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__label__wiki	0.891881	0.891881	OPEDS ISIS’ Promises Are All Lies, Say Indonesians Managed To Flee Syria Leefa ,an Indonesian woman sits in a room following her arrival at the Ain Issa camp, 50 kilometres north of Raqa, after fleeing the Islamic State (IS) group's Syrian bastion on June 13, 2017.(AFP Photo/Ayham al-Mohammad) Meet Leefa and Nur, two Indonesians who went to Syria’s Raqqa to get a better live under ISIS, but encountered the exact opposite. by Ayhem Al-Mohammad When Leefa set out from Indonesia for the Islamic State group's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa, she says she thought she was headed to an earthly paradise for the faithful. She and her family imagined being surrounded by true believers and expected free healthcare and jobs paying salaries they could only dream of in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country. But now, as IS battles to defend its onetime bastion, Leefa and 15 other Indonesians are among thousands who have fled Raqqa in northern Syria. They are sheltering at a camp for the displaced in Ain Issa, 50 kilometres (around 30 miles) north of Raqqa, waiting to learn their fates as the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) advance inside the jihadist bastion. In broken English, scattered with Arabic words picked up during their 22 months in Syria, Leefa and her compatriots admit they chose to travel to IS territory. They tell piecemeal stories, with details missing and lost in translation. "When we in Indonesia... we read, we watch in the internet, Dawlah Islamiya is a place to live, to become a real Muslim," said Leefa, 38, using the Arabic for Islamic State. "I have health problems, I need an operation in my neck and it's very, very expensive in Indonesia," she added, her eyes downcast behind her black-rimmed glasses. "But in Daesh, there's all free, all free," she said, using the Arabic acronym for IS. "We come to Daesh for become a real Muslim and for my health," she added, her face framed by a green headscarf. As she speaks, a young girl with the group wearing a purple headscarf uses a flattened plastic bottle as a makeshift fan to battle the heat. Ain Issa is overflowing with people displaced by the campaign to oust IS from Raqqa province. Leefa (C) arrives at the Ain Issa camp, 50 kilometres north of Raqqa, with other Indonesians after fleeing the Islamic State (IS) group's Syrian bastion on June 13, 2017. © 2017 AFP Photo/Ayham al-Mohammad 'Everything is lies' Leefa explains haltingly that she was in contact with IS members in Syria over the internet, who told her that those who made it to Raqqa would be reimbursed for their tickets and would enjoy good lives. But upon arrival, they found the situation harshly different from their expectations. Leefa discovered the operation she needed was not free after all, and went untreated. "Everything is lies," said 19-year-old Nur, another of the Indonesians at Ain Issa, her beige headscarf pinned neatly below her chin. "When we enter Daesh, enter their country, turns out all of them very different from what they said on the internet." Nur said she and her family expected the male relatives among the group to have jobs. But when they arrived they were told that all men were obliged to join the ranks of IS fighters. "Our men enter to the jail, my father, my brother," she said, speaking a mixture of Arabic and English, without explaining when her relatives were imprisoned and why. And she found she was constantly pursued by IS fighters seeking to marry her, she said. "There are many divorced (IS fighters), just married for two weeks or two months," she said. "Many men come to my house and tell to my father, I want your daughter," she said with disgust. Her brother was even stopped by a stranger in the market in Raqqa, who asked him "do you have some girl or some sister, I want a wife." "Everywhere they talk about women," she said bitterly. 'They were tricked' The stories told by members of the group, among them eight women, three children and five men, are impossible to confirm. But they match accounts by some other foreign escapees from IS territory who describe being seduced by online depictions that differed vastly from the reality they discovered upon arrival in the jihadist group's self-declared "caliphate." The SDF fighters now advancing inside Raqqa against IS are interrogating the members of the Indonesian group but expect to free them, said Ain Issa camp official Fayruz Khalil. "From what I understood from them... they were tricked," she told AFP. "They discovered that the picture the Islamic State group has painted for them was false... For the last 10 months they were trying to leave, but they only managed in the last few days to flee." The SDF plans to send the group of Indonesians over the border to the Iraqi city of Arbil and hand them to the Indonesian embassy. According to Indonesian authorities around 500-600 Indonesians are believed to be in Syria at the moment. Around 500 more have sought to reach Syria but were deported before reaching IS territory. So far, authorities have registered over 60 people returning from Syria, who mostly face light vetting before being released without further monitoring, experts say. Indonesia has long struggled with Islamic militancy. IS has provided a potent new force for the country's radicals to rally around, and there has been a string of plots by local militants linked to the jihadists. RELATED NEWS... Navy Officers Seize Pangolins, Scales Worth $190,000 The US Adds Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia To Global Terrorist List No Job, No Permanent Home For Refugees And Asylum Seekers In Indonesia Amaq: Fake News Agency, Real Propaganda There Are 1,200 ISIS Operatives In Philippines: Defense Minister News international Terrorism Refugees Up Next: Foo Fighter Mentions Indonesia In A Cryptic Facebook Post Brilio questionnaire Hi, dearest Brilio English readers! Spare some time to fill in our survey so we can upgrade our content quality for you! Copyright © 2019 brilio.net KLY KapanLagi Youniverse All Right Reserved	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1154
__label__wiki	0.715274	0.715274	/ Vinyl https://en.prophecy.de/vinyl/disillusion-the-liberation-vinyl-2-lp-gatefold-black.html Disillusion - The Liberation Vinyl 2-LP Gatefold \| Black 2019-09-06 Item #: PRO 284 LP Prophecy Disillusion - The Liberation Vinyl 2-LP Gatefold \| Blue Disillusion - The Liberation Book 2-CD Disillusion - The Liberation CD Digipak Disillusion - The Liberation Vinyl 2-LP Gatefold \| Clear While Disillusion's "Back To Times Of Splendor" was an instant classic of progressive melodic death upon its release in 2004, the group from Leipzig, Germany pushed the envelope even farther two years later with the rigorously innovative "Gloria". Yet it’s fair to say that the most glorious years for "one of the best kept secrets to come from the metal underground" (Blabbermouth) are yet to come. In 2016, their first new recording in a decade, the single "Alea", came out to test the waters in the wake of successful concerts with a refurbished line-up. Disillusion suddenly found themselves graced with an incredibly loyal fan base that made the band give in to the urge of approaching their first full-length in ten years. In the course of a crowdfunding campaign, initiated with the hope of supporting the creation of that album, the dream of every niche artist became true; Its overwhelming success enabled main-man Andy Schmidt to invest almost two years, full-time, into writing and recording a new Disillusion record without having to take on a day job for sustenance. The fact that fan-financing is the foundation for this work cannot be valued highly enough. "The Liberation" is the result of the Herculean creative task to which Andy Schmidt applied himself; spending countless hours of songwriting and recording. It comes 13 years after "Gloria" but stands with its genuinely enthusiastic, passionate and driven prog metal as the logical stylistic and lyrical successor to "Back To Times Of Splendor" – but with 15 years of additional life experience on the part of its creator. As an expression of clearance in the literal sense of its title, it is testament to human development. An interplay of fierce metal with moments of both pure euphoria and introspection, the songs take you on the proverbial roller coaster of emotions that you’ve missed – perhaps since Opeth's "Watershed." Disillusion in 2019 resembles the storm you feel brewing over an epic such as 'Wintertide', the straight-in-your-face stunner 'The Great Unknown', or the unexpectedly catchy and hookline-laden 'Time To Let Go', which - quite naturally - turned out to be exactly what fans have been craving for so long. "The Liberation" was mastered by Jens Bogren (In Flames, etc.) and is available as Digipak CD, gatefold 2LP, as well as 60-page 2CD book edition (hardcover, 18x18cm) with expanded artwork and audio commentary from Andy Schmidt. - Gatefold 2LP (180g vinyl, black) incl. printed inner sleeves, etching on side D and protection sleeve (500 copies available) 1. In Waking Hours 2. Wintertide 3. The Great Unknown 4. A Shimmer In The Darkest Sea 5. The Liberation 6. Time To Let Go 7. The Mountain Silence In The Snow - Break In The Skin Vinyl LP \| Black Silence In The Snow - Levitation Chamber Vinyl Gatefold LP \| Red Disillusion - The Liberation T-Shirt \| XL \| Black Disillusion - The Liberation T-Shirt \| XXL \| Black Disillusion - The Liberation T-Shirt \| M \| Black	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1156
__label__cc	0.742414	0.257586	List of companies of Uzbekistan Location of Uzbekistan Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia. Uzbekistan's economy relies mainly on commodity production, including cotton, gold, uranium, and natural gas. Despite the declared objective of transition to a market economy, its government continues to maintain economic controls which imports in favour of domestic "import substitution". For further information on the types of business entities in this country and their abbreviations, see "Business entities in Uzbekistan". Notable firms[edit] This list includes notable companies with primary headquarters located in the country. The industry and sector follow the Industry Classification Benchmark taxonomy. Organizations which have ceased operations are included and noted as defunct. Notable companies Active State-owned Defunct Avialeasing Industrials Delivery services Tashkent 1992 Cargo airline Central Bank of Uzbekistan Financials Banks Tashkent[1] 1991 National bank GM Uzbekistan Consumer goods Automobiles Asaka 2008 Automobiles, joint with General Motors (US) MAN Auto-Uzbekistan Consumer goods Automobiles Tashkent 2009 Automobiles, joint with MAN Truck & Bus (Germany) Navoi Mining and Metallurgy Combinat (NMMC) Basic materials General mining Navoiy 1958 Uranium, gold and silver SamKochAvto Industrials Commercial vehicles & trucks Samarkand 1999 Buses, joint with Koç Holding (Turkey) Tashkent Aviation Production Association Industrials Aerospace Tashkent 1932 Aircraft production Uzbekistan Airways Consumer services Airlines Tashkent 1992 Airline Uzbekneftegaz Oil & gas Exploration & production Tashkent 1992 State oil and gas Uz-DaewooAuto Consumer goods Automobiles Asaka 1992 Joint with Daewoo Motors, defunct 2008 Commercial buildings in Tashkent. GM Uzbekistan factory in Asaka. Entrance of Tashkent Aviation Production Association. Economy of Uzbekistan Uzbekistan portal Asia portal Lists portal ^ Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan: Private Company Information - Businessweek List of companies of Asia East Timor (Timor-Leste) States with limited recognition Dependencies and other territories Retrieved from "http://en.wikipediam.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_companies_of_Uzbekistan&oldid=813526077" Lists of companies by country Lists of companies of Uzbekistan Companies of Uzbekistan	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1157
__label__wiki	0.885815	0.885815	Animated shorts, Toy Story, Pixar, Animated television series Pixar shorts TV series based on films Toy Story Treats Jim Hanks Pat Fraley Jeff Pidgeon Toy Story Treats (also known in some regions as Toy Story Shorts) are a series of short interstitials made by Pixar Animation Studios that were used for commercial breaks on ABC's Saturday morning lineup in 1996 shortly around the time of the VHS and Laserdisc release of the original Toy Story. The shorts largely focus on Woody, Buzz, Rex, Hamm and the Aliens, as well as some of the minor toys seen in Andy's room (however, some of the other main characters from the film, such as Slinky, Mr. Potato Head and Bo Peep, did not appear in any of the shorts). This was also perhaps one of the first times outside of the video games and merchandise that Jim Hanks and Pat Fraley had to replace Tom Hanks and Tim Allen as the voices of Woody and Buzz, respectively. Jim Hanks - Woody Pat Fraley - Buzz Lightyear John Ratzenberger - Hamm Wallace Shawn - Rex Jeff Pidgeon - Aliens These shorts were eventually released onto the Toy Story & Toy Story 2: Ultimate Toy Box DVD set and again as Easter Eggs on the Toy Story: 10th Anniversary Edition DVD, and as non Easter Eggs on the Toy Story 2010 Blu-ray. Some of the shorts can now be found on Disney's official Toy Story site. This series marks the first time a Pixar property had been spun-off for television. Due to time constraints and the large number of shorts in production, as well as the smaller production budgets, the characters in Toy Story Treats are quite roughly animated and do not have Pixar's standard fluid animation as seen in their feature films. Waiting for Andy Woody, Hamm, Rex, and Buzz are looking out the window for Andy to return home from school. Woody tries to tell everyone that just because Andy's gone to school "doesn't mean we have to put our lives on hold". At about 3:10, Hamm says that he thinks he sees the bus, but Woody suddenly becomes concerned asking what day it is. Everyone sees that it's Tuesday on the calendar, which says that Andy has soccer practice at 3:15. Buzz says, "Blast! Soccer practice!" and Hamm replies, "I think we need a hobby." Rex in Danger? Rex is telling Hamm, Lenny and RC that he believes a new toy appears in the room every time Andy sees a commercial for it on the TV. Hamm then turns to the TV and says "Oh, look, a commercial for a new dinosaur toy. And it glows in the dark!" Shadow Play Woody turns on a lamp. Seeing his shadow on the wall, Woody does simple shadow puppets. Buzz comes in and he does a shadow puppet of his own, but of an impossible-to-be-done American Bald Eagle. He then challenges Woody who does the dog shadow puppet, only to be bested again by Buzz doing one of the American Flag. Woody then does a bunny, but Buzz ends it with a rocketship blasting off, which angers Woody to the point of turning the lamp off and walking away. In another short, Woody walks past the lamp and sees Buzz's shadow instead of his own. Woody looks around to see if Buzz made the shadow, but he isn't there. Woody then starts to do movements and the Buzz shadow mimics him. Woody begins flexing his muscles at the door, with the Buzz shadow making it look as if he is strong. A group of Aliens walks in to watch. Buzz's shadow shoots out his wings and jumps away, which makes Woody turn around and his normal shadow to return while Woody chuckles in embarrassment. Story Time Woody walks past Hamm, Rex and the Aliens who are reading a book and crying. He sees that they have it upside-down and turns it the right way up. Afterwards the toys are laughing. Hat Dance Babyface does a Mexican hat dance around Woody's hat on the floor. Woody walks over and picks it back up but finds it shredded from Babyface's sharp legs. Buzz Becomes Obsolete Woody, Buzz, Rex, and Hamm are playing cards when a commercial for new and improved Buzz Lightyear toys comes on the TV. The different versions that were mentioned were Cyber-Sonic Buzz with 15,000 word combinations, Battle Scar Buzz with ultra damage, and Sky Runner Buzz which really flies. Buzz becomes crushed and envious as he watches the commercial, but Woody tells him "There's something to be said for the original," to which Hamm adds "And that something is yard sale!" Road Block Woody and Buzz are watching RC drive by when Woody places a block down in front of RC, causing him to stop. Woody says "Road Block!" and you suddenly hear the sound of a rimshot and an audience clapping. Woody and Buzz laugh and give a thumbs up towards the screen as it irises-out. A clip of this short was used at the end of the Glenn McQueen tribute found on the DVD for Finding Nemo, which suggests that he may have animated the short. Woody's Nightmares Woody has a nightmare that Buzz is flying around him like a fly and goes up his nose, making him sneeze, when it is really just Buzz tickling Woody's nose with a feather while he is sleeping. In another short, Sid has swapped Woody and Buzz's heads, but then wakes up and screams, then breathes a sigh of relief. Space Rangers In the first short, Buzz is telling Rex, Snake, Robot, the Hockey Puck and the Aliens that it's not just the looks that make a Space Ranger, but the attitude. One of aliens does a somersault and says "Eat Laser, Zurg!" in a cool sounding voice, and Buzz looks at him, approvingly saying, "Now that's the right stuff." Another one has Woody and Buzz going to see Rex, who has a goldfish bowl on his head for a helmet telling Woody that he's a Space Ranger. But Buzz tells him that Rex is only a "Space Cadet" because he keeps forgetting the secret handshake. The final one has Buzz telling Rex that it takes more than a goldfish bowl to become a Space Ranger. He then sticks suction cup arrows to Rex's helmet, saying that now he's a real Space Ranger, and shakes his hand congratulating him. (Rex's goldfish bowl helmet with the suction cups would later be seen in Toy Story 2.) This Won't Work Woody watches as Buzz waves to the Aliens who are crammed inside his old spaceship box, attempting to send them back to their home planet. When Woody asks Buzz if anyone told them that it would not work, Buzz says that he did not have the heart to. There are two different versions of this short. One ends with Buzz saying, "They'll never make hyperspeed with that much weight!" and in the other one he says, "There's not nearly enough fuel to get them to their home world." Staring Contest Woody goes up to Lenny challenging him to a staring contest. Woody, at the start, struggles not to blink, while Lenny does not have any trouble. It comes to the point, where Woody is shaking and then he finally blinks. Woody then falls down and comes back up saying to Lenny, "Oh, you're good!" King Me Woody plays a game of checkers with the Aliens, but the aliens manage to win by somehow levitating the checker pieces and finish by saying "King Me". Over Here! Rex is looking through Lenny and calling to Woody, "Hey, Woody, over here! Hey, Woody!" Woody comes over and switches Lenny around to face him, prompting Rex to say, "Oh," and shrug. Checkers Woody is playing Checkers with Hand-in-the-Box, who is waiting impatiently for him to make his move. Rex pops up behind Woody and starts giving his opinion on the game while Buzz walks in just after Woody makes his move and tells him "Bad Move." Hand-in-the-Box makes his move and clears the entire board much to Woody's disappointment. The Aliens give him the trophy and hoist him up and down while he holds it in triumph. Rex at Play In the first short, Rex encounters Hand-in-the-Box, who proceeds to tickle him wildly. In the second short, Rex turns Hand-in-the-Box's handle multiple times until the hand finally pops out and scratches Rex's back. In the final one, Hand-in-the-Box and Rex are seen on the desk beside each other. Hand-in-the-Box pokes Rex on the back and moves the hand away when Rex turns his head around. Hand-in-the-Box pokes Rex on the back again, and Rex turns his body around to see who's there. Hand-in-the-Box orbits him out of sight, until Rex's tail knocks Hand-in-the-Box off the desk. Optical Illusion Robot goes by a couple stacks of blocks when he sees another version of himself on the other side as if it were a mirror. When Robot backs up and goes past it again, he then sees Rex, who runs away screaming. Guess Who Robot shows Rex three Troikas. He puts the ladybug in one of them. He mixes them up and Rex has to guess which one he put it in. He first guesses the cat (the one does not have the ladybug in it), then he guesses the bulldog (the one that does not have the ladybug either). He then picks the duck which shakes for a little bit. All of a sudden, Babyface pops out of the duck while in one of his claws holds the ladybug causing Rex to fall down. New Planet The first short has the Aliens are putting their change in Hamm's slot who tells them that they now own their own planet which is actually a ball of the planet Earth. The second short has the Aliens showing the ball to Woody who tells them that they do not have the real Earth. But the Aliens turn the ball round to reveal a large label that says "The Earth". Give it a Spin Hamm tries to sell RC to one of the Aliens saying that he has "extremely low-mileage". After Hamm quickly drives him around the room with the remote, the alien says "I'll take it!". Night Time Mr. Shark tells a "scary" story to the other toys late at night. It starts by saying, "And when they found him, his batteries were dead." To which, Rex screams in terror. Hamm says, "What are you afraid of? You don't even use batteries!" Rex looks relieved and says, "Oh...Right!". Rex then tries to tell his own story saying that "When the leverage buyout fell through, the toy company was left with a big dark warehouse full of inventory!", and Mr. Shark replies by saying "If I had bones, they'd be chillin'!" Next, Mr. Shark tells another story about a toy that made it all the way from the clearance isle to the cashier and the last words it heard being "How did that get in the cart?", which he then says is a "True story". The short ends later at night with Rex trying to wake up Hamm, telling him that he cannot sleep. Hamm tells him to "Try counting sheep!" Rex is then shown standing next to the sheep on Bo Peep's lamp and counts them, saying "I don't see how this will help..." Waiting in Line Rex waits in line among the Aliens for his turn in riding on Hand-in-the-Box. There are multiple versions of this short. TV Time Woody, Buzz, Hamm and Rex are all watching TV. Woody is happy to find a western, much to the chagrin of the other toys who all groan, causing Woody to say "Fine, then you pick a show!" Buzz changes it to a movie called The Star Eaters which Woody scoffs at for being science-fiction (much to Buzz's surprise). Rex changes it to a dinosaur documentary hoping for it to have a happy ending, only to see it end with the meteor as Hamm anticipated. Hamm then changes it to the Wall Street Report. Woody questions him about it with a puzzled look on his face and Hamm replies, "Oh sure, on the outside I may be a pig, but on the inside... I'm all bank!" Why Doesn't Andy Just Get Cable? Woody tells Buzz, Rex, Robot, Snake, Babyface and Rocky Gibraltar to move their legs and act as a television antenna. Rex asks "Why doesn't Andy just get cable?" That Urkel Slays Me! Woody tries to ask the Aliens if he can change the channel, but they push him away from the remote telling him not to anger the TV and that it is speaking to them. One of the aliens finishes by saying "That Urkel Slays Me!" as they continue watching. Channel Surfing Rex is standing on the TV remote and tells Hamm he's "channel surfing". The clip of the dancing pigs seen on the TV at the end is from an old Famous Studios cartoon from 1949 called Farm Foolery. A clip from the 1927 silent film Metropolis can also be seen. Force Field Buzz is seen trying to jump into the space background playing on the television, but bumps against the glass. Buzz thinks it is a force field of some kind, but Woody starts yelling at him saying that it is just a television set and the screen is made of glass. Buzz then points his laser at him saying "They've gotten to you, haven't they?" and Woody stomps away in frustration. This same gag was used in the Animated StoryBook PC game, where Buzz sees two characters fighting inside an arcade game at Pizza Planet and attempts to break them up, but can not get past the "force field". Paleontological Debate Rex is worried over a debate on whether dinosaurs were hot-blooded or cold-blooded, while some of the toys that are listening to him (including Woody) eventually get bored and leave. At the end, one of the Aliens is the only one who is still interested in it. The Age of the Dinosaur Rex shows the Aliens how the dinosaurs evolved until Hamm shows how they became extinct by a meteor crash. Fast Food The toys find a strange bucket in Andy's room after lunch and try to figure out what it is. Woody opens it, reading it to be a "Happy Snacky" meal, and a mini-Buzz Lightyear toy walks out, along with mini-versions of Woody, Rex and Hamm. The minis explain that they're being given away through fast food chains, which big-Rex starts panicking about, worried that kids won't buy toys when they can get them for free. Later, Buzz asks the smaller Buzz what features he has, finding out that he can only make a punching move with his arm by turning his head. Woody assumes that they are safe since they do not do much, and Woody sniffs the air, then asks, "Is it me or do you smell cheeseburgers?" and everyone looks at the mini-Hamm toy in bewilderment. The idea of the toys finding mini-versions of themselves is reused in the Toy Story Toons short, Small Fry. New Aliens on the Block Woody takes one of the Aliens over to Andy's toy box, telling him that they've completed his "New Toy Orientation". Woody then tries to tell him not to worry about fitting in when a bunch of other aliens come over, and they start wiggling their antennas together as a group. Oooh, Ball! The Aliens are seen exploring Andy's room when they stop to admire a ball in excitement. They see Woody standing next to the ball posing for their attention, and then go back to admiring the ball again. Good Start Woody teaches the Aliens how to make drawings on the chalkboard, starting with a crudely drawn alien, telling them that it takes a little practice. The aliens then quickly draw a full color portrait of Woody over his alien drawing and Woody says "That's good... that's a good start." Circus Gag A small wind-up car drives up behind Woody, who turns around and watches as dozens of Aliens pop out of the car. Woody then looks at the viewers and says, "I know. It's not funny when clowns do it either!" Woody Impostor Woody wakes up on Andy's bed and finds that his hat and badge are missing. When he gets off the bed he finds that a group of Aliens have been watching one of the other aliens imitate him with his missing hat and badge. Annoyed, Woody swipes his hat off of the alien and puts it back on his head. Go Fish Woody, Buzz, Rex, and Hamm are playing a game of Go Fish with Legs. Woody tells Legs to "Go Fish!" and Legs starts fishing for one of the cards with her hook. Woody then whispers to us, "She lives for this!" Robotic Affairs Andy has just left the room and Woody gets up and congratulates everyone for a great play day. He goes over to Buzz who is dressed in a frilly apron with a hat on his helmet and asks him how his day went. Buzz says he'd rather not talk about it, and an electronic doll is heard saying, "I love you." Green Army Man Chants These were commercial bumpers that aired before the commercial break. In the first chant: "We'll be back after this break. Don't touch that dial for goodness' sake!", Combat Carl and eight Green Army Men march along saying their chant before the commercial break comes on. In the second chant: "Don't get mad, don't hold the grudge. We'll be back, so don't you budge!", Combat Carl is not in it, the setting is different from the first, they say a different chant, and Dolly appears. Eight Green Army Men march along saying their new chant before the commercial break comes on. While saying the chant, Dolly waves at them, causing the first one to stop, and making all the others fall down like dominoes. Dolly looks at them with a bewildered look. Other chants include: "Here we go, back to the show! That's the fact so now you know!" "We'll be back with much more fun! Now don't you change that channel, son!" "Hidey-hidey-hidey-ho! Break is over! Here's the show!" "We'll march in a small platoon! Let's march back to the cartoon!" "Break time's here we have to say. Listen up, don't go away!" "Now we are back for some more. Bigtime action is in store!" "Don't touch your set! Don't turn that dial! We'll be back in just a while!" "You stay with this way cool station! Now back to our animation!" "We are green from head to toe! Now we go back to the show!" "I don't know, but I have heard, we'll be back after this word!" "Don't you panic! Don't you flake! We'll be back after this break!" "Commercial's over don't you know? Now it's time to watch the show!" "Now we're gonna have a break! Message time we're gonna take!" "Now we go back to the fun! Message time is over and done!" Note: Not all the titles listed are official, as it is possible that they were never named when aired, but most of them have been taken from Disney's official Toy Story site and the hidden menu on the Toy Story: 10th Anniversary Edition DVD. Inconsistencies with the films Most of these have been considered to be non-canon with the films due to the many inconsistencies that they have with the story. However, their purpose was clearly for simple gags and are meant to be taken lightly. Some of these inconsistencies include: Woody and Buzz are still rivals, along with Woody still being jealous of Buzz. Buzz still acts like he is a real Space Ranger, despite the realization that he is a toy (he probably just missed his older self, or to avoid spoilers that Buzz realizes that he is a toy, which was not revealed until towards the end of Toy Story). The toys are still in Andy's old room, even though they have moved. The Mutant Toys make numerous appearances in Andy's room even though they belong to Sid. The Squeeze Toy Aliens are also in Andy's room for some unexplained reason (though it is possible that Andy may have won them from Pizza Planet). Canonically, three of the Aliens do become Andy's new toys and are adopted by Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story 2 after Buzz and the others find them inside a Pizza Planet truck. ABC Saturday Morning Toy Story Army Men Bumpers (1996-1997)-0 They were released on the 10th anniversary DVD of Toy Story, as well as its 2010 Blu-ray (minus the Green Army Men Chants segments). This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from the Pixar Wiki. The list of authors can be seen in the page revision history (view authors). As with Disney Wiki, the text of the Pixar Wiki is available under the CC-BY-SA license. Retrieved from "https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Toy_Story_Treats?oldid=3651314" Animated shorts	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1166
__label__cc	0.732445	0.267555	by Gavin Doyle Last updated: November 7, 2012 5 comments Beware of Disney World, the Disneyland Copycat Disney World seems to think that they need to copy just about every good thing that Disneyland or any other Disney Park has. In doing so, Disney World has become just a bigger Disneyland. To me the best thing about having Disney Parks around the world is the ability to have them reflect their host state or country's interests and culture. It all started when Disney first responded to park guest's questions of where Pirates of the Caribbean was when the Magic Kingdom first opened. Rather than building the planned Thunder Mesa(which you can read about thoroughly at Jim Hill Media) Disney decided to use those funds to build a new version of Pirates of the Caribbean. So, we went from an amazingly designed entire set of new attractions to taking us one step closer to a bigger Disneyland. The Haunted Mansion in Disney World is the exact same attraction as it's sister in Disneyland except for the shell and some recent modifications(Inside the Magic). Splash Mountain is another attraction that falls under the magnifying glass when you talk about almost identical attractions. While the insides of the two attractions are very different, the overall concept and outside shell are almost exact copies(in case you were wondering, the Disney World version is much better in this case). While I understand Disney's need to start off with a base of similar attractions, they should keep attractions with their differences even if the versions at other parks seem to have better jokes. I am talking of course about the Jungle Cruise in Disney World. When the Magic Kingdom opened you could ride the Jungle Cruise in Disneyland and then in the Magic Kingdom and feel as if they were two amazingly different attractions. Now Disney is trying to centralize the jokes, changing names of characters in the attraction. Below is the Disneyland attraction as captured by Kevin at Tours Departing Daily. By Kevin Crone Along the same lines of the Jungle Cruise is the transformation of the Tropical Serenade into Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, the same attractions as was in Disneyland. In the middle of this transformation is one of the dark moments in Disney history, the change of the Tropical Serenade into..duh…duh…duh…the Enchanted Tiki Room Under New Management. This rowdy, loud Disney attraction starred Iago, Jafar's cynical sidekick from Aladdin. The overlay of the attraction was meant make it popular again by infusing some nineties culture into it, but all it did was make it one of the most annoying attractions in the Disney Parks. Yesterland.com says that a fan described it with three words,“They ruined it.” Now Disney is attempting to catch some of Disney California Adventure's success with Cars Land and bring it to Hollywood Studios. MiceAge reports that Disney has moved Kathy Mangum, show producer for Cars Land, to Disney World without an announcement of what she will do there. Many fans seem to like the idea of Cars Land being added to Hollywood Studios, like the crew over at the Be Our Guest Disney World Podcast, who think that this would be a great way to draw a crowd to Hollywood Studios. I happen to agree completely with them, but I would much rather have the Disney World officials choose to draw a crowd with uniqueness. In the process they would build a bigger fan base and require Disneyland fans to fly to Florida to see their amazing new attraction. While this article was from the perspective of Disney World being a copycat, Disneyland happens to copy almost as much as Disney World does. The only reason that I decided to detail Disney World today is because they always seem to be a bit wishy-washy about investing Mickey's money. I completely agree with you that Disney World uses many of the same attractions as Disneyland, but sometimes it is a good thing. My thinking is that Disney World should be unique and agree with you. Gavin Doyle says: As mentioned in the article, I really enjoy having Disneyland attractions in Disney World, but I always love to use Imagineer’s imagination. DizBuzz says: I agree, and if they add Carsland they have gone too far. I think certain signature attractions or rides can be copied from park to park but most should be new! I think that the question of whether Disney World copies Disneyland is an irrelevant one. I say this because there is an aspect of the Disney population that will only be able to go to Disneyland, and there is an aspect of the Disney population that will only be able to go to Walt Disney World. This is primarily based on where they live in the country. My family is going to Disneyland next month — in 27 days, to be exact, but it will likely be our only trip to Disneyland for several years — and it is our first trip there. I’m not at all worried about the fact that there is a Haunted Mansion at DL and at WDW, what I’m interested in is seeing how they are different — because they are different, as you alluded to in your article. I’m not quite sure what point I’m trying to make here, to please forgive my rambling, but I guess what I’m trying to say is I want to see how they are different from one another despite having the same name and concept. Thanks, have a great day! I completely agree, the only part of the idea that I don’t condone is when Disney management alters an attraction in one resort or the other to make it more like it’s counterpart.This often happens in Walt Disney World, for example see the Tiki Room, which was once called the Tropical Serenade. I always look for the differences in the attractions, often times Walt Disney World is a little bit more advanced, see Splash Mountain and Haunted Mansion. I look forward to reading your blog about your Disneyland opinions once you return from your trip. Previous Post: Review of Wreck It Ralph and Fork and Screen at the AMC Theater, Both Great Next Post: Winter: A Great Time To Visit Blizzard Beach	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1167
__label__wiki	0.907251	0.907251	Dark Entries to release five-LP boxset from new age composer Suzanne Doucet The albums were previously only available on cassette... Christian Eede Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 14:00 The ever-prolific Dark Entries label has announced another reissue. This time, the San Francisco-based label will be overseeing a five-LP box set reissue of music by new age composer Suzanne Doucet. Titled 'New Age Box Set 1982-84', the music featured on the release was previously only available across a number of cassettes. Doucet's forays into new age music began in the early 1970s, but before that she enjoyed some success in her native of Germany scoring a number of number 1s. Dark Entries' reissue covers a number of albums that Doucet made in collaboration with others following her move into new age music. One album is 'Transformation', which she worked on with frequent musical partner Christian Bühner under the name of New Age. 'Transmission', recorded in 1983, saw Doucet working again with Bühner before relocating to Los Angeles. The following year, she collaborated with Tajalli on 'Brilliance' and went on to make 'Reflecting Light Vol. 1' and 'Reflecting Light Vol. 2' with James Bell who she also married in 1984. The box set will extend across five pieces of vinyl and come in a limited run of 300 copies. The release also includes liner notes and photos from Doucet. There will also be limited copies of each individual album. Dark Entries will release 'New Age Box Set 1982-84' on July 19th. Last month, label owner Josh Cheon revealed that 40 reels of unheard Patrick Cowley material had been discovered in an attic, and was being restored for potential future release. Catch up on DJ Mag's 2018 interview with Josh Cheon on the sound of Dark Entries here, where you can also hear a mix he recorded. Dark Entries new age Josh Cheon reissues Violet announces debut LP, ‘Bed Of Roses’, on Dark Entries 40 reels of unheard Patrick Cowley material discovered in an attic Premiere: Doc Sleep ‘Crème Fraîche’ Björk is reissuing all nine albums on multicolour cassettes The Sound Of: Dark Entries Premiere: George Earnest ‘Organ Of Evening Calm’	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1171
__label__cc	0.611393	0.388607	Focus Realm Musings about iOS development and life Home › Portfolio › The lean mean and clean doctrine The lean mean and clean doctrine By focusrealm13 • January 9, 2017 My journey into the world of iOS development has taken me to different work environments, and has given me exposure to different team compositions and development strategies. From improvised teams of uneven talent flying blindly into the unknown, to better established, larger scale organizations with more capacity and know-how paced by the reassuring rhythm of scheduled features, maintenance and releases, to the minimalist experience of single developer projects, to the fast paced, colorful world of agile driven startups. My latest stint as a consultant was a great opportunity for me to synthesize my experience against the industry’s latest practices. I found that the enterprise iOS development space has made great strides since the early days when there were no benchmarks or blueprints to calibrate against, and that the quality of development and the skill level of the competition has improved. However I came across a number of misconceptions and blunders which I would like to outline here: 1) Best practices a) Leveraging UITableViewController’s built-in features rather than using a ViewController with a tableview. The problem people have with tableview controllers is that they are not convenient for decorating. If you plan to have more elements on your screen like a segmented control or a banner or a button well table view controllers don’t work. So people shy away from using them and would rather have a tableview as a subview of the viewcontroller’s view. However tableviewcontrollers have some awesome build in capabilities, like for example adjusting for the keyboard when there is a textfield in one of the cells. You get that behavior for free and you definitely want to do that because implementing that behavior yourself is messy and it tends to not be future proof since the coordinate system and the orientation APIs tend to change pretty often. So as a rule of thumb you want to take advantage of what Apple gives you for free as much as possible and delegate as much of the complexity to them. b) Containment The way to decorate a screen while still using a tableview controller is to use containment. The pattern that containment embodies is encapsulation (decoupled logic, local reasoning, composition). In a view controller hierarchy, a view controller should only be aware of and managing the content of its descendants, never of its ancestors. The idea behind containment is that view controllers should be interchangeable, and they should still work right out of the box regardless of where they are in the view hierarchy. They could a standalone app, or they could be managing content ten levels deep and their logic would still work the same. You want to avoid at all cost traversing the view hierarchy upwards. At best you’ll get silent failures when the hierarchy is reshuffled which is bound to happen over time, at worst you’ll create failure prone hard dependency between a descendant and its ancestor which will become bad pointers. The way a descendant relates to his ancestor is through the delegate pattern, or for the ancestor to pass a block to his descendants to execute at his discretion. Now there are a lot of cool things that you can do with containment, for example nested navigation stacks. Furthermore containment, when it is done right, means that you do not need to store variables for important view controllers such as the root view controller. Calling the appdelegate’s root view controller from anywhere in the hierarchy is a violation of containment. Apple enforces the hierarchy for you and you can use modal presentation from anywhere in the hierarchy, as if you were operating from the root view controller, without ever needing to know how many levels deep you are operating from. c) Using dynamic datasources rather than incrementing/decrementing rowcount and incoming indexPaths. Tableviews should feed from dynamic data source objects. Basically what you want to do is assemble a payload of enum values according to conditions. Then use that payload to provide rowcount, and use the incoming indexpath to establish which row you are dealing with. The problem with incrementing/decrementing incoming indexes is that things get very messy once more and more conditions arise. d) Not storing indexpaths It is often tempting when dealing with controls which are hosted inside cells, to store the indexpath inside the cell and regurgitate it in the control’s selector to identify which data object the user has interacted with. This is wrong, and it can cause a lot of headaches down the line. The reason why this is wrong is that no matter how carefully you store the indexpath, it’s bound to become desynchronized at some point as the tableview gets reloaded with changing data. Furthermore there are ways to modify the tableview at the row level, without reloading all the rows. That’s what the insertRow, deleteRow APIs do. In which case all the indexpaths will be shifted up or down and the stored indexPaths will be irrelevant, at best it will be the wrong data object, at worst it will be out of bounds. When you implement a UI which is reloaded asynchronously with a fetched results controller this can potentially happen a lot. The way to map a control callback to the corresponding data object is either to give it the object’s unique identifier. Or to make the cell the delegate and make the view controller the cell’s delegate and then ask the tableview what is the indexpath of the cell which is calling back, and use that to get the data object from the data source. e) What I learned Some people want to factor everything out into re-useable components. While I am not a big fan of the monolithic god class approach and despite the fact that it does take away from the visual quality of the storyboard, I must admit that it does have some far reaching advantages, such as consistency of behavior/appearance and development velocity. I also warmed up to using custom logic in class extensions for the boiler plate code, such as the containment code or the autolayout code (UIViewController + Extensions) or the custom back button Vs the close button for modals. I have come to realize that this urge to wrap all the native APIs in helper functions to ‘improve’ on them is a very popular approach in the programming community, and it it often unavoidable to factor out code which is re-used everywhere (such as the addChild, didMoveToParent routine of containment), however I tend to shy away from writing too much shared logic for a variety of reasons: Legibility: wrapping a native API call in a custom API with some additional sugar can be confusing to incoming developers as to which API to choose from. Reliability: the custom logic might introduce some unexpected behavior which is hard to track down. Using the native APIs as is at least guarantees consistency of outcomes. Flexibility: investing too much in this alternative infrastructure prevents a smooth transition away from deprecated APIs and towards newly introduced APIs. f) Bad patterns Here are some common mistakes to avoid in the iOS development process: Synchronous and navigation driven UI updates, as opposed to asynchronous and data driven. Containment violations, upstream dependencies, even retain cycles (don’t store a view controller inside a button for example) Lack of awareness of memory and CPU constraints. This is a common pitfall for people who are new to mobile, they are used to working in an environment where resources such as memory and CPU time are limitless, and they don’t understand the cost of abusing them. Experienced devs are constantly aware of the scarcity of memory and CPU cycles, and always strive to optimize a memory footprint or an evaluation performance. As is often the case in programming, it’s not the absolute size of the allocated memory which is a concern, but the rate at which memory consumption increments. As such a good iOS dev will always plan to optimize a payload delivery to consume as little as possible while still fulfilling the requirements (breaking down large payloads into parts which can be handled one at a time). For example you wouldn’t retrieve multiple levels of data to feed a navigation hierarchy. It is much more memory efficient to retrieve additional data as the user makes a selection. Not using variables sparingly, disregard for clutter or the legibility of the code. Poor understanding of the subtleties of threading with fetching data from a persistent store. This translates to a lot of common problems relating to inheritance of persistent classes, accessing records from the wrong threads, and blocking the UI thread. 2. A case study, asynchronous, or navigation driven UI Updates? The dilemma I have had to deal before is when is the right time to trigger UI updates. There are two opposing school of thoughts. a) Navigation driven UI updates It involves anticipating data activity based on user input. Simple example a user navigates to a “Create object” form. Once he hits Save we can expect the list he is returning to to need an additional row. What could go wrong? So we put a reloadData in viewWillAppear. Well people who do that have never had the privilege of working with a late stage product where a UI gets reloaded 15 times in a row every time it comes onscreen because everybody addressed their “missing data” bug by calling reloadData. Reloading the screen in viewWillAppear seems like it could work. It’s cute when the data is short, but imagine a screen which feeds from a massive data source like a busy calendar. I worked at a company where gathering the calendar data involves a intermediate stage where events would be subdivided into occurrences. So it was somewhat of an expensive operation. Now instead of doing that evaluation every time the events changed, we were doing that every time the screen was being displayed, even if the result was the same every time. Add to that that we were calling it one additional time every time we had a new missing occurrence bug, and soon enough you had an app that was unusable. Eventually this data fetching method was seeing so much traffic that we came up with some creative solutions, such as throttling its evaluation. So instead of investigating root cause and cleaning up the mess we just made it worst. b) Asynchronous, data driven UI updates Now the solution was to get rid of that viewWillAppear garbage, maintain the data source as a variable and have the UI feed from it. Then when there are changes to the events, re-assemble the data and reload the screen no matter if the screen is visible or not. That way the data is always up to date when the screen is in use, and it’s not reloading needlessly. The following project illustrates the data driven UI updates approach. It involves a simple list interface with a master and detail pane. The user can add and delete items to lists which are related by a simple one to many relationship, backed by a Core Data schema and store. The Play button kicks off a script designed to simulate high intensity data activity (the stress test) and demonstrates how the interface remains functional despite the extreme conditions. https://github.com/MaximeBoulat/multi-threaded-core-data-swift Items we are going to cover with this project: Concurrency across threads, and how to throttle a high volume of concurrent, possibly conflictual operations using a queue and dependencies. Core Data, threading in core data and using kvo to service non blocking UI updates. This pattern fulfills two purposes: Not blocking the UI: When doing Core Data the big problem is running expensive queries from the main thread. DB objects are not thread safe and cannot cross thread boundaries. Serializing potentially conflictual operations. Basically when you operate from the background you can have multiple blocks being evaluated concurrently (race condition). This can be a problem if you are reading and deleting the same record at the same time. It used to cause a crash. People complained about it so much that Apple removed the assertion. But it’s still a problem in terms of not fetching stale data. The data activity is dispatched to the background to not block the UI thread, the changes are surfaced using the hierarchy of contexts. The FRCs sense data movement and update the UI accordingly. The stress test simulates the behavior of a server synchronization, this approach guarantees that the UI will never be stale, without jeopardizing the data activity caused by user input, while having a unique logic path for both, thus abiding by the clean lean and mean doctrine. 3. The clean, lean and mean doctrine The code should be as naked as possible, which means not to structure one’s logic around edge cases. This is the reason why I am against using early returns and null checks (guard statements). If you fix a bug by bailing early, you’ve addressed the symptom, not the cause of the failure. What’s even worst is that you have silenced the failure, so it will go unnoticed from then on, even though the API is still failing. Every assertion failure is an opportunity to re-evaluate the architecture, identify which fundamental flaw has been exposed, and refactor it to account for that flaw. If your logic can’t withstand the edge cases you can account for without keying for them, how is it expected to withstand conditions you haven’t planned for (because they will happen, for example massive data influx which can only be experienced in production, or unexpected payloads etc). Basically I believe that your code should behave the same way regardless of the incoming pressure. If the code works only under normal conditions but not extreme conditions then it will not stand the test of time. This brings us to the happy path approach. It doesn’t matter whether a condition is extremely unlikely to occur, it only takes one time for the program to crash. So the logic should always be written to account for the most extreme edge case. Naked, uncluttered code, with clearly outlined conditions and logic paths, which doesn’t have unnecessary special condition handlers, is clear and legible and incoming programmers are be able to read it like a book so that they are empowered to make informed decisions about changes. Code decay happens, implementations will clutter over time and our best chances of not loosing control is to start off with the right discipline. The biggest risk is for the codebase to reach a point where there is so much confusion about the original implementation that the bug fixing changes introduce regressions, which in turn introduce more changes which introduce more regressions. I call it the vicious cycle of mediocrity. And it can be very costly , for example at a company I worked for we were spending Sprint after sprint fixing bugs which were regressions of previous fixes. The codebase was illegible so the devs did not bother to understand the original implementation, they would just change something, or worst add something and pray for the best. The more they were patching, the less the code was legible, the more they were likely to introduce regressions. Nobody realized how much time, resources, money was being wasted when the real solution to the problem was to: Reverse engineer the original implementation and identify its flaws. Re-write it the right way. It would have been much more effective and much cheaper. But because of the lack of accountability, reliable metrics, the company was actually under the impression that they were making progress. They would say things like “We closed 57 bugs last week” over and over again. If they had scoped the refactoring effort, a single ticket would have wiped out hundreds of potential bugs. Some red flags to watch out for: Dead code. Dead code has no purpose except that off of burdening the programmer with unnecessary information. I’ve met programmers who refused to get rid of anything for fear of needing it again, hoarders I guess you could call them. Also commented out code. It should not be unclear wether a piece of logic is relevant, everything that is there should fulfill a purpose. Dead code also becomes a problem when an implementation gets patched too many times to account for specific edge cases, in other words when the logic is not context agnostic. When the logic tree starts to grow too many conditions then some of its limbs start to dangle and over time become irrelevant, except that its really difficult to tell which, so nobody dares to snip them for fear of having missed something, and the logic just decays indefinitely. Too many variables with similar names, purpose. Use variables as sparingly as possible. Cluttered viewWillAppear/viewWillDissapear implementations. Logic which doesn’t map one to one from one to the other, basically whatever is in viewWillDissapear should reverse everything, to a t, that was constructed in viewWillAppear. Avoid viewWillAppear, viewWillDissapear like the plague. They are way too high traffic for any meaningful logic. Use viewDidLoad and dealloc/deinit. A cluttered appdelegate. One of the first things I look for to assess the health of a project is how cluttered the Appdelegate is. Somebody once told me to keep the Appdelegate clean and I never forgot it. Novice programmers tend to use the appdelegate as there own personal singleton but that’s not its purpose. Cluttering the appdelegate with global variables can very fast become an undecipherable mess. Traversing native hierarchies to get a pointer to a private variable. This can be achieved by using key value syntax, or by doing graph traversal. For example some people will iterate through a private view hierarchy to customize one of its subviews. The internet is full of these creative snippets, which makes them seem legitimate (for example here). This approach should be avoided at all costs because it is not future proof. It is not because a label can be found at the nth level of UIKit hierarchy today that it will still be there in the next update, same for property names. Case in point, UITableViewCell did not always have a contentView container, when that was introduced, a lot of code which was making assumption about that view hierarchy broke. Use of timers and hard coded offsets with comments such as “Introducing a small delay to give time for something to be in the right state” Never use Timers, never use offsets. Never use absolute values. Instead of timers you need to serialize your code using dispatch queues. Fixing an issue without having been able to reproduce it (by taking a wild guess about what could have gone wrong based on a very dogmatic “at first glance” analysis). Its sounds like a no-brainer but you would be amazed at the number of times I’ve seen seasoned devs jump to conclusions and pushes changes without verifying the validity of their assumptions. It really comes down to the scientific approach, when confronted with a bug, make a hypothesis about what is its root cause, then test it to validate it, if the test passes, the hypothesis is no longer an assumption but a fact and can be safely integrated. Unfortunately as a programmer you will often be working on bugs which are hard to track and difficult to repro. The most challenging bugs are those which come from production and affect a very small percentage of users, because they manifest themselves only in very narrow windows. Two things can help: QA should invest a lot more time in trying to repro these so as not to waste valuable development time, instead of giving up early. The code can be modified, based on one’s understanding of the problem, to extend the critical window of conditions within which the bug happens. For example if a crash is caused by a race condition involving high frequency transactions which can collide only within a matter of milliseconds, then the evaluation of the transactions can be extended by sleeping the thread for a longer delay, to increase the window within which a collision can occur. Whenever someone claims to have fixed a crash, I demand they show me a screenshot of the crash being caught in the debugger. Software development in general, and iOS development in particular, is a complex affair in that the daily activity of the technicians is not easily quantifiable or regulated. Attempts at measuring the performance of developers often miss the mark because the quality of code is not easily measured. Measuring physical volume of code is misleading because quantities are worthless if the code is of bad quality. In some cases, high quantities of code are actually worst than no code at all, as they could indicate the unraveling of the core architecture. Measuring duration of task implementation is also misleading in that bad implementations will inflict more delay spent fixing the corresponding problems. Throughout my professional experience, I have found that companies which emphasize process, outline clear channels of accountability, and enforce clear channels of authority involving a hierarchy of technicians led by a knowledgeable and pragmatic architect tend to do better than others. Further I find that most companies, pressured by the Agile environment, often forego the practice of writing thorough, incremental and up-to-date technical documentation. In such an environment the code base becomes a free-for-all, where critical logic components are at the mercy of misguided, uninformed decisions intended to resolve superficial problems. In the FAA there is the concept of Required Inspection Items, they are critical components which affect the airworthiness of the aircraft and require special clearance to tinker with, I don’t see why we couldn’t enforce a similar concept in development. I believe that the contributions of the developers could be measured with the following scale: Any update to the code base must fulfill the condition that the outcome is at least as good as the original. By that I mean that no existing functionality must be deteriorated by the update. When a task implementation results in the deterioration of the original functionality in any way, it is not acceptable. I find that pull requests which have a low ratio of lines added to lines removed are likely to be better. A good thorough programmer will have removed almost as much as he’s introduced. A change set which adds a lot but removes nothing is suspicious in my opinion. It is critical to assign blame when handling regressions. When the prevailing stability has been jeopardized by fresh bugs, it must be quickly linked back to the corresponding changeset and its author must be tasked with repairing the regression. It is a mistake to assign regressions to developers who have not introduced them as it dilutes the sense of responsibility, not to mention that the author is in a much better position to investigate what went wrong. Development environments where there is no such accountability fester, as there is no distinction between regressions and existing flaws, and the relative quality of different developer’s work cannot be measured, therefore the bad developers cannot be identified. I am not advocating for a toxic culture of finger-pointing, but rather for a fact based trackrecord for different developers which show how likely somebody is to introduce regressions. Nobody would be immune from such a point based ranking, and I expect even the best developers will get hit every once in a while, but this will bestow upon the programming force a sense of responsibility and ownership, while giving them an incentive to forego the temptation of taking credit for quick and dirty solutions with little regard for side effects. This is why traceability is critical. A clear path can be established between the offending changeset and its author with the following setup: Smart commits in git which link back to the originating JIRA issue. automated build with some kind of CI client like Jenkins. A quality management system which plots status of each test case in a test plan against specific builds. When a build or a test fails for a specific build, the failure can be quickly traced back to the JIRA issues which went into that build and their authors. Anything less will sacrifice a low cost opportunity to maintain product stability while enhancing accountability. Finally, I believe that Quality Assurance departments should not be granted unreasonable authority over the development agenda. In keeping in line with the principle of clear channels of accountability, no QA activity should happen outside of a test plan composed of test cases written in collaboration with the originating developer, and populated with historical data across key releases. Categorised in: Portfolio, Recent The DanceLoveApp experience »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1178
__label__wiki	0.812849	0.812849	Forever Cinematic In-Depth Movie Reviews & High Quality Trailers About Forever Cinematic RavensFilm Productions RavensFilm Social Media RavensFilm YouTube Channel Posts tagged “gory” Hellraiser (1987) Reviewing this film is quite a pleasure. Of all the masters of horror to come around in the last couple decades, Clive Barker seems to be the one you can always count on. Even The Midnight Meat Train, while not directed by Barker, is a great film that I enjoyed quite thoroughly. The man takes a lot of care and heart with his work, both written and on film. He doesn’t rush every new novel or short story into a film adaptation like Stephen King. While there were some missteps with Barker’s earlier film adaptations, it wasn’t directly his fault. Still, you ask Clive questions about this movie, he’ll probably turn you down. He’s sick of discussing it, and feels it is firmly settled in his past. But never minding that, Hellraiser still stands as a horror classic. It was a serious injection of true horror when the rest of the genre was turning campy and being drained of anything resembling a scary movie. Written & directed by Barker, based on his short story, “The Hellbound Heart” this is possibly, the most gritty horror film since The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but far gorier. The gore quality is damn near off-the-chart. I still find myself cringing at how gruesome Hellraiser is. This film is truly an original piece of classic horror cinema. As stated by Stephen King himself, “I have seen the future of horror fiction, and his name is Clive Barker.” This film’s premise is certainly original in all aspects. It starts out with a small puzzle box, seemingly harmless, but is said to unlock an experience where pain and pleasure are indivisible. The man who seeks it is named Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman). He thought he’d been to the limits of human pleasures, but his fate is unimaginable. He solves the puzzle box, and what it invites is hell itself, in the form of the Cenobites. He dies in the third floor room of this house that is soon inhabited by his brother Larry (Andrew Robinson) along with Larry’s wife Julia (Clare Higgins) and daughter Kirsty (Ashley Laurence). After cutting himself trying to haul the mattress upstairs, Larry’s blood spills upon the floor that Frank died on. Unknowingly to them all, that small amount of blood is enough to regenerate some amount of Frank’s living body. He has escaped from hell, and hell doesn’t like that. We learn of a past sexual relationship between Julia and Frank, and Frank uses her devotion to him to regain his full form through unsuspecting men. Kirsty gets caught in the midst of this horrific conspiracy, and things rise to another level when the Cenobites come looking for more victims. This is a dark, gory, and unbound vision of horror by Clive Barker. In retrospect, it is easy for one’s focus to shift towards Doug Bradley and the other Cenobites as the star attraction. For me, it is the performances of the human characters that are the real jewels here. The emotional and psychological depth the actors bring to their roles are rich and real. Clare Higgins is devilishly seductive, but also, presents an honest vulnerability and apprehension. She is captivating and fascinating. She shows a nice wide range in how Frank took a generally decent young woman and ensnared her into becoming the more deceptive and corrupted woman she is now. Andrew Robinson is also a marvel. While his portrayal of Larry Cotton is certainly what it should be, and doesn’t seem like much of a standout, he portrays it with a lot of heart. It’s sincere and honest. Although, it is his turn at the end of the film which really gets the juices flowing. He becomes deliciously sadistic and sinister. He really chews it up, and lets nothing stand in his way of delivering an insidious, lustful villain. Robinson has repeatedly impressed me with his amazingly diverse and substantive performances, especially in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Our female lead, Ashley Laurence, really draws in an audience, firstly, with her fresh-faced beauty, but quickly becomes an immensely likable protagonist. Where Kirsty is surrounded by people who are either morally corrupt or faced with emotional conflicts, she shines through as the most innocent. She maintains strength of character with conviction, and remains an excellent conduit for the audience to experience the horrific fantasy that unfolds before them. She is the moral center of the story, caught in the eye of the storm which she weathers greatly. She loves her father deeply, and that motivates her actions throughout the latter half of the film. Despite the disturbing and horrific things befalling her, she holds onto that love to carry her through in order to keep her dad safe. Kirsty is an excellent heroine that an audience can really get behind, and feel true sympathy for. The character of Frank Cotton is brilliantly brought to life by Sean Chapman, who handles the human half, and Oliver Wood, who appears as the skinless Frank. Chapman establishes the lustful and dangerously seductive man who desires to experience the extreme limits of human pleasure. Wood creates a man who has been beyond those limits, and is now a darker, more threatening creature. However, he still has seductive qualities as demonstrated by the fact that he gets Julia to lure in and kill unsuspecting men so he can regenerate himself. However, he is a man motivated by fear of the Cenobites ready to use and abuse anyone necessary to escape them. Julia is so blinded by her overwhelming desire to be with him again that she will do anything for him. Larry is such a lightweight man, cringing at blood, and being a generally decent person that Julia feels her life to be rather bland. Frank offers the wild erotic excitement and danger that she craves. Getting a woman to murder for you in order to resurrect yourself is an amazing feat, and shows how psychologically warped Frank has made Julia. This is the true villain of the film, and demonstrates what kind of twisted evil can lurk in the human heart. Of course, Doug Bradley does need to be addressed. In conjunction with Barker, Bradley creates a character that is beautifully dispassionate. He has a cold zeal regarding the transcendent experiences of Hell. He has tasted them, reveled in their indescribable sensations, and has been tamed by them into perfect order. Bradley sinks his teeth into what is best described as a standout supporting role. The Cenobites are used, essentially, as a plot device, same as the puzzle box. They are background characters here, but powerful ones. The full contingent of the Cenobites are well played by their respective actors aided by their deeply detailed prosthetic and make-up designs. With Bradley, you clearly can’t help but be taken aback by his appearance in this film. Pinhead, or “Lead Cenobite,” is an instantly iconic character with a more direct and identifiable design than his fellow Cenobites, but they are all memorable to the franchise’s fans. The look of the film is very dark and grainy, but is shot excellently despite its budgetary limitations. There is a clear vision of artistry here born out of Clive’s own dense, dark imagination. The film showcases how rawness and grittiness can create a certain macabre beauty. The gore of Hellraiser is intense and in abundance. For the weak of stomach, it could get overwhelming, but the skinless Frank is a genuine work of gruesome art. Barker has a way to make horror beautiful, in a twisted, demented fashion. The Cenobite makeup, while in a rawer form than later on, truly adds to the texture of this film. Tortured, twisted, and mutilated to hellish perfection, they are amazingly well conceived and designed. I rather prefer this look over later installments which got cheap in the costuming department, and sleeker in the makeup design. By the direct-to-video entries, their appearances became more fake and soft than anything else. In this film, all of the make-up effects work is groundbreaking, in my eyes. They hold up amazingly well in tight close-ups as hooks dig into prosthetic skin, and lend to the realization of great overall nasty creations. The only dated piece of effects work comes with the visual effects, which were simple rotoscoped cell animation, but it’s all kept to minimum. It’s really apparent in the climax, but it hardly diminishes the enjoyment of the film as a whole for me. However, for a modern audience used to more sophisticated digital effects, it might certainly come off as terribly primitive and jokey. On the higher quality end of the things, the score by Christopher Young is wonderful and powerful. It is highly orchestral for a horror film, but that aspect creates a far grander canvas for this film to exist upon. I have always liked that Hellraiser was a more epic horror franchise presenting operatic visuals, themes, and characterizations with the Cenobites. That’s where Barker’s imagination lives and thrives. While the story is more personal in nature, the fantastical elements are always grand and sweeping. Christopher Young’s gothic stylings really would spark off many similar scores such as Danny Elfman’s Batman themes, and Graeme Revell’s The Crow compositions. The gothic aspects take the operatic qualities and tones them towards more haunting, atmospheric, and chilling aspects. Now, despite Clive Barker’s belief that this is an uneven film, I do feel he did a highly admirable job. Barker had directed a few short films before this in the 1970s, but this was his feature film directorial debut. I believe a director can be his own harshest critic, and I wholly understand that. Regardless, the storytelling is tight and solid. There’s a lot of tension of varying kinds throughout the film, and Barker delivers it all quite well. I have been a large supporter of Clive Barker as a filmmaker. Lord of Illusions is one of my all time favorite horror films because of the brilliant genre blending work he did there. It is unfortunate that studio conflicts and interference soured him towards continuing on as a director, but he has continued as a producer for adaptations of his written work. I believe Hellraiser to definitely be something for him to be proud of for his first feature length directorial work. This is a classic for a reason. In a time where B-level slasher films were the dominant sub-genre in horror, this film came out and changed the standard for horror films. Fortunately or unfortunately, in my eyes, nothing has yet to equal to Hellraiser, except for its first sequel, Hellbound: Hellraiser II. It is an excellent mix of an intelligent, original, and ambitious story with that classic Barker macabre horror. It has solid, powerful performances all around creating a very diverse, rich set of characters, and a great gritty beauty enhanced masterfully by the score. This has allowed Barker’s 1987 film to standout still, to this day, as a bonafide horror classic. You really cannot afford to pass this film up. 03.10.2012 \| Categories: Horror Movies, Movie Reviews \| Tags: andrew robinson, ashley laurence, author, blood, cenobites, chains, christopher young, claire higgins, clive barker, doug bradley, film, franchise, gory, gothic, hell, hellraiser, horror, kirsty cotton, lament configuration, leviathan, macabre, movie, novella, pinhead, puzzle box, resurrection, review, sean chapman, the hellbound heart \| 1 Comment Search Forever Cinematic Follow Forever Cinematic via Email Enter your email address to follow Forever Cinematic and receive notifications of new posts by email. Fallen (1998) Forever Cinematic Video Movie Reviews Shakedown (1988) Movie Reviews (209) Science Fiction / Fantasy Movies (43) Video Specials & Reviews (3) Forever Cinematic’s Affiliate Banners	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1183
__label__cc	0.607007	0.392993	Culture, France, Television A La Télé: Disparue review (episodes 5 & 6) Posted by French Affliction on June 27, 2016 March 3, 2017 I’ve had a few things on over the past couple of weeks, so unfortunately have neglected the blog a bit – je suis désolée! 😦 Now that everything’s back in order, here’s my review of episodes 5 and 6 of Disparue, the French crime series recently shown in the UK on BBC4. If you haven’t seen these two episodes, you can catch up on BBC iPlayer. Just to warn you though, there are a few spoilers during this review, so look away now if you haven’t seen the episodes yet! I wrote about the third and fourth episodes here on my blog. Or if you’d like to catch up on episodes one and two, why not check out my review here? The episodes are available to watch here on the iPlayer but they expire tonight, so hurry! 🙂 The fifth and sixth episodes both move very quickly, with more facts still coming out about Léa’s disappearance. The police now have a long list of suspects, each with their own possible motives for abducting Léa. But how far can we depend on what the police already know? One of the strong points of this series so far has been that, in each episode, it throws us red herrings mixed in with trustworthy titbits of evidence. So how do we know who, and what information, to rely on? What’s happened to Léa? If she’s still alive, where is she? And who is involved in her disappearance? Léa Morel. Léa’s family and friends confront these questions in the first of these two episodes before finding out devastating news. Their daughter’s body has been found. Rose Molina, the teenage daughter of the brooding local police commandant, saw Léa’s body while relaxing with friends at a lake in Lyon. This of course leads to questions between Rose’s divorced mother and her father, who she was staying with when she discovered Léa’s body. Rose’s mother asks herself whether her daughter is safe in her father’s care. He seems to focus so much on work that he has barely any time to spend with her. Léa’s family is also struggling to cope. Now that her body has been found, they know for certain that they will never see her again. As they try to come to terms with this, they also have to find out about their daughter’s death. How did it happen? Who did it? And why? While they try to find the answers to these questions, new faces are coming up in the police’s search for suspects. Among them are Nicolas Barraut (Johan Libéreau), who worked at Léa’s father’s restaurant and had a soft spot for her. And there’s also her French teacher Matthias Tellier, who left a previous teaching job after starting a relationship with one of his teenage pupils. Léa’s French teacher, Matthias Tellier (Stéphane Debac). Léa’s uncle (left) with Nicolas Barraut (right). In an attempt to find out who may have killed Léa, her father Julien downloads hundreds of photos of the concert that his daughter went to on the night she disappeared. He painstakingly studies the face of every person on each of the photos, hoping to identify everyone who saw his daughter just before she went missing in case they can give more clues about her disappearance. Julien Morel checking the photos on his computer. At the start of episode six however, all of the uncertainty and confusion of the previous episode seems to have gone. The police are keen to close the case of Léa’s disappearance now that her body’s been found. Detective Louvin, Commandant Molina’s boss in the Lyon police, believes that they have finally located Léa’s killer, after an incident involving one of the suspects at the end of episode five. Molina, however, isn’t so sure. Convinced that they still have work to do before finding the killer, he eventually persuades to persuade Louvin to keep all lines of enquiry open. Commandant Molina (left) and Detective Louvin (right). And sure enough, near the end of the episode, the police persevere in their investigation and another suspect is arrested. Away from the police enquiry, Léa’s family is busy with preparations for the birthday party of their youngest daughter Zoé. And Léa’s mother Flo is very upset after her boss arranges a visit from a psychiatrist to help her come to terms with her daughter’s death. She and her husband Julien find it harder and harder to comfort each other while they struggle to accept that Léa is no longer alive. To her shock, Flo discovers Julien confiding in Anne, a woman who he once had an affair with, as she becomes closer to Benoît, one of her work colleagues. She then reveals something to Julien that further strains their relationship. I thought this episode was particularly strong – it was fast-paced, exciting, and had just enough new information coming in to keep us guessing in time for the next two episodes, which will be the series finale. Now, over to you – have you been watching The Disappearance? Have you seen any other French TV series? As always, let me know here in the comments below 🙂 BBCDisparueFranceReviewsTelevisionThe Disappearance Previous Post Where to find Britain’s best macarons (Scotland) Next Post Top 10 French expressions to sound like a native Pingback: A La Télé: Disparue review (episodes 7 & 8) – French Affliction Juliette Harris says: [spoiler alert] I guessed the culprit at episode 1: the look that Chris gave when Lea was kissing her boyfriend at the festival said it all, confirmed by her contriving to take Lea’s place for the rest of the series. Cant believe i missed it on BBC4! I’m the biggest Johan Libereau fan! (Pictured in your screencap playing Nicolas Barraut!) Going straight to BBC IPLayer! Hope it’s still avaliabe!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1197
__label__cc	0.51726	0.48274	Apple's voracious appetite for acquisitions outspent Google in 2013 Posted: March 3, 2014 7:31AM in AAPL Investors edited March 2014 Apple is quietly investing far more money to acquire talent, technology and production capacity than the market appears to realize, having liberally outspent even Google over the past year. Apple's acquisition investments over the past quarter While the identity of a significant number of Apple's acquisitions remains intentionally shrouded in mystery, the dollar figure of Apple's acquisition investments is publicly accounted in the company's financial statements. Both the tech and business media have sought to identify Apple's acquisition targets, but there hasn't been much attention directed to the significant and rapidly growing sums Apple is investing globally. The rumored price Apple was believed to have paid for the three companies (Cue, PrimeSense and Topsy) it bought during the most recent Q1 winter quarter was said to be $595 million, nearly $100 million more than what Apple itself reported paying in cash payments related to business acquisitions (two other acquisitions identified during that quarter, Broadmap and Catch, are believed to have been completed before the quarter began). Over the past five quarters Apple has officially reported total acquisition investments of $11.12 billion, in addition to the $1.02 billion in cash "business acquisition" payments However, in addition to cash "payments made in connection with business acquisitions," Apple also reports even greater investments made in "payments for acquisition of property, plant and equipment" ($1.96 billion in the winter Q1 2014 quarter alone) and for "payments for acquisition of intangible assets," (an additional $59 million during that quarter). Also known as goodwill, "acquisition of intangible assets" refers to the premium price paid in excess of the fair market value of an acquired company's net assets. This accounting breaks down the price paid for acquisitions into three primary buckets: payments made for a target company's non-depreciating assets (the value of its employees and technology, for example); payments made for property, buildings and equipment (that can easily be depreciated over time); and payments made for goodwill (such as the intangible value of the acquired firm's customers and reputation, which are also not depreciable). In total, over the past five quarters Apple has officially reported total acquisition investments of $11.12 billion, in addition to the $1.02 billion in cash "business acquisition" payments. Quite clearly, Apple is secretly buying up far more assets in talent, technology and production capacity than the tech and business media are acknowledging (or are perhaps aware of), even though this data is public available. Apple's acquisition pace rivaling Google's Google, which has a reputation for spending record-setting amounts to acquire companies in a race against its competitors, reports spending $7.36 billion for "property and equipment" in calendar 2013 and $1.45 billion for acquisitions and "purchases of intangibles and other assets." That compares to Apple's fiscal year spending of $8.17 billion for "property, plant and equipment," $496 million and $911 million (a total of $1.41 billion) for "business acquisitions" and "acquisition of intangible assets," respectively. Apple's annual acquisition spending pace has been neck and neck with Google, and that's even before backing out Apple's 2012 winter quarter and substituting its 2013 winter quarter instead in order to match up the period covered with Google's calendar year 2013 figures. Make that adjustment and Apple's acquisition spending for calendar 2013 grows to $7.84 billion for "property, plant and equipment," and $773 million and $832 million (a total of $1.61 billion) for "business acquisitions" and "acquisition of intangible assets," respectively. Who knew Apple had spent more on acquisition investments than Google last year? Ignoring the accounting buckets that divide the investments into segments that means that during 2013 Apple invested a total of $9.45 billion into acquisitions compared to $8.81 billion by Google. Who knew Apple had spent more on acquisition investments than Google last year? Apple doesn't publicize these figures because it's not trying to win the race on how much it can pay for acquisitions, just as Cook stated to shareholders last Friday. Cook also said Apple isn't in a race to make the greatest number of acquisitions. But clearly, Apple isn't concerned about the amount of money it is spending as much as it is the return on investment it can gain through those acquisitions. Apple's acquisition value exceeding Google's Now consider what value Apple has derived from its recent acquisitions. On Friday, Cook described Touch ID, the fruits of its most expensive recent purchase (the $356 million acquisition of AuthenTec), as "incredibly well received." As a driving force supporting sales of its premium iPhone 5s at the expense of iPhone 5c, Touch ID helped Apple to maintain premium iPhone Average Selling Prices by attracting upscale customers. Touch ID materially contributed to record iPhone sales despite millions of low end Android shipments that drove the platform's ASP down to being 2.5 times less than the iPhone. The AuthenTec acquisition gave Apple exclusive access to advanced, market leading technology, and Apple delivered the feature about five quarters after acquiring AuthenTec. A year prior to Apple's acquisition of AuthenTec, Google acquired its most expensive company in the $12.5 billion purchase Motorola Mobility. Spending 35 times as much didn't help Google build its hardware business or improve its ASPs or hardware profit margins. Instead, it simply hemorrhaged over $2.3 billion in losses across seven quarters. Google has now pawned the remains of Motorola off to other companies as scrap. Motorola's products, even after a year and a half of Google draining its product pipeline and starting from scratch, were never "incredibly well received," despite being designed without a significant profit margin and intended to serve as simply a entrance into the hardware business. While the media focused on the ostensible value of Motorola's patents, the reality is that Google has accomplished nothing with them. Most of Motorola's products weren't even salable and its technology was neither exceptionally advanced nor market leading in any significant respect. Now consider acquisitions targeting Google's primary business of ads rather than Apple's core competency in selling hardware. In 2010 Apple acquired Quattro Wireless for $275 million to develop iAd, after Google swooped in to pay $750 million for AdMob. Three years later, eMarketer reported that across 2013, Google's AdMob led U.S. mobile ad sales with $3.98 billion in revenues compared to Apple's iAd, which generated an estimated $258 million. Apple's iAd acquisition has been berated as a failure over the past three years, in stark contrast to the tech media's defense of Google's Motorola purchase. However, iAd isn't bleeding money, even though it is not designed to be, nor is it run as, a profit center to monetize user behavior. Instead, Apple has used its acquisition to monetize iTunes Radio and encroach upon Google's near monopoly in mobile advertising while providing App Store developers with an alternative to Google's AdMob. Acquisitions vs DIY Apple's acquisition that resulted in iAd is an example of the company buying an entrance into an entirely new market. It's harder to say how much of Google's current ad empire can be attributed to the acquisition of AdMob. It's possible Google could have built a mobile strategy from scratch, the same way Apple developed hardware products like the iPad without needing to acquire an existing tablet company. The same comparison can be made with other companies' recent big ticket acquisitions. While Microsoft paid $8.5 billion for Skype and Facebook ponied up $19 billion for WhatsApp, Apple developed its own iMessage and FaceTime services for text, photo, voice and video messaging. This not only allowed Apple to deliver its solutions first, but also resulted in highly integrated products all linked to the same user account, in stark contrast to the integration issues Microsoft and Facebook face. Conversely, Apple bolstered the internal development of its iOS 6 Maps project with a series of acquisitions, and continues to acquire mapping companies today. But the companies Apple acquired were all relatively small, in stark contrast to Nokia's $8.1 billion acquisition of Navteq in 2007. Apple's unique acquisition strategy Overall, Apple's history of business acquisitions has involved relatively small companies. More often than not, the acquired firms have directly resulted in key new apps, product features and services that have materially benefitted Apple's core business and enabled it to expand into new ones. Despite an impressive list of big ticket acquisitions, it's harder to say the same of Google, particularly in view of the litany of acquisitions that were intended to flesh out its wholly unsuccessful Google Wallet, Google Wave, Google TV and Google+ initiatives. Google's reputation as a big spender in acquisitions also isn't allowing it to outpace Apple in terms of actual performance. Over the past two years, Google's gross profits have increased by $11.3 billion compared to Apple's profit growth of $25.5 billion, while its operating income has grown $2.3 billion versus Apple's $16.3 billion. Google's revenues grew by $21.4 billion, compared to Apple's revenue growth of $63 billion. In part, this can be attributed to the fact that Apple has rarely sought to acquire huge companies, and instead has aimed to buy smaller firms that can deliver a technology (or be tasked to work on a new project) that has a high potential for immediate sale or strategic advancement. Included in Apple's accounting of acquisitions are investments made to obtain a portion of a company, whether a team, a facility or manufacturing equipment. This kind of selective investment avoids acquiring unwanted personnel, infrastructure and businesses that are only a distraction and drag on operations. A recent example of a large capital investment in manufacturing capacity installed within another company's facilities is Apple's $578 million deal to build out sapphire production facilities operated independently by GT Technology. In fiscal 2013, Apple reported $8.2 billion in total capital expenditure payments, a figure that includes product tooling, manufacturing process equipment and other corporate facilities and infrastructure. In fiscal 2013 Apple also spent just under $500 million to expand and enhance its own retail store facilities, a figure that could be compared to the value of spending the same amount to acquire an existing retail chain and then trying to convert it into something that could effectively sell the company's products. Apple clearly isn't making acquisitions simply to make news about making acquisitions. In fact, while it quietly invests more than acquisition-happy Google, Apple has largely avoided suffering Google's buyers remorse in being saddled with superfluous employees it must lay off and undesirable infrastructure it has to auction or abandon. sudonym Posts: 233member If Apple spends more than Google, it means it is more innovative. I'm glad Apple spends so much more than Google. itstheinternet Posts: 401member I'm confused as to the point of this article. Apple did indeed out-spend Google, although the difference was practically insignificant. Is this news? It seems just like an Apple Press Release. edit: Seems that as AAPL investment news this makes more sense, I didn't realise it was posted in this subforum. macxpress Posts: 4,896member This just means that Apple is doomed...It has to in some way. Oh and Tim Cook needs to be fired because of this too. piot Posts: 1,346member Originally Posted by ItsTheInternet Is this news? Did you know the figures before you read the article? thataveragejoe Posts: 831member While the identity of a significant number of Apple's acquisitions remains intentionally shrouded in mystery, The rumored price Apple was believed to have paid for the three companies Sooo more assumptions that may or may not be tied to public facts (because we all know every company is so black and white transparent with their accounting records...) predicates this entire piece? What is this Android activation math? Then it ends by spinning away others numbers and follows that by directly extrapolating the amount 'allegedly' spent directly to sales and profit impacts? ...Seriously? <insert Tim laugh meme here> Yawn. Next. Originally Posted by piot I didn't, but that doesn't make something news. I see now this was posted in the AAPL investors forum so that makes more sense. I just saw it on the front page. alcstarheel Posts: 554member It's news because it is opening the eyes of people (investors) to the fact that AAPL [U]is[/U] spending it's money on acquisitions and other value-adds to the company at a quicker pace than the general media is reporting and/or the general reader is aware. emoeller Posts: 446member Great article! M&A's are sexy and all, but when it comes time to actually merge companies together, cultural and operating protocols can make it a very messy affair. The rule of thumb is about 20-30% (if all goes well) of the acquisition costs will need to be spent once the deal is closed to integrate the two entities. Apple has a very unique culture and I would imagine it would be extremely difficult to assimilate another large company without wrenching issues. I think Google learned this the hard way with Motorola. I only wish it had been Apple making that recent spate of robot manufacturing and design company acquisitions instead of Andy Rubin at Google. Who doesn't like the idea of someday owning a house full of robot assistants with an Apple logo on them? Sigh... cws Posts: 59member As much as I admire D.E.D.s brilliance when it comes to analyzing technology trends, I'm afraid he is getting a little out of his depth when he ventures into financial analysis. The correct financial term to apply to most of the "investing activities" shown on Apple's cash flow statement is "capital expenditures", not "acquisitions". The vast majority of these capital expenditures represent tooling and other equipment used at Apple's contract manufacturers' facilities. Because Apple sells mainly hardware and Google sells mainly advertising, of course Apple will have much higher capital expenditures than Google. If anything, this puts Apple at a competitive disadvantage vis a vis Google. zoffdino Posts: 192member Apple can't win in the M&A dollar game. Facebook just spent $19B for WhatApp, while Google's losing bid was rumored to be in the $10B range. A few years back, Google threw $12B for Motorola and just sold it for $4B to Lenovo, essentially $8B down the drain with little to show. But it's a silly competition. I don't know how Facebook is going to monetize WhatApp to the tune of $19B, or how Google benefited from the Motorola acquisition except for patents. I like Apple's model of buying small, innovative companies like AuthenTec or Siri and deliver features that competitors rush to copy (hello Samsung, you motherfucker!). MacPro Posts: 18,294member piot wrote: » SpamSandwich wrote: » .... Siri .... :smokey: just_me Posts: 590member March 3, 2014 10:05AM Originally Posted by cws umumum Posts: 76member Originally Posted by zoffdino yep, silly is the word, buying companies can be good or bad, it's down to how good the acquirer is at assimilation, rationalization and exploitation, i've seen some real screw ups from the inside, thankfully from the "i told you so" position, simply looking at how many or how much is pointless btw google didn't drop $8b on motorola, it had already sold the home unit for $2.4b, the details of the lenovo sale aren't publicm ,, and there're rumours that through the usual exotic application of tax law so beloved of google, apple and others, it might end up much closer to break even whilst having acquired a nice patent portfolio corrections Posts: 1,363member Originally Posted by thataveragejoe Read it again, you missed the whole thing. The unknown identity of all of the specific acquisitions Cook referred to by number is quite obviously not relevant when comparing the investments made by Google and Apple to acquire businesses or portions of businesses. The second line of your comment I can’t make any sense of because it is a grammatical mess without any clear logic to follow. Maybe you were shooting for double-speak? The article doesn’t highlight "most of the 'investing activities'" Apple makes; that would be over $33 Billion for fiscal 2013. It’s looking at investments to "acquire talent, technology and production capacity" as the article clearly highlights. Another part you failed to read is that Apple is doing better in Google’s business of advertising than Google is doing in Apple’s business of building products. Yet Apple paid relatively little to enter the ad game, while Google has spent incredible billions to fail at hardware. wakefinance Posts: 855member Thanks, I was going to chime in about his miscategorization of the expenses. zoffdino wrote: » Supposedly Google never bid on WA. Furthermore, the MM deal also gave them $3B in cash among other valuables making the acquisition anything but $8B down. I'm sure [@]Gatorguy[/@] knows more. Plus he has links! gatorguy Posts: 20,741member philboogie wrote: » Yassir. I gots da links	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1201
__label__cc	0.573457	0.426543	Microsoft taps into Apple's Passbook, adds support in Windows Phone 8.1 [u] Posted: April 14, 2014 2:33PM in iPhone edited May 2014 With Apple's Passbook quickly becoming the de facto way for developers to create digital tickets, store cards and passes, Microsoft capitalized on ways to strip the data from .pkpass files and recompile them on handsets running Windows Phone 8.1. Passbook pass on Windows Phone 8.1. Screenshot via Tom Warren. Microsoft's native support for Passbook files in the latest Windows Phone release was detailed on Monday by iMore, which showed off how Passbook files can be viewed in Microsoft Wallet with the new 8.1 software update. The approach is noteworthy because Passbook was developed as an Apple-only platform for iPhone, allowing users to have access to digital wallet items in a convenient fashion. Passbook is not open source or an industry standard, meaning up until now it has not been officially available on other platforms. But Microsoft's support for Passbook is actually baked in to Windows Phone 8.1, meaning any user running the latest version of the company's mobile operating system can access Passbook passes on their device without the need for additional software or hacks. This is possible because Passbook is based on simple, open structures that allow third-party developers to access some --?but not all --?of the data included in a .pkpass file. It's possible that Apple could take steps to block Microsoft from reading Passbook files on Windows Phone. Years ago, Apple had an ongoing dispute with Palm, as the rival handset maker would trick Apple's iTunes into thinking a Palm device was an iPod, allowing users to sync music with their handset. In a back-and-forth battle, Palm continued to find new exploits, while Apple continued to patch them. Windows Phone 8.1 was unveiled by Microsoft earlier this month, with the defining feature being a Siri-like voice-driven personal assistant dubbed "Cortana." At the time, Microsoft made no mention of its built-in support for Passbook files, making it something of a stealth feature added in by the Redmond, Wash., software giant. slurpy Posts: 5,154member Is this..legal? I'm assuming they have Apple's permission to do this? pmz Posts: 3,433member Apple got it right and we want more support for this in world. Microsoft should pay Apple a license to allow Passbook on Windows Phone. The eight people that use it would appreciate it. apple ][ Posts: 8,680member Does Apple receive any profits or benefits from this? Apple should probably block Microsoft from using it, just like they blocked Palm some years ago, like it states in the article. Apple probably wants it to remain an Apple exclusive only, so nobody else should be allowed to use Passbook. I don't really care about users of other platforms. Let them come up with their own inferior way of doing things. solipsismx Posts: 19,566member slurpy wrote: » it's as legal as you created SlurpyPass which was a ZIP file with a JSON file, image assets, and signature inside, The clever part of all these freely available technologies is how Apple packaged it to make a useful solution. Like iBeacons, which are just BT devices, there is nothing keeping others from creating their own tools for reading this data. As I learned recently from MR. I had thought it was HTML, CSS, and JS. chandra69 Posts: 638member MacRumors say it positive - like NO REVERSE ENGINEERING. But IT WAS ACCEPTED BY BOTH PARTIES. http://www.macrumors.com/2014/04/14/windows-phone-8-1-passbook-passes/ apple ][ wrote: » Only Apple owns PassBook and can use PassBook since it's only on iOS 7-based devices. However, the pass information can be read by anyone that creates a reader for the open code within the open compressed file. Unless Apple wants to create some locking mechanism to the compressed file (which I doubt otherwise they would have included this option from the start) that would have you input some sort of passcode locally but one that you would have had to set up on the website or app that is generating your passes. radarthekat Posts: 3,093moderator Originally Posted by Slurpy Pretty sure it's legal. No permission required to read the files. suddenly newton Posts: 13,761member Oh cool! I'd let Microsoft do it. Because it won't matter. It's not worth the effort to block. Besides, people have reverse engineered Microsoft Office file formats all the time. It's not like this is unprecedented. andysol Posts: 2,506member Years ago, Apple had an ongoing dispute with Palm, as the rival handset maker would trick Apple's iTunes into thinking a Palm device was an iPod, allowing users to sync music with their handset. In a back-and-forth battle, Palm continued to find new exploits, while Apple continued to patch them. Lol.... thats awesome. Never knew this happened. rs9 Posts: 68member Think about all the users that will use it now that its compatible with Microsoft Systems. We can now use MS Office with Apples OS; next step, I.E.? iWorks for Windows? May be a bit far fetched; but collaboration has its benefits. jungmark Posts: 6,705member Microsoft Windows Phone 8.1: now with Apple passbook support. Originally Posted by jungmark And iMessage & Facetime. Facetime now has Skype Support. Those would make me happy- only because they would make Android sad. Better to have a common standard for this; Microsoft using the same file format is a good thing. crowley wrote: » I agree with this. And really, is this Microsoft who was famous for NIH (not invented here) syndrome, adopting an Apple format this early in the game? I'm shocked! suddenly newton wrote: » It's not really adopting anything. It's just making a viewer for PassBook passes in the same way that OS X can view PDF, DOC, RTF, XLS and other file types. In no way is WinPh8 having to trick anything made by Apple into thinking that it's an Apple product, like with Palm's attempt to making it think their devices were iPods. libertyforall Posts: 1,297member This all seems insecure, shouldn't the Passbook 'payload' be encrypted?! I would have to look at the technical specifics to learn more, anyone have a good overview link handy? cpsro Posts: 2,469member Microsoft and Apple have long had extensive cross-licensing agreements, including in the mobile device arena. Thus there's far more reason to believe this development was a result of a collaborative effort rather than reverse engineering. darelrex Posts: 57member "In a back-and-forth battle, Palm continued to find new exploits, while Apple continued to patch them." Actually, Apple made just one little change: iTunes now asks the device via a low-level USB query, "what company made you?" If the device replies with anything but "Apple", then iTunes aborts the sync. After Apple did that, Palm issued an update that made the Pre reply "I'm from Apple," then Palm and Apple each complained to the USB standards body that the other company should be made to stop doing what it was doing. The body ruled for Apple, and that was the end of all third-party attempts to sync with iTunes. However, Apple did have a long, crack-and-patch battle with Real over their "Harmony" bypass of FairPlay %u2014 which eventually turned into a long lawsuit. phone-ui-guy Posts: 1,018member Originally Posted by Andysol What was great about that one is that the USB forum put the smack down on palm for spoofing USB IDs which was in direct conflict with the standard. Originally Posted by libertyforall I guess that depends. Take airline tickets. They wouldn't need to put anything in the passbook files that isn't already in the emails you would normally get. Gift cards and things that it would matter usually come via a secured connection to an application. The data shouldn't need to be secured in the format handed by the app to passbook if it was secure getting to the app and secure in the passbook storage. Encrypting them would actually be a challenge given the various sources of the content. Signatures and validating the source would be a much better thing so you don't get spoofed content coming into your wallet/passbook.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1202
__label__cc	0.610765	0.389235	Board index Discussion Forums Military Issues & History Forum Chandrayan-2 Mission The Military Issues & History Forum is a venue to discuss issues relating to the military aspects of the Indian Armed Forces, whether the past, present or future. We request members to kindly stay within the mandate of this forum and keep their exchanges of views, on a civilised level, however vehemently any disagreement may be felt. All feedback regarding forum usage may be sent to the moderators using the Feedback Form or by clicking the Report Post Icon in any objectionable post for proper action. Please note that the views expressed by the Members and Moderators on these discussion boards are that of the individuals only and do not reflect the official policy or view of the Bharat-Rakshak.com Website. Copyright Violation is strictly prohibited and may result in revocation of your posting rights - please read the FAQ for full details. Users must also abide by the Forum Guidelines at all times. Location: gaganaviharin Postby disha » 18 Jun 2019 23:57 Requesting mods to be indulgent for this epochal moment and keep the thread alive till the Chandrayan-2 mission completes. The thread is to discuss only Chandrayan-2 mission. No comparisons please. Of course, all articles related to chandrayaan-2 mission and images/videos related to that can be posted. Though for images, there is a separate thread. This links are very helpful: https://www.isro.gov.in/chandrayaan2-home Mission https://www.isro.gov.in/chandrayaan2-mission Re: Chandrayan-2 Mission Postby ramana » 19 Jun 2019 01:01 Good idea was going to open on the same topic. Only addition is lets keep the thread for any new data that gets revealed after the mission landing. Adding further information from ISRO's website: What are the scientific objectives of Chandrayaan 2? Why explore the lunar South Pole? The Moon provides us the best linkage to Earthâ€™s early history and an undisturbed record of the nascent Solar System environment. While a few mature models do exist, the Moon's origin still needs further explanations. Extensive mapping of the lunar surface will aid us in studying variations in its composition — an essential piece of information in tracing the Moon's origin and evolution. Evidence of water molecules — discovered by Chandrayaan 1 — and the extent of its distribution on the lunar surface and sub-surface also require further studies. The lunar South Pole is especially interesting because a larger section of its surface stays in the shadow than the North Pole. There is a possibility of the presence of water in permanently shadowed areas around it. In addition, the south polar region has craters that are cold traps, containing a fossilised record of the early Solar System. Chandrayaan 2 will use the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover to attempt a soft landing in a high plain between two craters — Manzinus C and Simpelius N — at a latitude of about 70Â° south. What makes Chandrayaan 2 special? 