESCI
Projected Impact Factor (2018): 0.83 , CiteScore (2017): 0.27
Five-Year Projected Impact Factor: 1.81
Home » IN-VIVO APPRAISAL OF PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF BACOPA MONNIERI AND ITS HPLC ANALYSIS FOR BACOSIDE A
IN-VIVO APPRAISAL OF PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF BACOPA MONNIERI AND ITS HPLC ANALYSIS FOR BACOSIDE A
HTML Full Text
Sabina Evan Prince * 1, 2, Akash Pratim Das 1 and Geetha Arumugam 2
Department of Biomedical Sciences 1, School of Biosciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore - 632014, Tamil Nadu, India.
Department of Biochemistry 2, Dr. Ambedkar Government Arts College, Chennai - 600039, Tamil Nadu, India.
ABSTRACT: Bacopa monnieri is a herb, known to possesses various pharmacological and medicinal properties. Aim: The objective of the study was to analyse the activity of Bacopa monnieri as an antipyretic, analgesic and anti-ulcerogenic agent. Methods: Indomethacin was used as the standard of comparison for this study. Animals were arbitrarily separated into three groups of six animals in each group. The first group was accorded saline, while the second group was administrated with the test drug Bacopa monnieri, and the third group received indomethacin. Hot plate test and acetic acid test were performed to analyze the analgesic activity of Bacopa monnieri. The antipyretic activity was evaluated by a yeast solution which was used to induce fever before administering the drugs. For the ulcerogenic activity, the rats were kept on a fast to induce ulcers and then the action of Bacopa monnieri was evaluated. HPLC analysis of the Bacopa monnieri sample was performed to evaluate the active components. Conclusion: It was possible to conclude that Bacopa monnieri showed significant analgesic, antipyretic and anti-ulcerogenic effects in experimental rats.
Bacopa monnieri, Analgesic, Antipyretic, Ulcerogenic, Indomethacin, HPLC
INTRODUCTION: Bacopa monnieri (synonyms: Lysimachia monnieri L. Cent., Gratiola monnieri L., Monniera cuneifolia and Herpestis monniera L.) commonly known as Bacopa or Brahmi, belongs to the Scrophulariaceae family and is mostly distributed in the moist, damp, warmer wetlands regions of the world 1. It is frequently used in traditional medicine for treating disorders like asthma, anxiety, epilepsy, ulcers, tumor, leprosy and inflammation, besides improving memory, concentration and learning skills.
Earlier studies have shown that Bacopa monnieri rejuvenates the intellectual functions among children 2. Bacoside-A and Bacoside-B are known as the major active components of the herb, along with several alkaloids. Different studies have experimentally proved the pharmacological benefits of Bacopa monnieri 3. This activity could be due to the presence of saponin compounds in the plant. Several pharmacological 4, 5 and clinical studies 6, 7 on Bacopa monnieri extracts have standardized to the bacosides-A and bacosides-B have been reported significant medicinal prowess.
Our present study was aimed at evaluating the antipyretic, analgesic and ulcerogenic activity of Bacopa monnieri in standard rat models. For comparison of the effects, indomethacin was used as a standard due to it’s well-known anti-inflammatory and non-steroidal characteristics.
Fig. 1 represents the chemical structure of bacoside A.
FIG. 1: STRUCTURE OF BACOSIDE A
MATERIALS AND METHODS:
Animals: The experimental treatment was achieved using female Wistar albino rats, each weighing around 130-140 grams. Animals were taken from Animal House, VIT University, Vellore with prior submission and clearance by the animal ethical committee (VIT/IAEC/10th/March 14th/ No.22). Animals were caged in a rectangular polypropylene cage kept on racks. Three rats were housed in each cage which is provided with paddy husk as a feeding material 8. The rats were housed in a temperature controlled room, and they were fed commercially available pellet feed and water. The animals were maintained strictly according to the guidelines provided by the CPSCEA.
Test Drug: Commercially available Bacopa monnieri was purchased from Himalaya Herbal Healthcare (Uttar Pradesh, India) and Indomethacin capsules were purchased from Sun Pharma Ltd. (Tamil Nadu, India). All the solutions required for the study were prepared fresh before each experiment. Other chemicals and reagents used were standard laboratory reagents of analytical grade and were taken from the institute’s laboratories.
Sample Preparation for HPLC: About 500 mg commercially available Bacopa monnieri powder was taken, and it was dissolved in 50 ml of methanol. The mixture was sonicated for 3 min, and then it was heated on a water bath for five minutes. After cooling, the sample was made up to 100 ml with methanol, and it was filtered through a Whatman filter paper 8.
HPLC Analysis: HPLC profiling of the Bacopa monnieri sample was performed at the School of Bio-Sciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, India. The sample was separated using a Shimadzu HPLC (High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic) system equipped with LC10A pump which also has SPD-M 10Avp Photodiode Array Detector or UV detector that combine with Class-VP software or LC 2010 A and LC 2010 HT integrated combined system equipped. It also has a Quaternary gradient, auto-injector in combination with Lab solution software. The chromatography system was equilibrated by the mobile phase which consisted of 0.8% orthophosphoric acid in 400 ml of acetonitrile. The wavelength considered was 205 nm, and the flow rate was fixed at 1.5 ml/min. Bacoside A was used as a reference standard.
Dosage: Based on our previously published literature, it was found that 500 mg/kg/b.w. of Bacopa monnieri produced a remarkable anti-inflammatory effect in rats. No cases of mortality were found in the rats during our entire experimentation period. On further increasing the dosage, reductions in the survival of the rats were observed. Therefore, a dosage of 500 mg/kg/b.w. was considered suitable for carrying out the tests.
Hot Plate Test: This test was performed out to examine the temperature tolerance of the animals. A temperature controlled hot plate was taken, and the temperature was maintained at 40 °C. The temperature of the plate was constantly monitored using a thermometer so that the temperature did not exceed 40 °C. Rats were kept on the hot plate individually. The threshold of pain was obtained as the rats reach the attempt to jump out of the hot plate. The total time spent by the rats on the hot plate was recorded using a stopwatch. There were three groups, one control, the second one with the test drug Bacopa monnieri (500 mg/kg/b.w.), and the third one with reference drug indomethacin (10 mg/kg/b.w., i.p). Each group had six rats, and the rats were tested 30 min after the administration of the drug. Control animals were administrated with an equal volume of normal saline (0.09%), and the experimental procedure was repeated.
Analgesic Test: This experiment was carried out using standard protocol 9. The rats were administrated an i.p. injection of 0.6% acetic acid (10 ml/kg/b.w.). The test drug Bacopa monnieri (500 mg/kg/b.w.) and indomethacin (10 mg/kg/ b.w.), were given with i.p. injection before 30 min of the acetic acid injection. After the administration of acetic acid, the rats were kept in glass cages, and the number of “stretch” was noted for each rat for the next 30 min. Any notable decrease in the stretching number by the administration as compared to control rats was observed as a positive analgesic response.
Antipyretic Test: The animals were given an injection of 10 ml/kg of 20% of aqueous extract baker’s yeast subcutaneously, and the temperatures of the rectum were observed. Post 18 h, the rectal temperature was recorded once again before i.p. administration of, the test drug Bacopa monnieri (500 mg/kg/b.w.) and indomethacin (10 mg/kg/ b.w.). After the peak temperature, the temperature was observed for each hour up to 5 h from the treatment of test drugs as per the standard method 10.
Ulcerogenic Test: Gastric Ulcer: The rats were kept in fasting condition for 16 h before the oral treatment of the test drug. Bacopa monnieri was given at a dosage of 500 mg/kg/b.w. and indomethacin was administered at a dosage of 20 mg/kg/b.w. separately to test the ulcerogenic activity. After three hours of the administration of the test compounds, the rats were sacrificed. The stomach and intestines were dissected, and the gastric mucosa was cleaned with saline. The ulcer score was calculated as per the following scale, 0: no lesion, 1: one or two lesions, 2: severe lesions, 3: very severe lesions, 4: mucosa full of lesions 11.
Statistical Analysis: ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) was performed to find out the significance of changes between groups using Student Newman-Keul’s test by the software Graph Pad InStat version 3.10. The results obtained were expressed in the form of mean ± S.D., and then ANOVA was done. For significance, p<0.05 was taken into consideration.
HPLC Profile: From the HPLC results Fig. 2-5 the elution profile of Bacopa monnieri can be observed. It can be seen that clear peaks for bacoside A were obtained showing that it is the major component of Bacopa monnieri which might be responsible for the activities of Bacopa monnieri.
Hot Plate Test: In this method, it was observed that the Bacopa monnieri treatment helped to increase the reaction time in rats and more remarkable analgesic activity was observed Fig. 6.
FIG. 6: BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF BACOPA MONNIERI IN HOT PLATE TEST. Each value represents the mean ± SD of six rats. Comparisons were made as follows: a-group 1 vs. groups 2, 3; b- group 2 vs. group 3. The symbols represent statistical significance at *p<0.05. Statistical analysis was calculated by one-way ANOVA followed by the Student Newman–Keul’s test.
Analgesic Test: In the acetic acid test, it was observed that Bacopa monnieri treatment, similar to indomethacin, showed that the number of abdominal constrictions or stretchings got remarkably reduced. The reduction was maximum at 500 mg/kg/b.w. dosage Fig. 7.
FIG. 7: BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF BACOPA MONNIERI IN ANALGESIC TEST. Each value represents the mean ± SD of six rats. Comparisons were made as follows: a-group 1 vs. groups 2, 3; b- group 2 vs. group 3. The symbols represent statistical significance at *p<0.05. Statistical analysis was calculated by one-way ANOVA followed by the Student Newman–Keul’s test.
Antipyretic Test: From the experiment Fig. 8, a remarkable increase in the rectal temperature of the rats was observed, 18 h after the injection of baker’s yeast. Dosage of Bacopa monnieri at 500 mg/kg/b.w. Showed a notable decrease in the rectal temperature.
FIG. 8: BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF BACOPA MONNIERI IN ANTIPYRETIC TEST. Each value represents the mean ± SD of six rats. Comparisons were made as follows: a-group 1 vs. groups 2, 3; b- group 2 vs. group 3. The symbols represent statistical significance at *p<0.05. Statistical analysis was calculated by one-way ANOVA followed by the Student Newman–Keul’s test.
Ulcerogenic Test: In this test, it was observed that the rats which were administered Bacopa monnieri at 500 mg/kg/b.w., had minimal gastric lesions as compared to the standard drug, indomethacin (20 mg/kg/b.w.) which showed severe gastric lesions Fig. 9.
FIG. 9: BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF BACOPA MONNIERI IN ULCEROGENIC TEST. Each value represents the mean ± SD of six rats. Comparisons were made as follows: a-group 1 vs. groups 2, 3; b- group 2 vs. group 3. The symbols represent statistical significance at *p<0.05. Statistical analysis was calculated by one-way ANOVA followed by the Student Newman–Keul’s test.
DISCUSSION: In the current pharmacological scenario, numerous drugs which are used as anti-inflammatory treatment are often associated with various pyretic and the ulcerogenic effect that results in gastric damage. Analgesic effects of Bacopa monnieri were assessed by hot plate experiment and acetic acid experiment. The acetic acid test is also known as the ‘stretching test’ or ‘writhing test’, which is a non-selective anti-nociceptive model. After intraperitoneal injection of acetic acid in rats, a response of pain and acute inflammation forms in the peritoneal region which is due to nerve endings are excited 12, and evaluation of prostaglandin levels takes place in peritoneal fluid 13. Bacopa monnieri may have helped to prevent the increase in the levels of prostaglandins, thus resulting in analgesic activity. However, everything interpreted from the acetic acid test which has not confirmed the activity of central analgesic substances.
The hot plate method has determined the reaction of rats which is predominant in the analgesic investigation. This method would determine the action of the drug through the central nervous system 14. In the hot plate method, treatment of the drug after 30 minutes possessed analgesic action of Bacopa monnieri. The results possessed the analgesic effect of Bacopa monnieri through acetic acid response and hot plate reaction. This confirms that analgesic effects of Bacopa monnieri which would be due to the presence of central and peripheral acting mechanisms.
Fever is a non-specific immune response which forms against various ailments. Antipyretic drugs are known to reduce the elevation of body temperature of the body. The mechanism of body temperature needs the process of the delicate balance between the production of heat and loss of heat. The hypothalamus helps in regulating the set point which mediates in maintaining the body temperature 15. During the fever, the set point by the hypothalamus gets increased. Administration of paracetamol will not possess influence activity during the elevation of body temperature through exercise or ambient temperature 16. Antipyretic activity is known to have created the aspect of drugs which have a restraining activity on prostaglandin production 17, 18. The injection of yeast would enhance pyrexia activity by causing an increase in the formation of prostaglandin. This would increase the body temperature in the region of the hypothalamus which has the ability in controlling the body temperature produced by pyrexia 19, 16, 20.
Various studies have used this protocol after the injection of yeast and have induced the antipyretic drugs 21. It was observed that Bacopa monnieri caused a significant (p<0.05) decrease in the rectal pyrexia which is also similar to the standard drug indomethacin Fig. 8. This observation confirms the suppressive activity of Bacopa monnieri on prostaglandin biosynthesis.
Formation of the gastric mucosa is a predominant effect of NSAID (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) 22. Studies have exhibited the ulcerogenic activity of indomethacin in an empty stomach 23. Indomethacin-induced ulceration was known to effects the glandular region of stomach 24. Indomethacin is reported to suppress the COX enzyme which is necessary for the formation of prostaglandins, but its mechanisms of gastric mucosal are yet to be discovered 25. The process of suppressing the COX-1 enzyme might result in the production of ulcers in humans which forms inhibition of selective COX-2 enzyme 26.
In the current study, it was observed that Bacopa monnieri produced a remarkably lesser number of gastric lesions as compared to the standard drug indomethacin Fig. 9. This suggests that Bacopa monnieri is devoid of any ulcerogenic potential.
CONCLUSION: Various analgesic drugs are known to cause severe adverse effects which would be produced by its frequent usage. Therefore, the current study has confirmed the beneficial activity of Bacopa monnieri. The results of our study have shown the beneficial effect of Bacopa monnieri as an analgesic, antipyretic and anti-ulcerogenic activities. Further, there is a need for studies to evaluate the specific mechanisms of Bacopa monnieri. Hence, this research enhances the traditional value of Bacopa monnieri with experimental support.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The authors sincerely thank VIT University, Vellore and its management team for providing all the necessary resources and facilities required for conducting this entire study.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST: There is no conflict of interest between the authors.
Bammidi SR, Volluri SS, Chippada SC, Avanigadda S and Vangalapati M: A review on pharmacological studies of Bacopa monniera. J Chem Biol Phys Sci JCBPS 2011; 1: 250.
Aguiar S and Borowski T: Neuropharmacological Review of the Nootropic Herb Bacopa monnieri. Rejuvenation Res 2013; 16: 313-26.
Russo A and Borrelli F: Bacopa monniera, a reputed nootropic plant: an overview. Phytomedicine 2005; 12: 305-17.
Roy A: A Review on Pharmaceutically Important Medicinal plant: Bacopa monnieri. J Nat Prod Plant Resour 2017; 11-7.
Pushkar GK, Pushkar BK and Sivabalan R: A Review on major Bioactivities of Bacopa monnieri. Ann Appl Bio-Sci 2015; 2: R1-11.
Harrigan RA, Nathan MS and Beattie P: Oral agents for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus: pharmacology, toxicity, and treatment. Ann Emerg Med 2001; 38: 68-78.
Stough C, Lloyd J, Clarke J, Downey L, Hutchison C and Rodgers T: The chronic effects of an extract of Bacopa monniera (Brahmi) on cognitive function in healthy human subjects. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2001; 156: 481-4.
Anbar HS, Shehatou GSG, Suddek GM and Gameil NM: Comparison of the effects of levocetirizine and losartan on diabetic nephropathy and vascular dysfunction in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Eur J Pharmacol 2016; 780: 82-92.
Hijazi MA, El-Mallah A, Aboul-Ela M and Ellakany A: Evaluation of analgesic activity of Papaver libanoticum extract in mice: Involvement of Opioids Receptors. Evid-Based Complement Altern Med ECAM 2017.
Ashok BK, Ravishankar B, Prajapati PK and Bhat SD: Antipyretic activity of Guduchi ghrita formulations in albino rats. Ayu 2010; 31: 367-70.
Adewoye EO and Salami AT: Anti-ulcerogenic mechanism of magnesium in indomethacin-induced gastric ulcer in rats. Niger J Physiol Sci off Publ Physiol Soc Niger 2013; 28: 193-9.
Turner PV, Brabb T, Pekow C and Vasbinder MA: Administration of substances to laboratory animals: Routes of Administration and Factors to Consider. J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci JAALAS 2011; 50: 600-13.
Huang LL, Xia HHX and Zhu SL: Ascitic fluid analysis in the differential diagnosis of ascites: Focus on Cirrhotic Ascites. J Clin Transl Hepatol 2014; 2: 58-64.
Suresha RN, Amoghimath S, Vaibhavi PS, Shruthi SL, Jayanthi MK and Kalabharathi HL: Evaluation of the analgesic activity of perindopril in albino mice. J Adv Pharm Technol Res 2014; 5: 129-33.
Sabina EP, Nasreen A, Vedi M and Rasool M: Analgesic, antipyretic and ulcerogenic effects of piperine: an active ingredient of pepper. J Pharm Sci Res 2013; 5: 203-6.
Walter EJ, Hanna-Jumma S, Carraretto M and Forni L: The pathophysiological basis and consequences of fever. Crit Care 2016; 20.
Subedi NK, Rahman SMA and Akbar MA: Analgesic and antipyretic activities of methanol extract and its fraction from the root of Schoenoplectus grossus [Internet]. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016.
Allaj V, Guo C and Nie D: Non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs, prostaglandins, and cancer. Cell Biosci 2013; 3: 8.
Al-Asmari AK, Athar MT, Al-Shahrani HM, Al-Dakheel SI, Al-Ghamdi MA: Efficacy of Lepidium sativum against carbon tetra chloride induced hepatotoxicity and determination of its bioactive compounds by GC–MS. Toxicol Rep 2015; 2: 1319-26.
Shukla S, Mehta A, Mehta P, Vyas SP, Shukla S and Bajpai VK: Studies on anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and analgesic properties of Caesalpinia bonducella seed oil in experimental animal models. Food Chem Toxicol 2010; 48: 61-4.
Liu C, Su H, Wan H, Qin Q, Wu X and Kong X: Forsythoside A exerts an antipyretic effect on yeast-induced pyrexia mice via inhibiting transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 function. Int J Biol Sci 2017; 13: 65-75.
Matsui H, Shimokawa O, Kaneko T, Nagano Y, Rai K and Hyodo I: The pathophysiology of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)-induced mucosal injuries in stomach and small intestine. J Clin Biochem Nutr 2011; 48: 107-11.
Rasool M, Sabina EP, Nithya P and Lavanya K: ISSN 1816-496X. 2008;
Ettebong EO and Nwafor PA: Journal of Coastal Life Medicine. J Coast Life Med 2016; 4: 161-6.
Zarghi A and Arfaei S: Selective COX-2 Inhibitors: A review of their structure-activity relationships. Iran J Pharm Res IJPR 2011; 10: 655-83.
Ricciotti E and FitzGerald GA: Prostaglandins and Inflammation. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2011; 31: 986-00.
Prince SE, Das AP and Arumugam G: In-vivo appraisal of pharmacological activity of Bacopa monnieri and its HPLC analysis for bacoside A. Int J Pharm Sci & Res 2019; 10(5): 2244-49. doi: 10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.10(5).2244-49.
All © 2013 are reserved by International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research. This Journal licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Sr No: 18
Page No: 2244-2249
Cited By: 0
Licence: IJPSR
Authors: S. E. Prince *, A. P. Das and G. Arumugam
Authors Address: Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Biosciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Email: eps674@gmail.com
Received: 20 August 2018
Revised: 31 October 2018
Accepted: 09 November 2018
DOI: 10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.10(5).2244-49
Wellness Con – 2019
Conference proceedings of the International Conference on Wellness will be published in IJPSR. The conference which will be held on 8th-10th October 2019 at Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur (UP) India.
CiteScore (2017) : 0.27
Associate Journals
www.ijpjournal.com
www.ijlsr.com
Manuscript Tracking
All © 2019 are reserved by International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research
This Journal licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line244
|
__label__wiki
| 0.841559
| 0.841559
|
At the opening
Eric Schmaltz
The mouth opens. It burps and yowls, gasps and laughs, mumbles and yawns. The mouth sings —loudly or quietly and can do it with a shimmer. The mouth whispers. The mouth SCREAMS. The mouth speaks, stutters, and stops.
Most people think about the connections between music and poetry in a very abstract way — that assonance is the descendant of rhyme or that music and poetry occupy very different spaces. For me, music is the first poetry that I ever learned. I come from an oral culture — or at least an aural culture of performance and music, drama and stories.
'Everyone Knows I am a Haunting,' Peepal Tree Press 2017
Shivanee Ramlochan, author of Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press, 2017) writes a Coolitude poetics and achieves a dazzling sense of historical hauntings in her debut collection of poetry. The ghosts leap. Her collection quite literally includes duennes and jumbies as a way to write about the missing, the dispossession, and the longing for a wholeness that haunts her speakers.
Thungachi by Francine Simon
In her debut collection Thungachi (2017, Uhlanga Press) Francine Simon draws from the vast well of her Coolie inheritance to create poetry that speaks through the vocabularies of indenture. Being of Christian and Hindu Tamilian descent, Simon begins her book with the indenture story, fulfilling Vijay Mishra’s prescription that Indian Labor Diaspora be haunted by its traumas of oceanic crossings.
In her debut collection Thungachi (2017, Uhlanga Press), Francine Simon draws from the vast well of her Coolie inheritance to create poetry that speaks through the vocabularies of indenture. Being of Christian and Hindu Tamilian descent, Simon begins her book with the indenture story, fulfilling Vijay Mishra’s prescription that the Indian labor diaspora be haunted by its traumas of oceanic crossings.
Simon in the first poem writes,
'Chair Corail: Fragments Coolies' by Khal Torabully
To extend my look into Pirbhai’s vocabularies of indenture I consider Khalil Torabully’s poetry, the generator of the Coolitude concept. It is through his conceptualization of Coolitude that the Mauritian poet establishes a discourse that empowers the Indian labor diaspora to begin to draw connections between themselves despite national identities.
Andre Bagoo: PC Marlon James
Andre Bagoo is a Trinidadian poet and writer. He is the author of Trick Vessels (Shearsman Books, 2012), BURN (Shearsman Books, 2015) and Pitch Lake (Peepal Tree Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared at Boston Review, Caribbean Review of Books, Cincinnati Review, St Petersburg Review, The Poetry Review and elsewhere. He was awarded the Charlotte and Isidor Paiewonsky Prize by The Caribbean Writer in 2017.
Mahadai Das
One of the most important poets of the Indian Labor Diaspora is Mahadai Das (1954–2003). Born in Eccles, East Bank Demerara, Guyana, her poem “They Came In Ships” serves as an ancestor poem to all of the poetry written by Indo-Guyanese people today. According to Peepal Tree Press’s website,
'Coolie Odyssey.'
The poetry of David Dabydeen’s Coolie Odyssey (1988) is the first of the Indo-Caribbean body of poetry that I examine, as it was my own personal entry point into poetry. In his first book of poems, Slave Song, Dabydeen wrote entirely in Guyanese Creole ekphrastic poems that gave voice to the brown and black bodies painted by colonials in Guyana during the days of slavery and indenture-era plantations. This book moves between Guyanese Creole and standard English to produce the effect of a Caribbean person living a bicultural life in diaspora.
Sudesh Mishra
Sudesh Mishra is the author of five books of poetry, including Tandava (Meanjin Press), Diaspora and the Difficult Art of Dying (Otago University Press), and The Lives of Coat Hangers (Otago University Press); two critical monographs, Preparing Faces: Modernism and Indian Poetry in English (Flinders University) and Diaspora Criticism (Edinburgh University Press); two plays, Ferringhi and The International Dateline (Institute of Pacific Studies, Suva); and several short stories.
'Break Me Ouch' by Michael Farrell
elena gomez
The first chapbook I’m looking at, Break Me Ouch by Michael Farrell (3 Deep Publishing, 2006), is a book of poems arranged as though they are panels in a comic book. Through this I want to observe how illustrations might amend our reading of poems, not just accompanying the poem but, in this case, forming the integral structure of the page itself.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line251
|
__label__wiki
| 0.568758
| 0.568758
|
The news I miss on red-eye flights
Cass Sunstein chosen as new administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Congratulations to him!
Notes Orin Kerr, "this is terrific news for other legal academics. Cass currently writes about 120 law review articles a year, all of which place in top journals, amounting to about 30% of the total placed articles in those journals. With Cass working full-time in Washington, I'm betting that his scholarly productivity will plummet. He might write as few as 20 articles a year! That means that there will be 100 more non-Cass placements free every year for the next few years for the rest of us, which gives other scholars a great opportunity to place their articles while Cass is working in government."
But Orin neglects the cost to all of Cass' foregone coauthors.
Posted by Jacob T. Levy at 3:54 AM 0 comments Links to this post
Labels: academic news, politics
2008 books in political theory, continued
See this post for part 1.
Ten interesting and important books, by my lights, in political theory in 2008 by young and mid-career scholars. This will be a much more idiosyncratic list built around my own interests than the first one was-- not that the first one represented Objective Truth or anything, but, e.g., I'm pretty confident that there will be APSA panels or conferences or workshops or review symposia about most of the books I named there. Some of the books below are ones I suspect not many people have heard of yet; I want to encourage more people to have a look at them. In any case, well-known or not, consensus choices or not, these are interesting-to-me books published last year. Further contributions welcome in comments!
Sharon Krause, Civil Passions
Must we put passions aside when we deliberate about justice? Can we do so? The dominant views of deliberation rightly emphasize the importance of impartiality as a cornerstone of fair decision making, but they wrongly assume that impartiality means being disengaged and passionless. In Civil Passions, Sharon Krause argues that moral and political deliberation must incorporate passions, even as she insists on the value of impartiality. Drawing on resources ranging from Hume's theory of moral sentiment to recent findings in neuroscience, Civil Passions breaks new ground by providing a systematic account of how passions can generate an impartial standpoint that yields binding and compelling conclusions in politics. Krause shows that the path to genuinely impartial justice in the public sphere--and ultimately to social change and political reform--runs through moral sentiment properly construed. This new account of affective but impartial judgment calls for a politics of liberal rights and democratic contestation, and it requires us to reconceive the meaning of public reason, the nature of sound deliberation, and the authority of law. By illuminating how impartiality feels, Civil Passions offers not only a truer account of how we deliberate about justice, but one that promises to engage citizens more effectively in acting for justice.
Burke Hendrix, Ownership, Authority, and Self-Determination: Moral Principles and Indigenous Rights Claims
Much controversy has existed over the claims that Native Americans and other indigenous peoples have a right—based on original occupancy of land, historical transfers of sovereignty, and principles of self-determination—to a political status separate from the states in which they now find themselves embedded. How valid are these claims on moral grounds?
Burke Hendrix tackles these thorny questions in this book. Rather than focusing on the legal and constitutional status of indigenous nations within the states now ruling them, he starts at a more basic level, interrogating fundamental justifications for political authority itself. He shows that historical claims of land ownership and prior sovereignty cannot provide a sufficient basis for challenging the authority of existing states, but that our natural moral duties to aid other persons in danger can justify rights to political separation from states that fail to protect their citizens as they should.
Actual attempts at political separation must be carefully managed through well-defined procedural mechanisms, however, to foster extensive democratic deliberation about the nature of the politic al changes at stake. Using such procedures, Hendrix argues, indigenous peoples should be able to withdraw politically from the states currently ruling them, even to the point of choosing full independence.
Dennis Rasmussen, The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society: Adam Smith's Response to Rousseau
Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small, harmonious communities and as a sharp critic of the ills of commercial society. But, in fact, Smith had many of the same worries about commercial society that Rousseau did and was strongly influenced by his critique.
In this first book-length comparative study of these leading eighteenth-century thinkers, Dennis Rasmussen highlights Smith's sympathy with Rousseau's concerns and analyzes in depth the ways in which Smith crafted his arguments to defend commercial society against these charges. These arguments, Rasmussen emphasizes, were pragmatic in nature, not ideological: it was Smith's view that, all things considered, commercial society offered more benefits than the alternatives.
Just because of this pragmatic orientation, Smith's approach can be useful to us in assessing the pros and cons of commercial society today and thus contributes to a debate that is too much dominated by both dogmatic critics and doctrinaire champions of our modern commercial society.
Annelien De Dijn, French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville: Liberty in a Levelled Society
This study makes a major contribution to our understanding of one of the most important and enduring strands of modern political thought. Annelien de Dijn argues that Montesquieu’s aristocratic liberalism - his conviction that the preservation of freedom in a monarchy required the existence of an aristocratic ‘corps intermédiaire’ - had a continued impact on post-revolutionary France. Revisionist historians from Furet to Rosanvallon have emphasised the impact of revolutionary republicanism on post-revolutionary France, with its monist conception of politics and its focus on popular sovereignty. Dr de Dijn, however, highlights the persistence of a pluralist liberalism that was rooted in the Old Regime, and which saw democracy and equality as inherent threats to liberty. She thus provides a new context in which to read the work of Alexis de Tocqueville, who is revealed as the heir not just of Restoration liberals, but also of the Royalists and their hero, Montesquieu.
Elisabeth Ellis, Provisional Politics: Kantian Arguments in Policy Context
If we are to vindicate moral reasoning in politics, Elisabeth Ellis argues in this original and provocative work, we must focus on the conditions of political discourse rather than the contents of any particular ethical system. Written in an engaging, direct style, Provisional Politics builds on Ellis’s prize-winning interpretation of Kant’s theory of provisional right to construct a new theory of justice under conditions of agency and plurality. She develops this new perspective through a series of cases ranging from the treatment of AIDS widows in Kenya to the rights of non-citizens everywhere, as well as the clash between democratic decision-making and the politics of species conservation. The book concludes with a sobering discussion of the probable limits of political agency.
Jenet Kirkpatrick, Uncivil Disobedience:
Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics
Uncivil Disobedience examines the roles violence and terrorism have played in the exercise of democratic ideals in America. Jennet Kirkpatrick explores how crowds, rallying behind the principle of popular sovereignty and desiring to make law conform to justice, can disdain law and engage in violence. She exposes the hazards of democracy that arise when citizens seek to control government directly, and demonstrates the importance of laws and institutions as limitations on the will of the people.
Kirkpatrick looks at some of the most explosive instances of uncivil disobedience in American history: the contemporary militia movement, Southern lynch mobs, frontier vigilantism, and militant abolitionism. She argues that the groups behind these violent episodes are often motivated by admirable democratic ideas of popular power and autonomy. Kirkpatrick shows how, in this respect, they are not so unlike the much-admired adherents of nonviolent civil disobedience, yet she reveals how those who engage in violent disobedience use these admirable democratic principles as a justification for terrorism and killing. She uses a "bottom-up" analysis of events to explain how this transformation takes place, paying close attention to what members of these groups do and how they think about the relationship between citizens and the law.
Uncivil Disobedience calls for a new vision of liberal democracy where the rule of the people and the rule of law are recognized as fundamental ideals, and where neither is triumphant or transcendent.
Jason Maloy,The Colonial American Origins of Modern Democratic Thought
This first examination in almost 40 years of political ideas in the seventeenth-century American colonies reaches some surprising conclusions about the history of democratic theory more generally. The origins of a distinctively modern kind of thinking about democracy can be located, not in revolutionary America and France in the later eighteenth century, but in the tiny New England colonies in the middle seventeenth. The key feature of this democratic rebirth was honoring not only the principle of popular sovereignty through regular elections but also the principle of accountability through non-electoral procedures for the auditing and impeachment of elected officers. By staking its institutional identity entirely on elections, modern democratic thought has misplaced the sense of robust popular control that originally animated it.
Dana Villa, Public Freedom
The freedom to take part in civic life--whether in the exercise of one's right to vote or congregate and protest--has become increasingly less important to Americans than individual rights and liberties. In Public Freedom, renowned political theorist Dana Villa argues that political freedom is essential to both the preservation of constitutional government and the very substance of American democracy itself.
Through intense close readings of theorists such as Hegel, Tocqueville, Mill, Adorno, Arendt, and Foucault, Villa diagnoses the key causes of our democratic discontent and offers solutions to preserve at least some of our democratic hopes. He demonstrates how Americans' preoccupation with a market-based conception of freedom--that is, the personal freedom to choose among different material, moral, and vocational goods--has led to the gradual erosion of meaningful public participation in politics as well as diminished interest in the health of the public realm itself. Villa critically examines, among other topics, the promise and limits of civil society and associational life as sources of democratic renewal; the effects of mass media on the public arena; and the problematic but still necessary ideas of civic competence and democratic maturity.
Public Freedom is a passionate and insightful defense of political liberties at a moment in America's history when such freedoms are very much at risk.
Alan Houston, Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement
This fascinating book explores Benjamin Franklin’s social and political thought. Although Franklin is often considered “the first American,” his intellectual world was cosmopolitan. An active participant in eighteenth-century Atlantic debates over the modern commercial republic, Franklin combined abstract analyses with practical proposals. Houston treats Franklin as shrewd, creative, and engaged—a lively thinker who joined both learned controversies and political conflicts at home and abroad.
Drawing on meticulous archival research, Houston examines such tantalizing themes as trade and commerce, voluntary associations and civic militias, population growth and immigration policy, political union and electoral institutions, freedom and slavery. In each case, he shows how Franklin urged the improvement of self and society.
Engagingly written and richly illustrated, this book provides a compelling portrait of Franklin, a fresh perspective on American identity, and a vital account of what it means to be practical.
Adrian Vermeule, Law and the Limits of Reason
Human reason is limited. Given the scarcity of reason, how should the power to make constitutional law be allocated among legislatures, courts and the executive, and how should legal institutions be designed? In Law and the Limits of Reason, Adrian Vermeule denies the widespread view, stemming from Burke and Hayek, that the limits of reason counsel in favor of judges making "living" constitutional law in the style of the common law. Instead, he proposes and defends a "codified constitution" - a regime in which legislatures have the primary authority to develop constitutional law over time, through statutes and constitutional amendments.
Vermeule contends that precisely because of the limits of human reason, large modern legislatures, with their numerous and highly diverse memberships and their complex internal structures for processing information, are the most epistemically effective lawmaking institutions.
Labels: 18th c, bibliophilia, political theory, reading list, reading recommendations
Blogging on jet lag and 2 hrs sleep in the last 2 days
You know, it's remarkable how entertaining and enjoyable and rewatchable I find Shrek, given that its moral is "It doesn't matter whether you're beautiful or ugly; all that matters is that you're not short."
By contrast, no matter how much fun I found watching Legally Blonde once in my life, I'll never watch it again. Its moral that "people who are beautiful and rich and popular but don't work very hard on their studies have it unfairly tough, until such time as the rest of us realize that their beauty entitles them to academic success" is too execrable to put up with twice.
Posted by Jacob T. Levy at 6:21 PM 2 comments Links to this post
Labels: misc, pop culture that's not really geekstuff
The return of the big book
In late 2005 I wrote:
2005 was a kind of curious year in book publishing in political theory and philosophy. The market was mainly filled with huge Companions or Very Short Introductions or anything else besides actual monographs. It doesn't seem to me that there was any book that captured everyone's attention. There was no new book in the prestigious Oxford Political Theory series. People have been talking for the past few years about the absence of any set of questions so exciting and energizing as to draw everyone out of their niches and into a common conversation. This year seemed to me the year in which that absence filtered through to the lagging-indicator of newly-published monographs.
Now, there's nothing wrong with that. The exciting, unifying, common-conversation Big Ideas are only sometimes productive. There need to be signficant periods of time when people are working in their niches and making progress there. Frankly, I enjoy going to APSA more in the years when it's filled with scores of panels with interesting new papers, each following its own logic of argument and discovery, than in the years when everyone feels compelled to give a paper about, e.g., deliberative democracy.
But in those fragmentary moments, excellent books can get published that don't get noticed because they're in other people's niches. I like to see good work get read and recognized, and like to discourage the occasional bout of "nothing good is being done these days" despair. So, as a partial corrective, a list of ten excellent, interesting, important, or potentially transformative books in political theory
Well, the last twelve months look rather different. Herewith a quick rundown of some of the books published since December 2007-- some of them works that people I know have been eagerly awaiting for years. In this post I'll list ten by well-established prominent senior figures in the field; I'll follow up with a post on ten by young and mid-career scholars. No rankings or claims of "ten best" or "ten most important;" more like my equivalent of Larry Solum's Legal Theory Bookworm (and, unsurprisingly, there's a bit of overlap with the books he's highlighted over the past year).
Thomas Christiano, The Constitution of Equality: Democratic Authority and Its Limits
What is the ethical basis of democracy? And what reasons do we have to go along with democratic decisions even when we disagree with them? And when do we have reason to say that we may justly ignore democratic decisions? These questions must be answered if we are to have answers to some of the most important questions facing our global community, which include whether there is a human right to democracy and whether we must attempt to spread democracy throughout the globe.
This book provides a philosophical account of the moral foundations of democracy and of liberalism. It shows how democracy and basic liberal rights are grounded in the principle of public equality, which tells us that in the establishment of law and policy we must treat persons as equals in ways they can see are treating them as equals. The principle of public equality is shown to be the fundamental principle of social justice. This account enables us to understand the nature and roles of adversarial politics and public deliberation in political life. It gives an account of the grounds of the authority of democracy. It also shows when the authority of democracy runs out. It shows how the violations of democratic and liberal rights are beyond the legitimate authority of democracy and how the creation of persistent minorities in a democratic society, and the failure to ensure a basic minimum for all persons, weaken the legitimate authority of democracy.
G.A. Cohen, Rescuing Justice and Equality
In this stimulating work of political philosophy, acclaimed philosopher G. A. Cohen sets out to rescue the egalitarian thesis that in a society in which distributive justice prevails, people’s material prospects are roughly equal. Arguing against the Rawlsian version of a just society, Cohen demonstrates that distributive justice does not tolerate deep inequality.
In the course of providing a deep and sophisticated critique of Rawls’s theory of justice, Cohen demonstrates that questions of distributive justice arise not only for the state but also for people in their daily lives. The right rules for the macro scale of public institutions and policies also apply, with suitable adjustments, to the micro level of individual decision-making.
Cohen also charges Rawls’s constructivism with systematically conflating the concept of justice with other concepts. Within the Rawlsian architectonic, justice is not distinguished either from other values or from optimal rules of social regulation. The elimination of those conflations brings justice closer to equality.
George Kateb, Patriotism and Other Mistakes
George Kateb has been one of the most respected and influential political theorists of the last quarter century. His work stands apart from that of many of his contemporaries and resists easy summary. In these essays Kateb often admonishes himself, in Socratic fashion, to keep political argument as far as possible negative: to be willing to assert what we are not, and what we will not do, and to build modestly from there some account of what we are and what we ought to do.
Drawing attention to the non-rational character of many motives that drive people to construct and maintain a political order, he urges greater vigilance in political life and cautions against “mistakes” not usually acknowledged as such. Patriotism is one such mistake, too often resulting in terrible brutality and injustices. He asks us to consider how commitments to ideals of religion, nation, race, ethnicity, manliness, and courage find themselves in the service of immoral ends, and he exhorts us to remember the dignity of the individual.
The book is divided into three sections. In the first, Kateb discusses the expansion of state power (including such topics as surveillance) and the justifications for war recently made by American policy makers. The second section offers essays in moral psychology, and the third comprises fresh interpretations of major thinkers in the tradition of political thought, from Socrates to Arendt.
Charles Larmore, The Autonomy of Morality
In The Autonomy of Morality Charles Larmore challenges two ideas that have shaped the modern mind. The world, he argues, is not a realm of value-neutral fact, nor does human freedom consist in imposing principles of our own devising on an alien reality. Rather, reason consists in being responsive to reasons for thought and action that arise from the world itself. Larmore shows that the moral good has an authority that speaks for itself. Only in this light does the true basis of a liberal political order come into view, as well as the role of unexpected goods in the makeup of a life lived well.
David Miller, National Responsibility and Global Justice
This book presents a non-cosmopolitan theory of global justice. In contrast to theories that seek to extend principles of social justice, such as equality of opportunity or resources, to the world as a whole, it argues that in a world made up of self-determining national communities, a different conception is needed. The book presents and defends an account of national responsibility which entails that nations may justifiably claim the benefits that their decisions and policies produce, while also being held liable for harms that they inflict on other peoples. Such collective responsibility extends to responsibility for the national past, so the present generation may owe redress to those who have been harmed by the actions of their predecessors. Global justice, therefore, must be understood not in terms of equality, but in terms of a minimum set of basic rights that belong to human beings everywhere. Where these rights are being violated or threatened, remedial responsibility may fall on outsiders. The book considers how this responsibility should be allocated, and how far citizens of democratic societies must limit their pursuit of domestic objectives in order to discharge their global obligations.
The book presents a systematic challenge to existing theories of global justice without retreating to a narrow nationalism that denies that we have any responsibilities to the world's poor. It combines discussion of practical questions such as immigration and foreign aid with philosophical exploration of, for instance, the different senses of responsibility, and the grounds of human rights.
[See also my article "National and statist responsibility," Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy]
Martha Nussbaum, Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality
From one of America's most distinguished moral philosophers, a sweeping historically based argument that equal respect for all citizens is the bedrock of America's tradition of religious freedom.
In one of the great triumphs of the colonial and Revolutionary periods, the founders of the future United States overcame religious intolerance in favor of a constitutional order dedicated to fair treatment for people's deeply held conscientious beliefs. It granted equal liberty of conscience to all and took a firm stand against religious establishment. This respect for religious difference, acclaimed scholar Martha Nussbaum writes, formed our democracy.
Yet today there are signs that this legacy is misunderstood. The prominence of a particular type of Christianity in our public life suggests the unequal worth of citizens who hold different religious beliefs, or no beliefs. Other people, meanwhile, seek to curtail the influence of religion in public life in a way that is itself unbalanced and unfair. Such partisan efforts, Nussbaum argues, violate the spirit of our Constitution.
Liberty of Conscience is a historical and conceptual study of the American tradition of religious freedom. Weaving together political history, philosophical ideas, and key constitutional cases, this is a rich chronicle of an ideal of equality that has always been central to our history but is now in serious danger.
Josiah Ober, Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens
When does democracy work well, and why? Is democracy the best form of government? These questions are of supreme importance today as the United States seeks to promote its democratic values abroad. Democracy and Knowledge is the first book to look to ancient Athens to explain how and why directly democratic government by the people produces wealth, power, and security.
Combining a history of Athens with contemporary theories of collective action and rational choice developed by economists and political scientists, Josiah Ober examines Athenian democracy's unique contribution to the ancient Greek city-state's remarkable success, and demonstrates the valuable lessons Athenian political practices hold for us today. He argues that the key to Athens's success lay in how the city-state managed and organized the aggregation and distribution of knowledge among its citizens. Ober explores the institutional contexts of democratic knowledge management, including the use of social networks for collecting information, publicity for building common knowledge, and open access for lowering transaction costs. He explains why a government's attempt to dam the flow of information makes democracy stumble. Democratic participation and deliberation consume state resources and social energy. Yet as Ober shows, the benefits of a well-designed democracy far outweigh its costs.
Understanding how democracy can lead to prosperity and security is among the most pressing political challenges of modern times. Democracy and Knowledge reveals how ancient Greek politics can help us transcend the democratic dilemmas that confront the world today.
Philip Pettit, Made With Words; Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics
Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy.
Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented the invention of language thesis--the idea that language is a cultural innovation that transformed the human mind. The invention, in Hobbes's story, is a double-edged sword. It enables human beings to reason, commit themselves as persons, and incorporate in groups. But it also allows them to agonize about the future and about their standing relative to one another; it takes them out of the Eden of animal silence and into a life of inescapable conflict--the state of nature. Still, if language leads into this wasteland, according to Hobbes, it can also lead out. It can enable people to establish a commonwealth where the words of law and morality have a common, enforceable sense, and where people can invoke the sanctions of an absolute sovereign to give their words to one another in credible commitment and contract.
Written by one of today's leading philosophers, Made with Words is both an original reinterpretation and a clear and lively introduction to Hobbes's thought.
Nancy Rosenblum, On The Side of Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship
Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science. Their governing and electoral functions are among the chief concerns of the field. Yet most political theorists--including democratic theorists--ignore or disparage parties as grubby arenas of ambition, obstacles to meaningful political participation and deliberation. On the Side of the Angels is a vigorous defense of the virtues of parties and partisanship, and their worth as a subject for political theory.
Nancy Rosenblum's account moves between political theory and political science, and she uses resources from both fields to outline an appreciation of parties and the moral distinctiveness of partisanship. She draws from the history of political thought and identifies the main lines of opposition to parties, as well as the rare but significant moments of appreciation. Rosenblum then sets forth her own theoretical appreciation of parties and partisanship. She discusses the achievement of parties in regulating rivalries, channeling political energies, and creating the lines of division that make pluralist politics meaningful. She defends "partisan" as a political identity over the much-vaunted status of "independent," and she considers where contemporary democracies should draw the line in banning parties.
On the Side of the Angels offers an ethics of partisanship that speaks to questions of centrism, extremism, and polarization in American party politics. By rescuing parties from their status as orphans of political philosophy, Rosenblum fills a significant void in political and democratic theory.
[There will be a symposium on On the Side of Angels on this blog in the near future.]
Labels: bibliophilia, political theory, reading list, reading recommendations
CFP: Association for Political Theory
The APT Conference 2009
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Proposals due February 15, 2009
The Association for Political Theory (APT) invites proposals for its
seventh annual conference to be held October 22–24, 2009 at Texas A&M
University in College Station, Texas. The APT is an interdisciplinary
organization devoted to supporting political theory and political
philosophy. We recognize that scholars in a range of disciplines are
doing important critical work on social and political questions. We
welcome their participation in this conference. The APT Conference
provides a collegial setting for scholars of various professional ranks,
institutional affiliations and theoretical approaches to engage one
another in fruitful discussions of their work. To learn more about the
Association and its annual conference, please visit the APT Gateway
website .
