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__label__cc	0.639706	0.360294	Download youtube ios 5.1. Download 2019-02-16 Download youtube ios 5.1 Rating: 9,4/10 532 reviews If you have any suggestions regarding subreddit or community improvements, you can message the moderators at any time. Google Message on YouTube Incompatibility Back in 2010 when this device was first released, Google and Apple closely collaborated, to the point where many Google services came pre-installed on the iPad and iPhone, including a YouTube app. The strange thing is that I myself own an iPad 1 on which I updated all apps regularly starting in 2010. This won't work with all apps. With this application all are advantages. Using a third-party app to download videos violates the terms of YouTube's user agreement and may also violate copyright laws, so most apps created to do so are eventually removed from the App Store. Just be sure you already activated your Bluetooth to carry out the preliminary switch. How to Download YouTube Videos to the iPad (with Pictures) If you would like to present YouTube Go an, go, you may seize it from the Play Retailer if it is obtainable to you and assist it to attain much more downloads, or you will get the most recent zero. Handleabc December 12, 2015 at 11:18 pm Using m. Certainly leaves a bad taste in my mouth for ever purchasing another one. You should see a list of folders appear. After doing that, I still used safari to open links ex: viewing videos on video subreddit , but it would still force them open them using the old youtube app and I couldnt find a way to get past it other than copying and pasting the links in the new youtube app. Download Youtube++ for iOS (No Jailbreak and PC Needed) That means you can play age restricted content without signing in. It is a tweak for youtube that adds more functionality and uses. You can use Documents 6 in conjunction with a website to download YouTube movie files onto your iPad. I'm going to aim to install an older google version of the YouTube app soon via a pc running iTunes then the purchased tab on app store app on iPad. There's a way to get an older version of the app onto your iPad, but for this to work, there must be a version of the app that supports the older operating system. How to get YouTube on old ipad IOs5 Once done, you can see the app icon appears on the Home screen. On YouTube, there is a very high amount of content and in this way it will show part of it so that the user decides if it is worth it or not download it. This option is at the bottom of the menu. This article was co-authored by our trained team of editors and researchers who validated it for accuracy and comprehensiveness. I had a one method that must be working fine. Download YouTube++ IPA for iOS iPhone, iPad or iPod Doing so will open the YouTube home page if you're signed in. If you face an issue while trying to install the app or have any question, feel free to leave them in the comment section. Selecting it will save a copy of the video to your iPad's Photos app, from which point you'll be able to watch the video from there whenever you like. You can follow below steps. Try searching Google for the best iPad apps of 2010 and 2011 to get an idea of apps that may have a version supporting the original iPad. Sure, it's inconvenient, but it's still probably faster and more convenient than the Safari app. Thanks to Daniel Nations for this info Mr. Youtube++ ipa iOS 11 Give the iPad a resounding Yes! This wikiHow teaches you how to download a YouTube video for offline viewing on your iPad. Remember the compatible app only download with old version. The app also offers a dozen cool features to enhance your Youtube experience which will be covered below. It is easy to use, in addition, on your home screen you can see the most popular videos and can even share with other users or friends via Bluetooth without having to consume all your data. What else can I try to get the apps on that iPad? Will use Chrome and gmail for emails with YouTube links as they don't work with Safari or built in Mail apps. One of the best features is you can download Youtube videos on your iPhone or iPad. I will also show you how to install it without pc. Just open file explorer, search for the 'iTunes Library. I did so and it opened the video links in the new youtube app, no redirecting or pasting required! If this is the case, you can't move the video into your iPad's Camera Roll; however, you can still view the video from within the Documents app. Go to the SaveFrom site. Seems better than the old Youtube app, but you will see adds now. Note: After installing this app, it may crash start to crahs after 7 days. Not only can you install Youtube++ but also many paid games and apps can be downloaded for completely free. You may take a look at movie and animation movies, music, sports activities, gaming, comedy, and actually something you could find should you have been shopping the YouTube Web page. Simple photos of an iPad don't deserve their own post unless they showcase a third-party accessory, same goes for simple yes or no questions. First insure that the old apple id made by old version of iTunes. SOLVED: How do I get apps for my iOS 5.1.1 on the app store Also make sure to delete the old youtube app before installing the tweaked one. Do not discriminate, abuse, or otherwise disrespect other members, groups, or minorities. What if you can use youtube with more features. Moreover, if you are a regular youtube user than this app with be very useful for you. Tap and hold the folder-shaped icon in the bottom-left corner of the screen, then swipe it to the right side of the screen. 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__label__cc	0.503675	0.496325	EU Parliament President concerned over Europe's shrinking Jewish population It has now been recognized that the Jewish population in Europe is shrinking. France: Majority indifferent to Jews leaving France. Via European Parliament: Parliament President Antonio Tajani To honour the upcoming International Holocaust Remembrance Day, MEPs held a ceremony in the Parliament on Wednesday together with representatives from Jewish communities in Europe and other dignitaries. Referring to the Holocaust as "the worst tragedy in European history", Parliament President Antonio Tajani said: “Remembering is not only an act of commemoration. It is a crucial process if we want to avoid repeating the same errors.” Tajani expressed concerns over Europe's shrinking Jewish population and the persistence of crimes against Jews. He added: "Remembering the terrible mistakes of the past gives us the possibility to remind ourselves that Europe has always been able to draw lessons from history for a future based on freedom, democracy and respect for human dignity." Labels: Europe , Perpetrators: Politicians , Type: Jews fleeing France: Socialist primary winner had backing of prominent anti-Semites The issue of the importance of the Muslim opposed to the much less important Jewish vote is not new in France - it was advocated 15 years ago by Pascal Boniface. Pascal Bruckner wrote: "When the political scientist Pascal Boniface, in a note to the leaders of the Socialist Party in April 2001, advised them, as a matter of simple electoral calculation, to abandon the Jewish vote (500,000 in France) for the Muslim vote (five million), he very honestly spilled the beans." A left-wing politician in France who was endorsed by the founders of the country’s Anti-Zionist Party handily defeated Prime Minister Manuel Valls in the Socialist presidential primaries. Benoit Hamon, who supports dramatically expanding welfare payments and has called for his party to support Palestinian causes to increase its appeal to Muslim voters, beat his hard-line challenger Sunday with 58 percent of the vote in the second and final round of the balloting. Last week, the comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala and the far-right author Alain Soral — who along with founding the Anti-Zionist Party both have multiple convictions for Holocaust denial and inciting racial hatred against Jews – endorsed Hamon publicly. Hamon disavowed Soral and Dieudonne. Soral wrote on his website that voting for Hamon was necessary to “knock Valls out of the race” because he is “a candidate who swore allegiance to the CRIF and to Israel be it through policy, media exposure, judicial means or by deploying the police.” CRIF is the umbrella group of French Jewish communities. Soral and Dieudonne cited Valls’ commitment to defending Jews against anti-Semitic violence. Valls is married to Anne Gravoin, a Jewish musician. In 2011 he said his marriage connected him “in an eternal way” to Israel and the Jewish people. He is also the only French prime minister who has said publicly that anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism. (...) Hamon in a televised interview last month called the establishment of a Palestinian state the “best way of ensuring Israel is not attacked by its neighbors.” But in a 2014 interview, he said that supporting the establishment of such a state was the Socialist Party’s “best way to recuperate our electorate in the suburbs and the neighborhoods” – code for Muslim voters — “who did not support the pro-Israeli position taken by President François Hollande.” Hamon had criticized Valls, too, for “giving in to Israel.” Labels: Country: France , Perpetrators: Politicians , Type: Israel-bashing UK: Outrage as Jewish students at SOAS told they can’t define anti-Semitism Jewish students’ campaign to define what they find “anti-Semitic” hit a brick wall at a Union General Meeting at SOAS University in London this week, with Jewish representatives blasting the “outrageous” comments made. SOAS Students’ Union, which supports a boycott of Israel, debated the ‘Jewish Equality Act,’ a motion proposed by economics undergraduate Avrahum Sanger, one of less than 40 Jewish students at the university. His requests were mainly met, such as kosher sandwiches in cafes, easier access to multi-faith prayers rooms and rescheduled activities around Shabbat and Jewish holiday. However the Union took issue exception to his additional request that Jewish students be able to define what is anti-Semitic. The clause in question read: “Jewish students should be given the right to self-determination and be able to define what constitutes hatred against their group, like all other minority groups.” Elsewhere, during another debate about the invitation of speakers to campus, one student singled out any “organisation that has any affiliation or any links to a Zionist or Netanyahu or to a Zionist ideology,” adding: “There will not be any tolerance of such organisations to host an event or speak on any topic regardless.” UJS campaigns manager Josh Nagli said: “The disgraceful comments regarding Zionist speakers will bring back dreadful memories of Jewish students’ experiences on campus in the 1970s when the banning of Zionist speakers led to Jewish Societies being banned.” Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Perpetrators: Academics , Type: Antisemitism denial Belgians who chanted about Jewish massacre indicted Three men were indicted in Belgium for chanting in Arabic at an anti-Israel rally about a site where Muslims are believed to have massacred Jews centuries ago. Two organizers of the Antwerp rally in July 2014 and a participant had cried out “Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of Muhammad is returning,” the Gazet van Antwerp reported Tuesday about their indictment this week. The cry relates to an event in the seventh century when Muslims massacred and expelled Jews from the town of Khaybar, in modern-day Saudi Arabia. The Forum of Jewish Organization of Flanders filed a complaint against the men based on videos showing them chanting the slogan at the rally. The defendants, identified only as Youssef R., Suhail A. and Marc D.Q., are denying the chant was incitement to hatred. The verdict is expected next month. Labels: Country: Belgium , Perpetrators: Muslims , Type: Incitement Swiss government denies requests for public information about funding of framework distributing 56% of its budget to BDS advocacies The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), the country’s foreign ministry, has denied requests from a Swiss resident and from NGO Monitor research institute to provide public information about Swiss government funding to the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat (the IHL Secretariat), a Ramallah-based framework that distributes 56% of its budget to NGOs that advocate for BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) campaigns against Israel. The FDFA claimed in his response that disclosure of the documents "might harm Swiss interests regarding foreign policy and international relations." NGO Monitor has since submitted an appeal to the FDFA, citing the Swiss Federal Act on Freedom of Information in the Administration (Freedom of Information Act, FoIA). The IHL Secretariat is an intermediary framework that distributes funds to non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including to many active in BDS campaigns, and is managed by the Institute of Law at Bir Zeit University in Ramallah and the NIRAS consulting firm in Sweden. IHL is a funding scheme of the Swiss, Danish, Swedish and Dutch governments. According to the contract between the Swiss Confederation (represented by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs acting through the Swiss Cooperation Gaza & West Bank office) and NIRAS, the Swiss contribution to the IHL Secretariat amounts to CHF 3 million between December 12, 2013 and September 30, 2017. (...) According to NGO Monitor, NGOs receiving "core-funding" from the Secretariat include BADIL, Al-Haq, Addameer, and MIFTAH, which are at the forefront of BDS and lawfare campaigns. "The central question is why are audits of government financial contributions to a 'human rights' framework subject to such secrecy?" continued Sacks ( Shaun Sacks, Senior Researcher at NGO Monitor's Europe Desk). "Those most affected by the funding, including Israelis, Palestinians, and Swiss taxpayers should be able to see how these crucial decisions are made, and how this money is being spent," he said. Labels: Country: Switzerland , Perpetrators: Government , Perpetrators: NGOs , Type: BDS , Type: Incitement Germany: Muslim students protest Holocaust remembrance, school supports 'criticism' Muslim students of Arab and Turkish origin protested participation in an International Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Germany, while their high school’s administration showed understanding for their criticism of Israel. “Some Muslims students said they would not participate in the event,” said Florian Beer, a teacher at the school in the city of Gelsenkirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia state, Der Westen newspaper reported on Thursday. The Holocaust remembrance event was part of a global commemoration in which participants take selfie photographs along with a sign saying “I Remember“ or “We Remember.“ A blackboard at the school was defaced with the sentence: “F* Israel, free Palestine.” The school was not able to identify the perpetrator. The Weiterbildungskolleg Emscher-Lippe school, where the protest unfolded, has 500 students, 40% of whom have a migrant background. School director Günter Jahn told Der Westen it was good that there was student opposition to the remembrance event. “It is important that there is criticism. That is the basis for a discussion.” He added that in certain communities, criticism of Israel is demanded. The school is located in the northern part of the Ruhr region and Gelsenkirchen’s population in 2015 was roughly 260,000. Some of the students allowed themselves to be photographed with the remembrance signs but declined to permit the photographs to be displayed on the Internet. A number of students, according to Der Westen, asked, “Why always the Jews?” The students added there are, after all, other problems in world. Beer said the school likes to be provocative because there are always events at the school that leave an “aftertaste of antisemitism.” He added that representatives from the World Jewish Congress have been invited to come speak at the school. Posted by Jew in EU at 7:30 AM No comments : Labels: Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism , Country: Germany , Perpetrators: Children , Perpetrators: Muslims , Perpetrators: Teachers , Type: Holocaust negationism France: Vile sexual antisemitic drawing of Manuel Valls at presidential primary polling station Antisemitic drawing found on the door of a polling station at today's second round of the socialist presidential primary. It depicts candidate and former P.M. Manuel Valls whose wife is Jewish and the inscriptions reads "Valls a star is born". "Valls a star is born" Labels: Country: France , Perpetrators: Unknown , Type: Cartoon German courts expose the mechanism by which opposition to Israel is indistinguishable from opposition to Jews Via The Weekly Standard (by Joseph Bottum): On January 13, 2017, a German regional court ruled that a lower court had been correct to find no anti-Semitism in the attempt by a group of Muslim men to burn down a synagogue in the city of Wuppertal. The failed firebombing attack had occurred in 2014, during the Israeli conflict with Hamas in Gaza. In 2015 the lower court found that the men had intended their actions as a protest against Israel—with the result that the adults in the group deserved to have their sentences suspended, freeing them from jail time. And now, after review by a superior court, the German legal system has affirmed that German synagogues are legitimate targets of protest against Israel. Remember this moment, for the German courts have exposed the mechanism by which opposition to Israel proves indistinguishable from opposition to Jews. (...) To see the logic at play, suppose that three white men had attacked a traditionally black church in Birmingham, Alabama, scrawling graffiti and trying to set the church on fire. Caught and convicted, they were sentenced to a year in jail—with the jail time suspended. Yes, the judge explained, they had been unlawfully violent and thus deserved to be convicted. But he suspended their sentences because their purpose in attacking the African-American church had not been to harm Americans but to protest the failure of the Nigerian government to halt the kidnapping of schoolgirls by the radical African militia Boko Haram. (...) Black citizens of the United States are never taken as symbolic representatives of African governments. For that matter, imagine the outcry if a judge condoned violence against the places of worship of native citizens who happened to be Muslim—because a distant government was doing something objectionable. (...) What the German courts have revealed, however, is not so much the psychology as the logic by which anti-Semitism has returned to the West. A strong case can be made that modern anti-Zionism was always a subterfuge, born from an anti-Semitism trying to disguise itself. But now even the need to wear that mask seems gone. The German Muslims who attacked the Wuppertal synagogue in 2014 took Germany's Jews as representatives of Israel, and in 2017 the German courts agreed, simply as a matter of law. Think about that for a moment. Once non-Israeli Jews have been legally recognized as symbols of Israel, not even a ray of daylight can slip between opposition to Israel and opposition to Jews. (...) Once and for all, anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism. German courts have told us so. Labels: Country: Germany , Perpetrators: Courts , Type: Glorifying or Justifying Killing Jews Norway: Media doesn't forget to explain that Trump's son-in-law is Jewish Via The Local (h/t CFCA): Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has apologized for a formulation used when describing Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser. On January 12th, Aftenposten wrote in an article about Kushner that “the Jew Kushner reportedly pushed for David M. Friedman as the new ambassador to Israel”. The Norwegian Jewish society Det Mosaiske Trossamfund (DMT) took offence to the wording and asked the newspaper to issue an apology. “It is anti-Semitic when Aftenposten journalists believe that Kushner’s Jewish identity explains why he allegedly pushed to get Friedman as ambassador. This is a coarse generalization based on the myth that Jews have a different loyalty. The accusation that Jews have a different loyalty is an accusation that is hundreds of years old,” DMT head Ervin Kohn told Norwegian news source Minerva. Aftenposten news editor, Tove Tveøy Strøm–Gundersen told the same source that the newspaper has sent an apology to the Jewish community. “This is a term that has also been used in an anti-Semitic context. It was not our intention to create that kind of negative association. We've discussed this internally and concluded that it is right to apologize for the choice of wording,” she said. Strøm–Gundersen added however that Aftenposten did not conclude that Kushner’s lobbying on behalf of Friedman was because he is Jewish but rather that his religion “is not uninteresting information for our readers”. “When [conservative American politician] Rick Santorum fights for stricter abortion laws, we inform readers that he is a Catholic. When Donald Trump chooses to use his son-in-law as a player in the Middle East - and when one of the issues Kushner is reported as having been directly involved in was the appointment of a new Israeli ambassador - then it is natural to mention that he is an Orthodox Jew,” she said. While Aftenposten issued an apology, rival newspaper Dagbladet said it saw no reason to regret its choice of wording in an article on Kushner in which the headline asked “what experience does he have besides being a Jew and married into the family?” “It’s important to look at the context in which Jared Kushner’s religious affiliation was mentioned. Trump himself has made a number out of the fact that Kushner is Jewish, in part to position him as a friend to Israel, and has already set his Middle East policy high on his agenda,” Dagbladet editor Hilde Schjerve told Minerva. “It has also been controversial that Trump has appointed his own son-in-law as responsible for the Middle East because Kushner lacks political experience and has previously given money to Israeli settlements - something that has helped to cast doubt on his ability to mediate peace between Israelis and Palestinians,” Schjerve added. Labels: Country: Norway , Perpetrators: Media Poland: Famous author blames Jews for anti-government protests Via CFCA: Warsaw - Marcin Wolski, well-known in Poland satirist, publicly accused Jews who, according to his words "are behind anti-government protests". The Jewish community send complaint to National Council on TV and Radio program by Wolski: "Behind the Vision". The Jewish community also send to Mr. Wolski an instruction what antisemitism is, and a box of matza, because satirist compared "holy wafer" with matza, telling that this year during Xmass the matza was eaten instead of holy wafer. Labels: Country: Poland , Perpetrators: Celebrities , Perpetrators: Media , Type: Conspiracy theory , Type: Jews are enemies Norway: Documentary about antisemitism It's a common misconception that Jews in Europe suffer mainly or mostly from Muslims. As this documentary show, that is far from the truth. Jews suffer from antisemitism from all directions, and the worst part is that antisemitism is not even seen as a problem. TV 2 Norway investigate Norwegian anti-Semitism. The word "Jew" is a common insult in many communities in Norway. What role does the neo-Nazis’, muslim immigrations and the - BDS (boycott Israel) movement play – if any? And: Can old prejudices be joked away? Program: Vårt lille land, TV 2 Norway (Our little country. Everybody has a story) Sendt 27. November 2016. Labels: Country: Norway , Perpetrators: General Public Austrian man jailed for selling pro-Hitler songs online An Austrian court has convicted a man under the country’s anti-Nazi law and sentenced him to prison for selling recorded songs with titles such as “Adolf Hitler Lives” and displaying Nazi tattoos. Austria prohibits praise or propagation of Nazi ideology. The 38-year old was tried and sentenced to 33 months in prison Tuesday in the Upper Austrian city of Steyr. He denied wrongdoing, saying his ideology reflected the fact that “I back my nation.” Labels: Country: Austria , Fighting Antisemitism , Perpetrators: Nazis , Type: Incitement , Type: Nazism Lithuania: Teacher fired for helping students with Holocaust film Via Jerusalem Post (h/t Honestly Concerned): It’s not every day that Lithuanian high school students block the entrance to their school to keep out their principal and demand the return to work of a beloved teacher who, in their opinion, was unfairly dismissed. In fact, as far as I could determine, the action taken recently by students at the Laisves (freedom) Gymnasium (high school) in Naujoji Vilnia, a suburb of the capital, Vilnius (Vilna), is unprecedented since Lithuania regained its independence in 1990. So what prompted this unusual case of student insubordination, which garnered headlines in the largest of the Baltic republics? At this point, we must differentiate between the official version of the story and what appears to be the real reason for the events which took place at the high school several weeks ago. According to the principal, the teacher in question, Marius Janulevicius, who teaches Lithuanian language and literature, had spoken harshly to one of the school’s female cleaning staff, which prompted his immediate dismissal. Such a step might seem unduly harsh, but the real reason for his dismissal apparently had nothing to do with that incident. It was because of an unusual, and unprecedented, film project undertaken by Andzej Davlevic, Dominykas Versalovicius and Deividas Svencionis, three of the school’s pupils, with the encouragement and tutelage of Janulevicius. The film, The Forgotten, commemorates the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Lithuania. These same students had originally approached their history teacher with the idea for the film, but she strongly discouraged them, suggesting it would be far better to deal with historical tragedies which had befallen Lithuanians. “Don’t deal with the fate of the Jews,” was her unequivocal message. But the three boys were determined to deal with the Holocaust and were able to carry out the project in their free time, with the enthusiastic help of Janulevicius. The film was produced and put online (but has still not been screened at the school), and once it became public knowledge the reprisal from the school came very swiftly – once an excuse presented itself to fire Janulevicius. The authorities, however, did not anticipate the reaction of the students, who rallied to his defense, barricading the school and locking the principal in her office. Labels: Country: Lithuania , Perpetrators: Teachers , Type: Holocaust negationism Belgium: Anti-Israel newly appointed minister is the son of Dieudonné's lawyer Following the Publifin political scandal which led the Flemish daily De Morgen to qualify the Walloon politicians involved as pure 'Walloon mafia', the Socialist Walloon Minister for Local Authorities, Paul Furlan, had to resign. He was replaced by a pro-BDS politician, Pierre-Yves Dermagne. In 2016 a Belgian economic delegation was slated to visit Israel. Together with a few other Brussels and Walloon MPs, Pierre-Yves Dermagne asked for the visit to be cancelled. Le Vif reported that a collaborator (himself very anti-Israel) of the Socialist party president Elio Di Rupo had complained that Dermagne could have expressed his opposition privately and not embarrass the party by going public about it. Pierre-Yves Dermagne is the son Jean-Marie Dermagne, a rabid anti-Israel lawyer and 'human rights activist' who peddles on his FB account conspirationist theories. He was Dieudonné's lawyer and accuses Israel of being "the master of the world". Jean-Marie Dermagne re-posted this conspirationist and anti-semitic meme (see explanation here). “There are only 9 countries in the world without a Rothschild Central Bank: Russia, China, Iceland, Cuba, Syria, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Hungary. Isn’t it funny that we are always at war with these countries?” Another example of Dermagne's hatred of Israel as reported on this blog: A Belgian delegation headed by a socialist MP Gwenaelle Grovonius was barred from entering Gaza. Obviously it's big news on Belgian media. This caused an indignant Jean-Marie Dermagne to post the following message on Facebook: "Yet another affront. This justifies the breaking of relations (between Belgium and Israel). Israel is the master of the world". Jean-Marie Dermargne is a lawyer, a former president of the Bar of Dinant, a member of the Human Rights League, a vice president of the Union of lawyers for democracy (Syndicat des avocats pour la démocratie), director of Sirde /UCL/ LLN (Catholic University of Louvain). During a debate on Belgian State TV he was presented as Dieudonné's lawyer - at the end of the show, Dieudonné and his wife sent a note refuting the claim and demanding that Dermargne stop saying that he is their lawyer - they named their two official Belgian lawyers. It seems that Dermagne used to be their lawyer but no longer, but he didn't see fit to say so... In 2009, Jean-Marie Dermagne wrote a pro-Dieudonné article entitled Does Dieudonné fornicate with the devil? By the way, neither he nor his son the minister is on record condemning Belgian government high level official visits to countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Iran... Unsurprisingly 74% of the Belgian population feel that their elites have let them down. Labels: Country: Belgium , Perpetrators: Anti-Racists , Perpetrators: Politicians , Type: Conspiracy theory , Type: Double Standards UK: David Icke’s disciples tell us what antisemitism really is, and why their hero is not an antisemite Via CAA: Earlier this week we asked Manchester City Council to impose a fine and licence conditions on the O2 Apollo theatre for providing a platform to antisemitic hate preacher David Icke, who delivered a twelve-hour sermon on his world view, including his notorious segment on the supposed conspiracy he calls “Rothschild Zionism”. We asked witnesses to the performance to e-mail us, and interestingly Icke’s associates urged his disciples to contact us. We have received numerous e-mails from Icke’s devotees unanimously reassuring us that Icke is no antisemite, and his message is one of love and compassion. We decided to publish extracts below, unedited save for the grammar and spelling. While their comments are patently risible, they are also highly dangerous. They illustrate how easy it is for a demagogue like Icke to convince people that age-old antisemitic conspiracy myths are real. Icke passionately warns his followers that the “Rothschild Zionists” have the world in their grip, and that even the antisemitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion should be heeded. It is perhaps unsurprising that people who are willing to pay up to £80 to be lectured for twelve hours straight by Icke are susceptible to his views. It is, nonetheless, extremely alarming. He preys on ordinary people who are suggestible, and persuades them that he is revealing a hidden truth, and that they cannot trust anybody else to be honest with them. Like a cult leader, he “wakes them up” from the “dreamworld” they were living in before they met him. Take David Wright for example. He resoundingly endorsed Icke’s philosemitic credentials, telling us: “Just because he believes a Jewish elite run the world doesn’t make him an antisemite.” In a separate e-mail, he assured us that: “David Icke is nothing like an antisemite,” reinforcing the point with a link to David Icke’s “Rothschild Zionism” speech. Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Type: Conspiracy theory , Type: Incitement As anti-Semitic tides rise, Diaspora turns to Israel for help Israel invests a lot of money and manpower in fighting antisemitism worldwide. Leaders of Jewish communities across Europe called on Israel Monday to help them tackle the rising threat of terrorism and anti-Semitism, saying that the Jewish state can provide vital security assistance against potential attacks. Speaking at the European Jewish Association’s annual Jewish Leaders Conference here in the Belgian capital, community leaders spoke of how growing anti-Semitic sentiment caused by both far-right political gains and left-wing anti-Zionist activists have led to an increasing number of attacks and other incidents across Europe. Philippe Markiewicz, chairman of the Consistoire of Belgium, an umbrella group of Jewish organizations in the country, said that European communities could stand to benefit form Israel’s experience in combating terrorism. “I think that Israel can help Europe a lot to fight against terrorism because Israel has a long experience of the subject,” Markiewicz said. “It’s very important that Israel give help to European countries to fight against this terrorism.” Labels: Europe , Type: Extra security measures Germany: Antisemitic illustration in schoolbook Via Arutz 7: A schoolbook publisher has apologized for using an anti-Semitic illustration in a text about the euro crisis. The book will not be removed from German schools' bookshelves, however. Based in Berlin, the Klett-Verlag publisher told Vice magazine blogger Philipp Frohn that the "regrettable mistake" would be corrected in a future edition, which will not come out for several years. At issue is an image in the firm's textbook about politics, called "Impulses 2." It depicts the euro as a Pacman-like chomping mouth about to devour Europe superimposed over a symbol with the words "Rothschild Bank." The notion that the Jewish banking family is controlling the world for its own selfish purposes "is a classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that the Nazis made good use of," Frohn wrote. "The message to pupils ... is clear: The driving force behind the whole nasty affair is a bank. A Jewish bank," he added. The book credits the notorious American illustrator David Dees, whose work the New York-based Anti-Defamation League called "anti-Semitic and conspiratorial" in a 2008 report. The ADL noted that Dees, on his own website, said he hoped his images would "wake others up about the onslaught of the elite's power hungry world government plan of domination." Labels: Country: Germany , Perpetrators: General Public , Type: Stereotypes UK: National Action member was allegedly caught with a viable homemade bomb and Nazi flags, court hears Leeds Crown Court has heard that a 17-year-old prepared a viable homemade bomb in preparation for an “all-out race war”. The defendant is allegedly a member of National Action, a violent neo-Nazi group which recruits teenage children and university students. The Home Secretary designated National Action a proscribed terrorist organisation last month after a long campaign by Campaign Against Antisemitism and others. Prosecutor Barnaby Jameson told the jury that the teenage defendant made a viable bomb using fireworks after seeking out instructions on the internet. He said that the defendant often wore a business suit, but beneath his respectable veneer he was an unabashed neo-Nazi who allegedly sent friends racist Snapchat messages, leading to police being alerted to what he was preparing. When police entered his bedroom they found it festooned with Nazi flags including the swastika and the emblem of Hitler’s Waffen SS. His laptop screensaver was an image of a Nazi eagle over a Swastika and Hitler’s famous slogan: “Ein volk, ein reich, ein führer” (one people, one nation, one führer). Police found the bomb in a drawer. According to the prosecution, police found that after he became involved with National Action, the defendant had written online: “Focusing on making homemade weapons [guns] and explosives, as well as amassing a collection of knives. We don’t have any right to bears arms, so the resistance has to learn to construct its own weapons.” He began attending National Action rallies and participating in sticker campaigns to spread their message, the prosecutor said. In early June, he wrote to a friend on Facebook Messenger: “The IRA is where we get most of our techniques from. We follow them religiously, the way they operated in an urban environment. The way they blended into the population. Urban guerrilla warfare is what we need to learn.” He also posted: “I wish the Nazis had won the war. I wish I could have lived back then and fought alongside the British free Korps, and had the privilege of praising the Führer. Hail Hitler!” Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Perpetrators: Nazis , Type: Terrorism UK: The sands of antisemitism are shifting in the UK Via Israelly Cool (by David Collier): This week, Goldsmiths University of London placed a large suggestion board seeking ideas for improvements from students. Professor David Hirsh arrived on campus to see that one of the suggestions was to remove him. The comment read “no more David Hirsh, no more Zionism — a bitter Jew” appended by a smiley face. This not even the first but rather ” the third openly antisemitic piece of graffiti at goldsmiths in a year.” The university responded they “condemn this action – this is an unacceptable attack on a member of Goldsmiths staff.” This though is nonsense. Goldsmiths proudly provide an environment in which the breeding swamp of antisemitism flourishes. I have been to several anti-Israel events there and felt the hatred myself. You cannot create an environment so hostile and refuse to accept the responsibility when the sewer spills over. Even their rugby team has an emblem on their shirt that has obliterated Israel. What did they expect? Just a few weeks before this, my daughter came home distraught, because the local bus stop had been vandalised with horrific antisemitic graffiti. How do you deal with a fourteen-year-old who phones in tears because somebody has abused her so anonymously? Why should we even have to deal with this question? Just two weeks ago, my wife lost income as a direct result of her identity. We are aware that the cancellation of an assignment, was down to the realisation on the part of the client that my wife had been educated in Israel. For a Muslim Councillor in a nearby town, that was an unacceptable connection to make. Today, the editor of the UK’s Jewish Chronicle Stephen Pollard, went to a local coffee shop (in Tottenham Court Road) for a sandwich. He heard a discussion on a nearby table. Two girls were talking about Israel. The conversation swiftly switched to Jews. “She’s Jewish and she’s like really annoying – you know, rich like the rest of the them and keeps going to fing Israel for holidays.” The response: – “”Ugh. Hate them”. This week, there have also been a spate of attacks against Jewish homes across North West London. In one attack, in the early hours of Saturday morning, a brick was thrown through the window of a Jewish home. A group of Jews were pelted with eggs while walking home from Shabbat dinner. Another property was daubed with swastikas. Last week on a different campus in London, there is footage from an event promoting the boycott of Israel. Jewish students on their own campus were accused of being enemy aliens, of being ‘briefed’ and sent by the Israeli embassy. Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Perpetrators: Academics , Type: Incitement , Type: Physical attack France: Synagogue receives death threats Metz – an anonymous antisemitic letter with death threats was sent to the synagogue of Metz. The letter reads: "Swastika, Dirty Jew, we will all kill you etc ... etc ...". Labels: Country: France , Target: Synagogue , Type: Nazism European officials accuse Israel of ‘systematic unlawful killings’ in Gaza A European inter-governmental group accused Israel of engaging in “apparently systematic unlawful killings” of Palestinian civilians in the buffer zone areas between the Gaza Strip and Israel over the past several years, and of exacerbating a humanitarian crisis in the blockaded Palestinian enclave. The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, also known as PACE, voted on Tuesday in favor of a resolution, based on an internal report on the humanitarian situation in the Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave, which charges Israel with “excessive and intentional force without justification against Palestinian civilians in the buffer zone, including against farmers, journalists, medical crews and peaceful protesters, [which] runs blatantly counter to human rights principles and the international law-enforcement standards.” “Cases of the deliberate fatal shooting of individuals who posed no imminent danger to life amounts to an appalling pattern of apparently systematic unlawful killings,” read the report, which was composed by Eva-Lena Jansson, a Swedish politician from the Swedish Social Democratic Party, and presented on January 4 to the assembly, made up of 324 parliamentarians from 47 countries. The report cites a Palestinian NGO which is said to have “documented the killing of 136 Palestinians in Gaza by Israeli live fire in the buffer zone, including 20 children,” since 2010. Labels: Europe , Type: Jews are murderers/terrorists Germany busts alleged far-right plot to attack Jews, refugees German authorities on Wednesday carried out dawn raids against far-right suspects accused of plotting attacks on Jews, refugees and police, federal prosecutors said. Police swooped on 12 homes and other sites in six states “as part of a federal investigation on suspicion of forming a right-wing extremist organization,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. Six suspects, “connected primarily via social media,” are accused of founding the group “and in early 2016 beginning plans for armed attacks against police officers as representatives of the state, asylum seekers and members of the Jewish community.” Another seven people are believed to have offered assistance to the group, including acquiring weapons. Labels: Country: Germany , Perpetrators: Nazis , Type: Terrorism France: Majority indifferent to Jews leaving France Via Véronique Chemla: Véronique Chemla has analyzed the findings of the second part of a survey commissioned by the Fondation du Judaïsme (FJF) and carried out by the polling firm IPSOS. The report looks at 'the evolution of the relation towards the other in the French society'. Véronique Chemla is critical of the way the questions were formulated and of the findings. Noteworthy is the fact that only one third of the French worry about Jews leaving France, 60% are unconcerned and 7% rejoice at the prospect of their departure. - 51% of the French consider that Jews have valid reasons to be afraid of living in France, 16 points up compared to a 2014 survey. - The French are well aware that Jews are leaving - 26% of respondents qualify the departures as "massive" or "important", 8 points up from 2014. - The departures are perceived as being caused by anti-Semitism - 70% think that Jews who emigrate to Israel (and other countries) do so because they fear a rise in anti-Semitism (29 points up from 2014). - These departures do not bother a majority of the French and some are happy about it: 60% feel that the fact that Jews are leaving is neither a good nor a bad thing, 33% that it is a bad thing and 7% a good thing. More on this subject - first part of the survey (2016) - Poll: Most Frenchmen believe Jews responsible for rise in anti-semitic Fully 60 percent of Frenchmen believe that Jews bear at least some responsibility for recent rises in anti-Semitism, according to a new poll by the Ipsos market research firm. According to French media reports, the 18-month study, which was sponsored by the Fondation du judaïsme français, also found that 56% of Frenchmen believe that Jews have a “lot of power” and are richer than average while more than 40% said that Jews are “a little too present in the media.” ... 51% des Français considèrent désormais que les juifs ont « des raisons d’avoir des craintes de vivre en France », un chiffre en hausse de 16 points par rapport à 2014. De même, le départ de Français juifs pour l’étranger est un phénomène beaucoup mieux appréhendé qu’il y a deux ans (26% le jugent « massif » ou « important », +8 points), et il est désormais fréquemment perçu comme lié à la montée de l’antisémitisme : 70% des Français pensent que les juifs qui émigrent en Israël le font « par crainte de la montée de l’antisémitisme » (+29 points). Pour autant, ces départs laissent la majorité des Français indifférente : 60% jugent que ces départs ne sont « ni d’une bonne, ni d’une mauvaise chose », 33% « une mauvaise chose », 7% « une bonne chose ». Labels: Country: France , Perpetrators: General Public , Type: Jews fleeing UK: Racist football fans filmed shouting anti-Semitic chants on tram Via Metro: Fans were caught on camera singing vile racist chants on a tram ahead of Manchester City’s clash against Tottenham Hotspur. The abuse, which included lines such as ‘You’re getting gassed in the morning, gassed in the morning’, was filmed by a shocked passenger. Paedophile who became first dead person to be convicted ‘was victim of witch hunt’ One man can be heard shouting sickening anti-Semetic jibes, including ‘F off you fing y. F*ing gas isn’t good enough for ya.’ The incident took place on a tram to the Ethiad stadium on Saturday afternoon. Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Perpetrators: Sports Fans , Type: Insult Spanish courts deal double blow to BDS movement ACOM, an Israel lobby group that works to combat BDS in Spain, dealt a double blow to the boycott movement this past week after garnering two legal victories in municipalities in Madrid and Barcelona. A Madrid court ruled against the City Council of Rivas Vaciamadrid, a town of some 80,000 inhabitants in Madrid, annulling a decision to boycott Israel. In May 2016, the council adopted a BDS resolution not to sign “any political, commercial, agricultural, educational, cultural, sporting or security agreement or contract with Israeli institutions, companies and organizations, nor with bodies, companies and organizations that are involved, collaborate or in any way capitalize on the violation of international law and human rights in the Palestinian territories or in the occupied Golan.” According to ACOM, the municipality declared itself a “free space of Israeli apartheid.” Labels: Country: Spain , Fighting Antisemitism , Perpetrators: Politicians , Type: BDS Ukraine says Russian secret services spread anti-Semitic sentiments in Ukraine Via Kyiv Post: Secret services of the Russian Federation are spreading anti-Semitic sentiments in Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada deputy Anton Herashchenko said, speaking during a live interview broadcast by the Kyiv-based 112.ua TV channel in Kyiv on Jan. 23 evening. “You probably remember the news in November that a pig’s head was left on the tombstone of Tsadik, who is revered by Jews, in Uman. There was also the news that anti-Semitic graffiti appeared in Chernivtsi during the visit of Israel’s Knesset speaker. Anti-Semitic books were also distributed in November and December of last year. I can say that these incidents are not coincidental. They are part of a concerted effort by Russian special forces to sow anti-Semitic sentiments in Ukraine,” Herashchenko said. Labels: Country: Russia , Country: Ukraine , Perpetrators: Government , Type: Incitement Italy: Vandals deface new Milan ‘stumbling stone’ Holocaust memorial Vandals defaced one of the “stumbling stone” Holocaust memorials unveiled last week in Milan, covering it with black paint. The vandalism was discovered Saturday by Ornella Coen, the daughter of Dante Coen, the person commemorated by the plaque, who was deported to Auschwitz and then killed at Buchenwald on April 4, 1945. “Stumbling stones,” or “stolpersteine,” are individual commemorative cobblestones placed in front of the houses of people who were deported during the Holocaust. Placing them is an ongoing memorial and art project by the German artist Gunter Deming, who installs each one — nearly 60,000 in various countries since the mid-1990s. The defaced stone was one of the first six stumbling stones to be installed in Milan, during a ceremony on Jan. 19. It is believed to have been defaced the next day. Labels: Country: Italy , Perpetrators: Unknown , Target: Holocaust Memorial , Type: Vandalism UK: Baroness Tonge spreads anti-semitic fake news Via Jewish News : Baroness Jenny Tonge is under investigation by the House of Lords Commissioner for Standards. Initially she was under investigation on two counts: alleged failure to act on personal honour and alleged breach of rules on House facilities. However the first charge has been dropped. It needs to be taken up again because she has posted an anti-Semitic article on her Facebook page. Tonge posted a piece of fake news. Not just fake – anti-semitic. It claims that at a recent conference, Israel’s President Rivlin said: “The time has come to admit that Israel is a sick society, with an illness that demands treatment … the Israeli Holocaust against the Palestinians is worse than the Nazis I’m not asking if they’ve forgotten how to be Jews, but if they’ve forgotten how to be decent human beings. Have they forgotten how to converse? I think that ‘Holocaust’ against Palestinians is worse than Nazis.” The article is bylined AWD News. AWD News mostly publishes far right wing conspiracies. When Jewish News did its investigation of hate sites last May, AWD News was named as one of the 23 sites listed. Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Perpetrators: Left wing , Perpetrators: Politicians , Type: Incitement , Type: Israel-bashing , Type: Jews are Nazis EU Funding to NGOs Active in Anti-Israel BDS Campaigns Twenty-nine out of 100 EU grants administered through EU regional funding programs designated for Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza funnel funds to organizations that actively promote BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) – totaling €16.7 million out of €67.1 million (roughly 25%). Forty-two out of 180 EU grantees in total support BDS – through participation in activities and events, signing of petitions and initiatives, and/or membership in explicit BDS platforms. A number of organizations were funded through more than one EU grant, sometimes as part of the same program (“Double Dipping”). The EU expressly opposes BDS. When confronted by evidence of funding for NGOs with agendas or values that contradict EU policy, the EU’s recurring response is that it “funds projects submitted by NGOs, in line with [the] EU’s fundamental principles and values, but not NGOs themselves.” A grant titled “Performing Arts: A Pathway Towards Self Expression and Democracy” amply demonstrates this flawed logic. In 2014, during their participation in the EU’s Cultural Programme, all twelve beneficiaries of this grant initiated a group statement calling for a cultural and academic boycott of Israel. Nine BDS-supporting organizations were the recipients of the EU’s Partnership for Peace Program- a program designated for joint projects involving Israeli as well as Palestinian organizations, meant to “build trust and understanding between societies in the region.” Labels: Europe , Perpetrators: Government , Type: BDS Anti-Semitism Spikes in Poland—Linked to Rise in Islamophobia Via Forward: Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Poland, a country with almost no Jews. A new national study conducted by the Center for Research on Prejudice at the University of Warsaw finds a significant increase in negative attitudes toward Jews since 2014. The research, covering the years 2014-2016, shows that anti-Semitic hate speech is becoming increasingly acceptable and enjoys a growing popularity on the Internet and on Polish television. The study took actual examples of anti-Semitic statements found in different media and asked respondents if they found these statements offensive. In all cases, the statements were found to be less offensive in 2016 than in 2014. The difference was most pronounced among young people. For instance, a statement referring to Jews as scumbags was found offensive to 43 percent of young people in 2016, as compared to 66 percent in 2014. The statement was offensive to 69 percent of older people in 2016, as compared to 78 percent in 2014. The study offers as an explanation that young Poles are accustomed to anti-Semitic statements on the Internet. In the last two years, the percentage of young people with Internet contact increased from 58 percent to 74 percent. Poland’s organized Jewish community of 10,000 is only 0.1 percent of the Polish population of 38.2 million. More than 80 percent of Poles say they have never met a Jew. Yet, according to the study’s findings, Poles are increasingly unwilling to accept Jews as co-workers, neighbors, or a member of their family. More than half of Poles – 55.98 percent – would not accept a Jew as a family member, a jump from 45.53 percent in 2014. A third of Poles – 32.20 percent – would not accept a Jew as a neighbor, an increase from 26.70 percent in 2014. And 15.1 percent would not accept a Jew as a co-worker, up from 10 percent in 2014. The study notes that a sharp rise in Islamophobia has been accompanied by a distancing from other ethnic groups, including Jews. “The more people are anti-Muslim, the more they’re anti-Semitic,” said Michal Bilewicz, the Center’s director. “They portray George Soros as the embodiment of the Jewish conspiracy that’s helping to finance the influx of Muslims that poses a threat to Christian civilization in Europe.” Labels: Academic: Statistics , Country: Poland , Perpetrators: General Public , Type: Conspiracy theory Russia: Duma’s Deputy Speaker speaks against Jews Via Jewish Press: The Russian Federation of Jewish Communities (FJC) on Tuesday accused the Duma’s Deputy Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy of undermining international peace and called on the Parliament to rebuke him for his statements concerning the handing over of St. Petersburg’s St. Isaac’s Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church, Interfax reported. Tolstoy told a press conference that “the people who are the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those who pulled down our temples, and jumped out from the Pale of Settlement to the revolver in 1917, and today are working in very respectable places – on the radio, in the legislatures, continue the work of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers.” “We usually hear such statements from irresponsible instigators of anti-Semitic campaigns,” the FJC stated. “When we hear this from the mouth of the State Duma deputy speaker at an official press conference, it directly undermines inter-ethnic peace in the country and stirs up tension.” Labels: Country: Russia , Perpetrators: Politicians , Perpetrators: Right wing , Type: Jews are enemies Belgium: Brussels airport bombers targeted Americans, Jews Via I24 News: Still from CCTV footage showing Najim Laachraoui (left), Ibrahim El Bakraoui (centre), and Mohamed Abrini(right) Probe finds indication US, Russian and Israeli check-in counters, Hasidic travelers were targeted The Islamic State suicide bombers who attacked Brussels airport last year targeted passengers traveling to the United States and also Jewish people, several sources told AFP. The Belgian-led investigation believes a check-in counter for an American carrier was one of the targets in the March 22, 2016 attacks, the sources said on condition of anonymity. They also suspect that travelers to Israel may have been in the crosshairs, and that airport security camera footage shows one bomber apparently pursuing Hasidic Jews seconds before one of the blasts. Islamic State (IS) bombers Najim Laachraoui and Ibrahim El Bakraoui killed 16 people at Zaventem airport. Around an hour later Bakraoui's brother Khalid attacked a metro station near EU headquarters, killing another 16. (...) Sources close to the investigation added that camera footage never released to the public showed that Laachraoui had been standing among some 60 high school students before deciding to pursue two Orthodox Jews. "The attacker seemed to rush towards two Orthodox Jews," one of the sources said. "He really, clearly wanted to kill a Jew." A US government source said separately that Lachraoui was targeting a Hasidic Jew. Hasidic men are easily recognizable because they wear dark suits over white shirts, have long beards, hats and curly sidelocks. Labels: Country: Belgium , Perpetrators: Muslims , Type: Physical attack UK: Piers Corbyn tweets Jewish conspirators will force Trump into war 'just like they did to Hitler' Via Campaign Against Antisemitism: Jeremy Corbyn’s brother, Piers Corbyn, a climate forecaster and fervent supporter of his brother, has issued his latest long-term prediction on Twitter: that Jewish conspirators and the Royal Family will force Donald Trump into war, just like they did to Hitler. Piers Corbyn retweeted @whiteknight0011, a notorious neo-Nazi who declared that “They will force Trump in to war What do you think happened to Hitler? Bilderberg CIA IMF Banker Gangsters They are the problem” along with four images. One shows Lord Jacob Rothschild, the Jewish banker and philanthropist, against the background of a Nazi flag, claiming that he controls the world. A second shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a puppeteer controlling ISIS through Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, orchestrating the war in Syria and Paris attacks as Lord Rothschild and the Queen look on approvingly. A third image shows the faces of supposed Jewish conspirators who run the world to society’s detriment, proclaiming: “Know your enemy”. The last image shows a family photo of the Royal Family, claiming that they are in cahoots with these Jewish conspirators in committing “the worst genocides, invasions and theft in all history.” Piers and Jeremy have a long history of political solidarity. Piers has boasted of the family’s anti-racist credentials, but the mask is slipping. The man who now broadcasts that the Jews were responsible for the Second World War, is the same that claimed a Jewish conspiracy against his brother: when Jewish MP Louise Ellman complained of antisemitic attacks against her, Piers Corbyn accused her of using it as a cover for political attack, tweeting: “ABSURD! JC+ All #Corbyns are committed #AntiNazi. #Zionists cant cope with anyone supporting rights for #Palestine”. Brother Jeremy’s response: “He’s not wrong”. The apple does not fall far from the tree in the Corbyn household. Jeremy Corbyn has not publicly repudiated his brother, nor any number of individuals in the Labour Party attacking the Jewish community. We would like to think it is time to start, but have long realised that any pretence that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour is ‘anti-racist’ are now history. Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Perpetrators: Academics , Type: Conspiracy theory , Type: Jews are Nazis UK: The hateful whispers that make me want to move from London to Tel Aviv Simon Wilder @ The Spectator: The referendum result didn’t make me decide to leave, but it was a penny on the scales. This no longer feels like home. I may spend too much time on Twitter, but the things people say about Jews and Israel there make me tremble. They feel safe in their hatred, and, scarier still, probably are. There’s a train of thought among right-thinking people in London at the moment that Israel is culpable; that it is responsible for all the ills of the Palestinians, all the woes of the Middle East. If it weren’t for Israel, they say, the world would be a better place. If you go to a dinner party you can hear things that wouldn’t have sounded unfamiliar in 1930s Germany. They say they’re just ‘anti-Zionist’ but to be anti-Zionist is to be anti-Semitic. No one is anti- any other country. No one questions, say, Iran’s right to exist. I’ve voted Labour in the past, but these days people in the Labour party all too often say things about Jews having big noses, or controlling the media, or somehow engineering the attack on the World Trade Center. Israel is behind Isis, they say. At demonstrations people hold up placards that say Hitler was right. Those words, exactly. Much of Labour barely raises an eyebrow. Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Opinion Editorial , Perpetrators: Left wing , Perpetrators: Right wing , Type: Jews fleeing Poland: President Duda says Jews are safer in Poland than in Western Europe, denies responsibility for Holocaust crimes Read also Professor Deborah Lipstadt's article on the subject of Poland v. German antisemitism: An enduring myth: "The Poles were worse than the Nazis" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and his wife, Sara, host Polish President Andrzej Duda (second from right) and his wife, Agata Kornhauser, at the president's residence in Jerusalem. Picture from GPO Jews are safer in Poland than in Western Europe. Unlike in France or other parts of Western Europe, Jews can freely walk around openly wearing religious garb, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Thursday in Jerusalem where he was on a state visit to Israel. He spoke at a forum in Jerusalem jointly organized by the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR), which operates under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress, and the Polish Institute of International Affairs. Duda said: “I say it loud and clear here and in Poland: We also have painful memories but it was not we who invaded Poland in 1939, it was not we who planned the Holocaust, and it was not we who built the death camps on our own territory.” At the same time, Duda denied his country’s collective guilt for the atrocities of the Holocaust, saying Poles also suffered under the Nazi regime. Asked by ICFR Board member and distinguished Israeli scholar Shlomo Avineri whether Poland was not resorting to legislative measures to stifle academic discourse, particularly where research on Poland's wartime history was concerned, the president answered: "Historical truth is as it is. It is not always pleasant, and that is true for the Polish nation as well."We do not want to prosecute those who are conducting scholarly research but rather those who, in the wider world, promulgate lies defaming my country, my compatriots and me," he added, referring to a bill currently under discussion in Poland. He said no final decision about the law had been taken yet. President Duda defended recently passed legislation that criminalizes the use of the phrase “Polish death camps” in reference to Nazi extermination camps in occupied Poland. He said the world should not refer to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek, Belzec, Sobibór or Chełmno as Polish concentration camps. “They were not Polish camps. This absurd name refers only to geography,” he said. “How would you feel if a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv was called ‘an Israeli attack’? How would the Japanese feel if the Hiroshima atomic bomb was referred to as ‘a Japanese nuclear attack’? It is a historical distortion.” Labels: Country: Poland , Perpetrators: Government , Type: Antisemitism denial , Type: Holocaust negationism , Type: Misc German Court Rejects Effort to Ban Neo-Nazi Party Via New York Times: Germany’s highest court rejected on Tuesday an attempt to ban the National Democratic Party, the country’s oldest far-right political organization, finding that it did not pose a danger to democracy even though its principles violate the Constitution. The ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court came after years of deliberation and at a time of soul-searching in the country, where another right-wing party, Alternative for Germany, is poised to win representation in Parliament in national elections this year. Although the National Democratic Party “pursues aims contrary to the Constitution,” there was a lack of “concrete supporting evidence” that the neo-Nazi party would be able to successfully achieve its goals and to pose a genuine threat, said Andreas Vosskuhle, the president of the court. “That a party has aims that run contrary to the Constitution is not sufficient grounds for banning a party,” he said. Labels: Country: Germany , Perpetrators: Courts UK: SOAS students 'scared to wear the star of David and speak Hebrew’ Via Evening Standard: A proudly-progressive stance is part of SOAS’s draw. Russell Brand and political activists are among its current student body, alongside more typical students (one on SOAS steps was debating the merits of cigarettes versus spliffs when I visited), while Jemima Khan received her MA there in 2003. The school is diverse: its 5,900 students hail from 133 countries, and it likes to celebrate this diversity. But according to Avrahum Sanger, president of SOAS’s Jewish Society (JSoc), there is a minority that doesn’t feel able to express itself. He believes there is an anti-Semitic sickness in the heart of Bloomsbury. “Some students tell me they are too scared to wear the star of David, or speak Hebrew, and Israeli students don’t want to attend Jewish events because they’re afraid of being singled out,” he tells me. “Even I feel uneasy when I go into the student union. And yet someone from the student union...” — he wouldn’t be drawn on who — “...told me that the anti-racism officers didn’t have a mandate to address anti-Semitism as it wasn’t in their manifesto. Anyway, the only form of anti-Semitism people think of here is Hitler.” Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Perpetrators: Academics , Perpetrators: Left wing ▼ January ( 101 ) EU Parliament President concerned over Europe's sh... France: Socialist primary winner had backing of pr... 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__label__wiki	0.722789	0.722789	Playlist: A Happy Hanukkah Hanukkah is Dec. 24, 2016 - Jan. 1, 2017. Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel... Check out our Holiday Music Specials and Christmas Editors' Picks as well. For more pieces about Jewish history and culture, take a look at our Jewish History Editors' Picks. Below are picks chosen by PRX editorial staff. You can find other options for Hannukah by using our search. Hanukkah: A Great Miracle Happened There From RadioArt(r) \| 58:10 A conversation between Rabbi Ismar Schorsch and Host Larry Josephson about the history, rituals and meaning of Hanukkah--and its importance in our time. (Revised 2013) RadioArt(r) "A Great Miracle Happened There: A Hanukkah Special," is a conversation between Rabbi Ismar Schorsch and Host Larry Josephson about the history, rituals and meaning of Hanukkah--and its importance in our time. Cantors David Lefkowitz and Elisheva Dienstfrey sing the music of Hanukkah. Rabbi Ismar Schorsch explains that Hanukkah is really about a Jewish civil war, a war between assimilated, Hellenized Jews and a pious band of zealots, the Maccabees. The well-known "miracle of the oil," occurs at the end of the story--after the Temple has been retaken by the Maccabees, and rededicated and cleansed. Rabbi Schorsch also talks about Hanukkah as "the Jewish Christmas." Dr. Ismar Schorsch is Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. Larry Josephson is a veteran public radio host and interviewer, whose programs have been heard in New York, and nationwide for over 35 years. Glorious music of Hanukkah is sung by Cantor David Lefkowitz of The Park Avenue Synagogue in New York, and by Cantor Elisheva Dienstfrey, now of Congregation Agudas Achim in Alexandria, Virginia. Both are graduates of the Seminary. Additional music from "Voice of the Turtle" and the Zamir Chorale of Boston. Revised, 2014. Hanukkah: A Great Miracle Happened There \| 58:10 <script id='prx-p5059-embed' src='http://api.prx.org/p/5059/embed.js?size=full'></script> Two Holidays and a Blizzard 'The Blizzard', a mystery thriller by David Ives, features Jesse Eisenberg as a snowed-in screenwriter facing unexpected guests. Ryan brings his new girlfriend home to celebrate the holiday in 'The Miracle of Chanukah.' And in our third short play, 'Christmas Breaks', a girl and a guy exchange some unexpected Christmas gifts. Lively group interviews follow each. Three short plays. The Blizzard, a chilly thriller, features Jesse Eisenberg as a snowed-in screenwriter facing unexpected guests. In The Miracle of Chanukah, a holiday guest’s personal miracle throws a family for a loop. In Christmas Breaks, a young man surprises his girlfriend with some curve ball gifts. The Blizzard is written by David Ives (Venus in Fur), directed by John Rando (Tony) with Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), Alfredo Narciso, Heidi Schreck and Sarah Sokolovic ("Homeland"). Miracle of Chanukah is by Sheri Wilner and features Zach Appelman, Peter Friedman, Judy Gold (Emmy), Marcia Jean Kurtz, Lisa Joyce. Christmas Breaks is by Patrick Gabridge and features Zach Appelman, Steven Boyer (Hand to God, "The Trail"), and Halley Feiffer ("Bored to Death"). Interview with David Ives, John Rando and The Blizzard cast; Sheri Wilner and The Miracle of Chanukah cast and the cast of Christmas Breaks. Two Holidays and a Blizzard \| 53:00 <script id='prx-p89210-embed' src='http://api.prx.org/p/89210/embed.js?size=full'></script> The Kabbalah of Chanukah From Russ Jennings \| Part of the Days of Wonder series \| 55:54 Mystical tales & teachings & Jewish sacred music from around the world. The Kabbalah of Chanukah: An Inspirational Program for the Festival of Lights A jazz-virtuoso cantor and a kabbalistic psychotherapist bring their respective talents together, to provide new inspiration for Chanukah! Weaving a tapestry of tales and teachings from the Kabbalah together with sacred music from around the world, this dynamic duo reveals some of the hidden treasures of this ancient spiritual tradition. This program is being offered for Chanukah programming in 2006. (Chanukah is from after nightfall on 12/15, ending at nightfall of 12/23.) The Kabbalah of Chanukah \| 55:54 Yiddish Radio Project Holiday Special, Hour One From Sound Portraits \| 58:59 Two self-contained hours of special programming based on the acclaimed ten-part ATC series, with a Web site filled with photos, features, background, and sound at YiddishRadioProject.org. View Hour Two here. Sound Portraits Two self-contained hours of special programming based on the acclaimed ten-part ATC series, with a Web site filled with photos, features, background, and sound at YiddishRadioProject.org Yiddish Radio Project Holiday Special, Hour One \| 58:59 Portraits of Faith From Aaron Henkin \| 49:27 Nine people of nine different faiths and philosophies attempt to answer a deceptively simple question: What does it mean to you to believe? Aaron Henkin This is a one-hour, talk-clock-formatted documentary special that might make a nice addition to your program schedule if you're looking for some holiday programming or just wanting something contemplative to put on your airwaves. Here in Baltimore, my friend Jason and I set out on a simple mission: We criss-crossed our city and met with nine people of nine different faiths. We asked them each a set of identical questions about what it means for them to 'believe.' We talked with an Orthodox Muslim, a Buddhist monk, a Christian minister, a Jewish cantor, an atheist, a Quaker, a United Methodist / Episcopalian, a Catholic, and a Keetowah Cherokee. They all spoke eloquently about how their beliefs give them strength and comfort, and also about how those beliefs can sometimes give way to doubt when tested. We ended up with nearly nine hours of audio, and when we finally whittled it down and cut it together into this radio special, we realized there's a pretty incredible amount of common ground beneath the religious differences that often seem to divide us. If you're interested in licensing this special, I'd be happy to custom-tailor a promo for you and help you out with whatever else you might need. Just click the 'contact me' button and send me an email. Portraits of Faith \| 49:27 An Open Gate From Claire Schoen \| Part of the ILLUMINATIONS: Jewish Culture in the Light of the World series \| 59:01 What happens to the children when Jews and Christians marry? An Open Gate looks at this question with humor and sensitivity. Jews and Christians speak about growing up within their faith and how intermarriage has redefined their perspective. Interfaith couples grapple with the challenge of celebrating holidays as a family as they attempt to instill a sense of religion, community and holiday spirit. This program also digs deep into the historical underpinnings of these two religions, exploring Jewish fears of Christian anti-Semitism and Christian desires to share Jesus' love with people they care about. Claire Schoen "An Open Gate" is an hour-long audio documentary exploring the repercussions of a Jewish/Christian intermarriage on faith, identity and the family. Claire Schoen and Helen Stolzfus - CoProducers. A Traveling Jewish Theatre - Executive Producer What happens to the children when Jews and Christians marry? "An Open Gate" explores this question with humor and sensitivity. Jews and Christians speak about growing up within their faith and how intermarriage has redefined their perspective. Interfaith couples grapple with the challenge of celebrating holidays as a family as they attempt to instill a sense of religion, community and holiday spirit. This program also digs deep into the historical underpinnings of these two religions, exploring Jewish fears of Christian anti-Semitism and Christian desires to share Jesus' love with people they care about. As couples in this program struggle with these questions, they shed light on the broader issues we all face in trying to preserve our own culture while becoming part of the global village. (Each of the 3 shows in this series can be broadcast as stand-alone programs.) An Open Gate \| 59:01 Happy ChallaDAY! From Camino Real Productions, LLC \| 53:39 Happy ChallaDAY! An original musical comedy for Hanukkah. Book, music and lyrics by Charles Moster. Camino Real Productions, LLC Inspired by the rather odd fact that the most famous Christmas song ever written, “White Christmas,” was composed by Irving Berlin, a Jew, Charles Moster has composed this light-hearted spoof parodying the old Bing Crosby/Danny Kaye movie “White Christmas.” General Waverlystein, retires from the Israeli army and opens a B&B on the Red Sea. Two of his old army entertainment corps buddies, now big stars known as the Sinai Schlamazels, join forces with the Schwartz Sisters to save his business by putting on a big holiday show. Happy ChallaDAY! \| 53:39 La Nona Kanta ("The Grandmother Sings") From Julie Subrin \| 14:22 Profile of Flory Jagoda, an 83-year-old Sephardic folk singer from Sarajevo. Julie Subrin Flory Jagoda grew up in a family of singers. Her childhood, in a mountain village outside of Sarajevo, was filled with songs, sung in Ladino - the language passed down by Jews expelled from Spain during the Inquisition - that told of the loves, lives and rituals of her community. With the horror of World War II, all that changed. She and her parents were the only survivors of the 42-member Altaras family. Since then, Jagoda, winner of a 2002 NEA National Heritage fellowship, has dedicated her professional life to composing, performing and teaching songs that preserve her memories of that lost life. Her songs, sung in Ladino, echo the Spanish and Bosnian melodies and rhythms of her past. This piece combines Jagoda's stories - told unflinchingly, and with humor and warmth - with music from her 4 recorded CDs. "La Nona Kanta" could air anytime, but might be especially appropriate during Hanukkah, as Jagoda is perhaps best known for what has now become something of a Hanukkah standard, her original composition, "Ocho Kandelikas." This piece was recorded and produced in 2007. La Nona Kanta ("The Grandmother Sings") \| 14:22 Schnartzenholler It's not Christmas. It's not Hanukkah. It's Schnartzenholler! When Emily Pearlman was a child her Jewish father and Christian mother created their own unique holiday celebration. Schnartzenholler It's not Christmas. It's not Hannukah. It's Schnartzenholler! When Emily Pearlman was a child her Jewish father and Christian mother created their own unique holiday celebration to bridge the gap and give the family something to celebrate together. As Emily and her brother grew up Schnartzenholler lost its appeal. Now, as adults, can the family revive and reinvent it? by Emily Pearlman Producer: Steve Wadhams Outfront Opening and Closing Theme available - (see Timing and Cues section for more details) SEE ADDITIONAL LICENSE TERMS Schnartzenholler \| 13:20 Chanukah with Byron From Terin Mayer \| 08:54 Celebrating Chanukah in a dingy dorm lounge with an unlikely companion. Terin Mayer Emma Cohen finds herself working on campus during the winter holidays, living in a dingy little room in your quintessential college dorm. For a practicing, but non-beliving Jew, Chanukah is a particularly important holiday for Emma. Its about tradition and ritual. But this winter, she doesn't go home. Instead, and by complete coincidence, she spends the festival of lights with Byron White. He's a big personality on campus, the kind of guy who's friends with everybody, but that nobody really knows. This is the story of their dorm-lounge Chanukah, and how they got to know each other. Every night, after the candles were lit, there was nothing to do but talk. Chanukah with Byron \| 08:54 Like Hanukah Oil, Endangered Ladino Language Endures Among Jews From Rhonda J. Miller \| Part of the Ladino: The Endangered Language of the Spanish Jews series \| 04:56 As Jews around the world prepare to celebrate Hanukah, some in Boston are singing in Ladino, a language UNESCO rates as "severely endangered" in its 2009 Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Ladino has been traveling with the Jews since they were expelled from Spain in 1492. Like Hanukah Oil, Endangered Ladino Language ... Rhonda J. Miller The endangered Ladino language, also called Judeo-Spanish, is a language without a country. Ladino has been traveling with the Jews since they were expelled from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492. It has been kept alive in pockets of culture around the world, including Israel and Turkey, and some places in the U.S., such as New York, Florida and Seattle, Washington. Some universities in Israel have established programs on Sephardic culture and the Ladino language, but in the United States, the longest-running - and many say the only consistent - Ladino instruction at a university is by Professor Gloria Ascher at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, near Boston. Ascher is Co-Chair of the Judaic Studies program at Tufts and initiated Ladino classes 10 years ago. Some students, professors and people from the community have studied up to four semesters of Ladino. Besides Ascher, others find Ladino calling to them. Vocalist Julia Madeson has performed many styles of music, and now performs Ladino with area musicians, some of them students at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she is Coordinator of the Guitar Department. As Hanukah approachs and Jews prepare to commemorate the miracle of oil supposed to burn for one day -but lasting eight days - the singing of Ladino songs is also a reminder of the endurance of Jewish culture, despite the Jews' often forced scattering around the globe. Like Hanukah Oil, Endangered Ladino Language ... \| 04:56 Ladino Hanukah Songs Shed Light on Endangered Language of Jews As the candles of Hanukkah connect Jews around the world, holiday songs in Ladino shine a light on a language UNESCO rates as “severely endangered.” An increasing number of musicians in many countries are singing in this Judeo-Spanish language, which means it is no longer just your grandmother's Ladino. Ladino Hanukah Songs Shed Light on Endangered ... As the candles of Hanukah connect Jews around the world, holiday songs in Ladino shine a light on a language UNESCO rates as “severely endangered.” A growing number of musicians are discovering Ladino, also called Judeo-Spanish, a language in danger of dying, along with its elderly speakers. With musicians in the United States, Latin America and Israel singing, and even writing, songs in this Judeo-Spanish language, it is no longer just your grandmother’s Ladino. Ladino has become part of the soundscape of the Jewish musical revival and a recognized element of world music. Ladino Hanukah Songs Shed Light on Endangered ... \| 04:24 The Stories of Hanukkah From Eric Molinsky \| 04:58 Hanukkah can be seen as a holiday about assimilation. Eric Molinsky Hanukkah has become the pinnacle of assimilation for American Jews. Dreidels and Menorahs hang in holiday displays alongside Christmas trees and wreaths. But the real history of Hanukkah is sometimes forgotten. The ancient war that Hanukkah celebrates was very much a civil war between religious and secular Jews. A former Orthodox Jew explains (while cooking latkes) how this 2,000 year old struggle over assimilation has affected her life. The Stories of Hanukkah \| 04:58	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line19
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KBCW (CW) CBS 5 Eyewitness News on the CW 44 : KBCW : December 4, 2012 10:00pm-10:30pm PST by KBCW rafael, and almost over to richmond. from san francisco south, you are mainly dry. north of the golden gate, some showers, and a few of them have made it into downtown san francisco. the financial district, cloudy with a few light showers. is this not going to be the steady soaking rain we had a couple days ago. concord cloudy 57. oakland 53, san jose 51, livermore 50. san francisco 54. here's the setup, another system in the atmosphere heading toward northern california but farther to the north than the last one. high pressure is nudging the storm track farther away from us. so it's a near miss, and the atmosphere isn't as energized as it was over the past several days. you're getting rain, you're not getting flooding. high pressure will give us sunshine over the next several days. it'll abe chilly pattern, but it will be a drier weather pattern. showers north now, we all get them tomorrow. it'll be a wet morning commute, wet evening commute, and done with the wet for a while. several straight dry days beginning on thursday. your forecast for tomorrow, a couple degrees above average. san jose on target for early december. showers around pleasant hill, rafael, and almost over to richmond. from san francisco south, you are mainly dry. north of the golden gate, some showers, and a few of them have made it into downtown san francisco. the financial district, cloudy with a few light showers. is this not going to be the steady soaking rain we had a couple days ago. concord cloudy 57. oakland 53, san jose 51, livermore 50. san francisco 54. here's the setup, another system in the atmosphere heading toward northern california but farther to the... CBS 5 Eyewitness News on the CW 44 : KBCW : November 30, 2012 10:00pm-10:30pm PST half inches for black hawk. san francisco at the airport. two inches of rain downtown. and 5.71-inch of rain in saint helena. a loft rainfall fell and there's a lot more to come. the flood watch expiration has change and the rain will get out of here earlier than first thought. details on both of those in a few minutes. >> well more than a half foot of rain fell in one of the hardest hit areas the santa cruz mountains. the river in the south bay that many are watching closely. >> reporter: the san lorenzo river is rushing fast. in fact, carroll hendrix says it appears to be rising more dramatically than she's seen in years. only a day and a half ago it was so dry here you could walk across the bottom at this spot near downtown boulder creek. >> if it keeps raining it's probably going to go over the dam. the rain keeps falling in the mountains so do trees and electrical wires. highway nine was blocked in several places. including this tangled mess for much of the morning. we found folks who decided the take matters in their own hands. >> i don't know a tree fell down. >> what did you half inches for black hawk. san francisco at the airport. two inches of rain downtown. and 5.71-inch of rain in saint helena. a loft rainfall fell and there's a lot more to come. the flood watch expiration has change and the rain will get out of here earlier than first thought. details on both of those in a few minutes. >> well more than a half foot of rain fell in one of the hardest hit areas the santa cruz mountains. the river in the south bay that many are watching closely. >>... CBS 5 Eyewitness News on the CW 44 : KBCW : December 17, 2012 10:00pm-10:30pm PST downtown san francisco. linda yee is at the mall with more on what happened tonight. linda? >> reporter: well ken, it was a scare when somebody saw sparks flying on the roof, they called the fire department. while the alarm sounded, fire trucks set up aerial ladders just in case rescues were necessary. well, it turned out it was just a small grease fire inside the slew of one of the restaurants. students at san francisco state extended classrooms on the top floor were told to leave, but they did it voluntarily. they decided to shut down the theater. and now at these times, that made for some very tense moments. >> because of the alarm, i said oh, i hope there's no gunman coming here to shoot up. because that's what happens in america, you know? >> reporter: well as the movie goers left the theater, it turns out that the stores were still open and shoppers were still shopping. i talked to some fire commanders at the scene saying no evacuations were ever ordered. it was all voluntary and no one was ever in any danger, ken? >> don't try to stop them when they are shopping, rig downtown san francisco. linda yee is at the mall with more on what happened tonight. linda? >> reporter: well ken, it was a scare when somebody saw sparks flying on the roof, they called the fire department. while the alarm sounded, fire trucks set up aerial ladders just in case rescues were necessary. well, it turned out it was just a small grease fire inside the slew of one of the restaurants. students at san francisco state extended classrooms on the top floor were told to leave, but... shopping spree. the 4-12 year-olds were set loose in san francisco's flagship old navy store, each with a $100 gift card. personnel shoppers were on hand to pick out the right clothing and accessories. >> we really and truly believe in the community in downtown san francisco. we've been working with glide for nine years. >> they do amazing things. today's event is one of the many glide foundation arrangements for the community during the holidays. ect, gets well deserved notice... oh, you have a keurig vue brewer? 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>> who is that kid? that was dana king upon her arre in 1997, reading a little story about a new stadium for the 49ers. how little things have changed, right? this is dana's last night with us before she moves on to a new chapter in her life. she's going to become a professional truck driver. >> [ laughter ] >> coming up at 11:00 on channel 5 we'll look back at dana's career in journalism, where she's been, off the chilly m. how about downtown san francisco, 61 degrees tomorrow. couple of degrees milder on sunday. mid to upper 60s. monday and tuesday stay drive. e got a chance of showers. notice the temperature drop. that's a guarantee. it's going to get chilly by thie next year. that's your cbs 5 forecast. >> thanks, paul. >>> coming up after the break, a fond farewell to someone we're going to miss around here. we'll be right back. step away from the news fora >> to say the... ABC7 News 1100AM : KGO : December 5, 2012 11:00am-11:30am PST means scattered light showers. we'll tell you how long. >>> commuters in downtown san francisco were ready for the rain this morning. a lot of people left with rain gear. sea of umbrellas on market street during the morning rush. they will need them again on their way home. >> chp advising drivers to watch out for flooding on the roads in marin county it has been raining off and on since 6:00 last night this is highway 101 near sir francis drake boulevard in cortamadera where drivers hit big puddles during the morning commute. >>> top priority is keeping storm drains clear. that is happening in oakland on hegenberger road and 880 where crews are building the new bart connector. water was already backing up, pumps have been set up to prevent flooding. a lot of trees drop pelled this morning. crews are trying to remove a big tree that crashed on to a home in san francisco, narrowly missing a couple. eric thomas engines us from that scene. >> you can hear the chainsaws behind me from the arborists who have been here an hour cutting branches and clearing the tree from this lovely home at means scattered light showers. we'll tell you how long. >>> commuters in downtown san francisco were ready for the rain this morning. a lot of people left with rain gear. sea of umbrellas on market street during the morning rush. they will need them again on their way home. >> chp advising drivers to watch out for flooding on the roads in marin county it has been raining off and on since 6:00 last night this is highway 101 near sir francis drake boulevard in cortamadera where... ABC7 News 500AM : KGO : December 7, 2012 5:00am-6:00am PST to near 60 downtown san francisco, over the golden gate 59 in san rafael, a lot of 50s north bay near 60 fog going to slow warming for you. upper 50s to low 60s the rest of the east bay valleys, low to mid 60s monterey bay and inland. tonight 30s inland and 40s, 40s stretch into the bay, 50 san francisco. the weekend temperatures are same tomorrow, mid to upper 60s sunday mid 60s to near 70 monday and tuesday, inside slider will bring more rain to the central valley and sierra wednesday and thursday and cools our temperatures into the 50s. >>> early trip into san francisco this friday morning you are in good luck live shot of the rich -- i'm sorry bay bridge toll plaza light no issues coming into san francisco on the upper deck, problem-free to the san mateo bridge headlights westbound towards the highrise up and over towards foster city boulevard and san mateo traffic at the limit, both directions on the san mateo bridge good ride and fog-free. eastbound 80 at central off-ramp clear in the richmond area, earlier accident. the only working accident chp is reporting now westbound to near 60 downtown san francisco, over the golden gate 59 in san rafael, a lot of 50s north bay near 60 fog going to slow warming for you. upper 50s to low 60s the rest of the east bay valleys, low to mid 60s monterey bay and inland. tonight 30s inland and 40s, 40s stretch into the bay, 50 san francisco. the weekend temperatures are same tomorrow, mid to upper 60s sunday mid 60s to near 70 monday and tuesday, inside slider will bring more rain to the central valley and sierra wednesday and... certainly wet out there downtown. we have a light shower passing through san francisco, also in into the east bay. a look at live doppler 7 hd. you can follow with the blue on your screen here. a little shower activity moving over the bay bridge. also through oakland, alameda, highway 13. down through an leandro. also to the north up through he will sir receipt toe, and a heavier shower here. and all these showers very light. i think they will be more concentrated this morning and a better break this afternoon. los gatos, and highway 101, some shower activity. we will get into the little break but a flash flood watch remains in effect through tomorrow night for the north bay. san francisco, the peninsula, santa cruz mountains and monterey bay. we are expecting several inches of rain in addition to what we received with the last and final system coming through late tonight into tomorrow with gusty winds. katie. >> pretty dramatic stuff. thank you, lisa. new this morning north korea said it will try again to launch a long range rocket, one capable of reaching northern california. they said certainly wet out there downtown. we have a light shower passing through san francisco, also in into the east bay. a look at live doppler 7 hd. you can follow with the blue on your screen here. a little shower activity moving over the bay bridge. also through oakland, alameda, highway 13. down through an leandro. also to the north up through he will sir receipt toe, and a heavier shower here. and all these showers very light. i think they will be more concentrated this morning and a better... ABC7 News 1100PM Repeat : KGO : December 10, 2012 2:00am-3:00am PST downtown san francisco. low 60s and sunny in the north bay. those northerly winds, northeasterly winds will warm you up to 68 in santa rosa, nava dough and head out -- novato and 66 in oakland and 64 concord and 65 livermore. around the monterey bay, temperature of 67 in monterey. here is your accu-weather forecast. chance of rain late tuesday into wednesday. wednesday is a real wet day. a cooler pattern and mid50s by wednesday. we will keep it cool. i will be honest with you. not that i am not normally, between friday and sunday, ama, the computer models are iffy. there is a chance of showers and maybe not. we'll pinpoint it as we get closer. right now we are doing drizzle and a chance of showers. >> thank you, sandhya. >>> a group of mothers collected food and toys. the firefighters delivered bags of toys. an organization called moms against poverty plans to give the items away as part of the helping hand project. they helped wrap toys. the grown-ups did their part by assembling food baskets. all of the families volunteered to brighten the holiday for others. we will tell you more ab downtown san francisco. low 60s and sunny in the north bay. those northerly winds, northeasterly winds will warm you up to 68 in santa rosa, nava dough and head out -- novato and 66 in oakland and 64 concord and 65 livermore. around the monterey bay, temperature of 67 in monterey. here is your accu-weather forecast. chance of rain late tuesday into wednesday. wednesday is a real wet day. a cooler pattern and mid50s by wednesday. we will keep it cool. i will be honest with you. not that i am... ABC News Good Morning America : KGO : December 5, 2012 7:00am-9:00am PST there as well. >> we'll check in >>> embarcadero here in downtown san francisco light rain falling now moderate rain has moved on. doppler 7 hd you can see it near the altamont pass towards tracy heading through the south bay towards morgan hill and gilroy one shower off the coast in pacifica, that will head towards sfo. the rain is weak . showers during the afternoon hours. >>> stay ♪ ♪ and it's 24 days 3 30,049 days ♪ >>> one of the best christmas movies ever. now, a hot broadway musical. "a christmas story" the musical. we're going to hear from that entire cast this morning. >>> and all this morning, george, "gma" holidays. our special rocking the holidays. we're showing the viewers' wackiest holiday cards. i think we have the ugliest sweater contest. >> i've seen this movie and it doesn't end well. and one family is putting their special stamp on the holidays with this card. take a look. the johnsons' family card started out like most. until -- >> one year, i just decided to put santa hats and red sweatshirts on the family. and things just kind of snowballed. >> reporter: there as well. >> we'll check in >>> embarcadero here in downtown san francisco light rain falling now moderate rain has moved on. doppler 7 hd you can see it near the altamont pass towards tracy heading through the south bay towards morgan hill and gilroy one shower off the coast in pacifica, that will head towards sfo. the rain is weak . showers during the afternoon hours. >>> stay ♪ ♪ and it's 24 days 3 30,049 days ♪ >>> one of the best christmas... ABC7 News 600PM : KGO : December 9, 2012 6:00pm-6:30pm PST francisco. caltrain has stopped service in both directions when a train rammed a car half hour ago. everybody inside the car government out safely about the collision. the caltrain was headed northbound into downtown san francisco when then incident happened. >> the union city woman convicted of killing nursing student michelle le is scheduled for sentencing tomorrow. state law requires her to spend a minimum of 25 years in prison after an al immediate a county jury convicted her of first degree murder in october. properties say she killed ln a jealous rage. >> two recent oakland homicide vices are being railroad. 16-year-old bobby sartane and 16-year-old racquel were shot and killed thanksgiving weekend. there -- police are still investigating the case. >> a house fire in hayward was quickly extinguished this morning. it took crews an hour to put out the fire. a family that lived there had recently moved out. there's no indication the five-was suspicious. >> falling off the fiscal cliff and what it could mean for your money and what you eat. >> and gearing up for the biggest day of the year. what's ahead if you're expecting a package this week. >> i'm meteorologist sandy patel. to record high tempera francisco. caltrain has stopped service in both directions when a train rammed a car half hour ago. everybody inside the car government out safely about the collision. the caltrain was headed northbound into downtown san francisco when then incident happened. >> the union city woman convicted of killing nursing student michelle le is scheduled for sentencing tomorrow. state law requires her to spend a minimum of 25 years in prison after an al immediate a county jury convicted her of... ABC7 News 400PM : KGO : December 14, 2012 4:00pm-5:00pm PST commute. s directions. at the skyway in downtown san francisco, leftx,wjm to right heading towards bay bridge, and also, very, very slow heading southbound if you're heading towards the peninsula. stay with us, more still >>> we intraeking news. you can see accident scene right here, three killed in an auto accident this, is in san mateo county. we're told redwood city on northbound 280. and boy, you can see two vehicles mangled tlchl the chp says one driver was changing a tire in the center divide. they were struck by a car. as you can see, you've got emergency personnel on the scene trying to get this sorted out. traffic restricted to one lane in that direction z we'll continue to monitor the story and will bring details as they become available to us. here on abc 7 news. you can see traffic backed up this is going to take a while to clear awi. >> police closed a terminal after a man was shot this afternoon. >> pleel plees tell us it happened just before 1:00. sky 7 was over the scene. tosd out of a sedan and shot the a guard gave the victim first aid. the victim taken to marin c commute. s directions. at the skyway in downtown san francisco, leftx,wjm to right heading towards bay bridge, and also, very, very slow heading southbound if you're heading towards the peninsula. stay with us, more still >>> we intraeking news. you can see accident scene right here, three killed in an auto accident this, is in san mateo county. we're told redwood city on northbound 280. and boy, you can see two vehicles mangled tlchl the chp says one driver was changing a tire in the... bay bridge or as we look at the ferry building from downtown san francisco wind blowing out of the west keeping dense fog from forming. also what is pushing the moisture into the atmosphere and why we have mist in the air. most of us will have a dry commute this morning. mist is a little thicker and when you are driving through the clouds above 900 feet you may get slickness on the roads. no organized areas of wet weather this morning. mid to upper 50s, mild this morning, same temperatures around the monterey bay and inland. fog and clouds through noon today then breaks develop during the afternoon partly cloudy by the end of the afternoon more fog and cooler conditions tonight mild and dry weekend on the way. today 60 in san francisco, richmond, vallejo, 61 san rafael. oakland, san jose and livermore 62°. 61 at half moon bay. 63° morgan hill. kickoff 5:20 partly cloudy, 56° by 9:00, three and a half hours to get the game in it will drop to 50. tonight temperatures keep falling into the 40s in most areas thickest fog actually fog in the central -- thickest fog will be the tule f bay bridge or as we look at the ferry building from downtown san francisco wind blowing out of the west keeping dense fog from forming. also what is pushing the moisture into the atmosphere and why we have mist in the air. most of us will have a dry commute this morning. mist is a little thicker and when you are driving through the clouds above 900 feet you may get slickness on the roads. no organized areas of wet weather this morning. mid to upper 50s, mild this morning, same temperatures... ABC7 News 800AM : KGO : December 15, 2012 8:00am-9:00am PST of our percent of normal. 143% of normal in downtown san francisco. 