1st space mission to conduct a soft landing on the Moon's south polar region 1st Indian expedition to attempt a soft landing on the lunar surface with home-grown technology 1st Indian mission to explore the lunar terrain with home-grown technology 4th country ever to soft land on the lunar surface Weight 2,379 kg Electric Generation Capability 1,000 W At the time of launch, the Chandrayaan 2 Orbiter will be capable of communicating with Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN) at Byalalu as well as the Vikram Lander. The mission life of the Orbiter is one year and it will be placed in a 100X100 km lunar polar orbit. Lander — Vikram Electric Generation Capability 650 W The Lander of Chandrayaan 2 is named Vikram after Dr Vikram A Sarabhai, the Father of the Indian Space Programme. It is designed to function for one lunar day, which is equivalent to about 14 Earth days. Vikram has the capability to communicate with IDSN at Byalalu near Bangalore, as well as with the Orbiter and Rover. The Lander is designed to execute a soft landing on the lunar surface. Rover — Pragyan Electric Generation Capability 50 W Chandrayaan 2's Rover is a 6-wheeled robotic vehicle named Pragyan, which translates to 'wisdom' in Sanskrit. It can travel up to 500 m (½-a-km) and leverages solar energy for its functioning. It can only communicate with the Lander. Key payloads and research area Chandrayaan 2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer -> Elemental composition of the Moon Imaging IR Spectrometer -> Mineralogy mapping and water-ice confirmation Synthetic Aperture Radar L & S Band -> Polar-region mapping and sub-surface water-ice confirmation Orbiter High Resolution Camera ->High-res topography mapping Chandrayan Surface Thermo-physical Experiment -> Thermal conductivity and temperature gradient Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscope -> In-situ elemental analysis and abundance in the vicinity of landing site Key Timelines 18th September, 2008 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approves the Chandrayaan2 lunar mission Launch Window July 9, 2019 to July 16, 2019 Landing on Moon September 6, 2019 Scientific Experiment on Moon 1 Lunar day (14 earth days) Orbital Experiment Will be operational for 1 year prasannasimha Postby prasannasimha » 19 Jun 2019 10:57 https://youtu.be/lpM97jDpIxs Full introductory video Nice article from Swarajyamag https://swarajyamag.com/science/landing-on-lunar-surface-how-chandrayaan-2-will-travel-from-earth-to-moon this region of the moon hides a dense metallic mass estimated to be 4.8 quintillion pounds. Right, that’s 4,800,000,000,000,000,000 pounds — all zeros included..... ...Now comes the trickiest part of the mission. After the module arrives in the 100 km orbit, the lander will separate from the orbiter, which will continue to revolve around the moon. A separate entity now, the lander will de-boost with the firing of its four breaking engines. This manoeuvre will bring it to a periapsis of around 18 kilometres. When the lander reaches this point, that is at the height of 18 km, the onboard position detection camera and hazard avoidance sensor study the landing site for accuracy. Using the data obtained, the lander will autonomously determine the trajectory it will have to take to get to its pre-determined landing site, and steer itself to a location 100 metres above the site. Here, the lander will hover and allow the hazard avoidance sensor to determine the safest landing point. Then, it will be guided to this point and at the height of 2 metres above this location, the thrust will be cut off and the lander will go into a free fall to the impact point with the landing legs attached to it absorbing the impact shock. And good infographics, for example: Kakarat Postby Kakarat » 03 Jul 2019 00:40 Anyone planning to go to GSLV MKIII-M1 / Chandrayaan-2 Launch? Registration for the viewing gallery starts tomorrow sanjaykumar Postby sanjaykumar » 03 Jul 2019 02:55 Hope their orbital and approach calculations have corrected for the gravitational anisotropy resulting from that metallic body. uskumar Postby uskumar » 03 Jul 2019 15:05 To watch Chandrayaan 2 launch live at Sriharikota, online registration will be started soon. People can visit launch site and see it live. ArjunPandit Postby ArjunPandit » 03 Jul 2019 16:03 So sad, because of short notice i cant see it..but for the gagan yaann would try my best..ISRO should monetise it..people go to watch these things in US. With so many parents pushing kids to STEM, nothing better than this..the very thought of seeing and Indian launch gives me goose bumps... ArjunPandit wrote: So sad, because of short notice i cant see it..but for the gagan yaann would try my best..ISRO should monetise it..people go to watch these things in US. With so many parents pushing kids to STEM, nothing better than this..the very thought of seeing and Indian launch gives me goose bumps... This is the longest notice we have had for a launch in recent times, the launch date was announced more than a month ago. Also registration for viewing gallery use to start 5 days before launch this time its 10 days before launch Kakarat wrote: from the pics it looks like it has a capacity of at least few thousands..lets keep it 1,000 if they can be sold at few 100s it can generate few lakhs..can't that money be used for research/or scholarships?? ArjunPandit wrote: Its not complete yet, Its under construction and every time we visit there is a improvement. Presently its free maybe they will charge once it is completed UlanBatori Postby UlanBatori » 03 Jul 2019 17:35 Should charge for parking too. Akash Vani can provide commentary as ppl sit in the clogged "traffic" trying to get out of the parking lot: "Launch vehicle is now crossing the Coast of Fiji".. Like Mongolian delegation trying to escape after STS launch. There it was Africa. Postby disha » 04 Jul 2019 03:13 They should charge for the stands, the parking and also offer bullock rides. Bullock rides are for journos and aam-junta alike - for a cost. And between certain points. All bullocks bedecked and colorful. I am so wishing for our gaganaviharins to go to the launch pad on a bullock cart or at least few symbolic steps on a cart drawn by bullocks. For the rest rooms at the launch site, on paper towels and toilet papers - they should print the times cartoon. thammu Postby thammu » 04 Jul 2019 19:35 uskumar wrote: To watch Chandrayaan 2 launch live at Sriharikota, online registration will be started soon. People can visit launch site and see it live. Anybody from Chennai going? I would like to hitchhike. I will be going and most probably by train haven't finalised transport yet https://sr.indianrailways.gov.in/cris/u ... NEL-DN.pdf https://sr.indianrailways.gov.in/cris/u ... NEL-UP.pdf Kakarat wrote: I will be going and most probably by train haven't finalised transport yet Be in touch. bumeshrai@hotmail.com disha wrote: They should charge for the stands, the parking and also offer bullock rides. Bullock rides are for journos and aam-junta alike - for a cost.And between certain points. All bullocks bedecked and colorful. +my fav with the special Indian style toilet with Indian railway length mugs and toilet paper replaced by sand paper with BBC comments of UK aid money printed on it.. ISRO has started a good initiative to allow public to view launches and inspire youngsters and are planning more This is a thread is to discuss only Chandrayan-2 mission and look at what we are discussing that too by BRF Oldies, if this is not signs of deteriorating quality of BRF like some say then what is? Snippettes from ISRO Pages: https://www.isro.gov.in/gslv-mk-iii-cha ... -2-mission Chandrayaan-2 will be launched from Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota on-board GSLV Mk-III on 15th July 2019. It will be injected into an earth parking 170 x40400 km orbit. A series of maneuvers will be carried out to raise its orbit and put Chandrayaan-2 on Lunar Transfer Trajectory. On entering Moon's sphere of influence, on-board thrusters will slow down the spacecraft for Lunar Capture. The Orbit of Chandrayaan-2 around the moon will be circularized to 100x100 km orbit through a series of orbital maneuvers. On the day of landing, the lander will separate from the Orbiter and then perform a series of complex maneuvers comprising of rough braking and fine braking. Imaging of the landing site region prior to landing will be done for finding safe and hazard-free zones. The lander-Vikram will finally land near South Pole of the moon on 6th September 2019. Subsequently, Rover will roll out and carry out experiments on Lunar surface for a period of 1 Lunar day which is equal to 14 Earth days. Orbiter will continue its mission for a duration of one year https://www.isro.gov.in/chandrayaan2-home-0 Moon provides the best linkage to Earth’s early history. It offers an undisturbed historical record of the inner Solar system environment. Though there are a few mature models, the origin of Moon still needs further explanations. Extensive mapping of lunar surface to study variations in lunar surface composition is essential to trace back the origin and evolution of the Moon. Evidence for water molecules discovered by Chandrayaan-1, requires further studies on the extent of water molecule distribution on the surface, below the surface and in the tenuous lunar exosphere to address the origin of water on Moon The lunar South Pole is especially interesting because of the lunar surface area here that remains in shadow is much larger than that at the North Pole. There is a possibility of the presence of water in permanently shadowed areas around it. In addition, South Pole region has craters that are cold traps and contain a fossil record of the early Solar System. Accordingly, Chandrayaan-2 will attempt to soft land the lander -Vikram and rover- Pragyan in a high plain between two craters, Manzinus C and Simpelius N, at a latitude of about 70° south. Key payloads Chandrayaan 2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer: Elemental composition of the Moon Imaging IR Spectrometer: Mineralogy mapping and water-ice confirmation Synthetic Aperture Radar L & S Band: Polar-region mapping and sub-surface water-ice confirmation Orbiter High Resolution Camera: High-resolution topography mapping Chandra's Surface Thermo-physical Experiment: Thermal conductivity and temperature gradient Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscope: In-situ elemental analysis and abundance in the vicinity of landing site https://www.isro.gov.in/chandrayaan2-sp ... cecraft-pg Weight 2,379 kg Electric Power Generation Capability 1,000 W "At the time of launch, the Chandrayaan 2 Orbiter will be capable of communicating with Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN) at Byalalu as well as the Vikram Lander. The mission life of the Orbiter is one year and it will be placed in a 100X100 km lunar polar orbit." 1. I was not aware of IDSN: Here is what wiki tells: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Deep_Space_Network Seems like early days and primarily for Chandrayaan 1, 2 and MoM sadly the isro link doesnt seem to work 2. Wanted to do a random comparison of what NASA's opportunity MARS rover https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/ ... cal-power/ About 110 watts at launch, declining a few percent per year Wonder how are NASA managing with such low power? Solar? Couldnt find panels on the rover. The power seems to be radioisotope based "Mars 2020 carries a radioisotope power system. This power system produces a dependable flow of electricity using the heat of plutonium's radioactive decay as its "fuel." ^^kakarat sir..requested mods to delete the post...after the BS had gone one the value add mod....but thanks for the reminder anyways...have a question..can someone see the Chandrayaan 1 through telescope? https://www.newsnation.in/science-news/indias-chandrayaan-2-vs-chinas-change-4-detailed-comparison-between-two-lunar-missions-article-229608.html Was comparing the mission objectives of the Chandrayan 2 v/s chinese lunar landers..came across the above link. It has few points worth highlighting again Following the Lander, Rover will deploy and perform a few experiments on the lunar surface of a period of one lunar day, which equals 14 days on Earth. In the meantime, the orbiter will continue with its mission, which is scheduled to last a year. To demonstrate the ability to soft-land on the surface of the Moon and to operate a rover on the surface. To study the surface of the moon. To study the density of the electrons in the Moon's ionosphere that is the uppermost part of the atmosphere that is ionised by radiation. To identify or to find out the minerals and indicators of hydroxyl and water molecules. The Chandrayaan-2 mission is completely an indigenous as all payloads and all parts are developed by India. Difference between Chandrayaan-2 & Chang’e -4 ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 will have an Orbiter which will go around the moon. On the other hand, China’s Chang'e-4 will use relay satellite to halo orbit that is to orbit an empty point in space at the L2 Lagrange Point. Chandryaan-2 consists of three payloads namely the lander, the rover and the orbiter. Chang'e-4 consists of 4 payloads namely relay satellite, orbiting microsatellite, lander and rover. Chandrayaan-2 mission is completely indigenous mission that is completely developed in India only. Chang'e-4 carries international payloads which were developed by Germany, Sweden, the Netherland and Saudi Arabia. Spacecraft properties of Chandrayaan-2: Launch mass Combined: 3,877 kg. Also, Payload mass: Orbiter- 2,379 kg, lander-1,471 kg and rover- 27 kg. Spacecraft properties of Chang’e-4: Launch mass: Lander- 1200 kg and Rover 140 kg. On the other side, Chandrayaan-2 will reveal how solar wind interacts with the lunar surface and help in determining the process behind the formation of lunar water. Looks like chandrayan 2 is not going on dark side..but on near side Sridhar Postby Sridhar » 08 Jul 2019 23:24 http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-bl ... xpect.html Location: Ohio, USA Postby Amber G. » 09 Jul 2019 00:48 ArjunPandit wrote: .......have a question..can someone see the Chandrayaan 1 through telescope? From earth based telescopes : Chandrayaan is quite small to see by optical telescopes but we do have larger radio telescopes which can detect even such small objects far away. Remember these kind of telescopes were able to "see" black-holes far far away. Resolving power as if one can read newspaper in New York from California. There was no radio contact with Chandrayaan-I for last 10 years (AFAIK since August 2009) but we can calculate its orbit quite exactly (If you read my math for orbit calculations in brf ). Yes, it is is still circling some 200 Km above the moon, and the orbit around the moon takes two hours and 8 minutes. So if we point the telescope at the right point.. So we (NASA) used this math and turned the giant 300-foot Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California, and was able to see and pinpoint the exact location of the craft. BTW this is one example of great cooperation between Indian and US scientists as this technique is likely to be used to pinpoint small space junk in earth's orbit and small asteroids heading towards earth.. Using these kind of radio telescopes One can literally see a object just a few meters wide at the distance of the moon! https://www.hindustantimes.com/lucknow/ ... xRzFL.html Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-K) have developed a motion planning and generation software for Chandrayan-2, which will help the rover in its movement and guide its route on the lunar surface. It will also save energy and time required to reach the target area. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) would launch its second mission to the moon- Chandrayan-2 on July 15. The mission expected to reach the moon by September 6-7, 2019. Prof Ashish Datta of mechanical engineering department and Prof KS Venkatesh of electrical engineering who have developed the software said the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has approved the planning and mapping generation software developed by them. They said the lunar rover software has been developed and designed in the country for the first time. “It was long due. This has enabled the country to find a place among those having the technique of making lunar rover software,” they said. Prof Datta, who has been working on the intelligent control system, micro-sensor and bio-robotics said it took one year to develop the software based on an algorithm method. The rover fitted with the software developed by IIT-K would trace water and other mineral wealth in the lunar surface. The rover would also send a relevant picture to the laboratory for further research and examination. The software would be operated with a 20-watt solar battery and assist the rover in drilling the lunar surface to trace water and other chemicals inside it. Fifteen trials to trace chemical and water could be done with the help of the software, they claimed. heart warming to see that the contributions of desi institutions bearing fruit Dr Koppillil Radhakrishnan, will be the Chief Guest, 7th Convocation, 13th July, 2019 at IIT Kanpur. Some may find this interesting (for personal viewing only - not for wide distribution). An old IITK Presentation.. http://students.iitk.ac.in/power/Presentation1.ppt ^^Amber sir, are lander and rovers irradiated? SwamyG Postby SwamyG » 11 Jul 2019 07:41 Why does the rover have the capability to just communicate with the lander? The lander's life seems to be for 1 lunar day (14 days). Does it mean, after 14 days....the rover has its end as well? Mort Walker Location: The rings around Uranus. Postby Mort Walker » 11 Jul 2019 08:56 SwamyG wrote: Why does the rover have the capability to just communicate with the lander? The lander's life seems to be for 1 lunar day (14 days). Does it mean, after 14 days....the rover has its end as well? That's what it implies, but I don't see why it couldn't be used in the next lunar day when its batteries could be charged. It seems the Vikram does not have a nuclear thermoelectric generator with Pu238 like that on space probes such as Voyager. It does have at least one solar panel. These are all engineering design choices when every gram of mass must be accounted for. The Pragyan rover has a solar panel, but it only communicates with Vikram and not ground control on earth - this is due to weight issues. A larger gain antenna and more power would require a heavier rover. Pragyan is only 27 Kg and to allow for ground control communication, it would probably need to be 10 Kg heavier, but then you've got to make its batteries and solar panels bigger too to move it the 500 meters planned. This would add at least another 10 Kg. It would then necessitate a bigger payload section on Vikram to carry the Pragyan; and the whole Chandrayaan-2 would likely be at least 100 Kg heavier. It's not clear to me if Vikram communicates directly with ground control, or if it only communicates with the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter. I know weight is a concern, but I would think the designers would provide redundant communication paths to ground control; directly and via the orbiter. On another note, can we have someone here put a sticky at the beginning of this thread of the exact key dates and times? That is when Chandrayaan-2 is raised in earth orbit, trans-lunar injection, lunar orbit, separation of Vikram lander, lowering of Vikram, landing of Vikram, and deployment of Pragyan? I haven't been as excited since 1969 when watching Apollo 11, some 50 years ago. Last edited by Mort Walker on 11 Jul 2019 09:30, edited 1 time in total. ArjunPandit wrote: ^^Amber sir, are lander and rovers irradiated? They appear to be setup in an electronics clean room and are most likely designed to withstand ionizing radiation from space travel. However, there is no need to irradiate Chandrayaan-2 as the moon is essentially a vacuum with no living organisms to contaminate. It may be possible that bacteria from earth could survive the "climate" and "atmosphere" of the moon, but who cares? <POOF> Admin Note: This thread is to track the mission. So it remains clean of quasi-politico/social opinions. kakarat, please use reporting function for reporting anything that does not conform Last edited by hnair on 11 Jul 2019 18:25, edited 1 time in total. Mort Walker wrote: They appear to be setup in an electronics clean room and are most likely designed to withstand ionizing radiation from space travel. However, there is no need to irradiate Chandrayaan-2 as the moon is essentially a vacuum with no living organisms to contaminate. It may be possible that bacteria from earth could survive the "climate" and "atmosphere" of the moon, but who cares? Bacteria from Earth may already have found shelter on Moon and might even have evolved differently there. It is quite possible that any meteor impact on Earth might have generated a plume with small particles reaching moon and bacteria/viruses using it as a life boat. However it is obvious that finding life in isolated pockets on moon hanging on to dear life by a very thin margin does not mean that life is abundant on moon. Article IX of Outer Space Treaty covers space contamination in general guidelines. There is international council of science which forms committees to look into this matter and drive appropriate international and national legislations. In fact there is a whole body of legal lawyers and science lawyers who make a career out of this treaties. In the end, the only treaty that space agencies try to adhere is to reduce impact on downstream nations from rocket stages jettisoned as part of launch!! The rest is all honour system. Mort Walker wrote: It's not clear to me if Vikram communicates directly with ground control, or if it only communicates with the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter. I know weight is a concern, but I would think the designers would provide redundant communication paths to ground control; directly and via the orbiter. It, Vikram, can communicate with IDSL near Bangalore, as well as the Orbiter. https://www.isro.gov.in/chandrayaan2-latest-updates Shroud final assembly completed Cryogenic stage (C25) On Board Elementary checks completed Liquid stage (L110) control system checks completed Routing and termination of pyros, pressure sensors, Umbilical Connection Unit(UCU) separation connector cables end to end checks completed. Full Dress Rehearsal-1 (FDR-1) in progress. 1. GSLV MkIII-M1 moved to launch pad. 2. Spacecraft is powered and health check in progress. Launch vehicle ready for movement to launch pad 1. Link checks for lander & orbiter from ground station in progress. 2. Vehicle phase 3 level 2A checks completed. Integration of encapsulated assembly of Chandrayaan-2 with launch vehicle completed. 1.Equipment bay camera cowling assembly completed. 2. Radio frequency checks completed with Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft. 3. Payload fairing assembly in progress. Online registration process for witnessing the forthcoming GSLV MKIII-M1 / Chandrayaan-2 mission will commence @ 00:00 hrs on 04th July 2019 Chandrayaan -2 getting ready for integration with GSLV launcher. 1. Electrical checks and pyro arming of the vehicle completed. 2.Launch vehicle battery charging completed. Vikram lander (assembled with Pragyan Rover) integrated with Orbiter. Rover after completion of all tests integrated with lander Vikram GSLV MkIII-M1/Chandrayaan 2: Assembly of the batteries for all stages of launch vehicle completed Chandrayaan2 - From Pole to Pole The challenges of a Moon landing Benefits of Chandrayaan-2 Chandrayaan-2 update Must watch video. Worth every second And this one too: And I missed this! A tiny but very important bit about GSLV Mk-III (and its solid rocket boosters) in this video related to Chandrayan-2 Return to “Military Issues & History Forum”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1203
__label__cc	0.727784	0.272216	A question: Are you a lone flyer or do you move with friends? Thread starter Un1k0rn I've been doing a lot of soul-searching in ED lately, as to what kind of pilot I am. For the longest time I thought I would be a social CMDR. You might think that would be the case with the amount I've posted in this community. But no. I just can't play this delightful game unless I'm on my own. It's reached a peak. I deleted my entire friends list just now in the game, and as such, nobody can see where I am unless they share an instance with me. And I'm much happier for it. I've even gone so far as to clear all my wing/MC related bindings: I've never used them, and at this point it's clear I never will. But I would ask of you, CMDRs, are you, like me, a person who prefers to control his own destiny, or would you seek out allies and forge an empire? Reactions: Cmdr Esteban, MoonRacer, Mad Mike and 5 others I work alone. Sometimes by choice Reactions: space voyager, Darkfyre99, Bill Clement and 2 others Zieman Usually fly alone. Do enjoy occasional co op session too. Reactions: Bill Clement and Riverside I am a very goal-oriented person, in that I set myself a whole slew of longer term goals in games that give me the ability to do so. Sadly, that means I am mostly content to fly alone, Other people tend to just slow down goal progress from what I've experienced in most online games. Even when a game is set up such that doing things in groups SHOULD make progress faster....people just screw around alot; the more people you're doing things with, the harder it seems it is to maintain forward momentum. Like herding cats. I do like getting together and doing stuff with other folks once in a while though, you know...to be sociable. Just can't do it too regularly or I get fixated on lack of goal progression and start to get bitter toward the people hampering it. My goals in this game at the moment (I'm still very new) is a HUGE list. A few of the things on it include some ridiculously long explorations (set bookmarks for a Colonia expediation, as well as another one out to a nebula that's 5,000 Kly away in the other direction)....I imagine exploration is generally a solo experience in ED. I can see wanting to experience more group play in the game, eventually....but still alot of things to knock off the todo list that aren't really suited for groups. Aforementioned exploration and unlocking the rest of the engineers being the two big ones. Reactions: Spike K, Bill Clement, Northpin and 1 other person Vardaugas I'm on Moebius, so I'm pretty much all alone most of the time. Maybe that will change with the new initiatives. Reactions: Bill Clement Phisto Sobanii A small, devoted tribe is one of the best parts of my life. Reactions: Rebel RDX, Midian Cabal, Bill Clement and 2 others jnTracks Vardaugas said: I’d love to see more people, maybe I’ll look up a squad just for folks to talk to and fly with if our goals happen to align; but I’m going to remain focused on whatever I am on at the time so that’s never lead me to have lots of people around me. 99% of the time I fly alone. I'd like to fly with others more often but social anxiety is a real PITA sometimes. But that's only a part of it. I have 30+ contacts on my friends list and nearly 200 followers (xbox player) most all of them a result of Elite Dangerous. However very rarely do I see anyone playing Elite, even more rare that any of them contact me. I joined a squadron that quickly became a PMF and even that didn't change things much. Reactions: GreyAreaUK, Riverside, Un1k0rn and 1 other person Vedmo Lone wolf. Main reason being I have zero interest in integrating Discord or some other such thing into my game play, and these days in online gaming it seems the first step to doing anything with others is Discord. There have been some occasions in ED where I've met someone and joined up to accomplish something in game, and that was nice, but I don't need it or look for it. Reactions: GeoJase, Darkfyre99, Jmanis and 3 others I should point out that I do fly exclusively in Open. But all my jobs are one-man. Raumfahrer Spiff Both. Decidedly. There is strength in numbers and sharing a common cause does wonders for motivation and sense of purpose. I'm a Fleet Commander in a player group so naturally I spend a lot of time sharing and teaching and learning in my free time on discord, and then we occasionally coordinate in-game operations or events with anywhere from 3-15 of us together messing around with something, or band together when there's an important BGS war to win. But more often than not I'm just hopping around our sector doing my own thing off my list of to-dos, and running into people when it rarely happens organically, or taking weekend trips to do engineer loops for a new ship, or taking a month long "vacation" on some solo expedition. I value my alone time as much as I value all of the great moments I've had with my various wing-mates over the years. Reactions: Bill Clement and Gibson Morrison Well I just started about 2 weeks ago, had one offer to show me a couple of things so I sent an invite(Accepted) but haven't seen them online. I am however trying to get my brother to join- we both played OGame together and had a good time and it helps us keep in touch seeing that we live in different States. Old Duck Un1k0rn said: I'm a lone flyer because I have no friends. That is, friends who play Elite. I'm not a big fan of Discord, INARA, and other social media tools used to build these connections out-of-game, so I probably never will. I'm lucky to randomly encounter strangers in this game, let alone friends, so I'm a lone pilot desperately wanting an NPC crew, because NPCs make the best friends! Reactions: WinterKing2112, Codger, Abysinth and 6 others Vedmo said: Old Duck said: I feel the same way as Vedmo and Duck about Discord. In the past I used IRC, Raidcall, TeamSpeak, and Skype. I'm tired of playing follow the leader to a different site/app all the time because it's the "HOT" new thing. If it can't be communicated to me in game or on the forums then I don't need it. Reactions: Old Duck and Vedmo picommander Always solo from day one. From experience I know I have a strong tendency to easily burn out on human communication. Whenever I did that in a game I lost interest in the game in no time. Maybe the main reason why I'm avoiding player interaction in ED like the devil and why I sometimes really enjoy a CQC session in all its anonymousness. I don't care much about this community, but I definitely care about the game! Reactions: Ratkatcher and Vedmo Vasco Sapien Solo act that often craves social exposure, but its typically very difficult because of my terrible personal hygiene. My current Squad mates make excuses to avoid me, apparently i have a kind of peaty, earthy aroma. Reactions: Gibson Morrison Vasco Sapien said: That's why I always keep the helmet on. I say it's safety, but, really, it's the smell. Reactions: WinterKing2112 and Vasco Sapien Northpin Jaggid Edje said: What he said, basically all of it Reactions: Jaggid Edje You know considering there isn't a single Cmdr that's been allowed out of their pilot seat in 4-5 years to take a bio-break let alone a shower a "peaty, earthy aroma" is the least offensive thing I can imagine right now. Reactions: WinterKing2112, Vasco Sapien and Jaggid Edje Exactly. I don't want to mess with outside communication programs. In other MMOs I met players and made friends through in game communication channels. Despite the addition of squadrons, E: D seems designed to keep us isolated. I've gotten to know some players through an Elite Facebook group but that hasn't carried over into the game. The one thing I truly miss from my wasted years of playing Eve Online is the multitude of in game communication channels. Reactions: Vedmo and Old Duck	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1204
__label__cc	0.699827	0.300173	Inventor Builds Invisible iPhone Screen For Covert Viewing Apple Inc, News It’s a problem for many of us to stop peering eyes peeking on our phone screen, but an invention in turkey claim to solve it. Celal Goger has invented a secret screen that turns iPhone invisible in naked eyes, only the people wearing these glasses can see the screen. the magic is in a chip that enables glasses to communicate with the phone. His name is Celal Goger, He is from turkey and he is 42 years old genius. He is a mobile phone technician. “I made the first one in 6 months, the second one in four months, the third one in two months and now I can make it in ten days.” he said. Then he goes in his own town at BISMIL RESIDENT, AHMET UGUR. It was impressive, looking for some test and some people were eager about the product to hit the market. He created a special model of the display which can be seen by a special glass which is used by him. He used to encounter the snooping problem all the time by people around him and in subways when he was busy in texting. “The mobile screen is completely blank. nothing can be seen, you can’t see the menu. then he gave me the glasses and I put them on so ha my complete menu. if had this on my mobile nobody sees what I am looking at, which is absolutely amazing.” “I heard mass production so we can benefit this invention because people connect private text messages or can make personal calls, there are things we want to see in public, there are private messages we can’t look in public and feel secure” Goger says he must register it for the patent for copyrights on invisible iPhone screen to whom he can sell it. the next time to invent a nano chip that can bite any gossips and turn the screen invisible or visible with a single button. Facebook World’s Most Empathetic Company Towards Their Employee Razer’s Project Valerie The Laptop With Triple Screen Lenovo Unveils It’s Latest Legion Gaming Laptops And Desktops	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1206
__label__wiki	0.746415	0.746415	Camp of the Saints: Death Off the Coast of Algeria Four sub-Saharan Africans died off the coast of Algeria last week in an attempt to reach Lampedusa. Nine others were rescued from certain death by the Algerian coast guard. I’ll have more on this story later on in this post, but first the news on the latest arrivals in southern Italy. 413 culture-enrichers have landed in Italian territory since my last update, which is not enough to warrant raising the temperature on the Cultural Enrichment Thermometer. However, it brings the year-to-date total to just over 55,000. Not all of the new refugees landed on Lampedusa. A group of Afghans — probably transiting through the Balkans and crossing the Adriatic — landed at Salento, in the heel of the Italian boot. 31 Afghans Picked Up After Landing in Salento Area (AGI) Lecce — Thirty-one Afghans who landed illegally on the Salento coast have been picked up by carabinieri and finance police. According to the migrants they arrived aboard a large rubber dinghy that sailed from Greece. Meanwhile, 95 Tunisians were rescued off Lampedusa: Immigrant Boat Adrift, 95 Rescued in Lampedusa (AGI) Palermo — Another boat of immigrants has made landfall on Lampedusa. 95 Tunisians, including 2 little girls, reached Lampedusa during the night after being rescued at 30 miles from the island by a Guardia di Finanza patrol boat. All the migrants were transshipped on another Guardia di Finanza ship because the boat adrift had an engine failure which made it impossible for it to continue its course. Later in the week there were 287 arrivals on Lampedusa in three separate boats: Three Boats With 287 Migrants Landed on Lampedusa the Night (AGI) Lampedusa — A total of 3 boats carrying 287 immigrants, including many women and children, reached Lampedusa during the night. While all those refugees were arriving safely in Italy, others were dying in their attempt to cross. The tragedy occurred off the coast of Algeria, where illegal departures for Europe are less frequent than in Tunisia and Libya. ANSAmed posted accounts of two separate incidents, each of which involved two deaths. The first incident occurred on September 13: Algeria: Two Dead Bodies on Boat, 15 Missing (ANSAmed) — Algiers, September 13 — A short distance away from the coast of the city of Bejaia on a boat adrift at sea, the Algerian Coast Guard found the bodies of two men who authorities believe were trying to reach Italy. According to initial investigations reported on El Watan’s website, the men were part of a group of immigrants who were trying to reach the beaches of the island of Lampedusa in the middle of August. There is no news of the other 15 “harragas” (the name in North Africa for people who try to illegally leave the country) and they are officially considered missing by the Algerian authorities. The Algerian authorities have managed to identify the victims by checking the memories of the mobile phones found near the two dead bodies. They are two young men, a 22 year old and a 25 year old, from Marsa (in the province of Skida) and Annaba. Their family members have already been called to the morgue in the hospital in Bejaia, where the bodies were taken for official identification. The group reportedly left on August 17 in the middle of Ramadan (quite an irregular circumstance) from the deserted beach of Guerbez in the province of Skikda. Since then there had not been any news about the immigrants. A likely hypothesis is that the boat had a malfunction when it was already miles from the coast. There is practically no hope of finding the missing people from the group alive, a source told El Watan. In recent days another three bodies have been found at sea, but it does not look like there is any connection between the two findings. In a similar incident on the same day, but at a different port, two more bodies were found, but nine harragas were rescued: Algeria: Another Two Die, Nine Are Saved (ANSAmed) — Algeria, September 13 — The bodies of another two irregular immigrants attempting to reach the Italian coast have been recovered from the sea by Algeria’s coast guard, close to the trading port of Téne’s. According to a report by el Watan, the bodies are of two black Africans, probably from sub-Saharan countries. Their estimated ages are between 30 and 40 years. Ahead of an official identification, the bodies have been transferred to the mortuary of Téne’s hospital. In the meantime, news has arrived that on Saturday, nine “haragas”, all of them very young and originating from rural Talassa communities (of Chlef province), were rescued at sea from a certain death by the coast guard. They were travelling on board an improvised vessel and as the first rescuers report, were in a condition of serious malnutrition and were already dehydrated. Having undergone first aid treatment, the nine were questioned by a public prosecutor who will decide whether charges should be brought against them (illegal migration is a criminal offence in Algeria). The El Watan newspaper points out that Talassa is one of the poorest areas in the country and apart from its underdeveloped condition, it has also been the scene of terrorist activity. For previous posts about the Mediterranean refugee crisis, see The Camp of the Saints Archive. Hat tips: C. Cantoni, Insubria. gsw said... In view of the speech made yesterday by the Turkish minister Gül in Germany, regarding multiculturalism, tolerance and the duty of everyone to welcome foreigners, I have no doubt he would be more than happy to take every single person landing in Italy and invite them all to make a new home in Turkey, at the expense of his compatriots. BunBun4life said... Oh Lord are you serious? TURKEY of all places wants to talk about tolerance and duty. LMAO !! OMG that's like some kind of a sick joke from the most nationalistic country that ever existed. They kill EVERYBODY who isn't a muslim TURK. He just wants non muslim countries full to the brim of gross north african muslims. Erdogan's hypocritical chutzpah is right up there with Mexico's Calderon lecturing the American Senate on how they should welcome illegal Mexican immigrants when Mexico itself is rigorous about policing its borders against any illegal migrants from Central and South America (not to mention any American who wants to cross into the narco-state illegally). You'll recall that Obama and what was then a Dem Congress gave the holier than thou Mexican an ovation, with only one Republican senator later remarking publicly on Calderon's hypocrisy. Erdogan is just another megalomaniac Muslim dreaming of past (Ottoman) glories. He should go home and concern himself with his homegrown terrorists. And yes, give him a boatload of African refugees to take with him to prove the famous Muslim hospitality. Muslims should take care of Muslims, no? In fact, for true reciprocity with the West, Muslims should be accepting NON-Muslims by the boatload. 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__label__wiki	0.533352	0.533352	Megan Jean Sovern on Her Humorous, Heartfelt Middle-Grade Debut ‘The Meaning of Maggie’ Posted on June 24, 2014 by Kate Hannigan • 0 Comments One of the best middle-grade reads so far this summer is author Megan Jean Sovern‘s remarkable debut, The Meaning of Maggie (Chronicle Books, May). It is historical fiction—if you consider the ’80s history rather than “just a few years ago”—based on her own family’s experiences dealing with her father’s multiple sclerosis. And while it offers a window into how kids can cope with a parent’s debilitating illness, it is more about how family—with all its imperfections and irritations—can be the force that sustains us. From the book’s opening lines, it’s clear that 11-year-old Maggie Mayfield is one of the smartest and most fascinating heroines to come along in ages. That’s not just because she asked for Coca-Cola stock for her birthday and still rises early with the alarm clock during summer vacation. Maggie is a determined future President of the United States, repeat Student of the Month, and defending Science Fair champion. While her two older sisters subsist on a steady diet of hairspray, makeup, and boys, clear-thinking Maggie sets out to fix her family’s latest problem: Dad and the way his arms and legs have fallen asleep. Copyright Megan Jean Sovern GeekMom talked with Megan about her powerful new novel, which Kirkus Reviews calls, “Smart, sensitive, sad, and funny.” Question: The Meaning of Maggie is inspired by your own family and the ways all of you dealt with your dad’s illness. How much of Maggie is you? Is she the 11-year-old you were? Or wanted to be? Megan Jean Sovern: Maggie and I share a similar story and the same weird eyebrows, and we both really like snacks. But the comparison sort of ends there. I’m meek and quiet, and Maggie is anything but. Maggie doesn’t give up. She goes to the edge of every earth to find what she’s looking for. She’s emotionally tough and filled to the brim with so many feelings, and I really admire that about her. I’m much more of an emotional wallflower. Q: I loved every little thing about Maggie, from her planning to be President of the United States to her commitment to the science fair to setting her alarm clock even when school is out to avoid the “summer slide” in the morning routine. Also, lines like this: “Usually I would have been beside myself about missing a day of school considering I didn’t even miss school when I was sick, which was seldom because I took twice the recommended daily dose of Flintstone vitamins. And even when a cold snuck past Fred and Wilma, I would still NEVER miss school.” Could Maggie be any geekier? MJS: Maggie could always be geekier. I mean there are whole realms of Middle Earth she’s yet to explore. Q: While you dealt realistically with Maggie’s father’s MS, you were never heavy-handed. You managed to balance the seriousness of what she goes through with some delightful humor. How challenging was it to find that right balance? Did you find it hard to write for a young audience? MJS: I wish I could say I went into a deep dark fire pit of emotion and fought my way tooth and nail to find the right balance of seriousness and silliness. But it was really natural to tell her story this way. In my own life, almost every sad and scary moment was punctuated by humor and grace, and that credit is owed entirely to my parents, who never let us forget to be funny. So it felt really honest to tell Maggie’s story the same way, and I hope young readers feel that. Q: Maggie is saddled with two older sisters, Layla and Tiffany, who are into boys, their hair, their makeup, and more boys. The way you handle the differences between them is hilarious and heartwarming, as in this passage: “I had almost liked hanging out with them all day. They weren’t so bad once you got over the fact that their lips were permanently locked to boys who probably didn’t floss.” It made cheering for Maggie all the more fun. Were you inspired by protagonists from other children’s books when you created Maggie? Did you intend to make her such a smart, capable supergirl? MJS: I intended to dress Maggie in many layers both literally and metaphorically. I wanted her to ruffle feathers and stand up for herself and never doubt her intelligence. I didn’t want her to be likeable and loveable on every single page. My favorite protagonists are always the ones who challenge you to stick with them even when they let you down. Especially when they let you down. You don’t give up on them because you know, deep down, they are going to pull through and it’s going to be magical. I hope readers know that Maggie is always going to find a way to pull up her bootstraps. Q: For GeekMoms, like me, who are constantly searching out strong girls and meaningful stories for their kids, Maggie was a welcome discovery. What do you hope readers take away from Maggie’s story? What do you hope to accomplish with your writing? MJS: I hope readers give Maggie a fighting chance to figure things out in her own time. She’s precocious, and full of might, and sometimes really hard to love—and that’s okay. I hope she reflects the good, the bad, and the really hungry moments of adolescence. From the very beginning, I set out to a tell story of survival: a story about an ordinary family handed an extraordinary challenge, and it doesn’t tear them a part. It doesn’t send them into a tailspin of dystopian misery. Rather, it brings them together, makes them stronger and even a little funnier. Q: Spaceballs! Maggie and her dad are big fans, and I suspect you are too! What gives? MJS: One of the main reasons this novel is set in 1988 is because that’s the year Spaceballs came out on VHS. It’s also set in 1988 because I didn’t want a modern Maggie easily solving the mystery of her dad’s illness with a simple Google search. But mostly I’m just really obsessed with Spaceballs, and I take every chance I get to mention ludicrous speed. Liked it? Take a second to support Kate Hannigan on Patreon! Tags: children's book Kate Hannigan ← The Books Of Elsewhere: Final Book Release and Giveaway! Mezco Toyz to Release a Jesse Pinkman Action Figure →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1210
__label__wiki	0.585402	0.585402	Dancouver May 14, 2019 NFL The greatest quarterback of all time for each team: AFC East Folks, we’re getting into the part of the year where sports slow down. Football is especially dead. So in order to cope with that we make these random lists and we have debates on who is the greatest. In this series we will look at each NFL team and rank their greatest quarterback in franchise history. The NFC is done. You can view them here: Next up is the AFC East which, aside from the Patriots, has been a total dumpster fire this century. It’s a complete joke, really. That being said, they have had some very talented quarterbacks play in this division and I’m excited to break down who I think is best. Buffalo Bills- Jim Kelly Jim Kelly is the best quarterback in this franchise’s history and it’s not close. He leads the team in all major categories and was their leader during their most dominant years. The most shocking thing about Kelly’s career is that he didn’t win at least one of the four Super Bowls he went to in four straight years. You figure just by blind luck you’re able to get one. Regardless, Buffalo sports fans are great and they love Jim Kelly. It’s impossible not to. Miami Dolphins- Dan Marino Dan Marino is at the top of the list of quarterbacks who have never won a Super Bowl. He constantly played on bad teams and had to attempt to will them to victory. Since he retired in 1999 the Dolphins haven’t been able to replace him. It’s been twenty years in quarterback purgatory for them. Dan Marino also wants you to know that he doesn’t flub his lines when he’s filming commercials. Here's Dan Marino making a commercial video for Visa 😂😂 (🎥 Goats And Glory TV) pic.twitter.com/RBnRleuK7J — uSTADIUM (@uSTADIUM) September 29, 2016 New York Jets- Joe Namath Broadway Joe is the greatest quarterback in New York Jets franchise history. He retired in 1976 and the Jets have legitimately found no replacement for him. It must be a sad life being a Jets fan having to watch the Giants win four total Super Bowls with two generations of teams while guys like Chad Pennington, Vinny Testaverde, and Mark Sanchez were taking snaps under center for the New York Jets. The crazy thing is that Joe Namath wasn’t even that good. He threw for just 170 touchdowns compared to 215 interceptions. He is famous for guaranteeing a win in Super Bowl 3 and that’s cemented his legacy. Joe Namath now spends his days getting drunk and hitting on female sports reporters. A drunk Joe Namath REALLY wants to kiss Suzy Kolber pic.twitter.com/kZdJAHKjXX — 24/7 NFL News (@247NFL_News) August 9, 2015 New England Patriots- Tom Brady Okay so the thumbnail photo on this article was a bit misleading. So was the photo above. Listen, it’s no secret that I’m not a fan of Tom Brady. I find him to be a system quarterback who has the best coach of all time in Bill Belichick and he pads his stats by checking the ball down to wide open slot receivers and running backs. That being said, he’s obviously the greatest quarterback in Patriots franchise history and a top 5 quarterback of all time. I don’t drink the kool-aid that rings=greatness like our fearless leader Trevor does. I am smart enough to know that if the Patriots had a quarterback like Peyton Manning then they’d have probably won ten Super Bowls by now. That being said, they don’t. They got Tom Brady. Good on Tom for making the most of his opportunities and marrying a super model wife. That’s the American dream. That being said, I’m still not a fan. You should be a Clint Bowyer fan Why Frankie Edgar instead of Volkanovski?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1221
__label__wiki	0.522646	0.522646	Here There Be Games - HTBG Blog A combination of game commentary, creative writing, and other projects! Writing Exercise - The Cough of a Child The Cough of a Child Animal noises echo down alleyways and empty streets, a wild symphony playing to an empty house. The stars in the sky shine their light down on abandoned cars and fields that were long overgrown with weeds, nature retaking what had so previously been subjugated by mankind. Now though that subjugation had come to an end, mankind's grasp of nature had been loosened by events that the survivors described as 'mundane' or 'unassuming'. See the end of man was not heralded in by the great boom of explosions ripping apart the countryside, nor the ripping and rending of flesh from some half-imagined the horror, no the end of mankind was heralded in by a child coughing. Some believed that it would be a virus that would wipe us out in the end, and some believed that we would make it, however, no one thought that it was something that was with us the entire time that would end up taking us out. It was the common cold. More accurately it was a mutation of the common cold. Scientists laughed at first, but when the first child was submitted to a hospital with a cold that simply wouldn't go away they were stumped. Not worried, simply stumped. As if this child's illness was a puzzle for them to solve in between real issues. However as more and more people rolled in, the elderly, children, people with low immune systems, all walks of life were soon struck with this 'Super Cold' scientists amusement grew to worry. The 'Super Cold' as it was called would start innocently enough, a runny nose, coughing, sore throat, everything typical of a normal cold. It would persist for weeks however and eventually more symptoms began to appear such as insomnia, high fever, severe cramping, and muscle spasms. Not to mention anyone who came into contact with an infected person was bound to catch it, it was the common cold after all. Well almost everyone. Nicknamed 'Angels' there were precious few who were immune to the disease outright, and those people were begged by the masses to give blood and volunteer their time to aid who they could and help try to find a cure for the 'Super Cold', however the discovery of the 'Angels' happened too late, and by that point people had developed the third stage of the illness, nausea, vomiting, and internal bleeding. Those who made it to stage three were written off as lost causes as more and more people developed stage one and two 'Super Colds'. 'Angels' worked tirelessly for the most part, donating time and blood to try their best to cure the disease but when their efforts were beginning to show progress the fourth and final stage of the disease began to show. Delerium, convulsions, and death. Humanity tried, it really did, however, humanity just wasn't meant to last. Now that those who were infected have entered the final stages of the diseases the Angels wander the empty streets, walking and wandering in lost attempts to find each other and regroup for the sake of the species. It will be an uphill battle, but those wandering 'Angels' are all that are left. Lonely footsteps their only accompaniment and death their only true companion as the rest of the world falls apart around them. Ego's Blog Challenge - #1 All for a Wish All for a Wish Bravery can be described as realizing one's own fears and still doing what needs to be done despite them. Bravery can also be described as willing to put oneself in the path of conflict to protect the innocent, or at least that was what Van was telling himself as he crouched low behind the rocky outcroppings of the creature's lair. It had been a long and treacherous trip but here he was, finally within sight of his prize. Well, a prize was the wrong word, it was more an unfathomable horror that he was trying to dispose of for the greater good. What was this unfathomable horror? This terrible prize that he sought so hard for while repeating the definition of bravery in his mind like a mantra? A ring. Not just any ring though, no this one held a terrible power that even the most stout of minds couldn't handle. The sort of power that was whispered only in legends and overwhelmed the most steadfast of heroes. At least that was what Van had been told, truthful… Alive And Well With Living Card Games! Today I would like to talk about one of my new loves, Living Card Games! Ah Living Card Games, where should I start! First off let's go over exactly what a Living Card Game is! Card Games can be separated into three different types of games. The first, and resoundingly more popular, being Collectible or Trading Card Games (CCG or TCG). In these games, cards are purchased at 'random' and there is usually a strong secondary market of individual cards, each of which having their own value. This causes the hobby to be split in two, half being playing the game and the other half in collecting and maintaining a collection of the cards! The second less-popular, but still super fun option, is called a Deck Building Game. There are plenty of examples of these out there in any flavor an aspiring gamer might enjoy: Ascension, Legendary, Resident Evil, Street Fighter, The DC Deck Building Game. Now in these games, it is a box set with expansions available, much in the same way boar… CharismMichael Do you like games? Writing? Creativity and encouragement? Well you've come to the right place. Here at HTBG the goal is not only to provide fun and interesting content that you will hopefully enjoy but to speak candidly about the creative process and encourage others to get creative. So grab a pen or some brushes and create along!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1227
__label__cc	0.630885	0.369115	Home \ Channels \ Student Affairs Live \ Social Class and Student Affairs Social Class and Student Affairs Debunking the Myth of Job Fit Social class often goes unspoken or spoken about in coded language in higher education generally, and student affairs specifically. Yet, social class is an organizing principle, whether we pay attention to it or not, for those aspiring to attend, attending, graduating, teaching, and working in higher education. On this episode of Student Affairs Live, host Keith Edwards speaks with Sonja Ardoin, Ph.D. and becky martinez, ed.d. co-authors of the new book Straddling Social Class in the Academy. This episode will discuss the lessons from the 26 narratives of students, faculty, and administrators from working class and poor backgrounds from the book and implications for student affairs practitioners, practice, and policy. This free episode will air live on Wednesday, April 24 at 1 pm ET. To watch the archived video, just return to this page at any point after the episode airs. If you have questions for our panelists, in advance of the episode please email keith@keithedwards.com or tweet @KeithEPhD with your question and Keith will incorporate it into the dialogue. We will also take questions during the episode via the Twitter backchannel at #higheredlive or connect with panelists @drbeckymartinez and @SonjaArdoin. Watch the broadcast on our platform: Login and Watch Or, sign up now! Register and Watch Keith Edwards Over the past 18 years Keith (he/him/his) has spoken and consulted at more than 200 colleges and universities, presented more than 200 programs at national conferences, and written more than 20 articles or book chapters on curricular approaches, sexual violence prevention, men’s identity, social justice education, and leadership. His research, writing, and speaking have received national awards and recognition including ACPA Dissertation of the Year and ACPA Diamond Honoree. His TEDx Talk on Ending Rape has been viewed around the world. Keith is also a certified executive and leadership coach for individuals who are looking to unleash their fullest potential. Keith was the Director of Campus Life at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN from 2007 – 2015 where he provided leadership for the areas of residential life, student activities, conduct, and orientation. He was an affiliate faculty member in the Leadership in Student Affairs program at the University of St. Thomas, where he taught graduate courses on diversity and social justice in higher education for 8 years. Sonja Ardoin Sonja Ardoin, Ph.D. is a learner, educator, facilitator, and author. Proud of her hometown of Vidrine, Louisiana, her working class, Cajun roots, and her first-generation college student to PhD journey, Sonja holds degrees from LSU, Florida State, and NC State. She considers herself a scholar-practitioner of higher education; she served as an administrator for 10 years before shifting to the faculty in 2015. Sonja studies social class identity, college access and success for rural and first-generation college students, student and women’s leadership, and career preparation and pathways in higher education and student affairs. Learn more about Sonja at www.sonjaardoin.com. becky martinez becky martinez, ed.d. is a consultant and trainer with an emphasis on social justice, leadership and organizational change. Her work focuses on engaging individuals and groups to recognize systemic dynamics of privilege and oppression to create more inclusive and equitable policies, practices, and structures. Prior to full-time consultancy, becky worked as a student affairs administrator at both public and private institutions in California. She is a faculty member for the Social Justice Training Institute and a Co-Lead Facilitator for the LeaderShape Institute. Category: Student Affairs Live \| Upcoming Tags: student affairs Study Abroad: Trends and Issues in Student Affairs Student Affairs Marketing and Communication #BlackLivesMatter: Confronting Racism on Campus Student Affairs Live: The Summer of Health, Fitness, & Wellness Student Affairs Live Leadership and Technology Panel Advancement in Student Affairs: Selling Our Story	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1229
__label__wiki	0.953857	0.953857	Irate Youths Kill Six In Taraba By Charles Akpeji, Jalingo 20 December 2015 \| 6:45 am Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on WhatsApp Share on LinkedIn Share via Email 1 SIX people died in Taraba State on Friday, as angry youths protested the killing of two persons in a robbery incident. Led by the son of a district head, the attackers in Bornon Kurku village in Bali council descended on members of an ethnic group in the area, accusing them of complicity in the robbery, which happened along the Chediya-Bornon Kurku road. One eyewitness, who narrowly escaped death, said the youths became enraged after the corpses of the two robbery victims were brought to the village. “On seeing the bodies, he went into his room and returned with a gun. He was shouting, ‘God is great!’ He immediately shot and killed three people. As others scampered for safety, he led a pursuit and three more persons were killed. I escaped narrowly. “We had all gathered to see the sad scene when suddenly we became targets for the youths. It’s unfortunate that anything bad that happens is blamed on us,” said the eyewitness. The leader of the youths has since been arrested by the police and is currently undergoing interrogation at the Divisional Police Headquarters, Bali. Taraba State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Joseph Kwaji, confirmed the incident, saying two persons were robbed and killed by unidentified assailants and that youths killed some people of Tiv extraction in an attempt at retaliation. Kwaji said investigation into the incident is still ongoing and that the perpetrators would be brought to book. Some residents of the area, meanwhile, have begun relocating to the state capital and neighbouring councils fearing the situation could deteriorate. godwin111 Animals living in houses. Killed six persons to avenge two. May be the other parties should kill 20 to avenge six… on and on it should go.animals!!!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1232
__label__wiki	0.792897	0.792897	Home Statistics Filmstars Finn Jones Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics Finn Jones Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics Finn Jones Quick Info Height 5 ft 11¼ in Date of Birth March 24, 1988 Zodiac Sign Aries Finn Jones is a talented British actor and disc jockey. He is known for his roles in Game of Thrones, Iron Fist, The Defenders, Luke Cage, Life in Squares, Hollyoaks, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Doctors, Sleeping Beauty, The Last Showing, and Leatherface. He took an acting class at the Arts Educational Schools in London. Finn occasionally waves his musical talents at the Love Games NYC as its resident DJ. He has more than 600k followers on his Instagram account. Terence Jones Finn Jones at Magic City Comic Con in January 2016 (Florida Supercon / Flickr / CC BY 2.0) New York City, New York, United States Finn Jones studied at the Hayes School in Bromley. Later, he joined Arts Educational Schools in London to study acting on a three-year course. Actor, Disc Jockey Father – His father worked as a private investigator. Mother – His mother worked as a caregiver for children. Siblings – He has a sister. Finn Jones is managed by Curtis Brown Group Ltd., Talent Agency, London, United Kingdom. 5 ft 11¼ in or 181 cm 75 kg or 165.5 lbs Finn Jones in an Instagram selfie as seen in February 2019 (Finn Jones / Instagram) Finn Jones has rarely spoken about his personal life in his interactions with the media, which makes it difficult for us to ascertain anything about his dating history and love life. Short curly hair Long squared chin High nose bridge Finn Jones has either promoted or endorsed brands like – Kiehl’s UK Finn Jones as seen in March 2016 (Miguel Discart / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0) His numerous roles in TV series including HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–2016) as Loras Tyrell, and as Danny Rand/Iron Fist in Marvel Television/Netflix series The Defenders (2017), Luke Cage (2018), and Iron Fist (2017–2018) In 2014, he made his feature film debut in the adventure fantasy horror film Sleeping Beauty as Barrow. In 2009, he made his first TV show appearance on the musical romantic comedy series Hollyoaks Later as Jamie. Finn Jones followed a specific training for his role as Danny Rand in Iron Fist (2017–2018). He had a personal trainer with whom he worked out 3 to 4 times a week. They followed a gymnastic-style workout routine so he could stay physically flexible and lift weights while remaining lean. For his fighting skills, he trained with an ex-Shaolin Monk Shi Foo Ming and learned traditional Kung Fu and Tai Chi. He also practiced meditation daily to manage his stress. As for his diet, he completely cut out sugar, salt, and unhealthy carbohydrates. He followed a strict diet of warm chicken, sweet potato, broccoli, asparagus, quinoa, and brown rice for 10 months. He also stopped drinking alcohol at the same time. Finn Jones Favorite Things Cartoon – Adventure Time (2010-2018) Action Sequence From Iron Fist – Davos-Danny showdown Source – ABS-CBN News, IB Times Finn Jones speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con International (Gage Skidmore / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0) Finn Jones Facts He was adopted from foster care, where he spent 2 years. His sister was also adopted from foster care by his father. He changed his name from Terence “Terry” Jones to avoid confusion with Monty Python actor, Terry Jones. Training gear he can’t live without is his Bose SoundSport Free headphones and a tennis ball. If he could have a drink with any character from The Defenders, he would share it with Luke Cage. Even while he was cast in one of the biggest shows (Game of Thrones) in the world, he worked at a bar to make up for his rent. He is a resident DJ at the Love Games NYC and occasionally performs as guest DJ at various places. Finn is involved in multiple charity works and has shown his supported for AFYA Foundation, Oxfam campaigners and Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn. Visit his official website @ finnjones.co.uk. Follow him on Facebook and Instagram. Featured Image by Miguel Discart / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 Bronia Noel Sullivan Height Weight Body Statistics Maia Mitchell Height Weight Body Statistics	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1246
__label__wiki	0.645895	0.645895	Ashley Greene’s Sleek, Straight Hair: Get The Look From Her Stylist November 16, 2012 3:53PM EDT The Final ‘Breaking Dawn: Part 2’ Premiere Is So Sad FameFlynet William Earl The Berlin premiere of ‘Breaking Dawn: Part 2’ marks the end of an era. It’s the last ‘Twilight’ premiere ever, and I am so sad about it! Are you? Breaking Dawn: Part 2 has finally hit theaters, as the cast gathers for the last time in Berlin for the final red carpet premiere in the Twilight Saga. It’s so exciting that the world can finally see the conclusion to the phenomenal series, but it’s a highly bittersweet moment — everything is ending! As Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner walked the red carpet with director Bill Condon in Germany on Nov. 16, it marked the last time we’d ever see these three on the same stage ever again. I’d been in a bit of denial that the Twilight Saga was coming to its conclusion, but today has made the finality of the situation sink in. Since 2008, the Twilight films have meant so much to so many, and while the films will always live on in DVD form, we’ll never get another moment with the entire cast like this, or like the world premiere in Los Angeles on Monday, Nov. 12. We’ll always have our memories, but is it too soon to already ask for a reunion film? Are you going to miss seeing the entire Twilight cast together, HollywoodLifers? — William Earl More Breaking Dawn Part 2 premiere news: Robert Pattinson Looks Up To Kristen Stewart Robert Pattinson Struggling To Trust Kristen Stewart After Affair Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson: Cute Interactions In Madrid On ‘El Hormiguero’ Breaking Dawn Breaking Dawn Part 2 Kristen Stewart Robert Pattinson Robin Williams Twilight Um, You Can Score Up to 90% Off Designer Pieces from Rent the Runway’s Sample Sale Right Now ‘Jay and Silent Bob Reboot’ Trailer: Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes Get Crazy Meta	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1249
__label__wiki	0.786884	0.786884	In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the highly anticipated sequel to Jurassic World and addition to the Jurassic Park franchise, Claire (Bryce Dallas-Howard) and Owen (Chris Pratt) along with two other nerdy-but-loveable friends return to Isla Nublar in an attempt to save the remaining dinosaurs from extinction via volcano. However, upon rescue, the heroes realize that the dinosaurs are being relocated to the United States not for conservation, but for profit. It is up to Claire, Owen, and friends to both save the dinosaurs from being exploited and weaponized and to save themselves from the newest genetically modified genocidal dinosaur. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom follows in its predecessors’ footsteps in terms of being a huge box office hit, chock-full of both stressful moments and hilarious laughs. While the plotline was lax at moments with an air of predictability, Fallen Kingdom delivers what is expected: lots of dinosaur action. The film even gets political, with the basic premise being a moral obligation to save the should-be extinct creatures. And, of course, there is a genetically engineered dinosaur meant to be used for war, which of course makes it a deadly adversary to the heroes. However, Fallen Kingdom isn’t just scary dinosaur action; there are also heartwarming scenes with our old pal Blue, the velociraptor audiences met and fell in love with in the first Jurassic World. Blue and Owen (Pratt) reconnect and Blue helps the heroes vanquish the beast and save the day. Owen (CHRIS PRATT) with a baby Velociraptor in “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.” When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire (BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Welcome to “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.” Despite all of the dinosaur action, even the heartwarming aspects, Fallen Kingdom really shines as its own film during the second half when the dinosaurs are relocated to California. Audiences are used to seeing the dinosaurs wreck havoc in a controlled environment, and even though there’s human death, audiences tend to scoff because they would certainly never be stupid enough to go to an actual Jurassic Park. However, in the latter half of the film, every 90’s kid’s nightmare comes true–in the supposed safety of her house, young Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon) runs from dinosaurs, and hiding under the covers isn’t enough to save her from this nightmare. All in all, from the action-packed but predictable dinosaur rampage to the surprising location switch, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom follows the loved formula of the previous Jurassic films, but has twists that allows the film to shine on its own. Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas-Howard & Rafe Spall Director: J.A. Bayona Distributor: Universal Pictures Genre: Action/Science Fiction/Adventure/Thriller Runtime: 2 hours, 8 minutes Official Website: www.JurassicWorld.com Facebook: @JurassicWorld Twitter: @JurassicWorld Instagram: @JurassicWorld IMDB Page: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Wiki Link: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Hunter Turney \| Writing Contributor B.A \| Screenwriting \| Chapman University Hunter is a world traveler who loves all things fictional – in fact, you could say she is constantly hunting for new movies to watch and books to read! She has also been to all seven continents and is attending Semester at Sea next fall. While abroad, she plans to continue finding int’l books & movies to add to her repertoire. Instagram @hunter_katherine \| View My Blogs Subject \| Name of Event:(required) 20182018 Movie ReviewsHunter TurneyJurassic ParkJurassic WorldMovie ReviewReviewsSet Visits 2018\| Movie Reviews \| Previous Post: Incredibles 2 Next Post: Sicario: Day of the Soldado	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1254
__label__wiki	0.632741	0.632741	Disney and Lucasfilm Unveil STAR WARS Replica Prop Shop GearVideosPhotosMovie Star WarsReplicaPinewood Studios about 3 years ago by Mick Joest Here's something guaranteed to shake up the replica industry! We just got a press release that says Disney and Lucasfilm have partnered with Pinewood Studios UK, who made the props for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, to open a movie-accurate prop shop. In this shop, you can purchase many replicas from TFA including Chewbacca's Bowcaster, Rey's staff, and even the melted helmet of Darth Vader! But this stuff isn't cheap. The Vader helmet pictured above (which is a limited edition of 500) rings in at $3,500 American! That's a steep price, but considering it's coming straight from the studio that created it, you can guarantee the quality will be that of the film. Other items, like Rey and Kylo Ren's lightsaber hilts, seem affordable (both $1,250 each) when you look at other lightsaber dealers in the market, so if anything, this could lead to some more competitive pricing overall! One downside I'm seeing is they are VERY big on letting you know this is not meant for cosplay or as a toy. This leads me to wonder if the durability of these things aren't that good, or if they're more worried about idiots breaking their stuff at a con and demanding their thousands back. I don't know if I would bring one of these out in public if I got one! All in all, good deal or no? Experts of the web, speak out! Read the full press release below: [San Francisco – June 1, 2016] – Disney and Lucasfilm today launched Star Wars Collectibles: Ultimate Studio Edition bringing an unprecedented level of authenticity to prop replica products for fans. Made to order by propmakers at Propshop in Pinewood Studios using digital data collected during filming of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the production process marries cutting edge 3D printing technology with master craftsmanship to produce replicas virtually identical to those seen on screen. Available initially in the U.S., starwarsultimatestudioedition.com is the exclusive location to purchase these products. “We’re delighted to be able to produce such a groundbreaking line of merchandise,” said James Enright, Assets Director and CEO of Propshop. “Designed, made and finished by the hands of specialist motion picture prop makers and artists, we’ve worked extremely hard to create something that we know would make fans and filmmakers proud.” The initial offering from the Star Wars Collectibles line features eight prop replicas from Star Wars: The Force Awakens including Darth Vader’s melted helmet, Rey’s lightsaber hilt, FN-2187 Stormtrooper helmet and more. Each replica item is a limited production piece due to the high level of craftsmanship required to create them. These made-to-order replicas will come with custom display pedestals, packed in branded wooden crates that are inspired by the real crates used to ship the film props. Each one is custom built to accommodate the shape of the replica inside. “We are continually looking for new ways to extend the storytelling from movies in innovative ways,” said Josh Silverman, executive vice president of global licensing at Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media. “We’ve worked hand in hand with the film makers and talented team at Propshop to create a unique product experience for fans and we’re excited to see their reactions to these incredible prop replicas.” Visit Disney’s YouTube channel to view the latest installment of their “Boxed” series to get a behind-the-scenes look at Darth Vader’s melted helmet being created; then tune in each month to see reveals of new items added to the Star Wars Collectibles: Ultimate Studio Edition line. For more information, visit starwarsultimatestudioedition.com. Eat, Drink, and Be Merry With These STAR WARS Beer Steins! Disney Is Making Two Life Size AT-ATs for STAR WARS Land Nissan Partners With Lucasfilm For ROGUE ONE Car And STAR WARS VR Experience Netflix May Still Get To Keep Marvel And STAR WARS Films After Disney Leaves Watch the Lucasfilm STAR WARS Story Group Discuss Han Solo's Dice and Other Secrets From THE LAST JEDI Disney and Lucasfilm Are Slowing Down on STAR WARS Films and Will Be More Careful With Volume and Timing Mick Joest I started out as a loyal reader of Geektyrant before emailing Joey one day about the potential of writing for Geektyrant. Now six years later I'm the managing editor of Gametyrant.com and still living the dream and giving my opinion to the geek masses! Geektyrant is my life, and I hope that shows in everything I do! @G33kyMick // mickjoest@geektyrant.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1255
__label__wiki	0.683138	0.683138	Maine bill would allow teachers to carry guns Sen. David Burns, a Washington County Republican and retired Maine State Police trooper, believes schools are “soft targets” for crazed gunmen because they know none of the teachers are armed. So Burns has submitted a bill that would give school districts the authority to allow teachers and other school employees to carry concealed weapons on campus. “This is not a mandate for anybody,” said Burns, who lives in Whiting. “This is an option for school systems to consider as they look at the overall responsibility and problems of protecting children and staff in school environments.” The bill would require those employees carrying guns in school to complete a firearms training course and a psychological exam in addition to the concealed weapons permit the state would already require. Parents would be notified that an employee at their child’s school is carrying a concealed weapon, but the person’s identity would be kept confidential, Burns said. Trending: The Only Gun Store in Thousand Oaks Sees Spike in Sales, Residences Say It’s Time to Buy a Gun The bill would also give school districts the authority to hire armed security guards. Currently, state law only allows police officers to carry guns in schools. The proposal has prompted some unexpected reactions. Tom Franklin, president of Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence, which plans to push… READ MORE AT PRESSHERALD.COM Previous articleGun Violence: It’s a Democratic Problem Next articleAre American Gun Owners a Bunch of Fools?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1260
__label__wiki	0.675737	0.675737	Oregon Reggae Legends Indubious to Release New Full Length Album ‘From Zero’ IDC, IDC Artists, IDC News, Industry News, New Releases, Reggae The story of INDUBIOUS is not for the faint of heart. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, INDUBIOUS was forged in the fires of pain and destruction. Evton and Skip, brothers and bandmates born with Cystic Fibrosis and convinced by doctors of their impending death from an early age, have emerged as a powerful force for change and the future of conscious music. Their new album FROM ZERO, which releases in stores and online worldwide July 1, 2017, features legendary guest artists including Dancehall icon Sizzla, Vaughn Benjamin (formally of Midnite and Akae Beka), and Reggae/R&B singer Zahira Soul. FROM ZERO is a mix of conscious Dancehall and Roots Reggae with top level production. All songs were written, produced, and engineered by INDUBIOUS, and released on their own label Righteous Sound Productions. Based out of Southern Oregon, INDUBIOUS has released three albums over the past few years, including Wake The Lion which was produced by EDM/Dub/Reggae pioneer Gaudi. FROM ZERO was produced and recorded entirely by Evton and Skip, and it shows amazing growth in terms of their sound and production, while keeping focus on their reggae roots. The new album spans genres including Dancehall, Roots Reggae, Electronica, and even Alt-Pop, while highlighting the conscious and uplifting messages the band has become known for. INDUBIOUS has performed worldwide on international tours and at many prestigious festivals including Wakarusa, Gathering Of The Vibes, Reggae On The River, Sulafest in India, Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, California Roots Festival, Beloved, Britt Festivals, The Oregon Country Faire, Reggae In The Hills, Northwest World Reggae Festival, Earthdance, Gaia Festival, plus club and concert hall tours from Seattle to San Diego. They have shared the stage and toured with many influential names such as Black Uhuru, Matisyahu, Blondie, Michael Franti, Stephen Marley, Rebelution, Junior Reid, and Pato Banton, to name a few. Armed with impressive instrumental skill, powerful harmonies, and an electrifying stage presence, INDUBIOUS is destined to change the face of music. They have developed a steadily rising reputation as ambassadors of the West Coast Reggae movement. Leaving audiences stunned and amazed whilst shattering any preconceived notions of genre and style, they recruit fans from all walks of life, affectionately called “Indubians.” Their only choice has always been mind over matter, and time has proven that their unbending positive outlook, combined with an inspiring message of love and hope, has not only helped them overcome personal hardship (Evton received a double lung transplant in 2011 resulting in a full recovery), but catapulted their music onto the world stage with an unstoppable momentum. The widely acclaimed INDUBIOUS album Wake The Lion received featured placement on Beatport, iTunes, Amazon, and numerous media outlets. Indubious’ unique sound was brought vibrantly to the surface by the legendary composer/producer Gaudi, showcasing Wake The Lion as a textural journey into the world of Rootstronica. Lush synths, deep bass, and visionary lyricism encompass the entire record, blurring the lines between roots, dub, dancehall, and heavy dance psychedelia. Vibrationally rich and musically brilliant, the album champions a revolutionary sound and pushes the boundaries of reggae music. The band and their legion of fans have adopted the motto “Live Indubiously,” which means living life without doubt or fear, and with faith in the fact that we are all here for a reason. “Our gift is music,” says Indubious, “and our mission is to reconnect the people of the world with rightful living. We wish to speak the truth in an effort to inspire others to do the same, to raise the positive vibrations of our planet, and to help others express the true loving nature within us all.” INDUBIOUS can be found playing shows throughout the summer and fall of 2017. They will be performing songs from FROM ZERO, as well as past hits and fan favorites. They continue to write and record, and plan to release plenty of new music over the next several months. www.broadwayworld.com To pre-order FROM ZERO on iTunes please visit http://smarturl.it/fromzero For more information about FROM ZERO or upcoming tour dates, please visit the INDUBIOUS website and social media pages via http://www.indubiousmusic.com/ For Booking inquiries please email booking@indubiousmusic.com For Press and Interview inquiries please contact Billy James at Glass Onyon PR: (828) 350-8158 or glassonyonpr@gmail.com For Reggae Marketing or Radio please contact King I-Vier at Independent Distribution Collective: kingivier@gmail.com For Digital Marketing please contact Jerome Forney at Independent Distribution Collective: jerome@independentdistro.com June 12, 2017 June 8, 2017 idcdistroBroadwayWorld.Com, conscious music, Dancehall, From Zero, IDC, IDC Artists, IDC news, Indubious, Music, New Music, new release, Press Release, Reggae, Righteous Sound Productions, Roots Reggae, Sizzla, Vaughn Benjamin, Wake The Lion, Zahira Soul Previous Previous post: Jazz Weekly Review: E-Life 7 “Miked Up” Next Next post: Indubious is killing it internationally!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1262
__label__wiki	0.889766	0.889766	Tag: wounded bird KARNEY BAND and RAY VAUGHN to Perform at WINTERS TAVERN in Pacifica, CA this Sunday, June 23 Come and see the Karney Band show this Sunday at Winters Tavern in Pacifica and wish Karney a happy birthday! Ray Vaughn will be kicking off the Sunday afternoon with an acoustic solo set, then kicking off his shoes for the Karney Band. Music from 4-8pm June 21, 2019 idcdistroKarney, live music, Live Performance, Pacifica, Ray Vaughn, Rayoso Music, Show, Shows, The Karney Band, Way Down Low, Winters Tavern, wounded birdLeave a comment Saturday, April 14 – KARNEY “NO MERCY” Record Release Party with RAY VAUGHN – Hotel Utah Saloon, SF For Tickets please visit: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1639095 For more information please visit Karney’s website at www.karney.org To Pre-order “NO MERCY” on iTunes and Other Digital Retailers please visit: http://smarturl.it/KarneyNoMercy To Pre-order “NO MERCY” from Bandcamp please visit: https://karney.bandcamp.com/album/no-mercy For more information about Ray Vaughn please visit: http://rayosomusic.com/ April 14, 2018 April 13, 2018 idcdistroAdam Munoz, Album, Anna Karney, Bill Ortiz, CD Release Party, Hotel Utah, IDC, IDC Artists, James DePrato, Jeff Herrera, Karney, Karney Music and Sounds, Kevin White, Mark Pistel, Michael Rosen, new release, No Mercy, Paul Hanson, Ray Vaughn, Rayoso Music, Rock, The Hotel Utah Saloon, wounded birdLeave a comment April 11, 2018 idcdistroAdam Munoz, Album, Anna Karney, Bill Ortiz, CD Release Party, Hotel Utah, IDC, IDC Artists, James DePrato, Jeff Herrera, Karney, Karney Music and Sounds, Kevin White, Mark Pistel, Michael Rosen, new release, No Mercy, Paul Hanson, Ray Vaughn, Rayoso Music, Rock, The Hotel Utah Saloon, wounded birdLeave a comment US Review: Ray Vaughn “Wounded Bird” http://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=19306 Vaughn, Ray: Wounded Bird A musical child of the late 70s, singer and guitarist Ray Vaughn was a founding member of punk art rockers Hostages before going on to bring avant-garde outfit Die Bosa Nova to bare on an unsuspecting audience. However by 1992 Vaughn was off the scene, another in the many who seemed destined to make a long lasting mark, retreating into obscurity. A surprise solo return, Way Down Low, appeared in 2013, a singer-songwriter approach finding Vaughn still sharp in attack and tough in outlook. Wounded Bird is the follow up, Vaughn still shining a light on the modern world and the issues hitting it, while offering up equally shuddering musical backing. Aided by a band made up of James DePrato (Chuck Prophet) on guitar and mandolin, Ed Rawlings (Hostage) on electric guitar, Kevin T White (Chuck Prophet) on bass and Prairie Prince (The Tubes, Todd Rundgren) on drums, it should come as little surprise that the spiky, urgent rock music Vaughn serves up, is tight and focused, while still holding a real vibrancy. Vocally Vaughn may be an acquired taste, his unconventional Jello Biafra meets Tom Petty attack never the most precise missile, although in terms of attitude it hits the bull’s eye every time. And that’s key here, if you’re looking for the honest, but sometimes easy ride that many guys like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne provide, you need to take Vaughn’s punk background into account when you approach Wounded Bird.A cover of New Order’s “True Faith” is barely recognisable and yet it hits hard and gets it point across, while the uneasy country vibes of “Change In Latitude” soothe and unsettle in equal measure. However it’s through the controlled anarchy of “Human Calculator” and hustle bustle of “Wounded Bird” where Vaughn and his chums really take their strongest swipes, the former sharp and jagged with a no compromise stare, the latter injecting a real sense of urgency. That said, with “Been Away Too Long” infusing an off kilter R.E.M. judder and “Rain” a controlled call for help, there really aren’t many moments in this relatively short CD that don’t, given time, pull you into Ray Vaughn’s way of thinking.He may be a Wounded Bird, but with his latest album, Ray Vaughn is still flying high. 1. Human Calculator 2. Wounded Bird 3. True Faith 4. Change in Latitude 5. Song for You 6. Been Away Too Long 8. It Happened on Willow Street Added: January 1st 2018 Reviewer: Steven Reid January 15, 2018 January 13, 2018 idcdistroIDC, IDC Artists, Music Review, Ray Vaughn, Rayoso Music, rayosomusic.com, Review, Reviews, Sea of Tranquility, wounded birdLeave a comment SF Weekly: “Disneyland With Heavy Eyeliner: Ray Vaughn Is Back” http://www.sfweekly.com/music/music-music/disneyland-with-heavy-eyeliner-ray-vaughn-is-back/ Disneyland With Heavy Eyeliner: Ray Vaughn Is Back The punk rocker-turned-singer-songwriter Ray Vaughn returns to his South of Market stomping grounds. Stephen Jackson Wed Nov 15th, 2017 5:03pm Ray Vaughn (Photo by Greta and Manu Schnetzler) Ray Vaughn hates the term “SoMa.” To him, the area now populated by condos and cavernous modern restaurants will always be South of Market. It’s where he cut his teeth in the early 1980s, living in a massive warehouse dubbed The Crab Palace and playing in a punk band called Hostages. “No one went [to] South of Market unless someone took you there. It wasn’t just gay, it was outlaw,” Vaughn says. “Polk Street and Castro were gay, but South of Market could be anything you wanted it to be. For a moment, it just felt like a secret.” While Hostages and Vaughn’s other band, Die Bossa Nova, have long since disbanded, much of the raw energy from those years can still be felt in the straight-up rock ’n’ roll he plays today with his self-titled group, Ray Vaughn Band. He’ll be just down the street from his former digs at Hotel Utah this Saturday, performing for a much different audience than he once did at local spots like Mabuhay Gardens, The I Beam, Nightbreak, and a handful of warehouses off Harrison Street. Regardless of the backdrop, Vaughn’s essence as a queer punk rocker from the 1970s and ’80s bleeds through his guitar, and the commanding vocals he deftly throws at the crowd are enough to make you feel you’ve been with him the whole time. His two recent albums, Way Down Low andWounded Bird, are reflective treatises on a life hard lived, but one that isn’t ready to walk off the stage. Vaughn got his first taste of punk rock while living in London in the early ’70s, and returned home to the frenetic landscape of early S.F. punk bands such as The Offs, The Avengers, and Dead Kennedys. It was 1978, and he had just got a job at the original Hamburger Mary’s, right across the street from The Stud. “There was this camaraderie at Hamburger Mary’s,” he says. “It was straight, it was gay, it was punk, it was hippie, it was drag queen. But nothing was cynical. There was a sense of liberty and respect at the same time. We wanted to shock them, but we still wanted them to come back and tip us.” Hostages was in its heyday, and Vaughn lived with lead guitarist Eddie Rawlings and producer Michael Rosen in the warehouse on Fifth and Clara streets. Rosen went on to produce records for homegrown thrash metal heroes like Testament and Death Angel, and later for bands like Less Than Jake and Rancid. But back in the ’80s, he was the connective tissue for everything Vaughn and Rawlings had going on. Rosen notes that while they were all friends and contemporaries of bands like Romeo Void and Flipper, Hostages were in between so many genres that they didn’t ever fully take off. True to form, they were as much about living punk as playing it. “Eddie had this old Chevy Super Sport that he’d have parked out front of our place, and he let this homeless person sleep in it when he wasn’t using it,” Vaughn says. “Then, when he’d wake up in the morning, he’d roust him out of the car and he’d go to work. It was a symbiotic relationship, because he’d make sure the car wasn’t stolen. That was South of Market in those days.” Vaughn also describes parties at The Crab Palace that started at midnight and would go on until the next day, and drug-fueled romps that put the hippie scene to shame. “It was like Disneyland with heavy eyeliner,” he says. All-night soirees were complete with elaborately built stages, fire-eaters, snake-charmers, and go-go boys in bondage. At one point, their place hosted a large flock of tropical birds that were given free rein over the premises. But all the carefree melee was underscored by the destructive power of the AIDS epidemic, and in 1987 — when the first blood tests for HIV became available in the U.S. — Vaughn received a positive diagnosis. While he sat and watched his community disappear around him, he survived, responding well to the medication. “You handled it one of two ways: You became numb to it and moved on, or you came apart and moved away. A lot of people weren’t from here, and it was too hard,” Vaughn says. “You would see someone and they looked OK, then you’d see them two weeks later and they looked like they could die at any minute. Then you’d hear they died. It was apocalyptic.” Running up credit cards thinking he’d be dead before he had to pay them, he played a monthly residency with Die Bossa Nova at Paradise Lounge. But he was growing bored of his own music, and weary from all the death around him. It was around this time that he met his current partner. “He came to the U.S. from Central America, which was in the middle of a revolution at the time. The world suddenly became a bigger place for me. I realized it wasn’t about me or just playing music. Being a lead singer in some band just didn’t seem to be as important,” Vaughn says. “It was about growing up and seeing that you’re something larger than just being in the punk scene.” With this in mind, Vaughn enrolled in City College and S.F. State, earning a B.A. in Spanish and a master’s and teaching credential in special education. He went to work as a paraprofessional at Galileo High School in 1998 and ultimately became the department chair of special education, retiring last year. “To be honest with you, a stage is a stage,” Vaughn says. “You have to keep an audience engaged. Teaching is performance, if you think about it. But no one who knows me could have seen that turn of events in a million years.” Despite this cavalier attitude, by many accounts Vaughn had a true gift when it came to working with and advocating for kids with disabilities, and was something of a celebrity rabble-rouser in the world of special ed in San Francisco. In fact, he was among a group of teachers in the district pushing for greater levels of mainstream classroom inclusion. And on the way out of his second act, Vaughn started to write music again. “I suddenly felt I had new stories to tell. I had to relive a whole new life in order to come back and have something relevant to say,” Vaughn says. “If you ever want to feel authentic again, go work in an inner-city high school. You’ll recognize very quickly who has choices and who doesn’t.” He’s once again linked up with producer Michael Rosen to put out two full-length albums since 2012, featuring a cadre of musicians such as Michael Urbano (Sheryl Crow, Cracker, Third Eye Blind), Prairie Prince of The Tubes, and Kevin White and James Deprato of Chuck Prophet and The Mission Express. Eddie Rawlings, who Vaughn credits as the backbone of most of his musical endeavors, is once again on lead guitar. “With Hostages, Ray and I would just sort of develop a communication while we were playing where we had this sort of telepathy, and we’ve rediscovered that and that’s been fun,” Rawlings says. This Saturday, the band includes Rawlings, bassist Ricky Fishman from San Francisco post-punk band The Valkays, and local drummer Jeff Herrera, who got his start playing at The Mab when he was just 15. Vaughn once played music with nothing but time in front of him. These days, it’s the other way around. But that isn’t a bad thing. It’s likely he’d be unable to write the songs he does today without the two lifetimes in his rearview. Rosen describes Vaughn’s return to the stage and the studio as an epilogue to everything they were doing back in the ’80s. “I think that Ray was in a perfect place to do this, having finished his other career and coming back to this was satisfying to both of us,” Rosen says. “We all came back with a little more perspective and a little more knowledge. We weren’t trying to ‘make it,’ we were just trying to make a really good record.” Ray Vaughn Band, Saturday, Nov. 18, 9 p.m., at Hotel Utah, 500 Fourth St. $10; rayosomusic.com November 22, 2017 idcdistroIDC, IDC Artists, Interview, Ray Vaughn, Rayoso Music, rayosomusic.com, Rock, SF Weekly, Way Down Low, wounded birdLeave a comment Highlands Magazine Review: Ray Vaughn “Wounded Bird” (translated) IDC, IDC Artists, IDC News, Reviews “This is the second album for the rocker Ray VAUGHN, who is a guitarist, and at the end of the seventies, played with THE HOSTAGES until around 1992. It is not until 2013 that we see him on stage to defend his first solo effort WAY DOWN LOW with punk rock trend. This second album is rather rock. Ray has surrounded himself with a band of rockers who asks only to beat: Michael ROSEN guitarist as Ed RAWLING also producer. We owe them TESLA, RANCID, PAPA ROACH ex THE HOSTAGES. New people try to break through Ray’s reputation as James DE PRATO of CHUCK PROPHETS on bass, Prairie PRINCE, drummer of TUBES and RUNDGREN. An album based on guitars, with a song present and rather passionate. He started off well with Human Calculator, animated by the Hammond organ by Phil BENNET of STARSHIP, guitar maids and a rhythmic as excited as overflowing. Ray hardened the subject with Wounded Bird: no dead time, one runs like a machine heated to block with profusion of guitars, Ray to sing particularly virulent for a title more persuasive. It is with a certain culte that intervenes a resumption of True Faith extracted from the repertoire of NEW ORDER, the famous group of Manchester and not that of ex STOOGES. We combine power and inventiveness with bass forward, more violent than the original but what matters is excellent. Change In Latitude changes completely, we appreciate the slide of James DE PRATO, rather blues title in the form of pure very USA. One puts the nail with the superb Song For You in emotion, not very far from an epic of U2. This song of Ray’s is divinely accompanied by the battery while rolling, a true hug. Rain, ballade mid tempo highlights a voice that swallows words while evolving with instruments. New emotional charge with Willow Street played in acoustic with voice at the SPRINGSTEEN, John COUGAR MELLENCAMP. We adhere in passing a very good time while Ray has half-mast the punk side. Very positive result.” http://highlands.fanzine.free.fr/ Purchase “Wounded Bird” Wounded Bird purchase link Visit Ray Vaughn’s Website Rayosomusic July 3, 2017 June 29, 2017 idcdistroHighlands Magazine, IDC, IDC Artists, IDC news, New Review, Ray Vaughn, Rayoso Music, rayosomusic.com, Review, Rock, Rock music, wounded birdLeave a comment MLWZ Review: Ray Vaughn “Wounded Bird” IDC, IDC Artists, IDC News, New Releases, Reviews “Ray Vaughn is a musician and working in San Francisco, “Wounded Bird” is his second solo project. From the first sounds you hear, that we have to deal with the conscious artist who from the very beginning as defined record, has a vision and consistently implements it. It is difficult to pigeonhole in one sentence his proposals, because the next catchy guitar playing appears on the album note of nostalgia, British rock and even punk rock. Generally speaking, it is very interesting. I was looking for a long time in my mind who or what ‘smells’ the production and finally found: it Iggy Pop and stylistic areas of his work. Yes, it’s probably accurate, but also very nice trail. I like music Vaughn, she actually sounds a bit ‘dirty’, but at the same time very positively. My favorite on the album is definitely a ballad titled “Rain”. I would recommend.” -mlwz.pl/recenzje/plyty/18719-vaughn-ray-wounded-bird June 26, 2017 idcdistroAlbum Review, IDC, IDC Artists, IDC news, MLWZ, Music, New Music, Ray Vaughn, Rayoso Music, Review, Rock, wounded birdLeave a comment	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1263
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University, Meerut (UP), India Word-wise Script Identification in Document Images based on Steerable Gaussian Filtering Technique V.S.MALEMATH, A.H.KULKARNI, H.MALLIKARJUN Department of CSE, KLE DR. M.S. Sheshgiri College of Engineering & Technology, Belgaum, Karnataka, India Department of CSE, KLS’s Gogte Institute Technology, Belgaum, Karnataka, India Department of CSE, KASCC, Bidar, Karnataka, India Design of women safety system using RFID, 8051microcontroller and GSM based technology-a prototype SHAIK MAZHAR HUSSAIN, SHAIK JHANI BHASHA Assistant Professor, ECE, MJCET, Hyderabad, India Assistant Professor, ECE, Gitam University, Hyderabad, India Fingerprint Recognition Using Level 3 Features NEHA KESHARWANI, S.P.UGALE Department of Electronics and Telecommunication, K. K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education and Research, Nashik India Speed Control of Hybrid Electric Vehicle Using Optimization Algorithm AVTAR SINGH, ER. AMRIT KAUR Student of Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Punjabi University, Patiala, India Faculty of Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Punjabi University, Patiala, India Change Detection In Synthetic Aperture Radar Images Based On Image Fusion And Fuzzy Clustering NAVEEN KUMAR H, NAGESH BABU IV Semester, M.Tech., Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Rao Bahadur Y.Mahabaleswarappa Engineering College, Bellary, India Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Rao Bahadur Y.Mahabaleswarappa Engineering College, Bellary, India Extract Semantic Context Information for Intelligent Video Surveillance of Traffic scenes REVANASIDDA, R.P.RAJESHWARI M.Tech(CSE) Lecturer, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Rao Bahadur Y.Mahabaleswarappa Engineering College, Bellary, India Authorization Enforcement Facility in MANETs by Combining Static and Dynamic Condition GOWTHAMI A, PERSI PAMELA I Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, Kingston Engineering College, Vellore, India Performance analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 based WSNs using energy efficient DYMO protocol P.SAMUNDISWARY, G.R.K.SAI TEJA Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India M.Tech. Student, Department of Electronics Engineering, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India Techniques to Estimate Vehicle Speed SIDDHARTH JHUMAT, RAVINDRA KUMAR PURWAR M.Tech (CSE), USICT, GGSIPU, Delhi, India Associate Professor, USICT, GGSIPU, Delhi, India A Review on Offline Signature Recognition and Verification Techniques SAMEERA KHAN, AVINASH DHOLE M-Tech Scholar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, RITEE, Raipur, India Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, RITEE, Raipur, India A Dual band CPW Microstrip antenna for WLAN, WiMAX Applications GOURAV HANS, JASWINDER KAUR Lecturer, Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Thapar University, Patiala, India Adaptive Modulation of OFDM by using Radial Basis Function Neural Network PARMINDER KAUR, KULDEEP SINGH, HARDEEP KAUR M.Tech Student, Department of Electronics Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, Regional Campus Guru Nanak Dev University, Sulatnpur Lodhi, India Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India Radial Basis Function (RBF) Based Routing Optimization for Wireless Sensor Network NAVPREET KAUR, KULDEEP SINGH, HARDEEP KAUR M.Tech Student, Department of Electronics Technology, GNDU, Amritsar, India Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, Regional Campus GNDU, Sulatnpur Lodhi, India Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics Technology, GNDU, Amritsar Study of Localisation Methods of Mobile Users in Wireless Sensor Networks MANOJ DUHAN, SATINDER Profeesor, ECE Department, DCRUST-Murthal, Sonipat, India M.TECH Student in ECE Department, DCRUST-Murthal, Sonipat, India Design a multiband Rectangular ring antenna using DGS for WLAN, WiMAX Applications GURBAZ SINGH, JASWINDER KAUR FPGA Based FNN for Accidental Fire Alarming System in a Smart Room RASHMI G.P, NIRMALA.L P G Scholar, VLSI Design and Embedded systems, RITM, Bangalore, India Senior Assistant Professor, Electronics and Communication Engineering, RITM, Bangalore, India Dimensionality Reduction using Markov Model for Web Personalisation VARUN HOODA, MAMTA KATHURIA Department of Computer Engineering, YMCA University of Science and Technology, Faridabad, Haryana, India Establishment of simulated Cloud on a LAN and Execute appropriate services like SAAS, Infrastructure service with security VARUN C R, R.SRINIVASAN PG Student, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India Parameter Estimation of Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) Radar Signal using Wigner-Ville Distribution and Radon Transform SUDHIR KUMAR, AVINASH KUMAR DUBEY Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Thapar University Significances and Issues of Network Security DR. B.V.RAMANA MURTHY, PROF. VUPPU PADMAKAR, MS. A.VASAVI Department of CSE Jyotishmathi College of Technology and Science, Shamirpet, Hyderabad, India Department of CSE, Chilkur Balaji Institute of Technology, Aziz nagar, Hyderabad, India Features of Bidirectional RoF Based on RSOA HIMANSHU KAPOOR, POONAM SINGHAL, SUBODH BANSAL ECE Department, DCRUST Murthal, India ECE Department, NCCE Israna, India Cloud Enabled Test Evaluation on Mobile Web Applications K.VIVEKANANDAN, RAJKUMAR BHOJAN, SUBRAMANIAN GANESAN Professor, BSMED, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India Test Architect, Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India Professor, Electrical & Comp. 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College of Engineering, Bangalore, India Microstrip Patch Antenna for UWB Applications VIKAS, ER.BALJINDER KAUR, KRISHAN SHERDIA M.Tech Student, ECE Department, G.G.S College of Engineering & Technology, Talwandi Sabo, India Assistant Professor, ECE Department, G.G.S College of Engineering & Technology,Talwandi Sabo, India Assistant Professor, ECE Department, JCDM College of Engineering, Sirsa, India Clustering approach for Wireless Sensor Networks based on Cuckoo Search Strategy SANDEEP KUMAR E, G.P.MOHANRAJ, RAGHUCHANDRA R.GOUDAR M.Tech Student, Department of Telecommunication Engineering, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka, India B.E. Student, Department of Instrumentation Engineering, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka, India Machine Learning system for Access Control in content sharing online social Networks G.VANITHA, MR. 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KATAGI, JAYALAKSHMI D S, VEENA G S M.Tech, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India A Proposed Architecture Over Energy Efficient Routing Configuration in WSN SURAJ S JEERAGAL, K.R.PRASANNAKUMAR Student, M.Tech 2nd year, Department Of Computer Science, Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, India Assistant professor, Department Of Computer Science, Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, India Unified Load Balancing System for Cloud PRASAD P.SAWANT, VARSHAPRIYA J.N MTech NIMS, VJTI Matunga, Mumbai, India Department of computer Engineering, VJTI Matunga, Mumbai, India Novel Approach for Salient Region Detection MS.SNEHAL B CHAUDHARI, PROF.N.M.SHAHANE ME Student, Department of Computer Engineering, KKWIEER, Nashik, India Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, KKWIEER, Nashik, India A Review A Novel Algorithm for Blurred Image Restoration in the field of Medical Imaging RINKU KALOTRA, SH. ANIL SAGAR M.Tech Student, Punjab Technical University, Beant College of Engineering and Technology, Gurdaspur, India Assistant Professor, IT Department, Beant College of Engineering and Technology, Gurdaspur, India Object Detection Using Semantic Segmentation with Fisher Vector SUDHIN S, JAYALAKSHMI D.S, VEENA G.S P.G Student, Computer-science Department, M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India Associate Professor, Computer-science Department, M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India Assistant Professor, Computer-science Department, M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India Efficient Capabilities of Processing of Big Data using Hadoop Map Reduce PRAVEEN KUMAR, DR VIJAY SINGH RATHORE Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science, NIMS University, Jaipur, India Professor & Director, Shri Kami College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India Application Development in Android SANA, DR. RAVINDRA KUMAR Department of Computer Engineering, Al-Falah School of Engineering & Technology, Haryana, India Ex-Director General, VGI Dadri A review on Routing Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks AVNI KAUSHIK M.Tech Student, Computer Science & Engineering, NGFIET, India Design and Development of Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Communication Link with PSK Modulation using Adaptive Equalization SHALINI GARG, PRAGATI KAPOOR Lingaya’s University, Faridabad, Haryana The Factors Affecting Adoption of Cloud Computing Technology in Education Institutions NUPUR GUPTA, SANJEEV THAKUR Researcher, Department of Computer Science, Amity University, Noida, U.P, India Professor, Department of Computer Science Amity University, Noida, U.P, India Design and Physical Verification of Low Power 4words X 4bits SRAM System using an Adaptive Voltage Level (AVL) Technique KUMARASWAMY N, MAHESH B NELAGAR PG Student, VLSI Design and Embedded systems, PG Study centre VTU, Belgaum, India Asst. professor, VLSI Design and Embedded systems, PG Study centre VTU, Belgaum, India A Survey on Digital Signatures VENKATESWARA RAO PALLIPAMU, THAMMI REDDY K, SURESH VARMA P Associate professor, Department of Computer Science, Adikavi Nannaya University, Rajahmundry, India Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, India Professor, Department of Computer Science, Adikavi Nannaya University, Rajahmundry, India Techniques for Identifying Denial of Service Attack in Wireless Sensor Network a Survey ANNIE JENNIEFER, JOHN RAYBIN JOSE M.Phil, Scholar, Department of Computer Applications, Bishop Heber College (Autonomous), Trichy Asst. Professor & Head, Department of Information Technology, Bishop Heber College (Autonomous), Trichy Quality based Web information extraction approach using NLP and Text Mining ASHISH KUMAR RAY, MR. AJAY KUSHWAHA M.Tech. scholar, Department of CSE, RCET, Bhilai, India Associate Professor, Department of CSE, RCET, Bhilai, India Automatic Outlier Identification in Data Mining Using IQR in Real-Time Data L.SUNITHA, DR M.BALRAJU, DR J.SASIKIRAN, E.VENKAT RAMANA Department of computer Science and Engineering, Vidya Vikas Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India Malla Reddy College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India MEMS Based Wireless Sensor for Real Time Gait Feedback System S.MAFLIN SHABY, M.S.GODWINPREMI, BETTY MARTIN Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engg, Sathyabama University, Chennai, India Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engg, Sathyabama University, Chennai, India Professor, Department of Electronics and Control Engg, Sathyabama University, Chennai, India Hybrid Approach for Face Detection Using Skin Color Based Segmentation and Edge Detection BHUSHAN LAL BANCHHOR, MRS. TRIPTI SHARMA M. Tech. Scholar, Software Engineering (CSE), Rungta College of Engineering & Technology, Kohka, Bhilai Associate professor, Department of Computer Science Engineering, Rungta College of Engineering & Technology, Kohka, Bhilai Boundary Detection of Structured Objects MS. RAJESHWARI RASAL, PROF. N.M.SHAHANE PG Student, Department of Computer Engineering, KKWIEER, Nasik, University of Pune, India Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, KKWIEER, Nasik, University of Pune, India Performance Enhancement of Web Server log for Distinct User Identification through different factors SHEETAL A. RAIYANI, RAKESH PANDEY, SHIVKUMAR SINGH TOMAR M.tech, CSE, TIT, Bhopal, India Asst. Prof., CSE, TIT, Bhopal, India Design and Real Prototype Fabrication Of a Free Space Optical Transmitter and Receiver S.SRINATH UG Student, ECE, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India Design of Memetic Algorithm to Enhance Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks with Minimum Number of Sensors CHANNAKRISHNARAJU, DR. M.SIDDAPPA Research Scholar, Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education [SSAHE], Tumkur, India Professor & Head, Department of CS & SSIT, Tumkur, India Design and Bandwidth Enhancement of V-slot loaded Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna for Broadband Applications SUNIL KUMAR, ASHISH CHAUDHARY, N.S.BENIWAL M.Tech Student, ECE, Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India Assistant Professor, ECE, Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India Cloud Computing Concepts, Securities issues, and its techniques DIMPI RANI, RAJIV KUMAR RANJAN M.Tech (CSE) Student, Arni University, Indora, Kangra, India Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, Arni University, Indora, Kangra, India An intelligent android Mobile based real time Ads tracking System DR. B.R.PRASAD BABU, MR. JAYA KUMAR B.L, MR. BHARATESH.V.R Professor and HOD, Dept. of CSE, SEA College of Engineering & Technology, Bangalore Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, SEA College of Engineering & Technology, Bangalore M.Tech IV Sem, CSE, SEA College of Engineering & Technology, Bangalore Infinispan as Key – Value data store SARITH DIVAKAR M, ASHINA THOLIYIL Lecturer, Computer Engineering, College of Applied Science, Kozhikode, India Lecturer, Computer Science, College of Applied Science, Kozhikode, India Evaluation of Mutation Strategy Performance in Memetic Algorithm M.NANDHINI Modelling Of the Stabilization and Tracking Control System for Antenna MR. N.SAI PAVAN, MR. RAMAVENKATESWARAN.N M.TECH, RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, India Assistant Professor, RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, India Analysis of Data Embedding Technique in Image Steganography – A Survey SRINATH N.K, USHA B.A, NARAYAN K, TUSHARA.C.K Professor and Dean PG Studies, Department of CSE, RVCE, Bangalore, India Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, RVCE, Bangalore, India M.Tech Student, Department of CSE, RVCE, Bangalore, India Dual Staircase Shaped Microstrip Patch Antenna G.SREEDHAR KUMAR, P.C.PRAVEEN KUMAR, B.A.SARATH MANOHAR BABU, B.NARESH BABU Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, G.PULLAIAH College of Engg & Technology, Kurnool, AP, India Survey On Machine Translation And Its Approaches SINDHU D.V, Dr. B.M.SAGAR, Mr. RAJASHEKAR MURTHY S Smart Attendance using Face Recognition with Percentage Analyzer JYOTSHANA KANTI, ANUBHOOTI PAPOLA Master of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering, Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, India Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, India Optimization of Energy by using IWD Algorithm in WSN NAVJOT SINGH, PARMINDER KAUR CSE Department, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Punjab, India Enhance data security of private cloud using encryption scheme with RBAC M.Tech (CSE) Student, Arni University, Indora, Kangra , India Assistant Professor, Dept. Of CSE, Arni University, Indora, Kangra, India Forgery Detection Technique Based on Block and Feature Based Method TUSHANT A. KOHALE, DR. S.D. CHEDE, PROF. P.R.LAKHE Department of Electronics (Comm. Engg.), S. D. College of Engg. Wardha, India Depatment of Electronics & Telecom. Engg., Om College of Engg. Wardha, India Fuzzy Bayesian Classification for Spatial Data Streams with p-trees D.V.LALITA PARAMESWARI, DR. M.SEETHA, K. RAGHA DEEPIKA Sr.Asst. Professor, Dept.of CSE, GNITS, Hyderabad, India Professor, Dept.of CSE, GNITS, Hyderabad, India M.Tech Student, Dept.of CSE, GNITS, Hyderabad, India	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1264