The full text of the call for papers is now available on the APT
website. Visit the APT homepage, or click on this link to
download a printer-friendly pdf of the Call.
Paper and panel proposals can be submitted any time on the APT website.
Proposals are due by 15 February 2009.
Posted by Jacob T. Levy at 10:22 AM 0 comments Links to this post
Labels: academic announcements, political theory
Hither and yon, Oxford edition
I'll be at the Adam Smith/ 250th Anniversary of Theory of Moral Sentiments at Balliol College and then the "Liberalisms East and West" conference at St. Antony's College this week/ weekend. Very excited about both.
Labels: hither and yon
The news I miss on red-eye flights Cass Sunstein ...
2008 books in political theory, continued See thi...
Blogging on jet lag and 2 hrs sleep in the last 2 ...
The return of the big book In late 2005 I wrote:2...
CFP: Association for Political Theory The APT Con...
Hither and yon, Oxford edition I'll be at the Ada...
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line252
|
__label__wiki
| 0.671786
| 0.671786
|
Use of Meds for Enlarged Prostate Might Delay a Cancer Diagnosis
MONDAY, May 6, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Men who take medicines for an enlarged prostate can have years-long delays in their diagnosis of prostate cancer and more advanced prostate cancer when they’re diagnosed, a new study finds.
The reason? Drugs in this class — such as Proscar (finasteride) and Avodart (dutasteride) — can drive down blood levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA). That’s the blood marker doctors periodically check for as they monitor men for prostate cancer.
But if physicians fail to account for this drug-induced lowering of PSA, they might conclude that it is not rising to potentially alarming levels — and thereby miss early-stage cancers, the researchers explained.
That’s what appeared to happen often among patients enrolled in the new study, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
The investigators tracked data from nearly 81,000 men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer after doctors detected elevated PSA.
The researchers saw distinct differences in outcomes for men who had taken a drug from the “5-ARI” class of medicines, such as Proscar or Avodart, versus men who hadn’t. Men taking a 5-ARI drug to treat an enlarged prostate were diagnosed with prostate cancer an average of 3.6 years after their first signs of elevated PSA, compared with 1.4 years for men who did not use the drugs, the findings showed.
That means more cancers detected later in their progression, the study authors explained.
“Our data suggest that PSA suppression in this population was not routinely accounted for during screening for prostate cancer, and that this led to delays in diagnosis,” said study lead author Reith Sarkar.
A delayed diagnosis can then easily result in “advanced disease and worsened clinical outcomes” for patients, Sarkar explained in a university news release. He is a clinical research associate at UCSD’s department of radiation medicine and applied sciences.
The study also found that only 29% of 5-ARI users had a prostate biopsy within two years of their first elevated levels of PSA, compared with 59% of those who didn’t take the drugs.
All of this may have led to another finding: That high-grade prostate cancers — those that grow and spread quickly and have a worse prognosis — were diagnosed in 25% of 5-ARI users, compared with 17% of those who didn’t take the drugs, the team reported.
Some of these cancers proved to be metastatic. Prostate cancers that had already spread to other areas of the body were found in 7% of 5-ARI users, compared with 3% of non-users, the researchers said.
According to study senior author Dr. Brent Rose, the findings show how crucial it is “to raise awareness among medical care teams and patients that [these drugs] can cause PSA suppression.”
He believes clear guidelines are needed to help bring better care to the many men prescribed these medications. Rose is assistant professor of radiation medicine and applied sciences at UCSD.
Prior research has shown that treatment with 5-ARIs can trigger about a 50% drop in levels of PSA, a protein produced by the prostate gland, the researchers noted.
Sarkar said that none of this means that men should abandon PSA testing.
“PSA screening continues to be an effective tool for prostate cancer detection among men using 5-ARIs, as long as PSA levels are adjusted for PSA suppression that occurs while taking these drugs,” he said.
Two urologists who care for men with prostate issues agreed that there needs to be heightened awareness among physicians.
“Often patients will be told that their PSA levels are normal, when in fact — because the medication causes the PSA to be half of its true level — these patients have an elevated PSA level and need further evaluation,” said Dr. Manish Vira. He’s vice chair for urologic research at Northwell Health’s Arthur Smith Institute for Urology, in Lake Success, N.Y.
Vira stressed that the results do not mean that drugs like Avodart or Proscar cause advanced prostate cancer; merely that their use can hamper efforts at early detection.
Dr. Elizabeth Kavaler is a urologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. She agreed that “the take-home message is that men who are on 5-ARIs for an enlarged prostate have to be monitored closely for prostate cancer, and the threshold for biopsy [for these patients] needs to be lowered.”
The study was published online May 6 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more on prostate cancer.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line255
|
__label__wiki
| 0.790899
| 0.790899
|
Colet and Company
(formerly Kay Francis Film Festival)
Reviews of classic movies from the famous to the obscure, with a particular focus on pre-Code cinema and the films of actress Kay Francis. A growing number are becoming available on VHS or DVD, and Movies Unlimited may have some copies of out-of-print titles. Otherwise, search for upcoming broadcast times on the Turner Classic Movies website (www.tcm.com), and set your recorder.
Pre-Code DVDs
Lady of the Night — starring Norma Shearer (see review)
Union Depot — starring Joan Blondell (see review)
Forbidden Hollywood, Volume 3 — showcasing films by director William Wellman
Pre-Code Hollywood Collection — from Universal Studios
Craig Clarke
Award-winning writer, editor, and publisher with an unapologetic love for genre fiction, classic films, and quirky music.
The Horn Blows at Midnight directed by Raoul Walsh...
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer directed by Irvin...
A Free Soul directed by Clarence Brown (starring N...
Classic Film Links
Craig's Movie Club
Greatest Stars of Hollywood
Kay Francis films @ Movies Unlimited
Kay Francis info @ TCM
Movie Morlocks
The TCM Ten
Tonight's Movie @ Laura's Miscellaneous Musings
Classic Film Weblogs
Michael's Moviepalace: Viewing Classic Movies
A GIRL, A GUY, AND A GOB (1941)
Out of the Past
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache
Great Old Movies
Movies 'Til Dawn
BEVERLY HILLS PROPERTIES OF THE 1950s: AN AL HERD JOINT
Café Muscato
Here and Back Again
Classic Movies Digest
Yet ANOTHER Classic Movie Paperback!
Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock, 1949)
Somebody Dies
The Law and the Lawless: A Ralph Compton Novel by David Robbins (Western)
Evelyn Brent in LAUGHTER AND TEARS (1921)
Columbia Pictures Pre-Code Collection: Virtue directed by Edward Buzzell (starring Carole Lombard, Pat O'Brien, Mayo Methot, Shirley Grey, Ward Bond, Jack La Rue)
hello, I must be going...
The Classic Maiden
classicmaiden
Like Anna Karina's Sweater
Ich werde ein Berliner (Or: From Liberty to Victory)
Obscure Classics
Peeping Tom, by Greg Dickson
Themes on a Variation
A Very Rosie Christmas by Rosie Thomas (holiday music)
The Roadshow Version
Free-For-All-Friday: Cooking With the (Classic) Stars!
Clydefro.com
Potential Kickbacks
A Free Soul directed by Clarence Brown (starring Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard)
A Free Soul (1931). Screenplay by Becky Gardiner (dialogue continuity by John Meehan) from the play by Willard Mack based on the novel A Free Soul by Adela Rogers St. Johns.
Jan Ashe (Norma Shearer) may have been raised by her alcoholic lawyer father Stephen (Lionel Barrymore, a personal favorite) to be A Free Soul — much to the detriment of his relationship with his wealthy family — but that didn't mean he wanted her to hook up with his latest client, gangster Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable); Stephen just defended him successfully on a murder charge.
Like any father, he'd rather she marry the more dependable (and unbelievably loyal) Dwight Winthrop (Leslie Howard). But Jan finds fiery Ace much more appealing than the bland Dwight, and Dwight loves her enough to let her go (even though he finally got her to accept his proposal after 73 tries). Stephen tries to make a pact with Jan that they both quit their vices, but of course it's not so easy for either of them, and the result is a downward spiral leading to the deaths of two people.
A Free Soul is one of the films (Strangers May Kiss is another) given a great deal of coverage in Mick LaSalle's book on pre-Code actresses, Complicated Women. According to LaSalle, "A Free Soul is a movie about lust. Jan ... lusts for her gangster lover, just as her alcoholic father ... lusts for a drink, and neither has any willpower."
Both Shearer and Barrymore were nominated for Academy Awards, along with director Clarence Brown. The terrific Barrymore won, though his performance in this film is no better than others I've seen him in. By most accounts, it was due to his captivating 14-minute monologue at the conclusion of the film — an uninterrupted take that required the splicing of film from two cameras (a reel only holds 10 minutes' worth) and got A Free Soul included in the Guinness Book of World Records.
But Shearer is no slouch here, either, giving one of the sexually charged performances that have made her a favorite of fans of pre-Code cinema. Shearer's silent-film acting may be distracting to some, with her intense facial expressions and often extreme poses (watch out for those elbows, cocked and ready to fire), but it's a skill that allows her to act with more than words, and Jan Ashe is a woman who is definitely more interested in talking with her body than with her larynx. A Free Soul turns the tables on the normally accepted male–female roles. He wants to talk about the relationship, but she brushes him off with, "Oh, dear, he wants to talk some more."
Shearer heats up the screen when she's with Gable (her kind of blatant sexiness was even rare then) and is reluctantly restrained when with Howard. Unfortunately, the film as a whole is less than memorable. Perhaps the consequences and conclusion were simply too predictable to this jaded moviegoer, but I think most viewers will primarily remember the gown Shearer wears through most of the first half of A Free Soul. It alone is enough to elicit a certain level of shock (especially when considering the 1931 release date), in that is leaves very little of Norma to the imagination, showcasing her bralessness along practically every other facet of her figure.
Still, it's fascinating that a movie like A Free Soul that is almost 80 years old still has the ability to astound audiences with its ideas and its fashions — ideas that we in the 21st century can hardly get our heads around, and fashions that no big star of today would outside of a particularly meaty Oscar-bait role. (Five years later, Shearer and Howard would reunite as Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in Romeo and Juliet — though both obviously too old for the roles — and Gable and Howard would compete for the love of another free-thinking woman eight years later in Gone with the Wind.)
Historically significant films are not always the most entertaining, but any movie fan who wants to be educated about pre-Code films, or who are simply fans of the stars, will want to take time out for this second Forbidden Hollywood set from the TCM Archives. The three-disc set also includes The Divorcee (the movie that won Shearer her Oscar), Three on a Match (with Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, and Joan Blondell), Female (starring Ruth Chatterton), and Night Nurse (with Gable, Blondell, and Barbara Stanwyck).
Posted by Craig Clarke at 6:20 AM
Labels: Clarence Brown, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Norma Shearer, pre-Code
Hi Craig, enjoyed your review. I saw this film a few months ago, after also reading about it in Mick LaSalle's book, and was impressed by how daring it is, as you say. I remember Lionel Barrymore's performance as being gloriously over the top in this one - and also liked Shearer's more understated performance. Judy
I love Clark Gable in these early pre-code films playing the bad guy. He was so good at it. Not to say that he didn't play a wonderful hero throughout his career, but I would have liked to have seen him play a few villain roles after he got big.
Also, I wanted to let you know that you're one of the blogs I'm passing the Premio Dardos award to.
http://obscureclassics.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/the-premio-dardos/
Craig Clarke said...
Thanks for the award, Katie. I'll give some consideration to whom I'd like to recognize.
The studio system was a big wet blanket when it came to interesting roles for their stars. It also reminds me of Cary Grant's character in Suspicion: they couldn't let Cary Grant (the image more than the person, probably) be a murderer!
Rupert Alistair said...
Clark, I agree with you about the studio's attitude toward a actor's image. It's one thing if they had him or her date someone to project a certain image (Young Rooney/Garland touring the east coast to promote respective films)but to diminish the power of a film to protect a personality? I don't think so. Great post.
Thanks, Alistair.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line257
|
__label__wiki
| 0.606999
| 0.606999
|
Kids > Kayak > Map Fun
From Ellesmere Island to Pelee Island, from Tofino to St. John’s, we’ll show you where it all happened. You’ve read about all kinds of interesting people and events in Kayak. Get clicking to see where in Canada you’ll find them.
A Taste of Canada
View A Taste of Canada in a larger map
Where do we start? There’s figgy duff (a cakey boiled pudding with raisins), toutons (pieces of fried bread dough often served with molasses), jiggs dinner (boiled salt beef and vegetables) and lots, lots more!
Everyone in Halifax has a favourite place to get donairs — wraps made with spiced meat and vegetables. There are lots of delicious foods from land and sea, too: fiddleheads (young ferns that are still wrapped up in a spiral shape), scallops, and blueberries, for instance.
Every trip to P.E.I. has to include a lobster dinner, preferably one in a church basement or community hall for the right atmosphere. Charlottetown’s Cows Ice Cream is famous across Canada, both for its icy treats and its goofy T-shirts and other products featuring cartoon cows. And of course there are lots and lots of potatoes.
Not surprisingly, fresh seafood such as mussels, clams and lobster is what this province is best known for, but you’ll also find unique specialties like poutine rapée (grated potatoes and salt pork cooked together)
There are mouth-watering treats everywhere you turn in Quebec, from maple syrup and taffy at cabanes à sucre to smoked meat and bagels in downtown Montreal to local cheeses. Don’t forget to try poutine (French fries with cheese curds and gravy) at a small casse-croute (snack bar).
Like most big cities in Canada, Toronto offers foods from almost every country in the world. Ottawa is famous for beavertails, fried pastries smothered with toppings such as cheese and garlic butter or cinnamon sugar.
Settlers from Eastern Europe — Ukraine, Russia, Germany — brought delicious foods such as cabbage rolls and borscht (beet soup) with them. First Nations shared traditional foods like fresh fish and wild rice.
Everyone knows there’s lots of grain in Saskatchewan, but the durum wheat grown here and in other western provinces is extremely important because it’s perfect for making pasta.
If a small town in the province has a railway line running through it, chances are good there’s a Chinese-Canadian restaurant nearby. That’s because Chinese railway workers often stayed behind when the work was over, opening restaurants even though most had no training as chefs.
Cranberries, crab, wild mushrooms and of course, salmon. These are foods that have been loved by people from the earliest days of First Nations to modern times.
Fish in the lakes of northern Canada are some of the tastiest around. Arctic char, pickerel, lake trout and more are very popular here.
The gold rush of the late 1800s brought people streaming in from all over. They survived on bacon, tinned beans and sourdough bread.
Traditional Inuit foods are still popular here, alongside the same modern foods eaten everywhere else. Caribou, seal, walrus, Arctic hare and ptarmigan (a type of bird) may be eaten raw or frozen along with fried fish and local plants and berries.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line259
|
__label__cc
| 0.50861
| 0.49139
|
SAN FRANCISCO, July 31, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RPX Corporation (Nasdaq:RPXC), a leading provider of patent risk management solutions, today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012.
Revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2012 totaled $55.2 million, up 42% from the prior year period
GAAP net income for the second quarter of fiscal 2012 was $13.2 million or $0.25 per pro forma diluted share[1]
Non-GAAP net income for the second quarter of fiscal 2012 was $15.4 million or $0.29 per pro forma diluted share[1]
"RPX made solid progress in the second quarter, expanding our client network to 120, and reducing risk for our existing client base, evidenced by strong renewal metrics," said John Amster, CEO of RPX Corporation. "We were also pleased with the progress on our new products and services that we hope will expand our ability to clear patent risk from the market."
Revenue for the second quarter increased 42% to $55.2 million, compared to $38.9 million in the second quarter of 2011.
Net acquisition spend during the quarter totaled $53.5 million, and included eight new acquisitions of patent assets, in addition to the exercise of previously negotiated options to acquire licenses for new clients.
GAAP net income for the quarter was $13.2 million or $0.25 per diluted share, compared to $7.7 million or $0.15 per diluted share in the second quarter of 2011. Net income was $0.25 per pro forma diluted share[1] in the second quarter, compared to $0.16 per pro forma diluted share[1] in the second quarter of 2011.
Non-GAAP net income for the quarter, which excludes stock-based compensation and the amortization of acquired intangibles (in each case, net of tax), was $15.4 million or $0.29 per pro forma diluted share[1], compared to $8.8 million or $0.18 per pro forma diluted share[1] in the second quarter of 2011.
This outlook reflects the Company's current and preliminary view and may be subject to change. Please see the paragraph regarding "Forward-Looking Statements" at the end of this news release. The Company provided the following business outlook for the third quarter and full year 2012:
Third Quarter 2012 Full Year 2012
Revenue $46.7 — $47.1 Million $193 — $203 Million
Non-GAAP Cost of Revenue as a Percentage of Revenue - 40% — 43%
Non-GAAP SG&A - $45 — $49 Million
Non-GAAP Net Income $8.0 — $8.5 Million $42 — $48 Million
Non-GAAP Effective Tax Rate 36% 36%
Diluted Shares Outstanding (Pro Forma Weighted Average) 53.0 Million 53.5 Million
Net Acquisition Spend - $110 — $120 Million
[1] Pro forma diluted share computed to give effect to the shares of restricted stock outstanding as of the original date of issuance and the conversion of the Company's redeemable convertible preferred stock into common stock using the as-if converted method as though the conversion had occurred as of January 1, 2011 or the original issuance, if later.
RPX will offer a live webcast of the conference call which can be accessed from the "Investor Relations" section of the Company's website at www.rpxcorp.com. The webcast will be archived there for a period of 30 days. An audio replay of the conference call will also be available two hours after the call and will be available for 30 days. To hear the replay, parties in the United States and Canada should call 1-800-406-7325 and enter conference code 4550496. International parties should call 1-303-590-3030 and enter conference code 4550496.
RPX Corporation (Nasdaq:RPXC) is a leading provider of patent risk solutions, offering defensive buying, acquisition syndication, patent intelligence and advisory services. Since its founding in 2008, RPX has introduced efficiency to the patent market by providing a rational alternative to litigation. The San Francisco-based company's pioneering approach combines principal capital, deep patent expertise, and client contributions to generate enhanced patent buying power. By acquiring patents, RPX helps to mitigate and manage patent risk for its growing client network.
The RPX Corporation logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=12642
This news release dated July 31, 2012 contains non-GAAP financial measures. Tables are provided in this news release that reconcile the non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable financial measures prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). These non-GAAP financial measures include non-GAAP cost of revenues, non-GAAP selling, general and administrative expense, non-GAAP net income, and non-GAAP earnings per share.
To supplement the Company's consolidated financial statements presented on a GAAP basis, management believes that these non-GAAP measures provide useful information about the Company's core operating results and thus are appropriate to enhance the overall understanding of the Company's past financial performance and its prospects for the future. Management is excluding from its non-GAAP operating results stock-based compensation expenses (inclusive of related employer payroll taxes) and the amortization of acquired intangible assets. Management uses these non-GAAP measures to evaluate the Company's financial results, and believes investors wish to exclude the effects of such items in comparing our financial performance with that of other companies. The adjustments to the Company's GAAP results are made with the intent of providing both management and investors a more complete understanding of the Company's underlying operational results, trends and performance. The presentation of additional information is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for or superior to financial results determined in accordance with GAAP.
This news release and its attachments contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding RPX's future financial performance as well as any statements regarding the Company's strategic and operational plans. The Company's actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements. Factors that may contribute to such differences include, among others, the Company's ability to maintain an adequate rate of growth, the impact of the current economic climate on the Company's business, the Company's ability to effectively manage its growth, and the Company's ability to attract new clients and retain existing clients. Forward-looking statements are often identified by the use of words such as, but not limited to, "anticipate," "believe," "can," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "will," "plan," "project," "seek," "should," "target," "will," "would," and similar expressions or variations intended to identify forward-looking statements. More information about potential factors that could affect the Company's business and financial results is contained in the Company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K, its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and the Company's other filings with the SEC. The Company does not intend, and undertakes no duty, to update any forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
Revenue $ 55,238 $ 38,850 $ 99,087 $ 73,240
Cost of revenue 20,511 14,528 38,528 28,193
Selling, general and administrative expenses 13,533 11,286 26,756 19,396
(Gain) on sale of patent assets, net -- -- (177) --
Operating income 21,194 13,036 33,980 25,651
Interest income 72 42 123 68
Interest and other expense, net (25) (235) (96) (634)
Income before provision for income taxes 21,241 12,843 34,007 25,085
Provision for income taxes 8,053 5,177 12,738 10,724
Net income $ 13,188 $ 7,666 $ 21,269 $ 14,361
Net income available to common stockholders:
Basic $ 12,976 $ 4,714 $ 20,782 $ 5,607
Diluted $ 12,985 $ 4,924 $ 20,806 $ 6,091
Net income per common share:
Basic $ 0.26 $ 0.16 $ 0.43 $ 0.31
Diluted $ 0.25 $ 0.15 $ 0.40 $ 0.29
Weighted-average shares used in computing net income per common share:
June 30, December 31,
Cash and cash equivalents $ 68,059 $ 106,749
Short-term investments 151,817 126,976
Restricted cash -- 500
Accounts receivable 13,543 16,160
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 8,522 12,124
Deferred tax assets 4,604 5,192
Total current assets 246,545 267,701
Patent assets, net 192,445 163,352
Goodwill 16,460 1,675
Restricted cash, less current portion -- 147
Deferred tax assets, less current portion 8,672 300
Other assets 3,002 665
Accrued liabilities 4,624 7,762
Deferred revenue 98,259 96,513
Deferred payment obligations 1,099 5,056
Other current liabilities 6,033 2,182
Deferred revenue, less current portion 7,721 11,762
Deferred tax liabilities 22,837 14,695
Other liabilities 38 119
Common stock 5 5
Additional paid-in capital 272,413 259,315
Retained earnings 61,056 39,787
Accumulated other comprehensive loss (28) (23)
Total stockholders' equity 333,446 299,084
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $ 474,652 $ 437,994
Cash flows from operating activities
Net income $ 21,269 $ 14,361
Depreciation and amortization 38,938 28,176
Stock-based compensation 5,012 2,936
Excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation (5,423) (203)
Imputed interest on deferred payment obligations 93 436
Gain on sale of patent assets (177) --
Amortization of premium on investments 2,473 195
Deferred taxes 588 25
Other (11) (4)
Changes in assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable 2,617 6,360
Prepaid expenses and other assets 3,745 666
Accounts payable (226) 330
Accrued and other liabilities (3,987) (3,205)
Deferred revenue (2,349) 5,014
Net cash provided by operating activities 62,562 55,087
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchases of investments classified as available-for-sale (127,932) (40,100)
Maturities and sale of investments classified as available-for-sale 105,887 970
Business acquisition (45,765) (3,000)
Decrease in restricted cash 647 --
Purchases of intangible assets (52) (95)
Purchases of property and equipment (1,400) (706)
Acquisitions of patent assets (36,730) (43,151)
Proceeds from sale of patent assets 200 80
Net cash used in investing activities (105,145) (86,002)
Cash flows from financing activities
Repayments of principal on deferred payment obligations (4,050) (16,404)
Proceeds from issuance of common stock in initial public offering, net of issuance costs -- 157,828
Proceeds from exercise of stock options and other common stock issuances 2,520 2,025
Excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation 5,423 203
Net cash provided by financing activities 3,893 143,652
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents (38,690) 112,737
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period 106,749 46,656
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period $ 68,059 $ 159,393
Reconciliation of Pro Forma Net Income Per Share
Pro forma net income per share:
Shares used in computing pro forma net income per share:
Basic:
Basic weighted-average common shares 49,454 28,941 48,881 18,141
Less: Conversion of redeemable convertible preferred shares -- (14,989) -- (7,536)
Add: Assumed conversion of redeemable convertible preferred shares -- 26,230 -- 26,230
Add: Restricted stock 809 3,505 1,146 3,741
Shares used in computing pro forma basic net income per share 50,263 43,687 50,027 40,576
Diluted:
Diluted weighted-average common shares 51,787 33,131 51,517 21,187
Shares used in computing pro forma diluted net income per share 52,596 47,877 52,663 43,622
Stock-based compensation[1] 2,608 1,888 5,281 2,936
Amortization of acquired intangible assets[2] 321 -- 471 --
Income tax adjustments[3] (747) (714) (1,635) (482)
Non-GAAP net income $ 15,370 $ 8,840 $ 25,386 $ 16,815
Pro forma non-GAAP net income per share:
Pro forma weighted-average shares:
Cost of revenue $ 20,511 $ 14,528 $ 38,528 $ 28,193
Amortization of acquired intangible assets[2] (56) -- (112) --
Non-GAAP cost of revenue $ 20,455 $ 14,528 $ 38,416 $ 28,193
Selling, general and administrative expenses $ 13,533 $ 11,286 $ 26,756 $ 19,396
Stock-based compensation[1] (2,608) (1,888) (5,281) (2,936)
Amortization of acquired intangible assets[2] (265) -- (359) --
Non-GAAP selling, general and administrative expenses $ 10,660 $ 9,398 $ 21,116 $ 16,460
[1] RPX excludes stock-based compensation and related employer payroll taxes from its non-GAAP financial measures.
[2] RPX excludes amortization expense related to intangible assets (other than patents) acquired in conjunction with the acquisition of businesses from its non-GAAP financial measures.
[3] Amount reflects income taxes associated with the above noted non-GAAP exclusions.
($ in thousands)
As of and for the Three Months Ended June 30,
Operating Metrics 2012 2011
Number of clients 120 96
Net additions 4 15
Trailing four quarters 24 45
Gross acquisition spend $ 107,684 $ 21,722
Trailing four quarters $ 183,709 $ 84,314
Net acquisition spend $ 53,454 $ 21,722
Full time equivalent headcount 126 81
Subscription revenue $ 45,813 $ 35,550
Other revenue 9,425 3,300
Revenue $ 55,238 $ 38,850
Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments $ 219,876 $ 198,697
Deferred revenue, current and noncurrent $ 105,980 $ 87,574
CONTACT: Investor Relations
Cynthia Hiponia
The Blueshirt Group
Kaustuva Das
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line261
|
__label__cc
| 0.742596
| 0.257404
|
Third edition of the ISP's yearly newsletter
The third edition of our yearly newsletter is here. It has updates on ISP's research, people, activities, and accomplishments during the past year. In addition it has lot to say about ISP's completion of 30 years. Click here to read.
Congratulation ISP Alumni Matthias Grabmair
Congratulations to ISP Alumni Matthias Grabmair for joining Language Technology Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Matthias Grabmair ('2016) is listed in new faculty profiles for fall 2017. Click to know more >>
NSF Grants by ISP Faculty
ISP Faculty Dr. Rebecca Hwa along with ISP Director, Dr. Diane Litman and School of Education Professor Dr. Amanda Godley, has been awarded an NSF grant for the project titled: "Development of Human Language Technologies to Improve Disciplinary Writing and Learning through Self-Regulated Revising"
Read more on NSF website
ISP Faculty Dr. Adriana Kovashka and Dr. Rebecca Hwa , has been awarded an NSF grant for the project titled: "RI: Small: Modeling Vividness and Symbolism for Decoding Visual Rhetoric"
ISP Paws Lab received the Best Student Award
PAWS lab paper "Fine-Grained Open Learner Models: Complexity Versus Support" lead by Julio Guerra just received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UMAP 2017 conference in Bratislava. [ Link ] The paper was advised by two ISP faculty Dr. Peter Brusilovsky and Dr. Christian Schunn.
James Chen Best Student Paper Awards is the most respected Best Student Paper award in the field of user modeling and personalization. The award is given for a full conference paper for which the first (and primary) author is a student. The University of Pittsburgh is the clear leader in producing James Chen Award winners as can be seen in the link http://www.um.org/awards/james-chen-best-student-paper-awards
Former ISP students Rosta Farzan and Min Chi also received this award in the past. Dr. Rosta Farzan also received this award twice as a student in 2006 and 2009 and once again as an advisor of a winning student in 2011.
ISP Alumni - Steve Casner's book reviewed on Bookshelf @WSJ by Edward Kosner
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line263
|
__label__wiki
| 0.783296
| 0.783296
|
Mark Easton keeps at it
The BBC's home affairs editor Mark Easton has been getting a bit of stick recently from right-wing newspapers and politicians over the issue of bias, particularly regarding the issue of immigration.
Undeterred, Mark keeps on keeping on.
His latest blogpost poses the question Is diversity good or bad for community cohesion?
Can you guess what answer his article will give...before you even read it?
Here's his closing paragraph:
But what this paper suggests is that where you have non-segregated and relatively prosperous communities, diversity is likely to improve community life, not damage it.
Did you guess correctly?
That won't exactly blow those suspicions of bias away, will it?
Posted by Craig at 21:17 No comments:
Labels: immigration, Mark Easton
This week's Telegram at the Daily Telegraph features a twenty-minute discussion between James Delingpole and former BBC arts correspondent Rosie Millard on the issue of BBC bias. It's well worth a listen.
listen to ‘Is BBC bias as bad as ever? And RIP Lou Reed. What happens when all the other rock legends die?’ on Audioboo
Labels: Telegraph
I keep noticing a fifties revival, what with all that retro furniture with splayed out, spindly legs, and nostalgia on the radio like that enjoyable stroll through the childhoods of Christopher Matthew and Martin Jarvis, ‘Grey shorts and sandals’ radio 4. Apart from finding the content entertaining I thought it also echoed what radio used to be like. (before every other programme included something related to Islam or Sharia compliant everything-but-the-kitchen-sink)
There’s been a marked hankering back to the days when there was an air of certainty about ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. Christianity was the default religion in as much as everyone, with little thought, put down ‘C of E’ on forms, so as not to stand out from the crowd.
When I use the term ‘everyone’, kindly assume it’s is my way of loosely tarring the majority of British people, with an indiscriminate, sloppily laden brush.
Not that ‘everyone’ was necessarily religious, but they felt that as a nice person, one should be. The security of the cosy consensus and the predictable assumption, ‘everyone’ knew where ‘everyone’ stood.
Religion provided a kind of paternalistic protection, reaching the parts that earthly, mortal parents cannot reach, with their human flaws and failings. Paternalistic Christianity, the Mum and Dad for adults, the agony aunt that told us what to do.
We know now that alongside this rosy cosy glow was the secret shame of illegitimate child, the agony of forced adoption, the cruelty of Catholic nuns and the Christian Brothers, the child abuse and paedophillia, the untouchability that priesthood and piety in general conferred upon the un-righteous. However, Enid Blyton country and Rupert Bear’s Nutwood were proper ‘Christian’. Men smoked pipes. That’s what Christianity means to some people, and very jolly it all was too.
coatrack with red and yellow knobs on
Scandinavian furniture and black metal objects with red and yellow knobs on heralded the beginning of the doubts. The dawning of the avant garde, uncertainty and flux, where ‘everyone’ began to question the omnipotence of both mortal and immortal Mum and Dad.
Why am I writing this? Oh yes, it was inspired by the thread on Harry’s Place, which was Sarah AB’s response to the much hyped programme ‘When Tommy met Mo’, shown on BBC One the other night.
Ever since the shock of the Tommy Robinson/ Quilliam press conference, that eagerly awaited BBC documentary had been trailed as though Tommy’s relationship with Mo Ansar was responsible for his defection from the ‘far-right’ EDL in order to join the ‘moderate’ reformist organisation Quilliam. Apparently this is to be known as his ‘rehabilitation’ .
I differ with Sarah AB in nearly everything she has to say on this topic. In fact she has got off the fence for once, but landed on the wrong side. She believes that homophobia, antisemitism, and “extreme or theocratic” views can be stripped from Islam, leaving a cleansed, shiny, positive religion, (of peace?) not a hollow puff of pointlessness.
A commenter, ‘Mark’ said:
“What I don't understand (from various interviews, including this one), is where someone says, "Tommy hasn't renounced his views." What exactly do they mean by that? …”
Another commenter ‘stefssdadsd’ said:
“He was never against Islamic extremism but against Islam per se. and he still is.”
It transpires that this commenter regards being “against Islam per se” as negative.
Sarah AB said:
”Mark - I think that's a fully fair point as I wouldn't want him to be in favour of extreme or theocratic views, or not care about antisemitism or homophobia. He's often gone quite the wrong way, in my opinion, about engaging with these issues, but that just means he has to adjust, not totally turn his ideas inside out.If he was totally against Islam (as stefssdadsd says below) then he doesn't quite seem to be now. This is positive, and if he's still against all the thing(sic) which he used to think meant he had to be against Islam - that's fine.”
This is positive? How so? Are politically correct people with a phobia about being thought Islamophobic hankering back to a new, revamped fifties, where a new religion stripped of its nasty “Christianity’ and its nasty ‘Islamism’ can act as agony aunt for the lost souls who can’t stand on their own two moral feet? What’s so positive about a new-look emasculated Islam?
On the same thread the discussion veers off course and alights on the meaning of “A Christian country‘
“One example of something I didn't like was something he said about wanting to keep England a Christian country.”
(Says Sarah AB.)
Several comments later Martin Jennerson tackles her:
“I don't think he's really referring to bringing back compulsory Church attendance on Sundays, rather just using Christianity as code for the idea of conserving the ethnic status quo.”
There ensues some back and forth that attempts to analyse what is meant when people defend their misgivings about Islam, saying they want to keep England a Christian country. The discussion is brought to its senses by ‘nanomanoman’:
“Gnnnn. A culturally Christian country Sarah, don't you get that?! And why not, it's British culture - your culture - FFS!”
That comment got 25 updings, and I don’t think they were only for the ‘gnnnn’.
Everyone is delighted to see Mo Ansar get his comeuppance on the BBC, which was a most unexpected outcome, given the BBC’s past record. While I enjoyed the programme I found the narration read or written by Nicky Campbell very annoying. He kept on saying ‘Islamophobia’, and in that sincere, non ironic way. He’s obviously with Sara AB. But we knew that.
While we’re on the subject of retro, I wanted to say something about Grayson Perry’s third Reith lecture to please Craig. I thought it was definitely the best one so far. Certainly the most entertaining, and the audience seemed to like it. They gave it a standing ovation.
Unfortunately I have nothing much to add to my earlier observations. I still think the same. I haven’t been ‘rehabilitated’ by Grayson’s very apparent popularity.
Tracey Emin's rubbish portrait of the Queen
All that stuff about the Mafia-like art establishment, all that stuff about rebellion as an art form. The former is certainly something quite evident and quite unhealthy. But Grayson fails to acknowledge that there is in fact a thriving art world out there, ‘outwith‘ the mafia, where practicing artists and craftspersons make a hard-earned crust, and sometimes a jolly good crust it is too. Maybe they’d love to be in with the in crowd, but maybe they should be careful what they wish for.
As to the latter - rebellion as an art form, I think it’s on its last legs. It might have been the case once - well it definitely was the case once, but I think the tide has turned. Grayson Perry is the art world’s Edna Everage. He should step into her shoes, I hear there’s a vacancy.
Posted by sue at 18:22 No comments:
Labels: Christianity, Grayson Perry, Harry's Place, Tommy Robinson
On Lou Reed
I don't know about you but wherever I seem to have turned in the last few days - whether it's the BBC's Today programme or the Daily Telegraph website or NotaSheep's blog - it's been Lou Reed all the way.
The late singer-songwriter's demise has sparked a considerable amount of interest and comment.
I will admit, however, to being mostly unfamiliar with much of Lou Reed's music.
I knew - on a quiz-goer's level - that he was the Velvet Underground guy - and that Velvet Underground did I'm Waiting For My Man - and, of course, I knew and liked Lou Reed's big solo hit 'Walk On The Wild Side' [though, rather like a stereotypical judge, I'd never picked up on the use of the word 'head' in the song], and I fondly remember Lou's namesake Oliver 'covering' this very song so enthusiastically [hic] on Wogan - which, as Grayson Perry might say, was art. [It was Walk On The Wild Side, wasn't it?]
The last few days, however, have brought to my notice Lou's original version of Perfect Day, so perfectly sung. I've never heard it before, yet have completely fallen in love with it.
Now, ol' Lou was [it seems] quite a character, and not an easy character. James Delingpole's blogposts about Lou Reed in recent day (and, yes, James interviewed him), have been fascinating - and somewhat surprising.
I've seen lots of deeply admiring writing about Lou Reed (including from NotaSheep) and quite a lot of negative comment too, but I was quite staggered [hence, feeling the need to blog about it] by a piece in the Daily Mail entitled [at length]:
A VERY debauched walk on the wild side: He did more than any other rock star to give drugs a false and dangerous glamor [sic]. Now, after a liver transplant in May, Lou Reed's own excesses have finally caught up with him
By TOM LEONARD
Just a few hours after Lou Reed's death, Tom Leonard felt it appropriate to post an unremitting sneer at the singer.
Even someone as fairly unfamiliar with Lou Reed as me could see that this was was a paint-the-dots hatchet job-attempt.
I'd read about the 'Perfect Day'-Susan Boyle affair, for example, and knew that Tom was blagging.
Tom Leonard says that Lou Reed made Susan cry by refusing to allow her to sing the song:
He reduced the Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle to tears in 2010 after he refused to let her perform Perfect Day on the America’s Got Talent TV show.
Wikipedia, however, notes that's there's much more to the story than that:
In September 2010, Susan Boyle had to cancel a performance on America's Got Talent at the last minute. She had planned to sing "Perfect Day", but two hours before the show, she was told that Lou Reed had intervened, refusing her permission to perform his song and to include it on her forthcoming album The Gift. As she and her choir didn't have time to rehearse another number, she decided to cancel her performance.
A couple of days later, representatives of Lou Reed stated that he had nothing to do with the decision and that it was just a licensing glitch.
A couple of weeks later, Lou Reed agreed not only to let her include the song on The Gift, but also to produce her music video of the song. It was shot on the banks of Loch Lomond and premiered on 7 November 2010.
That seems to me to be a salutary reminder of how a certain kind of journalist writing a certain kind of piece can behave.
Clearly, Tom Leonard cast this story in the blackest possible light and omitted all the subsequent part of the story where Lou Reed appears in a good light - indeed, as the perfect gentleman - presumably because that didn't fit his chosen angle.
Similarly, Tom Leonard makes a lot of Lou Reed's 'glamorization' of heroin, citing his fascinating song Heroin.
Compare that with Neil McCormick's take on the same song at the Telegraph:
In the era of Sergeant Pepper and flower power, The Velvet Underground’s seven minute, two note drone about shooting up, speeding drug rush followed by grinding come down, feels like an extraordinary slap in the face to hippie drug culture. “Heroin will be the death of me,” sings Reed, who could never understand how the song might be misinterpreted as a pro-drug anthem.
I can quite understand, by the way, why Neil ranks that as the most 'essential' of Lou Reed's tracks. It's a fine example of youthful, Schubert-like genius.
Thankfully, all the top-rated comments below Tom's post take him to task, with a vengeance - and, in fairness to the Mail, they allow that to happen without censorship. [BBC moderators, please take note].
I have to say I'm old-fashioned in my belief that (unless it's Hitler) you shouldn't speak ill of the dead, within hours of their death at least.
Labels: Daily Mail, Lou Reed, Telegraph
Wooooo!
OK, this blog is basically about banging on about BBC bias (and using plentiful alliteration in the process), but I'm watching Autumnwatch tonight on BBC Two, and they are broadcasting from my beloved Morecambe Bay....and I want to recommend it to you.
[I don't work for the local tourist board, by the way].
Chris Packham & Co are based at one of my favourite places - the nature reserve at Leighton Moss.
There you can hear bitterns booming, watch starlings whirling in the air, spot a stag (if you're staggeringly lucky), wander up to stately Leighton Hall (where Batman's butler Alfred learned his trade), or lurk in the lodge, prying into the tawdry affairs of sundry migratory birds as they sit and squawk on the lake.
As I'm typing, Martin Games-Hughes (he of that laugh) is watching the starlings rotate above the reeds at Leighton Moss - and enthusing, as BBC presenters are prone to do (understandably).
I myself was watching a small squadron of these very starlings around three hours ago, from our upstairs window, on their way (I presume) to Leighton Moss, as they began their magical flurry. I was also watching them at the weekend swirling in the surprisingly warm afternoon air over the Lune estuary, whilst chomping on a sandwich and a bowl of chips, and downing a glass of wine [me, not the starlings that is], at my favourite local hostelry. [How many other blogs about BBC bias would share such intimate moments with you?]
The main theme of this series of Autumnwatch is migration. Not immigration, of course. [Nod to a BBC bias issue? Tick.]
Oh dear, two cheerful, go-BBC posts in a row. What about the BBC bias, you may ask? The real BBC bias?
Well, the programme is now talking badgers - and the controversial badger cull. It's strongly biased in favour of the badger - taking a 'badgers good, humans bad' stance. Tut, tut, and on a controversial issue. Ergo, BBC bias. [Phew, that was close!]
Labels: 'Autumnwatch'
Nice Rebellion,Welcome in!
It's making typing out this post rather hard going, but I've got my fingers firmly crossed that Sue will have something to say about this week's Reith Lecture by Grayson Perry.
Grayson himself seems to have a pretty shrewd idea about why the BBC chose him to give this year's lecture:
And I often feel that I’m being wheeled out in many ways as a kind of you know bit of bohemian danger. I always feel like that dirty teddy you see sort of tied to the front of the radiator of a refuse truck. You know, the little mascot. I mean the BBC in asking me to give these lectures, they’re probably hoping that I’ll go off on one and swear a lot.
That said, I'd be surprised if the boss of Radio 4 wasn't congratulating himself at his decision, given how entertaining this series of lectures has been.
As a sample, if you think a lecture by a befrocked contemporary potter isn't for you, please give these quotes from today's lecture a read and see if you enjoy reading them:
When I started at art college, that idea of revolution and change and rebellion was almost the DNA of art. Picasso...one of his favourite expressions was, “We must kill modern art.” That was how sort of central it was to the idea of being an artist, and that’s one of the delightful traits of the art world really... is that after a century, or 150 years now, that idea of revolution and challenge, we encourage it. We kind of say you know along comes the young artist...talented, little bit angry...comes along and he goes, “You establishment!”, and shakes his fist at the establishment and goes, “I am going to show you what fantastic innovation I have here!”, and the art world sort of looks down and sort of goes, "Oh yeah. Nice rebellion! Welcome in!"
That’s why I’ve called my lecture that. That’s why I’ve called it Nice Rebellion, Welcome in!
And there’s even a kind of acronym which kind of suggests the sort of art that that young man, or woman, might be making, and it’s Maya, M.A.Y.A. - Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable.
Virginia Nicholson, someone with great bohemian credentials because she’s the niece of Virginia Woolf, full-on bohemian, she said recently “We’re all bohemians now.”
And if you think about it, all the things that were once seen as subversive and dangerous - like tattoos and piercings and drugs and interracial sex, fetishism - all these things, they sort of crop up on X Factor now on a Saturday night on family viewing.
The one thing you won’t see though: Underarm hair. The last truly dangerous thing.
And even the art world itself can be quite orthodox in some ways.
I think one of the most rebellious acts done by an artist recently was by Tracey Emin. She supported the Tories.
And that shows you that you know it’s not that difficult in some ways to be subversive even within art.
Me, I have to sort of protect myself against this because when I’m out in the evening and I’m with my mates and I’m being terribly cynical and ironic. But when I want to look at art, I want to have a sincere one to one experience with it because I am a serious artist. I’ve dedicated my life to it. So I go to exhibitions in the morning on my own when I can go, hmm, and you know maybe have a little bit of a moment. I have to protect my tender parts from that wicked irony.
Labels: 'The Reith Lectures'
Hope you all survived the storm.
Commenters at the Telegraph have been helping report on the devastation.
[A warning: What follows contains graphic descriptions of suffering which some readers may find disturbing. There's also some flash photography.]
startledcod • 8 hours ago
West Sussex was horrendous, one chair in my pergola was leaning against the table and another had blown over all together.
nathaniel @startledcod • 7 hours ago
You think that's bad? Here in Surrey my wheelie bin lid was literally blown open.
Of course, all trains to London are cancelled.
at_the_round_table @nathaniel • 6 hours ago
You think that's bad? I was smacked in the face by a leaf on my to the shops. If that had been a branch and I had been holding a baby whilst wearing roller boots we could have both ended up in A&E.
TRAV1S • 8 hours ago
It was Armageddon this morning, a bin fell over in the garden.
Vlad_the_Inhaler @TRAV1S • 8 hours ago
All very funny but I saw a man in the depths of despair this morning because he couldn't get his cigarette to light.
It appears that senior BBC editors have now rushed Orla Guerin and Fergal Keane back to the UK to pull doleful, award-winning faces whilst interviewing some poor, distressed family whose fence has been damaged by the unrelenting force of Nature. O the humanity!
"A stitch-up"
I hope he doesn't mind, but I think it's worthwhile re-posting a comment from historian Ara Sarafian, which was posted on The Ottomans: The Armenian Genocide thread. It seems to confirm the sense I had that the BBC Two series The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors was engaged in something of a whitewash of the Armenian Genocide.
His contribution to the programme was, indeed, remarkably brief and he was, as I wrote at the time, "talked over by Rageh's commentary saying that Turkey dismisses such accounts [those contained in the British Parliamentary Blue Book] as 'war-time propaganda'":
I agreed to give an interview for a BBC documentary regarding the Ottoman Empire and World War I. The focus of the interview was the British Parliamentary Blue Book, "The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire," which was published in 1916.
Prior to our interview, I corresponded with the BBC production team. I pointed out the strength of the various accounts that underpinned the British report, how such material was used to construct the Armenian Genocide thesis, and how this thesis can be critically evaluated today.
When I met the film crew, they had already shot their interviews in Turkey and chose not to discuss any of their previous material with me. All of the questions in our interview were provided by the producer and restricted to the Blue Book. There was no exchange of views regarding the Armenian Genocide and its denial by Turkey today.
The final cut of the film was a stitch-up.