122% of normal in san jose. this first system, very weak. we'll call it windy and with this anemic looking front we won't see much in the way of rainfall throughout the weekend. best estimates will be in the north bay. here we are at noontime. you will notice the rain from san francisco to san rafael. with those cold temperatures, snow should be coming down in spots around lake county. not a lot of moisture associated with this system. as i pushes through the bay area, by 2:00 in the afternoon, that should do it. then we'll break out into scattered showers right through sunday morning. take a look. we're looking at mainly dry conditions throughout the afternoon until the next system heads through tomorrow night. trace through the south bay to tenth in the east bay. look at these temperatures. just mid and upper 40s for the lake county, 52 in watsonville. san francisco coming in at 52. only at 53. you'll notice a few showers tomorrow morning. monday morning's commuted looks wet. just a chance on tuesday. wednesday loo of our percent of normal. 143% of normal in downtown san francisco. 122% of normal in san jose. this first system, very weak. we'll call it windy and with this anemic looking front we won't see much in the way of rainfall throughout the weekend. best estimates will be in the north bay. here we are at noontime. you will notice the rain from san francisco to san rafael. with those cold temperatures, snow should be coming down in spots around lake county. not a lot of moisture associated with... san francisco they're worse in chicago. starting january 1 will cost $6.50 an hour to park in the downtown meters. rates have doubled since 2008 that. puts chicago ahead of san francisco, i guess that is good news. and the most-expensive place to park in the country. parking in manhattan, $5 an hour, los angeles, $4. boston charging just $1 and a quarter. >> expensive to park in chicago and really cold. >> coming up next what is behind the decline in cancer screening in the united states? >> plus, look at that guy kick. he's kicking with great precision. a team asked him to tryout. >> and i'm sandhya patel. a live look from our sturo camera looking towards mount diablo there. it's going to be cold tonight. bundle up. i'll show when you live doppler 7 hd will be tracking a storm. >> outside we go. golden gate bridge looking sticky getting into san francisco. not so bad heading into marin. stay with us. abc 7 news >>> a viral video did more than just make a norwegian man famous but got him a tryout with the nfl this, is he kicking the ball with amazing accuracy and the video has been seen a million san francisco they're worse in chicago. starting january 1 will cost $6.50 an hour to park in the downtown meters. rates have doubled since 2008 that. puts chicago ahead of san francisco, i guess that is good news. and the most-expensive place to park in the country. parking in manhattan, $5 an hour, los angeles, $4. boston charging just $1 and a quarter. >> expensive to park in chicago and really cold. >> coming up next what is behind the decline in cancer screening in the united... families. >>> finding a parking spot in downtown san mateo can be easier if you download a new app. the company spent years developing this sensor detects whether a space is empty. san francisco started installing them two years ago, now san mateo and san carlos have partnered with cisco to roll them out with a free mobile app, it acts like raider guiding you to the block with the most open spots. >> you can take parking time from 20 minutes to five minutes, you are going to dramatically reduce the number of cars on the streets itch >> it is much cheaper to -- efficiently manage your parking inventory than building new facilities. >> they have other big plans, soon they hope to build smart radar directly into cars and navigation systems. >>> you're familiar with parking -- >> yeah i would like them to work on where the best deals are next. >> i'm sure would you. weather is free and here it is >>> more free rain even though it is too much of a good thing. this is our fourth system, berkeley this morning, sacramento and ward streets, you can see it is coming down at a moderate clip there make sure you have the wet weather gear there. might be good to work from home hopefully you have c families. >>> finding a parking spot in downtown san mateo can be easier if you download a new app. the company spent years developing this sensor detects whether a space is empty. san francisco started installing them two years ago, now san mateo and san carlos have partnered with cisco to roll them out with a free mobile app, it acts like raider guiding you to the block with the most open spots. >> you can take parking time from 20 minutes to five minutes, you are going to... sundays will free up parking spaces for his customers. >> there are a lot of people that take you downtown. system so motorists will be able to park for up to four hours and free pay. a nod to the many san francisco churches surrounded by parking meters. but with sundays no longer sacred in terms after voiding tickets, head of the interfaith counsel worries about impact. >> this policy is january 6th which is epiphany day for the church. i believe the great epiphany is going to be seeing warnings or tickets on cars. >> warningsy4úthe first month, citations after that. those tickets are expensive. $62 most places in san francisco. live in san francisco, abc 7 news. >> good things come to an end. >> the shift to smart phones a . and bad guys now exploiting some of the features as well. david louie explains kinds of attacks to expect. >> viruses and worms are called mal ware. 55,000 are released daley. almost one per second. they've attacked networks and pcs there. is a constant fear they can bring down the power grid. the new target is a mobile devi.s bad guys can tap into your bank account sundays will free up parking spaces for his customers. >> there are a lot of people that take you downtown. system so motorists will be able to park for up to four hours and free pay. a nod to the many san francisco churches surrounded by parking meters. but with sundays no longer sacred in terms after voiding tickets, head of the interfaith counsel worries about impact. >> this policy is january 6th which is epiphany day for the church. i believe the great epiphany is going to be... citations come. those parking tickets are expensive. sixty-two dollars most places in san francisco, $72 downtown. >>> coming up next, we've all heard there's an app for just about everything, but now there's an app for being cute on video. we are going to explain. and here is a live look from -- at san jose. no rain to speak of. francis will be along with your forecast in just a few minutes. >> welcome back, it's 6:42 on this sunday morning. this is a look from the ferry building. a beautiful day. it will be a bit chilly around the bay area, but of a several forecast. francis will be along withv the official forecast coming up. thanks for joining us this morning. >>> former president george h.w. >>> former president george h.w. bush's condition continues to improve this morning. according to a family spokesperson.+çt he's been moved out of intensive care and is now recovering in a regular hospital room.athathath >>> these days, you know, there's an app for pretty much everything from calling a cab to >> francis and i are both pretty happy about the end to the rain for a while. but i had asked you earli citations come. those parking tickets are expensive. sixty-two dollars most places in san francisco, $72 downtown. >>> coming up next, we've all heard there's an app for just about everything, but now there's an app for being cute on video. we are going to explain. and here is a live look from -- at san jose. no rain to speak of. francis will be along with your forecast in just a few minutes. >> welcome back, it's 6:42 on this sunday morning. this is a look from the ferry... ABC News Good Morning America : KGO : December 17, 2012 7:00am-9:00am PST trail, power lines. >> thank you very much. >>> welcome back, check out downtown san francisco, light rain and in fact let's take a look at live doppler 7-hd. radar returns everywhere. whether it's drizzle and everybody is getting wet. it's coming from the west and around about noon. scattered showers and watch out for ♪ >>> looking at just one of the living memorials that has sprung up all over this shattered town. teddy bears for the lost children at sandy hook elementary. the town has come together through the weekend after that shattering loss on friday. we're here at the newtown methodist church. i'm here with josh, amy, and lara. we're joined by elizabeth in new york. >>> the first responders are trained to be heroes. they're speaking out this morning about what they saw on the scene. and their heartache at not being able to do more even as they saved children's lives. >> and there are so many questions this morning about the shooter, adam lanza and his family. were there warning signs that were missed when it came to adam lanza? could this violence have been prevented? we'll trail, power lines. >> thank you very much. >>> welcome back, check out downtown san francisco, light rain and in fact let's take a look at live doppler 7-hd. radar returns everywhere. whether it's drizzle and everybody is getting wet. it's coming from the west and around about noon. scattered showers and watch out for ♪ >>> looking at just one of the living memorials that has sprung up all over this shattered town. teddy bears for the lost children at sandy hook... . >>> next, manhole cover explodes in downtown san francisco. what officials say cause the fire. >>> president obama cuts his holiday vacation short. why he's leaving hawaii tonight. >>> first, here's this morning's tech bites. >>> less than a merry christmas for netflix the service went dark for many customers christmas eve for more than 10 hours,. for the first time sales are falling for e-readers like kindle and nook. replaced by tablets which are cheaper and lighter with longer lasting batteries. >>> you may be thinking this morning about returning a gift bought online. if you are mailing it back make sure you have packaging retailer has a store near you, you might be in luck. >> if you got something bought online you can return it to a brick and mortar store if they have a store. best buy, you#nóqp can return io best . >> that isn't always true, check the rules carefully. those are your tech >>> live look in high-definition towards the embarcadero. you may encounter showers. [ inaudible ] >>> the san francisco woman accused of a fatal hit-and-run faces felony charges in co . >>> next, manhole cover explodes in downtown san francisco. what officials say cause the fire. >>> president obama cuts his holiday vacation short. why he's leaving hawaii tonight. >>> first, here's this morning's tech bites. >>> less than a merry christmas for netflix the service went dark for many customers christmas eve for more than 10 hours,. for the first time sales are falling for e-readers like kindle and nook. replaced by tablets which are cheaper... 6361 to 63 on the peninsula upper 50s coast near 60 downtown san francisco north bay upper 50s to near 60 will stretch to beaches upper 50s hercules and richmond low 60s the rest of the east bay shore upper 50s highway 4 corridor thick fog there this morning low 60s elsewhere low to mid 60s monterey bay as you head inland tonight 30s inland valleys most neighborhoods in the 40s san francisco could be the exception at 51. storm track stays north, mid 60s to near 70 sunday, monday to lesser extent tuesday east wednesday, thursday, will bring temperatures down more than a chance of rain. >>> fog reported in novato and right here this is just south of there lucas valley road area smith ranch road traffic flowing nicely no fog southbound on 101 no delays to the golden gate bridge. san mateo bridge fog-free traffic at the limit past clawiter to the toll flat expect of the span up to the high wise no delays towards foster city and san mateo hit-and-run cleared out of lanes no delays there. you can see westbound commute out of the central valley starting to bunch up. southbound 680 south missi 6361 to 63 on the peninsula upper 50s coast near 60 downtown san francisco north bay upper 50s to near 60 will stretch to beaches upper 50s hercules and richmond low 60s the rest of the east bay shore upper 50s highway 4 corridor thick fog there this morning low 60s elsewhere low to mid 60s monterey bay as you head inland tonight 30s inland valleys most neighborhoods in the 40s san francisco could be the exception at 51. storm track stays north, mid 60s to near 70 sunday, monday to lesser... ABC7 News 1100PM : KGO : December 9, 2012 11:00pm-12:00am PST city, san mateo. 65 in that half moon bay. clear skies in downtown san francisco. low 60s and sunny in the north bay. those northerly winds, northeasterly winds will warm you up to 68 in santa rosa, nava dough and head out -- novato and 66 in oakland and 64 concord and 65 livermore. around the monterey bay, temperature of 67 in monterey. here is your accu-weather forecast. chance of rain late tuesday into wednesday. wednesday is a real wet day. a cooler pattern and mid50s by wednesday. we will keep it cool. i will be honest with you. not that i am not normally, between friday and sunday, ama, the computer models are iffy. there is a chance of showers and maybe not. we'll pinpoint it as we get closer. right now we are doing drizzle and a chance of showers. >> thank you, sandhya. >>> a group of mothers collected food and toys. the firefighters delivered bags of toys. an organization called moms against poverty plans to give the items away as part of the helping hand project. they helped wrap toys. the grown-ups did their part by assembling food baskets. all of the families volunteered to city, san mateo. 65 in that half moon bay. clear skies in downtown san francisco. low 60s and sunny in the north bay. those northerly winds, northeasterly winds will warm you up to 68 in santa rosa, nava dough and head out -- novato and 66 in oakland and 64 concord and 65 livermore. around the monterey bay, temperature of 67 in monterey. here is your accu-weather forecast. chance of rain late tuesday into wednesday. wednesday is a real wet day. a cooler pattern and mid50s by wednesday. we will... ABC World News Now : KGO : December 28, 2012 1:40am-4:00am PST the dubious distinction away from san francisco. congratulations. chicago outsourced its parking meters to a private company and many drivers question that question now. >>> now to some surveillance video from houston. trust me, when you see this, you're going to want these bad guys put away for a long time. the gang of thieves ripped off a daycare center. three or four young men were captured on surveillance camera. there's one right there. going in, they shattered the glass door, then stole six tvs and several game consoles. that ain't all. and one thief took the time to hop on a tiny tricycle and ride it around the yard of the building. >> it's a total lack of respect. unfortunately, i think that's the mentality these days. >> the owner says he's hoping everyone involved in the burglary will be spending next christmas in jail. to that, i'm sure we all say amen. amen. >>> air travel is starting to get back to normal after that deadly winter storm tapered off. but the cleanup job goes on for parts of the northeast, just pounded by the drenching downpours and record snow. abc's j the dubious distinction away from san francisco. congratulations. chicago outsourced its parking meters to a private company and many drivers question that question now. >>> now to some surveillance video from houston. trust me, when you see this, you're going to want these bad guys put away for a long time. the gang of thieves ripped off a daycare center. three or four young men were captured on surveillance camera. there's one right there. going in, they shattered the glass door,... This Week With George Stephanopoulos : KGO : December 9, 2012 8:00am-9:00am PST . here we go. you can see all the sunshine downtown san francisco at 49 degrees. i'll tell you how warm it will get when the abc7 news at nine starts in ABC7 News 1100PM : KGO : December 7, 2012 11:00pm-11:35pm PST . sunset district, downtown san francisco 61. these high clouds are harmless. it is going to be beautiful in the north bay. 61 in san rafael. the sunsets were thanks to the high clouds. they are made up of ice crystals and they are giving us a lot of colors. 63 in oakland and the east bay and fremont. inland community 62 fairfield and 61 dublin. 61 in monterey and 60 for caramel. if you are head together 49ers game this sunday at the stick, 1:05 and 60 degrees and they are hosting the miami dolphins. 4:05 and 62 degrees. we are looking at mostly sunny and mild weather and looking beautiful for that. the accu-weather seven-day forecast looks great, mild conditions monday. a little cooler on tuesday. much cooler and thunder showers showers -- much cooler cooler and showers on wednesday. lisa argen will be here at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning with any updates, carolyn and dan. >> thanks. >>> this little girl wants just one thing for christmas. >> the tall order this santa was able to fill right there on the spot. stay >>> a snowfall captured the crowd's attention as the festivities g . sunset district, downtown san francisco 61. these high clouds are harmless. it is going to be beautiful in the north bay. 61 in san rafael. the sunsets were thanks to the high clouds. they are made up of ice crystals and they are giving us a lot of colors. 63 in oakland and the east bay and fremont. inland community 62 fairfield and 61 dublin. 61 in monterey and 60 for caramel. if you are head together 49ers game this sunday at the stick, 1:05 and 60 degrees and they are hosting the miami... ABC7 News 900AM : KGO : December 9, 2012 9:00am-10:00am PST in san francisco, 63 today. elsewhere around the bay it should be pretty nice out there. you can see the winds blowing from mount tam, so higher elevations experiencing wind gusts from 30 miles an hour all the way up to 60 miles an hour. so if you are up in the hills for a bike ride, you will notice those gusty winds. at the surface lighter northeast winds, allowing for the warmup to take place today and tomorrow with 64 concord, 65 san jose and even 60s on our coast. so the central coast also there enjoy very mild conditions. you can call it beach weather. it will stay with us tomorrow. by tuesday cooler conditions. and we will look for a wind shift. this allows the next system to rapidly sink south with rain and cooler temperatures wednesday. showers thursday. drying out friday. maybe more rain next weekend. >> i like the look of that. thank you, lisa. that is going to do it for us. thank you for tuning in for the abc7 sunday morning news. i'm carolyn tyler, along with leagues arrange. abc7 news continues at 5:00 this evening. you asked for it, now the abc7 news exclusive alarm clo in san francisco, 63 today. elsewhere around the bay it should be pretty nice out there. you can see the winds blowing from mount tam, so higher elevations experiencing wind gusts from 30 miles an hour all the way up to 60 miles an hour. so if you are up in the hills for a bike ride, you will notice those gusty winds. at the surface lighter northeast winds, allowing for the warmup to take place today and tomorrow with 64 concord, 65 san jose and even 60s on our coast. so the central coast also... one degree. downtown oakland with 70 degrees. san jose, 67. up to 67 in half moon bay. san francisco, 66 degrees and a nice day down in upper napa area. 71 today. here are your current temperatures. still mild. 68 in oakland. 63 in san francisco. we have 66 degrees in san rafael. here are the highlights. clear and cold in the valleys tonight. sunny and mild weather on monday and rain returns tuesday night, into wednesday. so you'll need your rain gear again. tonight, bundle up. at it going to be cold under clear skies. the only patch of fog i could fine was way out east of the east bay valleys. could see it, although it is not going to be widespread. 46 in antioch, morning, chilly in fairfield. 37 in napa. 39 in santa rosa. notice low 40s around fremont, palo alto, san jose, 45. when you head out tomorrow morning, make sure you have a jacket or coat and your little ones are bundle eled up. here's the satellite and the radar. high pressure controlling the weather. this provided us with the nice mild to warm pattern. above average temperatures expected again for your monday with lots o one degree. downtown oakland with 70 degrees. san jose, 67. up to 67 in half moon bay. san francisco, 66 degrees and a nice day down in upper napa area. 71 today. here are your current temperatures. still mild. 68 in oakland. 63 in san francisco. we have 66 degrees in san rafael. here are the highlights. clear and cold in the valleys tonight. sunny and mild weather on monday and rain returns tuesday night, into wednesday. so you'll need your rain gear again. tonight, bundle up. at it going to... degrees. it was 68 in santa rosa, napa. san francisco, 65. san jose, 68. this is changing. you'll be seeing changes, not yet. we do have our own radar this, is going to be busy in upcoming days. temperatures now in the 50s and 60s are falling and we're in for another cool night. here is the forecast. rain tomorrow night. going into wednesday. snowcz possible about 3500 feet, locally over the peaks. it's going to be cold, frosty thursday and friday morning. here ais a high company providing us a nice mild day. it's changing at the cold system will bring cold rain, drop snow levels. this begins tuesday night so you'll notice where the rain s we'll see rain spreading by 11 p.m. wide spread rain. then, heading into wee hours of the morning could see snow just around the mountains surrounding clear lake north of yu kaia. 5:00 p.m. wednesday, commute does not look good. widely scattered showers and rain continues 7:00 a.m. showers we begin to get a break here. showers continuing at 9:00 a.m. shifting south. light to moderate rain once again. a couple showers, 5:00 p.m. wednesday could see degrees. it was 68 in santa rosa, napa. san francisco, 65. san jose, 68. this is changing. you'll be seeing changes, not yet. we do have our own radar this, is going to be busy in upcoming days. temperatures now in the 50s and 60s are falling and we're in for another cool night. here is the forecast. rain tomorrow night. going into wednesday. snowcz possible about 3500 feet, locally over the peaks. it's going to be cold, frosty thursday and friday morning. here ais a high company providing us... ABC7 News 1100PM Repeat : KGO : December 8, 2012 1:05am-1:40am PST peninsula and 62 in alto. alto. sunset district, downtown san francisco 61. these high clouds are harmless. it is going to bel in the north bay. 61 in san rafael. the sunsets were thanks to thee. they are made up of ice crystals and they are giving us a lot of colors. 63 in oakland and the east bay and fremont. inland community 62 fairfield and 61 dublin. 61 in monterey and 60 for caramel. if you are head together 49ers game this sunday at the stick, 1:05 and 60 degrees and they are hosting the miami dolphins. 4:05 and 62 degrees. we are looking at mostly sunny and mild weather and looking beautiful beautiful for that. the accu-weather seven-day forecast looks great, mild conditions monday. a little cooler on tuesday. much cooler and thunder showers showers -- much cooler cooler and showers on wednesday. lisa argen will be here at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning with any updates, carolyn and dan. >> thanks. >>> this little girl wants just one thing for christmas. >> the tall order this santa was able to fill right there on the spot. stay >>> a snowfall captured the crowd's attention as the fest peninsula and 62 in alto. alto. sunset district, downtown san francisco 61. these high clouds are harmless. it is going to bel in the north bay. 61 in san rafael. the sunsets were thanks to thee. they are made up of ice crystals and they are giving us a lot of colors. 63 in oakland and the east bay and fremont. inland community 62 fairfield and 61 dublin. 61 in monterey and 60 for caramel. if you are head together 49ers game this sunday at the stick, 1:05 and 60 degrees and they are hosting... 65°, 63 daly city downtown and south san francisco north bay beaches low to mid 60s mid to upper 60s valleys, 68 santa rosa. 62 richmond, warm up to 66 oakland. east bay valleys from 60 brentwood to 66 in danville around the monterey bay mid to upper 60s same inland. tonight a few 30s inland everybody in the 40s, significantly cooler tomorrow morning. couple areas of high pressure dominating eastern pacific and western part of the united states, with that offshore flow, temperatures above average today. as we look up to the north this is where our next system is in the gulf of alaska bringing cooler weather vigorous jet stream that's why the sis -- the system is speeding up. the storm is coming in three hours faster through midnight wednesday, the rain there, 2:00 heavier in south bay, noon the rain is gone and just a few showers possible wednesday afternoon. quarter to half inch outside south bay. 50s but dry thursday through sunday. >>> cantilever section of the bay bridge this morning, a van center lane, still light behind the toll no metering lights expect minor delays once you r 65°, 63 daly city downtown and south san francisco north bay beaches low to mid 60s mid to upper 60s valleys, 68 santa rosa. 62 richmond, warm up to 66 oakland. east bay valleys from 60 brentwood to 66 in danville around the monterey bay mid to upper 60s same inland. tonight a few 30s inland everybody in the 40s, significantly cooler tomorrow morning. couple areas of high pressure dominating eastern pacific and western part of the united states, with that offshore flow, temperatures above... jose. 64 los gatos. beautiful day. high clouds, half moon bay, 60 degrees. 61 in downtown san francisco. 61 in san rafael. 63, oakland. and much like today, inland, 62 in danville. wispy clouds. 60s in carmel. 63 in morgan hill, here is a look at the accu-weather forecast. and i hope you like what you see. a little bit milder than saturday. mid to upper 60s same range mob. a great way to start off the week. cooler tuesday, looking at accu-weather forecast, notice the chance of showers sharp drop in the temperatures mid to upper 60s. cooler pattern continues on thursday. then, by friday, we're bringing in a chance of rain late on friday. so as mentioned earlier we're two weeks from winter and sure isn't going feel like it. we hit the weekend so get your shopping done if you haven't done it yet. go out and enjoy. i'm sandhya pat yes. back to you. >> thank you very much. >> all right. finney's friday free stuff up next how to send out a greeting and raise money for your favorite charity. >> and at 6:00 michael finney coming to the aid of a bay area couple forced to tick a tour of itally withou jose. 64 los gatos. beautiful day. high clouds, half moon bay, 60 degrees. 61 in downtown san francisco. 61 in san rafael. 63, oakland. and much like today, inland, 62 in danville. wispy clouds. 60s in carmel. 63 in morgan hill, here is a look at the accu-weather forecast. and i hope you like what you see. a little bit milder than saturday. mid to upper 60s same range mob. a great way to start off the week. cooler tuesday, looking at accu-weather forecast, notice the chance of showers sharp... side downtown san francisco 60 degrees. sunset district 59 and you get up into the north bay temperatures will be about average. 61 in santa rosa. sonoma. head out to the east bay and it's nice day. oakland hayward newark low 60's. narrow range of temperatures in the inland east bay. brentwood 57. 61 in livermore and around the monterey bay. 63 in santa cruz. 65 for new salinas. accu-weather 7 day forecast morning fog giving way to sun again on saturday. milder day sunday and monday. check out monday near 70 degrees around the basement almost winter and going to be mild. chance of showers on wednesday accu-weather 7 day forecast much cooler weather. 4:30 to 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning jaws couple hours from now carolyn and dan watching the fog for you. >> after this last week we deserve this. >> we do. we need the dry out time. >> thank you very much. >> up next. building in anticipation for the new hobbit movie. >> called the hobbit the unexpected journey but some movie goers are guest an unexpected feeling in their stomach. we'll explain stay [ female announcer ] now get hig side downtown san francisco 60 degrees. sunset district 59 and you get up into the north bay temperatures will be about average. 61 in santa rosa. sonoma. head out to the east bay and it's nice day. oakland hayward newark low 60's. narrow range of temperatures in the inland east bay. brentwood 57. 61 in livermore and around the monterey bay. 63 in santa cruz. 65 for new salinas. accu-weather 7 day forecast morning fog giving way to sun again on saturday. milder day sunday and monday. check out... slarks low 60s. 61 san mateo. menlo park upper 50s to low 60s on the coast. downtown san francisco, 60s tomorrow, 59 in the sunset district. north bay highs mainly low 60s. east bay highs 62 in oakland. inland east bay, about 61, 62 in virtually every location there. low 0s and that will be the east sunny location around the bay area tomorrow, here is the accu-weather forecast. great weather for raiders game tomorrow. against broncos game carried here on abc 7. but we'll have clear conditions, sunny skies, for the next seven days. >> wow. >> and getting much milder starting over the weekend. >> unusual, thank you. >> we'll take it. >> thank you. >> desperately. >> just ahead, changing your viewing habits. >> a company efforts make it easier to get programs you want without being tied to >> there is a growing possibility the screen you're watching on is not a television. you're finding on your lap top can be frustrating. one company trying to do something about it. >> there is a big flat screen tv on the wall. on the coffee table, big game playing on this ipad. >> tv means any screen tha slarks low 60s. 61 san mateo. menlo park upper 50s to low 60s on the coast. downtown san francisco, 60s tomorrow, 59 in the sunset district. north bay highs mainly low 60s. east bay highs 62 in oakland. inland east bay, about 61, 62 in virtually every location there. low 0s and that will be the east sunny location around the bay area tomorrow, here is the accu-weather forecast. great weather for raiders game tomorrow. against broncos game carried here on abc 7. but we'll have clear conditions,... for a place to park. >> that is why they spent years detecting this little sensor. san francisco started installing this. now, san carlos partnered with the giants cisco to roll them out along with a flee free app called parker. it's not that people can't find working -- parking. >> parker acts like radar. guiding you to the plot with the most open spots. make sures say it can reduce traffic. >> making parking time to five minutes you're going to reduce the number of cars on the streets. >> officials think it's a good investment. >> it's cheaper to manage your existing parking inconvenient toreo in stalling one of the lights is simple as drilling a hole, dropping it n they're wireless like cell phones but you unlike cell phone battery life is in years. not hours. that is why cisco says this is just the beginning. they see cities becoming more liveable by putting smart sensors on pretty much every piece. >> this is all thing that's are connected. >> soon, building parker smart radar into cars and navigation system autos once getting to the destination you can't leave your car in t for a place to park. >> that is why they spent years detecting this little sensor. san francisco started installing this. now, san carlos partnered with the giants cisco to roll them out along with a flee free app called parker. it's not that people can't find working -- parking. >> parker acts like radar. guiding you to the plot with the most open spots. make sures say it can reduce traffic. >> making parking time to five minutes you're going to reduce the number of cars on... ABC7 News 1100AM : KGO : December 19, 2012 11:00am-11:30am PST . >> reporter: up in san francisco, also a bundle up kind of morning. the bundle upest one of the season for the folks downtown. in san jose these two men exiting a coffee shop neither ready for the weather after a workout. >> you run a little, workout, lift weights. >> reporter: you walk out no matter the temperature you are feeling ? >> until now >> reporter: you want me to -- stop this interview? >> yeah, that would be great. >> reporter: the only chance of a snow make making it now is if it is made out of cardboard atop a tree. mike is talking about real white stuff coming our way maybe not down here, but closer to us. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >>> south korea has elected its first female leader in more than 1,000 years. we'll hear from a bay area man with a close connection to the new president. >> reporter: people started lining up yesterday for a free bag of groceries. next, hear from humble volunteers and grateful recipients. >>> real or fake? the disturbing viral video that appears to show an eagle trying to fly off with an infant. >> oakland firefighters investigating an early morning fire that sent a . >> reporter: up in san francisco, also a bundle up kind of morning. the bundle upest one of the season for the folks downtown. in san jose these two men exiting a coffee shop neither ready for the weather after a workout. >> you run a little, workout, lift weights. >> reporter: you walk out no matter the temperature you are feeling ? >> until now >> reporter: you want me to -- stop this interview? >> yeah, that would be great. >> reporter: the only... everywhere else until you get to san francisco officially 41° downtown. monterey 39°. three hard hitting things i want to talk about sunny today, cool, almost as chilly tonight rain on the way thursday north bay, friday through sunday for the rest of us high pressure splitting systems steering this system north nowing going to keep it there for the better -- going to keep it there for the better part of the day. 5:00 tomorrow morning. hardly clouds almost as cold tomorrow morning. i think we'll see frost inland valleys, 5 p.m. clouds on the increase light rain in the north bay, steadier rain moving along i-80 by midnight, moderate rain north bay where it will be for the better part of the morning. starting to move towards san francisco and oakland by 5:00, all of us will have wet weather during the morning commute tomorrow with cold front moving through then more showery in nature noon into the afternoon, waves of light to moderate rain possible from friday to sunday. north bay if we had any floodinging that would be the area up to four -- inches up to inch and a half north bay v everywhere else until you get to san francisco officially 41° downtown. monterey 39°. three hard hitting things i want to talk about sunny today, cool, almost as chilly tonight rain on the way thursday north bay, friday through sunday for the rest of us high pressure splitting systems steering this system north nowing going to keep it there for the better -- going to keep it there for the better part of the day. 5:00 tomorrow morning. hardly clouds almost as cold tomorrow morning. i think... worker takes home. >>> good friday morning, here is a live look at downtown san francisco. what you can't see is how cold it is out there. downright frosty. coldest temperature mike has is 34 degrees. where is it? think about that. he will tell us in a moment. tell us about the light rain that may start hitting us soon and series of storms coming our way. >> eric: 5:14. >> walgreen's will pay a huge fine to settle a environmental lawsuit. they will pay $16.5 million after prosecutors said they illegally dumped biohazard us on waste into regular trash bins. they also dumped patients' records. all 34 stores were found to be in violation. settlement covers more than half in northern california. >> in vallejo they expect to see more officers out this weekend. they will be conducting special holiday patrols in the shopping centers and downtown area and officers will patrol on foot and on bike. their goal to make themselves more visible. >>> if you are like a lot of people you are looking for unique gift ideas. michael finney shows us where to find some at an affordable price. folks at shop sma worker takes home. >>> good friday morning, here is a live look at downtown san francisco. what you can't see is how cold it is out there. downright frosty. coldest temperature mike has is 34 degrees. where is it? think about that. he will tell us in a moment. tell us about the light rain that may start hitting us soon and series of storms coming our way. >> eric: 5:14. >> walgreen's will pay a huge fine to settle a environmental lawsuit. they will pay $16.5 million after... ready to track the number of species that call san francisco home. >>> going bowling -- preview of today's bowl games. >>> you are looking live from our rooftop camera buildings decorated for the holidays in downtown san francisco, rain showers, a break from that tomorrow. >>> looks so beautiful and peaceful now but it is raining and that is going to continue today. >> you get to focus on the fun stuff. it is raining now, san leandro heading towards hayward, getting close to the san mateo bridge now pulling away from south san francisco and airport heading towards burlingame, hillsborough,7-í pacifica on its way to san mateo as we speak. everybody getting wet weather except san diego and high deserts now, dry but that is also heading towards that area. 60s down there, most of us in the 50s until you get to chico, 49, sierra it is snowing now, you need chains up there. winter weather advisory for tahoe area two to four inches of snow above 4,000 feet, another four to seven inches above 7,000 feet. yes, you still need chain controls watch out for travel delays. here's sue. >>> we hope to have a live shot of truckee through the sierra we'll try to get that for you. chain requirements, there it is, snow ready to track the number of species that call san francisco home. >>> going bowling -- preview of today's bowl games. >>> you are looking live from our rooftop camera buildings decorated for the holidays in downtown san francisco, rain showers, a break from that tomorrow. >>> looks so beautiful and peaceful now but it is raining and that is going to continue today. >> you get to focus on the fun stuff. it is raining now, san leandro heading towards hayward,... north bay and sweep eastward. mount tam cam looking down to downtown san francisco. you can see the lights of the holiday season, decorating the embarcadero center. its beautiful christmas eve but it's about to get a little messy. here is a look at live doppler 7-hd. we are dry and rain free, but there is moisture offshore especially off the north coast where there is bigger mess. it's all moving in our direction and bring us rainfall and tomorrow evening. we are looking at temperatures in the low readings in the low 50s 45 degrees in napa and fairfield. 48 in half moon bay. you can see it's getting chilly in some spots and get colder overnight. it will be cloudy overnight and rainy and breezy christmas day. showers are like on wednesday and calm her and dry -- calmer and drier weather. north bay valleys, upper 30s in santa rosa and napa. 37 at livermore. low 40s right around bay. 46 will be lotto in san francisco. composite image shows the moisture moving into our region. this is frontal system that will bring us more rain. 7:00 tomorrow morning, at which point it will be cloudy bu north bay and sweep eastward. mount tam cam looking down to downtown san francisco. you can see the lights of the holiday season, decorating the embarcadero center. its beautiful christmas eve but it's about to get a little messy. here is a look at live doppler 7-hd. we are dry and rain free, but there is moisture offshore especially off the north coast where there is bigger mess. it's all moving in our direction and bring us rainfall and tomorrow evening. we are looking at temperatures in the... . downtown san francisco folsom at essex street police activity blocking ramp to lower deck at bay bridge eastbound, you want to use the bryant street access, whipple road on-ramp to northbound 880 car in a ditch toe track may be partially blocking on rap many -- this is basco road where we have an injury accident with a car into a ditch, slow traffic that yellow line indicating slowing, heavy traffic there download this app to maneuver free on the apple app store and google play. >>> 6:32. we are continuing to follow developing news from san francisco where an on-ramp to the bay bridge still closed after a car crashed into a fire hydrant. amy hollyfield joins us live from near the scene. >> reporter: look behind me, several workers trying to figure out now fix that broken scaffolding that is the problem. they are not opening this on-ramp until it is fixed. they are worried that the scaffolding could collapse further and land on a car. at least they are not dealing with this. check out this video of gushing water that created a problem here this was before 5:00 this morning. police . downtown san francisco folsom at essex street police activity blocking ramp to lower deck at bay bridge eastbound, you want to use the bryant street access, whipple road on-ramp to northbound 880 car in a ditch toe track may be partially blocking on rap many -- this is basco road where we have an injury accident with a car into a ditch, slow traffic that yellow line indicating slowing, heavy traffic there download this app to maneuver free on the apple app store and google play. >>>... ABC7 News 1100PM : KGO : December 7, 2012 12:00am-12:35am PST mixed in. 62 in palo alto. 61 san mateo o. upper 50's coast side downtown san francisco 60 degrees. sunset district 59 and you get up into the north bay temperatures will be about average. 61 in santa rosa. sonoma. head out to the east bay and it's nice day. oakland hayward newark low 60's. narrow range of temperatures in the inland east bay. brentwood 57. 61 in livermore and around the monterey bay. 63 in santa cruz. 65 for new salinas. accu-weather 7 day forecast morning fog giving way to sun again on saturday. milder day sunday and monday. check out monday near 70 degrees around the basement almost winter and going to be mild. chance of showers on wednesday accu-weather 7 day forecast much cooler weather. 4:30 to 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning jaws couple hours from now carolyn and dan watching the fog for you. >> after this last week we deserve this. >> we do. we need the dry out time. >> thank you very much. >> up next. building in anticipation for the new hobbit movie. >> called the hobbit the unexpected journey but some movie goers are guest an unexpected feeling in their stomac mixed in. 62 in palo alto. 61 san mateo o. upper 50's coast side downtown san francisco 60 degrees. sunset district 59 and you get up into the north bay temperatures will be about average. 61 in santa rosa. sonoma. head out to the east bay and it's nice day. oakland hayward newark low 60's. narrow range of temperatures in the inland east bay. brentwood 57. 61 in livermore and around the monterey bay. 63 in santa cruz. 65 for new salinas. accu-weather 7 day forecast morning fog giving way to... downtown san francisco. sunset district 59. about where you should be. north bay communities 61 in santa rosa. vallejo, 60 degrees, east bay, berkeley, 60. oakland, 62 with union city. inland communities, nice, sunny bright day. monterey bay 60s in monterey. tomorrow is the big day. the raiders will be taking on broncos tomorrow night. sun going down when that came your way. dropping to mid-50s at 8:30. abc 7 news will be carrying thatly. i'll be a part of it with weather forecast. here is a look at that weather forecast. accu-weather forecast, dry for football tomorrow. we're looking at sunny skies heading into weekend. temperatures coming up low to mid-60s for your weekend. still change expected monday. take a look at the sunshine tuesday, wednesday. mid-60s. really as of right now, we're looking at dry patterns to last for a while no. storms in sight. not when you look at compute mod wells. pretty much wash your cars. live from roof of the kgotv broadcast center i'm sandhya patel. >> you're never wrong. but day your hair is going get wet. >> it's fridays factor. can you tell? >> downtown san francisco. sunset district 59. about where you should be. north bay communities 61 in santa rosa. vallejo, 60 degrees, east bay, berkeley, 60. oakland, 62 with union city. inland communities, nice, sunny bright day. monterey bay 60s in monterey. tomorrow is the big day. the raiders will be taking on broncos tomorrow night. sun going down when that came your way. dropping to mid-50s at 8:30. abc 7 news will be carrying thatly. i'll be a part of it with weather forecast. here is a... more patrols in downtown san francisco, and in the east bay, bart is teeming wupt oakland police department to provide us supreme courts at the west oakland station. volunteers at the station will be there tomorrow from 4:00 to 8:00 to escort passengers parked within a three block radius of the station. and today's date, 12-12-12 is the kind of numerical sequence we won't find again for 89 years, people decided this is a day for something special. abc 7 news is in berk tli afternoon. he saw something very special. nick? >> i did. you know 12, 12 12rks. some people looking for luck to win money, others for love. but i saw a precious baby today born today, 12-12, 12. she's the light of her parents' eyes. >> the neatest thing she came out, her eyes were open. it's just unbelievable feeling to see her come out and looking around. >> meet adriana. their seven pound bundle of joy is the apple of dad's eye. the birth date makes it special. >> we knew it's a possibility but we didn't think koit come around noon time. it wasn't planned. >> december 12, 2012 represents love to some. >> i t more patrols in downtown san francisco, and in the east bay, bart is teeming wupt oakland police department to provide us supreme courts at the west oakland station. volunteers at the station will be there tomorrow from 4:00 to 8:00 to escort passengers parked within a three block radius of the station. and today's date, 12-12-12 is the kind of numerical sequence we won't find again for 89 years, people decided this is a day for something special. abc 7 news is in berk tli afternoon. he saw... downtown san francisco in the east bay teaming up with oakland police department to provide escorts at west oakland station many volunteers will be at that from 4 to 8 p.m. to escort passengers parked within three blocks. bart says patrols are intended to remind passengers to stay alert and aware of their belongings during this holiday season. >>> governor brown intends to keep up his daily routine as he undergoes treatment for prostate cancer. his doctors caught the disease in its early stages. >> reporter: governor brown is undergoing radio therapy for prostate cancer with his office describing the condition as a localized prostate cancer. >> sounds like he has early stage disease, likely confined to the prostate meaning it was picked up before it had a chance to spread. >> reporter: the doctor is the medical director of radiation oncology. he interpreted the statement released by brown's oncologist as meaning the governor will undergo conventional external radiation therapy. he says likely five days a week he will have to report to a radiation treatment facility many he would lio downtown san francisco in the east bay teaming up with oakland police department to provide escorts at west oakland station many volunteers will be at that from 4 to 8 p.m. to escort passengers parked within three blocks. bart says patrols are intended to remind passengers to stay alert and aware of their belongings during this holiday season. >>> governor brown intends to keep up his daily routine as he undergoes treatment for prostate cancer. his doctors caught the disease in its... shows downtown looking pretty good. as we take a look at the visibility, from san francisco on south, ten mile visibility, but elsewhere we are looking at a quarter mile visibility. santa rosa and napa a half file. be careful out there. we will see some of the fog drift to the south and east of the as you head out there are areas of dense fog this morning, otherwise that should lift by about 8:00 and we will be looking at temperatures warming up into the 60s today. low to mid-60s around the bay and a chilly evening. really looking at pleasant weather the next several days with our numbers warming a few degrees. katie. >> quite a difference a week makes. thank you, lisa. new this morning police in pleasant hill have arrested three teenagers following an explosion. abc7 news reporter is live. they have reason to believe the teenagers had plans for more destruction? >> absolutely, katie. good morning. authorities say worst case scenario, someone could have died if they had come into contact with the pipe bombs the kids had. take a look at this video we have. [explosion sound] [dogs bark shows downtown looking pretty good. as we take a look at the visibility, from san francisco on south, ten mile visibility, but elsewhere we are looking at a quarter mile visibility. santa rosa and napa a half file. be careful out there. we will see some of the fog drift to the south and east of the as you head out there are areas of dense fog this morning, otherwise that should lift by about 8:00 and we will be looking at temperatures warming up into the 60s today. low to mid-60s around the... hours. 5:47, beautiful picture of the breezes blowing through downtown san francisco, you can see how clear it is that's the way it is going to stay over the next 24 to 36 hours. live doppler 7 hd you can see how quiet it is out there clouds over the ocean, storms, i think that's where they are going to stay. mid to upper 30s north bay valleys. everybody else low to upper 40s, oakland 47, half moon bay 48. 45 mountain view and san jose 46 san francisco, 40 concord, 42 livermore now. monterey bay low to mid 40s santa cruz, gilroy and salinas, 38 watsonville, 50 monterey. today partly cloudy showers mainly over the ocean peacing cold everywhere except -- freezing cold everywhere except beaches tonight. freeze warning in the north bay valleys, stormy pattern starts thursday yesterday's cold front bringing rain to southern california high elevation snow, we are deep into the cold air right now we will stay there, not only today but tonight and tomorrow. that's why our coldest night is still ahead of us. here's thursday and friday's storm, farther back here's saturday and sunday says storm hours. 5:47, beautiful picture of the breezes blowing through downtown san francisco, you can see how clear it is that's the way it is going to stay over the next 24 to 36 hours. live doppler 7 hd you can see how quiet it is out there clouds over the ocean, storms, i think that's where they are going to stay. mid to upper 30s north bay valleys. everybody else low to upper 40s, oakland 47, half moon bay 48. 45 mountain view and san jose 46 san francisco, 40 concord, 42 livermore now. monterey... hasn't >>> good morning. it's 8:20, live in downtown san francisco and transamerica pyramid. gray, cloudy skies this morning but the rain has moved through. maybe you caught some of it earlier this morning, we would like to see your pictures so if you have cool shots of weather. send them to us at ureport at kogotv.com. rain passed through kind of quickly. every drop on means a lot. >> parts of east bay we barely got a tenth of an inch. we have a live shot east bay hills. sun rose around 7:00 this morning. look at this shot, we're looking south, notice the clouds moving from the east. we're also going to see breaks of sunshine even possibly a little precipitation kind of squeezing out some of the clouds, but the most part the rain is over for the bay area. ail show you what i mean for live doppler 7-hd which shows you why the clouds are moving to the east. it's counterclockwise, so the winds are coming from the east through the east bay and areas of green, disappearing. over the last few hours we are seeing less of it and confined to parts of south bay and monterey bay. here is th hasn't >>> good morning. it's 8:20, live in downtown san francisco and transamerica pyramid. gray, cloudy skies this morning but the rain has moved through. maybe you caught some of it earlier this morning, we would like to see your pictures so if you have cool shots of weather. send them to us at ureport at kogotv.com. rain passed through kind of quickly. every drop on means a lot. >> parts of east bay we barely got a tenth of an inch. we have a live shot east bay hills. sun... downtown san francisco where it was not lane falling from the sky but a manhole cover. jonathan bloom is live and third and mission streets to explain what happened. >> firefighters are still trying to figure out what happened after a manhole cover blew out of the ground about 45 minutes ago resulting in loud noises and very scared passerbys. it sounded like fire crackers going off. firefighters are investigating what is going on but assuming it's an electrical problem and now pg&e is on the scene. nobody was reported to be injured in the incident but it did result in traffic closures that were only minor since christmas is light traffic day. third street was closed in two blocks and mission was closed between second and fourth street. now, we see the first signs that mission street is being reopened as pg&e is on the scene and starting to investigate down inside that manhole. we just saw the smoke pouring out of manhole as they pulled it off. this live picture, they going down to figure out what went wrong, it may in fact be storm related. as firefighters continue to investigate, street downtown san francisco where it was not lane falling from the sky but a manhole cover. jonathan bloom is live and third and mission streets to explain what happened. >> firefighters are still trying to figure out what happened after a manhole cover blew out of the ground about 45 minutes ago resulting in loud noises and very scared passerbys. it sounded like fire crackers going off. firefighters are investigating what is going on but assuming it's an electrical problem and now pg&e... and spot, redwood city and san mateo 64, half moon bay 65, 63 daly city south san francisco and downtown san francisco. novato -- up to 66 in oakland. 62 newark and 60 brentwood, 62 -- mid to upper 60s around the monterey bay and inland, 30s and 40s tonight 30s inland 40s around the bay won't have offshore breeze tonight temperatures will be cooler two. areas of high pressure dominating bringing offshore wind, that's why it is going to be above average today. up to the north clouds there our next system by 10:00 tomorrow evening that line of steadier rain is moving through the for the bay by midnight moving through the heart of the bay 2 a.m. through the south bay and then lighter rain on the back side will hang around throughout morning commute, by noon, it will be scattered showers. quarter to half inch in most neighborhoods. mid 50s wednesday, mid to upper 50s by saturday and sunday for highs. >>> good morning. happy monday. new stall bay bridge incline section, metering lights just turned on. fastrak and carpool lanes are getting by with no delay backed up beyond the west grand overcross and spot, redwood city and san mateo 64, half moon bay 65, 63 daly city south san francisco and downtown san francisco. novato -- up to 66 in oakland. 62 newark and 60 brentwood, 62 -- mid to upper 60s around the monterey bay and inland, 30s and 40s tonight 30s inland 40s around the bay won't have offshore breeze tonight temperatures will be cooler two. areas of high pressure dominating bringing offshore wind, that's why it is going to be above average today. up to the north clouds there our...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line29
__label__cc	0.687754	0.312246	Tender is the Night A Romance Fitzgerald, F Scott Roth, Joseph - The Radetzky March - ( Item 126772 ) Published in London by Folio Society. 2014. First Thus. Fine Hardback. Sealed. No inscriptions or bookplates. Near Fine slipcase. Slight bump to the edge of one panel of slipcase. Introduced by William Boyd. Illustrated by Tim Laing. At once epic and intimate, this deeply compassionate portrait of a family and the empire they serve places its author alongside Tolstoy and Chekhov. Joseph Roth was born in East Galicia, now Western Ukraine, in 1894, to an Austrian Jewish family. The Radetzky March; his acknowledged masterpiece; was published in 1932, seven years before he died in impoverished exile in Paris. This edition uses the acclaimed translation by Michael Hofmann, which was largely responsible for the revival of this neglected classic. Tim Laing has created a series of photo-realist pencil drawings that celebrate the story's naturalism. In his introduction, novelist William Boyd praises this remarkable novel which, 'because of its deep, sympathetic, non-judgmental understanding of our flawed humanity, achieves greatness'. Bound in buckram, blocked with a design by Tim Laing. Set in Janson. 352 pages. Frontispiece and 8 colour illustrations. 9" x 6�". A disintegrating empire revealed through three vivid lives. From the Folio Society description.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line31
__label__cc	0.553253	0.446747	Our film for January is SINCE OTAR LEFT (in French, with English subtitles) 2003. Winner of the prestigious Critics’ Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Set in a crumbling Tbilisi, Georgia in 2003, it’s spoken half the time in Georgian/Russian & half the time in French with English subtitles. Julie Bertuccelli’s first feature is suffused with indelible humanist values and emotions. The touching story of three generations of Georgian women, the film is effectively made, superbly acted and, at its centre, has a matriarch much like the ones who appeared in John Ford films. Bertuccelli’s documentary experience shows in the way she lets us soak in people and places before a plot emerges to shape bitter truth and familial affections into serio-comic deception. It’s lovingly done, scenes of the women washing each other’s hair or massaging granny’s feet expressing their affections more readily than words, yet the film offers even more than warming humanity. With a light dusting of Arvo Pärt on the soundtrack, proceedings patiently build in emotional resonance until a final surprising and moving confrontation with the City of Light. Ninety-year-old Gorintin is the absolute star, touchingly wise yet friskily coquettish, in one of 2003’s hands-down loveliest films. AND IT HAS JOKES!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line45
__label__cc	0.649578	0.350422	SUZUKI RIDERS FIGHT HARD AT INDY SUPERCROSS The JGRMX/ Yoshimura/ Suzuki Factory Racing Team headed to Indianapolis, Indiana for round 11 of the 2019 Monster Energy Supercross AMA/ FIM World Supercross Championship and the sixth stop of the 250 Eastern Regional Supercross Series at the weekend. Despite a series of unfortunate events in the “Race Capital of the World,” the 250 and 450 teams all qualified strong and charged hard throughout the night. RM-Z250 rider Kyle Peters earned his best finish in the 250 main event after logging strong results in qualifying. Peters attacked the high-speed track with control and speed. After leading the pack for seven laps, he was passed but still managed to finish third in his heat. In the 250 main, he came through the first turn in fourth and held a top-five position for 13 laps, finishing in sixth place, which marked the best finish of his Supercross season. Teammate Alex Martin was hopeful to have a breakout performance in Indianapolis as the Suzuki RM-Z250 rider recorded the second-fastest lap in daytime qualifying and finished third in his 250 heat race. Although luck was not on A-Mart’s side in the main, he is never one to quit: After getting tangled with several riders in the first turn, he dug deep and moved up to ninth after being in last place for several laps. The gutsy ride helped Martin maintain his notable fourth place standing in the overall points. “I was super happy to qualify second in practice,” said Martin. “It was the most comfortable I felt before on a super rutted track. I had a great start in the main, but got sandwiched and fell in the first turn. It was damage control and bittersweet, because I had the speed and capabilities to be on the podium.” Two-time 450 Supercross Champion Chad Reed celebrated his 37th birthday over the weekend and looked to continue rewriting the history books. Racing his RM-Z450 in custom birthday graphics, Reed qualified ninth-fastest in the daytime sessions and fourth in his heat race. After a bad start in the 450 main, the Australian collided with another rider and fell. Reed charged his way up from the back of the pack to 11th when the chequered flag flew. Teammate Justin Hill was determined to ride the wave of confidence after earning a season-best the prior weekend in Daytona. The Suzuki RM-Z450 rider looked extremely comfortable in his first timed practice. Although he improved during the final session, Hill was bumped back to fifth in combined times. The 23-year-old finished eighth in his heat race and hovered around the top-10 during the early laps in the 450 main. While executing a tricky triple jump, Hill touched the back of another rider and crashed, finishing in a disappointing 14th place. “In the 450 class, Hill qualified well,” said Team Manager Jeremy Albrecht. “It was cool to see him do jumps that no one else was doing. Unfortunately, he came together with another rider in the main event and crashed.” The JGRMX/ Yoshimura/ Suzuki Factory Racing Team will travel to Centurylink Field in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday, March 23rd for the 12th round of the 2019 Monster Energy AMA/ FIM World Supercross Championship. This will also serve as the seventh round of the 250 West Regional Supercross series. Kyle Peters [250 Class, 6th Place]: “It was a good day. We are still progressing, and the speed is coming up. I’m able to run the lead pace for longer and getting more comfortable at that pace. I still have a few areas to work on with Buddy Antunez, mainly in the 90-degree turns. I always want to improve, and I felt that I could have finished fifth this weekend. Unfortunately, I was dealing with some stomach cramps at the end of the race. However, the team made it happen for me and I earned my best result of the season. That’s something to build on.” Alex Martin [250 Class, 9th Place]: “I was super-happy to qualify second in practice. It was the most comfortable I felt before on a super rutted track. It set me up for the first gate pick in my heat, which was nice. We made some changes with the clutch this past week, and I made really good progress with my starts. We finally figured some things out. I had a great start in the main, but got sandwiched and fell in the first turn. I picked up my bike and was dead last. It took two laps to even catch anyone. I was motoring and got up to ninth at the checkers. It was damage control and bittersweet, because I had the speed and capabilities to be on the podium. I’m bummed, but I’m also looking forward to this break to start testing for outdoors.” Chad Reed [450 Class, 11th Place]: “The goal was to put together a more complete weekend. I was competitive in qualifying practice and possibly rode my best main of the season. As a team we made great progress throughout the weekend. Unfortunately, I had a crash on the opening lap of the main event and I was charging back from 22nd place. Still, I was happy with my pace for the race. Starts are frustrating. I feel like a golfer going through a bad swing cycle. I was awesome all off-season with my starts, and now find myself frustrated with my starts. I will continue working on this area.” Justin Hill [450 Class, 14th Place]: “It was a really rough main event. I hit neutral off the start, followed by a big crash a few laps in. I’m upset with the result, but also really happy with the bike. I’m feeling good and ready for Seattle.” Jeremy Albrecht [Team Manager]: “The results in the main events don’t show how well the guys were riding throughout the day. Alex Martin figured out that he needed to do a triple after the mechanic’s area in the main event. He was going for the holeshot in the main event and fell in the first corner. He fought really hard to get up to ninth. Kyle Peters keeps improving every week. He almost won his heat race. He started using lines to block riders behind him instead of taking the faster lines. Kyle rode well in the main and got sixth. He still wants to be better, which is great to see. “In the 450 class, Justin Hill qualified well. He looked great during press day. It was cool to see him do jumps that no one else was doing. Unfortunately, he ended up hitting another rider in the main event and crashed. Chad Reed also went down in the main. It was just one of those nights that wasn’t kind to us. Still, it was great that we were able to surprise Chad for his birthday with custom graphics.”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line49
__label__cc	0.695278	0.304722	Nadia Nakai http://www.nadianakai.com Nadia Nakai is a South African born artist with Zimbabwean roots. She’s travelled and lived as far up Africa as Nairobi Kenya, this mix of culture is evident in her style and lyrics. She found her love for Hip Hop and Rap music at the sixteen and was inspired to start recording. Her talent on the microphone was undeniable, as she went on to feature in multiple DJ’s Mixtapes most notably 5fm’s DJ C-Live’s “Taste Makers Mixtape” series sponsored by Levi’s, alongside great South African Hip Hop artists such as Tumi & the Volume, AKA, Morale and Kwesta. You will also recognise Nadia Nakai from the Hiphop show called Battle Stations on SABC1 where she judged the MC’s segment. Having already appeared on ETV’s programme “Shiz Niz” and won their “Mixtape 101” Competition, she sees no limit to where her original style, passion and talent can take her. Nadia is the 1st lady of Sid Records Hip Hop and hopes to elevate the female Hip Hop scene to new levels with her playful yet forceful sounds. Her 1st single “Like Me” was officially released on the 3rd of September 2013 with a hot music video to support it. Her latest music video for her hot single “Whatever” can be found on Youtube. GiftOfLife Photographs Bragga Nadia Nakai Singles Yass Bitch Saka Wena Don't Cut It Naaa Meeaan	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line50
__label__wiki	0.649059	0.649059	Playing by the Informal Rules Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests Part of Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Author: Yao Li, Harvard University, Massachusetts Please email academicmarketing@cambridge.edu.au to enquire about an inspection copy of this book Growing protests in non-democratic countries are often seen as signals of regime decline. China, however, has remained stable amid surging protests. Playing by the Informal Rules highlights the importance of informal norms in structuring state-protester interactions, mitigating conflict, and explaining regime resilience. Drawing on a nationwide dataset of protest and multi-sited ethnographic research, this book presents a bird's-eye view of Chinese contentious politics and illustrates the uneven application of informal norms across regions, social groups, and time. Through examinations of protests and their distinct implications for regime stability, Li offers a novel theoretical framework suitable for monitoring the trajectory of political contention in China and beyond. Overall, this study sheds new light on political mobilization and authoritarian resilience and provides fresh perspectives on power, rules, legitimacy, and resistance in modern societies. Presents a new view of political mobilization and authoritarian resilience Provides a novel theoretical framework in which to monitor the trajectory of political contention in China and beyond Proposes fresh perspectives on power, rules, legitimacy, and resistance in modern societies 'Playing by the Informal Rules tackles the important question of why we see regime resilience amidst high frequency of protests in China. Yao Li argues the answer lies in the state's use of informal norms in managing contention. Using both quantitative and qualitative field research data, Yao Li has been able to examine the macro picture and micro dynamics of protest cases. This well-researched book speaks to a broad range of literature in authoritarian politics and social movement. It deserves to be widely read.' Lynette Ong, University of Toronto 'Carefully analyzing the interaction between protesters and officials in China, Yao Li gauges the impact of different kinds of protests on regime legitimacy. Differentiating between what she calls regime engaging and regime threatening protests, she shows that - despite tumultuous change and widespread protests - the Chinese regime has remained stable because most protests have stayed on the regime-engaging side of the continuum. Her innovative framework not only helps us better understand the dynamics of protest in China and the resiliency of the Chinese regime, but it also provides a template for investigating popular political contention in other authoritarian regimes.' Joel Andreas, The Johns Hopkins University 'Playing by the Informal Rules makes a compelling case that protest in contemporary China is not a sign of imminent democratization, but rather of authoritarian consolidation. Drawing on impressive original data, Yao Li shows that both protesters and the regime conform to two informal rules: self-censored resistance and informal tolerance. Most protests are regime-engaging, rather than regime-threatening; and the government, despite its vast repressive capacity, systematically under-enforces the law, tolerating such protest despite its illegality. The result is to channel discontent and facilitate bargaining - not unlike social movement in Western democracies. Playing by the Informal Rules makes an important contributing to our understanding of authoritarian durability in China, highlighting its informal institutional bases. In my view, the book is a model for how to study China as an authoritarian regime, per se, rather than a would-be democracy.' Steven Levitsky, Harvard University 'In a remarkably wide-ranging book that examines both regime-engaging and regime-threatening protest, Yao Li reveals how informal norms shape contention and the Chinese government's response to it. In her telling, it's the unwritten rules that determine which protesters engage in self-censorship and encounter tolerance and which act in unruly ways and are subject to unlawful repression. That most norms in today's China fall on the accommodating side of the ledger offers us a fresh, new perspective on why high levels of contention and regime durability may be more compatible than is often thought.' Kevin J. O'Brien, University of California, Berkeley 1. Introduction: rising protests and regime stability 2. Mapping the space for protest 3. Accommodating informal norms in regime-engaging protests 4. Unequal application of accommodating informal norms: inequality in protest space 5. Antagonistic informal norms in regime-threatening protests Appendix II Yao Li, Harvard University, Massachusetts Yao Li is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology at The Johns Hopkins University and was a Lecturer in the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas. She was named an Exemplary Diversity Scholar by the University of Michigan's National Center for Institutional Diversity in 2015. 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__label__cc	0.666751	0.333249	A year and a half ago, my patience ran out with those in this debate pretending to be earnest seekers of truth, but whose words and actions revealed them to be closed and biased. I published an extensive piece detailing the problems I saw in the Skeptic movement (which I really now see as just the Contrarian movement, as they don't seem to be skeptical of some assertions that someone from Missouri would demand proof of, but merely oppose anything our community says no matter how reasonable) and in "science writers" who act as mere functionaries of Pharma and their friends/sometime employees in public health. It was entitled: Chris Mooney, Sheril Kirshenbaum, Lori Kozlowski, Rosie Mestel, Thomas Maugh, David Gorski, Virginia Hughes, Science Journalists, The Dying of the LA Times and an Angry Autism Mom* It details my earnest attempts to get through to these skeptics/science journalists, and an effort to point out that they are shooting themselves in the foot with their actions, and that our children are collateral damage in their efforts. Long story short... they are some pretty myopic people and not open to self-evaluation, so their tactics continue to loose them the vaccine/autism wars. (*After I posted the piece, Dr. David "Orac" Gorski sent me a flattering email saying he had actually always respected me and asked me to remove the piece. When I declined, he let the insults fly again. So... not the most honest and straightforward guy. A few months later, we learned that Gorski has spent the last several years developing a drug for vaccine maker Sanofi, which he had some how forgotten to mention in his hundreds of posts about these issues, so I do feel a bit the sucker for approaching him as if he was actually a somewhat disinterested party in this debate. Had I known I would not have wasted so many hours trying to have a real discussion with him, but live and learn I guess.) I hope you will take the time to read it, especially if you are someone who believes the media on this issue and super especially if you are Matt Lauer, Anderson Coooper, George Stephanopolous or any other major news personality who has been handed a press release labeled "News" that was likely drafted in a Pharma conference room and told to get really angry at some guy named Andrew Wakefield. Pharma Co and their emissaries have launched an extended (and what appears to be a) last ditch effort to bury the vaccine/autism story since the beginning of the year. Two books on how vaccine safety advocates are both ignorant and a threat to society, and an attempt to once again make Andrew Wakefield a scape goat and sacrifice him at the alter of the vaccine program. And, of course, various and sundry supporting pieces hither and yon from the usual players. This is, of course, just more of the same transparent "killing the messenger" tactic that has been losing them the vaccine/autism wars for the last ten years. But since their only other choice is to admit there are problems in the vaccine program and address them, no doubt costing them billions of dollars and landing a few of them in jail, they have decided to die with their boots on while taking a few doctors, lots of parents and untold thousands of innocent children down with them. It is pretty clear that the vaccine bubble is now deflating, but they are pumping with all their might, influence and dollars to keep that thing inflated. They seem to be telling themselves... "there are just two big holes in this... Wakefield and McCarthy. If we can convince the public that Wakefield is a crook and use the "Nuts and Sluts" defense against McCarthy, we can plug them and our bubble can grow with no end in site!!" Yet they are astonished that bubble is still deflating. Because they have incorrectly diagnosed the bubble's aliments. The hundreds of thousands of pin holes in it. The epidemic of autism, add, asthma, diabetes, allergies, developmental disability and delay... and all those other neurological and autoimmune disorders running rampant in our children. And the millions of people who are seeing it happen to children they love... seeing how it points back to the vaccine program and other toxic injuries... coming to ask all those unanswered questions and discovering all those unsupportable safety claims.... and knowing that whether or not some doctor they never heard of in the UK is or is not a big fat liar, has nothing to do with their concerns. Nor do Jenny McCarthy's boobs. But still PharmaKorp trudges on in their ineffectiveness. But now they are working to enlist some high profile media types to adopt their attack dog tactics, and the little backfires that they have been experiencing in the vaccine safety debate circles are now becoming big backfires on a national level. Last year before Wakefield's book "Callous Disregard" came out, PharmaKorp launched an out of the blue attack on him, and Matt Lauer was awful to him on the Today show. Rather than having the intended result of finishing off Andrew Wakefield (because yanking his license four months earlier during his previous public execution had not quite done the job), the assault put Wakefield's book on the Amazon top ten list and Lauer's popularity took a hit. The autism and vaccine safety communities were angry at the unfairness of his interview, and the wider public saw the assault on Wakefield as unprofessional and their suspicions were raised (and they clicked on Amazon). The tongue in cheek "Land of the Lost" tribute facebook group called, "Matt Lauer Can Suck It" was even taken over by people upset with Lauer about the interview, who proceeded to tell Matt Lauer that he could actually "Suck It". Yet despite how badly these tactics bomb... over and over and over... THEY still just up the ante? Why? Now they have dragged Anderson Cooper and George Stephanopulos into it. I am curious as to how they pull this off. I assumed that after the Nancy Snydermand/Matt Lauer tiff where she got mad at him for insisting that vaccines were still contriversal, that she brought down heat on Lauer at NBC and he was told to put the screws to Wakefield. After all, Lauer's ex wife is the mother of a child with autism who believes that vaccines and gut issues are a factor, and it is rumored that Lauer and his current wife selectively vaccinated their own children. Add in NBC/GE ownership of large medical corporations and you can see how that happens. But what were the conversations that had to take place with Cooper and Stephanopulos to make them behave like jerks and go hard on Wakefield? Who is the person that talked to them to get them all hyped up? That kind of aggression and "combativeness", as Stephanopoulos admitted to engaging in, doesn't just come from no where. What were they told, and by who, that would make them stick their necks out this far on a story that they don't even follow? When Shephard Smith got pissed at the Bush administration for stranding thousands of people in a sinking New Orleans, he was not sticking his neck out or making assumptions or taking the word of someone in another country that people in need were being neglected to their detriment. He was standing in the middle of them, filming an abandoned dead body. He had all the facts and knew he had the high ground. Anger justified. But Lauer, Cooper and Stephanopoulos? They don't actually know jack. So how exactly were they tricked into making asses of themselves and losing the trust of some of their regular viewiers? And why? At this point, every journalist who actually has a career to care about (not talking about writers with no serious credentials like Trine Tsouderos or Seth Mnookin who are brought into to write hit pieces that elevate their profile) must know that the public is taking this issue very, very seriously. Even if they think that there is nothing to the vaccine/autism debate, don't they wonder why despite all the stories that they see coming across their desk declaring the debate over... that it only grows? Does the last guy to do it even take a look at the outcome of the previous guys to do it? Did Stephanopoulos even check reaction to Cooper's interview to see how badly it went over? And if so, did he care that his went over even worse? So the point of this whole piece that I am writing is to, once again, with feeling, declare to the Pharma stragetists and media heads out there who are attacking our community in order to defend their over-zealous, under tested and destructive vaccine program and its profits... IT DOESN'T WORK! It has never worked! It didn't work when you started it in the blogesphere, it didn't work in local news, it doesn't work in the national news. It didn't work when Skeptico did it. It didn't work when Orac did it. It didn't work when Chris Mooney did it. It didn't work when Sheril Kirshenbaum did it. It didn't work when Lori Kozlowski did it. It didn't work when Virginia Hughes did it. It didn't work when Thomas Maugh did it. It didn't work when Trine Tsouderos did it. It didn't work when Gardier Harris did it. It didn't work when Nancy Snyderman did it. It has never worked when Paul Offit does it, as his new book,"Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All," is currently #8,277 on Amazon's best seller list. And it is not working as Seth Mnookin is trying his hand at the same failing tactics that all his predecessors have failed with. His book kicking the vaccine safety community didn't break the #1000 mark and continues to slide. And you guys have been hyping the hell out of those two books! It didn't work when Lauer did it. It didn't work when Stephaholopoulos did it. It didn't even work when Cooper and his "national treasure" baby blues did it. Whose up next? What media name will Pharma Co. forward scouts turn to next to expose the vicious murders that are vaccine safety advocates and parents of sick and dying children? Or is the Old Stream Media taking note that doing Pharma Co's dirty work is only further hobbling their struggling industry by further eroding public trust in their reporting? Nah... probably not. And what is the next story? A few months from now when this media push falls flat, parents are purchasing even fewer vaccines and Andrew Wakefield is still booking speaking engagements and publising, will he fail to return home from work one evening only to be "discovered" three days later, unconscious in a Mexican hotel room filled with cocaine and under aged prostitutes, by a vacationing Brian Deer who is coincidently on holiday in Cancun? Exactly how far do they plan on trying to get this Wakefield story to stretch? Pharma Co, with all their in depth market strategery has to know that this tac is not working on the public and is only losing the public trust in vaccines. So have they just decided that the masses may be lost, but at least they can keep doctors and researchers from questioning the party line publicly by creating a hostile environment through the media crush? That is not working too well either, but I think that might be the last line that Pharma Co. is trying to hold in this war. Eventually docs get pissed at being told what to do and what to think, so we will see how long that one holds out. Pharma... Brian Deer (with your allusions to Wakefield's severed hand crawling across the floor)... the reason Wakefield won't die is that... please pay attention... that there are no real bullets in your gun. You guys are just flicking pebbles at him. The guy published a paper that says children with autism sometimes have serious GI issues and that sometimes they both come on after MMR. This is hard to discredit as it is also the active policy of the Federal Government of the United States of America. CDC tells their docs to screen for GI issues upon suspecting an autism diagnosis, because gastrointestinal distress IS associated with autism. HHS lists the symptoms of autism as a reaction to the MMR and DTaP vaccines on their web site, and they have paid many children for MMR induced autism. So you need to understand... if tomorrow you publish video of Andrew Wakefield robbing a 7-11 with an AK-47 and taking a crippled 8 year old girl as a hostage, while Jenny McCarthy drives the get away car... it is not going to solve your vaccine sales problem. Because the vaccine program is the problem. The people talking about the problems in the vaccine program are not the problem. Trying to shut them up or shut them down is not working. Jenny McCarthy and Andrew Wakefield did not kill Elias Tembenis. The DTaP vaccine did. Any route Pharma Co takes ends badly for them. The vaccine bubble is over. It is not bursting all at once, but as soon as SCOTUS renders their Bruesewitz decision, bubble starts deflating in earnest. Because either the law suits will start flying fast and furious, or the public will finally understand that if they have a vaccine injury, they are on their own. Happy pumping Pharma. Update: See... doesn't work. Bloomberg Businessweek: Nearly Half of Americans Still Suspect Vaccine-Autism Link 18% don't trust measles-mumps-rubella shot, and 30% are undecided, Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll finds By Amanda Gardner Just a slim majority of Americans -- 52 percent -- think vaccines don't cause autism, a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll found. Conversely, 18 percent are convinced that vaccines, like the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, can cause the disorder, and another 30 percent aren't sure. The poll was conducted last week, following news reports that said the lead researcher of a controversial 1998 study linking autism to the MMR vaccine had used fraudulent research to come to his conclusion. The poll also found that parents who have lingering doubts about the vaccine were less likely to say that their children were fully vaccinated (86 percent), compared to 98 percent of parents who believe in the safety of vaccines. Still, the percentage of fully vaccinated children remains high, at 92 percent, the poll found. "This sounds like a cup half-empty/cup half-full story," said Humphrey Taylor, chairman of The Harris Poll. He noted that while the number of people who believe in a connection between vaccines and autism is "only 18 percent," that nonetheless translates to "millions and millions and millions of people, and it's clear that in some cases that has led them to not vaccinate their children." Vaccine safety has been a major concern for many parents since the publication of the 1998 study, led by now disgraced British doctor Andrew Wakefield, which concluded that the MMR vaccine caused autism. The journal that originally published the study, The Lancet, has since retracted the paper and Wakefield was recently barred from practicing medicine in Britain. In recent weeks, another leading British medical journal, BMJ, has published a series of articles purporting to expose deliberate fraud by Wakefield in his handling of the research that served as the basis for the 1998 study. In the new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll, 69 percent of respondents said they had heard about the theory that some vaccinations can cause autism. But only half (47 percent) knew that the original Lancet study by Wakefield and other researchers had been retracted, and that some of that research is now alleged to be fraudulent. "Forty-seven percent is a huge number and this is a relatively new thing [allegations of fraud], so it's remarkable that they have heard of it. But that still means that half the population has not," Taylor said. Still, the retraction and allegations of fraud do seem to have influenced public perception. Among those who had been following the news about Wakefield, only 35 percent believed the vaccine-autism theory, compared to 65 percent who had not kept up to date on the latest developments. "There seems to be reasonable support for vaccination and I think this will increase with the revelation that a lot of this stuff was based on fraud or bad science," said Dr. Kenneth Bromberg, chairman of pediatrics and director of the Vaccine Research Center at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York City. Overall, 69 percent of adults polled agreed that schools should require vaccinations -- including, interestingly, 52 percent of those who believe that autism might be connected to vaccinations. Sixteen percent of all adults surveyed said they knew of at least one family whose children had not received all recommended vaccines due to concerns about autism. One-quarter of those who believed the vaccine-autism theory said they knew at least one family that had not fully vaccinated their children. Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, which supports more research into the safety of vaccinations, said autism is just one concern linked to vaccines. "Parents have legitimate questions about vaccine risks and want better vaccine science to define those risks for their own child," she said. "This concern long predated the debate about vaccines and autism. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 was passed by Congress, in part, to address those concerns but has not done the job. "The Harris poll points out the urgent need for a renewed effort to conduct new vaccine safety studies that are methodologically sound and free from real or perceived conflicts of interest," Fisher added, "or a significant portion of the public will continue to question the conclusions." According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated one in 110 children in the United States has an autism spectrum disorder, part of a group of developmental disabilities that can cause significant social, communication and behavioral challenges. The Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll was conducted online within the United States from Jan. 11-13, and included 2,026 adults over the age of 18. Figures for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, region and household income were weighted where necessary to bring them into line with their actual proportions in the population. Read more about the poll methodology and findings at Harris Interactive. Another Update: Seriously... not working. Novartis Q4 profit down as vaccine demand drops Jan 27, 2011 5:32 AM ET GENEVA (AP) — Swiss drug maker Novartis AG saw fourth quarter net profit slip 2 percent on the year to $2.32 billion amid one-off charges and a sharp drop in demand for its pandemic flu vaccine, the company said Thursday. Profit in the October-December period was hurt by one-time charges of $789 million, including restructuring costs in the U.S. and Germany — only partially offset by a one-time gain of $392 million, the pharmaceutical company said. Revenue in the fourth quarter grew from $12.92 billion to $14.19 billion. However, the vaccine division suffered a 74 percent decline in sales to $361 million following the end of the pandemic flu in 2010, after sales for the flu vaccine totaled $1 billion a year earlier. The maker of hypertension drug Diovan and anticancer treatment Glivec — known as Gleevec in the United States — said its 2010 full year sales were up by 14 percent to $50.62 billion, including $2.4 billion revenue from the full consolidation of eye care specialist Alcon, Inc. Full year 2010 net profit was up to $8.45 billion from $9.96 billion a year earlier, the company, based in Basel, said. "Novartis achieved excellent results in 2010 as all divisions contributed to above-market growth," Chief Executive Joseph Jimenez said. The company's results were helped by 13 key product approvals and the breakthrough of the multiple sclerosis medication, Gilenya, which has also been launched in the U.S., he said. Analysts at Zuercher Kantonalbank said while Novartis' revenue is fully in line with market expectations, its net profit remained slightly below expectations. In its outlook, Novartis said it expects sales to grow at constant currency rates by a "double-digit mark," and productivity gains to help improve margins while absorbing price cuts, generic competition and the loss of the pandemic flu vaccine sales. The company's shares were trading lower on Switzerland's stock exchange Thursday morning, falling by 1.74 percent to 53.50 Swiss Francs ($56.71). Posted by Ginger Taylor at Friday, January 21, 2011 Labels: Andrew Wakefield, Jenny McCarthy, Media I do hope you are right about SCOTUS. It seems to me that if they say the damage was unavoidable, they are spitting in the eye of the vaccine court for denying compensation. And if they say the damage was avoidable they are opening the door for lawsuits against the drug companies for basically leaning back and letting crappy vaccines flow on to the market and injure people and children and infants. Let me get right to the point: I LOVE YOU! great post! The Ingredient Detective said... You're right. The debate is not over (even the newspapers here in Australia had triumphant headlines, saying things like "Vaccine-Autism case finally closed".) It's just getting started... Great post! It's heartening to see that the media is out of step with real opinions, especially when I start to feel like my efforts to protect my child have me way out in the weeds. People with more education are vaccine doubters because we can SMELL those lousy talking points a hundred miles away. We're undistracted by pompous certitudes because we never lose sight of that nagging vortex no one ever seems to address... "Okay, then what DOES cause autism, you know-it-all jackasses??" Johnny said... Great info and you are one of my heroes. I have two daughters 23 years apart and I thank god for them. Been looking into vaccines for about 2 years and the more I look the sicker I become. I stopped vaccinating my youngest 2 years ago. I go back and look at her photos when she received her vaccines and her eyes are either to close to together or one eye is floating around. Now 2 years with no vaccines and her face is full of life, eyes seem to be back to normal. Thank you for being such a great and loving person. You are helping many people. Thank you, John McMillan Clan said... Ginger, Thank you for doing the work that I just can't seem to do...I can't even read the whole book "Age of Autism" because it's like reading a horror story- reliving this mess in my son's life is just awful.... I hope that one day the media will catch on with us parents and finally agree, but by then I am sure that BIG PHARMA will own all of us, and all of the media outlets, and all of our liberties. Great job as usual, Ginger! Very... weird article you wrote. Because you criticize the amazon ranking of the books, yet the two HYPED books on Age of Autism are in the 30k range. I would say that this movement and mindset that you are somehow winning is a little misplaced if we were going to compare books. (Which was obviously a focus for you since you mentioned their amazon rank.) Not to mention that the statistic of 92% still vaccinating their children is proof that you aren't "winning" anything. The public clearly still very much believes in vaccines, 92% isn't failing by any standard. Iusions, Age of Autism came out six months ago. The two books I mentioned were released this month. This is the peak of their sales. And Age of Autism got almost no press from the Pharma supported media. They actively suppressed the publicity as a matter of fact. http://bigjournalism.com/gtaylor/2010/09/26/the-real-story-behind-autism-patient-donald-t/ And 98% of parents vaccinating is not a problem for me. I am not trying to get people to stop vaccinating, merely to get people to make informed decisions in vaccinations, and to be aware of the damage they can do. I want to know what percentage of parents are vaccinating according to the CDC schedule, as opposed to ten and 20 years ago. Parents who are vaccinating their kids, yet delaying, separating the shots and dropping the unimportant ones like RotaTeq are in that "still vaccinating" group. But they are doing it according to what they believe their child's own best interest is. That is a WIN for us. Apparently you actually buy the line that people like me are "anti-vaccine" and want to end the vaccine program. I want full disclosure, the right to sue for damages, informed consent, and for parents to be in control of what is going into their childrens' bodies with out coercion or trickery. JUST LIKE WITH ANY OTHER PHARMACUTICAL! So yea.... we are winning, and those who want the public to just stop asking questions and do what they are told... are loosing. "A few months later, we learned that Gorski has spent the last several years developing a drug for vaccine maker Sanofi, which he had some how forgotten to mention in his hundreds of posts about these issues, so I do feel a bit the sucker for approaching him as if he was actually a somewhat disinterested party in this debate." The only person you've been a sucker for is Jake Crosby, who spread this lie about me, as I described before he did it: And then again after he did it: Bottom line: I've never taken one red cent from Sanofi-Aventis. Indeed, using Jake's "logic," such as it is, if J.B. Handley's company handles any pharmaceutical accounts, I could just invoke Jake's fallacious reasoning and as easily claim that he is a pharma shill for whatever company his firm handles. Whatever our differences, I thought you were smarter than that. Apparently I was wrong. A shame. Dr. Gorski, Did you develop a Sanofi drug? Evvy Dense said... This makes me very sad. Ginger does not seem to understand science. It does not matter how many people's intuition votes for something to be real. Science is about testing theories. One study making a claim is only useful for directing future studies. It must be reproducible. I know that you and your friends at AoA are 100% sincere in your desire to help children. However, you have been blinded by you passion and see conspiracies anywhere people don't think like you. To me that is religion, not science. The saddest part for me is looking at the decade we have spent so much time and money looking for a link between vaccines and autism instead of using those resources to find the real cause. It is the autistic children who are suffering as a result of your zealous pursuit of the vaccine monster and your inability to actually learn from the science that has been done to answer your questions. Ev, You want to talk science? Great? Here is my question. My son regressed into autism following his 18 month vaccinations. He got: DTaP Pnumo They didn't contain thimerosal and he has never received the MMR. Please show me the research that looks at the link between: The ingredients of these vaccines and autism. These individual vaccines and autism. This vaccine combination, given together and autism. I have searched for years and have never found even one study. In addition, can you please show me the research that differentiates HHS VICP injury table vaccine reaction of "encephalopathy" and "autism". Because my son was given the DTaP vaccine, developed the symptoms listed on the VICP table under "encephalopathy" and was given a diagnosis of "autism" for those symptoms. So show me the research? So... You are correct that not every combination of vaccines has been exhaustively researched. However, you are stating an overly simplified view of what research is needed. I recommend you read Austin Bradford Hill's classic essay on thinking about causal evidence (see http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/hill). He was one of the people that helped the world see that smoking led to cancer. In looking for a cause and effect relationship you should start by looking at the strength of the association between the exposure and the condition you think is being caused. Then examine the consistency of the observed association. Specificity of the association, the third characteristic which invariably we must consider. The fourth characteristic is the temporal relationship of the association – which is the cart and which is the horse? This is a question which might be particularly relevant with diseases of slow development. Fifthly, if the association is one which can reveal a biological gradient, or dose-response curve, then we should look most carefully for such evidence. It will be helpful if the causation we suspect is biologically plausible. But this is a feature I am convinced we cannot demand. If you really want to learn more you can read this article and then follow up with more recent takes on the subject. 13 years ago the theory was put forward that MMR caused autism. Research was done looking for a link between the two, but many epidemiological studies from around the world did not find any link. Much of the focus then shifted to mercury. That led to the removal from all routine vaccines for children under 3, but subsequent research again found no association between dose of mercury and autism. Then the theories shifted again. As you state in your comments they did not continue checking every vaccine combination. However, I would argue that much of the research was focused on the wrong question. They were looking for specifics. What we needed to do was look at what side effects people (like yourself) came after which shots. When you examine the stories of vaccines followed by autism there is no consistent pattern. In time many of the AoA people have even changed their stories to fit their most recent theory. Because each vaccine is composed of different ingredients there would be a specific exposure followed by specific symptoms or disease. Your child's symptoms were noticed after the DTaP, Polio, HIB, Pnumo and Hep B. J.B. Handley's son developed his after a flu shot. Some claim it was the DTaP and HIB combination. Many claim it was the MMR. Jenny originally said her son declined over months but others say days or hours. Can you understand that for there to be a cause and effect you would need to see a pattern somewhere? The other problem I have is that many of the stories from parents who believe the vaccines caused their children's autism are not substantiated by the doctors who have seen and treated them. Having given thousands of vaccines, and treated many children with autism, I (nor any doctor I have ever met) has seen a temporal correlation that would make causality likely. Of course that does not mean that sometimes one thing follows another, but if it is just as likely to come before or after the exposure then it isn't the cause. I am sorry this is so long winded but I want you to realize that those of us in medicine who treat these children are listening. We just can't find what you say you see, no matter how hard we look. DFranco said... Ginger - LOVE your post. I had a nice discussion with our ped about vaccinations several months ago and what I thought he could do with them - other than put them in my kids. I also emailed him the 25 measly pages of research I've gathered on my own, but never heard back. Even taking a vaccine/autism link out of the equation, how can I trust an industry that lies, cheats, and steals all in the name of having my kids' health at heart? The impropriety at the FDA, USDA, WHO, NIH, and Big Pharma is astonishing, and yet NO ONE talks about it. So glad to be off the hamster wheel. 