__label__cc	0.63219	0.36781	Tag Archives: Qabalah Is Practicing Kabbalah a religion? By Damon Whitsell Posted in Damon's writings, Kabbalah, occult Tagged Azriel, Baba Sali, Bahir · Heichalot, Bahya ben Asher, Ben Ish Chai, Britney Spears, Cabala, Chaim ibn Attar, Chaim Joseph David Azulai, Chaim Vital, Christian Kabbalah, Demi Moore, Hermetic Qabalah, Hollywood gospel, Isaac Luria, Isaac the Blind, Jacob Emden, Jewish Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, Jonathan Eybeschutz, Kabala, Kaballah, Kabbalah, Kabbalistic traditions, Madonna, Moshe Cordovero, Nahmanides, Nathan Adler, occult, occult tradition, panatheism, pantheism, Practical Kabbalah, Qabala, Qabalah, Qaballah, Religion, Satan, Sefer Raziel HaMalakh, Sefer Yetzirah, Shalom Sharabi, Shimon bar Yochai, Shlomo Eliyashiv, Tom Cruise, Vilna Gaon, Zohar A kabbalahist named ALLA SAID: I have no idea what a kabbalahist is? But, you can ask k231 how false I am in that. I am gifted in kabbalah. There is no ‘is’ because it is not a religion. Kabala is very much a religion because it deals with religious matters! Being the creation, God or theology, man and his relation to God and the creation and the destiny of a mans soul (matters of the spirit). Kabala is not just a philosophical system as Buddhism is, with no god (panatheism). The occultic objective of kabala is to enlighten men to their so called ‘rightful place among the universal/collective soul’ AKA godhood. Kabala is pantheism, the belief that all things are god. It is often expressed this way,, ‘God is all, all is God’ And enlightenment (illumination as ALLA says) to this is called ‘self realization’, among many other terms. Another way to refer to pantheism is monism, the belief that all things are one. MADONNA SAYS the reason she is a living icon, is that she was chosen to be a spiritual GURU,,,,, BIGGER than Jesus. Posted in Christian, Church, faith, God, Jesus, Religion, Theology, Uncategorized Tagged Adin Steinsaltz, and Kaballah, Aryeh Kaplan, Cabala, Cabalah, Cabbala, Cabbalah, channeling, clairvoyance, divination, ESP, freemasonry freemasons, Greek and Egyptian deities, Guy Ritchie, Hermetic Qabalah, Hindu and Buddhist Eastern ideals, Kabala, Kabalah, Madonna, Masonic-Rosicrucian-Style secret orders, masonry, mediums, mystic art, Mysticism, numerology, occult, occultism, Ouija boards, Practical Kabbalah, psychic readings, Qabala, Qabalah, Qabbala, reading bones, reading tea leaves, Samuel Ben-Or Avital, Samuel Ben-Or Avital Aryeh Kaplan Zalman Schachter-Shal, secret sciences, Sefirot, sorcery, spirit guides, tarot cards, the Enochian tradition of angelic mysteries, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Zohar more about “Madonna & Britney Spears Kabbalah Wor…“, posted with vodpod EXCLUSIVE: Madonna offers Guy an extra £5million ‘if she can dictate access rights to children’ By Richard Simpson Last updated at 8:54 AM on 23rd October 2008 Madonna has offered Guy Ritchie an additional £5million to dictate his access rights to their three children. The singer has agreed to increase the lump sum cash payment he will get in their divorce from £15million to £20million if he backs down from a court battle over Lourdes, 12, Rocco, eight, and David Banda, three. Legal sources said last night that Mr Ritchie would be well-advised to take the offer since Madonna as their mother would be seen as primary carer. ‘Madonna has said to Guy that if she ups the money, then would he agree to her setting out the access for the children until they turn 18. What she is basically saying is that if Guy wants this to go to court, she will get what she wants anyway. ‘Basically she is offering a cash incentive to him to encourage an amicable out-of-court agreement over the children.. Madonna is keen to give Guy good access to the children – but on her terms,’ a source said. ‘Guy wants the children to be educated in Britain – especially his beloved Rocco – but his lawyers will be advising him that if Madonna moves to New York and wants the children with her, a judge is likely to agree.’ Ritchie spent yesterday mulling over the offer with his lawyers. The offer also contains a clause which will effectively attempt to gag Ritchie and his family from talking about the marriage break-down. Access to the children is the only area of the split Guy and Madonna are now at loggerheads over. Money and property have been discussed and all but agreed. The Mail has learned that Guy finally decided the marriage was over during one particular bizarre exchange with his wife at their Marylebone house where she claimed to be ‘bigger than Jesus’. Said a friend: ”The argument happened at the Marylebone house. Madonna had been moaning about his lack of support and lack of interest in what she has doing with Kabbalah. ‘She told Guy she did not understand why she was ridiculed by the press for what she was doing with the religion. But Guy just reacted quite sarcastically and told her to “get over herself”. ‘And that’s when it got a bit surreal. Madonna said that her destiny had been mapped out and that she had been chosen to live this life. ‘She said the reason why she is a living icon is that she had been chosen to be a spiritual guru. To which Guy turned around and said ‘Listen love, you’re just a singer’. ‘And it was then she turned around to him and said: “Listen baby, I’m bigger than Jesus'”. ‘Guy was dumbfounded. At that point, he realised that he really had lost her to the Kabbalah. From that point on, Guy felt totally alienated from Madonna. She made him feel that he was beneath her. To make matters worse, that had been one of the few times they had been together in recent months and it was spoiled by that argument.’ The source went on: ‘Guy truly believes that Madonna is deluded and lives in a fantasy world – particularly also when it comes to her age. ‘When Madonna turned 50 for example, she felt her biological age was only 35 so they went ahead as if it was a 35th birthday’. Meanwhile it emerged last night that Madonna has also fallen out with her family over the divorce. Said a source: ‘She has been blasted by her father – a devout Catholic – for divorcing twice. He is furious that they did not do more to resolve their differences – especially for the sake of the children. Relationships with the entire family had already been strained over the publication of her brother Christopher Ciccone’s tell-all book. ‘Resentment has been building up over the years due to Madonna’s high-handed imperious behaviour. When the book was released, Madonna called on the help of her family to try to stop it but they were unable and indeed unwilling to prevent it coming out. The feeling was that had Madonna treated him better, it wouldn’t have happened.’ Further details also emerged last night of the division of wealth between Guy and Madonna in the divorce. As reported first by the Mail, Guy will get Ashcombe – their Wiltshire estate – plus cash of around £15 million. He will also get an allowance for homes in London and New York. However, although Guy will be able to keep Ashcombe, all of the art and antiquities – in particular two Picasso paintings – will be stripped from the house. All of the possessions she gave Guy in the marriage, she had told him he can keep. But all of the presents Guy ever gave her, she is putting in storage. Friends are concerned that the divorce is going to become increasingly acrimonious over the access to the children, in particular the regularity of access and the length of each access period. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1079889/EXCLUSIVE-Madonna-offers-Guy-extra-5million-dictate-access-rights-children.html Kabbalah – Why the different spellings for Kabbalah? Kabbalah is found spelled in many different ways — Qabbala, Cabala, Cabalah, Cabbala, Cabbalah, Kabala, Kabalah, Qabala, Qabalah, and Kaballah. The reason for this is because some letters in the Hebrew alphabet have more than one usage in the English alphabet. The Hebrew letter can be written as a K, Q, or C, but the “Kabbalah” spelling is the most common. Kabbalah – What is it? Kabbalah is derived from the Hebrew root for “reception and acceptance.” It is an esoteric (occult secret) system of interpretation of the Scriptures based upon oral accounts handed down from Abraham. It is also considered as secret oral teachings with a mixture of Jewish teachings, occultism, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism. Jewish Kabbalah uses numerology to interpret the Bible’s message. Kabbalah concentrates the attention of Jewish mysticism towards the nature of divinity, the creation, the soul’s beginnings and fate, and man’s place in this world. It is considered an esoteric off-branch of Judaism because it teaches meditation, loyalties, and mystical enhancements to a select few. It originated for Jews only, but many non-Jews have studied Kabbalah for the last 500 years. The non-Jewish version of Kabbalah is called Hermetic Kabbalah. Some Jews have opted for the preferences of Hermetic Kabbalah. For centuries, Hermetic Kabbalah has grown in many directions with influences from Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, and its continued input from Jewish Kabbalah. The strongest philosophies of Kabbalah are ideals of religious humanism. Kabbalah vs. Christianity vs. Judaism Primary Texts: Christianity uses the Bible. Judaism uses the Torah. Kabbalah texts are much like taking notes in a classroom setting, but utilize commentaries from Herchalat, Yetzirah, Sefer Chasidim, Malakh, Bahir, Zahar, Pardes Rimonim, Ets Khayim, and Sulam. Explanation of the existence of evil: Christianity determines evil as a disobedient rebellion against God. Satan, as an angel, of light first exercised it, when the devil tried to be like God. Then, the perpetrator enticed man to exercise the same rebellious disobedience. Judaism understands evil as the same act of rebellion. Kabbalah’s philosophy of evil stems from the belief that both good and evil come from God. An existing need for a Savior (Messiah): Christianity teaches that the Messiah came as the Son of God (Jesus Christ) to redeem man from evil. Judaism teaches that the Messiah has yet to come and redeem Israel. Kabbalah’s philosophy does not include the sinful nature of man, and therefore, there is no need of the redeeming qualities of a Messiah. One God or Ten: Christianity is built on one God, but expressed in the Trinity of God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit. Judaism believes in One God — Jehovah, no Trinity. Kabbalah’s ideals believe that there are ten parts to God, which they call emanations. Kabbalah – Practices Some Kabbalahists utilize divination and clairvoyance to foretell events or to know occult events, and some deal with potions and curses. Practical Kabbalah is termed for use in referring to secret sciences (ESP, psychic readings, Ouija boards, tarot cards, reading tea leaves, reading bones, numerology, mediums, spirit guides, channeling, mysticism, etc.), mystic art, or sorcery. Principals of Kabbalah are intertwined with: Greek and Egyptian deities, the Enochian tradition of angelic mysteries (taken from the “Book of Enus” found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, not written by the prophet Enoch of the Bible), Hindu and Buddhist Eastern ideals instituted within the Masonic-Rosicrucian-Style secret orders, and the occult. The teachings of both Christianity and Judaism prohibit magical means in foretelling the future. http://www.allaboutreligion.org/kabbalah.htm Practicing Kabbalah. is a religion! By Damon Whitsell August 8, 2008 – 9:32 pm Kabala, like all other traditions of pantheism are totally contradictory to Christianity. CS Lewis and other theologians have said,,,, there is only two religions in the world.. Pantheism,, which seeks to absorb all other religions into its self,,, and is diametrically and emphatically opposed to Christianity. Then there is Christianity, which says that all men are sinners in need of a Savior,,, and Jesus is the only avenue (way) and option (name by which ALL men must be saved) for mans salvation from his fallen and depraved state,,,,, which has him alienated from God’s presence. (This is my paraphrase, I could not find the quote). Kabala is pantheism and pantheism is the antithesis of Christian theism,, they are totally incompatible. The main reason people are attracted to pantheism is the idea of exaltation to godhood or ‘CHRIST’ status! But there is also another big reason why people are attracted to pantheism. While I could not find the CS Lewis quote I was looking for,,, I found one that gives insight into why people are so willing to believe in pantheism. Mr. Lewis says,, “The Pantheist’s God does nothing, demands nothing. He is there if you wish for Him, like a book on a shelf. He will not pursue you.”55.C.S. Lewis, Miracles p.93 A PRIMER ON OCCULT PHILOSOPHY Primer For Recognizing Occult Doctrines and Practices Is God Pleased With The Occult? Provided by How2BecomeAChristian.info	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1269
__label__cc	0.683217	0.316783	Pirates Rock. And so does every day life. About this blog The Foster Road « A Pirate’s Health Care Medical Odyssey On Christmas Lights and Voodoo Dolls, Chickens with Prime Real Estate and Non-Existent Rush Hours » 10/13/2013 // On Oct. 15, 2011, my husband left me. I don’t mean left me as in, we talked about separation, we divided up our things and he departed the house one day at an arranged time — you know, with agreement. With finality. With closure. With conversation. I mean, he left me as in I returned home one evening to find he had packed up all he could fit into the car, cleared out the bank accounts, and left the keys behind, with nary a word or a note –and never to communicate again via phone, text or email (at least, not until seven months later when he wanted to get the rest of his things). To be fair, we HAD talked separation. After nearly a year of marriage counseling, and another few previous years of strife and struggle, I had finally come to the realization that the marriage was never going to be truly that — a marriage, a joint union, each spouse standing for the other, making decisions for the marriage in lieu of the self. It had been my decision to separate to move towards divorce. And the morning he left, we had talked a bit more about the logistics of a separation, what the process might be. But his actions that day had me feeling just one thing: ABANDONED. Abandonment was my worst fear, realized. It was the stuff of all my nightmares as a child, a teen, and even an adult. It’s what I had fought to avoid — in all my relationships, in my jobs, in my every day. By 4 am the next morning I was exhausted, anxious, unable to sleep and devoid of any feeling except a deep pit in my stomach that was unquenchable with the very blackness of its depth. So much so that I couldn’t cry. I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t even think. I was an empty vessel lying in bed that night and morning: As though until I had to quit fighting, hard, every second of every day and even in my sleep for the shell of a marriage I had found myself in, I didn’t even know how hard I’d been fighting. I didn’t know then how much of my soul had gone into keeping the very thing I feared the most — abandonment — at bay. When I called my Mom the morning after that sleepless night, all the feelings I’d been holding back, the ones locked behind the empty vessel I had become over the past three years, came flooding out in one single clarified moment. For the first time in many, many years, I sobbed, and I did it from the depths of my fear. All the loneliness, pointless wishing and hiding from myself I’d been doing came crashing in at once and came out of me in a low empty, nearly voiceless cry turning into a deep racking sob that lasted for wordless, endless moments. It’s amazing what can happen when there’s nothing left to lose. For the first time in my life, I asked her to come and rescue me: to come and stay with me the next week as I navigated not just sudden aloneness, but with the sudden grappling of the knowledge I’d been trying to avoid for so long, maybe since just after I’d gotten married. Not only was I abandoned NOW, I’d been abandoned, really, from the very beginning. Maybe before I’d even fathomed the idea of marriage at all. She came to rescue me, to stay with me, just to BE with me. And my restart started, again. Abandoned, or at rest, a boat unsailed will start to rot. Each year, hundreds of ships are abandoned at docks and on sea. Depending on how you define abandonment, the actual number could be MUCH higher. After all, while we often talk about ships as though they embody a human — usually a she, as in, “She sails straight,” or “She is a great, beautiful boat,” or “She has her quirks but she never lets me down in weather,” — sailors and shipmen alike tend to refer to how much “soul” a boat has. Some storied ships carry their own spirit, regardless of owner, but these are few and far between. And, I would argue that most ships only have as much soul as its captain and crew are willing to put into it. Amazingly, despite the ships that sit abandoned at docks, no one comes to claim them as their own. There is an unwritten rule that, even if a ship’s owner has not taken care of a ship in years, has not visited her or paid for her dockage or done anything to upkeep the ship, She belongs to someone else. And plenty of laws exist on the books in each local, state and international jurisdiction that make it clear that even if it’s abandoned, it still belongs to someone. Marinas have to go through piles of paperwork to get an abandoned boat declared as such before they can legally be allowed to remove it. The US Coast Guard and state natural resource departments can’t even begin to clean up the waste of an unclaimed boat until they get a legal declaration — a process that again takes much time and paperwork. And even if they do, there remains the ultimate question of who will pay for the removal of not just the boat but the fuel and oil it leeches into the water as it decays. Because ultimately, these abandoned ships eventually succumb to the water in which they languish. A boat without water flowing by its hulls will eventually begin to rot, from the outside in. Wooden boats’ planks begin to shrink, change shape and leak water until the boards open to let more water in while the batteries die and the pumps stop emptying the ship of the inevitable water that makes its way through (because, as any seasoned sailor will tell you, all wooden boats leak, all the time). Metal hulls start to rust and welded seams eventually fail. Fiberglass hulls, too, develop weaknesses when left to the wiles of winds, waves and rain. To prosper and survive, ships need sailed. As though there is a deep-seated recognition that an abandoned ship is soulless and without much merit, the REAL pirates of today — the ones that patrol Africa’s eastern coast’s and the China seas — will not touch an abandoned boat. They target vessels already under steam, with a crew, a commodity underway. These pirates know a boat abandoned is merely an empty vessel, and they want a vessel full of possibility they can steal. A boat that sits too long, too often, that’s faced a checkered past, a bad reputation, often meets if not an abandoned, untimely end, then a sad fading into semi-obscurity. Look no further than the tale of the Schooner America, a replica of the boat for which the landmark sailboat match the world tunes into today was named (This year’s match was out of San Francisco August 21 to 26 and October 2 to 7). Built by a wealthy Virginian restaurateur to be both a money-making venture and a goodwill ambassador for the US, Mr. Ray Giovanni’s dream never quite materialized. The boat has alternated in its 20-year history between being celebrated, reviled, abandoned, recovered and re-celebrated before fading once again into the background at some dock in a port town (the full story of the Schooner America is coming soon, in a post entitled “Checkered Pasts and High Seas: The Life of the Schooner America”). Just three years after the Schooner America was built to great fanfare, celebration and media coverage, she languished at a Ft. Lauderdale marina, unwanted at the original asking price. In those short 36 months, the ship had developed enough of a reputation that few were willing to tackle a young boat with a checkered past. Its various owners in its life — three to date — have proclaimed in various ways that THIS time she was to prosper fully. Greg Muzzy, owner of Liberty Fleet which bought the Schooner America in 1999 — only to have her run aground just a year later as she sailed on her maiden voyage out of Boston — told me in 2000: “The boat’s had a checkered life and created some bad reputations here and there. Our job is to try and fix some of those reputation problems and turn it into the best it can be.” And yet, just a few years later, Liberty Fleet put the Schooner America up on the auction block again. A vessel facing criticism, abandonment, trials and innuendos, can hardly seem to escape that fate. The Schooner America is not the only ship to sail this tale. And here lies the very real distinction between a vessel abandoned, and a person abandoned. In the months after my spouse abandoned me, an amazing and unexpected thing happened: I found faith. In the vastness of love foundered on dreams unrealized, I developed a deep, abiding belief in love. I found a lasting sense of peace. And I discovered I had never been abandoned at all. In this abandonment, I found freedom to take the abandoned vessel I thought I had become, shore it up with some new boards, a bit of pitch tar and faith in a right wind and TRUST it fully again. I learned to trust myself again, and I learned to trust the sense that came from deep within that there was something else driving this ship, something that I could trust. Photo, Pam Steude. Sometimes dark times, are really openings to more We all have this opportunity, all the time, in the small and big losses of life. Losing a job, an important relationship, a child, a dream: In our human attempts to overcome the inevitability of life, the ebb and flow of dreams developed, followed and derailed, we try to keep those events that cause those feelings at bay because, ultimately, we like to think that we can control what happens to us. Or, at the least, affect the outcome when they do happen- the fear, loneliness and hopelessness that can follow in the wake of our most shocking life changes. We gather inspirational sayings to arm ourselves against that nagging voice that tells us in the quiet moments on dark nights that we are not good enough, not important enough or not doing enough. These work, for a time, until that next quiet moment returns. These losses force us to look directly at the one thing we fight against as humans: that We Can Not, try as we might, BE God. We do not consider, maybe we cannot consider, that in that wake, the clearing that loss creates, we are not DEVOID as much as we are an empty vessel ready to be filled. Perhaps then, the ultimate question is what will we fill our vessels with, what soul cry will we answer when we are finally empty enough to choose freely. And so maybe boats – and people- ultimately become a product of their story and founding principles no matter where they sit or sail. The America might have been so embattled precisely because Mr. Ray founded her on two dual and competing purposes. You cannot produce a revenue to feed the company that runs you AND be a “goodwill” ambassador – which implies that it operates solely for the good of the people. Left with nothing to lose, our vessels ask us what soul cry we will pick up. Our fate is not sealed: we are not an empty ship abandoned and now devoid of soul without its captain and crew to give it story and heart. Our vessel was never empty to begin with. And instead of fearing the space that these great losses can bring, we can instead remember that our soul infuses within us a continuing story. Abandonment is a chance for us to ask, instead of what the world will bring to us, what WE will bring to the world. I choose faith, love, hope and peace. Tags abandoned boat, abandoned marriage, abandoned ship, America's Cup, finding faith, Finding Hope, hope, marriage, narcissistic spouse, pirates, resilience, resilient spirit, somalia pirates, vessels Categories Emotional health, Personal Growth, Spirituality What heartbreak looks like in Mid-Ohio Cuba: What the guide books won’t tell you Cuba Travel Dreams? The Myths and Realities of a Cuban Adventure Bound for Varadero ADRIFT – Part 1 ljwilloughby on A Pirate’s Life for Me Heidi Todd on A Pirate’s Life for Me ljwilloughby on ABANDONED ljwilloughby on ADRIFT – Part 1 newheavenonearth on ADRIFT – Part 1 Bucking the System I Quit My Job	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1270
__label__wiki	0.635088	0.635088	Home Partner Brands Vivo Philippines Vivo Philippines The latest news from the Global smartphone brand Vivo. The Vivo V15 Pro and its 32MP pop-up camera has arrived in the Philippines Chester Labaco - March 20, 2019 Vivo V11 unboxing and first impressions Vivo V11 officially launches in PH, priced at PhP 19,999 Get a chance to win the upcoming Vivo V11 via Vivo’s Make A Wish promo Vivo Y85 gets a price drop Vivo V9 drops price to just PhP 14,999 Chester Labaco - August 2, 2018 Vivo has announced on their official Facebook page that they will be dropping the Vivo V9’s price to just PhP 14,999. That’s a PhP 3,000 decrease from the original price of PhP 17,999. Launched back in late March 2018, the Vivo V9 comes with a notched 6.3-inch IPS display with 2.5D glass. Inside is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 SoC with... Vivo X21 now has better AI capabilities The Vivo X21 might just be a month old but the brand is striving to improve its capabilities even after its release. In a recent update, the smartphone has been updated to include scene recognition both on its rear and front-facing cameras. The AI on the Vivo X21 now recognizes 16 scenes ranging from daylight, text, and even to... Get a notch for cheap with the Vivo Y81 The notch might be a decisive topic in the smartphone community but it’s a design choice that manufacturers will stick with for a, we presume, a long time. To bring the notch to the budget arena, Vivo has released their most low-cost smartphone with a notch, the Vivo Y81. The Vivo Y81 shares the same design philosophy as recent releases... Vivo shows off TOF 3D Sensing Technology at MWC Shanghai 2018 Vivo has a tendency of showing their future tech in events like MWC. In MWC Shanghai 2018, the brand flaunted their Time of Flight (TOF) 3D Sensing Technology to promise a future shift in imaging, AR, and human-machine interaction. Vivo is expecting that their new tech will change consumer lifestyles with better immersion and smart capability in their smartphones. The... Vivo X21 review: Unlocking the future It seems that every few months we get a new batch of mid-range smartphones from Vivo. This time, we’re going to get something much more powerful and unique compared to their recent releases. Meet the Vivo X21, one of the first smartphones to hit the market with an in-display fingerprint scanner. Would this feature, however, be enough to separate... Vivo X21 officially launched in the Philippines The Vivo X21, the brand’s first smartphone with an in-display fingerprint scanning technology, has been finally launched in the Philippines. Positioned higher than the V9, the Vivo X21 offers a more powerful experience in a familiar form factor. The Vivo X21 comes with an improved 6.3-inch, 19:9 notched display. Instead of an IPS panel, the X21 now has a Super... Vivo teases launch of X21 on June 21 First unveiled in CES 2018, Vivo’s in-display fingerprint scanning technology is about to arrive in a mid-range smartphone in the form of the Vivo X21 this coming June 21, 2018. The Vivo X21 will come with a 6.28-inch 19:9 AMOLED display at 2280 x 1080 with an integrated fingerprint scanner and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 SoC with 6GB of RAM... The Vivo NEX S ushers in the all-display era Vivo teased an all-display smartphone in MWC 2018 in the form of the APEX FullView. Vivo has just officially announced their first consumer-available all-display smartphone: the Vivo Nex S. The Vivo NEX S’ display comes with a whopping 91.24 screen-to-body ratio dubbed as the UItra FullView Display. It comes with a 6.59-inch Super AMOLED display with a 2316 x 1080... Vivo Y75s and Y83 spotted in TENAA Chester Labaco - May 7, 2018 Two new smartphones from Vivo has been spotted being certified through TENAA; the Y75s and the Y83. The former having a 5.99-inch 18:9 1440 x 720 FullView display akin to the Vivo V7 and V7+ while the latter getting a 6.22-inch 19:9 1520 x 720 (presumably notched) FullView display. The Vivo Y75s was spotted having a 13MP rear camera with... Vivo V9 now available in Velvet Red Vivo has announced that they will be offering the V9 in another color variant; Velvet Red. The brand says that this new color variant of the V9 is representative of passion and adventure that encompasses the outgoing and bold lifestyle of its users. Aside from the different color hue, the Vivo V8 Velvet Red still comes with all the things...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1277
__label__wiki	0.893504	0.893504	Genesis-Alpha Births in 1965, Males, Humans, Governors of Carlana Births in January Richard Fairvue Richard Bradley Fairvue January 13, 1965 (age 54) Carlana West, Carlana, Dragoonasag Years in office Danielle Felarga (1986-present) William Brago Richard Bradley Fairvue (born January 13, 1965) is the current governor of the Dragoonasag state of Carlana. He assumed office in January 2004, following William Brago's resignation due to wrongful use of power. Fairvue served the rest of Brago's term and was a candidate in the 2004 election, which he easily won, defeating Max Brimm. Fairvue is also the last Carlana governor who will be able to serve as many terms as he/she wants. The next governor and governors afterwards will be limited to three two-year terms[1]. Early life Edit Richard Bradley Fairvue was born in Carlana West, Carlana on January 13, 1965, the second-oldest of four children of Wesley and Evelyn Fairvue. He attended Carlana West High School, graduating in 1983. He attended the University of Carlana. Political career Edit Mayor of Carlana West and Jetsburg Edit Fairvue began his political career in the mid-1990s. He ran for mayor of Carlana West in 1994, and won, defeating Marv Halgroad. Fairvue served as mayor of Carlana West from 1995 to 2001. In 2001, he became mayor of Jetsburg, after former mayor Rick Frazzell resigned due to fraud[2]. He served as mayor of Jetsburg from 2001 to 2003. Governor of Carlana (2004-present) Edit In March 2004, Fairvue assumed the office of governor of Carlana after William Brago resigned. He served the remainder of Brago's term, and ran for governor in the 2004 election, in which his opponent was Beckar-born politician Max Brimm. He easily defeated Brimm, and won the election. In his speech in January 2005, Fairvue outlined his agenda as governor, which included raising salaries for state police. In July 2005, Fairvue almost became the third Carlana governor to resign when false rumors circulated that he stole money from local banks. Later that month, he was found not guilty at a trial after Judge Ryan Levelhall viewed videotapes that proved Fairvue was not stealing money. After the Delcee Brawl of 2005 occurred on November 20, Fairvue traveled to Delcee to give a speech outlining a new plan to crack down on violence in the state "before we have another fight like the one that occurred here earlier today". Fairvue later approved of a law that called for tougher punishment for criminals. In May 2006, six months after the Carlana legislature and Fairvue approved of the "Tougher Punishment for Criminals" law in hopes of reducing violence and crime rates, Fairvue learned of mayhem at the Cideo Speedway in Cideo. Fairvue arrived in Cideo at 5:30 p.m. on May 12, 2006 and gave a "speech of anger". He then called in state police to have the rough-housers hauled off to jail. In August of 2006, Fairvue was outraged when he heard his brother, Greibb mayor Chris Fairvue, was doing exactly what the governor was rumored to have done in 2005 --- stealing money from local banks. Governor Fairvue ordered his brother to step down from his position, and when Chris Fairvue refused, the governor said to the state police that Chris seems to have forgotten that he is not only his big brother who protected him when they were children, but that he is now the state's governor, and he sent the state police to Greibb to literally force his brother to sign resignation papers and step down. This became not only the second time he sent the state police to "deliver a dose of justice", but the second time in a year he has done so. On December 1, 2006, Fairvue plugged in the lights on Carlana West's city Christmas tree, and gave a speech broadcast statewide, reminding residents to have a merry and safe Christmas season. Cite error: <ref> tags exist, but no <references/> tag was found Retrieved from "https://imagine.fandom.com/wiki/Richard_Fairvue?oldid=32378" Births in 1965	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1278
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__label__cc	0.718816	0.281184	Art, Democracy, Education, History, Jakarta, Media, New Art Movement, Painting, Politics, Translation, Visual Arts, Yogyakarta Black December 1974 Quote September 3, 2017 admin Leave a comment One Hundred Thousand for Rubbish Art: A Review of Menanam Padi di Langit [Planting Rice in the Sky] by Puthut EA. Blog post by Wahyudin, January 2017 […] consider the description of Bambang Bujono (Tempo, 11 January 1975): “In neither the invitation to painters to participate in the 1974 Grand Indonesian Painting Exhibition nor the guidelines for the exhibition judging panel can one find a section normally found in art exhibition judging guidelines stating that the decision of the judges is final. Maybe this was the reason a dispute arose that took the form of the “1974 Black December Declaration” along with the delivery of a condolence funeral wreath on behalf of the community to the Jakarta Arts Council for the “Death of Indonesian Painting”. This happened on the last night of 1974 which was the closing night of the 1974 Art Festival at the Jakarta Arts Center (Taman Ismail Marzuki or TIM). The condolence wreath was not effective anyway because the security guards at TIM were the ones who “accepted” the wreath and they then stored it locking it away in the TIM Dance Studio.” Compare this to the description of Miklouho-Maklai (1998: 36-37). “On 31 December 1974 during the Grand Indonesian Painting Exhibition, held biennially at TIM, an incident occurred that marked the start of the New Art Movement. There was a protest against the judges who awarded prizes to a number of paintings in the form of a condolence funeral wreath emblazoned with the words, “With condolences for the death of our painting”. The condolence wreath was delivered on the last day of the exhibition when the prizes were given to the winners of the competition that traditionally accompanied the Biennial. This was intended to publicize the students’ anger at the judges who in their view valued only what they called “decorative and consumerist” painting. The protesters called themselves the “Black December” movement and it was also supported by students from the Indonesian Academy of Visual Arts (ASRI).” Look at this photograph: Condolence Funeral Wreath – “With Condolences for the Death of Our Painting” (Tempo, 11 January 1975) […] The first paragraph on page 69 says, “Apart from the wreath, the protesters also wrote a manifesto, many names signed it, especially from Bandung, Jakarta and of course the five people from Yogya.” The question is, who were the “five people from Yogya”? It is very surprising that even with his overactive imagination, the writer of this book is unable to answer this question. A short explanation on page 67 of the book makes it possible to speculate about the “five people from Yogya”. But the page only mentions four people, Bonyong, Harsono, Hardi and Nanik Mirna. So who is the person not mentioned? Because the answer is not provided in the book, we have to consider the historical facts about the Group of Five Young Yogya Painters. As I mentioned earlier, according to Harsono (2013), the Group of Five Young Yogya Painters which formed in Yogyakarta in 1973 under the “guidance” of Fadjar Sidik (painter, STSRI “ASRI” lecturer, and member of the judging panel for the “Good Paintings” exhibition) was composed of five students from STSRI “ASRI” Yogyakarta, namely, Bonyong Munni Ardhi, FX Harsono, Hardi, Nanik Mirna and Siti Adiyati. (Also see Hendro Wiyanto, “FX Harsono dan Perkembangan Karyanya (1972-2009) [FX Harson and the Development of His Work (1972-2009)]” in Re: Petesi/Posisi FX Harsono [Re: Petition/Position of FX Harsono], (2010: 41-187); Dermawan T (2013) and Miklouho-Maklai (1998: 33-34)). At the 1974 Grand Indonesian Painting Exhibition or Jakarta Biennial I, they were invited to participate. Apart from them, five other STSRI “ASRI” students were listed in the catalog who were also invited, namely, Nyoman Gunarsa, Ris Purwana, Suatmaji, Sudarisman and Subroto SM. Given these historical facts, I hope no reader is tempted to speculate and answer that what was meant by the writer of this book by the “five people from Yogya” is Bonyong, Harsono, Hardi, Nanik Mirna and Siti Adiyati, because such speculation would take one down the road of historical liars and the anti-“Jas merah” brigade. How could it be otherwise because you need to know that, although invited to participate in the 1974 Grand Indonesian Painting Exhibition, there were only four members of the Group of Five Young Yogya Painters who signed the “Black December” manifesto, namely, Bonyong, Hardi, Harsono, and Adiyati. (See Harsono (2013); Dermawan T. (2013); Wiyanto (2010: 70) and Miklouho-Maklai (1998: 36-38)). The one person who did not sign the Declaration, of course you can guess, was Nanik Mirna. This is why Nanik did not receive the academic sanction of being “suspended without time limit” from STSRI “ASRI” as was the case with Bonyong, Hardi, Harsono, Adiyati and Ris Purwana. (See “Skors di ASRI”, Tempo, 15 February 1975; Dermawan T. (tt.: 135); Dermawan T. (2013); Miklouho-Maklai (1998: 38) and Dermawan T. (1979: 2)).” Black December Declaration Signatories 31 December 1974 Black December Declaration 1974 Black December 1974 Declaration Recalling that over the past few years artistic and cultural activities have been carried on without a clear cultural strategy, we have come to the conclusion that art and culture entrepreneurs do not display a shred of evidence of the slightest understanding of the most fundamental problems of our culture. This is an indication that for some time the development of art and culture has been destroyed by a spiritual erosion. For this reason we feel the need in this black December of 1974 to declare our opinion regarding the symptoms obvious in the works of Indonesian painting today. 1. That although the diversity of Indonesian painting constitutes an undeniable fact, nevertheless this diversity does not in itself represent a positive development. 2. That for development that ensures the continuation of our culture, painters have a high calling to provide spiritual direction which is based on humanitarian values and which is oriented around the reality of social life and which is oriented towards the realities of social, cultural, political and economic life. 3. That creativity is the essential nature of painters who employ whatever means to achieve new perspectives for Indonesian painting. 4. That therefore the identity of Indonesian painting in itself has a clear position. 5. That what has hindered the development of Indonesian painting to date is worn out concepts that continue to be professed by the establishment, art and culture entrepreneurs and established artists. In the interest of saving our painting, now is the right time for us to award an honor on that establishment, the honor of being a retired veteran of the culture. Indonesia, 31 December 1974 Signed by: Muryotohartoyo, Juzwar, Harsono, B. Munni Ardhi, M. Sulebar, Ris Purwana, Daryono, Adiyati, D. A. Peransi, Baharudin Marasutan, Ikranegara, Adri Darmadji, Hardi, Abdul Hadi W Source: Seratus Ribu untuk Sampah Seni Rupa. Images of the Declaration come from Desember Hitam, GSRB Dan Kontemporer. Image of Garuda by Kanva Abas from Fase Perkembangan Sejarah Senirupa Indonesia Bagian 2. The Grand Indonesian Painting Exhibition 1974 at the Digital Archive of Indonesian Contemporary Art. The exhibition catalog. Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru Exhibition 1987 at the Digital Archive of Indonesian Contemporary Art . Rath, Amanda Katherine. Re: petisi/posisi : F.X. Harsono / Amanda Katherine Rath … [et al.] Langgeng Art Foundation Magelang 2010 ArtDemocracyEducationHistoryHuman RightsIndonesiaPaintingPoliticsVisual Arts Previous PostA Note From AhokNext PostMuslim Shrines in the Malay World – KITLV	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1283
__label__cc	0.60099	0.39901	Australian Government Loses All Its UFO Files – Australian Government Loses All Its UFO Files: Two months ago, an Australian newspaper submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to its government seeking files pertaining to UFO sightings across the country. Government officials have just come back empty handed. The UFO files, they said, seem to have gone missing. “The files could not be located and Headquarters Air Command formally advised that this file is deemed lost,” the Australia Department of Defense’s FOI assistant director, Natalie Carpenter, told the Sydney Morning Herald, the newspaper that made the request. Read moreAustralian Government Loses All Its UFO Files Categories Global News, Politics Tags Australia, Freedom of Information Act, Global News, Government, Politics, UFO Leave a comment No One Can Explain The Mysterious UFO Sighting By Two Different Pilots (Video) – No One Can Explain The Mysterious UFO Sighting By Two Different Pilots: Audio recently obtained and released to the public of a UFO encounter is making its rounds on the internet, and no one can explain this one. The rather bizarre incident occurred in the skies above Arizona last month and provides a first-hand account of evidence the FAA cannot or will not explain. In spite of the exchanges, which are thought to have taken place over the span of just 6 minutes, the incident doesn’t appear to have ever been formally written up by aviation authorities, despite the seemingly invisible presence of a UFO detected by two separate aircraft in a highly trafficked airspace. The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) has no idea what this strange airborne mystery was either. They attempted to explain that the FAA wasn’t aware of any unusual aircraft or weather balloon experiments in the area on the day that could account for what the pilots saw. “We don’t have any comment beyond what you hear,” the FAA said in a statement issued to media outlets only adding the mystery, speculation, and theories out there. “Other than the brief conversation between two aircraft, the controller was unable to verify that any other aircraft was in the area. We have a close working relationship with a number of other agencies and safely handle military aircraft and civilian aircraft of all types in that area every day, including high-altitude weather balloons,” the FAA’s statement read. “I couldn’t make it out if it was a balloon or whatnot, but it was just really beaming light or had a big reflection and several thousand feet above us going the opposite direction.” When asked if it was a Google balloon, the Airbus simply responds, “Doubtful.” “I don’t know what it was, it wasn’t an airplane but it was… the path was going in the opposite direction.” Moments later, the Airbus pilot confirms that he too has witnessed whatever the strange object is. As The Drive points out, the region in which these sightings took place is nestled in the midst of numerous military and air force facilities and is an area “known for being highly active with military aircraft, and even possibly clandestine aircraft that remain under a cloak of [government] secrecy.” Of course, that’s only one explanation, and since the FAA already said that there were no other aircraft in the area at the time of the sighting, it makes the possibility of the UFO being a top-secret government flying machine even less likely. But at this point, who knows. We are already aware that the government lies to us about almost everything, why would we expect UFOs and secret government planes to be any different? Categories Global News, Politics Tags Global News, Government, Military, U.S., UFO Leave a comment Nikola Tesla’s UFO & Alien Encounters (Video) Categories Economy, Global News, Technology Tags Global News, Nicola Tesla, Technology, UFO Leave a comment You Need To Hear These FAA Tapes From That Oregon UFO Incident That Sent F-15s Scrambling – You Need To Hear These FAA Tapes From That Oregon UFO Incident That Sent F-15s Scrambling: New evidence offers great detail of the bizarre event and provides unprecedented insight into how such a unique incident is dealt with in real time. Last November, The War Zone posted an exclusive story detailing a bizarre incident involving an unidentified aircraft that transited the skies of the Pacific Northwest in the early evening of October 25th, 2017. What started as a radar target moving at very high speed over Northern California turned into a series of eyewitness accounts made by nearby airline pilots traveling northward over Oregon. Even F-15 fighters were launched to intercept the mysterious intruder that quickly became invisible to radar. Now, through the Freedom of Information Act, we present what could be one of the most insightful instances of official documentation surrounding such an encounter that had already been confirmed to have occurred by both the FAA and the USAF. These materials include fascinating audio recordings of radio transmissions and phone calls made as the incident was unfolding, as well as pilot interviews, and conversations between FAA officials made in the aftermath of the highly peculiar incident. H/t reader kevn a. H/t reader squodgy: A Blackjack poking sticks or a Groom Lake baby?” Categories Global News, Politics Tags Global News, Government, Military, Politics, U.S., UFO Leave a comment Existence of UFOs ‘proven beyond reasonable doubt’, says former chief of real-life ‘X-Files’ department at the Pentagon – Existence of UFOs ‘proven beyond reasonable doubt’, says former chief of real-life ‘X-Files’ department at the Pentagon: The former head of a Pentagon program to understand the mysteries of UFOs has said that such objects visiting Earth had been ‘proved beyond reasonable doubt’. Speaking to The Telegraph, former Intelligence Officer Luis Elizondo said that unidentified flying objects of advanced capabilities have been seen ‘lots’ over the years. Elizondo, who presided over the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program until two months ago, told The Independent: ‘I think it’s pretty clear this is not us, and it’s not anyone else, so one has to ask the question where they’re from.’ Read moreExistence of UFOs ‘proven beyond reasonable doubt’, says former chief of real-life ‘X-Files’ department at the Pentagon Categories Global News, Politics Tags Global News, Government, Politics, U.S., UFO Leave a comment SpaceX launch stirs alien UFO fears in California, Arizona (VIDEOS)  Here is another one… – SpaceX launch stirs alien UFO fears in California, Arizona (VIDEOS): The aftermath of SpaceX’s launch of satellites into space from Southern California was witnessed across state lines and hundreds of miles. Many, however, did not know what to make of the stunning sights lighting up the sky. Falcon 9 launched 10 satellites to low-Earth orbit Friday night, from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, about 158 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Falcon 9 is a family of two-stage-to-orbit medium lift launch vehicles. Some residents in Southern California, unaware of the launch, took to social media to share their experiences. “I think I just saw a UFO wtf if you in Compton did y’all just see that in the sky ?? We need answers #Aliens#ufo#compton never seen anything like that !!” an instagrammer from Compton in Los Angeles County wrote. I think I just saw a UFO wtf if you in Compton did y’all just see that in the sky ?? We need answers #Aliens #ufo #compton never seen anything like that !! A post shared by GLXBVLLY BVKXD (@locallybakedglass) on Dec 22, 2017 at 5:39pm PST Founder, CEO and lead designer at SpaceX, Elon Musk, joined in on the fun. Read moreSpaceX launch stirs alien UFO fears in California, Arizona (VIDEOS)  Categories Global News Tags Global News, SpaceX, UFO Leave a comment Top official reveals UFOs exist, and they’re “often being reported” over nuclear power plants… “We’d never seen anything like it” — Military: “Ominous correlation” between sightings and atomic sites — TV: “Mystery intruders over nuke facilities” (VIDEOS) – Top official reveals UFOs exist, and they’re “often being reported” over nuclear power plants… “We’d never seen anything like it” — Military: “Ominous correlation” between sightings and atomic sites — TV: “Mystery intruders over nuke facilities” (VIDEOS) Categories Global News, Politics Tags Global News, Government, Politics, UFO Leave a comment Video: The Pentagon’s Secret UFO Research Program May Have Found Something – Video: The Pentagon’s Secret UFO Research Program May Have Found Something: In an interview with Bill Clinton in 2015, Jimmy Kimmel asked the former president about UFOs. “If I were President–and I never will be,” he said, drawing laughter, “the first thing I would do after putting my hand on the Bible and taking that oath to serve the country, I probably wouldn’t finish the oath, I would run to the White House, I would demand to see all the classified files on UFOs….did you do that?” Clinton, ever the politician, gave an earnest answer, admitting that he’d always had an interest in the subject of extraterrestrials and had invested considerable effort into discovering whether they had ever visited the Earth. His answer: they haven’t. Would he tell us if they had? He would. Then he essentially restated the same weird thing Reagan said in 1987 at the United Nations — that maybe it would be better off if aliens did arrive because it’s probably the only thing that could unite the people of Earth. Read moreVideo: The Pentagon’s Secret UFO Research Program May Have Found Something Categories Global News, Politics Tags Global News, Government, New York Times, Politics, U.S., UFO Leave a comment Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program (New York Times) Related info: – $21 TRILLION of unauthorized spending by US govt discovered by economics professor – HAARP Project Bluebeam – Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program: WASHINGTON — In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find. Which was how the Pentagon wanted it. For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze. Read moreGlowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program (New York Times) Dr. Steven Greer interviewed by the Health Ranger: Secret groups planning false flag “alien” attack to roll out world government (Video) – Dr. Steven Greer interviewed by the Health Ranger: Secret groups planning false flag “alien” attack to roll out world government Categories Global News, Politics Tags Global News, Government, Illuminati, New World Order, Politics, Society, Steven Greer, U.S., UFO Leave a comment	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1284
__label__cc	0.602319	0.397681	Trans positions Los talones de la libertad 'Reciprocate life's manifold generosity by living long, subverting to the end.' Sandra de la Loza, "The Art of Lockpicking The Lockpicking of Art" ...even when we believe we have freedom to use whatever words we wish to use, that we have the entire lexicon of English, at least those of us who are Anglophone, at our disposal, and are able to express ourselves in whatever ways we wish to (all of us who live in the so-called liberal democracies, that is), much of the language we work with is already preselected and limited, by fashion, by cultural norms—by systems that shape us such as gender and race—by what’s acceptable. By order, logic, and rationality. (M. NourbeSe Philip, from Zong!) A lifelong question, to be answered by all means possible: how do we move outside the language (containers, silos, slots) that has been chosen for us? How to move within these shapes, acknowledging them, recognizing their power, undermining their power? How to choose our own lexicons, moving toward what we do not understand, accepting not-understanding as part of understanding? Susana Baca, "Negra presuntuosa" There's a fantastic interview with Susana Baca, from a recent visit to San Francisco, on Webos TV I appreciate work that undoes the structural confines of category, identity, position, imagination. I’m grateful to Sandra de la Loza for her work, which propels me to experience public space and historical echo in my city in entirely unpredictable and unofficial ways. And for her presence in the banner of my posts up to now. Sandra de la Loza, "Lockpicking Class" I’m also grateful to Pato Hebert, for letting me use one of his images on this site, and for making work that humbles me with its honesty, its curiosity, its approach to public conversations beyond the conventions of what is expected of art. Please visit the sidebar (right over there, to the right!) and click on some of Pato’s links. How do our encounters with the world—with what is outside us—help us to know ourselves better? And how, in turn, does our understanding of our own perspectives and subjectivity and history—our self-knowledge and the ongoing learning into which we are invited daily, both by the wondrousness of the world and by its challenges—help us to more deeply engage what is outside the boundaries of the familiar, including what is outside the boundaries of what is familiar in ourselves? That’s an excerpt from a letter I wrote to my student advisees in the BFA Writing Program and Individualzed BA Program at Goddard College, one of three part-time or adjunct teaching positions I hold, alongside regular work as a freelance translator and interpreter: some might argue that an analysis of precarity as part of capitalist labor systems is no longer relevant, but I’m not sure I’d agree. This is a discussion for another space or moment, but I think it’s important to note that I initially chose to organize my occupational life this way because I believed it would allow for more autonomy and nomad adventure than any other mode, but I’m beginning to wonder—as I watch my autonomy radically eroded by uncertainty, exhaustion and year-round work schedule—about the wisdom of that choice. And even as I write that sentence I’m aware of the privilege inherent in believing I can make choices about my occupational life, and in the idea that it might be possible not to work year round, or to have my employer even partially subsidize my health insurance. In terms of encountering what is outside the boundaries of the familiar, I’m a little stymied as to how to handle the question of translation in these commentaries. Perhaps being stymied by translation is the hallmark of being a translator? Certainly I find that being utterly confounded by poetry is the hallmark of being a poet. One of the challenges of trying to write from and through the “trans” that is the space of transit between languages or between cultures or between ways of conceiving and articulating the world is that aside from being utterly incapable of translating all the material I wish to share here, I wouldn’t even want to do that if I could. Once, after I co-taught a mostly bilingual workshop with Mexican writer Dolores Dorantes, a student told me that our workshop was the first time she had ever concretely experienced, in person, a desire to hear what was being said by someone speaking a language other than English. The effort to understand what we do not understand—and the effortful inhabiting of the space between understanding and not understanding—seems to me much more useful than simply being handed the entirety of a “foreign” experience as if it could possibly be wholly digested, wholly transferred from there to here, wholly divested of its not-familiar-ness into recognizability. Translation is a slow process—at least, it’s slow if I’m the person doing the translating. My process goes something like this: read a text I’m excited to translate, request permission to translate the text and receive a positive response, spend some time procrastinating (usually by doing occupational tasks) while being intimidated by the text I’m contemplating translating, start the translation, procrastinate further once I realize how very difficult the translation will be, continue to work on the translation, exchange at least a dozen emails with the person whose work I’m translating in order to clarify and/or further muddle a range of different questions about content, form, connotation and word play, finalize the translation, double-check to make sure the writer of the original has no further questions or comments, make the translation publicly available, immediately begin to question the choices I’ve made and the ramifications those choices have as they reverberate throughout the text. I’m currently in that process, at various stages, with three Mexican writers whose work I’m translating for these commentaries. I know that making texts accessible to folks who might not otherwise be able to read them is worth being slower than I’d like with my commentaries, but I still find myself wishing I could compress time or expand myself—whichever would streamline my process and make me magically able to post 2-3 times as week as originally promised. (Insert sigh here.) Two further thoughts, for today, on subversion: In an earlier post, I wrote about all of us (with no idea, really, who “we” are in this sentence—perhaps the makers of the world, whatever that means to each of us reading this?) as participating in an ongoing multi-dimensional conversation that is much larger than any one person or contribution. Sesshu Foster, in one of his many East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines posts, speaks to the democratic engagement of any one person’s voice with other voices, and makes an undeniable argument for participating in public life. As for subversion and dynamite celebration of the “trans,” check out the Kumbia Queers, originally from Buenos Aires—interviewed here and here, and performing a cover of “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’” here. P.S. The title of this post comes from Susana Baca; the subtitle from Sesshu Foster. ¡Que vivan! P.P.S. Here's the sidebar text that accompanied Sandra de la Loza's banner image, in case you didn't have a chance to consult/click previously: Los Angeles artist Sandra de la Loza, of Pocho Research Society fame, created the Stoner Spots series to portray sites temporarily occupied by those in search of illicit, transcendent or solitary experiences. The header image to the left is titled "Flat Tops." When she's not researching stoner spots, Sandra spends her time lock-picking and revitalizing public monuments. 'The terrible light of life or the light of death' or gratitude Kumbia Queers Pato Hebert Sandra de la Loza Sesshu Foster : in transit: in transition: in translation: in motion: in the between: Los Angeles artist Sandra de la Loza, of Pocho Research Society fame, created the Stoner Spots series to portray sites temporarily occupied by those in search of illicit, transcendent or solitary experiences. The header image to the left is titled "Flat Tops." When she's not researching stoner spots, Sandra spends her time lock-picking, revitalizing public monuments, and remixing murals. Heartfelt thanks to Pato Hebert and Michelle Dizon, whose images also graced this space during my tenure as commentator. Jen Hofer is a poet, translator, interpreter, teacher, knitter, book-maker, public letter-writer, and urban cyclist. Her recent and forthcoming poem sequences and translations are available through a range of autonomous small presses including: Atelos, Counterpath Press, Dusie Books, Kenning Editions, Les Figues Press, Palm Press, and Subpress. She also writes letters for people in public spaces at her escritorio p√∫blico, and makes tiny books by hand at her kitchen table in Cypress Park, Los Angeles. She teaches at CalArts, Goddard College, and Otis College, and works nationally and locally as a social justice interpreter. Feel free to be in touch with Jen Hofer via post (email or fb message me for my street address) or in the ether at route.the@gmail.com. Jacket2Commentaries feature invited posts by poets and scholars who take a close, serial look at poetry scenes, archives, poetic concerns, or theoretical clusters. Commentaries, although curated, are not edited by Jacket2 staff. We welcome your comments. Send queries and notes to Commentaries Editor Jessica Lowenthal or contact us at this page. 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__label__wiki	0.530598	0.530598	Weird Cars How I Found Some of the Strangest Minis Ever in a Random Neighborhood in Chile Jason Torchinsky Filed to: MiniFiled to: Mini At this very moment, I’m on the half of the Earth I usually don’t get to visit: the lower half. Specifically, I’m in Temuco, Chile, where I’m taking part in a drive with three Mini Countryman Hybrids which are attempting to drive the entire Pan-American Highway, from Texas all the way to the Earth’s appendix—Tierra del Fuego. But what I want to talk to you about tonight are different Minis—specifically, old ones, and even more specifically, a very particular type of classic Mini that was only made in Chile. (Full Disclosure: Mini flew me down to South America for this road trip, and paid for my food, lodging and booze. Expect more dispatches from the trip soon.) I better explain. Just yesterday, I learned about a type of Mini I was unfamiliar with from one of BMW/Mini’s representatives on the trip. This was a Mini made in Chile from around 1968 or 1969 to 1974. And, unlike any other factory Mini made anywhere, it had a body made of fiberglass. The BMW/Mini rep said they’d looked around for one, but weren’t able to locate one. Somehow, though, I actually managed to find two of these cars in a neighborhood about a mile from my hotel here, as I was wandering around hunting for interesting cars. Hunting was good. But, back to why these fiberglass Minis exist at all: While British Leyland had been producing Minis and Morrises and Land Rovers and other cars in Chile from CKD (Completely Knocked Down) kits sent from the UK in the 1960s, the government of Chile at the time was pushing for greater manufacturing independence and less reliance on foreign production. This led to increases of the requirements of Chilean-produced content in cars, which was only 25 percent in 1962, but went up to over 52 percent in 1968, and then a staggering 70 percent in 1971. The only way British Leyland could make this work is if they produced the Mini’s whole body in Chile. Unfortunately, they were not selling nearly enough cars to justify the costs of a full body-stamping factory, so they had a very clever idea: make the bodies out of cheap, easy-to-produce fiberglass! With some technical help from Peel, who had a lot of experience making fiberglass car bodies (like the famous Peel Trident), British Leyland developed molds for a fiberglass Mini body that fit on standard Mini subframes (I think), and sent those to Chile for production, along with a similar body molding system for the larger MG 1100. What It's Like To Drive A Car That's Slowly Murdering You The Peel Trident is one of those weird little cars that frequently shows up on those stupid “Worst… The fiberglass molds were set up in the Arica, Chile factory, and thousands of plastic-bodied Minis were made between 1969 and 1974. Though they’re not the rarest Minis built in terms of sheer numbers, they are some of the strangest and most unusual Minis, absolutely unique in all of Mini-dom. They were the product of a very specific time and place and politics, and simply would not exist anywhere else, at any other time. They’ve mostly disappeared from Chilean streets now, which is why it’s so incredible I happened to find a couple. I spotted a trailer made from the rear half of a Mini from across a neighborhood street, and walked over to peer through the iron fence to look. The little yard also held an early ‘70s two-door Oldsmobile Omega, and two complete Minis, one red, and one yellow, and quite filthy. I put my face between the fence’s iron bars to look at this yellow Mini closer; it was filthy, and there was moss growing on it, but, significantly, despite all the clear evidence of years in damp conditions, there was no rust. I also noticed there was no seam where the roof would meet the body, as in most Minis, and, holy crap, there were no seams at all. I realized that I was probably looking at a fiberglass-bodied Mini, and grew thrilled in a way that would have required a lot of awkward explaining to, well, pretty much anyone. Well, maybe anyone except the person I then met. As I was greedily taking some photos, I was met by a person exiting the house. My excitement overcoming my awkwardness at being caught leering at a car in his yard, I asked if he spoke English; luckily, he did speak some, which is how I met Ricardo Vallejos, the son of Raúl Vallejos, the Wizard of Chilean Minis. Ricardo was incredibly kind to a weird foreigner poking around his yard; he invited me in, and led me into his dad’s garage area, where he repairs and restores classic Minis. In addition to the two Minis outside the work area, there was also a customer’s steel-bodied Mini in mid-restoration—Raúl was rebuilding the little inline-four engine when I saw him—and another fiberglass-bodied Mini, this one in blue. Ricardo let me examine the blue one, open the doors and trunk, poke all around, and basically just confirm, with direct tactile sensations, that yes, this Mini was indeed fiberglass. He also explained to me that, counter to what you’d think, the fiberglass Minis were actually heavier than their steel brothers, and some even think they were stiffer as well. You can also tell these Chilean Minis by their unique taillights (they have that little body-colored “cuff” that no other Minis had), along with their lack of seams and larger body panel gaps. Raúl had been working with Minis for decades and decades, his son told me. I wasn’t quite clear if he had worked for British Leyland at the factory in Arica, but I think that may be possible; the man certainly knows Minis like someone who built them. I’m astounded by so many things from the events of tonight: that fiberglass-bodied Minis exist at all, that I actually managed to find two of them by total chance, and that those Minis were owned by such charming and kind people, willing to let a goofy, overly-excited stranger into their home and talk about the cars they love with that random American dork. If there’s something to take away from this, I think it’s that wandering in places you don’t know can be a wonderful thing. We tend to focus on the dangers of walking around in unfamiliar places, and while that’s absolutely a concern, I believe that there’s far more good and interesting people out there, and maybe those people are worth meeting. Especially if there’s fascinating and weird cars involved. That’s always worth it. Thank you, Vallejos! 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__label__wiki	0.938256	0.938256	Daisy Ridley Doesn't Want to Play Rey After Star Wars: Episode IX Germain Lussier Filed to: Daisy RidleyFiled to: Daisy Ridley Image: Disney But that doesn’t mean she won’t. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Daisy Ridley flat-out said she doesn’t want to play Rey after J.J. Abrams directs Episode IX. Here’s the exchange after she was asked about it: “No,” she says flatly. “For me, I didn’t really know what I was signing on to. I hadn’t read the script, but from what I could tell, it was really nice people involved, so I was just like, ‘Awesome.’ Now I think I am even luckier than I knew then, to be part of something that feels so like coming home now.” But, um, doesn’t that sort of sound like a yes? “No,” she says again, smiling a little. “No, no, no. I am really, really excited to do the third thing and round it out, because ultimately, what I was signing on to was three films. So in my head, it’s three films. I think it will feel like the right time to round it out.” In the same article, J.J. Abrams also said he felt that Episode IX was the end of the Skywalker saga that has driven the nine-film story. “I do see it that way,” he says. “But the future is in flux.” So maybe it’s not done? The real answer here is, of course, that there is no answer yet. Ridley sees the story ending at Episode IX because the trilogy will conclude, just like Return of the Jedi concluded the original trilogy. (After that, Rian Johnson is creating three new films that have nothing to do with the Skywalkers.) But Ridley also said if 30 years down the road she was asked to come back, she would. And though she’s only contracted for these three films, it seems incredibly possible that Disney could back the proverbial dump truck of cash to her house to sign her back up, 30 years from now, or even in 2020. As Abrams says, the future of Star Wars is in flux. However, it does seem likely these characters may get a nice, long vacation after 2019, if nothing else. The Last Jedi opens December 15. Episode IX starts filming next year, with a targeted release date of December 20, 2019. [Rolling Stone] More Daisy Watch Daisy Ridley Give An Interview While Building a Lego Millennium Falcon Daisy Ridley Loves Porgs... Rey, Not So Much Daisy Ridley Thinks The Force Awakens Already Answered the Mystery of Rey's Parents Entertainment Reporter for io9/Gizmodo Recent from Germain Lussier io9 Takes You on a Tour Inside San Diego Comic-Con 2019's Show Floor The Game of Thrones Creators Just Changed Their Mind About Appearing at SDCC Exclusive Avengers: Endgame Blu-Ray Clip: Scarlett Johansson on Black Widow’s Sacrifice	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1296
__label__cc	0.696171	0.303829	How To Get Any Idea Approved By Your Pastor [3 Steps] Brady Shearer: Many church buildings I do know wrestle with quantifying “success” on the subject of their digital efforts. Perhaps a pastor asks, “Hey, why do we have a podcast?” Or, “What’s the point of a YouTube channel, anyway?” So for those who hear a question like that and wrestle with the thought of find out how to respond, hey, you’re not alone. By the top of this podcast, you’ll know easy methods to reply these questions and also you’ll have a three-part framework to measure every digital determination you make. (singing) Alex Mills: Nicely, hey there and welcome to Pro Church Instruments, the show that will help you share the message of Jesus while we navigate the most important communication shift in 500 years. I’m your host, Alex Mills, joined as all the time by Brady Shearer. Brady Shearer: I’ve received a tweet a couple of days in the past, Alex, from an individual in Pro Church Nation, and it reads, I quote, “We’re beginning a podcast right here at the church and have been requested by the lead pastor to present some metrics on how we’ll measure “success” in yr one. Any ideas?” This comes from @AlexEhly, E-H-L-Y. I responded to Alex and I stated, “That would largely depend on what your church is trying to achieve and how your church measures ‘success.’” The guts of what Alex was saying in that unique tweet was we need to do that new digital factor because we expect that podcasting is large and everybody else is doing it, so we expect we should always as properly. However my pastor, who’s possible not as entrenched on the earth of podcasting, is saying, “Well, okay, if I’m going to say you can do this and we’re going to invest resources in it, how are we going to measure it to prove whether or not it was worth it, and to say, ‘Yeah, this is actually contributing to our church’s overall goal?’” To which I responded- Alex Mills: Yeah. Is success a sure variety of downloads, a sure number of subscribers? Brady Shearer: Proper. Alex Mills: How would you come to a metric to be able to prove to that pastor 12 months from now that what we did was value it? Brady Shearer: To which I responded, “Well, Pastor, what are we trying to accomplish as a church?” As a result of I might love for this podcast ministry to tie into what the church is making an attempt to accomplish. Alex Mills: Identical to every ministry ought to. Brady Shearer: Are you able to quantify for me if you get on stage on Sunday to preach, how do you measure success together with your preaching? We’ve got talked, in many various episodes, at size about learn how to quantify progress at your church, easy methods to measure success, the way to quantify is what we’re doing truly good or is it dangerous? Alex Mills: Spoiler alert, it’s not just butts in seats. Brady Shearer: Absolutely. But I might tell in this interplay with Alex that he was somewhat bit unhappy by my reply, and he hoped for one thing a bit extra specific and granular. So we needed to take this podcast episode, and I am going to assume the position of Alex, not this Alex- Alex Mills: No. Brady Shearer: … a special Alex. Alex Mills: Two Alexes on this episode, one actual one figurative. Brady Shearer: Precisely. Alex Mills: Nice. Brady Shearer: A number of Alexes. Alex Mills: Not Confusing in any respect. Brady Shearer: Not complicated at all. I am going to assume that position and fake as if I used to be proposing to this senior leader, “Okay, here is why we should start a podcast ministry and here is why it is going to be successful. Here’s how we’ll know if it is or not.” Alex Mills: What about once I inform you that AlexEhly is actually my alias on Twitter and I had to ask you this question on Twitter as a result of I was too embarrassed that I didn’t know the reply? Does that make- Brady Shearer: It sounds like you obtained a whole lot of free time, which sounds not like the actual Alex that I do know. Alex Mills: Good. Okay. Brady Shearer: You’ve got been uncovered. Alex Mills: I’ve been uncovered. Brady Shearer: This also, proposal format, framework, three elements, as a result of three elements like the Trinity. Let’s go. It’s not just for podcasting. We’re going to make use of that as a selected instance. But in the event you ever need to point out to your senior management or even think about anything you’re doing abstractly, like, why does this matter? This is identical framework that you should use. So let’s think about it. It’s three elements like a pyramid. There’s the underside layer, the center layer, and the highest layer. The bottom layer is the aim. It’s the inspiration on your church’s existence. Each Christ-following church exists to assist individuals love God, love others, and make disciples. This is rooted in, in fact, the Nice Commission and the Biggest Commandments. Now, your church might phrase it in a different way. You may describe it in a different way. You may need a pithy mission statement. But at its core, it’s these three issues, help individuals love God, love others, and make disciples. All the things that we do ought to be carrying out that singular objective. Alex Mills: So if we have been to take a look at all the ministries and initiatives in our church and see all of them as little pyramids, with these three steps, are you saying that the objective for every one must be the same, synonymous with the mission statement of your, church to assist individuals love God, love others, and make disciples? Brady Shearer: Absolutely. Alex Mills: Okay, good. In order that’s straightforward. It’s the identical throughout all of your ministries. That is the objective. Brady Shearer: Yeah, completely. Now, to be truthful, typically it’s ancillary, like the cleaning ministry that works to wash the bogs and vacuum the carpets. Chances are you’ll be like, “How does that accomplish that goal?” Nicely, it’s ancillary because these environments are essential. So typically it’s ancillary, but when you get again to it … Alex Mills: Superior. Brady Shearer: I had to say that because somebody in the feedback would … You understand? Alex Mills: Positive. Brady Shearer: Properly, technically … Alex Mills: Sure. Brady Shearer: Which I respect, as a result of that’s how I speak. So that’s okay. So that’s the bottom basis. Now, from there, to perform that objective, you want a useful resource and that’s the center degree of the pyramid. That resource is attention, which is probably the most worthwhile commodity your church can possess. Because with out attention you’ll be able to’t get individuals to perform the aim as a result of they gained’t truly be doing anything. Alex Mills: Right. Brady Shearer: Then, the final prime degree of the pyramid, you understand your basis, the mission, you might have the commodity that you simply need, attention. Then what do you do with that focus? You compel individuals to take a subsequent step. And that’s the prime layer of the pyramid. So if we have been going to do this with podcasting, I might go to my pastor and be like, “Look, I know that the goal and core reason for this church’s existence is to help people to love God, love others, and make disciples. Of course, to do that, we need people’s attention, which is why, Pastor, we have Sunday services. We think it’s important to gather, the Bible calls to do that. And when everyone is gathered, you can, for instance, deliver your sermon.” Alex Mills: Up to now, I like what you’re saying. Brady Shearer: “You take 20 to 120 minutes and you share the message of Jesus through talking. That’s a medium, live talking. That helps us contribute to this core mission. Podcasting is similar because attention on podcasting is huge, and one of the rules of attention is that it’s much easier to go where attention is already being paid then it is to earn it from scratch. And here’s what we know. According to Barna Trends 2018, 23% of all adults listen to podcasts, 42% of millennials listen to podcasts, and 17% of practicing Christians listen to podcasts every single day, which might not sound like that much, but that’s compared to 6% of non-Christians of all ages.” Alex Mills: Virtually 3 times. Brady Shearer: “So, Pastor, we know that podcasting is huge. We know that it’s especially huge with young people, and we know that it’s especially, especially huge with practicing Christians. So not only do we see podcasting as a medium where a ton of attention is being paid, where that attention has been growing year after year and is projected to continue growing, but it’s also where attention is being paid with our target demographic.” For those who have been making this argument or proposal for let’s say, Twitch, the place a ton of attention is being paid, perhaps it might be a bit harder. I’m not saying a Twitch ministry isn’t a good suggestion, however I don’t know if the attention is as nice there amongst the individuals that you simply’re essentially making an attempt to succeed in. Because I haven’t seen knowledge there. But we know that a ton of working towards Christians are utilizing podcasts and are listening to podcasts. We all know a ton of younger individuals are. Who knows? What I stated about Twitch may be utterly untrue. I’m already considering, “Shut up. You’re an idiot. You don’t know what you’re saying.” Alex Mills: Properly, good thing that you simply’re not proposing a Twitch ministry, You’re proposing a podcast. Up to now, on this hypothetical state of affairs as your pastor, this is all sounding good to me. You’ve come into my workplace, you’ve stated, “Hey, I acknowledge the goal of everything we’re trying to do. This is our church’s mission statement. I think that there is a great opportunity because of this hyper-Christian audience that podcasts have.” Up to now, as a pastor, I’m listening to this, I’m like, “Yes, this is good. This all lines up with what we’re trying to do. It sounds like you’re onto something with the potential audience that’s listening to podcasts.” So I’m on board up to now. Brady Shearer: Then, we know what we’re making an attempt to accomplish. We’ve their attention. What are we asking them to do? What is the action step, the subsequent step, which can assist us contribute to that aim? Because attention is nice, because as soon as individuals are listening and paying attention, we now have the chance to compel them to motion. But when we don’t compel them to motion at all, then that focus just isn’t essentially being utilized to its full potential. Alex Mills: Or if in case you have a objective and you plan a name to action however don’t have the eye, there’s no one to take that subsequent step, to take that call to action. Brady Shearer: And when you have someone’s attention and you ask for next step, but there’s no core mission behind it, it’s virtually definitely going to be aimless, which is why these three issues work collectively. Listed here are some potential next steps that you might encourage individuals to take by means of your podcast. Firstly, you possibly can use an ambiguous sort of subsequent step on the finish or the beginning, probably the top, where you ask listeners, “Hey, thanks for listening. If you’d like to submit a prayer request, go to our website at you know, BlahBlahBlah.com and submit your prayer request there.” Or, you may say, “Hey, if you want to take this one step further and talk to a pastor in our church, feel free to get in touch with us at BlahBlahBlah.com. That could be an ambiguous next step that you ask at the end of every single episode. You could also do event-specific next steps. For instance, like church announcement promotions, where they’re really timely. That would require a bit more work because you’d probably want to go in and then re-upload a different audio file without it once that event is over. But that could be a next step where at the beginning of each announcement you say, “Hey, we’ve got, you know, the Fall Festival coming up. Before you dive into this podcast we want you to know that this and this and this is happening and it’s coming up soon. So go to BlahBlahBlah.com and you can get in touch there. You could use specific URLs/podcasts the way that regular podcasts do with advertising campaigns to prove, “Hey, you bought this Casper mattress from this podcast listening audience.” You would do something comparable. So, “Hey, go to LifeAbundant.com/podcast and get in touch with us there.” And then you can monitor how many individuals came from our podcast as a result of we all know we don’t share that link anyplace else. Alex Mills: Proper. Brady Shearer: So ambiguous name to action on the end, particular name to action at the end or beginning. Or you would also give attention to infrequent subsequent steps and simply give attention to building authority. That’s sort of what we’re doing in our present format, where we don’t ask for subsequent steps or compel individuals to take next steps during most of our episodes. On the finish, I assume, on the YouTube channel we are saying, “Subscribe and like this video. Like this video and subscribe.” Alex Mills: Please. Thanks. Brady Shearer: However that isn’t necessarily the same sort of next step as a result of we’re not asking individuals to buy considered one of our products, which would be an analogy for our for-profit company. You might do one thing very comparable together with your podcast, where therein listens and subscribers grow to be the metric that you simply’re tracking. Because you already know that when a month you’re going to have a much bigger call to action, and that’s where you’re going to ask for a next step. It’s a much greater next step, however individuals might be compelled to take it because they’ve been listening episode after episode and also you’ve deposited so much equity into their life that they’re prepared to reciprocate. So you may simply be considering, is listens and subscribers an arrogance metric? Properly, no. Should you’re building an viewers based mostly on belief and authority, that, over time, as we are actual, you already know, proofs of- Alex Mills: Yeah. Brady Shearer: … can return a ton of dividends in terms of subsequent steps due to the eye which contributes to the objective. Alex Mills: Yeah. So these calls to action are examples of these metrics that you’re going to be capable of monitor to say to your pastor in 12 months, say, “Hey, remember that podcast that I convinced you last year to start? Well, look at all these conversions. Look at how people responded to Fall Festival using this podcast link. This is how many people signed up for this event, and this is how they got there. It was from the podcast.” You’ll be capable of have very clear statistics, metrics, and say, “This is working. The audience that we’re speaking to with the message that we’re trying to share, they’re taking next steps in their life with Jesus on their own. They’re taking next steps in our church, and it’s because we’re using this tool.” That’s going to offer you an amazing alternative to say, “This is working.” After which proceed to trace it to see, to guage, the way it continues to work. Ultimately, podcasts gained’t be a thing and there’s going to be one other factor, and so you’re going to have to- Brady Shearer: How dare you. Alex Mills: You’re going to see these metrics drop off and be like, “Okay, we can see that people aren’t responding to this in the same way. Now we need to get on Twitch or whatever it is.” So these are going to be tremendous insightful, not only simply to convince your pastor for this fun new podcast you need to do, but for any ministry in your church. How are things going? How are individuals responding? How are individuals rising? How is that this all contributing to the lifeblood, the mission of our church? Brady Shearer: And aligning all the things collectively in the identical path is the key right here. I just had this idea as you have been speaking, I was undoubtedly listening, though, where let’s say every summer time you do, as a whole lot of church buildings do, a type of question and answer sermon collection. Properly, you possibly can have one of many calls to motion, one of the next steps on the podcast for the month of Might and June, the months of Might and June, where you say, “Hey, we’ve got a big a sermon series coming up, where we’re going to be answering any question that anyone has. No limits. If you go to LifeAbundant.com/podcast we’d love to hear your question.” Then, you possibly can go to your pastor and be like, “Look, we got 25 questions from the podcast. Well, how many did you get from … How many did you get from your announcement from stage?” Oh, seven. Uh-huh (affirmative), uh-huh (affirmative), uh-huh (affirmative). Alex Mills: Okay. Okay … Brady Shearer: This isn’t meant to be aggressive. But now you’re truly generating one thing that’s going to be helpful for her or him that correlates on to their particular activity inside the church. That may be even a option to present and quantify, because they understand how much work they did to get those eight. And also you, you bought 25? Wow. The attention there have to be rather a lot totally different than the attention that I have. Not better or worse, however undoubtedly worthwhile, of worth. There are such a lot of artistic issues that you are able to do right here. That is what you’d do for a podcast. In the event you have been doing this for a YouTube channel, on that second degree of the pyramid with regards to the resource consideration, you may say, “Hey, YouTube is the second most visited search engine on the planet, the second most visited web site on the earth. It truly has more visitors than Facebook. There’s so much consideration there. Do you know 500,000 searches are made each single month for the keyword Bible research how-to? Individuals are looking, making an attempt to figure out. And then, with the subsequent steps, with that third motion degree of the pyramid, you can do that very same thing, calls to motion at the finish of the YouTube videos that you simply’re doing. You should use this framework to prove to your pastor this has worth. You will get your ideas accredited. You possibly can assist what you’re doing, make it possible for it’s aligned with what the church is general doing. And hey, you may just make clear the church’s mission in the process. Alex Mills: There you go. So good. Brady Shearer: That’ll do it for this episode of Pro Church Instruments. We’ll see you subsequent time. 13 Exciting New Instagram Features For Churches in 2019 Go wireless, or true wireless The 3 Best IP Camera Apps for Android Devices	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1299
__label__cc	0.729041	0.270959	TDK / Memorex “It takes a long time to become young.” - Pablo Picasso The latest technology is often times synonymous with youth culture. What is cutting edge? What makes a statement about who we are and what we use? Form and function overall lead everyday lifestyles and may eventually land the stamp of approval for the cool factor. Products seem to be adopted at an ever increasing rate as advances in technology continue to improve. There is a hunger for new, functional products that have the ability to keep pace with the energy and demands of a youthful lifestyle. This is where we were brought in. A two day shoot to help capture a look that portrays the latest in a new lineup of products from TDK and Memorex. Our talent was full of surprises taking up the latest set of headphones, ear buds and other music delivery devices. As the two tag lines for each brand suggest TDK "Life on Record" and Memorex "Turn Life Up" they each have their own unique approach branching off from the common "Life" theme which led us to several diverse locations to capture a few lifestyle moments over the course of the shoot. Thanks to Bobbi Peacock and crew for another fun couple of days. We're always up to something different and that's what keeps us all feeling young and excited for the road ahead... Emma Berg - Before and Afters In our last post we debuted the final Emma Berg fashion piece. With any video project there are always a number of steps along the way to reach the final finished motion piece. One of the last is the color work or grading, which takes place after the edit or picture has been locked down. Color and the creation of custom palettes for our imagery is something we spend a great deal of time finessing. As we merged into the world of motion and film we quickly learned that color is a major step in the process, one that was much more complex than the workflow we've established for our still imagery. Through collaboration and much conversation with people on the film side of the business we've worked to connect with "colorists," people who specialize in the color correction of film. We've met some great people, many of which have spent years refining their craft. The grading for the Emma Berg piece was masterfully done by colorist Sue Lakso of Crash+Sues here in Minneapolis. During a working session with Sue, she was able to match the raw edited footage to the colored still photos we provided. As you will see, the difference between the colored and uncolored footage is quite dramatic and emphasizes how important this final step of the process is for any motion project. We appreciate the expertise of Sue Lakso and the collaborative spirit of everyone at Crash+Sues to help us realize the full potential of the final color work for our project. It's one more example of how much broader and deeper the pool of collaboration exists when working in the realm of motion and film.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1302
__label__cc	0.678087	0.321913	Poop Poop January 22, 2013 January 23, 2013 • kateshrewsday It was in 1908 that Toad, that incorrigible, obsessive Toad, first burst forth into the consciousness of an unsuspecting public. And with him came the representation of a whole new hobby, a passion then mint-new: that of driving a motor car. “In an instant (as it seemed) the peaceful scene was changed,” writes Kenneth Graham, in his classic Wind In The Willows. “and with a blast of wind and a whirl of sound that made them jump for the nearest ditch, it was on them! “The ‘Poop poop’ rang with a brazen shout in their ears, they had a moment’s glimpse of an interior of glittering plate-glass and rich morocco, and the magnificent motor-car, magnificent, breath-snatching, passionate, with its pilot tense and hugging his wheel, possessed all earth and air for the fraction of a second, flung an enveloping cloud of dust that blinded them and enwrapped them utterly, then dwindled to a speck in the far distance, changed back into a droning bee once more.” That was Toad’s first fateful encounter with a motor car: the meeting would change his life and drive him to crime and ruin and wearing a washerwoman’s dress. Yet he was not the only one to fall deeply in love with these early motors. Driving was not just a business of getting from A to B and beating the traffic: in those days it was a pleasure-pastime, before motorways, when you were the fastest thing on the road. I browsed a bookshop I have never browsed before, today. And stumbled on a perfectly preserved record of what it must have been like, before the motorways, when one set out of a drive for a bit of a lark, to explore and see what one could see. In Britain, when you break down, one of the main rescuers is the Automobile Association. While they arrive in great big repair vans fit for purpose, it has not always been thus. No: the AA started at the Trocadero, in London’s West End, where those who could afford this bewitching new sport formed a group to promote the interests of the motor car driver. Their first patrols to aid those who were broken down took place in 1908, on weekends only, on two of the major leisure routes: the roads to Brighton and Portsmouth. And those early knights of the road were not motor powered: rather, they rode on bicycles. They grew with startling rapidity, By 1914, 83,000 members were recorded. They swiftly became part of the establishment, so that in 1953 when a new monarch was crowned, it was the AA who provided all the road signing, parking and traffic control arrangements.They had offices in all the most important gateways to England and Wales, as well a comfy pad at Le Touquet. The AA issued a manual, of course. A ‘road book’, of England and Wales. It included everything Toad might need: a gazetteer (geographical index of towns), maps and town plans. And ‘itineraries’ – routes from one place to another, with affable descriptions of gradients and scenery likely to fly by. In the bookshop today I found a pristine copy of one printed in 1965. And as such, it is a snapshot of days gone by. In this England, there are but 375 miles worth of motorway; town plans are free of the development which clogs them these days, and roads are not purely numbers but routes with personality. In the world of AA 1965, the six great A-roads are still known by their names: Great North, Dover, Portsmouth, Bath, Holyhead and Manchester. Open its pages and you just have to slow down, and read the comfortable itineraries prepared for adventurous Toads everywhere. If motoring was thus now, I might live in my car. As Toad might say: “Poop, poop!” Posted in WhimsyTagged Kenneth Graham, morot cars. Autumobile Association, Road Book of England and Wales, toad, Wind In The WillowsBookmark the permalink. 53 thoughts on “Poop Poop” Interesting to read of a By-pass back then Kate. The traffic was growing all the time, Jim… nuvofelt says: What a wonderful find. It’s especially interesting knowing all the places mentioned, isn’t it. I was in Chiddingfold for lunch last Wednesday. The Crown is worth a visit if you are passing, but make sure you raid all piggy banks first. Oooh, thanks for the tip. Myfanwy! very interesting Kate. Food,Photography & France says: Fabulous piece. I remember the AA motorbike patrols saluting as they approached a member’s car on the road, each one of which was identified by a large chrome and enamel badge attached to the radiator grille.. On the map of London, that you feature, I noticed a place called “Peggy Bedford” P.H, just to the West of London Airport. What is “Peggy Bedford”? Ah, now that, Roger, is a story all its own. The Peggy Bedford- formerly the King’s Head – was an old coaching in dating from the early 1800s. It survived fire in 1936, only to be bulldozed for a MacDonalds. A really illuminating article on the old Bath Road here: http://www.uxbridgegazette.co.uk/west-london-news/local-uxbridge-news/2010/08/10/historic-highway-to-airport-bypass-what-next-for-bath-road-113046-27036651/ Something has that has changed beyond recognition, we no longer travel to experience but to get from A to B in the quickest dash possible. 🙂 Sad, isn’t it, IE? Karen Snyder says: Mostly in the interest of preserving the pricey gasoline, stretching a tank as far as possible. I remember when Sunday afternoon drives with Mom and Dad provided interesting and inexpensive entertainment; no longer the case. 😦 Very true, Karen… I remember reading, years ago in a biography, of how difficult it was back in the early days. People would set out on one of those drives, take too long, and have a horrible time trying to get home in the dark with no headlights. Was it Jennie Jerome who had to perch on the hood with a lantern as her husband creeped along in the dark? I can’t remember. But what an adventure! Wouldn’t you have loved to be there and see it, Katie? You’re right; the car represented the most wonderful adventure. Lou Mello says: I have been a member of the American Automobile Association for a very long time and still enjoy picking up the “Trip-Tiks” with all the routes and descriptions. Not as colorful as those shown here, but, fun just the same. Planning to meander is so much fun, isn’t it, Lou? So: you are a member. Ever rescued by someone on a bike? 😀 No, no biker rescues, but, I have availed myself of their services at least once in 40 years. I think they are making a lot of money off me. 🙂 We went on Mystery Rides with my grandparents, regularly. Tooting around from town to town to see what we could see. No destination required in order to enjoy the journey. Poop poop! Fantastic, Nancy. The perfect way to explore. Love this post — love maps — loved Wind in the Willows (think I ought to re-read it)! Don’t know if you’re Kindle-ing yet, but Gutenberg do a free WITW: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/289 Nope, I “Nook” — have to check whether B&N offers this one! 🙂 Dee Ready says: Dear Kate, your posting today helped me remember the days after World War II and gas-rationing ended when Dad and Mom, my little brother, and I would go for a Sunday ride around the countryside. How well also I remember the first vacation we took together. I was 22, getting ready to enter the convent, and my brother was 19 and had bought his first car–a Chevrolet. We drove from Missouri to Colorado and up to Pike’s Peak. On television at the time, Dinah Shore–a singer/actress–had a 15-minute show sponsored by Chevrolet. At the beginning of each show she’d sing, “See the U. S. A. in your Chevrolet. American is asking you to call!” (Or something like that.) And here we were the four of us seeing the U.S.A.! What a wonderful memory. Thank you for eliciting it from me today. And thank you also, Kate, for visiting my blog while I’ve been away for six weeks. If you have one or so postings that you’d especially like me to read, please let me know. Peace. It is always a pleasure, Dee, tp pop in and see how you are doing. Your writing is unfailingly compelling, and I love to hear your perspective on things. Your road trip sounds absolutely wonderful. klrs09 says: Interesting. Somehow, the image of you browsing the bookstore and stumbling upon this book stands out from this piece. I am an obsessive collector of literary trivia, Kathy. I love tales of Dr Johnson and the piles of tatty tomes which filled his house. Somehow today it looks rather pristine in comparison. While I’m no Johnson, I do love ‘ideas’ books: and there is no better place to get them than from a shop where other s have read and deemed these books worthy of passing on. Carrie Rubin says: You lured me in with the title (“What is she up to now,” I asked myself… 🙂 ), and you kept me with the content. Fun and interesting read! Thanks, Carrie: Toad was a funa and interesting guy. There are days when I wish he was not fictional. And indeed, I wonder if he was based on someone the author knew? lucewriter says: What a fantastic post! I loved know more about Toad’s world ;). It was a vivid one 🙂 Oh, Toad. I am not a huge fan of Disney’s short adaptations, except for Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, which was until its demise, my favorite ride in The Magic Kingdom. There was something about the non sequitur of the trip through hell that appealed. The appeal of the early motorists? Completely understandable. Oh, the lawlessness of a country without a Highway Code, Cameron! A Veritable new frontier for aspiring motorists! My father loved driving–tho’ much more safely than Mr. Toad–and we spent many Sunday afternoons wandering along little back roads just to see what was there. When I was a teen, getting a drivers’ license was the universal rite of passage. I’ve read that American teenagers aren’t so interested in driving now–cell phones and social media have replaced the automobile. I think they’re a little crazy, but then I’m a senior citizen and my views are obsolete. Driving is so much more utilitaran these days in the UK, Kathy. The romance of a road trip across the USA is still something some of us hanker after. When the Lovely Miss TK and I moved from the east coast to the west coast, I decided to drive cross country just to see the U.S. I did it in five days and thoroughly enjoyed it. Teresa did not accompany me as she was taking care of the final details in Savannah, GA before she flew to San Francisco. Great memories. Just the sort of trek I would love, Lou. Exploring for the sheer fun of it. It would’ve been great to have one of these for the past few days. So much better than the GPS. Although someone in the passenger seat would be good, Andra! earthriderjudyberman says: I love Mr. Toad. He is such a scamp. Some day I’d love to venture out on a road trip, go for a wild ride. Mr. Toad would love that, too. Oh, for a Mr Toad to accompany us, Judy… Tandy says: Given the traffic density in London the AA might have to revert to bicycles 🙂 Sounds like a top idea to me, Tandy! I like GPS and my husband likes a good old-fashioned map. He will still go to AAA to pick up a “paper map” to take with us on our frequent jaunts. It isn’t unusual for us to comment on how a road or bypass has changed from what we remember on a previous trip. Despite our really intense traffic and the cost of fuel, we still love to spend time driving and just exploring a bit! I am certain the book you found is very interesting. I love to look at old books that tell the story of a city from a different era! It really is like stepping back in time, Debra… Three cheers for Toad and Graham and AA – and an extra one for Kate! We’ve been known to enjoy our little road trips and, like others who have commented, use a GPS, a map, and carry our AAA card as well. Though no riders in bikes have rescued us, we have been saved and towed and such on several occasions over the years. Such a wonderful post, Kate. I’m put-put-putzing around these days, like Toad in his motorcar, taking forever to get to posts, even my own, but always find something new and entertaining here on your side of the pond. The world is stuffed with interesting things, isn’t it, Penny? It is, indeed, Kate. Pseu says: I’m some how reminded of the writing of JB Priestly… was it The Good Companions who travel in style over the country in 1929? I am of sufficiently advanced age to remember all the joys and hazards of some earlier motoring days – when the country roads here were so country that a child of eight could be entrusted with driving for quite long stretches, Utter magic. No AA to speak of, though! Intro of motor car New York City early 1900’s seen as a boon to end pollution. “End pollution ?”you might ask. Well a horse drops 22 pounds of poo poo a day and with a city with over 10,000 horses – do the math. I wonder where they put it all. Perhaps sent it to Washington DC government offices where apparently it still remains. Rachna Parmar says: Thanks a lot of interesting information that I had no clue about. Those detailed itineraries are fascinating! But what is even more fascinating is how you meld a tattered discovery in an old bookshop with a literary character, and create such wonderful stories! Thank you Kate 🙂 I can remember my Uncle’s Yellow AA books that he kept in his Austin Cambridge – my Father didn’t drive. I still prefer the adventure of the hidden byway or backroad. I hate motorways and only use them when there is little choice. I probably knew 75% of the backroads of Hertfordshire and Essex at one stage but I’ve not done nearly so much driving over the last few years. Leave a Reply to kateshrewsday Cancel reply Snowflakes and Da Vinci The Ice-Castle	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1320
__label__cc	0.737075	0.262925	Kirkus Review of Crackpot Palace Kirkus Reviews -- The fourth collection of stories from Ford includes examples of fantasy, science fiction, neo-steampunk, noir and a few genre-busting curiosities. The longest piece in the book, “The Wish Head,” is a haunted police procedural set in upstate New York in the mid-20th century. “The Double of My Double Is Not My Double” doubles down on the rich history of the doppelganger; it is funny, morbid and very clever. “Every Richie There Is” is a dry-eyed look at our inevitably mixed feelings about our neighbors. “Glass Eels” smarts like a sliver of glass under a fingernail. To all but one story, Ford adds a note. These notes pay homage to generous editors, describe flashes of inspiration, explain references and enlighten the ignorant. One note contains a bonus track, an additional story. Ford finds his way into scenarios infernal, haunted or merely strange, and keeps his wits about him on the journey.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1321
__label__wiki	0.502657	0.502657	The End of an EOI Era Students have noticed that there’s no EOIs in sight this 2017-2018 school year. Instead, Juniors take a science test, a free ACT, and a written assessment for US history. The state law has changed, so Oklahoma does not use EOIs to assess students anymore. Our state now implements the Oklahoma School Testing Program (OSTP), for the first time this year, aimed at measuring student’s college and career readiness. Each district may choose to use the ACT or SAT, and while Broken Arrow and Tulsa choose the SAT, Jenks selects the ACT. “ACT college and career benchmark only measures our students’ readiness in three areas: english, reading, and math,” says vice principal Eric Fox, “so that leaves out science and US history. That means that the state developed a science test that all juniors had to take this year.” Following the science test, students in US history class took a history assessment last week. In fact, the group of educators who developed the test came up with multiple assessments, but teachers chose which one to give to their students. This year, students had to select 5 cartoons of their choice and answer these questions: 1.Describe the Cold War Event that increased tension between the U.S. and Soviet Union. 