* Ara Sarafian is a historian specialising on the late Ottoman Empire. He is the editor of the critical edition of the British Parliamentary Blue Book "The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915-16... [uncensored edition]" and "Talaat Pasha's Report on the Armenian Genocide." For more information please contact www.gomidas.org
We'd like to thank Ara Sarafian for his comment.
Labels: 'The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors'
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."
Radio 4's liberal religious affairs programme Sunday returned to several of its favourite themes this morning.
These included:
- an interview with a pro-rebel Syrian "Muslim scholar".
- a feature about sharia banking in the UK, discussed from an 'ain't this great' and 'what else can be done to make it a success?' standpoint.
- an interview with Archishop Vincent Nichols on ethical banking. (The Archbishop tends to appear on the programme either to defend his Church when something has offended liberal Catholic sensibilities or, whenever he makes a speech about the banks or bankers).
- yet another feature on how unfair the government's welfare reforms are, as ever from a critical standpoint. Last week we had a Christian who felt they were unfair. This week we heard from Jews who felt they were unfair. (If Grant Shapps wants concrete proof of BBC bias, he should consider the completely one-sided way Sunday has covered this issue over the last two and a half years).
- yet another feature on abuse within the Catholic Church, and bad news for the Catholic Church - this time from Poland. (The programme's appetite for such stories is almost limitless.)
These are thing we've noted at Is the BBC Biased? many times before - often in very great detail - so I won't expand on them again here. There is very little new under the sun at Sunday - and maybe from me at Is the BBC biased? too.
There was also an interview about the the letter sent by several Haredi rabbis criticising the new chief rabbi for going to a pluralist convention. This was a response to unbalanced discussion on the subject during last week's edition where the presenter questioned his two guests from a stance of disbelief that the rabbis could have taken such a strong position against such a nice-sounding event. Both guests were unsupportive of the rabbis - one aggressively so. I'm guessing Sunday must have received some complaints about that, and decided they'd better revisit the story with a more sympathetic guest this week.
The other subjects up for discussion were an exhibition of the relics of St. Anthony of Padua in Belfast (introduced with a Tabletista-style grumble about John Paul II being canonised too quickly) and something about "not for profit" 'death cafes', where people talk openly about death.
And, to proof that again, this week's Sunday Morning Live viewers' poll gave 'the wrong answer' yet again. The question asked whether Roma people are unfairly stigmatised.
Anyone who watches Sunday Morning Live could have guessed the result - a massive landslide victory for the 'no' side (as represented on the programme by Biased BBC's David Vance).
It happens week in and week out - and, as there's nothing new under the sun, we at Is the BBC biased? keep pointing it out week in and week out.
Also, the liberal-minded members of the panel (including Julie Bindel) reacted with shock and horror at the result, as if they couldn't believe it. That also happens most weeks on Sunday Morning Live. They never expect what's coming. Vanity of vanities.
Then, as ever, the presenter (here Katie Derham) read out a selection of comments - two saying 'yes', two saying 'no' - and said that was an "even split". Well, yes - if your producers hand pick two voices from each side of the argument you will get an even split. It's kind of inevitable.
"Is there anything of which it may be said, 'See, this is new'?"
Posted by Craig at 11:33 1 comment:
Labels: 'Sunday Morning Live', 'Sunday'
I didn’t see the debate “should British women wear the niqab.” on Channel Four when it went out, but I watched it online.
The debate had Douglas Murray in it for goodness sake. And Yasmin Alibhai Brown!
“A panel including writer Shalina Litt, activist Sahar Al-Faifi, writer Douglas Murray, Islam lecturer Khola Hasan, broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Fatima Barkatullah debate the niqab in Britain.”
I won’t let the fact that this was a Channel 4 programme, not BBC, deter me because, well, it was so bizarre. To me that is; someone who hasn’t had to internally normalise mingling with and living happily amongst slow-moving tents while pretending it’s o-politically correct-kay.
No, living in the sticks, I don’t have to bother about mingling with the multicultural. I just have to mingle with the multifaceted.The tattooed, the pierced, the clinically obese and the unemployable as well as the Guardian-reader, the alternative lifestyler, the all-over denim wearing perpetual student and the healthy, wealthy and wise; the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. Personally I come somewhere in between none of these.
Anyway all these people do like a uniform of some sort, so why, one might ask, should one object to the niqab?
The reason I object to it is because the uniform represents hatred for me, openly displayed under the protection afforded to “religious ‘faith’”.
Fatima Barkatullah (haha) and her shrouded sisters are wearing it “as a way of asserting a Muslim identity they feel is under attack” and while they’re at it, advertising the fact that the Gods and messengers they worship deem me inferior because I have descended from the ape and the pig. Just think; if devout Muslims, who have an even more stringent dispensation from behaving normally than ‘moderate’ Muslims, are forbidden to teach children the sound of the letter ‘P’ by using the word ‘Pig,’ what would they be teaching their children about me and my porcine origins if they can’t even bring themselves to utter the word?
Great Grandma
They are going round ‘in yer face’ wearing the symbol of antisemitism with impunity. Provocative and taunting, and that’s why I object. I hope that’s clear. Never mind whether or not these deluded semi-articulate Ali Gs are empowered and liberated. Who cares?
What I really wanted someone to ask was, why? Are you serious? How long do you think you can get away with claiming this joke outfit is anything other than ridiculous?
Your eyes darting from side to side look exactly like cartoons of ‘blinking in the dark’. Where’s Minnie Mouse? Some of you even wear back gloves, like those camouflage art-works where people are disguised as the background and made invisible.
What a bloody cheek! Why do they ever in this world think going round draped in material brings them closer to God, with their ridiculous penis-shaped heads and their yash-mak nose-bags. The sight of the apparition in pink cloth, momentarily inhaling her niqab while attempting to communicate and appear normal at the same time was comical and sinister.
Remember that documentary with Stacey Dooley about fanatical Islam in Luton all those years ago when Tommy Robinson was just a spark in the EDL’s eye? I’ll always remember the scene where she was sitting at a table in a cafe with some of her black-tented former school-mates trying to ‘understand’ them. Set before each of them on the table was an enormous slice of cake. I waited apprehensively to see how they would overcome the logistics. Nothing happened.
Douglas, that’s the first time I’ve seen you defeated. You were defeated by the inanity of the opposition. Too inane to get to grips with. Beyond parody. You should have offered them cake.
Labels: Channel 4, Douglas Murray, niqab
Is the BBC our Radio Moscow?
...asks Christopher Booker in the Telegraph:
The problem with the BBC director-general Lord Hall’s admission that the corporation has been slow to recognise how much of its output is “biased” is that those who inhabit the BBC are the last people who could recognise how deeply in its culture that bias has become engrained.
Many of us could instantly jot down a list of issues on which the BBC has a clear “party line”, which distorts its coverage to the point where its audience is consistently manipulated and misinformed. Wind farms, for instance, it is for; Israel against; public spending for; “government cuts” against (and don’t mention the deficit); “brave” social workers and gay marriage it is for; US Republicans against. In its sentimental but hopelessly uninformed view of the EU, it is for; private enterprise — against; Tories (unless, like Lord Patten, the BBC Trust’s chairman, they are rabid Europhiles) it is against. The Guardian – for; the Mail and the Telegraph – against. And so forth.
Thirty years ago, Alasdair Milne, Lord Hall’s predecessor, told me that the one issue on which the BBC was proud to ignore its Charter obligation to be “impartial” was apartheid. But since then, its flouting of this statutory duty has become so routine — both in what it tells us and what it leaves out, in who it has on the air and who it excludes — that its coverage is, in many respects, as predictably one-sided as that of Radio Moscow in the days of the Soviet Union.
Also from the Sunday Telegraph...
Minister's TV licence fee threat
The BBC could lose its exclusive right to the licence fee if it does not tackle a “culture” of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting, a senior Cabinet minister warns.
The minister in question in Grant Shapps, the chairman of the Conservative Party. The Telegraph's Tim Ross reports:
In a major intervention understood to have been made with the knowledge of Downing Street, he said that the Government would consider whether the BBC can keep receiving all the proceeds of the licence fee – £145.50 each year from every household with a television – after 2016, when its Royal Charter expires.
The issue of BBC bias appears to be on the government's mind:
He also spoke of his concerns about a lack of “fairness” in the BBC’s reporting.
Last week, this newspaper highlighted questions over a bulletin by Mark Easton, the BBC’s home editor, on a European Commission report about benefits for migrants. It appeared to draw inaccurate conclusions and fail to present the Government’s position fairly.
Mr Shapps said the item was “wrong” and added that there had been problems with other items by Mr Easton, including one on the Government’s austerity measures, which Mr Shapps described as prophesying “Armageddon, rubbish on the streets and people unburied”.
Although the minister stopped short of an accusation of “institutional bias” he said: “I do think there is, possibly with the particular journalist, but also there is an editorial question for the BBC about applying fairness in both directions. That also is a question of credibility for the organisation.”
He highlighted an opinion poll two weeks ago that concluded that the public were content with the outcome of the spending cuts so far, which the BBC downplayed.
“When they were proved categorically wrong, and people gave the wrong answer and said their services were improved, their response was to bury the story,” he said.
First the Telegraph, now the government. The pressure continues to build on the BBC.
For the moment though, the BBC is having none of it:
A BBC spokesman said last night: “Mr Shapps is right that transparency is key to the future of the BBC. So is its freedom from political pressure.”
He said its own television and radio programmes held executives to account, that it had dealt with 1,600 freedom of information requests in 2012, and appeared in front of 16 Parliamentary committees this year. It allowed the National Audit Office “full access” to everything except “editorial decisions”.
He said Mr Easton’s report was “fair” and that he had a “long record of reporting without fear or favour”.
Labels: Christopher Booker, Grant Shapps, Telegraph
Is the BBC predictable in its bias?
That thought came back to me on reading a comment from chrisH at Biased BBC.
"The BBC are so predictable that I was able to predict that Titos wife and Felix Dexter would comprise half of “Last Word”…the obituary show on Radio 4 at the moment."
My point being that the BBC is so predictable that we just know there`ll be lefties in their dotage, and multiculti useful tools of alternative comedians that get the tributes.
Safe to say that if you actually HAD changed things…or used to be a “right winger”-there`ll be no mention of them.
The BBC gives its paste and plaster medals to the Miliband archetypes, the Howard Marks safe rebels…you try bringing up a few kids not to riot?…the Beeb won`t bother its arse.
It`s the total predictability-the obvious perpetual engineering of the social soul…that cheeses us off.
Oh hell-another dead social work lecturer-a champion of the profession! Didn`t get her, but 50% isn`t bad from the “ever-original BBC” is it?"
I tend to drive home to Last Word when I finish work on Friday, and rather enjoy it (if it's right and proper to enjoy an obituary programme!), but is there truth in what Chris says?
As an experiment, here's the list of the five people whose deaths were marked by this week's Last Word:
Sir Anthony Caro, leading British sculptor
Felix Dexter, comedian
Jovanka Broz, widow of Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia
Professor Olive Stevenson, social work academic
Noel Harrison, son of Rex, singer, actor, Olympic skier, best known for 'The Windmills of Your Mind'
And here's the full list of obituaries featured over the past week in the Daily Telegraph.
Who did Last Word cover and who did they choose not to cover? Who did the Telegraph cover and who did they choose not to cover?
Decide for yourselves whether this supports the case for a biased, left-wing selection process by the BBC:
Augusto Odone, the economist whose devotion to his suffering son was portrayed in the film Lorenzo's Oil, father of Cristina
Sir Anthony Caro, Britain's greatest abstract sculptor
Captain John Hatton, the soldier whose tank fired Britain to glory in a Nato contest, pipping the Belgians
Tommy Whittle, the saxophonist who abandoned dance bands and became one of the best-known modern jazzmen in Britain
Jeremy Gotch, a former child internee of the Japanese who pioneered the use of containers to transport bulk freight
Sir John Batten, physician to the Queen who pioneered treatment for adults with cystic fibrosis
Gypie Mayo, the virtuoso guitarist who helped Dr Feelgood into the Top 10 and played with the re-formed Yardbirds
Lou Scheimer, the cartoon mogul behind teatime favourites such as He-Man who irked Disney with a sequel to Snow White
Major-General Pat Kay, the marine officer who helped to take 65 enemy prisoners in Normandy and later guarded the nation’s secrets
Lawrence Klein, the pioneer of economic forecasting who advised China and won a Nobel Prize
George Ortiz, the connoisseur whose unrivalled collection of ancient objets d’art earned both admiration and controversy
Charles Castle, tap dancer and TV producer who hobnobbed with stars and made an acclaimed film about Noël Coward
Jock Kane, the whistleblower who battled to bring sex scandals and security breaches at GCHQ to light
Professor David Barker, the epidemiologist who suggested that infancy had a crucial role in causing 'lifestyle’ diseases such as diabetes
Felix Dexter, the actor who made his name in comedy not law
Labels: 'Last Word', Telegraph
Miscellany for another weekend
Fatwa Lifted
I suppose the BBC could have named Fergal Kean’s series “Militancy through Time the BBC’s prism”. But they didn’t. They’ve lifted the fatwa on the word ‘terror’.
Terror through Time.
TERRORˈtɛrə/noun
extreme fear.
"people fled in terror"
Fergal Keane celebrates sultry failed hijacker Leila Khaled, referring to her as “an icon of terrorism”.
ICONˈʌɪkɒn,-k(ə)n/noun
a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration.
“Always something there to remind me” but not in a good way.
When the BBC News channel reported the conviction of Pavlo Lapshyn it seemed like Anders Breivik all over again. They’re still trying to embed within our Branes an implicit-association between ‘far-right’ terrorists and murderers like Lapshyn - and, you’ve guessed it - the ‘far-right’ EDL.
One BBC 24 report described the incident, the court case and the conviction at some length, then suddenly tagged on a postscript about Tommy Robinson’s decision to link up with Quilliam. It’s much more than Amazon’s marketing strategy, the nudge: “If you bought that, you might like ‘this’.
One Show went to Mo
Mo Ansar was a guest on the One Show the other day where he described his uncomfortable encounter with Tommy Robinson. Alex Jones and Matt Baker who made no secret of where their sympathies lay. (clue: Not with Tommy R.)
Don’t they know anything?
Question Time.
On Question Time Tim Farron MP complained that people were mistakenly blaming immigration for ‘bad’ things, but we should all regard immigration as a blessing. Obviously tarring all immigrants with the same brush is the Lib Dem order of the day. I suppose it’s a kind of numbers game. If numerically more immigrants are hardworking and beneficial to “us” than actual Islamist terrorists, we should ignore all the rest of the problems caused by vast conglomerations of non-integrating non-English-speaking ‘Asians’ and thank Allah for our blessings.
Russell Brand and Jeremy Paxman are more or less equally repulsive. A fair and balanced contest. Russell Brand is just like Kenny Everett being Cupid Stunt. It’s the feminine face and hair. An effeminate man in drag; convincing but for the beard. I’ve heard that some women find him attractive. It must be something to do with his $ fortune. The Brand revolution? Sounds like an orgy of directionless over-enthusiasm leading to self destruction, much like the Arab Spring (or the riots)
His pretentious verbiage about redistribution of wealth begged a pretty obvious response, (i.e. begging) as in this Tweet from Trending Central.
Neither media icons were worth watching, even out of morbid curiosity. Sadly you can’t unwatch sickening things. The item should have gone down the pan.
Now for something completely worthwhile from the Gatestone Institute. This writer has a nice turn of phrase.
I’ll tar the whole BBC with one gigantic homogenous brush and suggest they read it.
Labels: Far-right, Mo Ansar, Russell Brand, Terror, Tim Farron
Art-ertainment
When Grayson Perry’s Reith lectures were being trailed I thought we were going to get the lowdown on the slippery subject of evaluating and defining art in the present day. You know, get some answers to questions like “How to tell ‘good‘ art from ‘bad’, and “What is art?”.
What’s more we were to be getting them from an insider. Someone who is lauded by the establishment, whose work is undoubtedly considered by “them” to be ‘good’ and ‘art’.
Instead, he pussyfooted around, telling us that the arbiters of ‘value’ or ‘quality’ were gallery owners, collectors and, well, Charles Saatchi.
I definitely detected a touch of bitterness in there. Grayson Perry’s success places him in a unique position; he can express cynicism about the art establishment, unlike less successful artists and wannabes whose cynicism would come across as the jealousy of the excluded, or the public, whose bafflement and cynicism would be - is - attributed to ignorance.
He seems resentful about the fact that things like ‘craft’ and ‘skill’ are ‘outwith’ the definition of art. They are something else, in a separate category; no longer proper fine art. Grayson Perry, as a ceramicist, has surmounted that obstacle by integrating a conceptual element within his pots in the form of decoration with sociological associations. Mere decoration wouldn’t do, as ‘decorative’ is a pejorative in the art world, but sociological (or do I mean social) commentary makes it kosher. Here’s a caption to one of his pots from the Saatchi Gallery website:
“Perry’s urns are rendered with an incomprehensible master-craft: their surfaces richly textured from designs marked into the clay, followed by intricately complicated glazing and photo-transfer techniques. Perry makes ceramic pots, hand-stitched quilts, and outrageous dress designs, creating a cosmopolitan folk-art.”
This urn is entitled “Saint Claire 37 wanks accross Northern Spain” complete with spelling mistake.
Art? Craft? Cheeky? Outrageous?
Saint Claire 37 wanks accross Northern Spain
I’d wager that his ‘dressing up’ has given credence to his work. “Being outrageous” ought to have been included in the list of tests he produced for us in his second episode: “Boundaries”, or “Can art be anything we like?”
The one thing Grayson seemed certain about was that his alter ego ‘Claire’ was NOT art. Only an artist can “artify” or “de-art” a piece of work, and Grayson deClared Claire “Not”.
He mused upon this concept with the Tilda Swinton story. (Cornelia Parker’s “Tilda Swinton asleep” exhibit was ‘art’ but Tilda Swinton’s own asleep exhibit (herself) was not.)
Sue Lawley seemed to think Claire was art, but who is she to say? What if, say Charles Saatchi, determiner par excellence, decided otherwise?
What if Cornelia Parker strode in, over-rode Grayson Perry’s judgment and offered “Claire” to the world as her art? Unlikely I know. (For that matter who, one may wonder, decides who is ‘enough of an artist’ to deem things art/not art? In the QA session the idea was taken to its logical conclusion. One day everyone will be an artist, creating artworks for an audience of one.)
Let’s test whether Claire is art using Grayson’s principles: Is Claire Art?
Is it in a gallery?
It might be.
Is it ‘lame’ as in a copy of something or a boring version of something else?
Is it made by an artist?
Is it folk art, aboriginal, a photograph, a limited edition?
Well, yes and no.
Are other people (with handbags etc) looking at it?
Is there a queue?
Yes, I’m sure.
Would anyone notice if If it was on a rubbish dump?
I guess so.
So despite what Grayson Perry says, Claire by his own definition IS art.
I know that was stupid. The whole point is, why try to define art at all, when we’ve already decided that by being ‘whatever anyone wants it to be’ the whole exercise is irrelevant because the term ‘art’ has more or less disappeared up its own fundament.
The thing that stuck in my mind was the fact that Grayson kept saying he was ‘old fashioned’. Almost apologetically. Guilty m’lud, of being covertly traditionalist. I think he likes painting, (decorative) respects craftsmanship, and probably values skill. These factors are a major feature of his own work, but they’re not the qualities for which he’s achieved acclaim! In fact he’s achieved acclaim in spite of them!
No wonder he’s cynical. Does Claire’s pantomime dame presence conceal, wizard of oz-like, the embarrassing fact that behind the curtain lies a traditionalist who is producing old fashioned craft. Oh noes!
Or, one could see the invention of alter ego Claire as an outlet for feelings of guilt and confusion in the same way that James Thurber invented the fish with hysterical ears. Maybe she’s his way of keeping sane. A way of keeping sane which outwardly looks insane. Enigmatic and conceptual.
James Thurber; hysterical ears
When art stopped being figurative it became much harder for the expert and impossible for the layman to evaluate. Although the abstract qualities in figurative art are a vital ingredient in differentiating ‘good’ from ‘bad’, they were difficult to define with clarity or precision.
Lecturers at art colleges would analyse a painting in terms of ‘lines’ and ‘balance’, and the golden section, but somehow it all seemed as slippery a business as nailing the precise definition of ‘art‘ as it is in the here and now.
An interesting programme on BBC Four last night about Australian art reminded me that abstract painting has been confusing people for over fifty years. The same old questions have been puzzled over inconclusively while certainties wax and wane with the passage of time. Painting and sculpture are sidelined, rediscovered, disparaged and reinvented. With some exceptions representational painters and sculptors are not considered truly part of the art establishment. But it’s temporary. One day they’ll be back.
Grayson Perry is certainly an entertainer. His Johnny Ball-like delivery is full of sforzandos and accelerandos, and the boundary gimmick with the whip was pure art-ertainment. But so far he hasn’t delivered the enlightenment I was hoping for. My own fault I know. How could I have been so stupid.
Posted by sue at 18:30 1 comment:
Labels: 'The Reith Lectures', Grayson Perry
The Ottomans: The Armenian Genocide
The greatest test facing BBC Two's The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors was obviously how it handled the most incendiary event in the entirely of Ottoman history: The Armenian Genocide.
The Armenian genocide is widely regarded as the largest genocide prior to the Holocaust.
What resulted sounded uncomfortably like an apologia to me.
I shall explain why. Please see if you agree.
The programme set the genocide in the context of the First World War.
Rageh Omaar's commentary presented the Ottoman Empire as the victim of the Great Powers:
"The Great Powers of Europe had been waiting for an opportunity to pounce on the Ottomans' lands. It came in 1914."
A talking head immediately said that the Ottomans saw this would be "a struggle of life and death", and Rageh followed that by stating that "they soon faced an Allied attack". [The question of why the Ottomans entered the war on Germany's side, and what their war aims were was unexamined].
Another talking head talked up the size of the Allied fleet that landed at Gallipoli, "an attack the Ottomans had long dreaded."
Ataturk's brilliant defence was sketched, as was the subsequent stalemate leading to the Allies' "humiliating defeat".
"Gallipoli convinced the Ottomans they were in a fight to the death. After years of battles that had seen them lose vast territory and great wealth, this was a war they felt they had to win. At any cost."
Thus encouraged to see the Ottomans as the victims with "life or death" dread of the Allies, we - the programme's viewers - were primed to see that what Rageh meant by "at any cost" - here the Armenian genocide - may have had some just cause behind it.
We were then taken to the ruins of the city of Van in South East Turkey, where we were told that Kurdish Muslims and Armenian Christians had lived together up to the start of World War One.
The implication was that the massacre of Armenians in Van arose partly from the shock of the Allied invasion at Gallipolo on April 25th 1915.
In fact, the siege of Van began on April 19th 1915, and was unrelated. So this was a false correlation on the programme's part, and deeply misleading. Whether that was deliberate or merely a result of ineptness, I cannot say.
A ruined Armenian church and a ruined minaret in what's left of pre-war Van were pointed out. This highlighted that both religious communities suffered, with the implication of comparable suffering.
Rageh's commentary said that "Ottoman tolerance had worn out" as a result of "years of nationalist struggles in the Empire". We had been told earlier, by Eugene Rogan (the series consultant for The Ottomans) that both sides had behaved as badly as each other in those nationalist struggles, and that both sides had been "scarred" by them.
"Thousands of Armenians has already been massacred", said Rageh, with this context ringing in our ears.
Now, whether you put this down to the series' sketchiness or its pro-Ottoman use of rose-tinted spectacles, this short miss-it-if-you-blink clause in Rageh Omaar's commentary conceals a long and very bloody history of Ottoman persecution of their Armenian Christian population.
It skirts over the fact that Armenian villagers were second-class citizens in the Empire, that they had been overtaxed, kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam for centuries. Their testimony against Muslims was inadmissible in court. Their houses couldn't overlook Muslim houses. They they forbidden to ride horses. They weren't allowed to carry weapons. The ringing of church bells was forbidden.
It avoids mentioning the Hamidian Massacres of 1894-96 - a savage series of pogroms by state-backed paramilitaries which saw the deaths not of "thousands" but of hundreds of thousands (estimates range between 100,000 and 300,000).
Many see the Armenian genocide as a rolling genocide, and one that got into its stride at this time - not because of the First World War, or because of Allied aggression against the Ottoman Empire.
Another 15,000-30,000 Armenians were the victims of further pogroms in 1909, in what's known as the Adana Massacre.
So, "thousands of Armenians had already been massacred" doesn't really convey the sheer scale of the slaughter faced by the empire's Armenian population in the run up to the First World War, does it?
It was followed a minute of so later by another clause: "The Ottomans had dealt brutally with Armenians before".
Those two clauses are all the programme had to say about the pre-WWI atrocities committed by the Ottomans against the Armenian Christians. Is that not a case of whitewashing? It does give the appearance of that to me.
Anyhow, back to events in Van.
Some Armenians fought back, and fought for autonomy, backed by Russian "until things escalated into a single dreadful event".
A Turkish talking head talked of "bad things happening".
Those bad things - in his account - were the Russian army's arrival, and the fact that "the Armenian army burned all Muslim quarters of the city, and many of the Muslim population left the city". So the Ottoman army's subsequent destruction of the city was "revenge" for those actions - i.e. another apparent justification of the Ottoman's actions on the programme's part.
Now, I've read quite a bit about this, and this is a defence of the Ottoman's brutality in Van that I've never come across before.
Most accounts emphasise the duplicity and genocidal intent of the Ottoman governor Jevdet Bey. ["If the rebels fire a single I shall kill every Christian man, woman, and" (pointing to his knee) "every child, up to here".]
Rageh's commentary continued, however, describing what the Ottomans did in 1915 as "unprecedented".
Well, yes, but not entirely - as we've seen.
"They forcibly rounded up whole villages of Armenians and marched them to the desert".
Well, again, yes, but that's only one part of the Armenian genocide.
The missing part from The Ottomans's account is its first phase - the wholesale slaughter of able-bodied Armenian males. That's quite a very big thing to omit.
That phraseology also omits the fact that the second phrase of the genocide was the forced to the desert of the others - i.e. women, children, the elderly and the infirm. Something that makes the wickedness of it seem much, much worse.
Again, whitewashing may be suspected.
The next talking head, Sir Hew Strachan, then gave the Ottoman's justification - the need to secure their lines of communication and contain a rebellion. He did, however, note that the Ottoman's then "proceeded to outright massacre of Armenians, come what may". We weren't, unfortunately, allowed to hear him expand on that point.
What forms did the massacres take? What about the mass burnings? What were the death marches really like? What about the concentration [some say 'extermination'] camps? What about the widely-made allegation of mass rape? The claims of deliberate drug overdoses, the deliberate infection of children with typhoid, and the use of poison gas? The accounts of the deliberate drownings of women and children?
Very little sense of any of this was given.
An Armenian historian described eye-witness accounts of the deportees being sent to their deaths in an organised fashion, but was talked over by Rageh's commentary saying that Turkey dismisses such accounts as "war-time propaganda".
"There's intense debate over what happened to the Armenians and whether it should be described as 'genocide'".
There is indeed, in Turkey, though most historians believe it very clearly is a genocide - something you might have hoped Rageh's commentary would point out.
A very short consideration of this vexed question followed.
Sir Huw Strachan didn't commit himself in the short extract featured. The aforementioned Armenian historian, just as briefly, said that what happened comes "pretty close to the definition". Sir Huw then observed:
"The round figure that tends to be used is a million Armenians die out of a possible population of two or three times that".
That concession to reality [though many estimate the figure as high at 1.5 million - and the closest that there is to a consensus figure has settled on 1.2 million] was immediately countered by an apologist comment from Mustafa Akyol, author of Islam Without Extremes:
"It's a story which did not happen because of the Ottoman system. It's a story that happened because of the fall of the Ottoman system. Armenians had lived in the Ottoman Empire, side by side with Turks, for six centuries and because of the fears of nationalism that the conflict [sic] they had this tragic end".
Rageh's earlier talking head (the one who talked on "bad things happening") then ruminated with Rageh, in front of several shots of a ruined minaret in Van.
"Did anyone win in the end to you think?", asked Rageh - as if one side came out as badly as the other.
"No," came the reply. "We lost the city, and we lost the friendship between two communities", said the other - as if their had really been friendship between the two communities in the happy-clappy, multicultural Ottoman Empire.
Now, I'm perfectly willing to accept that the programme was a rushed, sketchy affair and didn't have the time to go into great detail about the Armenian genocide, given how much ground it had to cover in such a relatively short space of time.
Still, this was so inadequate an account as to raise doubts about the programme's agenda - doubts I've reflected here.
Do you share them?
Posted by Craig at 21:40 6 comments:
Labels: 'The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors', Rageh Omaar
Not a volte-face - the video!
Not a Volte-face
Jeremy Bowen in court
He's not the BBC's head of religion and ethics. He...
Can we still trust the BBC?
"The subjectivity shown by the BBC will not do."
Is Mark Easton biased?
The Merry-go-round goes round and round...
An American Thinker on BBC bias
Who gave Malala the giggles?
In or out
"Democracy has bad taste"
Bien peasants
The Dismal Science
Thanks for the Memri
Having an e-fit
Sandwich wars
"The crucial thing is that yer live and let live, ...
Marred
Whoops! (again)
Give us this day our Daley read
Exclusive: Cookie Monster to appear on 'Question T...
Ottoman chaos
"Impartiality flew out of the window"
Polly put the kettle on, and call it 'black'
Guardians of National Security v The Guardian (and...
Me want Emily Maitlis
Fergal Keane: Terror Through Time
The Bodybuilder and the Asian.
Baling out
Elementary reporting
What I was half thinking
Europe's Muslim Emperors
Where DOES the BBC find such partisan audiences?
James Naughtie does it again
Party Conference Watch 2013: The Conservative Part...
The Telegraph declares war on the BBC
Ed's mouthpiece?
Schama and the BBC
A search for perfection
Tory rebels send stark warning to Boris Johnson over no-deal Brexit
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line264
|
__label__wiki
| 0.96725
| 0.96725
|
Government Documents and Information
Subjects: Government Information and Documents
United States Federal
West Virginia Information
Shepherd University's West Virginia Documents Collection
Scarborough Library is one of 13 West Virginia State Depository Libraries. Established by legislation in 1995, the West Virginia Library Commission operates the program. The library receives state information from virtually every department. All documents are in the library's catalog.
West Virginia Government Information
WV State Government
Official website for the State of West Virginia. Provides links to State agencies and services, as well as a telephone directory for State employees.
WV Legislature
Website for the West Virginia Legislature; includes Bill Status search feature, West Virginia Code and Constitution.
WV Code
Code of West Virginia, provided by the West Virginia Legislature website.
WV Administrative Law
Information on West Virginia administrative law, provided though the website for the West Virginia Secretary of State, Natalie E. Tennant.
WV Department of Commerce
Commerce information for West Virginia, including resources about travel, recreation, business, energy, and natural resources.
WV Library Commission
The West Virginia Library Commission supports libraries services in the state to ensure that residents have access to information resources.
WVU - Bureau of Business & Economic Research
West Virginia University's College of Business & Economics provides information and publications by the Bureau of Business & Economic Research (BBER), including the 2010 Census.
<< Previous: United States Federal
Next: International >>
URL: https://libguides.shepherd.edu/governmentinformation
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line267
|
__label__cc
| 0.681975
| 0.318025
|
Indicators for monitoring health indices and the health sector strategic and investment plan (HSSIP) in Uganda : The user's indicator manual
The HIMS is a routine monitorng system that plays a specific role in the monitoring and evaluation process. The HIMS...
Human Development Report 2011 Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All
This Report explores the integral links between environmental sustainability and equity and shows that these are...
Guidelines for Designation, Establishment and Upgrading of Health Units
This guideline is intended to provide the criteria for designation, upgrading and establishment of health facilities...
Jun, 2011 view details Download
The Integrated National Guidelines on Antiretroviral Therapy, Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV and Infant & Young Child Feeding.
The revised National guidelines on antiretroviral therapy, prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV and on...
Monitoring & Evaluation Plan For Health Sector Strategic & Investment Plan 2010/11 – 2014/15
The Ministry of Health launched the Health Sector Strategic and Investment Plan 2010/11 – 2014/15 which defines the...
May, 2011 view details Download
Global Atlas on cardiovascular disease prevention and control
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the biggest cause of deaths worldwide. More than 17 million people died from...
National Policy on Public Sector Monitoring and Evaluation
The Government of Uganda (GoU) is committed to achieving results through the efficient and effective delivery of key...
Mar, 2011 view details Download
Uganda HIV Counselling and testing Policy 3rd Edition December, 2010
In Uganda HCT began in 1990 with VCT as the main model of implementation. In 2002 the MoH planned to place high-...
Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition : Guidelines
Malnutrition is the deficiency of protein,energy, as well as vitamins leading to loss of body fats and muscle...
The Annual Health Sector Performance Report for 2009-10 provides a review of sector performance in the 2009-10...
Anthrax in humans and animals
Anthrax essentially ceased to be regarded as a disease of major health or economic importance after the
Assessing Tuberculosis Prevalence through Population - based surveys
Tuberculosis (TB) prevalence surveys are most valuable in areas where notification data obtained through routine...
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line268
|
__label__wiki
| 0.522058
| 0.522058
|
Site 7a
Site 7b
Site 7c
Site 11a
Site 11b
Special thanks to Scott Comings at The Nature Conservancy for his consultation on the restoration project.
Rocky Hill School is proud to partner with Laura Meyerson, a restoration ecologist at the University of Rhode Island. Laura's team is currently studying the invasive species Phragmites australis.
Land of Fires trail restoration project is also made possible by Rhode Island's Coastal Resource Management Council.
Rocky Hill School is proud to work with habitat restoration specialists from Save The Bay on a salt marsh restoration project.
Rocky Hill School
LTER
Credits and Partnerships
Rocky Hill School, 530 Ives Road, East Greenwich, RI, 02818 (401) 884-9070mcunningham@rockyhill.org
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line270
|
__label__wiki
| 0.650306
| 0.650306
|
HighlightsInterviews
Mary’s flower Superhead
Mary Kalaitzidou — April 11, 2018
Elias S. (vocals/ guitar/ synth), Thanos K. (drums/ synth/ b vocals) and Nick D. (bass/ synth/ b vocals) are Mary’s flower Superhead, a post-punk/indie band formed in 2003 in Thessaloniki, Greece. On February 12th, they released their fourth studio album ‘Wealth’ (Inner Ear Records). Last Day Deaf caught up with the never disappointing music trio for some questions.
Your fourth studio album ‘Wealth‘ has been released on February 12th via Inner Ear Records receiving many positive reviews. What does this album signify for you?
After six years of absence, ‘Wealth‘ can only signify a new beginning. Many people were happy about our return with this record and so are we.
Can you tell us why did you chose ‘Wealth‘ as the title and how is it connected with the artwork?
‘Wealth‘ is a statement of where we or anybody can find their personal wealth. We trace wealth in music, in emotions, in art and in simplicity overall, Not in anything material. It is somehow connected with the artwork displaying a diver in an old school diving suit preparing to take a step in the clouds, trying to find wealth.
Which were the main inspirations for the lyrics in this album?
The main inspirations for the lyrics were based on previous personal experience of the past that led to introvert behavior and thoughts of existence.
It is mentioned that you rejected a lot of material working on this album, deciding to dedicate its sound to your old favorite influences. Can you mention some of them?
It is mostly 90’s stuff, music we grew up with. From punk rock to indie, alternative rock of that period.
Is the “rejected” material going to be presented in a future work?
Who knows, maybe some ideas will be reformed to the way we want to present them at that time.
You stay faithful to your sound despite the experimentations and this is considered positive by your fans. How difficult is it to create something new and yet familiar?
I can not really answer that. People say that everything we decide to play, despite all the experimentation, has an MfS signature. Maybe they are right.
Do you consider experimenting more in the future – going more electro or more alternative?
Experimenting with sounds and styles is something we love to do. I have no idea what the next album will sound like. I hope we’ll find out soon.
You began as a band in 2003. How have things changed for you over these years? Was it easier back then than it is now, or is it a smooth, to a certain extent, course?
Things have changed in terms of the level of “professionalism” the bands work nowadays compared to 10 or 15 years ago. Also things are easier considering that a band can make a respectable amount of promotion through the social media and streaming platforms in general and expose themselves and their music in a much easier way than before.
Regarding the Greek music scene, do you feel that this has evolved and matured?
This is true, but I believe there is still a lot of work to be done. I think that Greece does not have that big audience to support the scene. If the scene and the audience were bigger then there would be much more places the bands could play, better fees etc etc.
You have also performed abroad. Which is the best and the worst experience you had?
The best experience was by far the first gig abroad we had in 2010 at the Europavox festival in France along with names such as Pete Doherty, Peter Hook, Funeral Suits and many others. We started playing at a stage with 30 people and by the third song the venue was full with 300 people. It was an amazing experience. I think the worst was in a small Romanian town where we played in one of our Balkan tours. It was an underground metal club full of metalheads doing headbanging when listening to Mary’s flower Superhead. A bit scary at the beginning, but in the end we started enjoying it.
Is it true that the band’s name refers to a Greek singer?
Thank you for your time! Feel free to add anything to close this interview.
Mary Kalaitzidou
Tags: indieInner Ear RecordsInterviewsMary's flower Superheadpost punk
Next post Spring 2018 playlists : Yvonne Staples perfoms Gospel songs from Heaven - A tribute to late gospel/soul singer
Previous post Spring 2018 playlists : Uplifting, Vol.1
Photo Tribute : Ejekt Festival 2019 // The Cure // Michael Kiwanuka // Ride // Khruangbin // The Steams (July 17th, Plateia Nerou, Faliro, Greece)
The Steams Khruangbin Ride Michael Kiwanuka The Cure The vibe: Photo tribute by: Christos Doukakis
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line271
|
__label__wiki
| 0.716899
| 0.716899
|
Friday Clippings From Our Newsroom Floor
It appears both of the two veteran ABQ GOP city councilors up for election this year will seek another term.
Realtor Trudy Jones, first elected to the council in 2007 has not formally announced she will seek a fourth term, but City Hall watchers say she is gearing up for a run. Jones will be the favorite to win the seat again. It's one of the few council districts that leans R.
Meantime, Republican Brad Winter, the longest-serving councilor who we told you this week will seek another four year term, will have some opposition. Democrat Athena Ann Christodoulou, 63, president of the NM Solar Energy Association, has taken the first steps to qualify for public financing for the November 5 election.
Also up for election this year are Dem Councilors Ike Benton and Pat Davis. Zach Quintero, president of the Young Democrats of NM, has already announced a bid against Benton and two others are also exploring a run, according to the city clerk's site.
Davis is also expected to have a foe, but the City Hall watchers say he does not appear to face as tough a race as Benton.
The council is currently controlled by the Dems 6 to 3 but the panel sometimes divides along nonpartisan lines. . .
Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver is working to create some pre-announcement buzz and appears ready to join the Dem chase for the US Senate nomination. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan is the only officially announced Dem candidate. Toulouse Oliver will make an announcement about her plans this month. . .
Republican Yvette Herrell has some company in the race for the 2020 GOP nomination for the southern congressional district. 61 year old Las Cruces businessman and Army veteran Chris Mathys has announced his candidacy for the seat held by Rep. Xochitl Torres Small who will seek re-election next year, Herrell won the GOP nomination in '18 but lost to Torres Small.
More home visiting for children pre-natal through age three was one solution offered on the blog Thursday to prevent the many child abuse deaths the state suffers, including two just recently in ABQ. Allen Sanchez, president of CHI (Catholic Health Initiatives) St. Joseph's Children, which runs a large home visiting program, stumped for more state involvement in the aftermath of child killings in ABQ and statewide:
. . . Home visiting is not punitive and it’s not about inspecting or judging,” Sánchez said. “It’s about a relationship and journey with somebody and presenting them with evidence-based best practices.
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month but you wouldn't know it looking at the headlines around here.
Posted by: Joe Monahan / Friday, April 12, 2019
Another Spate of Child Killings And Abuse Haunts ABQ; Two Dead, One Critical; What To Do? Plus: Campaign Trail Dust; What State Rep. Said A State Senator Has "Her Head Up Her Butt?"
You could say the city is aghast over yet another spate of child abuse cases within days of each other, two of which resulted in the deaths of the children, but it's more like numbed.
After all, this has been going on for a number of years. The city's lower economic strata is beset by a drug epidemic of historic proportions while much of the rest of the community goes about its business, unscathed by the violence and terror that now routinely pops up on their TV screens as frequently as high wind warnings.
They may be unscathed, but not unaffected. The ongoing slaughter is killing the future dreams of bringing this city back to a more peaceable and civilized place.
And, yes, it is the drugs. Look at every one of these dreadful killings of recent years and you will find most of them either directly or indirectly involved drugs.
The ongoing aberrant and abhorrent behavior is especially striking for a metro area of only 900,000. This is not Chicago or Baltimore, populated as they are by millions.
But here we are with a five year old girl dead at her father's hand, an 11 month old infant dead and again the father arrested and the shooting of an 8 year old girl, now in critical condition, the cause of which is under investigation.
What to do? There is no panacea but there are solutions that could prevent future carnage. Let's go back to what early childhood activist and KUNM-FM radio host Stephen Spitz offered blog readers on March 5. It should resonate even louder today:
NM's early childhood programs remain minuscule. For example, the state's Home Visiting program, for children prenatal to 3, presently serves 3,500 kids out of a total client population of 70,000. Numerous studies have found that home visiting gets the biggest bang for the buck, particularly for "at risk" children, such as the 82% of NM births which are Medicaid qualified. In short, ECE needs to be dramatically expanded if we hope to address the state's economic, education, and social crises.
Spitz adds that if the parents are running amok, an extra set of eyes visiting the home can serve as a deterrent to extreme behavior. Such visits can reach out to parents and show them how to deal with their frustrations in parenting, and home visitors are out in the community interacting and learning what's going on in other households where children may be endangered. And such visits can be the first step in intervening in parental drug abuse that can lead to child abuse.
Widespread home visiting will cost tens of millions, but the money is there--in the nearly $18 billion Land Grant Permanent School Fund. The proposed Constitutional Amendment that would ask voters to tap a small portion of it (about $150 million a year) passed the House in the recent legislative session but again stalled out in the Senate. There will be another try next year.
New Mexico has dug itself into a deep and ugly hole. Just when you think we might be climbing out we're pulled back in by the gruesome reality.
Governor Lujan Grisham and Children Youth and Families Department Secretary Blalock come to office at a time of ever increasing peril for a large swath of the state's population that is struggling economically and with drug-induced wreckage. That we are in the middle innings of the crisis and not the closing ones is self-evident. They have the money from the oil boom and the skills accumulated from years in public service to start digging out of the hole. The question is whether they and the state have the necessary determination and willpower.
TRAIL DUST
Rep. Ezzell
ABQ Dem Rep. Deb Haaland confirms the insider view that she will not leave her House seat to make a run for the open US Senate seat up for election next year. . . Possible northern Dem congressional hopeful Valerie Plame is already getting hit with oppo research. This from the WaPo in 2017:
On the first full day of Rosh Hashanah, unmasked CIA officer Valerie Plame tweeted out an article entitled, “America’s Jews are driving America’s wars.”
Plame later apologized for the tweet.
Our Alligators report that ABQ GOP City Councilor Brad Winter is headed toward announcing a re-election bid for this November's city election. He is the longest-serving councilor, having been first elected in 1999. There is no announced Dem opponent yet to take on Winter, 64, who last year lost a race for a state House seat. . .
Roswell Daily Record reporter Alex Ross comes with this political stinger:
At a Roswell Chamber of Commerce luncheon state Rep. Candy Spence Ezzell, R-Roswell, said state Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, D-Albuquerque, "has her head up her butt" for introducing a bill that would have temporarily banned fracking in New Mexico.
Come on, Candy. Everyone in Roswell knows walking around with your head up your butt is what you do to prep for the Friday night rodeo rides. . .
Yeah, now we're blogging New Mexico.
Posted by: Joe Monahan / Thursday, April 11, 2019
Rumblings On The Left In Senate Chase, No Pay Raises For Top State Officials, And: What's A "Pocket Sign?"
Not unexpectedly there are rumblings on the left about the US Senate candidacy of Rep. Ben Ray Lujan. Reader Gene Hill writes:
I thoroughly enjoyed the Cash Monster imagery you posted on the Friday blog. But for me it serves as a stark reminder who the real Cash Monster in the Senate race is. Ben Ray Lujan has such a well-oiled money machine in DC at his service that I fear that no bona fide progressive candidate will even have a chance here.
We've all seen how the Democratic Party establishment (statewide and national) goes overboard in pushing their preferred candidate into the nomination. Then we decry the disastrous results the following November. By way of examples, recall Diane Denish in 2010, Gary King in 2014, and Hillary in 2016. MLG in 2018 was also the machine's choice, but at least she was too strong a candidate to lose.
Anyway, I fear this type of scenario if Ben Ray becomes the Frankenstein of the national cash monster machine. I implore the Democratic powers that be to make room for a progressive candidate in the primary and try to level the playing field for him or her.
So far Lujan is the only declared candidate for the 2020 Dem Senate nomination. Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, who could conceivably run to Lujan's left, says she will make a decision this month on whether to run.
As for a Dem losing the Senate race straight up to an outnumbered Republican, that's hard to see. A more dangerous scenario for the D's in the 2020 general election might be a credible Green Party candidate running to the left, peeling off Dem votes and perhaps giving the R nominee a fighting chance.
NO PAY RAISES
We blogged during the legislative session that a proposal to raise the pay of the Governor and other statewide elected officials (SB 547) would easily pass the House and Senate. And it did. But then it ran into a gubernatorial veto. MLG's veto message made clear authors of that legislation made a big mistake by applying the 15 percent raises to those currently in office:
(This bill) makes these salary changes effective for each state officer who're begins on or after January 1, 2020. . . I agree that a pay raise may eventually be appropriate for these positions. However, I am not comfortable signing into law a pay raise that may apply to current office holders who could run for re-election in 2020 and beyond. If the Legislature wishes to provide a longer timeline for when the salary changes will take effect, then I am willing to re-examine this issue.