20 years from now, when "science the moving target" says, "Oops, we made some mistakes back there," my kids will thank me for being a bit of a nut about it all now. :-) Mom of a Half Dozen Kids said... Thank you. Thank you for your work. <3 Autism Mom Rising said... I have really enjoyed this intelligent and civil discussion between Ginger and Evvy. My son was a perfectly normal infant until six months of age, mid-Oct 2002. I just watched his baby videos for the first time, which confirmed memory. He had been sick, so sick that oral antibiotics weren't working so he was adminstered two antibiotics shots a couple days apart. Within a few days of that he was given a prevnar and a Dpt. Within a week of all this happening he began to change. I wouldn't say he was suddenly autistic because that is not quite how it happened. It was more like he began cutting in and out-he would be the same social, attached baby he'd always been and then suddenly it would be as if someone had hit a light switch and he'd go into his own world....he'd go back and forth like that all day. Over time he spent more and more time in his own world. When I described this to my son's neuro years later he said, "that sounds like infant petite mal seizures." (My son has full brain multi-focals) I don't want to blame the vaccines, I truly don't as I am a meningitis survivor and a strong believer I'm the need for a vaccine program. Yet, I cannot rule vaccine injury out either because of timing and the fact that the Dpt insert says it can trigger seizures. I wonder though if the vaccine wasn't the problem but being sick + powerful antibiotics + vaccine may have been a tipping point. I don't speak out on the subject because I'm not entirely sure I understand what happened. I will say that I wish peds would quit vaccinating kids when they are sick. I also think the regressive form of autism may actually be petite mal seizures that get missed by doctors. My son went from high functioning autism at age 3 to severe and in a diaper at 7. The ped kept dismissing the regressions as "just the autism". It wasn't until a behavior therapist told me she'd seen another kid like this and it ended up being seizures that we figured it out. Evvy, Sorry for forgetting about this thread... been launching a new book, (Vaccine Epidemic, get your copy in book stores today, already in its second printing!) I want to answer you in two parts... because you seemed to have missed the point that I have been trying to drive home, but that no one in your community seems to be getting. (I will address your other points a bit later). I am answering you this way because I really want you to understand where you and people like you are going wrong. I get the sense you are listening... and I really hope you are. So please read this reply carefully and with some self-reflection, as it is earnestly meant to be a teaching moment for you and not written out of anger on my part. Please, please pay attention to this. Your last comment is WHY you are loosing the vaccine wars... I am offering you an analysis... I hope you will consider it carefully as it is yet another microcausm example of what happens over and over and over and over. The initial post I wrote more than a year ago made the point to your community that the burden of proof was on YOU to sell US on your products and point of view. Rather than doing that, you community has not only insulted us, you ACTIVELY prevent us from healing our sick children. Those I was writing to, in the hopes they would understand where they were going wrong, didn't get it. This blog piece is to reinforce that point. And to explain that attacking us does not and will not work, because you are not solving the actual problem. That you have not met your burden of proof that your products and point of view are good for the customer. That you have actually LOST the debate, and don't know it because you are not listening. That going into your ivory tower, locking us outside and performing yet another symposium entitled, "We Are Smart, Jenny McCarthy is Stupid and Andy Wakefield Eats Babies for Breakfast" only serves to reinforce the WRONG ideas you are circulating in your cloistered group AND you fail to note that we are out here, with access to the rest of the world, taking your arguments apart at kitchen tables, in coffee shops and over back fences accross the world. I am trying to point out that attacking your customer base... parents like me making vaccine decisions... will only loose you the war FASTER. And AGAIN... I made the point to you, Evvy, that YOU the 'scientist' has to sell me the 'just a mom' on the idea that the vaccine program is safe, and does not cause autism. So I presented you with the questions I need answered before I can be convince of that... research on specific vaccines my son received, after which he regressed into "autism". Your response was this: "So... You are correct that not every combination of vaccines has been exhaustively researched". Ok... you made an admission that more should have been done. Great. That is the right start. The next sentence should have been, "You are right, we don't really have evidence to make the blanket statement that 'vaccines don't cause autism', and we need to get that answered properly so that parents can vaccinate their kids with confidence." THAT statement would have said to me,... "ok... earnest guy who is not in denial about lack of evidence in vaccine safety... this is a guy I can deal with". But you didn't, you BLEW OFF MY CONCERNS. You said, "However, you are stating an overly simplified view of what research is needed." The research that I believe is needed to sell me a vaccine IS the research that is needed to sell me a vaccine! You, the salesman, actually presume to tell me, the customer, that I am an idiot and I don't know how to ask the basic questions on how to keep my son safe! (Only a bit more insulting to me and I have an MS in Clinicial Counseling from Johns Hopkins, so you can assume I know at least the very basics about scientific inquiry and passed a few stats classes.) Do you not see that? THEN you launch into an argument that tells me, a woman who has been reading and writing about autism/vaccine injury pretty much every day for six years, that you have not done your reading and don't know the basics of OUR problems with the program. You have bought into the strawman arguments sold by Novella and Orac (with all their vaccine industry ties and $$). You tell me back the story of MY COMMUNITY, tell it wrong, and expect me to be convinced by it? All I can liken it to is you taking a train from the Hamptons to Harlem, and walking up to a group of unemployed guys on the corner and proceeding to tell them about how blacks have an equal shot in this country and they don't know anything about black history in America. Launching into this kind diatribe to them at BEST will get run off their corner. But you are so arrogant (sorry to be harsh) that you actually think you can come to our neighborhood and tell us our life and our history... and the research that we pour through to help us figure out what happened to our kids and to try to heal them? Again... I know this is harsh, and I don't want to be hurtful, but I feel I need to be frank... can you see how that just makes you look like an ass? Can you understand why you are loosing this war? You have lost the debate and you don't even know it. Paul Offit's book lives between 2,000 and 5,000 on Amazon and never broke 1,000 (and I have been checking). And Offit was on the Colbert Report! Mnookins book is doing the same, even though it has been hyped on Salon and has gotten main stream press everywhere. Our book, Vaccine Epidemic, shot to 117 its second day out and has been living around 200-300 since then, and on day three, went into is second printing. With NO mainstream press at all. You might want to tell yourself it is because "contraversy sells" and no one wants to read that everything is fine, but you have to stop kidding yourself. It is because you are on the wrong side of history, no one wants to read the industry line, and because on its face, you arguement does not holdup with people who don't have to believe it to prevent from being kicked out of the 'science club'. So I am begging you... take a month and stop listening to the skeptic echo chamber, start reading our blogs... just for a month. Read Vaccine Epidemic, start with Chapter 18, my chapter, really find out what our ACTUAL arguments and questions are, then go back to skeptic town and see if they can address the real questions, not the straw men they are making. Do you want to get to the bottom of this, or do you want do stay with science club? Now to address your comments: “So... You are correct that not every combination of vaccines has been exhaustively researched”. Yes I am. But you are far too generous in your characterization that “not every combination of vaccines has been exhaustively researched”. The combination of shots given to two month old per CDC schedule has never been researched at all. Neither has 6 months of 6 months or 12 months or ANY combination which the CDC schedule directs pediatricians to administer. NONE. Actually… I was not completely honest about the lack of research into my son’s case. There is one study that applies to him. Mostly. It is this one that shows that boys given the thimerosal containing Hep B series begging the month after birth have a 3x higher chance of developing autism. (Chandler’s first dose at 3 weeks, which he reacted badly to, three months of fevers and “colic” –we now know colic is a GI problem that is treated with probiotics- and constipation that lasted two years until after we put him on the GFCF died following his neurological regression, was a Hg containing vaccine. The second two doses were not according to the lot numbers I looked up). Hepatitis B Vaccination of Male Neonates and Autism Annals of Epidemiology , Vol. 19, No. 9 ABSTRACTS (ACE), September 2009: 651-680, CM Gallagher, MS Goodman, Graduate Program in Public Health, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY PURPOSE: Universal newborn immunization with hepatitis B vaccine was recommended in 1991; however, safety findings are mixed. The Vaccine Safety Datalink Workgroup reported no association between hepatitis B vaccination at birth and febrile episodes or neurological adverse events. Other studies found positive associations between hepatitis B vaccination and ear infection, pharyngitis, and chronic arthritis; as well as receipt of early intervention/special education services (EIS); in probability samples of U.S. children. Children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) comprise a growing caseload for EIS. We evaluated the association between hepatitis B vaccination of male neonates and parental report of ASD. METHODS: This cross-sectional study used U.S. probability samples obtained from National Health Interview Survey 1997-2002 datasets. Logistic regression modeling was used to estimate the effect of neonatal hepatitis B vaccination on ASD risk amongboys age 3-17 years with shot records, adjusted for race, maternal education, and two-parent household. RESULTS:Boyswho received the hepatitis B vaccine during the first month of life had 2.94 greater odds for ASD (nZ31 of 7,486; OR Z 2.94; p Z 0.03; 95% CI Z 1.10, 7.90) compared to later- or unvaccinated boys.Non-Hispanicwhite boys were 61%less likely to haveASD(ORZ0.39; pZ0.04; 95% CIZ0.16, 0.94) relative to non-white boys. CONCLUSION: Findings suggest that U.S. male neonates vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine had a 3-fold greater risk of ASD; risk was greatest for non-white boys. “However, you are stating an overly simplified view of what research is needed. I recommend you read Austin Bradford Hill's classic essay on thinking about causal evidence (see http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/hill). He was one of the people that helped the world see that smoking led to cancer. In looking for a cause and effect relationship you should start by looking at the strength of the association between the exposure and the condition you think is being caused. Then examine the consistency of the observed association. Specificity of the association, the third characteristic which invariably we must consider. The fourth characteristic is the temporal relationship of the association – which is the cart and which is the horse? This is a question which might be particularly relevant with diseases of slow development. Fifthly, if the association is one which can reveal a biological gradient, or dose-response curve, then we should look most carefully for such evidence. It will be helpful if the causation we suspect is biologically plausible. But this is a feature I am convinced we cannot demand. “ I read this and all I can think is… ‘does this guy realize that he is making our case for us?’ 1. Strength of association? Yes. (Exposure to carcinogenic smoke in the lungs causes cancer in the lungs, first in vulnerable subsets.) Exposure to immune stimulants causes autoimmunity and brain inflammation, first in vulnerable subsets. Exposure to neurotoxins causes neurological damage, first in vulnerable subsets. Exposure to live viruses causes viral infections, first in vulnerable subsets. 2. Consistency of association? Yes. Seventy years of recorded observation beginning with the firs paper written on what would become “autism” by Leo Kanner himself, when he recorded that one of the first cases was a smallpox vaccine regression. 3. Specificity of the association? See number 1. CDC tells us that mercury causes GI problems. Our kids have horrible GI problems and test positive for mercury toxicity. Read a vaccine package insert and the HHS vaccine injury table… see that vaccines cause autoimmunity and neurological disease. Our kids have autoimmunity and neurological disease. Can vaccines cause brain swelling? See vaccine encephalopathy on HHS VICP table… Yes they can. Symptoms of vaccine encephalopathy? Loss of eye contact (autism), not responding to anything but loud shouts (autism), doesn’t seem to recognize family members (autism), frequently associated with seizures (autism). Live virus vaccines cause viral infections (read the package inserts and the VICP table), our kids have chronic viral infections with vaccine strain viruses… I could go on for days… does any of this seem specific enough? 4. Temporal association? I feel like this is a joke. I have friends who have run into emergency rooms with seizing children in their arms, hours after a vaccine and say, “he had his vaccines this morning and they are giving him seizures!” and it is never recorded, the staff will not acknowledge the parents ever said it, and when parents press it, docs will say, “vaccines can’t do that” regardless of the fact that the VICP says they can do it and pays people when it happens. Then the child never “comes back” and is eventually diagnosed with “autism”. One such family are our friends, Harry and Gina Tembenis. Harry is on the board of the National Autism Association. Their son Elias – vaccinated, seized, regressed into autism, died from his seizures years later, and last DEC VICP ruled the death a direct cause of the DTaP vaccine. Are you gonna tell me Elias’s autism had nothing to do with the DTaP? Even though DTaP encephalopathy lists the symptoms of autism? How dumb do you think parents are? Or are you just not looking at this stuff? Temporal association is happening dozens of times a day. It is almost never recorded. I entered my son’s own vaccine reactions into VAERS five years after they took place. Our ped blew two serious reactions off. 5. Dose response. Just checking your understanding of the theory here. It is that there is a subset of the population (like the mito kids that Julie Gerberding admitted could regress into autism via vaccination) that will “respond” to lower “doses” than the rest of us in the general population. Just as not all people who smoke get lung cancer, not all who are vaccinated will react, and not all who eat peanuts will go into shock. The FIRST dose response research done on mercury found that the kids with the higest mercury from vaccines had a 600% increase in autism. They spent four years trying to unfind those findings. They couldn’t. So they bastardized the study and called it something it wasn’t, and published it. Then had to quietly admit to congress that it was “useless” in determining whether or not thimerosal can cause or contribute to autism. http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2005/08/heres-why-disdain.html http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2008/06/julie-gerberding-tells-congress-that.html “13 years ago the theory was put forward that MMR caused autism.” 68 years ago the theory was put forth that smallpox vaccine caused autism. Parents have been suing vaccine makers for autism claims since at least the 1970’s. Those cases were folded into the VICP in 1986. I heard in my undergrad psych program at George Mason University that vaccines might cause autism in 1989. But Andrew Wakefield gets credit for it in 1998? Why? Because he was the first one to hold a press conference? Can you see that you are being fed some very convenient facts with serious omissions? “Research was done looking for a link between the two, but many epidemiological studies from around the world did not find any link.” Do you understand that we hotly debate those studies? That we have accused some of those conducting the studies with fraud? “Much of the focus then shifted to mercury.” …Because our federal govt announced that children were getting up to 125x the EPA limit for Hg for their weight. So the vaccine injury/autism community became hopeful that the decades of vaccine regressions were the fault of ONE component of the vaccine, which made complete biological sense as mercury is a neurotoxin, and that the autism problem could be completely solved by removing that ONE component. “That led to the removal from all routine vaccines for children under 3” No it didn’t. Manufacture of lower dose mercury and mercury free vaccines began in 2001, but no recall was issued so those full dose mercury vaccines stayed on the shelves. We were checking docs offices and were finding full dose Hg vaccines on the shelves with expiration dates as late as 2007. This would mean that if thimerosal was implicated in autism, autism rates would have shot up from 88-91 when the schedule increased and when Heb B was admnisted at birth, would have been high through the 1990s until the announcement was made in 1999, and would have steadily dropped since then as those vaccine cycled out of the market and parents began to vaccinate more cautiously. Which means we would see autism rate by birth cohort charts that look like this: http://www.thoughtfulhouse.org/tech-labs/disabilities/rates.php?s=IA&d=A Which is exactly what we do see. Last year they shut down the autism program at my son’s elementary school. They said it was not justified any more. When Chandler came in to Kindergarden, he was one of 11 kids. This year they only had 1 little girl with special needs. “but subsequent research again found no association between dose of mercury and autism”. Dude… this is just laughable. Here are around 45 studies that support an association between vaccines and autism, most of them implicate mercury. http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2007/06/no-evidence-of-any-link.html But the thing that is really egregious about this claim is that the basic study, the straight forward dose-response research design that Verstraeten began 12 years ago, has not and cannot be produced to show that increasing Hg does not increase autism. What gets published is so twisted and backward that no one buys them. Why do you? None of the studies actually even answer the question being asked. They are a joke to us. If you want to understand why, then actually sit down with us and we can point out to you why they are not convincing to us. You know… real scientific debate. The kind that skeptics are expressly forbidden to do by secret law or whatever. “Then the theories shifted again”. I see you have been reading Paul Offit’s talking points. First off… no they haven’t. We still think that MMR causes vaccine encephalopathy, which is just another name for autism, if only because HHS believes that MMR causes vaccine encephalopathy/autism. We still think mercury is a causal factor. We also think that aluminum, adjuvants and several other mechanisms are in play. Because all of these things assault the immune and central nervous systems, and whatever the hell “autism” is, is a result of broken immune and CNS! We also think that pesticides, environmental mercury, maternal use of Rx drugs and other things are causing the same phenomena. Sustained attack on the body by toxins causes immune response, causes brain inflammation causes brain damage causes behavioral changes. “First they thought it was Pal Mal brand cigarettes that caused lung cancer, then they thought it was Lucky Strike, now they have shifted to Malboro! These people are just desperate and looking for someone to blame for this clearly genetic lung cancer”. “As you state in your comments they did not continue checking every vaccine combination.” Right. If each vaccine contains enough immune stimulating adjuvant to create a sufficient immune reaction to go on a search and destroy mission for the introduced antigen in a child with typically functioning immune, detox and metabolic energy processes, then what will giving a child with already impaired immune, detox or mitochondrial functioning FIVE adjuvant containing vaccines at once do to them? WE HAVE NO IDEA! We are not even screening kids to look for mito problems, when HHS freely admits that when these kids are vaccinated they are subject to neurological injury, seizures and death! You want to give my neurologicall impaired, autoimmune, mito biomarked child how many immune stimulants at once? With out any safety research. Pardon my French.. but screw you. I will take my chance with measles and Pertussis. And that is only ONE of the hundreds of questions that there are no answers to. “However, I would argue that much of the research was focused on the wrong question.” And I would argue that you are doging the issue. If it is what the customer needs, then you have to give it to the customer before he will buy. So if you are not going to do it, then don’t be surprised that they don’t buy your product. “They were looking for specifics. What we needed to do was look at what side effects people (like yourself) came after which shots. “ I promise you… no one is earnest looking for this. We report vaccine injury and we are dismissed and mocked. If it is adult, they are told they are faking an injury. I am sure you believe this… but it is just a lie. We are very sensitive to this because our docs treat us like crap for reporting. Mine, whom I went to church with, yelled at me and hung up the phone on me. “When you examine the stories of vaccines followed by autism there is no consistent pattern. In time many of the AoA people have even changed their stories to fit their most recent theory. If you are going to charge that, you have to prove that accusation. It is slander until you do. There absolutely IS a consistant pattern. Neurologically typical child, vaccinated, immune and neuro crash over the next days and weeks, never goes back to normal, starts doing strange things, autism diagnosis. Exams show GI problems, autoimmunity, metal tx, chronic viral infections, and on and on. It is the same story tens of thousands of times over. If you don’t believe us, then frankly … I don’t care. We have our own docs now who do and who treat our kids and our kids get better. “Because each vaccine is composed of different ingredients there would be a specific exposure followed by specific symptoms or disease. Your child's symptoms were noticed after the DTaP, Polio, HIB, Pnumo and Hep B. J.B. Handley's son developed his after a flu shot. Some claim it was the DTaP and HIB combination. Many claim it was the MMR. Jenny originally said her son declined over months but others say days or hours. Can you understand that for there to be a cause and effect you would need to see a pattern somewhere?” And you don’t see that children are being given a variety of immune stimulants and neurotoxins, then suffer neurological decline? That is the pattern dude! And we do have subsets of patterns. Kids with the full dose Hg schedule in the 1990s are the severe-nonverbal ones with seizures. My son and Jenny’s born during the HG transition, are higher functioning and easier to recover, but still have speech problems. Kids born after 2003 usually have great verbal skills. MMR regression kids seem to have more hypotonia. My son who never got MMR is very coordinated for a kid with autism. For the kids coming up now… there are not as many and they are milder cases. There are none so blind that will not see. “The other problem I have is that many of the stories from parents who believe the vaccines caused their children's autism are not substantiated by the doctors who have seen and treated them.” And her is where I am going to ask you to read my chapter in vaccine epidemic. Or at least look up the Semmelweiss reflex. You are using the psychological denial of pediatricians, fighting the horrible idea that they are causing damage to a generation of children, as proof that autism is not an iatrogenic illness. “Having given thousands of vaccines, and treated many children with autism, I (nor any doctor I have ever met) has seen a temporal correlation that would make causality likely. Of course that does not mean that sometimes one thing follows another, but if it is just as likely to come before or after the exposure then it isn't the cause.” Because you don’t want to see it. The doctors who do come to face this horrible reality… well it is a painful experience for them. Many of them had to leave their practices. I know one who is quitting mainstream medicine this spring to go outside the system and try to fix the damage that has been done. When docs start to get serious about this topic, and begin to quietly talk to us and to their colleagues who have woken up to the truth about the vaccine program, they always say two things… the two big psychological blocks that are the ones that would prevent them from coming over to our side: “If I believe as you do, then I can’t trust my professional association/public health any more. Not just on vaccine information, but for everything, because they are lying to me. How do I practice medicine then? “If I believed as you do, I can’t do what I do any more.” I don’t have any problem with long winded, as you can see. But you need to really ask yourself… are you actually looking hard? Is just reading the party line and not, for a moment, challenging the myriad of problems in their arguments really looking? I can tell you that you have not hardly looked into this at all if Paul Offit is who you are taking your cues from. He is Merck. Might as well take medial advice from the former cheerleader Merck rep walking into your office to sell you the newest drug. Tim Keller is a pastor in NY that I love. In talking to people on the question on whether or not God exists, he makes the challenge that there are some things that you can believe are not true, and there is little consequences if you are wrong. But that there are some things that you can’t just THINK that they aren’t true, you have to KNOW that they are not true. For you, in order to continue in your profession, you have to KNOW what I am telling you is NOT true. You don’t know that and you can’t know that. The science to demonstrate such has not been done. Now… I am going to leave you with one question, because if you are a practicing doc, administering vaccines, you HAVE to answer this or you are a shitty doc that doesn’t care about harming children. Is the VICP ‘vaccine encephalopathy’ for DTaP and MMR just another description of what the psych profession terms “autism”? If you can’t answer that, then you should quit your job. THAT is your due diligence. You have to answer this question. Here is the statement that HSRA resealed on this topic: “From: Bowman, David (HRSA) [mailto:DBowman@hrsa.gov] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 5:22 PM To: 'dkirby@nyc.rr.com' Subject: HRSA Statement In response to your most recent inquiry, HRSA has the following The government has never compensated, nor has it ever been ordered to compensate, any case based on a determination that autism was actually caused by vaccines. We have compensated cases in which children exhibited an encephalopathy, or general brain disease. Encephalopathy may be accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms including autistic behavior, autism, or seizures. Some children who have been compensated for vaccine injuries may have shown signs of autism before the decision to compensate, or may ultimately end up with autism or autistic symptoms, but we do not track cases on this basis. Health Resources and Services Administration The answer is YES! For many (most?) kids it is the same damn thing!!! HRSA releases a statement outright telling you that vaccines cause autism! And adds that they care so little about it that they don’t even check to see how often it happens! Why don’t you believe them? I am going to say, as a trained therapist, that it is denial. It is the Semmelweis reflex. /end lecture Foresam said... The propaganda is still working. It's preventing you from seeing the solution. You have to forget this stupid debate and unite the autism community to win the Presidency. Then we can tell the truth and lock up the propaganda wizards. Art hamid98 said... . 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__label__cc	0.622827	0.377173	Reflections on Beijing May 27, 2018 /in china, life /by Benedict For almost as long as Beijing has existed people have continually warned about its cultural last days. Whenever I mentioned to my well-travelled friends that I would be living in Beijing they without fail would spin some line about how it’s just not the real China anymore. I imagine these are the same people who with every Burning Man lament it is never as good as it was. Beijing may have once had a glorious past, but given that this now lies buried under a Starbucks, I may as well enjoy the supposedly culturally apocalyptic world that remains. It’s true that a part of me wishes that I could live in a Hutong – a traditional single-storey street of courtyard dwellings. These once crisscrossed the city in their thousands until Beijing decided it wanted to host the Olympics. Instead, I’m confined to the 22nd floor of a generic apartment complex soaring almost ashamedly into a haze of pollution; a cloud with the dubious silver lining of an increased likelihood of respiratory problems. I also wish I could have seen the original temples and palaces which represented a historical legacy of three millennia, but instead, I must be content with thinly-veiled illusions which upon closer inspection reveal hastily erected concrete beneath. However, for me, the spirit of the city no longer lies in the lost buildings which were swept away in the name of development but instead is embodied by Beijing’s hipsters filling techno club Dada on a Saturday night and the gaggle of high-schoolers crooning songs in a KTV. I see it in the hustle of my friends working in Beijing’s startups who, when I call them in a counterfeit-Belvedere induced blur in the early hours, will invariably still be in the office. The spirit is also in the smell of Hot Pot that for some reason I can never get out of my clothes for all the Persil in the world. My Beijing is not your Beijing, and it’s not anyone else’s Beijing. You can create your own bubble, curating your personal levels of cultural exposure. You might mix with the well-dressed perfectly manicured expats in San Li Tun drinking cocktails at prices that would make a Londoner blush. Alternatively, you can while away the hours in a park watching a sexagenarian catapult small stones at a tree or be stage-managed by chain-smoking old men as you try to unravel the nuances of Chinese Chess. The history might only be as real as the alcohol, but what makes me love the city is the newly emerging culture that reveals itself more with every day I spend here. Increasingly, the metropolis is being fuelled by waves of migrants from across China driven by an idea embedded in the Chinese consciousness that Beijing is the Chinese dream. They’re bringing with them fresh ideas and perspectives that are shaping the Beijing of tomorrow. The truth is that while the culture of old Beijing may have disappeared, new stories are already starting to be written. The city is not the ubiquitous high-rises that replaced the beautiful chaos of the Hutongs or the rough concrete facsimiles of historical landmarks, but rather the 20 million minds working on creating a future that matters to them. Tags: beijing, chinese history, chinese spirit http://benedictaltier.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/hong-jiang-665104-unsplash.jpg 2848 4272 Benedict http://benedictaltier.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/newlogo-300x1382-300x138.png Benedict2018-05-27 16:48:352018-05-27 16:48:35Reflections on Beijing My posts on other sites How to Hack Languages Working Deeply Why becoming a Polymath is for everyone How to spend less time learning new skills Polymaths on the Radio Chinese Studies Book Club #1 Introducing The Polymath Show Giving it a week I have been building websites, products and apps for 13 years to help people learn and work more effectively. Alongside this, I’m also studying for a degree in Chinese Studies focusing on Chinese Business and Law, Classical Chinese and Mandarin. I am the founder of Octocol.com which experiments with developing new tools to work and live better. Octopus Tasks Polymath Show Silicon Roads Altier Labs Startup Dojo © Copyright - Benedict Altier 2019	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line63
__label__wiki	0.655834	0.655834	BEYOND THE TRENCHES Tag Archives: Everyday Lives in War Engagement Centres, everyday lives engagement centre “Banging the door on the war”: Re-visiting Robert Graves But It Still Goes On and the post-war plays of the 1920s July 24, 2018 ahrcww1 Leave a comment But It Still Goes On, 2018. With thanks to Arsalan Sattari As Robert Graves’ forgotten 1929 play But It Still Goes ON receives its world-premiere in London, Andrew Maunder wonders if it is time to revisit the post-war plays of the 1920s. This latest Blog post explores this fascinating world. Continue reading “Banging the door on the war”: Re-visiting Robert Graves But It Still Goes On and the post-war plays of the 1920s → 19191920s1928192919302017andrew maunderarmisiticeArmyArts & Humanities Research Councilaudiencesberlinbroadwaybut it still goes oncaptaincecil tompioncharacterizedchichester festival theatrecriticsdaughterdeedsdoctordramaEntertainmentEuropeEventsEveryday Lives in Warfinborough theatregallantrygeorge bernard shawgoodbye to all thatgreat war 100 seasongriefheartbreak househistorianjourneys endlondonmoralnoel cowardoutbreakpeace treatyplaysplaywrightspoetpost war playspostmortempremierePublicr.c. sherriffre-discoveringrobert gravesroyal welch fusiliersservices renderedsiegfried sassoonsituationssoldiers on leavespiritualtheatreuniversity of hertfordshirevaluesversaillesw.somerset maughamWestern Front Co-ordinating Centres ‘Send a good letter to cheer me’ – soldiers’ correspondence in the Great War February 25, 2015 ahrcww1 2 Comments Two brothers from the village of Sweffling in Suffolk – George and Albert Stopher – were killed on the Western Front within a few weeks of each other, in the spring of 1917. But the men’s voices can still be heard, through an extensive collection of letters that they left behind. Some of those letters were found, together with locks of hair and dried flowers, amongst their possessions after their deaths. George Stopher (1896-1917) Rachel Duffett teaches History at the University of Essex. Through the Everyday Lives in War Engagement Centre, based at the University of Hertfordshire, she is working with the Suffolk Record Office in Ipswich to bring the Stopher letters to a much wider audience. ‘In some ways,’ she says, ‘the experience of George and Albert Stopher was typical of many young men in the First World War. They appear to have enlisted early (it’s impossible to know for sure, as their war records were destroyed during the Second World War). They suffered the privations of the Western Front, and George was hospitalised for a while with shell shock.’ But the Stopher correspondence is also very unusual, says Rachel Duffett. ‘First, there is its sheer size, with the many bundles of letters that the brothers left behind. Its volume contrasts sadly with the few lines in the official history of the Suffolk regiment, describing the engagements in which George and Albert died.’ Then there is the variety of the correspondence: ‘through it, we can chart the relationships between the brothers, their parents and their sweethearts.’ Unusually also, the letters tell the story of the rural citizen soldier, unlike most collections of soldier’s letters, which tend to be from men from towns and cities. Prior to February 1916, only about eight percent of the army’s recruits were from agricultural occupations. Albert Stopher (1897-1917) The Stopher letters are also different in the way in which George and Albert express themselves. While the letters suffer from an almost complete absence of punctuation, and idiosyncratic spelling, they also have a directness and vivacity which are often absent from soldiers’ correspondence. Writing to his mother while he was in a French hospital recovering from shell-shock, for example, George Stopher says that sending him back to the front in his current condition would be like ‘sending a rat to kill a dog.’ As Rachel Duffett says, ‘people in small rural communities were not exposed to the mass media in the same way as city-dwellers, and so were perhaps less likely to express themselves in cliché.’ Food is a recurring theme in the letters, often as a proxy for love and care, with the brothers frequently asking their mother for home-cooked cakes and puddings. George and Albert also aren’t shy in getting their parents to importune things on their behalf: ‘do not be afraid to ask anybody for a little gift’. But when it comes to the darker aspects of the war, there is very little that makes it into the letters. Certainly there was censorship in the trenches, with officers reading what the enlisted men had written before it could be sent, but we see very little black ink in the Stopher correspondence. What censorship there was seems to have been self-censorship, for a variety of reasons: as George says in his letters, of the treatment for shell shock he was receiving, ‘some things are not to be spoken of.’ And yet, as Rachel Duffett says, ‘writing of his shell shock to his mother, you can sense something of his desire nevertheless, to let her know what he’s experiencing. I’m surprised it got past the censor.’ George ends his unsettling letter, detailing his fragile state of mind, with a request to his mother to ‘send a good letter to cheer me’. He was probably thinking of something more uplifting than the letter that Albert received from his sweetheart Bessie, in which she told him that she’d dreamt that he had died. The surviving relatives of the Stopher brothers have been active supporters of the project, and have donated framed photos of George and Albert, as well as their medals. Displays of the letters and other material are being developed, and the letters have been used in local schools, as a way of introducing the subject of the First World War. The project also included public readings from the letters on 4 August 2014, the hundredth anniversary of Britain entering the war: according to Rachel Duffett, ‘it’s surprising how different the letters seem when you read them out loud – how vividly the men’s voices come across.’ And giving a talk at Sweffling, she was ‘struck by the resemblance of the many great-nephews and great-nieces who were there to the Stopher brothers, as I’d seen them in photographs.’ But then, it is this quality of immediacy and familiarity in the Stopher correspondence which makes it so unusual. ‘I’ve read so many collections of soldiers’ letters,’ says Rachel Duffett, ‘but these really are special. You come to feel that you know the Stopher brothers personally.’ Bridget Hanley is Collections Manager at Suffolk Record Office in Ipswich, where the Stopher correspondence is held. For her, the involvement of Rachel Duffett, through the Everyday Lives in War Engagement Centre, has made the difference in bringing the letters to life: ‘we’re providing a resource for others to use in imaginative ways. Rachel has been able to take one of our collections and really run with it.’ When the letters have been used in schools, ‘we’ve had fifteen-year-olds, which is a notoriously difficult age groups with which to engage, almost in tears. They’re not a lot younger than the Stophers were when they went to the front: this collection of letters personalises the war for them. And it enables us to see both sides – we have some of the family’s letters to the Stopher brothers, but also their letters back. We can see how everyone – both on the front line and at home – was affected by the conflict.’ ‘This is a story of ordinary, everyday people, with the same emotions that we all have, being caught up in the First World War. It’s a story that was played out across the country: it always touches people. You feel almost like you’re eavesdropping.’ brothersEveryday Lives in Warfamily historylettersrural soliderStopher letterssuffolkWestern Front Select website AHRC websiteAHRC WW1 YoutubeBBC WW1 at HomeEveryday Lives in WarFirst World War CentenaryLiving Legacies 1914-18Living Legacies 1914-18 blogThe Centre for Hidden HistoriesVoices of War and PeaceVoices of War and Peace blogWW1 experts list 1914 1915 1918 aircraft Army Belfast Birmingham centenary china commemoration community Connected Communities drama engagement centre engagement centres evacuation event exhibition film first world war France Gateways to the First World War Germany heritage heritage lottery fund home front industry Ireland legacy letters Living Legacies medicine Memory newcastle northern ireland press public engagement public event roadshow Scotland Voices of War and Peace Wales Western Front women ww1 Researching the First World War Beyond the Trenches is an online resource reflecting a variety of perspectives on arts and humanities research into the First World War. New posts are published every Tuesday and Thursday. This blog is run by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), though the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the AHRC’s opinions or policy. If you have questions related to research or family history these should be directed to the relevant Centre. For contact details please see the shared website at http://ww1engage.org.uk/engagement-centres/	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line67
__label__cc	0.600804	0.399196	Power of close-up magic proven: Reporter blown away by magician August 10th, 2012 \| Joe Hadsall \| Filed Under General Dynamo and Tony Strange are the latest magicians to prove us right: Magic on TV only STRENGTHENS the performances we give people face-to-face. We hear some magicians complain and commiserate that TV shows such as the ones Dynamo, David Blaine and Criss Angel weaken their own magic, spoiling tricks and ruining endings. But people usually chalk up magic tricks on TV to TV trickery — camera edits, loaded audiences and the like. That sets them up perfectly for what you do. When people see real close-up, they find out how real magic can be. One such person is Suzie Pike, a reporter for the Granthan (England) Journal. When Strange called up and said he could do the same kinds of things Dynamo does on “Magician Impossible,” she said she didn’t quite believe it: “Being a little skeptical about camera angles and the likes on TV shows I was looking forward to seeing if I could be fooled face-to-face. Let’s just say he managed it with every single trick.” Strange performed a brilliant six-minute set for Pike and videographer Toby Roberts. He did some classic tricks that most of you should be familiar with, including an invisible deck routine and some rubber band tricks. Just watch the reactions he gets from Pike: That performance got great press coverage for Strange, who is available for weddings, parties and other events. Not only did he get featured in the video, he got a story about him in the paper — a brilliant two-fer. He also is seeking to set up a magician’s club around his area, and was able to get that message into his story. Using a link to a popular TV show, Strange was able to make a local contact and hook a reporter’s interest. (A pro tip about media coverage: More newspapers are seeking to add extra digital content to their websites, such as videos. Unlike TV reporters, who want to be featured on camera, newspaper folks are more inclined to put all the focus on you, such as the video above. Use that to your advantage when trying to drum up some media coverage.) Dynamo also owes a bit of a thank-you to Strange: When Pike watchese the next episode of “Magician Impossible,” how do you think she’ll feel about “TV magic” now that she’s seen the real thing? This entry was posted on Friday, August 10th, 2012 at 3:45 am and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line77
__label__cc	0.746636	0.253364	Book Notes: Religion for Atheists Comments: 4 Books January 12, 2013 Alain de Botton is amazing person to follow on Twitter. He’s also a stimulating author and an inspiring ideas entrepreneur (via the School of Life). Religion for Atheists, one of his recent books, explains to pro-religion non-believers like myself (an identity label I borrowed from Tyler Cowen) what we can learn from religious institutions when it comes to building community, forming relationships, improving ourselves, etc. Recommended. Highlights below. We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not been able to solve with any particular skill: first, the need to live together in communities in harmony, despite our deeply rooted selfish and violent impulses. And second, the need to cope with terrifying degrees of pain which arise from our vulnerability to professional failure, to troubled relationships, to the death of loved ones and to our decay and demise. For instance, much of what is best about Christmas is entirely unrelated to the story of the birth of Christ. It revolves around themes of community, festivity and renewal which pre-date the context in which they were cast over the centuries by Christianity. One of the losses modern society feels most keenly is that of a sense of community. We tend to imagine that there once existed a degree of neighbourliness which has been replaced by ruthless anonymity, a state where people pursue contact with one another primarily for restricted, individualistic ends: for financial gain, social advancement or romantic love. All buildings give their owners opportunities to recondition visitors’ expectations and to lay down rules of conduct specific to them. The art gallery legitimates the practice of peering silently at a canvas, the nightclub of swaying one’s hands to a musical score. And a church, with its massive timber doors and 300 stone angels carved around its porch, gives us rare permission to lean over and say hello to a stranger without any danger of being thought predatory or insane. We are promised that here (in the words of the Mass’s initial greeting) ‘the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit’ belong to all who have assembled. The Church lends its enormous prestige, accrued through age, learning and architectural grandeur, to our shy desire to open ourselves to someone new. the Mass embodies a lesson about the importance of putting forward rules to direct people in their interactions with one another. Prejudice and ethnic strife feed off abstraction. However, the proximity required by a meal – something about handing dishes around, unfurling napkins at the same moment, even asking a stranger to pass the salt – disrupts our ability to cling to the belief that the outsiders who wear unusual clothes and speak in distinctive accents deserve to be sent home or assaulted. It is hard to attend most wedding parties without realizing that these celebrations are at some level also marking a sorrow, the entombment of sexual liberty and individual curiosity for the sake of children and social stability, with compensation from the community being delivered through gifts and speeches. religions understand that to belong to a community is both very desirable and not very easy. In this respect, they are greatly more sophisticated than those secular political theorists who write lyrically about the loss of a sense of community, while refusing to acknowledge the inherently dark aspects of social life. We shouldn’t banish feasting and debauchery to the margins, to be mopped up by the police and frowned upon by commentators. We should give chaos pride of place once a year or so, designating occasions on which we can be briefly exempted from the two greatest pressures of secular adult life: having to be rational and having to be faithful. We should be allowed to talk gibberish, fasten woollen penises to our coats and set out into the night to party and copulate randomly and joyfully with strangers, and then return the next morning to our partners, who will themselves have been off doing something similar, both sides knowing that it was nothing personal, that it was the Feast of Fools that made them do it. The difference between Christian and secular education reveals itself with particular clarity in their respective characteristic modes of instruction: secular education delivers lectures, Christianity sermons. Expressed in terms of intent, we might say that one is concerned with imparting information, the other with changing our lives. Sermons by their very nature assume that their audiences are in important ways lost. The titles alone of the sermons by one of the most famous preachers of eighteenth-century England, John Wesley, show Christianity seeking to dispense practical advice about a range of the soul’s ordinary challenges: ‘On Being Kind’, ‘On Staying Obedient to Parents’, ‘On Visiting the Sick’, ‘On Caution Against Bigotry’. Departments would be required to confront the problematic areas of our lives head-on. Notions of assistance and transformation which presently hover ghost-like over speeches at graduation ceremonies would be given form and explored as openly in lay institutions as they are in churches. There would be classes in, among other topics, being alone, reconsidering work, improving relationships with children, reconnecting with nature and facing illness. We feel guilty for all that we have not yet read, but overlook how much better read we already are than Augustine or Dante, thereby ignoring that our problem lies squarely with our manner of absorption rather than with the extent of our consumption. This double insight – that we should train our minds just as we train our bodies, and that we should do so partly through those bodies – has led to the founding, by all the major faiths, of religious retreats where adherents may for a limited time abscond from their ordinary lives and find inner restoration through spiritual exercise. It is a mechanism whereby society – whether secular or religious – attempts reliably to inculcate in its members, within a set span of years, what it took the very brightest and most determined of their ancestors centuries of painful and sporadic efforts to work out. The signal danger of life in a godless society is that it lacks reminders of the transcendent and therefore leaves us unprepared for disappointment and eventual annihilation. Our secular world is lacking in the sorts of rituals that might put us gently in our place. It surreptitiously invites us to think of the present moment as the summit of history, and the achievements of our fellow humans as the measure of all things – a grandiosity that plunges us into continuous swirls of anxiety and envy. our museums of art have become our new churches. compassion, the fragile quality which enables the boundaries of our egos to dissolve, helps us to recognize ourselves in the experiences of strangers and can make their pain matter to us as much as our own. It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization’s most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. They were employing institutions, marshalling enormous agglomerations of people to act in concert upon the world through works of art, buildings, schools, uniforms, logos, rituals, monuments and calendars. In his Republic, Plato conveyed a touching understanding (born from experience) of the limits of the lone intellectual, when he remarked that the world would not be set right until philosophers became kings, or kings philosophers. In other words, writing books can’t be enough if one wishes to change things. Thinkers must learn to master the power of institutions for their ideas to have any chance of achieving a pervasive influence on the world. ← Being Behind, Effort, and Comparing Yourself Aaron Swartz: He Inspired Me to Think in Public → 4 Responses to Book Notes: Religion for Atheists I have to borrow that book! No idea when I’ll find time to read it though. Thanesh Rajandran says: thank you for a great summary. I’ll definitely be searching for this book at my local library. very useful information. thanks a lot this. Anuj says: This is very useful information shared here. I am really thankful for this.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line80
__label__cc	0.726565	0.273435	Glutathione S-Transferase-μ (GSTM1) and -θ (GSTT1) Genotypes in the Etiology of Prostate Cancer Timothy R. Rebbeck, Amy H. Walker, Julie M. Jaffe, David L. White, Alan J. Wein and S. Bruce Malkowicz Timothy R. Rebbeck Amy H. Walker Julie M. Jaffe David L. White Alan J. Wein S. Bruce Malkowicz DOI: Published April 1999 The glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are involved in the metabolism of numerous potential prostate carcinogens. Common homozygous germ-line deletions exist in the genes that encode GST-\|gm (GSTM1) and GST-θ (GSTT1) and preclude enzyme expression. To evaluate whether GSTM1 and/or GSTT1 contribute to prostate cancer (CaP) etiology, we studied 237 incident CaP cases and 239 age- and race-matched controls. The probability of having CaP was increased in men who had nondeleted (functional) genotypes at GSTT1 (odds ratio, 1.83; 95% confidence interval, 1.19–2.80) but not GSTM1 (odds ratio, 1.07; 95% confidence interval, 0.74–1.55). No interaction of these genes in CaP etiology was observed. GST-θ is highly expressed in the prostate and can produce genotoxic effects upon exposure to specific carcinogens. These results suggest that GSTT1 is associated with CaP risk. ↵1 This study was supported by USPHS Grant ES08031 (to T. R. R.) and a grant from the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center. ↵2 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 904 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021. Phone: (215) 898-1793; Fax: (215) 573-2265; E-mail: rebbeck{at}cceb.med.upenn.edu ↵3 The abbreviations used are: GST, glutathione S-transferase; CaP, prostate cancer; HUP, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; PSA, prostate-specific antigen; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval. Received October 13, 1998. Revision received January 29, 1999. Thank you for sharing this Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention article. You are going to email the following Glutathione S-Transferase-μ (GSTM1) and -θ (GSTT1) Genotypes in the Etiology of Prostate Cancer Message Subject (Your Name) has forwarded a page to you from Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention Message Body (Your Name) thought you would be interested in this article in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev April 1 1999 (8) (4) 283-287; Heritability of Pancreatic Cancer in PanC4 Study Conditional Survival in Breast Cancer Financial Hardship, Limiting Care, and Quality of Life	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line84
__label__cc	0.587699	0.412301	You are currently in > Just a blog about Indonesia > Police arrest businessman over haze-linked fires Police arrest businessman over haze-linked fires JAKARTA - Indonesian police have arrested a businessman for ordering workers to deliberately start fires to clear farm land, contributing to the smoke haze that has blanketed parts of Indonesia and its neighbours, a report said Sunday. Police in the province of Riau, one of the areas usually hardest hit by the annual chocking haze, arrested a man identified only by his initials ADS and the head of a private palm oil firm on Saturday, the Kompas newspaper said. The man is being questioned on suspicion of having ordered people to burn a total of 2,000 hectares (4,940 acres) of land to clear it for planting palm oil, the daily said. "This is the first case of forest fire that we are handling in 2004 which we will further forward to prosecutors," a police official said. The government has outlawed the use of fire for land clearing, blamed by many for the extensive smoke and fires that has hit parts of Indonesia during the dry seasons in recent years. But enforcement has been lax because of lack of personnel and funds. Senior officials could not be reached for comment on Sunday. Riau province on Sumatra and West Kalimantan are the areas usually hardest hit by the choking haze -- an annual dry-season hazard in parts of Indonesia. Forest and ground fires in Sumatra were blamed last week for blanketing the sky across the Malacca Strait in Malaysia and Singapore, disrupting flights. Officials blame fires set by large forest and plantation concession-holders, as well as by small farmers, to clear land for cultivation. The practice is illegal but officials find it difficult to enforce the law. In 1997, and to a lesser extent in 1998, haze from forest fires in Indonesia enveloped parts of Southeast Asia for months, causing serious health problems and traffic hazards. © TerraDaily Posted in Forest fires @ 28 June 2004 00:02 CET by Jeroen · · permalink	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line86
__label__cc	0.697481	0.302519	हमसे संपर्क करें: 98728-80807 दयानंद जीवनी आर्य समाज के स्तम्भ आर्य समाज क्या है आर्य समाज के नियम महर्षि दयानंद का जीवन चरित्र सत्यार्थ प्रकाश गोकरुणानिधि विश्व की ध्रोहर हकीकत राय जी दयानंद जी का उच्चासन डेमो परीक्षा Last Meeting of father & son Brahmchari Shudh Chaitanya (Mool Shankar) stayed at Kot Kangra for three months but could not get the Guru he wanted. He came to know that his persuit could succeed in the Sidhpur Mela, so he started for the town. In the way he met a already known person also and disclosed his plan to go to Sidhpur and never to return home. In Sidhpur also he tried his best to find out a true yogi but could not succeed. The man who met, conveyed Mool Shankar's plans to his fathar at Tankara. He along with few soldiers reached Sidhpur fair and was very angry to see his son in the dress of a Sanyasi and tore his dress, Mool Shankar understanding the situation apologised and agreed to return home with his father. साइट नेविगेशन संपर्क जानकारी आर्य युवक सभा अमृतसर डाक का पता केन्द्रीय आर्य सभा भवन, शक्ति नगर, अमृतसर (143001) वेबसाइट : www.aysamritsar.in फॉलो उस ओन डिजाइन एवं द्वारा विकसित : Softbuiltsolutions	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line97
__label__wiki	0.871596	0.871596	Motet Choir Joins CTC in ‘The Christians,’ Bringing Live Music to Bratton by Duard Headley on June 29, 2019 198 views Chautauqua Theatre Company Guest Actor Jamison Jones portrays the Pastor in The Christians during the dress rehearsal on Thursday, June 27, 2019 in Bratton Theatre. ALEXANDER WADLEY/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER For the 2019 summer season, Chautauqua Theater Company is bringing more music to its lineup than ever before. In both CTC mainstage shows, the traveling performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and one of the company’s New Play Workshop shows, Agent 355, music is key in bringing the works to life. In The Christians, which opens this weekend with performances at 6 p.m. Saturday, and 2:15 and 8 p.m. Sunday in Bratton Theater, music is a key element. Alongside actors dressed in their Sunday best and a set that turns the theater into a lavish megachurch, the Motet Choir will perform in force each night. Instead of recorded hymns played from theater speakers, choir members will fill the theater with live sound, something CTC Artistic Director Andrew Borba thinks makes all the difference. “(Live music) can add everything to a show, which is why we’re so excited about it,” Borba said. “It literally moves you. You are experiencing vibrations that you weren’t experiencing before you came into the theater, and that’s something I think we all love.” Jared Jacobsen, Chautauqua’s organist and coordinator of worship and sacred music, took on the role of music director for this show. Jacobsen said he was glad to have a chance to merge the live choir with live theater. “I just thought that this was such a good opportunity, I got the choir into this without even asking a lot of them,” Jacobsen said. “Of course, I allowed people to bow out, but I think when all the smoke clears, everyone will realize that this is so similar to what we do in church.” Although they will be on a different stage performing for a different gathering of people, the choir will be doing what they do best — singing, swaying and making audience members tap their feet. According to Jacobsen, it’s that similarity between how the choir performs in the show and how they perform for worship and Vespers that makes the collaboration work so well. “It’s not like I asked (the choir members) to do Don Quixote,” Jacobsen said. “We basically took what we do in a service and moved it to a different building. (CTC) is doing what they do best, which is bringing a world to life, and they’ve invited us into that, and that’s been priceless.” The show addresses themes of community and how changes in belief can drive people apart. Borba said the inclusion of the choir in The Christians does the exact opposite for Chautauqua. “Something inherent in the Chautauqua Choir being onstage is not just in the amount of people onstage, it’s a bringing together of different aspects of this Chautauqua community,” Borba said. “A literal bringing together; we get to do this all together.” CTC Managing Director Sarah Clare Corporandy said that by embracing the use of live music, the company is exploring frontiers it hasn’t been able to in years past. “We know Chautauquans love music in a variety of ways,” Corporandy said. “They’re exposed to it from a variety of different platforms: the symphony, the opera and through us a tiny bit, but we haven’t always focused on that. But music is a huge part of theater, and when we decided to step into that, it sort of opened up doors for other shows, and we thought ‘let’s just dive into that.’ ” And while the use of livemusic has been exciting for CTC, according to Borba, it hasn’t been entirely smooth sailing. “(At Bratton), we’re not really quite built for it,” Borba said. “It’s stretching us technically quite a bit, so there are some extra issues we haven’t had to think about before, but there’s also excitement in that newness.” All technical challenges aside, Borba, Corporandy and Jacobsen agreed that the collaborative experience between CTC and the Motet Choir will be a valuable experience. “We’re bringing two worlds together, and that’s a classic Chautauqua move,” Jacobsen said. “By doing it, and learning from it, both of those worlds will come out stronger for it.” Tags : artsPerforming Artsthe christianstheater Ambassador William Burns Shares Impactful Diplomatic Moments That Changed the World Former CIA Intelligence Officer James B. Bruce to Discuss Russian Interference in ’16 Elections The author Duard Headley Duard Headley is from tiny Yellow Springs, Ohio, and studies journalism and American studies at Miami University in Ohio. Coming hot off the heels of performing in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream last summer, he is excited to cover theater at Chautauqua, merging his love for writing and theater into one experience. In his free time, he enjoys acting, reading, and staring wistfully into the distance as though he were deep in thought (He usually isn’t). At Chautauqua, CTC Conservatory Actor Courtney Stennett Stays Active and Engaged CTC Conservatory Actor Alexander De Vasconcelos Matos Enjoys Light and Warmth of Theater With Live Music, Members of Motet Choir Complete World of ‘Christians’	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line99
__label__cc	0.642727	0.357273	Home » Cleveland’s Winter Storm Harper Update Cleveland’s Winter Storm Harper Update Snow removal operations continue in residential side streets CLEVELAND – The City of Cleveland continues to execute snow removal operations on residential side streets during Winter Storm Harper. Chief of Operations Darnell Brown and Director of Public Works Michael Cox provided updates on the following operations: Snow removal operations will continue in residential side streets until 100 percent have been plowed and salted. As of 9:30 a.m. today there are 214 of the 292 subsections completed or 73 percent of the residential streets that have been plowed and salted. Emergency parking ban remains in effect. The City has 65 available trucks, 7 road graders, and several pickups and more than 10,000 tons of salt. The first shift currently has 54 trucks and 12 pick-ups deployed on city streets, all of which are loaded with salt. Find equipment and snow removal timeline listed here and the NWS update here. The City of Cleveland is committed to improving quality of life its residents by strengthening neighborhoods, delivering superior services, embracing diversity and making Cleveland a desirable, safe city in which to live, work and play. For more information on the City of Cleveland, visit online at www.city.cleveland.oh.us, Twitter at @CityofCleveland or Facebook at www.facebook.com/cityofcleveland. 01.21.2019SnowRemovalUpdate.pdf	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line102
__label__cc	0.561483	0.438517	‘A Christmas Carol’ Adaptations Ranked from “Bah Humbug!” to “God Bless Us Everyone!” by Dave Trumbore December 21, 2018 "If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart!" THE HUSTLER Blu-ray Review by Rob Vaux February 6, 2015 We may never understand why Paul Newman had to wait nearly three decades to receive his Oscar for playing “Fast Eddie” Felson in The Hustler. The Oscar went to Maximillian Schell that year – a strong performance that really should … Paul Dano Exclusive Interview THE EXTRA MAN; Plus THERE WILL BE BLOOD Talk and Working With Paul… by Ron Messer September 12, 2010 Paul Dano’s career has been defined by strong performances opposite award-winning actors. The stunning list of his high-profile onscreen pairings range from his breakthrough, Indie Spirit Award-winning turn for Best Debut Performance in 2001’s L.I.E. as the target of a … GHOSTBUSTERS and DR. STRANGELOVE Blu-ray Reviews by Andre Dellamorte February 6, 2015 Ray Parker Jr. has continued to work. You wouldn’t probably know it unless you were a fan. But he put out an album in 2006. At this point, not only is Ray Parker Jr. not afraid of no ghosts, no …	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line112
__label__cc	0.526342	0.473658	Motorcycles, Other News, Test Rides Triumph Street Cup: the cure for debauchery June 24, 2017 Mark Richardson 8 Comments Fifty-five years of depraved debauchery have taken their toll on my body. Broken and twisted in too many ways, I just look at a sleek and swift motorcycle and my back and neck starts to ache, my wrists throb, and my testicles vibrate into numbness. Tingling nuts aside, this is not a good state of affairs. A modern sport bike is an objet d’art, designed to lean its rider into the wind; it supports the chest on a cushion of fast-flowing air and points the helmet forward like the tip of a bullet, streamlining the vehicle for minimal drag. But at speeds less than those of a track’s back straight, such as pretty much anywhere that’s legal on a public road, this ass-up/head-down position takes a rapid toll on aging wrists and a calcifying neck. “Speak for yourself!” you might be saying, and maybe you’re some young whippersnapper who should be getting off my lawn, or some older rider who took better care of things in a lifetime of puritanical boredom. But yes, I’ll speak for myself and many others who can look forward only to the golden years of Gold Wings, cruisers or – horrors! – a Can-Am Spyder. But wait! What’s this, parked past the Thruxtons and the Speed Triples in the Triumph showroom? It’s the new Street Cup, and it looks so pretty that it’s worth the threat of imagined pain. It’s a retro-styled, liquid-cooled parallel twin with mirrors at the end of its dropped bars, but foot pegs that don’t seem too high or far back for the inevitable sportbike squat. And when I grit my teeth and gird my nervous loins to sit on it, it doesn’t feel too bad. Not too bad at all. The Street Cup comes in two colour combinations: Yellow and black, and black on black. The tape on the wheels really sets if off. Costa rode the $11,400 Street Cup earlier this year and sang its praises here at CMG, and to me directly when we drank scotch afterwards in his Montreal apartment. “Mark, it’s really comfortable for an old guy like you,” he said without blinking, the bastard, “and it’s not too fast to get you into trouble.” This sounds like my kind of bike: good-looking, comfortable, and great fun to ride. Quick and responsive when it matters without being stupid-fast. All of it much like myself, really, of course. Triumph keeps its press fleet at Sturgess Cycle in Hamilton, 200 kilometres from my home, so I orchestrated a finely-tuned collection with Jeff Wilson, who lives a lot closer to the dealership. He collected the Street Cup press bike and I met him with the long-term BMW Scrambler for an exchange; we ate lunch on the patio of a hipster restaurant and I kept eyeing the Triumph as he rambled on, plowing through his tacos. Jeff Wilson, hippest of hipster wannabes, hands over the Street Cup and gets ready to ride off on the BMW Scrambler. “It’s kind of, well, syrupy,” he said, talking about the bike, not the tacos. This is from a guy who owns a 2014 Street Triple, so I appreciated his insight. “It looks good but it’s not really that quick.” Like I said, a Street Triple, so most everything else seems slow. “You should be fine with it, Mark.” Bastard. He left on the Scrambler and I slung my leg over the Street Cup. The whole bike felt small, but its 780 mm-high seat is 40 mm lower than the BMW. In fact, it’s raised 30 mm from the Street Twin with which it shares an engine and frame. I reached forward with some trepidation to the low bars, but they fell comfortably to hand. A stab on the starter and the 900 cc twin rumbled to life, a little deeper than I recall from the regular Street Twin. Mark finds it best to disguise his non-hipsterness with the intimidating plastic face cover of Shark’s Drak helmet. (A digression: A hundred years ago, I owned a Honda CB350 Four. It was crap and constantly spewed oil all over my boots from a leaky cylinder, but I loved it anyway. Somehow, I found a drop bar and installed it instead of the regular bars, and then I rode it on a sunny weekend from Toronto to Quebec and back, via Algonquin Park. My white socks were tucked over the top of my boots, sopping the oil that would have slid up onto my jeans, and my white silk scarf billowed behind like Isadora Duncan’s bane. I rode 990 miles there and back in two days, so when I got home, I went back and forth for 10 miles just to round out the clock. It was brutal. The agony. The pain. But I didn’t care. It was the beginning of the end for my neck and wrists, and that was when the dimes were still bouncing high off my in-the-air ass.) It looks like quite the reach down to those handlebars but it’s actually not, and nothing compared to Mark’s old CB350 Four. The Street Cup is styled as a Café Racer after the old London rockers who roared on their Bonnies and Commandos and the like from café to café in 1960s Britain. The redesigned 865 cc Bonnevilles and the 900s and 1200s that have since replaced them echo this styling, with fins on their liquid-cooled engines and shields covering the area that used to hold the carburettors. In other words, it looks like an older bike but is bang-up-to-date. Score One for the good old days. On the highway home, I hunkered down into the wind and braced for the buffeting, but there was very little resistance. Surely, the little fly-screen above the headlight can’t be that effective, but my crapped-out old body was pointed comfortably into the slipstream and my head was not at 90 degrees from my neck. I even turned around and rode the opposite direction to a previous highway exit to test out the wind resistance, and it was little different (plus, there was a pretty good ramp there I knew about). Score Two. And on the highway, I set my wrist at 120 km/h, -ish, and could have stayed there all day. Even the mirrors were clear and showed only a touch of elbow. Score a definite Three and Four. The Street Cup is best ridden on curving roads, both gradual and tight, but it’s comfortable and capable on the straights, too. The funny thing about the Street Cup is that it actually has 12 less horsepower than the previous-generation Bonneville, with 55 hp total, but it’s been tuned for much more power at mid-range: 20 per cent more from 2,000 to 4,250 rpm, and 18 per cent more peak torque, up to 59 lbs.-ft. Or so says Costa, anyway, and I’m sure he’s right, because this bike is pokier than the Pillsbury Dough Boy’s mom. Syrupy, my high-riding ass. The engine runs out of steam above 5,000 rpm and redlines at just a grand above that, but this gives plenty of space for riding like you stole it. Which I did. At the end of 90 minutes on the highway, I was quite comfortable. How did Triumph finally figure out this ergonomic riding position that’s so effective? Granted, my backside was turning a little numb, so I hung my feet off the pegs for a bit (no standing – that would be stunting in Ontario, obviously, and clearly an unforgiveable crime worthy of its $10,000 fine). My back was great; my wrists were great; my neck was great. I felt like a young stud again, sort of. There’s some reflection on the dials, but they’re still quite legible. There’s a handy fuel gauge on the right, and gear position indicator on the left. Over the next week, I rode the Street Cup on some country roads and made the most of its handling. That doesn’t mean I touched down the pegs, but I swear it was close. If I’d been on a modern sportbike, I’d have been bored at such almost-legal speeds, but on the Triumph, it was a blast. Agile, responsive even when the revs dropped, and it always made me feel like a hero. What more could anyone want? On the final day, I rode to Warkworth as a Father’s Day treat and parked the café racer outside a café for a cold drink. An older guy wandered up and looked at the bike in the sunshine, and we started chatting. He wasn’t sure if it was liquid cooled – I showed him the tall radiator. He lamented that his Harley gets so hot that it singes the hairs off his legs, which is easy because he usually wears shorts when he rides. He commented that the Street Cup “sure looks powerful.” The Street Cup is right at home at a cafe, ready to roar off to the next cafe. Even in sleepy little Warkworth, it pulls the birds. It’s not nearly as powerful as the new Thruxtons, I told him, though it was plenty powerful enough for me to enjoy the winding roads of the Northumberland Hills. “It’s an old-man’s bike, really,” I confessed, thinking he might understand. At that, a young woman walking past with her dog stopped and turned back to look at us. “That’s not an old man’s bike,” she said. “That bike is hot. It really is beautiful.” Which it is. And I sucked in my gut and stood a little taller and zipped up my jacket and slung a booted leg over the seat. When I thumbed the starter button and the engine thrummed to life, the guy nodded appreciatively and the young woman smiled and walked away with her dog. My testicles tingled just a little. A twist of the neck from side to side, a stretch of the wrists at full reach against each other, and I rode away feeling like Steve McQueen. Oh hang on – he’s dead… Yes, there really is a seat under that yellow seat cowl, but good luck trying to persuade anyone to spend any time sitting back there. Debauchery and depravityfeaturedTriumph Street Cup Previous PostA series of unfortunate events: Angry biker sparks multiple-car crashNext PostRace report: Assen MotoGP 8 thoughts on “Triumph Street Cup: the cure for debauchery” rui says: Lovely looking, despite the tank seam. But really – 12 grand for a made in Taiwan Brit bike? If I’m looking for a standard give me a FZ9 for 20% less and twice the hp! emath02eric says: I’m definitly not into retro bike. But i have to say that this one is very good looking. The engine seem tuned for “mature” pilots. We want some fun at normal speeds. With all the photo radard on our streets we try to avoid expensive speed tickets … most of the time. Fazer 8 Ry says: 55 HP and a 6,000 rpm redline on a “modern” 900cc twin? The old Bonnevilles from the 60s probably managed more HP and a higher redline. TK4 says: A mid 60s Bonneville couldn’t have generated those numbers if you’d dropped it off a cliff. Heck, an early 70s SOHC Honda CB750 only had around 48 rear wheel HP. Paolo says: That gauge cluster? Think bulldog wearing a ball cap. Once you see it….. lol Trane Francks says: I absolutely love this. Ticks all the boxes for me. Oh, and that profile shot looking down the long straight? My new wallpaper. Thanks! ? Glad to hear it! Send me your email to mark@canadamotoguide.com and I’ll send you the higher resolution original. Gorgeous, isn’t it? Thanks for the kind offer, Mark, but that JPG is just fine on my 1080p monitor. FUN FACT: With the settings on “fill screen”, the tires sit perfectly along the bottom of the monitor, which gives the whole thing a bit of a 3D pop. Makes it feel as though it’s right here. Now, excuse me while I clean up after myself yet again. The lust is strong. Leave a Reply to rui Cancel reply	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line123
__label__wiki	0.622641	0.622641	The Last Tightrope Dancer In Armenia Still from The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia Click to watch film [big_button url=”http://video.pbs.org/video/1607145692/”]U.S. Only[/big_button] [big_button url=”http://www.pbs.org/itvs/globalvoices/last-tightrope-dancer.html”]Outside U.S.[/big_button] Editor’s note: The following post by Emeri Fetzer is a followup to her first mention of The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia. You can view the film’s trailer and read more of her writing about the Dance on Camera Film Festival here. [dropcap]“I[/dropcap] never thought it would go to a dance festival. I was making a film about people,“ remarked director Sahakyan about her film, “The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia,” screened as part of Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater. The film’s directors are Arman Yeritsyan and Inna Sahakyan. Stangely, in this simple introduction to the film, Sahakyan illuminated the key characteristic of cultural dance forms. A community’s traditions, symbols, beliefs and values are often reflected in the way that community moves; the way people express their lives through communal movement. So, when a dance form is braided into the historical fabric of a culture as tightrope dancing was in Armenia, its disappearance is reason to sit up and notice. Sahakyan recalled the frequency of tightrope dancers on the streets as she was growing up, and she confirmed this with other Armenian members of Dance on Camera’s audience. As performers began to vanish on the streets, she wondered why. [quote_right author=””] Dance is a medium which is unmatched in its effect. Different from music, theater and visual arts, dance provides its own set of possibilities for expression, which makes it invaluable. It is essential to keep alive, in all its forms, whether they be stage based or for ritual. [/quote_right] The answer, presented so fully in the film, is twofold. Those who have honed a skill for tightrope dance are slowly but surely leaving the practice. Secondly, those who watched the art form and revered it in times past, no longer come to see dancers. It seems the question of the chicken or the egg. Did the collective culture lose interest first or did the art form lose its ability to draw in passionate dancers? The film follows two of tightrope dancing’s finest men, Zhora and Knyaz, now aged and unable to perform. The two, once rivals for position of top dog, now work together to keep new pupils interested. With two young boys with promise, it seems there may be hope, but as time and the film move forward, Knyaz’s pupil becomes disinterested, unable to make sufficient money. Hovsep, an orphan boy adopted by Zhora, becomes the nation’s only remaining hope to keep the art alive. However, this concern about survival seems confined to only the art’s main players, as it becomes clear the community no longer attends performances and more importantly, they don’t pay. Sahakyan’s examination in the film begins to unfold layers. Hovsep’s decision to continue dancing is complicated by devotion to Zhora, whose life’s work and meaning lie in dancing. In older days in Armenia, the skills of men like Zhora and Knyaz were revered by audiences—they were likened to gods, their dancing to miracles. Nostalgia for these days of reverence clouds the current position the art holds. For Hovsep, the last young prodigy, passion for dance is not the driving force. Rather, his concerns are in supporting himself financially and finding pride in his work, rather than disappointment. [quote_left author=””] In simple terms, tightrope dancing is a case study for all kinds of specialized genres that slip through the cracks if we are not careful. Let them go, and part of our history as humans becomes inaccessible. [/quote_left] The divide between dance as performance and dance as community ritual has defined genres such as “concert dance” and “cultural dance.” In this case, because a cultural dance is also a commodity, in that it makes money for its participants, it loses its place. Zhora’s dancing, linked to divinity, is not the dancing Hovsep has learned. He does it only out of obligation, and not for a higher spiritual purpose. So, we see that just as dance companies in the US struggle for funding, it all comes back to financial backing. If tightrope dancing is to survive, it must be funded independantly by the community, or by the state. Or it must reclaim its worth as a miracle. “The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia” was a specific look at an issue that has broad application in the art world. What we choose to archive and preserve as part of our history, and what we demand stays relevant in our daily culture is a value statement. But how can we ever evolve if we resist the natural waves that come with development? Rooting for Hovsep to continue his training and save tightrope dancing while lucidly understanding it’s fading proves we are not yet decided. The issue in Armenia, although specific, sits very close to home in reality. Dance is a medium which is unmatched in its effect. Different from music, theater and visual arts, dance provides its own set of possibilities for expression, which makes it invaluable. It is essential to keep alive, in all its forms, whether they be stage based or for ritual. In simple terms, tightrope dancing is a case study for all kinds of specialized genres that slip through the cracks if we are not careful. Let them go, and part of our history as humans becomes inaccessible. More from Dance on Camera Dance on Camera: Angles for Consideration Each year, Dance Film Association, in partnership with The Film Society of Lincoln Center compiles a diverse and colorful selection... Ready, Set, DancePulp! I am delighted to launch DancePulp today! My husband Josh and I have been talking about this for a few... Saved: Blog, Film Tagged: Dance Film Association, Dance on Camera, film, review, The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia 20 Questions with Vanessa Zahorian [clear] Vanessa Zahorian is a… Post by Drew Jacoby An Inside Look at Armitage Gone! Dance Spring Season at the Joyce Theater [caption id="attachment_2633" align="aligncenter" width="560" caption="Armitage…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line128
__label__cc	0.554596	0.445404	Bristol, Campaigns, Community, Families, Seamills, Coombe Dingle & Stoke Bishop Darren meets Stoke Bishop residents regarding Stoke Lodge MP for Bristol North West, Darren Jones met hundreds of concerned residents at Stoke Lodge on Saturday 8th December. Darren has already shared his concerns with Bristol City Council following recent news reports that a fence at Stoke Lodge will not require the council’s consent and that the school plans to progress these works imminently. The council responded to Darren, local councillors and the We Love Stoke Lodge community group concerns on Friday 7th December, maintaining the new position that a fence did not require planning consent as it is considered permitted development. Darren has been working closely with key community leaders and local councillors on this matter for some time having previously written to residents, the council and Cotham School about Stoke Lodge alongside chairing several meetings (designed to broker a compromise so both the community and the school can use the site) over the summer. Darren has also previously met local residents, and separately with staff from Cotham School, to discuss the school’s use of Stoke Lodge green space which (the school propose) would include the erection of a fence, alongside a new changing room/ pavilion building (this application was rejected by the local authority and as yet has not been appealed or a new submission submitted). Darren said prior to the meeting: “I’ll be meeting residents at Stoke Lodge on Saturday morning to discuss any updates following last week’s surprise media reports planning consent may not be required for any perimeter fence. Clearly this news was hugely concerning to the many residents and visitors who enjoy this important green space – which includes Bristol’s Tree of the Year. This green space is the only one in walking distance to many local residents. We’ll also be discussing next steps so we can work to ensure the site can once again be used by the local community and school. Stoke Bishop has one of the lowest crime and ASB levels in the city, with a close-knit and supportive community and it does not appear the school encountered any reportable near misses or incidents when the school previously used this site unfenced – it is therefore imperative risks are not overstated and the community and school work together to ensure this space is used in harmony for decades to come. I know community reps remain keen to continue engaging with the school and have suggested multiple alternative options. The multiple meetings I have chaired – where all parties were invited – were designed to reach a compromise. I am obviously concerned to hear the council have continued to advise (including in the most correspondence dated 7th December) that planning consent will not be required for the fence as it is within permitted development rights. I’ll continue to support residents, and help work towards a compromise, at every opportunity“. 10th December 2018 /by Sam http://darren-jones.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Bristol_Icon-e1506091083436.png 500 800 Sam http://darren-jones.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/dj-logo.png Sam2018-12-10 12:45:552018-12-19 12:49:44Darren meets Stoke Bishop residents regarding Stoke Lodge Darren backs Bristol's unpaid carers Darren welcomes Avonmouth Station grant Darren hosts surgery for local carers Westbury Post Office's temporary closure Darren welcomes ban on lettings fees Darren submits A4018 feedback MP backs Small Business Saturday in Henleaze and visits Lockleaze and Avonmouth... Darren hosts Mince Pie Politics in Stoke Bishop	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line130
__label__wiki	0.5072	0.5072	Polar Record (2) Journal of Zoology (1) Detecting changes in the state of reindeer pastures in northernmost Finland, 1995–2005. Alfred Colpaert, Jouko Kumpula Journal: Polar Record / Volume 48 / Issue 1 / January 2012 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2011, pp. 74-82 The state of pastures in the Finnish reindeer management area has been monitored since 1995 using remote sensing and field inventory. The first inventory was made in 1995–1996, updated in the beginning of 2000s and repeated in 2005–2008. By comparing results from 1995–1996 and 2005–2008 we can observe clear changes in forest cover, structure and ground lichen abundance. To evaluate pasture/vegetation changes on the basis of separate classifications we have used a grid approach. By implementing a 500 by 500 m grid network and summarizing pasture classes for every grid cell we can visualize and quantify intensity of change. By comparing 1995–1996 and 2005–2008 we can see a clear decrease in the number of cells classified old growth dominated forest, and also an increase of fragmentation can be detected. With a 7.5 ha threshold the amount of old growth forest was reduced by 5%, for 20 ha the decrease was 21%. This indicates a significant change in forest landscape structure, fragmentation and reduction of reindeer winter pasture value in large areas. Pixel wise comparison showed no substantial changes in pasture areas. There is a degree of uncertainty in change detection; changes in remote sensing instrument, changes in processing software and methodology, changes in field methods and ancillary data, and obviously also bias introduced by differences between analysts. When comparing reindeer lichen biomass between 1995–1996 and 2005–2008 on the basis of field site data, the measured lichen biomass has declined in 19 out of the 20 reindeer management districts. Only one district showed slight improvement, in three districts there was a notable drop in lichen biomass, from over 1500 kg/ha to about 500 kg/ha. Also amount of arboreal lichens declined due to felling of old growth forest, confirming the findings on the grid cell level. Consequently grass, shrub and sapling stands increased as felled areas start to grow graminoids and herbs. Effects of age, density and sex ratio on reproductive effort in male reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) Atle Mysterud, Øystein Holand, Knut H. Røed, Hallvard Gjøstein, Jouko Kumpula, Mauri Nieminen Journal: Journal of Zoology / Volume 261 / Issue 4 / December 2003 In sexually dimorphic ungulates, male reproductive success depends on fighting with other males for access to females during a brief rutting season. Large body size is necessary for success in intrasexual competition, and a few large-sized males are often able to monopolize access to female groups. Earlier studies have reported that reproductive effort increases with age until prime-age is reached, and one study that population density lowered effort in (older) males. No study has directly assessed whether there is within-age-class variation in effort resulting from varying levels of intra-male competition. It is reported here the weight loss during the rutting season of 54 individual male reindeer Rangifer tarandus coming from eight herds with varying density (3.3–6.0 deer/km2) and sex ratio (4–28% males). In agreement with earlier studies, reproductive effort was lower for young (1- to 2-year-old) than for prime-aged (3- to 5-year-old) males both on an absolute and relative scale. Among 1-year-old males (n=33), effort was lower as sex ratio became closer to even, but density during the rutting season had no effect. This suggests that yearling males take a more active role when prime-aged males are absent. In addition to the insight into male ungulate life history, understanding male rutting behaviour may also have implications for population dynamics. Remote sensing, a tool for reindeer range land management Alfred Colpaert, Jouko Kumpula, Mauri Nieminen Journal: Polar Record / Volume 31 / Issue 177 / April 1995 The Finnish reindeer-herding area lies in the northern boreal forest zone. The herding area is divided into 57 reindeer management districts with a total area of 114,355 km2 (excluding water areas). The official number of reindeer in the year 1992 was 263,789, or 2.3 reindeer per square kilometre. In 1946 the density was only about one reindeer per square kilometre. The increased pressure on the mid-winter lichen pastures has reduced the volume of lichen. Also the decreased area of old coniferous forests with arboreal lichens has diminished the supply of food during the late-winter months. The lack of suitable winter pastures has led to the need for supplementary feeding with hay. The intention of this study was to develop and test methods for cost-effective reindeer range land inventory and to assess the present state of pastures in seven districts. Use was made of Landsat 5 TM satellite imagery that was processed with remote sensing and GIS software. The analysis of well-known field sites proved the image classification to be between 80 and 90% accurate. By comparing field data and classification results, estimates can be made on the available fodder reserves in the different pasture types. The results show that mid-winter pastures are both scarce and degraded in six of the seven areas investigated. Only one area (Muotkatunturi) has mid-winter pastures in reasonably good condition. Late-winter pastures with arboreal lichens are more widespread than mid-winter pastures and determine the amount of additional winter feeding required. Summer pastures are abundant in all seven reindeer-herding districts and are therefore not a limiting factor. The method used is objective, inexpensive, and fast when compared to conventional methods. Information can be produced on the quantity and quality of reindeer pastures. This knowledge can be used to make better estimates of the natural grazing capacity of reindeer districts in Finland.