2.Explain the artist’s viewpoint toward this event. (What message does he convey about the event?) “[These questions] are good practice, and they’re much more applicable,” says US History teacher Lanae VanValin. “It’s better for my classroom, and that’s why I’m using it as a grade.” The idea is that the test isn’t only popular with teachers, but also with students. “My hope would be is that this is something students feel comfortable with because they’ve been getting practice on it throughout the year,” says Fox. “It’s not like writing is something we just do in English.” Once a history teacher himself, Fox emphasizes the importance of applied-skills over a multiple-choice, knowledge-based EOI. “[The test] is assessing how students use the skills we want them to use as good citizens as informed citizens,” says Fox,” rather than play ‘got you!’ with the multiple choice.” Today’s students have such knowledge at the press of a google search, so a test like this has deeper implications in a world of rapidly-advancing technology, as Fox points out: “The ever-changing world gives you access to who was in the 1968 election, but to be a productive, responsible citizen, you need to learn how to read speeches, look at political ads, read the news items on the internet, and figure out what’s real and what’s not real.” Ultimately, tests like these aim to prepare students with the tools to filter a world saturated with information, now and beyond high school. By Charlotte Suttee Categories: Local Meet The Valedictorians and Salutatorians My Experience Taking the ACT	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1324
__label__wiki	0.636928	0.636928	“Just For, Only On This One Day” — a poem by Alan Yount “Perspectives” — #2 Bob Hecht’s podcast “Joys of Jazz” receives international recognition Short Fiction Contest-winning story #51 — “Crossing the Ribbon,” by Linnea Kellar “Magnolia Blues” — a poem by David Lohrey Veryl Oakland’s “Jazz in Available Light” — photos (and stories) of Art Pepper, Joe Williams, and Pat Martino “Thinking about the Truesdells” — a photo-narrative by Charles Ingham “They All Inhabit the Night” — a poem by Michael L. Newell Jazz History Quiz #129 “Jazz Is” — a poem by Charles Joseph Albert On the web since 1999 Devoted to Jazz and 20th Century America Historic Journalism New Orleans Stories On the Turntable Conversations with Gary Giddins Ralph Ellison Project Interview Excerpts short fiction contest winner short fiction contest details Jazz Fiction by Arya Jenkins The Art of Romare Bearden Boxing’s Golden Age Paul Desmond: A Life Told in Pictures, Music and Memories Historic Harlem Tour Jazz: Through the Life and Lens of Milt Hinton Kansas City Jazz: A Pictorial Tour The Negro League Baseball Photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris The Photography of Carl Van Vechten Cover Story with Paul Morris Masters of Jazz Photography Jazz History Quiz A collection of jazz poetry — March, 2019 edition “Old Age,” by Mickey Allan (1977) “It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.” ― Andy Rooney I am turning 65 this month. Wow. That’s an interesting number to type. Go ahead…Try it. “Sixty-five.” It feels like a pretty big number, however, my hunch is that there are folks reading this who have already typed it, and have lived to type bigger, more imposing numbers. They may even look at “65” as a puny number. Is 65 old age? I don’t feel. “old.” So let’s agree, for now, that 65 is not quite .old age, but it is .one of those “in-between places.” It is an age that causes great reflection, a call to better appreciate the glories of the world and our special people within it, and, as best we can, gracefully embrace a narrowing known (and unknown) future. Many of the poems in this March, 2019 collection – 20 poems from 18 poets – were chosen to speak to the reflection this “in-between place” provokes in me, on this day. Thanks to our many gifted and fine contributing poets, and thanks to our readers. Oh, and thank God (but mostly L.B.J.) for Medicare. “Jazz Man at Piano,” by Romare Bearden, c. 1975 A Blurry Friday A conversation with the Future, always seems to wander. I’m at a table with conceptual royalty, sitting next to Freedom. Innovation’s at the end seat, pouring the drinks. It’s a staggering journey, full of laughter and foolishness. Enlightenment seems an unlikely goal, after the third round, but the stories continue. They’re doing brisk business tonight. On stage the quartet is quietly percolating, inching their way through “Things Ain’t What They Used to Be”, a sentiment we can all relate to. The evening itself puts its feet up, takes a swig, and recalls the afternoons from years ago. Even the Future wants to talk about the past, Freedom’s content to listen, and Innovation’s stuck in the same old rut. It doesn’t seem right to think about tomorrow. That’s miles away from now, and nobody wants to leave. Yesterday has his arms around us all. The embrace of memory, shared among friends, like weightless baggage, we carry together, across the years. by Freddington Poets Row Scattered scat in 6/8 time, matter’s not on the B street line, Tattered threads, tortured minds, no one really knows, Back on Poet’s Row. Straight on fire, heat of night, shattered glass, in the street fight, Wood shed rights, NY Times, No where to go but Poet’s Row. Woah. Jim- Tracks- Heart attacks Just the facts, rented room. They blow their stacks, nothing to show, going back to what I know, playing my songs Poet’s Row. Voices sing a melody, Bells ring out a harmony, No backs, no shoes, no rhythm, no blues, Coming back to what I know, just playing my guitar on Poet’s Row. by Richard Beattie Froggy Went A-Courting Haverfordwest folk club, 1965 The club had characters and balladeers, satiric tilts and big vibrato chords, our chairman Pete, a northern ballad man, and Spike, composer, weaving yarn-made songs of dreams and depths and drifts and dying falls. We also had a lanky lad from Roch who came one week in three, strummed fun, and roistered us his Froggy song each time: Old Froggy went a-courtin’, he did ride. Mmm hmm. Mmm hmm. And we had Dylan, Baez, poetry. The times were changing fast. We too. We too. We travelled with the times’ extravagance. Some folk, some blues, the Froggy song. Mmm hmm. We postured certainly, pub socialists, who sang ideals and ballad-strumming days. I think of all that hasn’t happened since but still regret no whit. We had a club with characters and chords and talking blues, where folk was song was youth was hope. Mmm hmm. First appeared in Snakeskin (UK) by Robert Nisbet That’s My Beat The air filled fat on jazz dripping from the sides falling like autumn leaves being blown by the winds of hands clapping with tumble and turning running over fast like engines roaring purring strong pushing thick like rocks rolling uphill for the worshipers of music living breathing in the message where it grows branched and broad spreading alive with every beat by Roger Singer At the Back Room (I tell you, it wasn’t the booze) It had been awhile And so I brought my wife, Her first time in the US Her first time at a jazz club in Chicago And there we were right up close, And I don’t know who was playing Or what they were playing But, man, they were good, And they got it going on and all of a sudden I mean all of a sudden, the drummer lost his kit, I’m not kiddin’ ya man, the drummer lost his kit, Boom, right off the stage, I kid you not, It fell off the small stage and into the audience But the song wasn’t done and he wasn’t done So he kept on playing with whatever he could tap on Floor, knee, imaginary air kit, whatever, Whatever could or might make some sound Nobody blinked an eye till the end When the silence snapped us out of it and then applause I guess you could say we were all Hypnotized. Mesmerized. Wide eyed and awed We all sure did enjoy that ride. by Dan Franch for Miles Davis (the Voodoo Ran You Down) so you left with him on the sorcerer’s train freddie limping down a side street weeping thru his specks & rabbit grin these 7 steps on a quiet night lead you silently up the road ahead in the sky black beauty kind of round about in a green haze remember when the living was easy & not so easy when life wasn’t worth a plugged nickel or was it weirdo always on the fringe cookin up a bitch’s brew in the cauldron steamin relaxin workin diggin walkin tuning up bluing in an old flame on a paper moon & launching the birth of the cool there’ll be plenty more blowing tomorrow more conceptions compulsions paraphenalia it never entered my mind that you’d just take off gone great hero of my youth godchild dreaming the serpent’s tooth never thought yesterday would come so soon would ever come really hard on the fast track in your own sweet way painter of deceptions awake all the time don’t blame me if i can’t accept you’re gone you were it thru madness & gladness smiling footprints sanctuary & limbo on the other car to oblivion the other direction in my ascent & dance from the street i thought about you all the time & if i were a bell i’d RING as i’d follow you someone who arrived out of nowhere like autumn leaves a mooche a milestone in history a rich country son a black comedy full of stuff the ultimate prince of darkness orbiting my life always agitated & loaded with ESP won’t you please come home WATER BOY so near so far once upon a summertime when spring was here my lament rose as my ship waited this is the meaning of NO BLUES as nefertitti & the other maidens languish in your embrace & the boxers wait for you to GO & there is here where you are not gone here the seed you are here where there is NO YOU. by Steve Dalachinsky Undress Rehearsal ……………………..after Sharon Olds All of us hold our instruments gingerly it’s our Jazz at Massey Hall moment once a year at a nudist colony near the Ohio state line I’ll be Bird you be Dizzy a May night in an open hall of only tennis shoes and warm cicadas alto trumpet trombone vibes guitar bass and drums plus wives and girlfriends who fight to hear the tired choruses or strain to see American flesh in abundance— but appearances lie that the goateed boppers knew even back then the first rule of jazz it’s not the shape of a line that matters not the bunch of notes hung like wash after all and then erased you have to start and finish together note for note trumpet and alto the naked brass and reed that’s how you get to Carnegie Hall be a dragonfly tapping out Morse Code on the bandstand blow now as thou wilt be blown by John Stupp Coltrane’s Joy she’s in my dream what can it mean that lasting gleam In Ed Coletti’s collection Apollo Blue’s Harp And The God Of Song February 2019 McCaa Books, Santa Rosa, CA by Ed Coletti Moving to the Groove She was swayback way back much too cool ………………………………………………………………..slipping and sliding ………………………………………………………………..moving to the groove She was hip hop can’t stop busting a move She said get down don’t frown let your hips bloom She said come here don’t fear there’s lots of room Time went past quite fast I learned a new tune Years passed nothing lasts She left I’m bereft wanting to be In memory’s halls she bops never stopping by Michael L. Newell From her perch above the human drama, Misty, the cream-colored cat, washed her paws clean. She knew her way around her master’s apartment. Her kitten days, faded like the album cover by the turntable. Ella Fitzgerald sang the cat’s namesake’s song. for her master’s friend, still irritable on the chaise lounge. Whenever mad, she’d kick off her pumps— her right foot would cross her left. After another glass of Chardonnay, she asked about his thousand violins and why his hello no longer sounded sweet? He poured himself another glass of wine, lost in words that lost their meaning. She took her hat and gloves, said a swift goodbye. The cat ran to the closed door, encircled her master’s legs. His eyes, too misty to notice. by Patricia Carragon You Can’t Be in Heaven and on Earth at the Same Time was how Sonny Rollins once described wood-shedding on the Williamsburg, neighborly complaints leaving him to practice on the bridge’s deck, stretching his breath at all hours until sturdy notes took bloom, strident enough to serenade cars changing lanes, the honking seasons turning his stage hiatus into years of playing for many-weathered skies. Arriving on the heels of Ornette’s new sound, Rollins declared his return with The Bridge, the last cassette I’d buy before dropping out of college, it’s “God Bless the Child,” never failing to cue an image of my skinny pal, Stoner Bob, camped below that underpass, near the jail, his rocky nook bearing tents, torn sleeping bags and the tags of local wild-style legends, bent yard-high script reading like a code of Krylon pastels. Then last week, a ragtag drum-line jamming under a yellow span had me longing for the impossible– a brass winged solo calling out, far above us all. originally published in Poet Lore by Fred Shaw Music for Men Over Fifty I look for my pajamas, slip them over my swollen ankles, over my rash salved with steroid cream, my skin starting to thin, starting to sag and fold like crepe streamers. Lame, I am deaf to being enabled, hammering to pieces my Phonak hearing aids with my right brace. This morning, I wake to music from the Acoustic Research clock radio. Music I’ve loved since I was old enough to love the way a woman moves in front of the mirror when she thinks I’m not looking. I’m always looking, disconcerting my wife who feels the same way about her belly as I do about mine, but in a more feminine way, or so I’d like to think. We smile at each other in the glass, side by side, love a hardship we endure. How to praise your children who leave us alone to love on this Saturday night, the Acoustic Research radio playing the songs accompanying us to Chicago. Remember me happy in a cab, jazz at the Green Mill, the Beetle back in the hotel parking lot. Roll with me honey, in your dreams roll me, honey, in your dreams. True, it’s been awhile, and longer than I would want but there are so many excuses, so many reasons I choose to sleep. Not enough blood in the old pecker so many nights. You prefer love in the dark I am early to rise in the morning, just not convincing in the light. We hold on to what we love, often enough each other, when we can see past our own mistakes, finding what it was that took us down the I-94. by Victor Enns The couple slow dancing near the old stone fireplace sways in time to the breeze coming through the cracks of the windows all around the hotel dance floor and to the quintet playing some half-forgotten ballad that elicits a gentle melancholy making the two cling to one another more and more closely in a clumsy loving waltz. Subtle guitar, mournful horns, restrained bass and drums blend with wind’s whisper to highlight the couple’s murmurs, as they seek confirmation of present, past, and possible future in music and one another’s arms. Common Prayer, Sutro Heights Winds wave and sway cypresses, whisper matins. Streetcar clangor and iron …….rumble are carillon and organ bass, an Angelus. A hush of surf hums vespers. All this will or was by John Briscoe A Knapsack Filled With Ghosts and Dreams: 2018 In the gloomy gray of some autumn day The lone whistle of a train carries down the tracks the end of a season, sunny and sure And in the silence Of one season burying another comes a pathos so bittersweet We hear it, as a plea hear it in the treetops back of the woods A presence slowly walking No hurry – last trip down a dirt road We thought we heard rustling within the crops that stretch across the Midwest but the fields are harvested long now left behind, only stubbles and sticks But sad to leave carrying a knapsack filled with ghosts and dreams. Barely a flicker of light remained when once the bright compass of his being filled sun-ups with expectancy and sundown with gaudy ribbons across the skies Waved goodbye when walking across Washington State Then Nevada Felt fires at his back Across California a-flame too: No water to put out the blazes No water to nourish the golden hills Bees dying: skeletons of trees in Colorado Floods in Texas And in New York, he was stopped by the boys in blue and put down in a stranglehold to know for certain it was time for a last odyssey across the earth While glaciers melted. A final journey through the city of lights and the cafes where car bombs exploded Across Africa, dancing the famine, drought, and genocide Walking with Syrian refugees towards the sea While remembering when first coming ashore In a rhapsody of fire and comets Planets shooting through the skies And stars like diamonds splintering the universe. Waters warmer now and churning with hurricanes, Tipping with overcrowded boats Typhoons naked spinning their requiems Riding the high tides of eternity, Swimming out Leaving behind a lost and vengeful earth and skies forked with fires A final farewell then Before down ___ to under the waters From whence he came And going with it his knapsack filled with ghosts and dreams. by Susandale Time’s Passage …………(for Herb Ellis and Joe Pass) In living room corner, an old guitar strummed by wind hums jazz chords through window cracks and sings endlessly through fissures of memory with a melancholy beauty. So too vanishing years haunt the mind much like a full moon slowly fading, its faint outline whispering remember me, remember me, remember. Once heard, jazz guitars softly sing in mind’s recesses for a lifetime, tunes without end. You’re 5,000 light years from Birdland now Hell, you’re long gone uptight years from this earth just like you were 5,000 light years ahead of us and the vast majority of musicians while you lived. But hey, you’re still preachin’ the rhythm and teachin’ it to us as I hope you always will. God bless you, Jaco and if you see him out where you are, give my regards to Jozy. by R. Bremner For My Friend, Gone Fifteen Years …………………..“On May 5, 2019 … Dennis Dallman.” you played piano. I played upright bass. for the fun of it and friendship, we had nicknames. you were … ahmad (for ahmad jamal). me … mingus (for charles mingus). as a bond, we never called ourselves, by anything else. after he was gone I missed that sound so much: saying “mingus!” I kept calling his answering machine just to hear his voice just one last by Alan Yount The Composition of Air For Wayne Van Cortlandt Smith, January, 29, 1939 – June 9, 2018 …………………“Did you know the first three notes of…” …………………………..(What was it?) …………………“are the same as …?” Why didn’t I pay attention…then? Capture those motes of precious ‘did you knows?‘ not understanding how important they would be now— the ache to remember their blessed curiosity, so acute? But I remember, these are the kinds of things only Wayne Smith would know and declare, as casually or intensely, as he might share his newly found passion for the periodic tables, would know how Johann Sebastian breathed the same measures of air, centuries before they made their rounds again to pass through the alveoli of Debussy, to Bill Evans…and on, and on. Notes filling the lungs of those born to make sense of the myriad juxtapositional possibilities swarming the universe— passing the rest of us by on a breeze. That air, only some of us can divine— from lungs to brain to heart— alloted their chosen place, by chosen fingers, then shared— became quintessentially Wayne’s notes. Three, might fill the lungs of some yet unborn jazz-child as it gasps its first breath, hears its first notes. by Lia Di Stefano Just Play My Music Never-mind what the preacher has to say Play Miles, Seven Steps to Heaven on my parting day, follow him with Coltrane’s In a Sentimental Way Then, Billie’s Good Morning Heartache and her Ghost of Yesterday, to remember my broken heart ‘til my dying day just play my music, best do what I say Have Nina Simon do a serenade with Just Say I love Him, I want my send-off to be one cool-ass jam, include Mississippi Goddamn and Sinnerman Last song on my itinerary, Brubeck’s Take Five and please don’t cry, just play my music as my good bye by Aurora M. Lewis Freddington works as a shipper/receiver in Toronto, Canada, and has been a lifelong jazz fan ever since he was “corrupted” as a teenager by Charles Mingus’ “Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting.” Richard Beattie is a writer, journalist, composer and lyricist. Beattie grew up in New York where he was in musical theater from an early age. He learned his trade on famous streets; Broadway, Madison Avenue, and Bleeker Street. In 1978, he moved to Poet’s Row in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, where he thrived while working with artists from jazz bands. He is currently a reporter and news anchor at KVOR in Colorado Springs, and curator for the Library of Creative Harvest. Robert Nisbet.is a Welsh poet whose work has been published in roughly equal measures in Britain and the USA, in the latter case quite regularly in. San Pedro River Review, Red .River Review. and. Panoply, which made him one of its Editor’s Choice Featured Poets in their Fall 2017 issue Roger Singer is a prolific and accomplished contributing poet who we have proudly published for many years. Singer has had almost 800 poems published in magazines, periodicals and online journals — 400 of which are jazz poems — and has recently self-published a Kindle edition of his book of jazz poetry called Poetic Jazz. “Jazz poetry flows out with such ease,” Singer writes on his blog. “The people and places, the alleys and sawdust jazz clubs. The stories that bring jazz alive with horns and voices, from sadness and grief to highs at midnight and love gone wrong. The jazz is within us all. Find your poem and feel the music.” Dan Franch, who grew up in the Chicagoland area, currently lives and teaches English in Estonia. A former newspaper columnist and co-cartoonist, these days Dan is venturing into the field of coaching, communication and confidence coaching in particular. Poet/collagist Steve Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn (1946) after the last big war and has managed to survive lots of little wars. His book The Final Nite (Ugly Duckling Presse) won the PEN Oakland National Book Award. His latest CDs are The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (Roguart 2014) and ec(H)o-system with the French art-rock group, the Snobs (Bambalam 2015). He has received both the Kafka and Acker Awards and is a 2014 recipient of a Chevalier D’ le Ordre des Artes et Lettres. His poem “Particle Fever” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. His books include: Fools Gold (2014 feral press). a superintendent’s eyes (revised and expanded 2013/14 – unbearable/autonomedia). flying home, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schmidt (Paris Lit Up Press 2015). “The Invisible Ray” (Overpass Press – 2016) with artwork by Shalom Neuman. Frozen Heatwave, a collaboration with Yuko Otomo (Luna Bissonte Prods 2017) and Black Magic (New Feral Press 2017). His column “outtakes” appears regularly in the Brooklyn Rail. His most recent books are Where Night and Day Become One – the French Poems (a selection 1983-2017) (Great Weather for Media 2018) and The Chicken Whisper ( Positive Magnets Press 2018). John Stupp’s third poetry collection.Pawleys Island was published in 2017 by Finishing Line Press. His manuscript Summer Job won the 2017 Cathy Smith Bowers Poetry Prize and will be published in 2018 by Main Street Rag. He lives near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From 1975-1985 he worked professionally as a mediocre jazz guitarist. Ed Coletti is a poet, painter, fiction writer and middling chess player. Previously, he served for three years as an Army Officer, then as a Counselor and later as a Small Business Consultant. Recent poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, North American Review, Volt, Spillway, and Blueline. A recent poetry collection was titled The Problem With Breathing (Edwin Smith Publishing –Little Rock- 2015). His book Apollo Blue’s Harp And The Gods Of Song was more recently published by McCaa Books February 2019. Ed also curates the popular ten-year-old blog “No Money In Poetry” http://edwardcolettispoetryblog.blogspot.com/ He lives with his wife Joyce in Santa Rosa, California where they lost their home during the October 2018 firestorm. The Coletti’s happily have relocated successfully elsewhere in Santa Rosa. Michael L. Newell is a retired English/Theatre teacher who lived abroad for more than two decades. He now lives on the Oregon coast. He has recently had poems in. Ship of Fools, Current, and. Verse-Virtual. Patricia Carragon’s recent publications include Bear Creek Haiku, First Literary Review-East, A Gathering of the Tribes, The Café Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, Poetrybay, and Krytyka Literacka. Her latest books are The Cupcake Chronicles (Poets Wear Prada) and Innocence (Finishing Line Press). Patricia hosts the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology. She is an executive editor for Home Planet News Online. Fred Shaw is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, and Carlow University, where he received his MFA. He teaches writing and literature at Point Park University and Carlow University in Pittsburgh, PA. His debut full-length collection, Scraping Away, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press. A book reviewer and Poetry Editor for Pittsburgh Quarterly, his poem, “Argot,” is featured in the 2018 full-length documentary, Eating & Working & Eating & Working by filmmaker David Bernabo. The film focuses on the lives of local service-industry workers. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and rescued hound dog. Victor Enns reads and writes poetry and fiction. He lives in Gimli, Manitoba, Canada. His first jazz show was Count Basie, with the Count still at the piano, at the old Civic Auditorium in Winnipeg. Some of these poems are appearing in a new book called Love & Surgery, published September 2019, by Radiant Press in Regina, Saskatchewan. Afghanistan Confessions, poems in the voice of Canadian soldiers, was published in 2014, boy in 2012. Lucky Man (2005) was nominated for the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year award. His poems have appeared in Canadian publications and including Rattle (print) and Shot Glass Journal (online) in the U.S. His most memorable performance this century was a mainly Mingus show led by Toronto bassist David Young (originally from Winnipeg) with an eight piece band at the Rex in Toronto. John Briscoe’s poetry has appeared in Antioch Review, Catamaran and Berkeley Poetry Review, among others. He is the author of five books, most recently Crush: The Triumph of California Wine (University of Nevada Press, September 2018). Susandale’s poems and fiction are on .WestWard Quarterly, Mad Swirl, Penman Review, The Voices Project, .and .Jerry Jazz Musician. In 2007, she won the grand prize for poetry from .Oneswan. The Spaces Among Spaces. from. languageandculture.org .has been on the Internet.. Bending the Spaces of Time .from. Barometric Pressure is on the Internet now. R. Bremner hails from Glen Ridge via Lyndhurst, NJ. Ron writes of incense, peppermints, and the color of time in such journals as .International Poetry Review, Passaic Review, and .Shot Glass Journal. Some of his best Friday nights were spent at the bar of the. Knickerbocker Lounge in NYC, grooving to Sir Roland Hanna. Alan Yount, 71, has written and published poetry for over 50 years. His many poems have appeared over the years in publications such as WestWard Quarterly (where he was invited to be the Featured Writer and Poet for the summer, 2018 issue), Big Scream, Green’s Magazine (Canada), Spring: the Journal of the E.E. Cummings Society (academic journal), Wind, Legend, Roanoke Review, Tidepool, Art Centering Magazine (Zen Center of Hawaii), Wormwood Review, Palo Alto Review, Barefoot Grass Journal, Frontier: Custom & Archetype, Modern Haiku, and The Pegasus Review. He has been in three anthologies: Passionate Hearts (New World Library), Sunflowers and Locomotives: Songs for Allen Ginsberg (published by Nada Press and the poet David Cope). Alan was one of 31 poets along with Gary Snyder and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The third anthology was The Chrysalis Reader. Alan also plays jazz trumpet, and has led his own dance band. He is. a direct descendant of the famous frontiersman, Daniel Boone. Lia Di Stefano has a BFA from The Cooper Union in Fine Arts, and a MA in Media Studies from the New School. She lives in Weehawken and Califon, NJ. She has always been enamored of words. As a graphic designer, she is concerned with word and image, and how their juxtaposition on a page reinforces the message they are charged with conveying. As a fine artist, she is invested in the dialog between color, form, light, space, to shape the viewers experience. In her writing, she uses words to draw out the music of her ideas, the colors, forms, and spaces engendered in the mind of a listener or reader. Music too, of most every ilk, has always been a ubiquitous presence in her life. She is married to the mostly jazz composer/musician, N.H. Derwyn Holder—and Wayne Smith was his best friend. Aurora M. Lewis is a retiree. In her 50’s she received a Certificate in Creative Writing-General Studies, with honors from UCLA. Her poems, short stories, and nonfiction have been accepted by.The Literary Hatchet, Gemini Magazine, Persimmon Tree, Jerry Jazz Musician, and The Blue Nib, to name only a few. Aurora’s poetry was nominated by Gemini Magazine in 2010 for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize in 2011. The Literary Hatchet has nominated her for the current Pushcart Prize. Tags: Alan Yount, Aurora Lewis, Dan Franch, Ed Coletti, Fred Shaw, Freddington, john briscoe, John Stupp, Lia Di Stefano, Michael L. Newell, Patricia Carragon, poetry collection, R. Bremner, Richard Beattie, Robert Nisbet, Roger Singer, steven dalachinsky, Susandale, Victor Enns Author Joe MaitaPosted on March 8, 2019 May 8, 2019 Categories PoetryTags Alan Yount, Aurora Lewis, Dan Franch, Ed Coletti, Fred Shaw, Freddington, john briscoe, John Stupp, Lia Di Stefano, Michael L. Newell, Patricia Carragon, poetry collection, R. Bremner, Richard Beattie, Robert Nisbet, Roger Singer, steven dalachinsky, Susandale, Victor Enns 8 comments on “A collection of jazz poetry — March, 2019 edition” Robert Nisbet says: I must say that what with Dan Franch’s drummer, John Stupp’s nudists and Michael Newell moving to the groove, there’s a lot of fun to be had in this issue! I enjoyed Aurora’s musical compilation too. I’m enjoying an ongoing reading through the anthology – warm wishes to all. Pingback: Patricia Carragon's Blog: Words Give Me the Will to Write Stacie Naes says: Sitting on my sofa and reading this fine collection while listening to a gentle rain, and the songs of spring – hungry bird songs. It’s a perfect day. I’m in love with these poems. Paying homage to the feelings and times gone by, and watching those emotions broadcast their seeds into the future. Ahh, the imagery of your experiences loaned to me for a moment. Much gratitude. Its a privilege to have the eyesight to read these poems, and a true honor to be able to feel them. Thank you to ALL for your contribution to my perfect day. I liked the lyric simplicity of Roger Singer’s poem and the density, the richness of Steve Dalachinsky’s. Patricia Carragon says: Congratulations to the poets in this issue: Alan Yount, Aurora Lewis, dan franch, Ed Coletti, fred shaw, Freddington, john briscoe, John Stupp, Lia Di Stefano, Michael L. Newell, r. bremner, richard beattie, Robert Nisbet, Roger Singer, steven dalachinsky, Susandale, Victor Enns A superb issue, and thank you Joe for your dedication and love for jazz poetry. Susan Dale says: Fun, rhymes, and snappy songs swinging along while drummers don’t miss a beat. you publish great poets, Joe, and in their own unique ways … all are remembering I like the images in the words. No , 65 is definitely not old. Phyllis Wax says: Loved this issue! Made me move and brought back memories! 65? Not old at all. Comment on this article: Cancel reply Michael Cuscuna, Mosaic Records co-founder, is interviewed about his successful career as a jazz producer, discographer, and entrepreneur...Also in this issue, in celebration of Blue Note’s 80th year, we asked prominent writers and musicians the following question: “What are 4 or 5 of your all-time favorite Blue Note albums; a new collection of jazz poetry; “On the Turntable,” is a new playlist of 18 recently released jazz recordings from six artists – Joshua Redman, Joe Lovano, Matt Brewer, Tom Harrell, Zela Margossian and Aaron Burnett; two new podcasts by Bob Hecht; a new “Jazz History Quiz”; a new feature called “Pressed for All Time,”; a new photo-narrative by Charles Ingham; and…lots more. This month, a playlist of 18 recently released jazz recordings by six artists -- Joshua Redman, Joe Lovano. Matt Brewer, Tom Harrell, Zela Margossian, and Aaron Burnett In this month’s collection, with great jazz artists at the core of their work, 16 poets remember, revere, ponder, laugh, dream, and listen The Joys of Jazz In this new volume of his podcasts, Bob presents two stories, one on Clifford Brown (featuring the trumpeter Charlie Porter) and the other is part two of his program on stride piano, including a conversation with Mike Lipskin “What are 4 or 5 of your all-time favorite Blue Note albums?” Dianne Reeves, Nate Chinen, Gary Giddins, Michael Cuscuna, Eliane Elias and Ashley Kahn are among the 12 writers, musicians, and music executives who list and write about their favorite Blue Note albums Pressed for All Time In an excerpt from his book Pressed for All Time, Michael Jarrett interviews producer Creed Taylor about how he came to use tape overdubs during the 1957 Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross Sing a Song of Basie recording session Although he was famous for modernizing the sound of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra -- “On the Sunny Side of the Street” was his biggest hit while working for Dorsey (pictured) -- this arranger will forever be best-known for his work with the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra. Who is he? In this edition, Bob Dylan recalls what Thelonious Monk told him about music at New York’s Blue Note club in c. 1961. Jerry Jazz Musician regularly publishes a series of posts featuring excerpts of the photography and stories/captions found in Jazz in Available Light by Veryl Oakland. In this edition, Mr. Oakland's photographs and stories feature Stan Getz, Sun Ra, and Carla Bley. Maxine Gordon, author of Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon, discusses her late husband’s complex, fascinating life. Cover Stories with Paul Morris In this edition, Paul writes about jazz album covers that offer glimpses into intriguing corners of the culture of the 1950’s "The Photography Issue" will feature an interview with jazz photographer Carol Friedman (her photo of Wynton Marsalis is pictured), as well as with Michael Cuscuna on unreleased photos by Blue Note's Francis Wolff. In the previous issue Jeffrey Stewart, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, is interviewed about Locke (pictured), the father of the Harlem Renaissance. Also in this issue…A new collection of jazz poetry; "On the Turntable," a new playlist of 19 recommended recordings by five jazz artists; three new podcasts by Bob Hecht; a new “Great Encounters”; several short stories; the photography of Veryl Oakland and Charles Ingham; a new Jazz History Quiz; and lots more… Carole Ackelson Richard Beattie R. Bremner Mary Burns Patricia Carragon Ed Coletti Arlene Corwin Steve Dalachinsky Frank De Canio Diane Dees Lia Di Stefano Salvatore Difalco Hannah Draper Molly Ertel Dan Franch Freddington Anggo Genorga Brian Greene Bob Hecht Charles Ingham Lawrence J. Klumas John Jack Cooper D.R. James Arya Jenkins Anisha Johnson Sophie Jonas-Hill Charles Joseph Albert R.J. Keeler Linnea Kellar Erren Kelly Mark Kerstetter Michael Keshigian John L. Stanizzi Michael L. Newell J. 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__label__cc	0.575173	0.424827	Home What we do > About us > Working at Oxfam > Current Vacancies > Job Description Language EnglishFrenchSpanish Community Engagement Executive (0110) Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty. We’re seeking someone who is passionate about helping our amazing supporters to fundraise, campaign and volunteer for Oxfam by providing first class support and guidance. As a community engagement executive, you will maintain and maximise existing volunteer networks by providing excellent remote stewardship and guidance to enable Oxfam’s supporters to give their time, money and voice to help beat poverty for good. You will also work alongside Community Engagement colleagues to instigate and grow new relationships with individuals, fundraising groups and corporate partners across the region. You will help craft and implement a localised community engagement strategy, working closely with Community Engagement colleagues and Oxfam’s extensive retail network, that inspires and motivates volunteers to raise funds and take action. Another aspect of this role involves supporting the management of our established product Oxjam Music Festival. You are a motivated individual with strong communication and organisational skills. You have experience of working in a fundraising, campaigning or volunteering environment, and are familiar with developing and delivering customer/supporter care strategies. You’re brilliant at managing and prioritising a busy and varied workload, and adept at managing systems and processes. You have strong problem-solving skills and demonstrate initiative for identifying and carrying out tasks independently. You also have a talent for spotting opportunities to attract, inspire and motivate new supporters to help Oxfam’s work to beat poverty This role will give you an opportunity to provide remote guardianship and stewardship of individuals and groups/networks of Oxfam GB supporters in the community, and enable them to engage with Oxfam in a variety of ways. You will have the opportunity to work with a group of passionate people that are specialists in their field. The role offers appropriate training and development opportunities, fair pay and a competitive benefits package. Our values and commitment to safeguarding Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us. The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply. As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile. Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty. That means we tackle the inequality that keeps people poor. Together we save, protect and rebuild lives. When disaster strikes, we help people build better lives for themselves, and for others. We take on issues like land rights, climate change and discrimination against women. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can enjoy life free from poverty. Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 19 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. Oxfam's Promise.pdf (439.36 KB) Community Engagement Executive JP.pdf (188.96 KB) Oxford office or home-based within the South region within easy reach of Oxford and London. There is also potential for hot-desking within the London Office. £21,017 - £28,820 gross pa. - depending on experience. Job Family: Open ended Create an alert subscription based on this vacancy Create Alert Subscription View videos on Youtube Follow us on PIntereset Oxfam has come first in "Best Places to Work in the Public Sector & Non-Profits in the UK" (2017) Indeed.co.uk © 2013. Oxfam is a registered charity in England and Wales (no 202918) and Scotland (SC039042). Oxfam GB is a member of the international confederation Oxfam.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1336
__label__wiki	0.635186	0.635186	Insights & Data » Blog » Annual Reputation Leaders Study - What You Need to Know Annual Reputation Leaders Study - What You Need to Know As corporations strive to remain competitive, understanding and managing reputation has become a business necessity. To help companies innovate as effectively and efficiently as possible, Reputation Institute conducts an annual study to ask: What is on the minds of key stakeholders accountable for reputation? As Peter Drucker said, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” Doing this study every year gives us the opportunity to identify shifting reputational trends. In 2018, we spoke with more than 170 C-suite executives and directors in corporate communication across 17 industries, representing North America, Latin America, EMEA and APAC. Among the topics we asked them about were their reputation management efforts, accountability for reputation management, the biggest obstacles hindering measuring reputation, and where the future of the reputation economy lies. By measuring the current state of reputation integration and highlighting future trends, our state-of-the-art assessment provides critical insights at the cutting-edge of reputation intelligence. DOWNLOAD STUDY Reputation Awareness Is Growing There’s a critical link between reputation and corporate success. From crises at Uber and Facebook highlighting the close link between reputation and key business outcomes to companies like Microsoft drawing on an already strong reputation to deftly navigate potential obstacles, reputation has never been more important. Over the last five years, corporations have become increasingly serious about managing reputation. In 2014, 65% of respondents indicated that reputation was a high priority and 63% expected reputation’s importance would only grow in forthcoming years. Even with this knowledge, only 16% of companies were positioned to manage reputation and just 15% were moving to integrate reputation across all functions and departments. In 2018, an astonishing 88% of respondents indicated that corporate brand reputation is of average/high priority to key stakeholders. And that importance is no passing fad: 95% of respondents expect reputation to retain its importance or become an even higher priority within the next 2 to 3 years. Correspondingly, we saw a 17% increase in advanced reputational integration: companies moving to understand and employ reputation intelligence in all areas of the business. Far fewer companies are stuck at the early stages of the reputation journey, and 67% of respondents claim they are ready to manage their reputation. This enthusiasm doesn’t always translate into concrete action, though. Fewer than 50% of key stakeholders are actively measuring reputation, and only 34% are taking active steps to manage reputation. What explains this gap between intent and action? Many factors can inhibit a company from implementing reputation management systems, even with an understanding of their importance and impact on the bottom line. Among these factors is a shift in ownership of reputation. Reputation was traditionally owned by the corporate communications department, but now, CEOs, marketers, and even risk officers are taking responsibility for reputation management within a company. Reputation Ownership Responsibility for managing reputation is becoming increasingly difficult to delegate. Our respondents indicated that CEOs, corporate communications executives, marketing executives, and corporate strategists are most commonly responsible for reputation management. This is a stark change from 2014, when corporate communications execs were by far the most common stakeholder accountable for reputation management—70% in 2014 vs. 19% in 2018. Though CCOs still bear much of the responsibility for reputation management, CEOs are taking increased ownership of it. This is because they see that reputation is not merely a bonus to be focused on after the all-important bottom-line is addressed—it’s a key factor affecting outcomes across the business. As CEOs take responsibility for reputation management, they are finding that there is a major knowledge gap between critical data and comprehensive data on reputation and business risks. CEOs are aware of key insights regarding brand and reputation, with 94% reporting access to this critical data, but only 24% have access to more comprehensive data that paints a fuller, more meaningful, picture. The difference is just as stark when we talk about risks to which the business is exposed. Only 22% of CEOs have comprehensive data about potentially paradigm-altering risks, while 87% have access to a more limited, critical picture. The inability to access holistic data makes it difficult to move forward with implementation of sound reputation management strategies. This creates a great deal of internal strife, putting pressure on CCOs, who are often the ones implementing these strategies. Our respondents told us their biggest barrier to effective reputation management was a lack of CEO and C-suite support. Paradoxically, this comes at a time when reputation is more important to CEOs than ever before. Uber is a particularly poignant example of the importance of reputation management in today’s economy. For modern, global businesses, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi notes, reputation is of paramount importance. So why, despite increased CEO ownership of reputation and understanding of its importance, does lack of CEO support continue to be a significant obstacle? The answer lies in a failure to tie reputation management to core business outcomes. The Reputation Gap As CEOs remain reluctant to invest in reputation management, CCOs are finding it difficult to make the case that reputation impacts core business outcomes: While 56% of CCOs strongly believe that reputation has a financial impact on a company, they struggle with a lack of business value proof points. Tying the impact of reputation to specific KPIs is critical for CCOs hoping to get colleagues on board with harnessing the insights of comprehensive reputation intelligence. Other barriers to implementation listed by our respondents include an absence of internal processes and a lack of cross-functional collaboration. As the litany of stakeholders responsible for reputation becomes more diverse, building internal collaboration across functions is critical. Together, these various obstacles have led to a reputational gap. Companies understand more than ever the importance of managing reputation, but find themselves hindered from taking proactive steps to do so. Big Data: Searching for a Solution A natural response to this reputational gap is to collect more information—to attempt to fill the data facing CEOs and CCOs hoping to implement reputation management systems. But to effectively collect more data, companies need to understand what they and competitors already have. What information are companies collecting now? Our respondents believe reputation is most impactful when it comes to acquiring and retaining top talent (37%). This should come as no surprise, given the tight labor market—competition for talented employees is tougher than ever. As millennial and Gen Z employees care increasingly about working at companies whose values align with their own, having a strong reputation is crucial to attracting the best talent. Companies that communicate their values clearly and effectively, that make a commitment to responsibility, whose employees are proud of their employers—those are the companies attracting and retaining the best and the brightest. Similar emphasis is placed on capturing and monitoring earned media sentiment. As companies understand that reputation can be destroyed overnight by one viral tweet or bolstered significantly by a feel-good story, taking ownership of their narrative and making sure that their values are communicated clearly, effectively, and authentically is of crucial importance. CCOs also recognize the advantage a strong reputation yields in terms of differentiation and premium status. Companies with stronger reputations are better able to set themselves apart in fragmented and competitive industries, while also being able to sell products and services at more attractive price points. Companies with poor reputations, on the other hand, risk differentiating themselves for all the wrong reasons. Most critically, CCOs view a strong reputation as an effective risk protection and mitigation tool. Not only can a strong reputation improve crisis management and post-crisis recovery, reputation can reduce the risk of increased regulations. A strong reputation gives companies the license to operate and serves as credit in the emotional bank with customers, to be withdrawn in times of crisis. Sophisticated reputational intelligence requires targeted analysis to understand how reputation fares across various stakeholders. Our respondents said that the highest-priority stakeholders to their business strategy were Customers, Employees, and the General Public. Unsurprisingly, these stakeholders were also most likely to have their perception of reputation measured. Not as closely tracked are Investors/Shareholders, Government Officials, and Opinion Influencers. But these stakeholders are crucial in ensuring businesses have a license to operate, have the financial resources to innovate, and are ahead of current trends. Understanding reputation among these key stakeholders should be on any CCO’s action plan. What else might be on a CCO’s to-do list? Connecting the dots from marketing and corporate comms to stakeholder perceptions and business results, the most important goal according to our respondents. Ensuring that marketing and communications effort translates to improved stakeholder perceptions and business outcomes is the next step in the reputation economy. The best way to accomplish this goal, as noted above, is to measure key stakeholders to understand risk and opportunities. Third on our respondents’ lists was integrated communication across different touch points. In tandem with increased integration of insights into communications, companies need to develop and enhance CR program efforts. Focusing on products and services is not enough to bolster or maintain a strong reputation; CR programs are critical in developing a strong reputation. Becoming Reputation Ready In planning their next steps, companies need to understand global reputation macro-trends. By tapping into Reputation Institute’s extensive database of more than 21 years of business intelligence, we were able to distill the top macro-trends reflecting how reputation is shaping the world and moving markets. For our respondents, the most important area of focus is promoting a Higher Brand Purpose. Looking to the future, they also see Cyber Attacks, Market Influences, CEO Activism, and being an Employer of Choice as crucial topics to consider. By concentrating on these important macro-trends, companies can cultivate stronger reputations. What to Remember The insights from our research chart a clear path forward for companies hoping to lead the trend in the modern reputation economy. Companies must move forward with sophisticated and well-sourced reputation management system. Though CCOs are still responsible for managing reputation, CEOs are taking increased ownership. To do so effectively, they need comprehensive reputation data. Executives must link reputation data and business outcomes. Doing so is the only way to effectively integrate reputation across the business. To overcome the obstacles to reputation management, companies should create a “reputation council” of key stakeholders from across various functions of the business. Understanding reputation as a dashboard metric for CEOs, one linked to sales, marketing, corporate brand reputation, and business results, is key to staying at the fore of the reputation economy. Most companies are still in the early stages of the reputation journey, but 32% of companies are setting the trend and reaping the benefits. Lagging on reputation management is no longer a viable option for 21st-century companies. By following the steps above, companies can differentiate themselves, be more resilient in times of crisis, and reap the rewards of reputation in times of strength. Reputation is driving the economy and moving markets. Companies who integrate reputation management across the organization are thriving, while those who fail to do so are falling behind. Stephen Hahn-Griffiths Executive Partner, Chief Reputation Officer @shahngriff Daniel Friedman Should Companies Stake Their Reputations on a Charismatic CEO? Lessons from Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos Essential lessons for reputation managers from the rise and fall of Theranos and its leader, Elizabeth Holmes Linking Executive Compensation to Reputation How about reputation as a KPI? Procter and Gamble: Not So Secretly Closing the Gender Gap To garner greater stakeholder support, companies and their leaders must champion and support an affirmative culture that advocates for equal opportunity. Building Trust with Products and Services A company’s product or service offering is the most important driver of reputation in many industries. This Month in Reputation: Banks, Beers, and Beds Budweiser became the King of Beers, Wayfair learned a tough lesson, and the Dominican Republic faced a tourism crisis. The Cost of Prideful CEO Values As many celebrate Pride month across the world, we take a look at how major companies faced challenges related to this important social issue. Canada RepTrak Celebrated at The Globe and Mail Featuring data and insights from the 2019 Canada RepTrak study. What Role Does Innovation Play in Building Bank Reputation? Attendees of this year's Digital Banking 2019 event - the largest of its kind in the industry and organized by American Banker - got an exclusive preview... Can VW Kiss and Make Up with a Commercial? Has Volkswagen's new ad campaign made up its reputation wrongdoings? What Sports Films Teach Us About Corporate Reputation If you need a reminder of why you're reputation working so hard to build your company's reputation, or you'd just like some unconventional inspiration, watch any of these famous sports films. The Current State of the U.S. Banking Industry Stay tuned for the full American Banker article to reveal the most reputable banks in the U.S. These CEOs are Making Reputation Headlines Here are the CEOs facing reputation risks, and those who are leading with ethical, responsible behavior. FAQ: Why Reputation Management Matters for Chief Marketing Officers Want to know why reputation is crucial for marketers? This FAQ has all you need to know. This Month in Reputation: Billionaire Philanthropy, Brexit Chaos, Spirit Airlines Soars to New Heights In May, certain brands threw away hard-earned trust and authenticity, while others saw years of work finally yield serious reputation results. 5 Must-Watch Movies for CMOs Whoever said movies can't be educational didn't work in marketing FAQ: CEO RepTrak What is CEO RepTrak, and what matters most in CEO reputation management? Reputation as the Ultimate Predictor of Future Performance Q: How could we have predicted Trump, Brexit, and Scomo? A: Reputation. Why CEOs are Faced with Increasing Reputation Risk It's simple: Do the right thing. This Month in Reputation: A Masters Victory, Major Toy Recalls, and University Ranking Surprises There were big reputation wins this month - Tiger Woods made his comeback, a small school in Maine showed the country how higher ed is done, and Netflix continued to impress, well, everyone Baseball's Most Captivating Reputation Journey: Alex Rodriguez Here's what companies can learn from A-Rod'd downfall and eventual reputational redemption. 4 Branding Lessons You Can Learn from NFL Scandals Oops the NFL did it again... Facebook's Corporate Reputation is in Free Fall Our latest RepTrak analysis shows the social media giant may be about to lose its customers' faith - for good.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1347
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Disclosure & Use of Registration Information. You agree that we may make your Registration information available to ICANN, Registry and the Registrar and their respective designees and agents and to any other third party as ICANN and applicable laws may require or permit. You further agree and acknowledge that we may make publicly available, or directly available to third party vendors, some or all of your Registration information for the purposes of inspection (such as through our WHOIS Service) or for other purposes as required or permitted by ICANN and applicable laws. Please also refer to our Privacy Policy. f. Registrar Privacy Services. We may implement privacy services to comply with applicable laws which protect personal identifiable data from public display in the WHOIS. Registries may also implement Registry privacy services which may limit collect and display of personal data from publication in the public WHOIS. If You wish to ensure your data is published in the public WHOIS we may have to have expressed and verified consent from you and the Registrant, if applicable and available. g. Government Use of Information. You understand and agree that the Government of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas shall have the right to use, disclose, reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and perform publicly and display publicly, in any manner and for any purpose whatsoever and to have or permit others to do so, all Data provided by you/Registrant. "Data" means any recorded information, and includes, without limitation, technical data and computer software, regardless of the form or the medium on which it may be recorded. h. ICANN Guidelines & Requirements. You agree that ICANN may establish guidelines, limits, and/or requirements that relate to the amount and type of information that we may or must make available to the public or to private entities, and the manner in which such information is made available. You also agree and consent to any and all such disclosures, uses, guidelines, limits, and restrictions related to your Registration information (including, without limitation, any and all updates to such information), whether during or after the term of your Registration. You hereby irrevocably waive any and all claims and causes of action you may have arising from such disclosure or use of your Registration information by us. i. Access to your Registration Information. You may access your Registration information, which is in our possession to review, modify, or update such information. You can access your Registration information by accessing our Account Management On-Line Forms, or similar interface, made available at our website. i. We will factilitate any updates requested by you/Registered Name Holder to the data elements listed in Subsections 5a (vi), 5a (vii) and 5a (ix). The updated data elements shall be submitted to the Registry Database operated by the relevant Registry operator. 6. ONLINE PHARMACY POLICY a. Definitions. An "Online Pharmacy" means a website that sells or facilitates the sale of drugs (e.g., prescription medicines). "Applicable Laws" means the laws and regulations of a) the jurisdiction where the online pharmacy dispenses drugs from and b) the jurisdiction where the online pharmacy offers to dispense or ship drugs to. b. Abuse policy. Domain names registered with Internet Domain Service BS Corp. may not be used to facilitate the sale of drugs in violation of Applicable Laws. This expressly includes, but is not limited to, the sale of prescription drugs without a prescription based on a prior in-person examination, except where such is expressly permitted by Applicable Laws, or selling unapproved drugs (e.g., falsified medicines, counterfeit drugs, or drugs unapproved for sale). These Terms and Conditions notify you that Internet Domain Service BS Corp. acts on notices from LegitScript about domain names that violate this section of our policy. If you have any questions about the basis for your website's LegitScript classification, please contact LegitScript at legitscript.com. c. Sole Responsibility. It is your sole responsibility to be familiar with, and ensure that your website complies with, Applicable Laws. You agree that marketing prescription drugs to a jurisdiction despite not being appropriately licensed to dispense prescription drugs there, or selling drugs online in a way that does not comply with Applicable Laws, constitutes fraud and is a violation of this agreement. d. Domain name suspension. Starting from the 26th of August 2012, we may suspend and PERMANENTLY lock online pharmacy domains that reasonably appear in breach of our ONLINE PHARMACY POLICY without prior notice to you. Suspended online pharmacy domain names will remain locked and CANNOT be transferred away to another Registrar until and unless LegitScript notifies us that the domain name is no longer classified as operating in violation of this section. e. Indemnification. You hereby agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any and all loss occasioned by you as a result of us suspending your domain name. You also agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any complaints made against you by third parties and any loss that occurs due to any third party complaints. Further, you hereby agree to indemnify and hold us harmless if LegitScript designates a domain name you have registered as operating in violation of this section. 7. DOMAIN REGISTRAR TRANSFERS a. Fees. Before any registrar transfer service (incoming transfer) provided to you by us becomes effective, you or the reseller on your behalf, must pay us the then current registrar transfer fee for the registrar transfer service for your Domain. b. Request to Transfer Registration. Only the Registrant of the Registration and Domain, may initiate a request to transfer the Registration from a particular registrar to us (incoming transfer) or from us to another registrar (outgoing transfer). Therefore, you hereby represent that you have the full and complete authority as the holder of the Registration and domain to initiate any transfer, or as a contact listed on the current Registration, that you have been given full and complete authority by the Registrant to initiate the transfer. We at our sole discretion may require you to provide documentation that proves that you are the valid Registrant and you have the authority to issue the transfer request. By making the transfer request you agree to this Agreement. c. Right to Refuse Transfer. We reserve the right to deny any request to transfer a Registration during the first sixty (60) days after the initial Registration with the original registrar if: (i) denial is in accordance with the circumstances described in this Agreement under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy; (ii) there is evidence of fraud; (iii) there is a reasonable dispute over the identity of the Registrant or administrative contact; (iv) no payment for previous registration period was made (including credit card charge-backs) if the domain name is past its expiration date or for previous or current registration periods if the domain name has not yet expired. In all such cases, however, the domain name must be put into "Registrar Hold" status by the Registrar of Record prior to the denial of transfer; (v) express objection to the transfer by the authorized Transfer Contact. Objection could take the form of specific request (either by paper or electronic means) by the authorized Transfer Contact to deny a particular transfer request, or a general objection to all transfer requests received by the Registrar, either temporarily or indefinitely; [In all cases, the objection must be provided with the express and informed consent of the authorized Transfer Contact on an opt-in basis and upon request by the authorized Transfer Contact, the Registrar must remove the lock or provide a reasonably accessible method for the authorized Transfer Contact to remove the lock within five (5) calendar days] (vi) The transfer was requested within sixty (60) days of the creation date as shown in the registry Whois record for the domain name, or; (vii) a domain name is within sixty (60) days (or a lesser period to be determined) after being transferred (apart from being transferred back to the original Registrar in cases where both Registrars so agree and/or where a decision in the dispute resolution process so directs). "Transferred" shall only mean that an inter-registrar transfer has occurred in accordance with the procedures of this policy. It is the sole responsibility of the Registrant to ensure that the request to transfer will not be denied for any of the above reasons prior to initiating and paying for the registrar transfer services. Fees are not refundable, however after a failed transfer funds will be made immediately available to your pre-paid account and they can be applied to subsequent transfer requests. d. Successful Completion of Registrar Transfer Request. Upon successful completion of a registrar transfer request, we will immediately become the registrar of record. e. You acknowledge that we will, as a default action, place a Transfer lock on all domains registered or transferred to us until such time as you unlock the domain from within your account, or request us to unlock the domain. 8. OWNERSHIP OF DATA In addition to the Registration information you are required to provide under sections 5(a) above, we maintain records related to your Registration and will provide these records and data to the Registrar. You agree and acknowledge that we own all databases, compilations, collective and similar rights, titles, and interests worldwide in our domain database (the "Domain Database"), and all information and derivative works generated from the Domain Database. You further agree and acknowledge that we collect and own the following information for those Registrations : (i) the original creation date of the Registration; (ii) the submission date and time of the Application (to us and by us to the proper Registry); (iii) communications (electronic or paper form) constituting Registration orders, modifications, or terminations, and related correspondence between you and us; (iv) records of account for your Registration, including, without limitation, dates and amounts of all payments and refunds; (v) the expiration date of your Registration; (vi) the name, postal address, email address, voice telephone number, and, when available, fax number of the administrative contact, technical contact, and billing contact, and the name holder, for the Registration; (vii) information we obtain in regards to your Registration as an Acceptable Online Pharmacy, if applicable, including your LegitScript Classification; (viii) any remark concerning the registered domain that appears or should appear in the WHOIS or similar database; and (ix) any other information or data that we generate or obtains in connection with the provision of the Services. You acknowledge and agree that during the Term of this Agreement and for a limited period thereafter to comply with applicable laws thereafter we may maintain the following records relating to our dealings with You: (i) In electronic form, the submission date and time, and the content of all registrations data (including updates) submitted in electronic form submitted to the Registry; (ii) In electronic, paper or microfilm form, all written communications constituting registration applications, confirmations, modifications or terminations and related correspondence with You, including registration contracts; and (iii) In electronic form, record of the accounts of all Registrants with Registrar. After termination of this Agreement Registrar reserves the rights to delete such personal data and only retain such data as required to comply with other lawful and statutory obligations. To comply with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws, Registrar may redact, delete and or anonymise such data in its sole discretion. We will not process the Personal Data collected from you in a way incompatible with the purposes and other limitations as provided in this document, applicable data protection laws and our Privacy Policy. 9. AGENTS AND LICENSES a. Warranty of Authority. If you are registering a domain for someone else, you warrant and agree that you have the authority to bind that person as a principal to all the terms and conditions provided herein. b. License to Third Party. If you license the use of the domain registered to you to a third party, you warrant and agree that you nonetheless remain the Registrant (the domain holder of record), and remain responsible for any and all obligations under this Agreement, including, without limitation, payment and providing (and updating, as necessary) your full, current, accurate, and complete contact information and administrative, technical, and billing contact information, adequate to facilitate timely resolution of any problem that may arise in connection with the domain and Registration. You further warrant and agree that if you license the use of your domain to any third party who maintains an Online Pharmacy, you nonetheless remain the Registrant (the domain holder of record) and you are responsible that that your domain is in full compliance with our Online Pharmacy Policy (section 6). All sales, with the exception of the below circumstances, are final and non-refundable. If for any reason, within a period of 24 hours from the time your order was placed, we are unable to provision the product or service requested. If you choose to cancel a Registration, Web or Email Service we provide we will not issue a refund for the remaining or unexpired duration of the Registration or Web or Email Service, i.e. a percentage of the yearly fee cannot be refunded. Fees will not be refunded if we choose to cancel, terminate or suspend your Registration or other Service for any reason. Refunds can be requested via our support team for all transactions. For transactions where payment was made via "Worldpay Payment Gateway" payment option you may also submit your request to the applicable Third Party Collection Providers: CentralNic Ltd at 35-39, Moorgate, London, EC2R 6AR, UK, PH: +44.2033880600 CentralNic USA Ltd at 59th Floor, 350 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10118, USA, +1.3233752669 (US based customers only) 11. EXPIRATION AND RENEWAL OF DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION After expiration of the term of domain name registration Services, you acknowledge that certain registry administrators may provide procedures or grace periods during which expired domain name registrations may be renewed. You acknowledge that you assume all risks and all consequences if you wait until close or after the end of a domain name registration term to attempt to renew the registration. You acknowledge that post-expiration renewal or redemption processes, if any, involve additional fees (e.g. Restore fees) which may be payable. With respect to domain name registration services, we will email a renewal notification in accordance with applicable ICANN and/or Registry policies. All renewal reminders will be sent to the Registrant contact email address. Additionally we will be sending renewal reminders to the account email address as defined by you once per week starting approximately 45 days before expiration and once per day during the last 7 days, unless you disabled renewal reminders from our Control Panel. It is your sole responsibility to keep the email address accurate and check it regularly. You agree that after expiration of the term of a domain name registration we may, for a period of forty-five (45) days (the "Expiry Period"), either: i) remove the domain name from the zone of the top-level-domain; or ii) direct the domain to name-servers and IP address(es) of website(s) designated by us, including, without limitation, to IP address(es) which host a parking page or a commercial search engine that may display advertisements. Any revenue generated through the IP address during this period will be payable only to us. You will have no claim over any earnings from this nor are you entitled to any compensation in exchange therefore over this period If we exercise our rights under this provision, and if you do not contact us to pay for and renew the domain prior to the end of the Expiry Period, you agree that you have abandoned the domain and you relinquish any and all rights that you may have had to the domain to us other than the rights that we provide to you in this Agreement. We reserve the right to renew the registration on your behalf at our sole discretion and without further notice. In such case, you are entitled to renew or restore the registration according to the provisions below or applicable registry policies as if the registration had not been renewed, i.e. at least for the duration of a redemption grace period. If you fail to exercise this right, you herewith authorize us to take ownership, transfer or delete the registration at our own discretion and you agree that you have abandoned the domain and you relinquish any and all rights that you may have had to the domain. You agree that the termination or non-renewal of a Registration or non-payment of due renewal fees shall constitute Your consent to the actions described above as well as to a renewal of the domain name and updates to the Registration information to the extent necessary for our undertaking. The failure by or on behalf of you/the Registered Name Holder to consent that the registration be renewed within the time specified in a second notice or reminder shall, in the absence of extenuating circumstances, result in cancellation of the registration by the end of the auto-renew grace period, (although we reserve the right to cancel the name earlier). Extenuating circumstances are defined as: UDRP action, valid court order, failure of a Registrar's renewal process (which does not include failure of a Registrant to respond), the domain name is used by a nameserver that provides DNS service to third-parties (additional time may be required to migrate the records managed by the nameserver), the Registrant is subject to bankruptcy proceedings, payment dispute (where a Registrant claims to have paid for a renewal, or a discrepancy in the amount paid), billing dispute (where a Registrant disputes the amount on a bill), domain name subject to litigation in a court of competent jurisdiction, or other circumstance as approved specifically by ICANN. Where we choose, under extenuating circumstances (as defined above), to renew a domain name without the explicit consent of the Registrant, we will maintain a record of the extenuating circumstances associated with renewing that specific domain name. In the absence of extenuating circumstances (as defined above), a domain name will be deleted within 45 days of either the registrar or the Registrant terminating this registration agreement. We will provide notice to each new Registrant describing the details of their deletion and auto-renewal policy including the expected time at which a non-renewed domain name would be deleted relative to the domain's expiration date, or a date range not to exceed ten (10) days in length. If we make any material changes to our deletion policy during the period of the registration agreement, we must make at least the same effort to inform you of the changes as we would to inform you of other material changes to the registration agreement. In the event that a domain which is the subject of a UDRP dispute is deleted or expires during the course of the dispute, the complainant in the UDRP dispute will have the option to renew or restore the name under the same commercial terms as the Registrant. If the complainant renews or restores the name, the name will be placed in Registrar HOLD and Registrar LOCK status, the WHOIS contact information for the Registrant will be removed, and the WHOIS entry will indicate that the name is subject to dispute. If the complaint is terminated, or the UDRP dispute finds against the complainant, the name will be deleted within 45 days. The Registrant retains the right under the existing redemption grace period provisions to recover the name at any time during the Redemption Grace Period, and retains the right to renew the name before it is deleted. Before and during the Expiry Period you may renew the domain by paying the regular renewal fees. After the domain is deleted and for a period of approximately thirty (30) days you may redeem the domain by paying the Restore fee. All fees are shown in our pricing page https://www.internetbs.net/price.html The above strictly applies to gTLDs (generic Top Level Domain) subject to ICANN policies. For ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain) policies might be different. The following ccTLDs have limitations on when you can renew a domain, it is not possible to renew a domain after the time limits listed. .ai - 2 days prior to expiration date .ch - 1 day prior to expiration date .cz - 2 days prior to expiration date .gr - 9 days prior to expiration date .li - 1 day prior to expiration date .lt - 3 days prior to expiration date .lu - 2 days prior to expiration date .pl, .biz.pl, .com.pl, .edu.pl, .info.pl, .net.pl & .org.pl - 2 days prior to expiration date .si - 3 days prior to expiration date YOU AGREE THAT WE (FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "WE" INCLUDES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, OUR COMPANY’S EXECUTIVES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, ATTORNEYS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, CONSULTANTS, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, PARENT COMPANIES, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, REGISTRIES, THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS, MERCHANTS, LICENSORS, OR THE LIKE, OR ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, OR DISTRIBUTING OUR SERVICES) WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY LOSS THAT MAY OCCUR DUE TO ANY: (A) LOSS OF REGISTRATION OF A DOMAIN; (B) USE OF YOUR DOMAIN; (C) ACCESS DELAY OR ACCESS INTERRUPTION TO OUR REGISTRATION SYSTEM; (D) NON-DELIVERY OR MIS-DELIVERY OF DATA BETWEEN YOU AND US AND/OR BETWEEN THE REGISTRY AND US; (E) AN EVENT BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL; (F) PROCESSING OF THE APPLICATION; (G) PROCESSING OF ANY MODIFICATION TO THE RECORD ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR DOMAIN; (H) FAILURE OF YOU OR YOUR AGENT TO PAY ANY FEE HEREUNDER; (I) PLACEMENT OF YOUR ONLINE PHARMACY ON THE NABP'S LIST OF NOT RECOMMENDED SITES BY THE NABP; (J)TERMINATION, REJECTION OR NON-APPROVAL OF YOUR ONLINE PHARMACY DUE TO NON COMLIANCE WITH SECTION 6 OF THIS AGREEMENT; (K) SUSPENSION, CANCELLATION OR TERMINATION OF YOUR REGISTRATION BY US; OR (L) APPLICATION OF ANY DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROVISION HEREIN. FURTHERMORE, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGE OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, NEGLIGENCE, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. IN NO EVENT WILL OUR MAXIMUM LIABILITY EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY YOU OR YOUR AGENT TO US FOR THE INITIAL REGISTRATION OF YOUR DOMAIN. ALL THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS," AND WE WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR FAILURE OF ANY OF THE SERVICES WE PROVIDE, WHETHER UNDER THE LAW OF STRICT LIABILITY, PRODUCTS LIABILITY, NEGLIGENCE, OR OTHERWISE. WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR OUR SERVICES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER THAT THE REGISTRATION OR USE OF A DOMAIN UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL IMMUNIZE YOU FROM CHALLENGES TO YOUR REGISTRATION OR FROM SUSPENSION, CANCELLATION, TERMINATION, TRANSFER, OR ANY OTHER LOSS OF THE DOMAIN REGISTERED TO YOU. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "WE" INCLUDES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, OUR EXECUTIVES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, ATTORNEYS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, CONSULTANTS, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, PARENT COMPANIES, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, REGISTRIES, THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS, MERCHANTS, LICENSORS, OR THE LIKE, OR ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED IN CREATING, REGULATING, PRODUCING, OR DISTRIBUTING OUR SERVICES. 14. REPRESENTATIONS & WARRANTIES a. Against Infringement. You represent and warrant to us that you hold the necessary rights to use, or permit to use, any item used through our Services, and that such use will not in any way: (i) violate or potentially violate any right of any third party, including, without limitation, infringement or misappropriation of any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or other proprietary right; (ii) constitute or potentially constitute violations, such as, without limitation, false advertisement, unfair competition, defamation, invasion of privacy, invasion of rights, and discrimination; (iii) cause or potentially cause a business dispute, personal dispute, or any other dispute; (iv) be or potentially be unlawful, harmful, fraudulent, libelous, slanderous, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, profane, hateful, or otherwise offensive; (v) be or potentially be racially, ethnically, disputatiously, argumentatively, or ethically objectionable; or (vi) encourage conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable law, including, without limitation, local, provincial, state, national, international, or other laws. b. Registration Information. You represent and warrant that all information provided by you in connection with your Registration, including information related to Online Pharmacy Certification, is, and will be, true, current, accurate, and complete at all times. Breach of this section will constitute material breach of this Agreement and cause for immediate cancellation of your Registration, domain and our Services. c. Infancy: You attest that you are of legal age to enter into this Agreement. d. Export Restrictions. You represent and warrant that you directly or indirectly are: A) not in or from any country that is subject to comprehensive U.S., EU and or UK export or sanctions restrictions (currently including, but not limited to, Iran, Sudan, Syria, and North Korea), nor are you intending to offer the services to any national of any such country present within or who intends to transmit or sell domains to such country unless specifically licensed for such export; (B) not using the services in the design, development or production of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons or in the financing of terrorism; nor (C) are you listed as or are owned or controlled by a sanctioned person or entity or prohibited party on any list published by the U.S. government, including the list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs) published by the US Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), or a person or entity on a sanctioned or restricted parties list published by an applicable jurisdiction. e. Registry supplemental policies and rules: You agree to be bound by the rules, policies, and agreements of each Registry from which you purchase directly or indirectly a domain registration using our Services. Refer to the incorporated ADDITIONAL REGISTRY REQUIREMENTS section for specific details for each registry if any. Breach of any of these sections will constitute a material breach of this Agreement and cause for immediate termination of our Service(s), your Registration(s) and your domain(s). You further agree to protect, defend, hold harmless, and indemnify our company, any third party entity related to us (including, without limitation, any Registry), and our executives, directors, officers, attorneys, managers, employees, consultants, contractors, agents, parent companies, and subsidiaries from and against any and all liabilities, losses, costs, judgments, damages, claims, or causes of actions, including, without limitation, any and all legal fees and expenses arising out of or resulting from the Registration, use of the domain, or from any breach of this Agreement. This indemnification is in addition to any indemnification required under the Dispute Policy. This indemnification obligation will survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement for whatever reason. 15. BREACH & REVOCATION a. Revocation by us. We reserve the right to immediately suspend, cancel, terminate, transfer or modify your Registration for any reason, including, without limitation, if: (i) your material breach of this Agreement; (ii) your use of any Services, including, without limitation, the domain registered to you, that is in contradiction of applicable laws or customarily acceptable usage policies of the Internet, including, without limitation, sending unsolicited commercial advertisements (including, without limitation, spamming) or sending threats, harassments, and obscenities; (iii) your use of your domain in connection with unlawful or unethical activity; (iv) your Online Pharmacy is blacklisted by LegitScript and therefore do not comply with the Online Pharmacy Policy referred to in section 6 of this Agreement; (v) our receipt of an order from a court of competent jurisdiction or an arbitration award; (vi) to correct mistakes by us or the Registry Operator in registering the name; (vii) for the resolution of disputes concerning the Registered Name; (viii) or any other grounds for suspension, cancellation, termination, transfer or modification that is determined by our sole discretion. In any of the above mentioned cases we are entitled to suspend, cancel, terminate, transfer or modify all of your registered domain names in case you have registered more than one domain name, even if the above mentioned criteria only apply to one of your registered domain names. You understand and agree that you will not receive any refund whatsoever for any such suspension, cancellation, termination, transfer or modification of your Registration for any reason. b. Revocation by ICANN, Registry, or Registrar. You further acknowledge and agree that your Registration is subject to suspension, cancellation, termination, transfer, or modification by any ICANN procedure, any Registry procedure approved by an ICANN-adopted policy, or our company. c. Civil/Legal Liability for Breach. ANY BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT MAY RESULT IN CIVIL ACTION, LEGAL ACTION, AND/OR CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AGAINST YOU. d.If Internet Domain Service BS Corp provides you with Hosting services, i.e. any Web and Email Service from Internet Domain Service BS Corp in connection with the Domain Name, we reserve the right to immediately suspend, cancel, terminate, transfer or modify your service for any reason, including, without limitation, if: (i) your material breach of this Agreement; (ii) your use of any Services that is in contradiction of applicable laws or customarily acceptable usage policies of the Internet, including, without limitation, sending unsolicited commercial advertisements (including, without limitation, spamming) or sending threats, harassments, and obscenities; (iii) your use of any services in connection with unlawful or unethical activity; (iv) your Online Pharmacy is blacklisted by LegitScript and therefore do not comply with the Online Pharmacy Policy referred to in section 6 of this Agreement; (v) our receipt of an order from a court of competent jurisdiction or an arbitration award; (vi) or any other grounds for suspension, cancellation, termination, transfer or modification that is determined by our sole discretion. In any of the above mentioned cases we are entitled to suspend, cancel, terminate, transfer or modify all of your services in case you have registered more than one service, including domain names, even if the above mentioned criteria only apply to one of the services used. You understand and agree that you will not receive any refund whatsoever for any such suspension, cancellation, termination, transfer or modification of your Registration for any reason. 16. GOVERNING LAW & SEVERABILITY a. Governing law. Except as otherwise set forth in the UDRP, any gTLD Registry dispute resolution policy, .eu Dispute Resolution Rules or any similar ccTLD policy with respect to any dispute over your domain name registration, this Agreement, your rights and obligations and all actions contemplated by this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, as if the Agreement was a contract wholly entered into and wholly performed within The Bahamas. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND INTERPRETED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS APPLICABLE THEREIN WITHOUT REFERENCE TO RULES GOVERNING CHOICE OF LAWS. ANY ACTION RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT MUST BE BROUGHT IN NASSAU AND YOU IRREVOCABLY CONSENT TO THE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS. b. Severability & Amendment. If any provision or portion of any agreement (including, without limitation, this Agreement) between you and our company is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable for any reason, the remainder of that agreement will continue in full force and effect. We will amend or replace such provision with one that is valid and enforceable and which achieves, to the extent possible, the original objectives and intent as reflected in the original provision. This Agreement may not be amended or modified by you except by means of a written document signed by both you and an authorized representative of our company. It is your sole responsibility to ensure that the representative subscribing such document is actually authorized to do so. You agree that any notice required to be given under this Agreement by us to you will be deemed to have been given if delivered in accordance with the contact information you have provided. 18. DESIGNATED REGISTRANT CHANGE AND/OR TRANSFER AGENT FOR GTLDS You agree and authorise Internet Domain Service BS Corp to act as your "Designated Agent" with respect to the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) (https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/registrars/transfers-en) for all gTLD domains. You agree that as your "Designated Agent" we have the explicit authority to approve and accept each "Change of Registrant" (as per the IRTP) on your behalf, whether this change represents a change from your Registrant information or to your Registrant information, and will do so in all instances. You accept that authorising us to act as your Designated Agent is a condition of registering or managing your domain with Internet Domain Service BS Corp. a. Entire Agreement. This Agreement, in addition to any other specific agreement between you and us, constitutes the full and complete understanding and agreement between you and us relating to the subject matter hereof. Except when expressly agreed to the contrary in writing by us, this Agreement supersedes any other written (including, without limitation, digitized/computerized) agreement, any oral agreement, or any actual or alleged agreement by conduct. b. Independent Contractor Relationship. Nothing in this Agreement will be construed as creating a partnership or relationship of employer and employee, principal and agent, partnership or joint venture between you and us. You and our company will each be deemed an independent contractor at all times and will have no right or authority to assume, create, or incur any obligation on behalf of the other, except as may be expressly provided herein. You must not, in any way, misrepresent your relationship with us, attempt to pass yourself off as us, or claim that you are us. c. No Waiver. The failure of our company to require your performance for any provision of this Agreement will not affect our full right to require such performance at any time thereafter; nor will the waiver by us of a breach of any provision of this Agreement be taken or held to be a waiver of the provision itself. d. Survival of Termination. Sections 2, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, 18 and the Dispute Policy, will survive the expiry or termination of this Agreement for any reason. e. In some circumstances Internet Domain Service BS Corp. will register your domain name via our parent company's ICANN accreditation. This company is TLD Registrar Solutions Ltd. with an IANA ID of 1564. By accepting this agreement you acknowledge you are aware of this arrangement. 20. Web and Email Services You agree on your own behalf, and on behalf of the Registrant if you are acting as the agent of the Registrant that the Web and Email Services are not available for Name Holders of Moderated Domain Names. Internet Domain Service BS Corp will endeavour to provide the Web and Email Services with due care and skill, however, Internet Domain Service BS Corp does not guarantee the availability of the Web and Email Services. Internet Domain Service BS Corp will remedy any unavailability of the Web and Email Services as soon as it is able but does not guarantee that any unavailability will be resolved outside Internet Domain Service BS Corp trading hours. In addition, Internet Domain Service BS Corp does not guarantee that any Web and Email Service will be: Interruption or fault free or that any faults or errors will be corrected; Available at any particular time or location; available, or available without change, for any minimum period of time; Secure or private; Free of viruses or other harmful features. Cancellation of Web and/or Email Service You may cancel a Domain Name or any Web and Email Service at any time by notifying Internet Domain Service BS Corp. in writing. You agree that: on receipt of such notice, Internet Domain Service BS Corp. will cancel the relevant Domain Name and/or cancel the relevant Web and Email Service; and Internet Domain Service BS Corp. will have no liability to you whatsoever in relation to such deletion and/or cancellation. Internet Domain Service BS Corp. may, in its sole discretion, cancel a Domain Name and any additional services such as Web and Email Services provided to you by Internet Domain Service BS Corp. in respect of that Domain Name upon 14 days' notice where you fail to pay any fees that are due to Internet Domain Service BS Corp.. Either party may terminate this agreement and cancel the Domain Name on one month's written notice to the other party. 21. .ETH Ethereum Naming Service You agree on your own behalf, and on behalf of the Registrant if you are acting as the agent of the Registrant that your application for a .ETH will be subject to the same conditions as those contained within our general terms and conditions. You also agree, that in the unlikely event that your .ETH name is lost or stolen, you will be refunded the full amount paid at the time of your purchase in the original purchase currency (FIAT). You agree that we will not be held liable for the amount in ETH (Ether) held against the value of the name, nor any future loss of earnings as a result of any .ETH name held on your behalf being lost or stolen. DISPUTE POLICY (As approved by the ICANN Board of Directors on 30 October 2009.) 1. Purpose. This Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy") has been adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"), is incorporated by reference into your Registration Agreement, and sets forth the terms and conditions in connection with a dispute between you and any party other than us (the registrar) over the registration and use of an Internet domain name registered by you. Proceedings under Paragraph 4 of this Policy will be conducted according to the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Rules of Procedure"), which are available at http://www.icann.org/en/help/dndr/udrp/rules, and the selected administrative-dispute-resolution service provider's supplemental rules. 2. Your Representations. By applying to register a domain name, or by asking us to maintain or renew a domain name registration, you hereby represent and warrant to us that (a) the statements that you made in your Registration Agreement are complete and accurate; (b) to your knowledge, the registration of the domain name will not infringe upon or otherwise violate the rights of any third party; (c) you are not registering the domain name for an unlawful purpose; and (d) you will not knowingly use the domain name in violation of any applicable laws or regulations. It is your responsibility to determine whether your domain name registration infringes or violates someone else's rights. 3. Cancellations, Transfers, and Changes. We will cancel, transfer or otherwise make changes to domain name registrations under the following circumstances: a. subject to the provisions of Paragraph 8 , our receipt of written or appropriate electronic instructions from you or your authorized agent to take such action; b. our receipt of an order from a court or arbitral tribunal, in each case of competent jurisdiction, requiring such action; and/or c. our receipt of a decision of an Administrative Panel requiring such action in any administrative proceeding to which you were a party and which was conducted under this Policy or a later version of this Policy adopted by ICANN. (See Paragraph 4(i) and (k) below.) We may also cancel, transfer or otherwise make changes to a domain name registration in accordance with the terms of your Registration Agreement or other legal requirements. 4. Mandatory Administrative Proceeding. This Paragraph sets forth the type of disputes for which you are required to submit to a mandatory administrative proceeding. These proceedings will be conducted before one of the administrative-dispute-resolution service providers listed at http://www.icann.org/udrp/approved-providers.htm (each, a "Provider"). a. Applicable Disputes. You are required to submit to a mandatory administrative proceeding in the event that a third party (a "complainant") asserts to the applicable Provider, in compliance with the Rules of Procedure, that (i) your domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights; and (ii) you have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name; and (iii) your domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith. In the administrative proceeding, the complainant must prove that each of these three elements are present. b. Evidence of Registration and Use in Bad Faith. For the purposes of Paragraph 4(a)(iii) , the following circumstances, in particular but without limitation, if found by the Panel to be present, shall be evidence of the registration and use of a domain name in bad faith: (i) circumstances indicating that you have registered or you have acquired the domain name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name registration to the complainant who is the owner of the trademark or service mark or to a competitor of that complainant, for valuable consideration in excess of your documented out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain name; or (ii) you have registered the domain name in order to prevent the owner of the trademark or service mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name, provided that you have engaged in a pattern of such conduct; or (iii) you have registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; or (iv) by using the domain name, you have intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your web site or location or of a product or service on your web site or location. c. How to Demonstrate Your Rights to and Legitimate Interests in the Domain Name in Responding to a Complaint. When you receive a complaint, you should refer to Paragraph 5 of the Rules of Procedure in determining how your response should be prepared. Any of the following circumstances, in particular but without limitation, if found by the Panel to be proved based on its evaluation of all evidence presented, shall demonstrate your rights or legitimate interests to the domain name for purposes of Paragraph 4(a)(ii) : (i) before any notice to you of the dispute, your use of, or demonstrable preparations to use, the domain name or a name corresponding to the domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services; or (ii) you (as an individual, business, or other organization) have been commonly known by the domain name, even if you have acquired no trademark or service mark rights; or (iii) you are making a legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the domain name, without intent for commercial gain to misleadingly divert consumers or to tarnish the trademark or service mark at issue. d. Selection of Provider. The complainant shall select the Provider from among those approved by ICANN by submitting the complaint to that Provider. The selected Provider will administer the proceeding, except in cases of consolidation as described in Paragraph 4(f) . e. Initiation of Proceeding and Process and Appointment of Administrative Panel. The Rules of Procedure state the process for initiating and conducting a proceeding and for appointing the panel that will decide the dispute (the "Administrative Panel"). f. Consolidation. In the event of multiple disputes between you and a complainant, either you or the complainant may petition to consolidate the disputes before a single Administrative Panel. This petition shall be made to the first Administrative Panel appointed to hear a pending dispute between the parties. This Administrative Panel may consolidate before it any or all such disputes in its sole discretion, provided that the disputes being consolidated are governed by this Policy or a later version of this Policy adopted by ICANN. g. Fees. All fees charged by a Provider in connection with any dispute before an Administrative Panel pursuant to this Policy shall be paid by the complainant, except in cases where you elect to expand the Administrative Panel from one to three panelists as provided in Paragraph 5(b)(iv) of the Rules of Procedure, in which case all fees will be split evenly by you and the complainant. h. Our Involvement in Administrative Proceedings. We do not, and will not, participate in the administration or conduct of any proceeding before an Administrative Panel. In addition, we will not be liable as a result of any decisions rendered by the Administrative Panel. i. Remedies. The remedies available to a complainant pursuant to any proceeding before an Administrative Panel shall be limited to requiring the cancellation of your domain name or the transfer of your domain name registration to the complainant. j. Notification and Publication. The Provider shall notify us of any decision made by an Administrative Panel with respect to a domain name you have registered with us. All decisions under this Policy will be published in full over the Internet, except when an Administrative Panel determines in an exceptional case to redact portions of its decision. k. Availability of Court Proceedings. The mandatory administrative proceeding requirements set forth in Paragraph 4 shall not prevent either you or the complainant from submitting the dispute to a court of competent jurisdiction for independent resolution before such mandatory administrative proceeding is commenced or after such proceeding is concluded. If an Administrative Panel decides that your domain name registration should be canceled or transferred, we will wait ten (10) business days (as observed in the location of our principal office) after we are informed by the applicable Provider of the Administrative Panel's decision before implementing that decision. We will then implement the decision unless we have received from you during that ten (10) business day period official documentation (such as a copy of a complaint, file-stamped by the clerk of the court) that you have commenced a lawsuit against the complainant in a jurisdiction to which the complainant has submitted under Paragraph 3(b)(xiii) of the Rules of Procedure. (In general, that jurisdiction is either the location of our principal office or of your address as shown in our Whois database. See Paragraphs 1 and 3(b)(xiii) of the Rules of Procedure for details.) If we receive such documentation within the ten (10) business day period, we will not implement the Administrative Panel's decision, and we will take no further action, until we receive (i) evidence satisfactory to us of a resolution between the parties; (ii) evidence satisfactory to us that your lawsuit has been dismissed or withdrawn; or (iii) a copy of an order from such court dismissing your lawsuit or ordering that you do not have the right to continue to use your domain name. 5. All Other Disputes and Litigation. All other disputes between you and any party other than us regarding your domain name registration that are not brought pursuant to the mandatory administrative proceeding provisions of Paragraph 4 shall be resolved between you and such other party through any court, arbitration or other proceeding that may be available. 6. Our Involvement in Disputes. We will not participate in any way in any dispute between you and any party other than us regarding the registration and use of your domain name. You shall not name us as a party or otherwise include us in any such proceeding. In the event that we are named as a party in any such proceeding, we reserve the right to raise any and all defenses deemed appropriate, and to take any other action necessary to defend ourselves. 7. Maintaining the Status Quo. We will not cancel, transfer, activate, deactivate, or otherwise change the status of any domain name registration under this Policy except as provided in Paragraph 3 above. 8. Transfers During a Dispute. a. Transfers of a Domain Name to a New Holder. You may not transfer your domain name registration to another holder (i) during a pending administrative proceeding brought pursuant to Paragraph 4 or for a period of fifteen (15) business days (as observed in the location of our principal place of business) after such proceeding is concluded; or (ii) during a pending court proceeding or arbitration commenced regarding your domain name unless the party to whom the domain name registration is being transferred agrees, in writing, to be bound by the decision of the court or arbitrator. We reserve the right to cancel any transfer of a domain name registration to another holder that is made in violation of this subparagraph. b. Changing Registrars. You may not transfer your domain name registration to another registrar during a pending administrative proceeding brought pursuant to Paragraph 4 or for a period of fifteen (15) business days (as observed in the location of our principal place of business) after such proceeding is concluded. You may transfer administration of your domain name registration to another registrar during a pending court action or arbitration, provided that the domain name you have registered with us shall continue to be subject to the proceedings commenced against you in accordance with the terms of this Policy. In the event that you transfer a domain name registration to us during the pendency of a court action or arbitration, such dispute shall remain subject to the domain name dispute policy of the registrar from which the domain name registration was transferred. 