The veto cost the Governor a $16,000 a year pay raise, from $110,000 to $126,000. The Attorney General's pay would have gone from $95,000 to $109,250; Land Commissioner from $90,000 to $103,500; the state Auditor, Treasurer and SOS would have gone from $85,000 to $97,750 and Public Regulation Commissioners from $90,000 to $103,500.
Despite this year's denial of a pay boost the salaries of New Mexico's top officials are not that much below those in neighboring Colorado.
Governor - $123,193
Attorney General - $107,672
Secretary of State - $93,360
State Treasurer - $93,360
THE POCKET SIGN
Governor Lujan Grisham's veto of that 15% salary increase for certain state elected officials reminded a Senior Alligator of provisions related to the Governor's bill approval or veto authority in Article 4, Section 22 of the New Mexico Constitution. They write:
It is generally known that the Governor has 20 days after legislative adjournment to sign, veto, line item veto or pocket veto legislation which passes both Houses during the last 3 days of the Session. However, if a bill passes both Houses before the last 3 days of the Session, the Governor has the option not to act on a bill which then becomes law through what is commonly known as a "pocket sign."
Governor Richardson used this provision during his first regular legislative session in 2003. That bill proposed to improve the retirement benefits of former members of the Legislature. So, in addition to Governor Lujan Grisham's suggestion to the Legislature in her Veto Message for SB 547 to "provide a longer timetable for when the salary changes will take effect," the Legislature may want to give the Governor an additional option by sending a future bill to the 4th Floor before the last 3 days of the end of the Legislative Session.
Quite the clever play, Senior Gator. You may get a Christmas card from Maggie, Hector and Company for your due diligence.
Posted by: Joe Monahan / Wednesday, April 10, 2019
A Picture That Really Is Worth A Thousand Words About Today's La Politica, Plus: Great Mentioner Is Back in Biz; New Name Makes Rounds For Northern Congress Seat
This picture is truly worth a thousand words. Here from a recent congressional hearing we have Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, the former ABQ Republican Congresswoman ('98-'09) who dominated the political landscape here a decade ago, being questioned by Deb Haaland, the Democrat who now holds the ABQ Congressional seat Wilson once had a tight grip on.
Well, nothing says it better than that picture about how our state has dramatically changed since Wilson's time.
--A congressional district once safe for the R's has gone deeply into the Democratic camp and is no longer even competitive.
--Haaland is the first Native American woman to serve in the US House (along with Sharice Davids) as New Mexico's "majority minority" status fully asserts itself.
--Also at the hearing Wilson was questioned by southern US Rep. Torres Small, who startled the state by turning that red district blue last year.
One of our Senior Alligators could not resist a commentary:
For NM political junkies the April 2 House Armed Services Committee was a fascinating juxtaposition of former and future NM politicos. Air Force Secretary Wilson, the former ABQ GOP congresswoman who was an upstart, headline-grabber for a decade in New Mexico, faced questioning from two new Democratic upstarts—Rep. Deb Haaland and Rep. Torres Small.
The dramatic change of circumstances was probably not lost on Wilson. It was in 2008 that she had her sights set on the U.S. Senate after 10 years in the House and 6 brutal general/special elections.. The cutthroat, take-no-prisoners, military veteran Wilson had to likely exercise major restraint to not tear apart these non-veteran, softy, freshman legislators.
Torres Small and Haaland, neither of whom interacted with Wilson much during her time as a NM rep, probably looked across the carpet to realize how fleeting a life in NM politics can be. They might be having fun right now putting Heather on the spot, but look what New Mexico politics will do to you—Wilson didn’t use to have that much grey hair.
In just a month, Wilson will be gazing across the state line from Texas as she leaves her position as Air Force Secretary and takes over the presidency of UTEP. From there she will no doubt keep an eye on the NM political scene that she was once so much a part of.
Video of Wilson's exchange with Rep. Haaland is at 3:02:25 and the one with Rep. Torres-Small at 3:27.
NORTHERN CHASE
Leger de Fernandez
Now the latest on what could be a topsy-turvy race for the Dem nomination for the northern congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Lujan. The Great Mentioner is back in business and is mentioning attorney Teresa Leger de Fernandez, a San Miguel County native who now lives in Santa Fe, as a possible candidate.
She runs a small law firm that has done considerable business with Native American tribes. Those pitching her point out she took her undergrad degree at Yale, graduated from Stanford Law School and was appointed a White House Fellow by President Clinton. Leger de Fernandez, 59, is divorced and has three children all in college.
The handicappers say that Santa Fe City Councilor Renee Villarreal may be more out than in for the congressional race. . .People are still waiting for Public Regulation Commissioner Valerie Espinoza to say something about the contest (phone home, Valerie.). . . DC Dems are said to be frustrated with the many Hispanic men looking at the race because they want a Hispanic woman in the seat.
Questions? Send them in and we will forward them to the Great Mentioner.
Posted by: Joe Monahan / Tuesday, April 09, 2019
The Plame Game: A Flame Out Or A Real Shot At The Northern Seat? We Weigh The Case, Plus: The Year Was 1982
Valerie Plame
Can an Anglo or half-Anglo carpetbagger become the congressional representative from the northern congressional district of New Mexico, populated by families that trace their roots back hundreds of years and Native Americans who trace theirs back a thousand?
Well, ask Tom Udall of Arizona who moved to New Mexico to go to UNM's law school in 1975 but eventually (in 1998) landed the northern seat. Or Bill Richardson (half Anglo) who came to the state in 1978 and four short years later found himself as the first representative in the then newly created northern congressional district.
Now comes outed CIA spy Valerie Plame of Santa Fe with book smarts and movie star looks who wants to follow in their paths. Made famous by a 2003 CIA leak scandal that outed her as an intelligence operative and that made her a heroine of the left, Plame and her then husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, moved to Santa Fe in 2006 to escape the whirl of publicity.
With this fresh AP write-up that went national, she seems to be inching closer to running for the Democratic nomination for the US House seat being vacated by Rep. Ben Ray Lujan who is running for the senate seat that Senator Udall is retiring from next year.
Plame first floated a possible candidacy for the Senate seat but is backing off that as Lujan is the heavy favorite to take the Dem nod.
Plame, 55, is a classic high-rent liberal, the kind that nestle into the multi-million dollar homes on Santa Fe's east side, resting securely in the knowledge that their Volvos are safe for another night. And they vote. They were instrumental in electing Alan Webber, another NM outsider, as Santa Fe Mayor a year ago.
Plame's task would not be as easy, running as she is in one of the most sprawling and ethnically diverse districts in the USA. But her obvious hole card is already showing. The likelihood of a multitude of Hispanic candidates running for the seat and perhaps splitting that vote is high and getting higher.
Already two top possible Hispanic female contenders have emerged--Renee Villarreal of the Santa Fe City Council and Public Regulation Commissioner Valerie Espinoza. Plame is so far the sole prominent Anglo woman being mentioned as a possible contender while Villarreal and Espinoza already appear poised to split votes. Then there is the long parade of Hispanic male candidates starting to form that could further the vote splitting.
Ethnicity isn't the key factor in the June 2020 primary--qualifications are--but it's hard to see Plame avoiding a flame out if she doesn't get a demographic boost that would strengthen her base Santa Fe vote.
WHAT'S THE PATH?
The author of a book about the CIA leak scandal and the co-author of two spy novels, Plame has kept her name in play on the national circuit, but skeptics say her fame is fading and that Plame is only toying with the idea of a congressional run to regain her stature on the speaking circuit. They say they will believe she is in only when she is in.
But the pessimism about her having no real path to victory has subsided somewhat. Democrats have been electing women left and right and while there appears to be a push by the DC Dems for a Hispanic woman for the seat, Plame is halfway there.
Celebrity, even if fading, is a strong lure for voters in this hyper-media age. And it can help raise money on-line as we have seen from the presidential candidates. And it can attract big donors off line.
The bottom lines? Plame needs several Hispanic rivals and deep pockets to pull off what Richardson and Udall did and deliver the seat to an outsider. That it has been done before is of more than passing interest.
THE YEAR WAS 1982
The 1982 primary that Bill Richardson won and that catapulted him into the Congress in that November's election was one of the more interesting in state history.
The district was new and four brand name Democratic candidates emerged. Richardson was first among them, having in 1980 narrowly lost a spirited campaign against Republican Congressman Manuel Lujan, Jr, whose district then included ABQ and the entire north. When the redistricting took hold in '82 ABQ became the centerpiece of a new district and the north the centerpiece of what would be the state's third congressional district.
Richardson was joined in the primary by then Lt. Governor Roberto Mondragon, District Court Judge George Perez and Tom Udall, a 34 year old political novice but hailing from a famous Arizona political family.
It was not a cakewalk for Richardson who appealed to Santa Fe Anglo liberals, Hispanics and Native Americans. Thanks in large measure to Mondragon and Perez splitting the Hispanic vote newcomer Richardson took the prize, capturing 36 percent of the vote to Mondragon's 31. Perez received 17 percent and Udall got 14 percent.
Richardson went on to become one of the more accomplished politicians in state history. Mondragon never won another race after finishing his second term as lieutenant governor in 1982 but today, at 78, he is beloved in the north for his efforts to preserve Hispanic culture. George Perez of Bernalillo continued his legal career and retired. And Tom Udall learned from that 1982 defeat, eventually becoming the state's senior Senator in DC from which he will retire at the end of next year.
IN MY TIME
I was living in Santa Fe in 1982 and found myself in November broadcasting the Election Night returns on radio station KAFE-AM 810 (now KSWV) with my guest expert, the late District Court Judge and NM Secretary of Corrections Michael Francke.
He was a close friend of Jeff Bingaman. and that night Jeff made history when he defeated GOP US Senator Harrison "Jack" Schmitt.
It wasn't very late in the evening when it became clear Bingaman would win. Glancing over at Francke he stunned me, saying that he had the Senator-elect on the phone from his ABQ hotel room and he was ready for an interview. I believe it was the very first one he gave that night--to his close friend Michael, and to my benefit.
That night was the last time New Mexicans would hear of the defeat of an incumbent US Senator. It hasn't happened since.
The year was 1982. I was there. And that's how I remember it.
Posted by: Joe Monahan / Monday, April 08, 2019
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line275
|
__label__cc
| 0.508016
| 0.491984
|
A Secret Weapon For Animation
June 25, 2019, 7:06 am / johnnythuiv.blogolize.com
Linear Animation Generator is usually a sort of animation by using static photo frames put in in a very tunnel or perhaps a shaft.
alien - not contained in or deriving from your essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien for the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so international for the French intellect and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her character"
Inside the 1970s, an underground urban motion called "hip hop" began to sort during the Bronx, Ny city. It focused on emceeing (or MCing) about residence functions and neighborhood block occasion activities, held outdoor. Hip hop audio has been a strong medium for protesting the influence of lawful institutions on minorities, especially police and prisons.[32] Historically, hip hop arose out in the ruins of the write-up-industrial and ravaged South Bronx, to be a method of expression of city Black and Latino youth, whom the general public and political discourse experienced published off as marginalized communities.[32] Jamaican-born DJ Clive "Kool Herc" Campbell[33] pioneered using DJing percussion "breaks" in hip hop audio.
.. I mentioned 'That's how I'll assault the audience; I'm going to assault them sexually. And I'm not intending to go once the Gals while in the audience, I'll attack the Adult males. I'm intending to place in each picture I can visualize for making the Guys while in the audience cross their legs. Homosexual oral rape, start. The factor lays its eggs down your throat, The full amount.'"[107]
An example of this was the controversy guiding Nelly’s “Idea Drill” audio video, where by Nelly provides off the impact that lady can be purchased and offered like objects. This evidently portrays the existence of misogyny in hip-hop new music. Byron Hurt, a filmmaker who produced the 2006 documentary, Outside of Beats and Rhymes, even voiced his opinions over the hypermasculinity that’s existing in hip-hop when he said “I'd personally constantly defend hip-hop. But the greater I grew and the greater I realized about sexism and violence and homophobia, the more People lyrics became unacceptable to me, and I started to be additional conflicted regarding the new music that I loved.” Having said that, many female artists have also emerged in shedding mild on the two their personal difficulties as well as the misrepresentations of ladies in hip-hip and lifestyle. These artists include but will not be limited to Queen Latifah, TLC and MC Lyte. Despite the fact that many feminine artists happen to be profitable in contributing to what we know as hip-hop now, it continue to stays a male-dominated mainstream field.[227][228]
Hip hop audio promotes masculine hegemony and it depicts Girls as Dance people who must rely upon Gentlemen.[223] The portrayal of ladies in hip hop lyrics and movies has a tendency to be violent, degrading, and hugely sexualized. You will find a high frequency of tunes with lyrics that are demeaning, or depict sexual violence or sexual assault in the direction of Girls.[225] Video clips generally portray idealized woman bodies and depict Women of all ages as remaining the object of male pleasure.[226] The misrepresentation of ladies, primarily girl of shade, as objects rather then other human beings as well as existence of male dominance in hip-hop even stems again to the birth of your style. Although it’s crucial to note that each male and feminine people today have been current and influential to hip-hop society and it’s tunes, male artists dominated audio and infrequently used lyrics depicting their dominance superiority within the 1980’s and ‘ninety’s, this efficiently improved all the hip-hop marketplace For some time to come back.
Scott and Rawlings had also grow to be hooked up to various in the musical cues they had used for the short-term rating whilst enhancing the movie, and re-edited many of Goldsmith's cues and re-scored several sequences to match these cues and in many cases remaining the temporary score in place in certain portions of the finished film.[fifty three] Goldsmith afterwards remarked that "you may see that I was form of like heading at opposite ends in the pole Using the filmmakers.
Most beats in hip hop are sampled from the pre-existing document. This means that a producer will have a part or simply a "sample" of the track and reuse it as an instrumental portion, conquer or percentage of their track.
Shange writes how regardless if investigating Nicki's new music and persona from the homonormative lens, she defies categorization. She goes on to explain how Minaj "is actually a rapper whose essential, strategic effectiveness of queer femininity is inextricable associated with the generation and reception in their rhymes." In this way, Nicki Minaj's performative fashion enables her to create equally excellent strides as people who came before her.
My Beatport permits you to observe your preferred DJs and labels so you'll find out whenever they release new tracks. So go follow anyone!
Especially, they felt the relatable storytelling and psychological truths shared in soul and blues had been lost during the pop-centric Seems of Disco. So Hip Hop recaptured that relationship, commencing with the pioneers who introduced back again the evocative Increase! BAP! rhythms of James Brown's drummer, Clyde Stubblefield.
The magazine was printed monthly and generally concerning rap, Hip Hop and R&B tunes. Word Up journal was extremely well-liked, it had been even stated in the favored music with the Notorious B.I.G - Juicy "it was all a aspiration, use to examine WordUp magazine". Phrase Up journal was a component of pop culture.
The producer could even combine and layer distinct approaches, for example combining a sampled disco drum split that has a drum equipment keep track of and many Are living, freshly recorded percussion areas or possibly a Stay electric powered bass participant. A conquer established by a hip hop producer may perhaps involve other areas Other than a drum conquer, for instance a sampled bassline from a funk or disco music, dialogue from the spoken term report or Motion picture, or rhythmic "scratching" and "punches" finished by a turntablist or DJ.
Today, the term must definitely not be utilized in any respect to outline any latest sounds, and never utilised as a phrase to explain just about anything other than these mainstream-pushing electronic acts on the mid to late 90s.
Comments on “A Secret Weapon For Animation”
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line276
|
__label__cc
| 0.516806
| 0.483194
|
/ Syphilis
What Is Syphilis?
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Early treatment can cure syphilis (SIFF-ill-iss) and prevent long-term problems.
What Are STDs?
STDs (also called sexually transmitted infections or STIs) are infections that spread through sex (vaginal, oral, or anal). Some STDs can spread through close contact with the genitals or body fluids. (Genitals are the sexual or reproductive organs that are on the outside of the body.)
How Do People Get Syphilis?
Syphilis usually spreads by touching a sore (called a chancre [SHANK-er]) or wart-like lesions (called condyloma lata) caused by syphilis. This can happen through sex (vaginal, oral, or anal) or close sexual contact.
The chancre or condyloma lata (kon-duh-LOW-muh LAH-tuh) may be hard to see, so someone might not know they have them.
An infected pregnant woman can spread the infection to her unborn baby during pregnancy or delivery.
What Are the Signs & Symptoms of Syphilis?
Syphilis has different stages. In the order that they happen, they are:
primary syphilis
secondary syphilis
latent syphilis
late syphilis (also called tertiary syphilis)
What Are the Signs & Symptoms of Primary Syphilis?
The main symptom of primary syphilis is a one or more chancres (sores). They develop about 3 weeks after someone is infected. The chancres happens where the sexual contact happened (genitals, mouth, or rectal area). They are usually painless.
The chancre goes away in about 3–6 weeks, even without treatment. But without treatment, syphilis will move on to the next stage, secondary syphilis.
What Are the Signs & Symptoms of Secondary Syphilis?
A few weeks to months after the chancre appears, these symptoms can begin:
rash, often on the palms of the hands and soles of feet
flu-like symptoms such as fever, headache, tiredness, loss of appetite, muscle aches, joint pain, and sore throat
swollen glands (lymph nodes)
wart-like lesions (condyloma lata) in warm, moist areas, such as the mouth and area around the genitalia and anus
Over time, secondary syphilis can liver, kidney, and digestive tract problems.
The symptoms of secondary syphilis will go away. But without treatment, syphilis will move on to the next stage, latent syphilis.
What Are the Signs & Symptoms of Latent Syphilis?
Someone with latent syphilis is infected but does not have any symptoms ("latent" means it's not obvious or causing symptoms). Syphilis can stay latent for life. Or, it may move to late syphilis.
What Are the Signs & Symptoms of Late Syphilis?
If latent syphilis progresses to late syphilis (also called tertiary syphilis), it causes serious damage to the heart and blood vessels, brain and nervous system, and other organs.
Late syphilis can develop any time from 1–30 years after someone is infected. Even someone who has not had any symptoms of primary or secondary syphilis can progress to late syphilis.
What Is Neurosyphilis?
Neurosyphilis is syphilis that has spread to the brain and nervous system. It can happen during any of the stages of syphilis. People with neurosyphilis can have:
syphilitic meningitis
damage to spinal cord
eye problems that can lead to blindness
What Causes Syphilis?
A type of
called Treponema pallidum causes syphilis.
How Is Syphilis Diagnosed?
To find out if someone has syphilis, health care providers usually do a blood test. Fluid from the chancre also can be tested. Someone who has symptoms of neurosyphilis will get a spinal tap (lumbar puncture). This test collects some fluid from around the brain and spinal cord for testing in a lab.
How Is Syphilis Treated?
Health care providers treat syphilis with
. These medicines are given as a shot or through an IV (a tiny tube that goes into a vein). How long treatment is needed depends on what stage of syphilis someone is in.
Syphilis can be cured. But the medical problems it can lead to — such as dementia, artery damage, or blindness — usually can't be cured.
After treatment, follow-up testing will make sure that the infection is cured.
All sexual partners should be tested and treated, if necessary:
For primary syphilis: partners from the last 3 months
For secondary syphilis: partners from the last 6 months
For latent syphilis: partners from the last year (because there could have been a chancre or condyloma lata that wasn't noticed)
Can Someone Get Syphilis More Than Once?
Yes, people can get syphilis again if they have sex with someone who is infected.
Can Syphilis Be Prevented?
The only way to prevent syphilis and other STDs is not to have sex (oral, vaginal, or anal). If someone decides to have sex, using a latex condom every time can prevent most STDs.
Anyone who is sexually active should get tested for STDs every year, or more often if recommended by their health care provider.
Reviewed by: Krishna Wood White, MD, MPH
Date reviewed: October 2018
Questions and Answers About Sex
Your Daughter's First Gynecology Visit
Recognizing Signs of Child Abuse
STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases)
5 Myths About STDs
Talking to Your Partner About STDs
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line281
|
__label__cc
| 0.724501
| 0.275499
|
9 Audiobooks to Get Excited About in 2018
New year, new audiobooks. Our Copyright Manager Amy Flinders tells us all about a selection of the titles we’re adding to the library soon!
If you need something to take your mind off the fact that you’ve kept absolutely none of your new year’s resolutions, then why not listen to some of the audiobooks that will be brand new to our catalogue this Spring? We’ll be adding lots of titles to our library over the next couple of months! I’ve picked out nine of my favourites to get particularly excited about, all of which will be available both as MP3 CD and to download and stream. So sit back, relax, and get these 2018 audiobooks between your ears!
How to Be Champion – Sarah Millican
In her hilarious debut book, British comedian Sarah Millican recalls her life story so far. She also provides a few self-help tips and life-hacks along the way. From her school days to her divorce to her career in stand-up comedy, Sarah gives us an honest and laugh-out-loud account of her life and, more importantly, how to be ‘champion’.
In a Cottage in a Wood – Cass Green
If you loved Cass Green’s The Woman Next Door, then you’re sure to be intrigued by her second psychological thriller. When a stranger inexplicably leaves her cottage in Cornwall, Neve decides to elope there to escape her London life. But when Neve arrives, she finds a sinister-looking bungalow with bars across the windows. Her dream home quickly becomes her worst nightmare. This house is hiding a twisted secret that will change her life forever…
Why Mummy Drinks – Gill Sims
Why Mummy Drinks is the brilliant new novel from Gill Sims, the author of the online sensation Peter and Jame. It is Mummy’s 39th birthday. She is staring down the barrel of a future full of advanced yoga classes and polite book clubs where everyone claims to be tiddly after a glass of Pinot Grigio and says things like ‘Oooh gosh, are you having another glass?’ But Mummy does not want to go quietly into that good night of women with sensible haircuts who ‘live for their children’. Instead, she clutches a large glass of wine, muttering ‘FML’ over and over again. Until she remembers the gem of an idea she’s had…
Air Force Blue: The RAF in World War Two – Spearhead of Victory – Patrick Bishop
In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. In his new book, Patrick Bishop examines the high point of its existence – the Second World War, when the Air Force saved the nation from defeat then led the advance to victory. Air Force Blue portrays the spirit of the RAF during its finest hours. It is essential reading for those who had loved ones serving in the war, and for anyone who wants to understand the Second World War.
Calm – Fearne Cotton
This is the follow up to the TV and radio presenter’s bestselling book, Happy. For many of us it now seems impossible to relax, take time out, or mute the encircling ‘noise’. As a result, mental illnesses are on the rise in every age group, and more of us than ever before yearn for calm. Calm is Fearne’s mission to find the simple things that can inch us away from stress and over to the good stuff. It includes expert advice, conversations with wise friends from all walks of life, easy ideas to try, and activities to complete. This book is a friendly reminder that Calm is a place that exists in us all, we just have to find our way back to it.
Death Knocks Twice – Robert Thorogood
In the third installment of Robert Thorogood’s Death in Paradise series, a mysterious vagrant is found dead in the grounds of the historic Beaumont plantation. Immediately assumed to be suicide, DI Poole is not so convinced and determined to prove otherwise. Never mind that the only fingerprints on the murder weapon belong to the victim. Or that the room was locked fro the inside. A must-listen if you enjoyed the first two books, or the BBC TV series!
Fools and Mortals – Bernard Cornwell
In the heart of Elizabethan England, penniless actor Richard Shakespeare dreams of a glittering career in one of London’s playhouses, a world dominated by his older brother, William. When a priceless manuscript goes missing, suspicion falls upon Richard, forcing him onto a perilous path through a bawdy and frequently brutal London. A high-stakes game of duplicity and betrayal which threatens not only his career but also the lives of his fellow players, Richard must use all he has learned from the brightest stages and the darkest alleyways of the city. To avoid the gallows, he must play the role of a lifetime…
The Rivers of London Series – Ben Aaronovitch
We will soon have all the novels in the series following detective and trainee wizard Peter Grant, investigator of the more fantastical sides of London. Including Rivers of London, Moon Over Soho, Whispers Underground, Broken Homes, Foxglove Summer and The Hanging Tree, plus the most recent novella The Furthest Station.
Magpie Murders – Anthony Horowitz
Editor Susan Ryland has worked with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years. Readers love his detective Atticus Pünd, a celebrated solver of crimes in the sleepy English villages of the 1950s. But Conway’s latest tale of murder at Pye Hall is not quite what it seems. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but hidden in the pages of the manuscript lies another story: a tale written between the very words on the page, telling of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder. A mystery that’s perfect for fans of Agatha Christie.
We hope you’re as excited as we are about these 2018 audiobook titles! We’ll be adding them to the catalogue soon, so keep your eyes peeled! Leave a comment and let us know which one you’re most excited about!
Looking for something to listen to while you wait? Try some more of our Audiobook Recommendations!
This post was written by Amy Flinders.
2018 , Audiobooks , List , recommendations
Audiobook Recommendations Based on Your Favourite Netflix Original
Old Slang Expressions that are Hilarious Now
23 Celebrity Autobiographies Read by June 14, 2019 0 Comments
New Audiobooks to our Library April 23, 2019 0 Comments
Top 10 Audiobooks Borrowed From April 10, 2019 0 Comments
What is proof listening? Our April 1, 2019 0 Comments
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line283
|
__label__wiki
| 0.577693
| 0.577693
|
Q & A With The John Hartford Stringband - "Memories of John"
Last month the Grammy nominations were announced and while most music fans focus on the major categories, there is plenty of excellent music hidden in other categories. One of these is Category 68: Best Traditional Folk Album and the nominees are quite impressive:
Genuine Negro Jig Carolina Chocolate Drops [Nonesuch]
Onward And Upward Luther Dickinson & The Sons Of Mudboy [Memphis International]
Memories Of John The John Hartford String Band [Compass Records/Red Clay Records]
Maria Muldaur & Her Garden Of Joy Maria Muldaur [Stony Plain Records]
Ricky Skaggs Solo: Songs My Dad Loved Ricky Skaggs [Skaggs Family Records]
We've followed most of these acts over the years, except for The John Hartford String Band (Bob Carlin on banjo, Matt Combs on fiddle, Mike Compton on mandolin, Mark Schatz on bass, and guitarist Chris Sharp) - the last touring band of the late John Hartford. In fact, I never really followed Hartford until two years ago after hearing The Farewell Drifters perform "In Tall Buildings" at Merlefest. (For the brevity sake, I won't publish a biography but for those interested, start at JohnHartford.com.)
On the 10th anniversary of Hartford's passing The John Hartford Stringband released Memories Of John a CD containing 14 tracks "some are well known to John Hartford fans; others are complete renderings of sketches that John Hartford left behind. Guest artist include Alison Brown, George Buckner, Béla Fleck, Tim O’Brien, Alan O’Bryant, Eileen Carson Schatz. And from deep in the Hartford archives audio of the man himself, John Hartford."
To learn more about this project we conducted an email interview with two members of the band, guitarist Chris Sharp (CS) and banjoist Bob Carlin (BC).
1. What was the vision for starting Memories for John?
BC: To honor John on the 10th anniversary of his passing, and to bring attention to his life and music.
CS: I felt it was time to bring the band back together and make a CD to honor John's music as well as to release some songs that John worked hard on, but never had a chance to record. After seeing how the project was received, and now the Grammy nomination, I believe that we are doing what we set out to do; our part in the effort to keep John's memory alive and well.
2. What were the criteria for selecting the songs for the CD?
BC: Chris asked the fans through the internet, asked the band and asked himself what should be on the CD, There are many great songs that didn't make the CD, but there is only so much room on one disc.
CS: As Bob mentioned I did a lot of questioning online, band members were asked for their input, I tried to remember songs from stage shows, and looked over every CD I either own or could get to search for material. The band's help was instrumental in deciding the material. I also think that discussing material put us all on the same "steam"boat and caused the band to coalesce, which made the recordings much more heartfelt and meaningful, in my opinion. In addition to all of this I went through a lot of material that John had recorded over the years. This was a wonderful experience and gave us the 2 gems he performs on the CD.
3. Bela Fleck, Alison Brown, Tim O'Brien, Alan O'Bryant and Eileen Carson Schatz: did these artists have previous relationship with John?
CS: Everyone on the CD had strong ties to John. That was a prerequisite when we were thinking of guests to include, and as the band discussed them. John had spent a great deal of time working with many of these performers and each one of them has the utmost respect for John and his music. We chose people who not only had the connection to John but also seemed to fit the particular song they are on. Besides John, I can think of no one other than Alan to sing "Delta Queen Waltz", for example.
4. Obviously there is a market for this CD in the older Bluegrass community - but have you noticed a reception from younger listeners?
BC: Toward the end of our association with John, his audiences were getting younger. I expect we have a good following among the "twenty-somethings" as well as among John's older fans.
CS: Again, Bob's answer is what immediately came to mind on this one. Towards the end of John's career so many young people were being introduced to him. He really was on an upswing overall in his career when he was taken from us, specifically with the younger audience. Many bands have formed in the last decade or so that were in some way, if not outright, inspired by John. Most of the bands I'm referring to have a following made up mostly of that younger generation and they routinely do John's material. They also have a tremendous amount of respect for him and they are also helping to keep his memory, legacy, and music alive. There are also well established acts, such as Tim O'Brien and Sam Bush, who perform John's material and are being followed by younger audiences. I have went the long way around this question but the point is that it's a concerted effort by a lot of people to maintain John's legacy. A large amount of this attention is being soaked up by younger audiences. I hope that "Memories Of John" is reaching to these same people and letting them hear John's material, both old and new.
5. And similarly - although it may be too early to tell, has the Grammy nomination exposed John's music to a wider audience.
BC: Let's hope so, as I mentioned, that is one of our goals.
CS: I would say the Grammy nomination has done quite a bit to expose John's music to more people. Since the nominations were announced there has been a huge upswing on our personal site as well as on Amazon in sales. To me this would support the notion that the nomination has been extremely helpful in getting the word out. It is the Grammys after all :)
6. There's a lot of competition in the Best Traditional Folk Album - Carolina Chocolate Drops, Ricky Scaggs, Maria Muldaur, Luther Dickinson. Collectively or as individual musicians, have any of you performed with these artists?
BC: Of course, we are all well aware of the musical contributions of these peers and that it is indeed an "August" collection of performers this year. I'd like to think that I at lease indirectly helped and influenced the Carolina Chocolate Drops in their formative stage. And, I've had interactions with Ricky's daughter Molly as she was learning the clawhammer banjo style.
CS: I have personally performed on stage with Ricky Skaggs a few times but out of this lineup he's the only one.
7. How did you get notified about the Grammy nomination - phone call - telephone message?
BC: We just read the lists as they were posted online.
CS: I was watching the show and checking online at the same time. However, Emilee Warner, of Compass Records, called and told me the news before my search yielded results. (Thanks Emilee!!!)
8. Did John ever receive a Grammy nomination during his lifetime?
BC: Many. John liked to say he received Grammy's for bluegrass music before there was a category! I believe he received four: two for "Gentle on my Mind", one for the Mark Twang album, and one for his participation in the soundtrack for "Oh Brother Where Art Thou".
9. With the success of this CD, is there a chance for a 2nd effort?
CS: At this time I don't see a second CD coming out. The last song, "Fade Out", was meant to allow John himself to close this particular chapter. I agree with Bob that we have said what we wanted to say with this project and unless something drastic happens to change our minds then I would say this will be the only CD we release as the "John Hartford Stringband".
Labels: Bluegrass, Grammy, John Hartford, John Hartford Stringband
Top 100 Americana Albums of the Year
The Americana Music Association announced its year end Top 100 Albums of the Year. The Top 100 albums are based on those records reported to the Americana Airplay Chart during the period of November 17, 2009 through November 15, 2010. The Top Ten most played albums, as charted on the Americana Airplay Chart are:
1) Various Artists, Crazy Heart Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / New West
2) Rosanne Cash, The List / Manhattan
3) John Hiatt, The Open Road / New West
4) Carolina Chocolate Drops, Genuine Negro Jig / Nonesuch
5) Ray Wylie Hubbard, A Enlightenment B Endarkenment Hint There Is No C / Bordello/Thirty Tigers
6) Robert Earl Keen, The Rose Hotel / Lost Highway
7) Band Of Heathens, One Foot In The Ether / BOH Records
8) The Avett Brothers, I And Love And You / Columbia
9) Patty Griffin, Downtown Church / Credential
10) Reckless Kelly, Somewhere In Time / Yep Roc
11) John Mellencamp, No Better Than This, Rounder
12) Darrell Scott, A Crooked Road, Full Light
13) Merle Haggard, I Am What I Am, Vanguard
14) Alejandro Escovedo, Street Songs of Love, Fantasy
15) Willie Nelson, Country Music, Rounder
16) Lyle Lovett, Natural Forces, Curb/Lost Highway
17) Carrie Rodriguez, Love And Circumstance, Ninth Street
18) Robert Plant, Band of Joy, Rounder
19) Paul Thorn, Pimps & Preachers, Perpetual Obscurity
20) Los Lobos, Tin Can Trust, Shout! Factory
21) Jim Lauderdale, Patchwork River, Thirty Tigers
22) Cross Canadian Ragweed, Happiness And All The Other Things, Universal Records South
23) Red Molly, James, Independent
24) Chip Taylor , Yonkers NY, Train Wreck
25) Yarn, Come On In, UFO 2
26) John Prine, In Person & On Stage, Oh Boy
27) Tift Merritt, See You On The Moon, Concord
28) Various Artists: Twistable Turnable Man, A Musical Tribute To The Songs Of Shel Silverstein, Sugar Hill
29) Dave Rawlings Machine, A Friend Of A Friend, Acony
30) Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Speed Of Life, NGDB
31) Kevin Welch, A Patch Of Blue Sky, Music Road
32) Johnny Cash, American VI: Ain't No Grave, American/Lost Highway
33) Elliot Randall & The Deadmen, Caffeine & Gasoline, ER
34) Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs, God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise, RCA
35) Shelby Lynne, Tears, Lies & Alibis , Everso/Fontana/CO5
36) Marty Stuart, Studio B Sessions, Sugar Hill
37) Sam Bush, Circles Around Me, Sugar Hill
38) Will Kimbrough, Wings, Daphne
39) Corb Lund, Losin' Lately Gambler, New West
40) Elizabeth Cook, Welder, Thirty Tigers
41) Kevin Deal, 7 Seven, Blind Nello
42) Allison Moorer, Crows, Ryko
43) Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses, Junky Star, Lost Highway
44) Eleven Hundred Springs, This Crazy Life, Smith Entertainment
45) Guy Clark, Somedays The Song Writes You, Dualtone
46) Dierks Bentley, Up On The Ridge, Capitol / Sugar Hill
47) Patty Loveless, Mountain Soul II,
Saguaro Road
48) Drive-By Truckers, The Big To-Do, ATO/RED
49) Tim O'Brien, Chicken & Egg, Howdy Skies
50) Eilen Jewell, Butcher Holler - A Tribute To Loretta Lynn, Signature Sounds
51) John Fogerty, The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again, Verve
52) Suzi Ragsdale, Best Regards & Less Of The Same, Stark Raven
53) Various Artists, Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs Of John Prine, Oh Boy
54) Great American Taxi , Reckless Habits, Thirty Tigers
55) Peter Wolf, Midnight Souvenirs , Verve
56) Mary Gauthier, The Foundling, Razor & Tie
57) Jakob Dylan, Women And Country, Columbia
58) Two Tons of Steel, Not That Lucky, Smith Entertainment
59) Norah Jones, The Fall, Blue Note
60) Stone River Boys, Love On The Dial, Cow Island Music
61) Mary Chapin Carpenter, The Age Of Miracles , Zoe
62) Court Yard Hounds, Court Yard Hounds, Columbia
63) Delbert McClinton, Acquired Taste, New West
64) Jason & The Scorchers, Halcyon Times, Courageous Chicken
65) Hank III, Rebel Within, Curb
66) Will Hoge, The Wreckage, Ryko
67) Martin Sexton, Sugarcoating, Kitchen Table
68) Cadillac Sky, Letters In The Deep, Dualtone
69) John Evans, Lollygaggin', Smith Entertainment
70) Steel Wheels, Red Wing, Independent
71) Blue Rodeo, The Things We Left Behind, Telesoul
72) Chuck Prophet, Let Freedom Ring, Yep Roc
73) Justin Townes Earle, Harlem River Blues, Bloodshot
74) Holmes Brothers, Feed My Soul, Alligator
75) Tom Russell, Blood And Candle Smoke, Shout! Factory
76) Sara Petite, Doghouse Rose, Sweet P
77) Doug and Telisha Williams, Ghost Of The Knoxville Girl, No Evil
78) Radney Foster, Revival, Devil's River
79) Nora Jane Struthers, Nora Jane Struthers, Blue Pig Music
80) Various Artists, Coal Country Music, Liaison Records
81) Somebody's Darling, Somebody's Darling, Shiner
82) Cindy Bullens, Howling Trains And Barking Dogs, MC
83) Infamous Stringdusters, Things That Fly, Sugar Hill
84) Fred Eaglesmith, Cha Cha Cha, Lonesome Day
85) Joe Pug, Messenger, Lightning Rod
86) Keller And The Keels, Thief, SciFidelity
87) Matt the Electrician, Animal Boy, Independent
88) Bill Kirchen, Word To The Wise, Proper American
89) Rebecca Loebe, Mystery Prize, Independent
90) Tom Gillam, Had Enough?, Smith Entertainment Records
91) Crooked Still, Some Strange Country, Signature Sounds
92) James McMurtry, Live In Europe , Lightning Rod
93) Terri Hendrix, Cry Till You Laugh, Wilory
94) Shelley King, Welcome Home, Lemonade 95) Frazey Ford , Obadiah, Nettwerk
96) Otis Gibbs, Joe Hill's Ashes, Wanamaker Recording Company
97) Mavis Staples, You Are Not Alone, Anti
98) Eric Bibb, Booker's Guitar, Telarc
99) Texas Tornados, Esta Bueno!, Bismeaux Records 1
100) Rosie Flores & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts, Girl Of The Century, Bloodshot
Labels: Americana
Current Tracks That Won't Go Away
Over the past few weeks we have received and purchased several recordings from a wide array of artists. We had planned on drafting formal reviews of each - but with the MyJoogTV schedule and added burden of Christmas parties - we have devised a new strategy. Here is a subset of the CDs, as well as links to purchase, that we didn't throw in the back of the bus after the first listen. In fact, we have enjoyed most of these on numerous occasions. And as a bonus we've applied a one sentence buzz phrase commonly used in the industry.
Prepare For Black & White - The White Elephant: favorite CD of the bunch
Sigh No More - Mumford & Sons - wished I could have seen the tour with Cadillac Sky
A Part of Me - Tom Principato: D.C. based bluesman knocks it out with latest
The Wages - The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - portrays the struggle and virtues of the Midwest
Welcome Down & Welcome Up - Tina Dico: this lady can sing, pure and simple
Memories of John - The John Hartford Stringband: from the grave to the Grammies - great old time music
The Night the Cumberland Came Alive - EP - Mike Farris & The Cumberland Saints: can't get enough of this gospel blues CD
The Way We Do It Down South - Gary Nichols: alt-country meets R&B in Muscle Shoals
Something Worth Standing For - Andrew McKnight & Turning Pages - Andrew McKnight: shows that indie musicians just need exposure - "Letter to Colonial Mosby" is an instant classic
All the Quiet, All the Chaos - Shane Hines: local artists gets better with age
Posted by Todd M. Godbout at 6:35 AM 0 comments
Labels: Andrew McKnight, Mike Farris, Mumford and Sons, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Reviews, Shane Hines, The John Hartford Stringband, The White Elephant, Tina Dico, Tom Principato
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS ANNOUNCE NEW TOUR DATES IN SUPPORT OF GO-GO BOOTS OUT FEBRUARY 15TH
Athens, GA – The Drive-By Truckers announce the first leg of their Go-Go Boots tour. The band will kick of the 15 dates on February 25th with a two-night stand in Chicago, IL at the Vic Theater; they will also do two-night stands in San Francisco, CA and Denver, CO. The Heartless Bastards will support through March 18th.
ATO Records will release Go-Go Boots, on February 15, 2011. Go-Go Boots is their eleventh record and was produced by their longtime producer, David Barbe (Deerhunter, Bettye LaVette, Sugar). In conjunction with Go-Go Boots, they’ll also be releasing their documentary The Secret to a Happy Ending, directed by Barr Weissman, on DVD.
DBT will be releasing a series of Go-Go Boots episodes directed by Patterson Hood and Jason Thrasher. The first episode and acoustic version of the song “Go-Go Boots” can be viewed on the band’s web site: http://drivebytruckers.com/episodes.html.
The band is also offering a free download of “Used To Be A Cop”. The track is available via the link above or the embedded code below.
DBT will end 2010 with a bang, playing at Terminal 5 in New York City for New Year’s Eve. For those of you that’s can’t make it to the Big Apple for NYE you can tune in to Sirius XM’s Outlaw Country (Sirius 63, XM 12) and hear the band’s performance live starting around 9:45 pm EST.
The Drive-By Truckers are Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley, Shonna Tucker, Brad Morgan, John Neff and Jay Gonzalez.
Tickets for all dates go on sale Thursday, December 16th at
12pm EST at http://drivebytruckers.baselineticketing.com/
Go-Go Boots Tour:
Wed Feb 16 York, PA PULLO CENTER @ PENN STATE UNIVERSITY
Thu Feb 17 Peekskill, NY PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Fri Feb 18 Washington, DC 9:30 CLUB
Sat Feb 19 Washington, DC 9:30 CLUB
Fri Feb 25 Chicago, IL VIC THEATER w/Heartless Bastards
Sat Feb 26 Chicago, IL VIC THEATER w/Heartless Bastards
Sun Feb 27 Omaha, NE SLOW DOWN w/Heartless Bastards
Wed Mar 02 Reno, NV KNITTING FACTORY w/Heartless Bastards
Thu Mar 03 Las Vegas, NV SILVERTON CASINO w/Heartless Bastards
Fri Mar 04 San Francisco, CA FILLMORE AUDITORIUM w/Heartless Bastards
Sat Mar 05 San Francisco, CA FILLMORE AUDITORIUM w/Heartless Bastards
Wed Mar 09 Eugene, OR MCDONALD THEATER w/Heartless Bastards
Thu Mar 10 Portland, OR WONDER BALLROOM w/Heartless Bastards
Fri Mar 11 Vancouver, BC COMMODORE BALLROOM w/Heartless Bastards
Sat Mar 12 Seattle, WA SHOWBOX AT THE MARKET w/Heartless Bastards
Tue Mar 15 Missoula, MO WILMA THEATER w/Heartless Bastards
Wed Mar 16 Boise, ID KNITTING FACTORY w/Heartless Bastards
Fri Mar 18 Denver, CO OGDEN THEATER w/Heartless Bastards
Sat Mar 19 Denver, CO OGDEN THEATER w/TBA
*There will be a limited number of 2-day tickets available for Chicago and Denver. Details will be posted to the band’s site.
Previously announced dates:
Thu Dec 30 Brooklyn, NY BROOKLYN BOWL SOLD OUT
Fri Dec 31 New York, NY TERMINAL 5 w/special guests including acts from the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, David Hood, Kelly Hogan, horns and more!
Sat Jan 01 Philadelphia, PA TLA
Thu Jan 13 Athens, GA 40 WATT w/2ND Sons
Fri Jan 14 Athens, GA 40 WATT w/Don Chambers and Goat and Henry Barbe
Sat Jan 15 Athens, GA 40 WATT w/David Barbe and The Quick Hooks and The Camp Amped Band
Thu Jan 20 Ft Lauderdale, FL CULTURE ROOM
Fri Jan 21 Tampa, FL THE RITZ YBOR
Sat Jan 22 Orlando, FL HOUSE OF BLUES w/John Bell & Friends, Nickel and the Polar Bears
Sun Jan 23 Jacksonville, FL FREEBIRD LIVE w/Futurebirds
Wed Jan 26 Pensacola, FL VINYL MUSIC HALL w/Futurebirds
Thu Jan 27 Huntsville, AL CROSSROADS w/Futurebirds
Fri Jan 28 Oxford, MS THE LYRIC w/Futurebirds
Sat Jan 29 Nashville, TN CANNERY BALLROOM w/Futurebirds
For more information contact: Traci Thomas 615-664-1167 / traci@thirtytigers.com.
Labels: Concert, Drive By Truckers, Live Music, Mike Cooley, Patterson Hood, Rock, Shonna Tucker
The Greencards Coming Back to the Washington D.C. Area
The Greencards will make their debut at The Barns at Wolf Trap,1645 Trap Road in Vienna, Virginia on Wednesday, February 9, 2011. We are very excited about this opportunity for the band to perform in this premier venue known for its warm atmosphere and wonderful acoustics. All seats are reserved and tickets can be purchased now at the box office or online by clicking on this advance ticketing link. Tickets to this show make excellent last minute holiday gifts.
================ About The Greencards ============
This critically acclaimed Austin-formed / Nashville-based band’s love and respect for Americana, bluegrass and country brought them together in 2003. The Greencards have:
Toured multiple dates with Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Rosanne Cash, Kasey Chambers and Tim O'Brien just to name a few;
Earned the Americana Music Association Award in 2006 for “Emerging Artist of the Year”; and
Landed Grammy nominations for 2008 and 2010.
Originally from Australia, an urge to challenge themselves and test the limits of any established genre has guided singer / bassist Carol Young, and mandolin master Kym Warner (accompanied by fiddle and guitar) on their first three albums.
The Greencards released their fourth album in April 2009. Fascination is the band’s most daring project to date. Meticulously crafted arrangements serve as springboards for exhilarating improvisations. While technically breathtaking and acoustically driven, The Greencards have consistently moved towards a sound of their own.
The Greencards appeared at several festivals in 2009 such as Austin City Limits, Telluride, Walnut Valley (Winfield), MerleFest, Lollapalooza and the Cayamo Cruise. They were at MerleFest again in 2010 as well as Grey Fox and Winfield.