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line135
__label__wiki	0.656854	0.656854	Proceedings of the Nutrition Society (1) American Society of Church History (2) Studies in Macroeconomic History (1) By Ben S. Bernanke, Charles W. Calomiris, Lawrence J. Christiano, E. Gerald Corrigan, Barry Eichengreen, Marc Flandreau, Marvin Goodfriend, Alan Greenspan, Daisuke Ikeda, Narayana R. Kocherlakota, Dennis P. Lockhart, Allan H. Meltzer, Raghuram Rajan, Ellis W. Tallman, Stefano Ugolini, Paul A. Volcker, Warren Weber, David C. Wheelock, Eugene N. White Edited by Michael D. Bordo, Rutgers University, New Jersey, William Roberds Book: The Origins, History, and Future of the Federal Reserve Print publication: 25 March 2013, pp ix-xviii By Michael F. Azari, Michael S. Beattie, Michael J. Bell, David M. Benglis, Anat Biegon, Jacqueline C. Bresnahan, A. Ross Bullock, D. James Cooper, Frances Corrigan, Kallol K. Dey, W. Dalton Dietrich, Volker Dietz, Per Enblad, Michael G. Fehlings, Julio C. Furlan, John C. Gensel, Gerald A. Grant, Gopalakrishna Gururaj, Ronald L. Hayes, Lars T. Hillered, John Houle, Jimmy W. Huh, Pavla Jendelová, Theresa A. Jones, Patrick M. Kochanek, Thomas Kossmann, Dorothy A. Kozlowski, Laura Krisa, Andrew Maas, Lawrence F. Marshall, Ankit I. Mehta, David K. Menon, Cristina Morganti-Kossmann, Marion Murray, Virginia F.J. Newcombe, Alistair D. Nichol, Linda Papa, Steven Petratos, Jennie Ponsford, Phillip G. Popovich, Gourikumar K. Prusty, Ramesh Raghupathi, Ricky Rasschaert, Peter L. Reilly, Nataliya Romanyuk, Bob Roozenbeek, Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld, Kathryn E. Saatman, Bridgette D. Semple, Esther Shohami, Eva Syková, Charles H. Tator, Brett Trimble, Robert Vink, Kevin K.W. Wang, Jefferson R. Wilson, Wise Young, Jenna M. Ziebell Edited by Cristina Morganti-Kossmann, Ramesh Raghupathi, Andrew Maas Book: Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Print publication: 19 July 2012, pp ix-xii An audit of enteral tube feeding in the acute hospital setting; evaluation of current practice and identification of areas for further investigation and development C. O'Neill, A. Lyons, N. Connolly, E. Fanning, R. Hannon, S. McMahon, H. Guiden, K. McElligott, G. Corrigan Journal: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society / Volume 70 / Issue OCE5 / 2011 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2012, E286 Morphology and Electron Emission Properties of Nanocrystalline CVD Diamond Thin Films Alan R. Krauss, Dieter M. Gruen, Daniel Zhou, Thomas G. Mccauley, Lu Chang Qin, Timothy Corrigan, Orlando Auciello, R. P. H. Chang Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011, 299 Nanocrystalline diamond thin films have been produced by microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (MPECVD) using C60/Ar/H2 or CH4/Ar/H2 plasmas. Films grown with H2 concentration ≤ 20% are nanocrystalline, with atomically abrupt grain boundaries and without observable graphitic or amorphous carbon phases. The growth and morphology of these films are controlled via a high nucleation rate resulting from low hydrogen concentration in the plasma. Initial growth is in the form of diamond, which is the thermodynamic equilibrium phase for grains < 5 nm in diameter. Once formed, the diamond phase persists for grains up to at least 15–20 nm in diameter. The renucleation rate in the near-absence of atomic hydrogen is very high (∼1010 cm2sec−1), limiting the average grain size to a nearly constant value as the film thickness increases, although the average grain size increases as hydrogen is added to the plasma. For hydrogen concentrations less than ∼20%, the growth species is believed to be the carbon dimer, C2, rather than the CH3 * growth species associated with diamond film growth at higher hydrogen concentrations. For very thin films grown from the C60 precursor, the threshold field (2 to ∼60 volts/micron) for cold cathode electron emission depends on the electrical conductivity and on the surface topography, which in turn depends on the hydrogen concentration in the plasma. A model of electron emission, based on quantum well effects at the grain boundaries is presented. This model predicts promotion of the electrons at the grain boundary to the conduction band of diamond for a grain boundary width ∼3–4 Å, a value within the range observed by TEM. Low Temperature Growth of Ultra-Nanocrystalline Diamond on Glass Substrates for Field Emission Applications T. D. Corrigan, A. R. Krauss, D. M. Gruen, O. Auciello, R. P. H. Chang Recent studies of field emission from diamond have focused on the feasibility of growing diamond films on glass substrates, which are the preferred choice for cost-effective, large area flat panel displays. However, diamond growth on glass requires temperatures < 500 °C, which is much lower than the temperature needed for growing conventional microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond films. In addition, it is desirable to minimize the deposition time for cost-effective processing. We have grown ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) films using a unique microwave plasma technique that involves CH4-Ar gas mixtures, as opposed to the conventional CH4-H2 plasma CVD method. The growth species in the CH4-Ar CVD method are C2 dimers, resulting in lower activation energies and consequently the ability to grow diamond at lower temperatures than conventional CVD diamond processes. For the work discussed here, the UNCD films were grown with plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) at low temperatures on glass substrates coated with Ti thin films. The turn-on field was as low as 3 V/μm for a film grown at 500 °C with a gas chemistry of l%CH4/99%Ar at 100 Torr, and 7 V/μm for a film grown at 350 °C. UV Raman spectroscopy revealed the presence of high quality diamond in the films. Electron Emission Properties of Si Field Emitter Arrays Coated With Nanocrystalline Diamond From Fullerene Precursors T. G. McCauley, T. D. Corrigan, A. R. Krauss, O. Auciello, D. Zhou, D. M. Gruen, D. Temple, R.P.H. Chang, S. English, R. J. Nemanich In this paper, we report on a substantial lowering of the threshold field for electron field emission from Si field emitter arrays (FEA), which have been coated with a thin layer of nanocrystalline diamond by microwave plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition (MPCVD) from fullerene (C60) and methane (CH4) precursors. The field emission characteristics were investigated and the emission sites imaged using photoelectron emission microscopy (PEEM). Electron emission from these Si FEAs coated with nanocrystalline diamond was observed at threshold fields as low as 3 V/μm, with effective work functions as low as 0.59 eV. Personality and symptom sensitivity predictors of alprazolam withdrawal in panic disorder P. ROY-BYRNE, J. RUSSO, M. POLLACK, R. STEWART, A. BYSTRISKY, J. BELL, J. ROSENBAUM, M. H. CORRIGAN, J. STOLK, A. J. RUSH, J. BALLENGER Background. Discontinuation of benzodiazepine (BZ) treatment results in a well-characterized withdrawal syndrome in 40–50% of anxious patients. While numerous studies have established the role of BZ dose, treatment duration, half-life, potency, rate of withdrawal and severity of underlying anxiety disorder in predicting severity of withdrawal symptoms, fewer studies have examined the role of psychological and personality factors. Method. In 123 panic disorder patients undergoing gradual tapered discontinuation of alprazolam in conjunction with pre-treatment with carbamazepine or placebo, the relationship between measures of ‘symptom sensitivity’ and ‘harm avoidance’, and severity of withdrawal symptoms measured as peak severity of symptoms, time before taper needed to be slowed due to symptoms, and ability to complete taper, was examined. Results. After controlling for the less substantial effects of dose, treatment duration, pre-taper anxiety and panic attack frequency, measures of symptom sensitivity and harm avoidance accounted for an additional 3–6% of withdrawal variance. Conclusions. These results show an effect of symptom sensitivity and harm avoidance on BZ withdrawal symptoms, comparable to prior findings linking dependent personality characteristics to withdrawal severity. Failure to show the expected effect on ability to complete taper may be due to either the more symptomatic nature of the patients in this study. Glyphosate With and Without Residual Herbicides in No-Till Glyphosate-Resistant Soybean (Glycine max) Karen A. Corrigan, R. Gordon Harvey Journal: Weed Technology / Volume 14 / Issue 3 / September 2000 Field experiments were conducted in 1996 and 1997 near Arlington, WI, to compare the efficacy of glyphosate applied below registered rates in sequential and tank-mix combinations with residual herbicides to no-till, narrow-row, glyphosate-resistant soybean. In the sequential combinations of preplant (PP) residual herbicides and postemergence (POST) glyphosate study, glyphosate followed one of eight burndown treatments. Clomazone applied PP controlled 86% of common lambsquarters in 1996 when followed by 420 g ae/ha glyphosate early POST (EPOST). All other herbicide treatments controlled 94% or greater regardless of weed species, PP treatment, glyphosate timing, or glyphosate rate. The greatest soybean yields occurred in EPOST glyphosate applications in 1996 and late POST (LPOST) glyphosate applications in 1997. The only time PP residual herbicides were beneficial was prior to the LPOST glyphosate application in 1996. In the tank-mix POST combinations of glyphosate and residual herbicides study, glyphosate was applied alone or in combination with four residual herbicides. Soybean injury did not exceed 5% except in the glyphosate and imazethapyr combination in 1997. Control of common lambsquarters, velvetleaf, and giant foxtail was 90% or greater when averaged across all residual combinations and glyphosate timings and rates. Imazethapyr alone controlled velvetleaf 99% and giant foxtail 92% in 1997. When glyphosate was applied alone, soybean yields were similar at all glyphosate rates and application timings, except the 630 g/ha glyphosate LPOST resulted in a lower yield than 420 g/ha glyphosate LPOST. Only one residual herbicide, SAN 582, combined with glyphosate produced yields equivalent to the highest yielding treatments when averaged over both glyphosate rates and timings. Cloransulam added to 420 g/ha glyphosate EPOST and chlorimuron plus thifensulfuron and imazethapyr added to 420 g/ha glyphosate LPOST resulted in lower soybean yields compared to the same rate of glyphosate applied alone at the respective timings. Thus, no herbicide combination preformed better than glyphosate applied in a timely manner alone. However, in situations where early-season weed competition is severe and a timely glyphosate application is not possible, a PP residual herbicide may be beneficial. Low serum cholesterol and suicide F. Coulter, F. M. Corrigan, B. Mowat, E. R. Skinner Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 163 / Issue 5 / November 1993 The Safety and Efficacy of Clozapine in Severe Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenic Patients in the UK C. E. Adams, T. R. E. Barnes, M. A. Essali, S. R. Hirsch, A. V. P. MacKay, F. M. Corrigan, J. C. Cutting, M. Y. Ekdawi, P. J. McKenna, P. T. S. Milln, A. L. Parker, M. Lader, R. L. Brownsey In order to assess the safety and some efficacy aspects of clozapine under UK conditions, 54 in-patients with severe treatment-resistant schizophrenic disorders were evaluated using several scales before and during treatment. Of the 54 evaluated, 26 completed the 26-week study. Of these patients, 20 showed improvement in psychopathology, often to a marked degree, involving both positive and negative symptoms. Some oral-facial extrapyramidal side-effects decreased as well. Two patients developed neutropenia, but recovered on discontinuation of clozapine. The most frequent adverse event was hypersalivation, and five patients suffered from seizures. It is concluded that clozapine is worth considering for the treatment of severe treatment-resistant patients in the UK. Comparison of Quality of Life with Standard of Living in Schizophrenic Out-patients Kerstin Skantze, Ulf Malm, Sven J. Dencker, Philip R. A. May, Patrick Corrigan Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 161 / Issue 6 / December 1992 Standard of living reflects the objective dimension of how well the basic needs of life are met, while quality of life is the patient's own subjective view of well-being and satisfaction with her/his life. Sixty-one schizophrenic out-patients completed self-report inventories and participated in interviews about quality of life and standard of living. When living standards were met by a well functioning social service system, patients' perceptions of their quality of life and their standard of living appeared to be independent. Subsequent analyses revealed that ‘inner experiences' was one quality-of-life domain frequently reported as unsatisfactory. Moreover, differences in quality of life were found across patients' age, education, and work status. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Brain Imaging in Chronic Schizophrenia J. A. O. Besson, F. M. Corrigan, G. R. Cherryman, F. W. Smith Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 150 / Issue 2 / February 1987 Patients with chronic schizophrenia were examined by nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of the brain. Subgroups of the syndrome with high positive or high negative symptom scores and ventricular dilatation were compared with each other and with normal controls in respect of regional spin lattice relaxation time (T 1) changes. Significant differences were not observed between the schizophrenic subgroups and controls but there were significant differences between the subgroups themselves. The presence of tardive dyskinesia was associated with increased T 1 of the basal ganglia. The significance of these results is discussed in relation to findings using other techniques. CARDINAL CONSALVI AND ANGLO-PAPAL RELATIONS, 1814–1824, By John Tracy Ellis. Washington: Catholic University Press, 1942. xi, 202 pages. $2.50. R. Corrigan Journal: Church History / Volume 11 / Issue 4 / December 1942 The Historical Scholarship of Saint Bellarmine By E. A. Ryan S. J. New York: The Fordham University Press, 1936. xiv, 226 pages, paper cover. $2.50. Journal: Church History / Volume 5 / Issue 3 / September 1936	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line137
__label__cc	0.556366	0.443634	The Journal of Laryngology & Otology (4) Global Mental Health (1) High Power Laser Science and Engineering (1) The ANZIAM Journal (1) BSAS (8) The Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery (4) Enhancement of the surface emission at the fundamental frequency and the transmitted high-order harmonics by pre-structured targets K. Q. Pan, D. Yang, L. Guo, Z. C. Li, S. W. Li, C. Y. Zheng, S. E. Jiang, B. H. Zhang, X. T. He Journal: High Power Laser Science and Engineering / Volume 7 / 2019 Laser interaction with an ultra-thin pre-structured target is investigated with the help of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. With the existence of a periodic structure on the target surface, the laser seems to penetrate through the target at its fundamental frequency even if the plasma density of the target is much higher than the laser’s relativistically critical density. The particle-in-cell simulations show that the transmitted laser energy behind the pre-structured target is increased by about two orders of magnitude compared to that behind the flat target. Theoretical analyses show that the transmitted energy behind the pre-structured target is actually re-emitted by electron ‘islands’ formed by the surface plasma waves on the target surfaces. In other words, the radiation with the fundamental frequency is actually ‘surface emission’ on the target rear surface. Besides the intensity of the component with the fundamental frequency, the intensity of the high-order harmonics behind the pre-structured target is also much enhanced compared to that behind the flat target. The enhancement of the high-order harmonics is also related to the surface plasma waves generated on the target surfaces. Prevalence and genotypes of anal human papillomavirus infection among HIV-positive vs. HIV-negative men in Taizhou, China X. Liu, H. Lin, X. Chen, W. Shen, X. Ye, Y. Lin, Z. Lin, S. Zhou, M. Gao, Y. Ding, N. He Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 March 2019, e117 This study aims to investigate the prevalence and genotype distribution of anal human papillomavirus (HPV) infection among men with different sexual orientations with or without human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in China. A cross-sectional study was conducted during 2016–2017 in Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province. Convenient sampling was used to recruit male participants from HIV voluntary counselling and testing clinics and Center for Disease Control and Prevention. A face-to-face questionnaire interview was administered and an anal-canal swab was collected for HPV genotyping. A total of 160 HIV-positive and 113 HIV-negative men participated in the study. The prevalence of any type HPV was 30.6% for heterosexual men, 74.1% for homosexual and 63.6% for bisexual men among HIV-positive participants, while the prevalence was 8.3%, 29.2% and 23.8% respectively among HIV-negatives. The most prevalent genotypes were HPV-58 (16.9%), HPV-6 (15.6%) and HPV-11 (15.0%) among HIV-positive men, and were HPV-16 (4.4%), HPV-52 (4.4%) and HPV-6 (3.5%) among HIV-negative men. Having ever had haemorrhoids and having ever seen blood on tissue after defaecation was associated with HPV infection. One-fourth of the HPV infections in this study population can be covered by the quadrivalent vaccine in market. The highly prevalent anal HPV infection among men especially HIV-infected men calls for close observation and further investigation for anal cancer prevention. Effects of l-carnitine in the distillers dried grains with solubles diet of sows on reproductive performance and antioxidant status of sows and their offspring B. Wei, Q. Meng, S. He, Z. Qu, S. Nie, B. Shi, A. Shan Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2018, pp. 1448-1457 Distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) are highly susceptible to lipid oxidation because DDGS contain about 10% crude fat, which is largely composed of polyunsaturated fatty acids. l-carnitine serves an important function in fatty acids β-oxidation, and also has antioxidant properties. The objective of this study was to examine the effects of l-carnitine in the DDGS diet of gestating and lactating sows on reproductive performance, milk composition and antioxidant status of sows and their offspring. One hundred and twenty sows (Landrace×Large white, mean parity 4.2, initial BW 230 kg) were randomly allotted to 1 of 4 dietary treatments (n=30 sows/treatment). Treatments were arranged as a 2×2 factorial with two levels of dietary DDGS (0 v. 250 g/kg in gestating diets and 400 g/kg in lactating diets) and two levels of dietary l-carnitine (0 v. 100 mg/kg in gestating diets and 0 v. 200 mg/kg in lactating diets). Distillers dried grains with solubles had no significant effect on litter size but significantly reduced the birth weights and weaning weights of piglets (P<0.05). Distillers dried grains with solubles reduced the antioxidant enzyme activities (P<0.05) and increased the malondialdehyde level in the plasma of sows on day 60 of gestation (P=0.004) and day 14 of lactation (P=0.008). The compositions of colostrum and milk were not affected by inclusion of DDGS and dietary l-carnitine (P>0.05). Supplementing the diets with l-carnitine had no significant effect of total litter size (P>0.05) but increased the number of piglets born alive and piglets weaned, birth weight and weaning weight of piglets and litter weight at birth and weaning (P<0.05). l-carnitine supplementation also increased the concentration of l-carnitine in milk and l-carnitine status of piglets (P<0.05). The antioxidant enzyme activities of new born and weaning piglets were increased (P<0.05) by maternal dietary l-carnitine but this did not extend to finishing pigs. In conclusion, including DDGS in the sows diet could induce oxidative stress, which may be associated with the reduced individual birth and weaning weight of piglets. Dietary l-carnitine supplementation improved the antioxidant and l-carnitine status of sows, which may be associated with the improved reproduction and piglet performance and the antioxidant status of piglets at birth and weaning. There were no interactions between DDGS and l-carnitine. Socio-economic variations in the mental health treatment gap for people with anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys S. Evans-Lacko, S. Aguilar-Gaxiola, A. Al-Hamzawi, J. Alonso, C. Benjet, R. Bruffaerts, W. T. Chiu, S. Florescu, G. de Girolamo, O. Gureje, J. M. Haro, Y. He, C. Hu, E. G. Karam, N. Kawakami, S. Lee, C. Lund, V. Kovess-Masfety, D. Levinson, F. Navarro-Mateu, B. E. Pennell, N. A. Sampson, K. M. Scott, H. Tachimori, M. ten Have, M. C. Viana, D. R. Williams, B. J. Wojtyniak, Z. Zarkov, R. C. Kessler, S. Chatterji, G. Thornicroft Journal: Psychological Medicine / Volume 48 / Issue 9 / July 2018 The treatment gap between the number of people with mental disorders and the number treated represents a major public health challenge. We examine this gap by socio-economic status (SES; indicated by family income and respondent education) and service sector in a cross-national analysis of community epidemiological survey data. Data come from 16 753 respondents with 12-month DSM-IV disorders from community surveys in 25 countries in the WHO World Mental Health Survey Initiative. DSM-IV anxiety, mood, or substance disorders and treatment of these disorders were assessed with the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). Only 13.7% of 12-month DSM-IV/CIDI cases in lower-middle-income countries, 22.0% in upper-middle-income countries, and 36.8% in high-income countries received treatment. Highest-SES respondents were somewhat more likely to receive treatment, but this was true mostly for specialty mental health treatment, where the association was positive with education (highest treatment among respondents with the highest education and a weak association of education with treatment among other respondents) but non-monotonic with income (somewhat lower treatment rates among middle-income respondents and equivalent among those with high and low incomes). The modest, but nonetheless stronger, an association of education than income with treatment raises questions about a financial barriers interpretation of the inverse association of SES with treatment, although future within-country analyses that consider contextual factors might document other important specifications. While beyond the scope of this report, such an expanded analysis could have important implications for designing interventions aimed at increasing mental disorder treatment among socio-economically disadvantaged people. Differential prevalence and correlates of whole blood Epstein–Barr virus DNA between HIV-positive and HIV-negative men who have sex with men in Shanghai, China R. PAN, X. LIU, S. ZHOU, Z. NING, H. ZHENG, M. GAO, Y. DING, W. YAO, X. LIAO, N. HE Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 145 / Issue 11 / August 2017 This cross-sectional study aimed to examine and compare prevalence and correlates of whole blood Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) DNA between HIV-positive and HIV-negative men who have sex with men (MSM). Five hundred and four HIV-positive MSM and 504 age-matched HIV-negative MSM were recruited from an HIV counseling and testing clinic in Shanghai, China from November 2014 to November 2015 and were administered with a face-to-face questionnaire interview. Whole blood EBV DNA was tested by nested polymerase chain reaction assays on EBNA-1, EBNA-2, and LMP-1 genes. The prevalence of whole blood EBV DNA was 56·0% (95% CI 51·7–60·3%) among HIV-positive MSM and 26·0% (95% CI 22·4–30·0%) among HIV-negative MSM. Whole blood EBV DNA positivity was significantly associated with HIV infection (adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 3·43, 95% CI 2·58–4·57) and frequent intake of pickled, smoked, or salty food (aOR 1·71, 95% CI 1·02–2·86) in the whole sample, and with <200 cells/μl CD4 cell counts (aOR 1·79, 95% CI 1·05–3·05) and pickled, smoked, or salty food intake (aOR 3·14, 95% CI 1·39–7·08) in HIV-positive group. HIV-infected MSM are at higher risk of active EBV replication than HIV-uninfected MSM, underscoring needs of surveillance and research on EBV-related carcinogenesis in this population. Epidemics and aetiology of hand, foot and mouth disease in Xiamen, China, from 2008 to 2015 S. Z. HE, M. Y. CHEN, X. R. XU, Q. YAN, J. J. NIU, W. H. WU, X. S. SU, S. X. GE, S. Y. ZHANG, N. S. XIA Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 April 2017, pp. 1865-1874 Over the past 8 years, human enteroviruses (HEVs) have caused 27 227 cases of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in Xiamen, including 99 severe cases and six deaths. We aimed to explore the molecular epidemiology of HFMD in Xiamen to inform the development of diagnostic assays, vaccines and other interventions. From January 2009 to September 2015, 5866 samples from sentinel hospitals were tested using nested reverse transcription PCR that targeted the HEV 5′ untranslated region and viral protein 1 region. Of these samples, 4290 were tested positive for HEV and the amplicons were sequenced and genotyped. Twenty-two genotypes were identified. Enterovirus 71 (EV71) and coxsackieviruses A16, A6 and A10 (CA16, CA6 and CA10) were the most common genotypes, and there were no changes in the predominant lineages of these genotypes. EV71 became the most predominant genotype every 2 years. From 2013, CA6 replaced CA16 as one of the two most common genotypes. The results demonstrate the vast diversity of HFMD pathogens, and that minor genotypes are able to replace major genotypes. We recommend carrying-out long-term monitoring of the full spectrum of HFMD pathogens, which could facilitate epidemic prediction and the development of diagnostic assays and vaccines. APPROXIMATE CONTROLLABILITY OF POPULATION DYNAMICS WITH SIZE DEPENDENCE AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION MSC 2010: Controllability, observability, and system structure MSC 2010: Hyperbolic equations and systems S. P. WANG, Z. R. HE Journal: The ANZIAM Journal / Volume 58 / Issue 3-4 / April 2017 We investigate the approximate controllability of a size- and space-structured population model, for which the control function acts on a subdomain and corresponds to the migration of individuals. We establish the main result via the unique continuation property of the adjoint system. The desired controller is the minimizer of an infinite-dimensional optimization problem. Generating high-yield positrons and relativistic collisionless shocks by 10 PW laser J. Jiao, B. Zhang, J. Yu, Z. Zhang, Y. Yan, S. He, Z. Deng, J. Teng, W. Hong, Y. Gu Relativistic collisionless shock charged particle acceleration is considered as a possible origin of high-energy cosmic rays. However, it is hard to explore the nature of relativistic collisionless shock due to its low occurring frequency and remote detecting distance. Recently, there are some works attempt to solve this problem by generating relativistic collisionless shock in laboratory conditions. In laboratory, the scheme of generation of relativistic collisionless shock is that two electron–positron pair plasmas knock each other. However, in laboratory, the appropriate pair plasmas have been not generated. The 10 PW laser pulse maybe generates the pair plasmas that satisfy the formation condition of relativistic collisionless shock due to its ultrahigh intensity and energy. In this paper, we study the positron production by ultraintense laser high Z target interaction using numerical simulations, which consider quantum electrodynamics effect. The simulation results show that the forward positron beam up to 1013/kJ can be generated by 10 PW laser pulse interacting with lead target. The estimation of relativistic collisionless shock formation shows that the positron yield satisfies formation condition and the positron divergence needs to be controlled. Our results indicate that the generation of relativistic collisionless shock by 10 PW laser facilities in laboratory is possible. Expression of maspin in invasive fungal rhinosinusitis Y D Huang, H W Yu, S W Xia, Z H Kang, Y S He, D Y Han Journal: The Journal of Laryngology & Otology / Volume 131 / Issue 2 / February 2017 This study aimed to test the expression of maspin in invasive fungal rhinosinusitis and explore its value in diagnosing invasive fungal rhinosinusitis. Forty-two fungal rhinosinusitis cases (12 invasive and 30 non-invasive) were selected as the experimental group, and 30 chronic rhinosinusitis cases comprised the control group. Maspin expression was assessed in nasal mucous membrane specimens by immunohistochemical staining. Compared with the control group, maspin expression was down-regulated in the fungal rhinosinusitis group (p < 0.05). Furthermore, the staining score for maspin was lowest in the invasive fungal rhinosinusitis group, as compared with both the non-invasive fungal rhinosinusitis group and the control group (p < 0.05). A maspin staining score of 5.70 was the critical value for diagnosis of invasive fungal rhinosinusitis, with sensitivity and specificity of 91.7 per cent and 88.3 per cent, respectively. The results of this study suggest that the maspin staining score may be a biomarker for effective and rapid diagnosis of invasive fungal rhinosinusitis. Impaired glucose tolerance in first-episode drug-naïve patients with schizophrenia: relationships with clinical phenotypes and cognitive deficits D. C. Chen, X. D. Du, G. Z. Yin, K. B. Yang, Y. Nie, N. Wang, Y. L. Li, M. H. Xiu, S. C. He, F. D. Yang, R. Y. Cho, T. R. Kosten, J. C. Soares, J. P. Zhao, X. Y. Zhang Journal: Psychological Medicine / Volume 46 / Issue 15 / November 2016 Schizophrenia patients have a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) than normals. We examined the relationship between IGT and clinical phenotypes or cognitive deficits in first-episode, drug-naïve (FEDN) Han Chinese patients with schizophrenia. A total of 175 in-patients were compared with 31 healthy controls on anthropometric measures and fasting plasma levels of glucose, insulin and lipids. They were also compared using a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test and the homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR). Neurocognitive functioning was assessed using the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB). Patient psychopathology was assessed using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). Of the patients, 24.5% had IGT compared with none of the controls, and they also had significantly higher levels of fasting blood glucose and 2-h glucose after an oral glucose load, and were more insulin resistant. Compared with those patients with normal glucose tolerance, the IGT patients were older, had a later age of onset, higher waist or hip circumference and body mass index, higher levels of low-density lipoprotein and triglycerides and higher insulin resistance. Furthermore, IGT patients had higher PANSS total and negative symptom subscale scores, but no greater cognitive impairment except on the emotional intelligence index of the MCCB. IGT occurs with greater frequency in FEDN schizophrenia, and shows association with demographic and anthropometric parameters, as well as with clinical symptoms but minimally with cognitive impairment during the early course of the disorder. Risperidone-induced topological alterations of anatomical brain network in first-episode drug-naive schizophrenia patients: a longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging study M. Hu, X. Zong, J. Zheng, J. J. Mann, Z. Li, S. P. Pantazatos, Y. Li, Y. Liao, Y. He, J. Zhou, D. Sang, H. Zhao, J. Tang, H. Chen, L. Lv, X. Chen It remains unclear whether the topological deficits of the white matter network documented in cross-sectional studies of chronic schizophrenia patients are due to chronic illness or to other factors such as antipsychotic treatment effects. To answer this question, we evaluated the white matter network in medication-naive first-episode schizophrenia patients (FESP) before and after a course of treatment. We performed a longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging study in 42 drug-naive FESP at baseline and then after 8 weeks of risperidone monotherapy, and compared them with 38 healthy volunteers. Graph theory was utilized to calculate the topological characteristics of brain anatomical network. Patients’ clinical state was evaluated using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) before and after treatment. Pretreatment, patients had relatively intact overall topological organizations, and deficient nodal topological properties primarily in prefrontal gyrus and limbic system components such as the bilateral anterior and posterior cingulate. Treatment with risperidone normalized topological parameters in the limbic system, and the enhancement positively correlated with the reduction in PANSS-positive symptoms. Prefrontal topological impairments persisted following treatment and negative symptoms did not improve. During the early phase of antipsychotic medication treatment there are region-specific alterations in white matter topological measures. Limbic white matter topological dysfunction improves with positive symptom reduction. Prefrontal deficits and negative symptoms are unresponsive to medication intervention, and prefrontal deficits are potential trait biomarkers and targets for negative symptom treatment development. Heritability and familiality of neurological soft signs: evidence from healthy twins, patients with schizophrenia and non-psychotic first-degree relatives T. Xu, Y. Wang, Z. Li, J. Huang, S. S. Y. Lui, S.-P. Tan, X. Yu, E. F. C. Cheung, M.-G. He, J. Ott, R. E. Gur, R. C. Gur, R. C. K. Chan Neurological soft signs (NSS) have long been considered potential endophenotypes for schizophrenia. However, few studies have investigated the heritability and familiality of NSS. The present study examined the heritability and familiality of NSS in healthy twins and patient–relative pairs. The abridged version of the Cambridge Neurological Inventory was administered to 267 pairs of monozygotic twins, 124 pairs of dizygotic twins, and 75 pairs of patients with schizophrenia and their non-psychotic first-degree relatives. NSS were found to have moderate but significant heritability in the healthy twin sample. Moreover, patients with schizophrenia correlated closely with their first-degree relatives on NSS. Taken together, the findings provide evidence on the heritability and familiality of NSS in the Han Chinese population. Effect of protein or energy restriction during late gestation on hormonal and metabolic status in pregnant goats and postnatal male offspring Z. X. He, Z. H. Sun, K. A. Beauchemin, W. Z. Yang, S. X. Tang, C. S. Zhou, X. F. Han, M. Wang, J. H. Kang, Z. L. Tan Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2015, pp. 1843-1851 The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of maternal protein or energy restriction on hormonal and metabolic status of pregnant goats during late gestation and their postnatal male kids. Forty-five pregnant goats were fed a control (CON), 40% protein-restricted (PR) or 40% energy-restricted (ER) diet from 90 days of gestation until parturition. Plasma of mothers (90, 125 and 145 days of gestation) and kids (6 weeks of age) were sampled to determine metabolites and hormones. Glucose concentration for pregnant goats subjected to PR or ER was less (P<0.001) than that of CON goats at 125 and 145 days of gestation. However, plasma nonesterified fatty acids concentration was greater (P<0.01) at 125 and 145 days for PR and ER than CON. Protein restriction increased (P<0.01) maternal cortisol concentration by 145 days of gestation, and ER decreased (P<0.01) maternal insulin concentration at 125 days of gestation. Moreover, maternal amino acid (AA) concentrations were affected by nutritional restriction, with greater (P<0.05) total AA (TAA) and nonessential AA (NEAA) for PR goats but less (P<0.05) TAA and NEAA for ER goats at 125 days of gestation. After 6 weeks of nutritional recovery, plasma concentrations of most metabolic and hormonal parameters in restricted kids were similar to CON kids, except for reduced (P<0.05) insulin concentration in ER, and reduced (P<0.05) Asp concentration in PR and ER kids. These results provide information on potential metabolic mechanisms responsible for fetal programming. The prevalence of HSV-2 infection in HIV-1 discordant couples S. DUAN, Y. DING, Z. WU, K. ROU, Y. YANG, J. WANG, M. GAO, R. YE, L. XIANG, N. HE Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 June 2015, pp. 97-105 We aimed to investigate the prevalence and associated factors of HSV-2 discordance and concordance in HIV-1-discordant couples. This study used the baseline data from a cohort study of HIV-1-discordant couples in Dehong prefecture of Yunnan province, China. Of 954 participating couples, 42·4% were affected by HSV-2, of which 20·4% were HSV-2-concordant positive, 7·6% were HSV-2-discordant where the male was HSV-2 positive, and 14·4% were HSV-2 discordant where the female was HSV-2 positive. Compared to HSV-2-negative concordance, HSV-2 discordance with an HSV-2-positive male spouse was significantly associated with characteristics of the male spouse, including Han ethnicity and being in a second marriage. HSV-2 discordance with an HSV-2-positive female spouse was significantly associated with characteristics of the female spouse, including Han ethnicity, having engaged in commercial sex, having a sexual relationship of <3 years and being HIV-1 infected. Compared to HSV-2 discordance, HSV-2-positive concordance was significantly associated with an education level of middle school or higher for both spouses, a sexual relationship of ⩾3 years, more frequent sex and having an HIV-1-infected male spouse. The findings highlight the need for HSV-2 prevention and treatment efforts to reduce HSV-2 transmission in this population, and emphasize the importance of implementing prevention interventions early in couples' relationships.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line138
__label__wiki	0.550953	0.550953	Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (6) Symposium - International Astronomical Union (1) 2526 E-learning for best practices in social and behavioral research: A multisite pilot evaluation Susan L. Murphy, Elias M. Samuels, Christine Byks-Jazayeri, Ellen Champagne, Jordan Hahn, Brenda Eakin, Robert Kolb, Linda S. Behar-Horenstein, Susan Gardner, Fanny Ennever, Mary-Tara Roth, Margarita L. Dubocovich Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2018, p. 55 OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: To evaluate the NIH-sponsored Best Practices for Social and Behavioral Research e-learning course. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Four universities partnered in a pilot study to evaluate this new course. Outcomes from 294 participants completing the course included efficient progress through the training, perceived relevance of the course to current work, level of engagement with the course material, intent to work differently as a result of the course, and downloading digital resources. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Participants rated the course as relevant and engaging (6.4 and 5.8 on a 7-point Likert scale) and 96% of respondents said they would recommend the course to colleagues. Qualitative analysis of participant testimonials suggested that most respondents had a readiness to change in the way they worked as a result of the course. Overall, results suggest participants completed the course efficiently, perceived outcomes positively and worked differently after the training. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: These results will inform new guidelines for future participants (e.g., average time to complete, expectations for knowledge checks in the training). Future studies should include larger samples and closer coordination and communication between study sites. Best Practices in Social and Behavioral Research: A multisite pilot evaluation of the good clinical practice online training course Susan L. Murphy, Elias M. Samuels, H. Robert Kolb, Linda S. Behar-Horenstein, Ellen Champagne, Christine Byks-Jazayeri, Jordan Hahn, Mary-Tara Roth, Fanny Ennever, Wajeeh Bajwa, Meher Singh, Gregory G. Homish, Margarita L. Dubocovich Journal: Journal of Clinical and Translational Science / Volume 2 / Issue 2 / April 2018 The Best Practices in Social and Behavioral Research Course was developed to provide instruction on good clinical practice for social and behavioral trials. This study evaluated the new course. Participants across 4 universities took the course (n=294) and were sent surveys following course completion and 2 months later. Outcomes included relevance, how engaging the course was, and working differently because of the course. Open-ended questions were posed to understand how work was impacted. Participants rated the course as relevant and engaging (6.4 and 5.8/7 points) and reported working differently (4.7/7 points). Participants with less experience in social and behavioral trials were most likely to report working differently 2 months later. The course was perceived as relevant and engaging. Participants described actions taken to improve rigor in implementing trials. Future studies with a larger sample and additional participating sites are recommended. The UTMOST: A Hybrid Digital Signal Processor Transforms the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope M. Bailes, A. Jameson, C. Flynn, T. Bateman, E. D. Barr, S. Bhandari, J. D. Bunton, M. Caleb, D. Campbell-Wilson, W. Farah, B. Gaensler, A. J. Green, R. W. Hunstead, F. Jankowski, E. F. Keane, V. Venkatraman Krishnan, Tara Murphy, M. O’Neill, S. Osłowski, A. Parthasarathy, V. Ravi, P. Rosado, D. Temby Journal: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia / Volume 34 / 2017 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2017, e045 The Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) is an 18000 m2 radio telescope located 40 km from Canberra, Australia. Its operating band (820–851 MHz) is partly allocated to telecommunications, making radio astronomy challenging. We describe how the deployment of new digital receivers, Field Programmable Gate Array-based filterbanks, and server-class computers equipped with 43 Graphics Processing Units, has transformed the telescope into a versatile new instrument (UTMOST) for studying the radio sky on millisecond timescales. UTMOST has 10 times the bandwidth and double the field of view compared to the MOST, and voltage record and playback capability has facilitated rapid implementaton of many new observing modes, most of which operate commensally. UTMOST can simultaneously excise interference, make maps, coherently dedisperse pulsars, and perform real-time searches of coherent fan-beams for dispersed single pulses. UTMOST operates as a robotic facility, deciding how to efficiently target pulsars and how long to stay on source via real-time pulsar folding, while searching for single pulse events. Regular timing of over 300 pulsars has yielded seven pulsar glitches and three Fast Radio Bursts during commissioning. UTMOST demonstrates that if sufficient signal processing is applied to voltage streams, innovative science remains possible even in hostile radio frequency environments. The Challenges of Low-Frequency Radio Polarimetry: Lessons from the Murchison Widefield Array Murchison Widefield Array E. Lenc, C. S. Anderson, N. Barry, J. D. Bowman, I. H. Cairns, J. S. Farnes, B. M. Gaensler, G. Heald, M. Johnston-Hollitt, D. L. Kaplan, C. R. Lynch, P. I. McCauley, D. A. Mitchell, J. Morgan, M.F. Morales, Tara Murphy, A. R. Offringa, S. M. Ord, B. Pindor, C. Riseley, E. M. Sadler, C. Sobey, M. Sokolowski, I. S. Sullivan, S. P. O’Sullivan, X. H. Sun, S. E. Tremblay, C. M. Trott, R. B. Wayth Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 September 2017, e040 We present techniques developed to calibrate and correct Murchison Widefield Array low-frequency (72–300 MHz) radio observations for polarimetry. The extremely wide field-of-view, excellent instantaneous (u, v)-coverage and sensitivity to degree-scale structure that the Murchison Widefield Array provides enable instrumental calibration, removal of instrumental artefacts, and correction for ionospheric Faraday rotation through imaging techniques. With the demonstrated polarimetric capabilities of the Murchison Widefield Array, we discuss future directions for polarimetric science at low frequencies to answer outstanding questions relating to polarised source counts, source depolarisation, pulsar science, low-mass stars, exoplanets, the nature of the interstellar and intergalactic media, and the solar environment. Low-Frequency Spectral Energy Distributions of Radio Pulsars Detected with the Murchison Widefield Array Tara Murphy, David L. Kaplan, Martin E. Bell, J. R. Callingham, Steve Croft, Simon Johnston, Dougal Dobie, Andrew Zic, Jake Hughes, Christene Lynch, Paul Hancock, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Emil Lenc, K. S. Dwarakanath, B.-Q. For, B. M. Gaensler, L. Hindson, M. Johnston-Hollitt, A. D. Kapińska, B. McKinley, J. Morgan, A. R. Offringa, P. Procopio, L. Staveley-Smith, R. Wayth, C. Wu, Q. Zheng We present low-frequency spectral energy distributions of 60 known radio pulsars observed with the Murchison Widefield Array telescope. We searched the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky Murchison Widefield Array survey images for 200-MHz continuum radio emission at the position of all pulsars in the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) pulsar catalogue. For the 60 confirmed detections, we have measured flux densities in 20 × 8 MHz bands between 72 and 231 MHz. We compare our results to existing measurements and show that the Murchison Widefield Array flux densities are in good agreement. Diffuse Sources in Clusters: What Turns them on? Tara Murphy, R.W. Hunstead Journal: Symposium - International Astronomical Union / Volume 199 / 2002 To investigate the rate of occurrence and possible triggering mechanisms for diffuse radio sources, we have carried out a statistical study of a volume-limited sample of 92 clusters of galaxies. DIVISION B COMMISSION 5: DOCUMENTATION AND ASTRONOMICAL DATA Robert Hanisch, Michael Wise, Masatoshi Ohishi, Heinz Andernach, Marsha Bishop, Daniel Egret, Elizabeth Griffin, Ajit Kembhavi, Tara Murphy, Fabio Pasian, Anja Schroeder, Douglas Tody Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 11 / Issue T29A / August 2015 IAU Commission 5, Documentation and Astronomical Data, continued its mission of promoting and supporting sound practices of data management, data dissemination, and data preservation over the past three years. The Commission also prepared its proposal for continuation, with some changes in emphasis, after the IAU's commission restructuring program. Below we report on the activities of the various Working Groups and the one Task Force in Commission 5. Science with the Murchison Widefield Array Judd D. Bowman, Iver Cairns, David L. Kaplan, Tara Murphy, Divya Oberoi, Lister Staveley-Smith, Wayne Arcus, David G. Barnes, Gianni Bernardi, Frank H. Briggs, Shea Brown, John D. Bunton, Adam J. Burgasser, Roger J. Cappallo, Shami Chatterjee, Brian E. Corey, Anthea Coster, Avinash Deshpande, Ludi deSouza, David Emrich, Philip Erickson, Robert F. Goeke, B. M. Gaensler, Lincoln J. Greenhill, Lisa Harvey-Smith, Bryna J. Hazelton, David Herne, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, Justin C. Kasper, Barton B. Kincaid, Ronald Koenig, Eric Kratzenberg, Colin J. Lonsdale, Mervyn J. Lynch, Lynn D. Matthews, S. Russell McWhirter, Daniel A. Mitchell, Miguel F. Morales, Edward H. Morgan, Stephen M. Ord, Joseph Pathikulangara, Thiagaraj Prabu, Ronald A. Remillard, Timothy Robishaw, Alan E. E. Rogers, Anish A. Roshi, Joseph E. Salah, Robert J. Sault, N. Udaya Shankar, K. S. Srivani, Jamie B. Stevens, Ravi Subrahmanyan, Steven J. Tingay, Randall B. Wayth, Mark Waterson, Rachel L. Webster, Alan R. Whitney, Andrew J. Williams, Christopher L. Williams, J. Stuart B. Wyithe Significant new opportunities for astrophysics and cosmology have been identified at low radio frequencies. The Murchison Widefield Array is the first telescope in the southern hemisphere designed specifically to explore the low-frequency astronomical sky between 80 and 300 MHz with arcminute angular resolution and high survey efficiency. The telescope will enable new advances along four key science themes, including searching for redshifted 21-cm emission from the EoR in the early Universe; Galactic and extragalactic all-sky southern hemisphere surveys; time-domain astrophysics; and solar, heliospheric, and ionospheric science and space weather. The Murchison Widefield Array is located in Western Australia at the site of the planned Square Kilometre Array (SKA) low-band telescope and is the only low-frequency SKA precursor facility. In this paper, we review the performance properties of the Murchison Widefield Array and describe its primary scientific objectives. Data Storage, Processing, and Visualization for the Australia Telescope Compact Array Tara Murphy, Peter Lamb, Christopher Owen, Malte Marquarding Journal: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia / Volume 23 / Issue 1 / 2006 We present three Virtual Observatory tools developed at the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) for the storage, processing and visualization of Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) data. These are the Australia Telescope Online Archive, a prototype data-reduction pipeline, and the Remote Visualization System. These tools were developed in the context of the Virtual Observatory and were intended to be both useful for astronomers and technology demonstrators. We discuss the design and implementation of these tools, as well as issues that should be considered when developing similar systems for future telescopes. VAST: An ASKAP Survey for Variables and Slow Transients TARA MURPHY, SHAMI CHATTERJEE, DAVID L. KAPLAN, JAY BANYER, MARTIN E. BELL, HAYLEY E. BIGNALL, GEOFFREY C. BOWER, ROBERT A. CAMERON, DAVID M. COWARD, JAMES M. CORDES, STEVE CROFT, JAMES R. CURRAN, S. G. DJORGOVSKI, SEAN A. FARRELL, DALE A. FRAIL, B. M. GAENSLER, DUNCAN K. GALLOWAY, BRUCE GENDRE, ANNE J. GREEN, PAUL J. HANCOCK, SIMON JOHNSTON, ATISH KAMBLE, CASEY J. LAW, T. JOSEPH W. LAZIO, KITTY K. LO, JEAN-PIERRE MACQUART, NANDA REA, UMAA REBBAPRAGADA, CORMAC REYNOLDS, STUART D. RYDER, BRIAN SCHMIDT, ROBERTO SORIA, INGRID H. STAIRS, STEVEN J. TINGAY, ULF TORKELSSON, KIRI WAGSTAFF, MARK WALKER, RANDALL B. WAYTH, PETER K. G. WILLIAMS Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2013, e006 The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) will give us an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the transient sky at radio wavelengths. In this paper we present VAST, an ASKAP survey for Variables and Slow Transients. VAST will exploit the wide-field survey capabilities of ASKAP to enable the discovery and investigation of variable and transient phenomena from the local to the cosmological, including flare stars, intermittent pulsars, X-ray binaries, magnetars, extreme scattering events, interstellar scintillation, radio supernovae, and orphan afterglows of gamma-ray bursts. In addition, it will allow us to probe unexplored regions of parameter space where new classes of transient sources may be detected. In this paper we review the known radio transient and variable populations and the current results from blind radio surveys. We outline a comprehensive program based on a multi-tiered survey strategy to characterise the radio transient sky through detection and monitoring of transient and variable sources on the ASKAP imaging timescales of 5 s and greater. We also present an analysis of the expected source populations that we will be able to detect with VAST. COMMISSION 5: DOCUMENTATION AND ASTRONOMICAL DATA Masatoshi Ohishi, Robert J. Hanisch, Ray P. Norris, Heinz Andernach, Marsha Bishop, Elizabeth Griffin, Ajit Kembhavi, Tara Murphy, Fabio Pasian Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 7 / Issue T28A / December 2011 IAU Commission 5 (http://www.nao.ac.jp/IAU/Com5/) deals with data management issues, and its working groups and task group deal specifically with information handling, with data centers and networks, with technical aspects of collection, archiving, storage and dissemination of data, with designations and classification of astronomical objects, with library services, editorial policies, computer communications, ad hoc methodologies, and with various standards, reference frames, etc. FITS (Flexible Image Transport System), the major data exchange format in astronomy, has been standardized, maintained and updated by the FITS working group under Commission 5. Reflections on a Week in Oxford Tara Murphy Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 7 / Issue S285 / September 2011 When Bob asked me a couple of days ago to give this talk, he said it should be “pithy and wise.” When I spoke to Aris the next day he said it should be “informal and funny.” Then Elizabeth spoke to me and said it would be great if it was “controversial and challenging.” I mentioned to Aris just before dinner that I had put a talk together, and he said “Oh, you've written a talk—I thought it would be something more spontaneous!” Faced with an obviously impossible spec, I did what any reasonable programmer would do and rewrote the spec myself. So what I'm going to talk about this evening is a reflection on my week in Oxford. Using the VO to Study the Time Domain Rob Seaman, Roy Williams, Matthew Graham, Tara Murphy Just as the astronomical “Time Domain” is a catch-phrase for a diverse group of different science objectives involving time-varying phenomena in all astrophysical régimes from the solar system to cosmological scales, so the “Virtual Observatory” is a complex set of community-wide activities from archives to astroinformatics. This workshop touched on some aspects of adapting and developing those semantic and network technologies in order to address transient and time-domain research challenges. It discussed the VOEvent format for representing alerts and reports on celestial transient events, the SkyAlert and ATELstream facilities for distributing these alerts, and the IVOA time-series protocol and time-series tools provided by the VAO. Those tools and infrastructure are available today to address the real-world needs of astronomers. Classification of ASKAP VAST Radio Light Curves† Umaa Rebbapragada, Kitty Lo, Kiri L. Wagstaff, Colorado Reed, Tara Murphy, David R. Thompson The VAST survey is a wide-field survey that observes with unprecedented instrument sensitivity (0.5 mJy or lower) and repeat cadence (a goal of 5 seconds) that will enable novel scientific discoveries related to known and unknown classes of radio transients and variables. Given the unprecedented observing characteristics of VAST, it is important to estimate source classification performance, and determine best practices prior to the launch of ASKAP's BETA in 2012. The goal of this study is to identify light-curve characterization and classification algorithms that are best suited for archival VAST light-curve classification. We perform our experiments on light-curve simulations of eight source types and achieve best-case performance of approximately 90% accuracy. We note that classification performance is most influenced by light-curve characterization rather than classifier algorithm. By Frances Aitchison, Prasad Bheemasenachar, John Bleasdale, Andrew Burtenshaw, John Clift, Neil Crooks, Fang Gao Smith, Nageena Hussain, Santhana Kannan, Zahid Khan, Anil Kumar, Edwin Mitchell, Randeep Mullhi, Nick Murphy, Darshan Pandit, Mamta Patel, Gavin Perkins, Ping Ng Khai, Elinor Powell, George Pulikal, Isma Quasim, Tara Quasim, Nick Sherwood, Angeline Simons, Harjot Singh, Richard Skone, Catherine Snelson, Roger Stedman, David Thickett, Yasser Tolba, Bill Tunnicliffe, Sandeep Walia, Tony Whitehouse, Joyce Yeung Edited by Fang Gao Smith, University of Warwick Edited in association with Joyce Yeung Book: Core Topics in Critical Care Medicine Print publication: 22 April 2010, pp vii-viii The Australia Telescope 20 GHz (AT20G) Survey Elizabeth Mahony, Ron Ekers, Marcella Massardi, Tara Murphy, Elaine Sadler Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 5 / Issue S267 / August 2009 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2010, p. 264 The recently completed AT20G survey provides the largest and most complete sample of high-frequency selected radio sources yet obtained, and offers new insights into the nature of the high-frequency active galaxy population. Here we focus on the optical properties of this survey which highlights the difference of the AT20G source population compared to other radio-selected AGN samples. New Galactic ISM results and progress towards low-frequency spectroscopy Anne J. Green, Tara Murphy, Duncan Campbell-Wilson, Michael Kesteven, John Bunton Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 2 / Issue 14 / August 2006 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2006, p. 368 We dicuss new Galactic ISM results and progress towards low-frequency spectroscopy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line139
__label__wiki	0.602554	0.602554	Materials Research (10) Powder Diffraction (2) Annals of Glaciology (1) Bulletin of Entomological Research (1) Geological Magazine (1) International Glaciological Society (1) Effects of force-feeding on immunology, digestive function and oxidative stress in the duodenal and jejunal mucosa of Pekin ducks Y. H. Liu, X. Y. Zhu, L. Q. Huang, Y. X. Jia, Z. F. Xia Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 April 2019, pp. 1-8 Force-feeding was considered as a traditional high-efficiency approach to improve growth performance and accelerate fat deposition of Pekin ducks. However, force-feeding is a serious violation of international advocacy on animal welfare, because it can induce serious injuries to animals, such as damages to the digestive tract, effects on immunity and even severe oxidative stress. Therefore, it is urgent to stop force-feeding. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of force feeding on immune function, digestive function and oxidative stress in the mucosa of duodenum and jejunum of Pekin ducks. A total of 500 ducks were randomly divided into two groups. The control group was allowed to feed freely on a basal diet. The experimental group was force-fed by inserting a plastic feeding tube 8 to 10 inches long down the esophagus for 6 days. Compared with the control group, there was a significant (P<0.05) increase in serum diamine oxidase, d-lactic acid, endotoxin and corticosterone levels in the force-feeding group. The crypt depth in duodenum and jejunum showed significant differences (P<0.05) between the two groups and the intestinal villus epithelium cell was severely damaged in force-feeding group. Similarly, the activities of digestive enzymes as well as the levels of immune function in the duodenal and jejunal mucosa in the force-feeding group were significantly higher than the control group (P<0.05). However, there was a significant decrease in the superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase and catalase levels with a marked increase in malondialdehyde level in duodenal and jejunal mucosa (P<0.05). In summary, at the end of the fattening period with force-feeding for 6 days, Pekin ducks experienced an adverse effect on the integrity of their duodenal and jejunal mucosa epithelium cell as well as their immune function and antioxidant capacity of Pekin ducks but also had improvement in digestive enzyme activities. A new species of Platysiagum from the Luoping Biota (Anisian, Middle Triassic, Yunnan, South China) reveals the relationship between Platysiagidae and Neopterygii W. WEN, S. X. HU, Q. Y. ZHANG, M. J. BENTON, J. KRIWET, Z. Q. CHEN, C. Y. ZHOU, T. XIE, J. Y. HUANG Journal: Geological Magazine / Volume 156 / Issue 4 / April 2019 Four complete platysiagid fish specimens are described from the Luoping Biota, Anisian (Middle Triassic), Yunnan Province, southwest China. They are small fishes with bones and scales covered with ganoine. All characters observed, such as nasals meeting in the midline, a keystone-like dermosphenotic, absence of post-rostral bone, two infraorbitals between dermosphenotic and jugal, large antorbital, and two postcleithra, suggest that the new materials belong to a single, new Platysiagum species, P. sinensis sp. nov. Three genera are ascribed to Platysiagidae: Platysiagum, Helmolepis and Caelatichthys. However, most specimens of the first two genera are imprints or fragmentary. The new, well-preserved specimens from the Luoping Biota provide more detailed anatomical information than before, and thus help amend the concept of the Platysiagidae. The Family Platysiagidae was previously classed in the Perleidiformes. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that the Platysiagidae is a member of basal Neopterygii, and its origin seems to predate that of Perleidiformes. Moreover, platysiagid fishes are known from the Middle Triassic of the western Tethys region. The newly found specimens of platysiagids from Luoping provide additional evidence that both eastern and western sides of the Tethys Ocean were biogeographically more connected than previously thought. Genotype and genetic variation of HCV infections with low-risk factors in Putian coastal regions, China X. M. LI, R. X. QIU, C. H. SONG, Q. H. HUANG, X. D. WANG, Z. T. HU, X. Z. HE, X. Y. YE, X. G. HUANG, F. F. ZHENG, G. X. LIN Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 145 / Issue 16 / December 2017 Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is one of the leading causes of death and morbidity associated with liver disease. Risk factors identified for the transmission of HCV include contaminated blood products, intravenous drug use, body piercing, an infected mother at birth, sexual activity, and dental therapy, among others. However, the exact diversity of the HCV genotype and genetic variation among patients with low-risk factors is still unknown. In this study, we briefly described and analysed the genotype distribution and genetic variation of HCV infections with low-risk factors using molecular biology techniques. The results suggested that genotype 1b was predominant, followed by genotypes 2a and 1a. Genetic variations in the 5′ UTR sequences of HCV were identified, including point mutations, deletions, and insertions. The frequency of genetic variations in 1b was higher than in 2a. This study provides considerable value for the prevention and treatment of liver disease caused by HCV among patients with low-risk factors and for the development of HCV diagnostic reagents and vaccines. Effective thermal conductivity of reservoir freshwater ice with attention to high temperature W. Huang, Z. Li, X. Liu, H. Zhao, S. Guo, Q. Jia Journal: Annals of Glaciology / Volume 54 / Issue 62 / 2013 A study on effective thermal conductivity (ETC) of natural ice in a reservoir with <3% gas content and ∼300 mg L−1 dissolved matter content in the parent water was conducted in a laboratory. Ice sections were prepared to obtain the ice crystal structure, gas bubble content and ice density. Profiles of horizontal and vertical thermal conductivity of ice samples were determined with attention to relatively high temperature spanning 0 to –10°C. A detailed comparative analysis was conducted of the effects on ETC of direction, ice crystal structure, gas bubbles and temperature. Gas inclusions had little impact on the thermal conductivity of natural reservoir ice due to their quite low content (<3%). At high ice temperature the ETC decreases remarkably as ice temperature approaches the melting point, as the ETC of sea ice does due to its brine volume at ice temperature approaching its melting point. The measured conductivities for temperatures higher than –4°C were less than expected from previous work on saline ice. Whether this was due to the measurement techniques or actual properties of the reservoir ice is not clear. The present findings could lead to better understanding of the thermal processes of ice in natural freshwater bodies. MicroRNA-499-5p regulates porcine myofiber specification by controlling Sox6 expression X. Y. Wang, X. L. Chen, Z. Q. Huang, D. W. Chen, B. Yu, J. He, J. Q. Luo, Y. H. Luo, H. Chen, P. Zheng, J. Yu MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs that negatively regulate gene expression of target messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and miRNAs have been proven to play vital roles in skeletal muscle development. The miRNA-499-5p has been reported to be negatively related with the expression of Sox6, a critical transcription factor for the maintenance of fast-twitch skeletal muscle. In this study, we amplified a length of 2012-bp mRNA that contains a 1512-bp porcine Sox6 (pSox6) 3'UTR from skeletal muscle of a Duroc×Landrace×Yorkshire pig. By luciferase reporter assay we verified that pSox6 is a target of miR-499-5p. In extensor digitorum longus and Soleus muscles of pigs, the expression levels of miR-499-5p and pSox6 mRNA were also inversely correlated. Besides, overexpression of miR-499-5p in porcine satellite cells promoted the expression of MyHC I and MyHC IIa mRNA, along with a reduction of pSox6 mRNA. Taken together, these results indicate that miR-499-5p may facilitate the oxidative myofibers formation by downregulating pSox6 expression. Number of attacks by Trichogramma dendrolimi (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) affects the successful parasitism of Ostrinia furnacalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) eggs J. Huang, H.-Q. Hua, L.-Y. Wang, F. Zhang, Y.-X Li Journal: Bulletin of Entomological Research / Volume 107 / Issue 6 / December 2017 In laboratories, the parasitism rate of Ostrinia furnacalis (Güenée) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) eggs by Trichogramma dendrolimi Matsumura (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) is low; however, efforts to control O. furnacalis with T. dendrolimi in the field have been successful. In this study, the effects of the number of attacks by T. dendrolimi against O. furnacalis eggs and diet of O. furnacalis larva on wasp development were investigated. The results indicated that more attacks increased significantly not only the successful parasitism rate of O. furnacalis eggs by T. dendrolimi, but also the percentage of host eggs that failed to develop into either O. furnacalis larvae or T. dendrolimi. Both the size and female proportion of T. dendrolimi offspring decreased as the number of attacks increased. The number of T. dendrolimi eggs laid in per host egg increased significantly as the ratio of wasps to host eggs increased from 1:5 to 3:5. Host diet also significantly affected the developmental time of immaturity and the emergence rate of adults of T. dendrolimi. These results illustrate how inundative releases of T. dendrolimi can successfully control O. furnacalis despite the fact that pest parasitism by the subsequent wasp generation decreases sharply in the field. The suitability of O. furnacalis eggs to T. dendrolimi and the superparasitism effects on offspring of T. dendrolimi are discussed. The Galactic mass distribution from the LAMOST Galactic spectroscopic surveys Y. Huang, X.-W. Liu, H.-B. Yuan, H.-W. Zhang, M.-S. Xiang, B.-Q. Chen, C. Wang Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 12 / Issue S330 / April 2017 Using the data from the LAMOST Galactic spectroscopic surveys and some other surveys, we have started a series of work to measure the mass distribution of our Galaxy. As a result of the first-stage, we have constructed the Galactic rotation curve out to 100 kpc and the Galactic escape velocity curve between 5 and 14 kpc. From the two curves, we have built parametrized mass models for our Galaxy, respectively. Both models yield a similar result for the Milky Way's virial mass: ~ 0.9 × 1012 M⊙. Galactic disk structure as revealed by LAMOST A stars B.-Q. Chen, X.-W. Liu, H.-B. Yuan, Y. Huang, M.-S. Xiang, C. Wang, Z.-J. Tian, H.-W. Zhang Using the spectroscopic distances of over 0.12 million A-type stars selected from the LAMOST Spectroscopic Survey of the Galactic Anti-center (LSS-GAC), we map their three-dimensional number density distributions in the Galaxy. These stellar number density maps allow an investigation of the Galactic young age thin disk structure with no a priori assumptions about the functional form of its components. The data show strong evidence for a significant flaring young disk. A more detail analysis show that the stellar flaring have different behaviours between the Northern and the Southern Galactic disks. The maps also reveal spatially coherent, kpc-scale stellar substructure in the thin disk. Finally, we detect the Perseus arm stellar overdensity at R ~ 10 kpc. Patterns and correlates of major depression in Chinese adults: a cross-sectional study of 0.5 million men and women Y. Chen, D. Bennett, R. Clarke, Y. Guo, C. Yu, Z. Bian, L. Ma, Y. Huang, Q. Sun, N. Zhang, X. Zheng, J. Chen, R. Peto, K. S. Kendler, L. Li, Z. Chen Worldwide 350 million people suffer from major depression, with the majority of cases occurring in low- and middle-income countries. We examined the patterns, correlates and care-seeking behaviour of adults suffering from major depressive episode (MDE) in China. A nationwide study recruited 512 891 adults aged 30–79 years from 10 provinces across China during 2004–2008. The 12-month prevalence of MDE was assessed by the Modified Composite International Diagnostic Interview-short form. Logistic regression yielded adjusted odds ratios (ORs) of MDE associated with socio-economic, lifestyle and health-related factors and major stressful life events. Overall, 0.7% of participants had MDE and a further 2.4% had major depressive symptoms. Stressful life events were strongly associated with MDE [adjusted OR 14.7, 95% confidence interval (CI) 13.7–15.7], with a dose–response relationship with the number of such events experienced. Family conflict had the highest OR for MDE (18.9, 95% CI 16.8–21.2) among the 10 stressful life events. The risk of MDE was also positively associated with rural residency (OR 1.5, 95% CI 1.4–1.7), low income (OR 2.3, 95% CI 2.1–2.4), living alone (OR 2.6, 95% CI 2.3–3.0), smoking (OR 1.4, 95% CI 1.3–1.6) and certain other mental disorders (e.g. anxiety, phobia). Similar, albeit weaker, associations were observed with depressive symptoms. Among those with MDE, about 15% sought medical help or took psychiatric medication, 15% reported having suicidal ideation and 6% reported attempting suicide. Among Chinese adults, the patterns and correlates of MDE were generally consistent with those observed in the West. The low rates of seeking professional help and treatment highlight the great gap in mental health services in China. Risk assessment of dengue fever in Zhongshan, China: a time-series regression tree analysis K.-K. LIU, T. WANG, X.-D. HUANG, G.-L. WANG, Y. XIA, Y.-T. ZHANG, Q.-L. JING, J.-W. HUANG, X.-X. LIU, J.-H. LU, W.-B. HU Dengue fever (DF) is the most prevalent and rapidly spreading mosquito-borne disease globally. Control of DF is limited by barriers to vector control and integrated management approaches. This study aimed to explore the potential risk factors for autochthonous DF transmission and to estimate the threshold effects of high-order interactions among risk factors. A time-series regression tree model was applied to estimate the hierarchical relationship between reported autochthonous DF cases and the potential risk factors including the timeliness of DF surveillance systems (median time interval between symptom onset date and diagnosis date, MTIOD), mosquito density, imported cases and meteorological factors in Zhongshan, China from 2001 to 2013. We found that MTIOD was the most influential factor in autochthonous DF transmission. Monthly autochthonous DF incidence rate increased by 36·02-fold [relative risk (RR) 36·02, 95% confidence interval (CI) 25·26–46·78, compared to the average DF incidence rate during the study period] when the 2-month lagged moving average of MTIOD was >4·15 days and the 3-month lagged moving average of the mean Breteau Index (BI) was ⩾16·57. If the 2-month lagged moving average MTIOD was between 1·11 and 4·15 days and the monthly maximum diurnal temperature range at a lag of 1 month was <9·6 °C, the monthly mean autochthonous DF incidence rate increased by 14·67-fold (RR 14·67, 95% CI 8·84–20·51, compared to the average DF incidence rate during the study period). This study demonstrates that the timeliness of DF surveillance systems, mosquito density and diurnal temperature range play critical roles in the autochthonous DF transmission in Zhongshan. Better assessment and prediction of the risk of DF transmission is beneficial for establishing scientific strategies for DF early warning surveillance and control. Mitochondrial biogenesis is decreased in skeletal muscle of pig fetuses exposed to maternal high-energy diets T. D. Zou, B. Yu, J. Yu, X. B. Mao, P. Zheng, J. He, Z. Q. Huang, D. T. He, D. W. Chen Journal: animal / Volume 11 / Issue 1 / January 2017 Mitochondria plays an important role in the regulation of energy homeostasis. Moreover, mitochondrial biogenesis accompanies skeletal myogenesis, and we previously reported that maternal high-energy diet repressed skeletal myogenesis in pig fetuses. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of moderately increased maternal energy intake on skeletal muscle mitochondrial biogenesis and function of the pig fetuses. Primiparous purebred Large White sows were allocated to a normal energy intake group (NE) as recommended by the National Research Council (NRC) and a high energy intake group (HE, 110% of NRC recommendations). On day 90 of gestation, fetal umbilical vein blood and longissimus (LM) muscle were collected. Results showed that the weight gain of sows fed HE diet was higher than NE sows on day 90 of gestation (P<0.05). Maternal HE diet increased fetal umbilical vein serum triglyceride and insulin concentrations (P<0.05), and tended to increase the homeostasis model assessment index (P=0.08). Furthermore, HE fetuses exhibited increased malondialdehyde concentration (P<0.05), and decreased activities of antioxidative enzymes (P<0.05) and intracellular NAD+ level (P<0.05) in LM muscle. These alterations in metabolic traits of HE fetuses were accompanied by reduced mitochondrial DNA amount (P<0.05) and down-regulated messenger RNA expression levels of genes responsible for mitochondrial biogenesis and function (P<0.05). Our results suggest that moderately increased energy supply during gestation decreases mitochondrial biogenesis, function and antioxidative capacity in skeletal muscle of pig fetuses. Clinical and immunological analysis of measles patients admitted to a Beijing hospital in 2014 during an outbreak in China B. TU, J.-J. ZHAO, Y. HU, J.-L. FU, H-H. HUANG, Y.-X. XIE, X. ZHANG, L. SHI, P. ZHAO, X.-W. ZHANG, D. WU, Z. XU, Z.-P. ZHOU, E.-Q. QIN, F.-S. WANG Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 144 / Issue 12 / September 2016 At the end of 2013, China reported a countrywide outbreak of measles. From January to May 2014, we investigated the clinical and immunological features of the cases of the outbreak admitted to our hospital. In this study, all 112 inpatients with clinically diagnosed measles were recruited from the 302 Military Hospital of China. The virus was isolated from throat swabs from these patients, and cytokine profiles were examined. By detecting the measles virus of 30 of the 112 patients, we found that this measles outbreak was of the H1 genotype, which is the major strain in China. The rates of complications, specifically pneumonia and liver injury, differed significantly in patients aged <8 months, 8 months to 18 years, and >18 years: pneumonia was more common in children, while liver injury was more common in adults. Pneumonia was a significant independent risk factor affecting measles duration. Compared to healthy subjects, measles patients had fewer CD4+IL-17+, CD4+IFN-γ +, and CD8+IFN-γ + cells in both the acute and recovery phases. In contrast, measles patients in the acute phase had more CD8+IL-22+ cells than those in recovery or healthy subjects. We recommend that future studies focus on the age-related distribution of pneumonia and liver injury as measles-related complications as well as the association between immunological markers and measles prognosis. High energy electron radiography scheme with high spatial and temporal resolution in three dimension based on a e-LINAC Y. Zhao, Z. Zhang, W. Gai, Y. Du, S. Cao, J. Qiu, Q. Zhao, R. Cheng, X. Zhou, J. Ren, W. Huang, C. Tang, H. Xu, W. Zhan We present a scheme of electron beam radiography to dynamically diagnose the high energy density (HED) matter in three orthogonal directions simultaneously based on electron Linear Accelerator. The dynamic target information such as, its profile and density could be obtained through imaging the scattered electron beam passing through the target. Using an electron bunch train with flexible time structure, a very high temporal evolution could be achieved. In this proposed scheme, it is possible to obtain 1010 frames/second in one experimental event, and the temporal resolution can go up to 1 ps, spatial resolution to 1 µm. Successful demonstration of this concept will have a major impact for both future inertial confinement fusion science and HED physics research. Characteristics of the acidity and sulphate fractions in acid sulphate soils and their relationship with rice yield Q. HUANG, S. TANG, X. HUANG, S. YANG, Q. YI Most acid sulphate soils (ASSs) in the Pearl River Delta of South China have been traditionally reclaimed for rice cultivation, but the rice yield in most of these paddy fields is lower than the average rice yield in China due to extremely high soil acidity. In the present study, a range of sulphate and acidity parameters were investigated in ASS profiles in three types of paddy fields in Taishan City (Guangdong Province, China) divided based on the local rice productivity (4500, 3000 and 1500 kg/ha) using an abandoned ASS (uncultivated) as the control treatment to ascertain key yield constraining parameters. Soluble acidity (SA), exchangeable acidity (ExA), soluble sulphate (SS) and net acid-soluble sulphate (NAS) increased with increasing soil depths from 0 to 100 cm and then decreased abruptly with further increases in the depth. However, the depth distribution of exchangeable sulphate (ES) was uniform. The soil acidity and sulphate contents differed significantly in three sampled paddy fields. The values of SA and SS in the soils at depths of 0–100 cm in the studied ASS were lower compared with those in the uncultivated ASS and the ExA in soils at depths of 0–40 cm in ASS were lower compared with those observed in the uncultivated ASS. A correlation analysis revealed that SA was strongly correlated with SS and ExA with NAS. Soluble acidity, ExA, SS and NAS in the ASS were significantly associated with rice yield. Exchangeable acidity in the plough layer (0–20 cm) of soils was the most sensitive indicator of soil quality affecting rice yield among those in soils from 0 to 140 cm depth. It is interesting to note that SA, SS and NAS were more sensitive indicators of soil quality affecting rice yield at 60–100 cm than at 0–40 cm depth. Principal component analysis showed that pH value, ExA and ES in soils at depths of 0–40 cm and SA, SS and NAS in soils at depths of 60–100 cm constituted the critical soil acidity and sulphate characteristics that were strongly correlated with rice yields. This finding implies that controlling the ExA in the plough layer and the SA and NAS in the Jarosite layer should be the major focus of studies aimed at the amelioration of ASSs. Identification and fine mapping of lemma-distortion1, a single recessive gene playing an essential role in the development of lemma in rice D. W. YANG, X. F. YE, X. H. ZHENG, C. P. CHENG, N. YE, L. B. LU, F. H. HUANG, Q. Q. LI Journal: The Journal of Agricultural Science / Volume 154 / Issue 6 / August 2016 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2016, pp. 989-1001 Floral organ development influences plant reproduction and crop yield. The mechanism of floral organ specification is generally conserved in angiosperms as demonstrated by the ‘ABC’ model. However, mechanisms underlying the development of floral organs in specific groups of species such as grasses remain unclear. In the genus Oryza (rice), a spikelet consists of a fertile floret sub-tended by a lemma, a palea, two sterile lemmas and rudimentary glumes. To understand how the lemma is formed, a curve-shaped lemma-distortion1 (ld1) mutant was identified. Genetic analysis confirmed that the ld1 mutant phenotype was due to a single recessive gene mutation. Using a large F 2 population, the LD1 gene was mapped between markers Indel-7-15 and Indel-7-18, which encompassed a region of 15·6 kilo base pairs (kbp). According to rice genome annotations, two putative genes, LOC_Os07g32510 and LOC_Os07g32520, were located in this candidate region. However, DNA sequencing results indicated only 1 base pair (bp) substitution (T⇨C) was found in LOC_Os07g32510 between the wild-type and the ld1 mutant. Thus LOC_Os07g32510, encoding a DNA binding with one zinc finger (DoF) containing protein, was the candidate gene for LD1. Further analysis showed that mutation of the amino acid cysteine (C) to arginine (R) was likely to lead to zinc finger protein deactivation. Phylogenetic and conservation analysis of the gene from different species revealed that cysteine was critical to LD1 function. As a new gene controlling lemma development, the study of LD1 could provide insights into rice floral organ formation mechanisms. Effect of flaxseed on the fatty acid profile of egg yolk and antioxidant status of their neonatal offspring in Huoyan geese W. Chen, Y. Y. Jiang, J. P. Wang, B. X. Yan, Y. Q. Huang, Z. X. Wang The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of geese’s maternal diet supplemented with flaxseed on the fatty acid profiles of egg yolks and the antioxidant status of their offspring. A total of 288 female Huoyan geese (42 weeks old) were randomly allotted to four experimental groups in this 56-day experiment and fed on diets containing flaxseed at 0% (control), 5%, 10% and 15%, respectively. There were nine replicate pens per treatment, with eight geese per replicate pen. The concentration of α-linolenic acid (linear, P<0.01), EPA (20:5n-3; linear, P<0.01), DHA (22:6n-3; quadratic, P=0.03) and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) (linear, P<0.01) levels in the yolk lipids increased with increasing dietary flaxseed levels. Yolk palmitic acid (16:0, linear, P=0.05), saturated fatty acid (linear, P=0.04) level and total n-6/n-3 ratio (P<0.01) decreased in a linear fashion as dietary flaxseed levels increased. Increasing dietary flaxseed levels linearly decreased (P=0.01) the total cholesterol in egg yolks. After hatching, three 1-day-old gosling were selected randomly from each replicate to determine blood characteristics and liver antioxidant status. Aspartate aminotransferase activity (linear, P=0.03), total triglycerides (linear, P=0.02) and total cholesterol (linear, P=0.05) contents in blood linearly decreased as the levels of flaxseed increased. A linear dose response to maternal dietary flaxseed was detected for the activities of the goslings’ liver enzymes catalase (linear, P=0.01), superoxide dismutase (linear, P<0.01) and glutathione peroxidase (linear, P<0.01). The malondialdehyde (quadratic, P=0.03) and alkaline phosphatase content in the livers of goslings decreased as flaxseed supplementation levels increased. In conclusion, the dietary addition of flaxseed up to 15%, in the maternal diet resulted in increased n-3 PUFA levels in egg yolks and improved the antioxidant status of offspring in a dose-dependent manner. Differential expression of lipid metabolism-related genes and myosin heavy chain isoform genes in pig muscle tissue leading to different meat quality C. Zhang, J. Q. Luo, P. Zheng, B. Yu, Z. Q. Huang, X. B. Mao, J. He, J. Yu, J. L. Chen, D. W. Chen Journal: animal / Volume 9 / Issue 6 / June 2015 The aim of this study was to investigate the variations in meat quality, lipid metabolism-related genes, myosin heavy chain (MyHC) isoform genes and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator-1α (PGC-1α) gene mRNA expressions in longissimus dorsi muscle (LM) of two different pig breeds. Six Rongchang and six Landrace barrows were slaughtered at 161 days of age. Subsequently, meat quality traits and gene expression levels in LM were observed. Results showed that Rongchang pigs not only exhibited greater pH, CIE a24 h and intramuscular fat content but also exhibited lower body weight, carcass weight, dressing percentage, LM area and CIE b24 h compared with Landrace pigs (P<0.05). Meanwhile, the mRNA expression levels of the lipogenesis (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma, acetyl-CoA carboxylase and fatty acid synthase) and fatty acid uptake (lipoprotein lipase)-related genes were greater in the Rongchang (P<0.05), whereas the lipolysis (adipose triglyceride lipase and hormone sensitive lipase) and fatty acid oxidation (carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1B)-related genes were better expressed in the Landrace. Moreover, compared with the Landrace, the mRNA expression levels of MyHCI, MyHCIIa and MyHCIIx were greater, whereas the mRNA expression levels of MyHCIIb were lower in the Rongchang pigs (P<0.05). In addition, the mRNA expression levels of PGC-1α were greater in Rongchang pigs than in the Landrace (P<0.05), which can partly explain the differences in MyHC isoform gene expressions between Rongchang and Landrace pigs. Although the small number of samples does not allow to obtain a definitive conclusion, we can suggest that Rongchang pigs possess better meat quality, and the underlying molecular mechanisms responsible for the better meat quality in fatty pigs may be partly due to the higher mRNA expression levels of lipogenesis and fatty acid uptake-related genes, as well as the oxidative and intermediate muscle fibers, and due to the lower mRNA expression levels of lipolysis and fatty acid oxidation-related genes, as well as the glycolytic muscle fibers. MicroRNA-27a promotes porcine myoblast proliferation by downregulating myostatin expression T. Yang, X. L. Chen, Z. Q. Huang, W. X. Wen, M. Xu, D. W. Chen, B. Yu, J. He, J. Q. Luo, J. Yu, X. B. Mao, P. Zheng MicroRNAs are endogenous ~22nt RNAs that negatively regulate gene expression at the posttranscriptional level via binding to the 3′-untranslated region (3′UTR) of target mRNAs. The microRNA miR-27a was reported to depress the expression of myostatin, a critical inhibitor of skeletal myogenesis, by binding to its 3′UTR in mouse. In this study, we cloned the full-length 3′UTR of porcine myostatin by rapid amplification of 3′-cDNA ends (3′-RACE) and demonstrated that the 3′UTR of porcine myostatin is targeted by miR-27a. The phenomenon that the level of myostatin inversely correlated with miR-27a was observed in fat and heart of pigs and also in proliferating porcine myoblasts. Besides, overexpression of miR-27a in porcine myoblasts promoted cell proliferation by reducing the expression of myostatin. Our data suggest that miR-27a positive regulates porcine myoblast proliferation via targeting myostatin. Seroprevalence of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in southeastern China and analysis of risk factors J. M. SUN, Y.J. ZHANG, Z. Y. GONG, L. ZHANG, H. K. LV, J. F. LIN, C. L. CHAI, F. LING, S. L. LIU, S. P. GU, Z. H. ZHU, X. H. ZHENG, Y. Q. LAN, F. DING, W. Z. HUANG, J. R. XU, E. F. CHEN, J. M. JIANG Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 143 / Issue 4 / March 2015 Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) has been prevalent for some time in China and it was first identified in 2010. However, the seroprevalence of SFTSV in the general population in southeastern China and risk factors associated with the infection are currently unclear. Blood samples were collected from seven counties across Zhejiang province and tested for the presence of SFTSV-specific IgG antibodies by ELISA. A total of 1380 blood samples were collected of which 5·51% were seropositive for SFTSV with seroprevalence varying significantly between sites. Seroprevalence of SFTSV in people who were family members of the patient, lived in the same village as the patient, or lived in a different village than the patient varied significantly. There was significant difference in seroprevalence between participants who bred domestic animals and participants who did not. Domestic animals are probably potential reservoir hosts and contact with domestic animals may be a transmission route of SFTSV.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line140
__label__cc	0.57368	0.42632	Annual data 2018a Historical averages (%) 2014-18 Population (m) 4.7 Population growth 6.2 GDP (US$ m; market exchange rate) 141,698b Real GDP growth 0.3 GDP (US$ m; purchasing power parity) 304,995 Real domestic demand growth 4.1 GDP per head (US$; market exchange rate) 30,358 Inflation 2.2 GDP per head (US$; purchasing power parity) 65,343 Current-account balance (% of GDP) 12.4 Exchange rate (av) KD:US$ 0.302b FDI inflows (% of GDP) 0.4 a Economist Intelligence Unit estimates. b Actual. Background: Formerly a British protectorate, Kuwait gained independence in 1961 as an emirate under the hereditary rule of the Al Sabah family. The economy is dominated by oil, allowing the government to enjoy substantial powers of patronage and drawing in expatriate workers. Kuwait has long had a troubled relationship with Iraq, which periodically contested the countries' shared border arrangements during the late 1960s. In 1990 Kuwait was temporarily annexed by Iraq under the regime of Saddam Hussein. A US-led military coalition ousted Iraq in the 1991 Gulf war, after which Kuwait became closely aligned with the US. Political tensions with Iraq have risen periodically but have improved since 2012. Political structure: Ultimate executive power is held by the emir, who appoints the prime minister and the government, in which the ruling Al Sabah family usually holds key ministries. Kuwait also has a strong electoral tradition, however, with a vocal National Assembly, which can reject government legislation and cross-examine cabinet ministers. Previously kept in check by the ruling family's power of patronage, the elected legislature of 50 members of parliament (MPs) has grown in confidence. Although the National Assembly election in July 2013 resulted in a more representative parliament than its predecessor, tensions between the executive and parliament persisted, leading the emir to dissolve parliament in October 2016 and call an early election, which resulted in a sharp pick-up in the number of opposition MPs in parliament. Policy issues: Executive-legislative tensions have resulted in repeated early elections, but do not endanger Al Sabah dominance. Many of the political elite continue to reject foreign investment to boost production capacity in the upstream oil sector. Sunni-Shia relations are broadly good, but sectarian tensions have risen on the back of the rise of the Sunni Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq and Syria, as well as the bombing by IS in June 2015 of a Shia mosque in Kuwait City. Taxation: There is no individual income tax, and tax on nationals is limited to zakat (charitable) deductions. Long-standing proposals to introduce a 15% flat-rate income tax on Kuwaiti nationals are highly unlikely to be approved by parliament. There is no general consumption tax and few indirect taxes, although a value-added tax (VAT) is expected to be introduced in 2021. In 2oo8 taxes on foreign businesses, which formerly ranged up to 55% in the energy sector, were cut to a flat rate of 15%, and capital-gains tax on stockmarket holdings was abolished. Foreign trade: Kuwait's export earnings are almost entirely determined by oil revenue, resulting in wide variations according to the price of Kuwaiti oil on world markets. Major exports 2016 % of total Major imports 2016 % of total Oil & oil products 88.9 Intermediate goods 40.0 Non-oil 11.1 Consumer goods 40.0 Capital goods 19.7 Leading markets 2017 % of total Leading suppliers 2017 % of total China 15.2 China 16.4 South Korea 16.0 UAE 8.7 India 10.5 Japan 5.1 Japan 10.1 US 10.2 Gulf Co-operation Council states mull financing challenges GCC states are financially constrained by continued reliance on oil revenue amid flat prices and output constraints. Kuwait trumpets offshore debut Following the award of the contract, offshore drilling work should finally commence, albeit amid wider upstream stasis. Climate change hits energy-dependent Kuwait Record temperatures may force the government to confront the issue of climate change and consider renewable energy.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line142
__label__wiki	0.951638	0.951638	ASCE Issues & Advocacy David P. Willis: NJ utilities want $12B in upgrades; AARP says it's too much 2019-03-14 \| Asbury Park Press March 14-- Mar. 14--TRENTON -- We can't afford utility bill increases, amounting to $12 billion in proposals by AARP's count as of December, an organizer said. "Not a penny more." "Right now, many residents are struggling with the high costs of utility services," said Evelyn Liebman, AARP New Jersey's director of advocacy, outside the State House Annex in Trenton on Wednesday. "While always a pocketbook issue, we can never forget that these services are also lifeline services, meaning people depend on them for basic heath and safety." Residential electric rates are the ninth highest in the continental United States, she said. "Fixed- and low-income consumers are particularly hard hit." AARP was joined by Clean Water Action, Environment New Jersey, the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club, the New Jersey Main Street Alliance and the Anti-Poverty Network of New Jersey. Utilities, including Public Service Electric and Gas, Jersey Central Power Light and Elizabethtown Gas, have proposals before the state Board of Public Utilities to raise rates to cover its costs for infrastructure improvements and other programs, including energy efficiency measures. Watch the video at the top of this story to learn more about JCP's request. "The board takes seriously its mission to ensure that safe, adequate, and proper utility services are provided at reasonable rates," BPU spokesman Peter Peretzman said in a statement. "We seek and appreciate public and stakeholder input and take the impact on ratepayers into account when making decisions." On Wednesday, the BPU said Atlantic City Electric, which serves more than 500,000 customers in South Jersey, could raise monthly bills by 6.12 percent, or about $7.34 for the typical residential customer using 679 kilowatt hours of electricity. Initially the company had sought a 9.55 percent increase. Regulators approved a settlement, which granted a $70 million change in electric delivery rates to pay for system enhancement projects, such as upgrading distribution feeders, replacing or installing underground cable and enhancing substations. The utility has said its work has resulted in a 22 percent reduction in the frequency of power outages. When outages did occur, customers were restored 17 percent faster, the company added. Here are some of the proposals regulators still must decide. Public Service Electric Gas The state's biggest utility wants to spend $2.5 billion on improvements to its gas and electric network, including raising and hardening substations in flood zones, upgrading 475 miles of electric circuits to reduce power outages, and adding redundancy to the gas distribution system. PSE has said it will have a "modest impact" on residential bills. The total impact for a combined residential heat and electric customer will be about 1 percent per year over a 5-year period. The utility also wants to spend $4.1 billion on infrastructure improvements, such as smart meters that can detect a customer outage when it happens; incentives to buy energy-efficient appliances, and an electric vehicle infrastructure program that includes nearly 40,000 vehicle chargers. PSE has said its efforts will save customers upward of $7.4 billion overall through a combination of measures. Nuclear subsidy PSE's parent company, Public Service Enterprise Group, has asked to receive up to $300 million a year to subsidize its Salem and Hope Creek nuclear plants in South Jersey. Public Service, now the state's only nuclear operator, has said it will have to close its nuclear plants without a subsidy. The subsidy will keep help maintain nuclear energy as a portion of the state's energy usage, company proponents have said. Opponents say the plants are profitable and don't need help from ratepayers. If approved, JCP said annual bills for typical residential customer will rise by $25.56. A PSE customer will see a $30.72 hike in bills while a typical Atlantic City Electric customer will see their annual bill rise by $32.59 The BPU will decide in April. Jersey Central Power Light The Morristown-based utility, which covers much of Monmouth, Ocean and Morris counties, wants to spend $387 million over four years on the utility's distribution network, including nearly 4,000 upgrades that will help with reliability and resiliency of overhead and underground electric distribution lines as well as new equipment to reduce the frequency and duration of outages. Get the APP's Biz Blast newsletter delivered to your inbox Attention NJ business owners and professionals -- and anyone who just loves shopping at the Shore: Business reporter Mike Diamond and Press on Your Side's David P. Willis are your number one source for all things business and retail in New Jersey.? Please try again soon, or contact Customer Service at 1-800-822-9779. Delivery: Daily onSign Up Thank you! You're almost signed up for APP's Biz Blast Keep an eye out for an email to confirm your newsletter registration. Initially, it's expected to raise the average customer's electric bill by 25 cents a month, the utility has said. The amount would rise to $1.89 a month by the end of the four years. New Jersey Natural Gas The Wall-based gas utility, which covers much of Monmouth and Ocean counties, wants to spend $507 million over five years on its natural gas delivery and information technology systems, including replacing steel main, upgrading trunk lines and installing a new critical information technology program to replace its existing systems installed between 1994 and 1997. New Jersey Natural Gas has said a typical residential heating customer that uses 1,000 therms of natural gas a year could see a bill increase of $18.35, or 1.8 percent, each year, for six years to recover its costs. At the end of the six years, typical residential customers will have seen their annual bill rise $110.10. David P. Willis: 732-643-4039; Twitter, dpwillis732; Facebook, dpwillis732; dwillis@gannettnj.com. Tell Elected Officials About the 2017 Infrastructure Report Card Grades While we have made some progress, reversing the trajectory after decades of underinvestment in our infrastructure requires transformative action.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line143
__label__cc	0.637907	0.362093	Dedicated to experimental electro-acoustic and electronic music Front Page \| Articles \| Radio \| Media \| Forum \| Wiki \| Links \| Store FAQ Calendar Search Memberlist Usergroups Links Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Chat Room Forum index » Online Music AcidTrash Page 1 of 1 [3 Posts] View unread posts View new posts in the last week Mark the topic unread :: View previous topic :: View next topic Location: The Desert Audio files: 109 Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 4:38 pm Post subject: AcidTrash Subject description: Strange Things Happen Here This is an Improv with editing done on track volume afterwards. i had alot of fun dancing like a goon with this one strange things happen herecov.jpg Strange Things Happen Here.mp3 Filename: Strange Things Happen Here.mp3 Downloaded: 1320 Time(s) mrcold Audio files: 31 Blue Hell Location: The Netherlands, Enschede G2 patch files: 319 Bit strange indeed, but its nice strange! also .. please don't march .. we are on a bridge right now. 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__label__cc	0.713469	0.286531	Documentation / CircuitMaker Documentation CircuitMaker Documentation Design Components Resource Reference Design Environment Schematic Capture PCB Design Rules Reference Project Compiler Violations Reference System Installation & Management Driving a PCB Design through CircuitMaker Project Management in CircuitMaker Component Management in CircuitMaker CircuitMaker Website CircuitMaker delivers a powerful design solution for electronics makers, hobbyists, and members of academia, who enjoy, and indeed excel, at creating cool and innovative new designs. With a streamlined interface built atop a powerful PCB Design engine, CircuitMaker gives you all you'll ever need to turn your creative ideas into physical reality. CircuitMaker gives you all the tools to think big and make cool stuff, with features and functionality to facilitate creation of diverse and challenging designs. And while it's a desktop application, a standout attraction of CircuitMaker is that it facilitates the philosophy of community-based design, with components and design projects managed within a dedicated, cloud-based Community Vault. In the true spirit of open source, components and designs can be freely shared amongst other users. Armed with a powerful component search facility, courtesy of Ciiva integration, along with access to resusable design elements built up over time by a legion of other circuit makers, you can quickly build your own designs, and release new versions of existing components - satisfying your own need to design, while contributing to a communal design vault, for the benefit of all others in the community. Installing CircuitMaker Exploring CircuitMaker From Idea to Manufacture - Driving a PCB Design through CircuitMaker CircuitMaker FAQs Grab a coffee, tea, or bottle of water, then sit back and relax while receiving a visual tour of CircuitMaker's features and functionality. This area of the documentation provides a listing of the official YouTube-based videos for CircuitMaker. Short, sweet, and to the point, these videos will get you up and running with the concepts of the software, without unduly impacting on your design time! CircuitMaker Video Vault CircuitMaker employs online management of design components, facilited through the integration of the Ciiva electronic parts database. Containing millions of unique parts across various manufacturers and distributors, you can get pricing, stock information, datasheets, and more, directly from within CircuitMaker. Hundreds of thousands of the components in the Ciiva database have a CircuitMaker component bound to them. These components reside in the secure, cloud-based Community Vault. And for those parts in the database that don't have an associated component, you can create one - with schematic symbol and PCB footprint, as required. You can even create custom components that don't exist anywhere in the Ciiva database! And while the original version of a component - the base version as it were - is always available for use and, for the most part will be sufficient, the community has the option of revising it. Any CircuitMaker user is able to build a new version of an existing component. And with potentially tens of thousands of such users in the CircuitMaker community, the ability to rate a version of a component is supported. In this way, the most popular versions of components bubble to the surface, as voted by the community members themselves. A user can simply search for a part in the Ciiva database - directly from within CircuitMaker's Libraries panel - and then choose which version of the associated Community Vault component they want to use in their design. No more libraries stored locally on a hard drive - rather an impressive catalog of components built-upon, and ratified by, the design collective. You can even save frequently used versions of components to your own Favorites library! CircuitMaker's unified design environment consists of various Servers plugged into a core platform. Together with the core platform itself, these servers provide the resources of the software – its features and functionality. These are delivered in the form of commands, dialogs, panels, and the like. These resources are documented and collated by server. Use the following methods to locate information on a particular resource: Within the software, hover over a Ribbon button, menu command, dialog, panel, or design object, and press F1. Within the documentation, either: Use the pop-up navigation tree to the left of this text (accessed by clicking the button at the top-left of a page) to browse for the resource required across the various servers (under the Resource Reference section of the tree). Use the Search field at the top-right. Within CircuitMaker, the F1 shortcut is definitely worth getting acquainted with. Hover the mouse over anything inside CircuitMaker – a button, command, dialog, panel, or design object – and press F1 to access documentation for it. F1 also works for specific pages in the Preferences dialog, and specific rule constraint pages in the PCB Rules and Constraints Editor dialog. And if you're running a command, say you're placing a component and you're not sure how to rotate it, press F1 for a list of command-dependent shortcuts. The following sections highlight, and provide quick navigation to, some key areas within the resources documentation. System Panels Editor-Specific Panels General Editing Text Selection Document Navigation Find & Replace CircuitMaker's PCB Editor uses the concept of Design Rules to define the requirements of a design. These rules collectively form an 'instruction set' for the PCB Editor to follow. They cover every aspect of the design – from routing widths, clearances, plane connection styles, routing via styles, and so on, and many of the rules can be monitored in real-time by the online Design Rule Checker (DRC). Design rules target specific objects and are applied in a hierarchical fashion. Multiple rules of the same type can be set up. It may arise that a design object is covered by more than one rule with the same scope. In this instance, a contention exists. All contentions are resolved by a priority setting. The system goes through the rules from highest to lowest priority and picks the first one whose scope(s) match the object(s) being checked. With a well-defined set of design rules, you can successfully complete board designs with varying and often stringent design requirements. And as the PCB Editor is rules-driven, taking the time to set up the rules at the outset of the design will enable you to effectively get on with the job of designing, safe in the knowledge that the rules system is working hard to ensure that success. The following categories of design rules are available: The process of compiling is integral to producing a valid netlist for a project. In fact it is the process of compilation that yields the unified data model of a design – the single model of the data that is accessible across the design domains in CircuitMaker's unified design environment. Connectivity awareness in your schematic diagram can be verified during compilation according to rules defined as part of the options for the design project – on the Error Reporting and Connection Matrix tabs respectively. This area of the CircuitMaker documentation provides a comprehensive reference describing each of the possible electrical and drafting violations that can exist in source documents when compiling a project. The various categories of violation are: Violations Associated with Buses Violations Associated with Components Violations Associated with Documents Violations Associated with Harnesses Violations Associated with Nets Violations Associated with Others Violations Associated with Parameters Compiler violations are reported in the Messages panel.