9. Policy Modifications. We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time with the permission of ICANN. We will post our revised Policy here at least thirty (30) calendar days before it becomes effective. Unless this Policy has already been invoked by the submission of a complaint to a Provider, in which event the version of the Policy in effect at the time it was invoked will apply to you until the dispute is over, all such changes will be binding upon you with respect to any domain name registration dispute, whether the dispute arose before, on or after the effective date of our change. In the event that you object to a change in this Policy, your sole remedy is to cancel your domain name registration with us, provided that you will not be entitled to a refund of any fees you paid to us. The revised Policy will apply to you until you cancel your domain name registration Uniform Rapid Suspension Effective 28 June 2013 These Rules are in effect for all URS proceedings. URS proceedings shall be governed by these Rules and the Supplemental Rules of the Provider administering the proceedings, as posted on its web site. To the extent that the Supplemental Rules of any Provider conflict with these Rules, these Rules supersede. (1) Definitions In these Rules: · Business Day: means a working day as defined by the Provider in its Supplemental Rules. · Calendar Day: means that all days, including weekends and international and national holidays, shall be counted in determining deadlines and due dates. Provider Supplemental Rules may further define this term. · Complainant: means the party initiating a URS complaint concerning a domain name registration. · Determination: means a written outcome of a URS proceeding. Determinations may be made at the point of default, after a response, or after an appeal and may be referred to as Default Determination, Final Determination, or Appeal Determination. · Examiner: means an individual appointed by a Provider to make a Determination. · ICANN: refers to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. · Mutual Jurisdiction: means a court jurisdiction at the location of either (a) the principal office of the Registrar or (b) the domain-name holder's address as shown for the registration of the domain name in Registrar's Whois database at the time the complaint is submitted to the Provider. · New gTLD: generic top-level domains introduced in the root after 1 January 2013 · Provider: means a dispute resolution service provider approved by ICANN for handling URS cases. A list of such Providers appears at http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/urs. · Registry Operator: means the entity responsible for operating the top level domain in which a disputed domain name is registered. · Registrar: means the entity with which the Respondent has registered a domain name that is the subject of a URS complaint. · Registrant: means the holder of a domain name. · Respondent: means the holder of a domain name registration against which a URS complaint is initiated. · Supplemental Rules means the rules adopted by the Provider administering a URS proceeding to supplement these Rules. Supplemental Rules shall not be inconsistent with the URS text or these Rules and shall cover such topics as fees, word and page limits and guidelines, file size and format modalities, the means for communicating with the Provider and the Examiner, and the form of cover sheets. · URS Procedure refers to the Uniform Rapid Suspension System Procedure (currently found at <hyperlink>), which these Rules and the Provider's Supplemental Rules enhance and explain. (2) Communications (a) When forwarding a Complaint, including any annexes, electronically to the Respondent, it shall be the Provider's responsibility to employ reasonably available means calculated to achieve actual notice to Respondent. Achieving actual notice, or employing the following measures to do so, shall discharge this responsibility: i. sending the Notice of Complaint to all email, postalmail and facsimile addresses shown in the domain name's registration data in the Whois database for the registered domain-name holder, the technical contact, and the administrative contact, as well as to any email addresses for the Respondent provided by the Complainant; and j. providing the Complaint, including any annexes, in electronic form, either via email to the email addresses mentioned in (i) above, or via an email link to an online platform requiring users to create an account. (b) Except as provided in Rule 2(a), any written communication to Complainant or Respondent provided for under these Rules shall be made electronically via the Internet (a record of its transmission being available). (c) Any communication to the Provider or the Examiner shall be made by the means and in the manner (including, where applicable, the number of copies) stated in the Provider's Supplemental Rules. (d) Communications shall be made in the language prescribed in Rule 9. (e) Either Party may update its contact details by notifying the Provider, the Registry Operator, and the Registrar. (f) Except as otherwise provided in these Rules, or decided by an Examiner, all communications provided for under these Rules shall be deemed to have been made: i. if via the Internet, on the date that the communication was transmitted, provided that the date of transmission is verifiable; or, where applicable ii. if delivered by telecopy or facsimile transmission, on the date shown on the confirmation of transmission; or: iii. if by postal or courier service, on the date marked on the receipt. (g) Except as otherwise provided in these Rules, all time periods calculated under these Rules to begin when a communication is made shall begin to run on the earliest date that the communication is deemed to have been made in accordance with Rule 2(f). (h) Any communication subsequent to the Notice of Complaint as defined in Rule 2(a) by i. an Examiner via the Provider to any Party shall be copied by the Provider to the other Party; ii. the Provider to any Party shall be copied to the other Party; and iii. a Party shall be copied to the other Party, to the Provider and by the Provider to the Examiner, as the case may be. (i) It shall be the responsibility of the sender to retain records of the fact and circumstances of sending, which shall be available for inspection by affected parties and for reporting purposes. This includes the Provider in sending Notice of Complaint to the Respondent by post and/or facsimile under Rule 2(a)(i). (j) In the event a Party sending a communication receives notification of non-delivery of the communication, the Party shall promptly notify the Provider of the circumstances. Further proceedings concerning the communication and any response shall be as directed by the Provider. (3) The Complaint (a) Any person or entity may initiate a URS proceeding by submitting a Complaint in accordance with the URS Procedure, these Rules and the approved Supplemental Rules of the Provider administering the proceeding. (b) The Complaint, including any annexes, shall be submitted using an electronic form made available by the Provider and shall: i. Request that the Complaint be submitted for determination in accordance with the URS Procedure, these Rules and the Provider's Supplemental Rules; ii. Provide the name, contact person, postal and email addresses, and the telephone and telefax numbers of the Complainant and of any representative authorized to act for the Complainant in the URS proceeding; iii. Provide the name of the Respondent and all other relevant contact information from the Whois record as well as all information known to Complainant regarding how to contact Respondent or any representative of Respondent, including contact information based on pre-complaint dealings, in sufficient detail to allow the Provider to notify the Respondent of the complaint as described in Rule 2(a); iv. Specify the domain name(s) that is/are the subject of the Complaint. The Complainant shall include a copy of the currently available Whois information and a copy, if available, of the offending portion of the website content associated with each domain name that is the subject of the complaint; v. Specify the trademark(s) or service mark(s) on which the complaint is based and the goods or services with which the mark is used including evidence of use -which can be a declaration and a specimen of current use in commerce - submitted directly or by including a relevant SMD (Signed Mark Data) from the Trademark Clearinghouse; vi. Identify which URS Procedure elements (URS 1.2.6) the Complainant contends are being violated by Respondent's use of the domain name. This will be done by selecting the elements from URS Procedure section 1.2.6 that apply from the list provided on the Provider's Complaint form; vii. An optional explanatory statement of no more than 500 words in a separate free form text box; viii. Identify any other legal proceedings that have been commenced or terminated in connection with or relating to any of the domain name(s) that are the subject of the Complaint; ix. State that Complainant will submit, with respect to any challenges to a determination in the URS proceeding, to the jurisdiction of the courts in at least one specified Mutual Jurisdiction; x. Conclude with agreement to the following statement: xi. "Complainant agrees that its claims and remedies concerning the registration of the domain name, the dispute, or the dispute's resolution shall be solely against the domain-name holder and waives all such claims and remedies against (a) the Provider and Examiner, except in the case of deliberate wrongdoing, (b) the Registrar, (c) the Registry Operator, and (d) the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, as well as their directors, officers, employees, and agents. xii. Complainant certifies that the information contained in this Complaint is to the best of Complainant's knowledge complete and accurate, that this Complaint is not being presented for any improper purpose, such as to harass, and that the assertions in this Complaint are warranted under these Rules and under applicable law, as it now exists or as it may be extended by a good-faith and reasonable argument."; (c) The Complaint may relate to more than one domain name, provided that the domain names are registered by the same domain name holder. (d) The Complaint shall be accompanied by the filing fee, as set forth in the Provider's Supplemental Rules. If fees are not paid within one (1) Business Day of filing, as determined at the location of the Provider, the Complaint shall be automatically dismissed. (e) The Complaint will not be accepted if the Provider's check of the Repository (see Rule 17) finds the Complainant has exceeded its quota of Abusive Complaints. (f) URS Complaints may only be filed against domain names registered in a New gTLD. (g) A URS Complaint may not be filed against a domain name that is part of an open and active URS or UDRP case. (h) The Provider's Supplemental Rules will specify how the Respondent shall be identified in cases where the domain name is registered with a privacy/proxy service. (4) Notice of Complaint and Locking of Domain (a) The Provider shall include a copy of the Complaint in its notice to the Registry Operator. (b) The Notice of Complaint to the Respondent shall be transmitted in English and shall be translated by the Provider into the predominant language used in the Registrant's country or territory, as determined by the country(ies) listed in the Whois record when the Complaint is filed. (c) The electronic copy of the Notice of Complaint may be provided via email or an emailed link to an online platform requiring users to create an account. (5) The Response a) The Response shall: i. Provide the name, postal and email addresses, and the telephone and telefax numbers of the Respondent and of any representative authorized to act for the Respondent in the URS proceeding; ii. Respond specifically to each of the grounds upon which the Complaint is based and include any defense which contradicts the Complainant's claims; iii. Respondent may request a finding that the Complaint was brought in abuse of the proceedings per URS Procedure Paragraph(s) 11.2 and/or 11.3; iv. Identify any other legal proceedings that have been commenced or terminated in connection with or relating to any of the domain name(s) that are the subject of the Complaint; v. Conclude with the following statement followed by the signature (in any electronic format) of the Respondent or its authorized representative: vi. "Respondent agrees that its claims and remedies concerning the dispute, or the dispute's resolution, shall be solely against the Complainant and waives all such claims and remedies against (a) the Provider and Examiner, except in the case of deliberate wrongdoing, (b) the Registrar, (c) the Registry Operator, and (d) the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, as well as their directors, officers, employees, and agents. vii. Respondent certifies that the information contained in this Response is, to the best of Respondent's knowledge, complete and accurate, that this Response is not being presented for any improper purpose, such as to harass, and that the assertions in this Response are warranted under these Rules and under applicable law, as it now exists or as it may be extended by a good-faith and reasonable argument."; and viii. Annex any documentary or other evidence upon which the Respondent relies. e) At the request of the Respondent, the Provider may, in exceptional cases, extend the period of time for the filing of the response. The period may also be extended by written stipulation between the Parties, provided the stipulation is approved by the Provider. Requests for an extension of time shall comply with the Provider's Supplemental Rules. f) No affirmative claims for relief by the Respondent will be permitted except for an allegation that the Complainant has filed an abusive Complaint. g) The Provider's compliance check for a Response shall at least consist of: (1) ascertaining the Response has been filed in a language acceptable under the Rules for that case; and (2) checking for payment of required fees. h) The Response must be accompanied by payment of the Response fee or Reexamination fee, as appropriate in relevant cases. If a required fee is not paid within one (1) Business Day, the Response will not be considered and the case may proceed as a Default. i) If the Response is determined to be non-compliant for reasons other than non-payment, the Examiner is permitted to make any reasonable inferences from the inadequacy of the Response. j) If a Respondent does not submit a response, in the absence of exceptional circumstances, the Complaint shall proceed to a Default Determination. k) The Provider should normally not accept a late Response submitted after the domain name registration has expired, even if submitted before the closing date of the late Response window. The provider may in its Supplemental Rules define justified exceptions from this rule. (6) Examiner (a) Each Provider shall maintain and publish a publicly available list of Examiners and their qualifications. (b) An Examiner shall be impartial and independent and shall have, before accepting appointment, disclosed to the Provider any circumstances giving rise to justifiable doubt as to the Examiner's impartiality or independence. If, at any stage during the URS proceeding, new circumstances arise that could give rise to justifiable doubt as to the impartiality or independence of the Examiner, the Examiner shall promptly disclose such circumstances to the Provider. In such event, the Provider shall have the discretion to appoint a substitute Examiner. (7) Communication Between Parties and the Examiner No Party or anyone acting on its behalf may have any unilateral communication with the Examiner. All communications between a Party and the Examiner or the Provider shall be made to the Provider in the manner prescribed in the Provider's Supplemental Rules. (8) General Powers of the Examiner (a) The Examiner shall conduct the URS proceeding in a manner it considers appropriate in accordance with the URS Procedure and these Rules. (b) In all cases, the Examiner shall ensure that the Parties are treated with equality to the extent feasible. (c) The Examiner shall determine the admissibility, relevance, materiality and weight of the evidence. (d) If one or more domain names are registered with a privacy or proxy service, or the nominal Registrant changes after the complaint is filed, it shall be the sole discretion of the Examiner to determine if the respondents are sufficiently related and to dismiss the Complaint with respect to any unrelated domain names. The Examiner may rely on information submitted by the Complainant and/or the Respondent(s) in making its finding. (9) Language of Proceedings The URS Procedure Paragraph 4.2 specifies the languages in which the Notice of Complaint shall be transmitted. (a) The Complaint shall be submitted in English. (b) The Response may be provided in English, or in one of the languages used for the Notice of Complaint. (c) The Examiner appointed shall be fluent in English and in the language of the Response and will determine in which language to issue its Determination, in its sole discretion. (d) In the absence of a Response, the language of the Determination shall be English. (e) The Provider is not responsible for translating any documents other than the Notice of Complaint. (10) Further Statements In order to ensure expedience of the proceeding, the Examiner may not request further statements or documents from either of the Parties. (11) In-Person Hearings There shall be no in-person hearings (including hearings by teleconference, videoconference, and web conference). (12) Default (a) If at the expiration of the 14-day Response period (or extended period if granted), the Respondent does not submit an answer, the Complaint proceeds to Default. In case of Default, the Provider shall appoint an Examiner to review the Complaint for a prima facie case, including complete and appropriate evidence. (b) When a case enters Default, the Provider shall notify the Registry Operator that the Registrant is prohibited from changing content found on the site and that the Registrant is prohibited from changing the Whois information. See URS Procedure Paragraph 6.2. (c) The Examiner shall prepare a written Default Determination (d) If the Examiner finds that the Complainant has made a prima facie case according to the URS Procedure Paragraph 1.2.6 for any of the domain names in the Complaint, the Default Determination shall so state, including any additional written reasoning the Examiner wishes to append. The Examiner shall order suspension of the domain names for which a prima facie case has been established. (e) If the Examiner finds that the Complainant has not made a prima facie case according to the URS Procedure Paragraph 1.2.6, the Default Determination shall so state including any additional written reasoning the Examiner wishes to append. The Provider shall dismiss the Complaint as to the domain names for which a prima facie case is lacking. (f) If a Response is filed within six (6) months after a Default Determination (or within any extension period granted under URS Procedure Paragraph 6.4), the Provider shall notify the Registry Operator. The Registry Operator shall modify the nameservers so that the domain name(s) resolve to the relevant IP address(es) for the domain name(s) as soon as practical, but remain locked as if the Response had been filed in a timely manner before Default. (g) If a Party, in the absence of exceptional circumstances, does not comply with any provision of, or requirement under, these Rules, the URS Procedure or the Provider's Supplemental Rules, the Examiner shall draw such inferences therefrom as it considers appropriate. (13) Examiner Determination (a) An Examiner shall make a Determination (Default, Final or Appeal) of a Complaint in accordance with the URS Procedure, these Rules and any rules and principles of law that it deems applicable. (b) The Examiner's Determination shall be in writing, provide the reasons on which it is based, indicate the date on which it was rendered and identify the name of the Examiner. (c) Examiner Determinations shall normally comply with the guidelines as to length set forth in the Provider's Supplemental Rules. If the Examiner concludes that the dispute is not within the scope of the URS Provider, it shall so state. (d) If after considering the submissions the Examiner finds that the Complaint was brought in bad faith or was brought primarily to harass the domain name holder, the Examiner shall declare in its Determination that the Complaint was brought in bad faith and constitutes an abuse of the URS proceeding. (14) Remedies (a) The sole remedy available to Complainant pursuant to any URS proceeding before an Examiner shall be limited to suspension of the domain name for the balance of the registration period. (b) If the Complainant wishes to extend the remedy for an additional year per URS Procedure Paragraph 10.3, Complainant shall contact the Registry Operator directly regarding this option. (15) Determinations and Publication (a) The Provider shall publish the Determinations and the dates of implementation on a publicly accessible web site, subject to the considerations in Rule 15 (c) and (d) below. See URS Procedure Paragraphs 9.2 and 9.4. The portion of any Determination that a Complaint was brought in bad faith (see Rule 17) shall be published. (b) Determinations are subject to change only to correct typographical and clerical errors and shall not be subject to substantive change at the request of any party. (c) A Final Determination that changes a Default Determination outcome for the same case, shall replace the Default Determination on the Provider's website, unless the Examiner determines both shall be made available and so states in its Final Determination. (d) A Final Determination that upholds a Default Determination outcome for the same case may be published together on the Provider's website, or the Final Determination may replace the Default Determination, at the Examiner's discretion. (e) The Examiner or Panel has the sole discretion to require the Appeal Determination to be published either instead of, or together with, the Default or Final Determination it has overruled or upheld. (f) Determinations related to the same domain names and/or parties, but not part of the same case, need not be linked in any way on the Provider's website. (16) Settlement or Other Grounds for Termination a) If, before the Examiner's Determination, the Parties agree on a settlement, the Examiner shall terminate the URS proceeding. b) If, before the Examiner's Determination is made, it becomes unnecessary or impossible to continue the URS proceeding for any reason, the Examiner shall terminate the proceeding, unless a Party raises justifiable grounds for objection within a period of time to be determined by the Examiner. (17) Effect of Court Proceedings a) In the event of any legal proceedings initiated prior to or during a URS proceeding in respect to the domain-name that is the subject of the Complaint, the Examiner shall have the discretion to decide whether to suspend or terminate the URS proceeding, or to proceed to a Determination. b) In the event that a Party initiates any legal proceedings during the pendency of a URS proceeding in respect to the domain-name that is the subject of the Complaint, the Party shall promptly notify the Examiner and the Provider. See Rule 7 above. (18) Abusive Complaints a) The Examiner may, of its own accord, find that a Complaint is abusive or contains deliberate material falsehoods. b) A Respondent may, in its Response, allege that a Complaint was brought in an abuse of the URS process or contains deliberate material falsehoods. c) Any findings by an Examiner as to abusive Complaints or deliberate materials falsehoods shall be so stated in the Determination, along with sufficient rationale to justify the finding to any potential Appeal Panel. d) Any Provider registering a case of abuse as described in the URS Procedure Paragraph 11 shall, within one (1) Business Day submit information of the abuse case to an abuse case database. e) The abuse case database shall be electronically accessible to all Providers. f) Upon receipt of a Complaint, the Provider shall verify the admissibility of the Complaint against the abuse case database in line with applicable URS Procedure provisions and dismiss the Complaint if not admissible. (19) Appeal a) The Provider is responsible for providing the entire record in the underlying proceeding to the Appeal Panel. b) Appellant shall have a limited right to introduce new admissible evidence that is material to the Determination subject to payment of an additional fee, provided the evidence clearly pre-dates the filing of the Complaint. c) Appellee shall not be charged any additional fee and shall have the right to file a Reply to the Appellant's additional statements within the time period identified in the Provider's Supplemental Rules. d) If the Respondent prevailed and the domain name is no longer under the Registry Operator's suspension or lock, the Provider shall notify the Registry Operator to re-lock the domain name subject to the outcome of the Appeals process, but the domain name shall continue to resolve per URS Procedure Paragraph 12.3. e) If any domain name that is the subject of an Appeal is expired at the time of the filing of the Appeal, the Provider shall reject the Appeal for want of a remedy, unless the Appeal is only filed under URS Procedure Paragraph 11.8. f) The remedies for an Appeal are limited to: i. Affirmation of the Final Determination and the Remedy ordered. If the domain name is suspended, it shall remain suspended. If the domain name is with the Registrant, the Registry Operator shall promptly unlock the domain name following receipt of the Appeal Determination. ii. Overruling of the Final Determination and the Remedy ordered. If the domain name is suspended, the Registry Operator shall unlock the name and return full control of the domain name registration to the Registrant. If the domain name is with the Registrant, the Registry Operator shall immediately follow the steps in URS Procedure Paragraph 10.2 to suspend the domain name. iii. Overruling an Examiner's finding that a Complaint was abusive or contained a deliberate material falsehood. The Appeal Panel may replace the Final Determination with one including changes that the Appeal Panel deems appropriate. g) The Providers' Supplemental Rules for URS Appeals, other than those stated above, shall apply. (20) Exclusion of Liability Except in the case of deliberate wrongdoing, neither the Provider nor an Examiner shall be liable to a Party for any act or omission in connection with any URS proceeding under these Rules. (21) Amendments The version of these Rules in effect at the time of the submission of the Complaint to the Provider shall apply to the URS proceeding commenced thereby. These Rules may not be amended without the express written approval of ICANN. ADDITIONAL REGISTRY REQUIREMENTS Should you seek to register a .BE domain name you and the Registrant must also agree to the following terms: a) Dispute resolution. The domain name holder must submit the type of disputes set out below to alternative dispute resolution proceedings and accepts in this regard the competence of an accredited Dispute Resolution Entity. The domain name holder accepts that those proceedings must be conducted before one of the accredited Dispute Resolution Entities listed at the web site of DNS.be. The procedure will be conducted in the language chosen by the domain name holder during his application. Every dispute will be governed by the dispute resolution policy applicable when the complaint is filed. b) Applicable disputes. 1. The domain name holder must submit a dispute to alternative dispute resolution proceedings if a third party (a "Complainant") asserts to the Dispute Resolution Entity, in compliance with the rules of procedure, and proves that : (i) the domain name holder's domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark, a trade name, a social name or corporation name, a geographical designation, a name of origin, a designation of source, a personal name or name of a geographical entity in which the Complainant has rights; and (ii) the domain name holder has no rights or legitimate interests in the domain name; and (iii) the domain name holder's domain name has been registered or is being used in bad faith. 2. The evidence of such in bad faith registration or use of a domain name can inter alia be demonstrated by the following circumstances: • circumstances indicating that the domain name was registered or acquired primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name to the Complainant who is the owner of the trademark, trade name, social name or corporation name, geographical designation, name of origin, designation of source, personal name or name of the geographical entity, or to a competitor of that Complainant, for valuable consideration in excess of the costs directly related to the domain name; or • the domain name was registered in order to prevent the owner of a trademark, a trade name, a social name or corporation name, a geographical designation, a name of origin, a designation of source, a personal name or a name of a geographical entity from reflecting this name in a corresponding domain name, provided that the domain name holder has engaged in a pattern of such conduct; or • the domain name was registered primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; or • the domain name was intentionally used to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to the domain name holder's web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the Complainant's trademark, trade name, social name or corporation name, geographical designation, name of origin, designation of source, personal name or name of a geographical entity as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of the domain name holder's web site or location or of a product or service on his web site or location. • the domain name holder registers one or more personal names without the existence of a demonstrable link between the domain name holder and the registered domain names. 3. If a complaint is filed, the domain name holder can demonstrate his rights or legitimate interests to the domain name by the following circumstances: prior to any notice of the dispute, the domain name holder used the domain name or a name corresponding to the domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services or made demonstrable preparations for such use; or the domain name holder (as an individual, business, or other organization) has been commonly known by the domain name, even if he has acquired no trademark; or the domain name holder is making a legitimate and noncommercial or fair use of the domain name, without intent for commercial gain to misleadingly divert consumers or to tarnish the trademark, trade name, social name or corporation name, geographical designation, name of origin, designation of source, personal name or name of the geographical entity at issue. c) Rules of procedure. d) The rules of procedure of the Dispute Resolution Entity state how to initiate and conduct the proceedings, which delays apply and how to appoint the Third-party Decider that will decide the dispute. e) The rules of procedure also determine the fees that the Complainant must pay. f) The Dispute Resolution Entity publishes the rules of procedure on its web site. g) Non-intervention of DNS.be. DNS.be does not, and will not, participate in the administration or conduct of any proceedings before a Third-party Decider. Neither DNS.be, the Dispute Resolution Entity or the Third-party Decider will be liable as a result of any fault made in the dispute resolution process, except for intentional faults. h) Remedies. The remedies available to a Complainant under any proceedings before the Third-party Decider are limited to requiring the cancellation of the domain name registration or the transfer of the domain name to the Complainant. i) Notification and publication. The Dispute Resolution Entity must publish all decisions under this dispute resolution policy on the Internet during a reasonable term. DNS.be must also be informed of these decisions. If the domain name holder is involved in other legal procedures concerning his/her domain name, he/she must inform DNS.be of the final decision(s). DNS.be may decide to publish the decisions referred to in the present article. j) Courts of competent jurisdiction. The submission to the alternative dispute resolution procedures does not prevent either the domain name holder or the Complainant from submitting the dispute to a court of competent jurisdiction for independent resolution before, during or after those proceedings. If a Third-party Decider decides that the domain name registration should be cancelled or transferred, DNS.be will implement that decision 1 5 days after being informed of the Third-party Decider's decision except if the domain name holder has started the appeal procedure of the dispute resolution in due time If the appeal procedure was started in time, DNS.be will not take further action (whilst leaving the domain name on hold) until the appeal procedure has ended or has been cancelled. k) Other disputes. All other disputes between the domain name holder and any party other than DNS.be over the domain name registration that are not brought under the alternative dispute resolution procedures must be resolved through any court proceedings, arbitration or other available proceedings. l) Defences. DNS.be will not participate in any dispute between the domain name holder and any party other than DNS.be over the registration and use of the domain name, neither in the alternative dispute resolution proceedings, nor in any other proceedings. The domain name holder must not name DNS.be as a party or otherwise include it in any such proceedings. If DNS.be is named as a party in any such proceedings, it reserves the right to raise any and all defences deemed appropriate, and to take any other action necessary to defend itself. m) Domain name on hold. As soon as a request for alternative dispute resolution is properly filed with the Dispute Resolution Entity and the appropriate fee is paid, the Dispute Resolution Entity must inform DNS.be of the identity of the Complainant and the domain name involved. DNS.be must immediately put the domain name involved "on hold", under article 3 of these terms and conditions. The domain name remains on hold until the end of the proceedings set out in paragraph n) Costs of dispute resolution. The dispute resolution fee is payable by the Complainant. However, if the Third-party Decider concludes that the domain name registration needs to be struck out or transferred, DNS.be shall repay the total of these costs to the Complainant and reclaim the thus repaid costs from the domain name holder. Upon DNS.be's first request, the domain name holder shall reimburse the repaid amounts. The domain name holder shall not have a right of recourse against DNS.be, the Dispute Resolution Entity, the Third-party Decider or the Complainant for the thus suffered financial loss. The potential financial loss for the domain name holder is the risk that the latter took for the speculative registration of domain names on which third parties have rights. o) The repayment provision specified in the previous paragraph does not apply to the appeal procedure of the dispute resolution. The costs of the appeal procedure are payable by the party that instituted this procedure. p) The costs mentioned in this article only refer to the administrative costs of the dispute resolution as stipulated in article 10 and do not include any costs or fees for legal advice of the parties. Should you seek to register a .BIZ domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms: Indemnification: You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the .BIZ Registry Operator, NeuStar, Inc., and its directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and expenses arising out of or relating to the Registered Name Holder's domain name registration. This indemnification obligation survives the termination or expiration of the registration agreement. I. Registration Requirements You certify: a) The data provided in the domain name registration application is true, correct, up to date and complete; and b) The Registrant and you will keep the information provided above up to date. You certify to the best of your knowledge: a) The registered domain name will be used primarily for bona fide business or commercial purposes and not (i) exclusively for personal use; or (ii) solely for the purposes of (1) selling, trading or leasing the domain name for compensation, or (2) the unsolicited offering to sell, trade or lease the domain name for compensation. b) The domain name Registrant has the authority to enter into the registration agreement; and c) The registered domain name is reasonably related to the Registrant's business or intended commercial purpose at the time of registration. For purposes of the .biz Registration Restrictions ("Restrictions"), "bona fide business or commercial use" shall mean the bona fide use or bona fide intent to use the domain name or any content, software, materials, graphics or other information thereon, to permit Internet users to access one or more host computers through the DNS: 1. To exchange goods, services, or property of any kind; 2. In the ordinary course of trade or business; or 3. To facilitate (i) the exchange of goods, services, information, or property of any kind; or, (ii)the ordinary course of trade or business. Registering a domain name solely for the purposes of (1) selling, trading or leasing the domain name for compensation, or (2) the unsolicited offering to sell, trade or lease the domain name for compensation shall not constitute a "bona fide business or commercial use" of that domain name. For illustration purposes, the following shall not constitute a "bona fide business or commercial use" of a domain name: 1. Using or intending to use the domain name exclusively for personal, noncommercial purposes; or 2. Using or intending to use the domain name exclusively for the expression of noncommercial ideas (i.e., registering abcsucks.biz exclusively to criticize or otherwise express an opinion on the products or services of ABC company, with no other intended business or commercial purpose); 3. Using the domain name for the submission of unsolicited bulk email, phishing, pharming or other abusive or fraudulent purposes. II. .Biz Dispute Resolution Services You and the Registrant acknowledge having read and understood and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of the following documents, as they may be amended from time to time, which are hereby incorporated and made an integral part of this Agreement: (i) The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, currently available at http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm; and (ii) The Restrictions Dispute Resolution Criteria and Rules, currently available at http://www.neustar-registry.biz/?q=node/51. The UDRP sets forth the terms and conditions in connection with a dispute between a Registrant and any party other than the Registry Operator or Registrar over the registration and use of an Internet domain name registered by Registrant. The RDRP sets forth the terms under which any allegation that a domain name is not used primarily for business or commercial purposes shall be enforced on a case-by-case, fact specific basis by an independent ICANN-accredited dispute provider. None of the violations of the Restrictions will be enforced directly by or through Registry Operator. Registry Operator will not review, monitor, or otherwise verify that any particular domain name is being used primarily for business or commercial purposes or that a domain name is being used in compliance with the UDRP processes. III. Reservation Registry Operator reserves the right to deny, cancel, place on registry-lock or hold, or transfer any registration that it deems necessary, in its discretion; (1) to protect the integrity and stability of the registry; (2) to comply with any applicable laws, government rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement, in compliance with any dispute resolution process; (3) to avoid any liability, civil or criminal, on the part of Registry Operator, as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, employees and stockholders; (4) for violations of this Agreement and its Exhibits; or (5) to correct mistakes made by Registry Operator or any Registrar in connection with a domain name registration. Registry Operator also reserves the right to lock or place on hold a domain name during resolution of a dispute. Should you seek to register a .UK domain name, in addition to the above terms and condition you and the Registrant must also agree to the following terms and conditions: You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the .UK Registry Operator, Nominet UK (Company No. 3203859), and its directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and expenses arising out of or relating to the Registered Name Holder's domain name registration. This indemnification obligation survives the termination or expiration of the registration agreement. http://www.nominet.org.uk/nominet-terms http://www.nic.uk/Registrants/aboutdomainnames/legal/terms/ Should you seek to register a .INFO domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms: The .info Registry is Afilias LTD You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the .info Registry, Afilias LTD and its subcontractors, and the directors, officers, employees, affiliates and agents of each of them, from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and expenses, arising out of or relating to the Registered Name Holder's domain name registration. This indemnification obligation survives the termination or expiration of the registration agreement. You agree to comply with each of the following additional requirements: ICANN standards, policies, procedures, and practices for which Afilias has monitoring responsibility in accordance with the Registry Agreement or other arrangement with ICANN; and consent to the use, copying, distribution, publication, modification and other processing of Registered Name Holder's Personal Data by Afilias and its designees and agents; and submit to proceedings commenced under ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP"); and immediately correct and update the registration information for the Registered Name during the registration term for the Registered Name; and acknowledge and agree that Afilias reserves the right to deny, cancel or transfer any registration or transaction, or place any domain name(s) on registry lock, hold or similar status, that it deems necessary, in its discretion; (1) to protect the integrity and stability of the registry; (2) to comply with any applicable laws, government rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement, or any dispute resolution process; (3) to avoid any liability, civil or criminal, on the part of Afilias, as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, and employees; (4) per the terms of the registration agreement or (5) to correct mistakes made by Afilias or any Registrar in connection with a domain name registration. Afilias also reserves the right to place upon registry lock, hold or similar status a domain name during resolution of a dispute. Additional terms and conditions: http://afilias.info/policies Should you seek to register a .MOBI domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms: You agree to indemnify to the maximum extent permitted by law, defend and hold harmless the .BIZ Registry Operator, mTLD Top Level Domain, Ltd., and its directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and expenses arising out of or relating to the Registered Name Holder's domain name registration. This indemnification obligation survives the termination or expiration of the registration agreement. Compliance, rules and policies: You consent to the use, copying, distribution, publication, modification and other processing of Registered Name Holder's Personal Data by Registry Operator and its designees and agents in a manner consistent and relevant with mandatory local data protection, laws and privacy; You hereby acknowledge and agree that the Registry and Registry Services Provider, acting in consent with the Registry, reserves the right to deny, cancel or transfer any registration that it deems necessary, in its discretion (i) to protect the integrity and stability of the registry; (ii) to comply with all applicable laws, government rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement, in compliance with any dispute resolution process; (iii) to avoid any liability, civil or criminal, on the part of the Registry as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, representatives, employees, and stockholders; (iv) for violations of the terms and conditions herein; or (v) to correct mistakes made by the Registry or any registrar in connection with a domain name registration. The Registry also reserves the right to freeze a Registered Name during resolution of a dispute. You acknowledge and agree that you must comply with the requirements, standards, policies, procedures and practices set forth in the dotmobi Style Guide (www.mtld.mobi) and consent to the monitoring of the website as described in the dotmobi Style Guide monitoring guidelines (www.mtld.mobi) for compliance with the Style Guide. Furthermore, Registrant acknowledges and agrees that this Style Guide is subject to modification by the Registry with any such changes appearing at the previously designated URL, and that Registrant must promptly comply with any such changes in the time allotted. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd. ("dotmobi"), the Registry Operator of the .mobi TLD, is and shall be an intended third party beneficiary of this Agreement. As such, the parties to this Agreement acknowledge and agree that the third party beneficiary rights of dotmobi have vested and that dotmobi has relied on its third party beneficiary rights under this Agreement in agreeing to Internet Domain Service BS Corp. being a registrar for the .mobi top-level domain. Additionally, the third party beneficiary rights of dotmobi shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement. FR, .RE, .PM, .YT, .WF and .TF Should you seek to register a FR, .RE, .PM, .YT, .WF or a .TF domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms: You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the FR, .RE, .PM, .YT, .WF and .TF Registry Operator, Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération (AFNIC), and its directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and expenses arising out of or relating to the Registered Name Holder's domain name registration. This indemnification obligation survives the termination or expiration of the registration agreement. Additional terms and conditions found here: (English) http://www.afnic.fr/medias/documents/Cadre_legal/naming-policy-03-2013.pdf Should you seek to register a .EU domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms: You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the .EU Registry Operator, European Registry for Internet Domains abbreviated to "EURID vzw/asbl.", and its directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and expenses arising out of or relating to the Registered Name Holder's domain name registration. This indemnification obligation survives the termination or expiration of the registration agreement. .EU Registration Restrictions You acknowledge and agree that you are not permitted to purchase Private Whois for .EU registrations. You should use your personal information to register a .EU domain name which information you represent and warrant is current, accurate and complete. Furthermore, you acknowledge and agree that you are not allowed and you should not attempt to register a .EU domain name unless you have a physical presence in one European Union member state. Applicable Rules and Policies You agree to obey, comply with and be bound by any and all applicable laws, regulations and administrative policies promulgated by the European Registry of Internet Domain Names ("EURID" http://www.eurid.eu). Rules and Dispute Resolution by ADR You agree to obey, comply with and be bound by EURID rules and regulations and any and all updates, revisions and modifications thereto, which may be made by EURID from time to time, including, but not limited to, their dispute policy (http://www.eurid.eu/en/eu-domain-names/disputes). EURID offers an alternative procedure for resolving disputes concerning .EU domain names (http://www.eurid.eu/en/eu-domain-names/disputes). When applicable, You acknowledge such procedure and agree that you shall comply with and abide by its terms and conditions. WHOIS Policy You agree to obey, comply with and be bound by the EURID Domain Name WHOIS Policy and any and all updates, revisions and modifications thereto, which may be made by EURID from time to time (http://www.eurid.eu/files/docs/Terms%20and%20Conditions_EN.pdf) For the adjudication of disputes concerning or arising from use of the registered.EU domain name, you agree to submit to the laws of the state of Luxemburg. Should you seek to register a .ASIA domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms: You represent and warrant that you meet all the eligibility requirements for .ASIA. You further agree to be bound by any .ASIA registry rules, policies and agreements. The registration guidelines are available here:http://www.dotasia.org/draft/DotAsia-General-Policies--FINALDRAFT-v-1-0.pdf Charter Eligibility Requirement. You understand the Registered Name Holders are required to comply with the Charter Eligibility Requirement as set forth in the Registry Policies and you declare compliance with such requirement: http://www.dotasia.org/draft/DotAsia-Charter-Eligibility--FINALDRAFT-v-1-5.pdf You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless to the maximum extent permitted by law the .ASIA Registry Operator, DotAsia Organisation Limited, Registry Services Provider, and their directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and expenses, arising out of or relating to the Registered Name Holder’s domain name registration and or use. This indemnification obligation survive the termination or expiration of the registration agreement. ICANN requirements, standards, policies, procedures, and practices for which DotAsia has monitoring responsibility in accordance with the Registry Agreement or other arrangement with ICANN; Operational standards, policies, procedures, and practices for the .ASIA Registry established from time to time by DotAsia in a non-arbitrary manner as Registry Policies, applicable to all registrars and/or Registered Name Holders, and consistent with the Registry Agreement shall be effective upon thirty (30) days’ notice by DotAsia to Registrar; Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, DotAsia Organisation Limited ("DotAsia"), the Registry Operator of the .ASIA TLD, is and shall be an intended third party beneficiary of this Agreement. As such, the parties to this Agreement acknowledge and agree that the third party beneficiary rights of DotAsia have vested and that DotAsia has relied on its third party beneficiary rights under this Agreement in agreeing to Internet Domain Service BS Corp. being a registrar for the .ASIA TLD. Additionally, the third party beneficiary rights of DotAsia shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement. You consent to the use, copying, distribution, publication, modification and other processing of Registered Name Holder’s Personal Data by DotAsia and its designees and agents in a manner consistent with relevant mandatory local data protection, laws and privacy; You accept to submit to proceedings commenced under ICANN’s Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP"); You accept to submit to proceedings commenced under ICANN’s Charter Eligibility Dispute Resolution Policy ("CEDRP"); You immediately correct and update the registration information for the Registered Name during the registration term for the Registered Name; You acknowledge and agree to comply with the .ASIA Charter Eligibility Requirement, including the following provision: "The Registrant Contact represents and warrants that it has made known to the Charter Eligibility Declaration Contact (CED Contact), and the CED Contact has agreed, that the Registrant Contact and the CED Contact will CED Contact will jointly be defined as the Registered Name Holder, and that it shall be jointly responsible for the Registered Name in the event of a dispute or a challenge over the Registered Name Holder’s legal entitlement to or the ownership of the Registered Name. The CED Contact shall be bound by the provisions in the DotAsia Organisation Limited’s .ASIA Charter Eligibility Requirement Policy published from time to time. Registered Name Holder acting as Registrant Contact agrees that it has obtained an agreement from the CED Contact that the Registrant Contact shall remain the Operating Contact for all operations of the domain, including but not limited to domain transfer and updates." You agree to be bound by the terms and conditions in the initial launch and general operations of the Registry TLD, including without limitation the Start-Up Policies. Where such terms and conditions include the submission to a binding arbitration for disputes arising from the Start-Up process or any allocation of domain names. You acknowledge and agree that DotAsia and Registry Services Provider, acting in consent with DotAsia, reserves the right to deny, cancel or transfer any registration that it deems necessary, in its sole discretion (i) to protect the integrity security, and stability of the registry; (ii) to comply with all appropriate laws, government rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement, in compliance with any dispute resolution process; (iii) to avoid any liability, civil or criminal, on the part of DotAsia as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, representatives, employees, and stockholders; (iv) for violations of the terms and conditions herein: or (v) to correct mistakes made by DotAsia, the Registry Services Provider or any registrar in connection with a domain name registration. DotAsia also reserves the right to freeze a Registered Name such as placing a domain name on hold, lock, or other status during the resolution of a dispute. You accept to submit to proceedings commenced under other dispute policies as set forth by DotAsia from time to time in the Registry Policies, including but not limited to expedited processes for suspension of a domain name by claims sought by intellectual property right holders, Internet engineering and security experts or other competent claimants in the purpose of upholding the stability, security and integrity of the .ASIA Registry. Should you seek to register a .TEL domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms: In case the Sponsoring Organisation (the entity that is responsible for the policies and for the deployment principles of the Registry TLD) or the Registry encounters and/or is informed of any alleged non-compliance or violation by the Registrar or the Domain Name Holder of the Registry Policies, it will investigate the alleged non compliance or violation. Unless otherwise provided for in the Registry Policies, if the Sponsoring Organisation or the Registry concludes that the Domain Name Holder has violated a Registry Policy, it may, at its sole discretion: 1. if the registration data provided by the Domain Name Holder appears to be inaccurate, request the Domain Name Holder to correct such data within thirty (3) days´ notice period; or 2. if the Domain Name is registered and/or used in violation of a Registry Policy, request the Domain name Holder to comply with the relevant Registry Policy within a thirty (30) days´ notice period or, if the violation relates to the use of Address Records in violation of Sections 4.2 (b) or 4.5, within five (5) days´ notice period. In case an inadequate response or no response has been received within the notice period given to the Domain Name Holder, the Sponsoring Organisation or the Registry may revoke the Domain Name registration without further notice, and without the Domain Name Holder being entitled to any damages resulting from such revocation. The Sponsoring Organisation or the Registry may in its discretion, periodically attempt to verify a Domain Name Holder´s compliance with the Registration and Acceptable Use Policy. During the applicable notice period, the Sponsoring Organisation or the Registry may, without liability to any other party, make inactive cancel or otherwise change the state of the Domain Name in question in which case, the Domain Name cannot be updated or transferred, and may not resolve. Should you seek to register a .ORG domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms: You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the.ORG Registry Operator, Public Interest Registry, and its subcontractors, shareholders, directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and expenses arising out of or relating to the Registered Name Holder's domain name registration. This indemnification requirement shall survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement. Should you seek to register a .IN domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms: 1. Proxy/Privacy Services Any kind of proxy services are not allowed, and if the data is wrong or masked out by ay proxy/privilege protection services, the Registrant shall not be recognized as the owner of the domain name. The Registrant shall use the domain name in such a way that it does not violate third-party rights, applicable laws or regulations, including discrimination on the basis of race language, sex or religion and the Registrant further warrants that it shall not register or use the domain name in bad faith or for any unlawful purpose. .IN Registry considers illegal or fraudulent actions spamming, using email in denial-of-service attacks, Phishing, Pharming, Botnet command and control, Distribution of pornography, illegal access to other computer networks etc. as abusive of domain name. Registry can suspend Registered name in such cases and initiate action accordingly. Further, Fast Flux hosting may be used only with prior permission of .IN Registry. 2. DOMAIN DISPUTE POLICY Registrant is required to submit to mandatory arbitration proceedings in the event a complainant files a complaint with .IN Registry, against a registrant on basis of unlawful registration of a domain name. The arbitration proceedings shall be conducted by one of .IN Registry Empanelled Arbitrators, in accordance with Dispute Resolution Policy and Procedure and Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996. Link: https://www.registry.in/.IN%20Domain%20Name%20Dispute%20Resolution%20Policy%20%28INDRP%29 All .nl domain names are registered with SIDN, the administrator of the .nl zone. Where the registration of your chosen domain name and its subsequent management are concerned, Internet Domain Service BS Corp. will act as your representative in dealings with SIDN. Internet Domain Service BS Corp. will also submit an application to register the domain name on your behalf. By instructing Internet Domain Service BS Corp. to submit an application to register a domain name, you agree that, if your application is accepted by SIDN, you will enter into a contract with SIDN, of Arnhem, the Netherlands (Trade Register no. 41215724), covering the domain name's registration. 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__label__wiki	0.699549	0.699549	Home Hockey Five Minutes with Roland McKeown and Spencer Watson NHL Draft HQ Five Minutes with Roland McKeown and Spencer Watson Ben Kerr The Kingston Frontenacs have had a great season, finishing third in the OHL’s Eastern Conference. The team has been led by a number of younger players, including three who could be potential first round draft picks in the 2014 NHL Draft. Sam Bennett, Spencer Watson, and Roland McKeown have teamed with veterans like Ryan Kujawinski, Michael Moffat, Evan McEneny, Henri Ikonen. and Matt Mahalak to bring the Frontenacs to the forefront of the OHL this year. Bennett is a potential top three draft pick, who finished the year with 91 points in 56 games. McKeown was second on the team in scoring amongst defenceman with 43 points in 62 games. While Watson was second on the team with 33 goals, and third with 67 points in 63 games. Earlier we interviewed Sam Bennett. You can find that interview by clicking here. On Sunday, I had the chance to speak with McKeown and Watson. McKeown was a healthy scratch as with everything clinched as far as playoff seeding was concerned, the team was resting him up for the OHL playoffs and the first round series the Frontenacs have with the Peterborough Petes. For your information here is my look at McKeown from February, when he was ranked 11th in our midterm draft preview. The interview took place during the second intermission of Sunday’s game against Mississauga. 11) Roland McKeown, D, Kingston Frontenacs, (6’1″ 186 lbs): Last year, McKeown had a strong rookie season with Kingston, playing top 4 minutes on a club that was vastly improved this season over 2011-12. In the spring he won Gold with Canada at the Under 18 Worlds, and spent summer winning gold at the Hlinka. This season he’s taken his game up another notch playing huge minutes for a Kingston team that is currently second in the Eastern Division. He has put up 34 points in 48 games. His skating ability is at an elite level and features excellent speed and acceleration both forwards and backwards, great pivots, excellent lateral agility, and fantastic edgework. He is so smooth on his skates, its like he’s floating above the ice. The mobility allows McKeown to always be in position defensively, and to join the play offensively. He shows confidence and poise with the puck on his stick, and is really developing into a solid two-way defenceman. His offensive game is keyed by smart decision making and excellent passing skills. His shot isn’t the hardest, but he gets it through to the net, and it is accurate. However he looks more like a powerplay quarterback type who runs the play with his smart offense than the big bomber from the point. Defensively his mobility keeps him in position to make plays, and a good active stick help him to cut down passing and shooting lanes. He works hard in the corners, and is willing to battle in front of the net, but he could add more muscle to his frame, and play a more physical game as he’s not really a big hitter. LWOS: Thanks for doing this for us today. How are you doing Roland? Roland McKeown: I’m doing well. Thanks for having me. LWOS: When you joined Kingston the team was in a bit of a down period. The club improved last year, and this season it seems like you’ve taken another step forward. How does it feel to be such a big part of the rebuilding program and getting the team to where they are today? RM: Last year we came with a blueprint, and a plan in place. Its working out really well this year as we come towards the playoffs. We were hot and cold earlier in the year, but in the last little bit we’ve really been playing well. LWOS: This season there has been a lot of hype around three Frontenacs. There is Sam Bennett, Spencer Watson, and obviously yourself, who are all potential round picks for the NHL Draft. What is it like going through your draft year with two teammates in the same position? RM: Its great to have the ability to talk to them about it, and to get that support. I think we all support each other really well. I think that as we go into the playoffs, team success is going to bring personal success. Its important to work hard for the playoffs. LWOS: Your head coach is Todd Gill, and he obviously had a long career in the NHL. As a defenceman, how has he been able to help you with your game? RM: He has some really great pointers. Todd played over 1000 games in the NHL, and he knows all the little things that can really help you out on the ice. LWOS: Do you have a favorite player that you watch in the NHL, and someone that you try to model your game after? RM: Drew Doughty and Cam Fowler are two players I’ve watched a lot and look up to. The way they play the game is very much the way I want to play it. Anytime, you can find a good role model it will certainly help you going forward. LWOS: With the playoffs starting later this week, what are a couple keys you need to be ready for Peterborough, and to go on a long run in the playoffs? RM: We need to work really hard in practice this week and be ready to go for Peterborough. They have a great first line with (Eric) Cornel, (Hunter) Garlant, and (Nick) Ritchie there so we have to be aware and really stick to our system to have success. Spencer Watson played on Sunday, picking up an assist in the 4-1 win over Mississauga. Here is his profile from earlier in the year. “Spencer Watson, LW, Kingston Frontenacs, 5’10″ 157 lbs: Watson may not be as highly touted as his two Kingston teammates, Sam Bennett and Roland McKeown in our first two rankings, but he’s a potential first round draft pick in his own right. The pure sniper who plays on a line with Bennett, he is able to find openings in the defence from which to unleash a fantastic wrist shot or one-timer. His shot is powerful, accurate and features a great release. He also has the speed and stickhandling ability to join the rush with his linemate and to create goals on odd man rushes. He’s willing to go to the dirty areas to score goals, and has the soft hands to bury rebounds and tip ins close to the net. His playmaking game is underrated at this point because he’s such a great sniper, but the passing skills ansd vision are also there. Like Bennett, he must add muscle to his frame. “ I had a chance to catch up with Watson after the game. LWOS: You guys picked up a 4-1 win today. How do you guys feel after your final tune-up before going into the playoffs? Spencer Watson: It was a great game. We knew Mississauga was going to come out hard, fighting for their playoff lives. We wanted to have a strong game before we head into the playoffs, and I felt that we really did that. LWOS: The Frontenacs have had a really solid season. Over the last two years the team has taken some great steps forward and are now one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference. Whats the secret to the improvement? SW: We’ve really grown as a team, and Todd Gill has really taught us a lot. If we stick to our systems we can succeed as we have a talented group of guys here. LWOS: You are going through a big year, being your draft year. You get to go through the year with teammates like Roland McKeown and Sam Bennett who are also going through some of the same things. How does going through that experience together help you out? SW: It helps a lot, anytime you can go through this big experience with good teammates, its a great help and support for all of us. LWOS: What have you worked on in your game this year, and what has helped you with your breakout season so far? SW: I’ve really worked on my game in the defensive zone, and staying sound defensively. If I can do that, I will get the chance to capitalize on offensive opportunities. LWOS: Is there anyone in the NHL that you try to model your game after. SW: A player like Jeff Skinner (of the Carolina Hurricanes) is right up my alley. He’s a very good player that I look up to. LWOS: With the playoffs starting, what do you guys have to do to take out Peterborough and to be ready for a long playoff run. SW: We need to stay confident, and no matter what happens never get too down and just keep pushing through whatever adversity we might face. You can follow Spencer Watson on twitter (@swatty96) and the Kingston Frontenacs (@KingstonFronts) and (@FrontsInGame) as well as on their website kingstonfrontenacs.com as they make their way through the OHL playoffs. Thank you for reading. Please take a moment to follow me on Twitter – @lastwordBkerr. 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__label__wiki	0.905893	0.905893	Verizon: Sandy Could Have ‘Significant’ Impact On Profit Posted 9:54 am, November 2, 2012, by Staff Writer NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Verizon on Friday said it is making progress in getting its cellular service back online for customers impacted by Superstorm Sandy, but the repair work may take a chunk out of its fourth-quarter earnings. In a regulatory filing, the company said it is directing its resources towards powering up cell towers and rebuilding its network, “which may take some time.” Verizon said it is not yet able to estimate how much impact the storm will have on operating profit, “but we expect that it could be significant.” The nation’s largest wireless carrier said 96% of its towers in Sandy-impacted areas are operational, up from 94% on Wednesday. But getting the remaining towers online will take a tremendous effort. “Unfortunately, the extent of the storm damage — including lingering power outages and inaccessible roadways — in harder-hit areas like New Jersey and the New York City metro area makes full restoration a marathon and not a sprint,” Bob Mudge, president of Verizon’s consumer division, said in a prepared statement. “We ask for customers’ patience and understanding.” Verizon isn’t the only carrier that got nailed. The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that 19% of cell sites in the core area affected by the storm — 158 counties across 10 states, from Virginia all the way up to Massachusetts — remained non-operational. That’s an improvement from 25% earlier in the week, but wireless companies still have “much work to be done,” FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said. Sprint appears to be the most damaged of the three major national carriers. In Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, the Sprint Network is more than 90% operational, the company said. But in the harder-hit areas, including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, Sprint’s network is only around 80% functional, and just 75% of its New York City towers are online. AT&T said the “vast majority” of its towers are back online, but it continues working to restore service in areas with significant damage and power outages. In a rare show of cooperation in the wireless industry, AT&T and T-Mobile opted to allow customers in storm-affected areas to roam on one another’s networks free of charge. The two carriers’ networks are relatively compatible, which makes such a move possible. All carriers noted that they are making efforts to reopen retail stores, where customers can charge phones. For those without service, many stores are allowing customers to make free landline calls. By David Goldman 9 challenges Amazon faces on its 25th birthday Barry strengthens into Category 1 hurricane as it nears landfall in Louisiana Barry is a triple threat of storm surge, high rivers and flooding as it gets closer to the Louisiana coast Central US braces for rain, wind and hail as dozens of tornadoes reported The Gulf Coast could get walloped with a foot of rain in the next few days Sandy Hook parents score a win in growing fight against hoaxers Jefferson City residents cleaning up after catastrophic tornado Food stamps recipients can now order groceries online for delivery. Amazon, Walmart and ShopRite will offer the service A deadly storm system now threatens 90 million people with destructive weather — including major cities The world’s second-largest emperor penguin colony has nearly disappeared. How 5G is changing the game for first responders	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1359
__label__wiki	0.553746	0.553746	Posts Tagged: ioActive Time to Harden Your Hardware? Most Internet users are familiar with the concept of updating software that resides on their computers. But this past week has seen alerts about an unusual number of vulnerabilities and attacks against some important and ubiquitous hardware devices, from consumer-grade Internet routers, data storage and home automation products to enterprise-class security solutions. Last week, the SANS Internet Storm Center began publishing data about an ongoing attack from self-propagating malware that infects some home and small-office wireless routers from Linksys. The firewall built into routers can be a useful and hearty first line of protection against online attacks, because its job is to filter out incoming traffic that the user behind the firewall did not initiate. But things get dicier when users enable remote administration capability on these powerful devices, which is where this malware comes in. The worm — dubbed “The Moon” — bypasses the username and password prompt on affected devices. According to Ars Technica’s Dan Goodin, The Moon has infected close to 1,000 Linksys E1000, E1200 and E2400 routers, although the actual number of hijacked devices worldwide could be higher and is likely to climb. In response, Linksys said the worm affects only those devices that have the Remote Management Access feature enabled, and that Linksys ships these products with that feature turned off by default. The Ars Technica story includes more information about how to tell whether your router may be impacted. Linksys says it’s working on an official fix for the problem, and in the meantime users can block this attack by disabling the router’s remote management feature. Similarly, it appears that some ASUS routers — and any storage devices attached to them — may be exposed to anyone online without the need of login credentials if users have taken advantage of remote access features built into the routers, according to this Ars piece from Feb. 17. The danger in this case is with Asus router models including RT-AC66R, RT-AC66U, RT-N66R, RT-N66U, RT-AC56U, RT-N56R, RT-N56U, RT-N14U, RT-N16, and RT-N16R. Enabling any of the (by-default disabled) “AiCloud” options on the devices — such as “Cloud Disk” and “Smart Access” — opens up a potentially messy can of worms. More details on this vulnerability are available at this SecurityFocus writeup. ASUS reportedly released firmware updates last week to address these bugs. Affected users can find the latest firmware updates and instructions for updating their devices by entering the model name/number of the device here. Alternatively, consider dumping the stock router firmware in favor of something more flexible, less buggy amd most likely more secure (see this section at the end of this post for more details). YOUR LIGHTSWITCH DOES WHAT? Outfitting a home or office with home automation tools that let you control and remotely monitor electronics can quickly turn into a fun and addictive (if expensive) hobby. But things get somewhat more interesting when the whole setup is completely exposed to anyone on the Internet. That’s basically what experts at IOActive found is the case with Belkin‘s WeMo family of home automation devices. According to research released today, multiple vulnerabilities in these WeMo Home Automation tools give malicious hackers the ability to remotely control the devices over the Internet, perform malicious firmware updates, and access an internal home network. From IOActive’s advisory (PDF): Latest Warnings / The Coming Storm — 48 Comments DHS Warns of ‘Hacktivist’ Threat Against Industrial Control Systems The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is warning that a witches brew of recent events make it increasingly likely that politically or ideologically motivated hackers may launch digital attacks against industrial control systems. The alert was issued the same day that security researchers published information about an undocumented software backdoor in industrial control systems sold by hundreds different manufacturers and widely used in power plants, military environments and nautical ships. The information about the backdoor was published by industrial control systems (ICS) security vendor Digital Bond, which detailed how a component used in industrial control systems sold by 261 manufacturers contains a functionality that will grant remote access to anyone who knows the proper command syntax and inner workings of the device, leaving systems that are connected to the public open to malicious tampering. In an interview with Ars Technica, Reid Wightman, a researcher formerly with Digital Bond and now at security firm ioActive, said there was “absolutely no authentication needed to perform this privileged command.” Of the two specific programmable logic controllers (PLCs) Wightman tested, both allowed him to issue commands that halted the devices’ process control. “Imagine if your laptop had a service that accepted an unauthenticated ‘shutdown’ command, and if someone sent it your laptop [would] shut off and you [would lose] all your work,” Wightman told Ars. “Anybody on the network could shut off your laptop without needing your password. That would suck. And that’s the case here.” Potentially aiding would-be attackers are specialized search engines like Shodan and the Every Routable IP Project, which were designed specifically to locate online devices that may be overlooked or ignored by regular search engines. Indeed, according to Wightman, a quick search using Shodan revealed 117 vulnerable devices directly connected to the Internet, although Wightman said he suspected the computer location service could turn up far more with a more targeted search. To complicate matters further, Wightman said tools for automating the exploitation of the backdoor will soon be made available for Metasploit, a penetration testing tool used by hackers and security professionals alike. In an alert (PDF) issued Thursday, DHS warned that these search engines are being actively used to identify and access control systems over the Internet, and that combining these tools with easily obtainable exploitation tools, attackers can identify and access control systems with significantly less effort than ever before. “Multiple threat elements are combining to significantly increase the ICSs threat landscape,” DHS warned. “Hacktivist groups are evolving and have demonstrated improved malicious skills. They are acquiring and using specialized search engines to identify Internet facing control systems, taking advantage of the growing arsenal of exploitation tools developed specifically for control systems. In addition, individuals from these groups have posted online requests for others to visit or access the identified device addresses. Asset owners should take these changes in threat landscape seriously…and should not assume that their control systems are secure or that they are not operating with an Internet accessible configuration. Instead, asset owners should thoroughly audit their networks for Internet facing devices, weak authentication methods, and component vulnerabilities.” But according to Digital Bond, asset owners — such as power utilities, water treatment facilities — aren’t moving fast enough to take such steps. Indeed, this is the driving premise behind “Project Basecamp,” the company’s endeavor to publish and expose control systems vulnerabilities: Only when control system operators begin to see how these vulnerabilities could be used to disrupt their operations will they be motivated enough to demand that ICS hardware and software vendors make security a priority. “The goal of Project Basecamp is to make the risk of these fragile and insecure devices so apparent and easy to demonstrate that a decade of inaction will end,” the company explained on its blog. “Everyone knows PLC’s are vulnerable — or so we have heard for ten years now since the 9/11 attacks…Not only do they lack basic security features, they are also fragile. Warnings abound about the dangers of even running a port scan on a PLC. Yet even though “everyone knows” there has been little or no progress on developing even the option of purchasing a secure and robust PLC.” The homepage of the Shodan search engine.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1360
__label__cc	0.735615	0.264385	The Business Rusch: Unexpected Gold in Self Help Books Posted: August 31, 2011/Under: Business Rusch, free nonfiction, Freelancer's Survival Guide, On Writing/By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch AmazonBarry EislerBusiness RuschfinancesFreelancer's Survival GuideJohn Lockepublishingwriting Lately I’ve been doing a lot of reading on women, money, and power, for a project that I’m working on. Most of these self-help books, written by women for women, contend that women are socialized differently. We’re raised so that we’re afraid to stand up for ourselves, afraid to ask for something we need, afraid to acknowledge our own worth. We are consensus builders, so we are unwilling to raise our hands. Yet we’re the ones who step in when a job needs to be done, and will often do that job without compensation, because— Ah, hell. I don’t know why. These books are really written in some kind of foreign language. Or maybe I’m not a real woman. (Do not go there, internet trolls.) What I’ve realized as I read this stuff is that most of these descriptions do not apply to me. I stand up for myself. I hate asking for something I need, but I’ll do it rather than go without. I’ve always loved to raise my hand. I let other people do—or not do—their own jobs, and I rarely work without compensation, whether that compensation is financial, emotional, or intellectual. I am, according to all of these self-help books, a man. (Hey, internet trolls! I already said don’t go there. So stop it.) Yet these books are valuable because they do describe behaviors that I see over and over again. Only the books ascribe it to something inaccurate, like gender, when really the behaviors are motivated by a complex group of things, not all of which are the same for the same people. Although the cause of those things is the same: It comes back to socialization. For some reason, I rejected all that passive socializing my mother tried to shove down my throat about being female. She wanted me to be coy. That’s not a word anyone would ever use for me. She wanted me to be indirect. I prefer direct. She wanted me to manipulate others to my point of view. I prefer logic, reason, and the occasional raised voice. She wanted me to build communities with my diplomacy. I figure if people don’t like me, they can leave. Does this mean I didn’t get properly socialized? I don’t think so. I can still fall back on my Midwestern politeness to get me through any tough situation. But mostly, I have a strong sense of self, a belief in honesty as the best policy, and a real preference for blunt truth-telling. This makes me unsuited for politics, most corporate jobs, and any place in which “You’ve got to be kidding,” is an unacceptable response to a command. As I read these books, however, I realize that I have watched a lot of people—male and female—act in the ways described inside. Many of these folks come from solidly blue collar backgrounds, good salt-of-the-earth types, who do something extra and don’t want it noticed or figure it was just part of the job. Two weeks ago, Dean and I had a flat tire on our way to Reno. (We actually had two flat tires about an hour apart, but that story belongs in another piece.) We stopped at a service station in a small Oregon town. The attendant there removed our tire, looked at it, and declared it unsalvageable. (Boy was that an understatement.) He did not have the proper tire, so we called ahead to the next little town, more than an hour away, to the Les Schwab franchise there to see if they had the tire. They did, but they were closing in forty minutes. We were sixty miles away and our rear tire was one of those little donut things approved for no more than forty miles per hour. Okay, former algebra students, do the math: Your tire will implode if you drive it more than forty miles per hour. The next town is sixty miles away. How long will it take you to reach the next town, if you want your tire to remain on the car? The Les Schwab guy said he’d wait for us. Big city girl me, I had my doubts. But when we pulled in, he was there, service bay ready, and the proper replacement tire leaning against a wall. He did a tremendous job and got us out of there in less than a half an hour. The tire guy expected nothing more than a thank you. Hell, he might not have even expected that. But Dean has a trick in these circumstances, one I’ve seen him use a dozen times. He pulled out his wallet, found a twenty, and as he took the bill out, he said, “Let me buy you dinner.” The tire guy, like every other person I’ve ever seen Dean do this with, was flustered, and said no. So Dean added, “Look, you saved our trip. It’s the least we can do.” The tire guy took the twenty. It was not a tip. It was not a bribe. It was a thank-you, the only way we could give it to him. The first tire guy didn’t want payment either for pulling off that tire and inspecting it, but we paid him anyway—only that time, Dean gave him enough for a “cold beer.” (Apparently, my husband knows how to judge his audience; or maybe it was just the time of day involved.) These guys didn’t know us at all, and yet they were willing to do some extra work for strangers who crossed their path. I got the sense from these guys that it’s a way of life for them, going the extra mile without asking for an extra dime. For years, we had maintenance guy who used to go above and beyond every single week, and who got insulted if we even noticed that he had done extra work. We’re still benefiting from all he did, even though he passed away years ago. He was one of those guys who would bristle at being called female, yet the trait that he exhibited—doing a job without compensation because the job needed to be done—was something that these self-help books called a gender-based behavior. These behaviors might have their roots in class, in ethics, in income level, in gender, in religious upbringing, in culture, in personality type or in all of the above. My own non-scientific theory is this: that these behaviors are based on socialization combined with a value that the culture in which the person belongs to places on that socialization. Let’s be clear here: I’m not saying that people should be mean. In similar emergency situations in which my expertise is valuable, I’ve been known to give my services away. That’s what people do for each other. It’s okay to behave like this once in a while, but it can’t be a way of life. An employee can’t continually give things away to a customer and expect to keep his job. (And believe me, that first tire guy gave his time away, time I’m sure the service station owner wouldn’t have been pleased about. I have no idea if the second guy charged his employer for the overtime. I hope he did, but doubt that he even considered it.) Yet as I was reading these books, I wasn’t thinking about women or Les Schwab employees or our former maintenance guy. I was thinking about writers. You could easily take the word “women” out of these books and replace it with the word “writers.” (Of course, if you did so, you’d have a self-help book with a much smaller target audience.) What exactly am I talking about here? Let’s pull some bullet points from these books to show you what I mean. (I will replace the word “women” with “writers” to make my point.) •Writers undervalue themselves •Nice writers don’t get rich (this works better in its original form: Nice girls don’t get rich. The whole nice girls concept became a book for one smart writer). •Writers are uninformed about money •Writers want to be hands-off with money •Writers are afraid of what other people will think of them •Writers strive for survival, not wealth •Writers don’t have financial goals •Writers don’t know their worth •Writers don’t play to win •Writers listen to naysayers •Writers manage egos not wealth •Writers trust the wrong people •Writers give away their time •Writers fail to negotiate •Writers don’t get rich because they don’t envision themselves rich •Writers suffer from learned helplessness •Writers lack a sense of entitlement •Writers fear calling attention to themselves •Writers rarely speak up for themselves •Writers rarely defend themselves •Writers expect to be ignored •Writers give up too easily •Writers expect to be screwed as a cost of doing business •Writers refuse to learn when and where they have power •Writers let emotions get the better of them •Prince Charming will never ride to the rescue. (In a woman’s world, apparently, Prince Charming is a husband; in a writer’s world, Prince Charming is an agent.) •Inheriting wealth is not an investment strategy (or in writing world, counting on a bestseller is not an investment strategy). •Learn to say no. •Risk is not a synonym for loss •There are no secrets •Learning takes time and dedication I could go on and on and on. These books abound, and their relevance to writers should be clear from the list above. As you can probably tell, I’m going to mine that list for some pieces in the next few weeks. But I’m doing this series now for a reason. Publishing is changing. There are a few writers who have always known that writing is a business and have acted accordingly. In the past, we’ve been outliers, people who often get criticized for being difficult or demanding or hard to work with. Mostly, though, our counterparts in publishing have shrugged and tried to accommodate us, because the publishers realize they have no business without the goodwill of writers. I’ve been one of the outliers, probably because it’s not an unusual position for me. It’s been more difficult for me to be a woman who is outspoken than it has been being a writer who asks for fair compensation for her work. But most writers have never done that, and have often been told (usually by agents) that such things are impossible. This is why so many writers had shorter careers. The average length of a writer’s career was about ten years. And then the writer tired or had trouble getting a book deal or decided to teach or just plain gave up. (I can list dozens of writers whom I know personally who had ten-year careers.) Now, however, the paradigm has shifted dramatically, and writers who understand business are standing up for their rights. These writers are making news by asking the right questions of publishers: What can you do for me? Barry Eisler made news when he decided to self publish his next John Rain novel. When Amazon swooped in and took over the deal, it wasn’t because Eisler had lost faith in self-publishing, it was because Amazon could answer the question to Eisler’s satisfaction. John Locke asked the same question and got a great answer from his new publisher. Recently, I asked one of my editors the same question. We’re currently in negotiation about what’s best for us as well as the readers of the series he’s publishing. Right now, we’re still outliers, but we shouldn’t be. All writers should be asking that question because it’s part of the whole financial picture that I’m painting above. Writers have an obvious opportunity to take control of their careers right now. We’ve always had that opportunity, but now the path is obvious. Too many writers—like the women these financial books are directed at—are afraid to take control. Writers are afraid they’ll be blacklisted or “disliked” or unable to work in this town again. Here’s the thing, though. What town? New York (London, Paris, Munich) is no longer the only place writers can go to get published on a national level. Now writers can do it themselves. The question is: should they? And that’s a question each writer must answer for herself. But first she needs to look at that list and see if it describes her. If it does, then she needs to do some serious work on changing how she approaches her career. The fact that you’ve just read a list does not enable you to change your behavior. We’ll look at each item separately in the coming weeks. If you can’t wait, I suggest you look at my Freelancer’s Survival Guide, which has chapters that cover some of these topics. The Guide is available for free on this website or you can download it as an e-book (as a whole or in sections) or buy the entire damn doorstop in paper. But the Guide won’t answer all of your questions. If it did, I wouldn’t be embarking on this new series. I got inspired reading these self help books. And while not everything from these women and money books are applicable (not all writers have to worry about “the mommy track”), some things really are. I’ll mine what I can, and see what I can come up with. So stick around, and if you have anything to add to the list, let me know. Speaking of valuing your time and asking for what you need, I have included a donate button. I make my living at fiction and am writing these nonfiction blog posts on the side. If you find today’s blog of value, please leave a tip in the jar on the way out. Thanks! And thanks for the ideas, comments, and e-mails. I appreciate them as well. “The Business Rusch: Unexpected Gold in Self Help Books” copyright 2011 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 62 responses to “The Business Rusch: Unexpected Gold in Self Help Books” Writing on the Ether: Your Media Sommelier \| Jane Friedman says: […] —Kristine Kathryn Rusch decides “I am, according to all of these self-help books, a man.” The Business Rusch: Unexpected Gold in Self-Help Books […] Linky Friday « creative barbwire (or the many lives of a creator) says: […] comments as well, see how many “first draft” pro writers?) and his wife Kris Rush finds writing gold in self-help books. And don’t miss the new chapter of New World of Publishing either: “and we writers […] Cindie says: Well, then. I feel like I just got whacked with the wake-up stick. I have read, edited (and even written) some of these books and rolled my eyes at them. I don’t do these things — as a woman. But as a writer? Oh, yeah. I might just be the damn poster child. Funny what changing one word does for perception. Me, myself and I have some ‘splaining to do with one another. Thanks for the post! You’re welcome, Cindie. Mudanças Centrais (Semanário 124) « Caneta, Papel e Lápis says: […] details vs clutter, no blog de Patricia C. Wrede; – Pesky Pet Words, no Rhemalda Publishing; – The Business Rusch: Unexpected Gold in Self Help Books, no blog de Kristine Kathryn Rusch; – Most Common Mistakes Series: Is Nothin’ Happening in Your […] Scott Fitzgerald Gray says: Great piece, Kris, thanks much. I won’t add up how many of those traits i can cop to having seen in myself at different points in time… Speaking of abusive relationships and reasons for staying in them, one of the touchstones that i was made aware of while trying to help a family member in an abusive relationship is the idea that what the abused partner gets out of it is the hope of being able to “fix” the abusive partner. Even those abused partners who are capable of understanding that they’re being abused will sometimes stick with it for the false sense of empowerment that comes with being able to say “I’m capable of fixing this relationship if i only stick with it.” I wonder how many authors still honestly supporting the old status quo are doing so because they see themselves as the white-knight writer whose work will revolutionize the publishing industry, and what it would take to get them to focus on revolutionizing their own work and creative lives with the tools that the changes in publishing are laying out for them? Good questions, Scott. Worth thinking about. Patricia McLinn says: This intrigues me. Writers always have the power of withholding the work. Short of that ultimate power resides a wide and variable continuum, depending on the power/needs of the other party/parties. Especially looking forward to reading your exploration of this. I’ve always suspected that more self-help books are aimed at women because women will ~buy~ self-help books more than men will … and maybe that’s another element of the socialization? The book that was an eye-opener for me is WOMEN DON’T ASK: Negotiation and the Gender Divide (though it makes the point that not asking it’s not strictly male/female divide.) It’s co-written by a Carnegie Mellon professor and has the stats to back up the statements. I’ve considered myself assertive — this book showed me that I had/have blindspots. — Patricia Sam Lee says: Great idea for a new series, Kris, and it couldn’t be more timely (or apt). It’s amazing what you can condition a human being to take, from abuse to learned helplessness and beyond. On the one hand it’s fascinating from a writer’s POV, and horrifying from the humanistic POV. Then again, a lot of things are like that… J. Daniel Sawyer says: Kris and KW– During my time in grad school for my abortive psych masters (and the long hours of clinical time I put in) I started noticing that, without exception, the victim in abusive relationships gets something out of it or believes they’re getting something out of it. That perceived benefit is thing that makes abusive relationships destructive–straight victimization due to powerlessness (such as a mugging, or Genghis Khan riding through your town) is easier to get over than is a protracted, slightly mutually-beneficial setup that’s laced with cruelty and psychological and social disincentives to change if/when something goes south. Abusive people are very good at giving just enough for their vassals to stick around waiting for the next treat in the variable reinforcement schedule. And, like a slot machine junkie, they stick–breaking out means they have to face their own culpability. If they just stick to “I’m a victim” they will almost always go back either to the same abusive partner or to one that’s a carbon copy, because they know how to work that dynamic. Depressing stuff, but it was great for learning to draw complicated characters, let me tell you! Tobias Buckell did a blog post recently about variable-schedule reinforcement in the life of writers that nailed a lot of this. Totally worth a read. I think he’s really on to something. FWIW, here’s the link: http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/2011/08/25/writers-and-pellets/ Can’t wait to see the next installment in this series! 🙂 -Dan Thanks, Dan. Exactly on the abuse stuff. It’s quite sad. I watched in action a lot with the forensic psychologist, because he was dealing with broken people who had to go to court for a variety of reasons. Sad, sad situations, and tough to get out of. Thanks too for the Tobias Buckell piece. He’s right on. It’s good. K. W. Jeter says: IMO, Kris, you and I are fortunate to have been part of the generation that was exposed to the first great wave of pop psychology books. There was some solid stuff there, which was of far greater value than the doctrinaire victim mentality stuff that supplanted it. Camille Paglia, for one, got savagely attacked by the politically correct for supposedly “blaming the victim,” when she had merely pointed out that many people remain in abusive relationships for reasons of their own. When it comes to writers, I’m sure you’ve observed more of this than I have (because you actually care so much about other people, whereas I could give a toss). But even I’m seeing comments from writers that remind me of my sister’s quarter-century-long relationship with that sonuvabitch who used to be my brother-in-law: “But I know he really loves me,” ad nauseum. John Walters says: When I mentioned Henry Miller I wasn’t referring to traditional publishing but indie. My point was that if writers can write whatever they want and then put it out there themselves, why don’t we see more wild, edgy work? We will see more edgy work, John. We’re in the early days yet. Getting back to the self-help book talking point, Kris, a useful analysis could probably be done through the lens of Eric Berne’s sadly neglected transactional analysis model — all that GAMES PEOPLE PLAY and I’M OKAY, YOU’RE OKAY stuff which is derided as “touchy feely” now, but which were in fact much tougher and grimmer than is realized by most people who haven’t actually read the books. (Name dropping time: I discussed this with Phil Dick many years ago and he agreed with me that, properly considered, there’s a terrifying dark core to Berne’s books, underneath the therapeutic wrappings; to wit, that people are capable of creating their own realities in such a way as to destroy themselves. But that’s another discussion.) By the Berneian analysis, it’s not so much that the relationship between the publisher and the writer is abusive and/or exploitative, but that the “abused” party (in this case, the writer) somehow gets something out of it. Once people figure out what that is, they can decide whether they actually want it or not. That’s part of psychological theory, KW, about abuse and other difficult situations (like co-dependency). You have to address the good as well as the bad, which is tough in those circumstances. You know, I have a copy of those books around here somewhere…. Uh, Kris, San Pedro is “out west.” Union guys back then were pretty much the same in California as anywhere else. I used to talk with some of my dad’s old teamster buddies in Los Angeles, and they were a tough bunch. I remember one guy telling me how he’d swung a tie-down chain through a strike-breaker’s windshield; when I said something like, “Jeez, you could’ve killed the guy,” all my dad’s buddy said was, “Didn’t care if I did; he was taking food out of my children’s mouths.” That’s why I tend to fall off my chair laughing when I hear people talking about organizations such as SFWA being like a “union.” They have no idea. Missed the San Pedro reference, KW. I meant NW. Haven’t met that level of union guy in my 26 years here. 🙂 And yeah on SFWA as a union. LOL. asrai says: That’s what I love about all the options available to writer’s right now. Author’s are realizing they do have options and they do have power. It’s not that they are gaining power, author’s always had power they just didn’t use it, because it felt like the publisher’s had more power. Barb Jernigan says: Hey, I resemble that behavior. I guess I’m not a real woman either. Neither was my mom nor her mom. LOL. Blamed it on being raised by guys. Thanks, Kris. [Oh, and the list stuff is good, too, though I’m more fond of the tire guys… home country prejudice, I suppose. =g= Thanks.] Thanks, Barb & Asrai. It’s nice finding all of these kindred spirits. Kris — Dean’s a charming guy, but he still wouldn’t have gotten far with my uncles. My teamster father would have just refused the money and/or the beer; his longshoreman brother John would’ve flattened Dean, then gone down to his regular waterfront bar in San Pedro and bragged to his buddies about it. Sweetest guy in the world, though, as long as you didn’t offend him. Of course, that reflected the environment that the American working man lived in back then. For good or ill, it was a much more Christianized world, on a day-to-day basis, and it was a rough-hewn brand of Christianity in which the parable of the good Samaritan was equally as important as the Sermon on the Mount. To take nothing for helping a stranger was a point of honor with those stiff-necked bastards; any reward would come in the next world. Okay, KW, you didn’t say they were teamsters. Dean would not have tried this in the Midwest with the longshoremen I knew, because I wouldn’t have let him. Those guys had a Code. I thought your guys were out west, the older guys I’ve run into here, who have a different code. I’ve seen Dean with the Midwestern labor union guys. He shuts up and lets them do what they think is right. 🙂 Nice analogy on the samurai movies, btw. 🙂 FRSavage’s samurai/daimyo comparison is pretty apt here. The corrupt daimyo is encountered so often as to be a stock character in samurai movies. Hard-working, self-sacrificing samurai are always finding out they just got screwed by their daimyo. Of course, that’s used as a plot point to illustrate the tragic nobility of those samurai sticking to their personal code of honor, but in the modern world, tragic nobility doesn’t buy many groceries. Your anecdote about the tire repairmen made me ponder the Greeks among whom I live. Greeks can be stubborn, bullheaded, recalcitrant, and sexist to the extreme – but they also have a wonderfully profound sense of courtesy and generosity. I recently took a trip to the States so was able to make the comparison once again. Americans keep schedules; Greeks sometimes do if it suits their purposes. But (in the case of auto repairpeople since that was your story) some friends might drop over and they keep the shop open and hang around BSing and drinking and smoking together, and if you happened to come by and need help with your car the repairperson would be glad to oblige, not accept any payment, and offer you a beer and a place in the conversation besides. Many a time I have gone into a shop, asked for advice, the repair has been made, and compensation was refused. The key is the personal touch – if you attempt a chat (even in my shamefully broken Greek) then you are more than a customer. You are a new friend, and are treated as such. Sometimes with friends we do things by barter rather than cash – for example, for many years my wife has taught English to our hairdresser, an old high school friend of hers, and she has given free haircuts to the whole tribe of us. There’s no way she’d accept payment. It’s a cultural and lifestyle difference that has nothing to do with gender or age but everything to do with a magnanimous attitude that is passed on generation to generation. As far as the helpless writer syndrome I don’t know what to say. But as I understand what we are talking about here is the business of writing and not the writing itself. Now with indie publishing though we can do our own business and write whatever we want besides. Who could ask for more than that? I’m waiting for some gutsy writers to realize they can burst out of the mold and really go wild, break all the rules and then spread it all over the self-publishing channels. I’m thinking of Henry Miller, as I just started reading a biography of his Paris years. Your readers might have extremely diverse opinions of his literary worth, but one thing he did back then was break – no, shatter – the molds, and do something new and extreme. Let’s see some mold-shattering. John, a lot of barter goes on in this country as well, mostly among the folks without much money. I think barter might be the way to go with some writers/artists on book covers, etc. But you are right: it is cultural. And yes, we’re talking about the business of writing, but the business influences the creative side. Why haven’t we seen a Henry Miller lately? He doesn’t fit into traditional publishing models. Maybe if he put a boy wizard in his work…. DG Sandru says: Good article,and now more than ever for women or men, as a writer, you must think and act like a business person. Passive Guy says: Terrific essay, Kris. It will save the careers of a lot of writers if they pay attention to it. I have a post about it going up this morning. Jeff Ambrose says: @ Annie Reed, I totally get where you’re coming from. 10 years ago, I was on my way to a career in academia, teaching theology in college. Then for various reasons, I decided to leave those dreams behind. I rejected a top-notch offer from a great Ph.D. program and, instead, became an at-home dad. That’s what I do now, and I write in my free time … which, since school days are upon us, is more than I had during the summer. My wife works, of course, as do both my sisters (neither whom are married), and when the three get together and talk about work, I stare at them in utter disbelief. What the hell … it’s like junior high all over again, the cliques, the gossiping, the politicking. And then there’s the micromanagement and all the other crap that goes with having a boss. And as I listen to them, I am SO glad I don’t have to put up with all that BS. There’s no way I could do it. @ Kris — So looking forward to the new series. I’m always on the lookout for good motivational books, mostly because I don’t have any writing friends and have to motivate myself. And as I said before, thanks so much for taking the time to write these posts. They are a big, big help. Thanks, Jeff, PG, and DG. FRSavage says: This stuff is fascinating. I think K.W. Jeter is bang on in saying that your tyre guy’s generosity was simply normal behavior for previous generations. But I also think Cora has a point that the guy’s generosity may be good for his employer’s business. I’d go further: it may be good for him. If you think promotion off the shop floor is a good thing, that is. Because if that garage has an opening for a manager, the guy who regularly goes the extra mile is likely to get it. This prediction is based on the Gervais Principle (as in Ricky Gervais of The Office — Google it!) which states that sociopathic bosses (i.e. most of them) knowingly promote overperforming losers into middle management, where their natural generosity can be twisted into an emotional commitment to the organization. The Gervais Principle finds extra proof in the Japanese corporate world. At my day job I am surrounded by people socialized to give, give, give until it hurts. That’s a Japanese cultural virtue. And the most giving of all get promoted to middle management, where they then develop an irrational sense of responsibility for the fate of the company and work themselves to death, like samurai dying for their daimyo. Using this metaphor to extend your original point, Kris, a lot of writers out there look like samurai to me. And that’s not a good thing. Because what does it really mean to be a samurai? Not lone wolf heroics — that’s a fantasy. It means being an Organization Man to the bone, giving until it hurts just for the honor of being associated with your daimyo (New York publisher) and ultimately committing harakiri when your daimyo falls. Meanwhile, the barefoot spear-carriers (you and I) scurry off to fight another day! There’s no place for honor in this business, or pride, is there? I do think however that there is a place for generosity. You’re proving it with these marvellously helpful blog posts. Thank you again for doing this. Felicity (FR), I love the samurai metaphor because it’s filled with the same myths as writing. Lovely stuff. And the Gervais Principle, quite cynical that. Which doesn’t surprise me which, I suppose, makes me even more cynical. 🙂 Thanks for the comment. The self-help book I recommend to anyone who asks (and some do) is Larry Winget’s “It’s Called Work for a Reason! (Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault.)” One of the first things that inspired me about this book is it’s about 40,000 words and originally sold for $26 (I got a remainder for $3). It’s a basic primer on work ethic aimed at folks in what one traditionally thinks of as business, but it’s more relevant to the writer (once the writer figures out writing is work) because writers have much more control over what they do than middle managers. I know, I’ve been both. Adding Winget’s work ethic to your already potent brew of business sense and survival skills should render a compound which, properly applied, carry a self-publishing writer anywhere she (or he, in my case) wants to go. Thanks for the rec, Kevin. I’ll check the book out. I love the title. According to those self-help books (and pretty much every “men are like this, women are like that” book) I always turn out to be a man, too. I did get the “be passive, be diplomatic, never complain” socialisation from my Mom (who is of the same ethnic/regional background and probably a similar age to your Mom), but it didn’t take hold. Besides, I have a father who is smart about money and business and luckily I got that from him. As for your tire guy, waiting around for you may well have given his or his employer’s business a boost, because with customer service like that, you’d probably patronize that particular tire vendor again. Whereas I’m not too tempted to ever go back to the car dealer who told me that their mobility guarantee doesn’t apply to the tire that went flat after only two months, because I was still able to drive the car to the dealer after all, even though I saved them the trouble of sending someone to pick up the car. On a related note, the group of customers professional translators dislike most are charities and non-profits, because they generally pay late and badly. Apparently, many charities are so used to people volunteering their work and time that they have problems comprehending that some of the people they hire have to earn a living. Good points all, Cora. I used to work for a non-profit, and I always felt guilty when I got my paycheck–even though I was putting in 80 hour weeks. It’s a different mindset. And you’re right about the word-of-mouth. Dean said this week that he could now do a Les Schwab commercial. (For those of you not in the West, the commercials are all about some customer who got rescued during off-hours by a Les Schwab guy.) Linda Jordan says: Wow, I see so much of myself in this list – undervaluing myself, being afraid of what others will think of me (and my writing) and calling attention to myself. On the other hand in my life outside of writing, I’m not afraid to call bullshit when I see it, to stand up for myself or to negotiate. Odd that it affects my creative life so heavily. So that’s why Indie Publishing, which I just began in July, has been so liberating. I’m forcing myself to confront all those things in my writing. To stand up and say that what I write is good enough, and to tell all my friends and relatives and acquaintances where to find my work (which is particularly scary) and to write what I want and get it out there. It’s actually much easier than getting rejections and being told my stuff isn’t marketable! It must be the baby step program (to use the self help lingo) for working your way into a new mindset. I so look forward to this series! Thank you for doing it! Indie publishing is liberating, isn’t it, Linda? I’ve been doing a lot of thinking on these mindsets, and I think there are real reasons for them. So we’ll see if I can articulate it properly. Thanks for the comment. Kris, not disagreeing with any of your excellent points, but the difference between your Les Schwab guy and my blue-collar father and uncles is that they would have done as much or more for you — but wouldn’t have taken Dean’s money for it. They would in fact have been offended by his offering it. That was just normal, unremarkable behavior for previous generations. Sic transit gloria mundi. Ah, K.W., you’ve never seen Dean in action. I’ve seen him pay guys from that generation for their work. Where do you think he learned this trick? He makes it not a tip at all. He makes it…a shared honor. As if they had tipped the beer together. (But the guys–and Dean–know that they’d hate drinking together because they wouldn’t get along, so this is the next best thing.) The difference with those guys? Sometimes Dean would find out what kind of beer they liked and just bring it to the shop or whatever as a thank-you. That was acceptable. Sure do miss those guys, though. Am reading about them now, in some WWII histories. Amazing folk. I.G. Frederick says: In my world, we have many words for women like you: FemDom, Domme, Ma’am. 😉 Like you, I stand up for myself. I ask for what I need. I raise my hand. And I rarely work without compensation. Fortunately, my mother didn’t try to shove passive socializing about being female down my throat. But the rest of the vanilla world has never accepted me (and so many others) because we’re assertive, don’t take BS, and insist on being treated fairly. You’re so right about writers, especially writers of erotica. I am constantly horrified at the submission guideline/contracts I see paying $25 for all rights in perpetuity in all forms. Yet those anthologies are published often filled with well-known, well-respected names. Brava, Kris, for a well-thought out analysis. I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the series! L.G., I’ve seen some erotica contracts. Wow, are they awful. A few are excellent, but some…head-shaking. But erotica contracts are that way only because no one has taken them on. Romance contracts used to be like that, and mystery contracts, and on and on. And writers put up with it. You’re lucky you missed the passive socializing. Most of my fights with my mother were about my “unladylike” behavior. Thanks for the comment. Anne R. Allen says: Mark Williams said I had to come over and read this. It speaks perfectly to what I’ve just gone through. I had that call from the agent of my dreams. She just wanted a few “little changes” before she’d offer representation. The changes turned out to be cutting the first third, eliminating all sub plots, humor and clever words, most of the characters, changing the ending–and turning it from a sophisticated mystery to a category romance. Sort of a reverse Donald Maass edit. (The breakdown novel vs. the breakout novel) I actually considered this for a few hours–while my blood pressure rose and I felt as if my head were going to explode. I’ve been agented before and published before, but I’d never been asked to mutilate a book like that. I called a multi-published author friend who said “oh that’s just what edits are like. You have to prove you can take them graciously.” Prove I can take it? Like a gang initiation? Or an S/M cult? Watch my baby murdered before my eyes and not shed a tear? But you’re right. those are the rules. Writers do not say no. They take whatever gets shoveled on them and say “thank you sir.” But not this writer. I’m going to self pub. I am Writer; hear me roar! Anne A., you can also submit your books without an agent if you still want to go the traditional route. See my husband’s series on the myths of publishing. It includes that one. You don’t need an agent at all. Particularly one who wants to mutilate your work: http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/?page_id=860. Self-pubbing is a good response too. I love how we have all these options open to us now! Annie Reed says: I figured out a while ago that I’m unsuited for any other day job than the one I have because “You’ve got to be kidding me” is something I’ve been known to say from time to time. And the politics thing? My high school government teacher told me I’d be great in politics. Back then I’m sure she meant it as a compliment. Today? Not so much. Boy, though, did I recognize a lot of behaviors on that list, especially a lot of the “make do” items, like “I don’t need to be rich, I can make do with what I have.” I’m not sure if that comes from a blue-collar background that taught me to crave security, having values taught to me by my mother who in turn was taught by her mother who lived through the Great Depression, or just a reaction to the current economic turmoil. Whatever the root cause, I’m looking forward to what you do with that list in this series. Annie R., thanks for mentioning the Depression. That opened some memories for me (no, I’m not that old) that I can use here. And yes, I was told to go into politics too. That would have been…entertaining… I am from the midwest where going the extra mile is just what you do. But you guard yourself against parasites. (I had a friend from the South who never seemed to figure out how she kept losing friends by over-indulging in accepting generosity. She thought asking favors was just a social thing, and people were accepting because they wanted to hang out, and didn’t realize that in the frozen north, helping people is an obligation, and you don’t ask for help unless you actually need it.) When the airliner cabin loses pressure, you put the mask on yourself first, before helping others. THAT is the first rule of public service. That’s why the special tactics team of our local P.D. wears a cap with the symbol ” 1* ” on it. It’s a reminder that you only have one asterisk (i.e. one ass to risk). Once when I was a student in London, a slick professional beggar girl (dressed to the nines in full “Victorian waif” costume) talked us into giving her all our spare change. We figured hey, she deserved it for the performance. But on the way home, we ran into a real homeless guy and we had nothing to give him. Unthinking generosity only hurts the people who most need your help. There is nothing wrong with living the generosity lifestyle. (Imho, there’s nothing wrong with despising the whole Abundance movement, too.) But if you’re just thoughtlessly giving away everything so people will like you and take care of you, you’re being just as selfish as anybody else. Remember to put your mask on first. Remember that you only have one asterisk. Camille, excellent comment. I love that airliner comment. Perfect. And also good–how sometimes unthinking generosity ends up being harmful. Much to ponder here. Nancy Beck says: OMG, this is me, this is ME! I’ve always been blunt and have only tapered off (slightly) because I realized I was rubbing some people the wrong way. (I’m still blunt about a lot of things, though.) As for diplomacy, I never used to have ANY. But I’ve been married to a guy whose middle name is Diplomacy (actually it’s Paul, but I digress). And while I’ve picked up on that, I still have a long way to go. Don’t know if I’ll ever get to his level of that, and I’m not so sure I want to, lol. 