Visit The Greencards' CD Baby page to hear samples from of their various projects. You can also join them on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/thegreencards
Labels: Bluegrass, The Greencards
MyJoogTV Episode 7: Tom Principato at the Mad Fox Brewing Company
This episode of MyJoogTV features Washington-based bluesman Tom Principato in a discussion of beer and blues with Mad Fox Brewing Company head brewer and proprietor Bill Madden. We've been following Principato's career ever since listening to Blazing Telecasters - Danny Gatton & Tom Principato way back in the early 90's. He is now releasing a new CD, "A Part of Me", which includes "some of the Washington D.C. area's best musicians who I've been recording and performing with for years: Steve Wolf, Tommy Lepson, Josh Howell and Jay Turner". Principato is considered a "Master" of the Fender Telecaster and Statocaster and he explains the difference. The bluesman also just returned from a successful European tour so in anticipation to that trip, we sampled a few European-styled brews crafted by Madden. We also learned about Madden's voyage from being a student brewer to now, an accomplished brewer owning a restaurant and a judge in the Great American Beer Festival. The episode concludes with the Tom Principato Band performing "Down in Lou'siana", a track from "A Part of Me" at the Second Chance Saloon in Columbia, Maryland. Cheers.
Labels: Bill Madden, Blues, Mad Fox Brewing Company, MyJoogTV, Second Chance Saloon, Tom Principato
Futuristic Blues: Devon Allman's Honeytribe Band @Bangkok Blues
For those of us in the Washington DC area, Friday December 10th provides us with a unique opportunity to witness four of our favorite blues and americana acts. For those in the city, Eli Cook brings his Eli's Double-Barrel Blues Show to the quirky Madam's Organ. And on the other side of Northwest D.C.,two of our favorite bands, Railroad Earth and Hackensaw Boys are playing together at Nightclub 9:30. We have video clips of both bands over at MyJoogTV and we will be releasing an episode soon with the Hackensaw Boys Live at Veritas Vineyards.
But, even with these temptations to head into the city, we are staying close to home in the burbs, since a little, local blues joint, Bangkok Blues landing a heavy weight - Devon Allman’s Honeytribe. The band is fronted by Gregg Allman's son Devon and includes George Potsos on bass and Gabriel Strange on drums. The trio released a new CD this fall titled Space Age Blues - Devon Allman's Honeytribe which also contains appearances by Huey Lewis on harmonica and Ron Holloway on tenor saxophone. Here's how Allman describes the new CD - see you at Bangkok Blues:
"Anyone gets a debut record, but with your sophomore record it's time to go from the sand box to the beach," Allman was quoted at NAMM show in Anaheim, CA while debuting his signature "Devon Allman" amp with Fuchs Audio Technology. "I really envisioned a futuristic blues, sort of a Darth Vader meets B.B.King...it could piss off the purists but I really just hope at the end of the day, people enjoy listening to where the blues can go once it's out of it's typical I,IV,V pattern....I mean, I'm totally down with the I, IV, V ...let's just twist it up a bit and sprinkle some cosmic dust on it, man." "I think there's some classic sounds on this record that I'm very pleased with , you'll hear a lil' Floyd , a lil' Zeppelin, there's a gospel number and even a ballad with a string section....it's pretty diverse and way vibey, it's definitely a night time record"
Labels: Bangkok Blues, Devon Allmans Honeytribe
Q & A With The John Hartford Stringband - "Memorie...
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS ANNOUNCE NEW TOUR DATES IN SUPPO...
The Greencards Coming Back to the Washington D.C. ...
MyJoogTV Episode 7: Tom Principato at the Mad Fox ...
Futuristic Blues: Devon Allman's Honeytribe Band @...
Brewer and Musician Extraordinaire: Kyle Hollingsw...
Ross Holmes + Kym Warner = 1 Fabulous House Concer...
The Best of Nashville Comes To The Birchmere
The Greencards » Buy a Brick!
Wine-Compass, MyJoog, and Digital Media Generation...
December 2010 at MyJoog.com
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line299
|
__label__wiki
| 0.767574
| 0.767574
|
Drexel + Hofstra = Rockfight (Recap of Drexel vs. Hofstra)
There are few certainties in life; death, taxes and a Drexel-Hofstra rockfight. I really don't know how to describe this rivalry otherwise. The games are tough, physical and almost always a closely fought game. The rivalry has its roots in the America East where the teams battled out from 1994 until 2001. In the 2001-02 season they both joined the CAA. The Dragons owned the Pride for the first several seasons in the Colonial, winning eight games in a row.
The Drexel winning streak ended in the quarterfinals of the 2005 CAA Tournament.when Hofstra won 89-77. Including that win, the Pride had gone 8-5 vs the Dragons since entering last night's contest. Many of the games in the series have been close. Since the 2003-04 season, ten games have been decided by eight points or less and three of those were overtime games. The teams have split those ten games.
Just before my six year old son Matthew and I left the house last night to go to the game, Matthew lost a tooth. He told me he knew the tooth fairy would come over night and leave him a present. I joked with him that maybe the tooth fairy will bring Hofstra a win.
Hofstra was desperate for their first win in conference playing at home in the Mack Center while Drexel wanted to maintain its position in the top four of the CAA. Just like their game against Northeastern last week, there were no cheerleaders, dance team, pep band or Lions Den student section due to no classes in session. But the Freeport Marching Band and cheerleaders were in attendance and they did their best to fill the void and the Lions Den Section seating area.
But even if the crowd was small, there will always be electricity in the air when Drexel Head Coach Bruiser Flint is stalking the sidelines. Bruiser is known for his animated coaching, whether he is arguing with officials, admonishing his own players or doing the classic Bruiser stomp. Watching him in action is worth the price of admission alone. It only took nineteen seconds of game action before Bruiser was yelling at a referee.
The Pride came out quickly and jumped to a 6-0 lead in not even a minute and a half gone by in the game. And as animated as Bruiser was, Hofstra coach Mo Cassara was equally as animated. You could tell that he really wanted this win badly.
But as quickly as they started out, Hofstra's shooting turned cold even quicker. For the next eight plus minutes, the Pride didn't score a point until Stevie Mejia hit one of two free throws. It would be about another two and half minutes before Hofstra scored its next field goal, a layup by Mike Moore with a little more than eight minutes left.
Fortunately for the Pride, the Dragons weren't much better in the scoring department. Despite outscoring Hofstra 14-1 over the span of ten and a half minutes, Drexel was only ahead by five points after the Moore layup. The Dragons missed nine of their first ten shots and hit six of seventeen overall in those first twelve minutes.
However, Drexel stretched their lead out to ten, 26-16 on a Damion Lee three pointer with about two and a half minutes left in the half. The Pride had a chance to cut into the lead but missed six free throws in the first twenty minutes of action. The Dragons entered halftime leading 29-21.
Looking back on the first half, Hofstra was fortunate that the Drexel lead was not larger. The Dragons struggled from the outside, shooting two of ten from beyond the arc. That counterbalanced the Pride's own struggles from the three point line as they missed all five attempts.
As we normally do at halftime, my friend Tieff, Matthew and I visited Defiantly Dutch, aka my good friend Jerry Beach and his better half, Michelle. After talking a few minutes with Jerry, Tieff came up with the idea that we should try to change our luck and change our seats. Since no one was sitting behind Jerry and Michelle (the crowd was listed at over 1500), we decided we would sit behind them. We were joined later by my friend Jeff, a colleague of mine at work. Together we all watched the second half unfold.
The second half saw Hofstra come out on a 7-1 spurt to cut the lead to 30-28 with sixteen and a half minutes left. The score remained within two to five points in favor of Drexel for the next several minutes until Hofstra scored four straight points, the last two by Shemiye McLendon and Hofstra had their first lead since early in the first half, 40-39. The crowd was finally into the game including the large Drexel contingent behind their bench.
The lead was short lived as McLendon missed a chance to extend the lead with a three pointer, but Chris Fouch didn't miss his three pointer and the Dragons were back out in front 42-40. Dwan McMillan tied the game back up with a layup. But then Drexel worked it inside and scored the next six points to go ahead 48-42 with two and half minutes left.
But Hofstra didn't quit and chipped away at the lead again, helped by a three point play by David Imes and a three pointer by Mike Moore with thirty five seconds left which cut the Dragons lead to 51-50. It was the Pride's first and only successful three pointer on the night. Hofstra tried to force a turnover in the backcourt, but had to foul with twenty five seconds left. Frantz Massenat hit the first free throw, but missed the second.
Hofstra had the ball and a chance to tie the game. Mike Moore drove down what appeared to be an open lane. As he went for the game tying layup, he collided with a Drexel player. The referee blew his whistle.
Moore was called for an offensive foul on a very questionable call. Drexel ball.
After the Dragons inbounded the ball, Shemiye McLendon fouled Damion Lee. Lee hit both free throws. Then off a Pride miss and a long outlet pass, Lee scored the final two points on an emphatic dunk. Drexel escaped the rockfight with a 56-50 win.
When it came down to it, two statistics jumped out and they were not in Hofstra's favor. First, the Pride shot nine of nineteen from the charity stripe. Second, the Pride hit only one three pointer out of thirteen attempts. In a low scoring game, those stats come back to haunt you.
Both teams played very hard in another typical Drexel-Hofstra rockfight. There were forty seven fouls called in the game, which is typical in this series. It was also the eleventh time that a Drexel-Hofstra game was decided by eight points or less since the 2003-04 season. The Dragons emerged victorious and now have won five straight in conference. The preseason CAA favorite is now tied for third place in conference in what they hope is the Year of the Dragon.
Meanwhile, the Pride left with another loss, their seventh straight in conference. Five of their losses in conference are by six points or less and it was their fifth conference loss when they had either had a lead or were tied in the second half. It doesn't get more frustrating than that.
Well, except for knowing that the tooth fairy doesn't bring wins. I guess that's another certainty in life now.
Labels: Bruiser Flint, CAA, Chris Fouch, Colonial, Damion Lee, Drexel, Frantz Massenat, Hofstra, Mike Moore, Mo Cassara, Nathaniel Lester, Shemiye McLendon
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line304
|
__label__cc
| 0.594835
| 0.405165
|
Arisha Razi
Birth Day: 17 October 2002
Profession: Actress, Host, Model
Arisha Razi Father Name: Razi Khan
Mother Name: Not Known
Sister Name: SARA RAZI (actress. elder)
Arisha Razi Height: 5 Feet 3 Inches
School Name: Dawood Public School
Qualification: Studying
Hobbies: Reading
Favourite Color: Sage Green & White
Favourite Places: Karachi
Net Worth: N/A
Arisha Razi Age: 17 Year old as in 2018
Arisha Razi is one of the most talented actress. She is in drama industry since her childhood and played many child actress roles in different dramas. On this page we will give you all detail about Arisha Razi such as her date of birth, age, height, weight, net worth, husband name, marriage date, father, mother, brother and sister name, dramas name, movies name, affairs, likes, dislikes and much more. Arisha Razi was born on 17th October 2002 in Karachi Pakistan. She is 16 years old and her star sign is Libra. She is younger sister of another well known actress Sara Razi. Arisha started her acting career at very young age. She first appeared on screen at age of one in a TV commercials and at age of 8 she appeared as child actress in a HUM Tv drama serial 'Main Abdul Qadir Hoon'. Her acting attracted many audience and she got place in hearts of many audience at very young age. Since then she has been part of many drama serials such as Mastana Mahi, Na Kaho Tum Mere Nahi, Lout Kar Chale Ana, manchahi, Omer Dadi Aur Sharwale, Mr Shamim and Mera Pehla pyar.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line307
|
__label__cc
| 0.708375
| 0.291625
|
Home / Blog / Blog / Archives: MPHSA
Ubuntu Executive Committee Positions Open
by MPHSA
Dear MPH Students, Ubuntu is a student organisation committed to raising awareness of the health needs of Africa and to facilitate engagement with the African community both locally and globally This is an invitation for you to be a part of the Ubuntu Executive Committee. Position descriptions: Events Co-ordinator: Manage the organisation of events which aim to connect health students of multiple disciplines with the wider African community. Organise social events for health students and professionals, and recruitment events. (October 4th – Dinner & October 18th – Lecture/meet & greet). Doctor of Medicine Rural Clinical School Representative: Involved in the active recruitment of students and the promotion of events to Rural cohort Master of Public Health Representative Involved in the active recruitment of students and the promotion of events to MPH cohort Education Officer: Organise speaker/lecture series and also publicise those that are being organised by other organisations that are on the topic...
A CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS/MENTORS
Community Health Advancement and Student Engagement (CHASE) is a mentorship program which aims to improve health through education. It targets secondary students in socially disadvantaged communities by providing structured mentorship, health education sessions and community volunteer opportunities High school students in Melbourne’s Western suburbs will be empowered to become agents of change for health in their community with a particular focus on non-communicable diseases. The role of being a volunteer would involve: 1) Designing fun and engaging workshops and community activities 2) Mentoring secondary students 3) Improve health literacy in the Western Suburbs For more information about CHASE: Email: applications@chaseproject.org https://www.facebook.com/CHASEmelb www.chaseproject.org Follow us on Twitter @CHASEmelb
PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION: An NCDFREE World
A Call for Photographers Submissions open until 12 September 2013 NCDFREE is a global social movement against NCDs. REACH is a student-driven health initiative that promotes social change. We are collaborating to present a photographic exhibition on your vision of ‘An NCDFREE World’ that will be displayed at the NCDFREE launch on the 5th October as part of the Melbourne Festival of Ideas. Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) are chronic diseases that are linked by common determinants such as an unhealthy diet, smoking, harmful alcohol use and physical inactivity. NCDs include diabetes, heart and lung disease, mental illness and cancer. They can affect anyone at any age. NCDs are now the leading cause of death across the globe, killing 36 million people each year. Most of these deaths occur in the world’s poorest communities, as risk factors for NCDs are deeply linked with poverty. The thing that gets us is that 80%...
Presentations from ‘Making the Most of your Masters’ Aug 1, 2013
For those of you who would like to have Rosemary McKenzie, Richard Chambers, and Gareth Durrant’s presentations from ‘Making the Most of your Masters’ night on August 1st, 2013. Download Links: Career development August1 2013 Presentation_MPH Sexual Health_01082013 MPH Self-Care – Richard Chambers (PDF) Career development Aug 1 2013 – By Rosemary McKenzie from Melbourne Population Health Student Association Presentation on sexual health – MPHSA from Melbourne Population Health Student Association Given with the kind permission of Rosemary McKenzie, Richard Chambers, and Gareth Durrant. All rights reserved.
Site Bugs Fixed
Hi Everyone, I have discovered the cause for a few issues with replying to comments etc. It is now fixed but unfortunately it has meant the chat feature will no longer be available at the moment. I have also updated the setting for attaching docs. You can now add up to 5 files per post, to a limit of 2MB. This may now also include zip files. Any questions, please let me know!
New Features: Attach files to forum posts
Hi Everyone, Welcome to the new site! I just wanted to let everyone know that I have just added an attachment feature to all forum topics and posts. You are able to share word docs, pdf’s and jpgs. There is also a doc function available for groups, which allows members to collaborate and work on docs together. If you have set up a group and can’t find docs, let me know and I will help you with getting it enabled. With attachments, especially pdf’s of journal articles, it is important that everyone respects any copyright that may be applicable. A good rule of thumb is, if you had to be logged in to your uni account to access the file, then it is not open access and should not be directly attached. Instead, please just post direct links to the article. As everyone should have access to the uni system,...
‹12345
Aboriginal Australia Careers Community Based Conference Global health Human Rights Jobs Law Law enforcement Melbourne Participatory Research Public Health SGM subject TSIs
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line308
|
__label__wiki
| 0.831162
| 0.831162
|
About CSRAB Board of Directors Board Meetings Staff Rules Enabling Legislation
The Board's Role
The role of the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board (CSRAB) is to provide all educational, maintenance, support and security services for the Capitol Square (CS).
Daily operations of the Board are performed by an executive director and staff. The staff manages the maintenance, operations and security of the CS, and operates the underground parking garage, and Statehouse Museum Shop.
The Board also grants permits for public activities occurring in and on the CS and oversees the operation of the Capitol Cafe. The Ohio Statehouse Museum Education Center coordinates tours of the CS and provides information about the buildings, their history and Ohio's government.
Senator Bob Peterson - CSRAB Chair
Representative Ryan Smith - Vice-chair
Richard F. Hillis, representing the Ohio History Connection - Secretary
Representative Janine Boyd
Juan P. Cespedes, representing the Ohio Arts Council
Honorable Jo Ann Davidson, former Speaker of the Ohio House
Laurel Dawson - Chief of Staff, Office of the Governor
Vincent Keeran, Clerk of the Ohio Senate
Timothy Cosgrove - representing the Public-At-Large
Honorable Tom Niehaus, former Ohio Senate President
member of the Ohio Senate
Brad Young, Clerk of the Ohio House
Ex-Officio Members:
Laura P. Battocletti, CSRAB Executive Director
Charles R. Moses, Capitol Square Foundation Chair
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line316
|
__label__cc
| 0.640507
| 0.359493
|
Resume Reading — The Periodic Stranger
Culture Fiction
The Periodic Stranger
When exile becomes home.
Dominic Preziosi By Dominic Preziosi Illustrations by Thomas Allen March 2, 2017
My roots are in a hilltop village west of Matera, where rabbit and boar run riot in the fields. Figs, apricots, and pears hang in…By Dominic Preziosi
My roots are in a hilltop village west of Matera, where rabbit and boar run riot in the fields. Figs, apricots, and pears hang in heavy clusters, at eye-level and within easy reach. There, the local girls are famous for their calves, made firm and strong from hauling earthen jugs up steep and stony paths. The weather is as a rule clement, neither too humid nor too arid. The air smells of limes.
I think of it the way I think of the afterlife. It’s an improbable place conjured in equal parts from the gauzy descriptions of my parents and my own wishful longing. The crumpled photograph my father kept in the inner pocket of his leather satchel told me little other than the size of his mustache at the time he was forced to leave the village for good. The shapeless gray forms in the background, which he swore were self-sustaining orchards of peach and black cherry, looked like nothing of the sort. No girls were evident.
I have lived on this rock in the sea since two days after my birth. In all the years since I have not seen any sign of game—an honor of classification I do not confer on the gray, greasy-feathered gulls that sometimes take perch on the higher crags. I have never been to the village near Matera, the one from which my father was exiled with his wife and me, his newborn son, for reasons he never made clear. There was something about a fugitive Austrian soldier, a missing scabbard, a dented helmet, but the pieces have never come together, and by the time I was old enough to press for details my mother would interrupt with a shake of the head and say: Don’t even ask.
This rock is really two rocks, which are linked by a short natural bridge that twice a day is quietly submerged by the tides and, several times a year, somewhat less gently overtaken by the storm-churned seas. Lampedusa—and I understand there is much to recommend about that island—lies three turbulent hours away by supply boat, a small, steel-sided skiff that brings lemons and whatever fruit might be in season, along with cheese, bottled water, flour, ink, medicine, tobacco, wine, and the occasional newspaper. The skiff leaves with the octopus my wife and I catch in submerged pots arrayed like the beads of a necklace drawn snugly around the island. Octopus fetches an adequate return, and this exchange of goods, this bartering, is how we make our living, such as it is. And as it is, we need nothing more.
“See you in two weeks, God willing!” shouts Pallucci, the short, sunburned captain, as he fires the outboard and guides his dented craft back into the open sea.
Also in Fiction
The Weaker Sister
By Amelia Kahaney
What on earth was mine? Our underground domicile’s concrete walls mapped with veins of mold and ice, the drip-drip-drip of dirty melt from the ceiling into four rusty pots, the gray shapes the water made when we flung it out...READ MORE
I still have my father’s books, his writings, and the crumpled photograph of him. I have the education my mother provided, measured in the painstaking hours she took in teaching me to read, calculate, sing, and sew. I have a wife with whom I still occasionally make love. I’m seventy-two years old, but I know now that I know less than ever of what it would take to live in the world.
My father always implied that others decided his exile, an unjust punishment handed down by petty bureaucrats. Yet, what if he were its sole engineer? What if his exile was self-imposed? In that case, he made me a party to an obsession I had no say in indulging.
At dawn a pair of figures appears on the other rock. They are silhouettes against the eastern sky, only harder, like pillared extensions of the island itself, two stone fingers thrust up from the earth overnight. My wife asks, “Is that a rifle?”
I follow her concerned gaze and spy the barrel of a weapon taking shape above the shoulder of one of the men. It is not like any firearm I have ever seen, but that is saying little. My wife passes me the single-bolt carbine my father brought here with him, its black stock polished smooth from years of handling. It seems to weigh more than the painted wooden boats we drag into the water every day in checking the octopus pots. Surely this mysterious pair must know someone else is here; signs of habitation are all around, from the strung nets on which we dry our meager catch of fish to the pecking chickens that roam freely about—to say nothing of the tricolor Italian flag fluttering atop the rock on our side (my father may have lost his home, but not his patriotism). One of the men now lifts a pair of heavy binoculars to his face, makes a great show of taking in the surrounding sea, then swings back to train them directly on us.
“Fire a warning,” my wife urges.
Before I can answer one way or another, the man lowers the binoculars and raises his right hand high in greeting. There seems to be no hostile intent, and if such a simple gesture seen from this distance can be said to seem friendly, then friendly it is, and I feel I have to accept it as such.
“No,” I answer, knowing my father would have reacted the same way. “Let’s find out why they are here.”
Suffice to say you learn a lot about a woman when you are the only inhabitants of a rock in the sea. My wife is as capable of pulling in pots of octopus as I, and she has never hesitated in sinking her teeth between the eyes of the eight-armed creatures to sever the main nerve to the brain. (The salty, rubbery texture and the sudden pop—like biting into the thick-skinned plums Pallucci sometimes brings, but not quite—have troubled me since youth. Still, this is the quickest and most efficient method of dispatch.) She knows how to read the colors of the sky, and if there’s a pale, pink-orange hue at the southern horizon as the sun sets, she’s quick to haul our three painted boats to higher ground before the thunder sounds. She picks bits of battered shell and crab leg from the wrack of the high-tide line and turns it into chicken feed, a process I liken to alchemy.
After my father died, my mother decided I needed a wife and made the treacherous journey to Malta. “To use the phone,” she answered simply, when I asked why she was going. I was seventeen then, and I knew from her tone that that was all the information I would get. (I knew that she wasn’t lying, either, since no lines had yet been installed in Lampedusa.) Six months later, a boat appeared on the horizon, and as it came closer I could make out two figures aboard. One proved to be a girl, who, from her appearance, I determined was not much younger than I. She had black hair that fell between her shoulders and wide, flat feet that turned out, like paddles, when she walked.
Octopus fetches an adequate return, and this exchange of goods, this bartering, is how we make our living, such as it is. And as it is, we need nothing more.
I found her beautiful, and when my mother confirmed that we were to wed I had no objection. The captain of the tiny boat who’d brought her—an ancestor of Pallucci’s—quickly muttered the vows and declared us married, even as he seemed to be shoving off. Later, my mother—holding a hand-hewn crucifix above our joined heads—blessed us in her church Latin. We hiked to the other rock for our honeymoon, and though the shed in which we spent our first nights has long since been lost to the winds, I will never forget the sight of my new wife’s face bathed in the moonlight that seeped through the window hole, the way she whispered, “Sixteen” when I asked her age, or how we joined ourselves repeatedly in the three days that followed. “Twenty-one times?” I might still ask her, all these decades later, and she will touch her rough, callused hand to the inside of my thigh and correct me with a smile that reveals the only two teeth remaining in her blackened gums: “Twenty-six.”
We would have no children, it soon became apparent, a prospect that seemed to trouble us less than it did my mother. “She’s as barren as this rock!” she said of my wife, regret over the intemperate remark immediately flooding her face. Still, even on her deathbed, the light rapidly leaving her eyes, she managed to extract a promise from me that we would keep trying. And we did. We do.
The newcomers clamber down with a grace that makes me think they have done this kind of thing before. The one in the lead—the one with the binoculars, not the weapon—raises his hand again. His face, flat and broad as a table-top, splits cross-wise in a smile showing many even, white teeth. They look like tiles in his mouth. His skin is slightly freckled as if by the sun, and his hair—like that of the other man—is cut close against the temples.
“Please don’t be afraid,” he says in formal, clear Italian. “We come in peace.”
“I’m not afraid,” I inform him. “We live in peace.”
This gets a laugh, from both of them. My wife looks up at me with a mix of fear and fury. She wears her honor proudly, and she does not like to feel as if we have been belittled.
The men have the kind of clear, colorless eyes that in the books my mother made me read always signaled malevolence of character. Both are clad in smooth-textured black pullovers that fit snugly and are banded at the wrists. On their feet are thick-soled boots whose tops and sides are made of a mesh that looks metallic, silvery, like the sides of Pallucci’s skiff. Each wears a wide-banded watch with a large face—one on his right wrist, the other on his left.
“Signore,” says the one with the binoculars. The smile has yet to leave his face; the other one seems to be evaluating the immediate surroundings. “Please, sir. Do you mind if we take a look around?”
“What for?” My wife’s distrust is instinctive. With her squinting eyes and black mouth, she is suddenly every bit the crone. She rests her hands on her waist and plants her outward-turning feet wide: Just try to pass through me. She must sense something deeply in her bones to be acting in this manner. I try to placate her by placing a fingertip on her wrist, but she will have none of it, and brushes it off.
The one with the weapon speaks. “What for?” he repeats. The momentary amusement he showed earlier has vanished. “What if we say we’re in search of fugitives that you and your husband are hiding on this island?”
“Criminals?” She turns to me. “Hiding?”
“Please,” I whisper. “Calm down.”
“Signora,” the first man says. “Listen to your husband. Why get so upset? We look around a bit, turn a stone or two, and we leave. You’ll never know we’ve been here. Understand, please—” His smile never falters, but is it really a smile? “Understand that our work is serious. These fugitives are dangerous. Not just to you, but to millions of people, all over the world.”
“What do I care about the world?”
“What did I tell you?” the one with the weapon says, turning to his companion. “We’re better off not even asking. If they’re not going to cooperate, then what’s the point in being polite? Their understanding is primitive. The solitude—they’re disconnected from reality.”
“Sir,” I say, interjecting. “We are not disconnected, I assure you. My mother, she educated me. We can read—we read the newspaper a couple of times a month.” I swallow, hoping for my wife’s support, or that the one with the binoculars will understand. “We know about things that are happening. Events. We have visitors—” and here I am thinking of Pallucci, who sometimes brings news of the world—“who tell us.”
“Visitors?” asks the one with the binoculars. His colorless eyes reflect the high clouds. “Maybe, with a look around, we’ll find these ‘visitors.’ What do you say?”
Some years ago we endured a storm unlike any I had ever lived through. My wife and I watched from the shelter of our dwelling as huge silver claws of lightning pulled the night apart, ripping it from top to bottom and side to side. The thunder with its heavy detonations moved closer with each blinding flash, and I thought of all the descriptions I’d read of rolling artillery advancing over the plains. My wife held my hand between hers, and I swear I could feel the tendons and muscles beneath her skin quiver and jump with every concussive blast, as if her nerves were somehow directly attached to whatever dynamo was powering this fury. When the sky finally gave up its burden, the rain it released didn’t fall straight down but came in waves, as if over the bow of a ship plowing through mountainous seas. Rivers formed; we heard the cascading waters in the darkness and wondered whether they might sweep us down the side of the rock and into the ocean. It went on for hours. We didn’t sleep.
“We are not disconnected, I assure you. We read the newspaper a couple of times a month.”
Only at dawn did the tempest subside, and in the weak but growing light we made a preliminary tally of the damage. The chickens had vanished, as had the goat Pallucci had brought us only a month before. My father’s tricolor banner dangled in shreds from its mast. Water still ran in the newly carved channels, carrying silt and gravel and shells and the fragments of any number of the small, ordinary objects that had accumulated since my parents’ long-ago arrival. One of our boats lay in pieces against the rocks, and I surmised it had been dragged from the shore.
“We’re alive,” my wife said, kissing me furiously, her tongue familiar yet somehow mysterious and unknown against mine.
Pallucci reached us later that day, a journey he clearly regretted having made. His face was white with terror: The trailing winds, he told us, had generated waves so high on the open sea that he feared the ocean would swallow him. We located a bottle of wine, and then another. Only after the third did he begin to laugh. He couldn’t go back that night, of course, and he told us later that his absence had sparked less worry than vindication—his relatives had warned him it was too dangerous to go out. “They would rather be proven right than be happy at my survival,” he said. “They’d rather I drown so they could say, ‘See, we told him what would happen.’ ”
We made repairs in due time. We replaced the chickens and goat. I re-stitched the flag. My wife shaped new pots, swept away the sand and grit the storm had deposited in our doorway, replenished the stores of feed. I began to see things with a fresh perspective, telling her that it was like starting anew. Sometimes it’s good to have our lives turned inside out, I said; it helps us see what we have within us.
She rested on her broom a minute, looking out over the water. “I thought,” she said, “that we might die.”
But we didn’t, I told her; look at us now!
She resumed sweeping. “Yes. Maybe. I suppose you are right. But someday one of us will die. You first, me first, it doesn’t matter. And the other will be left alone.”
It was a prospect I’d contemplated, of course, but never did it sadden me as apparently it did her.
“We’ll do it together,” I blurted, “so that neither of us will be left alone.” In that moment I meant it: There clearly could be no other way. I listened then to the rasp of the broom on the stone while a single, dark-gray seagull wheeled overhead. If I thought it strange how talk of a new beginning could so quickly turn to the subject of our inevitable end, I don’t recall.
Yet I do remember thinking this: Wouldn’t it be better for her to go first? If I were to face the facts rationally, to dispense with emotion, wouldn’t this be the preferable development? To be truly alone, if only for a little while, on this blessed isle of beloved solitude. To take the days one at a time, by myself…
I felt closer to my father at that instant than I ever had when he was alive.
The men scatter the chickens and tip the bins of feed. They pull down the rope to which the flapping laundry is pinned. My wife arranges urchins on the single colorful platter she brought with her when she came here—“It reminds me of my birthplace,” she says—and this they knock over too, and when it falls to the ground it cleaves cleanly down the center. A sound like a wave sucked back toward the sea escapes her. The one with the weapon offers a thin smile, then—for good measure and with apparent relish—overturns the table on which the platter had rested.
They work with a grim sort of happiness, seeming to take pleasure not in the destruction itself but its efficiency. The one with the weapon begins to chant something, a barely audible incantation that seems almost religious—though it is perhaps less like a prayer than something self-motivational. The intensity of the chant rises with the speed of his great, sweeping arm, which moves back and forth like a scythe across the shelves of our rough-hewn kitchen and along the mantle beam—reclaimed driftwood shot with the perforations of bore worms—that is mounted above our cooking fire. Down go jars, pots, earthen canisters of salt, and the tiny vials holding the tinctures my wife uses to dye fabric.
“What’s in here?” the one with the binoculars says, stopping beside a curtain hung in a crooked doorframe.
“It is just the bedroom,” I say.
He nods to his companion, who uses the weapon to pull the curtain back. They take a moment to regard what’s revealed—which, I can admit without shame, isn’t much. I could have told them all they’d find: An iron bedstead holding a flat mattress filled with ticking that’s decades old, four flat pillows brown with sweat, a striped blanket so smooth from the nightly turn of our bodies that it’s almost see-through. The crucifix that was my mother’s hangs above the headboard on the stippled, stucco-like wall.
“God bless you,” the one with the binoculars says, “for making so simple a home.” His distaste is unmistakable.
“God,” my wife spits. “How dare you even say ‘God!’ ”
The one with the weapon uses the toe of his strange mesh boot to lift the bed frame. “No trap door? No cellar?”
“Cellar?” I almost have to laugh. “Do you think it possible we could have dug a hole into this rock?”
“Any tunnels?” the one with the binoculars says. “Hide-outs? Spider holes?”
“Spider holes?” I look at my wife.
“Places where you might store things to keep them dry. Places that could serve multiple purposes. Places,” he says, “for a fugitive to hide.”
“Caves,” the one with the weapon adds. He has taken the crucifix from the wall and is running his fingers along its vertical shaft.
“The only cave we know of is underwater half the day,” my wife says, “and a moray eel twice the size of your leg calls it home. You’re more than welcome to look inside it. I’ll even take you there.”
They ignore her. The one with the weapon returns the crucifix to the wall and resumes the strange, wordless chant, which grows louder and more insistent with each syllable.
The other one leans close. He has a distinct smell, an alien odor unknown to this island. His words are for me only. “All we need is a little help. You don’t have to stay here living like this, you know. A little help, and we give you back to the world.”
“If only it were so simple,” I tell him.
Long after my father died, I would ask my mother to tell me the true account of their exile. By this time her memory was failing and her conversation had a way of wandering off into lazy whirlpools of unrelated and unverifiable recollection. I knew that if I wanted to have the facts in my possession, the facts of how this place came to be my home, I needed to collect them from her before it was too late.
Night after night, once the dinner plates were clean and the stars had stretched their blanket across the sky, I tried to steer her back to the hilltop village outside Matera. She cited with maddening consistency the details I already had used to draw my own half-formed picture—the abundance of game, the fruit hanging in clusters, the strong-calved girls, and the air that smelled like limes. The Austrian soldier, the missing scabbard, and the dented helmet all made their requisite but unconnected appearances, and I began to suspect my mother of a willful obstinacy in withholding the vital linking information, as if with eternity in sight it was now more necessary than ever to stick to the story as she and my father had always told it.
One night I finally asked her directly: Was the Austrian soldier my father? And if so, why was it that the man I understood to be my father was the one who was exiled? Or did he do it on his own, choosing to absent himself from the rest of the world?
My wife—having admitted to puzzlement over my sudden interest in a matter she found unworthy of pursuit—made a disapproving noise in her throat and sidled away to make the coffee. I could hear waves gently slapping the base of the rock. My mother chewed on her gums. It wasn’t clear she had heard the question. But just as I was about to ask it again, she began to speak.
“There was an Austrian soldier,” she said.
“Yes?” I leaned forward, detecting something new in her tone, an acquiescence that had not been there before. I would learn it all now.
She turned her gaze to the nighttime sky. She coughed, then ran the back of her hand across her mouth. “A missing scabbard,” she continued. “And a dented helmet.” The last words escaped from her with a stubborn, wheezing sound.
“But,” I persisted, “but was he my father?”
Once more she looked into the nighttime sky, where a small light made steady progress from west to east. “I see those up there from time to time and wonder what guides them. Or what’s in them. Could they see us down here, on this rock? Maybe our cooking fire?”
My wife returned, the clattering espresso pot clattering between her rag-wrapped hands.
“But the soldier,” I persisted.
“He didn’t have to leave,” my mother said.
“Who? The soldier?”
“He didn’t have to stay.”
These riddles were maddening, “Who?” I demanded again.
“That’s enough now,” my wife said, putting the pot before us. She looked at me and shook her head. I watched my mother follow the blinking light—I’m not sure she ever knew of airplanes—until it was no longer visible. Soon we drank our coffee. It was as close as I ever got to learning anything for certain—which is to say, it wasn’t close at all. She may as well have told me, as she did when I was a boy: Don’t even ask.
The strangers are not interested in the underwater cave, once they confirm its inaccessibility. Perhaps, too, my wife’s mention of the moray has dissuaded them. But they explore the rest of the island with relentless attention, bringing me along to turn over rocks or peer into crevices while the one waits alongside with his weapon raised. Much of the morning passes in this fashion. They are meticulous. They are patient, and not easily discouraged. The sun moves higher, and they take off their black pullovers to reveal muscled arms and, beneath tight undershirts, the spread of their torsos. I haven’t seen them eat or drink anything since they came down to accost us all of those hours ago.
“What’s this?” they both demand to know when we reach a small outcropping that becomes visible only after passing behind the opposite rock. Two slabs of roughly the same size lay side by side, the dusty space between invaded by spike-stemmed weeds with flat, serrated leaves. I explain that we are at my parents’ gravesite.
The Austrian soldier, the missing scabbard, and the dented helmet all made their requisite but unconnected appearances, and I began to suspect my mother of a willful obstinacy in withholding the vital linking information.
The one with the binoculars spits what must be a curse in his language. His partner seems unfazed by the sudden lack of composure and lowers the weapon so he can wipe his brow.
“You’re sure you’ve shown us everything?” the one with the binoculars says. When I nod, he kneels on one knee at the foot of my father’s slab, slips a folding knife from an all-but-hidden pocket, and scratches in the dirt beneath the stone. After a minute or so of this, he seems satisfied, although I cannot fathom his intent. He closes the knife, stands, and looks out over the ocean. “Let’s go.”
I’m hustled back to the other rock, where my wife waits. The worried look I see from far away is transformed once more to anger as we approach. The strangers sit us down.
“Listen, the both of you,” says the one with the binoculars. “If you’ve been anything less than truthful, we’ll find out.”
“Know now that we know you’re here,” the other one says.
“What he means is that no one is ever truly alone anymore. Including you. Someone will always be here, or just over the horizon or behind that cloud, which is still close enough to keep an eye on you. You can be sure of that.”
They climb down the side of the rock to where they’ve hidden their craft, knocking over some octopus pots for good measure. My wife shouts a parting shot: “That’s right! Go back to the whores that birthed you!”
I try to hush her, but the strangers don’t respond anyway. The one with the weapon activates the engines—a quiet, medium-pitched hum—and then the vessel races north, trailing a frothy white wake. Before long, they are gone, lost on the vastness of the flat sea. They might not have even been here at all, except, of course—and I can see it in my wife’s tears—they have.
When my mother went to Malta to find this woman who would become my wife, I remained on the rock island alone. She was gone for more than a month, my mother, and in that uniquely solitary time I adhered to the regimen in which I’d been raised, a routine of necessity when one has only oneself on which to rely—for survival and for sanity.
I began my mornings as I always had, as I’d been taught to, by pushing out into the moderate depths of the close sea, hauling in the clay pots I’d lowered twenty-four hours earlier, and returning to shore. Weighted with writhing catch and sloshing seawater, these heavy, homely pots represented not just my labor but the growing body of my good work—the work done daily over the course of a lifetime that was just then beginning to lengthen, like a growing yet flexible muscle. This was the work I wanted to do, the work that resulted in someone, somewhere, having food, the work that becomes good work by dint of sheer, unwavering attention to its completion.
The only thing I added to this routine in my mother’s absence was a trek to my father’s tomb—still just a single slab up there at the time—on the small outcropping hidden by the opposite rock. I can’t say I prayed, exactly, unless handling the increasingly battered photo of him—his mustache eternally dark and thick, the shapeless forms in the background forever giving fruit—can be considered prayerful. Whatever it was, however, it seemed to increase the state of peaceful contemplativeness I’d begun to feel.
“No one is ever truly alone anymore. Including you. Someone will always be here, or just over the horizon or behind that cloud, which is still close enough to keep an eye on you. You can be sure of that.”
At night I’d check the cistern-like tank in which we’d keep the captured octopus until Pallucci came. Once, a couple of anxious, unfruitful days after I’d shipped off my most recent catch with him, there was only one animal in there. He was a big fellow, maybe twenty pounds or so. The pots remained empty for a day or two more, a fact I attributed to the stormy weather to the south, a system that seemed to hug the horizon without getting any closer but that nevertheless spawned waves that churned the immediate depths and sent my prey into hiding. Such spells weren’t unknown to me.
In any event, the big fellow was alone in that stone tank for several nights, and I soon found myself whispering to him as if we were fellow travelers now stranded here, the only survivors of some unidentified apocalypse. After looking in on him I’d replace the lid, a plank of plywood that had washed ashore some months earlier, and then go to bed. In the mornings, however, I began to notice that the bin of shells nearby would be disturbed. At first I assumed it was the seagulls, except that there was never any guano or footprints to suggest their presence. Yet some of the shells—which my mother saved to spread on the paths or convert into some helpful tool or another—would be shattered, or would have a single hole in them as if pierced by a probing beak.
My father always said that the octopus is as smart as any animal that walks on land, and this comment came back to me one evening when I checked on the big fellow. I looked down at him in the clear, cold water of the cistern, then moved the lid back into place. Rather than go to sleep, I decided to stay up and see if what I theorized was happening could in fact be true.
The moon was at its apogee when I heard something rattle. I inched forward. With a noise like someone clearing his throat, the lid began to slide across the stone. In the moonlight I could see one searching arm make an appearance, and then another. Each gray appendage advanced individually, with slow but unstoppable progress. Soon all eight arms had made purchase on the outer edge of the tank, and then the thing hauled itself up, seemed to look around, and, still dripping water, lowered itself to the ground.
I knew octopuses could move across land, but the speed and singleness of purpose that this one exhibited nonetheless came as a surprise. He—and by now I had officially settled on this more specific pronoun—he reached the bin of shells in a matter of seconds, pulled himself up, and dropped himself on top. Now and then I heard a crack as he used his sharp, powerful tooth-like beak to search for any remnants of food. Such strange physical features in this prehistoric animal! But then again, strange maybe only to me. This went on for some time—twenty minutes, maybe more—until he seemed to have satisfied his curiosity. He pulled himself out of the bin, slithered across the stony ground, and returned to the tank. A moment later I watched the plywood lid slide back into place, the grating sound that this produced the only disturbance in the otherwise silent, moonlit night.
I’ve since witnessed an octopus pull a cork from a jug. I saw one sit up and watch the seagulls turning against the sky, as if contemplating flight itself—or maybe the calculating the odds of snatching one from the air. I’ve seen their severed arms set off on their own, wriggling instinctively toward the sea before expiring with an almost audible gasp. I’ve seen them generate new arms, sometimes within minutes. These things once struck me as a kind of miracle, since clearly they are not supposed to happen. But happen they do, and with an inexorability that suggests there is perhaps a lot more going on in the universe than I or anyone else can ever be aware of.
When I see the tears on my wife’s face, I want to tell her about this. It is something I’ve always kept to myself, the story about the octopus. Look, I want to tell her—look at the things we don’t think can happen but do. Look not at what we know but what we don’t. There is probably something else going on, something we might not be able to explain or identify, but something we must allow ourselves to contemplate, even if we don’t know what that thing is. Even if we can’t possibly imagine it, we have to try to imagine it, even when it seems pointless to do so. Look at us—how did we get here, and why are we still here, the two of us alone on these rocks yet in need of no one else? I want to tell her because if it is not voiced then it is not heard, and if it is not heard then it might as well not even be contemplated in the first place.
But I remain silent. There is no such thing as true solitude, my father said, a declaration echoed by the pair of strangers who appeared from nowhere at dawn. But now, having kept this story to myself for so long, I realize there can be, if we allow it to take hold of us. We can put ourselves into exile. My wife silently sets about restoring order. What is going through her head, I cannot say. The rasp of the broom and the grunts of her labor tell me she is present, but she might in fact be on an island of her own.
The morning after I observed the startling journey of that solitary octopus, I gathered his enormous body against my chest. We might have looked like awkward dancers the way we embraced, heads bent back, all of our arms intertwined. He smelled of brine and of the coldness of his species, unchanged over millions of years. I wasted no time in delivering the killing kiss, my teeth piercing the salty outer membrane and snapping the root that made everything inside work. There was a shudder of what seemed like surprise, and then everything was still.
The blood of the octopus is blue, and that was the color of my skin when my mother returned later that day, bringing to an end the only time there was no one to bear witness to this, the fact of my living.
Dominic Preziosi’s fiction, articles, and reviews have appeared widely in such publications as Descant, Front Porch, Smokelong Quarterly, The Saint Ann’s Review, and the Word Riot anthology “What’s Your Exit? A Literary Detour Through New Jersey.” He is the digital editor of Commonweal magazine.
This article was originally published in our “Home” issue in December, 2013.
Environment The Cancer of the Great Lakes
Philosophy Evil Triumphs in These Multiverses, and God Is Powerless
Fiction The Periodic Stranger
Animals The Evolutionary Pull of Ocean Tides
The Evolutionary Pull of Ocean Tides
By Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Whom He May Devour
By Alex Shvartsman
The Wanders
By Anna North
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line321
|
__label__wiki
| 0.555467
| 0.555467
|
Author: Newbootsnorthants
1 min read →
New Midland Sounds’ compilation released
September 11, 2017 8:16 am September 11, 2017
No Comments on New Midland Sounds’ compilation released
A new compilation album featuring acts from Northamptonshire and the wider Midlands has been released to help raise money for charity. The Shoe Town Collective is a collection of independent artists and…
A new compilation album featuring acts from Northamptonshire and the wider Midlands has been released to help raise money for charity.
The Shoe Town Collective is a collection of independent artists and bands collaborating for charitable causes.
All downloadable profits of this album New Midland Sounds are in aid of the Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance.
All 23 original artists are from all corners of the Midlands. “Known for its heritage in shoe-making”, so the collective state, “Northamptonshire has now become a vibrant centre for music-making – the artists here likewise gravitate around this Central Midlands Shoe town. We’ve got together and put together this collection of our works in the hope of spreading our net a little further. We’re representatives for what our humble shoe towns can provide but there’s lots more talent to discover”.
Artists on the compilation are Stevie Jones & The Wildfires, Freebooters, hazeyjane, Will Rogers, Kenneth J Nash, Fatbwoi, Ash Tu-kay, Steve Young, Aldous Pinch, Tim Jon Brophy, Averse Prospect, Autumn Dawn Leader, Mark A. Harrison, Lilith’s Army, Woolford Scott, Duncan Bisatt, Lew Bear, Rogue State Circus, DJ Jeffeak, Dan Hughes, Star Shaped Halos, Andy Griffiths, and Paul Strummer.
Songs are available to download from Bandcamp for 75p per track, or all twenty three songs for £12.99.
No Comments on Album review: Loose Tooth
LOOSE TOOTH Loose Tooth [Undead Collective Records] This Northampton band have a biography that states ‘millennial malaise at it’s most morbid’. As sales pitches go it’s unlikely to have people…
LOOSE TOOTH
Loose Tooth [Undead Collective Records]
This Northampton band have a biography that states ‘millennial malaise at it’s most morbid’. As sales pitches go it’s unlikely to have people queuing up for tickets. It’s obviously a little bit tongue in cheek. But then again, as the guttural scream of ‘Split In The Hair’ kicks in and lasts an uncomfortable nine seconds, maybe not so. Anyway up, the hardcore punk/grunge/metal trio have turned in a debut [mini] album that’s as confident and fresh sounding as anyone has any right to be.