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line153
__label__wiki	0.966452	0.966452	On Thursday, Beresheet, Israel's lunar lander, crashed on the moon's surface after experiencing some communication and technical issues. Beresheet shared this photo of the moon as it began its descent. This moment got kids, educators and parents to talk about the meaning of success, not being afraid of failures, persistence, and determination. The spacecraft, called Beresheet, was in pieces scattered at the landing site, he said. The lander also carried a reflector from Nasa to help scientists make accurate measurements of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. Unlike giant, powerful NASA rockets which hurtle straight toward moon, the humble recording craftthe size of a washing machine, has turned into a roundabout and speculative route. "If at first you don't succeed, try try again", said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was on hand for what organizers had expected to be a party. "We are all very exited", a senior IAI engineer, identified only as Daniel because of the sensitivity of his job, told Israeli public radio four hours before the scheduled landing time. "It's a big achievement for a small country like Israel to reach the moon". Freshman Democrat Ocasio-Cortez says cutting aid to Israel 'on the table' Increased isolation, depression, anxiety, addiction, escapism". "And I said don't talk like the Founding Fathers on Twitter". Ocasio-Cortez also spoke highly of Sanders, who she campaigned for in 2016. SpaceIL chairman Morris Kahn announced on Saturday that there will be a second Beresheet lunar spacecraft, following the first Israeli moon mission ending unsuccessfully last week when the spacecraft crashed into the moon's surface. According to the live stream, the spacecraft had to travel only 10 kilometres left to go (6.2 miles). It blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral on February 21 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and entered Earth's orbit about 34 minutes after launch. "SpaceIL and Beresheet's journey captured the hearts of millions in Israel and around the world..." But then the screens showed the engine misfiring, and the velocity surging as it headed toward the lunar surface. President Reuven Rivlin hosted dozens of youngsters at his official residence. The children, some wearing white and blue spacesuits, appeared confused as the crash unfolded. "I expect Israel's next creation to complete the assignment for us". "It's been an unbelievable journey, I hope we get a chance for another one". NASA has made its Deep Space Network available to transmit data and has installed a small laser retroreflector aboard the lander to test its potential as a navigation tool. That won't happen but the spacecraft is still up there somewhere with the Israeli flag and a digital time capsule loaded with Hebrew songs, stories, Israel's Declaration of Independence and national anthem, among other national symbols. The foundation hopes that SpaceIL will use the funds to design Beresheet 2.0, or towards their education outreach. "Your hard work, teamwork and innovation is inspiring to all". 'Mary Tyler Moore Show' actress Georgia Engel dies at 70 According to a close friend, her cause of death will remain unknown without an autopsy because she was Christian Scientist. Funeral services for Engel, whose survivors include her sisters Robin Engel and Penny Lusk, will be private, Quilty said. Pelosi says Barr comments undermine his role Steele's dossier was indirectly funded by the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton , the 2016 Democratic nominee for President, through a law firm named Perkins Coie. Registration for the 2020 Boston Marathon opens later this year Registration for the 2020 Boston Marathon will likely open in September, according to the Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.). Linden finished in 2 hours, 27 minutes, almost 13 minutes faster than when she battled through icy rain to win in 2018. Microsoft to Answer Apple's AirPods With Surface Buds Wireless Earbuds Sams believes a 2019 launch is plausible but not guaranteed; we'll have to wait and see. Microsoft could be entering the wireless headphone market. QB Wilson won't sign after deadline And he did just that, as the Seahawks made clear in one of a series of photos released on their official website, Seahawks.com. Per a league source, the Seahawks think that Wilson would like to play elsewhere, even if he hasn't and wouldn't ever say it. Zidane reveals what Real Madrid will miss about Cristiano Ronaldo Everyone speaks about Toni, and other players, in terms of whether I want them or not. "There are seven games left", he said. They are planning on offloading a number of players also . South Africa Blitzboks win Singapore Sevens Fiji hoisted the Cup last weekend in Hong Kong. "We got into another final, so we're doing something right" Baber said. Fiji still progressed as runners-up to unbeaten South Africa in Pool A. Arsenal manager Unai Emery reveals real reason why he replaced Arsene Wenger It's not easy for him after he signed for Juventus but his focus is to help us and his attitude is a very fantastic attitude towards each training session. World's largest airplane completes first test flight "To see Paul Allen's dream come to life in front of my very eyes was truly inspiring and incredibly satisfying to me". Allen Trust said, 'We all know Paul would have been proud to witness today's historic achievement '. Cheika won't pick 'disrespectful' Folau after anti-gay row At Saracens , we are one family, open to all with the firm view that everyone should be treated equally with respect and humility. When asked if the fallout has made him reconsider his comments, though, Folau replied: "Absolutely not". BTS Performs 'Boy with Luv' & 'Mic Drop' on SNL BTS made history on Saturday night, becoming the first K-pop group to perform as a musical guest on " Saturday Night Live ". On Saturday night, YouTube confirmed the official record, which is now set at 78 million. Game Of Thrones Season 8 Already Made History Despite Early Episode Leak I would be very surprised if the Season 8 premiere doesn't experience a huge bump to set the stage for a record-breaking average. The final season of Game of Thrones premiered on Sunday evening and it seems TV-viewing audiences are split. "I'm a big fan": 'Emotional' Nadal inspired by Woods' Masters triumph Kohlschreiber beat Djokovic in Indian Wells a month ago and the pair have been drawn to face each other again this afternoon. The top seed said that while he would prefer to head to Paris with a title in his pocket, it's not a desperate situation. Duke star Zion Williamson declares for 2019 NBA Draft Wooden Award , while also AP Player of the Year, the Naismith Award and the Karl Malone Award as the nation's top power forward. Zion Williamson has declared for the 2019 NBA Draft , he today announced on his Instagram . SpaceX loses Falcon Heavy's center booster to the sea Thursday's flight was only the second of a Falcon Heavy rocket and the first with a paying customer's cargo aboard. The Dragon spacecraft are used as the final stage of SpaceX missions to resupply the International Space Station. Sanders Leads Biden in New Poll of Democratic 2020 Contenders At the time Jane Sanders said they used profits from the sale of her share of a family property in ME to purchase the summer home. But he maintains that his wealth has not changed his stance that richer Americans should shoulder more of the tax burden. Jedi: Fallen Order Has Just Saved EA's Star Wars While we don't know the exact reasons yet, it's a move that makes a lot of sense for EA. The game would get a sequel in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords . New Pixel devices coming on May 7, Google suggests Google has set up a page on its online store promoting the upcoming Avengers: Endgame movie. A teaser available on the Google Store hints at the launch of the new Pixel phones. Amazon reportedly exploring free, ad-supported music streaming service, Spotify shares slip As it stands, Spotify is now the only big-name music streaming provider to offer an ad-supported free tier. However, the service would not be expected to have as extensive a catalogue as a service like Spotify. Rep. Ilhan Omar says she has experienced increase in death threats But, she added: "It's absolutely abhorrent the comments she continues to make and has made and (Democrats) look the other way". House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday criticized the president for using the "sacred" memory of 9/11 for a political attack. Ex-Lakers Head Coach Luke Walton Finds New NBA Team The Kings and Walton started talks on Saturday, less than 24 hours after the coach's exit from the Lakers. Should Willams take up the offer of coaching the Lakers, he would bring an excellent resumé with him. IOS 13 to Reportedly Include Dark Mode, Multitasking Improvements This mode can be enabled via settings of the gadgets and users can actually choose which contrast works best. The app will automatically categorize emails, and users will be able to mark emails with a "read later" tag. Forza Street Launches on Windows 10, is Coming to Mobile If you're feeling totally turned off, rest easy knowing that more mainline Forza entries await us. Unlike previous Forza titles, Forza Street does not require you to steer your auto to victory. Sudan protesters block attempt to break up sit In some videos the protesters chant "Revolution", as well as slogans against al-Bashir's Islamist supporters. The RSF was on Monday accused by protesters present at the sit-in of attempting to break up the sit-in. Microsoft Confirms Hackers Could Read Outlook, MSN and Hotmail Emails Microsoft was forced to revise its statement after Motherboard found that the attackers had full access to email content. Cybercriminals have compromised a "limited" number of Microsoft email accounts, the software giant has told customers. Houston Rockets vs. Utah Jazz - 4/17/19 NBA - Playoffs Pick, Odds, and Prediction Following Game 1, a frustrated Murray spent close to an hour shooting on the Nuggets' practice floor. The Jazz had 18 turnovers. "We struggled to make shots", said Nuggets head coach Michael Malone. Israeli scientists create first-ever living heart ‘printed’ from human tissue Dvir says. "People have managed to 3D-print the structure of a heart in the past, but not with cells or with blood vessels". Tal Dvir of TAU, as the new developments look to battle heart disease which is the leading cause of death around the world. Republican Bill Weld announces primary campaign against Donald Trump John Kerry in 1996, mounted a failed bid for governor of NY in 2006 and served as the US attorney for MA between 1981 and 1986. Weld made the announcement Monday evening in a more than three-minute video, which can be viewed below. New OnePlus 7 renders emerge, we previously seen the OnePlus 7 Pro Compared to the OnePlus 6T, the OnePlus 7 places the LED flash on the camera hump, which is also claimed to be more protruding. All of this information should definitely be taken with a pinch of salt, at least until OnePlus' supposed May 14 launch. State trims count of measles case Four out of five people who came down with measles were never vaccinated, the Rockland County Health Department reported. Unvaccinated individuals may dial 311 to get a list of providers that offer MMR vaccines with minimal to low cost. MacKinnon's OT winner nudges Avalanche past Flames to tie series We're a good team - we all believe in each other. "We're going to learn our lesson and play Game 3 with a lot more urgency". The Flames took Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs first round matchup Thursday, 4-0. Extinction Rebellion smash Shell office and superglue themselves to things They also smashed windows at the... "Met Police say three men have been arrested so far on suspicion of criminal damage". Earlier this month, activists exposed the "naked truth" on climate change by stripping in the UK's House of Commons. Fordham student critically injured in fall from clock tower Students say sneaking into the university's most recognizable building at night has always been a tradition for Fordham seniors. While the entrances to the tower are supposed to be locked, thrill-seeking students often find a way inside, the Times reports. Trump blasts Omar as 'anti-Semitic' and 'anti But, she added: "It's absolutely abhorrent the comments she continues to make and has made and (Democrats) look the other way". Patrick Carlineo Jr. of Addison, New York, faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted, the U.S. Is Nazem Kadri the Next Tom Wilson? Kadri travelled to NY for an in-person hearing, meaning the league had the option to suspend the player for more than five games. Despite Avery's endorsement, Kadri faces a suspension for the second straight postseason. "Just happy we got the win". Ben Simmons changes his stance on boos, says he 'loves Philly' Fatigue was the biggest factor in limiting the minutes of Joel Embiid and that is absolutely vital to the Nets continuing success. The Sixers struggles from the first game won't just disappear, and any mistakes made by Simmons will likely lead to more boos. Global measles cases 'up 300% year-on-year' Measles was declared eliminated in the U.S.in 2000 thanks to the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine. Measles can also cause pregnant women to give birth prematurely or have a low-birth-weight baby.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line158
__label__wiki	0.604337	0.604337	geek, historical, hesher, history, metal, music, nerd, podcast, stand up comedy, game, games, mortal kombat, comedy Episode 23 - Mortal Kombat Characters & Pirates Dan tries to cave Nariko's head in with a bludgeon but fails as Nariko outrolls Dan and impales him with the scraper thing on a finger nail clipper. Tagged: met', metal music, metal, most metal, heavy metal, black metal, death metal, what's more metal, mortal kombat, sub zero, scorpion, johnny cage, lou kang, reptile, game, games, video games, arcade games, console games, cab games, pirates, historic, history podcast, historical, history, comedy, comedian, comedy podcast, comic, stand up comedy, stand up comedian, stand up comic, stand up, black beard, red beard, ching shih, francois l'olonnais, baraka, shao kahn, podcast, podcast recording', live podcast, pdx, portland comedy, hesher, geek, historical, history, metal, music, nerd, podcast, stand up comedy Episode 20 - Directors & Extinct Animal Dan attempts to cut Nariko's face off while Nariko tries to stab Dan in the butt while debating the most metal movie directors and extinct animals. Tagged: comedy podcast, comedy, comedian, comic, stand up comedian, stand up comic, stand up comedy, most metal, metal, met', metal music, met, death metal, heavy metal, black metal, what's more metal, podcast, history podcast, educational podcast, movie, movies, horror movie, 70s horror movie, director, movie director, hollywood, los angeles, la, l.a., theater, rob zombie, rob, zombie, halloween, house of a thousand corpses, devils rejects, takisha miike, dinosaur, dinosaurs, jurassic park, extinct, extinct animal, megalodon, sea, scorpion, sea scorpion	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line162
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__label__wiki	0.787894	0.787894	Tag Archives: apology High Noon for Crofting? I have been away on holiday for a few days in Gdansk. Usually when I go on holiday I miss a lot of crofting scandal and intrigue. This holiday was no exception. Upon my return I caught up, via Twitter, with goings on during the crofting election campaign. Here are a selection of the tweets:- Been abroad for few days. Catching up on @CroftingScot election shenanigans via twitter. Things get no better for @scotgov @FergusEwingMSP! — Crofting Law (@CroftingLaw) March 8, 2017 @Neilsoncrofting @CroftingLaw you will have to agree with what Mr Kennedy says or he will cancel the meeting #balloon — James macMillan (@jimmacmillan2) 28 February 2017 Hear we go! #crofting #croftingelections2017 @Neilsoncrofting @CroftingScot @CroftingLaw pic.twitter.com/ELukb87qfn — kirsti (@Mrs_Ems_x) March 2, 2017 The news from the hustings was Kennedy said buy your croft and get automatic de-crofting and leave the crofting system, means no regulation — Billy Neilson (@Neilsoncrofting) March 3, 2017 From the hustings, just remember that without the 1886 act there would be no crofts no crofters no crofting and therefore no owner/occupiers @Linda_60_B According to the Convenor last night at the hustings, they should be absolved of all connections and let go their own merry way! @CrabbitCrofter It came over loud and clear at the hustings rubbished the tenancy and regulation system saying the 1886 act was the problem A reply to queries, the view of the candidate who was re-standing, buy your croft and leave the crofting system, automatic de-crofting https://t.co/6DBngZgr5U Wow. Just wow. If ever there was a reason not to vote for someone. Just got a whole new list of reasons. #crofting pic.twitter.com/4jsmiFCMHg — Rhoda Meek (@wodieskodie) March 4, 2017 The man is aff his heid + what’s he doing standing in that little dookit like a statue of a saint. Oh yes, because he thinks he is St Colin https://t.co/HiKGhRajwm — Crabbit Crofter (@CrabbitCrofter) March 4, 2017 And St Colin’s level of delusion is off the scale. All power corrupts. What better example than this. Unbelievable. This is someone who’s standing for the crofting regulator for a second time. Kennedy wants to destroy the crofting system. https://t.co/AdegSH0cc1 This is someone standing for an election. Have a read and consider whether you’d vote for him https://t.co/Yw6w211Dib — Domhnall Macsween (@sweenyness) March 4, 2017 He should have added “FAKE NEWS” and be done with it. https://t.co/AvZ86g2JbP Colin Kennedy clearly needs professional help. Do @CroftingScot not have a duty of care? https://t.co/cihEI6u7ra — Rebecca Hutton (@crofterbecca) March 4, 2017 @sweenyness @CroftingLaw I was at the Hustings as a new entrant and he came across as arrogant, aggressive and manipulative! @sweenyness @CroftingLaw He said when you buy your croft you should be free from regulation, surely this only means destroying crofting?! @sweenyness @CroftingLaw At one point the man behind me referred to him as a ‘Trump’! Just what we don’t need in charge!! @Neilsoncrofting He said that “if you buy your croft you should be free from regulation”- Now if this happened in previous years there would be no crofting! He wouldn’t have a croft to play with if his ancestors did this! We only have crofts because the previous generation fought to keep rule He said”the people in Edinburgh don’t understand crofters, the city folk don’t have the right’-So you have to be born rural to understand? My fave was’we don’t need to get new crofts there are plenty this ‘waiting list’ doesn’t exist, folk are just fussy to where the crofts are! @SCFHq Are we to assume that Mr Kennedy,s record speaks for its self. hopefully the good people of Argyll will not re elect — James macMillan (@jimmacmillan2) 2 March 2017 @CrabbitCrofter I’ve just had a canvasser at the door, Who was convinced that I am you 😉 I say. Never been accused of lying and spreading lies quite so vehemently before, by someone standing on my door step. Something I said? @CroftingScot please tell your canvassing commissioner in Argyll that this is Rhoda Meek’s twitter handle. Calling voters liars is not on. @sweenyness @CroftingScot I was doorstepped and accused of being behind a Twitter account I have nothing to do with. I did not appreciate it @sweenyness @CrabbitCrofter I was outright told that I was!! Would not accept that I wasn’t. Closed the door on him. @wodieskodie @CroftingLaw @sweenyness @CrabbitCrofter 'S e dearg amadan a bh'ann. — Allan MacLeod (@fidhlear) March 8, 2017 @fidhlear @wodieskodie @CroftingLaw @sweenyness direach! agus fhathast dearg amadan a th'ann. Gun chiall @wodieskodie good. Plenty of crofters out here are now crabbit cos “Convener” Kennedy’s main aim seems to be to destroy the crofting system @wodieskodie if he really cared about crofting he would announce he has withdrawn from election + hope others are able to clean up his mess @wodieskodie Bull in a China shop hardly begins to describe disaster he caused in @CroftingScot No one now supports him apart from idiots Should this candidate really be sporting the @CroftingScot logo? Looks a bit like he has been endorsed by them #crofting @Neilsoncrofting pic.twitter.com/hSsi29i4m9 — kirsti (@Mrs_Ems_x) February 27, 2017 Shocking. Kennedy should be openly rebuked by @CroftingScot for misusing the logo of the public body on his election materials @CroftingLaw https://t.co/VgilADmkpT Calls the fairness of the election in Argyll into question. Abusing his position for personal gain. Ethical Standards need to investigate https://t.co/T7FPxtPOql — Dunc Mac (@DuncMacL) March 7, 2017 @CroftingLaw @crabbitcrofter @Neilsoncrofting this needs to be urgently highlighted to press & @scotgov They need to put out disclaimer @DuncMacL @CroftingLaw @CrabbitCrofter @Neilsoncrofting @scotgov Notified @cne_siar Questioned legitimacy. Suggest you raise concerns — SkyesTheLimit (@SkyesTheLimitUK) March 8, 2017 @CroftingLaw @CroftingScot Well yes I had an interesting phone message on my mobile from Tiree asking about Commissioners conduct! @CroftingLaw @CroftingScot A Tiree voter asked if Commissioners expect financial or other remunerations for giving crofting advice!! @Neilsoncrofting Another example of brown envelopes at @CroftingScot perhaps? https://t.co/E4FCC4fOia #crofting There appears to be solidarity amongst those tweeting. Their views are clear and similar to many expressed over the past year following the allegations of abuse of power within the Crofting Commission. Allegations that appear to have been well founded in light of the U-Turn taken by the Crofting Commission, their subsequent apology and the findings of the Governance Review. Whether this solidarity is reflected amongst the non-tweeting crofting electorate remains to be seen next week. The polls, as we all know, do not always get it right. We should, however, know the answer by High Noon next Friday. Image Information: At High Noon, June 4, 1989 – political poster featuring Gary Cooper to encourage votes for the Solidarity party in the 1989 elections (first semi-free elections in the People’s Republic of Poland). This is a historically significant poster, one of the symbols of the end of communism in Eastern Europe. It depicts Gary Cooper carrying a voting ballot instead of a gun, and wearing a Solidarity logo above his sheriff’s badge. The Solidarity movement heralded the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe. Photo taken inside the European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk on 5 March 2017. This entry was posted in Crofting Commission, Crofting Elections and tagged 2017 Crofting Elections, apology, Crabbit Crofter, Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886, crofting, Crofting Commission, crofting commission elections, crofting elections, crofting regulation, crofts, decrofting, Donald Trump, fake news, Fergus Ewing, Fergus Ewing MSP, governance review, Governance Review of the Crofting Commission, High Noon, holiday, hustings, logo, owner-occupiers, Scottish Government, solidarity, Twitter, U-turn on March 10, 2017 by Brian Inkster. Ewing Exonerated One Nil to Fergus Ewing. Ding ding, next round! BBC Naidheachdan have reported that Fergus Ewing, Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy and Connectivity with responsibility for crofting, has been cleared of any wrongdoing in the complaint brought against him by the Convener of the Crofting Commission, Colin Kennedy. This is how they reported it:- The Secretary for Rural Economy was not breaking any rules in the way he dealt with the Crofting Commission. This was the outcome of a review by the Secretary of Justice, after the Convener of the Commission, Colin Kennedy, raised several complaints against Fergus Ewing. Mr Kennedy raised his complaints after a controversial Commission meeting in Brora, Sutherland in September. He questioned decisions made by Mr Ewing in connection with the Commission. Mr Kennedy was angry that the Commission had to excuse crofters in relation to how they handled the grazing committees disputes. Since then there has been controversy surrounding Mr Kennedy and there has been pressure on Mr Ewing to ask Kennedy to stand down. It has not been possible for Ewing to deal with the Commission whilst this review has been underway. Now the government has confirmed that the review conducted by the Department of Justice is over, and that Ewing did nothing wrong. The question now is what will Ewing do with all his freedom to make decisions regarding the Commission. View from the Crofting Law Blog As highlighted previously on this blog section 1(3) of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 states:- The Commission shall discharge their functions in accordance with such directions of a general or specific character as may from time to time be given to them in writing by the Scottish Ministers. Directions were given to Mr Kennedy by a Scottish Minister. It would appear that Mr Kennedy refused to accept those directions and instead lodged a complaint against the Scottish Minister in question. The Scottish Minister has been completely exonerated in what would appear to have been a vexatious complaint. Will Mr Kennedy therefore now accept those directions which will involve him personally issuing a public apology to the three grazings committees removed from office by the Crofting Commission in Mangersta, Upper Coll and Bohuntin? Or is it a case that ‘hell will freeze over‘ before he does that? Will Mr Kennedy now accept the Scottish Government’s position on disbursement of common grazings funds and receipt of SRDP funding which has been accepted by his fellow commissioners but which he has been very vocal in disagreeing with? Mr Kennedy is, in any event, not well known for representing the views of the board of the Crofting Commission to the general public despite it being one of his “particular responsibilities“, as convener, to do so. He is also, as highlighted in my last post, completely at odds with the board and appears to be refusing to follow the doctrine of collective responsibility. Fergus Ewing did say some time ago that it is not sustainable for the Scottish Government and one of its public bodies to take opposing interpretations of the law. Is it sustainable for the Scottish Government and the Convener of one of its public bodies to take opposing interpretations of the law and to be in continuing conflict over those interpretations? The governance review of the Crofting Commission was published last week and referred to “notable failures in governance within the Crofting Commission“. The review made reference to “strong personalities, differences of opinion and apparent incongruent individual objectives and priorities” having “impaired effective and efficient governance“. I will look at this governance review in some detail in forthcoming posts on this blog. Gaelic credit: Thanks to Vicki Folan of Inksters for translating the BBC Naidheachdan report from Gaelic to English This entry was posted in Crofting Commission and tagged apology, BBC Naidheachdan, Bohuntin, Brora, Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy and Connectivity, Colin Kennedy, Common Grazings Funds, complaint, Convener of Crofting Commission, Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993, Crofting Commission, Crofting Commission Board, Crofting Commissioners, crofting governance, directions, Fergus Ewing, Fergus Ewing MSP, governance review, grazings committees, Mangersta, Scottish Government, Scottish Ministers, SRDP, SRDP funding, Upper Coll, vexatious on February 14, 2017 by Brian Inkster. The Crofting Commission has become a three-ring circus Every good circus needs a performing elephant! The title of this post is the title of the Editorial in the West Highland Free Press (WHFP) published on 16 December 2016. We reproduce that Editorial here as an important addition to the 101 blog posts already published on the fiasco arising from ‘The Common Clearances‘:- For the last three months the Crofting Commission has not been dysfunctional. it has been non-existent. As the Crofting Commission is the regulatory body of almost 20,000 crofts occupied by over 30,000 people – including around half of the combined populations of the Western Isles, Skye and the west Highlands – that is plainly unacceptable. This dire state of affairs originated in the persecution of grazings committees in Lewis and Lochaber by the commission’s convener, Colin Kennedy. Following a widespread outcry, Mr Kennedy’s edicts were overthrown and he was ordered by the crofting minister, Fergus Ewing, to retreat and apologise. In September the rest of the commissioners issued their own apology and passed a vote of no confidence in Colin Kennedy, who had stalked out of the meeting. In the real world, that would have been that. Mr Kennedy would have vacated the convener’s chair. The Crofting Commission would have dusted itself down and continued to do its duties as best as possible. In the unreal world of the Crofting Commission chaos ensued. Colin Kennedy has refused to accept the censure of both the Scottish Government and his colleagues on the Crofting Commission. Even more remarkably, the other commissioners and the crofting minister seem prepared to accept this. As we go to press on Wednesday the Crofting Commission is meeting in Inverness. Following recent form, we have no idea what will transpire. It could be anything from another walk-out to a song and dance act in the grounds of Great Glen House. It is possible that the commission will settle for a quiet life and accept the status quo – Colin Kennedy included – until its elections next March. That would mean three months of a non-existent Crofting Commission followed by three months of a dispirited and barely functional Crofting Commission. Why has the crofting minister allowed this to occur? The WHFP have a greater grasp of the situation and have been more vocal than most news papers in calling for a resolution thereof by the Scottish Government over the past few months. They are as perplexed as I, and many others are, at the dithering on the part of the Scottish Government over it. Unfortunately a song and dance act in the grounds of Great Glen House did not take place at the board meeting underway as the WHFP went to press that Wednesday. Perhaps that is being saved until the Scottish Government does take the action that it really needs to take 😉 Another walk-out was nearer the mark as will be revealed in our next blog post. Image Credit: Coll-ossus cartoon © A concerned crofter This entry was posted in Crofting Commission and tagged apology, chaos, Colin Kennedy, Common Clearances, Convener of Crofting Commission, Crofting Commission, Crofting Commissioners, crofting elections, Crofting Minister, crofting regulation, Fergus Ewing, Fergus Ewing MSP, grazings committees, Great Glen House, Inverness, Isle of Skye, Lewis, Lochaber, resign, Scottish Government, vote of no confidence, walk out, West Highland Free Press, West Highlands, Western Isles, WHFP on December 29, 2016 by Brian Inkster. Law Awards of Scotland recognise Crofting Endeavours Brian Inkster has been shortlisted for Solicitor of the Year at the Law Awards of Scotland. This nomination recognises his endeavours in crofting law over the past year and in particular his quest to see justice done over the alleged abuse of power within the Crofting Commission over the sacking of three common grazings committees. Brian Inkster has been very vocal in the press, radio and on TV over the issue. He has written 97 blog posts on this topic alone over the past six months. The Crofting Commission recently accepted their decisions as being wrong and issued an apology to the crofters affected. However, conflict continues within the Crofting Commission with a clear divide between their convener and the other commissioners. Brian Inkster said:- I am honoured to be one of only three solicitors in Scotland shortlisted for this award. Hopefully it will help to highlight further the plight of the ordinary crofter at the hands of a regulator that is out of control. There is still much more that the Scottish Government needs to do to restore confidence in the Crofting Commission and I will be making my views known on that in the coming months. Inksters Solicitors who have offices in Glasgow, Inverness, Forfar, Portree, Wick and a visiting base in Lerwick have also been shortlisted for Litigation Firm of the Year and their trainee solicitor, Alistair Sloan, for Trainee of the Year at this year’s Law Awards of Scotland. The winners will be announced on 24 November at a gala dinner at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Glasgow. This entry was posted in Crofting Lawyers and tagged abuse of power, Alistair Sloan, apology, blog posts, Brian Inkster, Common Grazings Committee, Convener of Crofting Commission, crofters, Crofting Commission, Crofting Commissioners, crofting law, crofting lawyer, crofting regulator, crofting solicitors, Forfar, Glasgow, Inksters, Inksters Solicitors, Inverness, Law Awards of Scotland, Lerwick, Litigation Firm of the Year, Portree, press, radio, Scottish Government, Solicitor of the Year, solicitors, Trainee Solicitor of the Year, TV, Wick on October 28, 2016 by Brian Inkster. Colin Kennedy and the Holy Grail The Scottish Farmer today gives space for Colin Kennedy, Convener of the Crofting Commission, to tell them about his “crofting crusade!”. This follows hot on the heals of a huge press offensive on his part over the past week with appearances/articles in Sunday Politics Scotland, The Oban Times and BBC Radio Highlands & Islands. The story is the same: He is right and everyone else is wrong. He has again stressed that his sole motivation is:- to uphold crofting law, and defend the statutory rights of ordinary crofters It has been shown that this is very much his own interpretation of crofting law and not one supported by the Scottish Government or by his fellow commissioners. He has, however, again rounded on the Scottish Government and the cabinet secretary responsible for crofting, Fergus Ewing MSP, with The Scottish Farmer reporting Mr Kennedy as:- bluntly accusing him [Mr Ewing] of perpetrating a cover-up of ScotGov’s historic role in a quagmire of maladministration. He labours on about his views on the illegalities of common grazings obtaining SRDP funding which, as has been pointed out many times before, is not any business of the crofting regulator but a matter for the Scottish Government, the EU and crofters. Mr Kennedy claims that:- The commission has taken legal advice from Sir Crispin Agnew QC and it is my understanding that a grazing committee does not merit claiming subsidies, as only individual shareholders with grazing rights are eligible, provided that they comply with the provisions of the legislation for such activity. Does Mr Kennedy have the approval of the Board of the Crofting Commission to discuss in public this legal advice obtained by the Commission? If not he is breaking that code of conduct again that he was keen to discuss on BBC Radio Highlands & Islands. This is, of course, true in relation to much that he has said over the past week. Obtaining such a legal opinion was probably outwith the remit of the Crofting Commission in any event. It is understood that Mr Kennedy was instrumental in having it obtained. It is further understood that whilst the Board may have considered this legal opinion when produced they did not use it as a base for any decisions made. The Scottish Government stated that it “wholly disagrees” with the views on SRDP funding held by Mr Kennedy. This would appear to include the legal opinion that he still clings to. Those views, like his ones on VAT registration, were potentially all about depriving crofters of funding and had nothing to do with upholding crofting law and defending the statutory rights of ordinary crofters. Mr Kennedy again showed the huge divide between himself and the Crofting Commission Board and the fact that he was not in fact supporting decisions taken by the Board such as accepting the Government’s position on SRDP and disbursement of funds. Mr Kennedy proceeded, in his interview with The Scottish Farmer, to attack the former Upper Coll Grazings Committee stating that they:- have a lot to answer on behalf of shareholders. Again this is completely at odds with the position taken by the Scottish Government and the Board of the Crofting Commission who have issued an apology to the grazings committee in question. Mr Kennedy’s position in such circumstances is completely untenable. On the subject of Colin Souter, the grazings ‘constable’ at Upper Coll, Mr Kennedy denies any involvement in his appointment or that he is “his man“. He points the finger on Chief Executive, Catriona Maclean, for the appointment “without reference to the agreed board process“. However, Freedom of Information requests reveal evidence that Mr Kennedy’s version of events may be one painted through rose tinted glasses. His memory again may not be serving him well. A document produced by the Crofting Commission states:- Following the Board meeting on 9th May the Convener, Vice Convener, and CEO met by phone to agree who should be appoint4ed [sic] to the post of Grazings constable in the Upper Coll Common Grazings. So Mr Kennedy was very involved in the selection process. The selection committee considered four potential candidates for the job and concluded that:- Mr Souter has experience in working with crofters and grazings committe4ss [sic] through his time in the Police. An ex-chief inspector and force negotiator who comes from south Usit [sic] Mr Souter has both the skills and experience to deal with this matter and therefore he was selected to be appointed constable. So Mr Kennedy was in fact party to and appointed Mr Souter to the post in question. There is also evidence of direct communication between Mr Souter and Mr Kennedy. For example an e-mail from the former to the latter on 24 May 2016 which reads:- Hi Colin In looking to progress a meeting with the shareholders at Upper Coll, in the near future, I wanted to ensure the venue was appropriate and given you’ve been out there, I wondered if you had an idea on the best venue option and perhaps a secondary one, if circumstances require? No evidence was produced from the Freedom of Information request as to whether or not recommendations were given by Mr Kennedy to Mr Souter on the comfort of the chairs at possible venues in Upper Coll. But this exchange does prove that there was indeed direct communication between the two as previously suggested on this blog. Furthermore Mr Kennedy was taking a direct interest in matters by requesting to see minutes of meetings held by Mr Souter at Upper Coll, all as disclosed from information obtained through Freedom of Information. Mr Kennedy in discussion with The Scottish Farmer refers to the whole grazings committee issue being “a can of worms” but stressed that to his knowledge it was only a problem specifically on Lewis. He is reported as having “quipped“:- as previously stated in the board room things are often done differently in Lewis. What about in Lochaber? Has Mr Kennedy also forgotten about the grazings committee he and his fellow commissioners put out of office there? Has he forgotten about how instrumental he was in ensuring the appointment of a grazings ‘constable’ there who would do his bidding? It has, however, been commented on before that Lewis appeared to be a particular target for the convener. It is unclear why. But perhaps that will eventually come out in the wash. Mr Kennedy is quoted by The Scottish Farmer as saying:- But now I’ve put my head on the block in trying to get to grips with the truth. I know people are queuing up to get me out but I am not letting this rest. I’m not going to jump, so I will probably be pushed. If that happens my solicitor is standing by. That solicitor will have a difficult hill to climb. The evidence seems to me to be firmly stacked against Mr Kennedy and has been since my first blog post on ‘The Common Clearances‘. Subsequent events and revelations from Freedom of Information requests has just fortified that position. Mr Kennedy’s version of events, as given to the press this past week, appears to show a selective memory with many gaps to fill. I and others who post comments attempt to fill those as best we can on this blog. Mr Kennedy, like Mr Souter, appears to be searching for a justification for his discredited actions. I doubt that he will ever find it. Image Credits: Monty Python and the Holy Grail © Python (Monty) Pictures This entry was posted in Common Grazings, Crofting Commission and tagged apology, BBC Highland, BBC Radio Highlands & Islands, BBC Radio Scotland, Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy and Connectivity, Catriona Maclean, CEO, Chief Executive of the Crofting Commission, code of conduct, Colin Kennedy, Colin Souter, Common Grazings, Convener of Crofting Commission, cover-up, crofters, Crofting Commission, Crofting Commission Board, crofting crusade, Crofting Minister, Fergus Ewing, Fergus Ewing MSP, Freedom of Information, Grazings Constable, Holy Grail, illegal grazings constable, Isle of Lewis, legal advice, Lewis, Lochaber, Monty Python, Scottish Government, Sir Crispin Agnew QC, SRDP, SRDP funding, Sunday Politics Scotland, The Oban Times, The Scottish Farmer, Upper Coll, Upper Coll Common Grazings, Upper Coll Common Grazings Committee, VAT, VAT registered, Vice Convener on October 15, 2016 by Brian Inkster. Bad penny? Another hard hitting editorial appeared in this week’s West Highland Free Press (14 October 2016). It was entitled ‘The Convener who just would not go‘. It follows on from their editorial two week’s ago in which it was suggested that by walking out on the Crofting Commission Board meeting in Brora Colin Kennedy “abandoned the convenership“. This week the editorial expressed amazement that two weeks later he was still in post. Again we reproduce it here as an important part of our archive on ‘The Common Clearances‘:- If Colin Kennedy is still convener of the Crofting Commission when Fergus Ewing MSP reads this, we suggest that the crofting minister steps outside and personally puts Mr Kennedy’s P45 in the post. What on earth is going on over there? It is over two weeks since Mr Kennedy walked out of a Crofting Commission meeting in a fit of pique, leaving the chair temporarily to an unhappy and embarrassed Ian George Macdonald. It is more than two weeks since the crofting minister deplored Colin Kennedy’s convenership. It is more than two weeks since his remaining colleagues on the Crofting Commission unanimously called on Mr Kennedy to resign as their convener, and issued in his absence a grovelling apology for his actions. Colin Kennedy may still have an electoral base of the 216 crofter voters in the south-west Highlands who elected him as their representative four years ago. He is not being asked to vacate his position as their commissioner. But as convener he has lost the support of the rest of the Crofting Commission, the Scottish Government, most crofters elsewhere in the country and the Scottish Crofting Federation. His position has been untenable since he abandoned that meeting on the morning of Wednesday 28th September. But bizarrely, he has refused to vacate it. On the contrary, he has announced his intention to stay in post! We understand that Mr Kennedy finds it difficult to accept that he has done anything wrong, in Lewis or elsewhere, although the crofters of Upper Coll and Mangersta might disagree. We understand that he feels himself to have been betrayed by other commissioners who supported him during most of his term in office. Those considerations are irrelevant. Every day that Colin Kennedy clings on to his convenership brings both the Crofting Commission and crofting itself into further disrepute. That may, at this point, be Colin Kennedy’s intention. He should not be abetted by the indecision of the crofting minister. Fergus Ewing has the power to remove Mr Kennedy. He should exercise that power without any more delay. I, like many others, can only agree with the sentiments expressed by the WHFP. However, I might question their suggestion that Colin Kennedy is not being asked to vacate his position as a commissioner. Can he really be removed as Convener but not as Commissioner? The relative provisions in the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 refer to removal of a member who is unable or unfit to exercise the functions of a member or unsuitable to continue as a member. Thus they relate to the removal of a member not removal from the office of convener. Removal of a convener would appear to involve removal of the member who happens to be the convener. On removal they would cease to be convener but also cease to be a board member. In any event if it is necessary to strip a commissioner of the convenership could that commissioner really be suitable to continue as a member of the board of the Crofting Commission? Image Credit: Bad Penny © Jarmean This entry was posted in Common Grazings, Crofting Commission and tagged apology, Brora, Colin Kennedy, Common Clearances, Convener of Crofting Commission, crofters, Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993, Crofting Commission, Crofting Commission Board, Crofting Commissioner, Crofting Minister, Fergus Ewing, Fergus Ewing MSP, Lewis, Mangersta, P45, resign, Scottish Crofting Federation, Scottish Government, Upper Coll, West Highland Free Press, WHFP on October 15, 2016 by Brian Inkster. First Minister answers questions on “intolerable” Convener The First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon MSP, answers questions from Tavish Scott MSP on the turmoil at the Crofting Commission At First Minister’s Question Time in the Scottish Parliament today Tavish Scott MSP questioned the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon MSP, over what could possibly be dubbed Broragate. Tavish Scott asked:- Is the First Minister aware of the turmoil in the Crofting Commission caused by the intolerable behaviour of the current convener? Does she know that other commissioners have asked for his resignation and that the previous Chief Executive, Catriona Maclean, left because of the convener’s behaviour and the pressure that is being placed on commission staff? In those circumstances will she and her rural secretary now take action to make the commission work for crofters across the crofting counties without the disruptive presence of the convener? Tavish Scott MSP asking the First Minister questions on the turmoil at the Crofting Commission First Minister Nicola Sturgeon answered:- Well Tavish Scott raises a very important issue. The Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy has already welcomed the apology from the board of the Crofting Commission but it is disappointing that the convener was not a party to that apology. It is important that we get to the stage of being able to draw a line under recent events. The resources spent on dealing with these issues by the commission would in my view be far better used in being an effective regulator in contributing to a sustainable future for crofting. I note that crofting commissioners have unanimously called on the convener to resign. The Scottish Government have requested further information from the convener in relation to last week’s events. While the Government would not ordinarily intervene in the internal operations of an independent statutory body the legislation does give Scottish Ministers power to act if required, and I can assure Tavish Scott that the Cabinet Secretary continues to monitor the situation very closely and would be very happy to discuss it further with Tavish Scott. You can watch this exchange between Tavish Scott and the First Minister on YouTube at about 24:42 in:- This entry was posted in Common Grazings, Crofting Commission and tagged apology, Broragate, Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy and Connectivity, Catriona Maclean, Chief Executive of the Crofting Commission, Convener, Convener of Crofting Commission, crofters, Crofting Commission Board, Crofting Commissioners, Crofting Counties, crofting regulator, disruptive, First Minister, First Minister's Question Time, intolerable, Nicola Sturgeon, Nicola Sturgeon MSP, resign, resignation, rural secretary, Scottish First Minister, Scottish Government, Scottish Ministers, Tavish Scott, Tavish Scott MSP, turmoil on October 6, 2016 by Brian Inkster. Crofting Farce It is exactly one week since the Convener of the Crofting Commission, Colin Kennedy, walked out on a Board meeting at Brora Golf Club. The remaining Commissioners who convened a Special Meeting in his absence called on his resignation. The Scottish Crofting Federation have expressed bewilderment that Mr Kennedy is still in place despite it being clear that he now stands alone. They have referred to his position as a farce that is getting in the way of important business. Russell Smith, Vice-chair of the Scottish Crofting Federation said:- The Crofting Commission board meeting last week was certainly an eye-opener. It quickly became apparent that the Convener had lost the support of his board and it came as no surprise that he left the meeting with his tail between his legs. What is astounding though is that he still has not resigned. What does it take for him to get the message? At the Board meeting of the Crofting Commission, held in Brora last week, observers were treated to a bizarre display involving the Convener, Colin Kennedy, attempting to force his will on the rest of the board and officials. Failing in this he closed the meeting without any business being conducted and left. The meeting was re-convened with vice-convener Iain George MacDonald in the chair and normal business was resumed. Mr MacDonald issued a full and open apology for the recent debacle involving the Commission’s handling of common grazing committees. The apology is very welcome and shows the other Commissioners do have integrity. However, the apology should have come from Mr Kennedy, along with his resignation speech, both because he is the spokesman for the Commissioners and because he has been the chief antagonist in the whole affair. Mr Kennedy has been very destructive for crofting and for the Commission, and it is time to put an end to this sorry episode. There is much to be done in crofting development and in rural issues, especially with the uncertainty over the effect of the European referendum. Mr Kennedy is standing alone now, his position is a farce and he is getting in the way of important business. It is time for the Commission, as a body, to have him removed. Image Credit: Farce of Nature © Aleks Ortynski This entry was posted in Common Grazings, Crofting Commission and tagged apology, Brora, Brora Golf Club, Colin Kennedy, Common Grazings, Convener of Crofting Commission, crofting, Crofting Commission, Crofting Commission Board, Crofting Commissioners, crofting farce, farce, I. G. MacDonald, resign, resignation, Russell Smith, Scottish Crofting Federation, Vice Convener of the Crofting Commission, Vice-chair of the Scottish Crofting Federation on October 5, 2016 by Brian Inkster. Few tears should be shed The latest edition (30 September) of the West Highland Free Press contains a strong editorial concerning the events in Brora last week. It is entitled Crofting Commission: No tears for the end of the Colin Kennedy era. We reproduce it here as an important part of our archive on ‘The Common Clearances‘:- By walking out of a Crofting Commission meeting in Brora yesterday (Wednesday) because everything was not going his own way, Colin Kennedy abandoned the convenership in the same disgracefully arrogant manner with which he has held the position for the last 15 months. Few tears should be shed. Last week crofting minister Fergus Ewing instructed the crofting commissioners to make a full public apology to the Lewis grazings committees which earlier this year, they summarily and possibly illegally dismissed from office. In other words, according to the crofting minister, throughout this whole sorry affair the Crofting Commission has been completely wrong in both its legislative interpretation and procedural actions. The commission was wrong to consider that the locally-elected grazings committees at Upper Coll and Mangersta had been constitutionally at fault. It was also wrong to sack them. There can be few graver charges laid at the door of crofting’s regulatory body. Its punishment is to publish a humiliating confession of its sins, and to submit to a review of its practices by Scottish Government officials. More than anybody else, Mr Kennedy spearheaded the assault on the grazings committees. In doing so he at least demeaned and possibly also subverted his office. If one thing was certain following Mr Ewing’s intervention before Wednesday’s meeting in Brora, it was that Colin Kennedy could no longer stay on as convener. All that remained was the manner of his leaving. It could have been gracious or it could have been petulant. It was of course the latter. The remnants of the Crofting Commission was left to compose its letter of apology. Once that task was completed, before dusting itself down and attempting to resume normal and responsible service, it must tie up another loose end from Mr Kennedy’s convenership. The commission should instantly remove its constable, Colin Souter, from Upper Coll. The imposition of Mr Souter on that part of Lewis was a grossly insulting over-reaction. He should never have been sent there in the first place. In the words of the Scottish Crofting Federation’s Fiona Mandeville, Constable Souter “has no place in crofting, is aggravating bad feeling and is standing in the way of democratic process”. Colin Souter’s continuing presence on the east side of Lewis is reminiscent of the Highland authorities’ response to the 19th century land war. It has no place in the 21st century. Colin Kennedy was elected to the Crofting Commission by the crofters of the south-west Highland constituency. He was then elected to the convenership by his fellow commissioners following their vote of no confidence in the government-appointed chair, Susan Walker. He is walking proof of the fallibility of democracy. But if free votes have bad outcomes, they can also correct their mistakes. If Mr Kennedy hangs around, stands and is re-elected by the voters of Lochaber, Argyll and Bute, Arran and Cumbrae and the Small Isles next March, that will be their right and their responsibility. We hope, however that the crofters of the south-west Highlands have enough decency and sense to choose an alternative. Other commissioners should and doubtless are taking long hard looks at their positions. They have all been complicit, to one degree or another, in this fiasco. Murdo MacLennan was returned from Lewis with the biggest vote of all. For all of his experience and affability, Mr MacLennan has not defended the crofters of his own constituency from his convener’s excesses. If, as we have often suggested, the size of the Western Isles crofting constituency was property respected and it had two or three elected commissioners, Colin Kennedy might have found some opposition within the commission’s ranks – and the grazings committees of Upper Coll and Mangersta might not have been dragged through the mire. As things stand, Murdo MacLennan is the only Western Isles representative on the Crofting Commission. In this important instance, however reluctantly and for whatever reasons, he has failed his voters. If he also stands for re-election, he might not expect many voters from Upper Coll next spring. Whether or not the crofters of the rest of Lewis stick with him is their decision. We suggest that it is time for a change there also. It may not be his worst offence, but Colin Kennedy’s Crofting Commission has given ammunition to those who will suggest that crofters are incapable of managing their own affairs. Crofters themselves can refute that charge. Six months from now they will once again be asked to vote for crofting commissioners. In the elections of 2012 the turnout was low. In both the Western Isles and in Skye and the West Highlands, only half of crofters bothered to vote. That turnout should increase significantly next spring. Crofters everywhere know by now how much is at stake. The least they can demand of their commissioner candidates is that they refrain from mounting concerted attacks on grazings committees. This entry was posted in Common Grazings, Crofting Commission and tagged 2017 Crofting Elections, apology, Brora, Chair of Scottish Crofting Federation, Colin Kennedy, Colin Souter, Common Grazings Committee, Convener of Crofting Commission, Crofting Commission, Crofting Commissioners, crofting elections, Fergus Ewing, Fergus Ewing MSP, Fiona Mandeville, Grazings Constable, illegal grazings constable, Isle of Lewis, Lewis, Mangersta, Mangersta Common Grazings Committee, Murdo Maclennan, Scottish Crofting Federation, Scottish Government, Susan Walker, Upper Coll, Upper Coll Common Grazings Committee, West Highland Free Press, Western Isles, WHFP on October 4, 2016 by Brian Inkster. Kennedy walks out of Brora meeting and remaining Commissioners apologise and call for his resignation Brora Golf Club – Location of the latest episode of the Crofting Soap Opera Dramatic happenings in the world of crofting this morning in Brora. The Crofting Commission were holding their board meeting in Brora Golf Club. It started at 9.30am this morning. On the agenda, amongst other things, was their meeting with Fergus Ewing MSP last week when they were in effect given a direction to apologise for dismissing three grazings committees from office. It was fully expected that this apology would be forthcoming after the meeting and would have to be made by the Convener, Colin Kennedy. The BBC initially reported that:- The Crofting Commission’s convener has walked out of a meeting at which the body was under pressure to make a public apology in a long-running row. Colin Kennedy had earlier in the meeting refused to allow a commissioner to withdraw his declaration of interest in the dispute about common grazings. When officials told him he had to accept the request, Mr Kennedy closed the meeting and walked out. Dealbhan bhidio iongantach de dh'Fhear-gairm Choimisean na Croitearachd a' coiseachd a-mach às a' choinneimh aca.Làn aithris air An Là 20:00 pic.twitter.com/bLW7IjKK6F — BBC Naidheachdan (@bbcnaidheachdan) 28 September 2016 It would appear that the remaining commissioners then convened a Special Meeting which was posted on the Crofting Commission’s website as starting at 10.15am. They resumed the business of the day without their Convener who has been known to go into hiding before today. An updated report from the BBC on the resumed meeting states that:- Commissioners passed a motion calling on Colin Kennedy to stand down after he walked out of a meeting in Brora, Sutherland, earlier on Wednesday. They have also issued a public apology for how the commission handled its dispute with the crofters. It is understood that this apology was issued, in the Convener’s absence, by Vice Convener, I. G. MacDonald. Clearly that was the responsibility of the Convener but one that he evaded. This apology has now been issued in writing by the Crofting Commission. It reads:- The Crofting Commission wishes to apologise for the way it has handled recent grazings committee cases. Three unprecedented cases have been considered by the Commission under Section 47(8) of the Crofting Act and resulted in committees being put out of office. The decisions taken by the Commission have created a poor result for everyone involved. The actions taken in these cases did not enable communities to work together for the benefit of crofting and in fact have had an adverse impact on the crofting community. The Commission acknowledges that the recent decisions have caused prolonged uncertainty and anxiety not only for the three communities involved but for all crofters, and for this we are sorry. The Commission continually seeks ways to ensure it is delivering in the best interests of crofters and will ensure that any lessons learned from the cases can inform future procedures and decision-making. We will also continue to engage with Scottish Government to look at greater flexibility in crofting legislation. The Crofting Commission will continue to work alongside stakeholders to develop good practice guidance for grazings committees. We would like to reassure crofters that as the regulator of crofting, our main focus continues to be securing the future of crofting through effective regulation and we look forward to working constructively with crofters, grazings committees and crofting stakeholders. Scottish Crofting Federation chair, Fiona Mandeville, said:- Surely now the convener will do what he should have done weeks ago – stand down and let the people who genuinely care about crofting get on with their work. So much time and energy has been wasted during this inexcusable debacle. We have had enough of Kennedy and want to see the back of him. By his action in walking out from the board meeting today and refusing to meet the Minister’s request for an apology, we take it that he has finally abdicated. We welcome the Commission board taking this decisive action at last and look forward to working with them to rebuild trust in the Commission and to developing strategies for crofting, taking up again all the positive initiatives which had been set aside while Kennedy was in control. We also naturally welcome the apology issued by the board after the convener’s departure. It is little wonder after these latest developments that his fellow commissioners have now decided enough is enough. The board had appeared split in their loyalties towards him but they have clearly realised that it is time for them to unite under the stewardship of a new convener and seek to heal the damage done as a result of ‘The Common Clearances‘. There have been repeated calls over a number of months from crofters and from the Scottish Crofting Federation for Colin Kennedy to resign. Those calls have been ignored by him. Now his fellow commissioners are calling on him to do the same thing. Will, however, Colin Kennedy accept the motion and stand down? Does he have any option? If he doesn’t will Fergus Ewing have to intervene? Image Credit: Brora Golf Club This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged apology, Brora, Brora Golf Club, Chair of Scottish Crofting Federation, Colin Kennedy, Common Clearances, Common Grazings Committee, Convener of Crofting Commission, crofters, Crofting Commission, Crofting Commissioners, Fergus Ewing, Fergus Ewing MSP, Fiona Mandeville, I. G. MacDonald, resign, resignation, Scottish Crofting Federation, Special Meeting, walked out on September 28, 2016 by Brian Inkster.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line168
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__label__cc	0.51469	0.48531	Update: Enjoy 25 different art venues during May 6 Art Walk 1 - April 21, 2011 - 0 Comments Kick off ArtsFest weekend with First Friday Art Walk, 6-10 p.m. May 6 – a multifaceted evening of art, music, food and fun in 25 participating art venues. Concurrent with Art Walk, ArtsFiesta! takes place at Founders’ Park, 330 E. Water St., 6-9 p.m. This celebration of Mexican culture features an authentic Mariachi band, Mariachi Viva Jalisco, from Springfield’s sister city of Tlaquepaque, Mexico. Enjoy music, dance, children’s games, authentic Mexican food and more. Admission to ArtsFiesta! is $3; children 10 and under get in free. Also, be sure to stop by Art Walk’s nonprofit booth anytime during ArtsFest weekend and make a FREE beaded bracelet! May Art Walk Highlights: Party down with 417 Magazine at 319 W. Walnut during 417’s 10th Anniversary Celebration. Enjoy art by 417 Magazine Photographers, plus live music by Pearl, food by Flame and much more! Experience a joyous expression of creativity by Bezalel, the Central Assembly of God artists’ group, this month only at Fria Frozen Yogurt, 301 Park Central West. Experience works of art by The Springfield Boys & Girls Club Photography Club at CaraDee Photography Enjoy a double helping of fine art with No Rules, No Boundaries: Paintings by Debra Sutherland and Stevia Bonebrake at The Creamery Arts Center View a selection of Michael Parkes Lithographs at DB Design Salon & Gallery, part of the owners’ private collection of works by the renowned Missouri-born artist Enjoy Senior Exhibitions by college students from Evangel, Drury and MSU at the Evangel Bellwether Gallery, The Gillioz, Drury Pool Art Center Gallery, MSU Brick City Gallery and MSU Student Exhibition Center, plus experience a full range of artistic expression with OTC Fine Art Gallery’s Fine Art Student Showcase Exhibition Spring 2011 Fresh Gallery presents A Celebration of Color and Texture, a show of new works by May Featured Artists Alicia Farris and Fonda Golding, plus the Fresh Gallery Anniversary Silent Auction Enjoy found object art by Randy Russell and Sad Animals by Cole Closser at Good Girl Art Gallery. Also don’t miss Good Girl’s 10th Anniversary Celebration! Obelisk Home hosts The First 40 Years, a display of art by Kickapoo High School students, faculty and alumni, celebrating 40 years of visual art at KHS Randy Bacon Studio & Gallery presents an opening reception for The Best of the Best Art Exhibit, featuring works by Springfield Public High School Art Students For families on the go, the Downtown Y offers affordable child care for Art Walking parents via Family Art Night, serving children ages 3 months to 12 years, 6:30-9 p.m. for only $10 per child with preregistration; $13 per child without preregistration. Kids enjoy healthy activities and snacks, story time and a hands-on art project to take home. Call (417) 862-8962, ext. 149, for information or to preregister. May Gallery Guide At Abundant Life Covenant Church, 157 Park Central Square, the beauty of early spring has arrived in a series of black-and-white photographs by Chris Wood, along with his new R. E. S. T. photography and paintings collection. Other displays include: Anticipating Spring: Fassnight Creek by Annette Wardell, Waterfalls by Harold Patterson and George W. Kiefer’s historic murals. Enjoy LIVE music and FREE refreshments. (417) 864-4971 www.abundantlifecovenantchurch.com Office hours 9-4:30 p.m. M-F; Services 7:30 p.m. W, 10 a.m. Sun Canvas, 315 South Avenue, invites you to stop by to see local artists and Living Art! Kids are always welcome to explore their creative side at the Make and Take corner. We will also have face painting by Frenchie. (417)-869-4138 Open on First Fridays and by appointment. CaraDee Photography Fine Art Portraits and Gallery, 305 E. Walnut, Ste. 109, will be displaying Photography from The Springfield Boys & Girls Club Photography Club! Some of the artists will be on hand to meet and greet, during First Friday Art Walk, and appetizers will be served. (417) 368-7341 www.caraspictures.com The Creamery Arts Center, 411 N. Sherman Parkway, presents No Rules, No Boundaries: Paintings by Debra Sutherland and Stevia Bonebrake, with an opening reception 6-9 p.m. as part of First Friday Art Walk. Debra and Stevia have been friends living in Springfield for many years. Sharing their passion for painting has not only contributed to their friendship, it has made their respective work all the more vibrant and creative. They both agree that art should be a true expression of self, with no rules and no boundaries. This exhibition is presented free to the public throughout the month of May. (417) 862-ARTS (2787) www.SpringfieldArts.org Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. M-F; closed major holidays DB Design Salon & Art Gallery, 326 S. Campbell, presents a collection of Michael Parkes Lithographs. Enjoy the works of this renowned Missouri-born artist, a master of magical realism, plus see DB Design’s ongoing display of pottery featuring Cheryl Matlock, Julia Schaefer, John Ehlers, Katrina Stevens, George Milne and Duane Bone, as well as jewelry by Tammy Kirks. (417) 864-4343 Drury Pool Art Center Gallery, 940 N. Clay St., presents the Senior Capstone Exhibition. Enjoy the opening reception 6-9 p.m. during the May 6 First Friday Art Walk. (417) 873-7263 www.drury.edu/pacgallery Open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. M, T, W, F; 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Th The Evangel University Bellwether Gallery, 600 W. College, Ste. 116, features the work of 12 graduating Evangel seniors. Media include photography, graphic design, drawing, printmaking, and painting. (417) 865-2815, ext. 7258 Open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. W-Sat Farmers Gastropub, 431 S. Jefferson, Ste. 160, presents Artists Bill D Baunach and Judy Oehlke working on and displaying their art in the Bistro. Farmers Gastropub invites artists who are interested in demonstrating their talents on future First Fridays to contact owner Bill Griffiths. (417) 864-6994 www.farmersgastropub.com The Gastropub is open 9:30-11 p.m. M-W and 9:30 a.m.-midnight Th-Sat, with Bistro Dining 6-9:30 p.m. Th-Sat Fresh, located at the southwest corner of Campbell and Walnut, presents A Celebration of Color and Texture, a show of new works by May Featured Artists Alicia Farris and Fonda Golding. When Alicia Farris started learning the techniques of watercolor over 10 years ago, she merely sought to cultivate her artistic roots, which had lain dormant while she focused on career and family. A few evening classes, she thought, would rekindle her hobby and provide her with a creative outlet. She never dreamed that painting would lead her to new passion, new friends, and new connections all over the region, as well as all over the country, not to mention numerous awards. Fonda Golding has been working with glass since the early ‘80s, and she has taken several stained glass classes including copper foil, lead came, and more recently, fusing. In addition to these interests she is a potter, a coppersmith, and a woodworker. Of all the mediums, glass has become her favorite, probably, she says, because it is so colorful. Enjoy Alicia and Fonda’s work, plus art by Fresh’s 18 regional artists. www.fresh.org. (417) 862-9300 Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. T-Sat Fria Frozen Yogurt, 301 Park Central West, presents a show by Bezalel, the artists’ group of Central Assembly of God. Experience works by artists including Ellen Baum, Barbara Cavaness, Gayle Page, Jennifer Hall, Edna Crouch, Susan Rybarczyk and Kathy Self. (417) 987-3436 Click here to visit Fria on Facebook Gillioz Theatre, 325 Park Central East, presents Drury University senior Aaron Robison’s final collegiate project: Missouri, As Depicted By The Outside. “Four years of networking and traveling have taught me one thing: According to everyone else, Missouri is basically one big town,” says Robison, a design arts and advertising major, “I thought taking these perceptions and creating them would be a fun and interesting perspective on a culture I’ve known my entire life.” Robison’s photography exhibit will be displayed alongside his mentor, photographer Brad Wilkinson, who will also be displaying his work. (417) 863-7843 www.gillioz.org Good Girl Art Gallery, 325 E. Walnut St., Ste. 101, presents Artists Randy Russell and Cole Closser in May. Randy will be showing assemblages of found objects connected by personal history and interest. Cole, a soon-to-be MSU grad, will present his senior exhibition titled Sad Animals. Consisting of comic strips, paintings, prints, “Sad Animals” is a collection of crestfallen creatures, caught up in acts of deep despair and desperation – a maudlin mess of melancholy miscreants, madmen, and mice. Expect sorrow, adventure and alcoholism, along with the public premiere of the artist’s animated short film about a little girl lost in a land of crying critters, and a “collector” who keeps them all captive. (417) 865-7055 www.goodgirlartgallery.com Open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. T-F; 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sat Hawthorn Galleries Inc., 214 E. Walnut St., is proud to present new work by local painters Dave Bennett and Tim Breaux. Continuing their artistic explorations of Missouri and the Southwest, Bennett and Breaux return to Hawthorn with new bodies of work. Experience Art in Action at Hawthorn from 6 to 10 p.m. during Art Walk. Meet the artists and see them at work on new paintings, and also enjoy Live Music by Dale Augustson. (417) 866-6688 www.hawthorngalleries.com Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. T-F; 1-5 p.m. Sat Inveno Health, 429 N. Boonville Ave., presents Gavyn Sky with exclusive gallery representation managed by Obelisk Home. April’s EXPOSED! exhibit proved that this Springfield genius is in demand! See Gavyn’s work as never before at Inveno, home to locally-mastered medical devices and products that benefit the Springfield community and beyond. www.invenohealth.com (417)831-1270. The Lime Agency, 400 E. Walnut, B-100 – located in the basement office suite at the southeast corner of Walnut and Jefferson – presents A Show to Be Announced.. www.thelimeagency.com 417-501-4801 Open 9 a.m.–5 p.m. M-F MSU Brick City Gallery, 215 W. Mill, presents the BFA/Studio Art Exhibition, featuring the work of 10 MSU students completing requirements for the Bachelor of Fine Arts/Studio Arts degree. (417) 829-5092 www.art.missouristate.edu/gallery.php Open 1-6 p.m. M-Sat, closed Sunday, Monday and University holidays MSU Student Exhibition Center, 838 E. Walnut St., presents the Art and Design Department’s BFA in Design Senior Students’ Professional Design Practicum Final Projects Exhibition. The final projects of the Design Practicum are based on the students’ ability to define and select complex problems of visual communication that require the work of a designer and/or illustrator. The process of design continues to be the emphasis of this problem, as well as visually organizing that process for presentation. Students are encouraged to work with community nonprofit organizations. (417) 836-6999 www.sec.missouristate.edu Open 1-5 p.m. T-Sat, closed major holidays and University holidays Obelisk Home at the Inspired Commerce Building, 214 W. Phelps, proudly presents The First 40 Years. Kickapoo High School Art Department celebrates 40 years of visual arts with an exhibition of student, alumni and teacher artwork. Featured artists are Joel Blackburn, Cynthia Bylander, Laura Davis, Julia Ensz, Scott Faught, Steve Fielding, Mary Hamilton, Sylvia Hardy, Brooke Hartley, Alex Inman, Alyse Johnson, Amber Jones, Kristen Kemper, Cara Keith Kerr, Josh Kroeger, Francois Lariviere, Beth Lawson, Maddi McCann, John McCarthy, Lauren McLarry, Mari Moore, Brad Noble, Frank Norton, Trenton O’Dell, Annie Pennington, Aimee Pong, James Radke, Paula Rosen, Holli Smith, Jean Stewart and Jennifer Ziegler. Plus enjoy live musical performance by the Kilgore Sisters furing First Friday Art Walk. (417) 616-6488 www.obeliskhome.com OTC Fine Art Gallery, 325 Park Central East, Third Floor of the Gillioz, presents the Fine Art Student Showcase Exhibition Spring 2011. Enjoy artwork from OTC Fine Art students in Drawing I and II, Two-Dimensional Design, Three-Dimensional Design, Printmaking, Painting I, and Art and Experience. We will also have performances from our Music Department classes including Songwriting 101 and a performance on the harp by Abby Adams. Special refreshments will be served during the opening reception, part of First Friday Art Walk. All are invited to this wonderful showcase of student talent! (417) 447-8873 Open 9 a.m.-6 p.m. M-Th; 9 a.m.-3 p.m. F; 9 a.m.-10 p.m. on First Fridays Park Central Branch Library, 128 Park Central Square, presents an exhibit of works by friends and family of the Springfield-Greene County Library District. The 6 p.m. Art Talk features Ryan Baker on A New Romanticism. (417) 831-1342 facebook.com/parkcentrallibrary Open 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m. M-Th; 8:30 a.m.-10 p.m. F-Sat Randy Bacon Photography and Figment Art Gallery in the Monarch Art Factory, 600 W. College St., presents an opening art reception for Springfield Public High School Art Students, 9th thru 12th grade, during the May 6 Art Walk. The Best of the Best Art Exhibit will fill the Bacon Gallery with over 30 pieces of original artwork! Bacon’s adjoining gallery, Figment Art Gallery & Culture House, will exhibit new art work by the working artists of Figment. The reception is free and open to the public. Free refreshments, local vendors and live music will top off the night! Main Street at College directly outside of the gallery will be closed down to host the James River Dance Team. You won’t want to miss it! (417) 868-8179 www.randybacon.com www.gallerysounds.net Open 11 a.m.-6 p.m. T-F; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat Revel Advertising, 214 W. Phelps, Ste.102, conveniently located next to Obelisk Home in the Inspired Commerce building will feature Elizabeth Chapman during the month of May. Elizabeth is an expressionistic abstract artist who has spent a majority of her life in the Ozarks. She graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Science in Art Education, which she uses as an art educator. Elizabeth states “the journey begins with a blank canvas: believing in faith that a painting will emerge. The first marks are made and the dialogue has begun. Responding instinctively; colors, lines and textures bring life to the canvas. Music often strikes the chords of inspiration, drawing out the deep emotions that become a work of art. This universal language is used as personal communication to the viewer.”(417) 368-6966 www.reveladvertising.com. Springfield Hot Glass Studio, 314 S. Campbell Ave., presents Floral Fantasies, with the artists of Hot Glass Studio crafting floral beads, as well as vases with glass-flower designs. See the ancient art of glassblowing up close and in person during the May 6 Art Walk, and be sure to ask about Springfield Hot Glass’s schedule of classes! (417) 868-8181 www.springfieldhotglass.com Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. T-Sat Springfield Pottery, 416 S. Campbell Ave., will host An Exploration in Polypores and other Crustlike Fungi; featuring the work of ceramic artist Neely Hachtel. Hachtel’s work draws inspiration from her adventurous hiking trips over the last eight years. From the Appalachian Trail to the Continental Divide Trail, she has come to appreciate all that nature has brought to her work. An opening reception for the artist will be held 6-10 p.m. during the May 6 First Friday Art Walk. 417-864-4677. www.springfieldpottery.com info@springfieldpottery.com Open 11 a.m.-6 p.m. T-Sat	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line181
__label__wiki	0.825944	0.825944	Nina Conti is a rare bread on the comedy circuit these days - a ventriloquist. Her new Dolly Mixtures show combines multiple characters (many of which being introduced for the first time), along with unscripted audience interaction. The Monkey is a long-standing companion who is very aware of his puppet status. As is Nina's musical daughter, who is also burdened by the adult concerns of her puppet master. The stray pit-bull terrier got in with a bad crowd after a messy divorce. Stefan is one of Nina's better characters - a life-size Polish man with a body occupied by a member of the audience. Granny is blessed with the (actually rather impressive) power of clairvoyance. Next, Nina employed her trademark ventriloquism masks to put words into the mouths of fans. Finally, John was introduced as a ninety-year-old man who wishes to pop his clogs in dramatic style. Nina is never offensive, but instead channels all cheekiness through her mischievous double-acts. She is also very likeable and genuinely has great fun on stage, getting caught up in unexpected moments of comedy. Nina Conti Live: Dolly Mixtures is a mixed bag of comedic hits and misses, with the strongest material coming from audience involvement and self-aware puppets. At just over an hour long, there's plenty of fun to be had, especially considering the rarity of her art-form these days. Watch the trailer for Nina Conti Live: Dolly Mixtures: Nina Conti Live: Dolly Mixtures is out on DVD, 24th November and Digital Download, 3rd November, courtesy of Universal Pictures (UK). Nina Conti can be found tweeting @ninaconti and Monkey can be found tweeting at @monkeyconti Review by: Sarah O'Connell Review Date: 9th November 2014 Nina Conti Live: Dolly Mixtures	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line183
__label__wiki	0.728654	0.728654	First 12...89101112 Last Maryland Appliquéd Album Quilt Maker: Carr Family Member Maker: Worthington Family Member Origin: America, Maryland, Anne Arundel County OH: 105 1/2" x OW: 103" (268 x 261 cm) Plain and printed cottons with wool and silk embroidery threads Museum Purchase, The Friends of Colonial Williamsburg Collections Fund This is an appliquéd quilt with red, green, and yellow cottons on an off-white ground. The quilt is composed of 25 blocks, each measuring 17 to 17 1/2 inches square, joined by one-inch red sashing pieced to blocks. The blocks contain various floral motifs with green leaves, red flowers, and yellow accents; clusters of green and red grapes; floral wreaths; and potted plants. Some of the motifs use reverse appliqué. An appliquéd border measuring approximately 6 inches wide extends around all four sides. The border design is a running green vine with green leaves and clusters of red cherries. There is additional decorative stitching of outline and chain stitches in red and dark yellow silk and wool embroidery threads to form tendrils and stems. Original pencil lines for the embroidery in border can still be seen. The bedcover is quilted with off-white running stitches, 9 to 11 stitches per inch, around appliquéd motifs and in additional designs, including parallel diagonal lines, leaves, circles and teardrops, and four-lobed crosses, or "fylfots," and feather wreaths. Original pencil lines for some of the quilting can be seen. The quilt is bound in a strip of one-inch folded red cotton and backed in off-white cotton. Label:The counties surrounding Baltimore are known for their fine album quilts. Made in the county just south of Baltimore, this quilt is composed of twenty-five blocks that relate to those in Baltimore album quilts, yet these are more delicately designed and executed, some with embroidered details. The blocks of wreaths, floral and fruit crosses, and pots of flowers are separated by narrow red sashing, and are carefully assembled for visual symmetry when viewed as a bed covering. The four heavier matching motifs anchor the outer corners, while the other blocks are arranged and directed toward the center. A narrow outer border of shallow meandering vines with embroidered tendrils completes the composition. The quilt is said to have belonged to John and Sarah Carr of Fairview in Anne Arundel County. Although oral history ascribes the making of the quilt to a woman named Worthington, the family may have mixed up the names, because Sarah Carr's maiden name was Whittington, not Worthington. John Carr and Sarah Whittington married in Anne Arundel County in February of 1843. It is possible that Sarah made or received the quilt as a gift prior to her marriage. Provenance:According to the owner, the quilt was made by a member of the Worthington family of Fairview, Maryland, in approximately 1835 and has descended through the Carr family since 1843. The Carr family (still in MD) consigned the quilt to auction which is where the current owner acquired it. Because the quilt dates later than 1835, part of the family history must be in error. John and Sarah Whittington Carr were married February 20, 1843, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland (see genealogical information in object file.) The relationship between Worthington and Carr families cannot be determined to date.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line184
__label__cc	0.554658	0.445342	A nail in the coffin \| Article about a nail in the coffin by The Free Dictionary https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/a+nail+in+the+coffin (redirected from a nail in the coffin) Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Financial, Idioms. nail, in anatomy, the horny outgrowth shielding the tip of the finger and the toe in humans and most other primates. The nail consists of dead cells pushed outward by dividing cells in the root, a fold of epidermis at the base of the nail (see skinskin, the flexible tissue (integument) enclosing the body of vertebrate animals. In humans and other mammals, the skin operates a complex organ of numerous structures (sometimes called the integumentary system) serving vital protective and metabolic functions. ..... Click the link for more information. ). The hard material in nail cells is the tough protein material, keratin. If the root is destroyed, the nail ceases to grow. Otherwise, growth from root to tip is achieved in about four months. The small-celled and relatively bloodless tissue near the base of the nail forms a white, crescent-shaped spot called the lunula, or moon. No pigment occurs in nail cells, but since they are translucent, their appearance is pink because of blood vessels beneath. A painful inflammation (paronychium) of the fingertip may result from infection starting in a hangnail. Pressure from improperly fitting shoes may cause the large toenail to cut into the skin along its edges (the so-called ingrown toenail). Horny derivatives of the integument, homologous to the primate nail, have evolved into various structures in other animals, e.g., the hooves of horses and cattle and the claws of birds and reptiles. metal pin driven by force applied at one end into pieces of material, usually wood, to join them together. The strength of a nailed joint depends on the properties of the wood, the type and number of nails used, and the type of loads applied to the joint. When the nail is subjected to side loading, the strength of the nail itself also becomes important. Generally speaking, a nail holds better when driven across the grain of a wood than parallel with it and better in a hardwood than in a softwood. However, since a softwood has less tendency to split than a hardwood, more nails can be driven into it. Various means, such as texturing the surface of a nail or coating it with high-friction materials are used to increase its withdrawal resistance. A slender piece of metal pointed at one end for driving into wood and flat at the other end for striking with a hammer; used as a board fastener. The size of the nail is indicated by the term “penny” and the letter “d,” which refers to the length of the nail ranging 2d (1 inch) to 60d (6 inches). the horny protective formation that covers the dorsal aspect of a terminal phalanx in lemuroids, simians, and man. A nail is a modified claw. The nail, or nail plate, lies on the nail bed, which is formed from a connective tissue layer of skin. The nail bed is fused with the periosteum of the phalanx and is abundantly supplied with blood vessels and nerve endings. One differentiates the distal free end of the nail, which protrudes over the pad of the digit; the body of the nail; and the nail root, which is the proximal section of the nail. The root is bound by a fold of skin called the nail fold. At the base of the nail root is the nail groove, from which the nail constantly grows at an average rate of 3 mm per month in man. Pathological changes and diseases of the nail are classified as onychias—diseases of the nail itself—and paronychias—diseases of the nail fold. Changes in the nail can be congenital. For example, the nail plate can be too thick or too thin, or its shape can be otherwise altered. More rarely, the nail can be incompletely developed, or the nail plate can be completely absent. The causes of acquired pathological changes include vitamin deficiency, neurotropic disorders, and skin diseases. The most common infectious diseases of the nail are fungal, for example, tinea, or ringworm. What does it mean when you dream about a nail? A nail holds or binds objects together that need to be fixed or repaired. To “get nailed” is to get caught at something. Another slang expression, “hit the nail on the head,” may indicate that an accurate appraisal may repair a problem or relationship. This symbol may be seen as a fingernail or toenail. If a fingernail is pointing at something, a new direction or viewpoint is being created. If one stubs a toenail, carelessness may have caught up with the person. [nāl] (anatomy) The horny epidermal derivative covering the dorsal aspect of the terminal phalanx of each finger and toe. (design engineering) A slender, usually pointed fastener with a head, designed for insertion by impact. (engineering) To drive nails in a manner that will position and hold two or more members, usually of wood, in a desired relationship. (medicine) A metallic rod with one blunt end and one sharp end, used surgically to anchor bone fragments. Types of nails A straight, small, rigid, slender shaft of metal, one end of which is usually pointed; the other end has a head that may be driven with a hammer; used as a fastener to join separate pieces of wood, to attach tiles to a wood sheathing on a roof, and so on. Nails were hand-wrought until the invention of machines for their manufacture in the early 19th century. See cut nail, dog nail, hand-wrought nail, wire nail, wrought nail. 1. a fastening device usually made from round or oval wire, having a point at one end and a head at the other 2. the horny plate covering part of the dorsal surface of the fingers or toes 3. the claw of a mammal, bird, or reptile 4. a unit of length, formerly used for measuring cloth, equal to two and a quarter inches (dreams) Hammering of nails in a dream might represent feelings of anger and hostility, or it might symbolize hard work and honorable endeavors. Additionally, nails may have some sexual connotations. A man may be expressing some repressed anxiety about sexual potency while a woman may be expressing her unconscious abhorrence of sex. <a href="https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/a+nail+in+the+coffin">nail</a> annular nail asphalt-shingle nail back nailing back-nailing blind nailing boarding joist box nail box up brad punch brad set brad setter carpenter's punch casing nail cement-coated nail center nailing clamp nail clasp nail clench nail a Boötis a Canis Majoris a Canis Minoris a Carinae A chain a Crucis A display a format A Hardware Programming Language A indicator a jour A Language Encouraging Program Hierarchy A Language for Attributed Definitions A Language with an Extensible Compiler a Lyrae A Manufacturing Language a nadir point a nail in the coffin A PArse REquest Language A phase a Piscis Australis A positive a posteriori a posteriori probability A power supply a priori and a posteriori a priori probability A Programming Language A register A scale A scan A scope A selection A Simulation Process-Oriented Language A size A stage A star A stars A station A supply A Tools Integration Standard A trace a mummy'mother's boy a mummy's boy a mummy's/mother's boy A Murine Systemic Senile Amyloid A murrain on you A Murri a must a must do a must-do a mutual admiration society A Mutually-Orthogonal Usercode Receiver a mystery to a mystery to (one) a mystery to her a mystery to him a mystery to me a mystery to one a mystery to them a mystery to us a mystery to you A N Other a nail biter a nail in somebody's's coffin a nail in somebody's/something's coffin a nail in something's coffin a nail in the coffin of a nail in the coffin of something a nail-biter A Naked World a name to conjure with A Name-Value Language a narrow escape a narrow escape/squeak a narrow squeak a nasty bit of work a nasty piece of work a nasty taste in mouth a nasty taste in the mouth a nasty wallop a nasty woman A nation of shopkeepers A Naturally Dominating Youth a near miss	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line186
__label__wiki	0.871989	0.871989	Star Jones Out Of "View" - Did Sandra Bernhard Cat Fight Push Her Over? The View's ever lovely Star Jones annouced she's quitting ABC's women talk show "The View." But to make matters worse, The View's producer, Barbara Walters said today they've fired her. I don't know the behind the scenes story, but given this racially-coded exchange with Sandra Bernhard which is in the video below -- some call it a cat fight -- it seems race may have played a role and not in the way you think. It seems that Jones' may not have been the right demographic for the suddenly gay-friendly media. What I think happened is that Walters and her staff made some weird read on society and concluded they better get a lesbian voice on their show -- enter Rosie O'Donnell. But exit Jones? Well, some people tend to think in a white - male - centered view, where anyone that's not white or male is considerred a minority, thus the stupid decision to trade one minority -- Jones -- for another -- O'Donnell. Bernhard -- like Rosie -- is also Lesbian, and it's almost certain Lesbian women called for Jones' head after the exchange, and inspite of the fact that it was the acid-tongued Bernhard who opened her mouth too much. (Not to say I disagree with her on the matter of war and women. I mean, the World would be a better place if every woman refused to have sex with a bigot or a warmonger.) It won't matter. O'Donnell's not a draw. The View will sink into oblivion. While it's sinking, look at the video! Star Jones Out Of "View" - Did Sandra Bernhard Cat...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line187
__label__wiki	0.619384	0.619384	Analysis of runs of homozygosity and their relationship with inbreeding in five cattle breeds farmed in Italy Marras, Gabriele and Gaspa, Giustino and Sorbolini, Silvia and Dimauro, Corrado and Ajmone-Marsan, Paolo and Valentini, Alessio and Williams, John Lewis and Macciotta, Nicolò Pietro Paolo (2015) Analysis of runs of homozygosity and their relationship with inbreeding in five cattle breeds farmed in Italy. Animal Genetics, Vol. 46 (2), p. 110-121. ISSN 0268-9146. eISSN 1365-2052. Article. DOI: 10.1111/age.12259 Increased inbreeding is an inevitable consequence of selection in livestock populations. The analysis of high-density single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) facilitates the identification of long and uninterrupted runs of homozygosity (ROH) that can be used to identify chromosomal regions that are identical by descent. In this work, the distribution of ROH of different lengths in five Italian cattle breeds is described. A total of 4095 bulls from five cattle breeds (2093 Italian Holstein, 749 Italian Brown, 364 Piedmontese, 410 Marchigiana and 479 Italian Simmental) were genotyped at 54K SNP loci. ROH were identified and used to estimate molecular inbreeding coefficients (FROH), which were compared with inbreeding coefficients estimated from pedigree information (FPED) and using the genomic relationship matrix (FGRM). The average number of ROH per animal ranged from 54 ± 7.2 in Piedmontese to 94.6 ± 11.6 in Italian Brown. The highest number of short ROH (related to ancient consanguinity) was found in Piedmontese, followed by Simmental. The Italian Brown and Holstein had a higher proportion of longer ROH distributed across the whole genome, revealing recent inbreeding. The FPED were moderately correlated with FROH > 1 Mb (0.662, 0.700 and 0.669 in Italian Brown, Italian Holstein and Italian Simmental respectively) but poorly correlated with FGRM (0.134, 0.128 and 0.448 for Italian Brown, Italian Holstein and Italian Simmental respectively). The inclusion of ROH > 8 Mb in the inbreeding calculation improved the correlation of FROH with FPED and FGRM. ROH are a direct measure of autozygosity at the DNA level and can overcome approximations and errors resulting from incomplete pedigree data. In populations with high linkage disequilibrium (LD) and recent inbreeding (e.g. Italian Holstein and Italian Brown), a medium-density marker panel, such as the one used here, may provide a good estimate of inbreeding. However, in populations with low LD and ancient inbreeding, marker density would have to be increased to identify short ROH that are identical by descent more precisely. Autozygosity, Bos taurus, molecular inbreeding, runs of homozygosity, Sardinia Area 07 - Scienze agrarie e veterinarie > AGR/17 Zootecnica generale e miglioramento genetico Blackwell / Wiley	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line190
__label__wiki	0.502815	0.502815	#Fukushima I NPP: Radioactive Cesium, All-Beta Det... Japan's PM Abe: "I Want Next Governor of Tokyo to ... TEPCO to Set Up "Decommission Company" as a Separa... Current Air Dose Levels in Different Areas Within ... (OT) Comment Section Is Open Again Photos of #Fukushima I NPP in Late 2013: Still Ver... (OT) US Fed to "Taper" QE by $10 Billion, Stock Ma... #Fukushima I NPP: 63,000 Bq/L of All-Beta One Day,... Evans-Pritchard: China-Japan Rearmament is Keynesi... Japan's PM Abe: "I Want Next Governor of Tokyo to Be A Young Woman" Well, as if it would be his to decide. The gubernatorial election to be called early next year in Tokyo is a local election, albeit an important one if only because Tokyo is the most populous prefecture in Japan. In case you haven't heard about it, Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose, who won the election in December last year with a landslide (he amassed the largest ever number of votes in the Tokyo gubernatorial election) and won the 2020 Olympic for Tokyo, suddenly found himself a target of the suddenly righteous press in Japan (who have all but stopped coverage of the State Secrecy Protection Law as soon as it passed the Upper House), and has been forced out of office. Mr. Inose's sin? Having received a "huge", no-interest campaign loan (50 million yen, or 500,000 US dollars) from a hospital chain that provided campaign funds to a host of other national politicians, many of them in Liberal Democratic Party in the December 2012 Lower House election/local elections. Mr. Inose did an extremely poor job of explaining away (he miserably failed), and for that small amount, as far as the politics go in Japan and which he claims he has returned, he resigned on December 19, 2013. Is the righteous mainstream (national) media in Japan going after the national politicians in the ruling party? It's not that I think highly of Mr. Inose (I don't), but the way the mainstream media (particularly Asahi, who had a "scoop" - sure, sure) and LDP blew it out of proportion from a potential bribery case into a circus is highly suspicious. Now that Mr. Inose has resigned, all is well, the case closed, not just for Inose but most likely for any politician who received money from the hospital chain. Mr. Inose's word says it all: "I was a politically naive amateur." Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on December 18 even before Governor Inose announced he would resign, was quoted as saying this on TV Tokyo: 自民党関係者によりますと、安倍総理は都知事候補について若い女性がいい」と周辺に話していたということです。 