🙂 And I couldn’t resist… What town? New York (London, Paris, Munich) …everybody talk about ::um:: Pop Music! (M was the name of the one-hit wonder, I think.) Yes, I was a tomboy when I was young; climbing trees was a specialty of mine. 🙂 Great, great post. Enjoyed it immensely and can’t wait for the rest of the series. Yeah, Nancy, diplomacy. I sure do understand it. I can do it for a while. And then…I get impatient, and that’s the end of that. I’m pleased to see so many other tree-climbers here. 🙂 Thanks. FrancisT says: Gosh this ties in remarkably well with Sarah A Hoyt’s post yesterday about how writer’s resemble batter women – http://madgeniusclub.com/2011/08/31/he-beats-me-but-he%e2%80%99s-my-publisher/ Francis, thanks for the link to Sarah’s post. I’ve been thinking something similar. Just didn’t know how to approach it. Glad Sarah has started the topic. I loved this whole post but at “This makes me unsuited for politics, most corporate jobs, and any place in which “You’ve got to be kidding,” is an unacceptable response to a command” I just howled with laughter as that was SUCH a great line! Thanks, Deborah. Sad, but true. LOL. Mercy Loomis says: “I figure if people don’t like me, they can leave.” Ahhh, this is why I like you so much. I feel the same way; I just always put it down to being a tomboy. (Who says I can’t climb trees in a dress? This is why I always wear shorts under skirts.) This should be a fun series. Can’t wait to read more! Mercy, where were you when I was a kid? I never thought of shorts. My mother would have had a fit. (I spent summers in my favorite tree–reading, and taunting the boys who couldn’t climb as high.) LOL L. M. May says: Oh my goodness, when I read your modified list that replaced the word “women” with “writers,” all I could do was shake my head because it fit so closely. I don’t know why things are this way, but I do believe that naming a problem is half the battle. Thanks so much for pointing out this mental pattern to writers. And if I may, I’d suggest tossing Dr. Martha Beck’s “The Four Day Win” onto the self-help pile. It’s pitched as a weight loss book, but over 2/3 of it is about the impact of destructive socialization patterns on eating disorders (i.e. some people use food instead of alcohol to deal with self-hatred and pain), and also explores various cognitive therapy techniques that are used to help people to break out of self-destructive life patterns. Thanks for the recommendation, Lisa (LM). Naming things always brings about a realization, but acting on that realization takes effort and understanding. So it’s just the start. I’ll look up the book. I’ve heard of Beck and heard that she’s good. Joe Vasicek says: Excellent post, as always. This got me to thinking about some of the anonymous agent and editor blogs out there, and how they occasionally put up poorly written query letters and other writerly gaffs for no other discernible reason than to provide amusement. Over time, I think that sends a very negative message to writers: that we’re all stupid, that we don’t know the business, and that everyone is secretly making fun of us behind our backs. I volunteer as a slushpile reader at a semi-pro sf&f magazine (Leading Edge) where we have a policy of sending a minimum of two detailed critiques to everyone who submits to us. While the majority of submissions have some pretty huge problems, whenever I find a good one I thank the author for letting me read it, even if I don’t end up recommending it to the editor. The editors whom I really admire (Lou Anders, Moshe Feder, etc) all seem to take this kind of a gracious attitude when interacting with new writers, and I appreciate them very much for it. Good points, Joe. The writers did put out an effort. We used forms at F&SF (had to: the submissions were overwhelming), but I quickly moved a writer from form to personal when I noticed that the writer was trying hard to break in. Then I could offer personal comments and encouragement. I always felt–and still do–that the encouragement is the most important part. David Barron says: Man, those self-help books are sexist! I like the “•Writers don’t get rich because they don’t envision themselves rich” one, though. I’ve ALWAYS envisioned myself rich, even when I was wandering the streets of downtown Seattle looking for work. (I got better.) It works! Also, I want to endorse the Freelancer’s Survival Guide. (I was tired of page-loads, so I picked up the eBook.) Solid. LOL, David. Yep. They are. But they sell (and clearly I have a few). I always found that dreaming about becoming rich helped me plan for the days when I did have money. And my definition of rich kept changing. (I guess we always look farther up the ladder.) Thanks for the FSG endorsement. Leave a Reply to Writing on the Ether: Your Media Sommelier \| Jane Friedman Cancel reply	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1363
__label__cc	0.540594	0.459406	Star Wars: Legacy (2013-2014) #12 Star Wars: Legacy (2013-2014) A meeting with an old friend lands Ania Solo in handcuffs! Now that she's a wanted criminal, even her pals Sauk and Imperial Knight Jao are wary of her. Held captive by one bounty hunter and pursued by another, Ania is oneblaster shot away from a life sentence, or death! Corinna Sara Bechko Gabriel Hardman Cover by: Agustin Alessio Movies & TV Science Fiction Star Wars: Legacy II Despite her famous heritage, Ania Solo is just a girl trying to make her way in a galaxy gone bad. But it all gets worse when she comes into possession of a lightsaber and an Imperial communications droid, and discovers she has been targeted for death! Star Wars: Legacy - War (2010-2011) Darth Krayt has returned from the "dead," stronger, more evil, and more determined than ever to crush the galaxy under his heel. With Emperor Roan Fel's Imperials, the Galactic Alliance, the Jedi, and even some of his own Sith followers arrayed against him, Krayt would seem overmatched, but his enemies have not reckoned with the power of the dark side! Star Wars: Dark Times - Out of the Wilderness (2011-2012) Darth Vader confronts a deadly assassin! The outlaw crew of the Uhumele arrives at the scene of Jedi Dass Jennir's last adventure, but Jennir is already gone! And half a galaxy away, Imperial fighters are shot out of the sky by an "unarmed" pleasure craft! Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith - Spiral (2012) On a planet ruled by a tribe of Sith, marooned thousands of years ago and cut off from the galaxy, the throne holder is about to be challenged by a power-hungry Sith rebel from the slums, and a thwarted royal Sith princess! Their few shared interests set them on a quest together, but most certainly not as partners! Star Wars: Dark Force Rising (1997) The Empire is dying, perhaps in its final throes and the ruthless warlord Grand Admiral Thrawn may have found just the firepower needed to take a bite out of the New Republic: Some two hundred Dreadnaught heavy cruisers, lost to hyperspace in the days of the Old Republic. Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewbacca may be up against more than they bargained for!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1364
__label__cc	0.567832	0.432168	19-day Annapurna Circuit Trek Kathmandu, Nepal, India Friends Adventure Team Fri, 02 Aug, 2019 Tue, 06 Aug, 2019 Wed, 07 Aug, 2019 Mon, 02 Sep, 2019 Tue, 03 Sep, 2019 Wed, 04 Sep, 2019 Thu, 05 Sep, 2019 Fri, 06 Sep, 2019 Tue, 01 Oct, 2019 Mon, 14 Oct, 2019 Tue, 05 Nov, 2019 Spend two weeks trekking in the shadows of the mighty Annapurna mountains and truly experience the Himalayas in all its glory. You'll climb up to an altitude of over 17,700 feet to cross the Thorang-La pass. You'll trek through the night to catch sunrise views of the Annapurna range from Poon Hill. You'll hike to the sacred temples of Muktinath, an important pilgrimage for Hindus and Buddhists. Throughout the 14-day trek, you'll be in awe of sacred Himalayan peaks from Mt. Manaslu, Mt. Annapurna II, Mt. Dhaulagiri and several more. You'll spend days hiking over mountainous trails, through dense woods of oak and pine. At night, you'll stay in basic lodges at quaint, hillside villages vibrantly painted in Buddhist culture with monasteries and prayer flags. NOTE: Price displayed is per person price for a booking of two travellers. The Annapurna Circuit trek, arguably one of the most rewarding treks in Nepal, showcases everything that the Annapurna mountains have to offer, from goosebump-inducing views of high peaks to overgrown thickets of rhododendron and fir. You'll enter the Annapurna Conservation Area from the east at the village of Chame, and follow the upstream course of the Marsyangdi River as it cuts across the valley. You'll cross the Thorang-La pass and begin trekking south at the village of Kagbeni. The trek ends as you exit the Annapurna Conservation Area at the village of Biretanthi and reach the city lights of Pokhara. • Spend almost two weeks in the alpine wilderness of the Himalayas. • Trek uphill to over 17,700 feet to cross the Thorang-La pass. • Trek to the sacred temples of Muktinath. • Hike up the slopes of Poon Hill to catch the morning sunrise. • Grab awe-inspiring views of Mt. Annapurna II, Mt. Gangapurna and more. Travellers are required to follow instructions of the trek leader during the Annapurna Circuit trek. Consumption of drugs is prohibited during the trek. Consumption of alcohol and tobacco products like cigarettes is not recommended. All cancellations made on or more than 20 days before departure of the Annapurna Circuit trek: 80% refund. All cancellations made less than 20 days before departure of the Annapurna Circuit trek: no refund. In case of no show: no refund. All refunds will be processed after deducting a transaction charge for international payments and transfers. Please check with us to find out what this charge will be for the Annapurna Base Camp trek. All refunds will be subject to a foreign currency premium/discount. The Annapurna Circuit trek is rated moderate to difficult in intensity. Accordingly, the trek is recommended only to travellers with prior experience of at least one high-altitude trek in the Himalayas. A high level of health and fitness is required to book this Annapurna Circuit trek. If you have any cardiac or respiratory conditions, or suffer from knee or spinal problems, please inform the tour operator and consult your doctor before booking this trip. This trek will take travellers to destinations from 6,000-17,000 feet, where travellers who have not properly acclimatized may experience acute mountain sickness. The tour operator reserves the right to alter or cancel the itinerary of the Annapurna Circuit trek due to bad weather conditions or other unforeseen circumstances to ensure maximum safety of travellers and staff. Travellers are required to bear any additional costs arising due to such a change in itinerary. The tour operator takes utmost care to ensure safety of the travellers and shall not be held responsible for any mishap, accident or loss of life during the Annapurna Circuit trek. Prices displayed are subject to fluctuations based on international currency exchange rates at the time of booking. Accordingly, prices displayed may be subject to a foreign currency premium/discount. State transport bus, private v Dharapani, Nepal Nayapul, Nepal Total trekking time Start point elevation Minimum elevation Day 1 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Arrive at Kathmandu Land at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport. Here, a representative of the tour operator will greet you and escort you to a hotel in the Thamel area of the city. You can spend the rest of the day at leisure. In the evening, you'll meet your trek leader who will brief you regarding the weather and itinerary of your upcoming Annapurna Circuit trek. Overnight in a hotel at Kathmandu. Day 2 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Day at Kathmandu Take a heritage tour of Kathmandu and visit some of the local places of interest in the capital city. You'll visit the Patan Durbar Square, the Pashupatinath Temple and the Boudhanath stupa. You can also visit the local marketplace to shop for any last minute essentials for the trek. Overnight in a hotel at Kathmandu. Day 3 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Kathmandu to Dharapani Today, you'll check-out of the hotel and board a state transport bus from Kathmandu to Besi Shahar. The bus will drive along the Prithvi Highway, offering first views of snow-clad Himalayan peaks on the horizon. From Besi Shahar, you'll travel to the base village of Dharapani in a private jeep. Overnight in a tea-house at Dharapani. Day 4 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Dharapani to Chame You'll begin the trek from Dharapani towards the day's destination of Chame. The trail offers gorgeous views of Mt. Manaslu and Mt. Annapurna II. En route, you can stop at small, quaint, hill-side villages to rest and catch your breath. The vibrant Buddhist culture of the natives in these villages comes alive with monasteries and prayer flags. You'll reach the village of Chame by late afternoon. Overnight in a tea-house at Chame. Day 5 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Chame to Pisang Trek from Chame to Pisang. The well-paved trail follows a gradually increasing path, presenting exciting challenges as you continue to gain altitude. Throughout the trek, you'll be accompanied by beautiful views of Mt. Lamjung Himal, Mt. Manaslu and several other high peaks in the Annapurna Conservation Area. At Pisang, you can sit back and relax to views of the setting sun behind the majestic silhouette of Mt. Annapurna II. Overnight in a tea-house at Pisang. Day 6 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Pisang to Ngawal While most trekkers in the Annapurna Circuit travel directly from Pisang to Manang, you'll take an extra day and spend the night at Ngawal. More than 300 feet higher than Manang, the village of Ngawal present incredible views of snow-swept slopes in the Annapurna range. Cloudless days bring views of Mt. Gangapurna. Halting at Ngawal also aids with the acclimatization process. Overnight in a tea-house at Ngawal. Day 7 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Ngawal to Manang Taking the same route forward, you'll set off from Ngawal. The trail will take you past the glacier-fed waters of the Marsyangdi River, past the villages of Braga and Humde, ending at Manang. From this point onward, the trail turns from a well-paved route to a rough, mountain trail, presenting new and exciting challenges ahead. Overnight in a tea-house at Manang. Day 8 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Day at Manang Spend the day at leisure in Manang. During the day, you can join the group for an optional hike to explore the village of Manang. Trekking in the high-altitude of the village, over 11,600 feet in the mountains, helps with the acclimatization process. Alternatively, you can also spend the day relaxing indoors. Overnight in a tea-house at Manang. Day 9 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Manang to Letdar Phedi Resume trekking and make your way deeper into the Annapurna Conservation Area, to the tea-houses of Letdar Phedi. The trail offers a change of scenery as you leave the snow-stormed peaks of the Annapurna ridge behind and trek in the opposite direction. Views of barren, brown and grey mountains, majestic and awe-inspiring, will dominate the horizon. Overnight in a tea-house at Letdar Phedi. Day 10 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Letdar Phedi to Thorang High Camp Early in the morning, you'll leave for the next destination on the trek, the Thorang High Camp. A short and easy trek from Letdar Phedi will bring you to the base at Thorang Phetdi. Here, you'll rest for a minute before beginning the strenuous and difficult climb to the Thorang High Camp. You'll climb over a narrow trail that steeply inches upward between two mountains. Upon reaching, you'll be rewarded with exquisite views of the entire Annapurna range. Overnight in a tea-house at Thorang High Camp. Day 11 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Thorang High Camp to Muktinath via Thorang-La Before the break of dawn, you'll wake up and begin the 3-hr, slow-paced climb from Thorang High Camp to the Thorang-La pass, the highest point of the Annapurna Circuit trek at an altitude of over 17,700 feet. After some time spent enjoying the view from Thorang-La, you'll descend from the other end of the pass and reach the town of Muktinath, site of a sacred Hindu temple. Overnight in a tea-house at Muktinath. Day 12 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Muktinath to Jomsom Continue descending from Muktinath and proceed towards Jomsom, in the lower Mustang region of the Annapurna Conservation Area. En route, you'll pass through the village of Kagbeni, where the trail will be joined by the Kali Gandaki River. In the afternoons, the trail can get quite windy since it passes through the valley, with the two towering ranges of Dhaulagiri and Annapurna on either side. Overnight in a tea-house at Jomsom. Day 13 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Jomsom to Tatopani You'll take a break from trekking and travel to the village of Tatopani in a vehicle. The 60-km drive takes you over a bumpy, dirt road for 3 hrs until you reach Tatopani. Here, you can spend the day at leisure. Explore the small village or visit the hot springs nearby. Overnight in a tea-house at Tatopani. Day 14 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Tatopani to Ghorepani Resume trekking and make your way deeper into the Annapurna Conservation Area, to the tea-houses of Ghorepani, a major stopping point for trekkers to the Annapurna Base Camp. With a gentle breeze in your hair, magnificent views of the mountains all around, you'll trek over a short and simple trail to Ghorepani. En route, you'll spot the ethnic Sherpa natives in the hillside villages of Chitre and Ghar Khola. Overnight in a tea-house at Ghorepani. Day 15 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Ghorepani to Tadapani via Poon Hill Before the break of dawn, you'll wake up and begin hiking uphill over the slopes of Poon Hill. With flashlights in your hand and down jackets on your back, you'll reach a vantage point on Poon Hill, just in time for the morning sunrise. You'll get panoramic views of the Annapurna mountains, awash in the yellow light of the sun. Descend from Poon Hill, stop at Ghorepani for a brief rest and continue trekking through open pastures to reach Tadapani. Overnight in a tea-house at Tadapani. Day 16 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Tadapani to Ghandruk A 4-hr trek from Tadapani, over a meandering trail through beautiful alpine woods of pine and oak, will take you to Ghandruk. Enjoy a calm and peaceful hike, with gorgeous views of the forested mountain slopes all around. The quaint village of Ghandruk is settled by the ethnic Gurung natives. Overnight in a tea-house at Ghandruk. Day 17 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Ghandruk to Pokhara On the final day of your Annapurna Circuit trek, you'll trek down to the village of Nayapul, passing alongside the banks of the Modi Khola River. En route, you'll check-out of the Annapurna Conservation Area at Birethanti. You'll board a private vehicle at Nayapul and travel back to the city life at Pokhara. Overnight in a hotel at Pokhara. Day 18 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Pokhara to Kathmandu Wake up early in the morning and board a state transport bus from Pokhara to Kathmandu. A 7-hr drive later, you'll be back in the capital city, after having spent two weeks in the heart of Himalayan wilderness. In the evening, you'll have a farewell dinner with your fellow trekkers to celebrate the end of the trek. Overnight in a hotel at Kathmandu. Day 19 of the Annapurna Circuit Trek: Depart from Kathmandu Take an airport transfer from your hotel to the airport and proceed to your next destination. Your trip ends here. Dharapani Trekking distance Trekking time Ngawal Manang Letdar Phedi Thorang High Camp Muktinath Tatopani Ghorepani Tadapani Ghandruk Airport transfers at Kathmandu in private vehicle Travel arrangements from Kathmandu-Besi Shahar and Pokhara-Kathmandu in tourist bus Travel arrangements from Besi Sahar-Dharapani, Jomsom-Tatopani and Nayapul-Pokhara is private car Accommodation in hotel at Kathmandu and Pokhara for 4 nights on twin-sharing basis Accommodation in tea-houses while trekking on twin/multi-sharing basis All meals from dinner on day 3 to breakfast on day 17, plus breakfast on days 2, 18, 19 and dinner on day 18 All government permits and entry fees Services of experienced, English-speaking trek leader and support staff Services of porters/mules to carry up to 12 kgs of personal luggage (one porter per two travellers) Technical and safety gear required during the trek, if any Sleeping bag, walking poles, trek map and duffel bag, if required Travel arrangements between home city and Kathmandu Lunch and dinner, during stay in Kathmandu and Pokhara Adventure travel insurance (recommended) Nepal visa arrangements and costs Personal expenses like apparel, gear, extra meals or beverages etc. Any costs arising due to unforeseen circumstances like bad weather, road blocks etc. Any additional cost due to fluctuations based on international currency exchange rates at the time of booking Full-sleeved t-shirts/shirts Sweaters and thermal wear Down jacket and windcheater Hiking shorts and full-length track pants/trousers Wool or synthetic hat/cap Gloves, socks, monkey cap and balaclava Water-resistant trekking shoes Expensive jewellery and gadgets Hard luggage like suitcases, trolley bags etc. Tight-fitting or uncomfortable apparel Private vehicle for airport transfers in Kathmandu Private jeep or similar vehicle for transport, as per itinerary Trekking pole, down jacket, trek map and sleeping bag, if required Rucksack (with rain cover) Sunglasses (with UV protection) Sunscreen lotion and lip balm Torch or flashlight (with spare battery) Dry snacks (dry fruits, protein/granola bars etc.) Local currency (Nepalese rupee) • Specific personal or prescribed medication • Personal first-aid kit Overnight in a hotel at Kathmandu. Arrive at Kathmandu and check-in to a hotel. You'll be accommodated at standard, 3-star hotel in the Thamel area of Kathmandu on twin-sharing basis. Since no meals are included in today's meal package, you can visit any of the restaurants in Kathmandu to have meals at your own expense. Take a heritage tour of Kathmandu city. An experienced guide will take you to local places of interest in a private vehicle. You'll be accommodated in the same hotel as yesterday. Today's meal package includes breakfast only. You can visit any of the restaurants in Kathmandu to have meals at your own expense. Overnight in a tea-house at Dharapani. Travel from Kathmandu to Besi Shahar in a tourist bus, travel from Besi Shahar to Dharapani in a private jeep or similar vehicle. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Dharapani. Today's meal package includes dinner only. En route to Besi Shahar, the bus will halt to allow travellers to have lunch and you can grab breakfast at Kathmandu, both at your own expense. Overnight in a tea-house at Chame. Trek from Dharapani to Chame. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Chame. Your trek leader will arrange accommodation at the best, available tea-house at every destination. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Overnight in a tea-house at Pisang. Trek from Chame to Pisang. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Pisang. If twin-sharing accommodation is unavailable, stay may be changed to triple/quad-sharing basis or multi-sharing dormitory rooms. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Overnight in a tea-house at Ngawal. Trek from Pisang to Ngawal. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Ngawal. A tea-house is a local, family-run lodge offering basic options of stay and food. They cater entirely to trekkers and mountaineers plying the route. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Overnight in a tea-house at Manang. Trek from Ngawal to Manang. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Manang. Most travellers prefer to bring their own sleeping bag for use during stay at tea-houses. The tour operator can arrange one for you, if requested in advance. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Spend the day at Manang. You can visit some of the local places of interest at Manang, such as the Gangapurna Lake or Ice Lake. You'll be accommodated in the same tea-house at Manang. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Overnight in a tea-house at Letdar Phedi. Trek from Manang to Letdar Phedi. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Letdar Phedi. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Meals are usually served from a menu at the tea-house. Egg preparations will be available on most days. Overnight in a tea-house at Thorang High Camp. Trek from Letdar Phedi to Thorang High Camp. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Thorang High Camp. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. While non-vegetarian options may be available, travellers are advised to have vegetarian meals for better health. Overnight in a tea-house at Muktinath. Trek from Thorang High Camp to Muktinath via Thorang-La pass. Throughout the trek, you'll be accompanied by an experienced and licensed trek leader a support staff of helpers and porters. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Muktinath. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Overnight in a tea-house at Jomsom. Trek from Muktinath to Jomsom. Throughout the trek, you'll be accompanied by a porter who will carry your personal luggage up to a maximum load of 12 kgs. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Jomsom. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Overnight in a tea-house at Tatopani. Drive from Jomsom to Tatopani. The 4-hr/60-km drive will take you over the Jomsom Sadak to Tatopani in a private car, jeep or similar vehicle. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Tatopani. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Overnight in a tea-house at Ghorepani. Trek from Tatopani to Ghorepani. The Annapurna Circuit trek requires the Annapurna Conservation Area Permit (ACAP) and the Trekker's Information Management System (TIMS) card. The tour operator will arrange these permits for you. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Ghorepani. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Overnight in a tea-house at Tadapani. Trek from Ghorepani to Tadapani. During the trek, you're trek leader will carry a comprehensive first aid kit, for use if required. You're encouraged to carry your own, personal first aid kit as well. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Tadapani. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Overnight in a tea-house at Ghandruk. Trek from Tadapani to Ghandruk. If requested in advance, the tour operator can arrange a sleeping bag, duffel bag and trekking pole, for use during the trek. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Ghandruk. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Overnight in a hotel at Pokhara. Trek from Ghandruk to Nayapul and drive from Nayapul to Pokhara. The 2-hr/40-km drive will take you over the national highway, Baglung Rajmarg, to Pokhara in a private car, jeep or similar vehicle. You'll be accommodated in a hotel at Pokhara on twin-sharing basis. Today's meal package includes breakfast only. You can have additional meals en route to Pokhara at your own expense. Travel from Pokhara to Kathmandu in a tourist bus. You'll be accommodated at standard, 3-star hotel in the Thamel area of Kathmandu on twin-sharing basis. Today's meal package includes breakfast and dinner only. Dinner will be arranged at a popular restaurant in Kathmandu. Your trip ends by late morning. Today's meal package includes breakfast only. Take a transfer from your hotel to the airport and proceed to your next destination. Kathmandu is well-connected to most major cities via flights to Tribhuvan International Airport. For Indian travellers, most major air carriers operate daily flights from New Delhi. Google Maps pin: https://goo.gl/maps/5C1ERTNU15u The tour operator will arrange your transport to the start point of the Annapurna Circuit trek.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1365
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__label__wiki	0.589837	0.589837	Home Family Law Texas Beaumont Beaumont, Texas Family Lawyers Matthew Daws Beaumont, TX Family Law Lawyer with 6 years experience (409) 838-6000 4055 Dowlen Road Free ConsultationFamily, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury Texas Tech University School of Law Originally from the Beaumont area, Malachi Daws is familiar with the heritage of Southeast Texas. He is dedicated to providing the people of this community with personalized legal care and advocacy. Malachi has seen how the momentary actions of others can bring about consequences that forever change the lives of those injured and their families. Many times, these injuries leave behind more than physical scars, often causing mental anguish and emotional heartache. He is committed to helping his clients repair all aspects of their lives touched by personal tragedy. Malachi has tried multiple cases resulting in multi-million dollar jury verdicts, including a... Bryan Evan McEachern Beaumont, TX Family Law Attorney with 15 years experience (409) 892-1611 2905 Toccoa Road Family, Business, Divorce and Estate Planning Richard Norwood Evans II Beaumont, TX Family Law Lawyer with 38 years experience (409) 838-0522 505 Orleans Family, Business, Insurance Claims and Landlord Tenant Baylor Law School Life long Southeast Texas resident, Richard has been serving the area in the practice of civil trial law since 1981 with experience in family law, wills and probate, and residential real estate, as well as civil trials he has a full range of experience for your legal needs. Jim Bearden Orange, TX Family Law Lawyer with 54 years experience (409) 883-4501 116 Border St Orange, TX 77630 Family, Criminal Defense and Divorce "Sharon" began his legal career in 1965 and has amassed over 47 years of experience. During that time, he was elected as Justice of The Peace, County Attorney, and District Attorney of Orange County, Texas. Sharon has compiled an unparelled record at trial. Over the 47 years, Sharon has tried more than 700 cases, winning an overwhelming majority of these cases. He primarily handles criminal cases, divorce cases, and child custody cases. Sharon is a member of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the Orange County Bar Association and the Jefferson County Bar Association. He was the... Chadwick G Robison (409) 883-2423 805 Henderson Ave Free ConsultationFamily, Consumer, Criminal Defense and Divorce Stewart Madison Butler Kountze, TX Family Law Attorney with 11 years experience (409) 246-3600 1035 Redwood Kountze, TX 77625 Free ConsultationFamily, Divorce, Personal Injury and Products Liability C. Bruce Stratton Liberty, TX Family Law Attorney (936) 336-5766 609 Travis Liberty, TX 77575 Brett Christiansen Galveston, TX Family Law Attorney with 19 years experience (214) 838-3501 7310 Seawall Blvd. Suite 602 Free ConsultationFamily, Divorce, Estate Planning and Probate For your Family Law, Probate and Business Legal Needs call Brett at (214) 838-3501. Successful representation of clients in divorce, complex property division and post-divorce modifications Drafting and negotiation of premarital and post-marital agreements Representation of clients in child custody disputes and enforcements of existing orders relating to custody and possession Representing clients in probate of wills and intestate estates Design and implementation of complex estate plans for all sizes of estates Acting as attorney ad litem in heirship determination and guardianship proceedings Conceptualization, implementation, and management of comprehensive legal strategy contributing to company growth from a $300K single-location organization to $100M international value-added reseller... Amir Tavakkoli Houston, TX Family Law Lawyer with 4 years experience (832) 800-5590 3707 Cypress Creek Pkwy Free ConsultationFamily, Criminal Defense, Divorce and Personal Injury Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law Amir Tavakkoli, founder of the firm, was the Vice President of his law school class and graduated Summa Cum Laude. His legal and political experiences include working with Judge Kyle Carter in the 125th Harris County Civil Courthouse, U.S. Representative Al Green, State Representative Garnet Coleman, the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, and the Houston Bar Association. Amir was also a research assistant at his law school. Amir has successfully tried judge and jury cases in family, criminal, and civil matters. Brian Douglas Walters The Woodlands, TX Family Law Lawyer with 22 years experience 9595 Six Pines Dr. #8210 Family and Divorce Hi, I'm Brian. I was born in Florida, the son a career Marine Corps officer. After living all over the world and graduating from high school in West Germany, I returned to Texas and graduated from Texas A&M University in 1993 with a BBA. I then graduated from The University of Texas Law School in 1996. I've practiced exclusively family and divorce law since then. I was Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in 2003 and am remain so today. Me and my staff work hard for our clients and are 100... Bryan Joseph Fagan Free ConsultationFamily, Criminal Defense and Divorce I’ve wanted to be a lawyer since I was a little kid and saw the film version of John Grisham’s The Pelican Brief. I had no idea I would be representing families across the state of Texas in difficult and emotional divorces. Where did I start to get here? Not where you’d think. To be perfectly honest, I was born in Denver, Colorado, but I came to Texas as soon as I could when I was seven years old. I am one of four children – two natural-born children and two brothers who were adopted. I attended the South Texas... Allecia Pottinger Bellaire, TX Family Law Attorney with 23 years experience (832) 930-0997 6300 West Loop South, Suite 610 Bellaire, TX 77401 Family, Divorce, Employment and Personal Injury Texas Southern University Allecia Lindsey Pottinger, J.D., attended Texas Southern University where she received her Bachelor degree in Sociology, and Juris Doctorate. She became licensed to practice law in the State of Texas in 1995 and started her solo-practice. In 1997, Allecia started working for the NAACP as the staff attorney and later became their legal program director. She is currently working as a hearing examiner for the Texas Education Agency and an independent practitioner who founded the Allecia Lindsey Pottinger Law Firm, PLLC. She was the recipient of the Houston Lawyers Associations’ Outstanding Service Award and the NAACP’s... Mark Oxford League City, TX Family Law Attorney with 6 years experience Family, Business, Consumer and Immigration Western Michigan University and Western Michigan University Attorney Mark Oxford, founder of the Oxford Law Firm, is licensed to practice law in California, Texas and Minnesota. At the firm, our mission is to provide the highest quality legal representation to all of our clients. We handle all cases, no matter how small or large the business, corporation or legal problem. We offer our legal service in English, Arabic language and Russian language. Attorney Oxford, a former civilian employee of the United States Department of Defense, has J.D. degree in law with concentration on Administrative Law, an M.A. degree in National Security and Counter-Terrorism, and an LL.M.degree... Jeredith Elaine Jones Conroe, TX Family Law Attorney with 10 years experience (936) 756-3930 203 Simonton St Free ConsultationFamily, Criminal Defense, Divorce and Domestic Violence St. Mary's University School of Law Jeredith Jones has been practicing law since 2008 exclusively in Montgomery County, Texas. Her focus is Family Law, Divorces, Child Custody and all manner of Criminal Defense representation. She has significant experience in trial before juries, trials before judges, child abuse, spousal abuse, custody, drug use, division of the marital estate, adoption, step-parent adoption, DWI representation, misdemeanor representation, and felony representation. With a diverse background as a Child Abuse Investigator with the Waco Child Protective Services, Jeredith Jones brings a unique perspective and extensive experience to each of her client’s cases. Jeredith worked one on one with individuals in crisis,... Bruce Coane Houston, TX Family Law Attorney with 37 years experience (713) 850-0066 5177 Richmond Avenue Family, Employment and Immigration Pennsylvania State University - University Park Mr. Coane received a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honors from Penn State University in 1979. He received a Juris Doctor Degree in Law from the University of Houston in 1981, and is Board Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is licensed by the Supreme Court of Texas and has been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United State Court of Appeals in Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Atlanta and San Francisco. He is also admitted to practice by the U.S. District Court for the Northern... Natalie Nga Le HOUSTON, TX Family Law Attorney with 4 years experience (832) 559-0923 6833 W. SAM HOUSTON PKWY S. Free ConsultationFamily, Divorce and Personal Injury Attorney Natalie Nga Le: A hallmark of a good attorney is determination. Our Houston attorneys at Le Law Group all possess a great deal of drive, both personally and professionally. Chiefly, each of them are driven to achieve the best results for their clients, providing for their needs legally, financially, and emotionally. That drive is a defining trait of the work we do at our firm. However, that drive often appears in other ways. For Attorney Natalie Le, her drive became obvious early on. She graduated with her Bachelor’s from the Denver University in only 3 years, moving on... Joshua Zientek (832) 303-0039 25211 Grogans Mill Rd Family, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Divorce I represent clients in Criminal Law and Family Law matters in Conroe, Montgomery County, Texas and throughout Texas. I defend in DWI, Criminal Defense, and Appeals. Additionally, I represent clients in family law proceedings such as Divorce, Child Custody, Adoption, and CPS cases. I have extensive experience representing clients in parole revocation hearings as well. Feel free to call my office to schedule a consultation or make an appointment. Yo hablo Espanol. Se usted necesita un abogado, yo puedo ayudar. Eu falo Portugues. Si voce precisa um avogado, eu posso ajudar. Chidi D. Anunobi (832) 538-0833 1415 North Loop West Ste. 1140 Free ConsultationFamily, Business, Divorce and Medical Malpractice Chidi D. Anunobi is the Principal Attorney and founder of AnunobiLaw PLLC. Chidi's is a trial attorney and focuses on litigating complex business and commercial disputes and highly contested divorce and family law cases. Chidi practices in courts all over Texas however, he primarily focuses his practice in Harris, Montgomery and Fort Bend counties. Chidi has a unique blend of legal, business and technology skills gained from his broad based work experience and his extensive academic training. Chidi was formerly a Senior Software Engineer at Verizon Communications. After Verizon, Chidi worked as a management/technology consultant for over ten years for... David Minh Nguyen (281) 777-1236 12828 Veterans Memorial Drive Free ConsultationFamily, Estate Planning, Immigration and Probate Attorney David Nguyen received his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Houston. During his undergraduate studies, Attorney Nguyen developed a passion for minority-related issues when he enrolled in a course in African American studies. This course allowed Attorney Nguyen to explore the historical, cultural, political, economic, and social development [or lack thereof] of minorities in the United States. After completing his undergraduate studies, Attorney Nguyen attended Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law, which has been ranked number one in achieving diversification in its student body. Attorney Nguyen has worked as an Attorney for private law firms and... Masah S SamForay Katy, TX Family Law Lawyer with 13 years experience (832) 919-6400 24556 Kingsland Blvd. Family, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Estate Planning Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington Masah S. SamForay, has earned national recognition as a force for her clients. Beyond being recognized as a Top 100 Lawyer, Masah SamForay knows the concerns of clients, intimately. She is a divorcee and working mother who understands what it means to fight for her family during a difficult divorce. Atty. SamForay is a Co-Founder and Past-President of the Black Bar Association of Will County. She is a member of the Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago, Inc. and served on the 2017-2018 Board and as the Co-Chair of the Small and Solo Firm Committee from 2013-2016. She is a... Cheryl Alsandor (713) 661-9783 3801 Kirby Dr Family, Divorce and Domestic Violence Rahlita D. Thornton Free ConsultationFamily, Divorce, Insurance Claims and Personal Injury Houston Personal Injury Lawyer Attorney Rahlita D. Thornton has been committed to personal attention to clients for almost 30 years dealing with Accidents, Car Accidents, Injury or Wrongful Death. The main goal is to obtain maximum compensation after a personal injury occurs. Free consultations 888-343-4529. Car Accidents, 18 wheeler truck accidents, personal injury law, bus accidents, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, bicycle accidents, commercial vehicle accidents, distracted driving accidents, drunk driving accidents, fatality accidents involving catastrophic injuries are among those handled. Attorney Rahlita D. Thornton’s success as a personal injury accident lawyer comes from experience and her analytical... Fiza Syed The Woodlands, TX Family Law Attorney with 5 years experience (832) 534-3529 21 Waterway Free ConsultationFamily, Divorce and Domestic Violence University of Houston Law Center and SMU Dedman School of Law As a Houston Native, Fiza Syed witnessed early on the snowball effect poor legal representation can have when she volunteered at local legal justice clinics. Early on, she knew she wanted to pursue a law career. After college graduation, Ms. Syed interned at the Attorney General Child Support Division to better understand family legal matters. She then moved to Dallas to complete law school at SMU Dedman School of Law. During law school, she interned and clerked at various law firms in order to obtain real life experience in criminal, family and business law. While in law school, she... Robert Musemeche Free ConsultationFamily, Business, Divorce and Probate Mr. Musemeche is a native Houstonian, and Board Certified litigator with 30 years of experience in civil trial and appellate practice. Rob has built a litigation practice focused on all aspects of family law, including custody and divorce, along with business and general civil litigation. Rob has a reputation for being aggressive, smart and able to resolve highly complex legal matters with creative solutions and solid case preparation. Rob’s clients include successful individuals, professionals, small business owners, corporations and entrepreneurs. Farah Kamal Houston, TX Family Law Lawyer with 10 years experience (713) 524-4529 7457 Harwin drive Family, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Immigration Kamal Law Firm, PLLC is a General Practice Law Firm serving Houston and surrounding cities including but not limited to Sugarland,Humble, Spring, Kingwood,wharton, Richmond, Rosenberg,Woodlands etc. Kamal Law Firm emphasizes on family law(divorces,custody,child support,adoptions,name changes), immigration, business formation, tax matters,bankruptcy. We have two office locations one in SW Houston and second in North Houston. Ruby K Bolton Tomball, TX Family Law Attorney with 24 years experience (281) 351-7897 724 West Main Street Ruby Bolton brings 24 years of experience to your side. She is board certified as a family law specialist by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. The Bolton Law Firm handles complex family law issues, such as high net worth divorces, child custody battles, paternity disputes, and the characterization of separate and community property. The Bolton Law Firm, PC can also assist you with a collaborative divorce and represent you in reaching a peaceful settlement through the mediation process. Ruby Bolton has five children and has been through her own divorce and is happily remarried. She is a regular... Carl J Selesky (713) 780-9595 5225 Katy Freeway, #605 Free ConsultationFamily, Business and Divorce Admitted to practice since 1994 and formed the Selesky Law Firm in 2004. The Firm is service oriented and litigation intensive. The Firm handles family law and commerical cases throughout Southeast Texas in their Houston office and the Texas Hill Country in their Austin office. The Firm has been built by building relationships with clients one case at a time. Tasha Ricks Bellaire, TX Family Law Lawyer with 6 years experience (832) 226-1153 6300 West Loop South Free ConsultationFamily and Divorce Every client matters to me. I care about every client and their family. I have a proven track record of success in family cases. You can expect me to hit the ground running and make your case a priority. I exclusively practice family law and focus on Divorce, Custody, Visitation, Modification, and Child Support. I am a member of the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Texas and Family Law Section of the Houston Bar Association. I am a graduate of South Texas College of Law, Rice University, and the University of Houston-Clear Lake. I am licensed... Robert Kalish (281) 363-3700 3 Grogan's Park Dr., Ste 200 Bob Kalish grew up on Long Island, New York. After earning a B.A. in Psychology, he moved to Texas to continue his education. He obtained a Master's degree in Psychology and worked as Director of behavioral unit in a state program for persons with disabilities. He is a graduate of South Texas College of Law. He founded the Kalish Law Firm in The Woodlands, Texas in 1984. Bob practices in the areas of family law, divorce, complex assets division, estate planning, business law and real estate. Bob and his firm are dedicated to making the legal process understandable and providing... W. Tyler Moore (713) 492-0998 5005 Woodway Drive Family and Business Rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell; Houston Magazine's Top Family Lawyers; National Academy of Family Lawyers - Nationally Ranked Top 10 Attorney Award 2014; Board Certified in Family Law and in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization James Reid Perry II (713) 320-5224 11707 counselor st Family, Criminal Defense, Divorce and Estate Planning J. Reid Perry, Attorney at Law, has been providing legal representation services for over 17 years as a solo practitioner. Serving Northwest Houston/Harris County, Montgomery County and Waller County; Reid is dedicated to helping his neighbors find solutions to their legal matters, whether this includes informal or formal mediation, a collaborative approach, or litigation. Reid's number one goal is to provide high-quality affordable legal representation while treating all his clients with dignity and respect. Reid believes most of his clients are best served by finding collaborative solutions to their family law issues, but is willing and able to... Mr. Alex Hunt Katy, TX Family Law Attorney (832) 781-0320 23212 Red River Drive Family, Arbitration & Mediation and Divorce Alex Hunt is a trusted family lawyer with experience in a wide range of family law matters, including complex child custody disputes, high-asset property divisions and divorces, and enforcements and modifications of existing court orders. He prides himself on providing ethical, responsive representation to all of his clients. His goal is to always ensure clients' rights and assets are protected, while keeping costs low and stress at a minimum. Alex's goal is to always provide client-focused representation. He is passionate about protecting important assets and rights. Clients will receive sound counsel that guides them through the legal process and helps... Tad Nelson Galveston, TX Family Law Lawyer with 27 years experience (409) 765-5614 1919 Sealy Free ConsultationFamily, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Divorce Owner of a boutique criminal and DWI defense firm that lives by the saying, "Big city experience, small town values." A firm that is more concerned with it's clients, our client's family, and our client's peace of mind during the process than the fee the client pays. It is a privilege to represent our clients in court and protect their rights. We also serve our clients in family and divorce law. Houston DWI Lawyer Tad A. Nelson. Michael Glynn Busby Jr (713) 974-1151 6100 Corporate Drive Suite 190 Free ConsultationFamily, Bankruptcy, Collections and Divorce MacKenzie Alexander Dunham Houston, TX Family Law Attorney with 1 year experience (832) 772-6743 701 San Jacinto St #52820 Family, Consumer, Criminal Defense and Divorce MacKenzie is an experienced litigator who believes that everyone should have access to affordable legal help during the most important moments of their lives. MacKenzie is passionate about serving those who don't have access to an affordable attorney: those in the middle, who are work hard everyday but could be easily crippled by a legal setback. Prior to founding Access Justice Houston MacKenzie worked at a Houston consumer law firm dedicated to protecting the rights of his clients from deceptive trade practices and scams. MacKenzie went to law school at the University of Houston Law Center where he focused on... Cindy Diggs (713) 802-1777 5300 Memorial Dr #900 Cindy Diggs has practiced law for over 25 years in Houston and the surrounding areas. She is a specialist in all types of family law and divorce cases. Ms. Diggs earned her juris doctorate from The University of Texas School of Law in 1984, where she was an Associate Editor of the Texas Law Review and a member of the Order of the Barristers. She also represented the university as a member of its National Moot Court Team and National Mock Trial Team. In addition, Cindy is a founding member and served on the Advisory Board of the Houston Urban... Mary E. Ramos (713) 225-6200 1214 Miramar Street Family, Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Domestic Violence Mary E. Ramos is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specializations. She is an experienced family law attorney recognized and respected throughout the Houston legal community for dedication in effectively representing clients' rights and interests. Mary understands the emotional side of divorce and brings a special compassion to each and every case. She also offers clients knowledgeable and competent legal advice with the following family law goals. She also offers clients knowledgeable and competent legal advice with the following family law goals. Educate the client about the law and court procedures Explore options and... Armand Jawanmardi (713) 999-9115 1046 Rutland St Family, Immigration and Personal Injury The University of Texas School of Law Houston immigration attorney Armand Jawanmardi is an attorney who has lived through and understands immigration issues on a personal and professional level. Born to an immigrant father, Armand has seen first-hand the difficulties a person can have adjusting and creating a new life in a foreign country. He has also lived abroad and has experienced what it is like to be a guest in a different country. Armand aggressively defends the rights of immigrants. He concentrates his practice solely in the area of immigration law. He is not afraid to litigate your case in court and does not back down... L. Bradley Johnson (281) 771-1690 18333 Egret Bay Blvd. Free ConsultationFamily, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Domestic Violence SMU Dedman School of Law After 24 years of active service in the United States Navy as a Hospital Corpsman, Brad Johnson retired as a Chief Petty Officer and resumed the pursuit of his childhood goal, a career in law. Beginning as a legal assistant in Dallas, he attended evening classes at SMU’s Dedman School of Law and graduated in 2008. Knowing that he intended to focus his practice on family law, he concentrated his studies in that area as much as possible, serving as the President of the Student Family Law Association and liaison to the Dallas Bar Association’s Family Law Section during his... Simone R. Bray Free ConsultationFamily, Criminal Defense and Personal Injury Simone R. Bray is the founder and managing attorney of Simone R. Bray, Attorney at Law. She practices criminal, family, and personal injury law. She has worked extensively in proving the innocence of her clients including misdemeanors, felonies, and white collar crimes. She has also worked on divorce cases that required dividing property and determining child custody. Finally, Simone has gone to battle with the insurance companies and negotiated favorable settlements for injured clients. Simone has a unique passion for helping every person she meets. When it comes to her clients, Simone works diligently and swiftly to protect their... Family Attorneys in Nearby Cities Family Attorneys in Nearby Counties The Oyez Lawyer Directory contains lawyers who have claimed their profiles and are actively seeking clients. 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__label__wiki	0.587764	0.587764	Site Help (Listowel Minor Hockey Association) PrintWebsite Help There are three main areas of navigation which are available on every page on this site. The main organization menu will always be shown horizontally across the page and will contain links to pages with information which is not specific to any single team, league, tournament, or vendor. The left-hand column will contain a menu listing either all the leagues & teams setup for the current season or all the pages available for the selected league, team, tournament, or vendor. Lastly, the very top-right of each page will contain links to a contact page, a sitemap, this help page, and other helpful links. Site Modes The site will operate in the following modes: Organization, League, Team, Tournament, and Vendor. The default mode is Organization, and it is the parent of the other modes. The site can be returned to organization mode by clicking any of the items in the main menu. When the site is in any other mode, all information displayed is filtered to show only items relevant to that league, team, tournament, or vendor. Administrators also have the ability to mark certain information as major, which will make those items visible on the relevant pages in both the parent and child modes (if there are any). Page Types Each mode will have the option to add various types of pages to its menu, such as a home page, a calendar, a news archive, and so on. Some page types will only be available in certain modes, such as a roster page which is only available in team mode. The URL (or web address) of most page types has been made as intuitive as possible where you could guess the address of the page if you are unable to locate it in the menu. For example, the organization calendar is available here: http://listowelminorhockey.ca/Calendar. Some of the most common page types include: Home: The home page will usually show the most recent article for the selected mode, a short list of other recent articles and upcoming events, a calendar of the next five days for that mode, and so on. In some modes it will also include the team or organization record and any upcoming games. Articles: The articles page will list all the articles submitted to the site for the selected mode, in reverse-chronological order (newest articles first). In general, articles are never deleted from the site so you can always go back and read articles from the past. Schedule: The schedule page will show a table of all the games scheduled for the selected mode, including links to the venue for each as well as a link to the game details page if the score has been recorded. Calendar: Calendars will display all games, practices, events, and tournaments scheduled for the selected mode. A full month is shown when in team mode, and two weeks for all other modes. You can navigate the calendar forward and backward by using the links provided on the page. Libraries: The site allows administrators to create three different kinds of libraries: images, documents, and media. The libraries pages will create useful lists of the items in that library. Contact: The contact page will show, for the current season, all executive contacts, organization staff, coaches, and team personnel on a single page. Most organizations also include their physical mailing address on this page. Every page on this site is printer-friendly! Using your browser's built-in print button will automatically remove the header, left column, and right-column (if there is one) on the page being printed. Most pages also include a print button which mimics the built-in print button of your browser. 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__label__cc	0.518569	0.481431	Belated Newspilez: Here’s our Graham (or Lauren) With a Quick Recap… April 8, 2011 Filed under: Aviva Premiership,Heineken Cup,Interviewpilez,Leicester Tigers,Leinster,London Wasps,Magners League,Munster,Newspilez,Ospreys,Random,Saracens — Manpilez @ 1:53 am Tags: Amlin, Ben Lewis, Ben Youngs, cai griffiths, Conor McInerney, Danny Care, David Flatman, Gavin Henson, Heiniken Cup, Mark Cueto, Nigel Owens, Northampton, ospreys, Quins, Sale, Tigers Hey, look we didn’t die of anti-climax from the last weekend of the Six Nations! An anti climax so severe it managed to leave everyone but Ireland lower in the table than they’d seemed to be heading and lead to the silverware being dished out in what looked like a cupboard. With every one of the Six Nations returning to base camp with their tails between their legs, there seems to have been something of a resurgence in the domestic game. Though the Magners League and Aviva Premierships rattled on really rather nicely during the competition, the wounded internationals appear to have returned purely to prove their mettle and so the race to the respective playoffs has become mightily interesting over the last few weeks. In particular, the Aviva Premiership felt like a cup final weekend last week, and that was no more felt than at The Stoop, where visitor Leicester Tigers beat Harlequins in one of the most closely and fiercely fought clashes we’ve seen all year. Punches, failed scrums, contentious tries, yellow & red cards and at one point, boots, were flying all over the place. It was messy, but boy was it exciting as both teams played their skins off. The Citing commissioner had a mightily busy weekend all of his own and as well as Quins’ Joe Marler and Tigers’ Marcos Ayerzer’s bans for their fisticuffs towards the end of the match, Mark Cueto found himself in trouble after getting a little too far up in the grill of Northampton Second Rower Christian Day. The wait till Cuets’ hearing will be a particularly long one for England fans, as ‘contact with the eye or eye area’ can attract a ban of as much as two years. In the Magners league, things weren’t quite so fraught but that’s not to say they were any less exciting. With the leaderboard painfully close and just three weekends left to go, the competition is massively hotting up and Munster v Leinster in particular had supporters in fever pitch, only for Munster to scrape past their visitors with a 24-23 victory. Meanwhile, the South Wales Derby of Ospreys v Blues ended in a draw after both teams defended their actual bottoms off to end 21-21 without a single try being scored. Both leagues are having an off-week this week to allow for the excitement that is Heineken and Amlin Quarter Finals which means the madness has descended. .. Saracens, now without the media whirlwinds of Brendan Ventner and Gavin Henson have caused a stir this week by spending their week off training with the Miami Dolphins and taunting members of rival teams via social networks. Expect a lot of forward passes at Vicarage Road in the coming weeks as they try and secure their place in the Home Playoff zone Ben Youngs, fresh from thrown-out-ball-gate, has become Leicester’s Karl Pilkington after a mystery member of the Tigers squad has started a twitter account @stuffbensaid. So far it has featured such gems as : “ME: I heard you’re doing a session with Kyren Bracken Every Fortnight Lendrid: I am, but not every fortnight, he’s only up twice a month”. Tom Croft has also managed to convince Ben that they could breed salmon ready stuffed with cream cheese. No, really. The Ospreys have sadly had to lose two players to enforced retirement on medical grounds in the space of a week. Firstly Ben Lewis was taken away from the Liberty Stadium by a nasty neck injury sustained early in the season, and young lock Conor McInerny has succumbed to a persistent knee injury. We wish them both all the best of luck for the future. Gavin Henson scored his first try for Toulon. The media have dubbed him The Best Player In The Universe again. We’re going to give him a few weeks before we pass judgement. Closer to home, you’ll hopefully be pleased to hear that during our absence we’ve been away plotting for more great stuff for the next few weeks, and you know what, you’re going to love it. Not that we’re blowing our own trumpet or owt. We’ve lined up some cracking interviews over the next few weeks to fuel your excitement as the season comes to a head. First to get a grilling will be winner of your favourite nudey picture, Harlequins scrum half Danny Care, then we’ll be heading west to bother Bath prop David Flatman and finally over the border to annoy Ospreys prop Cai Griffiths and referee Nigel Owens. And we’ve even got lovely lady rugbyist Jemma Cooper from Quins’ Ladies giving us her twopenneth. Blimey. As ever, because we’re lovely, if there’s anything you’re dying to know, get in touch with us in the usual ways. This week we’ll be down at the Stoop for the Amlin Cup Quarter final clash between Quins and Wasps, so if you see us, say hello! Rawr Data – Team Profile: Aironi September 7, 2010 Filed under: Aironi,Heineken Cup,Magners League,Rawr Data,Team Profile — Manpilez @ 10:15 pm Tags: aironi, Heineken Cup, Magners League It’s time to cast an eye over the contenders in this year’s Magners and Heineken leagues and what better place to start than the most unexpected… that’s right, Aironi. Who? AIRONI. Once more with feeling “Shall I tackle Aironi?” I jokingly asked when Lauren suggested we profile the Magners and Heineken League teams. Of course she said yes, on the grounds that “No one knows anything about them”. I was hoping that this might mean I could spin some convincing lies about the squad for whom the word “underdog” might have been invented. They’ve got a mute fly half. A lock with royal parentage. Their kits were sewn by six young virgins in a moonlit glade. One too far? Your first lesson is a simple one: “aironi” is Italian for “heron”. Got that? Good. It gets a hell of a lot more perplexing from here on in. Not to be confused with popular beat combo Aironi Aironi are a new squad, enough so that they probably smell of MDF and emulsion. There’s a horrible air of marketing cynicism surrounding them, especially when the Director of Celtic Rugby states that the inclusion of Italian teams in the league will “dramatically broaden the appeal of our product”, not to mention the numerous financial motivations and alibis surrounding the whole baffling business (Aironi is, ostensibly, a franchise). That spiel aside, it is nice to see Italian teams getting the chance to experience some international club tournaments and to anticipate a winter trend for Irish cider on the Med. If you’ve checked out The Pilez to Watch in 2010/11, you’ll have seen that Lauren was riding the crest of a particularly optimistic wave by giving Aironi a nod. While their first game in the Magners League saw them fall to Munster in a 33-17 defeat, it wasn’t as easy a win for the Musgrave Park boys as most would have anticipated and it will be interesting to see if Aironi can keep up the pace as the tournament progresses… Words by Anna, photos by Aironi and Aironi (scroll over for details) The ‘Pilez to Watch in 2010/11 September 5, 2010 Filed under: Aironi,Aviva Premiership,Bath,Cardiff Blues,Leicester Tigers,Leinster,Magners League,Ospreys,Picks and Predics,Saracens — Manpilez @ 5:48 pm Tags: aironi, Aviva, bath, Cardiff Blues, Leicester Tigers, leinster, Magners, ospreys, picks'n'predics, saracens So, this weekend the UK season has well and truly kicked off. To say we’ve waitied with baited breath would be an understatement. Our first season as a ‘proper’ blog means not only do we now have a cast iron excuse to watch barely healthy amounts of the truly beautiful game, but also that we get to share all of our hair-brained theories with you lovely folk. Coming up is the Manpilez guide to this year’s passers and ruckers… The Aviva Premiership Now we’re going to be honest here, we’ve never really paid that much attention to the tournament formerly known as Guinness before, but not only do we feel it’s our duty to sit up and take notice of what’s happening in England now we’ve got a blog to write, but it’s actually looking to be quite exciting this time around. We’ve been crunching numbers and reading articles out the wazoo to come up with our top three seeds. You guys feel free to argue, and we’ll get ready to eat our words if need be. 800,000 times winners Leicester are a consistently strong side and after taking the trophy in a really rather dramatic final at the end of last season, they’re going into 2010/11 on a high. These boys are also gunning quite fiercely for European victory this year after consistently butting heads with the Ospreys in the group stages for the last few years. This year, safe in the knowledge that their arch rivals are in the Pool Of Death, they’ll be going the extra mile to prove their mettle. Expected placing: Top two One to Watch: Tom Croft, he’s big and fast One to force yourself not to get distracted by: Tom Croft…. and sexy too… After a rather shaky start to last season caused by some severe unrest in both the team and the management structure, Bath started to come into their own towards the end of term and with new coach God – sorry – Ian McGeechan on board, along with some high profile new signings including England captain Lewis Moody, it really feels like something exciting is happening over in the land of Spas. One To Watch: Matt O’Banahanahanahan One to force yourself not to get distracted by: Olly ‘Oh sorry we’re not used to seeing you with clothes on’ Barkley Even with their chief Brendan Ventner seeming to have a very public nervous breakdown pitchside for most of it, Sarries had an almost perfect season, even defeating a little team called the Springboks during their run of about 4,000 victories before they eventually lost out to Leicester for the title. We suspect they’ll be back with a little extra fire in their belly this season, out to prove their success last year was no fluke. Expected placing: 3rd One to watch: Steve Borthwick One to force yourself not to get distracted by: Richard Wigglesworth The Magners League Even our usual comfort zone of the Magners League has been shaken up this season. After last year saw the first ever playoffs, this year sees the extension of the term ‘Celtic’ to incorporate two Italian teams. Benetton Treviso will be known to many from such heady delights as the middle of the Heineken Cup scoreboards, but their fellow Italians Aironi will be less familiar to even themselves as a new team freshly hatched in a merger reminiscent of the formation of the Welsh Regions back on 2003. For our top four seeds we’re going to attempt to put bias aside…. Okay, okay, we didn’t put it very far aside but in our defence, any pre-season round up worth its salt is going to put the Ospreys high on the watch list. Previously the first team to ever win the trophy twice, the boys extended their record to a third victory and are now gunning to be the first team ever to defend the title. Though they’re coming into this season on a 4 point deficit (unless they win their appeal next Tuesday), this year is starting off a lot more positively with far fewer of their ‘big hitters’ on long term injurywatch than last year when the Lions tour left some members of the squad out till getting on for Christmas. Our boys in black are also raring to get out of the traps in the Heineken Cup after being denied at the Quarter Final stage two years in a row. With new skipper Alun Wyn Jones stating this ethos for the season: ‘I want to win more than anyone else and that’s the lead I want to set’, it’s hard to contemplate an empty trophy cabinet next year. Expected placing: Top three One to Watch: Shane Williams. He’s usually fast, but this time out he’s had a good rest over the summer so we might have to give up blinking for the next nine months. One to force yourself not to be distracted by: Ryan Jones. He’s not got to worry about being captain outside of International season this year so he can concentrate on being sexy… not that he had a problem with it before. The Blue seem to have been gathering momentum over the last few seasons and there is a sense of groundswell around Leckwith as the last two years have seen shiny trophies head to the Welsh capital in the form of the EDF (now LV=) Cup in 08/09 and the Amlin Challenge Cup last season. This year they’re not going to be satisfied if they have to pack away the brasso. Chief Dai Jones has spoken out about how they’re going to be taking the Magners League a lot more seriously this year after focussing on their Heineken chances for the last few years and they’re going to want to capitalise on their Amlin success with the Main Prize as well. With new signing Dan Parks and newly massive and superspeedy Leigh Halfpenny in their midst, they’re going to be difficult to beat. One to Watch: Leigh Halfpenny – will all that new muscle affect the superhuman speed we’ve seen in past seasons? We’re not sure but I suspect it’s going to be fun finding out. One to force yourself not to be distracted by: Bruce Wayne, sorry, Jamie Roberts. It’s the accent, mainly… After coming top of the table only to lose out in the last minutes of the grand final last year, the Dublin boys are going to be out for blood. Blood and points. Given their current form and the fact that they’ve still got BOD Almighty in their midst, we’re already feeling the fear. One to Watch: BOD, obviously. One to force yourself not to be distracted by: Nathan Hines Shocker, I know as we’ve acknowledged in previous posts that the Italians in all their forms are regarded as the underdogs of the Six Nations and even more shocking is…. that’s exactly why I’ve put them in. Aironi are entering this tournament as the ultimate underdogs: they’ve been a team for mere weeks before being thrown into a league that’s well established with teams that contain some of the most talented players in the Northern hemisphere. It’s fight or flight for them and they’ve got to prove themselves as a team and a competitor and I firmly believe that, like the Ospreys back in 2003, they may just surprise us by rising above all that and meeting the challenge. Expected placing: Top five One to watch: Marco Bortolami One to force yourself not to get distracted by: Josh Sole So, over to you… thoughts? Agree? Disagree? Feel a burning need to discuss Tom Croft’s thighs? Drop us a comment…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1383
__label__wiki	0.554989	0.554989	Home Campaigns BBH China rolls out campaign for the energy drink, Carabao BBH China has rolled out a new integrated campaign for Carabao, a global energy drink brand, following its appointment earlier this year. Launched in Thailand in 2002 by Carabao Tawandang Co Ltd, Carabao is a leader in the global energy drink category and has been previously launched in the UK – one of the top five energy drink markets worldwide. The brand is now focusing its efforts in the growing China market which it entered in 2017. In a departure from traditional campaigns in the category dominated by extreme sports and adventure, the campaign uses real life situations and relatable characters to engage consumers and to highlight the benefits of consuming the energy drink. The campaign lands on the line ‘Green Energy. More than you can imagine”— inspired from the natural energy of guarana and the limitless energy that could be unlocked with Carabao. Guarana is a key and differentiating ingredient of the drink, which also contains vitamin B6 and B12. Targeted at men between the ages 18 to 35 years, the campaign comprises of TVC, online, print, POSM and social component. The campaign simply brings the product benefit to life by humorously showing ordinary people accomplishing extraordinary things to a quite unimaginable extent. Comprising of five different executions in both 15s / 30s versions, the films revolve around characters like a student, an office employee and a sports fan, who get a boost in energy after drinking Carabao in everyday situations. Commenting on the campaign, Carabao China spokesperson said, “We strongly believe there is an opportunity to broaden the appeal of energy drinks in the Chinese market. Carabao with its “green energy” has all the right ingredients to offer to savvy Chinese consumers who lead stressful and busy lives and are looking for a great tasting energy boost. We are confident that the current campaign with its light-hearted approach will create awareness and increase trials for the brand.” Arthur Tsang (Chief Creative Office, BBH China), “We are delighted to be on this journey with Carabao as they expand into the China. As a newcomer to the market we need a campaign that is telegraphic and cuts through the very cluttered drinks category – to punch above our weight. Our execution focuses on humour and a refreshingly different look at energy drinks and performance.” Launched in the second week of July across online and traditional TV platforms the campaign will be live until end of 2018. https://youtu.be/GOJdTPppPJM CUSTOMER-CENTRIC B2B SALES & MARKETING Step inside your customer’s shoes. The Digital Age has transformed the way B2B buyers research, navigate and most importantly – make purchase decisions. Sadly, most B2B companies are still stuck in their own personal silos, with little to no intent towards understanding customers’ needs. In this hands-on conference, Hando will analyze your company’s digital presence as well as offer inspirational ideas from B2B brands, who have managed to produce content with real business results. For more details and registration, click here: http://bit.ly/hando21Aug Sime Darby Convention Center, Bukit Kiara ADMISSION FEE: RM1,650 + 6% SST per pax (for 5 pax & above) For assistance, call Amira/Ruby 03 7726 2588 or email ruby@adoimagazine.com and amira@adoimagazine.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1391
__label__wiki	0.715326	0.715326	Lists: Films of… Best Picture Winners Marx Bros. MacGuffin Movies Poster of the Month My Momentary Celebrity Obsession Click to find out why Marlene has me mesmerized. What You’re Reading Hitchcock Blogathon #6: Lifeboat Boy on a Dolphin Feature: Hitchcock Movie Posters from Italy Sex and the Single Girl The Naughty Flirt Adam’s Rib Posted on February 14, 2012 by RBuccicone Ring a Ding Ding Adam's Rib (1949) No one could have better played a powerful career woman in a devoted marriage better than Katharine Hepburn, and no one could have better held his ground as the spouse opposite that star than Spencer Tracy. Audiences loved seeing Hepburn and Tracy on the screen together, and Adam’s Rib lended what might have been a variation on their true relationship. Although the stars were never married, they maintained a relationship that endured until the end of Tracy’s life. Both meanwhile held down the same career, although one much more artistic than that of their lawyer characters here. Tracy plays Assistant District Attorney Adam Bonner who is assigned to the case of a woman who has shot and wounded her cheating husband. The attorney is none too keen on being assigned the case as his wife Amanda (Hepburn) has spent all morning fixated on the related newspaper story and how a man would be treated differently for attacking an unfaithful spouse. Amanda has meanwhile gone out of her way to hunt down this shooter, Doris Attinger (Judy Holliday), in order to represent her pro bono. Amanda sees the case as a great chance to level the playing field between men and women under the law. Adam is immediately unhappy with the circumstances, and the couple and case become hot material for the newspapers and editorial cartoonists. The case becomes increasingly contentious between the two parties and begins to affect their life at home where Adam is unable to forgive Amanda’s ruthless courtroom activity. On top of everything, Amanda is visiting with a flirtatious neighbor friend (David Wayne) when Adam storms in to find the two embracing and threatens to shoot the two under the same circumstances as the case. The couple near divorce but will find a way to reconcile. While watching Adam’s Rib I had a hard time determining whether this was a drama or a comedy. The story is very serious but it is not without moments of humor. Many of those come from Holliday as the sort-of-dumb shooter whose emotions take the form of hunger more than any other state. Her disheveled life makes a great contrast to the once-pristine marriage of the Bonners. Her husband, played by Tom Ewell is plenty despicable and Jean Hagen as his mistress is equally intolerable. Tracy and Hepburn meanwhile have probably never been better; although one could say that of a lot of their collaborations. Despite middle age, the two act like lovers 10 or 20 years younger who flirt under the courtroom table or stick their tongues out at each other. The duo are so comfortable on screen, which is to be expected given this was the sixth of their nine MGM pictures together. The morning bedroom scene in which Tracy refuses to waken look like it could be a reflection of actual at-home life for the couple. Adam’s Rib is set for 2:45 p.m. ET April 12 and 6:15 p.m. ET May 12 on TCM. Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Romance \| Tagged: David Wayne, George Cukor, Jean Hagen, Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Tom Ewell \| « Pigskin Parade Hard Luck & The Bell Boy » KimWilson, on February 15, 2012 at 12 said: Adam’s Rib is most probably my favorite of their 9 films (though I enjoy Woman of the Year very much, too). They had great chemistry and always looked so natural onscreen. Patricia Nolan-Hall (Caftan Woman), on February 16, 2012 at 10 said: Great script. I usually refer to “Adam’s Rib” as my favourite talkie. Margaret Perry Movies, on March 29, 2012 at 1 said: I pride myself as a Katharine Hepburn scholar, and I really think you hit the nail on the head here with “Adam’s Rib.” I would certainly classify this a comedy, although the laughs are centred on a more serious subject-matter. The film is really courageous in how it openly, but tactfully, tackles the gender issue. In this way, it’s a little ahead of its time. Tracy and Hepburn’s perfect American “democratic coupleing” (Andrew Britton) was certainly unique and it gave depth to all the films they made together, from “Woman of the Year” (1942) to “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (1968). RBuccicone, on March 29, 2012 at 2 said: Thanks for the comment! It’s great to get such a compliment from an expert in the subject. I think we would all like to believe that democratic coupleing was how things were for Tracy and Hepburn in real life, whether that was the case or not. I try not to get too involved with their love story. I only know Tracy from the Hepburn perspective anyway. I think one good thing about their relationship was that they each remained independent of the other. Hepburn could leave if Tracy was being difficult – she was never forced to (or able to) submit herself completely to his influence or his will. This helped her maintain her autonomy which would not have been possible if (hypothetically) they had been married or something more final. I think in this way, they did have a fairly democratic relationship – but only because they were distinctly independent of each other. I think Hepburn says it best herself when she says, “I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Maybe they should just live next door and visit occasionally.” (I hope I didn’t butcher that quotation!) Margaret Perry Movies, on April 23, 2012 at 3 said: I’m starting a new blog exclusively about Katharine Hepburn! Will you tell me what you think about it so far? http://thegreatkh.blogspot.com/ Wowza! - a must see Ring a Ding Ding - pretty dang good Gasser - a good sit Dullsville - not great Yipes! - wowza that's bad Receive alerts of new posts. 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__label__wiki	0.751677	0.751677	Resuming their hosts' lives, the team suffer paranoia and hallucinations of their future pre-Travel lives, side effects of the antitoxin. MacLaren's coworkers hold a surprise party for his 15th anniversary with the FBI. Kat confronts him about lying to Forbes; he seduces her, but she is still certain he is cheating. During their lovemaking, MacLaren hallucinates that Kat is a woman with very short hair, with Carly's number (3465) tattooed on her neck. After Rene attempts to shoplift some clothes with Trevor and another friend, Trevor confronts the two outside, in an alley. During a fight between Trevor and the other guy, Trevor possibly experiences a slippage of time, where his friend is able to connect with a punch. This will later develop into Trevor's diagnosis of temporal aphasia. Their intimacy growing, David reluctantly helps Marcy perform surgery on herself to prevent seizures. Carly rebuffs a representative of Child Protective Services. Trevor reins in his host's delinquency, and he and Renee meditate. Ray takes Philip to a twelve-step meeting for drug addicts and gets him a pet turtle to care for. Trevor and Philip learn the team has a new mission. Kathryn confronts MacLaren about an affair she believes he is having, leading him to end his relationship with Carly. Charlotte, the misfire historian, is overwritten and murders her team. She attempts to assassinate Grace, but Trevor stops her. Grace reveals that the anti-Director faction was responsible for the team's abduction. Charlotte is shot by Jeff while attempting to kill Carly. Ellis reveals that he has built a quantum frame that the Director, an advanced AI, can use to travel to the present to escape the faction. David is held at gunpoint by another assassin but is saved by Marcy. The team arrives at the farm where Trevor has received a text to destroy the frame. Boyd reveals she received an order to kill MacLaren and holds him at gunpoint; Carly later reveals having been given the same mission. Assassins surround the farm as Ellis shoots Trevor to keep him from harming the frame. Grace jumps in front of Trevor and is shot as well. Ellis shuts down the perimeter shield in the hope that the Director will help them and delivers a message to destroy the frame shortly before he dies. It is revealed that the people surrounding them are not anti-Director assassins, but FBI agents led by Forbes. 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The show premiered in Canada on October 17, 2016, and worldwide on December 23, 2016.[3] A second season followed in 2017, and a third season was released on December 14, 2018.[4][5] In February 2019, McCormack revealed that the series had been cancelled.[6] History buffs and intrepid travelers have long been attracted to Jordan and its famous archaeological site of Petra, a “lost” citadel dating back 2,000 years. And despite political unrest in the broader region, the country remains a safe destination to discover the wonders of the Middle East. After playing out Indiana Jones fantasies amid the rose-colored, rock-cut façades of Petra’s famous landmark, Al Khazneh (the Treasury), set out to unearth the nation’s other historical attractions. In the lesser-known city of Jerash, 170 miles from Petra, you can see the ruins of an ancient Roman settlement, including the second-century Hadrian’s Arch, while in the protected desert wilderness of Wadi Rum, you’ll find some 25,000 rock carvings that trace the early development of the alphabet. Vincent asks the team to stand down and let him finish what he has been planning. When the team refuses to comply, Vincent holds the lives of Kat, David, Jeffery, Ray, and Grace over them, and forces them to reveal themselves as Travelers to the world. The team must make the choice between breaking protocol and thus risking being overwritten by the Director, or doing what they must to save the ones they've grown to care about since their arrival in the 21st. A century ago, Shanghai was China’s star city, a cosmopolitan center of art, technology, and finance. Today, it’s reclaiming that mantle, parlaying the economic boom that began in the 1990s into a world-class array of cultural and culinary attractions. On the West Bund riverfront, Tank Shanghai will transform disused oil tanks into a sprawling arts complex with a gallery, an education center, and parks when it’s completed later this year. Farther north, the Norman Foster and Thomas Heatherwick–designed Fosun Foundation, with its façade of shifting bronze cylinders, began hosting performances and art shows last fall. The North Bund is being redeveloped with a park linking it to a new lifestyle development that’s anchored by the city’s first W Hotel. In the residential Minhang district, Cordis debuted in May, and Amanyangyun will open nearby after relocating Ming and Qing dynasty buildings, as well as 10,000 ancient camphor trees, from Jiangxi province. More luxury stays are still to come in 2018, including the Middle House, the Bulgari, and the Edition. —Samantha Culp Search cheap flights with KAYAK. Search for the cheapest airline tickets for all the top airlines around the world and the top international flight routes. KAYAK searches hundreds of travel sites to help you find cheap airfare and book a flight that suits you best. Since KAYAK searches many plane tickets sites at once, you can find cheap tickets from cheap airlines quickly. Though decades of civil war made parts of the island unsafe, tourism is on the rise in Sri Lanka, where international visitors exceeded 2 million for the first time in 2016. The momentum is particularly strong along the south coast, which has the highest concentration of hotels and resorts after Colombo. The 172-room Amari resort recently opened on the beachfront in Galle (known for its UNESCO-protected Dutch fortress) with ocean views from every balcony. Water also plays a central role at Alila Koggala, a new luxury eco-resort with 36 suites and private villas, opening 20 minutes outside of Galle in June. The property sits on the serene shores of Lake Koggala and will feature an ayurvedic spa where treatments can be taken on a platform floating on the lake. Further along the south coast, Mirissa Beach is attracting travelers in need of a full mind-body reset. The laid-back surfer town — think Venice Beach minus the tech crowd — comes alive at night with bars and barbecue restaurants overlooking the turquoise bay; when you’re ready to turn in, there are earthy, low-key lodges peppered throughout the jungle, such as Surf & Yoga, which offers daily on-site yoga and private surf lessons. —Alex Schechter Often overlooked in favor of more-developed, splashier neighbors like Hvar or Brač, Šolta’s under-the-radar nature has proved a boon: The stony islet has become synonymous with pristine nature (pebbly beaches, turquoise waters, lush greenery), medieval villages, winemaking (try the indigenous Dobričić variety), and family-run olive oil purveyors like Olynthia, a fourth-generation producer. After watching the sun set at Maslinica bay, check out the island’s peppering of stylish beach clubs, seaside bars, and open-air restaurants — then drop your bags at the Heritage Hotel Martinis-Marchi, built inside an 18th-century Venetian fort-castle and ideally situated for those who want to explore Šolta’s ancient villages and crystal-clear bays. —Kate Springer Beyond offering a glimpse into ancient history, Jordan is also making a name for itself as a luxury destination. Hilton opened the Dead Sea Resort & Spa in March 2017, making it the first Hilton in the country. Located at the lowest point on earth, some 1,345 feet below sea level, the resort offers beach access, Middle Eastern cuisine, and treatments containing the mineral-rich black mud. —Jess McHugh In November 2010, Travelers entered into a joint venture agreement under which the company would invest in J. Malucelli Participações em Seguros e Resseguros S.A., the market leader in the surety insurance business in Brazil. The transaction closed in June 2011 with Travelers acquiring a 43.4 percent interest. Travelers' investment in newly issued shares significantly increased J. Malucelli's capital level, positioning it for substantial growth in Brazil. At the time, Travelers had the option to increase its investment to retain a 49.5 percent interest, which the company later did in 2012.[23] Those who think they’ve seen and done it all in the Bahamas should think again. Baha Mar, the multibillion dollar hotel and casino development on Nassau’s Cable Beach, will be fully up and running when Rosewood resorts launches there this spring. (Baha Mar’s Grand Hyatt and SLS properties are already drawing visitors with their sophisticated, contemporary rooms.) On neighboring Paradise Island, the iconic Ocean Club resort is under new management with Four Seasons. And at Atlantis, the adults-focused Cove resort now has an outpost of Sip Sip restaurant, Julie Lightbourn’s Harbour Island favorite, while the family-friendly Coral Towers debuted a new lobby, guest rooms, and pool courtesy of star hotel designer Jeffrey Beers. And T+L’s World’s Best winner Kamalame Cay has added stylish beach bungalows — stand-alone suites that start at a whopping 450 square feet and feature private verandas and outdoor showers. —Jacqueline Gifford A family of four are about to die in a car crash when the mother, father, and son become travelers. Charlotte, the daughter, retains her identity when the team's historian's transfer misfires, so MacLaren sends her to stay with her grandparents until the others complete their mission. Trevor, Carly, Marcy, and Philip are abducted and interrogated about the future until Carly kills their guard. David alerts MacLaren when Marcy does not come home, who is able to find and rescue the team with Officer Boyd. MacLaren was forced to cancel the team's mission with the family team, and Carly speculates this was their unidentified captor's goal. Found Places Boston Fenway Inn $28+ The Farrington Inn $50+ Hi Boston $52+ Ramada by Wyndham Boston $79+ Comfort Inn Boston $96+ DoubleTree by Hilton Boston Bayside $100+ Best Western Plus Boston Hotel $102+ Boston Lodge and Suites $107+ Hampton Inn & Suites Boston Crosstown Center $122+ Boston Omni Parker House Hotel $125+ Boston Hotel Buckminster $126+ Yotel Boston $136+ The Boxer $138+ Aloft Boston Seaport District $141+ Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These Travelers assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future. These travelers are: FBI Special Agent Grant MacLaren, the team's leader; Marcy, a young, intellectually disabled woman in the care of her social worker, David; Trevor, a high school quarterback; Carly, a single mom in an abusive relationship; and Philip, a heroin-addicted college student. Armed only with their knowledge of history and an archive of social media profiles, the travelers discover that 21st century lives and relationships are as much a challenge as their high-stakes missions. Written by ahmetkozan An island may be described as such, despite the presence of an artificial land bridge; examples are Singapore and its causeway, and the various Dutch delta islands, such as IJsselmonde. Some places may even retain "island" in their names for historical reasons after being connected to a larger landmass by a land bridge or landfill, such as Coney Island and Coronado Island, though these are, strictly speaking, tied islands. Conversely, when a piece of land is separated from the mainland by a man-made canal, for example the Peloponnese by the Corinth Canal or Marble Hill in northern Manhattan during the time between the building of the United States Ship Canal and the filling-in of the Harlem River which surrounded the area, it is generally not considered an island. Search cheap hotels with KAYAK. Use the hotel finder to search for the cheapest hotel deal for all major destinations around the world. KAYAK searches hundreds of hotel booking sites to help you find hotels and book hotels that suit you best. Since KAYAK searches many hotel sites at once, you can find discount hotels quickly. Discover hotel discounts now and make your hotel reservation today. Flight Abbotsford - Las Vegas (YXX - LAS) C$ 256+ Flight Vancouver - Las Vegas (YVR - LAS) C$ 256+ Flight Edmonton - Las Vegas (YEG - LAS) C$ 279+ Flight Toronto - Las Vegas (YHM - LAS) C$ 280+ Flight Victoria - Las Vegas (YYJ - LAS) C$ 288+ Flight Calgary - Las Vegas (YYC - LAS) C$ 303+ Flight Toronto - Las Vegas (YYZ - LAS) C$ 328+ Flight Kelowna - Las Vegas (YLW - LAS) C$ 331+ Flight Winnipeg - Las Vegas (YWG - LAS) C$ 359+ Flight Halifax - Las Vegas (YHZ - LAS) C$ 364+ Flight Ottawa - Las Vegas (YOW - LAS) C$ 366+ Flight Saskatoon - Las Vegas (YXE - LAS) C$ 378+ U.S. travelers have historically overlooked Mauritius in favor of other Indian Ocean destinations like the Seychelles and Maldives. That could all change, though, now that this remote, idyllic island some 1,200 miles off the African coast has become easier to reach. A flurry of new airline services launched at the end of 2017: KLM began servicing Mauritius from Amsterdam, and British carrier Thomas Cook Airlines introduced biweekly flights in November. Upon arrival, travelers can take in dreamy lagoon views from the newly reopened One&Only Le Saint Géran, fresh off a multimillion-dollar renovation. Every room and suite now has a private terrace or balcony, marble baths with cascade showers, and sophisticated teak, stone, and leather accents. Guests can also look forward to updated dining experiences — like lunch spot La Pointe, which grills fresh-caught seafood over firewood and coconut embers, or open-air restaurant La Terrasse, which offers Mauritian specialties. Unchanged at Le Saint Géran is its aura of exclusivity, thanks to the resort’s unique position on a private peninsula jutting out from the island’s eastern shore. —Melanie Lieberman From the Northwest Florida’s Emerald Coast to the coral-reefed Keys, the state is filled with an array of activities for all ages and tastes. On a Florida vacation, families can plan several days of theme park fun in the Orlando area, or they can ride horses at a secluded ranch in central Florida, ride bikes along nature trails in north Florida, learn about astronauts and rocket science at the Space Coast or take one of the garden tours in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Flight Edmonton - Vancouver (YEG - YVR) C$ 99+ Flight Calgary - Vancouver (YYC - YVR) C$ 119+ Flight Cranbrook - Vancouver (YXC - YVR) C$ 267+ Flight Nanaimo - Vancouver (YCD - YVR) C$ 270+ Flight Kelowna - Vancouver (YLW - YVR) C$ 275+ Flight London - Vancouver (YXU - YVR) C$ 276+ Flight Winnipeg - Vancouver (YWG - YVR) C$ 278+ Flight Toronto - Vancouver (YHM - YVR) C$ 298+ Flight Penticton - Vancouver (YYF - YVR) C$ 299+ Flight Prince George - Vancouver (YXS - YVR) C$ 334+ Flight Toronto - Vancouver (YYZ - YVR) C$ 342+	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1400
__label__cc	0.66245	0.33755	No, Bernie, America Was Not Actually Founded ‘on Racist Principles’ By Charles Cooke The United States, Senator Bernie Sanders declared before a few thousand college students yesterday, was founded “from way back on racist principles.” “That,” he added, after briefly apologizing for bringing the topic up in the first instance, “is a fact — we have come a long way as a nation.” The latter of these two asseverations is not in doubt. Time was when a black American would be beaten, broken, and even skinned alive on the flimsiest of pretexts, while his tormenters were let free without charge. Conservatives occasionally like to wonder aloud what might happen if this nation — or some part of it — were to be taken over by a monstrous and unflinching tyranny. They do not need to treat the question as a hypothetical: To read Ida B. Wells or Victoria Earle Matthews is to know the answer all too well. That Sanders should remind voters of this truth is admirable and necessary. That he should do so in the middle of an ideologically hostile crowd is even more so. One cannot enjoy redemption without guilt, and, on occasion at least, that guilt must be given a name. America has indeed “come a long way.” It is unfortunate, however, that Sanders felt the need to attach his reminder to a dangerous falsehood. The American escutcheon is indeed sullied by original sin, but that sin is largely one of omission rather than commission. Flawed as it is, the United States was not founded on inadequate or abominable or “racist” principles, but upon extraordinary, revolutionary, and unusually virtuous propositions that, tragically, have all too often been ignored. As written, there is not a great deal wrong with the central tenets of the Declaration of Independence; rather, the disgraces that pepper the history books derive from the selective manner in which those tenets have been applied. If one is so minded, one can reasonably propose that Revolution-era America was chock-full of hypocrites, and that the lofty ideals to which the Founders paid eloquent lip service were routinely disregarded when deemed inconvenient. But to conclude that those ideals themselves are rotten is to commit an elemental reasoning error. As one would not examine an incident of marital infidelity and presume that the wedding vows must necessarily have been defective, one should not infer from the Founders’ betrayals that their essential precepts were in some way unsound. They weren’t. Man, as ever, is imperfect. Read the full article at National Review Online: No, Bernie, America Was Not Actually Founded ‘on Racist Principles’ Issue Categories : American Exceptionalism, Bernie Sanders	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1406
__label__cc	0.708725	0.291275	Classic & Modern Art in Japan: Tokyo, Kanazawa, Yamashiro & Kyoto 12 Days / 11 Nights – starting from JPY 1,665,000 for two (double occupancy) This itinerary, specifically designed for art aficionados, will take you through the vast array of traditional, modern, Japanese and international art collections in Japan’s foremost destinations. Discover the vibrant and cosmopolitan city of Tokyo, home to a variety of world-class museums. After visiting Hakone’s expansive Open-air Contemporary Art Museum with Mount Fuji as the backdrop, relax in a private hot spring bath at one of Japan’s best Ryokans. In Kyoto, escorted visits of UNESCO World Heritage Sites will let you feel the ambience of ancient Japan and its finest cultural heritage. Finally, uncover a hidden gem in the peaceful Island of Naoshima, fully dedicated to contemporary and modern art and home to an upcoming international Art Festival in 2013. All visits (except where stated) are privately escorted by a licensed bilingual guide and a chartered vehicle. This itinerary is fully customizable and we will be delighted to offer exclusive experiences and encounters, depending on your centers of interest. Please contact us for a personalized offer. Your heart beat will invariably rise as you enter the sand dune area. After reducing the tire pressure and tightening the seat belts you will find your life hanging in the hands of a highly skilled dune rider. Within minutes as the hum of the land cruiser engine rises to match the turbo noise of a taking off jetliner and as the sand covers the screens of the vehicle with the noise of a cats and dogs rain, you find your head hitting the roof of the vehicle as it begins to rock like a boat in the middle of a storm in the high seas. Then you will find you are climbing an almost 75 to 80 degree climb up on the thick sand and then all of a sudden you will find yourself screaming in absolute horror as the vehicle falls down to an almost 90 degree downhill ride. Then you will get a chill on your hips as the vehicle comes to a standstill on a sand cliff where your 4 wheel drive is almost seesawing by the middle of the chassis.. This is one experience that is extremely exhilarating and adrenaline rushing which is a unique opportunity to test how brave you are. Discover Japan in luxury: Tokyo, Hakone & Kyoto 08 days – 07 nights – starting from JPY 1,390,000 for two (double occupancy) This privately escorted journey is ideal for first time visitors eager to discover Japan’s highlights in comfort and luxury. Take a glimpse into the bustling Tokyo metropolis, from the vibrant Tsukiji market to the ancient district of Asakusa and experience a peaceful calligraphy lesson or Tea Ceremony. Indulge in the best of Japanese hospitality at a traditional luxury Inn in the natural settings of Hakone, with picturesque views of Mount Fuji. Finally, discover the Kyoto of your imagination: ancient Temples and Shrines peacefully coexist with a city that, while preserving its past, fully lives in the present. Rental per week. Nestled in the lush hills overlooking St Tropez, the well preserved French chateau of Le Preverger is steeped in history and was once the home of iconic interior designer Laura Ashley. Privacy and peace are guaranteed with fragrant lavender fields, dappled forest walks and hilltop vistas to explore and enjoy. The historic provençal village of La Garde-Freinet is just 12-minute drive from the estate, with its cobblestone streets, intimate bistros, artisan markets and food festivals. For fine dining, designer boutiques and all-night entertainment, the Côte d’Azur is a 40-minute drive away. Whether you’re holidaying with family, friends or colleagues, the versatile accommodation – which includes the main house, pool house, coach house and two gypsy caravans – is ideal for both relaxation and socialising. The rooms are dotted across the 140-acre estate to ensure privacy for all guests, while the spacious communal areas and leisure facilities allow you to enjoy plenty of time together as a group. There are dining rooms and reception rooms in all the houses, while the well-stocked library is a tranquil spot to enjoy a good book with your morning coffee or an evening apéritif. Your concierge will arrange tours and itineraries and a professional chef is on hand to shop and cook for you and your guests. Your holiday will begin as soon as you touch down on this estate’s private helipad or pull up in your limousine. Step out onto the soft grass, then indulge in whatever your heart desires: take a slow stroll and unwind in the Provençal-style gardens, take in the panoramic views by the poolside, play an invigorating game of tennis or work out in the gym. Relax in one of the luxuriously appointed reception rooms with cool terracotta tiles, sumptuous soft furnishings and stately French furniture, or enjoy a drink on the vine-covered terrace while your personal chef creates memorable meals using locally-sourced produce. Our aim is to offer a truly unique and unforgettable supercar experience. We organize all our events in collaboration with prestigious car manufacturers and select luxury brands at special locations around the globe. Our events are carefully curated. To qualify for the experiences you need to own at least one supercar and be as passionate about it as we at LUXONOMY Supercar Owners Club are! All admissions are subject to the selection of LUXONOMY Supercar Owners Club. The price displayed represents the annual membership fee. Experience the sites of old Dubai and the ultra-modern attractions of the new city on a comprehensive full-day tour. A city that blends the old with the new, Dubai has lots to discover, from its traditional souks to ground-breaking architecture. Location:Bahamas Length:49 m (161 ft) Beam:9 m (30 ft) Draft:3 m (10 ft) Berths:6 Engines:2 Engine brand:Mtu Cruise speed:14 kmh Max speed:17 kmh Hull material:Composite Interior designer:Carol Williamson Boat type:motor Voyage to the heart of Japan: Tokyo – Kanazawa – Yamashiro – Kyoto Japan offers unparalleled opportunities for discerning travellers who wish to explore the country in depth. This unique journey, will lead you from the main destinations to lesser known parts of this fascinating country. Take a glimpse into the bustling metropolis of Tokyo and discover its reminiscent past. Enjoy the traditional atmosphere of Takayama and experience the legendary Japanese hospitality at a high-end Ryokan, before witnessing the rich cultural heritage of Kanazawa, where Samurai, Geisha and feudal Lords imposed their mark. Finally, reach the climax of your trip with Kyoto’s delightful Temples and atmosphere. All visits are privately escorted by a licensed bilingual guide and a chartered vehicle. Luxonomy (2)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1407
__label__cc	0.645766	0.354234	Culture » Art Watch Winning firepit becomes public art for Redmond's transit hub by Teafly Peterson Orion's Forge fashions a firepit into public art. Oregon WinterFest has held a firepit competition at the February event for a number of years. New this year was the addition of a donation program that saw the winning artist gaining a $5,000 cash prize, and a local entity gaining a valuable piece of public art. This year, the winning creation, by Hunter Dahlberg of Orion Forge, has a new home in the Redmond Transportation Hub. The portions that burned with fire at WinterFest will be replaced with electrical light—but the piece will still stand to be a beacon, welcoming commuters as they come and go. This year's entry was Dahlberg's fifth into the annual event, and his second win. Building fire pits wasn't high on his list of priorities before entering the competition some years ago, but he says they've since become one of his favorite things to build. Working with materials he often has on hand to lessen the cost of the build for him, he starts with a sketch and allows the design to emerge. Adorned with a dragon's head guarding tables (for people to place a beer), this year's winning piece, titled "Ancient Beacon," is a call to the Middle Ages and the fantasy world of J.R.R. Tolkien that inspired Dahlberg growing up. The cauldron at the bottom of the piece holds the fire; the long torch attached to the top is the beacon. It can be dipped in the fire, and placed up high to be seen from a far distance. "I liked the idea of the upper light in the Old Mill—because of the terrain there—you could wander around and see it from far away," explains Dahlberg. With over 50 different types of material and 200 hours of work, the piece was truly a labor of love. Dahlberg has been blacksmithing for around 20 years, he estimates. It wasn't until he opened his studio that he became serious about his work. Now with two employees, he often can be found creating custom pieces, including metal railings, iron gates, sculptures and even fire pits. One firepit has found a home at Timberline Lodge, a feat he considers a "feather in his cap." Dahlberg also teaches blacksmithing at the Summit Arts Center in Government Camp and is the current president of the Central Oregon Metal Arts Guild. He sees the current interest in "craft" as an opportunity to teach people what actually goes into creating a piece. "One of the things we strive to educate customers is how time consuming it is and how tool intensive a seemingly simple form can be. Steel can be immoveable," Dahlberg says. Hunter Dahlberg and Orion Forge orionforge.com Speaking of Artwatch, teafly Peterson Bill Hoppe's Retrospective is Fantastic Moms Love Art Latest in Art Watch Central Oregon and the Space Race Bend Art Center and Atelier 6000 to leave Box Factory More by Teafly Peterson In the meantime, two exhibitions from the unique lens of Andries Fourie Un-Fest Northwest 2019 Non-festival looks forward to new season of nothing Artist Panel at Volcanic Theatre Pub Bend Creative Laureate continues to grow community	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1409
__label__wiki	0.73861	0.73861	Black Market #4 Free with Membership Learn More Everything's looking up for Ray-he's off the hook for the murder of Hotspot, the crooked cops aiming to blackmail him have been framed and incarcerated, and he finally has enough money to afford treatment for his wife's M.S. diagnosis. So why do all of those problems pale in comparison to the "favor" that he now owes Biochem: kidnapping the world's strongest hero, Ultra? Science Fiction Superhero Ray Willis is a broken man, a disgraced medical examiner making ends meet by preparing corpses at a funeral parlor. His scientific genius is being wasted...that is, until his estranged criminal brother Denny shows up on his doorstep, supposedly cleaned-up and proposing a once-in-a-lifetime partnership to cure not just cancer, but all disease. The catch? It exists within the DNA of superheroes. Last Mortal Would you want to live forever? What if you didn’t have a choice? That’s the premise behind Last Mortal, a story that also hammers home that every choice we make has its consequences. Alec King is a born loser and a career failure. When he and his criminal partner get in over their heads with an attempted assassination of a mayoral candidate, Alec hits rock bottom and takes his own life...only Dark forces are conspiring to prevent humankind from reaching its true potential. As the newly-appointed 'Protector of the Realm,' Agent Matthew Dee uses his skills as a covert spy and Combat Mage to ensure America's freedom from the grip of evil. Who is Waylan Gheely, and what forbidden power has he stolen? What ancient evil, banished two millennia ago by Merlin himself, threatens to consume our FRACTION stars four tough young men from Philly's mean streets who pull off a drunken robbery. What they end up stealing is a high-tech suit of battle armor. How far will each of them go to use the armor for his own purposes? Laney Griffith is a man who will do anything to save his son from leukemia, but the cost of treatment has broken him financially. When he pursues an elusive murderer in the wilderness of his small, rural community, in the hopes of securing a substantial bounty, Laney is confronted with something he never could have expected: a werewolf. The captive lycan, in human form, turns Laney's life upside-d	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1410
__label__cc	0.540761	0.459239	Ugandan traditional healers to launch mobile app Zamboki Lincolin Jr When you think of organisations that commission the development of mobile apps, traditional healers are likely the last on that list. In this era where we need 21st Century solutions to our problems, Traditional healers and herbalists under their umbrella Uganda National Traditional Herbalists and Healers also known as Uganda n’eddagala ly’ayo, have created a website plus an application (App), which they say will help in curbing criminality involved in their work. During a media brief on Tuesday in Entebbe municipality, Saazi Kakooza, the secretary general of the association said many fraudsters and murderers have disguised themselves as herbalists, tainting the image of traditional healing “As we celebrate 52 years of our existence, we felt that integrating technology with our work, would be prudent and, therefore, hope that come December 20, the App will officially be launched by President Yoweri Museveni at Kololo Grounds, where the celebrations will be held,” Saazi said Joseph Lutalo, who heads the Information and Technology department in the association, revealed that the App, known as muchwezi, has got provisions for a registration form to be filled by practitioners with personal data and addresses. The association’s IT expert further confided that they will be able to transfer all the information regarding criminality to relevant security agencies for prosecution. The association will hold celebrations on December 20 at Kololo grounds to mark 52 years of existence. The guest of honour is expected to be President Museveni and the Chinese Ambassador, Zheng ZhuQiang. Tagged: Digitalization, Technology, Traditional Healers Bobi Wine beats President Museveni to 1 million followers on Facebook UOT wilding with several accounts created for the ‘Fresh’ family Ykee Benda celebrates 300k followers on Instagram Here Is What Will Be In Cinemas This Weekend. MEMORIAL: On This Day 28 Years Ago, Philly Bongole Lutaaya Died Of HIV/AIDS.