The pummelling action of Oli Knight (formerly of Of Blue Skies And Youth) on vocals and guitar is capably aided and abetted by Adam Cator on bass and Josh Miller on drums throughout (both formerly of Death Kindly Waits For Me). Eighteen months work has gone on in the background leading up this release, and it’s been time well spent, as the songs give the hardcore/alt-rock scene a sure-shot in the arm.
‘Moodhoover’ has immediate impact, with the juxtaposition between anthemic chorus and the tense light/dark shades on the verses. It loses its shit towards the climax and will leave you rather stunned when it’s suddenly over. The aforementioned ‘Split In The Hair’ plays it relatively straight – the hardcore centre sounding familiar to millions. It moves into screamo territory in the breakdown though: we’re talking less scare-the-horses and more Stephen King shit-the-bed. ‘Roman Nose’ showcases their trademark tempo changes again, shifting effortlessly from frenetic passages to a more grunge-style chorus.
‘Raincoats’ has one foot in the indie/alt-rock world: all well-shaped guitar lines through just the right pedals and a keening, angry melody about love gone wrong. If you want to dip your toe into this album it’s perhaps a good starting point. ‘Snakebites’ repeats the trick, though with a little too much reliance on the pure grunge sound when evidently the strength of the band is the blend of their myriad influences. ‘The Everfall’ is the softest sounding tune here: an effecting minor-chord bruised body that jolts back into life on slash’n’burn punk choruses. They finish with their debut single ‘Pearls’, a powerful song about a dying relative and the anguish that causes. It’s beautiful, haunting, sad, angry, and more besides. Well worth waiting around for, in an album that continually rewards.
If you enjoy Refused, Deftones, Soundgarden, At The Drive-In, or Million Dead then there’s something here for you. And really you should be all over this, as Loose Tooth offers some serious dark fun to those bleak Midlands nights.
Phil Moore
Loose Tooth is available to buy on ITunes, to stream on the major platforms, and to buy on CD directly at the band’s shows
After more than two years, from humble support act with flare to headlining a new local festival, the alt-pop four-piece Flyte return to Northampton with an exclusive run through of…
July 29, 2017 8:18 am July 29, 2017
No Comments on The Red Triangle + Houses In Motion, The Horseshoe Inn, Wellingborough
It is just over a year since The Red Triangle’s previous incarnation, the fantastically-monikered Red Triangle Circus Gang, played at Wellingborough’s Retro-Beat night. On that occasion, their festival-perfect gypsy folk soul had…
It is just over a year since The Red Triangle’s previous incarnation, the fantastically-monikered Red Triangle Circus Gang, played at Wellingborough’s Retro-Beat night. On that occasion, their festival-perfect gypsy folk soul had the audience up and dancing with abandon as then-vocalist Anya and guitarist Marcus revved up their hometown crowd. A name abbreviation and a line-up change later, vocalist Anya has been replaced by Elle Delaney and with her comes a significant shift in sound. With The Horseshoe rapidly filling up and the crowd for this Retro-Beat looking even more eclectic than usual, the late stage times meant anticipation to see what TRT would show us was simmering away nicely. And tonight patience is a virtue.
The wait is extended by a surprisingly lengthy support set from Houses In Motion, who have had to restructure themselves for the evening to accommodate the absence of their drummer. Their set of blues and soul-tinged original songs and covers (Tom Tom Club, Deee-Lite, Stevie Wonder) suffers from the lack of beats or bass, although there is some standout guitar moments and vocalist Jackie has some real power to her voice, especially on the bluesier songs. A scaled-down performance may have been better suited to their situation, as there are moments when the energy of Jackie’s performance jars against the lack of a rhythm section, leaving you with the feeling that she can hear what is meant to be there, but the rest of us can’t. Like watching people at a silent disco.
With time rapidly becoming an issue, the six members of The Red Triangle are ushered onstage, introductions are quickly dispensed with, and they launch into their opener ‘Cosmic’. Immediately, the contrast with their previous incarnation is clear: with much more of an acid jazz/neo-soul sound that instantly harks back to bands like Brand New Heavies and a unleashes a real 90s R&B nostalgia, with Elle’s light and sweet vocals trilling over the solid, polished sound of the guitar, bass, drums, keys and violin behind her. This is boosted further when Marcus’ backing comes in, their voices working perfectly together to bulk out her delicate sound. TRT’s relaxed, natural vibe runs through their set, with lyrics touching on the metaphysical and spiritual just this side of the full patchouli. Trippy ‘Eden’ feels like the perfect festival soundtrack, leading you down an urban Alice’s rabbit hole. The intricate but strong ‘Had About Enough’ evokes memories of Massive Attack and Madonna’s version of ‘Love Don’t Live Here Anymore’. There are even hints of the old Circus Gang in the violin-led ‘Wooden Heart’. Tribute to mothers, ‘Momma’, is the only number that feels unworthy of the set, conforming to my long-held rule that you should always skip the cheesy album tracks where any band start getting saccharine about their parents or their religion. As Retro-Beat overruns its allotted time slot, no one is complaining as the final songs treat us to a variety of chilled-out soul, touches of drum & bass beats, and seemingly effortless flights of musical fancy that are definitely best experienced live.
With the name and line-up so similar, comparisons were always inevitable, but in this incarnation The Red Triangle are very different but no less impressive. They are a collective of musicians who are going to constantly evolve their sound with the ebb and flow of their varied influences, so I don’t think they do permanence. Whilst their current direction may lack the immediate impact of the warm, high-energy originality of the Circus Gang era, it is sincere, crafted, and well worth a little patience.
Kat Fiction
Billy Bibby & The Wry Smiles, The Charles Bradlaugh, Northampton
No Comments on Billy Bibby & The Wry Smiles, The Charles Bradlaugh, Northampton
Former Catfish and The Bottlemen guitarist/song-writer Billy Bibby brought his new band to Northampton’s Charles Bradlaugh last weekend, and he didn’t disappoint. Playing recent singles including ‘Are You Ready?’, ‘Substitute’, ‘Always Something’,…
Former Catfish and The Bottlemen guitarist/song-writer Billy Bibby brought his new band to Northampton’s Charles Bradlaugh last weekend, and he didn’t disappoint.
Playing recent singles including ‘Are You Ready?’, ‘Substitute’, ‘Always Something’, and new one ‘Hamburg’ his band are a tour de force of good time guitar rock’n’roll.
The support wasn’t too shabby neither, with locals The Barratts and Kettering’s Monarchs up to their usual high standard.
No Comments on DTF#5, The Garibaldi Hotel, Northampton
If you are going to go out midweek in Northampton and get a good gig in you then chances are it’s going to be hosted by either The Roadmender [expensive…
If you are going to go out midweek in Northampton and get a good gig in you then chances are it’s going to be hosted by either The Roadmender [expensive ticket, 500+ people] or The Garibaldi Hotel [free ticket, 50+ people]. And so it goes again this warm July evening, with another Destined To Fail evening in this backstreet boozer.
Served up are a twin serving of Brighton, sandwiched between a more immediate ensemble in the shape of Blood-Visions. New Boots had been led to believe the locals were one of Northampton’s finest. That report, it unfolds, is pretty bang on the money. The quintet [4x guy, 1x gal] oscillate between hardcore punk and pop-punk/emo, and it is not immediately clear whether they are a “message band” [in the time-honoured tradition of Black Flag, Fugazi, etc.], or simply in it for shits and giggles [as they’re named after a Jay Reatard album let us assume the latter]. Regardless of intent the performance is carried to another level by the ferocious-yet-witty presence of frontman Joss. The songs lock into a simple riff-based groove and batter you into submission. If you like your music literally in your face you’ll find plenty to love with these visions.
Before that though the evening opens with The New Tusk, the Brighton trio that look quite like Husker Du and Soundgarden. Their sound is lot more indie though, with Cribs-style jittery guitar patterns sprinkled liberally throughout. Doomy bass lines propel the whole thing forward, and you can appreciate the live arena is their natural domain. It’s imperative to nod your head on this journey their on. It’s a solid rather than world beating start to the evening, and do definitely keep an eye on the name for future releases as they have all the classic makings there.
Headliners Birdskulls – Jack [guitar and vocals], James [normally/formerly Rory, bass] and Sam [drums] – are our second Brighton band tonight. With one solid album under their belts tonight they share their Lemonheads/Nirvana-indebted grunge pop with the uninitiated, and the audience and New Boots are ever so pleased they did, for they got it going on, as ably demonstrated on new song ‘Over It‘. There’s a self-titled EP released this autumn via Art Is Hard Records [and recorded with Theo Verney, no less]. Do check it out when it drops.
Phil Istine
18 min read →
TWINFEST: various venues, Northampton, June 22-25 2017 For those who do not know what it is, Twinfest is a music festival where bands from Northampton get together with bands from…
No Comments on Live Review: Miranda Lee Richards
Miranda Lee Richards, The Lamplighter, Northampton, June 25th 2017 “There’s a lot of sounds we play. Folk, folk-rock, psychedelic folk-rock, country rock, English folk. Folkin’ folk, haha!” So quips Richards tonight…
Miranda Lee Richards, The Lamplighter, Northampton, June 25th 2017
“There’s a lot of sounds we play. Folk, folk-rock, psychedelic folk-rock, country rock, English folk. Folkin’ folk, haha!” So quips Richards tonight halfway through her beguiling set. It seems there’s a lot you can do with this folk thing.
For the uninitiated Richards is an LA native who grew up in San Francisco. Her first solo album, for Virgin Records, came out in 2001, and she’s in the UK promoting her just-released fourth album, Existential Beast. Over the years she has collaborated with/been in Brian Jonestown Massacre, Tricky, Tim Burgess, Neil Halstead, and the Jesus and Mary Chain, amongst many more. What brings her to Northampton is one of her two guitarists, local musician Joe Woolley. Completing tonight’s quartet are Randy Billings on guitar, and Sandy Smith on backing vocals.
Playing the likes of ‘Ashes and Seeds’ and ‘Lucid I Would Dream’ from Existential Beast there’s an undercurrent of the ongoing political crisis within these seemingly personal songs, as if tumultuous times in the US speak to the heart of who we are as a people. Some of this may be lost on a Sunday night crowd unfamiliar with her oeuvre, but those in attendance are in no doubt as to her sincerity in delivering impassioned roots music. The suitable [and frankly often gorgeous] embellishments provided by her troupe only enhance the uneasy, shifting moods the songs bring forth.
Richards displays an ethereal, floating vocal style that contractually here means a namecheck of Hope Sandoval, but the more earthy, yearning elements of her approach does also recall once-time Northants resident Sandy Denny, or a Jacqui McShee. The sound of the new album is a blend of styles: often it’s a reflection of the popular country/Americana that is almost mainstream now in her native land, but at times it can recall contemporary UK psychedelic acts such as Temples and Jane Weaver [with the instrumentation stripped back, of course], and she treads this merging between the olde worlde of the 60s folk boom and contemporary mores with panache.
Here and now in NN1 every song is greeted with an enthusiastic reaction that Richards herself reciprocates. All in all tonight gives us a mesmerising hour set of haunting psych-folk that no one in attendance will be forgetting in a hurry.
http://www.mirandaleerichards.com
← Previous 1 … 26 27 28
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line325
|
__label__wiki
| 0.996482
| 0.996482
|
The BBC has updated its cookie policy. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. This includes cookies from third party social media websites if you visit a page which contains embedded content from social media. Such third party cookies may track your use of the BBC website. We and our partners also use cookies to ensure we show you advertising that is relevant to you. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the BBC website. However, you can change your cookie settings at any time.
BBC News Updated every minute of every day
Page last updated at 10:12 GMT, Sunday, 26 July 2009 11:12 UK
Economic mess daunting - Cameron
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.
David Cameron: 'If we sort out the budget problems, this is still a great country'
Conservative leader David Cameron has said the "scale of the economic mess" he would inherit if he became prime minister was "incredibly daunting".
Mr Cameron told the BBC he was "looking the British people in the eye" and saying public spending had to be cut.
Decisions taken on spending and tax had to be "fair", he said, adding that the wealthy would "pay their fair share".
He said there was no complacency as his party still had an "enormous mountain" to climb to win the election.
The Norwich North victory - where the Conservatives reversed a comfortable Labour majority to win by 7,348 - had been a "great success" but he was taking "one step at a time".
He added: "We are well aware that Margaret Thatcher had to win around 40 seats to get an overall majority. We want to win 120, we still have an enormous mountain to climb."
Fantastic opportunities
Mr Cameron told the Andrew Marr Show that some savings would come from cutting things the Conservatives opposed - like ID cards.
But he said more action would be needed because of the "daunting scale" of the mess being left.
He said: "I can't remember an opposition leader who has looked the British public in the eye and said we are going to cut public spending. We have to do that. We have to be clear about that.
"But I think the British people recognise this and they are crying out for someone, actually, who is going to lead them and who's going to say 'right, we're all in this together, we've all got to take these steps together'.
"Let's start by making parliament smaller, by having fewer ministers, by cutting the cost of politics. We're going to share in these difficult decisions and in this pain, but then the whole country has got to take part in this."
Mr Cameron added: "If we sort out the budget problems, this is still a great country, we've still got fantastic opportunities for the future."
He said his party was now drawing up a list of things they wanted to see happen, but which they felt could not be afforded if Britain was to live within its means.
He also said they planned to use transparency as a means to cut public spending - with all public sector spending over £25,000 and every public sector salary over £150,000 having to be published online.
Destiny shaped
As with the effect of transparency on MPs' expenses, this would lead to people starting to "behave better and to claim less", he said.
The Conservatives have said that health and overseas aid budgets would be protected from any cuts, but Mr Cameron said there was a "huge amount of waste and bureaucracy" to be tackled across Whitehall.
He highlighted what he said was the half a billion pounds spent on government advertising and the fact that people earning over £50,000 a year could still qualify for tax credits.
Chancellor Alistair Darling meanwhile told the same programme he believed Labour "can and will win" the next election if the party could "come out fighting" after the summer.
He told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show he was not a natural optimist but was confident despite Labour's heavy defeat in this week's by-election.
Mr Darling said: "Whoever wins the next election will shape the destiny of this country - not just for the next five years, beyond that... I believe that we can win and we will win, but we really do need to come out fighting."
Asked by the presenter "even under Gordon Brown?", Mr Darling replied: "Yes, absolutely."
Cameron hails 'historic' poll win
24 Jul 09 | UK Politics
Labour can win election - Darling
RELATED BBC LINKS
Andrew Marr Show
Look East by-election special
TOP UK POLITICS STORIES
Prison 'not linked' to crime drop
Whitehall 'supported Guantanamo'
Government wins VAT Commons votes
MOST POPULAR STORIES NOW
WATCHED/LISTENED
Tourists flock to 'Jesus's tomb' in Kashmir
Most popular now, in detail
Indonesia's female 'devil wheel' riders
FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Has China's housing bubble burst?
The guerilla plant
How the world's oldest clove tree defied an empire
Why Royal Ballet principal Sergei Polunin quit
Most Popular Now | 56,514 people are reading stories on the site right now.";
Widgets & Alerts
Copyright © 2019 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read more.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line328
|
__label__wiki
| 0.99068
| 0.99068
|
Radio Listening
Programs All Things Considered American RadioWorks American Routes A Prairie Home Companion As It Happens The BBC Proms BBC World Service Best of the Day Bruce Carlson Mem. Tribute Car Talk Classical Music Composers Datebook Day to Day Fresh Air Friday Favorites Future Tense Harmonia In the Loop The Jazz Image The Local Show Marketplace Marketplace Money Marketplace Morning Report The Metropolitan Opera Midday Midmorning Minnesota Orchestra Morning Edition The Morning Show MPR Presents Musicheads The New Releases New Classical Tracks On the Media Only a Game Open Air The Opera Performance Today Pipedreams A Prairie Home Companion Redefinition Radio Rhythm Lab Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Saint Paul Sunday San Francisco Symphony Sound Opinions Sounds Eclectic Speaking of Faith The Splendid Table The Story Studio 360 SymphonyCast Talk of the Nation Talking Volumes This American Life Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Weekend America Weekend Edition Saturday Weekend Edition Sunday Word for Word The World World Choral Spectacular The Writer's Almanac
News & Features Navigation
St. Paul candidates make last push for votes (story audio)
Listen to the debate
Mayor Randy Kelly
Chris Coleman
St. Paul mayoral candidates debate taxes, campaign tactics (11/03/2005)
City spending at issue in St. Paul mayor's race (11/01/2005)
Poll is bad news for St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly (10/28/2005)
St. Paul candidates make last push for votes
St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly is in the fight of his political life in his race for reelection. Many city voters say they're angry he endorsed Republican President George Bush in 2004. (MPR Photo/Marisa Helms)
In St. Paul, Mayor Randy Kelly's support for President Bush has been a dominant issue in his campaign for reelection. The DFL mayor's endorsement of the Republican president in 2004 has hurt Kelly badly, in a city that's a Democratic stronghold. After facing off in their final debate on Minnesota Public Radio's Midday program, Kelly and challenger Chris Coleman headed out for some final campaigning.
St. Paul, Minn. — Mayor Kelly and his campaign took a whirlwind tour through four senior living highrises Monday afternoon.
Lois Vogel, 78, met the mayor at the Iowa Street Tower community room. She says she's not sure who she'll vote for, but she's leaning toward Randy Kelly.
"I like him personally. You can ask him direct questions and get direct answers," she says.
Vogel says she liked Kelly's answer about why he endorsed George W. Bush for president in August 2004.
"I wanted an explanation on that, and I got it. He said it was like a partnership, where he wanted to go in and ask for more money, and he got it," says Vogel.
Kelly has said his relationship with Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty helped get the city $7.5 million in state aid for the 2006 budget.
Vogel says she thinks the media has overplayed Kelly's endorsement.
Still, recent polls show 6 out of 10 voters are choosing challenger Chris Coleman over Kelly. And many say the Bush endorsement is what's leading them away from Kelly.
At midafternoon, Chris Coleman was campaigning on St. Paul's east side, stopping at restaurants and businesses on Payne Ave.
Mike Horsh shook hands and chatted with Coleman in Magnolia's restaurant. Horsh is a taxi driver and says he talks to people all day. He considers Coleman a shoo-in for mayor.
Horsh says people in St. Paul are not satisfied with Randy Kelly and are angry about the mayor's endorsement of President Bush last year.
"Very much so. Very, very, very much so. That was one of the major things they were talking about just behind the restaurant the other night," says Horsh.
As the final hours tick by in the campaign, it's apparent the Bush endorsement will haunt Kelly all the way into Election Day.
In the final debate, the first question Kelly faced was whether the Bush endorsement should be a major factor in the election.
"Well, I guess that's up to the people of St. Paul," Kelly responded. "I made a decision last year based on principle. I stand by that. If people of St. Paul want to disregard a record of four years of accomplishment, and not look at the vision that I've laid out for the city of St. Paul, obviously that's up to them."
Kelly said if voters judged him on his record, they would see that he's held the line on taxes. Kelly did propose raising the property taxes 3 percent for the upcoming 2006 budget. He says the money will be used for additional police and firefighter staffing.
Kelly said he has done a good job as mayor under difficult budget circumstances, and he deserves a second term.
"St. Paul's prospering. It's well-run, it's lean. It's an efficient city. We're keeping a check on taxes and spending. It's one of the safest cities in our nation. We're building 5,000 quality housing in this city," said Kelly.
Coleman agreed the city is headed in an "OK" direction. But, he said St. Paul can do better. He said his experience as a public defender, prosecutor and St. Paul city council member for six years means that he's the candidate who can move the city in an even better direction.
"The city of St. Paul works best when we have leadership that listens to people, that works with them, that understands the need to work in collaboration and cooperation with the people across the city of St. Paul," said Coleman.
The centerpiece of Coleman's campaign is to create a "second shift" in libraries and recreation centers across the city, to provide after-school activities for children. He said that program would not necessarily cost the city extra money.
Coleman said as mayor he would be willing to raise taxes for public safety. He is proposing an $8 million property tax increase over the next four years. But he says that increase would kick in only if state and federal dollars are scarce.
"I think that we can, working in partnership with people that understand what's happening in cities, get additional resources, and not have that burden go to homeowners," said Coleman.
On the eve of the election, it looks like the race is Coleman's to lose. Recent polls show him leading Kelly by more than 30 percentage points.
Submit a commentary on this topic
Discuss this story with other people
Vikings: Adrian Peterson will play Sunday
Growing Karen population brings changes to Austin
Replacements stage rowdy homecoming
Mankato State's Kolstad suffers seizure
More news & features
Minnesota Public Radio ©2019 All rights reserved : Terms of use : Your privacy rights
News archive by date
News archive by author
EPA asked to reconsider use of dangerous chemical
Man whose family died in Boeing 737 Max crash: Scrap the jet
Airlines cancel Boeing Max flights into November; holiday flights could be next
©2019 Minnesota Public Radio | All rights reserved
480 Cedar Street, Saint Paul, MN USA 55101 | 651-290-1212
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line329
|
__label__wiki
| 0.909457
| 0.909457
|
London protest against Donald Trump turns violent after President’s inauguration parade
Scuffles broke out during the unofficial demonstration
While the 45th President of the US took part in his inauguration parade this evening, violence spread across the UK capital.
The unofficial demonstration against Mr Trump marched along Oxford Circus this evening, with hundreds of protestors waving banners and placards.
Images taken at the scene show two men fighting, grapling with each other as they try to throw the first successful punch.
It is believed the fight broke out between a protestors and a pro-Trump supporter as the rally made its way to the US embassy.
Riots have broken out across the globe, not just in London
The two men grappled with each other during the rally
Protests against the new President have been sparked globally, many of which also turning violent.
At least 95 have been arrested in Washington alone.
Earlier today, banners were dropped from nine major bridges in London and in cities across the UK including Edinburgh, Liverpool, Cardiff and Belfast on Friday morning.
PROTESTS at Trump's Inauguration Day
Protestors were chased through the streets of Washington as violent scenes broke out close to the Donald Trump inauguration in Washington.
Police and demonstrators clash in downtown Washington after a limo was set on fire.
The banners tackled issues raised by the President-elect on his campaign to reach The White House, including race, immigration and women's rights.
Nona Hurkmans, a spokesman for organiser Bridges Not Walls, said: "On Trump's inauguration day, we're taking action to show our support for groups under attack – here in the UK, across Europe and in the USA – and to reject the rise of a dangerous and divisive far right politics.
"We won't let the politics of hate peddled by the likes of Donald Trump take hold. What happens next is up to us and by standing together, we can show that the rhetoric of fear and hate have no place in our society."
Related Itemsagainstdonaldlondonprotesttrumpturns
Is this the end of TTIP? Trump REMOVES deal with European Union from White House website
Nigel Farage ‘to become close unofficial ADVISER’ to President Trump, US governor says
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line330
|
__label__cc
| 0.588434
| 0.411566
|
Earning first half the 2012 Joshua Garnett Youth jersey
Huizenga earned a reputation as a hands-off owner and received praise from many loyal employees, even though he made six coaching changes. But he’s still gutting out some Nike NFL Jerseys From China wins, like he did in Brooklyn. The half-back is 26, but can still learn plenty from McGuire in Jerseys For Cheap his final season in the sport. We make an effort to http://www.footballjaguarsstores.com/DJ-HAYDEN-JERSEY-CHEAP.html protect discussions from repeated comments Cheap NHL Jerseys either by the same reader or different readers We follow the same standards for taste as the daily newspaper. Blocked for QB Brett Hundley as he completed 18 of 25 passes for Jerseys From China 212 yards and a TD for a 110 passer rating…Vs. Hockey Jerseys 15 Virginia Tech. 2015 : Started all 16 games for the first time since his rookie campaign…Totaled 288 rushes for 1 yards with six TDs, while adding 33 receptions for 271 yards with one TD…Earned his second Pro Bowl selection…Finished the Kurt Warner Youth jersey season ranked second in the NFL in rushing yards… vs. FC collapsed at the back end of the campaign, missing their chief organiser. Adalius Thomas, Richard Seymour and Jarvis Green Wholesale Jerseys all got handfuls of white jersey. But that is the fault of the expectations more than the team. A bridge deal seems inevitable, and given Wholesale Jerseys the three-year, $2-million-AAV deal to which Anaheim signed energizing 22-year-old 20-goal scorer Ondrej Kase, anything more than two years and an AAV of $2 million would be foolish for the organization. And with great depth at the wing, where Nick King seems prepared for a breakout season and where Trahson Burrell was a Top 10 JUCO, the Tigers currently have incredible depth at forward, guard, and wing. It has been a while since I‘ve seen an offensive line take the fight to the Dallas front seven the way the Colts did. In 2014 Eastman posted a $10 run between June 4 and Aug. So where do they go with three first-round picks? The Thunder outscored Los Angeles on the fast break 34, the Lakers turned the ball over 21 times and Oklahoma City won the rebounding battle 50. Just for the adversity Columbus has fought through repeatedly to get back to its goal of returning to the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
LSU : Selected http://www.49ersofficialauthenticonline.com/65-joshua-garnett-super-bowl-jersey.html as the Ray Guy Award Punter of the Week and the SEC Special Teams Player of the Week Cheap NHL Jerseys after punting eight times for a 51-yard average. Drake plays Indiana State at home on Wednesday. Bridgeville resident Rebekah Colson recently published Walking A Mile Jerseys For Cheap in Someone Else’s Shoes: Vocational Grieving, Transition and Recovery. Steve Spurrier was a great college player and coach. Those all appear to be fine players, though it’s probably too early to say so for sure, and that’s true of Evans as well. But the team relies on young pitching. Cheap NHL Jerseys Smith, playing at considerable depth, tried to rally once the ball was in the air.
Texas is Jerseys From China 6 against the spread as an underdog away from home. But as someone who has studied the rosters extensively this summer, I can tell you that almost every one of these August commitments has occurred because of a very strong need that a team had for depth or strength at a particular position. The 6-foot-10 Conditt had five points and four Hockey Jerseys blocks in 14 minutes and Joshua Garnett Youth jersey Griffin, who didn’t play until the second half after battling knee issues all summer, had four rebounds. TribLIVE commenting policy We moderate comments. We welcome strong opinions and criticism of our work, but we don’t want comments to become bogged down with discussions of our policies and we will moderate accordingly. On the season, Dal Colle had three goals and seven points in 28 games for the Islanders and has yet to hit his offensive stride since being taken fifth overall in 2015. Wholesale Jerseys The other nominees will remain on the list and can be selected in future years.
http://www.arizonacardinals.us.com/Kurt_Warner_Jersey Pitt hasn’t received any votes despite its undefeated start due to the caliber of opponents. Here’s Cheap NHL Jerseys how it reads in the official rulebook: There are a number Jerseys D.J. Hayden Youth jersey For Cheap of subpoints and added notes Hockey Jerseys clarifying various situations, such as what happens on plays that have double changes of possession. Beauvillier has been more miss than hit recently, with just two goals in his last seven games while skating primarily on the third line. Per the NFL, only sworn on duty law enforcement officers acting in their official capacity working at Ford Field are able to carry a weapon. Those conversations are hard to start, but it not only takes a weight off that person’s shoulders, but I think people will really find that not only will people understand what you’re going Nike NFL Jerseys From China through but they can probably relate really well and offer a helping hand. To search for players who were born on a certain date, Nike NFL Jerseys From China for example all players born on December 25, choose the month, day and year with the drop down Jerseys From China boxes and then choose the ‘Full Date Search’ option. Prohm might have a challenge on his hands in keeping Lard focused and motivated if he can only find 10 minutes a game for a player many expected to compete for All-Big 12 honors. The Panthers retired the No. So it’s a safe bet the Panthers are still looking to enhance the competition at safety, be it through free agency, the draft, the waiver wire and or potential trades. Wide receiver DeSean Jackson comes back and defensive tackle Malik Jackson is a huge addition Hockey Jerseys up front. Wilson appeared to have a lane to run through, but Gregory was there to close it down quickly to prevent the big play. To play great run defense you have to be able to play square along the line, and the Cowboys were able to do just that. When Cahoon left, a solid foundation still remained.
http://saki-biotech.com/loaded-defense-i-respect-made-negotiations-brooklyn-evan-engram-womens-jersey/
http://makfran.mk/2019/05/11/to-determine-whether-jordan-baby-on-big-leagues-all-freshmen-cheap-jerseys/
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line331
|
__label__wiki
| 0.717281
| 0.717281
|
LINES explores natural themes through dance
Lakshmi Raju on January 20, 2017 in Entertainment
Photo courtesy of Alonzo King LINES Ballet
Toes planted like roots against the stage floor, arms flexed and flowing around, weaving magic with each motion. Alonzo King has created a captivating piece in “Biophony,” which was performed at the Ferst Center for the
Arts on Jan. 14.
The Lines Ballet Company performed another contemporary ballet piece choreographed by King, “Sand.” Set to the sounds of jazz, the pairing of music and choreography was a
novel combination.
“Biophony” was a revelation because King chose to use noises from nature, such as the rumblings of birds or the whispers of humpback whales. The sounds were arranged by Bernie Krause, noted musician and ecologist.
The costuming was an ode to the music. Feathered pants and an ostrich skirt made a striking appearance. The dancers acted like the animals in the natural symphony.
In one sequence, the dancers gathered on stage to the sound of buzzing while their bodies gracefully emulated a hive of bees.
Sometimes, hands followed feet on the ground as they echoed orangutans and other quadrupedal animals. The naturalist feel of the sounds and motion of the jungle contrasted with elegant pas de duex (dance duets) set to the haunting calls ofhumpback whales.
The second half of the show, “Sand,” was more conformist, using jazz rather than the sounds of a jungle. The program gave an in-depth explanation of the connection of sand to the show.
“Its particular nothingness and its potential for unimaginable power has caused minds to liken sand to human beings for eons,” King said.
However, this connection between the choreography and the theme was difficult to perceive in the actual performance. The piece used a curtain of strings that were occasionally disturbed, probably to give the illusion of sand falling. A few times, dancing took place behind the curtain upon a raised stage. This staging was fairly gimmicky and did not seem to fit with the rest of the piece.
However, what did work wonderfully and what was an interesting dichotomy was the combination of the Jazz music accompanying the dancers.
Jazz is a poignant genre whose greats were known for their improvisational skills with the building blocks of the music. The choreography, on the other hand, is planned down to the precise movement of the tips of each finger.
Both of the pieces by the company showcased immense physical talent. The dancers supported their body weights against the floor in unbelievable positions. The impressive intensity of their dance was heightened by the absence of struggle on their faces. Even as the second hour came to an end, the only indication of physical exertion were their coatings of sweat and the rhythmic beating of their diaphragms.
Under the exotic choreography, the foundation of skillful ballet technique was apparent. The most awe-inspiring moments of the show were when ballet skills were leveraged to showcase the raw sounds of nature and the classic sounds of saxophone.
A quick look around the audience revealed that the attendees wore quite a range of attire, from t-shirts to gowns. This highlighted the diverse appeal of the company — it attracted both dancers and art enthusiasts from many different backgrounds.
Since the show was at the Ferst Center, students received a discounted $10 rate and unrestricted seat choice. Annoyingly enough, one theater tech employee wore a distracting bright red shirt backstage instead of the usual black.
Despite this issue, the Lines Ballet Company’s performance was phenomenal, and Alonzo King’s choreography was masterful. Every movement by the dancers was controlled yet fluid. Even the drops of sweat pouring down their faces were gracefully flung to the ground with each strong turn.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line332
|
__label__cc
| 0.634543
| 0.365457
|
Marty Rhone
Shop CDs
Menu-Home-Music-Introduction-Showreel-Portfolio-Music-Store--Shop CDs--Cart--My Account-Media-Blog-Contact
DON’T MISS EPISODE SIX – UNDER THE MILKY WAY!
With the Skymapper in disrepair and the Minister on Siding Spring’s doorstep, all looks lost for the team at Siding Spring Observatory. Featuring guest stars Rob Sitch and the former Premier of Victoria, John Brumby.
As seen on Channel 31 Melbourne (Digital 44) at 8:30pm every Monday…
As well as an August 8th premiere at 9:30pm (ACST) on Channel 44 in Adelaide…
The Australian comedy/drama series Under The Milky Way, starring Lee McClenaghan, Matt Stewart, Marty Rhone, Mark Gambino, Kristen Snowden, Rowan Francis, Davini Malcolm, Sophie Cusworth, Tom McCathie, Kate Dehnert, Jess Perkins and Rob Sitch.
Score by Mitchell Berk for Kreb Music & opening theme by Damon Smith.
UNDER THE MILKY WAY (2016)….
“Helene McKenzie resides in the NSW regional town of Coonabarabran and is an avid astronomer just like her father was, working in the observatory that overlooks her small town. When a nearby and much newer observatory threatens its funding and research grants, Helene’s observatory is in danger of being shut down. Helene actively fights its closure and along with her team of misfit colleagues, she attempts to rally her small home town behind her. Plagued by a corrupt local council and hindered by a lazy town mayor, Helene’s prospects of saving her observatory are slim. When disaster strikes on the eve of a big breakthrough, Helene may get the chance to save more than just her beloved observatory..”
Funded via the support of the Community Broadcasting Foundation…
#milkywayau
Tags: actor, Marty Rhone, TV, Under the Milky Way
THANK YOU AUSTRALIA! BREAKING NEWS…#1!
MARTY TALKS GRACELAND ON THE LINE AND HIS TOP ELVIS FAVOURITES – WITH DAVID NICHOLAS AT PLENTY VALLEY FM
‘GRACELAND ON THE LINE’ – AND THE RADIO
Copyright © 2019 - Marty Rhone^ Top
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line335
|
__label__wiki
| 0.644261
| 0.644261
|
Rural Alaska
Mat-Su
Alaska Life
We Alaskans
Alaska Marijuana News
Business/Economy
National Opinions
Iditarod
Alaska Legislature
UAA Athletics
Alaska Baseball
Best of Alaska
ADN Honor Breakfast
Alaska Visitors Guide
ADN Store
Sign in to your account below.
Thank you for supporting local news.
Anchorage 79°F
Anchorage: 79°F
Real Estate/Open Houses
Count on Kavanaugh to stand up to executive bullying
Author: Michael Gerson
| Opinion
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Judge Brett Kavanaugh his Supreme Court nominee, in the East Room of the White House, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The Trump administration is not known for its consistency, but some contradictions are too revealing to ignore.
In nominating Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, President Trump has chosen a jurist who is deeply committed to the Bill of Rights and the rule of law. Kavanaugh — with whom I worked at the White House — is brilliant, meticulous, fair-minded and unfailingly decent. In a saner political climate, a nominee of this temperament, intellect and experience would be confirmed in the Senate with 70 or 80 votes.
Yet: In pardoning Dwight and Steven Hammond, the Oregon ranchers convicted of arson on federal lands, Trump gave his blessing to lawlessness. According to the Justice Department, "Witnesses at [the] trial, including a relative of the Hammonds, testified the arson occurred shortly after Steven Hammond and his hunting party illegally slaughtered several deer on [Bureau of Land Management] property. Jurors were told that Steven Hammond handed out 'Strike Anywhere' matches with instructions that they be lit and dropped on the ground because they were going to 'light up the whole country on fire.' … The fire consumed 139 acres of public land and destroyed all evidence of the game violations." The Hammonds' cause had been taken up by right-wing militias. Trump's pardon effectively sided with the militias in their dispute with the federal government.
This is not an isolated incident. By pardoning former Arizona Sheriff Joseph Arpaio, Trump excused disobedience to a federal court order and embraced a figure with a long history of profiling and abusing Hispanic migrants. Speaking to representatives of law enforcement last year, Trump urged the physical abuse of suspects. "Like when you guys put somebody in the car," he said, "and you're protecting their head, you know, the way you put your hand over … I said, 'You can take the hand away, OK?'" During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly egged on the physical abuse of protesters at his rallies. "If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato," he once said, "knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, OK. Just knock the hell — I promise you I will pay for the legal fees, I promise."
This is not to mention Trump's initial neutrality between white supremacists and protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, which was taken by hate groups and militias as a presidential endorsement. Or coming to the defense of Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, who was repeatedly accused of predatory behavior against young women. Or Trump's systematic attempts to undermine the authority of federal law enforcement. Or his barely disguised admiration for the intimidation tactics of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
How to describe this strange mix of tough-guy posturing, conspiracy thinking, authoritarian envy, recreational cruelty and admiration for norm breakers? At some point, the dots connect and reveal deep attitudes. Trump has a bully's view of strength and weakness, and he seems to instinctively identify with bullies.
This is not consistent with the most admirable forms of populism. Some conservative thinkers have excused their conversion to Trumpism on the theory that he is elevating the little guy and speaking for the "forgotten man." This is accurate — unless you are a minority facing a resurgence of state-blessed prejudice, or the victim of police brutality, or a migrant child torn from your family, or a journalist rotting in a Turkish jail, or a house church leader imprisoned in China. Apparently, these little guys don't count. In fact, only a relatively comfortable white conservative thinker could find Trump's record consistent with a passion for the forgotten.
In reality, many conservatives don't like Trump in spite of his bullying but because of it. They have grown tired of decency and tolerance, which they dismiss as effete.
That is sad in any country, but particularly discrediting in America, where a commitment to universal human rights and dignity is essential to our national creed. A leader with contempt for justice and the weak is not a distinctly American leader.
All this points to the importance of institutional vigilance in the Trump era. Resisting the abuse of power is hard enough for good people. In Trump, the internal moral checks are absent. In a time of national stress and crisis — when executive authority naturally expands — the restraints on lawlessness and bullying would need to be external. And they may even need to be imposed by the Supreme Court.
Kavanaugh is smart enough to know this. And I believe he has the patriotism and character to act upon it.
The views expressed here are the writer's and are not necessarily endorsed by the Anchorage Daily News, which welcomes a broad range of viewpoints. To submit a piece for consideration, email commentary@adn.com. Send submissions shorter than 200 words to letters@adn.com or click here to submit via any web browser.
Michael Gerson is a nationally syndicated opinion columnist for the Washington Post. Gerson serves as senior adviser at One, a bipartisan organization dedicated to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable diseases. Until 2006, Gerson was a top aide to President George W. Bush as assistant to the president for policy and strategic planning.
Local news matters.
Support independent, local journalism in Alaska.
The Alaska village where every cop has been convicted of domestic violence
1 person dead, 2 injured after house fire in Anchorage
State awards former Knik Arm crossing official a no-bid contract worth up to $100,000
Gov. Dunleavy calls lawmakers to Juneau in bid to end Alaska budget deadlock
Swan Lake fire smoke drifts back into Anchorage
ADN Recommends
Get the Newspaper
Contact Anchorage Daily News
© 2019 Anchorage Daily News. All rights reserved.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line343
|
__label__cc
| 0.528194
| 0.471806
|
Support PI
Perimeter Institute Quantum Discussions
This series consists of weekly discussion sessions on foundations of quantum Theory and quantum information theory. The sessions start with an informal exposition of an interesting topic, research result or important question in the field. Everyone is strongly encouraged to participate with questions and comments.
Multi-level, multi-party singlets as ground states and their role in entanglement distribution
Wednesday Mar 07, 2007
Christopher Hadley
(MP4 Medium Res, MP3, Windows Presentation,Windows Video File,PDF)
We show that singlets composed of multiple multi-level quantum systems can naturally arise as the ground state of a physically-motivated Hamiltonian. The Hamiltonian needs to be one which simply exchanges the states of nearest neighbours in any graph of interacting d-level quantum systems (qudits) as long as the graph also has d sites. We point out that local measurements on some of these qudits, with the freedom of choosing a distinct measurement basis at each qudit randomly from an infinite set of bases, project the remainder onto a singlet state.
An extended, quartic quantum theory and a generalised theory of quantum information processing
Karol Zyczkowski
We propose an extended quantum theory, in which the number of degrees of freedom K behaves as FOURTH power the number N of distinguishable states. As the simplex of classical N--point probability distributions can be embedded inside a higher dimensional convex body of mixed quantum states, one can further increase the dimensionality constructing the set of extended quantum states. The embedding proposed corresponds to an assumption that the physical system described in N dimensional Hilbert space is coupled with an auxiliary subsystem of the same dimensionality.
Quantum Simulations of Quantum and Classical Systems
Monday Jan 22, 2007
Rolando Somma
If a large quantum computer (QC) existed today, what type of physical problems could we efficiently simulate on it that we could not simulate on a conventional computer? In this talk, I argue that a QC could solve some relevant physical "questions" more efficiently. First, I will focus on the quantum simulation of quantum systems satisfying different particle statistics (e.g., anyons), using a QC made of two-level physical systems or qubits.
Geometric measure of entanglement and its applications to multi-partite states and quantum phase transitions
Tzu-Chieh Wei
A multi-partite entanglement measure is constructed via the distance or angle of the pure state to its nearest unentangled state.
Quantum Kolmogorov complexity
Caterina-Eloisa Mora
Kolmogorov complexity is a measure of the information contained in a binary string. We investigate the notion of quantum Kolmogorov complexity, a measure of the information required to describe a quantum state. We show that for any definition of quantum Kolmogorov complexity measuring the number of classical bits required to describe a pure quantum state, there exists a pure n-qubit state which requires exponentially many bits of description. This is shown by relating the classical communication complexity to the quantum Kolmogorov complexity.
Experimental decoy state quantum key distribution
Wednesday Dec 13, 2006
Yi Zhao
Observable Entanglement measures
(Flash Presentation, MP3, Windows Presentation,Windows Video File,PDF)
Although entanglement constitutes one of the most remarkable differences between classical and quantum mechanics, and entanglement does have directly observable consequences, entanglement is not a regular observable like momentum or energy. It is rather a non-linear functional of a typically large set of such observables.
Quantum key distribution protocols with and without rotational
Wednesday Nov 29, 2006
We explore the role of rotational symmetry of quantum key distribution
(QKD) protocols in their security. Specifically, in the first part of the
talk, we consider a generalized QKD protocol with discrete rotational
symmetry. Note that, before our work, each QKD protocol seems to have a
different security proof. Given that the techniques of those proofs are
similar, it will be interesting to have a unified proof for QKD protocols
with symmetry (e.g., the BB84 protocol and the SARG04 protocol). This is
Bell's Theorem and Stochastic Quantization
Nathan Argaman
Most modern discussions of Bell's theorem take microscopic causality (the arrow of time) for granted, and raise serious doubts concerning realism and/or relativity. Alternatively, one may allow a weak form of backwards-in-time causation, by considering "causes" to have not only "effects" at later times but also "influences" at earlier times. These "influences" generate the correlations of quantum entanglement, but do not enable information to be transmitted to the past. Can one realize this scenario in a mathematical model?
Linear optics quantum information and Quantum simulation of many-body
Luming Duan
In this talk, I will show how to efficiently generate graph states
based on realistic linear optics (with imperfect photon detectors and source), how to do scalable quantum computation with probabilistic atom photon
interactions, and how to simulate strongly correlated many-body physics with ultracold atomic gas.
| more |
©2012 Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Site Map ·
Send Feedback ·
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line347
|
__label__cc
| 0.596896
| 0.403104
|
Inhalt; Accesskey: 2 |Hauptnavigation; Accesskey: 3 |Servicenavigation; Accesskey: 4
À propos du portail EFG
Archives partenaires
Projet EFG1914
Participer au contenu du portail EFG
WWI Topics
World War One Collections
Language | Čeština Dansk Deutsch English Français Italiano Lietuvių Magyar Nederlands Norsk Português Suomi
My EFG
S’inscrire | Se connecter
Multilingual Oui Non (only Keywords)
Votre portail d’accès aux films, images et textes extraits d’une sélection de 37 fonds d’archives cinématographiques européennes
Det Danske Filminstitut: Early Documentary and Fiction Films and Trailers
>> View collections on EFG The collection of the Danish Film Institute available on EFG contains a number of early documentary films, which display the life and look of the Danish society in the period of 1906 to 1940. Among the 300 films are straight depictions of modern production equipment and trade, as well as more propagandistic titles and news items. The over 50 early fiction films available are a raw collection of short films that give an impression of what early audiences were entertained by. In addition, around 700 teaser previews of the films available in the Danish Film Institute's educational distribution can be found on EFG. The latter collection contains current films that are chosen mainly for their value in education and general audience informative qualities. Read more about the Danish Film Institute's contribution to EFG on DFI's website.
Detailed description provided by the archive:
A large collection of early documentary films of all genres. As with the Peter Elfelt films, this collection displays the life and look of the Danish society, industry and people in the period 1906-1940. It contains films that are straight depictions of modern production equipment and trade, as well as more propagandistic titles and “news” items. It is a collection that, apart from scholarly study, will also be of interest to a general audience looking for images from specific geographic locations as well as how different professions went about their work a century ago.
Early fiction films, mainly out of copyright (1903-1928), are both an impression of what early audiences found entertaining, but often also remain entertaining. There are examples both of serious melodramas, as well as outrageous and astonishing comedies and stunt performances. Since the early 20th Century the fiction film has been the stable of cinema culture, a dominance that continues to this day. These films are from a number of genres, and many of the main titles are for copyright reasons not possible to display. The collection is therefore mainly interesting from an entertainment angle, since the lack of completeness makes it less useful as in academic terms.
Educational film previews from the DFI VOD platform Filmstriben (www.filmstriben.dk), provide teaser previews of the films available in the DFI's educational distribution. The collection contains current films that are chosen mainly for their value in education and general audience informative qualities. The films are non-commercially available in complete form in the Danish school and library system by subscription.
Connected to
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line353
|
__label__wiki
| 0.574127
| 0.574127
|
Flying Normal
Bug Poison
Bakugan Battle Arena
Since they first came out in 2007, Bakugan Battle Brawlers have risen in popularity past Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh to become one of the most sought after toys for young boys. Go to any school yard or playground and you'll sure see some kids setting up their metal cards and rolling their Bakugan around.