According to the source connected to LDP, Prime Minister Abe was telling his staff that the candidate for the Governor of Tokyo should be a young woman. Young woman. Meaning someone (or a whole lot of them) like these, Abe's favorite, dressed in a school-uniform-like outfit (you are supposed to see them as high school girls)? (My sincere condolence to the ASEAN ministers and their spouses who were subjected to this "entertainment" by PM Abe. If you were thinking about teaming up with Abe's Japan to counter the pressure from China, good luck.) Oh by the way, the "candidates" (unofficial, undeclared for now) picked by a TV program (Asahi, I think) are beyond the pale for most Japanese net citizens: Candidates with yellow background color are from the opposition, blue from LDP. They don't even look human, but four out of seven are girls. Not sure about "young". Labels: Naoki Inose, Shinzo Abe Anyone young could probably do a better job, regardless of gender. Vyse Legendaire said... Maybe we can have our first Tokimeki Governor ™. Sounds like Abe wants Japanese version of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman .... but never ever Elizabeth Warren or Jill Stein. Vomit. Thanks always for your excellent report. Er, on which basis is 50 ml yen a small sum? By the way, my impression is that Inose failed to persuade that he did not use the funds for the campaign. Gelvan Tullibole 3rd said... Now that the men have created a huge radiation problem for Tokyo of course they want a young lady to take over so that later they can announce the truth as if she was hiding it. arevamirpal::laprimavera said... Abe wants the Japanese version of Miley Cyrus, not Palin or Bachman or anyone over 40 if not 30. Less naughty perhaps. 50 million yen, or 500,000 USD, is probably enough to buy a "mansion" (high-rise apartment unit) in Tokyo, probably not the central Tokyo but close enough. That's not much, but that could just be me, born and grown up in Tokyo. As far as the political world in Japan goes, people start to raise eyebrows when the amount exceeds 100 million yen, or "ichi-oku en". And I though American politicians were wackos - this takes the prize. Inose was vice of Ishihara and the latter supported him at the elections. Is there any chance that Ishihara too might have been involved into similar ways of running for office? Precisely... most people enter into a 35 years housing loan to buy a 50 million apartment. It's about a lifetime savings. By the way, Inose cashed 10 million as retirement allowance after he resigned. It's still not much by the standard of Japanese politics. Unfortunately for Inose, the amount is just about the right amount most people can relate to and get outraged. A beauty contest is just what Japan needs right now.A pretty new leader would help take their minds off all those Fukushima problems. True, Ozawa got into trouble because of a few hundred million but still 50 ml is no pocket change. Some other politician got in trouble for "foreign" donations... turned out he got 200.000/300.000 yen from a third generation Japanese-Korean old lady (if I recall correctly). I would call this donation irrelevant, but 50 ml is another story. Let's put it this way, those girls on stage are looking rather the much more attractive than America's newest candidate for president. The one referred to as "this thing", Pajama Boi, FlannelJammies, etc. Be sure to read the comments, photoshops ... The Genius of It All, LOL, "Unlike your average Jehovah’s Witness, Pajama Boy has evidently managed not only to get into the warmth of your house to do his proselytizing, but to make himself a cup of hot chocolate and to get into his bedtime clothes to boot. That is to say, Pajama Boy is staying over — priggish facial expression and all — and he won’t leave until you’ve relented." LOL " .. this season’s style is Earnest Ph.D. Candidate No. 6." Oh, Jesus! Ernie's back! LOL http://www.nationalreview.com/article/366643/pajama-boy-obama-machines-id-charles-c-w-cooke http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w32/ttm4/pajama_boy_6_zps4887d385.jpg Propaganda campaign to spread Fukushima food in Kyushu now ... vid here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWVbmXoOkEM Care for a reminder of how the Japanese govt. has betrayed its people? The SPEEDI Chronicles http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/search/label/SPEEDI Now they fully back spreading Fuku-food everywhere in Japan.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line192
__label__cc	0.749373	0.250627	Find Properties Bulgaria,bulgarian property, property in bulgaria, property for sale bulgaria, bulgaria real estate, bulgarian properties, properties bulgaria, properties in bulgaria, land in bulgaria, house in bulgaria, bulgarian map, sofia bulgaria, bulgarian properties for sale, bulgaria property for sale, buying property in bulgaria, property varna, property for sale in bulgaria, properties for sale in bulgaria, property in bulgaria for sale, properties in bulgaria for sale Find Properties Bulgaria недвижимость в болгарии, болгария апартаменты, рынок недвижимости болгария, The Independent tells the story of a UK family that decided to invest in Bulgaria's skiing resort Bansko by buying a flat there. Under the title "Perfect retreats for skiers" the newspaper points out that as winter is nearing more and more Britons are planning their holiday, Bulgaria is emerging as a perfect destination. Skiing holidays are always costly, and buyers are often concluding that, in the long run, buying a ski apartment works out cheaper than paying for family skiing holiday, the Independent wrote. Pointing out the interest in real estates in some of the most prominent winter vacation spots in the US, Canada, France, Switzerland and Austria, the newspaper tells about the decision of a UK family with two children that recently bought an apartment in Bansko. But it is not only skiing that attracted the Britons. "Set in a National Park, activities such as golf, tennis and fishing give them plenty of holiday options throughout the year and the development also has its own health spa and restaurant." What's driving many buyers to this particular area is the hope that Bansko will receive a major investment, as it is a candidate for the 2014 winter Olympics, the newspaper underlines. The Pirin Mountains are an adequate resort for most skiers but experts may prefer the challenges of some of the country's best downhill skiing at the nearby resort of Shiligarnika. But the UK family admitted that their apartment's low price tag was their major incentive. "Bansko has to be the best value compared to any other European ski resort, with prices at less than half the cost per square metre than most Alpine regions."	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line193
__label__wiki	0.623259	0.623259	BusinessLatest NewsNational Stakeholders Urge Government to Reconsider the Tax Levied on Banjul Breweries By Nelson Manneh Wholesalers, retailers and consumers of Banjul Breweries Ltd. Products, have called on Government to revisit the tax levied on the Company. The stakeholders who benefit from Banjul Breweries products said Government cannot stop the consumption of alcohol even if it squeezes the Company and force it to shut down; that there are those who import hard drinks into the country. Many of these wholesalers indicate if the Company shuts down because of tax levied on it, it will seriously affect consumers including hotels, business persons and livelihoods who work either directly or indirectly with the Company or its products. A wholesaler along Kairaba Avenue in the Kanifing Municipality, said the tax levied on the Company this year, is outrageous and has never happened. “Banjul Breweries does not produce alcohol alone. They produce other soft drinks too. This should be put into consideration by Government. Forcing the Company to shut down is not the solution to the problem,” he said. Another wholesaler said Government cannot employ all the youth of the country, and should not discourage those who employ them. Lamin Marong who is a shopkeeper around Senegambia, said if Banjul Breweries is shut down, a lot of businesses will also go down with it; that Banjul Breweries is among the Companies with the highest number of employees; that there are those who work as transporters, wholesalers, retailers and distributors. Others lamented that locally produced alcohol or liquor, is more dangerous; that beer produced by Banjul Breweries has a low content of alcohol. Meanwhile, Banjul Breweries management said they continue to wait for Government to react; that if not, they will have no choice but to shut down the Company, because they have been squeezed to shut down their business. In a similar development, hoteliers around Senegambia, Bijilo and Fajara said if Banjul Breweries is shut down, their businesses will be affected. “Since alcoholic products especially beer was increased, our businesses started to experience low sales,” they told this reporter. A Manager in one of the hotels told this reporter that despite the country sustaining itself through tax, Government should not levy such heavy tax on businesses to the extent of forcing them to shut down; that as at now, they have fewer guests in the hotels and if the season starts without guests, they will not employ many people. One of the staff who works in one of the hotels in Senegambia, said Banjul Breweries is one of the leading Companies that produce quality beer in the country; that if the Company is shut down, people will have no choice than to drink locally produced alcohol, which is not good for health. “We will hold Government accountable if this Company stops functioning,” he said. Previous articleFire Outbreak In Lamin Renders Family Hopeless Next articleTourism Minister Harps On Bribery At Airport, Etc. High Court Orders Businesspersons to Stop Using ‘Ingelec’ Products By Yankuba Jallow The Banjul High Court presided over by Justice Aminata Saho-Ceesay has made an order that restrains all dealers from selling or offering...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line201
__label__wiki	0.814919	0.814919	(Old) Official PS3 thread [ 167 posts ] Go to page Previous 1 ... 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Next Board index » Smalltalk » Hardware & Software PC_Arcade Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 10:58 am Post subject: Mod of the Living Dead Location: Desolation Oh well, shame really a next gen Okami would have been nice Small Time Rippers : 2003 - 2008 R.I.P spudthedestroyer Location: En España PC_Arcade wrote: I think its a given personally. Clover may have folded, but it got rave reviews for okami... capcom really needs rave reviews. A lot of their IPs are dirt these days, or dirt bound I reckon they should and probably will do a real sequel, i mean they can even rehash the first one for wii and xbox one to get some quick cash. Stuff like slowdown, popup, etc. were a problem in the first. Then again, only the RE4 guy from clover stayed on, the other didn't stay with capcom when Clover folded from what i hear Weird that one of the better games out over recent times is on the worst console Mouse nipple for the win! Trackpoint or death! Demon Of The Abyss My god - It just doesn't end ! EU PS3s to Play Fewer PS2 Games Hardware change results in limited backwards compatibility for UK. by Rob Burman, IGN UK UK, February 23, 2007 - Sony has confirmed that European PS3s will only play a "limited range of PlayStation 2 games" at launch because of hardware changes, compared to US and Japanese machines. In a statement issued this morning, SCEE has admitted that Euro PlayStation 3's will embody "a new combination of hardware and software emulation", meaning the console will still play most PSone games - but far fewer PlayStation 2 games than its overseas counterparts, at least initially. Although Sony has yet to offer clarification, it's thought software will now handle much of the PS2 emulation rather than the dedicated chip seen in US and Japanese consoles. It's widely believed the reason for the change is to help reduce the already enormous production costs of PlayStation 3, although only Sony can say for sure and, for now, it's remaining tight-lipped. If that's the case though, consumer anger would perhaps be justified, with any savings Sony makes unlikely to be passed onto the retail. Currently, European PS3s will hit shelves priced at £425 / 599 - substantially more expensive than elsewhere in the world - when it launches on March 23. Of course, before our overseas cousins start getting too comfortable, it's worth highlighting that the news will likely have a knock-on effect, with any changes made to UK PS3s incorporated into future US and Japanese models. Again, Sony is saying nothing but if it's trying to cut costs it's likely the hardware changes will eventually be made across the globe. Similar to Microsoft's Xbox 360 backward-compatibility strategy, Sony plans to release a series of firmware updates, via the PlayStation Network, that will increase the backwards compatibility of European consoles. Currently, Japanese and American PS3s can handle around 98 per cent of the PS2s catalogue but it's not known what per cent we can expect to see in Europe. However, Sony has admitted that "certain PlayStation 2 format software titles may not perform properly on this system". As is the case with Xbox 360, it seems that even officially-emulated software might not be 100% compatible with the Sony's PS3. Of course, on the flip-side, manual emulation does offer Sony the potential to incorporate improvements such as 480p progressive scan support for older PS2 titles running on a its new hardware. Whatever the outcome though, from March 23 you can check which PS2 games are playable on PS3 here. David Reeves, president of SCEE, said Sony should not be concentrating on PS2 backwards compatibility, instead saying that "company resources will be increasingly focused on developing new games and entertainment features exclusively for PS3, truly taking advantage of this exciting technology". Although one could argue that consumers will buy a PS3 to play PS3 games on, rather than going back to their PS2 collection, there's no overlooking the fact that once again it seems like Europeans are getting the rough end of the deal. IGN source lol, sony claim they are going to sell more ps3s in one day than Xbox360 has since launch in the uk. I think the company needs to check into the same clinic a britney spears before we hear a rumour that the eu ps3 has spazzed out and shaved its head too antropomorphic Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:13 pm Post subject: Lunatic Of Gods Creation sony seems to go in the direction sega went a few years ago http://users.telenet.be/dr-gonzo/avatars/fag.jpg antropomorphic wrote: except sony have been able to make some decent games in the past 10 years, and sega hasn't /me runs before the Virtual <s>Boredom</s> Fighter fans get wind of that one Bend over geezus... more is on the way http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2007/02/23/euro_ps3/ London (England) - In an effort to scale back the prohibitive cost of the PS3, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) is removing a couple features for the official launch next month. Hardware cut-backs will result in the removal of motion sensitive technology and will limit the backward compatibility of the system. According to a press release issued today, the PS3 model that will be used for the launch in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia, will be backward compatible with a "broad range of original PlayStation (PS) titles and a limited range of PlayStation 2 (PS2) titles." The PS3 launch, which was originally planned to be worldwide, was pushed back for regions that use PAL encoding. The US and Japan use a different format known as NTSC. In the NTSC versions, which debuted last November, it was reported that there was essentially a PS2 embedded into every PS3 console to maximize the compatibility with back-system titles. SCEE says it will continue to update the firmware for PAL consoles to add compatibility with PS2 titles. This is similar to what Microsoft has been doing with the compatibility of Xbox games on the Xbox 360. The debut of the PS3 in PAL regions is scheduled for March 23. The price for most of the area is about 599 euros ($788). Although the shitty implementation is worthless.... isn't Lair being made around the dual shake pad? Location: Crapper! Fuck that price is still gonna be so high? LOL I'd rather buy 100 Troll 2 DVD's ! http://bad-good.org/phpBB2/index.php Bad movie forum, filling you with turds not sure about teh removal of tilt, that would be hilarious. But a lower spec machine at a higher cost? People who buy a ps3 at launch as so friggin stupid... I bet you there's an army of chavs that go out and buy em... what is it with chavs and playstations anyway? I'd rather buy 100 Troll 2 DVD's spudthedestroyer wrote: Ok, make that 200 btw they are back as Seeds it was posted a while back: We are the Seeds that caused the vibrant flowers Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Steel Battalion, Viewtiful Joe, and Okami to come into bloom. Although we alight upon a different earth, even though the soil is different, our hearts — closely pursuing the dream of “play” — have not changed. Now, with a renewed spirit, we want to once again challenge the world of entertainment. But to do this, we need many, many more seeds. So, we are currently searching far and wide for people who want to work alongside us. For people who want to build their future. People who are currently making games elsewhere. Would you like to make some “preposterously amazing” games with us?” http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3157219 U.S. PS3 Will Lose PS2 Emulation Chip http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/11 ... _Chip.html Starting from this April/May, Sony will begin shipping a revised version of the PS3 to Japanese and American retailers. The new system will have the PS2 emulation chip removed, just like the soon-to-be-launched European version, and will therefore rely on firmware updates to add PS2 backward-compatibility over time. The number of backward-compatible PS2 games at launch in Europe will be 1,200, but that's still nowhere near the total number of PS2 games ever released. Hopefully, the majority of supported games will be popular titles - the ones we will actually want to play! A bonus is that these new PS3s will be able to upscale selected PS1 and PS2 titles to 720p/1080i high definition. That is something the original PS3s shipped to the US cannot do! Thanks to Younewb for the heads-up. Photos from the PS3 uk launch event Dead But Dreaming Location: The Swamps of SunnyVale Trailer Park This is the best PS3 launch photo Taken at the Paris Launch And this is the crowd 30 mins after Launch Apparently the press WAY out numbered customers!!! Paaaaaaatrick Swaaaaayze!!!!!!!! I can't believe how quiet its been seen as though the ps3 is out and available to buy. There's still plenty in leeds yesterday and i imagine today too. One of the big games shops in leeds chose this weekend to renovate its store! Yeah there's loads here too, and nobody seems to want them Hardly surprising as there's no good games and Blu-ray is a total non starter in the UK ATM Not the most popular launch ever Also the 1st customer at the Paris Launch to purchase a PS3, when interviewed, told the press he bought the PS3 to use as a Blu-ray/HD linux box lol, he'll be dissapointed when he finds it has little to no ram to do anything as a linux box, and that bluray is a shitty tech that still uses MPEG2 in comparison to HD-DVD that is already using MPEG4... hence why they generally look better! Wonder if he kept the receipt? You said it. My bro's a SONY fanboy so traded in his 360 for a PS3 on launch day. I must admit it's an impressive (Looking) machine and pretty swish. But thats about it! he get motorstorm? That game is fun, if nothing else is. Moderator: Help Mods	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line202
__label__wiki	0.61926	0.61926	Difference between revisions of "Homosexuality - What is its Cause?" (→‎Further Reading) [[Category:Spirit Teaching]] {{officialauthorised}} <blockquote>6. And if two men bed down with each other, then they shall be punished, for those fallible are undignified of life and its laws and behave heretically; thus they shall be emasculated, expelled and banished before the people.<br /> 8. When inseminator and inseminator join together, life is desecrated and destroyed...</blockquote> <P ALIGN="right">''"Billy" Eduard Albert Meier''</P> '''''“homosexuality is a natural manifestation, hence nature-given, it cannot and must not be considered, judged or condemned as degenerate and unnatural”''''' * [[Contact Report 023]] line 23-26. * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_pregnancy Male pregnancy (Wikipedia)] * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderqueer Genderqueer (non-binary) (Wikipedia)] {{LINKNAVS}} From [[Contact Report 023]], Tuesday, 3 June 1975: <blockquote><small> '''Semjase:'''<br /> 23. Surely.<br /> 24. These laws, as preserved in the Talmud are of human origin and meant to regulate the Earthly human forms of life.<br /> 25. These laws were given by the highest leader of the then human races, Governor of the Heavenly Sons, by the God at that time.<br /> 26. His prophets and mediators and selected humans announced these laws among the races, which observed them unfortunately for only a short time, and confounded them later, which was a further step in the direction of the abyss of later mankind.</small> '''Q: Do males have a womb?''' A: See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_pregnancy Male pregnancy (Wikipedia)] ==Sources== * [http://shop.figu.org/product_info.php?cPath=63_51_54&products_id=186 FIGU Webshop] * [[GENESIS]] by "Billy" Eduard Albert Meier with input from the Petale-level (Teachings of Creational Origins, 1975), p. 184, v. 3. * [[OM]] by "Billy" Eduard Albert Meier (Creational Laws and Directives, Destiny and Duty of Humans, etc., Dec. 1987) p. 69, v. 138. * [[Message from the Pleiades, Vol. 1: The Contact Notes of Eduard Billy Meier]] pp. 222-223, ISBN 0-934269-14-9, * Message from the Pleiades, Vol. 1: The Contact Notes of Eduard Billy Meier pp. 222-223, ISBN 0-934269-14-9, <references/> This is an official and authorised translation of a FIGU publication. N.B. This translation contains errors due to the insurmountable language differences between German and English. Before reading onward, please read this necessary prerequisite to understanding this document. Homosexuality - a Natural Occurence in Conflict with Nature Homosexuality is a sexual variation that is occurring naturally, yet is against nature. "Occurring naturally, yet being against nature" here means that it manifests itself through a natural process but cannot serve the law of natural reproduction. It is therefore against nature, or rather, a naturally occurring sexual variation that is against nature. Homosexuality is a variation rooted in genetics, and for this reason it is considered natural. But due to the inability to reproduce, it is categorized as being against nature; hence, homosexuality is called a naturally occurring sexual variation that is against nature. Homosexuality, as a naturally occurring sexual variation that is against nature, could never be classified as unlawful on account of any of the natural-creational laws and directives. It is therefore considered naturally normal - although against nature, precisely because of the impossibility for procreation to occur. Certain genes and their characteristics determine the type of sexual variation, including homosexuality. But genes and their characteristics, in turn, are tiny particles of nature and are thus subject to nature's laws and directives. This then implies that nothing can be abnormal in the sense of its naturalness, if nature permits, indeed creates it; whereby furthermore it follows that homosexuality is a natural manifestation whose anti-naturalness is simply based on its lack of any possibility for procreation. Furthermore, as homosexuality is a natural manifestation, hence nature-given, it cannot and must not be considered, judged or condemned as degenerate and unnatural, and similarly not as reprehensible, as loathsome, and neither as violating natural or human law. What is termed unnatural and a transgression against nature, however, is homosexuality and bisexuality of a sodomitical, degenerate nature - the sexual gratification with and on animals of any kind (beastiality). This form of sexual variation namely develops exclusively from human thinking processes and fantasies, through which a person is even able to influence genes and their characteristics. By doing so, an individual can generate a particular corresponding predisposition. This predisposition then amounts to an aberration, an antinaturalness, and a transgression against the laws of nature as described in the following verses on homosexuality in Genesis: 11. Designated as homosexuality is the physical joining of two beings of the same species and gender, also called male and male or female and female. 12. Among all male life forms it is an aberration against nature; among all female life forms it is a natural arrangement. 13. Therefore, the sexual joining between two males is an aberration against nature because insemination and insemination come together in a wrong act of procreation. 14. This is a form of aberration generated by male life forms with degenerate sensory perceptions and self-generated, unnatural perverse forms of desire. 15. This type of sexual activity can only come about among male, human life forms with inherent homophile selfishness who, as life forms, are misled and degenerated through factors of false teachings, uncontrolled perverse desires and unlawful lusts. Degenerate sensory perceptions and self-created, anti-natural desires in perverse form, as well as inherent homophile selfishness, are interpreted as engendering a pseudo-homosexuality that is generated by one's own thoughts and fantasies, and which transgresses against the natural-creational laws and directives, and consequently constitutes an aberration. This form of homosexuality shows no relation whatsoever to the naturally occurring homosexuality that is against nature but genetically predetermined by nature. As a rule, the degenerate homosexuality, hence the pseudo-homosexuality that is self-created through thoughts and fantasies, is paired with other self-generated sexual abnormalities and transgressions against the laws of nature, such as sodomy, masochism, sadism, and so forth. Homosexual men, by definition, cannot perform sexually procreative acts with one another. They can merely gratify themselves sexually, as is explained in the OM: 138. For as a man cannot bear a child, so a procreative - sexual contact cannot exist from one man to another or between one man and another; otherwise, it would be a transgression against the direction of Creation, against Creation's laws and directives, and against the sevenfold order. Homosexual men, therefore, cannot perform sex acts with one another, they merely get sexual gratification. The basis for this definition is that men are unable to procreate with and amongst one another. Thus, a genuine sex act can only occur when the opportunity for procreation exists, as is the case with two human beings of different genders - man and woman. All other sexual activities, where reproductive opportunities are not provided, as with acts between two men, are simply called sexual gratification. Of course, the sexual activities between two partners of different genders who are both or individually infertile are also considered sex acts. Of importance here is only that the two are of different gender. This is how the facts are explained in the spiritual teachings. When the OM on page 69, verse 139, states that the homosexual joining of two men is punishable, it means that homosexual men are guilty then, when they come together in such a way that makes them capable of giving birth in an unnatural and sacrilegious manner (for instance through genetic manipulation etc.), and then have sexual relationships for the purpose of procreating descendants by this means: 139. Thus, a man transgresses against the direction of Creation in these matters if he sacrilegiously joins another man in a procreative, sexual relationship, and thereby he shall be guilty and punished for the remainder of his life to a place for fulfilling the corrective measure. And a similar measure shall also apply when a man or a woman joins with life forms of a different kind that are called animals. Verses 6 and 8, Chapter 12 of the Talmud Jmmanuel, refer to the same situation as the one mentioned in the above-quoted verse 139 of the OM: 6. And if two men bed down with each other, then they shall be punished, for those fallible are undignified of life and its laws and behave heretically; thus they shall be emasculated, expelled and banished before the people. 8. When inseminator and inseminator join together, life is desecrated and destroyed... "Billy" Eduard Albert Meier Contact Report 023 line 23-26. Male pregnancy (Wikipedia) Genderqueer (non-binary) (Wikipedia) Psyche, Consciousness and Ratio Unconsciousness, Materialkinesis Contact Statistics, Book Statistics Articles by others, Category view Community, Polls, External Links Contributing Content, Roadmap FIGU Webshop GENESIS by "Billy" Eduard Albert Meier with input from the Petale-level (Teachings of Creational Origins, 1975), p. 184, v. 3. OM by "Billy" Eduard Albert Meier (Creational Laws and Directives, Destiny and Duty of Humans, etc., Dec. 1987) p. 69, v. 138. Message from the Pleiades, Vol. 1: The Contact Notes of Eduard Billy Meier pp. 222-223, ISBN 0-934269-14-9, Retrieved from "http://futureofmankind.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_-_What_is_its_Cause%3F&oldid=29812"	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line207
__label__wiki	0.807841	0.807841	BOOSUL Services Martin Ditmann Mabel Loui The University of Melbourne’s troubled student services provider, MUSUL Services, has received a brief reprieve as it continues to face questions over its future. The University of Melbourne Student Union (UMSU), one of MUSUL’s main clients, has decided against ripping up its Facilities and Services Agreement (FSA) with MUSUL, for now. Terminating the FSA could see a major change to University services, potentially heralding the end of MUSUL. MUSUL oversees Union House infrastructure and tenancies, and provides corporate services to student organisations such as UMSU. These corporate services include finance, IT and human resources. But UMSU has long been dissatisfied with MUSUL’s performance. UMSU asked MUSUL to “show cause” as to why the FSA should not be terminated a few months ago. While it was expected that six months notice would be needed to terminate the FSA, the University announced that UMSU could do it in only three months. UMSU officials have thus decided to defer any termination for now, thanks to the more flexible period. “The long and short of it is: this has been coming for a long time. Students’ Council is finally fed up with it and MUSUL was asked to show cause,” UMSU President Tyson Holloway-Clarke said. “The result of that was the cause was not shown to be satisfactory.” He said he is pleased that UMSU has more time to consider its options. “The big kickers are some of the really massive insufficiencies. For example, we have an entirely paper based financial system, which is absolutely ridiculous for an organisation of our size and nature in the 21st Century,” said Holloway-Clarke. “I also acknowledge that the deferment of the decision is not UMSU taking this off the table; but I respect their responsible attitude to hear and listen to what the University may be thinking on this issue prior to committing to any final course of action,” said Simon Napthine, MUSUL’s newly installed CEO. As Farrago has reported extensively, MUSUL has been locked in a long running dispute with UMSU over questions of management and service delivery. Senior UMSU officials have accused MUSUL of not holding up its end of the FSA around corporate services. Specifically, these officials have accused MUSUL of failing to provide up to date and accurate financial information about the state of UMSU’s finances. A recent fraud case involving a MUSUL staff member has contributed to tensions. The staff member was let go and MUSUL has assured UMSU that none of its money has been lost. Owned by the University, MUSUL was set up in the wake of the collapsed Melbourne University Student Union in 2003, after fraud and mismanagement accusations. The MUSUL board consists of a majority of University appointees, alongside three student directors. Recently departed CEO Trevor White and his predecessor, Clemens Unger, had rocky tenures. Both faced heavy disputes with both staff and student union officials. White recently retired from the organisation. Respected businessman Simon Napthine, previously General Manager of the Graduate Student Association, is MUSUL’s new CEO. Napthine says MUSUL will be reviewing its services. “We are presently taking a range of benchmarking exercises that we think may highlight some perception gaps between how we actually operate and how we are perceived to operate, as well as identify clearly the areas of non-performance,” he said. In particular, the issue of financial services is key. If UMSU goes ahead and nonetheless terminates its agreement with MUSUL, the options are multifold. UMSU could seek to have MUSUL rearranged, or replaced by a new but similar organisation. It could also seek to place some services in-house, have some provided by the University or some contracted to a private company. At this point, it appears that placing at least some services in-house may be a likely option. What will happen to MUSUL’s tenancies and businesses is less clear. Both are a huge potential source of revenue, funding a large part of operations of other student unions, similar to the UWA Guild and University of Sydney Union models. The proposed replacement of Union House adds further complications. Other questions loom over MUSUL’s funding. Over $700,000 of students’ money every year goes to MUSUL through the Student Services and Amenities Fee, which will have to flow somewhere else instead. A final source of questions is over MUSUL’s multimillion-dollar reserves and whether UMSU or the University would receive those. It’s a big time for the future of student services. “My own feelings are that it is always good and healthy for any place such as a University to review how it does things and ask, can it be done better and what are the alternatives,” says Napthine, but he adds that he is concerned for MUSUL staff. “I feel for my staff at MUSUL who are living with this uncertainty.”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line216
__label__cc	0.724795	0.275205	Search in Wraith: The Oblivion only Advanced Search Wraith: The Oblivion What is with the significant "nerf" to Arcanoi in Wraith-20? Mental-Mouse Its Easy enough to put Elysia back in...but it never really should have been removed imo,(Maybe it'll be in one of these oher books coming out.) I suppose it is also easy enough to get Specters to mess around with corpses again...though I forgot what ability it was that did that. Not sure why so much was changed... It also Seems Fatalism Got Worked over quite a bit. Good thing I got copies of my old books so I can properly fix things up...No idea why so much of the great stuff was removed. Last edited by Mental-Mouse; 03-28-2018, 11:56 PM. Like, why replace Guesswork and Interpretation? Why not have those in the book and put these new things in something else? Nerhesi I was just checking to see if anything has changed. Oh well tasti man LH Originally posted by Nerhesi View Post I mean. The final PDF isn’t even out yet. We don’t know what has changed aside from Lifesight, Deathsight, Heightened Senses, and Insubstantiability added back in. A bit of a necro here... but I assume no changes were made post publishing the final? I was looking around to see if any changes were done in any of the releases after the main book, but all I saw are several threads along the same lines of concern. That was one of the questions I submitted to a Q&A interview with Dawkins. Specifically at 20:30 - 26:35. Basically...it was a deliberate a design choice to bring down the Arcanoi, not a mistake. That the old 1e-2e versions of some of the Arcanoi were "all over the place" and nonsensical to what ghosts are typically described as doing in ghost stories. That to him, tweaking the powers was to bring things down to what ghosts are more commonly known for doing. And when it comes to compared to the other WoD gamelines...he sees no issue with wraith being at the bottom of the totem pole compared to the other gamelines. That traditionally, ghosts are not known for causing all-powerful, god-like feats at the same level that vampires, mages, fae, etc are. And that ultimately, Wraith is really difficult to have crossovers anyways due to a.) wraiths spending most of their time in an Otherworld and b.) it always being really hard for the other splats to get to the Underworld/Lower Umbra due to needing very specific powers to get there...which is going to lead to a smaller pool of player and build options. Last edited by tasti man LH; 06-18-2019, 11:31 PM. Prometheas Originally posted by tasti man LH View Post Wait, what does he mean? There are god-like examples of ghosts and figures of death throughout history. There have been personified gods of death and the underworld since the first recorded myths. For example, Ereshkigel(the queen of the dead) was able to capture and subdue Ishtar in babylonian myth. Considering Ishtar was one of the most powerful and venerated gods in babylonian myth, this puts Ereshkigal at a terrifying level of power in babylonian culture. In Japanese mythology, the demon emperor sutoku is the ghost of a former imperial prince who's life of tragedy and betrayal led to them becoming a powerful spirit. Said ghostly emperor was thought to be so powerful that his curses were blamed as the cause for what dismantled the imperial power base, shrouded the island in natural disasters, and birthed the genpei civil wars. For a more modern example, the Grim reaper is the imagined personification of death born from the aftermath of the black plague and was such a universally terrifying symbol in europe that we still use the Iconography as a horror element in modern storytelling. Ghost's, Death, and The Underworld have more than their fair share of "God-like" abilities in mythology, in fact they're central to many myths where "God-like" feats take place. Originally posted by Prometheas View Post Well reading through that section I suspect he's referring to how ghost stories as we typically know them aren't commonly known for being ones about ghosts that ascend to becoming death gods. We also don't commonly associate werewolves with stepping into the spirit world, turning into giants, or controlling fire. Removing those things would make WTA less fun though. I fail to see his reasoning on this. It seems more like a personal preference that limits possible stories, and that didn't work in Mage revised Or V5's favor. Well TBF, much of the common werewolf tropes aren't suitable in a TRPG environment. Stuff like getting turned into a werewolf from cosmic phenomena...that you have absolutely no control over as a player. Not very fun to get to the main appeal whenever the ST feels like it. I'll be honest: out of the Big 5 WoD gamelines, Wraith always struck me as the least concerned about being a game making you feel like a supernaturally empowered badass. The intent of the game was never about becoming god/king of the Underworld. It's about trying to settle your unfinished business and move on. Which is fine by me. That's my point though, just sticking to public knowledge about ghost stories without diving into deeper mythology or creative liberties limit's the Game aspect of our Role Playing Game. I'm not saying you can't have fun in Wraith 20, but they've taken away some of the ways you can have fun without replacing them with anything tangible. I'd be just as put off if W.o.w. randomly decided to delete a third of their classes without adding anything else. It's also a story about fighting the encroaching spectre armies of Oblivion, the machination of the mighty Death Lords, and exploring the underworld in all of it's awesome glory. There's plenty of reason and precedent for Wraith to have wheels moving on a more epic scale and for players to be the movers-and-shakers of those plots. Stripping the game down to Only support it being a personal journey through the afterlife as you try to find your own resolution to your past mistakes, when previously you could be that And more, is massive bad mark in my opinion. Wraith is at it’s core a game about emotions, regret, unfinished business and hanging on to your existence in a hostile environment where the greatest enemy you will ever face is yourself. It is about learning to let go and about how hard that is. But it also is about history, you can meet Wraiths from radically different times sitting at the same table. But like pointed out it is also about a very real war for existence itself, not only for you but for everyone. Oblivion would just as gladly devour the Skinlands as it would the Shadowlands. If the Wraiths fail to keep Spectres and Oblivion at bay it may mean an end to everything. This war is just as important as any war fough by the Garou. Wraith is about lot of things. One chronicle may be all about seeking personal Transcendence while another may be about hanging on to your Fetters and trying to guide your living relatives on the right path. While another may be about some crazed sonsofbitches going on a Helldive to prevent the next big Onceborn plot while making sure that nothing awakes the Neverborn. Another game could be about exploring the far reaches or fighting the Vampires of the Tal’Mahe’Ra. What I am saying is that the structure of the game should help us tell all of these stories. Sometimes it is really smallscale and personal and sometimes it is about Death Gods. Personally Wraith has always been my favourite WoD gameline, even though due to popular demand Vampire has been the most played, and as such owning almost every book for the line the changes aren’t a big deal for me. I can always use the modern Wr20 rules while keeping the power level as it was. And like said there are many ways to approach Wraith and in a lot of them power level does not really matter. That said I have always been of the opinion that a games rule set must allow for players to achieve same levels of power as NPC’s of their type. Even if the chance of that happening is miniscule. That is why I like having Disciplines up to level 9 available in VtM, Archspheres in Mage the possibility to transcend in to a powerful spirit in WtA Etc. Now with C20 we finally have rules for Siochain and the Arts have been boosted to Fae like power. But sadly Wr20 does not give us any tools on how to become a Death Lord or any chance to rival Charon, the only way the rules even imply becoming something more, or less depending on how you see it but definately more powerful, is through becoming a Spectre and rising to Onceborn status but even that is mostly in ST hands, and then there are the Ferrymen but even though they gain much in their transformation they too use the same Arcanoi and that means that those Arcanoi must be enough to portray what they can do. So in summary while I do agree that in, perhaps, the most Wraith games powerlevel does not matter as they are much more about emotions and personal tribulations than about what powers you have still not having those powers that can help portray the other stories around anymore does indeed shut down story possibilities. And that is always bad no matter how one looks at it. Still I love my Wr20 just as I love the rest of my books of that line and since they are still available in pdf,if nothing else, for those who wish to see other possibilities offered by the Arcanoi as they were as well as quite a bit of lore so if someone feels dissappointed by the power level I suggest getting the old books to support your Wr20. Since even if the power level thing is an edge case, and quite frankly something I barely thought about before this thread, the old books have so many alternate, or initiate as they are now called, powers for the Arcanoi that they are definately worth a look even if one is comfortable in the current Arcanoi rules. All in all this is truly a matter of YMMV but personally I have liked all of the 20th editions for WoD and Wraith is no exception. Sure all of them have some changes I disagree with but still they are my favourite editions and as an old gamer I still have the option to fall back on previous editions on those matters I disagree with. I do not think there is a single rpg out there that I have St’d or played as ”it is meant to” as every ST, at least every St/Gm/other abreviations I have ever met, makes his/her own little changes to the setting and adds a rule there or changes another here so in the end we all play by someones House rules and House setting or that is my experience at the least. Last edited by Possessed; 06-21-2019, 06:09 PM. adambeyoncelowe I've mostly used 2e Arts with tweaks from Wr20. It works much better for our table. The new Inhabit made me sad. Everything else in Wr20 is better, however. TIKank I finished up the 20th last week and got the opposite impression. Wraith's are still roughly the same power level they've always been.. which is high. Comparing MOST of the arts side by side, they are still as powerful, they just cost (more) Corpus and generate more angst. Which I'm fine with. Let's take Obliviate. It ignores all armor and can only be soaked by the "appropriate" arts. Later in the book, it states that the other supernaturals have not found a way to deal with it. I take this to mean it ignores things like Garou soak. Add that with the fact that only certain supernaturals can even see a Wraith, makes the ability insane. You can just stroll up and throw AGG. I do agree on Inhabit, however. It mostly does the same stuff, but just doesn't have as much flavor (BIG fan of the Artificer Guild Book). This is just on a combat level. RP/Story wise, I feel that Wraith has some of the most unique abilities of any WOD game. TBF, I feel like the type of plots you described doesn't necessitate needing high-powered Arcanoi just to have them.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line217
__label__cc	0.743894	0.256106	fatness Location: Sometime last week Postby fatness » Fri May 24, 2013 9:01 pm UTC BONGk jetpac Contact jetpac Postby jetpac » Fri May 24, 2013 9:17 pm UTC By the way, I'd like to say thanks to whoever it was earlier that recommended 1/0. I finished (OtherBlitzed?) the archives over the last few days, and then proceeded to read the author's current comic (Leftoversoup) from the beginning up to present day last night. I think it's fair to say that I'm a fan of Mr. Tailsteak Anyways, back on-topic again. We appear to be due for another scene change. Any predictions on scenery or lack thereof? I'm guessing we'll have a few scenes of grass, molpies, and beesnakes before there's anything big again. azule Location: The land of the Golden Puppies and Rainbows Postby azule » Fri May 24, 2013 9:21 pm UTC lmjb1964 wrote: drags furniture in front of the door There, that should keep the Outside at bay for a few minutes. <snip/> crash as door is broken upon and furniture knocked over Aagghhh, time's up. Hope to see you all again soon... Very dramatic, me likes. It actually worried me a bit. I hope you're okay. And, damn, has everyone here been in a movie or written a scientific paper? I haven't done either. feels unsmart/uncool If you read this sig, post about one arbitrary thing you did today. I celebrate up to six arbitrary things before breakfast. Time does drag on and on and contain spoilers. Be aware of memes. edfel Location: On Time Postby edfel » Fri May 24, 2013 9:24 pm UTC jetpac wrote: By the way, I'd like to say thanks to whoever it was earlier that recommended 1/0. I finished (OtherBlitzed?) the archives over the last few days, and then proceeded to read the author's current comic (Leftoversoup) from the beginning up to present day last night. I think it's fair to say that I'm a fan of Mr. Tailsteak I'd say an abandoned shelter of some sort: some trace of people living there (more solid than wood sticks or wow-tree marks), but still too old to suppose that anyone is around.However that should not happen in the next scene, but probably in the one after Waiting for it: Map of Time, same, no JS, Ages of Time. Beginning a new story with every choice, no matter how small: Goodies. azule wrote: All aboard the neither train! I suppose I do know other people who have done one or the other, but all of my cool smart things available to the public are posted on webforums. checks "creativity" rankings dagnabbit... Not Red Location: Jupiter Postby HAL9000 » Fri May 24, 2013 9:37 pm UTC I'm gonna take a long shot with edfel and predict an empty building. A small, one-room shed, perhaps, either half destroyed by fire or with the roof caved in. Megan and Cueball will ponder the wreckage for a moment, one of them will notice something, and they'll recover some sort of semi-useful object from the ruins. HAL9000 wrote: I find it simultaneously fascinating and disturbing that the most profound things I've read in the past months I have encountered in or been led to by an internet forum thread about a webcomic. jetpac wrote: azule wrote: And, damn, has everyone here been in a movie or written a scientific paper? I haven't done either. feels unsmart/uncool Cool! I'm virtually creative as well. All my awesomeness (if I may be so bold) is digital. Edit: "unsmart" digital tailoring. Last edited by azule on Fri May 24, 2013 9:47 pm UTC, edited 1 time in total. HAL9000 wrote: Don't forget the perplexingly ignorant observation from Cueball. Postby htom » Fri May 24, 2013 9:46 pm UTC charlie_grumbles wrote: Charter for a quest: Have any of you wordsmiths thought to capture the special vocabulary of this world on a page? I'd seriously appreciate all of the neologisms in one place. Perhaps it's been done and I missed it. But I miss it in any case. A dictionary of the OTC (Edit: OTT, actually). For posterity. Think of the children. Hasn't been done. Someone could crunch up the text of the OTT into space-delimited strings \| sort \| uniq -u \| ... then it gets trickier. The first (horrible, don't do this) solution, merge those with words \| sort \| uniq -d \| ... this gives you all of the neologisms and all of the unused words, so merge with words \| sort \| uniq -u would remove words appearing twice, the neologisms would remain. And a pile of mispelt words as well. No definitions, no locations. I'm sure I could do better, but I'm on minus time already (and still owe you a note about bread.) azule -- neither, all of my numbers are "social", I know people with numbers. Postby SBN » Fri May 24, 2013 9:48 pm UTC "Been in" is a bit strong. But I like being an extra enough that I use my vacation days to do it as often as I can. It's harder work than I expected it to be, but also much more fun than it reasonably should be. I haven't been doing it very long, but if you want you can PM me and I'll tell you what I know about it. (Can't help with writing a scientific paper, though, sorry.) Postby HAL9000 » Fri May 24, 2013 10:00 pm UTC Actually, I'll play the odds and predict that it's Megan's turn to point out the obvious. Something like, "it looks like it's been abandoned for a while." Even if we don't encounter an empty structure soon, I will apply this prediction if such a building ever appears. Another campONG site Possibly a bench? Whatever it is, it seems to be next to another fire ring (and this one appears much more organized, and thus more recently used). I suppose a bench doesn't quite count as a structure. Perhaps we'll see a building soon though, there don't tend to be too many benches that are far away from buildings (those in large parks excluded). ETA: double post, yes, but for the ONG. ETA2: I think this is one of my favorite frames, from an aesthetic perspective. The tree looks nice, and the campsite keeps the rest of the frame from being empty. Last edited by HAL9000 on Fri May 24, 2013 10:15 pm UTC, edited 1 time in total. Postby ChronosDragon » Fri May 24, 2013 10:14 pm UTC cellocgw wrote: Apologies for going not only OT but outside the True World, but: hey BlitzGirl wanted to make sure you and your family/friends were not near that bridge that collapsed yesterday. That must be leading to some ugly traffic patterns today. Quite right - I was safe at home, but traffic's gonna be hell for the next few...well weeks, probably. That highway is the biggest road between Seattle and Canada. ergman wrote: astrocub wrote: <kersnip> And on that note, GLR has now purposefully shown us frames in which Megball are not present and the only activity is that of a molpfly/beesnake. This bearsin witness protection program strong resemblance to earlier sandcastle scenes in which the only activity was the rising of the sea. Therefore, I am led to believe that the molpyfli and other critters are not just setting the scene, but have some ulterior significance on par with the Seabig, does what it wants. I agree. The molpflies have been very frequent, blatant(more so than regular molpies) and deliberate. I feel like they will be important to some extant. Maybe they are molpsquitos, and will bite Cuegan, possibly giving them malaria Have you noticed the bees disappearing? What d'ya think that's all about?∞ ∞The odd thing is, the second time I watched series 4, Colony Collapse disorder was a big news story Outside. Made it seem that much more believable fatness wrote: BONGk I'm runnin' circles around ya! HAL9000 wrote: Another campONG site What, did the Acacia tree not set off any alarum bells? Seems pretty significant to me! astrocub Postby astrocub » Fri May 24, 2013 10:18 pm UTC But a bench does count as a structure if it's actually a molpyhut And yes, it is a very aesthetically pleasing acacia. ETA: As a succulentphile, I really hope the next tree they encounter is a Euphorbia candelabrum, whose milky sap is poisonous(!!!) This tree is very beautiful but unfortunately also very poisonous. In fact just one drop of the inner sap can cause a blister. If it touches your eyes it can make you blind and even breathing its fumes can burn. Last edited by astrocub on Fri May 24, 2013 10:32 pm UTC, edited 1 time in total. Postby lmjb1964 » Fri May 24, 2013 10:20 pm UTC Re: HAL9000's buzzkill: HAL9000 wrote: i don't mean to be rude, but I think we need to stop a moment and ask ourselves: What is this thread about? Inflating our egoes by comparing which one of us can provoke a certain user into responding to our posts the most, or discussing an internet comic that just so happens to change once every hour? Because I'm pretty sure it's not the first one. We're making the posts themselves more important than the information they contain. That's a good way to get a thread locked and users banned. I am also somewhat perturbed by the fact that we seem to be making one user more important than all the others. No user should get any special level of attention or priveleges, moderators, webninjas, and others who have been trusted with controlling the forums excepted. A user's first post can be just as insightful as a user's thousandth post. Sometimes less, sometimes more. No non-admin/webmaster user is inherently better than any other. I'm just a person sitting in front of a screen. So is BlitzGirl, Valarya, tman2nd, Kieryn, Red Hal, Vytron, Opibobble, jetpac, KarMann, Exodies, Tometheus, Selcouth, Ace, davidy, EternalDensity, and everyone else who's ever lurked and posted on this forum (don't worry, I care about you guys too, I just don't feel like listing all of this forum's users). None of us should be treated differently than any other. But...but...I won! Isn't my winning what this thread is all about? Do I still get cake? StratPlayer wrote: Kieryn wrote: Okay and by popular demand here it is: The BlitzGirl number: http://xkcd-time.kieryn.com/Default/Credits Although, actually, I'm not surprised at all to see that I have a low BlitzGirl number of 1. I mean, she and I have a pretty close relationship: 1. Besides her presence in the OTT, BlitzGirl also has a blog called "Crash Landing". 2. "Crash Landing" is also the name of a forgotten B movie from 1958 written by Fred Freiberger. 3. Fred Freiberger also co-wrote the screenplay for the 1953 schlock monster movie "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms". In that film, the monster, named a "rhedosaurus", is finally killed at Coney Island when a radioactive isotope is shot into its neck. 4. Inserting radioactive isotopes into the neck has also been done to treat neck and head cancer, and was discussed in a 1966 JAMA paper by Dr. Irving M. Ariel, MD. 5. "Ariel" is also the name of the Sprite who serves Prospero in William Shakespeare's play, "The Tempest". 6. "The Tempest" is also the basis of the story in the 1956 movie, "Forbidden Planet". 7. "Forbidden Planet" features Leslie Nielsen in the role of Commander J.J. Adams. 8. Leslie Nielsen, best known for his roles in "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun" series, was born February 11, 1926 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 9. Regina is the home of the Canadian Football League team, the Saskatchewan Roughriders, who, after eight earlier losing attempts dating back to 1923, won their first Grey Cup championship in 1966. 10. 1966 was also the year that the band Cream released their first album, "Fresh Cream". 11. Cream was a trio consisting of drummer Ginger Baker, bassist Jack Bruce, and guitarist Eric Clapton. 12. Although Eric Clapton mainly played Gibson guitars while in Cream, he is primarily known for playing the Fender Stratocaster, which he switched to in 1969. 13. The Stratocaster is the guitar used in both my avatar and username. See? BlitzGirl and I are practically brother and sister... StratPlayer, I think I want to marry you. (Hopefully you're not in high school like HAL9000, since that would be creepy). Postby edfel » Fri May 24, 2013 10:28 pm UTC astrocub wrote: Agreed, it is a peaceful place to reach after a long walk through dunes, wow trees and vines... I don't know about them but I could live here. lmjb1964 wrote: Do I still get cake? We all get cake. On a different note, does it seem to anyone else that the ground Cueball and Megan are currently walking on/about to walk over is unnaturally flat? The patch of ground immediately in front of Cueball (he's in the act of stepping onto it) drops off on the other side at a rather sharp angle (would be a perfect 90º drop if it weren't for a slightly-off-from-black pixel at the apex of the corner), and the two small grassless patches near/underneath them are about as level as the sea was back when they were building sandcastles (solid black, with a single row of grayish pixels across all or almost all of the top). ETA: I'd post an ENHANCE'd version of the part of the frame in question, but the most advanced image-editing software I have is Microsoft Word. Postby Ebonite » Fri May 24, 2013 10:31 pm UTC I have written a scientific paper. . .in fact several, as part of the research I did in graduate school. I also hold a patent. I have not been in a movie, but I could have been. My son was working as an extra for a movie that was being filmed in the town where I live, so I ended up hanging around the movie set for the week that he was working. Since I was quiet and polite, the camera crew allowed me to stand behind them while they were filming, and they got used to me being there. The movie was set at an American high school. For a scene that took place between classes, they decided they could use a few more extras. They invited me to serve as a teacher walking across campus, but I wasn't dressed like a teacher, and didn't feel like driving all the way home to change clothes, so I declined. My car was in the movie, though! For a scene where all of the main characters were headed for the school buses at the end of the day, they wanted the parking lot to be full, so they asked me if I could move my car to help fill up the parking lot. They even put a fake cardboard license plate on it to make sure it looked like it came from the correct state! Sir Ebonite, Lord of the Three Holes "molpy molpy molpy molpy la la la" HAL9000 wrote: On a different note, does it seem to anyone else that the ground Cueball and Megan are currently walking on/about to walk over is unnaturally flat? The patch of ground immediately in front of Cueball (he's in the act of stepping onto it) drops off on the other side at a rather sharp angle (would be a perfect 90º drop if it weren't for a slightly-off-from-black pixel at the apex of the corner), and the two small grassless patches near/underneath them are about as level as the sea was back when they were building sandcastles (solid black, with a single row of grayish pixels across all or almost all of the top). Looks like an overgrown parking lot/road when you put it that way... Postby mscha » Fri May 24, 2013 10:33 pm UTC astrocub wrote: And yes, it is a very aesthetically pleasing acacia. I'm not convinced. These look different to me – more umbrelly, if that's a word. List¹ of all Frames of Time and after Time. New here? Questions? Check the wiki. Don't worry, feed molpies⁴. Holy Croce Default footnotes; standard OTT-np2166m 1.2: mscha wrote: That's true, it's not quite wide or flat enough to definitely be an acacia. It's not nearly dense enough to fit the description of most North American trees, though. Our deciduous trees are rather hard to see through from one side to the other. Postby SBN » Fri May 24, 2013 10:42 pm UTC Depends on the dimension of the tree though. At 2.5D it would be easy enough to see through. Hmm, you're correct that it doesn't look the typical umbrella acacia, Acacia tortilis, but the acacia genus encompasses a very diverse range of shapes and wattles. There's over 1300 species of Acacia tree. The one most people recognize would probably be A. tortilis or A. eriobla (upon quick wikipedia browsing - there's 1300 species, I can't be bothered to check every article! And everyone else refers to the stereotypical ones as just plain ol' "Acacia trees."). There's a huge range of physiology (is that the word we use for plants?) within the genus, but it seems like the tree in this frame would fit in pretty snugly. ETA: Astrocub ninja'd me (I was doing research, honest!) But my post was slightly more detailed... Or at least more wordy ETA: I really love how nerdy this place can get on just about any esoteric subject. I hope they start stargazing soon... astrocub wrote: Or at least more wordy We'd be doing so much sub-pixel analysis. That would be so cool. Bring it, Randall. I'll take your words for it. I don't know nuthin' 'bout Acadias. Location: ~TrApPeD iN mY PhOnE~ Postby edo » Fri May 24, 2013 11:00 pm UTC CONGREGATE Co-proprietor of a Mome and Pope Shope I don't either, really. I'm just a quick-draw wikipediaer! Postby yappobiscuits » Fri May 24, 2013 11:02 pm UTC Not gonna comment on the tree, Megball? I suppose maybe trees are old news now after the WOW baobabs. So that's how you do your connections. The world is crumbling before my eyes. I'm still brain-blown by the fact that you managed to connect dracomax to himself! ETA: Right, time for me to coma when I'm getting time dragons and guitar raptors mixed up. Last edited by astrocub on Fri May 24, 2013 11:12 pm UTC, edited 2 times in total. That was StratPlayer... mathrec Location: Carlsbad, California Contact mathrec Postby mathrec » Fri May 24, 2013 11:20 pm UTC Qalyar wrote: So, I decided to jump into the poetry challenges, as penance for my limited interactions with the OTT. Naturally, of course, such jumping occurred in the deep end. I think this is a form-accurate double dactyl in which each line is an anagram of the corresponding line of the opposite stanza. My goal was, in 44 slightly tortured syllables, to tell the story of the OTC's command to us, from the days when we thought this was a story about sandcastles to our fear of the distant future ... and then, in anagram, to condemn those who have walked away. Higgledy-piggledy! Clay-lairs Architect told us to "Wait for it." Steady, the lad! Gilded-hype, giggly (characteristically) twit -- oft idolatrous -- halted, yet sad. agog again Well, I owe a tribute, at least in the paltry form of a single anagram pair: Damn. Holy crap. All / clap. Oh. My. Randall. Bravo, Qalyar. (I would have worked your name into the tribute, but I didn't have time to fight with the Q.) I'm off for the week wipend. I will not get to write a verse of Jabberwocky-Walky before I go. I'll be excited to see if it's done before I get back. The end is always near. Lord Randall wrote: Wait for it. astrocub wrote: I'm still brain-blown by the fact that you managed to connect dracomax to himself! [/s] Just watch out for the time raptors. Guitar dragons are cool though. Damn. Google images has some cool results for "guitar dragon". Well I don't know about guitar raptors, but guitar dinosaurs generally... Finnish children's heavy metal dinosaurs, no less... Eliram Postby Eliram » Fri May 24, 2013 11:30 pm UTC k.bookbinder wrote: Eliram wrote: These trees remind me of "Below the Root". http://www.mobygames.com/game/below-the-root/screenshots That's it! That is the game! I wake from a coma to have my morning ketchup, only to find, to my disappointment, that what, perhaps, was another interesting moment in Time was just another passing observation. I had no much to say when I see this, and oh! Glorious! For when I was very young I played that came so often but never understood what I was to do. But playing it was wonderful, nonetheless. I even remember clearly the cover box -- except never the title! I could not remember its name but now I know. And now I know that it based on a book series, which I must find and read. Thank you Eliram! Such a pleasure to hear this from someone else who played this weird, yet so much fun game. It didn't matter if you did anything right or wrong, you could simple EXPLORE a huge world of trees and roots, huts and other people who talked to you. It was so rare in these days, so ahead of its time. buffygirl Location: BuffyDashery closed. Postby buffygirl » Fri May 24, 2013 11:32 pm UTC Have we identified a Madagascarian (?) bird that would match our earlier birds? Do any of these work? I have never been published in a scientific magazine, nor have I ever been in a film. Any Erdős number I have would be by proxy, via my dad (who published with Roger Penrose. I met him when I was 8. He showed me some of his duck tiles and a 3-d plexiglass-ish version of his triangle. It was way cool.). ETA: more penrose details. Kieryn Contact Kieryn Postby Kieryn » Fri May 24, 2013 11:50 pm UTC htom wrote: The work I've done is in this direction. It would not take me much effort to produce such a list. I'm very experienced with this kind of filtering and clustering. Definitions would be trickier, but I can easily pull the references in the forum and show context for each word. I aim to create this by [heresey]Monday night[/heresey]. ETA: A link to the past. - Kieryn Director, Time Foundation Data Analysis Department http://its-all-related.org charlie_grumbles Joined: Mon Apr 01, 2013 12:07 pm UTC Location: Self Imposed Exile Postby charlie_grumbles » Fri May 24, 2013 11:56 pm UTC buffygirl wrote: I have never been published in a scientific magazine, nor have I ever been in a film. Any Erdős number I have would be by proxy, via my dad (who published with Roger Penrose. I met him when I was 8. He showed me some of his duck tiles and a 3-d plexiglass-ish version of his triangle. It was way cool.). ETA: more penrose details.[/quote] Penrose is Erdős 3, so your dad is a 4. You, however, are a digital Milliner. Revel in that. http://www.oakland.edu/enp/erdpaths/ Is Milliner your outside persona? Or an alter-ego. I'm actually a curmudgeon both here and outside. Lurking. Watching. Thinking. Writing. Waiting. -- Charlie Grumbles	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line225
__label__cc	0.680829	0.319171	1982: "Evangelism" netsplit Location: Z̈̓̾̾̀̉ͬ̅ͯͪͬ̚͢͏̴̝̝̩̳͙͘a̷̧̰̥̯͎͍͍̻̮͔̭̰̗̺̩̐̀͛͐ͥ͐ͨ͆̀̉̐̌̅͑ͣ͟ͅľ̸̠̟̭̲̜̹̗͎͍̗̤͖̤͕̣̝̀̊̑ͯͬ͌̍ͬ͂ͤ͛̀̚g̍̅́ͮ̌̏ͣ́̀͏͍ Re: 1982: "Evangelism" Postby netsplit » Fri Apr 20, 2018 3:04 pm UTC rmsgrey wrote: SDK wrote: rmsgrey wrote: I can use my size 9 shoes to get distances in feet just by counting; getting distances in meters means multiplying by 0.3 (which introduces an error, but if I cared about precise measurement, I wouldn't be using my shoes to measure it). One meter is approximately one stride length, either a long stride or a normal stride depending on your height. Also, multiplying by 3 (not 0.3) is very easy if you insist on measuring things with your shoes (which is slow and annoying). A yard is closer to a stride, but still a bad approximation - average stride length is around 78cm for males; 70cm for females. And multiplying by 3 without also dividing by 10 would make my bed 21 meters long - or longer than would fit in my house and the house next door combined (measured parallel to the road). Doing the conversion isn't terribly challenging, but it is more work than just counting off the measurement (and pacing out yards is easier than pacing out meters for most people). The point is that most imperial units were originally picked to be convenient for what people wanted to measure, while metric units are chosen to be convenient to convert between, and/or define by experiment rather than by comparison with a pre-calibrated measure. For example, the meter was defined as one ten-millionth of the (surface) distance between the equator and the poles - and slightly misjudged, so that the arc is about 17km short, but that's not terribly relevant here - the main point is that yards and feet were developed to be easily used for everyday things; meters were defined to be convenient for cartographers, and approximately the same as yards. SI units are chosen to be approximately the same magnitude as imperial units, so the individual benefits of imperial units for their specialist purpose are generally going to be small, but that doesn't mean they aren't real. This. Metric measurement in practice jumps from units for tiny things (MM, CM) to units for fucking huge things. There's no metric equivalent of a foot. Standard has yards which are on the same scale as a meter, but most standard lengths are given in feet. I think people find feet a more natural unit of measure, because it's suited for the scale of things they'll interact with during their day. Same with temperature. In standard subzero weather you better fucking bundle up, in metric subzero weather I don't even feel like I need a jacket sometimes. If it's dry and not windy, a standard t-shirt is enough. Standard was calibrated based on body temperature, so it more accurately reflects the experience of temperature. from da craddle to da grave, geek life 4 eva better show hardcore respect ya'll JayDee wrote: "What is the difference between erotic and kinky? Erotic is using a feather. Kinky is using the whole Dinosaur." somitomi Location: can be found in Hungary Contact somitomi Postby somitomi » Fri Apr 20, 2018 3:12 pm UTC rmsgrey wrote: The point is that most imperial units were originally picked to be convenient for what people wanted to measure, while metric units are chosen to be convenient to convert between, and/or define by experiment rather than by comparison with a pre-calibrated measure. For example, the meter was defined as one ten-millionth of the (surface) distance between the equator and the poles - and slightly misjudged, so that the arc is about 17km short, but that's not terribly relevant here - the main point is that yards and feet were developed to be easily used for everyday things; meters were defined to be convenient for cartographers, and approximately the same as yards. Cool, then the measuring tape I have in a sub-pocket of my backpack makes the meter quite convenient I feel like arguing about which units are better for everyday use in a day and age when computers can effortlessly tell you how many kilograms six gallons of gas weigh is kind of pointless. It's mostly about what people are used to anyway. Avatar from Freddino ―◯‐◯ FG Discord◯‐◯― zjxs wrote: There is one thing separating us from the other primates, and I would like to maintain that. So, it's my fault that this one thing is not about the flinging of one's own poo, you say? I just hope you're quicker to duck next time we meet! Did you know that you can brush with two toothbrushes? It gives you twice the clean, or gives you back hours of your life. Same thing with safety razors. We're advanced primates able to use both hands, but most people are content to just use one. There's a better way. I've honestly no idea why inches and feet are more "natural" than cm or m, or how using metric is in any way harder in any situation. And the people who feel that way are yet to provide an actual situation where using metric is demonstrably disadvantageous. There's this weird, unexamined assumption it's harder because it's not what they're used to. Velo Steve Postby Velo Steve » Fri Apr 20, 2018 3:56 pm UTC Soupspoon wrote: ... That survey reminds me: I still need to track down a 100W incandescent bulb, or find a dimmer-compatible alternative from the newer lot. Either that or replace the dimming wall-switch (so it doesn't get used) and go with the option of replacing the bulb in there now with a full-voltage LED one with internal dimming/hue-changing circuitry and remote controller. I was happily skimming the posts without any thought of participating. Until now. What if you want to match the brightness of the incandescent? Will your new bulb's spec be in watts? Incandescent-equivalent watts? Candelas? Lumens? Candlepower? Some vague descriptive term? Moles of photons/second? And what's with the new dimmer switches? They don't have an actual "no current" position. What good is a switch that won't switch off? Postby HES » Fri Apr 20, 2018 4:00 pm UTC somitomi wrote: It's entirely about what people are used to anyway. Velo Steve wrote: And what's with the new dimmer switches? They don't have an actual "no current" position. What good is a switch that won't switch off? The (old) dimmer switch in this particular case is a rotary knob with a 'click'-bump from the fully off position into the rotation from lowest to full brightness (like a transistor-radio power/volume combined control). The only other type I'm particularly familiar with acts like a pot on rotation (to select the power passed, whether that's by current or RMS voltage limiting, I could image either/both being active) but with a toggle on-off push action. If it were one of those I could probably mechanically limit its rotation by a bit of masking tape over the top (at full-pot rotation) in a way that lets the room user just bash it on or off as necessary. If there's a pot-like switch without zero-power (just an arbitrarily maximum impedance) then it's not this type. I'd be surprised if it's actually legal (with allowance that an empty ceiling-light bayonet socket and the inbuilt supply wire isn't exactly 'pokeable by a toddler with an opportunistically wielded knitting needle' with any great ease), but then I've no great knowledge of the applicable household electrical wiring regulations where I am. (As to the Wattage/etc, I've so far failed to find anything but non-dimmable in the LED range, and it looks like I'm going for halogen. There are competing conversion factors on display, but something in the 60-70 actual halogen watts range seems to be the necessary area to aim for, as opposed to 8-10 actual LED watts if only the words "non-dimmable" weren't invariably on the back of all packagings I've examined, including in Tesco and several other major-chain supermarkets. I'm passing by a closing-down Maplin, later today, though, so if they've still got what I need I might get good advice and down to¹ 60% off the marked price.) ¹ - "(Up to 60%) off marked price" sounds odd to me, so I think of it as "Down to (60% off marked price)"… Old Bruce Joined: Tue Jun 28, 2016 2:27 pm UTC Postby Old Bruce » Fri Apr 20, 2018 5:20 pm UTC From an old family recipe: "Take sufficient flour ... add a small nob of butter...." [sincere-face emoticon] freezeblade Joined: Fri Aug 24, 2012 5:11 pm UTC Location: Oakland Postby freezeblade » Fri Apr 20, 2018 5:45 pm UTC Old Bruce wrote: From an old family recipe: Ugh. I have some of these in the family recipe book too, like for biscuits or pancakes where it says something to the effect of "Add enough flour until the correct consistency is achieved." Belial wrote: I am not even in the same country code as "the mood for this shit." Someone with just a small nob of butter might not beget enough of a family for it to get old. rmsgrey Postby rmsgrey » Fri Apr 20, 2018 7:03 pm UTC Mutex wrote: I've honestly no idea why inches and feet are more "natural" than cm or m, or how using metric is in any way harder in any situation. And the people who feel that way are yet to provide an actual situation where using metric is demonstrably disadvantageous. There's this weird, unexamined assumption it's harder because it's not what they're used to. Most people have a thumb and a foot (and an arm to approximate a yard). Apparently people find 5'11" easier to remember and manipulate than 180cm. There's not a huge difference between using metric and using imperial. What you're used to does make a difference, and so does what you're measuring (specialists in various fields tend to come up with their own consensus units anyway). Personally, I use metric for most things, and occasionally dip into imperial, but don't do enough measurement of any kind to have a strong attachment to anything. Soupspoon wrote: I had one of those and may reinstall it. My dimmable LED lights actually worked better with it than with the Lutron dimmer I bought to go with the LEDs. Soupspoon wrote: If there's a pot-like switch without zero-power (just an arbitrarily maximum impedance) then it's not this type. I'd be surprised if it's actually legal (with allowance that an empty ceiling-light bayonet socket and the inbuilt supply wire isn't exactly 'pokeable by a toddler with an opportunistically wielded knitting needle' with any great ease), but then I've no great knowledge of the applicable household electrical wiring regulations where I am. Perhaps they get away with it because the current getting through at the minimum is tiny and probably wouldn't be dangerous. It's still enough to keep the bulbs glowing when I want them off, though. The switch I have has a linear slider and an "on/off" rocker. The manufacturer is Lutron, which is one of the biggest here (USA). I don't think they would sell anything that wasn't legal in most places they operate. I'd expect you to be able to get dimmables for all but the most unusual socket types. Maybe online. Though they only had LED bulbs (nothing else, and none of them dimmable, still on the shelving units that also had prices attached to them), my attempts to help Maplin out in their closing down sale (not sure if their online side will survive the process of going into Administration, but I'll miss their high-street presence regardless) I picked up a handful of electronic kits and compinents while I was there. The least I can do. And a good deal. The major electrical retailer nearby (sells computers, TVs, vacuum cleaners, cameras, washing machines, refrigerators, drones, hard drives, routers, etc, etc, and I haven't really liked going in there since the merger in/rationalisation of the computer superstore chain) does not sell lightbulbs, of any kind. I asked. (I'll try online at some point, but this is one case where I should be able to find a bricks'n'mortar outlet (or a clicks'n'mortar one where I know I'm not propping up a dropship supplier) and I'd be happier not contributing to the inevitable decline of the high-street retail sector. There are other major-brand supermarkets, and if I can find a mom'n'pop type shop that's been going for decades and can use my business to stay vaguely aloat, then all the better.) Mikeski Joined: Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:24 am UTC Postby Mikeski » Sat Apr 21, 2018 1:14 am UTC zjxs wrote: Samik wrote: 0 = freezing 10 = chilly 20 = spring 30 = summer 40 = hot 50+ = Death Valley -10 = Canada -40 = "hey, did you know this is the same in both F and C?"... also, Canada Postby pogrmman » Sat Apr 21, 2018 8:27 am UTC I don’t really care metric vs. US customary. The one thing I might have a slight preference for is Fahrenheit over Celsius — but only for the weather. It’s nice that 100° is close to the body temperature — it’s pretty clear that 100 will be hot because of that. 0° also makes sense as a threshold — that was the coldest temperature he could get from a salt brine, so salting for ice would stop working around there (though I don’t have enough experience living somewhere cold enough for this to be a concern to confirm this). The thing is, while I’m familiar with SI units, I’m far, far more familiar with US customary ones. I know very well just how long it takes me to walk a mile — but I’m of sure how long it takes me to walk a km (it’ll be faster than a mile, but by how much?). I know what a pound roughly is, but not a kg. Trying to work it out is a pain in the ass — having an intuitive sense works much better. Postby somitomi » Sat Apr 21, 2018 9:15 am UTC pogrmman wrote: The thing is, while I’m familiar with SI units, I’m far, far more familiar with US customary ones. I know very well just how long it takes me to walk a mile — but I’m of sure how long it takes me to walk a km (it’ll be faster than a mile, but by how much?). I know what a pound roughly is, but not a kg. Trying to work it out is a pain in the ass — having an intuitive sense works much better. Having an intuitive sense is great indeed, but that depends entirely on what you grow up with. I know how much a kilometer or a kilogram is and I handle miles and pounds by converting them to metric. da Doctah Postby da Doctah » Sat Apr 21, 2018 9:51 am UTC Scale recalibrated for where I live: 0 = freezing 10 = freezing 50+ = hot Really, 10 Celsius or lower around here becomes the opening story on the evening news. Postby gmalivuk » Sat Apr 21, 2018 5:01 pm UTC -20 = really cold -10 = freezing 0 = chilly 10 = nice spring day 20 = warm spring / cool summer day 30 = hot summer day 40 = fuck global warming, people are going to die at this temperature (That is coincidentally a just slightly bigger range than 0-100 F. Its applicability obviously depends on where you live, but here Fahrenheit is definitely a useful scale for talking about the kind of weather you can expect.) Samik Joined: Mon May 02, 2011 11:14 am UTC Postby Samik » Sat Apr 21, 2018 9:25 pm UTC da Doctah wrote: I'm right there with you. I was going for categories that I thought would be reflective of "normal" people's experiences, because I'm a wacko who's comfort zone is about 30-45C. My hottest Grand Canyon rim-to-rim: Shaded thermometer (actual air temp): Unshaded: Postby pogrmman » Sun Apr 22, 2018 5:21 am UTC Samik wrote: Untitled.jpg Untitled2.jpg I was kind of tempted to do something similar — I’m definately a warm weather kind of guy. In terms of °C, I prefer about 27-36 if it’s as humid as it normally is here, and 30-45 or so if it’s dry. I do have a fairly wide comfort zone though — I’m fine with anything from about 20° and up. Much colder than that, and I find my comfort depends on far more factors than they do for comfort in heat — how acclimated I am to the cold, how sunny it is, humidity, wind, precipitation, how warm it is inside, how much time I’ve spent outside lately, and even my mood. For instance, if it’s sunny and still, I’m not in a good mood, there’s been no precipitation for a while, it’s dry, and I’ve been cooped up inside — I can be pretty comfortable (albeit chilly) at as low as -5° or so. Though I usually can’t stand much under 10°. Postby Steve the Pocket » Mon Apr 23, 2018 7:25 pm UTC As a computer person, many of my issues with metric stem from a deep-seated distaste for base ten itself, primarily the requirement to keep adding more decimal digits every time you want to cut something exactly in half—and the knowledge that even floats will eventually lose precision this way. And then you have Photoshop, which decided to re-standardize on metric a while back, leading to a loss of precision when interfacing with anything that still uses inches. Like scanners, monitors... you know, stuff you'd never need to use with Photoshop, I'm sure. And no, manually setting your units to inches won't help, because its definition of an "inch" has changed to mean "exactly 2.54 centimeters". Postby orthogon » Mon Apr 23, 2018 8:22 pm UTC Steve the Pocket wrote: And no, manually setting your units to inches won't help, because its the definition of an "inch" has changed to mean "exactly 2.54 centimeters". You were using Photoshop before 1959? Postby Steve the Pocket » Thu May 03, 2018 6:27 am UTC What I meant was, everything is now internally defined in terms of pixels per centimeter rather than pixels per inch, precision be damned. So a page scanned at 400 dpi now gets "rounded" to 400 plus some decimal digits. At least, that's what I assume is the source of the problem, since the "Document Size" went from defaulting to inches to defaulting to centimeters when I select "pixels" as my primary unit of measure. Postby Mutex » Thu May 03, 2018 8:44 am UTC So just multiply the DPI you want by 2.54. YTPrenewed Joined: Tue Sep 07, 2010 12:09 am UTC Postby YTPrenewed » Thu May 03, 2018 7:24 pm UTC Difference is, the effects on scientific progress of imperial vs. metric are (relatively) more trivial, while the harm done by religious opposition to embryonic stem cell research is much more severe. There's also the issue that religion legitimizes superstition, but it's unclear the extent to which religion's a cause of that and the extent to which it's an effect. (Though judging by the differences between religious and nonreligious states, it's probably a feedback loop.) Archgeek Location: Central US Contact Archgeek Postby Archgeek » Fri May 11, 2018 4:27 pm UTC Mutex wrote: Which is why I asked for actual, concrete, everyday situations where there was an actual advantage to someone using imperial. The reverse seems to be more true, I find converting between say stone and pounds, or pounds and oz, difficult to do in my head. 12 is easy to split up in 2, 3, and 4, which is presumably why it comes up a lot in imperial, but dividing by 12 in my head is a lot harder than using base-10. And dividing by 14 is even harder. And if you're using a calculator, all the advantages of 12 being easily divisible disappear and base-10 makes even more sense. Sure and if your calculator does unit conversions you don't actually need to know anything in your own brain. But you're right that metric is easier for lazy people and people who aren't good with numbers. And I think we can all agree English stones are fucking stupid, though 16-pound Scottish stones make some sense. Agreed, 14 is just absurd (a seven, really?!). At least with 16-pound stones I can convert on my hands by shoving a weight into binary and scootching the radix over by 4. "That big tube down the side was officially called a "systems tunnel", which is aerospace contractor speak for "big tube down the side." Postby rmsgrey » Fri May 11, 2018 6:10 pm UTC Archgeek wrote: If you're going to have 8 stone in a 112lb hundredweight, then it has to be 14lb per stone. Would you rather have 7 stone per cwt? SuicideJunkie Postby SuicideJunkie » Fri May 11, 2018 6:32 pm UTC somitomi wrote: Having an intuitive sense is great indeed, but that depends entirely on what you grow up with. I know how much a kilometer or a kilogram is and I handle miles and pounds by converting them to metric. I grew up with it, and I'm now way off on my estimations of how much a kilogram weighs. Apparently I'm about 5x stronger now than when I was calibrated as a kid. As for temperature: -20 = Minimum for shorts -10 = Minimum for sandals 0 = Car can be used as a fridge! 10 = Nice 20 = Find shade 30 = Stay inside with A/C Postby Archgeek » Fri May 11, 2018 10:13 pm UTC Though I want to first assert that one'd expect to find greater utility among the general populace in easing the lesser conversion...this question seems to be glossing over the larger issue of having 112 in a measure named for 100. What the dang heck!? That's just up there with "centipede" in terms of hundred-related-misnomers. Postby rmsgrey » Sat May 12, 2018 12:33 am UTC Historically, the answer appears to be that pounds avoirdupois, stones, hundredweights, and tons evolved as unrelated or semi-related measures, and when things got standardised, people picked round numbers that kept the weights reasonably close to what they were before. The (wool) stone was picked because it was a good weight for measuring wool for trade. The idea of having a single, simple set of weights that apply to everything rather than specialist weights for each type of commodity is a relatively modern one - after all, what's a convenient unit for bales of wool is going to be a bit small for trading metals and a bit big for trading gems. Also, apparently "hundred" was used historically for 120 as well.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line226
__label__wiki	0.77501	0.77501	Google Crosses $600 a Share for the First Time Google's stock price had an impressive growth in the past two weeks and, for the first time, GOOG was traded at more than $600, closing the day at $609.62. "The shares have increased more than sevenfold from their initial public offering price of $85, bringing the nine-year-old company's market value to $190 billion - eclipsing bigger, more mature businesses like Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Coca-Cola Co., Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM Corp. It took 10 1/2 months for Google's stock to leap from $500 to $600 and more than a year for the journey from $400 to $500. The shares hurdled $300 in June 2005 after passing the $100 and $200 thresholds in 2004," writes AP. Google didn't launch a lot of exciting products lately, so it's difficult to give an explanation for this sudden optimism. "Google stands to benefit because it runs the largest advertising network on the world's hottest marketing medium, the Internet," wrote AP in September. Google wants to extend its dominance in the mobile space, that's why it launched a mobile version of AdSense and ads for Google Mobile Search. A Google Phone that comes with an operating system and software produced by Google could make rich web applications more accessible and increase Google's ad revenues. Coupling this with Google's plans in the social space and collaborative software, the future sounds promising. marco pizzo October 8, 2007 at 11:34 PM Yes, Google didn't launch a lot of exciting products lately, but Yahoo! and MS are losing ground every second. The Google network is growing, the search engine users are growing and the advertising market is growing too. Google is going to capitalize is dominant position even more in the future. Nobody seems capable to stand. Jens Buch October 9, 2007 at 12:59 AM What goes up must come down... Chad Bam October 9, 2007 at 9:07 AM I think Google's stock will remain high and go even higher. See my post at gagagooogle.com. Tomorrow I'll have the first part in a three part series on Google's Mobile Strategy, which will keep the stock price high. Books November 9, 2007 at 9:51 AM is shares are that much worth ? Google Photo Picker OpenSocial, Google's APIs for Social Applications Google to Connect to Other IM Networks Using Jabbe... Gmail's New Version Is Now Available How Gmail Blocks Spam The Growing World of Google Gadgets The Next Version of Gmail Will Be Faster Customize YouTube's Player Google's Marketing Dashboard The AdSense Loop SearchMash, Now in Flash Nested Folders in Gmail Decomposing the Web and Rearranging its Fragments Email Notifications for Blogger Comments Gmail Supports IMAP Google Switches to Its Own Translation System More Google Sitelinks Traffic Analysis for Content Hosted by Google Remove Spam from Google Blog Search The Supercomputer that Connects Everything and Eve... Offline Blogger Google's Homepage Goes Black in San Francisco Facebook App for Google News YouTube Updates the Embeddable Player Historical Data for Your Site's Top Search Queries... On Google's Mobile Strategy Google on an iPhone Google Maps Goes Social Mobile Google Docs Google Search Add-Ons Google Spreadsheets Adds Conditional Formatting Google Tries to Fix Broken Links YouTube's Video Identification Technology Gmail Mobile 1.5 Released Google Maps for Symbian Devices Create Google Calendar Events from Gmail Find the Number of Google Subscribers for Any Feed... YouTube Brings Google Earth to Life Gmail's Storage Increases, 6 GB in January 2008 From Google to Facebook Google Maps Universal Search Six New Cities Added to Google Street View Google Buys Jaiku, a Lifestreaming Service Search Engine Comparison Poll: The Results Google Online Desktop Public Transit Directions in Google Maps Knowledge Discovery Using Google's Info View Join a Google Search Experiment Google Desktop Gadgets on Your iGoogle Page Find Wallpapers Using Google Business Google Apps Adds Postini and 25 GB Gmail Comparing the Top Three Search Engines Yahoo Adds a Search Assistant Finding Answers Without Clicking on Search Results... Keep Track of Your Friends' Shared Items	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line227
__label__wiki	0.699572	0.699572	Victorian desalination plant Revision as of 10:57, 10 July 2008 (edit) Peter Campbell (Talk \| contribs) (→External links - Add link to Age article) ← Previous diff Current revision (07:07, 10 November 2010) (edit) (undo) (→Images - Add images) (38 intermediate revisions not shown.) + {\| align="right" + <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-38.566422" lon="145.50705" zoom="11" width="375" height="325"> + -38.573938, 145.513916 + Site of proposed desalination plant + </googlemap> + \|- + \|Use the controls to access, move and zoom the map + \|} [[Image:Wonthaggi desalination plant site.jpg\|thumb\|right\|300px\|Wonthaggi desalination plant site]] [[Image:Wonthaggi desalination plant site.jpg\|thumb\|right\|300px\|Wonthaggi desalination plant site]] - Plans to build a '''desalination plant''' at Wonthaggi in Victoria, Australia, were announced by the Bracks Labor government<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/bracks-announces-5-billion-water-plan/2007/06/19/1182019079395.html?s_cid=rss_age Bracks announces $5 billion water plan], The Age, June 19, 2007</ref> + Plans to build a '''desalination plant''' at Wonthaggi in Victoria, Australia, were announced by the Bracks Labor government in June 2007.<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/bracks-announces-5-billion-water-plan/2007/06/19/1182019079395.html?s_cid=rss_age Bracks announces $5 billion water plan], The Age, June 19, 2007</ref> ==Information about the plant== ==Information about the plant== - * Household water bills are expected to double over the next five years to pay for a $4.9 billion water strategy to secure Melbourne's water supplies + * Household water bills are expected to double over the next five years to pay for a $4.9 billion water strategy to secure Melbourne's water supplies. * Estimated water production is 150 billion litres (150 gigalitres) of fresh water per year, approximately a third of metropolitan Melbourne's needs based on 2007 consumption levels. * Estimated water production is 150 billion litres (150 gigalitres) of fresh water per year, approximately a third of metropolitan Melbourne's needs based on 2007 consumption levels. - * The plant is planned to be operations by the end of 2011 + * The plant is planned to be operations by the end of 2011. * It is intended that the plant will provide additional water to Melbourne, Geelong, Western Port and South Gippsland. * It is intended that the plant will provide additional water to Melbourne, Geelong, Western Port and South Gippsland. - * The plant is estimated to use about 90 mega watts (MW) of power per day. While a commitment was made to use renewable energy to power the plant in an attempt to make it greenhouse neutral, it is likely the plant will be powered by a co-located gas fired power station, which will produce signficant greenhouse gas emissions. + * The plant is estimated to use about 90 mega watts (MW) of power from the grid, which translates to 2160MWh per day. While a commitment was made to use renewable energy to power the plant in an attempt to make it greenhouse neutral, it is likely the plant will be partly powered by a new co-located gas fired power station or from power from the grid from coal-fired power stations, both of which will produce significant greenhouse gas emissions. * The plant is expected to emit 200 million tonnes of brine to the ocean. * The plant is expected to emit 200 million tonnes of brine to the ocean. * The plant will be constructed using a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and could end up being foreign owned. * The plant will be constructed using a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and could end up being foreign owned. * The Bracks government opposed the construction of a desalination plant during the 2006 Victorian State election, but reversed its position after the election and committed to building it. * The Bracks government opposed the construction of a desalination plant during the 2006 Victorian State election, but reversed its position after the election and committed to building it. * There was no proper public consultation process that provided input to inform the Government decision to build the plant. * There was no proper public consultation process that provided input to inform the Government decision to build the plant. - * Signficant energy (with associated greenhouse gas emissions) will be required to pump desalinated water frm Wonthaggi. + * Significant energy (with associated greenhouse gas emissions) will be required to pump desalinated water from Wonthaggi to Melbourne. + * More than 1.4 million tonnes of greenhouse gas will be pumped out during the construction of Victoria's proposed desalination plant, and another 1.2 million tonnes emitted each year once it starts boosting Melbourne's water supply. + * Greenhouse emissions during the construction of the plant, and about 70,000 tonnes from waste decomposition and transport during its operation, will not be offset. + * Using a two-headed marine structure extending up to two kilometres offshore, the plant will take in 480 billion litres of seawater and pump back 280 billion litres of saline concentration each year.<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/environment/environmental-study-gives-desal-plant-green-light-20080820-3ywm.html Environmental study gives desal plant green light], The Age, August 21, 2008</ref> ==Controversy about the location== ==Controversy about the location== + Floodwater has again threatened the South Gippsland site of proposed desalination plant. Flooding of the site in 2007 was called a "one-in-100-year" event by the State Government, but water from the Powlett River has flowed again over land set aside near Wonthaggi.<ref>[http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23970587-2862,00.html Too much water for desal site - again], Herald Sun</ref> - <googlemap lat="-38.535813" lon="145.520096" zoom="11" controls="small"> + ==Power consumption comparison with domestic water tanks== - -38.573938, 145.513916, Site of proposed desalination plant + The proposed plant is estimated to need between 90 and 120 MW of electricity to operate. - </googlemap> + - Floodwater has again threatened the South Gippsland site of proposed desalination plant. Flooding of the site in 2007 was called a "one-in-100-year" event by the State Government, but water from the Powlett River has flowed again over land set aside near Wonthaggi.<ref>[http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23970587-2862,00.html Too much water for desal site - again], Herald Sun</ref> + Comparing the energy consumption of the plant with that required for [[Water tank pump\|domestic water tank pumps]]: + * Domestic water tanks are capable of supplying over 95 per cent of the water for a house in Melbourne. + * 600,000 households could save up to 160 gigalitres of water per year by using captured rainwater and reducing their daily consumption. + * The energy required for domestic water tank pumps would multiply to 140 KWh of energy per day for these same households. + * The proposed desalination plant would consume 15 times as much energy just to operate. More energy would be required to pump the water it produces to Melbourne. - ==Costs== + ==Original cost estimates in 2008== * The construction cost is estimated to be $3 billion * The construction cost is estimated to be $3 billion * Operating costs (most likely charged by a private firm) over a 25 year period could reach $1.5 billion<ref>[http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23308081-2862,00.html Foreigners bid for desalination deal], Herald Sun, March 03, 2008</ref> * Operating costs (most likely charged by a private firm) over a 25 year period could reach $1.5 billion<ref>[http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23308081-2862,00.html Foreigners bid for desalination deal], Herald Sun, March 03, 2008</ref> * Melbourne Water estimates the cost of production of desal water to be $3000 a megalitre * Melbourne Water estimates the cost of production of desal water to be $3000 a megalitre + It has been reported that water bills for Melbourne households will almost double over the next five years. Water price plans released by the Essential Services Commission show metropolitan water providers will charge between 87 per cent and 96 per cent more for water. Water Minister Tim Holding, has stated that Melbourne residents need to help pay for major water infrastructure projects, such as the desalination plant and the [[North South pipeline\|Sugarloaf (North South) pipeline]].