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1420
__label__cc	0.709587	0.290413	Immunofluorescence \| definition of immunofluorescence by Medical dictionary https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/immunofluorescence Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Related to immunofluorescence: immunofluorescence test [im″u-no-floo″o-res´ens] a method of determining the location of antigen (or antibody) in a tissue section or smear using a specific antibody (or antigen) labeled with a fluorochrome. There are two major types of immunofluorescence techniques, both based on the antigen--antibody reaction, in which the antibody attaches itself to a specific antigen. In the direct fluorescent antibody (DFA) method, the antibody coats the antigen, for example, a bacterial cell, and cannot be easily removed by elution (washing). The antibody remains attached to the cell after all nonantibody globulin has been washed away. Since the antibody has been rendered fluorescent by conjugation with fluorescein or another dye, the outline of the bacterial cell that it coats can readily be seen with a special microscope. In the indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) method, the specific antibody is allowed to react with the antigen. The nonantibody globulin is then washed off. This is then treated with a labeled antibody to the specific antibody. For example, if the specific antibody was raised in a rabbit, it is then treated with fluorescein-labeled anti-rabbit globulin, which results in a combination of this labeled antibody with the rabbit immunoglobulin already attached to the antigen. Fluorescent antibody studies have been used in the detection of numerous bacterial, viral, fungal, and protozoan infections and in the identification of many microscopic tissue constituents. Direct immunofluorescence. In direct immunofluorescence the object is visualized using a fluorescein-tagged antibody. From Hart and Shears, 1997. im·mu·no·fluor·es·cence (im'yū-nō-flōr-es'ens, i-myū'nō-), An immunohistochemical technique using labeling of antibodies by a fluorescent dye to identify antigenic material specific for the labeled antibody. Specific binding of antibody can be determined microscopically through the production of a characteristic visible light by the application of ultraviolet rays to the preparation. See also: fluorescent antibody technique. /im·mu·no·flu·o·res·cence/ (-fldbobr-res´ens) a method of determining the location of antigen (or antibody) in a tissue section or smear by the pattern of fluorescence resulting when the specimen is exposed to the specific antibody (or antigen) labeled with a fluorochrome. (ĭm′yə-nō-flo͝o-rĕs′əns, -flô-, -flō-) Any of various techniques that use antibodies chemically linked to a fluorescent dye to identify or quantify antigens in a tissue sample. im′mu·no·fluo·res′cent adj. [-floo͡res′əns] Etymology: L, immunis + fluere, to flow a technique used for the rapid identification of an antigen by exposing it to known antibodies tagged with the fluorescent dye fluorescein and observing the characteristic antigen-antibody reaction of precipitation. As the fluorescent antibody reacts with its specific antigen, the precipitate appears luminous in the ultraviolet light projected by a fluorescent microscope. Many of the most common infectious organisms can be identified by this technique. Among them are Candida albicans, Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Shigella, Staphylococcus aureus, and several viruses, including rabies virus and many enteroviruses. See also fluorescent antibody test, fluorescent microscopy. immunofluorescent, adj. (im'yū-nō-flōr-es'ĕns) An immunohistochemical technique using labeling of antibodies by fluorescent dyes to identify bacterial, viral, or other antigenic material specific for the labeled antibody; the binding of antibody can be determined microscopically by the application of ultraviolet rays to the preparation. See also: fluorescent antibody technique The detection and identification of antigenic material by observing, under the microscope, the fluorescence of known, specific, fluorescein-linked (conjugated) antibodies that have become attached to it. See FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE. a method of determining the location of antigen (or antibody) in a tissue section or smear using a specific antibody (or antigen) labeled with a fluorochrome. In the direct methods, the fluorochome is chemically linked to the specific antibody. In indirect methods, a labeled anti-immunoglobulin that binds to the specific antibody is used. See also fluorescence microscopy. <a href="https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/immunofluorescence">immunofluorescence</a> antiglobulin antiglobulin test anti-Jo-1 antibody test antinuclear antibody autoimmune cholangitis Bartonella quintana blocking antibody chronic desquamative gingivitis complement-fixing antibody complete protein cross-reacting antibody cutaneous immunofluorescence biopsy cytotoxic antibody cytotropic antibody Deciduous Tree in Winter Sign DFA-TP test This study was undertaken to evaluate the clinical features, histopathology and immunofluorescence findings and correlation of various autoimmune vesiculobullous disorder of the skin for their diagnostic potential. Clinical and pathological study of autoimmune vesiculobullous disorders 16) What is unique about the TRITC-labeled PG-M3 antibody is that it can be applied in a direct immunofluorescence procedure, whereas the procedure for applying the noncommercial antibody is indirect and, as described by Falini et al, (4) involves 2 techniques. Immunostaining for rapid diagnosis of acute promyelocytic leukemia with the tetramethylrhodamine 5-isothiocyanate--conjugated anti-promyelocytic leukemia monoclonal antibody PG-M3 Detection of dengue virus by immunofluorescence after intracerebral inoculation of mosquitoes. Xenodiagnosis: use of mosquitoes for the diagnosis of arboviral infections Detection of specific antinuclear reactivities in patients with negative anti-nuclear antibody immunofluorescence screening test. Antibodies to extractable nuclear antigens in antinuclear antibody-negative samples Work-up for a suspected autoimmune blistering disease includes a physical exam, histology, direct and indirect immunofluorescence, and serologic tests. Current treatment lacks evidence base Direct immunofluorescence microscopy showed intercellular deposition of IgG and C3. Short Communication - Post-pemphigus acanthomata M2 PHARMA-July 11, 2014-Pathology Diagnostics starts offering immunofluorescence services Pathology Diagnostics starts offering immunofluorescence services com)-- Due to the recent rapid growth of Pathology Diagnostics Ltd (PDL), the advanced laboratory staining biomarker test portfolio of the organisation has grown at an extremely impressive rate, with the number of biomarkers validated now reaching over 370 for immunohistochemistry (IHC) and immunofluorescence (IMF). 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__label__wiki	0.648979	0.648979	playpause prev next all images & video © harshan thomson Madhuram Madhavam - a treat for the connoisseur Rupa Srikanth - The Hindu December 14, 2011 It might be early days yet, but Meenakshi Srinivasan's Bharatanatyam recital will go down as one of the 'picks' of the season. Welcome to the newest star on the horizon! Meenakshi is a disciple of Alarmel Valli, and has imbibed her guru's vitality and energy. But it was not just Meenakshi's dance that sizzled that day. It was a coming together of a poetic script, fresh and coordinated orchestra, an excellent choice of pieces and a performance par excellence, that turned 'Madhuram Madhavam' into a connoisseur's event. Excerpts from reviews of performance at Musee Guimet , Paris - 10th & 11th February 2012 "Meenakshi excels in this art and represents for me nothing less than grace personified!" Translated from French- I discovered Meenakshi Srinivasan during a dance performance at Musee Guimet in February. In the intimate space of this auditorium, I experienced a moment of pure bliss watching this very beautiful dancer who enchanted us for close to two hours, without a break...I arrived at the theatre without any prefixed ideas and without being already sold at the outset, but I was literally seduced by Meenakshi's enchanting charm...From one item to the next, during the five pieces she presented, Meenakshi played different roles and drew us into the scenes / situations which she played to perfection. For me, Bharatanatyam is one of the most majestic dances, with strict aesthetic codes, an extreme precision in the movements and a certain finesse in its execution. Meenakshi excels in this art and represents for me nothing less than grace personified!... Standing ovations at both performances at Guimet, proof that I wasn’t the only one to be seduced! -Mylene This young and brilliant dancer, still little known in France, dedicated her recital, Madhuram Madhavam, to the love for Lord Krishna by depicting the devotion of three different literary characters for this well-known deity who is one of the avatars of Vishnu. It featured five musical and choreographic compositions……In each of them, Meenakshi Srinivasan dazzled the audience with her technical virtuosity, grace and very human sensuality in the adoration of Krishna. In perfect harmony with her musicians, she seemed to effortlessly move from one item to the next with great ease, both in the rhythmical as well as expressive parts. -Annie Dalbeira This recital, titled Madhuram Madhavam, had five parts and was dedicated entirely to Krishna...The fluidity and beauty of the choreography was amazing...Moving a microphone towards the centre of the stage, the dancer presented the Varnam, the centrepiece of the recital... in almost impeccable French...The audience was enthusiastically asking for more, so the dancer and the musicians presented an extra item...Despite the physical effort it must have required for a dance recital of two hours, the dancer did not at all seem fatigued during the rhythmical passages in this extra item. - Joel Riou Brilliant all the way V.P. Dhananjayan is all praise for Meenakshi Srinivasan. Friday, Dec 11, 2009, The Hindu It's not often that we witness an evocative natya performance, endowed with all the essential qualities required for an artist. Meenakshi Srinivasan's execution of nritta (pure dance), nritya (expressive dance) and natya (drama) were all in measured brilliance bringing credit to her guru Alarmel Valli. Calm, poised and peaceful...the rasikas went home with these feelings that evening... Spectators simply loved the spirited Bharatanatyam recital of Meenakshi Srinivasan Leela Venkataraman - The Hindu New Delhi, August 29, 2011 Stage presence along with a capacity for deep involvement are the apparent hallmarks of Meenakshi Srinivasan's Bharatanatyam recital, as witnessed at the India International Centre in New Delhi. Trained under Alarmel Valli, Meenakshi has evolved while imbibing her guru's grace, but happily without trying to be a clone of the teacher's style and approach... That the audience was with the dancer was obvious. High degree of sophistication Vidya Saranyan - The Hindu, Chennai - May 6, 2010 On the inaugural day, the motley crowd could hardly miss the burning zeal and the high degree of sophistication of Meenakshi Srinivasan's Bharatanatyam. A disciple of Guru Venkatachalapathi and subsequently Alarmel Valli, Meenakshi has established a reputation for sincerity and expertise with her performances around the world. The programme planning and performance seemed to target the temple audience and factored in the absence of trappings such as the stage and curtain. Her recital that day revolved largely round Lord Siva and His consort. Abhinaya and nritta were given a balanced treatment. What stood out in Meenakshi's performance was the ability to create, communicate and sustain a particular mood without a single wrinkle. Meenakshi's Magnificent Margam A Seshan, Mumbai - Narthaki.com - October 29, 2009 In recent times this writer attended a series of neo-classical (or modern or contemporary or theme-based) Bharatanatyam (BN) programmes. While he certainly appreciated the novel attempts to introduce a fresh life into the ageing world of BN, he became nostalgic and yearned for a change - from the new to the old! So when Meenakshi Srinivasan... Informed him that she was going to do the Margam at her NCPA engagement in Mumbai on October 27, 2009, it came as a big relief. And relief it was because of the exemplary manner in which she carried the flag of the traditional format to an appreciative audience. The characteristic features of the Pandanallur style were brought out even at this early stage giving an inkling of what was to come later...The varnam was interpreted in both ways to evoke rati and bhakti sringaras. Viraha was woven in subtly. Nataraja’s different poses, held without any tremors in the body, were like what we see in temple sculptures. The footwork was flawless. One was reminded of her guru’s statement that abhinayam does not mean only facial and body expressions; it calls for footwork also for keeping track of the rhythm... One hopes Mumbai can see her more often. A delightful dancer... All the virtues of internalized bhava and netra-abhinaya. Clean lines, fine rhythm and introspective stillness stemming from a tranquil centre make Meenakshi a lovely dancer worth watching. Leela Venkatraman - The Hindu, New Delhi "to see sensuousness combined with abject geometric precision is to watch the dance of Meenakshi Srinivasan. Just as music and dance combine to create energy and calmness, her mastery over nritta and the almost subtle but unmistakable emotions on her face , blend to produce a sequence that makes you sit up and take notice. While she is able to inject in her dance an energy that does not seem labored, she also brings to her chosen items an inner power that moves the artiste to the core taking the audience along. And if there is a silence or pause in the dance, it is also a moment of equipoise before the next movement" Chitra Mahesh - Deccan Chronicle, Chennai "We are living in an age of aggressive over-statement, a feature which seems to have invaded every aspect of the performing arts. Meenakshi Srinivasan’s performance was refreshingly minimalistic... The dancer’s performance was like the intimate relationship between dance, music and sculpture. The recital was so perfect that it needed no extraneous embellishments. The power of communication and the sensitivity of her artistry enriched her rendition..." M.Surya Prasad - Deccan Herald, Bangalore "One of the main things about seeing Meenakshi Srinivasan perform is the taking for granted of the supreme quality and dedication to the dance form of Bharatanatyam she provides. Every part of her being is involved in the way she dances- from the way her hand movements remain in perfect sync with her body and in the way her nritta hardly ever falls short of the percussion accompaniment."	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1424
__label__cc	0.744638	0.255362	Simon Reinhard Interview Posted by Florian Dellé \| May 2, 2015 If one had to decide who is the most talented and successful memory athlete of all times, there would probably one name pop up among the few chosen ones, that everyone has heard about. We talked with Simon “The Flash” Reinhard and asked him for his secrets. Memory-Sports.com: Hello Simon. A very long anticipated interview is finally happening now. I am excited. So where shall we start? Maybe you can introduce yourself a little bit – we all might now your achievements well but we would like to know the guy behind that awesomeness. Simon: I was born in 1979, working as a lawyer in Munich and I think I am a normal, nice guy. I love the memory scene since 2005. Over the years I managed to break some world records and win some championships. My goal for 2015 is to win the World Memory Championship (WMC). Memory-Sports.com: Please explain your first contact with memory sports to us. Simon: My first contact with memory sports was in summer 2005. I was surfing the web during my last year of university, searching for some memory techniques. We had a guy at university speaking about Speed Reading. Although I am not a fan of it, I was researching that and similar stuff online. I stumbled upon the club MemoryXL, the non-profit German memory club. I read the first time about the loci method and some other techniques. I think I would have completely forgotten about it if there wouldn’t have been the free MemoryXL software trainer. The nice feature was to upload your results of the seven disciplines to the homepage. This was fascinating to me since I was a child of video games, playing Zelda on the Nintendo Entertainment System when I was nine years old. It was also the first time I read the names “Hannes” (Johannes Mallow) or “Boris” (Boris Nikolai Konrad) in the highscore lists. Memory-Sports.com: Looking back over the years what did change for you regarding your thinking process? Do you think memory training had an impact on you? Simon: I do think so. Interestingly it is a bit difficult to grasp what the impact exactly was. But I feel it strongest after an intense training session. Then I feel visually activated, as if I see the world around myself a bit more clearly. I noticed that in the immediate aftermath, for example reading a book a few hours later, I had clearer pictures of the things happening in it. Or when playing Pool I saw the lines in front of me or when drawing seeing the image better in my mind. And interestingly I also started playing chess a little bit better. Memory-Sports.com: You are training with former world memory champion Johannes Mallow. He is a good friend and memory opponent of yours at the same time. How did that rivalry work out for the two of you? Looking at each other’s official scores and records seemed to have worked extremely well. Can you explain your experience of that sparring partnership? Simon: It actually started in 2010 and the initial factor was Wang Feng’s win at the WMC in 2010. He kind of conquered the memory scene by storm with a score of 480 in Speed Numbers and very impressive Speed Card scores. When we said together on the night of the last day, Hannes was very disappointed because I think he expected to win after a fantastic German Championship a few months before. And I was also very surprised by that new standard set there. We both already had heard that Wang claimed to have trained very much, about 600 hours, in the months before the WMC. So we said, if we are really honest to ourselves, we both are really lazy. And this cannot continue because we cannot afford it anymore. That might sound a bit arrogant but before that we probably thought our talent or whatever will save us every time. But now we had an opponent who was really ruthless in his discipline and who didn’t hesitate to train very, very much. So we came up with the idea to train together. This mainly happened on the web, with shared Google Docs and talking about our techniques and experiences. I think talking about it in detail and motivating each other helped us to realize more of our mutual potential. I hope it is not exhausted yet but it was a big step forward. Simon Reinhard vs Anne Reulke at the XMT 2015 in San Diego. Memory-Sports.com: Let’s have a closer look at your records. You are holding the actual record of official memory records by having seven different world records at the same time. Speed Cards (21.19s) 5min N&F (84) 5min Words (124) 10min Cards (370) 15min N&F (186) 15min Words (300) 30min Numbers (1.479) That is all amazingly impressive! The incredibly difficult Names and Faces records (N&F), the super accurate 300 words in 15 minutes, 40 percent more numbers for the new title of International Master of Memory – in half the time and of course your legendary record for the king discipline Speed Cards. I don’t even know what I can ask you to sum that up. Maybe you can say something about it yourself? Simon: My world records mean very much to me, because a world record is, apart from being the actual World Memory Champion, the greatest thing that you can achieve in the sport. Having a world record also has a touch of striving for eternity. It is a score that is better than anything done before. My most prestigious record was in Speed Cards in 2010. Before I made the record during the South German Championship in Stuttgart, I knew I could do it. But being able to actually do it during a competition is always very special. Luckily there was your video of it. I think it made a really nice impression on many people and has over 40.000 views now. I was asked very often afterwards how I have done it and that people watched it on YouTube. The next records that mean a lot are the names records. I simply love names. It is kind of an intimate experience. I am sorry that some seem to have a lot of troubles with names, even with memory techniques. I also use techniques for them but it seems to stick a bit better. When I look at a face and read the name, I often think the name fits perfectly well, reminding me of someone or something. That feels very exciting. Both 5 minutes and 15 minutes events are one of the single events where I can really rely on having good results. Memory-Sports.com: Let’s get dirty and squeeze some details out of you: How do you memorize N&F? And I don’t accept an easy answer you would give to any newcomer. I want the good stuff! Simon: What has to be said about Names & Faces is that it has some kind of talent component. I always, even long before memory sports, was able to remember names very well. As a kid I recognized many people on TV, while my parents didn’t. Also within a few days when I started with the MemoryXL trainer, I was the first person reaching level ten. That was 50 first and last names in 5 minutes I think. And when I first cracked it back then, my MemoryXL account was deleted because it looked like some anomaly. So I contacted the host of the website, which was Boris Konrad, and told him I am for real. Then I created a new account and broke the record again. So I was already on a high level. My natural technique is that I look at a name and see a first association with it, which can mean many different things. For example imagining someone else with the same name and then trying to find similarities between them. Sometimes the names fit perfectly, for example a bold headed white Thomas could be the middle age monk Thomas von Aquinas. But if that doesn’t work and I don’t find an immediate connection, I try to search a bit more thoroughly what this name could tell me. For example the name reminds me of a feeling of anger and then I either try finding some angry expression in the face or the exact opposite, if the person is laughing. It is kind of a multi-facetted approach that doesn’t work automatically but comes easily when I look at the name with an open mind. This is my basic, natural approach. Over the years I tried different approaches though, when I was training with the MemoCamp website, to make it even more effective. I experimented with using locations and got the new world record of 186 names in 15 minutes last year at the German Memory Championship. And interestingly after the Extreme Memory Tournament (XMT) in San Diego last year, where we only had one minute to memorize names, I realized that using locations didn’t work and switched back to just using associations. And suddenly I was on a complete new level there. Simon Reinhard vs Yanjaa Altansuh. Simon broke the XMT record with 27 names in 60 seconds. Memory-Sports.com: What about words? This discipline seems easy to start with and very difficult to master. Do you have some tips for us? Simon: I think words are an interesting subject. One tip is not putting too many words on one location. I am always putting two words on one loci. Sometimes I experience with only one word each but it doesn’t have this “story-effect” like two words have. I know some people put three words or more in one location but that isn’t working for me. With two words in one location it is nearly impossible to not immediately see some kind of connection, similarity or story between them. And then you simply have to try to let this story happen and make the location and natural stage for it. Since you don’t need any translation code like with cards or numbers, you immediately see what you are memorizing and that makes it very primal. It is also very much related to memorizing text which was one of the first uses of memory techniques. But it is also very individual and as far as I know I memorize very different of how Boris Konrad and Johannes Mallow do. Often when my images were good, I only need to see a glimpse of the image and I remember the way it was written on the paper. So I have fewer problems with synonyms and orthography. For example remembering a bird leads me right back to the word Albatross. It is not like a photographic memory, but I am often sure which word it was. On the other hand sometimes I realize there might be confusion later due to similar looking things so I invest more time to make my images more clearly. I think it is also about being able to recognize your own weaknesses while memorizing and making a respective time management. Memory-Sports.com: And now the king question: How the hell can you memorize a deck of cards so quickly and not just once but over and over again in competitions? Tell us more about your card system and training, please. Simon Reinhard with his previous Speed Cards world record of 21.90 seconds. He beat it himself later with 21.19 seconds. Simon: When I started memorizing cards I used this 1-digit card system – and I hated it. It felt clunky and repetitive, just like my old 2-digit system when I memorized numbers. So I very quickly tried to get a 2-card-system and started using it in 2006 for the first time. I made the whole list at once to know that I made at least one image for each possible combination of two cards and simply started using it. It was pretty rough in the beginning but I tried to get times below 30 seconds relatively fast. Once I got a sub-30 seconds attempt for the first time it suddenly got easier. The same happened for a sub-25 seconds time. Now I am trying to do a deck of Speed Cards every morning and I always go for times below 25 seconds. The save-risky times are often below 23 seconds and every second or third attempt I deliberately go for times below 20 seconds, which feels much riskier. I think what really helps is knowing my images very well. I am very intimate with the use of my images, with similarities between them and the inherent characteristics of each one. This makes it much easier to quickly connect them to the locations. And I only use selected locations because they have to be polished, with many variations in directions, height and the character of each location. When I try to go for a really fast time I go in some kind of over-drive-mode. I try to think as quickly as possible, be completely relaxed and make a good effort. I am basically bringing everything that I know together into that short timeframe in order to create the connections between the images and locations so that they last. I am 35 years old and I am getting faster and faster, so my mind still seems to work at top speed. It would be cool to have some day a time below 20 seconds, so I could feel save there since more and more people being able to do times under 25 seconds. Memory-Sports.com: Even your number system is special. As far as I know you are the only memory athlete using a 4-digit system with 10.000 images. Why are you doing that, how much effort was it and do you think it is superior to a 2-digit Person-Action-Object system (PAO)? Keep in mind that Jonas von Essen became the World Memory Champion with a small system. Simon: I felt compelled to switch to a 4-digit system because at the World Memory Championships 2009 I still used a 3-digit system and simply couldn’t get enough speed to get reliably above 320 digits in 5 minutes. And that was just not enough, even by then. I was already playing with the idea since 2007, reading license plates on the street and things like that. This system is an extension to my old one-syllable 3-digit system. It took some time until I noticed I could do more than 320 reliably. But it was worth it. It was like a new continent to play around. Because nobody knew what would be the limitations, so I relied on my feeling and intuition. What I did not do was to create a 10.000 image list. I think that is completely crazy and doesn’t make sense. But in most cases I was very quickly able to find an improvised association for a 4-digit number, based on my 3-digit system. Then I simply started memorizing. I thought I just need the first association anyway, so why not develop it why I try memorizing it. That worked also very well with my 2-digit card system. So you don’t have to memorize a list and then use it, but instead use it right away while you create it. I think that is the approach that everybody could take. Finally after some time of being slower with it, I started feeling confident about it at the World Memory Championship 2010, which was the first WMC after I made the switch. There I noticed I could get scores above 320 digits in 5 minute numbers, with not so much effort. I also noticed it helped me much with the longer disciplines. It is a demanding system but the construction is not so bad. As of now I think I should have seen every of the 10.000 images once or twice. I am interested how far this can be taken. I don’t use it for Spoken Numbers yet, though. That is an interesting upcoming experiment for me, which will be the last step until the system really is perfected. I still see quite some potential in Speed Numbers and the longer number disciplines. And I noticed a jump from last year in my ability in memorizing 30 minute numbers. I really think it is superior to a 2-digit PAO system. Jonas von Essen didn’t become World Champion because he was so much superior in numbers but because he was great in the overall ranking. But in the long run, a 3-digit system used as masterfully as Johannes Mallow does or a true 4-digit system should be superior. If you have for example twins, with one putting much effort in a 4-digit system and the other into a 2-digit PAO, I think the results of the first would be better. Maybe if you train your 2-digit PAO so much like Wang Feng did, the three images merge together into one and ultimately become more superior. It would be easier to find lost images. But only time can tell in that regard. Simon Reinhard in deep concentration at the World Memory Championship 2014 in China. Memory-Sports.com: Ok, I could squeeze more technical details out of you forever but I want to talk about other matters as well. You are a member of the World Memory Sports Council and even of the STAR committee. What are these two official governing bodies, who else is a member and what do they do? Simon: I see my role at the WMSC as a voice for all memory athletes. Initially I was meant to represent the MemoryXL members from Germany but I think my role has slightly changed since I invested much time to change some wrongs that had been done in the past. When I want to change something I usually get some input from the people in the Facebook group of the WMC. This could be improved in the future to have a mailing or a quick online poll, so that people without Facebook access can also give their opinion. The other members are Dominic O’Brien, eight times World Memory Champion. Phil Chambers, chief arbiter, with much experience in handling the biggest tournaments. A recent addition is Andy Fong and his wife Angel Lai from HongKong, handling the statistics page. The official homepage is being handled by Secretary Chris Day. And there are other members like level three arbiters Gabriele Kappus and Nathalie Lecordier. And the so-called STAR committee is basically the sub group where we talk about rule changes like changing the Millennium Standard or recall time. There are the most animated discussions and these are the ones most important for the sport, where I also most often try to get input from the community. I think in the last years we brought the standards on a reasonable level, we have firm criteria for changing the standards now and we changed some other things as well. It is a time consuming work but it is also very interesting and demanding and gives something in return. It is definitely worthwhile. Memory-Sports.com: Memory sports are evolving with an ever growing pace. There are other formats popping up next to the Memory Sports Council championships. For example there was the Memoriad in Turkey 2012 or the upcoming Extreme Memory Championship in the USA in 2014. What do you think of that development? And what does it mean to us as memory athletes? Simon: I think alternative memory tournaments like the Memoriad and the XMT are something very positive. Let me start with the Memoriad: I took part in my first Memoriad in 2012 in Turkey. And it was a fantastic competition, with a nice, high class venue with a great competition room. There weren’t only memory events but also mental calculation disciplines. It was one of the best competitions I have ever been at in my life. I think it was invitational, where the organizers tried to see who is invested in the sport and got good results in the past. It was partly paid for, so that everyone could afford to really go there. The interesting thing was it was not a competition with total points but with separate memory events. And every competition there had a separate winner, which is a great concept. This concept wouldn’t work at the World Memory Championship because it would distract from the true World Memory Champion, but having alternative tournaments like this gives us the opportunity to have great scores in these disciplines. The other one is the Extreme Memory Tournament, taking place in 2014 in San Diego for the first time. And that was the most fantastic memory tournament I ever took part. The idea about it was to make a completely different championship. Even though memory sports is great, the biggest obstacle, preventing a real breakthrough in my opinion, is the format. As a spectator you don’t have much to see. On the XMT we got short disciplines, all only one minute and then it is always one against one, fully digital done on laptops. The audience can follow each match live on a big screen, greatly put into action with any input of the contestants directly visible. The software was wonderfully and clearly designed a worked close to flawlessly. Simon Reinhard vs Yanjaa Altansuh at the XMT2015 breaking the XMT numbers record with 26.24 seconds for 80 digits. So the XMT has the audience in mind. I think that was very successfully done. We had sixteen competitors in groups like at the European Football Championships. There are four groups with four people each and a round-robin tournament, where everybody in each group competes against everybody in the same group. This guaranteed there are many matches, eliminating fluke winnings. The two with the most points from each group qualified for day two. And these eight remaining athletes went then through a bracket-system from the quarter finals to finals. The other great addition on day two were surprise events which were completely different to the other disciplines. The most exciting memory from the XMT was a certain match, where one participant came closer and closer to the leading opponent and finally overtaking him. The same happened in other events as well. And that was really great to watch and the whole audience held their breath. Luckily I was able to win the XMT and that was the greatest thing I experienced in memory sports and even in my entire life. Besides my own experience I think the XMT was the greatest thing that could have happen to memory sports in general. So I would say that both the Memoriad as well as the XMT are at least as important as the traditional championships because they represent a glimpse into the future of memory sports. Memory-Sports.com: Speaking of which, what is your vision for the future of memory sports? Simon: I think the sport should direct itself more into a 1 vs 1 approach, more spectator friendly, shorter disciplines and simply an increase potential for media and sponsorship interest. This is not fully explored at the moment. The future I would like to see is similar like what I did on German Television in 2013, where I competed against Johannes Mallow in a duel form, similar to the XMT. We gave much input beforehand about what could work on TV and what not. In the show we had a very short time to memorize 25 words, 50 digits and 100 binary numbers. And the first one who stopped memorizing could hit a buzzer after which the information vanished for the opponent as well. Something like this is very exciting. Then we would have few limits for a public acceptance of the sport. Memory-Sports.com: Thank you for your time, Simon. Simon Reinhard with his latest record of 48 words in 60 seconds at the XMT2015 in San Diego. PreviousMarwin Wallonius Interview NextThe Pyramid Memory System Interview with Alex Mullen Interview with Shijir-Erdene Bat-Enkh Interview with Emma Andersson Boris Konrad Interview	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1427
__label__cc	0.744415	0.255585	Michael Wear Filter: Public Life Congress, Government, Leadership, Justice, Marriage, Politics, Public Life Things to Watch for in Tonight's State of the Union Michael Wear on things to watch for in President Obama's 2014 State of the Union address. Tagged: State of the Union, Barack Obama, Jason Collins, Ross Douthat, Brad Wilcox, Matt Yglesias, Nicholas Kristof, David Remnick, human trafficking, immigration, immigration reform, gun control, international development, rhetoric, partisanship Christianity, Culture, Jazz, Faith, Leadership, Music, Public Life, Work, Vocation Music Monday: Duke Ellington and the Important Things Why would one of America's most prolific and esteemed composers write sacred music when he had achieved such acclaim with songs like "Prelude to a Kiss," "Mood Indigo." and "Take the 'A' Train?" What took him so long to decide to write sacred music? Duke understood there would be questions about why he was "taking the Cotton Club to church," and so prior to one of his sacred concerts he held a press conference. He told the reporters that writing this music was the "most important thing I have ever done." He continued: "Now I can say openly what I've been saying on my knees for 60 years." Tagged: Duke Ellington, Jazz, Sacred Concerts, gospel music, New Year Journalism, Culture, Writing, Faith, Government, Public Life, Politics, Music Michael's Favorite Reads of the Week Michael's favorite articles from the week of Dec. 15. Tagged: Jonathan Merritt, Frank Rich, Lauren Markoe, Charlie Savage, Aaron Cline Hanbury, Stephen Sondheim, Musical Theater, criminal justice, controversy Christianity, Leadership, Controversy, Jesus, Scripture, Evangelism, Public Life, Faith Duck Dynasty: A Personal Lesson from this Public Controversy In that same interview with CNN, Al Mohler affirmed that Christians must be careful and considerate of the forums in which they make moral pronouncements. He was right. And Christians who do have a public voice, and take on the burden of teaching, should welcome the accountability other Christians can provide as a safeguard against the own sinfulness that can well up in our hearts. Our platforms are never more important than our faithfulness. Let us remember that whatever light is in us did not come from us. Let us remember our responsibility to share that light, and hold each other accountable as children of a holy and perfect King. Tagged: Duck Dynasty, Jonathan Merritt, Sharon Hodde Miller, Al Mohler, Cable news, CNN, controversy © 2016 Michael Wear. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1433
__label__cc	0.59145	0.40855	Appalling language On 8 May 2008 at 3:14pm madge wrote: I sat in town today waiting for friend & sitting & standing beside me was a group of four young mums with babies/toddlers in pushchairs. They were chatting loudly, laughing & joking discussing recent events in their lives but the language was appalling...every sentence used had c*t, fk, pk & st in it. I am not a prude & have nothing against them enjoying life but regardless of wether they were speaking to their children or speculting over their shopping spree the expletives poured out. It saddens me that these young girls are totally oblivious to how discraceful they sound - I'm sure their mothers must be very proud of them! On 8 May 2008 at 3:37pm Lewes Hacker wrote: lol hear hear! On 8 May 2008 at 3:42pm Eatl of Lewes wrote: I swear like a trooper, but not in public. It's not the language itself that offends me, but the lack of consideration or respect for others. It's particularly awful that they're doing it in front of small children. What a start in life! On 8 May 2008 at 3:46pm Lewey from Lewes wrote: Thier mothers must be proud of them and thier mothers must love them!...they love them long time! their mothers must be theres brothers and thier fathers must be thier carvers! WHA?! On 8 May 2008 at 3:58pm Earl of Lewes wrote: Proud Mother - is English your first language? On 8 May 2008 at 7:20pm mother wrote: Obviously some proud parents on here recognise their daughters must have been in town today with their grandchildren...ahhh there's lovely innit. On 8 May 2008 at 11:51pm meathook wrote: Madge, I bet you were outside Forfars. Those mothers stuff the little kiddies faces with doughnuts and cheese straws. Gugghhh! On 9 May 2008 at 9:21am Piggles wrote: Scummy Mummies. Lewes' answer to the Yummy Mummy DFL epidemic. On 9 May 2008 at 3:38pm angry wrote: Nothing worse than hearing a female swearing, total turn off for me. On 9 May 2008 at 6:25pm Dunk wrote: Absolutely. The times ive seen a rather attractive female and then completly gutted when she has opened her mouth and splutters out a load of sewage.Unbelievable. The Gardeners Arms Lewes	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1441
__label__cc	0.733185	0.266815	Youth and Caseworker Perspectives on Older Adolescents in California Foster Care: Youths' Education Status and Services. Chapin Hall Discussion Paper. Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. Download: http://www.cacollegepathways.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/youth_and_caseworker_perspectives_final_0.pdf This paper examines the educational status of and services available to older adolescents in foster care in California, both from the viewpoint of the young people themselves and from the viewpoint of caseworkers who work with foster youth. Three specific areas are examined in the paper: the educational history and status of older adolescents in care, the perception of how ready these youth are to pursue their educational goals, and the availability and helpfulness of education related services. Data is drawn from the California Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study (CalYOUTH) and includes responses from 235 California caseworkers who serve older foster care youth and 727 foster adolescents. Findings indicate youth were generally optimistic about their future educational attainment; nearly all of them expect to finish high school and over 80% expect to graduate from college; most youth are connected to school, work, or both, however, about 1 in 10 are not connected to either; young people said they were encouraged to pursue their education by three important groups of adults in their lives: family members, school workers, and individuals working in the foster care system; about 45% of youth said that receiving support to continue their education was the biggest reason they would choose to stay in care; 60% of workers reported that youth saw extended care as an important way to pursue their educational goals; although the majority of youth aspire to complete a college degree, more than half are reading below a high school level at age 18; and most youth said that their guardians or biological family are the people who provide the most help with their education, and only one-third said they received a lot of services intended to support them educationally. 7 tables and 11 references. foster adolescents; academic achievement; postsecondary education; aging out; schools; youth services; California	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1445
__label__cc	0.529997	0.470003	Life After Dawn My story in pictures and words April 21, 2019 April 21, 2019 / Dawn Ennis / 2 Comments It’s been a few months since my last blogpost, and I felt today was a good day to count my blessings. Tonight is the 3rd night of Passover, and the day that I used to mark as Easter Sunday. My conversion to Judaism is imminent, and it makes my heart soar to be on this journey. I don’t see it as leaving anything behind as much as accepting a truth about myself and where my spirit and soul reside, and it is in the faith of my children, my beloved, and my in-laws. And perhaps also in the legacy of my great, great grandfather Moses Ennis, a tailor in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland. So nu? This week, Irish people the world over will mark the 103rd anniversary of the Easter Rising. Because I stumbled soon after my transition became public in 2013, I feel connected to the bloody rebellion against England. Like me, it at first failed, but ultimately led to the creation of the Irish Free State, a republic that is my ancestral home, and still home to both my mother and father’s families. Which makes them my family. It was two years ago this summer that the children and I traveled to our ancestral homeland. I look forward to returning to Ireland, perhaps in 2020. Or sooner, if President Trump continues to oppress transgender Americans as he and his administration are doing. Some folks would go to Canada, but it’s Ireland for us. Our extended family still needs your prayers and good thoughts, as one of our loved ones is ailing. I won’t get into details because they’re not mine to share. But other than that, life is good. No, really! In fact, we’re all doing well. Our oldest is in his last quarter of his first year of college. Our middle child is finishing her junior year and we’re starting to look at colleges, and the youngest is a boy scout in seventh grade and studying for his bar mitzvah this fall. Together we are doing all the planning, and this being my first one without his mom to help us, I’ll admit it’s a challenge. But we have the hall, the cake, the deejay and a theme. Next up is invitations, seating charts and of course, the actual ceremony and celebration! I’ve been teaching journalism, advertising and public relations at the University of Hartford since January, and I’ll be back in the fall. This week, my students in my Writing for the Media class are almost at the conclusion of viewing “All The President’s Men.” My News Reporting students are conducting interviews, asking people their thoughts on the redacted Mueller Report. Their assignment: find people on both sides of the Trump divide. I’ve been managing editor of Outsports since February and it’s been going very well. This was my most favorite story to tell so far, and this one was an exclusive. And last week, I signed a contract to be a contributor to Forbes.com, starting soon. So, financially, we’re in the best shape we’ve been in since 2016. I still have huge debts, and even with three paychecks, we still struggle, but my head is at long last above water. Yes, life is good. Our seder was fun and for the first time in the 22 years since I’ve been co-hosting seders, we had a guest, our housemate Kati. Dahlia was there but we missed having our oldest child at the table! In fact, it’s the first time in 20 years we didn’t have all three children sitting with us, and our third Seder since we lost the most important person in our lives. But life goes on. As it must. And there will be people who will gossip and whisper about the fact that for the first time in a long time I shared photographs of our children here. Well, let them. It’s proof we are happy, and together (sorta), and thriving. And that’s worth sharing. I Got A Lesbian Republican for Christmas December 24, 2018 December 24, 2018 / Dawn Ennis / Leave a comment Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! This time on RiseUP With Dawn Ennis, I’m delighted to have Mary Fay in the studio. We discuss the recent election and its result, being a Republican in a progressive community, Connecticut politics and how she can be both an out lesbian and a Republican. You might recall that last month, I interviewed her empty chair. She was a no-show! Well, she showed up this time! And we had a great conversation, even if we didn’t agree on much. She was the first Republican to be my guest, and hopefully not the last. Watch here, and scroll down for links mentioned in this month’s episode! To know more about Mary Fay, you can go to her campaign’s Facebook page here. And you can find out more about our representative government here in West Hartford, Connecticut, by clicking here.I myself am an alternate representative to the town Democratic committee, representing District 1. Find out about us here, and please join us! If you’re interested in the Republican committee, they have a website, too. One of the issues we discussed were tolls coming to Connecticut, and although Ms. Fay told me I was wrong, you can read for yourself that a study shows they will bring $1B to our financially-strapped state. Here’s the report in the Hartford Courant. And if you’d like to communicate with the woman who beat Ms. Fay for the 18th Legislative district seat, you’ll find Jillian Gilchrest on Twitter. Incidentally, I’ve learned Jillian still has not received a promised call from Ms. Fay conceding the election. Here’s the link I promised you about Connecticut Voice Magazine! Launch is set for March 2019! That’s all for our January episode of RiseUP, and I invite you to like, share and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Also listen to the podcast I’m now doing with Chardonnay Merlot, Before The War. We discuss politics, transgender issues and news of the week. We took some time off recently because of the holidays, the death of Chardonnay’s grandfather and my own recovery from surgery at Mount Sinai’s NY Eye and Ear Infirmary. Despite the name of the facility, my surgeon is now performing vaginoplasty surgeries there. I suffered a complication in June from the operation he performed in May, and so my recent surgery was aimed at correcting that. All is well! More good news: I will be teaching courses in journalism in the new year at the University of Hartford and you can also find my work at my portfolio page. Just click on the “articles” tab. Since this is the Christmas season, I thought I’d leave you with three “gifts.” First, two articles just published by The Advocate Magazine, profiling some amazing people I met at the NYC Pride march… Kaia Naadira and Ty Defoe! Click on their names to read! Then, some politically-inspired carols… (SCROLL DOWN) And last, the latest video from my BFF Maia Monet in which she wrangled Santa Claus (Dev Zebra) into listening to the Christmas wishes of transgender people! (KEEP SCROLLING) I don’t want a lot for Christmas There’s just one change we need. I don’t care about Jared or Junior Let them spend this Christmas free. I just want #Trump‘s mobile phone Then let him go to Mar-A-Lago We’ll end the shutdown, too. Is a COUP. Silent night, Shutdown night Everyone’s gone, turn out the lights ‘Round the world, allies gone wild Holy shit, Trump is out of his mind Sleep with porn stars, grab pussy Sleep with porn stars, grab pussy! We wish you a Mueller Christmas We wish you a Mueller Christmas and a Happy Indictment Fake Newscasts we bring to you and your kin We wish you a Mueller Christmas and a Happy Indictment! Closing bells ring, are you listening On Wall Street, stocks are slipping A terrible fright We’re crying tonight Watching our markets crashland. Gone away are our investments Here to stay is a depressment #Trump was so wrong To boast all along While our markets crashland. Donald the Conman Was a lying racist clown With combover hair and tiny hands And pouting lips in a permanent frown Donald the President Lied ’bout the wall: Mexico won’t pay And his base was surprised when Before their eyes All those promised jobs went away. You know Flynn and Manafort and Gates and Cohen Kellyanne and Sarah and Jared and Stephen But do you recall The most famous Trumpster of all? Ivanka the President’s Daughter Plays a very shady role And if you ever saw her You would even say she knows More than the other reindeer! Mueller baby, slip your report under the tree for me Been an awful good girl Mueller baby, and hurry up with your Trump indictment Mueller baby, more indictments, too, for Mike Pence, too I’ll wait up for you, Robert Mueller baby, so hurry to the White House tonight I really can’t wait (Baby Mueller’s outside) I gotta go to Mar-A-Lago (Baby Mueller’s outside) This term has been (Been hoping that it would end) So very sad (I’ve noticed your hands really are tiny like a toy) Mike Pence will start to worry (Not as much as we worry!) Just hear breaking news alerts jingling, ring tingle tingling, too Come on, it drives me crazy my phone blows up ‘cuz of you Feels like the sky is falling and friends are crying “boo hoo!” Come on, it’s time for Mueller to finish so we can get rid of you! ‘Twas the Sunday before Christmas, when all thro’ the House, Not a congressman was stirring, not even @RepMikeBost The shutdown begun by the POTUS who dared Hoping his base soon would not care; The children nestled in cages of dread Forget freedom, just don’t let them be dead. I have a little witness I made him talk today And when the indictment’s ready Then, a video I shall play Oh, Jared, Jared, Jared What you told me I can’t say But when the indictment’s ready Then, #Trump will say, OY VEY. Happy Holidays and here’s wishing to a fabulous 2019! Candles, Candidates and Canines November 22, 2018 November 28, 2018 / Dawn Ennis / Leave a comment The 20th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance was observed on Tuesday, and my friend Kati Ennis and I attended the commemoration in Hartford, Connecticut. You can see some of the very moving program in the new episode of RiseUP With Dawn Ennis. I was invited by Rev. Aaron Miller to deliver the Interfaith Prayer, which was a poem by Rabbi Rami Shapiro, What To Do. I was humbled by the amazing stories and reflections of the speakers: Regina Dyson, Brianna Johnston, Mia Lozada, Aeryn Grady (audio problems prevented me from including Aeryn in my show), Maeve Martinez and the incredible author, life coach and public speaker, Tony Ferraiolo. Also in this new episode, what was supposed to be a sit down interview with Republican West Hartford Town Councilor Mary Fay — who ran and lost in the local election for state legislator to newcomer Jillian Gilchrest — turned out quite differently than I had anticipated. Fay, an out lesbian who also won the endorsement of the Independent Party in Connecticut, had agreed to an interview during the campaign, then reneged. I caught up with her on Election Day as she greeted voters, and she promised to appear on my show. But when it came time to record the episode, Fay again sent her regrets, complaining of a bout with a stomach bug. She’s offered to appear on a future episode. The chair remains empty, so we’ll see. Fay was set to be the very first Republican to appear on my program; instead, she is the very first “no show” in 16 episodes since March 2017. What you will see instead of Mary is Maggie, or as we now call her, Dahlia. She’s a rescue adoption dog who became part of our family thanks to Scott Turner Schofield and GLAAD, and the team at Litton Entertainment, a Hearst company, that produces a new reality series: Ready Set Pet on The CW. You can see clips in this new episode of RiseUP With Dawn Ennis: Watch the entire episode of Ready Set Pet here: Check out the Connecticut Humane Society for more pets available for adoption! If you’re interested in West Hartford Town politics, learn more by clicking here. Find out more about Tony Ferraiolo at this link. And thanks to journalist, writer and author Gwen Smith for continuing the very difficult task of compiling the names for TDoR. That link is here. Check out the new blogsite for our companion podcast, Before The War. “Does your husband know you’re doing this?” September 14, 2018 September 14, 2018 / Dawn Ennis / Leave a comment “Does your husband know you’re doing this?” That was one of the questions Democrat Jillian Gilchrest faced when she went door-to-door across West Hartford, Conn., in her first political campaign ever. “Yes, he does, and he supports me 100-percent,” Gilchrest told the skeptical man. Skeptics were decidedly outnumbered in the August primary in which Gilchrest defeated a 23-year incumbent for his seat in the Connecticut State Legislature, representing her hometown in the 18th Assembly district. Andy Fleischmann’s 12-terms as a strong advocate for West Hartford and most recently as chairman of the education committee were not enough to overcome the wave of momentum Gilchrest had built both online and in person. Watch my interview with Jillian Gilchrest by clicking the link below, and you’ll find more links and information about this month’s episode by scrolling down. Gilchrest faces Republican Town Councilor Mary Fay in the November election. Here’s the link to Gilchrest’s campaign and you can follow her on Twitter by clicking here. You can read about outgoing Assemblyman Fleischmann here. If you haven’t registered to vote, or you want to check or change your affiliation, click here if you live in Connecticut and click here for any other state. If you’re interested in learning more about the NLGJA — The Association of LGBTQ Journalists, click here for their website. The incident involving former member Marshall McPeek was first reported in a tweet by them’s Mary Emily O’Hara: Fox News is hosting the closing reception at #NLGJA2018 and one of these emcees just welcomed the “Ladies and gentlemen, things and its” in attendance. 😐 #LGBTMedia18 pic.twitter.com/ZFTelXQEFp — Mary Emily O’Hara (@MaryEmilyOHara) September 9, 2018 Marshall McPeek, shown on the left in the photo of the emcees. apologized and resigned his membership in the NLGJA. Update: the emcee who joked about #NLGJA2018 attendees being “things and its” apologized and resigned from the association. https://t.co/gthzywqQrH Dear NLGJA members and our global LGBTQ community: Please accept my humblest apologies as I pledge to learn from you and use this experience to foster greater understanding and acceptance. https://t.co/Fy7oFb8MHn pic.twitter.com/pABTLNEjdM — Marshall McPeek (@MarshallMcPeek) September 12, 2018 There has been a firestorm of reaction since the incident. I added my own comments in response to Mr. McPeek’s tweeted apology: I want to go on record saying I do not want to see you punished, either by @nlgja or your employer or by anyone, including #trans, #GNC and #NB individuals you offended. What I do wish is that instead of resigning your membership you had pledged to work with those maligned —> — Dawn Ennis (@lifeafterdawn) September 13, 2018 (2) by you and for you to work with your supporters who seem to think the trans community (in the opinion of @SteveFriess) is a bunch of pitchfork-waving wackos and that some of us are less than (in the opinion of @HankPlante) because we blog instead of working in the MSM. –> (3) I think you are being sincere in this statement. I am eager to both forgive and move on, but you have in your own way opened-up a hornet's nest and only together can we work to eliminate the danger. Will you work with #trans #GNC and #NB folks and your cis gay colleagues –> (4 of 4) to resolve differences, bring about better understanding and fight transphobia? Or will you side with those who say it was just a joke, get over it, it was a one time slip of the tongue. No it wasn't. You know it wasn't. I extend my hand if you wish to work together. However, another NLGJA member, Steve Freiss, offered a different opinion, declaring “Everybody’s wrong,” and I share it here in an attempt to show there is more than one side to this story. Your comments are welcome. Send me a message if you’re interested in being our next special correspondent! And stay tuned for details about BEFORE THE WAR, the upcoming podcast I’m launching soon with Chardonnay Merlot! Pride in the name of… Dawn July 11, 2018 August 23, 2018 / Dawn Ennis / Leave a comment Just because June is over doesn’t mean it’s the end of pride celebrations. This month on my talk show, RiseUP with Dawn Ennis,we cover a lot of ground, and if you’ll forgive me for boasting… I have a lot to boast about. This summer has been one big event after another for me, personally. And for my eleventh episode of this series on WHC-TV and YouTube, I’ve decided to navel-gaze, and share some personal milestones: My victory over Connecticut’s state Medicaid program, Husky, to have the surgeon of my choice perform a life-saving and affirming operation culminated in that surgery on May 15th; My children and I welcomed a new addition to our happy home (NO, I am not and never will be pregnant!); And my selection as a community hero by Heritage of Pride (organizers of the NYC Pride March), which put me front and center at the historic 49th annual event on June 24th, alongside several genuine LGBTQ icons. Click here for the link to the names of all of this year’s honorees. Hello, imposter syndrome! Kaia Naadira (left), Emma Gonzalez and Dawn Ennis Yes, that woman with the crew cut standing to my right is indeed Emma Gonzalez,18, a graduate of Parkland, Fla.’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and survivor of the deadly school shooting rampage on February 14th. We talked at length about how she’s dealt with all she’s seen, handling haters, her hairstyle and her choice for college. Her mom is a sweetheart and entrusted me to keep an eye on Emma as she walked ahead of the float we rode through Lower Manhattan. And because I am a journalist first and foremost, I also took time before and after the march to do my job: I interviewed the woman in the center of this photo, the queer-identified gender nonconforming artist and video innovator Kaia Naadira, whose mother Tarana Burke started the #MeToo movement. I also spoke with Two Spirit performance artist Ty Defoe, right, who followed Pride with a stint on Broadway alongside transgender icon Kate Bornstein in Straight White Men. You can read the interviews in an upcoming print issue of The Advocate Magazine as well as watch the interviews in this month’s episode, on YouTube, below. And below the episode, you’ll find links promised during the show. My friend Kati and I also met one of my lifelong heroes, Billie Jean King, one of the grand marshals. If you don’t know how she single-handedly changed the world — not just the world of sports — watch this Peabody Award-winning documentary about the tennis and women’s movement and lesbian legend here. I asked King about “Battle of the Sexes,” the recent movie about her historic 1973 tennis match against Bobby Riggs, and how producers had suggested they “leave out” that she was lesbian, since at the time she was married to her ex-husband. “You can’t leave that out!” she told them. King also had this to say, in the Portrait of a Pioneer documentary: “Even though I get discouraged sometimes, if you’re a girl or a woman, you’re supposed to be really happy when you get the crumbs. I don’t want just the crumbs! I want the cake and the icing. Everybody deserves the cake and the icing.” The other grand marshals for 2018 were Lambda Legal, Tyler Ford, and Kenita Placide. Placide, pictured above left with King, is OutRight Action International’s Caribbean-based Advisor and the Executive Director of the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality (ECADE). She has been an advocate for HIV and human rights, youth and LGBTI issues, for over 12 years. Instrumental in organizing the first OECS regional security and human rights training for LGBT and sexual rights defenders in 2011, she made history co-coordinating the Caribbean’s first International Dialogue on Human Rights in 2012. Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve the full recognition of the civil rights of the LGBTQ community and everyone living with HIV through impact litigation, education, and public policy work. In the past year alone, Lambda Legal has sued to stop the transgender military ban, defended marriage equality nationally, fought federal, state and local-level discrimination, and continued to advocate for the most vulnerable members of our community – including youth, seniors, the trans community, and communities of color. Tyler Ford is an award-winning agender advocate, writer, and speaker, whose creative and critical writing on queer and trans identity inspires, comforts, and challenges a diverse spectrum of audiences. Ford is also the Deputy Editor at Condé Nast’s them, a next-generation LGBTQ community platform. Tyler Ford, Photo by D. Strutt If you’re like my youngest son and you’d like to know more about Stonewall and the 1969 protests and riots that sparked the LGBTQ pride movement (there were several other uprisings, such as in Philadelphia and San Francisco that preceded Stonewall, incidentally), read this history of how it came to be here. If not for Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, it might never have. Victoria Cruz I met two heroes who are living witnesses to history, riding along with me on the Community Heroes float: trans activist Victoria Cruz, and Tree Sequoia, who’s tended bar at The Stonewall Inn for decades. For details about the Center for Transgender Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospitalin New York City, you can visit their website here, and don’t be surprised when you see my familiar mug online! The hospital hired several LGBTQ actors and trans models for their promotional material and in-house videos, me among them. If you’re interested in the surgeon who performed my operation, he’s Dr. Jess Ting, Not only is he famous for innovating a technique that provides women like me natural lubrication — a groundbreaking medical breakthrough featured prominently on TV’s “Grey’s Anatomy” — he also recently worked with Dr. Marci Bowers to perform that same surgery on Jazz Jennings, the teen reality star. She’s someone I have been blessed to meet twice in the last five years. The New Haven Register reported on my surgery last month, and not for any reason but to raise awareness of the battle I waged. I fought for me, but I also don’t believe it’s fair that I should be the first and last transgender resident of Connecticut to be allowed this oppportunity. I would never have granted the reporter the interview just to talk about me; I talked about this fight in an episode last fall and you can read about it here. The battle is not over just because I got mine. Speaking of names in the news, I was interviewed by The New York Times for a story that was published on the same day as the NYC Pride March, about traveling while trans and people around the world who identify as LGBTQ. Or as The Times put it, L.G.B.T.Q. You can read that story here, and although it’s the first time I’ve had my name in the newspaper of record, I hope it’s not the last! Find out about NYC Pride by clicking here, and make plans now for the 50th anniversary celebration in June 2019! Outsports Prideis an annual event that anyone interested in sports and equality should definitely add to your calendar! At The Advocate I earned the nickname “SportsGirl” so this was a genuine honor to be asked to moderate a panel, featuring: Nevin Caple. The former NCAA basketball player for Farleigh-Dickinson University is a co-founder of LGBT SportSafe, which seeks to build inclusion for athletes and coaches of any sexual orientation or gender identity. Sarah Axelson. Axelson is a former softball player at the University of Mary Washington. She is currently the Director of Advocacy for theWomen’s Sports Foundation, and: Clare Kenny. Now campaigns manager at GLAAD and working with campus programs, Kenny is a former volleyball player at Skidmore College and build an LGBTQ inclusion program in her athletics department. Thank you to Cyd Ziegler of Outsports for inviting me, and for being so generous as to also welcome my friend Kati Ennis, who has been my right hand, my helper, my chauffeur, cook, and co-mom while I’ve been focused on my recovery. She and her dogs have moved in with us at our home in Connecticut and we are all ever so grateful! Together we met San Francisco 49ers coach Katie Sowers — the first woman to coach in the NFL — and Ryan O’Callaghan, the out former Patriots star. I urge you to donate to his Ryan O’Callaghan Foundation — which supports talented LGBTQ youth with college scholarships. Find out more about their important work by clicking here, Or email Ryan here: ryantocallaghan@yahoo.com If you’re looking for other ways to celebrate Pride in Connecticut, go to CT Visit.com for a complete list, including New Haven and New London Pride as well as details about Hartford Capital City Pride September 7th and 8th. And learn more about this month’s special correspondent, Karleigh Merlot, by following her on Twitter or emailing her at charlenechardonnay@gmail.com If Karleigh looks familiar, she was my videographer, editor, producer and brilliant collaborator on the episode last fall we taped in Provincetown, Mass. She’s incredibly talented! Find out more about New York City’s Museum of Sex by going to their website or visiting them at 233 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, at the corner of East 27th Street. I heartily recommend the Magic Wand, by the way. It’s great for… massaging. By the way, we stayed at the Evelyn Hotel just down the block, and had a lovely time! It’s steps away from the end of the new parade route and around the corner from Madison Square Park. Did you like the “RESIST” tee with the transgender colors — from the flag created by Monica Helms — which I wore during the NYC Pride March, and the recording of this episode? Click here for a link to get your own! I can also connect you with Nolan Custom Craft on Etsy, who produced the RiseUP With Dawn Ennis Pride 2018 stainless steel water bottle seen in this episode. I own another one, too, as you can see below! Thanks to Emma for recording a greeting for one-time special correspondent and popular YouTuber Melody Maia Monet! You can watch Maia’s videos by clicking here. Thanks for watching and for reading lifeafterdawn.com Your comments on the show and my blog are welcome in the comments, and that’s also how you can let me know if you’d like to be our next special correspondent. Next month: Another candidate in Connecticut’s embattled race for attorney general! Until then… Remember to RISE UP! “Am I Next?” April 18, 2018 April 18, 2018 / Dawn Ennis / Leave a comment My daughter and I took part in last month’s March For Our Lives on the grounds of Connecticut’s capitol. We left our “pussy hats” from the 2017 protest behind, but she did bring along a homemade sign, replete with handrawn blood-drips and the question, “Am I Next?” There we met teachers, students, mothers and fathers and many, many little children among the thousands who marched and rallied. Also in attendance, this week’s guest on RiseUP With Dawn Ennis: Kevin Sullivan, a legend in Connecticut politics and currently the commissioner of revenue services. Yes, he’s the Tax Man. And in this episode, he has important advice for everyone still working on your taxes (the IRS extended its deadline until midnight tonight). Sullivan is also the former mayor of my hometown, West Hartford, a former member of the town council, a former state senator and president of the state senate. And Commissioner Sullivan also served as Connecticut’s lieutenant governor. In addition to safeguarding the state’s revenue coffers, he also serves our town as a leader in the Democratic Party. With his help and sponsorship, I am honored to serve as an alternate representative for my district on the town council. That’s one way I’m rising up. Also this month, my special correspondent is a mom of six children in Alexandria, Virginia: Amanda Brewer, a military wife who never expected she’d become an advocate for transgender rights. That all changed when her daughter, came out as trans at age 11. I profiled the Brewers as well as another military family they helped fight bureaucracy at the Pentagon. Amanda bravely accepted my invitation to share how she became an activist for trans rights, and I’m so grateful to her for telling her story. You’ll find helpful links and more information below the link to this month’s show. Wow, how about that thumbnail of me? Ouch! Thank you in advance for watching, liking, sharing, and subscribing! You can support families like Amanda Brewer’s by supporting the American Military Partners Association, which is actively fighting both the Pentagon and the Trump administration on behalf of trans military troops and their families. To find out more about the March For Our Lives movement, click here. If you’re interested in learning more about Commissioner Kevin Sullivan or the department of revenue services, click here. And you’ll find information about state tax refunds here. The IRS website is here for federal tax filing information. Click here to register to vote in Connecticut. The League of Women Voters Education Fund has a website to learn about voting in other states. Click here to access that page. Read about West Hartford’s Jonathan Harris and his bid to be Connecticut’s next governor here. To read about my decision to convert from Roman Catholicism to Judaism, click here. The story about the man who decided to stop dating me after learning I’m trans is here. And my personal #MeToo story about getting groped by actor Jeffrey Tambor is here on lifeafterdawn.com If you are interested in becoming a RiseUP special correspondent, please contact me via the comments section! All you need is a camera phone and a story to tell about how you’ve taken action in your community. No experience required! RiseUP with Gov. Malloy and Sarah McBride March 7, 2018 March 7, 2018 / Dawn Ennis / Leave a comment A new episode of my talk show RiseUP With Dawn Ennis is live on YouTube in advance of tonight’s premiere on WHC-TV at 9:30pm. My guests are Gov. Dannel Malloy of Connecticut, and Sarah McBride of HRC, who is out with a stunning memoir, Tomorrow Will Be Different. Gov. Malloy talked with me one on one about his accomplishments over his two terms in office, responded to his critics and answered questions from viewers, one of which is: why don’t you just resign now? His answer? “Walk in my shoes” before he’ll consider that viewer’s advice. Malloy told another viewer inquiring about taxes, “Wake up!” We’ll also look at the newest candidate to enter the competitive race to replace Malloy, former West Hartford mayor Jonathan Harris. Also in this episode, Sarah McBride explains what motivated her to work in activism and told me what she hopes readers who aren’t LGBTQ will learn from her book, now on sale. You’ll find links to help you learn more about the people and topics we cover in this episode by scrolling down below the video link! If you enjoy what you see, please like. share and subscribe: If you’re looking to contact Gov. Dannel Malloy, here’s the link to send him (or, more accurately, his staff) an email. They are very responsive! And if you have a specific problem or issue you want the governor and his staff to address, click here to contact the Constituent Services Office. Watch the governor’s final state of the state address here and read the transcript here. You can read up on Connecticut politics by clicking here for the Hartford Courant’s section devoted to political news coverage. Find out more about Jonathan Harris’s campaign for governor of Connecticut by clicking here. Harris, of course, faces some stiff competition later this year in the state primary: This episode’s special correspondent is Sarah McBride, the national press secretary for Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and the first out transgender person to ever address a national political convention. Sarah is the author of Tomorrow Will Be Different, her memoir which the cover explains is about love, loss, and the fight for trans equality. Read about Sarah and find out how you can get a copy of her book by clicking here. Sarah’s page at HRC can be found here. She’s on Twitter, and Instagram, too. And she’s written powerful stories at medium.com as well. Click here to read what else she’s written. Click here to watch a short excerpt from Jennifer Finney Boylan’s powerful interview with Sarah at The Strand bookstore in New York City, on March 6th. You can also order Sarah’s book on Amazon.com by clicking here. For information about Sarah’s book tour, you’ll find a list of cities and dates here. If you would like more information about Congregation Beth Israel in West Hartford, reform Judaism or about the celebration of Purim and other Jewish holidays, visit CBI’s new and improved website for everything you ever wanted to know, but didn’t know who to ask! And expect to hear more in upcoming episodes about CBI’s 175th anniversary celebration! If you like what you see, please like, share and subscribe, to both WHC-TV’s YouTube channel and to my own, as well as to this blog. Thank you! 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__label__wiki	0.955768	0.955768	March 14, 2019 March 14, 2019 Morgan Magazine Departed PHILIPPINE COMEDIANS Resurrected in Digital Comic “THE COMEDIANS REBORN” The ongoing passing of time inevitably means that many people we know who have been part of our lives will someday pass on. When it comes to the Philippine showbiz industry we have certainly lost a lot already in terms of humor. Just as equally loved as the dramatic leads and action stars are the comedians, who never failed to make Filipinos laugh no matter what. But the attrition of great Pinoy comedy legends leaves us with only past memories of their funny films and shows. But a local comic artist is about to bring the country’s departed comedians back to make tickle us anew. ABS-CBN News has it that a digital comic book is coming out that depicts a world where the loved and lost comedians of the Philippines abruptly return to life. This is “The Comedians Reborn,” written and drawn by graphic artist Alan Czar Santos. While it has a full color cover, filled with departed comedy figures like Rene Requiestas, Babalu, Redford White, Richie D’Horsie, and Dolphy himself among many others, the comic interior is drawn manga-style (black and white). Santos uploaded the first 19 pages of his first volume for the comic on its official Facebook page “The Comedian -Reborn-” Monday. “The Comedians Reborn” (distinct from the FB page where “comedian” is singular) is presented as a non-stop comedy special taking place in the present day, but with so many dead comedians still alive and eliciting wide varieties of humor with every word and action they make. The scope of resurrecting comedy acts for the comic is so up-to-date that Santos even included those who passed away this year, like Bentong and Chokoleit. In his caption for the first uploaded pages Santos says, “This comic/work is to honor and to give tribute those talented, astonishingly funny and brilliant late comedians who made us laugh, who we grew up watching over & over again, they brought us so much laughter, joy and made such a big impact to our childhood lives. Their jokes will always be missed and NOW THEIR LEGACY CONTINUES….” Already the digital comic has earned over 50,000 followers on its Facebook page since the initial page upload (cover plus pages 1 to 19) last March 12. A second upload yesterday, March 13, sees a second batch of pages for “The Comedians Reborn” Vol. 1, namely pages 20 to 28. Alan Czar Santos mentioned on comments that aside from the revived comedians doing their trademark shticks, the narrative will also touch on the reasons why they have returned, with roots in Philippine myths and folklore. Image courtesy of Inquirer Entertainment Previous SPOTTY SERVICE for FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM & WHATSAPP through Wednesday, Thursday Next TESLA Unveils MODEL Y SUV	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1454
__label__cc	0.728489	0.271511	Search results for the phrase "The Jan Matejko House" 48 search results next The Jan Matejko House Department of Modern Art Department IX - Jan Matejko's collections Textile Conservation Studio The Painting and Sculpture Conservation Studio at the Sukiennice Biographical Museum of Jan Matejko The permanent exhibition is housed in the family home of Jan Matejko (1838-1893), the greatest Polish artist working in the genre of history painting, a collector and an enthusiast for monuments, particularly those in Krakow. The old Krakow building (rebuilt in the 18th and 19th centuries) is the place where Jan Matejko was born, lived with his family, created his paintings and passed away. ul. Floriańska 41, 31-019 Kraków view on map Monday - closed tues-fri - 10-16 Sat - 10-18 Sunday - 10 - 16 Check the ticket prices Jan Matejko / biography, works, activity Exhibition “Jan Matejko / biography, works, activity” prepared on the basis of the collection from the Jan Matejko House – branch of the National Museum in Krakow, presents the figure of Matejko – one of the greatest Polish artists, representative of the genre of historical painting, enthusiast for the past, monuments and artistic craft, and a citizen. view on map Check the ticket prices Sobieski in Jan Matejko's Częstochowa. Around the Figure and Painting Exhibition "Sobieski in Jan Matejko's Częstochowa. Around the character and Painting" in the Jan Matejko House commemorates the 180th birth anniversary and the 125th death anniversary of one of the greatest Polish artists, the representative of historical painting. The creators of the exhibition stress Matejko's interest in the figure of the "Last Knight of Christianity". A Display of Works by Jan Matejko The Jan Matejko House invites its visitors to see a display of portraits of Prof. Karol Gilewski and Szymon Darowski – 'If You Know Hi m Thta's Him' – combined with a presentation of Jan Matejko's drawings. Portrait of Walerian Kryciński - Maurycy Gottlieb This work by Maurycy Gottlieb is a portrait of his good friend and fellow student – Walerian Kryciński. It was painted in 1875 during their stay in Vienna, when they shared an apartment together with other friends. They were both students of the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, directed by Jan Matejko. Sunday: 10 - 16 Available for the visually impaired Available for the hearing impaired Go to branch page Concerts at the National Museum in Krakow Open Day of the Krakow Museums 2016 On the penultimate Sunday of November, you are all invited to visit the temporary and permanent galleries of the National Museum of Krakow free of charge, along with the accompanying displays, concerts, guided tours and meetings with the employees of our Museum. Night of Museums 2016 We invite you to visit our Museum during the 13. edition of the Night of Museums - Discovering the Unknown. May 13 all branches of the National Museum in Krakow will be open only between 7.00 p.m. - 01.00 a.m. strony (6) wszystkie wystawy (5) Wystawy czasowe (4) Wystawy stałe (1) wszystkie wydarzenia (22) Promotional event (4) wszystkie oddziały (2) The Matejko House (2) fotogalerie (4) cykle (1)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1459
__label__cc	0.730291	0.269709	Who we are, where we come from, and where we're headed as a church. Sundays at 10:15a Vision, Mission & Values: OUR MISSION: This is the reason we exist as a church Creating a community where all people can experience God's transforming grace OUR CORE VALUES: These define who we are and how we participate in community together • All people are created with inherent worth and value. • All people are called to discover and embrace their inherent worth and value. • The church is called to create a community where all people can discover and embrace their inherent worth and value. STRATEGY: The ways that we move toward our vision and accomplish our mission • Connect, Grow & Serve VISION: How we see God’s preferred future lived out • Making God’s grace a reality to all As Grace Community United Methodist Church is creating a community where all people can experience God's transforming grace, lives from its core values, and becomes people who Connect, Grow and Serve; the Holy Spirit will fulfill the vision of making God's grace a reality to all. OUR ESSENTIAL DNA: We are a church committed to... • Contemporary Worship • Small Groups • Children’s & Youth Ministries • Serving • Hospitality • Strategic Team-Based Ministries • Community Partnerships 2019 FOCUS & GOALS: The Big Serve • Increase serving in the church and with mission partners with a special emphasis serving in children’s & youth ministries • Launch our first Dinner Church location • Launch at least one Fresh Expression • Grow our school partnership with Pinecrest Elementary Where We've Come From Grace Community United Methodist Church was started in 1999 by families in Lithia with the support of the Florida Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church. Back then, we imagined a church that was truly welcoming to everyone - where everyone had a seat at the table regardless of personal history, family background, ethnicity, or gender. Grace Community hosted its first gathering in early 2000 at Lithia Springs Elementary. What This Means For You Beyond that, if you're ready to plan your first visit, click the link below. If you want to learn more about what we believe, find out more by clicking below. Or if you'd simply like to get in touch with someone on our staff or leadership team directly, click the contact us button below. What to expect upon your first visit to Grace Community What we believe at Grace Community United Methodist Church.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1464
__label__wiki	0.723397	0.723397	Design Museum London \| United Kingdom Interior, Design Museum Photo: Luke Hayes London Design Museum, interior John Pawson. ® Hufton+Crow Exterior View, Design Museum The Design Museum is a museum of product, industrial, graphic, fashion and architectural design. In 2016, the Museum moved to the former Commonwealth Institute building in west London, a landmark 1960s building that was redeveloped by a design team led by John Pawson. The new site features the Swarovski Foundation Centre for Learning, the 202-seat Bakala Auditorium, and dedicated gallery to display its permanent collection. The top-floor space under the spectacular museum roof houses a permanent display, Designer Maker User, with key objects from the museum’s collection. It is the only one in the UK devoted exclusively to contemporary design and architecture. A restaurant, members’ lounge, residency studio and an events and gallery space are also located on the top floor. On the first floor, a design and architecture reference library is a resource for students, educators, researchers and designers. It also includes archive material relating to the history of the museum. The Swarovski Foundation Centre for Learning is a suite of learning facilities including a Design Studio, Creative Workshop, two seminar rooms and a Common Room. The Design Museum offices and main reception, a meeting room and a film studio are also located on the first floor. On the ground floor, the largest gallery showcases a programme of temporary exhibitions. The ground floor atrium welcomes visitors and acts as an events space. A main staircase from the atrium gives access to all floors and offers views to the first and second floors. City of Towers, 2010 Corradino D'Ascanio / Piaggio Vespa Clubman scooter, 1954-1959 Mikhail Kalashasnikov AK-47 Assault Rifle (deactivated). Manufactured in China, 1947 London W8 6AG Daily, 10am-6pm Permanent collection: Free Special exhibitions: Varies 20th Century Design Contemporary Art Museum Network Design Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition 26 April–15 September 2019 Videos and Stories Designer in Residence 2013: Thomas Thwaites Kunsthaus Graz Graz, Österreich \| Austria Cummer Museum Jacksonville, Florida \| United States Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center Moscow \| Russia Sharjah Classic Cars Museum Sharjah \| United Arab Emirates San Francisco, California \| United States Cooper Hewitt Fabergé Museum St. Petersburg \| Russia Fondation Baur Geneva \| Switzerland Los Angeles, California \| United States	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1468
__label__wiki	0.800599	0.800599	Pop Masters: Tony Orlando & Dawn Tony Orlando & Dawn Half Way to Paradise Knock Three Times Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose Who’S In the Strawberry Patch With Sally Look In My Eyes Pretty Woman He Will Break Your Heart You're All I Need to Get By ℗ 2005 Carinco AG Tom_iTunes , 05/08/2006 Check the songs first... I made the mistake of buying "Candida" from this album. Beware, it's a re-recording, NOT the original!!! The "Platinum and Gold" album has the original. daverat , 09/23/2007 Beware - these are not the originals Skip this - you aren't getting the originals. these are all rerecordings with the possible exception of Bless You which was an early Tony Orlando solo hit way before Dawn. Not worth the money. Brown-Eyes , 02/14/2009 NO DARN GOOD!!!! Now that the original versions that were recorded by this artist are available on Itunes, they should get rid of these no-account re-recorded versions. It seems that in most cases when even the original artists re-record thier own songs it just does not hold a candle to the original recording. Maybe it's because or different producers, maybe being half-hearted on the artist's part, maybe a knock-off label's attempt to cash in on a popular song when they can't get the license to the original. Whatever, re-records are ruined most of the time. More By Tony Orlando & Dawn Tony Orlando & Dawn: The Definitive Collection Platinum & Gold Collection: Tony Orlando & Dawn He Don't Love You Tuneweaving Pop Masters: Tony Orlando & Dawn, Vol. 2 Tony Orlando & Dawn Johnny Tillotson's Best Johnny Tillotson A Love Worth Waiting For - Single America Is My Home Town Tony Orlando The Complete Hits of Linda Scott Linda Scott The Best of the United Artists Years 1973-1977	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1469
__label__wiki	0.755659	0.755659	Custom paper sticker sheets Essays on modern technology William dean howells and realism Anne hutchinson biography essay Women were not her merely supporters, but several were drawn to her cause, and the greater potential of her position for female theological independence may well have been an attraction. Anne was proclaimed a heretic. He made himself head of this church and Anne hutchinson biography essay that time until today, the king or queen of England has also been the ruler of the Church of England. The freemen of Pocasset changed the name of their town to Portsmouth. By the time of her church trial, issues of female insubordination were so intimately tied to what the Puritan authorities saw as a dangerous and unorthodox threat to their beliefs, their identity, as well as their God-given mission that any other woman who stepped out of her place would also be condemned. She became persuaded that she could distinguish true preachers from false and, certainly, that there were in England merely two of the former: She said that they had deceived the court by not telling about her reluctance to share her thoughts with them. Anne also preached that behavior, and therefore sin, did not affect whether someone went to heaven. Although Anne Hutchinson is normally in the past noted to possess been banned as a spiritual dissenter, the true objective for her persecution was that she questioned the traditional subordinate part of ladies in Puritan culture by showing her personal spiritual convictions. He called Hutchinson and read the numerous errors with which she had been charged, and a nine-hour interrogation followed in which the ministers delved into some weighty points of theology. If the circumstances for women was open in the early s in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and if developments could have gone the direction of greater freedom for women though definitely not radical or total equality, realisticallythat option was dead by —and mainly in reaction to Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian controversy. The resulting religious tension erupted into what has traditionally been called the Antinomian Controversy, but has more recently been labelled the Free Grace Controversy. In March the Hutchinson family, along with 30 other families, left for the island of Aquidneck in the Rhode Island territory at the suggestion of Roger Williamswhere they founded Portsmouth. Some men became preachers because their families knew political rulers or because they were wealthy. Despite her environment, she held fast to her views and theories; earning the ire and the respect of many theologians. Her defence was that she had spoken reluctantly and in private, that she "must either speak false or true in my answers" in the ministerial context of the meeting. She believed that her response, which was largely coaxed from her, was private and confidential. No record of his death exists because there was no established church, which would have been the customary repository for such records. Anne Hutchinson followed in April, after the conclusion of her church trial. William Coddington rose, asserting, "I do not see any clear witness against her, and you know it is a rule of the court that no man may be a judge and an accuser too," ending with, "Here is no law of God that she hath broken nor any law of the country that she hath broke, and therefore deserve no censure. Therefore take heed how you proceed against me—for I know that, for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity and this whole state. He did not approve of the way the church selected ministers. Francis Marbury also home schooled his daughter, who had a natural affinity for academics. Coddington became governor of the island, and William Hutchinson was chosen as one of his assistants. Women were not her merely supporters, but several were drawn to her cause, and the greater potential of her position for female theological independence may well have been an attraction.Anne Hutchinson and the Consequences of Misreading - Anne Hutchinson and the Consequences of Misreading METHODOLOGY Literary historicism, in the context of this discussion, describes the interpretation of literary or historical texts with respect to the cultural and temporal conditions in which they were produced. Essay about Anne Hutchinson Biography - The reason I picked this topic is because I admire Anne Hutchinson and the history of her life and I strongly believe in the rights of the individual to freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and the freedom to worship. Anne Hutchinson, born Anne Marbury in Alford, Lincolnshire, England July, was born into a family of a very intelligent man, who she grew to admire and look after. Anne was home-schooled, and became very intrigued by religion and theology at a young age. Anne Hutchinson Words \| 6 Pages. Biographical Essay: Anne Hutchinson Born in Lincolnshire, England in Anne Hutchinson was a puritan spiritual advisor whose strong religious convictions caught the attention. Essay about Anne Hutchinson Biography - The reason I picked this topic is because I admire Anne Hutchinson and the history of her life and I strongly believe in the rights of the individual to freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and the freedom to worship. Anne Hutchinson Words \| 6 Pages. Biographical Essay: Anne Hutchinson Born in Lincolnshire, England in Anne Hutchinson was a puritan spiritual advisor whose strong religious convictions caught the attention of many puritans in the New England area. 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__label__wiki	0.843922	0.843922	The trademark crimson awning of Freddie’s Deli, Paris. Freddie’s Deli, nestled in the Belleville neighbourhood in Paris. The entrance to Freddie’s Deli, Paris. A sandwich loaded with house-made pastrami at Freddie’s Deli, Paris. The I Love Lucie sandwich at Freddie’s Deli, Paris. Freddie’s Deli An American in Paris. Writer Angela Murrills Freddie’s Deli, tucked away in Paris’s Belleville neighbourhood, proves once again that, given the chances, Parisians are passionate about food from across the Atlantic. This convivial spot, set in leafy surroundings, is the latest edible offspring of Californian Kristin Frederick. In 2009, she decamped to Paris and culinary school; stints at Michelin-starred spots followed. Then, in 2011, Frederick took to the streets. All over France, you see travelling purveyors of pizza and kebabs but Le Camion Qui Fume was genuinely new. It was the first authentically gourmet food truck in Paris, and its moveable feast of big tasty burgers, crispy frites, coleslaw, and cheesecake immediately hit the spot. Two-hour lineups were common with the food truck’s Facebook fans tracking its schedule online. The “smoking truck” became so hot that it now has its own burger cookbook. The new trans-Atlantic transplant, Freddie’s Deli, is a suitably cool follow-up. In France, le sandwich usually means “filled baguette”: fromage, jambon, combos thereof, sometimes with lettuce, decorously filled. At Freddie’s Deli, sandwiches are generously North American: overstuffed, big-flavoured two-fisters. Frederick says that translating a genuine New York deli vibe into Paris wasn’t easy. “There are some things that just don’t exist here,” she says. “If we wanted good pastrami we had to make it ourselves from scratch. The cuts of meat are different as well so that can be a challenge. Plus, everyday American deli ingredients that we don’t think about, like yellow mustard, can be difficult to find.” Yet, she’s managed. Locals chow down on the pastrami—brined for seven to 10 days and marinated overnight, before being smoked and steamed in-house—that crams the Reuben and Goodman sandwiches (Frederick worked with boulanger Gontran Cherrier to develop an authentic rye bread). The Freddie from Philly sandwich piles up entrecôte, grilled veggies, and cheese. Chimichurri sauce zips up the G-Thang. Pork and guacamole feature in the Olé Moly. Tuna or turkey fill other favourites. For drinks, there’s Brooklyn lager, and for dessert, Oreo cheesecake or key lime pie. With these two successes under her belt, Frederick is already planning other ventures. “I just launched a new concept for movie theatres, Le Popcorn Bar, which serves gourmet popcorn and hot dogs. I’ve got plenty more ideas for Paris.” Photos by Rachael Weseloh. Freddie's Deli	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1482
__label__wiki	0.770714	0.770714	Home Latest Nigerian News No going back on UTME biometrics –says JAMB – Daily Trust No going back on UTME biometrics –says JAMB – Daily Trust The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), says it will not rescind its decision on the use of biometrics in the conduct of its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This is contained in the board’s weekly bulletin issued on Sunday in Lagos. According to the bulletin the importance of biometrics in the conduct of the board’s examination cannot be overemphasised. It noted that the Biometrics Verification Machine (BVM) was introduced by the board in an attempt to get rid of the numerous forms of examination malpractice. It said the BVM was a security mechanism used for the authentication of candidates’ identity as it provided access to the individual data, based on physiological characteristics. “The core value of a biometric verification process lies in its ability to provide extra layers of security and protection against counterfeiting and impersonation. “The increasing threat of identity fraud during the board’s UTME before the advent of the BVM necessitated its introduction for capturing biometrics of candidates to counter fraud. “The candidate’s 10 fingers are captured during registration and are used as clearance to admit them into the examination hall. “There are various types of biometric solutions but JAMB opted for finger print recognition, to eliminate all forms of infractions. “Biometric security is surely a breakthrough for the board, because the finger prints recognition technology provides a greater degree of security as it is impossible to steal, forget, loose or compromise data already captured. “Therefore, the adoption of biometrics in the conduct of our examination is here to stay,” the bulletin noted. It reassured candidates that their finger prints would not be used for any purpose other than identification. According to the bulletin, the benefits of the BVM are immense and indispensible to the assessment process. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the board had prior to the commencement of the sales of its 2019 registration documents on Feb. 10, warned that it would not re-schedule any examination for candidates with biometric issues. It added that candidates with issues of biometrics must visit the board’s headquarters in Abuja to be captured. The bulletin noted that out of a total of 52 candidates with such challenges nationwide, only 22 showed up at the board’s headquarters for the process. Meanwhile the bulletin also noted that the slash in the UTME fee by the Federal Government had increased the number of candidates who want to sit for the examination. It said government had announced the reduction of the fees for the examination from N5, 000 to N3, 500. The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin had told NAN in an interview that over 1.8 million candidates had registered for the examination. “The board had in the past six weeks put its UTME and Direct Entry application documents from Feb. 10 to Feb. 21. “Many candidates been interviewed disclosed that they were encouraged to register when they discovered that they could afford the new fees,” the bulletin said. (NAN) Appeal Court dismisses Ashiru, PDP’s suit for lack of merit Stay steer clear Lagos, South West, Yoruba youths warn IMN Ooni Visits Buhari, Says We Don’t Want War In South-West Reps block move to include Almajiri system in basic education – Punch Newspapers APC upholds expulsion of Abdulkadir, North West Vice Chairman FG raises alarm over new cassava brown streak disease – Punch Newspapers	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1492
__label__wiki	0.547489	0.547489	wild kratts - City Hoppers! Tue, Jul 23 8:00 A.M. While Aviva and Koki help two Wild Kratt kids make a catapult, Chris and Martin explore the world of grasshoppers. They soon realize that these mighty jumpers were really the first catapulters and the Kratt Brothers set off on a creature adventure to learn everything they can about the grasshopper's amazing jumping powers. Science Concept: How levers and catapults work. Tue, Jul 23 8:00 A.M. city hoppers! About Wild Kratts: "Wild Kratts" joins the adventures of Chris and Martin Kratt as they encounter incredible wild animals, combining science education with fun and adventure as the duo travels to animal habitats around the globe. Each adventure explores an age-appropriate science concept central to an animal's life and showcases a never-before-seen wildlife moment, all wrapped up in engaging stories of adventure, mystery, rescue, and the Kratt brothers' brand of laugh-out-loud-comedy that kids love. Real-life Chris and Martin introduce each "Wild Kratts" episode with a live action segment that imagines what it would be like to experience a never-before-seen wildlife moment, and asks, "What if...?" The Kratt brothers transition into animation and the adventure begins, bringing early-elementary school children into the secret lives of extraordinary creatures, many of which have never been animated before -- including Tiger quolls, Draco lizards, and Caracals! All broadcast times for WILD KRATTS All shows that begin with "W" Watch Wild Kratts - Clips, Episodes & Previews Wild Kratts/Nature Cat: Explore the Outdoors Preview Wild Kratts Puzzle No-Sew Wild Kratts Bat Costume Future Broadcast times for "Wild Kratts": (show all) Thu, Jul 18 5:00 P.M. Masked Bandits Thu, Jul 18 6:30 P.M. The Other Martins Thu, Jul 18 7:00 P.M. Komodo Dragon Fri, Jul 19 2:30 A.M. The Other Martins Fri, Jul 19 3:00 A.M. Komodo Dragon Fri, Jul 19 11:00 A.M. Golden Snub Nosed Monkey Man Fri, Jul 19 5:00 P.M. Where The Bison Roam Fri, Jul 19 6:00 P.M. Komodo Dragon Fri, Jul 19 6:30 P.M. Deer Buckaroo Fri, Jul 19 8:00 P.M. Mystery of the Flamingo's Pink Fri, Jul 19 8:30 P.M. Spots in the Desert Sat, Jul 20 2:00 A.M. Komodo Dragon Sat, Jul 20 2:30 A.M. Deer Buckaroo Sat, Jul 20 4:00 A.M. Mystery of the Flamingo's Pink Sat, Jul 20 4:30 A.M. Spots in the Desert	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1493
__label__wiki	0.814051	0.814051	April 13, 2017 openingnightreviews First staged at the Bristol Old Vic, where the story was performed over two evenings, director Sally Cookson brings her acclaimed production on tour, presenting Bronte’s much loved classic as a thrilling and inventive performance beautifully staged in the Lowry’s Lyric theatre. While many will be familiar with the story of Jane Eyre for some it’s one of those novels that you may have always intended to read but never quite got there, it is the biography of orphan girl Jane Eyre (Nadia Clifford) and bares striking similarity to Brontë’s own life, raised in the North of England Jane is taken in by her Uncle after the heartbreaking death of her parents, much to the disgust of his cruel wife, Jane’s Aunt, Mrs Reed (Lynda Rooke). When Jane’s Uncle becomes unwell, he asks Mrs Reed to promise to raise Jane as her own, sadly although she provides a house for Jane to dwell in she certainly doesn’t offer the love and warmth of the promised home subjecting Jane to a life of misery and abuse from not just her Aunt but her Cousins as well. At 10 years old she shipped off to Lowood, a school for orphaned girls, where she continues to experience a cruel and unforgiving life, despite this Jane manages to form a strong bond with her school friend Helen Burns (Hannah Bristow), tragedy however is never far away and Jane suffers more gut-wrenching loss. Eventually Jane becomes a teacher at Lowood but yearns for change and adventure, she advertises herself as a Governess and is soon summoned to Thornfield Hall to educate Edward Rochester’s (Tim Delap) French ward Adele. As the developing friendship between Jane and Rochester begins to build strange happenings within the house start to occur risking both the safety and the future of both Jane and Rochester. The staging of this production is immediately striking upon entering the theatre; set designer Michael Vale uses wooden pallets to create various levels and platforms accompanied by multiple ladders and steps which are used to maximum effect by the cast. Aideen Malone’s lighting design is bold and dynamic, creating and changing the atmosphere dramatically throughout the production. The small cast take on a multitude of roles throughout the play and are magnificent, their characterisation outstanding and utterly captivating. They strive to ensure we see Brontë’s work is just as relevant today as it was then; they deliver each and every character with commitment and style. The piece feels fresh and inspiring as the spirited and strong Jane fights for her own freedom and fulfilment. Jane is told early on in the play after being punished by her Aunt in the red room, “Perhaps you should learn to keep your passions under control” something we soon realise is a thing Jane in order to be true to herself could never do. Nadia Clifford is superb in the role of Jane, yearning for liberty and adventure her spirit is strong and her need for fulfilment, physically, spiritually and mentally never wavers. Clifford is mesmerising, charismatic and captivating you immediately warm to her and are desperate for her to succeed. Sally Cookson uses several cast members to verbalise Jane’s inner thoughts, this works beautifully, illustrating just how strong and determined Jane truly is as she battles with herself to do what she believes is right as heart-breaking as it may be. Melanie Marshall as Bertha Mason, the ‘lunatic in the attic,’ is superb, frequently appearing through musical interludes her vocals are hauntingly brilliant and pack a real punch. The effect feels almost like a musical narrative, with hugely inventive and highly original song choices that flow beautifully from one scene to the next offering more depth to an already magnificent production. The entire cast give their all; they make for a tight ensemble and move fluidly from one role to the next, accompanied by on stage musicians who add a further creative layer to this inventive piece. Jane Eyre is a truly exceptional piece of theatre, groundbreaking and utterly captivating. Brontë’s much loved masterpiece is delivered with freshness and intelligence, you can’t help but think how pleased she would be to see her Jane portrayed with such heart and soul. The National Theatre in partnership with Bristol Old Vic once again succeed in bringing a true masterpiece to life, full of passion, intensity and originality, an absolute must see. Photo credits Brinkhoff/Mögenburg On at the Lowry until Saturday 15th April https://www.thelowry.com/events/jane-eyre Bristol Old VicCharlotte BronteEdward RochesterHannah BristowJane EyreLiteratureLynda RookeMelanie MarshallNadia CliffordNational TheatrePlaySally CooksonThe LowryTim Delap	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1499
__label__wiki	0.620113	0.620113	Opinionator \| Translation as a Performing Art A Gathering of Opinion From Around the Web Translation as a Performing Art By Antony Shugaar January 27, 2014 9:00 pm January 27, 2014 9:00 pm Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. Thirty years ago I moved to Milan to work for an Italian art magazine called FMR. It was an odd and ambitious enterprise: FMR started publishing in the United States a year later with the slogan “the most beautiful magazine in the world.” The offices hardly seemed like offices at all: they were located in Palazzo Visconti di Modrone, an exceptionally fine piece of Milanese rococo architecture. The building was Luchino Visconti’s childhood home, and it was a gorgeous and dramatic workplace. When it was time for coffee, we ordered in rounds of espressos, which were brought by a white-coated young man carrying a silver trayful of demitasse thermoses. Every few months, one of the magazine’s production managers would take orders for prosciutto from his hometown, Parma — the whole ham, what they thin-slice in an Italian gastronomia. Price: about $20. Among the people I met in my time at FMR were Jorge Luis Borges, the legendary Argentine Grand Prix racer Juan Manuel Fangio, the retail tycoon Stanley Marcus, Gay Talese and Katell le Bourhis, Diana Vreeland’s assistant and successor at the Met’s Fashion Institute. Katell told me that as a very young girl she’d met very old people who were the basis of characters in Proust’s “Recherche.” The publisher was Franco Maria Ricci, who named his flagship magazine after his own monogram. He liked to say “the very best often costs less,” and he decided we needed a professional translator to sit in for a few days each month, so he hired William Weaver, who had just translated Umberto Eco’s “Name of the Rose.” For a year or so, Bill and I worked together and had occasional lunches together. At the time, there were still relatively down-at-the-heels lunch places in the center of Milan, where a full meal with wine was about 10 bucks. Our conversations were lively and companionable and this, for me, was when literary translation first swam into view as a path and a profession. I remember one specific comment on translation technique that was pure Weaver. The great white whale of Italian postwar literature is “Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana,” by Carlo Emilio Gadda. It’s a big, ungainly philosophical treatise of a murder mystery, interlarded with rich seams of dialect of all kinds: Roman, Neapolitan and various minor subdialects of the areas between those two cities. Gadda was an austere Milanese scholar, the opposite in personality and style of these overemphatic, swaggering, loud forms of speech. But Gadda was an acute observer and a gifted mimic. And the “Pasticciaccio” — “That Awful Mess,” in Weaver’s rendering — takes gleeful delight in lampooning, personifying and ultimately embracing these dialects, Italy’s equivalents of Brooklynese, Bronxese and perhaps Boston’s Southie accent. “What did you do about the dialect?” I asked him, at one of our lunches. He laughed, and replied, “Oh, I just left it out!” At first glance, it’s a little like translating “Moby-Dick” and leaving out all references to boats. But I understood. Weaver explains it better in his introduction to the English edition: “To translate Gadda’s Roman or Venetian into the language of Mississippi or the Aran Islands would be as absurd as translating the language of Faulkner’s Snopeses into Sicilian or Welsh.” Weaver asks the reader, therefore, “to imagine the speech of Gadda’s characters, translated here into straightforward spoken English, as taking place in dialect, or a mixture of dialects.” In other words, supply the boats yourself. Now it has become standard practice to render heavy Sicilian dialect as Brooklynese — that is the choice that Stephen Sartarelli has made in the Inspector Montalbano books, and it’s an understandable one. It’s no more bizarre than the convention whereby you can identify German officers in American movies set during World War II by their crisp British accents. But it’s absurd. The dialect problem is the reductio ad absurdum of translation. There are workarounds, but basically, when a translator runs into this kind of issue, she simply leaves it out. And the reader is none the wiser. But the translator is. And though I remember Weaver’s good-humored resignation every time I have to do it, it’s bitter: a little like losing a patient. Translators don’t bury their mistakes, but they do get to sort of white-out their shortcomings. As a translator I’m constantly running into details that seem to beg for an explanation. Someone stops at an Autogrill on a highway: an Italian instantly envisions the surrealistic ’60s-style malls spanning the roadway, lined with plate-glass windows from which to watch cars passing beneath at 100 m.p.h. Do I trust the English reader to know? The Italian author refers to someone falling face-down onto the asphalt: the Italian reader knows that asphalt is what sidewalks are made of; streets are made of cobblestone or slabs of granite. Or I’m translating a scene where two people enter a restaurant. In Italy, the doors of public establishments open inward, not out. Our safety inspectors worry about stampedes and people being crushed against doors. Do Italian safety inspectors worry about doors being parked in? Perhaps they do: certainly, the asphalt sidewalks are considered parking areas. One of my favorite Italian signs warned: “Street Cleaning Tomorrow — Absolutely No Parking: not even on the sidewalks.” Or take casa: we are taught that it means “house,” but in Italy it almost invariably refers to an apartment. You climb three flights of stairs and walk into the casa. Which is therefore on the secondo piano (you have the ground floor and then, upstairs from that, the first floor) of a palazzo (the same word describes a palace and an apartment building). These intricacies are the tools of the trade. A crucial part of translation, as I first learned from Bill Weaver in those long-ago lunches, is the surveying of the terrain, a careful reading and a knowledgeable transposition. You read very carefully when translating: a very fast and full day’s work might be 10 or 15 pages of a book. I compare it to walking down a highway, if ordinary reading is driving at 60 m.p.h. And it seems, sometimes, when you’re translating, measuring, and recreating everything you read in another language, as if you can actually leave the highway and walk off into the landscape. Walk around the trees and buildings and see what’s on the other side, how they’re constructed. People talk about untranslatable words, but in a way, there’s no such thing. It may take three words, or an entire sentence, or even an interpolated paragraph, but any word can be translated. Short of swelling a book into an encyclopedia, however, there is no way of dealing with the larger problem: untranslatable worlds. In an interview with The Paris Review, Bill said something very fine: he explained that as a professor at Bard, he was sometimes asked what other departments his classes could be cross-referenced to, and he suggested performing arts. After all, a translation is a performance (whether in another medium or another language) of a written text. And that is what Bill, who died a few weeks ago at age 95 and is greatly missed, did so well: he conjured up worlds and made you see them. Antony Shugaar is the author of “Coast to Coast” and the coauthor of “Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator.” He is a translator: among his most recent titles are “The Crocodile” by Maurizio de Giovanni, “Resistance is Futile,” by Walter Siti, and “Other People’s Trades” and “If Not Now, When?” by Primo Levi. He is at work on a book about translation for University of Virginia Press. The Age of ‘Infopolitics’ Albert Cashier’s Secret Draft features essays by grammarians, historians, linguists, journalists, novelists and others on the art of writing — from the comma to the tweet to the novel — and why a well-crafted sentence matters more than ever in the digital age. 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__label__cc	0.609966	0.390034	The Righteous Mind Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion ab Fr. 19.90 Random House N.Y. Fr. 19.90 Penguin Uk Fr. 19.90 Hörbuch (CD) Random House N.Y. Penguin Uk Pantheon Schocken Books In The Righteous Mind, psychologist Jonathan Haidt answers some of the most compelling questions about human relationships: Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why do ideas such as 'fairness' and 'freedom' mean such different things to different people? Why is it so hard to see things from another viewpoint? Why do we come to blows over politics and religion? Jonathan Haidt reveals that we often find it hard to get along because our minds are hardwired to be moralistic, judgemental and self-righteous. He explores how morality evolved to enable us to form communities, and how moral values are not just about justice and equality - for some people authority, sanctity or loyalty matter more. Morality binds and blinds, but, using his own research, Haidt proves it is possible to liberate ourselves from the disputes that divide good people. 'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York Times 'A truly seminal book' David Goodhart, Prospect 'A tour de force - brave, brilliant, and eloquent. It will challenge the way you think about liberals and conservatives, atheism and religion, good and evil' Paul Bloom, author of How Pleasure Works 'Compelling . . . a fluid combination of erudition and entertainment' Ian Birrell, Observer 'Lucid and thought-provoking ... deserves to be widely read' Jenni Russell, Sunday Times Jonathan Haidt is a social and cultural psychologist. He has been on the faculty of the University of Virginia since 1995 and is currently a visiting professor of business ethics at New York University's Stern School of Business. He is the co-editor of Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well Lived, and is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. Jonathan Haidt is a social and cultural psychologist and the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business. He is the author of The Righteous Mind and The Happiness Hypothesis. mit Illustrationen Verkaufsrang Versandfertig innert 1 - 2 Werktagen, Kostenlose Lieferung ab Fr. 30 i Kostenlose Lieferung ab Fr. 30 i	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1503
__label__cc	0.708107	0.291893	Cognitive radio helps guarantee reachability of emergency services (PhysOrg.com) -- A new approach to wireless communication will guarantee the reachability of emergency services in a better way. 'Cognitive radio', for which Qiwei Zhang (CTIT) developed new techniques, borrows free space in other frequency bands or even organizes an ad hoc network 'on the spot'. In the event of a disaster, the emergency services have to be able to trust communication networks implicitly. But what happens if the network is overloaded or even off the air as a result of the disaster? Soon it will be possible to borrow free space in other frequency bands or to organize an ad hoc communication network on the spot thanks to ‘cognitive radio’. This means that the scarce space available will be put to better use. Qiwei Zhang, PhD student at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, has developed new technical solutions to this end. He was awarded his PhD on 26 February. If a major catastrophe takes place, the public network is often overloaded by concerned citizens and calls for help within a very short time. It is true that special emergency channels are allocated to prevent the emergency services from being too dependent on this public network, but they, too, often have a limited bandwidth. If, for example, emergency services also want to communicate via video in the future, or want to send data on a patient to the hospital, more bandwidth will be needed. Cognitive radio can identify all transmitting and receiving possibilities in the vicinity and utilize them to the full. It is even possible to construct an ad hoc network without the basic infrastructure being present. Mobile users in the area, for example other emergency services, will then jointly form the nodes of a temporary network. The information flow will jump from node to node. This does require a totally new approach to the radio spectrum: instead of the current highly channelled approach, cognitive radio tries to borrow bandwidth in other bands, without disturbing the users of these bands. Qiwei Zhang’s significant steps in this field include developing techniques for finding available spectrum. Because cognitive radio must be highly flexible and capitalizes on local circumstances, it requires a lot of calculating power. According to Mr Zhang, the reconfigurable processor ‘Montium’ (the name refers to a chameleon which adapts its colouration to the environment) that was developed at the UT, is a good candidate for this purpose because, amongst other things, this chip has a limited energy consumption. He has also developed special algorithms to adapt the transmitting signal to the local conditions and to prevent undesirable interference with other users. The trick here is to restrict the calculating power required: this can be realized by, for example, using prior knowledge of the type of signals that other users transmit. More rapid recognition of other users, and thus faster intervention, is the result. Cognitive radio is not restricted to applications in emergency situations. In future this approach will work at any spot where wireless network jams occur. The challenges are not only of a technical nature, however. Due to the totally different approach, a lot will also have to change in the legislation. Provided by University of Twente, Netherlands Dr. Mitola and cognitive radio are featured on Computing Now Citation: Cognitive radio helps guarantee reachability of emergency services (2009, March 2) retrieved 18 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2009-03-cognitive-radio-reachability-emergency.html Appropriate tightness of bolts between skateboard and trucks Yaw, pitch and roll vs. azimuth and elevation Designing an Automatic Coolant Monitoring System for CNC Machines I've come upon a few new receiver/transmitter/antenna systems here on the central coast Magnetic properties of silver steel Design problem with a constant torque motor More from General Engineering Wireless technologies used today based on decades of work at Virginia Tech Sensor economy opening expanding services and opportunities for individuals, industry Luxembourg shows 'bigger is not always better' Report calls for national parks to get smart New report on mobile phone research published Aiming for reinvention, Apple eyes streaming, services From streaming TV to Gmail, it's all about the cloud Study suggests buried Internet infrastructure at risk as sea levels rise T-Mobile, Sprint to merge: CEOs Washington becomes first state to approve net-neutrality rules AI and 5G in focus at top mobile fair	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1507
__label__cc	0.544983	0.455017	Essay on james armisen Ap biology genetics essay questions Why did stalin win the struggle Python write ascii characters Python doesn't attempt to automatically convert using other character tables encodings, in other wordssince there is quite a large possibility that the result, if not produced for the correct encoding, will not produce the desired visual effect. Here is a psycopg2 example: NET do python write ascii characters from the poor choice of internal string representation in the underlying framework: When dealing with strings, the pure logic code should accept unicode string as input and return unicode string as output. A solution might be to generate UTF-8 and then get the user to display the output in an appropriately configured application, but even then someone has to say that it's UTF-8 and not some other encoding that's being used. It is free to download from http: This function is for side-effects only. The latter raises ValueError exception. I don't understand the point or value of filtering out all byte values greater than In a string literal, hexadecimal and octal escapes denote the byte with the given value; it is not necessary that the byte encodes a character in the source character set. Uncomment the following line to use the system default locale instead: When reading data from other resource, convert them to unicode string or QString first. String literals In Python, you can enclose string constants in either single-quote ' How to do text on Windows This section is dedicated to developing multi-platform library development and to Windows programming. If not, it does not support Unicode properly. It exists only for historical reasons and creates a lot of confusion. The beg parameter is the starting index, by default it is 0. One has to communicate with the rendering engine for this. These are stored as string value. Dealing with character encodings is really simple. 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This python program will print all the character along with their ASCII values. to see that it is the six characters come out very well in Python 3. While in Python 2 you're going to get them as eight separate characters. So c3 is one character and a9 is one because it's one byte each. By default, Python tries to encode your Unicode string using the ASCII encoding when writing to stdout (i.e, using print), but this encoding can't represent every Unicode character, which is why you are getting that error: "'ascii' codec can't encode character". Pretty explicit. A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds. One of Guido's key insights is that code is read much more often than it is written. The guidelines provided here are intended to improve the readability of code and make it consistent across the wide spectrum of Python. 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__label__wiki	0.734731	0.734731	What is the Israeli response to Palestinian non-violence? – video July 10, 2011 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments +972 Magazine \| by Joseph Dana One day after the “air flotilla” landed in Tel Aviv, Palestinian and Israeli activists held a demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh just west of Ramallah. The village’s agricultural spring was taken over by Jewish settlers in the nearby settlement of Halamish over two years ago. Every Friday since, villagers and their Israeli and international supporters have been holding weekly unarmed demonstrations in protest of the takeover. Yesterday saw a similar protest but for the first time in months, Palestinians were able to get close to the spring itself. In the course of the demonstration yesterday, three Israeli activists were arrested by soldiers. The Israeli media reported that these activists were actually part of the ‘Welcome to Palestine’ campaign although they were unable to provide any concrete facts to support their claim. The arrested Israeli activists were charged with assaulting officers and transferred to the Russian compound jail in Jerusalem. This afternoon, the activists were brought before a judge as the state sought the unusually harsh punishment of six months banishment from the West Bank and one month of house arrest. In the end, they were given one month banishment from Ni’ilin, Bil’in and Nabi Saleh. In other words, their punishment was that they can’t participate in the demonstrations for one month. The punishment which Israel sought against these activists from Tel Aviv seems to be proof that after preventing internationals from joining unarmed protests in West Bank, Israel is trying to do the same thing to Israeli activists. Barring activists, whether European or Israeli, from the West Bank is one of Israel’s only concrete responses to Palestinian nonviolence. Palestinian nonviolent leaders like Nabi Saleh’s Bassem Tamimi or Bil’in’s Abdallah abu Rahmah face long jail sentences in Israeli prisons on trumped up charges of ‘incitement’ and ‘illegal protest’ for unarmed resistance to Israeli occupation of the West Bank. That Israel is desperately trying to ban Israeli and international activists from demonstrations reflects how seriously military planners are approaching these isolated outbreaks of nonviolent resistance. In the age of new media, foreign activists armed with video cameras and smartphones attending a nonviolent demonstration in Nabi Saleh pose a clear and present danger to Israel’s continued occupation of the West Bank. However, the question remains. What is the best Israeli strategy against Palestinian nonviolent resistance to occupation? Perhaps the worst strategy is about to unfold tomorrow when the Israeli Knesset passes a law which will criminalize Israeli support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) campaign. When the bill becomes law, Israeli citizens that support this nonviolent Palestinian initiative will be subject to grave fines and possible imprisonment for their exercise of freedom of speech. Barring activists from the West Bank and criminalizing support for BDS are the two concrete responses which Israel has chosen to combat the recent wave of Palestinian nonviolent resistance. As nonviolent efforts like the ‘air flotilla’ continue to gain momentum, Israel will surly have to chart a new course in order to maintain its occupation and its standing in the international community. Activism, Israel, israeli, Video, Violence civilians, demo, hasbara, international, israel, israeli, lies, Nabi saleh, protest, response, supports, unarmed, video, violence #Airflotilla \| July 10, 2011 \| Activists begin hunger strike in Israeli jail A Palestinian State Redeems the U.N.’s Historic Nakba (Catastrophe)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1509
__label__cc	0.583093	0.416907	An open letter to Sadiq Khan from a member of the Labour Party Megan, a Labour Party-member writes to Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London concerning his recent email to party members which linked to his article in the Guardian about his decision to support Owen Smith and related matters Dear Sadiq Khan, You are, truly, beyond belief. I cannot describe how angry it makes me to receive this email from you. How betrayed I feel by you. How hopelessly furious I feel in knowing (with utmost certainty, thanks to this very email) that to you, my anger and sense of betrayal mean absolutely nothing. The fact that you could even write this email is true testament to your total lack of care for, or understanding of, the very people who elected you. You are spitting in their faces, neglecting – like almost every other politician – to recognise that we are dangerously close to being done with playing your political games or acting as pawns in your political careers. That inability to read the electorate is dangerous. Revolutions were started for less (just sayin’). So many of us are tired – so very tired – of the continual, never-ending, self-interested nonsense of the political classes. You, Sadiq, were supposed to be the break from Tory buffoonery in the Mayoral post in London, a step away from the chummy ‘you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours’ approach which had characterised the tenure of Boris Johnson. You were a chance for Labour to come back to London, to put a stop to the appalling housing crisis, the floods of young talent and young families fleeing for more affordable, less soul-less destinations. You were supposed to help cut the cost of transport and rent, of essential living items and bring London back to being a city for the people, not just for the obscenely wealthy. You are, it pains me to say – already – a failure, Sadiq. How can you hope to ever bring London back to the people, to enact fair policies for the many, when you are so clearly blind to what they need and what they want? This email itself is evidence that you have lost your ability to connect with those in situations similar to that in which you grew up, or to connect to normal people at all. It appears that you have fallen into the ‘power-player trap’; forgetting all the reasons and inspirations which brought you to this career and instead, desperately and diligently – and somewhat humiliatingly – scrabbling for nothing more than the continued existence of the meagre power you have managed to scrape together. Perhaps this is what Westminster does to you if you come to it hoping for power, rather than hoping for change; I couldn’t say, I’ve never worked there, but I’ve seen a similar thing plenty of times in the corporate sector and you resemble nothing more right now than a power-hungry, top-down autocrat – out of touch with the very people he so desperately desires to influence. As if this weren’t enough, you now pledge allegiance to Owen Smith – a man few had ever heard of and who would have been no aid in your recent Mayoral campaign – over Jeremy Corbyn, the man whose backing you took full advantage of during that campaign and of which he gave you plenty; praise, support and a spotlight when you needed it most. You reached your current position as Mayor – at least in part – thanks to Jeremy’s support. Now, when he needs your support in return, you choose to play games intended to help you maintain power instead of giving power to the people. In doing so, you so clearly show exactly who you are. You show this, not by backing someone other than Jeremy or by switching your allegiance – neither of which, of course, are inherently bad – but rather by failing to support actual change, to support a man whose policies are so clearly beneficial for so many, a man who has so clearly brought not only hope, but action, back into British politics. Jeremy’s policies are backed by experts from around the world – top economists, ecologists, activists – and are so clearly right-headed and fair; the long-awaited reparation for the multitude of wrongs perpetuated upon the many by the few, that no decent, fair or honest person could deny the truth or benefit of them. In fact, the reason you give to vote for Owen can be wholly contained (no good thing) within two short, error-laden sentences: “Owen has the strongest Labour values – he led and won our fight against the Tory cuts to tax credits and disability allowances. The polls show he is the most likely Labour candidate to win the next election.” I think you’ll find, Sadiq, that Kier Hardie and Nye Bevan would disagree with you about Owen being the candidate with the ‘strongest Labour values’, but then again, perhaps you’ve never heard of either of them and so could be forgiven for believing that it was Tony Blair who first established Labour’s “values”, in which case Owen is indeed a front-runner. This level of ignorance can’t be blamed for your erroneous statement about who it was that led and won the fight against Tory cuts to…well, pretty much everything over the last year. You’ll find that was Jeremy Corbyn. You’ll also find that it is Jeremy and not Owen Smith who packs out town halls, parks and any other venue at which he arrives with hundreds or thousands of supporters. I think the “polls” to which you so confidently refer are likely to be wrong, because as more and more of the general public hears from Jeremy, listens to his message and his policy, your polls will not save you these continually crowded venues nor from his victory or the victory of the many over the few. The only real reason to disagree with Jeremy is because his position threatens your own. His focus on equality, rather than on lining his own pockets or those of already wealthy men, threatens to unbalance the carefully curated global ecosystem of political corruption and power which allows the faceless minority few – of which you are one – to continually feed their own self-interest at the expense of all others. These institutions of power are undoubtedly attractive (and not only to you) because they offer the chance to accumulate – much and often – and the only price to be paid in return for all of this is the poverty of those who are not you, not part of these institutions. This price is easy to pay when you distance yourself from the very people whose lives, hopes and children you are selling off for your own advantage, and it seems to me, Sadiq, that you have paid it in full. Jeremy, on the other hand, is a man who is not only of the people, but who is down here in it with us. The same cannot be said of you, and it is for this reason that you will not win the next Mayoral election in London, nor any other political post, I suspect. To quote a better man than I, the times they are a changing, and emails like the very one you just sent me – with their laughable ‘logic’ and patronising betrayal – will be your downfall as anger rather than complacency becomes the reaction to such inbox fodder. Not that whether you come or go matters much really; you are but another interchangeable face in the political crowd, as easily forgotten by the public as you are replaced by the establishment. Now isn’t that a sad and damning critique. Tagged with: Labourcoup So you are a Freemason Sadiq something against your religion, be it on your own head if and when the devil talks and you listen it will be through your own hand shake. I agree with letter even his security was given a £20000 luxury converted house in North London when he became Mayor of London who’s money did he use Paul Smyth Reblogged this on The Greater Fool. Mick McNulty There’s a photo of Sadiq Khan being ushered by the rather obnoxious Israeli Ambassador to London, Mark Regev, which says it all really about whose scripts he reads and whose gold he pockets. Richard Le Sarcophage Regev was born in Australia, but his loyalties lay elsewhere and he moved to Israel in 1982, about the time that Israel, under Begin and Sharon, were slaughtering 40,000 Lebanese in an aggression (they don’t do that anymore, thanks to Hezbollah)that included 3,000 women, children and old people butchered in Sabra and Shatilla. If Khan has bent the knee to Regev already you can see that he’s a real Blairite and knows exactly where real power resides in the UK. Quiet Si Haven’t all JC’s policies been tried before? E. Europe, Russia, Venezuela etc, and all failed? What is the point of voting Lab under JC in a gen election? How does removing inequality work? Does it mean that anyone with a GCSE can be a brain surgeon? Quiet Si. Remain quiet! A belief that inequality is good speaks of a psychopathic personality without human compassion or empathy, and there’s a lot of it about. What would Jesus have made of you? “Haven’t all JC’s policies been tried before?” Not sure what policies you’re talking about – sounds a little like daily mail socialism rant! But if you mean railway nationalisation for example – then perhaps this could be in a modern format – with all the benefits of technology. Perhaps nationalisation ‘failed’ in the past because of specific conditions of that time. Actually I think it was a misguided belief in the now failed magic of the market. You need to start thinking a bit deeper yourself rather than trotting out MSM soundbite propaganda. Citizen Si Are we against inequality of opportunity or achievement? If we are against wealth inequality that means we are against the opportunity to do well (accumulate wealth, have above average income, etc). How will this work? Maximum wage (£25 per hour, £1000 per week has been suggested with 95% tax above this), but effects would be calamitous eg the NHS would soon lose every doctor. Let’s have some real policy ideas not 1980’s slogans. There is no ‘equality of opportunity’, anywhere in the West. Are you cretinous or a lying, misanthropic, class-hating hypocrite? You seem a true believer in greed and exploitation however, the only paths to ‘wealth’, apart from open crime and inheritance. And your odious slogans are straight from the 1880s, 1780s, 1680s etc. As hominem abuse is not an endearing trait more often a sign of other latent problems. Why can’t you counter my specific point about equality? “Equal to” does not mean “identical with”. That’s simpleminded. How does removing inequality work? Is it hard to imagine? It works as a bare minimum by enacting legislation that limits extremes of wealth and poverty and the abuses of privilege while ensuring public welfare takes priority over, or at least is balanced with, corporate interests. This was the societal consensus the UK and other European countries between 1945 and the start of the neocon era. Not perfect, not even always good, but at least it upheld a minimum of decency. It was purposefully dismantled by ideologues and greedy opportunists for their own foolish short term gains. If you were alive at all before 1980 you got to see what that world was like, at least in its dying days. It would take some kind of fool to suggest things are better now than they were then. Every metric shows ‘things’ are better now in terms of income, health, wealth etc are better now than in 1980. What planet are you on? I’m from the planet where real incomes have been declining steadily for the past twenty+ years, where the disparity between rich and poor is greater now than at any time since the early 20th C. I’m from the planet where welfare systems carefully put in place during the post-war years have been systematically dismantled. I’m from the planet where 25% of the UK’s children now live below the poverty line. I’m from the planet where parts of a wealthy western county’s own infrastructure now resemble a war zone or a bankrupt third world state. I’m from the planet where begging in the streets is now commonplace in those same wealthy nations, when thirty years ago it was almost unknown. I’m from the planet where elites vote themselves pay rises and award themselves billion dollar tax breaks while working people queue at food banks to keep their kids from starvation. I’m from the planet where perpetual war feeds the 0.1% and bankrupts and destroys the rest of humanity. I’m from the planet of debt slavery. I’m from the real world. Come visit us some time. You imagine you are, but really you are not. You have chosen to spout some slogans which are not reflected in reality. What are you going to do? Abolish debt? Abolish relative poverty? How do you define it, only 2 flat screen TVs? I could go on. When you finish with the simplistic idealism of student politics you will find things are different in the real world. Go on, Si-let the misanthropy and contempt for others ooze out of you. What a pluperfect little Rightwing psychopath you are. Harassed any disability pensioners today, have you? I bet it made you feel BIG. Quiet Si, Citizen Si … please make up your mind who you are. Or ask your call centre troll supervisor what template you’re supposed to be using here at Off-Guardian. Also come up with some proper criticisms of Jeremy Corbyn’s policies (if you have read them and know something of the principles they’re based on) instead of trying to bring down Catte with vague banalities and stereotypes and insinuating she knows nothing. Do you know why Catte used the year 1980 as a benchmark? Please enlighten me. That’s your homework. Launch of Austin Metro. Interesting response. Are we going down the “you don’t know your history” route? Poverty is defined by the UK govt as an income less than 60% of the average. Between 20-28% of children are currently defined as living in poverty. That is correct, it is relative poverty. That is the problem. If those described as being in that bracket had their income doubled or tripled overnight , there would still be people in relative poverty. It’s the “only one Ferrari? You poor thing, everyone one else has got at least two”, problem. Quoting stats like that is indicative of a lack of rigorous analysis and sloganeering. The “only one Ferrari” problem is your own invented paper meme, so you solve it. It’s a classic bit of diversion developed by neo-liberals to persuade the easily persuaded that social justice is a frivolous and unattainable Utopia. What you aren’t told is that thirty or forty years ago legislation existed in most western democracies, and was broadly approved by both left and right that applied basic controls to the flow of capital, basic controls on the freedom of banks to manipulate money, basic controls on the permitted extremes of wealth and poverty. As Jen says if you want to know how that system worked and would work if employed again just study some recent history. And try to dial back on the ad hom. Argumentum as hominem is a device to question the character or motives of someone instead of debating and refuting their argument. Note I have not done that. My point about the problem with ‘relative’ as opposed to absolute poverty has not been addressed. What were these popular mechanisms that existed thirty or forty years ago that you refer to that addressed today’s manifestations of inequality? Did they actually exist or are they a secret that dare not be mentioned? Perhaps with the benefit of historical analysis we could all examine their effectiveness. I look forward to a progressive debate. [note from Admin – this question has been answered; the “popular mechanisms” are easily verifiable; further requests for answers already given are discouraged] physicsandmathsrevision Abolish debt. Great idea but not a new one. A regular occurrence in the Roman Empire… Napoleon did it. Plenty of others I’m guessing. Why think the suggestion ridiculous? Are we that totally enslaved to the Satanic B*stards? ‘That inability to read the electorate is dangerous.’ Khan got himself elected while holding Corbyn at arm’s length. ‘Jeremy, on the other hand, is a man who is not only of the people, but who is down here in it with us.’ What on £137k a year? With a townhouse in Islington and a place in the country? Corbyn has never been ‘one of the people’, even if his sympathies are genuine. Corbyn doesn’t have policies. He has intentions. When other Labour politicians have tried to work with him, he hides himself away. Have you always been a compulsive liar? The anti-Corbynites are the cream of Blairism, with all his character traits. Excellent description of how we are all feeling. The revolution is creating space for a new breed of writers. The tired old cheerleaders in the Guardian like Polly Toynbee, Martin Kettle, Jackie Ashley, and Simon Jenkins, sitting in the lazy comfort of an excellent pay packet, are being replaced by new voices who are authentic and understand how the world has changed and echo our feelings of isolation. After reading all this right wing labour stuff – you rage at the newspaper and the tv and the radio – then suddenly you realise that there are hundreds of thousands of people who think like you. I wonder if Owen Jones will come with us. He is, of course, precisely the kind of ‘professional politician’, as opposed to the ‘amateur’ kind found on the left, someone who is ‘radical’ but ‘electable’, that the Guardian loves, with something cloe to glee, and supports to the hilt. A burning and righteous critique of a self-serving, professional, politician. A guy who manages to conflate his own towering ambition for personal social and economic advancement, with the apirations ordinary people have for a better and fairer life. That these two things are virtually impossible to achieve at the same time, as, arguably they are mutally exclusive; one can’t be an effective ‘champion’ of the people and strive for great personal advancement, becoming a platinum card carrying member of the ruling elite… at the same time, doesn’t seem to cross his mind for an instant. But could we try not to bring ‘the Jews’ and ‘Freemasionary’ into the debate as well, please? Yes. Say everything but the necessary. The oligarchy are highly organised but best not mention how they operate or behind whom they hide. This is the default attitude that amounts to collective suicidalism. It is enforced by intensive and constant media propaganda … … why is ‘The Holocaust’ and ‘anti-Semitism’ such a dominant feature of western political discourse to this day? … it never occurred to me to ask this question until I became aware of some of the massive lies that are enforced on our minds as public truths (that Muslims did 9/11 and bigger lies than this). Can it be coincidental that Khan’s FIRST act as Mayor was to visit a ‘Holocaust Memorial’ event in Barnet? I thought HolMemDay was in January ….or that, moments after it was announced that she would be replacing David Cameron, Theresa May signed a committment to remembering the Holocaust or that the night before her anointment as leader she shared dinner with the chief Rabbi? In these days of fair representation and anti-racism, how does 0.5% of the population pull this kind of influence? Why do we allow them to exercise this power over us … so that we continue sending armies to destroy enemies of Israel? … or are WE really Israel? These wars are of zero use 9or less) to the UK so these are questions we should be asking .. but, strangely, do not. Corbyn and anyone like him will almost certainly be destroyed by established vested interests. Failure to ask who these people are will ensure their ongoing hegemony. The biggest lies can not be spoken but realising the inversions of reality that have been inflicted on western minds does, indeed, make one “mad” in the eyes of a brainwashed and functionally insane world. Corbyn is a decent man who I have seen operating at close quarters when I saw him take an evening out (back in the 90’s) to investigate the lives of psychiatric patients. But on the most serious issues he has drunk the Kool-Aid like most others. Good God, that’s tantamount to antisemitism and Holocaust denial! EVERY day is ‘Holocaust Memorial Day’! Gurinder Excellent open letter by Megan. Well said and Megan has spoken for millions in the UK and elsewhere by explaining how political self interest is promoted for selfish reasons. I had expected better from Sadiq. So sad. God bless you Megan. Mark Catlin Reblogged this on Mark Catlin's Blog. You get in life what you deserve fact. So you thought you were the clever ones and now Khan as stabbed you in the back. In the north west he would never have been elected as a mayor . In London one of his first rulings take down pictures of a women in a bikini in France he changes his stance to women should wear what they want he is a two faced man.Watch what he does next it will come. Jeremy Corbin is so exceptional, so human for a politician, I think they will get him in the long run. It has already started. History shows us than in politics, as elsewhere, simple decency iq not enough. The raising of poltical awareness, migtht, just be enough, so congratulations Megan for your letter. In the world in which we live he is going to need a lot more of the same kind. Of course ordinary people like Corbyn, they have every reason to, and of course they wind up with the Camerons. That is the tragedy of politics. Maybe that can be changed? Reblogged this on Worldtruth and commented: Sadiq sold Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party members who elected him and his moral conscience down the swanney. He is as contemptible as he is two faced and is the perfect example of the self serving politicos who have held sway for too long. We won’t forget or forgive. gideonscokeandyourebroke Forgive my igonarance but please what is the etiquette in regards to the recipient replying to an open email, or letter? Especially one elected to a public position of power? Regardless Kahn is likely just another Zionist approved Masonic stooge as pointed out above. It’s all kabbalah theatre. Plus ca change… Seamus Padraig As Soraya Sepahpur-Ulrich says, Sadiq Khan is a “Zio-moz”, a Zionist-approved Moslem. A ‘Zio-Moz’, a version of the Sabbat Goyim who infest Western MSM and politics. Like al-Nusra Front, al-Sisi (‘A hero to the Jews’ according to one Israeli Minister)and Dahlan, Arafat’s assassin. The usual method would be to request space to reply on the same outlet(s) that published the original. curi56 Reblogged this on Faktensucher. leruscino Well said & wholeheartedly agree with every word even politeness has tempered the message. I’m praying for another landslide for Jermey & then a hard purge to remove the Bairites so Labour can be healed & return to power to right the wrongs of unabated greed we have seen from the Blue Labour Brigade. Spotted Kahn’s Masonic handshake in a couple of photos. Masons first loyalties are to their own ruling Brotherhood. The fact the ENTIRE media (faux-leftie LBC’s James O’Brien could not be more poisonous in his attacks on JC) and all the parliamentary majorities are rabidly anti-Corbyn tells you that our real masters, the oligarchy, the deep state … are absolutely determined to sink him. Seeing that Owen Smyth’s policies are all but identical to Corbyn’s it appears to me that the defining issue re Corbin’s acceptability is the fact he treats Hamas and Hezbollah as if they were real human beings with genuine grievances. INTOLERABLE! Ordinary Jews are the first victims of the banking oligarchy. Zionism and Israel are chosen instruments in the drive for total global control. The Devil’s creating the wars and chaos hide within Freemasonry and behind Jewish “victimhood”. Come back Jesus Christ. Say what you said one more time. These enemies of the Jews are “Liars, of Satan.” labrebisgalloise I was berated by some people a few months ago when I urged a vote for George Galloway against Sadiq Khan in the mayoral election. It has not taken long for my position to be vindicated: in fact the word opportunist could have been coined with Mr. Khan in mind. A very good letter, Megan.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1511
__label__wiki	0.819049	0.819049	Take Action Donate The Opportunity Plan Donate Sign up Run for Office Register to Vote Find a Mentor Action Toolkit Campus Sexual Assault The cost of a college education should never include the risk of sexual assault Each year, tens of thousands of women who attend college in the U.S. become survivors of sexual assault, yet colleges and universities lack any real incentive to investigate these incidents or comply with federal reporting standards. Under Title IX, colleges and universities have a legal obligation to provide an environment that is free from sexual harassment, which includes sexual violence; and the federal Clery Act requires disclosure of crime statistics to the federal government. However, due to little enforcement, it’s become commonplace for colleges and universities to under-report the cases of sexual assaults that occur on their campuses and ignore the problem. According to Senator Claire McCaskill’s 2014 survey, merely 59 percent of the colleges polled had initiated a sexual assault investigation in the last five years. That means 4 out of 10 schools claim they have had zero sexual assaults reported on their campus, which strains credibility. In the instances where a survivor does go through a disciplinary process, it is often done in a haphazard, unprofessional manner with untrained personnel and/or students being asked to consider serious accusations without the proper training. This process is unfair to both the accuser and the accused. The system is broken and we must fix it. A bipartisan coalition of Senators have introduced legislation to flip the incentives so that colleges and universities will protect students. The Campus Accountability and Safety Act (S.590/H.R.1310) will reform the way colleges and universities report and address cases of sexual assault so that survivors and the accused are treated fairly, students and staff understand their rights and responsibilities, and students and parents have access to new campus safety data. The legislation will: Increase Support Services to Empower Survivors Improve Training for Campus Personnel Standardize Disciplinary Proceedings Across Campuses – No more letting the athletic department handle charges against athletes Require Schools to be More Transparent & Require all Schools to Administer a Confidential Survey with the Results Published Online Hold Colleges and Universities Accountable for Addressing and Reporting Assault Cases Require Better Coordination With Local Law Enforcement Just look at the statistics In 2014 alone, colleges & universities reported nearly 6,700 forcible sex offenses to the U.S. Department of Education 41% of schools surveyed have not conducted an investigation of a sexual assault complaint in the last five years Only between 13 and 30% of students found “responsible” for sexual assault were permanently kicked off campus. 178 colleges and universities are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights for potential violations of federal law over the handling of sexual assault complaints Just 20% of completed and attempted sexual assaults of college students are reported to law enforcement Between 75% and 90% of sexual assault survivors are victimized by someone they know Join the movement begun by student survivor activists all over the country to combat campus sexual assault. Support the Campus Accountability and Safety Act (S.590/H.R.1310) Make Your Voice Heard! Get the action toolkit! Get Off the Sidelines Start making your voice heard! Take Action, Raise Your Voice, Change the World Action Toolkit Mentoring Matters Communities for Women Empowering Young Women & Girls Empowering Women Globally Running for Office Paid for by Off the Sidelines PAC. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. © 2016 Privacy Policy 420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1637 New York, NY 10170 p 212 481 2010 · f 917 591 7849 Site by Wide Eye Creative	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1515
__label__wiki	0.781365	0.781365	R. Kelly’s Ex-Wife Opens Up About Abusive Relationship For First Time in 10 Years Precious Chukwurah Considering the number of court cases, lawsuits and graphic and disturbing allegations pinned against R. Kelly. The one woman who knows the man the most and could speak first-hand of his abusive behaviour (his ex-wife Andrea Kelly) has managed to keep her name out of headlines until today. Andrea and Robert Sylvester Kelly were married from 1996 until 2009 and during their marriage, Andrea claims Robert physically abused her excessively. The 44-year-old recently paid a visit to Sister Circle to talk about her traumatizing past with the disgraced singer detailing why she has chosen to speak about the relationship after 10 years. Andrea Kelly \| Ex-Wife of R.Kelly speaks out for the first time in this #Exclusive Sister Circle Live interview. @officialdreakelly @syleenajohnson @tvonetv #sistercircletv #rkelly #joycelynsavage #domesticviolence #domesticviolenceawareness A post shared by SisterCircleTV (@sistercircletv) on Jun 13, 2018 at 10:57am PDT “You have to love somebody enough to tell them enough. And I don’t believe my ex-husband has enough people in his life to be real with him, to be honest with him, who care about his healing, who care about his family’s healing,” she says in the video below. “I feel like it’s God’s time. I was not strong enough, how can I be a voice for the voiceless when I don’t even have my own.” #PressPlay: #RKelly's ex-wife #AndreaKelly opens up about her experience with domestic violence during her marriage. Via: @sistercircletv A post shared by The Shade Room (@theshaderoom) on Jun 13, 2018 at 10:35am PDT Andrea says she had to get to the point of accepting that she was a victim of domestic violence before she could make the move to leave. In the second video, you can see Andrea becoming very emotional detailing a time she contemplated suicide but changed her mind due to God’s presence. Drake finally Gets Credited As A Co-Writer On Kanye West's "Yikes" Jay Z Sued For Allegedly Not Paying Business Partner R. Kelly Charged With 11 Counts Of Sexual Assault and Abuse R. Kelly Appears In Court For Hearing Over Recent Sexual Abuse Suit “I Want The Media To Take It Easy On Me” – R. Kelly R. Kelly Survivor Dominique Gardner Doesn’t Want Him In Prison He’s A Great Performer – R. Kelly’s Alleged Victims React To His Interview \| WATCH Azriel Clary And Jocelyn Savage Defend R. Kelly Against Sexual Abuse Charges Exclusive Photos from Late Mr Sesan Ogunro’s One Year Remembrance Service 60 Year Old Man Bludgeons Wife To Death Over N500	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1519
__label__cc	0.628656	0.371344	Drama/Film Other Books at ICA Prince of Cats by Ronald Wimberly PRINCE OF CATS is the B side to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, played at an eighties block party in an NY where underground sword dueling blossomed alongside hip-hop, punk, disco, and no wave. It’s the story of the minor players with Tybalt at the center. The definitive printing of RONALD WIMBERLY’s critically-acclaimed first work, presented as intended for the first time. © 2019, other books Powered by Shopify	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1521
__label__wiki	0.624207	0.624207	Without Sanctuary The corpse of Clyde Johnson. August 3, 1935 . Yreka, California. Gelatin silver print. Real photo postcard. 3.1/2 x 5 3/8 in. Etched in the negative, “Killer of Jack Daw Aug 3, 1935 vengence in Siskiyou County.” Searching through America’s past for the last 25 years, collector James Allen uncovered an extraordinary visual legacy: photographs and postcards taken as souvenirs at lynchings throughout America. With essays by Hilton Als, Leon Litwack, Congressman John Lewis and James Allen, these photographs have been published as a book “Without Sanctuary” by Twin Palms Publishers . Features will be added to this site over time and it will evolve into an educational tool. Please be aware before entering the site that much of the material is very disturbing. We welcome your comments and input through the forum section. Experience the images as a flash movie with narrative comments by James Allen, or as a gallery of photos which will grow to over 100 photos in coming weeks. Participate in a forum about the images, and contact us if you know of other similar postcards and photographs. © 2000-2005 Collection of James Allen and John Littlefield Enter the Musarium Site Here Without Sanctuary, the book Without Sanctuary profiles another horrific and infamous lynching, which chronicles the only known living survivor of a lynching, that of James Cameron. The lynching of James Cameron, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith occurred in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930. The following account has been excerpted from Cameron’s book, A Time of Terror: “Thousands of Indianans carrying picks, bats, ax handles, crowbars, torches, and firearms attacked the Great County Courthouse, determined to ‘get those goddamn Niggers.’ A barrage of rocks shattered the jailhouse windows, sending dozens of frantic inmates in search of cover … The door was ripped from the wall, and a mob of fifty men beat Thomas Shipp senseless and dragged him into the street … The dead Shipp was dragged with a rope up to the window bars of the second victim, Abram Smith. For twenty minutes, citizens pushed and shoved for a closer look at the ‘dead nigger.’ By the time Abe Smith was hauled out he was equally mutilated. ‘Those who were not close enough to hit him threw rocks and bricks. Somebody rammed a crowbar through his chest several times in great satisfaction.’ Smith was dead by the time the mob dragged him ‘like a horse’ to the courthouse square and hung him from a tree. The lynchers posed for photos under the limb that held the bodies of the two dead men. Then the mob headed back for James Cameron and ‘mauled him all the way to the courthouse square,’ shoving and kicking him to the tree, where the lynchers put a hanging rope around his neck. Cameron credited an unidentified woman’s voice with silencing the mob and opening a path for his retreat to the county jail and, ultimately, for saving his life … After souvenir hunters divvied up the bloodied pants of Abram Smith, his naked body was clothed in a Klansman’s robe – not unlike the loincloth in traditional depictions of Christ on the cross.” The truly ironic and scary part about the lynching of James Cameron, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930, is that it occurred just 50 miles from Indianapolis, Indiana, where I was once Chief of Contract Data Control and Communications for the Department of Defense at the Ft. Ben Harrison Army facility some 30 years ago. It was that position and experience which brought about the current and aforementioned federal lawsuit in San Diego, that Attorney General Eric Holder is defending against. Prior to being promoted to the position in Indianapolis a black female manager at the Defense facility in Chicago that I worked at told me to “watch the lay of the land,” which I would later learn was in reference to the area in and around Indianapolis and Marion having a reputation for Klu Klux Klan actiivity. While a supervisor at the facility in Indianapolis, I was held in a closed office by a white male deputy and a white female manager, and instructed as to what to include in a termination letter for a Hispanic male employee, which was unwarranted. Later, I was being coerced into firing a black female employee by these same white managers, and when I resisted and withdrew all proposed charges against her, I was stripped of my supervisory responsibilities and brought back to Chicago, being told that “I would never be a supervisor again.” Upon coming back to Chicago and refusing to signoff on a statement indicating that the Hispanic male employee was not discriminated, I was subsequently fired. It now gives me chills to think what could have been, especially considering the history of Marion, Indiana. Without Sanctuary is a history lesson for us all. The photos in this book of Laura Nelson hanging and swaying from the end of a rope, while her fourteen-year old son swung from another rope about twenty feet from her with his clothes partly torn off and his hands tied behind his back, as well as that of Frank Embree, is a ghastly reminder of the cruelty of one race of people towards another. The grotesque photos of mutilated black bodies are a painful reminder of man’s inhumanity to man! Read more at http://www.eurweb.com/2012/08/eur-book-look-without-sanctuary-lynching-photography-in-america/#MVR27DHk6cBjBJ7w.99 What are your thoughts ? Cancel reply	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1522
__label__cc	0.544648	0.455352	Tag Archives: Lon Las Cymru October 23, 2015 cycling, Long-distance rides, travel pieces, TraveloguesCycle touring, cycling holidays, Lon Las Cymru, slow travel, WalesJohn Worthington Following our adventure north of the border last year my son Sam (now 20) and I decided to keep the Celtic theme going this summer by taking on the legendary Lon Las Cymru, following National Cycle Route 8 from Holyhead to Cardiff. ‘Well, Holyhead’s right at the top and Cardiff’s right at the bottom so I think you’ll find it’s pretty much downhill most of the way’, said a friend who is Welsh so clearly ought to know. The Lon Las Cymru, 250 miles long, covers the entire length of the country, crossing Snowdonia, mid-Wales, and the Brecon Beacons, and has the reputation of being one of the toughest routes on the UK National Cycle Network. But that must be if you start at the bottom of the map and work your way upwards. Luckily we’re going north to south, so it sounds as easy as an afternoon spin round the park. We begin the ride after a long train journey from London up to Crewe, and then along the north Wales coastline to the tip of Anglesey. After a showery start the afternoon clears up nicely. In contrast to the dramatic landscape of Snowdonia, visible on the horizon just across the Menai Straits, Anglesey offers flat cycling on peaceful country lanes and an atmosphere of pastoral tranquillity. The route passes the Bodowyr Burial Chamber, a Neolithic site and one of over 120 ancient monuments on the island. Later we cycle through the village sensibly described on the map as Llanfair PG, whose famous railway station sign proclaims it’s full name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwillismtysillogogogoch (that’s pronounced Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwillismtysillogogogoch). According to the excellent and oddly compulsive Dictionary of British Place Names by AD Mills – my bible on bike trips – the ‘Llanfairpwllgwyngyll’ bit dates from 1536 and means ‘Church of St Mary in the pool of the white hazels’. The rest of the name was added just for a laugh in the mid-19th century, and the whole thing now means ‘Church of St Mary in the pool of the white hazels fairly near the rapid whirlpool by the church of St Tysilio at the red place’. By early evening we’ve covered 30 miles to our first night stop at the Anglesey Arms just before the Menai Bridge, where some very decent pub grub (pork & leek sausages & mash/steak & ale pie), and a few jars of JW Lees Tackler’s Gold, sets the gastronomic bar high for the week ahead. Next morning we’re bracing ourselves for an expected deluge. We get away early while it’s still dry, but the rain kicks in about 10.30 and it’s obvious from the thick grey sky that it’s already set in for the rest of the day. We’re probably cycling through some of the finest scenery in Britain but it’s hard to be sure as visibility is soon down to about 50 yards. It’s time to don my ‘Emergency Poncho’, a bright yellow plastic cape bought for £1 from Halfords prior to the trip. In fact because I was going cycling in Wales I decided to invest in five ‘Emergency Ponchos’. Unfortunately the garment fails on every level, not only letting all the rain in but also turning me into a sort of windsock on wheels, the whole thing ballooning full of air so that I fear I might take off and float away over the mountains of Snowdonia. To make it worse a group of teenagers out on a school trip point and laugh as we go past. Fortunately they are talking in Welsh so I don’t know what they’re saying. If you’ve never been to North Wales (most people haven’t; even people I know from South Wales never go to North Wales), nothing prepares you for the weirdness of hearing everyone speaking Welsh, ‘the soft consonants strange to the ear’ in the words of the poet RS Thomas. To the outsider it sounds as otherworldly as Elvish or Dothraki, with the occasional English-sounding word thrown in to fool you into thinking you know what’s going on. I’m immediately fascinated and decide to enrol for a course in the history of Welsh at the University of Wikipedia. The language emerged in the 6th century from Common Brittonic, the ancestor not only of Welsh but also Cornish, Breton and Cumbric (now extinct but once spoken in my home county Cumberland). Welsh is characterised by a number of strange sounds that occur in hardly any other European language such as the ‘voiceless alveolar lateral fricative’ (apparently also found among Zulu and Navajo speakers). This is the thing that enables Welsh people to manage all those ‘LL’ sounds, and involves constricting the passage of air through the throat as well as some quite strange use of the tongue. Meanwhile the rain is getting heavier. We shelter for a while in Caernarvon in the ramparts of the impressive 13th century Castle, but standing still just makes us feel colder. I may have written elsewhere on this blog about the joys of cycling in all the elements, the wind in the hair, the sweet solace of summer raindrops or something or other. I’d now like to withdraw those remarks, especially that bit about the sweet solace of summer raindrops, and make it clear that cycling in all the elements is definitely over-rated. In fact it’s often pretty shit. Around lunchtime in the middle of nowhere we find brief sanctuary in a roadside portakabin which houses a greasy spoon for passing lorry drivers. We clutch our tea mugs with both hands trying to extract whatever heat is available, but by the time food arrives Sam is shivering all over, and even a double cheese burger and chips fails to work its customary magic. Studying the map I suddenly realise we can cut off a 12 mile loop around Criccieth by taking a short detour along the main road, which would leave just a few miles to our night stop in Porthmadog. But I hate missing out bits of a route even when the weather’s miserable, a grim stoicism I put down to a northern childhood of trudging through rain and wind on country walks with my father. And I was really looking forward to seeing Criccieth Castle. For about fifteen minutes (I’m not proud of this) I consider just not telling Sam about the short cut. But his teeth are now chattering quite alarmingly. If he checks the map later he’s not going to be pleased. I offer the detour and he grabs it with desperate gratitude. Actually if truth be told I don’t really mind too much. I’m normally pretty gung-ho about these things, but even my ho is not feeling quite as gunged as usual today. We take the main road for a couple of miles and re-join the cycle route further on. Through the blanket of cloud we can just make out the dark shapes of hills towering above us. We pass through villages whose grey stone houses and slate roofs as black as bibles add to the austere atmosphere of the Snowdonia landscape in teeming rain. Eventually we arrive in Porthmadog. It’s a bustling market town even on such a dismal day, with a great variety of small shops all lit up and cosy-looking, feeling more like mid-afternoon on Christmas Eve than early July. Our accommodation, the Bluebird B&B, is tucked away down the back streets of town. I hammer on the front door, tempted to shout like Richard E Grant in Withnail and I, ‘We’ve come on holiday by mistake…I demand to have some booze!’ The landlady, a plumpish woman of mature years with the unlikely name of Mrs Lightfoot, seems shocked by our appearance. But once we have wheeled our bikes into the backyard she ushers us inside with a show of fuss and welcome talk of steaming baths and piping hot mugs of tea. Up in our room we peel off our wet things as rain continues to lash against the window panes. Wimbledon is on the telly, and annoyingly Centre Court is baking in hot sunshine. It’s Kings Landing down there and North of the pissing Wall up here. But things soon get better as I thaw out in one of the most sumptuous baths I’ve ever had. It’s unusually deep and wide with a useful handrail for climbing in and out, and is presumably designed for the elderly and infirm. As I lie soaking I wonder about getting one of these installed at home, but that might feel a bit macabre. Everything in our panniers is saturated but Mrs L kindly offers to put all our clothes through the tumble drier. Sam, meanwhile, hits on the clever wheeze of drying his sodden trainers using the hair dryer in the bedroom. I have a go on mine too, shoving it down into the toes and waggling it about to blow the hot air around. This seems to be working well until there’s a loud pop from the hair dryer and a stink of burning. I’ve had some low moments on bike trips but I’m fairly sure this is the first time I’ve set fire to my shoes. Later in the evening, in between showers, we venture out to eat. It’s time for something traditionally Welsh so we head for the Sima Tandoori for a kickass curry. This seems like a good moment to call home and share the news of our heroic battle against the biblical elements. But as I’m waiting for someone to pick up the phone at home the waiter comes over to take our drinks order, so when my wife eventually answers the first thing she hears is me saying, ‘Two large Cobras and some poppadoms please.’ ‘Well it certainly sounds like you two are having a good time’, she says. ‘Yes, all is well now’, I say, ‘But you should have seen us earlier – it was hell! ‘Really?’ she says, clearly unconvinced. She has had a long and tiring day at work (school parents evening), has a pasta ready-meal to look forward to, and it’s only Monday; sympathy is in short supply. Back at the Bluebird we manage to sleep well despite the rain drumming on the windows through the night and seagulls shrieking in the yard. But next morning, although the skies are still leaden, the rain has at least stopped. We eat breakfast in Mrs Lightfoot’s parlour, surrounded by family photographs, many showing young men in army uniform. The shelves are stuffed with ornaments and evidence of a collector’s zeal with numerous chess sets designed on a military history theme: Waterloo, Custer’s Last Stand, The Charge of the Light Brigade… We are joined by four fellow guests at breakfast, all of retirement age, here on classic British holidays: walking, bird watching and riding around on heritage railways in the rain. They seem a bit glum but cheer up when Mrs Lightfoot tells them the weather prospects for the rest of the week are looking up. She turns to us, and says, ‘And I’d like to say the same to you two, but I’m afraid it’s going to get worse where you’re going…probably much worse…’ This is a bit of a downer and completely at odds with my own reading of the forecast. According to the BBC things should be brightening up as we move further south. Is Mrs Lightfoot privy to some infallible local intelligence on such matters? Or maybe she just thinks we carry our own personal weather around with us – a relentless drizzle – wherever we go. Leaving Porthmadog we reach the town of Penrhyndeudraeth (‘The promontory between two beaches’). At this rate I might be able to fill an entire blog post with unpronounceable place names. The route continues on a viaduct across the estuary but unfortunately it’s closed for repairs and is not due to re-open until next week. The only alternative is a ten mile detour on a very busy A-road. I can tell this is not going to be one of those bike trips where everything goes smoothly according to plan. Luckily there’s a railway station in town and the next train leaves in an hour which gives us time for a second breakfast of two pots of tea, a plate of Caerphilly Welsh Rarebit and the Independent crossword. We take the train a few stops down the line past Harlech Castle to the village of Pensarn where we re-join NCN 8. The sun is shining weakly by now, and I’m pleased to say that Mrs Lightfoot’s Cassandra-like prophesies are proving wide of the mark. The rest of the day is one of my favourite sections of the Lon Las Cymru. The route cuts inland over the hills then follows the coast road down to Barmouth, a seaside resort long past its glory days but retaining a faded windswept elegance. We cycle along the front, sandblasted and showered by spray from the waves crashing in over the Irish Sea, stopping for a late lunch of chip butties and beer. The route continues along the Mawddach Trail, a lovely ten mile stretch which crosses the River Mawddach via a 700 metre long wooden viaduct built in 1867, and then follows the estuary inland to Dolgellau. There are stunning views of the southern Snowdonia mountains. The Trail uses part of the old Great Western Railway route which used to ferry visitors from northwest England to Barmouth from Victorian times into the early decades of the 20th century. The line fell victim to the Beeching axe in 1965 but, like so many others in Britain, has been happily reincarnated for cyclists and walkers. From Dolgellau the road gradually snakes upwards 400 metres, reaching high into the clouds, bleak and beautiful up here on these lonely fells, the sky dark and brooding and pierced by occasional shafts of sunlight. Panting heavily to the top I suspect my Welsh friend’s topographical reading of the landscape was not entirely correct. As we cycle over the brow of the last hill and reach the summit a middle-aged couple climb out of the back seat of a car, grin sheepishly, and get into the front. You could probably be up here all day normally and not see a soul. From the top we swoop ten miles down through the forests of the Dulas Valley to our night stop at Machynlleth, a place described by Mike Carter in One Man and His Bike (a wonderful book about his cycle trip around the British coastline) as ‘a place light on vowels but, if pronounced properly, heavy on expectoration’. The White Lion in the main street provides us with fish & chips, Banks’s Bitter and a comfortable bed. Rain is falling again when we awake but is expected to stop by mid-morning so we opt for a late breakfast and a delayed start. After cycling hundreds of miles around Britain over recent years, failing to spot any interesting wildlife apart from sheep, today brings a rare success. Outside the White Lion the manager of the pub points out a red kite flying high above the town. Over the next few days we spot more examples of this supremely graceful bird of prey, now thriving in the UK after once being on the brink of extinction. Once identified it’s easy to spot, even for me, with a wingspan over five feet, forked tail, brown and white colouring with streaks of red-rust, and has such economy of movement that it barely seems to fly at all, gliding effortlessly on pillows of air. Machynlleth nestles in a valley between the mountains, and the road out of town is almost a mirror image of yesterday afternoon’s climb but this time reaching 509 metres, the highest point on the Lon Las Cymru. At the top we catch up with a man and woman aged about 60 who we saw earlier this morning at breakfast in the White Lion. Both look to be seasoned cycle tourers, whippet-thin and weather beaten, their bikes heavily loaded with luggage. We stop for a chat. One of the great joys of a bike trip, I say, is spotting interesting wildlife. They agree enthusiastically. Indeed only yesterday they saw ospreys, one of the rarest, most elusive and majestic of all British birds! I was about to mention red kites but decide not to bother. The route continues along the upper course of the River Severn dropping through Hafren Forest and down to our lunch stop in the town of Llanidloes. The name just trips off my tongue like a native, and, mysteriously, I think I may now be acquiring a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative. The sun comes out and we sit outside the Crown & Anchor in the town centre with a pint of Hancocks (served by Ruby, landlady here for the past 50 years), munching pastries from the Talerdigg Bakery next door. For lunchtime entertainment there’s a procession of brightly coloured and decrepit looking estate cars, 500 in total, streaming through town with klaxons blaring and a cargo of Dutch passengers in very high spirits. It turns out this is the Carbage Run, an annual car rally in which competitors from the Netherlands have to buy and customise their own vehicles which must cost under 500 euros and have been built before 1998. There’s a different route every year and this time it goes from Holland to Aberdeen, on back roads via London, Swansea, the Peak District and Glasgow. It’s like a cross between the Wacky Races and Jeux Sans Frontieres, with competitors given daily tasks to earn extra points. Today’s challenge is to find someone called Ben and persuade him to travel the rest of the way to Aberdeen with hundreds of crazy Dutch people. After lunch we enjoy a peaceful and undemanding afternoon on undulating minor roads down into the Wye Valley. At one point the way ahead is blocked by a group of sheep who have wandered from a neighbouring field. Startled by our arrival they hurtle down the lane with a great chorus of baaing as Sam chases after them laughing and ringing his bell for about half a mile until they manage to escape through a gap in the hedge. Arriving at the Horseshoe Guesthouse in Rhayader, we shower and watch Andy Murray win his Wimbledon quarter final before heading out to The Eagles, a fine old pub which dates from 1579. The menu features locally sourced Welsh black beef and a wide range of game dishes, as well as kangaroo, crocodile and ostrich. We plump for a couple of rich, dark casseroles, mutton (Sam) and pheasant (me). The evening concludes with a fiercely fought game of darts at the Cornhill Inn round the corner from the Horseshoes. Turning in for the night I wonder how Ben is getting on. Next morning, we’re cycling beneath deep blue skies at last as the route meanders along the course of the River Wye, passing through Newbridge and on to a lunch stop in Builth Wells. There’s more of a sprinkling of English-sounding place names down here, particularly as we get closer to the border. It’s been a couple of days now since we’ve heard any Dothraki and everyone now speaks with a proper Welsh accent like on Gavin & Stacey. After a couple of pints of Hereford Pale Ale we enjoy some more afternoon cruising along flat quiet roads in glorious sunshine. But everything is going too well. Just as we are approaching the town of Glasbury, near Hay-on-Wye, my back tyre explodes with a frighteningly loud bang. I’ve not had a puncture in years so I’ve been dodging this bullet for a while. I’ve got a spare inner tube and have even practiced changing it at home so although it’s annoying I’m not too worried. But then I realise the full extent of the damage – it’s not just the tube that’s punctured, there’s a large gash in the tyre itself. There’s no way I can mend this and we’re still 15 miles from our night stop in Brecon, and that’s via the most direct route on the dual carriageway of death. Luckily for circumstances like these I have a contingency plan up my sleeve which is to Throw Myself Upon The Beneficence Of The Universe. We suddenly notice a bus stop 30 yards down the street and, ten minutes later, the last bus to Brecon pulls up. The driver looks at the bikes and shakes his head. It’s strictly against the rules. I pull my most desperate face and he softens. He’s a mountain biker himself and will not leave us stranded. Top man. Like most bike trips – I think even more than most – the kindness of strangers has been striking throughout the whole week. He drops us in Brecon town centre and we wheel our bikes to our accommodation at the Bridge Café. This is a wonderfully quirky place run by Carole and Jon, an agreeable pair of rat race escapees who have poured their dreams into this charming and higgledy-piggledy 16th century house, full of nooks and crannies and chickens clucking around in the yard outside. The sloping floors upstairs are strangely disorientating. ‘You don’t need to go the pub’, says Jon. ‘You feel a bit pissed just being in the house.’ I tell Jon about my gashed tyre. ‘You can sometimes do a temporary fix by wodging a bit of cardboard into the hole’, he says, hinting at a level of technical competence I can only dream about. The Bridge Café doubles as a bistro at the weekends and the menu looks enticing but unfortunately this is a Thursday night. We make do with takeaway pizza in the main square and a visit to The George Hotel where we drink fine ale brewed by a local company with the Welshest of names, Evan Evans. Next morning the Bridge Café wins the coveted Worthington Top Breakfast Of The Trip award: eggs with intensely yellow yolks, local organic sausage and bacon, field mushrooms, artisan bread and excellent coffee. It’s all very much to my liking although Sam, who has developed gritty northern tastes since studying in Hull, would prefer something more authentically proletarian and bemoans the lack of sliced white Sunblest and Nescafe. After popping into the local bike shop to get a new tyre fitted we set off on the last leg of the Lon Las Cymru, which follows the Taff Trail mostly off-road for 50 miles from Brecon to Cardiff. The first section is one of the most scenic and remotest sections on the whole route, following quiet roads to the Talybont reservoir, and a long hike up through Taf Fechan forest on the western edge of the Black Mountains, pools of warm sunshine pouring through the trees. We are alone save for a troupe of scouts on an orienteering exercise and the occasional red kite hanging on the breeze. The Brecon Beacons National Park is a pussycat this morning and it’s hard to believe only four days ago a couple of walkers were tragically struck by lightning in separate incidents up on those high peaks. From 450 metres at the top we plunge ten miles downhill (the surface loose and treacherous in places) to a last lunch of omelettes at a pub on the outskirts of Merthyr Tydfil in the one-time heartland of industrial Wales. The final 30 miles follows the River Taff on flat cycle tracks and B roads through Pontypridd and on to the centre of Cardiff where we end the trip in The Cambrian Tap, Brains Brewery’s newly opened craft ale bar. The city centre is lively and buzzing with the collective relief of another Friday night, heightened on this occasion by the joy of cricket fans pouring out of the Sophia Gardens down the road where England are slaughtering Australia in the first Ashes Test of the summer. And as we toast the successful completion of the Lon Las Cymru, I’m not sure life needs to get much better. It’s been a great trip. Glad we don’t have to cycle all the way back up to the top though. I hope this encourages someone to try this wonderful ride. If so please do let me know in the comments below, or also if you have any recommendations for other trips.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1525
__label__cc	0.717541	0.282459	Tag Archives: crisis by Raza Rumi \| August 19, 2010 · 5:11 am Pakistan: Being Untrustworthy in a Humanitarian Crisis? Zubair Faisal Abbasi International development organizations recently conveyed us a message that government in Pakistan is untrustworthy and therefore humanitarian aid in desirable quantity is hard to arrange. Many of us accepted the argument and starting divulging additional reasons on international donors being right in avoiding a direly needed bout of foreign assistance. We should try to be critical about such claims which primarily blame the victim. Let us say, you call us untrustworthy and therefore you refuse to pour money into our kitty so that we fight against the unprecedented calamity on our own. You call our state institutions untrustworthy slipping into the coffin of a failed state. You call us untrustworthy because we got a ‘bigger cheque’ from the USA and refused the Communists. Had we accepted the smaller cheque and fought the imposed war against you then what we were supposed to be? Traitors? But we accepted the cheque and remained trustworthy till the time cheap gun fodder was needed. The transaction was simple and persuasive. We, the untrustworthy, joined the most ‘truthful’ arrangements like SEATO/CENTO and remained most aligned nation outside the NATO and fought as frontline state – we remained trustworthy. Now once the war-machine appears to be tired, exhausted, and needs oiling then we become untrustworthy, corrupt, and extortionists. In fact, we were trustworthy for the expansion of military-industrial complex and now when we need humanitarian assistance we are untrustworthy. Continue reading → Filed under disaster Tagged as Aid, crisis, devastation, floods, Humanitarian, Pakistan by Raza Rumi \| August 18, 2010 · 11:29 am Pakistan Flood Incident Reporting System http://pakrelief.crowdmap.com Devastating floods in Pakistan have claimed over 1600 lives and displaced over 18 million — or 1 out of every 10 people in the country — and the disaster shows no sign of abating. Significant resources are flowing into the region to provide immediate relief. But access to relevant, up-to-date, timely, and authentic data from the affected communities, specifying the hardest-hit areas and precise locations of displacement, remains elusive. These gaps in data gathering disrupt initiatives for immediate assistance and for long-term policy planning. To overcome such gaps, Pakistan Flood Incident Reporting (http://pakrelief.crowdmap.com) was launched immediately after the recent floods. PakRelief CrowdMap, as it is known, is a data portal designed to gather comprehensive and dynamic information on disaster-related variables. The website identifies key information to facilitate better long-term policy analysis. Continue reading → Tagged as crisis, Data, Disaster, flood, Incident, Pakistan, reporting, Reporting System by Raza Rumi \| August 15, 2010 · 11:55 pm Pakistan’s disaster could lead to a systemic collapse The colossal humanitarian tragedy and the imminent economic meltdown, will now shape a new Pakistan or rather, exacerbate its predicament in the months and years to come. Pakistan’s chronic political instability, structural economic constraints and a warped national security policy are all going to be affected by the unfolding drama of the national disaster, perhaps the severest, in the country’s history. Whilst the challenges have snowballed within a short duration of ten days, the response of the Pakistani state and society underline extremely dangerous trends and make us wonder about future of the country, as we have known it for the last 63 years. Systemic shock: Pakistan had reverted to quasi-democratic rule after a decade of dictatorship in March 2008. Since the resumption of the electoral process in February 2008, the traditionally powerful unelected institutions, had acquired both legitimacy and unprecedented powers. The power troika of the 1990s had transformed into a quartet comprising the army, judiciary, the media and the civilian government which was represented by a ‘discredited’ president who has been a constant punching bag for the unelected institutions of the state. Filed under baluchistan, disaster, Pakistan, strategy, Terrorism, violence, Zardari Tagged as Army, Balochistan, collapse, crisis, Disaster, disaster-management, Economic, emergency, extremism, FATA, flood, floods, Humanitarian, Islamist, Jamat-ud-Dawa, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Pakistan Army, relief, state, Taliban, Zardari The current judiciary-executive standoff We are posting Marvi Sirmed’s bold and controversial piece that made waves today in Pakistan’s media. This piece entitled “Let reason prevail” has a clear line and PTH does not necessarily subscribe to this point of view (editors). There is a judicial crisis, the media says. This claim seems to be correct if one realises the level of urgency the Supreme Court showed in responding to a presidential notification. This notification was nothing bigger than the elevation of the senior-most judge of the Lahore High Court (LHC) to the Supreme Court and the subsequent appointment of the second senior judge as the Acting Chief Justice of the LHC. Those having objections to the president’s notification say it violated Article 177 of the Constitution. The said Article provides for a consultation with the Chief Justice (CJ) of the Supreme Court prior to making such appointments, but it does not give a definition of the “consultation”. It is also true that the CJ Supreme Court sent a summary to the president who subsequently rejected it and sent it back. The allegation of “not consulting the CJ” thus becomes irrelevant. Article 177 does not make the CJ’s recommendation binding on the president. Continue reading → Tagged as Activism, Al-Jihad Trust Case, Charter of Democracy, CJ, Constitution, crisis, Democracy, executive, Islamabad, judicial, Judiciary, Justice Khwaja Sharif, LHC, Marvi, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, PML-N, PPP, President, Prime Minister, Sirmed, Supreme COurt, Zardari by Raza Rumi \| February 15, 2010 · 3:02 am Comment on the current judicial crisis by Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim We are again faced with a judicial crisis – not a bonafide crisis but a crisis created for ulterior reasons. Ostensibly the crisis is the elevation of chief justice for the Lahore High Court in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the elevation of the next senior most judge Justice Saquib Nasir, as acting Chief Justice of Lahroe High Court (a la Zia ul Haq style). Being of the view that more harm is done by ignoring seniority, which opens the door for exercise of discretion in principle, I am against seniority being ignored, particularly in judiciary. My first reaction, therefore, was that the appointment of Chief Justice Lahore High Court to the Supreme Court and elevation of the next senior-most judge as Lahore High Court Chief Justice was justified. I had assumed that in accordance with the Article 177 of the constitution, these appointments were made by the president after consultation with the Chief Justice of Pakistan, and that the president was bound by such consultations. Was the Chief Justice of Pakistan even consulted? Continue reading → Filed under Justice, Law, lawyers movement, Pakistan, Politics Tagged as Article 177, Chief Justice, comment, Constitution, crisis, Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim, judicial, Lahore High Court, Prime Minister Pakistan’s Supreme Court versus the democratic government – by Abdul Nishapuri In a (not so) surprise move, top judicial bureaucrats sitting in Pakistan’s Supreme Court and Lahore High Court have declared war against a fragile democracy in Pakistan. The (right-wing) establishment has taken its dagger out for a final attack on the democratic government of the (left-wing) Pakistan People’s Party. In a decision announced in the after hours on Saturday, the Supreme Court of Pakistan suspended the appointment of two judges by President Asif Ali Zardari. According to Iftikhar A. Khan of Dawn newspaper, The build-up to the suspension of the presidential order packed more suspense than a thriller. A three-member bench of the Supreme Court first suspended the operation of notifications for elevation of Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court, Justice Khwaja Sharif, to the apex court and appointment of Justice Saqib Nisar as acting chief justice of the LHC.`The Supreme Court staff was called in the evening before the bench hurriedly constituted by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry took up the matter, leaving most observers baffled. Continue reading → Filed under Democracy, lawyers movement, Pakistan, Politics Tagged as Activism, Asif Ali Zardari, Chief, Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, crisis, Democracy, government, judicial, Justice, Pakistan, President, Supreme COurt by Raza Rumi \| October 11, 2009 · 7:30 pm PAKISTAN: State faces crisis of purpose This is an old piece but after the attack on GHQ it is quite a relevant reading. Comments are welcome. Raza Rumi Oxford Analytica – Wednesday, October 1 2008 SUBJECT: Scenarios for the future of Pakistan. SIGNIFICANCE: Recent geopolitical developments have undermined the traditional rationale of the state, promoting deepening internal discord. To survive, Pakistan will need to re-cast itself and find a new place in the international order. Yet the three most likely ways forward are each fraught with difficulties. ANALYSIS: Most of the domestic and geopolitical forces that have held Pakistan together since its hasty creation in 1947 have been weakening rapidly. As such, the country is at an historic crossroads. Its future in recognisable form will be in serious doubt unless it can find alternative sources of cohesion. Continue reading → Tagged as Afghanistan, China, crisis, Economy, India, international, Islam, Muslim, Pakistan, purpose, state, USA	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1529
__label__cc	0.672323	0.327677	Articoli con tag: Castel dell ‘Ovo GREEK COLONIZATION AND CUMA The foundation of Cuma dates back from about the mid-eighth century b.C. on a site inhabited by indigenous Opici, representing according to the Greek historians the oldest Greek colony of the West. According to the legend, the site was indicated by a dove or by the sound of cymbals . Cuma was founded not only to strengthen the trade but also as a population colony, where to find a living space for those who in motherland did not have any kind of perspective . The city soon experienced a rapid development, due to the geographical position as a Greek outpost in the trade with Latio and Campania territories. It created its rapidly expanding territory towards the Campania plain and over the Gulf of Naples. The intellectual influence of Cuma on the surrounding cities is evidenced by discoveries of statues of Apollo, Demeter and Dionysus, in the near Etruscan areas of Latio and Campania. An important further confirmation of the intellectual Cuman influence on surrounding cities, is the adoption of the alphabet with Cuma variants by the Etruscans and other Italic peoples . In the sixth century b.C. devastated by home struggles and eruptions, Pithecusa ( now Ischia) was abandoned. With a free Pithecusa, Cuma consolidated its presence in the Gulf of Naples, which was named of Gulf of Cuma, creating sub-colonies and outposts at key points on the coast ( Misenus – Pozzuoli – Pizzofalcone – Capri – Islet of Megaride: a space currently occupied by Castel dell ‘Ovo. ) Pizzofalcone according to tradition would correspond to the establishment of Partenope, taking its name from the Sirene, buried nearby. ( About who founded Partenope there are different theses, among the most reliable ones we have : The Rhodians, seafarer people who in their travels would beat the routes to the West well before the Greek colonization . A group of Cumans having left the country. ) Having become economically strong, Partenope began to pose a threat to Cuma, which destroyed it . The tradition is partly confirmed by the discovery of a necropolis on the hill of Pizzofalcone and materials dating VII -VI b.C., the period of the maximum Cuman power. The expansion of Cuma and its dominion over the Gulf led to a clash with the Etruscans . (Which from the inner cores of Salerno tried to expand towards the coast ) . In this same period ( 531-530 b.C.), the Cumans allowed a group of Samians, fleeing from the tyranny of Polycrates to settle in their territory on the site corresponding to the today’s Pozzuoli. The New town built under the protection of the Cumans and without any political autonomy, took the name of Dicearchia (City of the right government ) as opposed to the regime of Polycrates at Samos . The hostility between Cumans and Etruscans ended in 524 BC with the defeat of the latter. Cuma became so reinforced by the conflict, being able to send to Ariccia ( Latin ally ) a part if its army to counter the Etruscans attack. This further victory marked the rise of the tyrant Aristodemus who remained in power until 492 b.C. The return of the oligarchs of Capua along with other mercenaries marked the fall of the tyrant, who was killed with his entire family . Another city replaced Cuma as a bulwark of the Greeks against the barbarians in the Mediterranean , Syracuse! With the fall of Cuma, the Gulf was again dominated by Naples, which soon began a war against the Romans for the control of the Gulf itself. Categorie: Archeology, English \| Tag: apollo, Aristodemus, capri, capua, Castel dell 'Ovo, cuma, Cuman myths, Demeter, dicearchia, Dionysus, Etruscans, foundation of Cuma, Greeks, indigenous Opici, Islet of Megaride, Misenus, naples, opici, origins of Cuma, palepolis, Pithecusa, pizzofalcone, pozzuoli, Rhodians, samo, Siren Partenope, Syracuse \| Lascia un commento	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1530
__label__wiki	0.579686	0.579686	Our friends on the opposition benches Our MNAs Our permanent employees The Liberal values Major topics Become a member Contribute Get involved Back to our commitments A Quebec that is more prosperous and greener Over the past years, the Liberal government has shown that it is possible to remain competitive while actively fighting climate change and protecting the environment. Today, the Premier and leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, Mr. Philippe Couillard, announced new measures that will allow us to leave an even greener Quebec for our children. In a second Liberal government mandate: We will recycle more and we will reduce the use of plastic to reduce its impact on the environment by: Offering municipalities financial assistance to deploy a better recycling offer by installing a recycling bin beside each public trash can; Investing massively to modernize collection and triage centres, so that by the end of the mandate they accept all plastics, including plastic number 6; Banning plastic straws in bars and restaurants; A new chief environmental inspector will coordinate the actions of green squad of 300 investigators whose work will include, among others, the issue of contaminated soils. We will follow up on the Stratégie québécoise de l’eau 2018‑2030 by requiring higher fees from major consumers to protect this collective resource which belongs to all Quebecers. The State will do more of its part: 1% of the Government of Quebec’s infrastructure budgets will be dedicated to developing green infrastructures; including the use of wood as construction materials, and measures for urban greening to reduce the impact of heat islands. These measures represent additional investments of $45M over 5 years. They are in addition to the commitments made to render public transportation free of charge for students and seniors, to develop promising public transit projects in the four corners of Quebec and to enhance the rebate for the purchase of an electric vehicle and the installation of a home charging station. Recall that, over the course of the last four years, the Liberal government deployed policies and initiatives which support the flourishing of an innovative, prosperous and sustainable economy, such as the Plan d’électrification des transports, the Politique énergétique, the Politique de mobilité durable, the Stratégie québécoise de l’eau and the Fonds vert, while maintaining a stable and attractive taxation environment for investors. I support this commitment Fighting climate change is a responsibility that we all share, as we are already collectively enduring the consequences related to it. We are firmly determined to achieving Quebec’s objectives regarding greenhouse gas reduction and reducing the environmental debt that our children will inherit. We provided ourselves with the means to invest in our future. Better protecting our water, our soil and our air quality means ensuring future generations will have an environment where it is good to live, to grow and to grow old. – Philippe Couillard, Premier of Quebec and leader of the Quebec Liberal Party E-commerce that is fairer and more efficient More support for caregivers Decisions made in our regions, for our regions Identity and Canadian relations 2019 © Quebec Liberal Party \| Privacy Policy Netiquette Alain Paquin - Agent officiel You will receive the big news and events of the Quebec Liberal Party as well as the important achievements of the Liberal government. Thank you for your interest in the Quebec Liberal Party. Stay informed in real time and discuss with us on social media: Twitter : @LiberalQuebec Facebook: fb.com/LiberalQuebec N. B. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link placed at the bottom of each of our messages. email adress* Customize your registration	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1535
__label__wiki	0.636299	0.636299	Download Our New Praise 107.9 Radio Mobile App For Your Smartphone! Contact The Editorial/Digital Department Blessings: Teen Receives An Epic Gift When Photo Of Him Busing To Gradation Goes Viral Royce Dunmore Source: Christopher Futcher / Getty One Alabama teenager got all the blessing when folks realized he was in need. Corey Patrick was traveling to his Tarrant High School graduation — only thing is, he didn’t have a ride to get him there. He end up trekking to the bus stop and taking public transportation dressed in his cap and gown. Bus driver DeJuanna Beasel was so inspired by Corey’s determination, she snapped a pic and posted it on Facebook. It has since received over 42,000 shares. “I didn’t do it because I knew him,” DeJuanna told New York Daily News. “I just did it because he got on my bus and I was inspired that he got on by himself and he was so determined to get it with no one backing him.” Corey has attended Tarrant schools since elementary school, however, him and his mom recently moved to an area about 14 miles away. According to his mom Felicia White, Corey woke up at 4:30 a.m. each morning to take a 5:41 bus to school. His family had no other means of transportation and Corey didn’t want to miss out on his senior year with his friends. “Even when he would get out of school he couldn’t get from that side of town until 5:19 when the bus runs back over there,” White said. “So he doesn’t make it back this way until about 6:30 or 7 o’clock.” Well now all that has changed since radio host Rickey Smiley peeped Corey’s photo and has since gifted him a car. We did it!! We gave Corey Patrick a car of his own!!!! pic.twitter.com/KFwwmUn7Gm — Rickey Smiley (@RickeySmiley) May 25, 2018 And that’s not all. Corey has also received more than $11,000 thanks to a GoFundMe page that was started last Wednesday. And finally, he was reportedly offered a full scholarship to Jacksonville University where he wants to major in computer science. Seems like Corey’s future in bright…and thank goodness he now has a car to get him there! Blessings: Teen Receives An Epic Gift When Photo Of Him Busing To Gradation Goes Viral was originally published on globalgrind.com This Shirt Saves Lives – Radio Cares For… Stork Alert! Tamron Hall Is Pregnant At 48 #JusticeForTamlaHorsford: Why And How Did This Mother Of… More On Praise Jonathan Nelson Tells Jermaine Dolly How He Remains… Watch: Bernard Hopkins Opens Up About His Past… 5 Ways to Show Respect on Memorial Day What’s Your Ethnicity?’: Kellyanne ‘Alternative Facts’ Conway Asks… Morgan State Student Found Shot Dead In His… Robert Friend, One Of The Last Surviving Tuskegee… White Woman Accused Of Pretending To Be A… Guests Of Dominican Republic Hotel Where Black Couple… Virginia Beach Shooter Got Into A ‘Violent Altercation’…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1543
__label__wiki	0.91123	0.91123	Kyle Allen Taylor Heinicke Ron Rivera Cam Newton Sports NFL football Professional football Football Athlete injuries Athlete health Athlete contracts Sports transactions Sports business Atlanta Falcons Carolina Panthers Panthers re-sign backup QB Heinicke to 1-year deal The Panthers have re-signed backup quarterback Taylor Heinicke to a one-year contract to provide depth behind Cam Newton. Terms of the deal were not released Tuesday. Heinicke served as Newton's backup last season and played in six games with one start. He completed 33 of 53 passes for 274 yards with one touchdown and three interceptions in his only start, a 24-10 loss to the Atlanta Falcons in Week 16. He injured his left elbow during that game and was placed on injured reserve. Heinicke joins Kyle Allen as a backup quarterback. But coach Ron Rivera said the team hasn't ruled out adding a quarterback in the NFL draft to compete for the backup spot. By Arnie Stapleton an hour ago	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1551
__label__cc	0.508052	0.491948	Minimax estimation of linear and quadratic functionals on sparsity classes Olivier Collier, Laëtitia Comminges, and Alexandre B. Tsybakov More by Olivier Collier More by Laëtitia Comminges More by Alexandre B. Tsybakov Full-text: Access denied (no subscription detected) We're sorry, but we are unable to provide you with the full text of this article because we are not able to identify you as a subscriber. If you have a personal subscription to this journal, then please login. If you are already logged in, then you may need to update your profile to register your subscription. Read more about accessing full-text For the Gaussian sequence model, we obtain nonasymptotic minimax rates of estimation of the linear, quadratic and the $\ell_{2}$-norm functionals on classes of sparse vectors and construct optimal estimators that attain these rates. The main object of interest is the class $B_{0}(s)$ of $s$-sparse vectors $\theta=(\theta_{1},\dots,\theta_{d})$, for which we also provide completely adaptive estimators (independent of $s$ and of the noise variance $\sigma $) having logarithmically slower rates than the minimax ones. Furthermore, we obtain the minimax rates on the $\ell_{q}$-balls $B_{q}(r)=\{\theta\in\mathbb{R}^{d}:\\|\theta\\|_{q}\le r\}$ where $0<q\le2$, and $\\|\theta\\|_{q}=(\sum_{i=1}^{d}\|\theta_{i}\|^{q})^{1/q}$. This analysis shows that there are, in general, three zones in the rates of convergence that we call the sparse zone, the dense zone and the degenerate zone, while a fourth zone appears for estimation of the quadratic functional. We show that, as opposed to estimation of $\theta$, the correct logarithmic terms in the optimal rates for the sparse zone scale as $\log(d/s^{2})$ and not as $\log(d/s)$. For the class $B_{0}(s)$, the rates of estimation of the linear functional and of the $\ell_{2}$-norm have a simple elbow at $s=\sqrt{d}$ (boundary between the sparse and the dense zones) and exhibit similar performances, whereas the estimation of the quadratic functional $Q(\theta)$ reveals more complex effects: the minimax risk on $B_{0}(s)$ is infinite and the sparseness assumption needs to be combined with a bound on the $\ell_{2}$-norm. Finally, we apply our results on estimation of the $\ell_{2}$-norm to the problem of testing against sparse alternatives. In particular, we obtain a nonasymptotic analog of the Ingster–Donoho–Jin theory revealing some effects that were not captured by the previous asymptotic analysis. Ann. Statist., Volume 45, Number 3 (2017), 923-958. Received: February 2015 Revised: October 2015 First available in Project Euclid: 13 June 2017 https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1497319684 doi:10.1214/15-AOS1432 MR3662444 Primary: 62J05: Linear regression 62G05: Estimation Nonasymptotic minimax estimation linear functional quadratic functional sparsity unknown noise variance thresholding Collier, Olivier; Comminges, Laëtitia; Tsybakov, Alexandre B. Minimax estimation of linear and quadratic functionals on sparsity classes. Ann. Statist. 45 (2017), no. 3, 923--958. doi:10.1214/15-AOS1432. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1497319684 [1] Abramovich, F. and Grinshtein, V. (2010). MAP model selection in Gaussian regression. Electron. J. Stat. 4 932–949. Zentralblatt MATH: 1329.62051 Digital Object Identifier: doi:10.1214/10-EJS573 [2] Aldous, D. J. (1985). Exchangeability and related topics. In École D’été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour, XIII—1983. Lecture Notes in Math. 1117 1–198. Springer, Berlin. 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__label__wiki	0.74363	0.74363	How You Can Visit Luke Skywalker's Island Hideaway from Star Wars: the Last Jedi (on Earth) The actual island is located in Ireland and a migratory stop for some adorable puffins By Kara Warner That galaxy far far away? Yeah, it’s in Ireland. Guided vacations company Brendan Vacations has put together a travel package that lets Star Wars fans visit the actual earthly location that stands in for Luke Skywalker’s hideout introduced at the very end of The Force Awakens when Rey (Daisy Ridley) meets Skywalker (Mark Hamill), and featured in The Last Jedi, out now. The “Isle Awakens” vacation package is an 11-day self-drive vacation that allows travelers to explore Star Wars filming locations as well as other popular sites, while learning about the history and culture of Ireland. The main draw of the package is getting to visit 400 million-year-old Skellig Michael, the Irish isle that stands in for Skywalker’s refuge. Jonathan Olley/© 2017 Lucasfilm Ltd. Storytravelers The earliest historical reference to the islands dates back to 1400 B.C.; the Skelligs were home to one of the earliest monastic settlements in Ireland — a fitting detail with regard to its appearance in Last Jedi and Skywalker’s arc in the film. Those eager to explore the location should plan accordingly, as the island is only accessible May through September, when the weather conditions permit. And those interested in getting a good look at the island’s most photogenic migratory visitors, puffins, should plan to visit in the month of August. “Our Brendan Vacations ‘Isle Awakens’ trip was created specifically with Star Wars enthusiasts in mind,” says Melissa da Silva, president of Brendan Vacations, who notes, “There are no guided tours that take you to the island, and the number [of visitors] is strictly controlled for preservation purposes.” Da Silva adds that only a handful of vessels are even permitted to access the island. “There are only 13 boats that are licensed to make the journey to Skellig Michael, taking off from the pier in Portmagee,” da Silva says. “You can book directly with boat operators through the Valentia Island Tourist Office, but it’s all dependent on conditions as the water tends to get very rough prohibiting boats from docking.” Once the boat is docked, there’s still some hard work ahead for visitors, depending how high they’re willing to climb. In order to get to the isle’s sixth-century monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site, for example, travelers have to climb the 670 steps. But the views, overlooks, and other high points on the island seem well worth finding. Brendan Vacations’ 11-day excursion isn’t all about Skellig Michael, of course. There are a bunch of other Star Wars filming locations included in the trip. “There are eight locations across Ireland that were scouted for the film,” says da Silva. In addition to the island, there’s “Loop Head in County Clare, Planet Ahch-To at Malin Head in County Donegal (the northernmost point in the country) and Headland of Ceann Sibéal on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry.” Prices for the “Isle Awakens” trip start at $1,190, per person – including accommodations, full daily breakfast, rental car and itinerary, though you can get $200 off airfare per couple if you book by Jan 11. Star Wars: The Last Jedi is now in theaters. Popular in Home WATCH: Chip and Joanna Gaines Share a First Look at Their New TV Network Teaser: 'We Can’t Wait' Yankee Candle Just Launched a Rare Up to 40% Off Sale for Amazon Prime Day You Can Build Your Own Mini Greenhouse in 20 Minutes With This DIY Kit from Amazon 11 Famous TV Show Locations You Can Visit in Real Life WATCH: New Jersey Mom Wins HGTV 2019 Smart Home and $1.2 Million Prize: 'I Don't Have Words' Tuft & Needle and Casper Just Launched Exclusive Mattress Deals — and We Got the Scoop HGTV's Windy City Rehab Stars Have Work Permits Blocked Indefinitely, Licenses Suspended Viva L'Italia! Stars Can't Stay Away from Italy in the Summer: Here's Exactly Where They Go A Full Buck Moon Will Be Visible in the Sky Tonight — But What Is It? Hate Bug Bites? This Camping Chair with Its Own Personal Mosquito Is Here to Save Your Summer This Super Popular Roomba Vacuum Is Still $100 Off After Amazon Prime Day The Fire TV Stick Is Just $15 for Prime Day — Plus More Amazon Devices on Sale Want to Spot a Celeb on Vacation? Here's Where to Book a Room 18 Seriously Discounted Travel Finds from Nordstrom You Have 6 Hours to Get Amazon’s Most Popular Sheets for Just $20 How to Stay Safe and Healthy If You're Vacationing in the Dominican Republic See the Emotional Moment Christina Anstead and Husband Ant Walk Into Their First Home Together All Topics in Home How You Can Visit Luke Skywalker's Island Hideaway from <em>Star Wars: the Last Jedi </em>(on Earth)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0035.json.gz/line1558

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