The game consists of plastic marbles that spring open to reveal Bakugan characters when they are roled over a metal card. Points are accepted based on the values on the marble and the card. The game combines the skill of marble rolling with the strategy of other card games to create a fun and unique playing experience.
Accessories for launching marbles and storing them are becoming pretty popular as well. It's probably because the main character from the Bakugan TV Show, Dan wears a launcher on his wrist. But one extra that most Bakugan fans would like to have is the Bakugan Battle Arena.
The Bakugan Battle Arena is a portable playing surface for Bakugan brawls. Just unfold the black plastic arena, and snap the red walls into the slots on the side.
This game board is very stylish and definitely cool looking. If you want to have Bakugan battles, the Bakugan Battle Arena is not mandatory but it does make your battle brawls more enjoyable.
How does it make your battle brawls more enjoyable? Well, first off, the board has bumpers at the edges of the playing area. You will not be rolling your Bakugan marbles across the playground anymore. And a player who can learn to bank the marbles off the bumpers will have a definite advantage.
Plus, it's easier to arrange your Bakugan Cards on the playing surface. All of your cards will be lined up nice and straight.
Lastly, the Battle Arena is just cool. On the Bakugan TV Show, when Dan starts a battle, he yells, "Bakugan Field Open". Now what kid would not want to have an actual arena to play on. Yelling, "Bakugan Field Open" and then playing on the ground is not as much fun.
Slick Game Board for playing Bakugan
Very Portable for playing at a friend's house
Bumpers keep your Bakugans from rolling off the board
Great surface for positioning your Bakugan Cards
Does not come with any Bakugans
Does not come with any Cards
You can play Bakugan without a Battle Arena but it's more fun to play with one.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line357
|
__label__wiki
| 0.526148
| 0.526148
|
Get exclusive editions of the hottest new titles
Sell us your used books
Visit our newest store
What are we reading?
Kids and Young Adult
Three Locations:
Lake Forest Park
VertVolta Press
Author Event Booking
Music Event Booking
The Doctor Danced With Us: Jeremiah Sullivan and the Hopi, 1881-1888 And Other Essays (Paperback)
Friday, July 19 at 6:00pm
at Lake Forest Park
Can't attend the event?
PRE-ORDER A SIGNED COPY
By Louis A. Hieb
On our shelves now:
20 on hand, as of Jul 18 7:15am
(NATIVE AMER. STUDIES)
On Christmas Day, 1880, a young doctor from Madison, Indiana, arrived at Keams Canyon, Arizona, to be the physician at the Moqui Hopi] Pueblo Indian Agency. From early in 1881 until the summer of 1888, Jeremiah Sullivan lived on the Hopi First Mesa, practicing medicine, participating in the social and ceremonial life of the community, and recording songs and narratives. Soon dismissed as agency physician, arrested, threatened with expulsion by military force, blacklisted from employment by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Smithsonian Institution, slandered by Frank Hamilton Cushing, and all but forgotten in the history of anthropology, Sullivan's residence among the Hopi was the immediate cause of the creation of the 1882 Executive Order Moqui Hopi] Pueblo Indian Reservation. Based on over thirty years of archival and field research, here for the first time is the story of "Jere Sullivan, M.D." and biographies of his contemporaries: the Hopi men, Wiki and Polacca; the students of Pueblo architecture, Cosmos and Victor Mindeleff; the ethnologists, F. H. Cushing (Zuni), Washington Matthews (Navajo), and A. M. Stephen (Navajo and Hopi).
Louis A. Hieb has written and edited over twenty articles and books on the Hopi, Navajo, Zuni, and Hispanic peoples of the Southwest.
The scientific analysis of a text--how mind and hand conspire to commit acts of writing--can reveal features as sharp and telling as anything this side of finger prints and DNA.--Don Foster, Author Unknown
A]ny historical narrative is a particular bundle of silences.--Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Publisher: Rio Grande Books
Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Native American & Aboriginal
United States - State & Local - Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Privacy & Returns Policies
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line360
|
__label__wiki
| 0.691635
| 0.691635
|
Why Voodoo Music Experience Should Be on Your Bucket List [Event Review]
December 12, 2013 By Tyler Almodovar
The special celebration of the 15th annual Voodoo Music Experience was held at historic City Park in the middle of New Orleans over the post-Halloween weekend. This festival has been a staple in NOLA tradition for the last 15 years, and a “must-attend” for those that reside in the area. Voodoo Music Experience is known for its “come as you are” atmosphere, and the wide variety of artists and genres it offers. With such a large and diverse mixture of people, it was a different experience engaging with this melting pot of music lovers.
Although the Le PLUR stage was the most bass-powered, it was not the most crowded. Most attendees went to see the infamous and classic acts that adorned the line-up such as The Cure, Pearl Jam, New Found Glory, and Nine Inch Nails. However, for EDM-lovers we had our own legends to see like Boys Noize and Basssnectar, and they did not disappoint. This year’s Voodoo Music Experience was one to go down in the books, and a festival that should be on everyone’s bucket list. And not just for the incredible line-up, but for the culture and variety that New Orleans offers.
Overall Vibes
The grounds of City Park had plenty of room for attendees to roam. The weather was borderline perfect, a bit chilly but light jacket weather. There were over 100 different vendors and you could find the best of the best at this festival. New Orleans brought their most well-known names out to host booths in which concert-goers could get a sample of that down-home Southern cooking that New Orleans is so famous for. There were also ecological-awareness booths and retail vendors throughout the grounds.
Besides the Le PLUR stage where I camped out, there were three other stages, two of which catered to rock and punk bands and then a smaller stage that featured eclectic and lesser known acts. I stumbled upon this small stage a few times during my experience at Voodoo and I was never disappointed.
Friday: Funky Electro House
Photo Credit: John Kurc
It’s wild because on every day except Friday, I can easily name my favorite artist of the night. All three acts that I saw on the Le PLUR stage that night were comparably amazing, but in such different ways. Destructo introduced a new sound to the grounds that he calls G-House, which combines hip hop elements and house beats for an incredible blend of funk and bass.
Then, Boys Noize destroyed with his electro-house waves that just flowed into a blend of wild imagination unlike anything I had ever heard before. He opened up his set with the dirtiest mix of “XTC”, and by the end of that first track the crowd was already hyped. Boys Noize is truly a master and a champion of the game. His prowess and technique shows fully in his live performance, and I could not believe the way he blended the different elements together. He played several tracks off of his new EP, “Go Hard”, including my absolute favorite “Starwin”.
Calvin Harris came on last to close out the first evening of Voodoo Music Experience, and I was very interested to see what kind of set he was going to play. The thing to note about Calvin Harris when you see him at a festival is that the quality of his sets has much to do with the size of the crowd and who he follows. He is an artist that is very aware of the energy of the crowd, and will plan his set accordingly. Since he was right after Boys Noize, who played an extraordinary electro set, he followed with a set that was high energy with lots of dutch house. He played a few of his original hits including his extended mix of “We Found Love”, and R3hab’s remix of “Need Your Love”. He also dropped one of my new favorites, his remix of The Killer’s “When You Were Young”, and some house dynamos like Showtek’s “Booyah”. Listening to his set was a blast, and one of the best performances I’ve ever seen out of Calvin Harris.
Saturday: The Night the Saxophone Stole My Soul
Photo Credit: Andrew Goetz
My major highlight from Saturday night was watching Big Gigantic mesmerize and terrorize the hearts of everyone in attendance. I guarantee that most watching that performance said it was one of their favorite moments of the weekend. I’ve seen Big Gigantic before, and it was nothing like this. It was as if they showcased an entire array of electronic genres, but with the soulful saxophone to add more flavor. It was so beautiful to see Dominic Lalli belt out such long, powerful notes with Jeremy Salkan ripping the drums behind him, then with a dirty dubstep beat to follow. They played every genre, even trap, but incorporated their own style and flavor into the sound. They are truly a fantastic experience to enjoy live.
After followed Afrojack, and while I’ll give him a C+ for his set at Voodoo, he did play all of his songs. And for someone who hasn’t seen Afrojack in a while, it was like taking a walk down memory lane to when I first got into the scene and heard some old favorites like “No Beef” and “Take Over Control”. Once I got over my nostalgia, I started to realize his set kind of slacked. As I was about to lose faith completely, he played Martin Garrix’s “Animals” (most played song of 2013, check) and as I walked away, the wild beat rushed over the crowd. You could almost hear a collective “WTF?!” over the entire grounds, as everyone moved and raged as one. Definitely one of my top moments of the night and the only reason his set gets a “slightly above average” rating.
Sunday: We Needed the Bass God to Save Us
Photo Credit: Josh Brasted
There was a different atmosphere the last day of Voodoo Music Experience as fans gathered to the stages for their final goodbye to a weekend full of incredible memories not soon forgotten. The Le PLUR stage was geared up for the massive amount of bass that was soon to come. The groups that preceded Bassnectar were much more eclectic and instrument oriented rather than the DJs and turntables that had set the groove for the days before.
It was if we had #turntup and now it was time to open our minds and embrace more eclectic genres. As Beats Antique hit the stage, most of the crowd was sitting down, saving their last bit of energy for the one we all waited to see. Watching their live performance was a refreshing experience, I had never seen nor heard of them before and was anxious to hear their sound. The best way to describe them is experimental with a heavy middle eastern influence. They played a variety of eclectic instruments and complimented their middle eastern sound with the belly dancing talents of Zoe Jakes. It was a perfect way to set the tone for the incredible act that was to follow.
Bassnectar is an artist that plays such a diverse range of sounds that you never quite know what he is going to play. He came out the gate blazing hot, mixing intricate winding sounds until he knew he had everyone entirely mesmerized. Then he decided to wake everyone out of this trance with wild hip-hop beats that cascaded into some heavy metal, then transitioned into an imaginative Beach Boys remix. If his sounds weren’t enough to completely destroy our minds, his screens complimented perfectly with the mind-churning waves that blasted through the crowd.
He dropped one of my personal favorites “Pink Elephants”, then to close he played his remix of the Beatles’ classic and a song so fitting for Voodoo Music Experience: “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.The screens were so visually potent, and paired with the incredible sound you didn’t even need any kind of “supplement” to feel the power of the music. When the lights turned down and we came out of the bass-induced hypnosis, it was surprising to see the trees in City Park still had leaves on them after such a massive explosion of sound.
Voodoo Music Experience is a festival that should be on everyone’s bucket list to attend at least once. Not only is there a stellar line-up that highlights the best of each respective genre, but the culture that New Orleans brings is unmatched by any other city. We can’t wait for Voodoo 2014!
festivalVooodoo Music
EDM Festivals Tours / Shows
Tyler Almodovar
President of WhiteRaverRafting.com | Contact: tyler@whiteraverrafting.com | Twitter: @TyGuyMusic
Diplo Fails to Properly Credit Concert Photographer, Upsets EDM Community
DOCO Remixes Passenger's "Let Her Go" [Free Download]
Tomorrowland Winter Releases Aftermovie & Announces 2020 Dates
April 17, 2019 By Joshua Schellhammer
Win a Glamping Package to Elements Lakewood
April 11, 2019 By Lia Tabackman
Rebecca Britt, a highly respected photographer and influential member of the EDM photographers Facebook group, wrote...
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line361
|
__label__cc
| 0.684419
| 0.315581
|
The hierarchical clustering groups features by the similarity of their genomes over the set of samples, and clusters samples by the similarity of genomes over their features. Each clustering has a tree structure that is generated as follow:
The tool considers each feature or sample to be a cluster.
It calculates pairwise distances between all clusters, and join the two closest clusters into one new cluster.
This process is repeated until there is only one cluster left, which contains all the features or samples.
The tree is then drawn so that the distances between clusters are reflected by the lengths of the branches in the tree.
The Create Heat Map for Abundance Table tool uses the TMM normalization described in (described in http://resources.qiagenbioinformatics.com/manuals/clcgenomicsworkbench/current/index.php?manual=RNA_seq.html) to make samples comparable, then does a z-score normalization to make features comparable.
To create a heat map:
Metagenomics ( ) | Abundance Analysis ( ) | Create Heat Map for Abundance Table ( )
Select an abundance table with more than one sample as input (i.e., an OTU table table, or a merged functional or profiling table) and specify a distance measure and a cluster linkage (figure 7.12). The distance measure is used to specify how distances between two features or samples should be calculated. The cluster linkage specifies how the distance between two clusters, each consisting of a number of features or samples, should be calculated. Learn more about how distances and clusters are calculated at http://resources.qiagenbioinformatics.com/manuals/clcgenomicsworkbench/current/index.php?manual=Clustering_features_samples.html.
Figure 7.12: Select an abundance table.
After having selected the distance measure, set up the feature filtering options (figure 7.13).
Figure 7.13: Set filtering options.
Indeed, genomes usually contain too many features to allow for a meaningful visualization. Clustering hundreds of thousands of features is also very time consuming. Therefore it is recommend to reduce the number of features before clustering and visualization. There are several different filter settings:
No filtering: Keeps all features.
Fixed number of features:
Fixed number of features: The given number of features with the highest coefficient of variation (the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean) are kept.
Minimum counts in at least one sample: Only features with more than this number of counts in at least one sample will be taken into account. Notice that the counts are raw, un-normalized values.
Abundance table: Specify a subset of an abundance table in case you only want to display the heat map for that particular subset. Note that creating the heat map from the subset abundance table directly can not ensure proper normalization of the data, and it is therefore recommended to use the original abundance table as input and filter using this option.
Specify features: Keeps a set of features, as specified by plain text, i.e., a list of feature names. Any white-space characters, as well as "," and ";" are accepted as separators.
The tool generates a heat map showing the abundance of each feature in each sample and showing the sample clustering and/or feature clustering as a binary tree over the samples and features, respectively (figure 7.14).
Figure 7.14: Heat map.
In order to create a heat map with a specific taxonomic level information, it is possible to use the option "Aggregate feature" in the right hand side panel of the Abundance table. When aggregating an abundance table, by class for example , a new column called "Class (Aggregated)" containing the class names is now created. This name will then be used when creating a Heat Map. This is done in order to avoid very long feature names in abundance tables and downstream analysis tools.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line366
|
__label__wiki
| 0.915633
| 0.915633
|
The Saga (radio) Ends...
R2OK! Forum Index -> What other radio do you listen to?
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:07 pm Post subject: The Saga (radio) Ends...
SAGA Radio is no more. It is to be rebranded as Smooth, and presumably sound like the other Smooth stations. Once again, the big company has taken over the small one and just made everything more generic and bland. Marvelous.
John Plunkett
MediaGuardian.co.uk
GMG Radio is to rebrand its newly-acquired Saga stations as "Smooth Radio", expanding its stable of Smooth stations to six.
The three Saga stations in Scotland and the east and west Midlands join GMG Radio's existing Smooth stations in London and the north-west. Another new Smooth station will launch in the north-east in the autumn.
GMG, which owns MediaGuardian.co.uk, bought the three Saga stations in December last year, but the acquisition was only formally completed this week.
The existing Smooth stations will drop the "fm" from their name as part of the rebrand in March, which will be accompanied by a "significant" marketing push.
"The Smooth name has worked well for us, especially in the north-west where it has gone from worst to first in two years," said John Myers, chief executive of GMG Radio.
"We are therefore rolling this out across the UK into the Saga stations while dropping the 'fm' part of the name, as it is clear that more listeners are tuning in across a number of platforms and not just on FM."
GMG Radio, which also bought the two Century stations from GCap Media last October, will now operate four brands in its stable: Real Radio, Century FM, Smooth Radio and the recently launched 96.3 Rock Radio in Scotland.
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject: Charles Nove
https://www.saga.co.uk/secure/1052fm/presenter_charlesnove.asp
gfloyd
Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
SAGA was a fairly offputting brand name. Too many connotations with 70 year old ladies on coach trips to National Trust properties.
His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.....
Little Miss Lovely Smile
The hosts are worried that 'new' people maybe brought in - not a thought for their regular listeners, who may have to be hospitalised after they've played Eminem.
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
childprufe
I listen to SAGA most weekday afternoons (for whatever reason you may guess..). The only trouble is I forget the wavelength and I never could handle the technology involved in storing stations on the car wireless.
Please don't submit me to new music types.
Standing on Ray Moore's shoulders
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:35 am Post subject:
Am I not right in thinking that smoothfm is what the original JazzFM station morphed into, now playing soul and modern r&b? In which case 99.9% of Saga's existing listenership will be instantly turned off; although I don't listen myself my parents do, liking the mix of general pop from 50s to date, and the specialist nostalgia show at the weekend, having switched across from Radio 2, which is too "brash" for them (they prefer the annoying commercials to the annoying SW and CE).
R2OK! Forum Index -> What other radio do you listen to? All times are GMT
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line376
|
__label__cc
| 0.659194
| 0.340806
|
Which Survivor of the Impending Nuclear Apocalypse Are You?
Yeah, the war's coming. There'll be death, destruction, blood and all the rest of it. Only a handful of people will survive - which are you?
Enjoy today - it may be your last.
You heard me. Thanks to the foolishness of various world leaders, the world is spiralling into a heartless void of painful oblivion. Governments are secretly pitted against governments; international terrorist organisations are remixing the geopolitical landscape to introduce their own hardcore sounds.
The result, surely, is widespread nuclear badness. Society as we know it will be ripped apart by the bomb - but some brave people will survive. Could you be one of them? Could you?
Yes, enjoy today. You will never know freedom again.
Get started with these questions...
A live alligator is chasing you, and it's got an army of particularly angry hippos in tow. Do you ...
Run away, fast
Launch into the Electric Six's novelty hit Danger! High Voltage and assume the rampaging beasts will get into the nu-disco groove
Evolve more quickly and fly into the ether
Attempt to woo the alligator into a sadistic game of love
Soil your pants, your trousers, and half a sock
Are you the bomb?
Fo' sure, yo
I have not yet earned my ghetto stripes, and therefore am not the bomb.
I all da bombs!
No, the bomb was the seventy kiloton device that destroyed the city and most of the people who lived there, and melted the flesh from the skeletons of most of the survivors, you insensitive bastard.
It's the end of the world as we know it. Seriously, it is, and your Messiah of choice has returned to collect the good souls and inject them into [heaven / eternal bliss / valhalla / a new life as a noble animal / enlightenment / a corporate sponsorship deal - delete as appropriate]. Or, rather, that's what you think He's come back to do, until he pulls out his Uzi and starts cracking some skulls. What do you do?
Whip out some kung fu moves and put Jesus on ice
Cower in the corner, rock forwards and backwards and whisper, "you are a mighty God, you are a mighty God," over and over again
Assume it is God's Divine Will and walk into the hail of bullets
Wait for Superman to arrive and watch the best goddamn fight you've ever seen
There are only two people left on Earth; one is you, and the other is a spankingly gorgeous human being, who you instantly develop a pants-spoilingly powerful lust for. It's up to you to restart the human race from scratch - but they are bleeding to death. You're in the middle of the desert - what do you do?
Tear off your clothes and use them as a makeshift tourniquet
Tear off their clothes and use them as a makeshift tourniquet
Engage in the sexy stuffs - whatever happens, happens
Watch them die while chuckling quietly to yourself
So, your city's power has gone off. Without their computers, DVD players, Sony Walkmen, electric nosehair trimmers or all-important TV sets, people are running screaming through the streets. Literally. So what's your reaction?
Run through the streets. Literally
Find several kilos of potatoes and use them as a sort of makeshift power station. When the power comes back on, make chips. Or little friends
Wander the neighbourhood in a seemingly innocent way; when nobody's looking, pick up random strangers and mince them for food and use their bones to keep your fire stoked. Ignore the screaming, even as it haunts you at night
Make a new city out of old pyjamas; make sure this one has power
This is a user-written post. Rum and Monkey isn't responsible for its content, however good it may be. Please report any inappropriate content.
Which Modern Family Character Are You?
What Should You Do For Mother’s Day?
Will You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?
How Sleepy Are You?
Which Mad Max Character Are You?
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line377
|
__label__cc
| 0.728039
| 0.271961
|
Wherein We Show Paleontologists What Ceratopsians Really Looked Like, Prove They Interacted With Humans, Name a New Dinosaur, Solve A Mystery--and Eat Garlic Chicken Over Rice
There is precious little data about dinosaurs to transcend. What the museum scientists know about Indians, whales, and elephants is more than enough to mimic real life. But when it comes to dinosaurs, all they really have to work with is an incomplete jumble of bones. .... And the elephants are a special case. There's a running joke among professional dinosaur artists that goes like this: Given just an elephant skeleton, they'd probably render a titanic hamster....Discover Magazine..What Did Dinosaurs Like, and Will We Never Know
Here at s8int.com, we believe we've shown in this section that evidence exists in archaic art to support the idea that "ancient" man lived with and/or interacted with "dinosaurs". Looking at ancient art could permit us to go back in history as if using a time machine.
Just as anthropologists have shaped our view of "ancient man" by drawing him as a primitive from just a few bones (in other words, they used pure imagination) paleontologists and artists working with them have used virually their imaginations alone to describe what dinosaurs looked like. We assert that they may have been way off when it comes to ceratopsians. We think all those images of the ceratopsians are probably wrong in a vey important detail. The proboscis. Far fetched? Of course it is, particularly if you're convinced dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.
Comparison of frill detail. "Anomaly" on Nepal sculpture "matches", "toelike" frill detail on typical some ceratopsian skulls.
This piece was described as a Mythological Aquatic Creature" by staff of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The piece is made of metal and is from Nepal, Himalayas, 10th century, i.e. approximately 16oo years ago. Clearly though, this is not a mythological creature. We recognized almost immediately the similarity it bore to the skulls of the ceratopsian dinosaurs, particularly Styracosaurus--except for the trunk of course.
Could paleontologists have gotten it wrong? Why not? They got evolution wrong, many of them. And they got the extinction of dino's 65 million years ago wrong. Also, remember that there is nothing about an elephant's skull to indicate it has a long trunk. Maybe, this dino is actually a mammal (another paleontogological mistake)....maybe related to the elephant...
Below, right, we; introduce the correct likeness Styracosaurus Camille,as we've named it, prove to those who can accept it(it's hard to build a case for this from one piece of art--but science often builds its dinos from less than that) --that the artist must have seen this dinosaur, and solve a Mystery. Then we eat!
Of course, we could be wrong!
Tibetan mask & frilled Nepal Roof ornament from same geographical area indicate that it is in fact the head of a dino/dragon that is portrayed on the piece in question ; the trunk may or may not be a "fantastic". element.
LIVING STEGODONT OR GENETIC FREAK?
(C) Copyright Ben S. Roesch 1995
In February and March of 1992, the intrepid British explorer Sir John Blashford-Snell was trekking through a remote valley in the Bardia region of western Nepal in search of "giant elephants" reported by the locals.
Two representatives of these strange elephants, both bulls, were eventually observed - and photographed.
The two beasts, living up to their reputation, were estimated to have footprints measuring 22.5 inches across and a height to the shoulders of 11 feet 3 inches, which makes them even larger than the largest-ever recorded specimen of the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus.
Adding to the confusion was the presence of two very large domes on each elephant's forehead, and a distinctive nasal bridge. These two features are not present on normal Asian elephants, but are, however, distinct on an extinct species of primitive elephant, the Stegodont.
(s8int.com suggests that they saw a "betrunked" member of the "ceratopsians" family with one of the many varieties of frill, horns and headgear)
Of course, the problem is that the Stegodont , the ancestor of both the African and Asian elephants we know today, as well as the extinct mammoth, apparently died out more than a million years ago.
But this didn't stop Canadian paleontologist Dr. Clive Coy , as well as Snell himself, to speculate that the giant Nepalese elephants could very well be, in fact, representatives of the presumedly extinct Stegodont.
However romantic and likable, not to mention being a great cryptozoological triumph, the Stegodont theory is now thought to be unlikely. The theory now favoured by cryptozoologists, is that these "giant elephants" are more likely to be mutant versions of the normal Asian elephant, rather than a Stegodont or even a separate, new species of elephant.
One of the reasons behind this more orthodox solution is that a stegodont surviving to this day is perhaps a little far fetched (though nothing is truly far-fetched in cryptozoology!).
Another more scientific explanation is the fact that the elephants live in an isolated valley, and when a small population of any species of animal is isolated in a region, and begins to interbreed, genetic mutations are bound to crop up over time.
But even if the creatures are genetic mutations, they are still quite intriguing, and may even be evolution in the making; therefore, these giant elephants should not be simply dismissed as uninteresting "freaks", but rather warrant further investigation.
And when these investigations take place, hopefully a specimen will be anatomically examined by a professional scientist, and the true answer behind its identity will finally be known.
Sources: Coleman, Loren. 1993. "Crypto-Zoo News," Strange Magazine , Fall-Winter, p. 28-29 // Shuker, Karl P.N. 1993. The Lost Ark . London: Harper Collins // Shuker, Karl P.N. 1995. Personal communication, August 19. // Shuker, Karl P.N. 1995. Personal communication, October 23.
FURCICERATOPSIDAE
The furciceratopsids form the largest family of Asian ceratopsians, with over a dozen species, ranging from small forest dwellers to the giant megahorns. They have generalised dentition, a large narrow nasal horn or series of hornlets and prominent jugal spikes.
Most have spiny or stud-like osteoderms set in their scaly hide. They tend to be unfussy feeders, eating any greenery they can easily get to.
Most of the larger species are known to be extremely nearsighted and bad-tempered. Even giant priscataurs will usually give an adult megahorn a wide berth. Smaller forms on the other hand can be extremely shy and cryptic.
(Indian megahorns, the largest living furciceratopsids, range from eastern India to the shores of the South China Sea. Females and young live in small herds whilst adult males are usually solitary.
Their preferred habitat is grassland and open areas in forests, usually close to a watercourse where they wallow and bathe. Its powerful beak can demolish even the toughest of plants.
Research suggests that the extracts of the Megahorn's horn possesses an extremely potent aphrodisiac quality and could form the basis of a highly lucrative pharmaceutical trade.
Source: http://www.bowdoin.edu/~dbensen/Spec/Cenoceratopsia.html
Do we really know what dinosaurs looked liked or how they behaved?
Putting a dinosaur skeleton together is not easy. It is often like putting together a very difficult jigsaw puzzle with many of the pieces missing or damaged. The skeletons are usually very incomplete.
Many dinosaur fossils are discovered badly damaged. Bones are often found crushed or bent by the great weight of the dirt and rock above. Sometimes parts from different creatures are mixed together. This just adds to the confusion.
Unfortunately, some scientists have not been careful enough in their descriptions of dinosaurs. They have told grand stories of how dinosaurs looked and behaved. All of these descriptions are based on guesswork - the imaginations of people who have never seen a living dinosaur.
Some scientists have made complete pictures of dinosaurs based on just a single bone or tooth or leg. Such pictures are based on many guesses and very little facts. The scientists' ideas often turn out to be wrong when more facts are discovered.
Dinosaur fossils are not found with labels or photographs attached showing what the animals looked like. That is why no pictures of dinosaurs are exactly right. Every dinosaur painting is sure to contain at least some wrong information. No artist ever saw the living, breathing animals - complete with skin, flesh and color.
For instance, imagine never having seen or heard of a poodle or a peacock. One day you find the jumbled bones of one buried in the ground. You try to put the bones together to form a skeleton. And then you try to draw a picture of what the animal looked like when alive.
But bones cannot tell the whole story. Even if you are a very good artist, it would be a miracle if you drew a true picture of a poodle or a peacock just from the bones and your imagination.
If scientists could climb into a time machine and travel to the past, they could get much better information. Only then would they know the true appearance of dinosaurs or what they ate and how they really behaved.
Scientists might be very surprised at what they would learn.
Excerpt from The Great Dinosaur Mystery and the Bible, Accent Books, 1987
Author: Paul S. Taylor of Eden Communications Copyright © 1995, Eden Communications, All Rights Reserved
Copyright s8int.com 2005
There Were Giants in Those Days... Page 27
Those Sophisticated Cave Men....Page 1
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line381
|
__label__cc
| 0.719434
| 0.280566
|
Moghalu Told Me Police Officers Wouldn’t Head EFCC When He Becomes President By Fredrick Nwabufo
My fight against corruption will begin inside my government, not with the PDP and APC. I will set the EFCC free.
by Fredrick Nwabufo Nov 30, 2018
Fredrick Nwabufo
“Nigerian politics does not demand intelligence, but agbero brawns. The more grammar you speak, the farther the distance between you and the people.”
This was the banter of a friend; a very educated and informed one, but sadly this is the perception of many Nigerians as well.
I sat in my nest that afternoon wondering why we are often led by the worst of us; as if we are destined for a certain doom. The product of my ratiocination was a resolve that despite the normality of mediocrity here, we must speak the “grammar of disciplined politics” until the people become acculturated, and the so-called distance bridged.
As a matter of fact, Nigeria has just a handful of leaders, but a rowdy crowd of politicians.
I had a one-to-one interview with Kingsley Moghalu, presidential candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), and he seemed not to covet the title “politician”. He tells me he is not a politician. Is he sterile of the vulgar importance of being a Nigerian politician?
Importantly, he tells me his opinion of the war against corruption and “the biggest problem confronting the country”.
He says the war against corruption is only a pretence, and that the biggest problem facing the country is the "total absence of leadership".
On Buhari’s war against corruption
Moghalu: There is no fight against corruption, but there is a fight about fighting corruption. That fight is the pretence about fighting corruption. It is a fight against political opponents by pretending they are corrupt and you are not. A good leader will fight corruption as a natural path of the process of good governance, because one of the requirements of good governance is transparency; another requirement of good governance is accountability. So, you cannot fight corruption if you are not addressing the value system issue, and if you don’t have impartial accountability. My fight against corruption will begin inside my government, not with the PDP and APC. I will set the EFCC free. And I believe that it should be merged with the ICPC into one body, and we will change the leadership criteria for heading that body. It doesn’t have to be a policeman. What makes policemen better than anyone else?
The biggest problem confronting the country
Moghalu: The biggest problem confronting this country is the total absence of leadership, because if you have that, it is the leader’s job to build a sense of nationhood. So, we always have to start from the fundamentals; because we don‘t have good leadership we have a lot of other problems that are avoidable. We have extreme levels of tribalism; we have extreme levels of corruption; we have no sense of being a nation. We don’t have leaders, but lots of politicians. And there is the political industrial complex that is the biggest business today. The tragedy is that out citizens are very active accomplices with the politicians in making themselves poor. The citizens are acting against their own interest by supporting these politicians. The reason they are doing that is that they are not as educated as they should be. And we are rewarding them (politicians) by voting for them as represented in the old recycled political class ...as represented in the APC and the PDP.... That is why in 20 years of democracy we have gone nowhere.
And with a note of finality, Moghalu says: “It will take me 24 hours to assemble my team; maximum 48 hours, not six months.”
Fredrick can be reached on Facebook: FredrickNwabufo, Twitter: @FredrickNwabufo
Opinion The Scourge Of The Nigerian Doctor-Pastor: A Tale Of A Confused Individual And An Endangered Populace
Opinion History Beckons As June 12 Becomes Democracy Day In Nigeria By Joe Igbokwe
Opinion Re: OSINBAJO: Serial Liar, Buhari’s Brain, Propagandist, Interpreter of Buhari’s Maladies By Muhammad Gulani
Opinion Helping the Nigerian Economy Stay in Shape
Opinion Now That IBB Wants To Be President
Opinion 2011 Presidential Elections: What The Nigerian Opposition Must Do
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line385
|
__label__wiki
| 0.551536
| 0.551536
|
ParkwalkAsset 2
16th June 16
Parkwalk portfolio company CCMOSS – acquired by ams AG to become world leader in gas and infrared sensing
ams AG (SIX: AMS), a leading worldwide manufacturer of high performance sensor and analog solutions, has acquired 100% of the shares in Cambridge CMOS Sensors Ltd (CCS), the technology leader in micro hotplate structures for gas sensing and infrared applications, in an all-cash transaction. Founded in 2008 as a spin-off from Cambridge University, with the start of technology development dating back to 1994 in collaboration with the University of Warwick, CCS has built an outstanding expertise in micro hotplate design and manufacturing for gas and infrared sensing over more than 20 years. Parkwalk and Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialisation arm of the University of Cambridge, have supported CCS throughout its development. CCS’ micro hotplates are MEMS structures that are used in gas sensors for volume applications in the automotive, industrial, medical, and consumer markets. The company’s deep expertise in this area is highly synergetic with ams’ technology leadership in MOX gas sensing materials to detect gases like CO, NOx, and VOCs. CCS manufactures these MEMS structures on CMOS wafers allowing the creation of complete monolithically integrated CMOS sensor ICs. This makes CCS’ solutions highly cost-efficient, besides offering other significant advantages over competing technologies like low power consumption, small footprint and the ability to integrate additional sensor modalities like relative humidity, temperature, and pressure.
“The addition of CCS makes ams the clear leader in gas and infrared sensor technology worldwide, and completes ams’ portfolio of products and technologies for the environmental sensor market.”
Alexander Everke In addition, CCS commands an industry-leading portfolio of IR technology comprising high performance IR radiation sources and detectors for sensor applications. Highly complementary to ams’ spectral sensing strategy for next generation optical sensor technologies, CCS’ IR sensing is based on the same monolithic CMOS structures as for gas sensing, enabling miniaturised implementations and efficient integration with other on-chip functions. Applications include CO2 gas sensing and human presence detection and will extend into spectroscopic identification of organic materials. CCS’ corporate headquarters are located in Cambridge, UK, and the company has 33 employees. The Cambridge region has become a centre of innovation for sensor technologies globally so ams values the ability to gain direct access to this attractive ecosystem going forward. The parties to the transaction have agreed to keep the consideration confidential. ams plans to fully integrate CCS’ activities into its existing environmental sensor business, which has development locations in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and Reutlingen, Germany.
Cookie and Data Protection Policy
© Parkwalk 2019 | Parkwalk is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority | Parkwalk is an IP Group plc company.
Website created by FX
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line393
|
__label__cc
| 0.534089
| 0.465911
|
Timothy Good: Secret Space Program Conference Amsterdam 2011
CIA Asset: Susan Lindauer on 9/11
A Random field in the midwest
as i was wandering around in a random area of the vast expanse of the mid-west over seven years ago, i encountered a cache of large plants. what were these odd things? well... i know what they are and have been waiting for the right time to post them. i met a "hitch-hiker" wandering the area with a backpack and a duffel-bag. he did not want to talk to me.
AntiPorn: A Poem
antiporn
I tender harsh megabites
Relinquishing my sovereign rights
To shame my face in all disgrace
I shall objectify no more.
Mental anguish torment fraught
The late night battle often fought
The naked gleaming sultry steaming
I shall objectify no more
Late night when all are tight in bed
In darkest places i am led
To scary women in dark dens
And yet my shame is made so plain
When demons haunt my heart so vain
My lust: It's rust from all mistrust
Confess to wife, cry while I lay
I make mistakes but then I say
Lead me my lover into your covers
And so the mind drug washes clean
With wife and my new self-esteem
The psychopathic pornographic
Ten years later I still fight
With dreams that often come at night
But I am friend with truths own end
Copyright 2012 by pauly hart
Arizona Passes Internet Censorship Bill
Here it comes: 1 down, 49 to go.
Get ready for your state to tell you what to say online.
Legislation to make it illegal to use “offensive” language online
The state legislature of Arizona has passed a bill that vastly broadens telephone harassment laws and applies them to the Internet and other means of electronic communication.
The law, which is being pushed under the guise of an anti-bullying campaign, would mean that anything communicated or published online that was deemed to be “offensive” by the state, including editorials, illustrations, and even satire could be criminally punished.
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund breaks down Arizona House Bill 2549:
“The bill is sweepingly broad, and would make it a crime to communicate via electronic means speech that is intended to ‘annoy,’ ‘offend,’ ‘harass’ or ‘terrify,’ as well as certain sexual speech. Because the bill is not limited to one-to-one communications, H.B. 2549 would apply to the Internet as a whole, thus criminalizing all manner of writing, cartoons, and other protected material the state finds offensive or annoying.”
First Amendment activist group Media Coalition has written to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, urging her not to sign the legislation into law.
The letter notes that the terms used in the bill are not defined in the statute or by reference, and thereby the law could be broadly applied to almost any statement.
“H.B. 2549 would make it a crime to use any electronic or digital device to communicate using obscene, lewd or profane language or to suggest a lewd or lascivious act if done with intent to ‘annoy,’ ‘offend,’ ‘harass’ or ‘terrify,’” the letter notes. … ‘Lewd’ and ‘profane’ are not defined in the statute or by reference. ‘Lewd’ is generally understood to mean lusty or sexual in nature and ‘profane’ is generally defined as disrespectful or irreverent about religion or religious practices.”
“H.B. 2549 is not limited to a one to one conversation between two specific people. The communication does not need to be repetitive or even unwanted. There is no requirement that the recipient or subject of the speech actually feel offended, annoyed or scared. Nor does the legislation make clear that the communication must be intended to offend or annoy the reader, the subject or even any specific person.” the letter continues.
In this respect the law could even technically be applied to someone posting a status update on Facebook.
“Speech protected by the First Amendment is often intended to offend, annoy or scare but could be prosecuted under this law.”The Media Coalition letter continues.
“A Danish newspaper posted pictures of Muhammad that were intended to be offensive to make a point about religious tolerance. If a Muslim in Arizona considers the images profane and is offended, the paper could be prosecuted. Some Arizona residents may consider Rush Limbaugh’s recent comments about a Georgetown law student lewd. He could be prosecuted if he intended his comments to be offensive. Similarly, much general content available in the media uses racy or profane language and is intended to offend, annoy or even terrify.”
“Bill Maher’s stand up routines and Jon Stewart’s nightly comedy program, Ann Coulter’s books criticizing liberals and Christopher Hitchens’ expressions of his disdain for religion, Stephen King’s novels or the Halloween films all could be subject to this legislation. Even common taunting about sports between rival fans done online is frequently meant to offend or annoy, and is often done using salty and profane language.”
This type of legislation is far from unprecedented. Last year, former president Bill Clinton proposed a law to censor internet speech. “It would be a legitimate thing to do,” Clinton said in an interview that aired on CNBC. Clinton suggested the government should set-up an agency that monitors all media speech for supposed factual errors.
“That is, it would be like, I don’t know, National Public Radio or BBC or something like that, except it would have to be really independent and they would not express opinions, and their mandate would be narrowly confined to identifying relevant factual errors” he said. “And also, they would also have to have citations so that they could be checked in case they made a mistake. Somebody needs to be doing it, and maybe it’s a worthy expenditure of taxpayer money.”
Cass Sunstein, head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, has also proposed banning speech on the internet that the government disagrees with. Sunstein proposed the creation of an internet “Fairness Doctrine” similar to the one that was used for years to limit and eliminate free speech on the radio.
This legislation represents yet another move to police and control freedom of expression via the internet. Once again it grants the state and the government the direct right to determine what is and is not “offensive” on a whim. It then allows for the prosecution of individuals and organisations based on such summations – an extremely dangerous precedent to set.
Semiotics and Jakob von Uexküll’s
concept of umwelt
John Deely
Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St Thomas
3800 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX 77006, U.S.A.
e-mail: deelyj@stthom.edu
pdf here
Abstract. Semiotics, the body of knowledge developed by study of the action
of signs, like every living discipline, depends upon a community of inquirers
united through the recognition and adoption of basic principles which
establish the ground-concepts and guide-concepts for their ongoing research.
These principles, in turn, come to be recognized in the first place through the
work of pioneers in the field, workers commonly unrecognized or not fully
recognized in their own day, but whose work later becomes foundational as
the community of inquirers matures and ‘lays claim to its own’. As semiotics
has matured, the work of Jakob von Uexküll in establishing the concept of
Umwelt has proven to be just such a pioneering accomplishment for the
doctrine of signs, and in this paper I trace out some of the lines of
development according to which Uexküll’s concept came to occupy its central
place in semiotics today.
Nature may be compared to a composer who listens to his own works
played on an instrument of his own construction. This results in a
strangely reciprocal relationship between nature, which has created
man, and man, who not only in his art and science, but also in his
experiential universe, has created nature. [...] The formula of the
reciprocal relationship between man, who must, in his self-world, create
nature, and nature, which has brought forth the human species, requires
us to consider the relationship between sign processes in nature and in
In speaking about one of the central concepts from the work of Jakob
von Uexküll, namely, the concept of Umwelt, I will be addressing the
matter not from the point of view of a scholar who has been steeped in
the original writings themselves of Uexküll, but from, as it were, an
ecumenical point of view, from the point of view of the unmistakable
influence that Uexküll has exercised over approximately the last
quarter-century on the development of theoretical semiotics in the
United States. So I present to you a snapshot from what Sebeok hoped
would develop into “a program for the amalgamation of main trends”
(Sebeok 2001: xvii) in the development of semiotics as we crossed the
threshold of the 21st century.
1. Jakob von Uexküll as cryptosemiotician
The American who should be standing before you to speak on this
matter today is Thomas A. Sebeok. Professor Sebeok would have
rejoiced in this occasion, and would even have attached to it, I dare
say in the tones of German philosophy, a world-historical importance.
My own acquaintance with and interest in the work of Jakob von
Uexküll stems directly from my long association with Sebeok,
beginning indeed about seven years prior to his influential identification
of Uexküll as a “cryptosemiotician” and “neglected figure in the history
of semiotic inquiry” (Sebeok 1979).
Now the concept of a cryptosemiotician is very interesting. It names
that considerable group of intellectuals whose work is intrinsically semiotic,
but who themselves have or had no awareness of
semiotics as a distinct perspective with a paradigm of its own. As a
consequence of the very nature of their work, these thinkers would
benefit enormously were they to become aware of semiotics and the
vantage it affords. Of course, the achievement of an explicitly semiotic
consciousness is possible only for present and future workers of the
mind. The only alternative available to past workers — those who are
dead by the time semiotics became established — is that their work be
taken up anew among the living to be reclaimed and re-established
from within the perspective of the doctrine of signs. This is the task of
semiotic historiography, as Sebeok put it, to “assess the contributions
of a host of ‘neglected’ giants”, among whom Jakob von Uexküll
ranks foremost among the moderns.
By the time I made my own attempt to lay out the “basics of
semiotics”, it was clear to me that Uexküll was “the single most
important background thinker for understanding the biological
conditions of our experience of the world in the terms required by
semiotic” (Deely 1990: 120). His concept of Umwelt is at the center
of this importance. So what I would like to speak to you about this
morning is how I came to this assessment of the importance of
Uexküll for semiotics today, and how my understanding of semiotics
has influenced my understanding of the concept of Umwelt.
2. Sebeok’s introduction of Uexküll
to the Semiotic Society of America
I was together with Sebeok in Tampa, Florida in 1975, as the secretary
of the committee charged with drafting a Constitution for the Semiotic
Society of America (SSA), and with him in 1976 when the SSA held
its first Annual Meeting as officially incorporated under United States
law. At the 7th Annual Meeting held in Buffalo, New York, Sebeok
brought to the occasion as a plenary speaker Jakob’s son, Thure von
Uexküll. Thure addressed the meeting on “Semiotics and the Problem
of the Observer”. It is some measure of the significance of the
occasion, certainly a sign of the import that Sebeok attached to it, that
this presentation by Thure was published not only in the Semiotics
1982 Annual Proceedings volume (T. v. Uexküll 1987a), but was
published also in Semiotica under Tom’s editorship. In addition,
Sebeok organized for the meeting a Plenary Session on the theme of
“the role of the observer”. As one of Sebeok’s younger associates, I
had the privilege at that occasion of meeting Thure von Uexküll in
person. I am quite sure that the occasion did not have for him at the
time the same importance it had for me, and I doubt even that he
would remember the meeting.
In the Spring of the following year, 1983, Sebeok proposed that
he and I, working together with Thure von Uexküll and Martin
Krampen, should write what he called a “Semiotic Manifesto”. This
document aimed to declare and to show to the intellectual world at
large that semiotics provides a new paradigm on the basis of which
(an interdisciplinary framework within which) the long overdue
reintegration of the natural and human sciences could be wrought. To
this end, two additional collaborators were eventually brought on
board; and the final text of our “manifesto” was published in a 1984
issue of Semiotica under the title “A Semiotic Perspective on the
Sciences”. One of the beliefs animating this “manifesto” was that
semiotics achieved a level of intellectual synthesis capable of showing
that the “multifarious, stale oppositions of realism and idealism” in
philosophy were the offspring of a dichotomy misbegotten in the first
Perhaps I should not have been surprised, as I was as the time,
that precisely from this presemiotic philosophical opposition definitive
of modernity in philosophy sprang the one near-acrimonious exchange
among the co-authors of the then in nuce semiotic manifesto.
2a. A technical point concerning sensation
Jakob von Uexküll had received his main philosophical formation, I
take it, from the German writings of the Master of the Moderns,
Immanuel Kant. I, quite the contrary, had received my main formation
in philosophical thought from the Latin writings of Thomas Aquinas
on Aristotle. Between these two masters there is one principal divide.
It concerns a very technical point in the matter of how one is to
interpret the activity of so-called external sense. For Kant, the intuitions
of sense are already perceptual cues to which the organism in
responding gives formation according to its own basic constitution —
in the human case, the joining to sensory intuition of a-priori forms of
understanding. The concepts of the understanding yield to “the
unknowable”, however (according to Kant), in two instances: if I try
to extend my intellectual knowledge beyond the intuition of sense to
the stimulative source of the content of that intuition, I hit the wall of
the Ding-an-sich as unknowable; or, again, if I try to extend my
intellectual knowledge beyond the giving of structure to sense perceptions,
I hit the wall of the Noumenon as likewise unknowable.
The position of Aquinas is more subtle than this, in a way that
leaves abundant space for what is unknown, but no space at all for
what is unknowable (according to the common medieval maxim: ens
et verum convertuntur, omne ens est verum).