<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/07/2413219.htm Water bills set to rise], ABC News, November 7, 2008</ref> + Unfortunately, the community will be forced to pay for the desalination plant, whether they want it or not, without any consultation or serious consideration of alternatives such as [[Water tanks\|domestic water tanks]]. + ==Cost estimates increases in 2010== + A Department of Sustainability and Environment report tabled in the Victorian parliament in September 2010 stated that in cash or nominal terms taxpayers will pay at least $15.8 billion to the Aquasure Consortium to operate and maintain the plant for 28 years after it begins operation at the end of 2011.<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/desal-plant-a-570mayear-drain-20100916-15enu.html Desal plant a $570m-a-year drain], The Age, September 17, 2010</ref> + Water Minister Tim Holding confirmed that the construction and operation of the plant would be $5.72 billion stating that "The reports in today's Age do not accurately describe the water security payment".<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/holding-denies-desal-plant-will-hit-158bn-20100917-15fcp.html?autostart=1 Holding denies desal plant will hit $15.8bn], The Age, September 17, 2010</ref> + ==Water security payments== + The 15 year drought afflicting Victoria broke during the winter of 2010, with reservoirs reaching a storage level of over 45% after a period of consistent rainfall, which means that desalinated water will not be required for some time. A "water security payment" has been guaranteed by the government to the private consortium building and operating the plant. This payment will be made regardless of water produced by the plant and is designed to provide guaranteed financial returns to private investors in the project. The Victorian government has refused to disclose the amount of this payment, claiming that it is "commercial in confidence". + During periods of higher rainfalls, desalinated water will not be required, but these "water security payments" will still be made at the consumer's expense. + During times of reduced rainfall and storage levels, the plant could operate at full capacity and produce up to a third of Melbourne's water requirements. The desalinated water could be directed to storage reservoirs and fill them to levels where water restrictions would be reduced, which could in turn lead to increased water consumption. + ==Auditor General finds total cost of $18b over 30 years== + The Victorian auditor-general found that the proposed desalination plant will cost $2 billion more than State Government estimates. The auditor-general's report, tabled in Parliament on 6 October 2010, showed the desalination plant will cost more than $18 billion over the next 30 years - $2 billion more than the Government estimated last month.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/07/3032345.htm Victorian desal plant to cost extra $2b], ABC, Oct 7, 2010</ref> + ==Concerns raised about proximity of Wonthaggi sewerage outlet and ocean currents== + Two concerns regarding the design of the desalination plant were discussed on ABC radio 775 (Jon Faine) on 10/10) + ===Ocean currents "short circuit" the water intake=== + The desalination plant has been designed so that prevailing ocean current brings "fresh" sea water to the intake and takes salinated output away. However, for some months of the year this ocean flow in Bass Straight is reversed, so the salinated output is likely to contaminate the intake - "short circuiting" the process. This will impact efficiency of plant + This matter was raised in several submissions to the EES and does not appear to have been addressed in plant design - and will be very expensive to rectify. + ===Wonthaggi sewerage effluent outlet within about 3km of desal intake=== + A water expert advised against close proximity of sewerage effluent outlet and desal intake + * This had caused water contamination in the Sydney desal plant<ref>[http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/8273051/keneally-says-sydney-water-is-safe/ Calls for desal contamination review], AAP, 7 November 2010</ref> + * Risks of contamination (e.g. viral, hormones, bacteria) are increased by close proximity of sewerage outlets and desalination intakes + * Mitigation could mean treatment of intake water before it is desalinated - more expense + The secrecy of the process regarding site selection and plant design has contributed to apparent major problems that could have been avoided if a more transparent and thorough process was used. + The Liberals (Ted Baillieu) have said that they would reveal design and financial information relating to the plant as it does not need to be commercial in confidence. The tender has been awarded, contracts signed, and there is no competitor. ==Alternatives== ==Alternatives== - * The capital cost of the plant would could equip about 600,000 households with tank systems and pumps (at $5000 per house) that could provide more water than the plant's estimated production. Combined with recycling sewerage water and protecting our catchments, we may not even need desalination. + * The capital cost of the plant would could equip about 600,000 households with tank systems and pumps (at $5000 per house) that could provide more water than the plant's estimated production. Combined with recycling sewerage water and protecting our catchments, we may not even need desalination. This option would require about 140 MWh of energy per day, while the desalination plant would consume 15 times as much energy just to operate (2160 MWh per day). - * Stopping logging in Melbourne's water catchments would provide and extra 30 gigalitres of water, which would be much cheaper than paying for the same amount of water to be provided by desalination. This water would also not require pumping to Melbourne. + + * [[Stop logging Melbourne water catchments\|Stopping logging in Melbourne's water catchments]] would provide an extra 30 gigalitres of water, which would be much cheaper than paying for the same amount of water to be provided by desalination. This water would also not require pumping to Melbourne. + * A 2007 [http://www.acfonline.org.au/articles/news.asp?news_id=1222&c=10587 study of using rainwater tanks as a viable urban water solution] concluded that: + :''"Rainwater tanks are five times more energy efficient than desalination plants and twice as energy efficient as the proposed Traveston dam, per megalitre of water produced. + '' + :''"If governments deployed rainwater tanks to 5 per cent of households each year in Sydney and South-East Queensland, dams and desalination plants planned for 2010 could be delayed past 2026 (Sydney) and 2019 (SEQ).'' + :''"Most Australian houses are suitable for a rainwater tank. In Sydney 65 per cent (or 1.1 million houses), in SEQ 73 per cent (or 900 000 houses) and in Melbourne 72 per cent of existing houses have potential for a rainwater tank.'' + :''"While 38 per cent of households in Adelaide have rainwater tanks, fewer than 6 per cent of the houses in Melbourne, Sydney, South-East Queensland and Perth do,” said ACF’s urban water campaigner Kate Noble.'' + :''"Rainwater tanks collect and store water far more efficiently than dams, especially in times of drought. As the climate changes we should be installing tanks to take advantage of the rain that does fall on our rooftops.'' + :''"If governments systematically installed rainwater tanks in Australia’s major cities, we would secure as much water as the planned Kurnell desalination plant in Sydney, the Tugan desalination plant on the Gold Coast and the stage one of the unpopular Traveston Dam proposed for Queensland’s Mary River,” Ms Noble said.'' + ==Images== + <Gallery> + Image:Wonthaggi desalination plant DSC 6471.JPG\|Construction in progress + Image:Wonthaggi desalination plant DSC 6476.JPG\|Little Powlett River and rig + Image:Wonthaggi desalination plant DSC 6481.JPG\|Little Powlett River estuary + Image:Wonthaggi desalination plant DSC 6482.JPG\|Construction of pipeline to Melbourne + </Gallery> + ==Video== + <Youtube>GA-ZWJbhqHg</Youtube> ==See also== ==See also== + * [[User:Peter Campbell/Desalination links\|Recent news and articles about desalination]] * [[Melbourne water usage]] * [[Melbourne water usage]] + * [[North South pipeline]] + * [[Stop logging Melbourne water catchments]] + * [[Water tanks]] ==External links == ==External links == * [http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/DSE/nrenpl.nsf/LinkView/5249619A2A213442CA2573BE007EEAA992FBC7C133A6F520CA2572DA007FAB8B Wonthaggi Desalination project], Victorian Government * [http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/DSE/nrenpl.nsf/LinkView/5249619A2A213442CA2573BE007EEAA992FBC7C133A6F520CA2572DA007FAB8B Wonthaggi Desalination project], Victorian Government - * [http://www.yourwateryoursay.org/ Your Water Your Say] -- Action group of families and individuals concerned that the future water provision in Victoria is achieved through environmentally sustanible means. We have all been working relentlessly to establish the groundwork for our anti-desalination campaign. + * [http://www.watershedvictoria.org.au/ Watershed Victoria] - Watershed Victoria is an incorporated group that envisions justice and sustainability in water policy and projects across Victoria (and beyond). They lobby, collaborate, research and educate on water policy and options. + * '''Your Water Your Say''' - Was an action group of families and individuals concerned that the future water provision in Victoria is achieved through environmentally sustainable means. they were working establish the groundwork for an anti-desalination campaign. The group was disbanded following legal issues with the Victorian government * [http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/minister-relaxed-about-scrutiny-of-desal-plant/2007/11/30/1196394625505.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 Minister 'relaxed' about scrutiny of desal plant], The Age, December 1, 2007 * [http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/minister-relaxed-about-scrutiny-of-desal-plant/2007/11/30/1196394625505.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 Minister 'relaxed' about scrutiny of desal plant], The Age, December 1, 2007 * [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21986972-2702,00.html Rare parrot is back ... on desal site], The Australian, June 29, 2007 * [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21986972-2702,00.html Rare parrot is back ... on desal site], The Australian, June 29, 2007 * [http://www.theage.com.au/environment/is-desalination-the-solution-20080516-2f58.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2 Is desalination the solution? ], The Age, May 16, 2008 * [http://www.theage.com.au/environment/is-desalination-the-solution-20080516-2f58.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2 Is desalination the solution? ], The Age, May 16, 2008 :"We are staring down the barrel of running out of water," says Priestley. Rainwater tanks, groundwater, stormwater, desalination, recycling, new dams, more efficiencies all need to be on the table - "each city has to look at all options, not put a red line through any of them, including recycling." :"We are staring down the barrel of running out of water," says Priestley. Rainwater tanks, groundwater, stormwater, desalination, recycling, new dams, more efficiencies all need to be on the table - "each city has to look at all options, not put a red line through any of them, including recycling." + * [http://www.getrealonclimatechange.org/ Get real on climate change] Anti-desalination petition ==References== ==References== <references/> <references/> [[Category:Victoria]] [[Category:Victoria]] [[Category:Water]] [[Category:Water]] + [[Category:Politics]] + [[Category:Desalination]] Use the controls to access, move and zoom the map Wonthaggi desalination plant site Plans to build a desalination plant at Wonthaggi in Victoria, Australia, were announced by the Bracks Labor government in June 2007.[1] 1 Information about the plant 2 Controversy about the location 3 Power consumption comparison with domestic water tanks 4 Original cost estimates in 2008 5 Cost estimates increases in 2010 6 Water security payments 7 Auditor General finds total cost of $18b over 30 years 8 Concerns raised about proximity of Wonthaggi sewerage outlet and ocean currents 8.1 Ocean currents "short circuit" the water intake 8.2 Wonthaggi sewerage effluent outlet within about 3km of desal intake [edit] Information about the plant Household water bills are expected to double over the next five years to pay for a $4.9 billion water strategy to secure Melbourne's water supplies. Estimated water production is 150 billion litres (150 gigalitres) of fresh water per year, approximately a third of metropolitan Melbourne's needs based on 2007 consumption levels. The plant is planned to be operations by the end of 2011. It is intended that the plant will provide additional water to Melbourne, Geelong, Western Port and South Gippsland. The plant is estimated to use about 90 mega watts (MW) of power from the grid, which translates to 2160MWh per day. While a commitment was made to use renewable energy to power the plant in an attempt to make it greenhouse neutral, it is likely the plant will be partly powered by a new co-located gas fired power station or from power from the grid from coal-fired power stations, both of which will produce significant greenhouse gas emissions. The plant is expected to emit 200 million tonnes of brine to the ocean. The plant will be constructed using a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and could end up being foreign owned. The Bracks government opposed the construction of a desalination plant during the 2006 Victorian State election, but reversed its position after the election and committed to building it. There was no proper public consultation process that provided input to inform the Government decision to build the plant. Significant energy (with associated greenhouse gas emissions) will be required to pump desalinated water from Wonthaggi to Melbourne. More than 1.4 million tonnes of greenhouse gas will be pumped out during the construction of Victoria's proposed desalination plant, and another 1.2 million tonnes emitted each year once it starts boosting Melbourne's water supply. Greenhouse emissions during the construction of the plant, and about 70,000 tonnes from waste decomposition and transport during its operation, will not be offset. Using a two-headed marine structure extending up to two kilometres offshore, the plant will take in 480 billion litres of seawater and pump back 280 billion litres of saline concentration each year.[2] [edit] Controversy about the location Floodwater has again threatened the South Gippsland site of proposed desalination plant. Flooding of the site in 2007 was called a "one-in-100-year" event by the State Government, but water from the Powlett River has flowed again over land set aside near Wonthaggi.[3] [edit] Power consumption comparison with domestic water tanks The proposed plant is estimated to need between 90 and 120 MW of electricity to operate. Comparing the energy consumption of the plant with that required for domestic water tank pumps: Domestic water tanks are capable of supplying over 95 per cent of the water for a house in Melbourne. 600,000 households could save up to 160 gigalitres of water per year by using captured rainwater and reducing their daily consumption. The energy required for domestic water tank pumps would multiply to 140 KWh of energy per day for these same households. The proposed desalination plant would consume 15 times as much energy just to operate. More energy would be required to pump the water it produces to Melbourne. [edit] Original cost estimates in 2008 The construction cost is estimated to be $3 billion Operating costs (most likely charged by a private firm) over a 25 year period could reach $1.5 billion[4] Melbourne Water estimates the cost of production of desal water to be $3000 a megalitre It has been reported that water bills for Melbourne households will almost double over the next five years. Water price plans released by the Essential Services Commission show metropolitan water providers will charge between 87 per cent and 96 per cent more for water. Water Minister Tim Holding, has stated that Melbourne residents need to help pay for major water infrastructure projects, such as the desalination plant and the Sugarloaf (North South) pipeline.[5] Unfortunately, the community will be forced to pay for the desalination plant, whether they want it or not, without any consultation or serious consideration of alternatives such as domestic water tanks. [edit] Cost estimates increases in 2010 A Department of Sustainability and Environment report tabled in the Victorian parliament in September 2010 stated that in cash or nominal terms taxpayers will pay at least $15.8 billion to the Aquasure Consortium to operate and maintain the plant for 28 years after it begins operation at the end of 2011.[6] Water Minister Tim Holding confirmed that the construction and operation of the plant would be $5.72 billion stating that "The reports in today's Age do not accurately describe the water security payment".[7] [edit] Water security payments The 15 year drought afflicting Victoria broke during the winter of 2010, with reservoirs reaching a storage level of over 45% after a period of consistent rainfall, which means that desalinated water will not be required for some time. A "water security payment" has been guaranteed by the government to the private consortium building and operating the plant. This payment will be made regardless of water produced by the plant and is designed to provide guaranteed financial returns to private investors in the project. The Victorian government has refused to disclose the amount of this payment, claiming that it is "commercial in confidence". During periods of higher rainfalls, desalinated water will not be required, but these "water security payments" will still be made at the consumer's expense. During times of reduced rainfall and storage levels, the plant could operate at full capacity and produce up to a third of Melbourne's water requirements. The desalinated water could be directed to storage reservoirs and fill them to levels where water restrictions would be reduced, which could in turn lead to increased water consumption. [edit] Auditor General finds total cost of $18b over 30 years The Victorian auditor-general found that the proposed desalination plant will cost $2 billion more than State Government estimates. The auditor-general's report, tabled in Parliament on 6 October 2010, showed the desalination plant will cost more than $18 billion over the next 30 years - $2 billion more than the Government estimated last month.[8] [edit] Concerns raised about proximity of Wonthaggi sewerage outlet and ocean currents Two concerns regarding the design of the desalination plant were discussed on ABC radio 775 (Jon Faine) on 10/10) [edit] Ocean currents "short circuit" the water intake The desalination plant has been designed so that prevailing ocean current brings "fresh" sea water to the intake and takes salinated output away. However, for some months of the year this ocean flow in Bass Straight is reversed, so the salinated output is likely to contaminate the intake - "short circuiting" the process. This will impact efficiency of plant This matter was raised in several submissions to the EES and does not appear to have been addressed in plant design - and will be very expensive to rectify. [edit] Wonthaggi sewerage effluent outlet within about 3km of desal intake A water expert advised against close proximity of sewerage effluent outlet and desal intake This had caused water contamination in the Sydney desal plant[9] Risks of contamination (e.g. viral, hormones, bacteria) are increased by close proximity of sewerage outlets and desalination intakes Mitigation could mean treatment of intake water before it is desalinated - more expense The secrecy of the process regarding site selection and plant design has contributed to apparent major problems that could have been avoided if a more transparent and thorough process was used. The Liberals (Ted Baillieu) have said that they would reveal design and financial information relating to the plant as it does not need to be commercial in confidence. The tender has been awarded, contracts signed, and there is no competitor. [edit] Alternatives The capital cost of the plant would could equip about 600,000 households with tank systems and pumps (at $5000 per house) that could provide more water than the plant's estimated production. Combined with recycling sewerage water and protecting our catchments, we may not even need desalination. This option would require about 140 MWh of energy per day, while the desalination plant would consume 15 times as much energy just to operate (2160 MWh per day). Stopping logging in Melbourne's water catchments would provide an extra 30 gigalitres of water, which would be much cheaper than paying for the same amount of water to be provided by desalination. This water would also not require pumping to Melbourne. A 2007 study of using rainwater tanks as a viable urban water solution concluded that: "Rainwater tanks are five times more energy efficient than desalination plants and twice as energy efficient as the proposed Traveston dam, per megalitre of water produced. "If governments deployed rainwater tanks to 5 per cent of households each year in Sydney and South-East Queensland, dams and desalination plants planned for 2010 could be delayed past 2026 (Sydney) and 2019 (SEQ). "Most Australian houses are suitable for a rainwater tank. In Sydney 65 per cent (or 1.1 million houses), in SEQ 73 per cent (or 900 000 houses) and in Melbourne 72 per cent of existing houses have potential for a rainwater tank. "While 38 per cent of households in Adelaide have rainwater tanks, fewer than 6 per cent of the houses in Melbourne, Sydney, South-East Queensland and Perth do,” said ACF’s urban water campaigner Kate Noble. "Rainwater tanks collect and store water far more efficiently than dams, especially in times of drought. As the climate changes we should be installing tanks to take advantage of the rain that does fall on our rooftops. "If governments systematically installed rainwater tanks in Australia’s major cities, we would secure as much water as the planned Kurnell desalination plant in Sydney, the Tugan desalination plant on the Gold Coast and the stage one of the unpopular Traveston Dam proposed for Queensland’s Mary River,” Ms Noble said. [edit] Images Little Powlett River and rig Little Powlett River estuary Construction of pipeline to Melbourne [edit] Video [edit] See also Recent news and articles about desalination Melbourne water usage North South pipeline Stop logging Melbourne water catchments Wonthaggi Desalination project, Victorian Government Watershed Victoria - Watershed Victoria is an incorporated group that envisions justice and sustainability in water policy and projects across Victoria (and beyond). They lobby, collaborate, research and educate on water policy and options. Your Water Your Say - Was an action group of families and individuals concerned that the future water provision in Victoria is achieved through environmentally sustainable means. they were working establish the groundwork for an anti-desalination campaign. The group was disbanded following legal issues with the Victorian government Minister 'relaxed' about scrutiny of desal plant, The Age, December 1, 2007 Rare parrot is back ... on desal site, The Australian, June 29, 2007 Is desalination the solution? , The Age, May 16, 2008 "We are staring down the barrel of running out of water," says Priestley. Rainwater tanks, groundwater, stormwater, desalination, recycling, new dams, more efficiencies all need to be on the table - "each city has to look at all options, not put a red line through any of them, including recycling." Get real on climate change Anti-desalination petition ↑ Bracks announces $5 billion water plan, The Age, June 19, 2007 ↑ Environmental study gives desal plant green light, The Age, August 21, 2008 ↑ Too much water for desal site - again, Herald Sun ↑ Foreigners bid for desalination deal, Herald Sun, March 03, 2008 ↑ Water bills set to rise, ABC News, November 7, 2008 ↑ Desal plant a $570m-a-year drain, The Age, September 17, 2010 ↑ Holding denies desal plant will hit $15.8bn, The Age, September 17, 2010 ↑ Victorian desal plant to cost extra $2b, ABC, Oct 7, 2010 ↑ Calls for desal contamination review, AAP, 7 November 2010 Retrieved from "http://greenlivingpedia.org/Victorian_desalination_plant" Categories: Victoria \| Water \| Politics \| Desalination This page was last modified 07:07, 10 November 2010.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line228
__label__cc	0.642464	0.357536	Reactions to Ken Anderson contempt verdict Over the weekend, Grits offered an assessment of the tepid justice evidenced in former prosecutor and District Judge Ken Anderson's guilty plea and 10-day contempt sentence for withholding evidence in the Michael Morton case. Now, numerous other commenters have weighed in. Some find the outcome historic, since supposedly no prosecutor has ever before gone to jail for withholding evidence. But more common was the suggestion that 10 days was a ridiculously light sentence compared to the quarter century Michael Morton spent in prison. Here's a sampling of various views: Defending People (guest post by Robb Fickman) Eye on Williamson County Ethics Alarms Robert Cavnar (Huffington Post) Austin Statesman (editorial) Austin Statesman (roundup of Facebook comments) Notably, this may not be the last of the fallout. The Los Angeles Times reported that: Williamson County Dist. Atty. Jana Duty agreed to an independent audit of cases Anderson handled as district attorney, as well as some cases handled by his successor, John Bradley, in which Bradley refused requests for post-conviction DNA testing (as he did in the Morton case). The audit will be conducted by the Innocence Project, the Innocence Project of Texas and the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Assn. Labels: Brady violations, michael morton, prosecutorial misconduct I believe the majority of prosecutors think the rules don't apply to them. They count on anyone in their office to keep their mouth shut. To govern themselves for there is no consequence. Ten days in jail? Since it seems to be a pre-requisite to be a nazi in these positions. Surely further investigation will uncover alarming facts. Whether or not they get exposed is different story. For example a swift search at a neighboring central texas county tells of d.a. Sherri Tibbe and Cathy Compton destroying video evidence to convict an innocent person. http://truthofsherritibbehayscounty.wordpress.com/article/faces-of-deceit-hays-county-district-3cf3iu9cmqygq-1/ Bruce Stram said... I am very pleased to see that there will be an inquiry into Anderson's and Bradley's cases. When I saw "An Unreal Dream" at the Cinema Arts Sunday I expressed puzzlement about if and how Bradley publicly explained his seeming mindless opposition to DNA testing. The potential for review may be the reason. It is hard to believe Anderson did stuff like this just once, and Bradley learned at his school. Presumably Anderson is still in the barrel and Bradley could get there with him. If this establishes serial offense, the prison sentences could get longer. Does anyone know what form of community service he's supposed to perform? GFB, the response from the TDCAA is missing from your list of views. Below is the official unedited version: Dear members, as you have surely heard one of our beloved former members has been jailed for performing his duties. The travesty of Judge Anderson's case should be of grave concern to each and every one of us and serve as a reminder to "clean up" the file once a defendant has been convicted and remove anything that can be used to exonerate the individual. Most of us need no reminder in such cases where we frame an innocent, but some of us have become complacent over the decades and just assumed we were untouchable. As the Judge's case proves though, we can have our reputation destroyed and even be subjected to slight criminal penalties when we are not diligent with the case files. Anything less, and we could fall victim to the same criminal justice system that we have served with honor and distinction just as Judge Anderson did. An Attorney said... Wow, 1:13 pm, is explicating a criminal conspiracy to destroy evidence of malfeasance by district attorneys and their staff. I think a grand jury needs to be convened to determine who needs to be indicted and subjected to the Texas Criminal Injustice System, as evidenced by these criminal District Attorneys (double entendre intended). "Clean up the file"????? How about clean up your conscience and do a gut-check! @4:00 p.m. It's apparent these criminal district attorneys have no conscience. One Small Step for Man; One Giant Leap for Mankind. dfisher said... To be clear I'm no fan of Ken Anderson, but to be fair Anderson was taken advantage of by Travis CO. and their fake medical examiner. Back in 1986 when the Morton murder took place the forensic sciences were in their infancy and there was no forensic evidence pointing to the killer, that is except for what was found by the medical examiner. The Travis CO ME Bayardo told Anderson that based on the stomach contents of Mrs. Morton, she died at approximately 1:30 a.m., which pointed the finger squarely at Michael Morton. Since back then everyone believed ME's were experts in death and time of death, clearly Anderson did not believe anything that contradicted the ME's finding was evidence. Michael Morton is not the only defendant affected by Bayardo's forensic scams. Since 2007 Bayardo changed his testimony in the death penalty cases of Cathy Lynn Henderson and most recently the case of Rodney Reed. In the Reed case Bayardo is changing his time-of-death determination, again. It was the time of death in the Reed case that was used against him and supported the conviction. I know it is believed Reed was convicted based on DNA, but the truth is...there was no DNA. @dfisher, I wouldn't say Anderson was taken advantage of by Bayardo - at most, they used one another. Pam Colloff reported that Anderson and Sheriff Boutwell woodsheded Bayardo to change his testimony (see the excerpts in this post). Bayardo changing his findings in response to the Sheriff and DA's requests makes him culpable, for sure, but it doesn't remotely exonerate Anderson. Bradley Wilco said... I don't understand how there was "an agreement" as to Anderson's punishment. I thought the Judge had exclusive power over what the punishment should be. Whoever prosecuted this case surely could not have been content with 10 days in jail, especially with Anderson's continued "righteous indignation." I was not aware of Colloff's article, but the fact that Anderson and Boutwell obtain documentation as to when Mrs Morton last ate suggests Anderson actually believed Bayardo could determine time-of-death. I know more about Bayardo than most anyone and you didn't need to have evidence or facts to get him to lie, that came very naturally to him. As for Colloff's comment that Bayardo did not take autopsy notes, because he was afraid they would be subpoenaed came from the Star-Telegram's 9-27-09 article. That 5 day series on TX medical examiners came from me and is laced with cases that are coming back to life across the state. Two months ago medical examiner Lloyd White who is quoted in the series resigned from the Tarrant CO ME's. White has hire counsel and is preparing to file a whistle blower's law suit against Tarrant CO. and Peerwani's autopsy business. Latest word is the U.S. Attorney's office has brought in the FBI to investigate Peerwani's Tarrant CO operation. Tony B said... "cases where we frame an innocent" now the truth comes out from the TDCCA. To be clear I'm no fan of Ken Anderson, but to be fair Anderson was taken advantage of by Travis CO. and their fake medical examiner Now that was funny! I want him in prison-oh wait, I want the prisons closed. Um, TonyB, 3:30, 3:04, and 1:50, you do realize that 1:13's "official TDCAA response" is, at best, a piece of tongue in cheek fiction, don't you? Go to the TDCAA website to see for yourself. 11:55, surely you realize of course that the TDCAA wouldn't post that on the public pages of their website for everyone to see, don't you? Unless you're a member you can't access the page where they hide stuff like that. And no doubt it was removed once the administrators found out that someone had compromised their confidentiality. Regardless of whether it was their actual response or not, the fact remains it is exactly how they feel about the situation or else they would have made a public response condemning Anderson's criminal actions. Folks, the TDCAA "response" was clearly satire. If you thought otherwise, or even fantasize there's a remote possibility it came from secret, members-only web pages, you've been had. :-} @10:39, I agree there's little to be gained from sending Anderson to prison. Eliminating his pension, OTOH, would be a more serious punishment and a MUCH more effective deterrent for other prosecutors in the future. What is missing from these comments is the acknowledgment of complicity of Williamson County attorneys and the complacency of the pro gun Williamson County residents-and I am in both categories... it was a reign of fear and intimidation. When I did get pulled into a criminal case in WilCo, the lock step one-mindedness of the prosecutors was terrifying. I guess I just feel guilty for not being more like Barry Scheck The comment 7:10 pm sounds much like the situation which now exists in McLennan County. Hmmm... Thomas R. Griffith said... Hey Grits, I'm not sure how this can be categorized as an independent audit, when three separate entities are listed in addition to the D.As'. Office. But, with all of the media attention, any audit will be welcomed and, sadly be portrayed by the D.As'. Associations and dues paying cliques as –‘fabricated’, due to their exclusion. Or, inspire them to perform their own? *Audits?, we don’t do no stinking audits! As one of Harris County’s very first Applicants', I requested that the Lykos Conviction Integrity Unit perform an audit regarding all cases handled by the ADA of Record. Despite him being tied to various Chronicle articles’ regarding 29 pieces of evidence going missing & my certified case files indicating he 'fabricated' evidence (a friggin firearm), no audit ever took place. Damn you Lykos & Damn you Casey J. O’Brien. May you both rot in retirement & lose sleep over ‘Reactions’ to Andy and your isolated incidents. Thanks. people we need a overhaul of the whole dam justice system from top to bottom! and everywhere in between! Anderson and Bradley are both despicable. An overwhelming number of individuals (including teens) were sentenced to prison back in the 90's. Some are still there. Some are still on parole. Some have committed suicide. Some were innocent and some unjustly and severely punished. Some were fathers. No telling how many young lives these two men have destroyed. It is hard to grasp the evil acts of these 2 snakes. I can imagine Bradley sneering as he reads this. I can almost hear him joking with his TDCAA buddies in an effort to blow off the truth as they, in turn, assure him of his place in the TDCAA brotherhood. TDCAA will assure Bradley that he too has served with honor and distinction. Very telling. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Bradley get a prosecutor of the year award? Did Anderson also get one when he was a prosecutor? If so, why aren't those being revoked? Also, why hasn't Jack Skeen's revoked? What does the fact that all of those still hold those awards say about the TDCAA? TDCAA making a "joke." Hilarious way to get a guffah. What douches. grayson county has some shady ass wipes in the d.a office and the puplic defenders to boot, hell the judicial system as a hole is just about getting another notch in there belts,and ruining familys lives...sherman,tx u STINK!! The only explanation for how a given law enforcement officer, prosecutor, judge, etc..., who's sole purpose is to uphold the law and seek the truth, can lie and railroad innocent defendants into jail, is just one thing EGO. They are so full of themselves believing their better than all the rest of us combined. Laws for them, don't apply, they can do what they want. Their so responsible and capable in their heads that they are justified to do whatever they care or choose to. Of course, the rest of us would never understand since we are only piss ants in their mind. These articles point out that such thinking is not so rare and, in fact, being one of those in authority it's almost natural to feel like a GOD. We need to muzzle them with laws they must follow just like all the rest of us. Make them accountable to the people they despise and certainly do it for all those innocents they locked away without a care or concern. YOU ARE SO RIGHT THEY THINK THEY ARE GODS!! McLennan Sheriff ignores data, research on ill-con... The upsides of recording custodial police interrog... Fran Keller released based on refuted junk science... 'I've been to Athens' ... and Paris ... and Mules... Why private prisons don't (and shouldn't) have imm... Brownsville can't keep 911 dispatchers on board Good idea in Dallas on domestic violence preventio... Lies and damn lies about sex trafficking data Harris DA 'simulator' primes grand juries to no-bi... Fort Worth chief apologizes for use of off-duty of... 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Dallas DA pledges to review convictions based on j... Texas' habeas history fraught, but potent Trooper telemarketing, prosecutor problems, and ot... 'One out of Five Known Exonerations is for a Crime... 'Police Misconduct as a Cause of Wrongful Convicti... Video contradicted Garland cop's story of deadly p... Big government and the criminal justice system Roundup: 'Too Big to Jail' and other stories Telling stories vs. telling the truth: A critique ... Advisory warns against using prosecutors as debt c... Ken Anderson's punishment for Brady violations tep... Trib poll reveals opinions about frequency of wron... Law enforcement misconduct roundup Good criminal justice coverage from Texas Observer... Appellate court: no warrant needed to access perso... Federal prison population growth unsustainable Harris County voters barely support jail expansion... Are there ever circumstances when Houston cops are... NSA's mass collection of cell-phone geolocation da... Time to implement the Barney Fife rule at McLennan... On the folly of fingerprints as cell-phone securit... First Amendment fouling Texas prosecutors' efforts... Compensating the wrongly convicted: CA vs. TX Why 'privacy is a conservative cause' Shaky science, un-recorded confession form basis o...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line230
__label__wiki	0.9654	0.9654	MyIntelsat Intelsat Gives Back Data & Telecom Services Mobile Network Operators Distribution Solutions Contribution Solutions Intelsat General Corporation Satellite Related Services Hosted Payloads Satellite Procurement Transfer Orbit Support In-Orbit Testing Spacecraft Operations Satellite Fleet Intelsat EpicNG Interference Management Terrestrial Network Intelsat Teleports IntelsatOne Fiber Network C-band Spectrum Proposal C-Band Alliance Appoints Peter Pitsch to Lead Advocacy and Government Affairs Pitsch brings over 30 years of experience as a Capitol Hill and FCC advocate for 5G and other technology policies C-Band Alliance and members Intelsat (NYSE: I), SES (Euronext Paris: SESG), Eutelsat (Euronext Paris: ETL) and Telesat welcome Pitsch to coalition WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 27, 2019-- The C-Band Alliance (CBA), announced today the appointment of Peter Pitsch as Head of Advocacy and Government Affairs. The CBA is the entity that proposes to implement a safe and efficient clearing and repurposing of mid-band ‘C-band’ downlink spectrum to accelerate the deployment of 5G services in the U.S. The CBA was formed by Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat, the band’s incumbents and the leading continental U.S. satellite services operators. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190327005052/en/ New C-Band Alliance Executive, Peter Pitsch (Photo: Business Wire) Mr. Pitsch previously served as Associate General Counsel for Intel Corporation, where he was responsible for global telecommunications policy, a position from which he retired in 2018. Since October 2017, Mr. Pitsch advocated in support of the CBA’s market-based proposal on behalf of Intel. Mr. Pitsch has over three decades of experience advocating for public policy issues in front of the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) and U.S. Congress. Positions of note prior to his career at Intel included serving as Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy and Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the FCC during the Reagan Administration. The CBA is advocating a breakthrough, market-based proposal to the FCC to allow satellite operators to clear frequencies to enable terrestrial mobile operators to access 200 MHz of C-band spectrum. The CBA approach and detailed transition plan would accelerate the deployment of next generation 5G services in the U.S. while also protecting the wide array of established C-band satellite services and the U.S. consumers that rely on them, such as the U.S. television and radio broadcasters and programmers. Bill Tolpegin, C-Band Alliance Chief Executive Officer said, “The appointment of Peter Pitsch, who is already well-versed in this complex proceeding at the FCC, allows the CBA to further amplify its advocacy efforts at the FCC and on Capitol Hill as we explain how our proposal best balances the needs of C-band incumbents with the need for speed when it comes to supplying spectrum for 5G in the United States. Given his long experience with telecom policy and intimate knowledge of our proposal and the FCC proceeding, we are confident Peter will be a valuable leader in our efforts to build consensus on our proposal.” About the C-Band Alliance The C-Band Alliance, or CBA, was established by Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat to implement the safe and efficient clearing and repurposing of C-band spectrum, supporting the United States in its goal of leadership in 5G deployment and innovation. While implementing the breakthrough, market-based proposal to clear spectrum, the CBA will also protect the quality and reliability of existing C-band services, providing current users certainty and operational integrity. For more information, please visit www.C-BandAlliance.com. Source: Intelsat and C-Band Alliance (CBA) +1 609 987 4002 (o) +352 621 186 847 (m) Dianne VanBeber Vice President Investor Relations +1 703 627 5100 (m) Dianne.VanBeber@intelsat.com Richard Whiteing +352 710 725 261 (o) richard.whiteing@ses.com Print PageE-mail PageRSS FeedsE-mail AlertsContact Us Intelsat (I:NYSE) + 0.12 (0.57%) Data provided by Nasdaq. Minimum 15 minutes delayed. Q1 2019 Earnings Release Quarterly Commentary Q1 2019 Quarterly Commentary Q1 2019 Investor Fact Sheet Primary IR Contact VP, Investor Relations And Communications investor.relations@intelsat.com In Orbit Testing Keplerian Data Ephemeris Data Sun Interference Calculator Satellite Configuration About MyIntelsat Intelsat 2018. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use \| Privacy Policy \| Modern Slavery Act Statement	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line235
__label__wiki	0.749457	0.749457	A reflection on Our Fin-de-Siècle Art of Literature Download 98.38 Kb. Size 98.38 Kb. I. A Dualistic History II. The Classic/Romantic Contrast ROMANTICISM versus CLASSICISM From Romantic Movement to Postmodern Style: Chung-hsuan Tung The history of Western literature is a dualistic history. It begins with two separate traditions: Hellenism and Hebraism. The spirits or values these two traditions represent seldom blend equally at any supposed period of the history. The Classical period and the Modernist movement are dominated by Hellenistic qualities whereas the Romantic period and the Postmodern movement are dominated by Hebraic spirits. In fact, the Postmodern style seems to be the result of pushing the Romantic movement, with its Hebraic/Dionysian tendencies, to an extreme. Many Postmodern characteristics can be traced back logically to Romantic attributes. This logical inference can be confirmed through factual evidence. After considering the seven factors—world, medium, language, author, reader, work, and theme—involved in literature as a means of communication, we cannot but admit that the Romantic spirit of loving freedom, change and difference has really brought about the Postmodern style, the fin-de-siècle trend of worshiping Chaos, of anti-form, anti-art, anti-literature. But this, we can predict, is likewise only a phase of the changing history. When the Hellenistic/Apollonian values become dominant again, the golden age of art may return with a new vigor. Key words and phrases: Dualism, Hellenism, Hebraism, Apollonian, Dionysian, Romantic movement, Postmodernism, fin-de-siècle The recorded history of Western literature has been generally assumed to begin with two separate traditions: Hellenism and Hebraism. This assumption is a dualism by nature, as it reduces all possible sources to two elements. This dualism, furthermore, implies the co-existence of two mutually opposing cultures: the Greek and the Judaic. Various differences between the two cultures have been pointed out. The Greek culture is said, for instance, to be secular, aesthetic and hedonistic while the Judaic culture is religious, ethic, and ascetic. But the differences are capable of being reduced to two contrasting terms indicating not only the characteristics of human societies but also the psychic components of human beings. Matthew Arnold in his Culture and Anarchy, for instance, attributes “spontaneity of consciousness” to Hellenism and “strictness of conscience” to Hebraism (chapters IV & V). Reduction entails oversimplification, no doubt. But it also brings about clarity. All dualistic thinkers, including Arnold, seek to clarify matters by reducing all structural elements to two ultimate ones. Thus history is for them but a matter of changing the dominant, to use a later Russian Formalist idea, between the competing two. The nineteenth-century England, for instance, was for Arnold dominated by the strict moral code of Hebraism. Hence his call for more Hellenism. Hellenism is sometimes equated to Classicism. Therefore, one can thus talk of Western history: The reintroduction of Classical learning through the Moslem conquests in Spain is a partial explanation of the ensuing Renaissance when Classicism seemed to be dominant. The Reformation is explainable as a resurgence of Hebraic religious feeling. The Neo-Classic Age and the following period of the Enlightenment were inspired by Classical models, but the theories of the Romantic Movement and of many of the nineteenth century German philosophers emphasize the intuitive approach to knowledge upon which Hebraism was built. (Horton & Hopper 4) The quotation above embeds, in fact, another popular set of dualistic terms: Classicism vs. Romanticism. Here Romanticism is obviously linked to Hebraism while Classicism is associated with Hellenism. But, as we know, the Classic/Romantic dualism is popular only after the so-called Romantic Movement. Western historians often regard the Romantic Movement as a reaction to Neoclassicism, and set the period of its triumph within the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. But to replace the old binary opposition (Hellenism/Hebraism) with the new one (Classicism/Romanticism) is to further complicate the dualistic contrasts. Now it suggests not simply the contrasts between secularity and religiosity, aesthetics and ethics, or hedonism and asceticism. It also suggests many other contrasts, and some of the contrasts may not accord with the discriminations that go with the dichotomy of Hellenism vs. Hebraism. One scholar, for instance, lists ten contrasting items between Romanticism and Classicism as follows: 1. emotional appeal instead of appeal to reason 2. the subjective point the objective point of view instead of of view 3. an individual a normal and typical approach instead of approach 4. dissatisfaction suspicion and horror with the known instead of of the unconventional and unknown 5. experimentation clear and ordered ex- with musicality and instead of pression and form, a color in expression belief in beauty of measured precision 6. emphasis on feelings emphasis on content and emotional instead of and idea 7. emphasis on the emphasis on the immeasurable and instead of measurable and the undetermined determined 8. importance of par- importance of uni- ticular and indivi- instead of versal thoughts dual thought and ideas 9. love of external love of man’s accom- nature in its wild instead of plishments in taming and primitive state and controlling the wild and rebellious 10. rejection of tradi- acceptance of tradition tion (except from instead of (of earlier classical earlier romantic periods--particularly periods—in parti- those of ancient Greek cular primitive folk and Roman cultures) cultures, Renaissance developments or idealized historical associations) Then he adds: “this list of contrasting qualities might be continued indefinitely, but a list of any length would show the same general desire of the romantic to escape from reality which seems to oppress his aesthetic expression, and to experiment with an ideal more satisfying to the individual, and the contrasting fear of the classic to depart from known and tried norms of form and theme established by settled and prosperous aristocratic groups” (Smith 40). Indeed, we can gather from numerous literary dictionaries, handbooks, encyclopedias, etc., enough definitions, explanations, and commentaries to explicate the Classic/Romantic dichotomy and can be justified in further asserting that Neoclassicism stresses the general, the urbane, the sensual, the keen and sober while Romanticism stresses the particular, the rustic, the visionary, the dreamy and frenzied; that while Neoclassicism values sense, wit, intellect, decorum, restraint, laws, civilization, tight close form, etc., Romanticism values feeling, imagination, inspiration, sincerity, freedom, caprices, primitivism, loose open form, etc.; that whereas Neoclassicism is head, bright, Apollonian, mimetic, mechanic, static, satiric, and commentary, Romanticism is heart, melancholy, Dionysian, expressive, organic, dynamic, lyric, and prophetic; and finally even that the one is an artificer, a mirror, and a believer in stability and the sinful nature of man while the other is a creator, a lamp, and a believer in mutability and the natural goodness of man. Yet, as a movement against Neoclassicism, Romanticism has now accumulated so many attributes that it becomes impractical to define it as a critical term.1 Thus, A. O. Lovejoy suggests that the term Romanticism has come to mean nothing at all since it means so many things while Water Raleigh and Arthur Quiller-Couch suggest abandoning the terms “romantic” and “classic” altogether. : ~chtung ~chtung -> The Contrarieties of Life in Keats "The Eve of St. Agnes" Reprinted from Journal of Arts and Histor y ~chtung -> The Father Influences on Stephen, the Artist ~chtung -> The Nietzschean and Foucauldean Prospero: Shakespeare’s Vision of Power Chung-hsuan Tung Abstract ~chtung -> Hemingway’s Existential Ending Tung Chung-Hsuan late eighteenth recorded history	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line245
__label__wiki	0.940239	0.940239	Honda ends Civic Type R challenge with five records August 08, 2018 17:16· Civic Type R Challenge wraps up with Hungaroring record The fastest lap time around the Hungaroring GP circuit in a front-wheel drive production auto has been set by a Honda Civic Type R, again. The new record in Hungary completes the planned five track assault known as the Type R Challenge 2018. This is actually the current Civic Type R's sixth lap record, since a pre-production model became the fastest front-wheel drive production auto ever round the Nurburgring Nordschleife in April 2017, with a lap of 7m43.8s. Button knows the Hungaroring track quite well, given it's the same circuit he at which won his first Grand Prix race with Honda in 2006. "The first thing I noticed when I left the pit lane was how neutral the vehicle was.", he said. Previously, in a similar challenge back in 2016, Honda set a benchmark time for the Hungaroring GP circuit using the last-generation Civic Type R not available to us in the States. "I come from a rear wheel-drive background, so it was very different for me but Type R is well balanced and instantly enjoyable and more natural". Transfer News Victor Wanyama on Roma's radar 1 hour ago Wanyama is now sidelined after he was forced to return to London from Spurs' tour of the US after a recurrence of knee injury. Wanyama is also now sidelined with a knee injury, and he missed four months of last season through various ailments. Button was also impressed with how late he could brake into corners, and he also praised the fact that the auto comes with a manual transmission, explaining that no other transmission type lets you feel so connected with the vehicle. The manual gearbox works really well, too. "You always feel a lot more connected to the auto". 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Priyanka Chopra finally opens up about alleged engagement with Nick Jonas The post Priyanka Chopra Finally Breaks Silence On Her Engagement With Boyfriend Nick Jonas! appeared first on Popdiaries . The actress has been in the midst of rumours that she has got engaged to Jonas, who is 10 years younger to her. Friends Star Matthew Perry Recovering After Emergency Surgery She added that she did "respect the camaraderie they had", which she said was also apparent on screen. He was then transferred to the Intensive Care Unit due to complications. Jose Mourinho working on £89m Milinkovic-Savic deal Jose Mourinho is facing up to more disappointment in the transfer window with Juventus closing in on a big-money deal for Sergej Milinkovic-Savic. Sky News apologises for airing interview with far-right nationalist Blair Cottrell Sky News' political editor David Speers has also criticised the broadcaster's decision to have Cottrell on air. Mr Cottrell was convicted past year of inciting contempt and ridicule of Muslims. Caitlyn Jenner Wants to Play a Villain in a Marvel Film She did say he's made "mistakes" on LGBTQ issues while arguing, "I don't support him in everything that he does". Caitlyn Jenner was in attendance at the ESPYS this year alongside Sophia Hutchins, her rumored girlfriend. Last partial solar eclipse of the year on August 11 Coming up on January 21, 2019, a third consecutive total lunar eclipse will also be off center and find the Moon near perigee. While this period is for the total 2018, the duration of the eclipse - including the partial phases - will be over 6 hours. Najib out on extended bail for new RM42m money-laundering case Each charge is punishable by up to 15 years' jail and a fine of not less than five times the proceeds of the illegal activity. Last month, he claimed trial to three charges of criminal breach of trust (CBT) and one charge of abuse of power. 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__label__wiki	0.858778	0.858778	"Mamata Banerjee has made lives of Hindus miserable": Tapan Ghosh (Indian Express Report ON Hindu Samhati Rally) Slamming the police and administration, Ghosh said, “We had sought permission to organise the programme today but so far there has been no reply. Now, we have put it up without any permission and still the police have not done anything,” he said.---- LAUNCHING a scathing attack on the ruling Trinamool Congress, right-wing outfit Hindu Samhati said Sunday th...at to get 15 per cent of the minority votes in Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had made the lives of the Hindu population in the state miserable. “According to Mamata, 30 per cent of minority votes are with her, but statistics have revealed that she has been able to secure only 15 per cent of the votes in minority dominated areas. For this, she has made lives of the other 70 per cent population miserable,” said Hindu Samhati founder Tapan Ghosh, while addressing a gathering at Rani Rashmoni Avenue in central Kolkata on the occasion of the outfit’s 8th Foundation Day . Slamming the police and administration, Ghosh said, “We… "Mamata Banerjee has made lives of Hindus miserabl...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line248
__label__wiki	0.576237	0.576237	Kashana Cauley The Electric City Art & Literature, Arts & Culture This story originally appeared in and is re-published with gratitude from The Common. We bought Detroit because even after buying ourselves new houses and cars, $253 million in lottery winnings left the four of us with a ton of leftover cash. Why specifically? One of our daughters found the ad on Craigslist: One city for sale or rent—slightly used; a fixer-upper; free from most city noise; lots of pretty, healthy trees and grass. The asking price wasn’t ridiculous.The mayor took personal checks. We wanted to be the first people who’d ever bought a city. Sure, important people sometimes got keys to them, but that’s not the same thing. Before we won the cash, we worked on “the line,” an assembly line that made SUVs at a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin. No one gives a shit about how cars are made except engineers and all of us on the line, fighting for another buck or two per hour in exchange for burned-out knees, backs, ankles, all of it shot to shit from being fat men who stood up for ten hours a day for years lugging metal around. Oh, and everyone in Detroit. We couldn’t turn down the chance to own the city that dreamed up the cars we’d built. And we liked the fixer-upper part of the ad. We’d built things, so we could fix them. We won the cash and quit our jobs in December ’08 and bought Detroit in February ’09 and left Wisconsin to take it over in March ’09. We took 90E to 94E from Janesville to Chicago to Michigan City to Benton Harbor to Ann Arbor to Detroit. Twenty minutes past the airport, we saw a chain-link fence straddling the city line and glowing blue. It stretched from the highway to the horizon. “There’s no way it runs around the whole city, right?” “No fucking way.” “Nobody’d surround an entire city with a fence.” “There’s no way it’s one of those electrical fences, right?” “Why else would it be blue?” “This is what happens when you buy stuff sight unseen. You show up and it’s got electrical fences all over it.” “It’s hard to tell what the fence is protecting. This all looks really hard up.” “It can’t all look like this. We’ll drive around after we see the mayor, take a look.” “And if it does?” “Then we’ll fix it up. It’s our city now.” The mayor told us to take 94 past 10 to Midtown and meet him at a coffee shop called The Morning Hit. We found a parking spot right in front of the door. We ordered four cups of coffee from a bloodshot counter girl and sat down around the mayor, who looked destroyed, like he’d worked a triple shift that let out five minutes before we showed up. “Here it is,” he said, slinging a key across the table. The key came with a keychain with a remote control on it. The remote had three buttons: one red, one green, one blue. “You saw the fence, right?” he said. “Yup,” we said. “The green button turns its electricity on. The red button turns it off.” “And the blue?” “I don’t know what it does.” The mayor took the lid off his paper coffee cup and drank half his coffee in one gulp. The four of us watched steam rise up from what he’d left. He must have had a throat of steel. “You got any other advice?” “Don’t be afraid to turn the fence on. Or off. Or do whatever else you need to around here. Good luck.” He got up. He didn’t even shake our hands. He nodded at the counter girl. She nodded back. We heard his car start and drive away. We went back to our car to drive around Detroit and figure out what we wanted to do with the city, since we officially owned it. “Shit, man, we never asked him what the key was for.” “It’s probably just a key to the city.” “Those are bigger. This is just a normal-looking key.” “Then it probably fits a door.” One of us almost pressed the red button. “What you doing that for?” “I don’t feel like electrocuting anybody.” “We don’t even know if it’s on.” “Why’s it blue, then?” “People aren’t stupid enough to touch an electrified fence.” We drove past another section of fence. Close up it made a sizzling noise like bacon on high heat. We found one open library and asked the librarian about the fence. She told us that it sat just on the suburban side of the border and ran alongside Detroit in every direction. The first ring of Detroit suburbs built it six months before we showed up. “Why?” we said. She looked at us like we’d called her kid ugly. “You’re smart men,” she said. “I bet you can figure it out.” “But we don’t get it,” we said. “The only fence we know of that’s like that one in this country is the one that’s supposed to be keeping out all them Mexicans.” “You’re getting warmer,” she said. “They hate us that much.” She shrugged, but her eyes said yes. We left the library, fired up our car, and turned right. “Why do we have the remote?” “Because the mayor gave it to us?” “Yeah, but we didn’t buy the suburbs. We bought Detroit.” “Wouldn’t the suburbanites want to keep it? Keep us under control?” “Maybe they think keeping us under control is too much work.” “This whole place looks like too much work.” “We’ve just got to start fixing stuff.” “What the hell can we fix?” We drove down a street filled with packs of kids shooting pop cans with real guns, not the BBs we used at their age. The cans didn’t plink—they flew. The kids gave us that “who the hell are you?” look, and we kept our speed and tipped our chins up to pretend they should know the answer. And thankfully they didn’t decide to shoot us. Since we were car people, we went to go see all the open plants. Well, the plants’ parking lots, ’cause the guards wouldn’t let us inside, even when we told them we owned Detroit and we could go in if we wanted to. The open plants only had half-full parking lots. The closed plants had weeds growing through their walls, if the walls weren’t caved in. The empty houses that hadn’t been burnt down looked the same way, like they were getting it on with twofoot-tall clumps of grass. All the walkers walked like they had someplace to be in fifteen minutes, but we didn’t see a whole lot of obvious destinations. “Evvvv-ryone else here is black too.” “Heard it was like this, but seeing it’s something else.” “Not sticking out’s a third thing.” Janesville’s a white enough town that Detroit came off as the negative side of a photo. “I saw some tan people back there. Arabs, maybe? Mexicans?” “Some white people too. Not that many.” We didn’t have a problem with Arabs or Mexicans or tan people in general. Given where we were, they were probably just light-skinned. The real question was what kind of white people were down with ninety-percent-black cities. Who’d want to be the last white person in Detroit? The candidates for that title wore plaid shirts and puffy coats and knit caps and big cameras around their necks. Sometimes they’d nod at us. We’d nod back out of habit and wonder when they got into nodding. In Janesville, white people didn’t nod at us. They stared. Blacks and Arabs, or whatever other kind of tan people they were, sat in packs on the front porches of the houses people still lived in, looking at us hard in that “we know you’re not from here” kind of way. But mostly we passed nobody, because nobody lived on most of the blocks. We’d drive down a street full of burned-out and caved-in houses with two-foot-tall grass between them, turn a corner, and stare down a pack of people sitting on a porch drinking something yellow like lemonade and smoking pot we could smell from the car. We crisscrossed the city for hours. It felt like we were looking for something at first. Then that feeling ended. So we drove along the Detroit side of the fence. We drove from the Canadian border to Eight Mile Road and through miles of empty land that overlooked suburban houses so new we could smell their paint. It got dark. Real dark on the streets without streetlights. Sometimes we’d drive down a dark street and see a flash like someone had just taken a picture, and a house would light up in flames, and we’d hit the gas and take off. When we got tired, we drove to the other side of the fence. Our hotel was one of those long-term soulless corporate deals with a stove, an oven, a dishwasher, a plate, a saucer, a cup, a bowl, and two pots in every room. It sat almost directly under I-94 on a street with plenty of streetlights. We could see the fence from our rooms. It made everything around it the same color of blue. The key fit in the mayor’s office door. His building didn’t have security, so we just walked on in. He’d thrown papers everywhere. Even formed a bunch of them into airplanes and aimed them across the room. We camped out there for three days with the door locked, reading through everything to see if he’d left us any useful information about Detroit. When people knocked, we’d all stop moving and ignore them until they went away. When we ducked out to hit the bathroom, we never saw anybody or any other office lights turned on. All the plates on the doors listed names and titles, but we never found a single city council member or legislative assistant or mayor’s aide. They’d all left their doors unlocked. We opened them and found the same scene as the mayor’s office: lots of paper, no people, no real sense anyone had been there in the first place, which didn’t help us feel better about the knocking.We opened the mayor’s office door after the next set of knocks and didn’t find anyone on the other side. So Detroit needed a little fixing up, just like the mayor’s Craigslist ad said. We bought a house in Lafayette Park to sit in and figure out what to fix. Everything in our house was new. New counters, new appliances, new floors and walls, new fixtures. We told our wives about the house. Not one of them was willing to come out and live in it. Or tell us why. They’d say stuff like “You know, it’s Detroit.” We’d say, “But it’s ours now. It’s gonna get a lot better.” They’d sigh. One of our daughters came out and took pictures of dead buildings all day long. We looked at all the shots every day for a while. We told her to stop. We stayed on our street all day for a couple of weeks, doing all the work we needed to do to convince people we weren’t a problem. We never got around to telling anyone that we’d bought the city, because we weren’t having the kinds of conversations where you’d bring that up. We told people we’d lost our jobs instead, that Detroit was cheap. They’d nod. We smoked up a lot and drank plenty of the lemonade stuff, which was yellow Crystal Light mixed with water and vodka. “Looks like piss,” some of us said. “Tastes like it too.” “The woman next door said it was cheaper.” The worst conversations had to do with the fence. “They should leave it on,” our neighbors said. “That way we won’t be tempted to leave. It’s not like leaving solves nothing.” We didn’t remind them they could drive under the fence whenever they wanted to. We made eye contact with them in a “and staying solves what?” kinda way before remembering that we were staying for now and snapping our faces back into shape. We were going to solve a lot. After we got on speaking and waving terms with our neighbors, we moved into the next phase of our Detroit ownership: making a list of stuff to fix. It didn’t take us any time at all to come up with lots of things to fix. The highlights: —unlit streets —unsafe buildings In the beginning we had a vision. Two million people living in a rebuilt city. Fixed-up houses. Fixed-up buses. Fixed-up streetlights. Brand-new businesses. Filled-up neighborhoods. All this fixing would fill the parking lots of all the open plants we passed with workers who caught a drink together after they left the line for the day and watched football on weekends, like we had when we started at our plant. It would put some light back in all the faces of the people we saw on the street. Everyone we talked to added more jobs to our vision. Better-paying jobs. City jobs so they didn’t have to drive deep into the suburbs every morning. They did want new streetlights, new buses, and better-looking houses, but they wouldn’t talk about that stuff without talking about jobs. A couple people asked about schools, but since we didn’t know anything about schools other than that they should be good, we switched all those conversations back to jobs. We did our research. We wrote to big companies. We made a ten-minute video about the city where we told companies the best version of the truth: Detroit houses were cheap; its people were educated and hardworking; it had good markets, parks, and bars. Yes, there was plenty of fixing up to do, but Detroiters knew fresh city jobs would help them do it. Our video Detroiters had bright smiles and big dreams. We ended the video with a bunch of ten-year-old kids who said, “Detroit built America. Let’s go build Detroit.” We showed the video to Boeing, to Microsoft, to Nike. They came back a second time but not a third. They opened new factories in the middle of nowhere instead of the city. We banged our fists on walls, on our car dashboard, on broken light poles. We asked other big companies to come take a look at Detroit. They didn’t. The medium-sized companies wouldn’t take our calls. A couple people came and opened coffee shops, but it’s hard to rebuild anything on seven bucks an hour. We drove past streets with two houses on them. One. None. Just dead buildings melting into the dust. We knew how big Detroit was, but every day it seemed bigger and emptier. We drove down blank streets and flinched when we heard a sound. Our neighbors refused to leave, but their neighbors packed up a couple of vans and drove to some suburb far enough out that it was practically in the woods. If the big companies wanted to open factories someplace smaller, Detroit could be that place. Detroit was that place. Its bones said two million people lived here once, but its heart only stood 700,000 people strong. Habitat for Humanity called and called. We finally told them yes. Our city-shrinking plan moved everyone who still lived in Detroit to the East Side and Downtown. It demolished their old houses and built them new ones. We’d shrink water lines and power grids and bus service. We’d add a light rail, build a couple new parks in some of the blank space. We looked at other cities’ layouts. We tried to rebuild Seattle. We saw the new Detroit, small and shiny, cheaper to run, less creepy to drive, mostly bordering Canada and Belle Isle. Our neighbors frowned, nodded, said “I get it” over and over again when we told them what we’d do. They agreed to move into the first house. Habitat for Humanity built them a lovely two-story sky-blue house in a month. We wrapped it in a big yellow ribbon for the crowds that would show up for the next day’s ceremony: the official kickoff to all the rest of the city-shrinking we’d do.We drove to our house. We knocked on our neighbors’ door, wished ’em good wishes for the next day, looked at all their stuff packed into boxes with pride. They smiled, and their smiles looked tired, because it was late. We were too damn excited to sleep, so we watched old action movies in the living room until we weren’t awake anymore, and then we were, because something that sounded like a bomb woke us up right at dawn. We knocked on our neighbors’ door, busted right on in when nobody answered, didn’t see a single box. We drove down to the house, which was on fire. All that new blue paint gone black. We knew we were supposed to leave, so we drove as far away as we could and still see the house to watch it burn. The paper said it was a car bomb, but we never found the car. It looked the same as all the other fires. The kind little kids started every day with a couple of gas-soaked rags and a match. Just because we couldn’t shrink Detroit didn’t mean we couldn’t clean it up enough to get the big companies to come to us. The Mauritanians sent us some old streetlights. All we had to do was figure out how to install them and keep them running. Hugo Chávez cut us a deal on some oil, saying he wanted to support the rest of the third world. All of us poor states were like brothers, he said. We didn’t want to be called third world, but we got over it, ’cause we didn’t want to say no to cheap oil either. A few cops offered to move back into town from the suburbs. We fixed up a house for them so they could live together, like firefighters, ’cause they said they’d be safer that way. You know who didn’t want to help? Contractors. We’d offer them months of work putting up streetlights and knocking down dead buildings and get hours of fence-related excuses why they couldn’t do anything. Some contractors swore they got itchy and swelled up if they came within fifty miles of an electric fence. Others had to spend two days laying down and puking if they touched one. We learned how to get government cash. We stopped talking about our “low income residents” and checking boxes for “underserved-community assistance” and asked for “anti-terrorism funding” to protect Detroit from Canada. On the phone, the government people couldn’t stop talking about Canadian strippers and gamblers. A twenty-four-seven threat, they’d say. “Debaucherous,” they’d call them. We’d remind them about the cash we needed to protect ourselves from all this “debauchery” when they finished their speeches. They’d send it to us in a hot minute. The Canadians claimed we weren’t doing anything with Detroit. They said they’d buy it off us for a great price, raze it, put in the world’s biggest hockey rink, and plant new maple trees. They sent us a mock-up full of fake ice skaters. We sent a copy to Homeland Security, who got red hot and sent us more cash. But most of the new money could only be used to build a taller electrical fence between us and Canada. We told HS we were adding height to the fence and offered the contractors more instead. Lots of them kicked their fence allergy and started showing up. Were we doing anything with Detroit? Of course we were doing stuff. It took a while to survey everything, figure out what the problems were and how we could try to fix them. We had to buy ourselves those six chalkboards to brainstorm fix-it ideas. Our thinking sessions didn’t go so well without steak. Later we had to add asparagus to that, but asparagus didn’t grow anywhere nearby, so we spent a couple weeks working out a deal with a group of Chileans willing to ship it to us direct. When our contractors refused to put up any more streetlights unless we doubled their pay, we put up three streetlights ourselves. You’re really going to tell us we didn’t deserve that two-month vacation to the Bahamas after all our hard work? Well, where else should we have gone? The D.R.? Jamaica? We came back from the Bahamas in late August. We landed at DTW, picked up our car from long-term parking, and got on I-94E. “Between the new streetlights and all the dead buildings that cleanup crew should have razed by now, it’s gonna look fantastic.” “I was getting sick of the Bahamas anyway.” “Me too. Who really gives a shit about all those beaches and the fuckin’ pink drinks after, say, a month?” We passed the first section of fence visible from the highway. “We gotta do something about that fence.” “It’s so damn ugly.” “Who would ever want to live in a city with an electrical fence around it?” “People probably think it’s keeping down property values.” “Everything keeps down property values. Somebody paints their house a nasty color. A jail moves in seventy-five miles away. The property value survey guy has eggs for breakfast instead of bacon.” “Again, why do we have the remote?” “Bet the suburbs want us to feel like we control the fence, even though it’s on their side.” “What’s the point of that?” “Why don’t we go over there and ask them?” “Whatever. Let’s tell them to take it down.” None of the mayors of the suburbs with the sections of fence in them were ever in. They never picked up their phones. All their assistants had the same voice, all stiff and shit, the same sentence to say about the mayors not being around and how we could leave a voicemail. We left a couple dozen voicemails. We went on a suburban tour, found the right doors, knocked on ’em. Even when their assistants told us not to. One of the assistants stood up and waved her arms at us the whole time, like she was having a seizure. We kept knocking anyway. We opened that door and found nobody. A couple of the mayors showed up on TV. Apparently going to parades and cutting ribbons off new buildings was way, way more important than calling us back. “Let’s turn it off and hire some people to take it down ourselves.” “Can we do that?” “Like they care enough about this to stop us. If they did, they’d be in their offices once in a while.” “It’s a deal.” First we called the contractors that said no because they didn’t have any experience taking down electrical fences. Then we called the contractors that didn’t like taking down electrical fences and wouldn’t tell us why. The next set said we didn’t pay enough. We paid too much, which meant taking down electrical fences must be more dangerous than they thought. The pay wasn’t the issue: taking down an electrical fence would take forever. They didn’t have enough guys to put on the job. They had too many. How could we use 120 guys to take down a fence? What would each of them possibly do? We got sick of hearing all the contractor shit. One of us pressed the red button. We drove over to the section of fence closest to our house to take it down ourselves. The fence sat there like it always did, next to tall grass on the Detroit side and short grass on the suburban side. We walked right up to it and started yanking. One of us fell down. One of us shook our fallen buddy. Another grabbed his wrist to check for a pulse. Nothing. We called 911, but the ambulance didn’t show up for fifty-five minutes. We pressed the red button a bunch more times. Not that the fence seemed on. When we showed up, we’d checked for the blue glow and seen nothing, and it didn’t come back while we stood there. Three hours later we learned that heart attacks don’t need electricity to get started. The three of us hauled in photographer daughter to write a Craigslist ad. We told her what to say: City for sale—low price; fixer-upper; free from most city noise; lots of pretty, healthy trees and grass. She agreed not to mention just how much fixing-upping the next buyer would probably want to do. We gave her the key, told her to use the mayor’s office until she made the sale. Someone made an unfunny joke about all the film she could take from his desk drawers, and she laughed anyway. She asked some questions about the electric fence, but all we felt like telling her was what the buttons on the remote did. We took her out to lunch. We ate, took off, found a parking spot right in front of the mayor’s building. One of us pressed the blue button. Everyone else yelled, as if we could get loud enough to unpress it. Unpressing never happens. Unexploding either. Sounded like somebody’d laid down on the same bass note for twenty seconds. A line of dust rose up in the distance in all directions. Dust didn’t strike any of us as a big deal. It died down. We waved goodbye to photographer daughter and left. We passed the city limits. It took us fifteen minutes to realize what wasn’t there anymore and another twenty to decide we weren’t going back anyway. Kashana Cauleysummer fictionThe CommonsThe Electric City Economic Crises and the Contradictions of Capital An Octogenarian Confronts the Ocean Kashana Cauley is a native Wisconsinite who lives in New York City. Esquire, Tin House, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency have published her short fiction. She recently completed a novel. The Night Clark Gable Came to Town Lisa Annelouise Rentz Leaving Walter Lori Ostlund	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line249
__label__cc	0.681856	0.318144	Be in tatters - Idioms by The Free Dictionary https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/be+in+tatters be in tatters 1. Of a fabric, typically clothing, to be torn or worn into strips. You can't wear this jacket to dinner—it's in tatters! 2. By extension, to be in a ruined condition. The company was in tatters after the founding members resigned. Our relationship is in tatters. I have no idea how we could fix it. See also: tatter be in ˈtatters 1 (of clothes) be torn in many places: He got into a fight and came home with his clothes in tatters. 2 (of a plan, an idea, a person’s feelings, etc.) be ruined or badly damaged: She’s failed her exams, and now all her hopes of becoming a doctor are in tatters. ♢ His career and his reputation are both in tatters after the scandal. be in on be in on (something) be in on the act be in on the ground floor be in over (one's) head be in pole position be in poor voice be in pursuit be in Queer Street be in safe hands be in seventh heaven be in shape be in short supply be in somebody's confidence be in somebody's debt be in somebody's good graces be in somebody's light be in somebody's shoes be in someone's black books be in someone's good graces be in something for the long haul be in stock be in store be in store (for one) be in tall cotton be in the air be in the balance be in the best possible taste be in the black be in the catbird seat be in the chips be in the clear be in the club be in the dark be in the doghouse be in the doldrums be in the driving seat be in the eye of the storm be in the firing line be in the first flush of (something) be in the frame be in the front line be in the grip of be in the groove be in the hole be in the Land of Nod be in the land of the living be in the lap of the gods be in the limelight be in somebody's bad books be in somebody's black books be in somebody's good books be in someone's confidence be in someone's debt be in someone's light be in step be in store for be in store for her be in store for him be in store for me be in store for one be in store for somebody be in store for someone be in store for them be in store for us be in store for you be in the ascendant be in the can be in the cards be in the chair be in the driver's seat be in the first flush of be in the front-line	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line253
__label__cc	0.647603	0.352397	Gleaner Editors' Forum \| Teaching Council Bill moves closer to agreement Published:Tuesday \| September 18, 2018 \| 12:00 AMErica Virtue/Gleaner Writer Gladstone Taylor Dr Garth Anderson, JTA president. Georgia Waugh Richards, immediate past president, Jamaica Teachers Association Years after it was first proposed, the Jamaica Teaching Council Bill - which will provide for the establishment of a governing body for the profession as well as a regime for the licensing and registration of all government-paid teachers - is now closer to reality. It appears that the Govern-ment and representatives of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), which represents 25,000 teachers, have found common ground on several aspects of the bill, making it more palatable to teachers. "There are some issues around the Jamaica Teaching Council Bill that impact our professional standings and as you know, it's aimed at professionalising teaching. We have had and made observations, raised concerns about it, and we have seen where some corrections have been made," said JTA President Dr Garth Anderson, during a Gleaner Editors' Forum last week. "At present, we are hoping to meet with the Jamaica Teaching Council to iron out an issue we have, particularly around the penalty, as the bill seems all punitive, and you can get teachers to comply without being punitive." He said while the JTA may not necessarily agree with the outcomes, its members appreciate that attempts were made to listen to their concerns. "They have not necessarily been addressed to our liking, as there are still some areas we have concerns with. For example, the almost criminalising of teachers who breach certain aspects. If you are operating without a licence, the fines are pretty heavy, half a million dollars or six months' imprisonment," Anderson told the forum. WE WANT TEACHERS According to the JTA president, while the current state of the bill is better today than it was years ago, moving away from being purely punitive would make it a better document. One sticking point of the bill appears to be who constitutes the council. Immediate past president of the JTA, Georgia Waugh Richards, said the teachers are concerned that like other professional bodies that are regulated by their own, such as the Jamaican Bar Association with lawyers, the union believes teachers should be the main regulators. "We want to be predom-inantly featured on that body, and I don't think anything is wrong with that. We could not walk into a lawyer's office and tell him how to practise law. And therefore we want educators to guide the process and to regulate us," she said. erica.virtue@gleanerjm.com «Anti-gang week strengthens fight against organised crime Gleaner Editors' Forum \| National Council on Education will not be revamped, Reid tells JTA»	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line261
__label__wiki	0.615073	0.615073	Facts About How To Trade Cryptocurrency Uncovered How To Trade Cryptocurrency - The Facts Other fans point to the expansion in novel cryptocurrencies. Due to bitcoins maturity, and its focus on finance, if you want to get some Ether, a few Filecoins or any other cryptocurrency, its usually easiest to purchase bitcoin with your conventional currency and then exchange bitcoin to your cryptocurrency of your choice. The Ultimate Guide To How To Make Money Fast And Easy Then theres the bubble argument. There, people assert that the vast majority of the price increase is due only to individuals buying bitcoin in the hope that they can sell it later for a profit. A classic speculative bubble, some people will make a great deal of money while some are going to lose everything. . Few would argue that there isnt a lot of speculation in the cryptocurrency marketplace. 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Can a shadow currency exist only on anchor the rear of drug dealing and cybercrime Quite possibly: Both are large businesses, and neither shows any sign of going away. . Craig Wright, who claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the evasive bitcoin inventor. Photograph: Mark Harrison/PA Unknown Facts About How To Make Money In Stocks Hes still a puzzle. The pseudonymous founder of bitcoin, Nakamoto looked from nowhere in 2008 when he published the white paper that clarified his proposed digital currency would work. While he was active in the online community around bitcoin for the first couple of years of their currencies lifetime, he published less and less, making his last ever post on 12 December 2010. . Comments on “Facts About How To Trade Cryptocurrency Uncovered”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line262
__label__wiki	0.625711	0.625711	Tag » dragon ball Dragon Ball Super: Broly Anime Film Throws Down in Dubbed Trailer Feature film comes to theaters in North America in January Joseph Luster July 19, 2018 8:09pm EDT (7/19/18) The Dragon Ball Super anime film opens in Japan on December 14, with North American screenings set for January 2019. Ahead of that, IGN went up with a timed Comic-Con 2018 exclusive look at the first English-dubbed trailer for Dragon Ball Super: Broly. Hit the jump to watch! 1771 Comments Read More Wednesday July 18, 2018 Base Goku and Base Vegeta Come to Dragon Ball FighterZ Next Month That's "base," not "based," unfortunately July 18, 2018 10:03am EDT (7/18/18) The latest issue of V-Jump revealed a couple more playable additions to the Dragon Ball FighterZ roster, though these are definitely familiar faces. Read on for more. Funimation to Bring Dragon Ball Super: Broly Anime Film to Theaters Theatrical release is currently planned for January 2019 The full title was revealed for the Dragon Ball Super anime film earlier this week, with Dragon Ball Super: Broly set to open in Japan on December 14. North American fans won't have to wait long to see the epic big-screen Broly brawl in theaters, though! Read on for details. 11 Comments Read More Dragon Ball Super Anime Film Reveals Its Official Title Broly, Main Poster Visual Tatsuya Nagamine (Heartcatch PreCure!)-directed film will open in Japan on December 14, 2018 Mikikazu Komatsu July 10, 2018 1:10am EDT (7/9/18) The official website for Toei Animation's upcoming 20th Dragon Ball film, which tells a sequel story to the Dragon Ball Super TV anime in 2015-2018, announced today that its official title is Dragon Ball Super: Broly and also posted a main poster visual featuring Goku and Vegeta in their Super Saiyan Blue form and Broly. Check out the latest information after the jump!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line268
__label__wiki	0.565213	0.565213	Home » Fieldwork One of the main aims of In Africa is to increase the number of human and animal fossils, as well as archaeological information, that exists for the period in which modern humans and their diversity evolved in East Africa. In Africa targets two areas of the of Kenya known to have a rich record of human evolution – the Turkana Basin and the Central Rift Valley, which are the focus of the project’s fieldwork. After an initial brief reconnaissance of the area of Natome in 2008, fieldwork in West Turkana began in 2009, under the project ‘Late Quaternary Human Evolution in West Turkana’ (LQWT), a study that continues under In Africa (INA/WT). This work has so far focused on the lake’s southwestern floodplain, an extensive area covered in eroding lake sediments. The LQWT project identified and mapped part of the Pleistocene/Holocene palaeolake shore along which hunter-fisher populations lived, as well as earlier Pleistocene sites. The project will also survey the lake’s northwestern floodplain, towards the Kibish formation. Fieldwork in the Central Rift Valley will begin in 2013, under the project ‘Human Evolution in the Central Rift Valley’ (INA/CR). Exposures in and around the Gamble’s Cave were briefly explored for potential study in 2008, and found to contain rich sediments. Initial surveys will focus on that area, targeting both known and new sites. The discoveries made through the project ‘Late Quaternary Human Evolution in West Turkana’ since 2009 are numerous, particularly of fossils of late Pleistocene/early Holocene age. The discovery of earlier Pleistocene fossiliferous deposits promises to extend the range of remains into the past. The material from West Turkana represents a significant increase in the number of post-LGM (Last Glacial Maximum) fossils of Homo sapiens in East Africa, and are likely to have a major impact on our understanding of modern human diversity in Africa in the late Quaternary. The establishment of pre-Holocene sites in the Nakuru-Naivasha Basin will hopefully fill the spatial lacuna between the new discoveries in Rusinga in Lake Victoria to the South by Christrian Tryon and his team, and the Baringo and Turkana Basins to the North, thus allowing the first integrated analysis of modern human prehistoric occupation along the Kenyan Rift Valley. We would like to thank the many people in Kenya who have provided us assistance, support and encouragement. In particular, the Director of the National Museums of Kenya, Dr Idle Omar Farah, and the museum scientists, especially Dr Emma Mbua, Dr Frederick Kyalo Manthi, and Dr Purity Kiura. In the field we also have benefitted from the tireless work of Mr Justus Edung, who is attached to the NMK in Lodwar. District Commissioners and other district and local officers have also been unfailingly helpful to us. Within Turkana, the community leaders and community members in the area of Natome where we camp have always been hospitable and welcoming, and the council of the Turkana Water Board for the area have given us daily access to the water pump at Louwae. Our Turkana field and camp assistants have not only been excellent, but have kept us laughing throughout; indeed, some of them are responsible for some of our biggest discoveries, such as Pedro Ebeya who discovered the burial grounds at Nataruk, or David Lomuria who found many of the human fossils. We would also thank the Director of TBI, Dr Lawrence Martin, and the institute’s staff – both at the Nairobi office for logistic support (Pauline Gathungu, Edwin Njugun and Farida Bana), and at TBI Turkwell for their help, delicious food and use of facilities, in particular Kyalo Onesga for logistic and organizational support, Timothy Ngundo for his help with the sorting and recording of finds (and supervision of other TBI technical staff), Christopher Kiarie for the preparation of fossils (and training and supervision of TBI’s preparators), Lokuami Longacha, Isaia, Elija and others for their excellent food and help, and Ikal Angeli, Dr Dino Martins and Acacia Leakey for the company, many interesting conversations and continuous assistance. Special thanks go to Drs Richard, Meave and Louise Leakey. CITED WORK: TURKANA Pleistocene Human Evolution Lab, TBI Turkwell	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line269
__label__cc	0.736324	0.263676	FOCUS ON QUALITY (Food/Beverage Manufacturers) / View all Documents / TECHNICAL BULLETIN #1803 DEFECT: FLANGED-FINISHES (on 'twist-off' & 'screw-cap' bottles) This Bulletin provides detailed information on the ‘critical’ defect referred to as ‘Flanged Finish’. The defect comprises a small horizontal protrusion of glass along the outer sealing-surface, most commonly affecting ‘narrow-neck’ beer and beverage bottles. The extent to which the small ‘fin’ or flange of glass protrudes outward varies from bottle-to-bottle, so to is the extent to which it travels around the circumference of the sealing-surface. Regardless of size, the flange has a propensity to fracture when closures are removed from the bottles by consumers. Since the 1990’s, this unforgiving ‘critical’ defect has subtly risen through the ranks of glass-manufacturing defects to become one of the most prominent in terms of its involvement in major product recalls world-wide. In this Bulletin, we discuss the emergence of the ‘flanged-finish’ defect, its devastating effects on both glass-manufacturers and beverage manufacturers alike, and recommended ‘best-practice’ procedures to ensure the defect is suitably controlled at the glass-manufacturing plant. VIP and Silver Members can view all of the TECHNICAL BULLETINS for FREE. Click HERE to see the benefits of being a VIP or Silver member! Free Members can purchase this document by ADDING TO CART below. The ‘TECHNICAL BULLETINS’ series of documents ..... The GLASSPLANT CONFIDENTIAL ‘Technical Bulletins’ series has been designed to provide detailed information on specific topics - but in a short, ‘easy-to-read’ format. Topics covered are wide and varied – some Bulletins providing articles of a ‘general interest’ nature, others focusing on more technical issues associated with container-glassware. The ‘Technical Bulletins’ series will appeal to a wide range of personnel – Line-Supervisors, Production Managers, Quality Personnel, and Senior Managers. Scan the topics for items of interest, and keep a lookout for new topics that might be of assistance to your business. This document can be purchased by 'Free' members. 'Silver' and 'VIP' members can view the full PDF for FREE Technical Bulletin #1803 (Flanged Finish) © 2017 Glass Plant Confidential. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line272
__label__wiki	0.853192	0.853192	Nfl conspiracy A former Florida football player was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison Monday and ordered to pay about $18 million for a healthcare fraud conspiracy that stripped millions from the TRICARE Rae Carruth wrote a letter to the mother of Cherica Adams and spoke with a Charlotte TV station, accepting responsibility for the 1999 conspiracy to murder Adams and expressing interest in gaining NFL Network and FOX are your source for all access, exclusive draft coverage live from Arlington, TX. All this and more in this week's 10-Point Stance. “I'm certain of it,” Tuohy tells me with a confidence only a conspiracy 4 Dec 2018 "Here's an NFL conspiracy theory we didn't expect back on the first day of May 2017. Watch full-length episodes of PBS documentary series FRONTLINE for free. Welcome to the weekly conspiracyHave you ever watched your favorite NFL team play on Sunday and think that everyone was out to get them? From the referees to the executives in the boxes and all the way to the league office, there are fans out there that think their team is the target of a conspiracy. FRONTLINE and ESPN report that after Seau’s family was contacted by Omalu as well as McKee’s BU group, the NFL steered his brain toward researchers at the National Institutes of Health. You can only upload files of type PNG, JPG, or JPEG. Don’t think for a second that because there is no factual support to back a conspiracy theory that the NFL wasn’t behind a power outage. There's no doubt in my mind that the UFL was conceived in 2008 when the NFL owners decided to opt-out of the previously-current CBA. Julian Edelman’s suspension is not greater Patriots conspiracy Biggest Comebacks In NFL History (More fuel for the "NFL is scripted" conspiracy folks. 21 Jan 2019 The New England Patriots made the Super Bowl (again) under controversial circumstances, so it should come as no surprise that NFL fans are 9 Oct 2018 Maybe some people would say it was all an elaborate conspiracy by the NFL to give Brees the record and make a Monday night snoozefest 10 Apr 2016 What NFL conspiracies do you believe in? If you're new, Subscribe! → http://bit. The Cowboys’ star running back has filed suit against the NFL in Texas federal court, alleging that he is the victim of a “league-orchestrated conspiracy…to hide critical information” from commissioner Roger The source for all sports conspiracies. Saints players and fans are still fuming after “The Gandhi Murder” works hard to portray how a deadly conspiracy allegedly unfolded leading to the 1948 assassination of the Indian leader, but never engages. 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If you're new, Subscribe! → http://bit. from NFL/Facebook Screenshot of NFL's promotional ad featuring premature matchup The NFLPA alleged in the filing that “there was a League-orchestrated conspiracy by senior NFL executives …. NFL. Wouldn’t Park Avenue take that to court, too, rather than engaging in a layered conspiracy that would leave team owners in legal jeopardy? “I have a collusion case against the NFL,” Reid 2017’s Biggest Conspiracy Theories A sampler of the most widespread rumors and hoaxes that characterized the year in which the fringe became the mainstream. Fantasy Bomb - 2019 Fantasy Football Mock Draft Reaction. The muscular veteran referee was assigned to head the The Patriots cheat. The Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Quite a few folks hate that roughing the passer call in the season opener between the Falcons and Eagles. Though a full blown conspiracy by the NFL may be in doubt, the fact that unashamed Christian QB Tim Tebow has not been picked up by any team since he was let go by the N. packerforum. 5-point underdogs to the Baltimore Colts of the NFL only to win the 1969 NFL conspiracy theorists think Patriots are behind the fog in game vs. They told me to tell them who will win the SB based on a conspiracy theory during the next season. As you know, good stories equal ratings, and there’s never enough eyeballs on the game. VOLOKH CONSPIRACY. A former Florida football player was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison Monday and ordered to pay about $18 million for a healthcare fraud conspiracy that stripped millions from the TRICARE My general conclusion is that while a few old NFL teams have been very successful in the modern era, how long a team was established before the merger seems …The Minneapolis-based firm that was providing security at Super Bowl Live was replaced Wednesday for insufficient background checks of its employees, according to sources familiar with the situation. This is the age of The 2018 NFL Draft is finally just hours away from starting at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. By According to at least one NFL conspiracy theorist, we now know why. 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Conspiracy - a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful. In other words, Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and New England are heading to the Super Bowl again. 