The position of Aquinas as ruling out the concept of “unknowable”
as a legitimate category of understanding, equally on the side of
things and on the side of concepts, requires a prescissive distinction
between sensation (as the action of the environment upon the animal
body objectifying certain aspects only of the surroundings) and the
higher-level perceptual response to that stimulus (wherein the “data”
of sensation, never atomic but already a complex and multiple network
of naturally determined sign-relations, wherein differentiations
of light reveal also shapes, positions, and movements, etc., are further
structured into objects of experience). It is here in the active
perception of objects that the animal classifies them, as Sebeok so
often put it, as to be sought (+), to be avoided (–), or to be safely
ignored (0). The human understanding adds to these objects of
perceptual experience so classified perceptually — to the Umwelt as a
whole, let us say — a “relation of identity”, or “relation of the object
to itself ”, which does no more than sever the exclusive link of the
perceived objects to the perceiver, but which by this very fact allows
the objects to be considered instead (in the terms of Aquinas) as
beings (this is a very different matter than “neutral or 0 objects”) —
entities which may or may not have an internal structure or constitution
independent of their relevance to me as an animal among other
animals. In instituting rational investigation of objects experienced,
the human animal soon enough discovers that not all objects reduce to
our experience of them, although some objects do indeed so reduce.
The question of “which is which” within experience becomes the story
of science, literature, and philosophy.
2b. The coextensiveness of communication and being
In this way of considering the matter, there is no “unknowable” in
principle, only many “unknowns” in fact. That there are, in principle,
“unknowns but no unknowables” was also the view of Sebeok and
semiotics (in contrast to semiology, as to all the aspects of intellectual
life influenced by Kant’s distinctive epistemological thesis), as Petrilli
and Ponzio so nicely summarized the matter in their recent biography
of Sebeok (which had the good fortune of appearing before Tom’s
final illness settled on in earnest): “Communication and reality,
communication and being, coincide”, ens et verum convertuntur.
In other words, astonishingly, the postmodern interpretive horizon
at the heart of semiotics — a horizon abandoned by modern philosophy,
but never wholly by modern science (which only added to it
the notion of reality as socially constructed, in addition to the
medieval ens reale notion of reality as given in advance of human
action) — depends upon the truth of a medieval conviction that ens et
verum convertuntur, “communication and being are coextensive”, as
Petrilli and Ponzio put it in Sebeok’s behalf. But from this formula, it
seemed to me (as to Peirce), that semiosis itself, the action of signs,
could be traced also in the inorganic realm prior to and apart from
(indeed as preparatory for) the advent of organisms as well as within
and among living things. That “Umwelt-theory draws the line between
animate and inanimate nature” rather than “between nature and man”
à la the modern philosophers seemed to me no less a mistake, for
inanimate nature is still nature, and nature in a sense presupposed to
and essential as a context for the dimension of organisms, living
things as such. The fact that plants as such do not even have Umwelts
does not help to understand why a distinction that seems quite
unessential to the theory should be regarded as necessary to or entailed
by it. It was my unresolved disagreement with Sebeok, unfortunately,
for by the time I realized its dimensions he was no longer with us, or
at least not sufficiently so to leave his own final response. The
“central preoccupation” of semiotics may be, à la modernity, exactly
as Sebeok said, “an illimitable array of concordant illusions”; but
“its main mission”, as he went on to say, is “to mediate between
reality and illusion.” Let us put the matter this way. For Aquinas, the
species-specifically distinctive awareness of the human animal is the
awareness of being, which includes illusions (under his rubric of entia
rationis, where fall logical relations as well), yes, but also the whole
realm of nature. For Kant, by contrast, as for the moderns he
synthesized, precisely this ens reale is what passes ‘under erasure’.
Once I had come to look on the situation of semiotics today in this
light, I realized also that not only was semiotics in its essence
“postmodern”, because it brought this world of nature back out from
under the erasure in which modern philosophy had placed it, but so
was Sebeok himself, malgré lui, postmodern in his understanding of
things (Deely 2001c). Petrilli and Ponzio, in their recent study of
Sebeok’s work (which, as I said, had something of his endorsement),
capture the postmodern essence of the way of signs as Sebeok
envisioned it exactly: “there is no doubt that the inner human world,
with great effort and serious study, may reach an understanding of
non-human worlds and of its connection with them” (Petrilli, Ponzio
2001: 20). Unknowns, yes, in abundance. Unknowables, no, at least
not in principle.
2c. The status of objects as perceptible
But to get back to the one misunderstanding in the generation of the
manifesto. That all animals in perception organize and classify objects
as +, –, or 0 was well agreed among all the participants. But the 0
objects, the Gegenstände, what status do they have in the Umwelt?
Thure von Uexküll suggests that they have no status at all, that they
“do not exist” for the nonhuman animals, and I would not doubt that
in this he expresses exactly his father’s view as well. I am not so sure.
I think that the animals often — I think of the so-called “higher”
animals, those able to ‘learn from experience’, that is — have an
awareness of the “zero-object”, in that “zero” here does not mean
‘non-existent for awareness’ but rather ‘something that may be in
awareness neither as to be sought nor to be avoided but simply as to
be safely ignored’. And in this +. –, 0, perceptual classification, of
course, the animal can be mistaken! I do not think that the awareness
of neutral objects is what characterizes the semiosis of the human
animal, anthroposemiosis, but rather the awareness of any object and
every object under the guise of being, ‘that which is’, to be sorted out
as mind-dependent or mind-independent (for “being is said in many
ways”, as Aristotle early noticed).
Thus, where Uexküll in his original work speaks of the subject-object
dichotomy, a split very comfortable in modern thought, I, coming from
my Latin background, did not and do not find the dichotomy comfortable
at all. This discomfort went back to my student days reading the Latin
commentaries on Aristotle. It was, if not the first, certainly one of the first,
times that I went to the room of my then-professor, eventual doctoral
dissertation advisor, and after that life-long friend, the Dominican friar
Ralph Austin Powell, that I posed to him the idea that Kant, in his Kritik
der reinen Vernunft, had precisely confused what was true of sense
perception prescissively distinguished from sensation as such (namely,
that it introduced into the organization of objects the needs and desires of
the animal’s subjective constitution as an organism) with what ought to be
said rather of understanding or “reason” (namely, that it was capable of
investigating the objects of perception according to what they are and
require to be as they are both within and apart from the perception of
human animals).
What distinguished human understanding from animal perception
in that case would be precisely that sense perception is completely
biologically determined. Perception arises from sensation as a need to
structure objectivity, and perception returns to sensation with the
objects structured. Understanding, by contrast, begins from the world
of perceived objects, exactly so, but by presenting those very objects
in a biologically underdetermined way, namely, as not only +, –, 0,
but also as having an intrinsic determination involved with but not
wholly reducible to their appearance as +, –, 0.
2d. Objects as intelligible
As involving sensations at their core, the perceived objects necessarily
involve something of the physical environment in its physical being,
proximally depending upon the type of animal body involved, it is
true, but in a selective rather than interpretive fashion. As involving
perception, this core is further structured and presented as objective in
a species-specific way — interpreted, that is, according to the
constitution or ‘nature’ of the particular animal which is perceiving.
But as further involving understanding, the actually perceived objects
are presented rather as actually intelligible, that is to say, as objects
able to be investigated according to the being they have as involving
subjects in their own right, as involving a world of things manifested
within objectivity but extending in some ways (ens reale) and not in
other ways (ens rationis) beyond the objectivity constitutive of
experience as a whole. The Latins put this well: “aliae enim sunt
divisiones entis in esse rei, aliae in genere scibilis”.For this picture, the
“subject-object” split of modern philosophy,
where the subject is one kind of being in its own right, and the object
quite another, will not do. As has so often proved to be the case in
semiotics, a trichotomy is here necessary. For there is in the world of
experienced objects not only what exists as known — namely, the
object as such. There are also elements within the objects which
human experience tells us exist whether or not any organism is aware
of them — things, let us call them, these aspects of objects which may
happen to be known but which can exist also apart from the
awareness. And both of these are distinct from (even when factually
coincident with) the so-called “signs” whereby one thing, one object,
one element within awareness, points or leads to another awareness.
For signs in this sense can belong to either order. Clouds, for example,
as signs of rain exist as signs in the experience of many animals. But
clouds have a connection with rain, not only one that is revealed in
that experience but also one that is knowable in that same experience
as going beyond that experience; whereas flags have a connection to
country nowhere but within the experience of human animals.
You can see, in these terms, that Jakob von Uexküll’s “subject”
belongs to the world of things, but that his “objects” involve a confusion
or mixture, an amalgam, even, of objects and things. You can
see further that the Umwelt is an exclusively objective world, not
because it does not involve things, but because it involves things only
in known aspects.
2e. Language as modeling system and exaptation
The Innenwelt is subjective; it is the modeling system not only
species-specific to each variety of animal, but also intrinsic to each individual of
whatever variety. But the Umwelt is objective, a public realm within
each species yet between all individuals of that species and, to some
measure (if never completely), public even across some species. The
human Umwelt is first of all an animal Umwelt, a species-specific
objective world, but it is based on a biologically under-determined
Innenwelt or modeling system. This modeling system, the species-
specifically human Innenwelt, Sebeok came to call “language” in the
root sense, in contrast to the common (mis)use of the term “language”
to mean what is in reality the exaptation of language to communicate
and to constitute linguistic communication as the species-specifically
human communicative modality. I may mention that this distinction
between language as a modeling system and language as a commu-
nicative exaptation also explains why Baer (1987: 203) said that, “from
Sebeok’s biological vantage point”, the thesis “of the linguistic mediation
of the world does not entail acceptance of the position that the
linguistic model should dominate semiotic analysis”.
This biological underdetermination of the human modeling
system introduces into the Umwelt the “relation to itself” (or of
“objects to themselves”), and by so doing presents the perceived
objects as actually intelligible. That is, the objects of awareness
become, perceived as beings, susceptible of being investigated
according to whatever intrinsic constitution they may have
subjectively speaking (and this whether ultimately a being of the
order of ens reale, ens rationis, or some mixture of the two as a socially
constructed reality, such as the witches of Salem; for, remember,
“being is said in many ways”). By this measure what was a closed
Umwelt becomes “open”, not in the sense that the organs of sensation
or perception are any different, but in the sense that the Umwelt
becomes permeable to the physical environment explorable as an
order of things that involves also physical structures that (unlike
perceived objects) remain in some ways indifferent to the kind of
animal perceiving it (if not for the animals perceiving it).
I suggested to Sebeok, on a number of occasions, and in some
extended correspondence we had on the point, that we semioticians
ought to take a cue here from Edmund Husserl and the late-modern
phenomenologists by calling the human Umwelt in its species-specific
sense rather a Lebenswelt. While he sympathized with the suggestion
and recognized the utility for a name for what distinguished the
Umwelt in the case of the human animal from the Umwelt as common
to all the other kinds of animals, his experience with the Nazis in the
Word War II period (an experience which was extensive) made him
always associate the term “Lebenswelt” with the distasteful Nazi
speech about “Lebensraum”, and by reason of this distasteful
association in his own Innenwelt, as far as I could guess, Sebeok could
never bring himself to accept “Lebenswelt” as a synonym expressive
of the human Umwelt in its species-specific sense.
In any event, for purposes of our “manifesto”, I suggested along
the above lines that Uexküll’s term “Umwelt” ought best to be
translated as “objective world”, in contrast with the notion of the
physical environment common to all life forms. Note that this idea of
the physical environment common across the Umwelts is a species-
specifically human hypothesis that, exactly as Thure von Uexküll
reported, “belongs to a realm which passes all sensoric conception”,
even though, as Aquinas would insist, just such an environment is
partially included, precisely objectively — as cognized or ‘known’ in
the perceived world of objects — as something of which the animal is
in a limited sense aspectually aware. I hope you can see in this
extended context, now, why I proposed (and in my own writings have
stuck to) this rendering of Umwelt as “objective world”: for the
objective world is not opposed to the subjective world tout court, and
in fact partially or aspectually includes something of that very
subjectivity through sensation.
However, this extended context here provided existed at the time
reported only between Sebeok and me, not even between me and the
other collaborators on the manifesto manuscript, Thure von Uexküll in
particular. Hence, when my proposal in written lines reached Thure
via Sebeok, Thure rejected it vehemently and — as I recall the note of
response passed on to me by Sebeok — almost with acrimony. At the
time I was at my then-home in Dubuque, Iowa, and Sebeok was in
New York for some professional affair. It was evening when I
received his note which sided with Thure in rejecting out of hand my
proposed translation for “Umwelt”. I was furious. I picked up the
phone at once and dialed Tom’s hotel, and he happened to be in.
“How can you take sides on this matter without even discussing it
further?”, I demanded to know. Tom, in his manner (it was a lengthy
phone conversation), patiently pointed out to me that we are dealing
here with Jakob von Uexküll’s son, who has a right to be considered
primus inter pares when it comes to how we should express his
father’s work, even in English; and that it was further important that
we not let our collaboration founder on an unnecessary point, which
even I, as a brash young professor then, had to concede. So we
dropped the matter for the purposes of our manifesto, and, under the
collaborative genius of Tom’s guiding hand, the text came eventually
to a successful conclusion. The manifesto stands to this day as a
clarion call for a new paradigm and a new perspective, the paradigm
and perspective proper and indigenous to the doctrine of signs, which
I did not yet then see as quintessentially postmodern. I have since
come so to see the doctrine of signs as just that, in unmistakable
terms — at least so far as philosophy is concerned within intellectual
culture as a whole.
3. “The Dominican tradition”
Over the years, right up to his last book, Sebeok would occasionally
refer to “the Dominican tradition” within semiotics. The reference
always mildly annoyed me, especially as he would never explain it
when asked (I tried) but afterward continued to insist on the reference
in subsequent publications. This tradition, in his last enumeration of
protagonists, is the semiotic tradition stemming “from Aristotle,
then, via Aquinas, Poinsot, and Maritain,” extends through “engaged
contemporaries like Herculano de Carvalho, Beuchot, Deely, and
A Dominican tradition stemming from Aristotle seems a little
odd; but it is true that Aquinas, Poinsot, and Beuchot are Dominicans,
and that I was one for four years. But what about Maritain, Carvalho,
and “the others”? In any event, it is true that Aquinas cannot be well
understood apart from Aristotle; that Aquinas and Poinsot are by far
the largest-looming figures in this pantheon; and that Maritain, who
regarded Poinsot as among his foremost teachers, was the greatest
easily of the 20th century’s self-styled followers of Aquinas (the
“neothomists”). So the name Sebeok chose for this subtradition
within his semiotic ecumenism is not without its jusfifiability, even
if it has puzzling aspects. And there is no doubt that, given the lineage
Sebeok assigns, that this is the evolving standpoint from which I came
to semiotics, to the reading of Uexküll, and to the interpretation of the
expression “Umwelt”.
And, thinking from that point of view, it has always struck me as
one of history’s ironies that Jakob von Uexküll, the great inconscient
pioneer of zoösemiosis, took his original inspiration for the animal
Umwelt, precisely a world of percepts without concepts (if we regard
concepts as the species-specifically human products of Vernunft),
from the Kantian theory of mind.
In a wholly logical world, I thought, the study of the purely
perceptual intelligence of animals might rather have been an
inspiration for the jettisoning of Kantianism when it came to the
philosophy of the human mind. For the human mind is like the mind
of any animal in consisting of a modeling system; but it is unlike the
mind of any other animal — at least on this planet — in being
biologically underdetermined in what it models, that is to say, in possessing
“language” in Sebeok’s sense. Hence the human Innenwelt can
represent things not only on the basis of sensation and as sensed
objects are perceptually given, but as intelligible as well, i.e., able to
be investigated and studied on the hypothesis that they have an
internal constitution or “essential structure” of their own which may
look like nothing we have ever seen or could see with the eyes of our
animal body.
A subjectively determined objective world which is that and
nothing besides, nothing more, makes perfectly good sense within the
framework of a Kantian philosophy of mind. Indeed, we may say that
Kant did more to make that phenomenon, the animal Umwelt so far as
sense-perception is concerned, thinkable than did any thinker before
him. But, within that same framework of his philosophy, there is room
neither for a universe of things in contrast to objects, nor for a Way of
Signs leading “everywhere in nature, including those domains where
humans have never set foot.” Yet along a way of signs in just this
sense is where semiotics leads us, and gives us the means integrally to
explore. The choice is not between holding “that signs are nothing but
rather dry and boring linguistic concepts that have to do only with
syntax and grammar” or recognizing “the exciting fact that signs are in
reality magic formulae whose creative power changes our world and
ourselves” (T von Uexküll 1982: 12). To pose the matter in the terms of
this either/or is already to have accepted the modern idealist/realist
opposition as something unsurpassable; whereas semiotics has its
point of departure in a standpoint superior to both. (Among the
protosemioticians, Poinsot was the first explicitly to point this fact
out;but of course his work in this regard was unknown till quite late in the
20th century, and it is not widely known even as we gather here in
Hamburg today.)
4. The postmodern synthesis in semiotics
We start out from the fact that things can be understood which can
neither be sensed nor perceived without the understanding, such as the
fact that Michael Miller in five days from today will become the
titular Archbishop of Vertara. We start out from the fact that among
the things which can neither be sensed nor perceived without the
understanding are signs, in contrast to sign-vehicles. For I think it is
not too much to say that the single most important upshot of semiotic
developments in the 20th century has been the realization that, strictly
speaking, nothing that can be seen with the eyes or heard with the ears
is in the technical sense a sign, but rather and only a sign-vehicle. This
sign-vehicle owes its being as such first of all not to anything in its
physical, material, or subjective constitution as much as to its place
within a triadic relationship. It is this triadic relation which constitutes
the sign as such and as a signifying whole, and that relation has this in
common with all other relationships, triadic or not, namely: that it can
be neither seen nor touched in its suprasubjective being as relation, but
only understood; so that the animals other than human use signs
without the possibility of knowing that there are signs.
Objectified things can be seen and touched. Objectified things can
be related, and are perceived (granted, sometimes mistakenly) as
related. And, if they are related in a certain way, perceived things —
that is to say, rather, objects — can be seen to function as signs. But
their being related in a certain way is what makes them appear as
signs, not anything about their being as objects, or even as things. We
call objects related in that certain way “signs”. But, if we are
sufficiently sophisticated semiotically, we well know that what in
ordinary language are called signs are in fact but sign-vehicles, and
that what are signs in their very being are only the triadic relationships
under which the sign vehicles occupy temporarily the position of
“standing for” something other than themselves “to” some third, be it
an organism or not, an observer or only some prospective observer
under conditions not yet prevailing.
Now it is true, as Thure von Uexküll (1984: 187) says, that a sign
“is a unit with several elements that are functionally related to each
other and to the whole”, similar in this respect to cause and effect. But
to say that these elements have none of them “any significance by
themselves” is to go one step too far, for it erases the profound
difference between conventional and natural sign. For the three elements
involved in a given sign may themselves be subjective structures able
to be objectified independently of the particular signifying. They will
then become mere objects in their own right, signified, it is true, but
not as sign-vehicle and interpretant in the case supposed. Yet, whether
natural or conventional, a sign consists as such in a triadic relation
whose elements or ‘parts’ are determined by their position and role
within the relation: the one in the foreground of representing another
than itself is determined to be the representamen or sign-vehicle; the
one in the position or role of being the represented other is determined
to be the object signified; and the one in the background of that object
for or to which the other-representation is made is determined to be
the interpretant. And yet further still, each of these three elements can
shift place with the other, becoming then (so far as the signification is
concerned) no longer sign-vehicle but object, or interpretant, etc., in
the famous “semiotic spiral”.
Yet, in the animal case, it is the natural sign (or ‘sign-vehicle’)
that carries the burden of the signifyings, not because entia rationis,
mind-dependent relations of signification, are not involved (they are),
but because the animal’s survival depends on getting right the manner
in which the physical environment is incorporated into its world of
objects, its Umwelt, when it comes to food, sex, and danger.
François Jacob, in a passage Sebeok was fond of citing, liked to
point out that there is what I would call an “animal realism” which
philosophers can ill-afford to ignore:
No matter how an organism investigates its environment, the perception it gets
must necessarily reflect so-called “reality” and, more specifically, those
aspects of reality which are directly related to its own behavior. If the image
that a bird gets of the insects it needs to feed its progeny does not reflect at
least some aspects of reality, there are no more progeny. If the representation
that a monkey builds of the branch it wants to leap to has nothing to do with
reality, then there is no more monkey. And if this did not apply to ourselves,
we would not be here to discuss this point. (Jacob 1982: 56)
Never mind for the moment Kant. Aquinas would say that the perception
necessarily reflects so-called “reality”, i.e., something true about the world
of things as constituting a physical environment upon
which all living things depend (even though different ones upon
different parts and in different ways), because in sensation the action
of the sensible upon the sense guarantees that the material the
perception has to work with is rooted in the reciprocal reality (the
transcendental relation) of organism and physical surroundings. The
ontological and triadic relations which turn all this physical interaction
and subjective actions and reactions into a semiotic web sustaining
objectivity (which is the Umwelt of any given animal) come from
both sides, from the animal mind and from nature, to the sole end of
the animal surviving at the least, flourishing if possible. The animal
cares not a whit if it be the sun that moves round the earth or the earth
round the sun. We humans know now that the former relation is an ens
rationis, the latter an ens reale. Neither can be directly perceived as
relations (only the sun and stars and their apparent movement relative
to the animal perceiving), yet both are functionally equivalent within
the objective world of animals for purposes of environmental orientation.
That is why animals can perceive related objects and signvehicles as
objects, but they cannot come to know that there are signs;
for signs consist strictly and essentially in relations of a certain kind,
while relations of no kind can be perceived as such by sense. Yet what
the Umwelt is above all is a lattice and network of ontological relations
between organism and environment, elevating the latter to the
level of the animal’s awareness, and organizing it according to the
animals need and desires, even hopes.
The environmental niche beloved of North American biologists is
a physically reductionist conception by comparison to the Umwelt.
Uexküll’s work in biology provides the clearest proof yet of the error
of nominalism in philosophy in denying reality to relations except as
fashioned by human thought. For if that were true, neither Umwelts
nor animals could be in the first place.
5. Labyrinthine entwined issues yet to be resolved
My good friend Sebeok died with the issue unresolved between us as
to whether semiosis is coextensive with or exceeds the biosphere.
Nonetheless, we were well in agreement, by that point, that, as far as
the understanding of earthly life goes, and presumably life as well
anywhere in the physical universe, “prospects for a viable comprehensive
synthesis of the doctrine of signs, a new paradigm if you will,
loom on the horizon in 2001 under the banner of biosemiotics (a.k.a.
the Jakob von Uexküll ‘tradition’)” (Sebeok 2001: xviii). The advent
of this paradigm, he continued, “under the more restricted German
label of Umweltlehre, that is, the study of modeling, was far from an
epiphany. Quite the contrary, it took well nigh a century to season.”
That century was the 20th century, modernity’s last. As we enter
postmodernity’s first full century in the clear, this “fleshing out of a
number of labyrinthine entwined issues” may be expected to occupy
more and more of our intellectual culture as semiotics comes into its
own, forming the center of gravity for the postmodern epoch of
Amanda Carter
here are the photos that i found of my good friend amanda carter. http://amandathatiknew.blogspot.com/.
she passed away several days ago and i am sad to see her go. she leaves too early in this life. she was a good friend and a great comfort in times of need. when we were together, she always had my back and when we were apart she was still a good friend.
we had a conversation about God a while ago and it was good to hear her talk like this. here it is: http://i43.tinypic.com/1676rkx.jpg.
I hope that you appreciate all the people in your life and tell them about the hope that Jesus brings. it's funny that when we are "rich" we don't "need" Christ and His comfort, but when there are life situations where you are in your mid twenties and the doctor tells you that you have breast cancer...
and that was her exact situation. and she died right there in that situation.
we had a conversation after that one about her life story and i was encouraging her to write it down and share it with the world. she invited me to be her author. maybe i will pick that up as a book. i don't know if i have all of her story to put it all together but i do know quite a bit.
she loved her sister and loved her mom and loved her little girl.
and in the end that's what really matters. loving your family and sharing with them the faith that you have.
i cried my tears yesterday for my friend.
one day i will cry for you.
Timothy Good: Secret Space Program Conference Amst...
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line396
|
__label__wiki
| 0.689428
| 0.689428
|
paxtonuwvow.ampblogs.com
Not known Facts About Transparent Season 4 dvd boxset sale
October 11, 2018, 10:20 am / paxtonuwvow.ampblogs.com
Many of the Masters of Evil testified in Pym's demo as to how Egghead had framed him, and Pym was found not guilty. On his release Pym made a decision, following an emotional goodbye to each of the Avengers (Specially Janet), to surrender getting a costumed adventurer and returned forever to some lifetime of scientific exploration. Nevertheless, as time passed. Pym resolved he wished to aid the Avengers devoid of returning himself to everyday living as an adventurer.
Pierre Banking institutions led the Mountaineers in tackles, recording 12 tackles overall. Financial institutions also recorded the sole sack with the Mountaineers and recovered a fumble. Corey Lynch finished second with eleven tackles, and blocking a kick. Leonard Love recorded the only interception for the Mountaineers.
The episode "Cloud Fathers" explored Peter's qualifications, and uncovered that he and his father, Carlos Maza, had each taken element inside a Kachina ritual within their youth. The ritual experienced precisely Hopi or possibly Zuni overtones (normal consensus is always that Peter's ancestors are mostly, but not completely, Hopi). Certainly one of Oberon's youngsters, Coyote, that's a revered figured in Native American mythology, took on the appearance of first a kachina dancer after which you can Peter in his youth in order to method him. Very likely this track record could possibly have manufactured Peter much more open up to a romantic relationship with Diane. This difference will help tie Elisa even closer to her father: Peter's qualifications and its influence on his decision of spouse mirrors that have an effect on that Elisa's own track record had on her partnership with Goliath. Reception[edit]
Hawkeye remained an Lively member from the Avengers for years, his archery abilities and inventive trick arrows augmenting the superhuman powers of his associates. His carefree and rebellious personality meant that he occasionally argued with Captain The usa, believing he could make an improved leader.
With out a moral compass the world in fact is doomed to a slipping far from biblical ideas of living. Is there any doubt that there is a need and urgency for telling the Biblical Story?
Just after Mockingbird's apparent Dying, Hawkeye grew to become a solo agent for a timeframe. Throughout which, Barton was commissioned to train a gaggle of rebels generally known as the Shadows as well as Sundance and Striker. He tried to maintain them from killing, but on website a person raid Striker killed a woman and hurt her fiancee, a get more info pal of James Rhodes.
Nonetheless, Elisa does have her flaws as well. She's stubborn, and it has acted selfishly when it came to telling reliable good friends and family customers with regards to the gargoyles, wanting to continue to keep them to herself.
For killing Banner, Clint was placed on trial for murder[74] and was finally acquitted.[75] Plagued by guilt, Clint chose to leave the town powering and travel across the country on the journey of redemption, on the lookout out to ideal the sort of wrongs superheroes don't usually get entangled in.
Early in his job this caused health issues due to pressure, and he was issue to various constraints on his dimensions along with the duration of his transformations (described less than Heritage.)[70] He is capable of growing countless feet tall exceeding the heights of even the tallest buildings in New York. He can improve previous the barriers with the "Microverse" to enter Overspace, some extent previously mentioned and other than all other realities where by it is achievable to confer with summary cosmic entities.[three]
[19] This weak point is just what the Mountaineers hoped to capitalize on: they invested the majority of the 7 days main nearly the game studying game movie, and felt which the Michigan defense experienced an inclination to go away the middle of the sector defenseless.[two] On the flip side, the Mountaineers lacked the depth in the Wolverines, having 22 less scholarship players.[twenty] Appalachian Point out Mountaineers[edit]
Someday an angel arrived to the young Woman named Mary and instructed her that she will be the mom of God’s Son. An angel also came to Joseph who was going to marry Mary and told him that Mary would have a child and that they should identify Him Jesus.
Pym aided re-variety the Avengers with one other restored heroes, stopping the menace of the sorceress Morgan Le Fay. He then agreed to stay on as being a reserve member (in his Big-Gentleman identification), returning to his laboratory function entire-time. In the course of this time, his analysis was monitored by Ultron, who afterwards kidnapped Pym and Many others of its so-termed "family." Pym at last unveiled that he had employed his own Mind patterns like a template for Ultron's intelligence, detailing his debilitating guilt website at Ultron's decimation with the Baltic country of Slorenia.
Almost 4 decades ago the American tradition was introduced to the revolutionary realm of science fiction as hordes of movie goers sat through the new movie Star Wars.
After earning "Dropped in a very Cave" in 1960, Clokey designed "The Wild Goat", "Stranded on an Island" and "The Winner" in early 1961. In these episodes, the clay figures were being now clothed, and a lot more design structures and trees were being additional, generating the episodes glimpse rather additional realistic. In 1961, the series of these 4 episodes began airing free on community television stations nationwide, starting from ABC, NBC and CBS affiliate marketers to unbiased stations.
Top latest Five Almost Human The Complete Series Boxset on dvd Urban news
October 9, 2018, 2:20 pm / paxtonuwvow.ampblogs.com
The series is inside of a somewhat chronological purchase. For unknown good reasons, the episode "The Family of God" was not A part of any set.
· A substantial variety of respondents to 1 poll indicated that the Sermon around the Mount was preached by Billy Graham
Weapons Proficiency: Even though he isn't regarded to implement melee weapons, Barton's amazing reflexes and hand-eye coordination enable him to easily grasp most weapons. He also obtained instruction in swordsmanship for the duration of his youth from the initial Swordsman, who was viewed as one among the best gurus in sword-battling the globe has at any time known.
Sorry, we just need to be sure to're not a robot. For most effective results, be sure to be certain your browser is accepting cookies.
Once the flood went down, Noah, his family, and all creatures and birds arrived out and started all the things another time. When Noah came out of the ark he created a Distinctive thank you supplying to God for safeguarding him and his family.
Barton has even been recognized to strike an apple in the center of it. He practices at least two hours a day to keep his techniques honed.[6][8]
Thom Brennaman instantly hailed the game as amongst the greatest upsets from the record of athletics; Charissa Thompson instructed coach Jerry Moore that it absolutely was "certainly one of the greatest upsets in faculty football historical past.
This come across did not past extensive as Clint's heightened emotional state renewed Wanda's possess psychological instability, producing her to once again erase him from existence.[17]
Following an alien becoming through the Kosmos dimension killed Pym's colleague, the scientist Vernon van Dyne, Pym revealed his mystery identity of Ant-Man to van Dyne's daughter Janet, who wished to avenge his Dying. Pym taught Janet ways to make use of the gasoline inside of which he now contained the "Pym Particles," and which he accustomed to shrink himself in sizing, and thru biochemistry, gave her the opportunity to expand insect-like wings when she utilized the gasoline to shrink herself to insect sizing. Given that the Wasp, Janet van Dyne assisted the Ant-Guy in finding and defeating the murderous Kosmosian.
Most likely we'd like a lovely princess check here produced in a very 3 dimensional holograph DVD that we can deliver to every home. As the holograph appears, the princess quietly whispers, “Please anyone, go tell and train the Biblical Story, it really is our only hope.”
Pym was available with the other Avengers who seemingly sacrificed their lives to absorb the energies with the remaining called Onslaught. In reality, he was shunted to a different dimension. When he and another heroes were restored to Earth, Pym uncovered that he was able to his comprehensive variety of measurement-modifying talents, Even though he couldn't shrink and develop other objects Except he exclusively addressed them in his laboratory.
As portion of the commencing devotional e-book We've incorporated a scripture passage or story for each devotional being a problem for memorization and presentation.
Be sure to bear in mind SummitRacing.com check here needs you have JavaScript enabled and that the browser accepts cookies.
Together with the complete Story of God ebook, if a mum or dad desires to skip any of the stories, as long as readings are completed still left to get more info ideal and down row by row, the chronology from the Tale of God continues to be in sequence.
The Single Best Strategy To Use For Cranford box set 2
Moreover, simply because we know how keen you're for getting the most up-to-date DVDs and new Blu-ray titles immediately release-working day shipping solutions can be found for most addresses. You can find out at checkout When your address is suitable. Alternatively, you can get much more information listed here.
God then began to explain to Noah about His program. He explained to Noah he wished Noah and his sons to make a substantial boat, an ark, and when he was completed to consider his family and two of each creature, animals, and birds into the ark before the rain arrived so they could be saved.
The episode "Cloud Fathers" explored Peter's qualifications, and uncovered that he and his father, Carlos Maza, had both of those taken component within a Kachina ritual inside their youth. The ritual experienced precisely Hopi or quite possibly Zuni overtones (general consensus is the fact Peter's ancestors are mainly, but not exclusively, Hopi). One of Oberon's small children, Coyote, that's a revered figured in Indigenous American mythology, took on the looks of initial a kachina dancer then Peter in his youth in an effort to approach him. Possible this qualifications could possibly have made Peter much more open up to the marriage with Diane. This difference helps tie Elisa even nearer to her father: Peter's track record and its impact on his preference of wife mirrors that influence that Elisa's personal qualifications had on her relationship with Goliath. Reception[edit]
Hawkeye originally posed because the felony Dreadknight to satisfy the team ahead of formally introducing himself and his intentions. He also grew to become romantically associated with Moonstone. As chief, Hawkeye led the Thunderbolts both along with and from time to time from his previous teammates during the Avengers.[47]
Eventually, over the Avalon saga from the series, Elisa involves fulfill and befriend Goliath's daughter, Angela, who's delighted to possess a girl to converse with from the predominantly male clan. Elisa frequently features as Angela's confidante, providing advice about several points and delivering the exact same treatment and have confidence in she provides to the remainder of the clan.
Nonetheless, Appalachian State didn't get a first down on the following push, and Rauch skipped a forty six-yard area goal attempt. Michigan went 3-and-out on their own following generate and needed to punt, but a fumble by Edwards on the following Appalachian Point out travel was recovered by Michigan defender John Thompson, supplying them Charge of the ball with the Appalachian Condition 31-yard line. Michigan drove 31 yards about six plays, scoring a touchdown on a four-yard run by Hart. The Wolverines went to get a two-place conversion, but unsuccessful to transform, generating the score 31–26 in favor of Appalachian click here Condition. Appalachian State obtained the kickoff at their very own 26-property line with 19 seconds remaining within the 3rd quarter, and the quarter ended subsequent a six-lawn completion by Edwards to Batichon.[27] Fourth quarter[edit]
Clint is a man who asks lots of issues and hates authority. He can take his possibilities to become a superhero. He get things done if another person he follows should bend The foundations and fight dirty. Clint looks as much as Captain The usa as his mentor, even though may perhaps argue with him more often than not.[77]
One particular thousand a long time ago, superstition and the sword ruled. It absolutely was a time of darkness, it had been a planet of panic, it absolutely was the age of Gargoyles. Stone by day, warriors by night time, we had been betrayed because of the humans we had sworn to guard, frozen in stone by a magic spell for your thousand decades.
Egghead knowledgeable Pym that the bionic arm was booby-trapped Which he could detonate it, killing Trish unless he obeyed his orders. Due to this fact, Pym was forced that will help steal Adamantium from The federal government and also to fight the Avengers, who defeated him. Even so, Egghead had lied: the arm wasn't booby-trapped. Moreover, Trish Starr had been "programmed" by her uncle's technologies to say that it absolutely was Pym's plot, not Egghead's. Consequently Pym had no evidence that he experienced stolen the adamantium below duress, and so he was imprisoned on charges of treason. To incorporate insult to injuries, van Dyne started dating Tony Stark, Whilst she website broke off the relationship immediately after Mastering that he was Iron Person.
Clint was infuriated at Norman Osborn’s rise to power- especially with the allegedly "former" villain’s personal Avengers group, secretly made up of super villains publicly masquerading in common heroic identities.
The yard wherever Adam and Eve lived was an ideal put. Adam and Eve didn't even have to work. God gave all of them the food items they might ever required.
Sorry, we just really need to ensure that you're not a robotic. For finest final results, you should get more info be certain your browser is accepting cookies.
Normally, the people were shocked by this flip of activities, and each individual resident of the state expected who'll now take the put up of president, mainly because this is lots of critical activities for common citizens. So it transpired that, As well as Tom, there were no a lot more applicants for this put. The protagonist was in the beginning shocked by this information, but quickly he needed to Get better, because the full nation was left and not using a ruler.
Sorry, we just must be sure to're not a robot. For best success, you should make certain your browser is accepting cookies.
Madam Secretary Season 2 No Further a Mystery
October 6, 2018, 12:45 am / paxtonuwvow.ampblogs.com
Mary Ellen is invited into a Boatwright dance by amongst John-Boy's classmates. She purchases a handbag in the local junk seller, and finds an amethyst ring hid within it. Even though she knows who the handbag's proprietor is, she rationalizes that she will borrow the ring to the dance and return it afterwards.
In season 5, she marries Dr. Jack Hodgins although in jail for an outstanding warrant. Over the ceremony, she whispers her serious identify on the justice in the peace, even though it isn't disclosed on the viewers. In season six, we study that she's Expecting along with her 1st little one, a son, Michael Staccato Vincent Hodgins,[1] who was born over the season finale. Adhering to the Loss of life of Sweets and Booth's arrest, Angela commences for getting Ill from the horror of her and her partner's Positions and starts serious about quitting her career for good and transferring her family to Paris. Even though they are doing buy a dwelling there, she eventually decides to stay right after Brennan and Booth depart the crew. In "The Lifetime in the Light" it absolutely was exposed that her precise title, as displayed on her passport, is Pooky (or Pookie) Noodlin. She under no circumstances improved it due to the fact her father implored her never to, since the identify was essential to him. Jack Hodgins[edit]
Corabeth's flapper-like sister Orma Lee (Ronnie Claire Edwards inside a twin job) arrives and makes entertaining and problem inside the Local community, when Elizabeth attempts managing away to visit her parents, who will be at an Arizona sanitarium. She's discovered within the nearby bus station.
Daily life is apparently switching on Walton's Mountain right after Grandpa's Loss of life. John Sr. struggles to manage a occupied lumber contract by itself, having out a bank financial loan. Erin, Mary Ellen and the baby go to a Charlottesville condominium, but then return dwelling. John has the opportunity to take a position which would offer stability, money, and a fantastic everyday living; however it necessitates the household to maneuver to Richmond.
Brennan, both of whom are married. Even though Angela was flattered by his steps, both equally Women of all ages turned down his advances. Inspite of his flirting practices, Hodgins can take him less than his wing and turns into an excellent Mate to him. He carries his father's prayer beads with him, Even with not believing in God, due to the fact he believes that you'll want to working experience a small amount of everything for making great everyday living selections.
It is clear that he was however offended and bitter in excess of his father's abandonment even In the end these several years, which Booth rapidly picks up through their investigation in the murder read more of a trader.[seven] The truth is, while in the season 10 finale, "The following while in the Last", he mentions that he aided convey down his own father. He manufactured his to start with physical appearance inside the season 10 premier as an agent assigned to secretly hold tabs on Booth adhering to his release from jail. Despite the fact that Booth promptly understood he was becoming followed and became offended, Aubrey quickly dependable and appeared as much as him and the remainder of the workforce, despite their mistrust of him.
Idealistic lawyer who opposes the Loss of life penalty. She turned Howard Epps' defense legal professional for the duration of his last weeks on Dying row but when she later finds out he did actually dedicate the murders, and she experienced just aided to remain his execution, she turned immensely upset.
Jacob Broadsky (season 6) is undoubtedly an ex-army sniper turned vigilante who was as soon as a colleague and fellow soldier alongside Seeley Booth. He served in the Gulf War ahead of signing up for a hostage rescue workforce in Texas. In the course of this time, he developed a status as being the "Hand of God". Just after just one incident through which he killed a gunman with no authorization, Broadsky went into hiding and began utilizing other sniper's names — like Booth himself — as aliases.
Just after Mary Ellen saves a minor from an arranged marriage, the Walton get more info loved ones have to contend with an incredibly disgruntled groom.
His fellow squad users did not survive. He nevertheless harbors guilt around getting killed the attacker, Regardless of having acted in self-protection.
Ben returns with the Pacific theatre and enthusiastically plans to go away to Engineering higher education. But he adjustments his thoughts and agrees to stay in the noticed mill once the relatives receives the unwelcome information that Olivia's tuberculosis has recurred; she should drop by an Arizona sanatorium and John decides to go with her.
During the Season six premiere, it is actually unveiled he switched majors from forensic science to cultural anthropology which is interning for the Baghdad Museum. Later, he returns in episode 5, "The Bones That Were not", as Dr. Brennan's assistant and all over again in episode 21, "The Signs inside the Silence", through which he really helps to detect a mysterious deaf-mute girl located coated in blood.
John-Boy returns to Walton's Mountain physically healthy but mentally tormented by the fact that he are unable to don't forget the moments in the airplane crash. Ike ignores his army-draft notice which is arrested for evasion.
Sweets gives her the key on the apartment, allowing for her to Dwell there herself, though, right after spending two months living in his office, he moves in with Brennan and Booth because Booth feels badly for him. Whilst Booth is in jail, he will get again along with Daisy and predict a toddler boy. He desired Booth to generally be the godfather due to the fact he was like household to him. It is usually later revealed that Sweets wished to name his son Seeley, after Agent Booth.
5 Simple Techniques For Boy Meets Girl Season 1 dvd Australia
He attends plenty of family members gatherings. He also will take Christine and Hank, Booth and Brennan's son, most days to school and right after, though their mothers and fathers are at get the job done.
Brennan's mom escaped having a head personal injury which later on killed her. McVicar was later on killed though in prison and it had been suspected the killing was requested by Dr Brennan's father Max Keenan.
In direction of the end of season 8, Hodgins and certainly one of Brennan's interns, Finn Abernathy, find the misplaced recipe for Finn's grandmother's warm sauce, and jointly they effectively market place the solution. Hodgins So recovers a few of his fortune.
Oliver Laurier (season 1–two) initial appeared in the series is in the pilot episode as a suspect while in the murder of Cleo Louise Eller, with whom he was obsessed. Toward the top of your episode, Oliver results in being obsessed with Dr. Brennan, who he stalks from scene to scene. His upcoming appearance was in the 2nd season's episode, "The Bodies from the Book", exactly where he is once again suspected of murder.
Brennan, both of those of whom are married. Even though Angela was flattered by his actions, both of those Ladies turned down his advances. Despite his flirting habits, Hodgins usually takes him underneath his wing and turns into a good Close friend to him. He carries his father's prayer beads with him, Inspite of not believing in God, since he believes that you need to expertise a small amount of anything to create excellent lifetime decisions.
It is obvious that he was however indignant and bitter above his father's abandonment even All things considered these several years, which Booth swiftly picks up during their investigation to the murder of a trader.[7] In actual fact, while in the season 10 finale, "The subsequent from the Last", he mentions that he aided provide down his personal father. He designed his 1st appearance during the season 10 Leading being an agent assigned to secretly keep tabs on Booth pursuing his release from prison. Even though Booth rapidly recognized he was staying followed and have become angry, Aubrey quickly trusted and seemed up to him and the remainder of the workforce, despite their mistrust of him.
On the other hand, in the season nine, whilst he is good, he is also proven to absence tact, and he is thought to have a bit of a superiority elaborate, much to everyone's dismay, incorporates a alternatively abrasive temperament, and is usually among the couple of interns who on a regular basis (and often obliviously) gets about the nerves of Dr. Brennan as well as their boss Dr. Camille Saroyan. While in the episode "The Mystery from the Meat", he and Daisy are shown to dislike one another but ultimately get in touch with a truce by the tip of your episode.
Partly one of a two-component story, Olivia is stunned when she discovers the reason Darcy Thatcher (Antoinette Stella), wife of the youthful soldier, is not responding to his letters.
John's cousin and her family request refuge in Walton's Mountain immediately after dropping their click here Kansas farm towards the Dust Bowl, but her husband has made a bad Mind-set towards misfortune and taught their son that the earth owes them anything.
Finn will get along Particularly nicely with Hodgins, Together with the latter commonly treating him just like a surrogate brother. They often joke with each other within the lab and Hodgins calls him "Opie", a reference to Opie Taylor through the Andy Griffith Display, whilst Finn calls him "Thurston", a reference to Thurston Howell, III from Gilligan's Island. In numerous episodes, Finn's preferred foods continues to be recognized as Catfish, which his late grandmother would provide him together with her possess hotsauce recipe, (stated from the season eight episode, "The Maiden in the Mushrooms", in which Hodgins, having helped himself towards the last of Finn's last bottle of his late grandmother's hotsauce, works by using the lab's Mass spectrometer to determine all of the elements).
During the fifth-season episode "The Boy with The solution", Taffet is tried out and convicted with the kidnapping and murder of a ten-year-previous boy. After the kidnapping machines recovered from Taffet's storage locker in "The Hero during the Keep" is disallowed as illegally obtained, Booth, Bones, and Hodgins drop their unique kidnapping charges so which the Jeffersonian researchers can concentrate on investigating the freshly found entire body of The ten-calendar year-aged sufferer.
John's unmarried cousin Corabeth Walton arrives for an extended visit following the Loss of life of her mother. The spouse and children introduces her to Ike Godsey, who takes a liking to her and decides he is Uninterested in the bachelor everyday living. He normally takes her, John and Olivia to a first-course cafe, and surprises John by proposing to Corabeth, and she or he accepts, Inspite of her individual reservations.
He confesses to remaining a "Brennanite" – a faithful enthusiast of Dr. Brennan's crime novels – but was proved to not be the killer on account of his fainting for the sight of blood. He tells Booth on various situations he contains a combat-or-flight reaction that almost inevitably turns to "flight" usually immediately after locking the door to his residence. He is not acknowledged to own ever finished anything violent. Paul Lidner[edit]
While in the episode "The Prisoner from the Pipe", a handful of months just before she is owing, Brennan goes into labor for the duration of a prison riot. The nearest medical center is really a 50 % hour away, here time that Brennan does not have, which forces Booth to drive to an inn. At first, the proprietor refuses to permit them inside, but immediately after some pleas from a Determined Booth, then threats from the pained Brennan, the operator makes it possible for them to work with a secure so that Brennan can supply her safely. Christine is born amid tearful laughter from her mom, and Booth and Brennan admire the infant. Brennan afterwards permits her closest friend, Angela, to generally be the primary to carry Christine.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line398
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.