18, 2015, Brady conspired with two locker-room employees to have one of Maybe some people would say it was all an elaborate conspiracy by the NFL to give Brees the record and make a Monday night snoozefest entertaining. Billionaires, corporate giants, secret societies, world leaders and Conspiracy theory: The NFL is picking refs to help the Rams By Adam Stites on February 1, 2019. We go behind the scenes and inside the war rooms to bring you an all access pass to the 2018 The Patriots cheat. NFL referee Pete Morelli during the Eagles game against the Carolina Panthers October 12, 2017 in Charlotte. Feb 1, 2019 Attention conspiracy theorists: The NFL is totally picking refs to help the But certainly after a firestorm of criticism for its officiating, the NFL Oct 9, 2018 Maybe some people would say it was all an elaborate conspiracy by the NFL to give Brees the record and make a Monday night snoozefest Jan 21, 2019 The New England Patriots made the Super Bowl (again) under controversial circumstances, so it should come as no surprise that NFL fans are Oct 28, 2018 If you were looking for in-depth film breakdown, or one of my opponent scouting reports, or even a Colts-centric article, you've arrived at the Oct 19, 2018 If you were looking for in-depth film breakdown, or one of my opponent scouting reports, or even a Colts-centric article, you've arrived at the Jan 21, 2019 There is no grand conspiracy at work. Here are all of the latest rumors swirling around the league prior to the Cleveland Browns going on NFL Network's Mike Garafolo: Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le'Veon Bell's free agency deal likely to near $15 million per yearThe Associated Press delivers in-depth coverage on today's Big Story including top stories, international, politics, lifestyle, business, entertainment, and more. Article 6, Section 2 (d) of the CBA: The NFL has hit back at an accusation by Ezekial Elliott that the league orchestrated a “conspiracy” against him. The NFL is rigged, and officials are in on it. The Ewing Conspiracy. Conspiracy theories are a part of America's culture, covering everything from government cover-ups to suspicious murders. Instead, we're here to listen to conspiracy theorists try to explain why there's so much fog at Gillette Stadium In this Thursday, Feb. Find out the multiple conspiracy theories that people have created to try to explain different parts of the NFL Network's Top 20 games of the 2018 season. Conspiracy theories frequently emerge following the deaths of prominent leaders and public figures. And what the NFL really thinks of its college counterparts. m. 0 comments. Home / The legitimacy of the NFL-AFL merger of 1970 was greatly aided by the AFL’s win in Super Bowl III on Jan. 395 shares. The NFL struggles enough trying to work through all of this to even start NFL Scores Schedule Standings Player Stats Brett Favre duped by white supremacists into making anti-semitic conspiracy video Jack Baer. goes down and is injured during the first half of a preseason NFL football game, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2015, Brady conspired with two locker-room employees to have one of A conspiracy theory. A league spokesman told NFL. Because I have discovered that there’s a filthy, nefarious conspiracy between the NFL and officials going on RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES to reduce the If you were looking for in-depth film breakdown, or one of my opponent scouting reports, or even a Colts-centric article, you’ve arrived at the wrong article. The list below profiles some of the league’s most noteworthy — and plausible — conspiracy theories. Cheerleaders accuse NFL of conspiracy to suppress wages With their fluffy pompoms, big smiles and infectious energy, cheerleaders always look fabulous during their performances. . If the league were fixing Aug 10, 2017 Brian Tuohy can't prove the NFL is fixed, but he's convinced it's the truth. Later Friday, league spokesman Joe Lockhart provided a statement on behalf of the NFL. v . Open online 24/7. People were saying earlier this year that I was crazy for thinking the NFL is rigged and that games weren't fake. According to McNally, whom the NFL interviewed for its report on four occasions, he was headed out to the field Heavy Upset NFL Fans Claim Refs Rigged AFC Championship some conspiracy theories surrounding the referees have blown up on twitter and social media at large. Rae Carruth wrote a letter to the mother of Cherica Adams and spoke with a Charlotte TV station, accepting responsibility for the 1999 conspiracy to murder Adams and expressing interest in gaining NFL Network and FOX are your source for all access, exclusive draft coverage live from Arlington, TX. By Henry McKenna April 28, 2018 12:30 pm ET. Conspiracy theory: The NFL is picking refs to help the Rams. NFL Network and FOX are your source for all access, exclusive draft coverage live from Arlington, TX. “The Herd” host Colin Cowherd breaks down the biggest stories and interviews the biggest guests in sports AMERICAN NEEDLE, INC. The league itself has indirectly indulged the theories, too, with the official NFL Research Twitter account posting a curious statistic about the Patriots’ uncommonly low penalty total after The NFL's referees are the biggest puppets of this gimmick called the NFL. During a CBS Morning Show interview that occurred on 10 Aug 2017 Brian Tuohy can't prove the NFL is fixed, but he's convinced it's the truth. Here’s the real reason Colin Kaepernick hasn’t been signed There are more than a few people who believe Kaepernick’s lack of a contract is a grand NFL conspiracy — Kaepernick is being The Ongoing Gratuitous Cruelty of Trump's Travel Ban As David Bier of the Cato Institute shows in a new study and a Washington Post op ed, the travel ban has separated thousands of children “The conspiracy began with an agreement between senior executives of defendant NFL member teams to eliminate competition for female athletes with the intent and effect of suppressing the compensation and mobility of female athletes,” the 25-page complaint states. Think the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR and the rest are fixed? Think games have been rigged by gamblers and the mafia? You are not alone. Products, perspective, and special events. Fantasy Bomb - NFL Conspiracy Theories. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE et al. Super Bowl 49 wasn't the first time an NFL game has generated plotting and manipulation theories that I had my own conspiracy theory last year that New Orleans was going to win the Super Bowl because the NFL wanted them to, as well as the Bush administration (it was a well thought out and complex theory), and it almost happened. Here are all of the latest rumors swirling around the league prior to the Cleveland Browns going on Comprehensive National Football League news, scores, standings, fantasy games, rumors, and moreThe Associated Press delivers in-depth coverage on today's Big Story including top stories, international, politics, lifestyle, business, entertainment, and more. tweet share Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Laura Wagner. All content within this Packer fan page is provided by, and for, Packer fans. com is also your source for fantasy sports news Why opposing fans and players think NFL refs are favoring the Patriots It may come as a surprise to Patriots fans — many of whom in recent years have perceived an NFL conspiracy against them Mike Silver for the NFL network reported on these “mutterings” as well, writing that he wanted to “refrain from lending any legitimacy to the conspiracy theory which one anonymous player was Rush Limbaugh: NFL protests are a conspiracy to destroy "masculinity" Limbaugh says that the left "wants to cause great damage to the NFL" in order to rob our nation of its ruggedness Charlie May A Conspiracy Theory on the Browns' Josh Allen Disinformation. This is the age of conspiracy theories, and in the NFL, there is no bigger tin foil hat than the one worn by those who espouse the conspiracy that everyone from the refs to the league office to Ezekiel Elliott sues the NFL, claims a 'conspiracy' to 'hide critical information' Cowboys RB's suit cites report from NFL investigator, who says Elliott should not be banned Super Bowl XLVII rematch: Reliving a conspiracy theorist's treat. Is Super Bowl LII a conspiracy? NFL leaks early Patriots-Vikings promo PhillyVoice Staff NFL Super Bowl LII. Unlike MLB and the NFL, where stars can help a team, in the NBA stars are the team; 18 of the last 24 champions have had Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan or LeBron Former NFL Player Rae Carruth Released From Prison After Serving 19 Years Ex-Carolina Panthers wide receiver was convicted in 2001 of conspiracy to commit murder of his pregnant girlfriend While today’s NFL indictment charging Tom Brady with conspiracy asserts that New England Patriots brass was unaware that the star quaterback and his codefendants were deflating balls, the team With the 2014 NFL season upon us, Enter the Razorback decided to take a different approach in covering kickoff week. From the NFL rulebook, to Le'Veon Bell, to Cleveland conspiracy theories. Tweet; One source told me that the people who contacted Joel were from NFL Sports Updates, but that In what was a drama failled NFL Championship Sunday, we check in on the top takeaways from a day that concluded with the Rams and Patriots Super Bowl bound. by Brent Mulberry 9 months ago. nefarious conspiracy between the NFL and officials going on RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES to reduce the number of on-field measurements. The fact that the Godlike Productions is a Conspiracy Forum. All content Conspiracy Theory: CBS, the NFL and The Big Bang Theory on February 06, 2014 Get link; There’s the conspiracy! The NFL package was created solely for CBS. When the conspiracy was exposed the fooling of the people stopped. Looks like Heisy's conspiracy theory is an impossibility because even if Lawrence would go to the XFL or anywhere else, his only entry to the NFL is through the draft. Winners From The First Round Of The 2018 NFL Draft. , PETITIONER v. A-Rob’s Conspiracy Corner: Is the NFL Rigged AF? CBS gets their wish Rush Limbaugh thinks that the NFL protests are part of a grand left-wing conspiracy aimed at diminishing the cultural value of “masculinity, strength, [and] toughness” in America. com features live scoring and news for NFL football, MLB baseball, NBA basketball, NHL hockey, college basketball and football. They have plenty of “power” to cover any such NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino denies talk of a conspiracy to help the Cowboys. The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday rejected a class action seeking to hold National Football League teams liable for conspiring to push painkillers on hurt athletes to get them back on …NFL Network and FOX are your source for all access, exclusive draft coverage live from Arlington, TX. What are the best conspiracy theories about the Super Bowl SuperDome Super Power Outage? Most conspiracy theories are nonsense. Y. to hide critical information — which would completely exonerate Elliott. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE ET AL. Display results as threads The NFL Divisions: A Conspiracy Theory. Brian Tuohy can’t prove the NFL is fixed, but he’s convinced it’s the truth. But then again, it wouldn't be the first time conspiracy theorist stirred things up. Here's a nice saucy slice of conspiracy theory, served up Thursday morning by Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio: "Some blame Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for putting Papa John (Schnatter) up to" saying Colin Kaepernick beat the NFL, and here's why the league's owners might not careThe source for all sports conspiracies. For the first time, the National Football League publicly has acknowledged a Conspiracy Theory: That was a planned Tyrod Taylor injury. Unless there is some conspiracy afoot! You see, there is an image going around that the NFL posted a promo of Super Bowl LII featuring only the Patriots and Vikings along with some head-scratching text. There is a conspiracy in the NFL, and has been for a long time called payoffs. Tweet; Sports Illustrated NFL 3 weeks Derrick Henry is Fantasy Football's Unlikeliest Playoff Clete Blakeman fuels the NFL/Pats conspiracy theory Former husker QB Blakeman was the first to congratulate Brady after the win so some of the "NE haters / NFL is Is the NFL targeting anthem protestor Eric Reid with excessive drug testing? The Panthers safety says he’s been chosen for random post-game drug tests an extraordinary seven times in 11 weeks. Meet the conspiracy theorists who believe the NFL is fixed. The Patriots cheat. After the NIH rebuffed the NFL’s campaign to remove Robert Stern, an expert in neurodegenerative disease who has criticized the league, the NFL backed out of Which Conspiracy Theory Can You Believe? Share. At the risk of ripping off your scabs without giving the wounds time to heal, here's a 15-minute YouTube conspiracy theory video about how the NFL rigged the NFC Championship in favor of the The rules are pretty clear and even though Edelman appealed, it is unlikely he will play the first four games of the 2018 NFL season. Shares 307. Some of the fix-conspiracy theories can be dismissed through sheer common sense: The NFL wanted the more popular team to win . And again in 2005, when things were "seemingly" ba Former NFL cornerback Monty Grow is facing up to 20 years in prison for his role as the ringleader in a healthcare fraud conspiracy that took $20 million from TRICARE, a program that serves Colin Kaepernick, who alleges he has been blackballed over national anthem protests, has filed a grievance accusing the NFL of collusion. Stumble. The majority of the NFL conspiracy theories that might actually be true spotlighted in this post are, for the most part, lighthearted and deal only with the outcomes of football games that are relatively meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Attention conspiracy theorists: The NFL is totally picking refs to help the Rams win Super Bowl 53 New, 13 comments First, it was an officiating crew of Southern Californians. “Every contract, combination in the form of a trust or otherwise, or, conspiracy, in restraint of trade” is made NFL Concussion Deniers See a “Liberal Sports Media” Conspiracy. millennia-old conspiracy of devil NFL Network Conspiracy Armstrong Cable Blacks Out NFL Network Last Thanksgiving evening thousands of NFL fans were treated to a blacked out Bronco's - Chiefs game. The idea behind this conspiracy theory is that the Browns went all-in on losing and tanked an entire season in order to acquire the first overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, a selection the Browns The Patriots cheat. us all "conspiracy theorists" for thinking the NFL and Goodell had an If you ask Mark Dice, a conservative author-activist from San Diego, the biggest problem facing the NFL heading into Sunday's Super Bowl isn't under-inflated footballs. Hopkins, Houston's Lawsuit Against NFL Names Donald Trump ‘Organizing Force’ of Conspiracy Against Colin Kaepernick UPI/AP 16 Oct 2017 — NFL Officiating (@NFLOfficiating) December 7, 2018 No one is saying what the officials did was intention or part of any grand conspiracy against the Steelers. The Association says Zeke is the real victim in a "League-orchestrated conspiracy by The football problem, though, is more complicated, in part because there are so many fan conjectures and politically motivated conspiracy theories competing for explanatory power. And now, there's this. The Tennessee Titans are 57 yards from the end zone with 27 seconds left in overtime, facing a daunting 4th-and-4 situation. Upload failed. It Do you believe there is an officiating conspiracy in the NFL? Of course, there’s also one major thing missing from an NFL officiating conspiracy: Any hard evidence at all. Conspiracy! The NFL Wanted The Patriots In The Super Bowl! Let me first admit that I'm a conspiracy theorist. Add Who Dat Dish to the list. Tech; Finance; The tapes handed over to the NFL were from the 2006 and 2007 season and it is highly doubtful the Burke: Believe the conspiracy - the NFL and its refs want the Patriots to lose New England was hosed against the Bills and Broncos with phantom calls. First, it was an officiating It's a little bit difficult to believe there is some kind of conspiracy going on in the NFL. Carruth was convicted of conspiracy to murder his then-pregnant girlfriend in 2001. leaking the information that the NFL decided months ago for this year's superbowlFind out the multiple conspiracy theories that people have created to try to explain different parts of the "Immaculate Reception. ” However, he refused to dismiss state law claims of intentional misrepresentation and concealment against eight of the 32 NFL teams. Home Conspiracy NFL Lawyer, Who Claimed Super Bowl Is ‘Rigged’, Found Dead NFL Lawyer, Who Claimed Super Bowl Is ‘Rigged’, Found Dead January 30, 2018 admin Conspiracy 0 National Football League. com that the idea of a conspiracy against Elliott is a myth designed to try and get the Dallas Cowboys’ runnin g back’s six-game suspension for alleged domestic abuse thrown out. The 2018 NFL Draft is finally just hours away from starting at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. “I'm certain of it,” Tuohy tells me with a confidence only a conspiracy 7 Jan 2019 Russell Okung has an interesting theory about the NFL commissioner. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT [May 24, 2010] JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court. The NFL isn’t straight up fixing games. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. Referee congratulating Tom Brady is conspiracy theory gold NFL fans have long-suspected Tom Brady and the New England Patriots get favourable treatment. Almost ten years after the friendly fire death of former NFL star turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman, a fellow ranger admits that he may have been the one who fired the fatal shot. But the fact your squad is playing back-to-back playoff games in the 10 a. Why the NFL and Roger Goodell don't have a conspiracy against Ezekiel Elliott, Cowboys The former NFL star who was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder of his girlfriend and attempting to destroy their unborn child almost 20 years ago is set to be released from prison Monday. ) That touchdown sent that Patriots into the locker room down by four points instead of 11. NFL Conspiracy Theory #3: The day is Sunday, September 30th, colloquially known as the fourth week of the NFL season. For the first time, the National Football League publicly has acknowledged a connection between football and CTE. Conspiracy theorists like to believe that the NFL has it set up so that these players who have announced that they are heading into their last game make for a good story. Published : December 01, 2015. NFL star Zay Jones ‘defies gravity’ sending conspiracy theorists wild online. Matt Whitener February 1, even by the NFL’s nefarious standards. In ancient times, widespread conspiracy theories were circulated pertaining to the death of the Roman emperor Nero, who committed suicide in 68 AD. Rae Carruth wrote a letter to the mother of Cherica Adams and spoke with a Charlotte TV station, accepting responsibility for the 1999 conspiracy to murder Adams and expressing interest in gaining NFL Conspiracy Theory #3: The day is Sunday, September 30th, colloquially known as the fourth week of the NFL season. com/fantasy-bomb-podcast-nfl-conspiracyRotoBaller fantasy football lead editor Pierre Camus (@pfunk00) and lead writer Chris Mangano (@ChrisMangano) address the blown pass interference call in …Surely there's a reasonable explanation for this, but we're not here for that. Peyton manning wins a decisive super bowl 50 and retires the best qB of all time. After nearly two decades in prison, former NFL player Rae Carruth is a free man. Share. ly/Subscribe-to-TPS ▻▻ Join us in the Comments below!23 Jan 2019 Pierre Camus and Chris Mangano of RotoBaller break down the endings of the Rams-Saints NFC Championship game, the Patriots-Chiefs 9 Jul 2016 Illuminati & the NFL Conspiracy \| All Pro Sports are Rigged The NFL is a product of the what we now call the Illuminati. UFO conspiracy theorists see Space Force as evidence. NFL players collectively earned $6. VIEWS. Statut : résolueRéponses : 4Fantasy Bomb Podcast: NFL Conspiracy Theories \| …Traduire cette pagehttps://www. NFL Media's Elliot Harrison is looking back at each of the 19 Super Bowl rematches on the regular-season schedule in Conspiracy Theory - a hypothesis that some covert but influential organization is responsible for a circumstance or event This is a forum for free thinking and discussing issues which have captured the public’s imagination. Theory - a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain somethingWell Matt, you’re right to be suspicious. Conspiracy theories The Ongoing NFL Conspiracy You Don’t Know About. I believe in conspiracy theories, and the NFL has perpetrated the biggest one in the 44 years of Super Bowls. Search titles only; Posted by Member: Separate names with a comma. The Ongoing NFL Conspiracy You Don’t Know About. That's what THEY want. The Vikings’ loss to New Orleans in the NFC championship game was a setup from the beginning, with the outcome predetermined before the opening kickoff. AMERICAN NEEDLE, INC. They’ve called the league a scam while accusing the league and its officials of fixing games. The NFL conspiracy report: Week 8 Andy Reid is being controlled by an organized crime syndicate The conspiracy theories are kind of understandable; in the last decade, this is the second time the Patriots have won a close and contentious AFC Championship game in which they barely got flagged at all while the visiting team got dumped with penalties and then lost on last-minute BS (you know, Billy Cundiff shanking a kick most NFL kickers Chargers player has a conspiracy theory about the NFL playoffs and it involves Roger Goodell Russell Okung has an interesting theory about the NFL commissioner. Though a 24-point deficit The Association says Zeke is the real victim in a "League-orchestrated conspiracy by senior NFL executives to hide critical information which would exonerate Elliott. Russiagaters Now Claiming NFL Debate Is Fueled By A Kremlin Conspiracy. The embarrassing display of officiating in Sunday's Detroit Lions game is par for the course for the NFL these days. Did Steelers get robbed by Patriots conspiracy? by Tyler Brooke 3 weeks ago Follow @TylerDBrooke. Whereas Roger Goodell is an established moron. War Loves the Media. Conspiracy theory: Is Tyler Boyd a Steelers agent? He doesn't have a private email server and he's not refusing to release his taxes, but there may be (but probably isn't) an even scarier skeleton Was an NFL Lawyer Who Claimed the Super Bowl Is ‘Rigged’ Found Dead? 21 March 2017 - A photograph seemingly shows American political consultant and conspiracy theory spreader Roger Stone Ex-NFL player convicted in pregnant woman's 1999 murder breaks silence from prison. There’s a conspiracy theory about the NFL cutting off Orlando Pace’s HOF speech on YouTube as to leave out him thanking the St. With masterminded (and bobble-headed) head coaches, sex-and-drug scandals, and attention-whore WRs (and owners), it’s easy to overlook some of the basic ridiculousies of the NFL. This ref fuelled the fire. 0 0. @nfl @NFLOfficiating @SuperBowl It wasn’t just the superbowl the was fixed, the playoffs were fixed too. com investigators at the National Football League’s headquarters in New York City has revealed startling facts regarding the alleged suicide of Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy’s son. The legitimacy of the NFL-AFL merger of 1970 was greatly aided by the Attention conspiracy theorists: The NFL is totally picking refs to help the Rams win Super Bowl 53 New, 1 comment First, it was an officiating crew of Southern Californians. The National Football League (NFL) is the premier professional American football league in the United States, and is also one of the major North American professional sports leagues. Former Redskins QB Shane Matthews faces prison time for fraud conspiracy . Kaepernick needs more than mere supposition or belief that he has been victimized by a conspiracy Does the NFL conspiracy theory hold water? Answer: Much more water than does the Trump-Russia collusion theory, and look at the legs that story has so far. Whatever the NFL did to obtain details regarding the February 2018 incident involving former Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt, it clearly wasn’t enough. SHARES. Week 16 stats may change if stat corrections are applied by Sunday, Dec 30. It has nothing to do with Spygate Conspiracy Theorist Advances Notion To Philadelphia Eagles Guard Evan Mathis. 10 Most Insane Recent Conspiracy Theories. The New Orleans Saints were on the wrong end of one of the worst no-calls in NFL history. Carruth’s arrest on charges of conspiracy and attempted murder nine days after the shooting sent shockwaves throughout the Panthers organization. Editorial Independence; Who We Are ; Our Books ; " The National Anthem must be played prior to every NFL game, and all players must be on the sideline for the National Anthem. I am dubious of the Magic Bullet Theory. Instead, the NFL’s faithful yet ever-skeptical fans can speak only of conspiracy theories. Yes, Really. NFL Network and FOX are your source for all access, exclusive draft coverage live from Arlington, TX. 5 Biggest Conspiracy Theories in Sports History. The Media Love War. The finishing touch for the conspiracy theorists was referee Clete Blakeman, who was the first person to congratulate quarterback Tom Brady, patting him on the back after the Patriots finished off Carryover ‘St. What most fans dismiss as quirky plays, missed calls and statistical anomalies, Brian Tuohy sees as evidence of the NFL's corruption. com is an independent fan site and not associated with the Green Bay Packers or the NFL (National Football League). I still love my Steelers but I refuse to support the NFL. 1989 two National Football League teams made a player trade that was so favorable to one team Colin Kaepernick, out of a job since March, has filed a collusion claim against the NFL. NFL conspiracy theorists think Patriots are behind the fog in game vs. 12/1/2018. OTL: From Spygate to Deflategate (4:13) Outside the Lines and ESPN The Magazine examine the secret history of what tore the NFL and the Patriots apart. 12, 1969. Jets more than two weeks ago leaves room for speculation. NFL Conspiracy Theorists Now Say the League Was Fixed for the Eagles All Along For a while now, the NFL season has been accused of fixing its games , specifically in favor of Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, the league’s marquee player and franchise. NFL Week 16: Another controversial non-catch prompts Patriots conspiracy talk; Ezekiel Elliott returns NFL teams reportedly are miffed at how the Packers handled their quarterback’s move off This one is for the conspiracy theorists out there who think the NFL is rigged and Roger Goodell made sure the Patriots were in the Super Bowl because it’s great for business, etc. Some New England Patriots Cheating: Real or conspiracy? by Robby Sabo 3 years ago Follow While the NFL probes the current situation surrounding “Deflate-Gate,” the one thing that needs to be How Tom Brady’s Deflategate Conspiracy Blew Up: Soft Balls and Damning Texts. Back in the mid-2000s, he was a …The latest Tweets from NFL Conspiracy (@nfl_conspiracy). He was acting injured after every hit. There are a lot of angry members of Who Dat Nation floating some conspiracy theories after that Thursday night debacle. Fantasy Bomb - NFL Coaching Carousel Winners and Losers. The NFL conspired to take down the Saints to prevent them from winning a Super Bowl on their home field. Eight months after the blackout that delayed the Super Bowl, questions are still being raised about what really caused it. Conspiracy theories Twitter has a ridiculous conspiracy theory about Tom Brady and the Patriots-Chiefs refs NFL Looks like Sports Guy has ordained the NFL’s ref pick as a Sports Conspiracy. Newer Than: Search this thread only; Search this forum only. certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the seventh circuit We are a social, political, conspiracy, and fun web based community. 1, 2018, file photo, Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Patrick Robinson (21) and teammates break a huddle during a practice for the NFL Super Bowl in Minneapolis. At age 87, former NFL supervisor of officials Art McNally still works for the league as an officiating observer. digitized footage of the 1985 NBA Draft Lottery -- the Zapruder film of athletic conspiracies -- and then tell me how commissioner David Stern Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz, a frequent defender of President Donald Trump, said Sunday the forthcoming report on Russian interference in the 2016 election from special counsel Robert Mueller The 15 best cheerleading squads in the NFL. Mike Floorwalker July 24, 2016. A report from Buzzfeed on Friday revealed that a group of white supremacist YouTubers have been using Cameo to dupe celebrities into endorsing racial messages and conspiracy theories. 25 Biggest Conspiracy Theories in Sports History Getty Images The wide world of sports is a perfect theater for all types of conspiracy theorists, from the raving madman to the convincing sleuth. Multiple fans of both the NFL and the Browns responded to the theory above, and many actually I don't think there's anything else to the perceived "conspiracy against us", though. League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis - What did the NFL know, and when did they know it? FRONTLINE reveals the The NFL’s Concussion Cover-Up. 17, 2013. New York Giants game didn't go as expected, but you'll never believe the conspiracy speculation about the game. The Ezekiel Elliott is firing back at the NFL in court -- claiming the league's investigation was a farce. Why It Might Not Be True: To pull off a legit conspiracy, you have to be pretty smart. When you consider the NFL and all the ins-and-outs associated, therein, the mind is often boggled. Which brings me to…. "30/05/2011 · I don't think the NFL would jeopardize itself like that. by SB Nation. 01/02/2019 · Attention conspiracy theorists: The NFL is totally picking refs to help the Rams win Super Bowl 53 New, 13 comments First, it was an officiating crew of Southern Californians. Did This Man Find Proof The NFL is Rigged? nfl football conspiracy omg illuminati fumble browns redskins rigging nfl-rigged cleveland NFL Admits to Rigging My journey into and out of conspiracy land, however embarrassing it was for me when a recent pile-on began -- During the early stages of the NFL lockout in 2011, . “I’m certain of it,” Tuohy tells me with a confidence only a conspiracy theorist can conjure. 4 billion last year while NFL team mascots earn between $25,000 and $60,000 per year and often receive benefits, according to the lawsuit. Louis fans. Mack Beggs, transgender wrestler, wins Texas girls' high school title. I doubt I'll ever get over it lol. Elliott, who was handed a six-game suspension by the NFL in August for domestic violence allegations, is seeking to have the suspension overturned by claiming there was a "league-wide conspiracy Forty years later, NFL official denies 'Immaculate Reception' conspiracy. Kinda hard to cry conspiracy when The Super Bowl Conspiracy. rotoballer. By The NFL is rigged for one. The NFL is on track to make $25 billion in annual revenue in about a decade. Drew Magary. The National Football League Players Association conspired with the league to hide the risks of head injuries sustained on the gridiron, two ex-pros claimed in a lawsuit. Updated on: In early 2001, Carruth was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, using an instrument to Alsup also dismissed state law claims of conspiracy against the NFL teams, finding the players offered no facts to support an alleged “agreement or understanding between the clubs. Based on the NFL’s own depiction, here is the essence of its conspiracy theory: Before the AFC Championship game on Jan. Falcons. The Patriots secretly control the NFL and have rigged the Super Bowl for themselves because numbers. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Getty Images. Falcons There's a lot of fog in New England, covering up the field in the game between the Patriots and Falcons. Maybe some people would say it was all an elaborate conspiracy by the NFL to give Brees the record and make a Monday night snoozefest entertaining. The overtly visible conspiracy among ersatz patriotic NFL owners to deny a more-than-capable Kaepernick an opportunity to compete for a job is irony as defined. nfl conspiracy But when some of these decisions are close to 50-50, and the game of football is a game of inches, it isn’t too difficult to subtly favor one side or the other. The legitimacy of the NFL-AFL merger of 1970 was greatly aided by the The idea behind this conspiracy theory is that the Browns went all-in on losing and tanked an entire season in order to acquire the first overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, a selection the Browns Unless there is some conspiracy afoot! You see, there is an image going around that the NFL posted a promo of Super Bowl LII featuring only the Patriots and Vikings along with some head-scratching text. I think that the NFL, controlled by their sinister and shadowy commissioner So is this just a confluence of random events that have converged at just the right time and place? Is it part of the “Cleveland curse”? Or is this what my Father-in-Law says? Is it an NFL conspiracy that keeps the Browns from being competitive in 2012? What do you think? Is There an NFL Conspiracy Against the Eagles? Official-Looking Facebook Post Promotes Patriots-Vikings Match Up Did the NFL promote a Super Bowl between the Vikings and Patriots?? There was one conspiracy floating around in the late 90s that Neil O'Donnell was paid to throw Super Bowl XXX. Super Bowl XLVII rematch: Reliving a conspiracy theorist's treat. Conspiracy theorists like to believe that the NFL has it set up so that these players who have announced that they are heading into their last game make for a good story. The refs control the game from start to finish, like Tom Brady's infamous tuck rule against the Raiders who always seem to get screwed by the refs. (and NFL owners) a lesson in conspiracy. STLtoday’s Ben Frederickson’s and Noah Coslov Conspiracy Theorist Makes 15 Minute Video Claiming NFL "Rigged" Seahawks-49ers NFC Championship Game. nfl conspiracyDec 4, 2018 "Here's an NFL conspiracy theory we didn't expect back on the first day of May 2017. During a CBS Morning Show interview that occurred on Jan 7, 2019 Russell Okung has an interesting theory about the NFL commissioner. Filed under: There’s a conspiracy in the NFL and it runs all the way to the top. 1/22/18 9:57am. Lean Into The Patriots Conspiracy Theory. Print. And then the NFL tried to get people interested in that weak superbowl with some deflated balls conspiracy they weren’t going to do anything about. What most fans dismiss as quirky plays, missed calls and statistical anomalies, Tuohy sees as evidence of the NFL’s corruption. NFL spokesman McCarthy told PolitiFact, "It's not uncommon for an official to Conspiracy theory: Is the NFL, Super Bowl, NBA, NHL, UFC rigged - fixed? Conspiracy theorists had a field day in the immediate aftermath of what will go down as one of, if not the greatest The only conspiracy against the Browns is the NFL having a draft every year and allowing the Cleveland front office personnel make the selections 16 TigerNotTroll , Mar 2, 2017 Jennerpeach41 likes this. By Matt Burke. Welcome to the weekly conspiracy New England Patriots fans looking for an NFL monster under their beds have found one in the shape of Ed Hochuli’s bulging biceps. " and TMZ Sports has The Association says Zeke is the real victim in a "League-orchestrated conspiracy by senior NFL executives to hide critical information which would exonerate Elliott. View User Profile So much in fact that Minnesota got an official apology from the NFL. The team released Carruth and the NFL suspended him indefinitely after he fled the Charlotte area after posting $3 million bail and was found by federal authorities hiding in the trunk of a car in Tampa Bay Buccaneers: The Vernon Hargreaves III Conspiracy. in Sports. NFL Conspiracy Theory #1 PatNation. Judge: Hernandez's child can't sue NFL over brain disease New England Patriots fans looking for an NFL monster under their beds have found one in the shape of Ed Hochuli’s bulging biceps. Your turn. now be considered such golden The officiating this year in the nfl is in need of a review. Please upload a file larger than 100x100 pixels; We are experiencing some problems, please try again. The league's new policy will fine teams whose players elect to take a knee during the national anthem. It’s Super Bowl conspiracy time! Columnists. I believe in Area 51. " and TMZ Sports has Conspiracy Theory From A Star Player Claimed One Football Championship Was Rigged entered Super Bowl III as 18. the lowest in the NFL. " - read what others are saying and join the conversation. Louis’ Rams Fans Are Complicit In Kroenke’s Conspiracy. Discussion topics include UFOs, Conspiracy, Lunatic Fringe, Politics, Current Events, Secret Societies, Conspiracy Theories and much more. NFL fans stunned as Buffalo Bills' Zay Jones gets back to his feet with 'gravity-defying levitation' move. Debunking Twitter's conspiracy theory about Rams-Saints refs' pass interference no-call. Management has given the referees the okay to call the games, there must be a conspiracy in the nfl with the big money makers who own the teams. The news should be simple. CBSSports. Rae Carruth wrote a letter to the mother of Cherica Adams and spoke with a Charlotte TV station, accepting responsibility for the 1999 conspiracy to murder Adams and expressing interest in gaining The Associated Press delivers in-depth coverage on today's Big Story including top stories, international, politics, lifestyle, business, entertainment, and more. In today’s NFL, conspiracy theorists need not hide behind computer monitors and screen names, though. Atlanta's Grady Elliott, who was handed a six-game suspension by the NFL in August for domestic violence allegations, is seeking to have the suspension overturned by claiming there was a "league-wide conspiracy to hide critical information" in the league's investigation. February 2, 2019. Wonder why the PATRIOTS won in 2002, right after 9/11? And again in 2004, after the attack of Iraq. conspiracy) submitted 3 months ago * by Vaedur The NFL denies hiding critical information about the Ezekiel Elliott case and other assertions made in a petition filed Thursday by the NFL Players Association. ly/Subscribe-to-TPS Join us in the Comments below! JOIN THE TOTALPROSPORTS TEAM and The NFL Conspiracy: Making rules so obtuse and calls so bad that games are easily fixable and no one would bat an eye if it happened right in front of them (self. Let’s take a closer look at what the hell happened here. Billionaires, corporate 28 Oct 2018 If you were looking for in-depth film breakdown, or one of my opponent scouting reports, or even a Colts-centric article, you've arrived at the Meet the Conspiracy Theorists Who Believe the NFL Is Fixed Brian Tuohy can’t prove the NFL is fixed, but he’s convinced it’s the truth. (John Raoux/AP) Dean Blandino may have partied on the Cowboys team bus back in August, but he wasn NFL Suicide Conspiracy Uncovered NEW YORK, NY – A recent investigation conducted by LushForLife. While I ultimately don’t buy into the conspiracy theories surrounding the AFC title game, it is hard for me to shake the idea of a conspiracy when Blakeman is involved. 0. It also sparked something the NFL, and every other sports league dreads: conspiracy theories. USA TODAY Sports The idea behind this conspiracy theory is that the Browns went all-in on losing and tanked an entire season in order to acquire the first overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, a selection the Browns Covers Sports Betting Forum - All the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and College betting discussions from our massive community Things just keep getting uglier in Ezekiel Elliott‘s fight with the league office. "The idea that this was a conspiracy is false," Lockhart told Dan Graziano of ESPN. “I guess you can leave the possibility out there,” said Lions wide receiver Golden Tate I agree its amusing but look at his Week 1 Conspiracy report about how Ballard purposefully destroyed our defense so we would lose games and get a high draft pick next year. Tweet. O'Donnell certainly wasn't one of the best QBs by all means, but he was a decent game manager who actually had the lowest percentage of interceptions per pass attempt in NFL history. Pin 1 +1 2. Feel free to discuss anything that you like at our forum and feel free to engage and share your opinion and viewpoint on any of the presented topics. share. Conspiracy theories just don't up in New Orleans Saints' bounty-gate scandal. Conspiracy Culture is Canada's only brick & mortar shop devoted to the conspiracy genre. “The NFL, indeed, was more than a business: it was an unlawful cartel violating its own Relocation Policies and abusing its complete control of the relevant market in the pursuit of Illuminati & the NFL Conspiracy \| All Pro Sports are Rigged The NFL is a product of the what we now call the Illuminati. If you were looking for in depth film breakdown, or one of my opponent scouting reports, or even a Colts-centric article, you’ve arrived at the wrong article. All game times are shown in PST. New, 192 comments. Sports fans love a good conspiracy. The NFL denies hiding critical information about the Ezekiel Elliott case and other assertions made in a petition filed Thursday by the NFL Players Association. Here Are Some of the Biggest Conspiracy Theories . Less popular teams win big games all the time	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line278
__label__wiki	0.730943	0.730943	Remember what Stalin said about voting... Ron Paul Is Being Cheated Out of the Republican Nomination The GOP establishment has resorted to vote fraud in almost every state Despite his runaway success in terms of straw poll victories, campaign contributions and grass roots energy, a plethora of evidence strongly indicates that Ron Paul is being cheated out of winning any of the Republican caucuses, with the GOP establishment desperate to prevent the Texan Congressman from building any kind of momentum that the likes of Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have been afforded. Even the establishment media is now being forced to report that “Ron Paul Might Have Won Maine,” with evidence of potential vote fraud targeted against Ron Paul prompting the state’s GOP chairman Charles Webster to ask for a recount. With just 84 per cent of the votes being counted, and with many towns and counties showing strong support for Ron Paul having not yet cast their votes, the media along with the Republican establishment brazenly declared Mitt Romney to be the winner, despite him having just a 194 vote lead over Ron Paul. Erroneous reports of a snowstorm were cited as a pretext to cancel the caucus in Washington County, an area heavily dominated by Paul supporters, delaying the vote for a week. Voters in the county are still waiting to cast their ballots. “That’s right. A prediction of 3-4 inches–that turned into nothing more than a dusting–was enough for a local GOP official to postpone the caucuses just so the results wouldn’t be reported tonight,” spokesman Gary Howard wrote in an E-mail to supporters, adding that even the local Girl Scouts’ meeting survived the weather. Local reporters in Maine also revealed how the vote for most Waldo County towns was entered as “0”, as if no one had turned out to vote. Rachel Maddow expanded on the reports in a feature on MSNBC, pointing out that when one town in Waldo attempted to call in its results, State officials said they already had results from the town showing Romney had won, when in reality that wasn’t the case and in fact Ron Paul had won. The controversy in Maine follows the admitted mistake in Iowa where Mitt Romney was announced as the winner and yet a later recount found that Rick Santorum had actually beaten him. The kind of momentum Santorum was allowed to build as a result of that revision is unlikely to be afforded to Ron Paul in Maine. The vote in Iowa was labeled by one observer as the “biggest fraud since Kennedy stole the West Virginia Primary”. Before the vote took place, in a state where pre-primary polling showed Ron Paul in with a good chance of taking top spot, Republican strategist Dee Dee Benkie told a radio show that GOP insiders had resolved to prevent Ron Paul from winning the primary. “They’re not going to want him to get number one, it’s very bad for Iowa, it’s terrible,” said Benkie, confirming the host’s claim that Iowa District Chairmen are organizing voting blocks to sabotage Paul’s chances by offering them sweetheart deals in return for voting against Paul. After votes were counted at a secret undisclosed location, it was announced that Ron Paul, despite pre-primary polls showing the Congressman was in with a good chance of winning, had finished third. The debacle in Nevada also clearly indicates that Ron Paul was cheated out of victory in the SIlver State. Despite results from every other state primary showing Ron Paul at least doubling his vote tally compared to 2008, for example climbing from 16,000 to 78,000 votes in South Carolina, In Nevada Paul received just a few hundred more votes than he achieved in 2008, leaving him with a third placed finish. “Ron Paul who took second in Nevada in 2008 with 6,087 votes, only increased his support by 1.4% to just 6,175 in the 2012 results, despite all of the excitement, all the money spent, which was a lot more,” reports Money Trends Research. “In fact, the Paul campaign had brochures and volunteers almost knock on every door in Nevada this time around. Nevada is also very fertile ground for a candidate like Ron Paul, many people in Nevada just want to be left alone by the government, Ron Paul opposes taxing tips, seeing that they are not really income, but gifts, you would think this would go over real well in Las Vegas.” As we documented before the Nevada primary, Paul’s campaign, after having finished second in the state behind Mitt Romney in 2008, poured huge amounts of energy and funding into the 2012 race, whereas Romney hardly had any ground campaign at all, and yet Romney ended up taking the state by a landslide. Massive evidence of vote fraud subsequently emerged. News networks had announced Romney as the landslide winner before votes from Clark County – the largest county in Nevada representing more than 60 percent of the state’s voters – had even been counted. When CNN aired live footage of the votes being counted from one of the caucuses in Clark County, it was clear that Ron Paul had handily defeated Romney, and this in a “precinct full of Jewish and extremely Christian voters, two of Ron Paul’s worst demographics.” “For five minutes, CNN sat in silence as the Republican precinct captain shouted out each vote while dozens of tabulators sat nearby keeping track,” wrote Mark Wachtler. Unfolding one sheet at a time, the man yelled, “Ron Paul, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Ron Paul, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Ron Paul, Ron Paul, Ron Paul.” The final tally showed that Ron Paul had defeated Romney by 183 to 45, in a precinct dominated by a demographic that wouldn’t even be expected to support Paul. Extrapolating this result statewide would have given Paul a clear victory, and yet Mitt Romney’s “landslide” victory vote figure barely changed throughout the whole night of ballot counting and was confirmed after a “private” vote count by the GOP establishment. “Many had watched the results being tabulated live on national TV just as this author had,” writes Wachtler. “We all saw Ron Paul’s overwhelming victory in that part of Clark County. It’s unimaginable to believe that in the same county, a candidate could win overwhelmingly when the votes were counted live on TV, but lose so badly when the votes were counted by the Party establishment behind closed doors.” This compendium of evidence, and the information presented above is merely scratching the surface, illustrates the fact that Ron Paul’s failure to win any of the primaries despite his massive financial backing and grass roots support, is almost certainly a result of vote fraud on behalf of the GOP establishment, which has conspired in almost every state to cheat Ron Paul out of building the kind of momentum that would have provided him the opportunity to challenge Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination. http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-is-being-cheated-out-of-the-republican-nomination/ "Liberals, of course, blame Cuba’s suffering on th... Anonymous - Fed Reserve Caught Red Handed... A Potential False Flag Operation heading towards t... 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__label__wiki	0.948259	0.948259	Current Conditions: Thunderstorm Wind: South at 15mph Home » News » More Funding, But Less Flying For Navy Planes More Funding, But Less Flying For Navy Planes (NORFOLK VIRGINIAN-PILOT 07 MAY 13) … Mike Hixenbaugh NORFOLK – Earlier this year, while sounding the alarm on looming federal budget cuts, the Navy warned it would be forced to ground four of its 10 air wings – a short-term money-saver that top brass said would degrade pilot skills and cost three times more in the long run. The service has dialed back on those warnings, and, thanks to an infusion of cash from Congress in March, the Navy believes it can avoid shutting down any air wings, which would have involved wrapping multimillion-dollar fighter jets, helicopters and other carrier-based planes in shrink-wrap and putting them in storage. Instead, Rear Adm. Ted Branch told reporters Monday, his command is dealing with sequestration by drastically reducing flying hours to a level known in aviation circles as a “tactical hard deck.” “We only have one really big lever to pull in Naval Air Force Atlantic, and that’s in flight hours,” said Branch, who oversees six East Coast-based aircraft carriers and the air wings that fly with them. An air wing typically consists of eight squadrons and about 65 aircraft. To save money, Branch said, flight hours are being cut to the minimum needed to maintain baseline safety standards and efficient aircraft maintenance. The drawdown in flying hours is expected to save the Navy $2 million per month, per air wing, Branch said. Plans call for cutting flying hours at four air wings. California-based Carrier Air Wing 2 was reduced to the “tactical hard deck” level last month after the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln entered Newport News Shipbuilding for refueling and overhaul. Carrier Air Wing 7 will be the first East Coast-based air wing to feel the budget pinch once it returns this summer from deployment with the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower. Instead of averaging 25 hours in the cockpit each month, the air wing’s F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet aviators at Oceana Naval Air Station will be limited to 11 hours per month, Branch said. Pilots will spend more time in simulators, he said, but the reduction of time in the air means some pilots will fall behind in career milestones tied to training hours. The simulators are realistic, Branch said, “but it’s just not the same as the airplane.” Carrier Air Wing 1, assigned to the Mayport, Fla.-based aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, would be next in line for reduced flying hours, Branch said. The fourth air wing with reduced flying hours is Carrier Air Wing 9, attached to the Bremerton, Wash.-based aircraft carrier John C. Stennis. The two-star admiral said ramping up flying hours before deployments will likely cost the Navy more in the long run, but he didn’t have specific cost estimates. For now, no air wings have been targeted for a full shutdown, but Branch left that as a possibility, depending on funding and operational demands abroad. http://hamptonroads.com/2013/05/more-funding-less-flying-navy-planes Carrier Ronald Reagan Back In San Diego Boeing Presses Congress To Have Navy Buy More Super Hornets Navy Plan Would Deploy Carriers More Frequently Russia To Have 5-6 Aircraft Carriers By 2060 – Navy Commander	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line280
__label__wiki	0.691769	0.691769	Opening 4 Apr 2019 Directed by: David F. Sandberg Writing credits: Henry Gayden, Darren Lemke, Bill Parker, C.C. Beck Principal actors: Zachary Levi, Mark Strong, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Adam Brody Warner Brothers and New Line Cinema set the DC Universe on a course for a silver screen success with their unique comedic family-friendly adventure in SHAZAM, under the direction of filmmaker David F. Sandberg. "Every kid dreams about being a superhero," says Sandberg. "In the world of our story, where Superman and Batman exist, Billy Batson is a kid who basically gets that wish." He adds, "But for Billy, there's a twist--he doesn't just get the super-powers, he becomes an adult---on the outside, at least--with a power-laden name: SHAZAM that stands for the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the endurance of Atlas, the power of Zeus, the fighting abilities of Achilles and the speed of Mercury." In collaboration with storytellers Henry Gayden and Darren Lemke, who base their characters from the DC Universe where Shazam was created by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck. Gayden and Lemke write a script specifically to be uniquely action-packed and lighthearted from the comics they read from creative artists such as, Geoff John's New 52, or from The Power of Shazam from Jerry Ordway, from the 1990s and more. Gayden recalls, "I enjoyed writing the script from the perspective of a kid, channeling the logic of a 14-year-old who suddenly has all these powers and who's not thinking, 'How can I save the world,' but, 'What cool stuff can I do?' " Actor Zachary Levi (Shazam-Bill Batson adult) says, "Yes, it's about Billy Batson becoming Earth's mightiest mortal and defender just in time to meet serious supernatural evil." He continues, "He needs to learn how to defend against it but it's also a great coming of age story." Adding, "It speaks to the hero's story, to the kids' story to the family's story and baked in the DNA of it is the humor and the heart. Billy Batson is stoked making Shazam one of the few superhero characters in all the comic universes that's genuinely thrilled to be a superhero." SHAZAM is a a breath of fresh air to family entertainment. Sandberg brings to light a storyline with characters that are relatable as well as, commissioning superb acting to give the film audience a visual experience that is not a waste of time. One will simply smile when the word SHAZAM is uttered because it's that word that will recall so many funny scenes accompanied with endearing charm and heart. Fourteen-year-old Billy Batson (Asher Angel) is a foster child. He's been in foster care since the age of three after being tragically separated from his mother during an outing to a city-wide Carnival. Deemed a foster-kid delinquent because he runs away from one foster care family after another trying to locate his mother because that's who he thinks he needs, but every attempt ends in disappointment. Legally Billy is the ward-of-the-state and bound to stay in foster care until the age of eighteen. Forced to give yet another family a chance, Billy reluctantly enters a group home sponsored by a loving couple, Rosa and Victor Vasquez (Marta Milans and Cooper Andrews) who currently raise four other foster children. Billy's new siblings, Darla Dudley (Faithe Herman), Mary Bromfield (Grace Fulton), Eugene Choi (Ian Chen), Pedro Pena (Jovan Armand) and Freddy Freeman (Jack Dylan Grazer), enlighten him on many subjects. Freddy is a Superhero fanatic and attempts to educate Billy on the adventures of such characters but Billy isn't interested. Until, Freddy shows Billy his rare silver bullet that is worth some money. Billy's ticket to freedom! In another world, beings with super natural powers over good and evil are at battle to find the perfect successor to their magical throne. The Wizard (Djimon Hounsou) is looking for his champion, his chosen one, to pass on his goodness to rule the universe who displays purity of heart and is strong in spirit. The Wizard's powers must be transferred before he dies. The Super-Villain, Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong) once in line to be the Wizard's chosen one, fell prey to the desires of control and envy pursuing the Wizard's power. Supported by the ghosts of the seven deadly sins together they must eliminate the Wizard's chosen one, Billy Batson, if they seek to control the universe. Billy is magically summoned by the Wizard and explains what he is entrusting to Billy. Totally freaked, Billy wants out and truthfully knows he is not the person the Wizard describes as the chosen one. Fearful of the Wizard, Billy is respectful and is obedient to follow his instructions which takes him into a Superhero world he knows nothing about except that crazy things happen when he speaks the word SHAZAM! Freddy and Billy (Asher Angel and the older titular DC Superhero, Zachary Levi) embark on the adventure of a lifetime having so much fun discovering the powers of an inexperienced Superhero. Freddy is Billy's mentor on the functions of a Superhero until Billy's arrogance takes over. It's through trial and error of what powers behold Billy that make for a delightfully comedic journey to save himself and his planet from evil. (Karen Pecota)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line284
__label__cc	0.710811	0.289189	Tell Your Kids, No You Are Not Going To College Dammit!! Posted on August 3, 2010 by Juss Why did YOU go to college? and why pay to send your kids to college? I feel that going to college and acquiring a degree is a big multimillion dollar scam that has been fueled by the “career industry” for ages. I mean seriously even before these times where having a double p.h.D and a double masters means not a damn thing people rarely if ever go into their field of studies. So you spend all this damn money for an education that you rarely use (I know this for a fact. I haven’t used all those letters and numbers and little numbers on top of numbers and signs with slashes from math class yet.. and I’m… well my age isn’t important but you get my point.) I feel aside from specific areas you don’t have to obtain a degree. Here is another example, in Georgia if you have a computer science degree but do not have a certification from cisco or juniper etc. you will not get hired. true story! For those that don’t quite understand the example i’ll break it down. A computer science degree runs you close to a hundred grand could be more could be less depending on where you decide to go to school, A certification in cisco/juniper etc runs you about 200 dollars everytime you take the test to get certified. So you tell me, what route would you have gone?? Below are some reasons to not send your kids to college, I have to say they make damn good sense even though I don’t agree with some of them due to the kids not the ideas. You just cannot do certain things with certain kids.. anyway you be the judge and leave your comments. Anyway here 7 reasons to not send your kids to college and these reasons are brought to you by James Altucher a finance columnist. 1. More than 60% of people entering college take more than four years to graduate. So whatever you think yourkids are going to cost you to go to college, add 20% to 100%. 2. The cost of the average tuition has gone up nine-fold since 1976 versus seven-fold for health care and three fold for inflation. 3. The differential in lifetime income between a college graduate and a non-college graduate over a 45 year career is approximately $800,000 (read on) 4. If i put that $200,000 that I would’ve spent per child to cover tuition costs, living expenses, books, etc. into bonds yielding just 3% (any muni bonds) and let it compound for 49 years ( adding backin the 4 years of college) I get $851,000. So my kids can avoid college and still end up with the same amount in the worst case. 5. If smart, motivated, ambitious kids (the type of kids who get the most out of college) avoided college I’m sure the differential would be a lot less than $800,00and may even be negative (i.e. they would make more if they avoided college and started going into the business world earlier) 6. The average debt burden of a college graduate is $23,000 up from $13,000 10 years ago. Students with professional degrees can see their debt burden go higher than $200,000. Total student borrowing has topped $75,000,000,000. It’s too much for young adults just starting their careers. 7. Alternatives to spending $200,000 per kidso they can waste four years of their lives: Give them $20,000 to start one to five businesses. most businesses fail but that’s ok. The educationfrom the process lasts a lifetime and the networkyou build when you start a business will lead to many futurejobs and possibilities. Travel the world. That would be an education thatpays many dividends and is much cheaper. Your kids can then go to college with a much more mature view of the world. Work. They won’t get the best jobsbut they can make money,network, get a “hands-on” education, learn the value of money and go to college in their 20’s when THEY can afford it — and make every dollar worth it. Plus your kids willhave a more clear idea of what they want to do in the world. Volunteer. Let them see a side of life that is harder and where they can add value. An education like thatis invaluable. Do nothing but read. Get the benefits of a college education without paying the $200,000. I’d be happy to support a child that wants to home school a college education. Posted in Juss Random, News, Uncategorized \| Tagged Careers, College, Experience, Life, Tuition Money \| 2 Replies Shame On Arizona!! No SB 1070… !! Posted on July 20, 2010 by Juss Hell No.. No Me Voy!! Hell No.. No Me Voy!!! Hell no we wont show you our papers!!! Hell no we wont show you our papers!!.. oh hey there.. I was just showing support to my fellow illegal compadres in arizona and all around the United States… Anyway it seems like the old stereotype of us spanish folks sticking together is turning out to be pretty much true..lol.. Seven other Latin American countries want to join Mexico in supporting a lawsuit challenging Arizona’s immigration enforcement law. Bolivia,Colombia,El Salvador,Guatemela,Nicaragua,Paraguay, and Peru all filed seperate, nearly identical motions to join Mexico’s legal brief supporting the lawsuit filed by U.S. civil rights and other advocacy groups. It’s just amazing to me how certain shit can go down in this country.. anyway… HELL NO!!..NO ME VOY!!! …HELL NO!!! NO ME VOY!!! P.S. for those of you who are legally here or a citizen…lol.. and don’t know what SB 1070 is and care to know what SB 1070 is click this link. http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070p.htm Posted in News, Politics & Bullshit \| Tagged Arizona, Civil Rights, Colombia, Immigration, Mexico, SB 1070 \| Leave a reply Woman Jailed For Not Allowing Son To See Rapist Dad In Prison Posted on June 27, 2010 by Juss A Brooklyn mom has been tossed in jail because she refused to send her 9-year-old son to an Arizona prison to visit his father, a serial rapist locked away for decades. Sukhwant Herb is serving 50 days on Rikers Island – in solitary confinement, she says – because she ignored a court order mandating twice-a-year prison visits for her son Seon. She agreed to the visitation deal with representatives of the boy’s father in September, her lawyer said. Then she changed her mind. “I don’t want my son in that environment, seeing the prisoners in jumpers, and the slamming of gates, the noise. My son is 9, and it’s horrible, horrific,” Herb told the News in a phone call. “I’m locked here in a room, locked in 23 hours a day, with a TV. “I turn [the TV] on just to hear another voice. The first time they took me outside for some fresh air was after 13 days in jail and that was for only one hour.” The 29-year-old mom from East New York can have visitors and make some phone calls. But she doesn’t want her son visiting her, either. “Not in this environment,” she said. Brooklyn Family Court Judge Robin Sheares shipped Herb off to Rikers on June 10 after having her arrested on a warrant. The judge declined to comment. David Bookstaver, spokesman for the state Office of Court Administration, said Herb was jailed because she missed five court appearances. She had ample opportunity to try and modify the visitation order and is a flight risk, he said. The circumstances of Herb’s incarceration “are highly unusual,” Bookstaver acknowledged, “but warranted.” Bookstaver said Herb “was given numerous opportunities to answer simple questions to avoid incarceration, but was uncooperative, could not produce proof of where she’d been, or where her son was attending school.” Herb’s version of the hearing is quite different. “I kept telling the judge where I was living, that I had a house in Ohio and was planning to move there with my son. But [the judge] kept screaming at me, ‘I don’t believe you, I don’t care. I don’t believe you.'” Herb, who said she worked with a financial services firm dealing with foreclosures, is planning a move to Cambridge, Ohio, with her son and a 6-month-old daughter she has with her fiance, Dwayne Waithe, of Jamaica, Queens. The boy is living with Waithe while Herb is in jail. Waithe said he was willing to put up his home, his trucking business and his bank account for Herb’s bail, but was shot down. “Even killers get bail,” Waithe said. “This is unbelievable.” Herb conceded she made many mistakes in her dealings with Sheares. “It was a poor decision not to hire a lawyer earlier and fight all this in court,” she said. “Still, this is wrong.” She recently hired a lawyer, Dale Frederick. “It is not in the best interest of any child to incarcerate his mother for refusing to allow that child to go to a penitentiary, particularly where the father is a convicted serial rapist,” Frederick said. The father of Herb’s son, Seon Jonas, 31, was convicted in 2003 of raping three women in Phoenix and is serving 27 years in an Arizona state prison. Herb said she and Jonas, who met 11 years ago in New York, were living together in Phoenix when the rapes took place. Two of Jonas’ victims were teenagers, she added. “I had no idea of his secret life, that he did that,” she said. “He was a kind man, was never abusive to me when we were living together.” After Jonas was imprisoned, Herb came back to Brooklyn with her son and moved in with her mother. The boy has not seen has father since at least the beginning of 2009. “I am just devastated by this,” said her mother, Gloria Herb. Herb’s aunt, Shelly Alexander, visited Herb last week and said, “She was just crying all the time. “You sit across the table from the prisoner and right next to us was a woman who was a murderer. “My niece made bad choices, but that doesn’t make her a bad woman. June 30 is her birthday and she’s going to spend it in jail.” It’s unclear what will happen after she serves her sentence. Posted in News, Pure Fuckery \| Tagged mom sent to jail, serial rapist, son not allowed to see dad \| 1 Reply Now What Floyd?? MANILA, Philippines – Manny Pacquiao and the powerful Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) are on the same page when it comes to blood-testing. That blood should not be drawn from boxers very close to a fight because, according to a medical analysis, it may cause “hematomas, infections or other injuries.” Fanhouse boxing editor Lem Satterfield yesterday reported on the results of an NSAC hearing regarding the testing for steroids or other illegal substances, favoring Pacquiao over Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s demand for random blood-testing Olympic style, one that would require blood being drawn “all the way to the fight.” Dr. David Watson, the former chief ringside physician, said the negative effects of blood-testing can take place if it is conducted “within three weeks of a fight.” In the failed negotiations for the Pacquiao-Mayweather superfight, supposed to have taken place last March 13, the undefeated American insisted on blood-testing 14 days before the fight. The Filipino pound-for-pound king said he can’t do it nearer than 24 days. Recently, however, Pacquiao softened up on his stand just to get the fight done, saying he’d do it 14 days before and right after the fight. Then reports came out that Mayweather’s new demand was to have it done “all the way to the fight” and it could mean on the eve or the day of the fight itself. The NSAC, through its executive director, Keith Keizer, couldn’t find the reason for this. “Dr. Watson has done thousands of weigh-in physicals and done thousands of fights. He’s viewed tons of medical records. What Dr. Watson was kind of saying was that on some occasions with fighters, he would notice hematomas on the inside of the elbow where they gave blood,” he was quoted by Fanhouse as saying. This could be the reason why the USDA (Doping Agency) stopped drawing blood from Mayweather and Shane Mosley at least 18 days before their May 1 encounter which the former won with pretty much ease. The NSAC position now means that Pacquiao and Mayweather should agree to blood-testing probably no closer than three weeks to the fight, if ever the fight, being pushed for Nov. 13, takes place. The Fanhouse article said Mayweather submitted blood and urine samples on March 22, April 1, April 13 and then on the night directly after the fight, and urine only on April 3, April 6, April 21 and April 24. Mosley had blood and urine drawn on March 23, March 31, April 12 and directly after the bout on fight night, and urine only on April 3, April 6, April 21 and April 24. “Well, I’m not a doctor, but you have to realize that a fighter uses his arms a lot like a runner uses his legs. You can’t take blood too close to the fight. Two or three weeks before the fight he can get a hematoma which can prevent him from either training or fighting,” said Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum. “If it’s done further out before the fight, then there’s no real problem. But closer to the fight, there’s a real problem. For a fighter to lose the last week in training or the week before the fight is a disaster for a fighter. That could happen if he gets a hematoma in the arm that’s used for the blood test. USDA, whatever, they might say, must have recognized this, and I believe that that’s why they didn’t test for blood before 18 days.” Is Floyd Scared To Fight Manny? Hell Yea Juss, Floyd Clucking Scared!! Hell Na Juss, Floyd Just Wants A Fair Fight!! Who Knows Juss, I Just Wanna See The Fight!! Posted in News, Sports \| Tagged Blood Test, Chicken, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquaio, Scared, Superfight, Urine Test \| Leave a reply Topless Beach A Possibility In N.J. New Jersey has a nude beach in a remote corner of Sandy Hook, but no ‘topless’ beach anywhere else along its roughly 140 mile coastline. Asbury Park may be about to change that. “I sit topless at my house so I don’t have a problem with it,” said Nicole White, 35, as she laid on the beach in Asbury Park with her bra strap undone, while showing she has no tan line back there. “Why not?” asked Deputy Mayor and City Councilman John Loffredo, who asked the City Manager and City Attorney to come back with a full report in time for its July 7th meeting. “It’s a person’s prerogative if they want to go topless,” said Loffredo, who noted that it is common not just in Europe, but on Miami Beach as well. Beachgoers Might Soon Bare More in NJ The nude beach on Sandy Hook, called Gunnison, is sanctioned by the U.S. Park Service, as is an even more remote nude beach on Fire Island in New York, both part of the Gateway National Recreation Area. But no municipality in New Jersey officially sanctions ‘topless’ sections, and some, like Belmar according to Loffredo, actually ban topless sunbathing. And that suits beach goer Courtney Phillips, 29 of Ocean Township just fine. “Some things need to be saved for intimate moments with their significant other in the bedroom,” said Phillips, who added “Not for everybody to see.” John Boon of Matawan, who was at the beach with his children Kayla and Madison, admitted he personally has no problem with topless beaches. But watching his two young daughters he quickly added “I don’t want them to be exposed to that.” But the proposal being considered by the city council would authorize a ‘topless optional’ section only at the far northern end of Asbury Park’s long beachfront, away from any homes, or even the boardwalk. Still, men could walk up there just to ogle. White’s response was dismissive. “I could care less, honestly.” As to the chance that if they go topless they might as well go all the way, Deputy Mayor Loffredo said “I don’t think that’s gonna happen.” Posted in News \| Tagged New Jersey, Nude, Tits, Topless Beach \| Leave a reply Kevin Costner Oil Clean Up Centrifuge Kevin Costner hopes his invention can make the oil spill saga have a Hollywood ending. The “Field of Dreams” actor called his oil separator a “life preserver,” saying that his device can help clean up the Gulf and that it’s not too late to put it into action. BP has already purchased 32 of the machines. “I’m not on a white horse,” Costner said. “I’m not the savior to this thing. But I’m kind of saying, like, I got a life preserver.” The device, which is designed to be brought to the spill site on barges, can separate 99% of oil from water and recycle up to 2,000 barrels per day. Costner spent 15 years and $20 million of his own money to develop the machine. “If 20 of my V20s would have been at the “Exxon Valdez” 90 percent of that oil would have been cleaned up within the week,” Costner said. BP tested a version of Costner’s device earlier this year, but the test failed after the machine gave the oil a peanut butter-like consistency. That problem has since been fixed, and BP is retesting the machine now in the hopes of getting it to the Gulf soon. In my opinion they should have tried Kev’s idea as soon as the bullshit ideas BP had failed.. But hey that’s just me.. If this shit work your boy Kev Costner is gonna be mofin paaaaiiiidddd.. DO You Think Kevin Costners Centrifuge Will Work? Hell Yea Juss, Kev is a Genius! Hell Na Juss, Kev is a damn actor man! I don't know Juss, but I hope so! Posted in Juss Random, News, Uncategorized \| Tagged BP, Centrifuge, Clean up Oil Spill, Earth, Kevin Costner, Oil Spill \| Leave a reply Seattle Police Clocks Female In The Eye…WOW Wow… see this is the bullshit right here, cop doesn’t have any excuse to punch that girl in the face like that none whatsoever. This is just another example of how police can pretty much do anything they want to us. Now if that girls father,brother,uncle, cousin or a family member just beat that cop down im pretty sure they would get prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I’m also sure that this cop will probably only get reprimanded and/or suspended for a month WITH pay. SMH.. Posted in News \| Tagged Cop, Female Punched In Eye, Police Brutality, Seattle Police \| 6 Replies Kid Cudi Spends A Day & Night In Jail Rapper Kid Cudi (real name: Scott Mescudi) has been arrested. The 26-year-old Grammy-nominated rapper allegedly destroyed a woman’s phone and broke her apartment door off its hinges. Police were called to the altercation, in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood and according to the UK Guardian police found a glass bottle on his person, which may have contained drugs. Cudi has had brushes with the law before, including an incident at a show in December, when he reportedly punched a concertgoer in Vancouver. Charges include criminal mischief and possession of a controlled substance. What the fuck is wrong with all these mofos man, I swear the wrong mofos always get blessed with chances and always fuck up somehow or someway.. Posted in Home, Music, News \| Tagged drugs, jail, kid cudi, Music, rap, rapper \| Leave a reply NYC Mayor Bloomberg Robbed… A Republican operative was indicted Monday on charges he exploited his political reputation to swindle $1.1 million from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, claiming he would use funds to help guard against election fraud but instead buying a house, prosecutors said. John Haggerty duped Bloomberg and his political advisers into giving the money to the state Independence Party to help with ballot security during the mayor’s campaign for a third term, District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said. Haggerty then laundered the money and used it for personal expenses in the months after the election, Vance said. Sooooo what!! the Mayor is a damn billionaire, he won’t miss a measley 1 mill…I’m sure he spends waayyyy more than that in a year…shit this fucker bought himself another term as Mayor of NYC so why the fuck should we care.. but hey thats just my opinion. Posted in News, Politics & Bullshit \| Tagged Bloomberg, money, NYC, politics, theft \| Leave a reply NYC Restaurants Bribe Lebron With All You Can Eat Chef Michael Symon recently tried to bribe free agent LeBron James to stay in Cleveland with the promise of monthly Iron-Chef style dinners for him and his friends, and now some local restaurants are trying to seduce the star basketball player to choose New York. Come NYC this negro is disgustingly rich and all you can do is bribe the him with free food??!! Seriously?? Try starting out with a key to the city and some stock in the city..geezuuss damn idiots.. 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__label__cc	0.586731	0.413269	Civilian killings in Kashmir: A review of 2018 Posted on December 14, 2018 December 14, 2018 by Editor-Online Share the post "Civilian killings in Kashmir: A review of 2018" Kashmir valley is wrapped with armed conflict from 1989 and after post-Burhan Wani, the turmoil changed completely. The valley had seen large number of youth joining militant groups. After joining such groups, then day their picture with AK47 gets viral on social media. Parent’s appeal to return back, ADGIP request to shun violence, some return and some choose their own fate. However, all this is happening from past one year. On the other side, military forces launch cordon and search operation in order to wipe out the militancy from the entire valley. In this operation, Hundreds of innocent civilians became the victim of military operations. On national TV, they were labelled as stone pelters and supporters of terrorist and their killings are justified on the theory of everything is fair in love and war. This year 2018 Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir have largest number of civilian killings, which were directly killed by army. An FIR was also launched against army Major namely Aditya. However, his father had filed a PIL in Supreme Court that quashed the FIR and advised the state police not to include his name. In such civilian killings, no one was either arrested nor did any investigation happen further. Within a month, another shootout occurred at outskirt a village namely Pinjoora (Shopian), where a militant was killed. Later it was found that four youth also lost their lives in the shootout. All the four were labelled as over ground workers my Army and police, which was refuted by the locals. First April 2018, created a new chapter in the history of valley. On that particular day, 19 killings happened in the three anti-militancy operations. Out of 19, 13 were militants. Soldiers were 3 and 4 were civilians. Anger and despair was visible on the streets of Kashmir ahead of bloody Sunday in which huge number of local killings occurred in different encounters of the south Kashmir. Besides that hundreds of people suffered pellets injuries and were admitted to various hospitals for treatment. Internet service were snapped, train service remained suspended, schools and colleges were closed, examinations and interviews were postponed and undeclared curfew was imposed in the neighbouring districts. After the Shopianmayhem, another heart wrenching incident occurred in Laroo,Kulgam on 21st October. On particular date, 09 civilians got killed and 45 were injured during a blast near the encounter site. The bloodbath in the valley traumatised the entire valley particularly. Protests, shutdowns were observed day after day. The Valley is losing not only its populace, but are facing economic crisis as well. According to the Articles of 48 and 51 of the first protocol of the Geneva Convention, which not only prohibits the killing of combatants on either side, but also prohibits direct attack on civilians. India, the “democratic” country is also a signatory of the convention, but till yet did not ratified these laws. Besides that article 8(2) B and E of the Roman Statute of the international criminal court also prohibits intentionally killing of any civilian. Jeff McMahan states in “the Ethics of Killing in War” that there is no moral justification for any intentionally civilian killing. Comparing the Kashmir valley, here state of emergency is from both sides. The direct attack on civilians are justified with null theories. The report that Jammu and Kashmir Police is submitting to the State Human Rights Commission is based on lies and blames. The killings by the state is to create fear and panic in a population by murdering a large number of civilians. The killing is done intentionally, because the propagator believes that they are protected both by laws of armed conflict as well as ordinary laws concerning homicide. It is notable that those who formulated the impunity laws are soaking their hands with the blood of innocent Kashmiri people and those who are justifying the killings understand that there humanity is dead. The killing of one innocent person is the death of whole humanity. Inam ul Haq Author is a research scholar at Central University of Gujarat mantooinam72@gmail.com Posted in ArticlesTagged Civilian killings in Kashmir: A review of 2018 Why a grieving Kashmir hurts India’s sovereignty Food Wastage: A global problem ‘Innocents suffer with the guilty’: How Delhi Police Special Cell ruined young Kashmiri lives Saqib Bilal, teen who did a cameo in ‘Haider’ turned rebel, shot dead in Mujgund encounter GOI using every weapon to muzzle our voice: Syed Ali Geelani	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line288
__label__cc	0.572416	0.427584	Despite five years of “Modinomics”, India continues to be constrained by economic fragilities When Narendra Modi ran for Prime Minister in 2014, he pledged to boost the competitiveness of India’s industrial sector to promote growth. Five years later, the economy is in a better position, but many of the structural fragilities that Modi inherited continue to afflict India today. In particular, a mixed track record in terms of executing three crucial economic reforms has dampened enthusiasm for Modi: the new insolvency and bankruptcy code, demonetisation, and the introduction of a harmonised goods and services tax. India will host its next general election from April 11 to May 19, with Modi running again. Assuming he manages to secure enough votes to win a simple majority, the 17th Lok Sabha (Parliament) will likely be a more fragmented one, which could slow India’s reform process. The incoming administration will have to focus on cleaning up the banking sector as well as boosting employment to support India’s burgeoning workforce. Achieving this while simultaneously promoting macroeconomic stability will likely prove challenging. Download this publication Download this publication : Despite five years of “Modinomics”, India continues to be constrai... (648.48 kB) Do you have a question? a request? ComCorp	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line294
__label__wiki	0.772885	0.772885	LEGENDS DIGITAL MEDIA World Champion Network LegendsDTV IAmPMAG Everything ShowBizz Legends Digital Media Announces Corporate Overhaul of Rebranding and Structure Company: Legends Digital Media Website: LegendsDigital.com Contact: Deidre’ LaShon, Chief Director of Brand Marketing Phone: 855-LEGEND-5, ext. 5 (855.534.3635, ext. 5) New York, NY – Feb. 3, 2018 – Legends Digital Media, one of the world’s leading entertainment and media companies, today announced a total revamping of all its brands, emphasizing its core identity of bridging “high-quality content with the latest and most innovative technology to create brands for digital enthusiasts worldwide.” Operating in over four major industries, Legends Digital Media (LDM) invested rebranding efforts into five key upgrades: sleeker, more appealing websites; striking logo updates, strategic repositioning, employing advanced technologies, and building diverse, cross-functional teams of thought-leaders and innovators. “Our rebrands mark a significant step in the company’s progression. Our ever-changing industry landscape requires a unique approach, and sometimes that requires a total restructure,” states Maurice-LaMar Baldwin, founder and CEO of LDM. “We are redefining who we are, and our mission is to amplify the brand’s voice in today’s industry market. LDM’s new branding further enables the company to stand out, not only within the ever-expanding digital entertainment industry, but also on a worldwide scale. “Our brand has always been built on credibility, industry knowledge, and providing the best entertainment content to digital enthusiasts. That is our leverage, and it is what we will continue to expand on, among other things,” states Deidre’ LaShon, Director of Communication and Brand Marketing. “This time around, we took the opportunity to rethink ‘who we are,’ ‘what our brand means to us and our readers,’ and ‘how can we continue to grow as a company.’” LDM is proud that its new brand identity will illustrate the next step in its story - driving change and shaping the future of the industry. About Legends Digital Media: Legends Digital Media, LLC (LDM) is a media and entertainment company that encompasses sports, fashion, lifestyle and news digital publishing, as well as digital television networks and filmed entertainment. Legends Digital bridges high-quality content with the latest and most innovative technology to create brands for digital enthusiasts worldwide. Whether measured by quality, popularity or financial results, our divisions strive to be at the top of their categories. Legends2Be, LegendsDTV, Phenomenal Mag (IAmPMAG), ShowTime Legends and all other Legends Digital affiliates' number one goal is to maintain unrivaled reputations for creativity and excellence as they keep people informed, entertained and connected. Our enterprise is more than a collection of great brands that are owned under one conglomerate. LDM's businesses chief aim to gain competitive advantage from opportunities for constructive collaboration. Innovators in technology, digital products and services, LDM brands focus on growth, engagement and monetization on all platforms. Most importantly, our leadership at every level appropriates its creativity, talent and commitment to excellence to ensure that LDM continues to provide the high-performance, trustworthy information and enjoyable entertainment our audiences expect. LEGENDS DIGITAL Deidre' LaShon Chief Director of Brand Marketing 855.LEGEND.5, ext. 717 DLaShon@LegendsDigital.com RELEASES BY BRAND EVERYTHINGSHOWBIZZ About LDM Future Brands Legends Digital Media, LLC. 2019. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line305
__label__wiki	0.666556	0.666556	Showtimes > The Legend of Billie Jean With their father dead and their mother busy trying to land a steady beau, pretty teen Billy Jean Davy (Helen Slater) and her younger brother, Binx (Christian Slater), spend their time riding Binx's moped and dreaming of life in Vermont -- several climate zones away from the humid, omnipresent heat of their Texas town. One day, on their way from their trailer park home to a swimming hole, the Davy kids run afoul of rich boy Hubie Pyatt (Barry Tubb) and his cronies, who steal -- and later trash -- the scooter Binx bought with his father's paltry life insurance benefits. Demanding payment from Hubie and his merchant dad (Richard Bradford) for the damage that's been inflicted on both the bike and her brother's face, Billie Jean narrowly escapes being raped by the elder Pyatt. In the ensuing scuffle, Binx accidentally shoots Mr. Pyatt, sending himself, Billie Jean, and their friends, Ophelia (Martha Gehman) and Putter (Yeardley Smith), on the lam. When the Billie Jean Gang becomes a media sensation, Pyatt capitalizes on their notoriety by selling T-shirts and bric-a-brac, while policeman Ringwald (Peter Coyote), who feels guilty for having refused to help Billie Jean, tries to bring the kids in without anyone getting hurt. However, when the gang mock-kidnaps rich amateur filmmaker Lloyd (Keith Gordon), unaware that he's the district attorney's son, the situation spins out of control. Soon, Lloyd's videotape of the suddenly crop-topped, Joan of Arc-emulating, eminently telegenic Billie Jean elevates a local headline into a national sensation, and even Lloyd's attraction to Billie Jean can't protect her from the media lightning rod she's become. The Legend of Billie Jean marks the screen debut of Christian Slater, who is no relation to co-star Helen Slater. Actor Gordon, who made his debut as a screenwriter with Mark Romanek's Static the year Billie Jean came out, would go on to direct a number of critically acclaimed films.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line310
__label__cc	0.537342	0.462658	Finally, a fight to watch Something must have happened at Number 10 this week. It was as though somebody opened a door in the side of Gordon Brown’s head, climbed in, found the light switch and turned it on. He dumped his ‘morals’ about not making personal attacks, and launched a withering assault on Cameron the man. The day started off looking like every other PMQs for months – “your policies have left us in recession, when everyone else is out” Vs “you have no policies; this is what we’ve done that you opposed”. But then Brown came out with something that took everyone, and Cameron, by surprise. “The voice maybe that of a modern public relations man, the mindset is that of the 1930s,” said the PM. It was not a killer blow and it smelt like Brown had only just remembered the pre-prepared line and slipped it in, but it didn’t matter. An attack on Cameron the slick salesman has been cried out for from the Labour benches. Here it was, and the House came to life. Cameron defended dismissively, “I think that one must have sounded great in the bunker.” He then hit back launching a counter attack on Ed Balls that raised the stakes – “you would have thought he would spend more time in his ultra marginal constituency. Perhaps he agrees with us, that the more he meets people the more likely we are to win it.” Cameron then got back to the old lines. If the PM had responded alike DC might have taken the day. But the Labour leader, and it feels like a long time since he’s really been that at PMQs, kept his guns firmly on Cameron. “The more he talks, the less he actually says.” By this time there was a flood of background noise swirling around the Commons floor, as the pair began to spar over inheritance tax. Cameron accused Brown of raising the threshold, Brown had the final word. His attack was essentially an old one – Tories want tax breaks for the few, Labour wants public services for the many. But with the House in the mood it was it scored the point. “With him and Mr Goldsmith, their inheritance tax policy seems to have been dreamed up on the playing fields of Eton,” he said. I can’t help but feel that Cameron expected today to be like every other PMQs recently and was caught with his pants down. He has some serious thinking to do if he wants to keep on top of things. Meanwhile Brown has to prove that this was not a momentary spark and that he can keep the pressure up in this way. Given that many of the PM’s attacks came from the same ideological ground he’s always fought on, he proved today that often on the Commons floor it’s not so much what you say, but how you say it, that counts. Labels: David Cameron, Ed Balls, Gordon Brown, PMQs Gordon Brown's Moral Compass Swinger said... Lobbydog?...more of a poodle. So you were impressed with Brown ? Some might say that referring to Spain as being a member of the G20 in the vain attempt to show that we were not the only the only major economy not to be in recession to be a) a lie, b) proof positive that he has lost the plot, c) evidence that he holds the House and the electorate in contempt I am saddened that you were encouraged by his personal attacks on DC. It is disappointing that you approve of the "Etonian" jibes but I suppose you are typical of Zanu Liebore ..when all else fails get personal. The only way Brown can see of clinging onto power is to drag politics into the gutter where Brown, Balls et al feel so comfortable. Brown hasn't found a double, has he? Very fickle, old boy. You only need click on the “Gordon Brown” tag on the right and read one or two past posts to see that your first comment is misinformed. I neither approve nor disapprove of the mode of Brown’s attack. I do think that it was effective, however, as was also reflected in the mood on both sides of the House. As for your comments about “dragging politics into the gutter” – that is piffle. Brown's personal attacks on Cameron are an adequate response to Cameron's personal attacks on Brown. (he's lost the plot, out of touch etc) I’d say that your inability to be objective shows that it is you who would be a lapdog, as opposed to a Lobbydog. I think there is a world of difference between suggesting that someone has lost the plot / is out of touch and seeking to make political capital out of someone's education. What point exactly was Brown really trying to make? In your opinion Brown may have been more assertive in his responses at pmqs (or more polished in the delivery of his script) but the fact remains that, as ever, he avoids answering the questions and spouts utter drivel. (Spain in the G20..yerrrr right!) His reference to Cameron's education is contemptible....when all else fails fall back on social sterotyping and seek to create divisions in society by labeling the opposition as toffs (while conveniently glossing over the number of millionaire socialists and oxbridge graduates sitting on the government benches.) It shows the paucity of his arguments. He knows he is banged to rights over boom and bust, being well placed to get out of recession etc . Claims he had made in the past that now appear laughable. But hey, never mind, let's call Cameron a toff. Perhaps all those out of work will rally to the red flag..can't have an educated rich bastard as pm can we? Very eloquently put Mr compass! I too have been concerned by the recent conversion of Lobbydog to the left! @GBMCS Pointing out Cameron went to Eton IS saying he is out of touch you muppet. Sounds like today really rattled your cage. Rattled? Au contraire mon brave. It is vaguely amusing to note the excitement of some folks simply because Gordon remembered his script at pmq's. In some respects though you are right though, going to Eton does mean he is out of touch ......with the lousy edukashun wot godum haz give to the wukkers. All that money "invested" in education and the numbers of children leaving school unable to read and write at record levels. You must be very proud. Ooooh the politics of envy, dontcha just luvit? A right old stitch up? U-turn pending David Cameron Mark 2 Nuclear betrayal Holding on to the crown jewels Sir Pat coins a phrase Hung Parliament?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line328
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__label__cc	0.525546	0.474454	Home EATS JD Weir Needs a Haircut by Metro Spirit July 14, 2019 “I told my buddy Wallace back there I’m not cutting my hair until we open, so you can see how long that’s been.” JD Wier Weir is finally getting that cut. His new restaurant, Noble Jones, opens Tuesday. “It’s kind of sticking out back there. Shows you how long its been.” Heavy wrought iron gates lead to the courtyard The renovation has been going on since last year. Pouring your heart and soul into a new venture is an exciting time, and sometimes that excitement can carry over into the blogosphere, resulting in confusing messaging. “I am NOT opening a barbecue restaurant” Weir wants you to know something. “I am NOT opening a barbecue restaurant. But it’s out there…I don’t know where that came from. We DO have barbecue on the menu, but we’re a southern restaurant.” Wier has worked in some heady kitchens around Augusta, as well as San Antonio. “After Rooster’s Beak I worked at Abel Brown for a little bit, and then I went to the Augusta National. After Augusta National I opened Finch and Fifth in Surrey Center, then in 2016 I moved to Texas for a couple of years and worked at the Argyle Club.” The Argyle, a stately Southern mansion and unique private club, is devoted exclusively to the support of the life-saving efforts of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute. Fresh copper and cedar to complement the brick The food – the dishes- the fare- reflect his journey: Oysters Bourgogne, Deviled Crab, Clarks Hill Catfish, Roasted Peaches and Fennel Salad, Strawberry-Watermelon Gazpacho, and Barbeque Shrimp. The menu is printed simply, beckoning you with table shares, seafood, and the little wonders that make your stomach growl in the middle of the night, like Smoked Pimento Mac + Cheese. The location was once the Cotton Patch, one of the original downtown restaurants which was open for decades. Noble Jones is inviting customers into more of the rambling space, with a former storage room now a beautiful private dining room. The menu is four pages. Three of those are drinks. The acoustic tile ceiling concealed the original rough hewn timber JD’s sister-in-law, interior designer Courtney Wier designed the look of the new space, and brother Alex of Wier/Stewart has no doubt pitched in some creative ideas. “This blue pops” Wier says, glancing at the logo wall on the far end of the dining room. “We removed the acoustic tile and that beautiful ceiling was up there. Courtney and I were just talking about how this brick has some blue in it. Kind of. You can look at it and see some grayish blueish.” The back, or front, of the restaurant So with sis-in-law and brother helping out, mom shows up as if on cue, arms overflowing with fresh cut flowers for the table arrangements. She heads across the courtyard to water plants, and a visitor mentioned the space brings to mind a bar tucked away in Charleston, the Battery tourists seemingly a million miles away. There are well manicured box hedges, brick, wrought iron and weathered copper. “JD likes finding antiques like that mirror there” says Sarah Cro, the new sous chef, gesturing towards a beveled glass mirror on the wall. Wier quickly walks through the room, “I love that mantle!” he says as he passes through on his way to a second kitchen in the building adjacent to the dining room. The restaurant faces the levee, with the back actually facing Reynolds Street. On the Reynolds Street side, Cro says they plan on building a patio soon. “We’re talking about getting this paved but the mulch is real nice right now. We’re going to have some tables out here. It’ll be real nice.” Once the weather cools down, Noble Jones will be a hot ticket for the late night crowd. “We plan on having a late night bar menu in a month or so” Cro says. With its off Broad Street location and ample parking, the new restaurant is an exciting addition to downtown. The new 2nd City Distillery is located on the other side of the parking lot. Cro says lunch service will begin soon. “We just want to get everyone acclimated to the POS training, make sure the front of the house and back of house are in cahoots together.” As Sarah tries to find the source of a leak beneath the dishwasher in the kitchen, JD smiles. “Welcome to restaurant ownership” he says. EATSFeaturedNews Bud Lawrence Sees the Future…and We’re OK by Metro Spirit June 30, 2019 Bud Lawrence spent most of his adult life in the car business with his father, the late Frank Lawrence. Originally from Alabama, Bud followed his father to Augusta when his… EATSFeaturedLiving Laundromat Burgers on the Hill Blue blood nannies to neighborhood grannies, Toasty is the Hill’s best laundromat-lotto store-restaurant-convenience store. Once a dive on the downlow amongst hungover servers at Surrey Center, the small breakfast and… EATSFeatured State of the Watermelon Georgia produces watermelons on more than 30,000 acres across the state, with each acre yielding between 35,000-50,000 pounds of melons. After two years of extreme weather during their season, farmers… EATSFeaturedLivingNews Drive Through With a Twist by Metro Spirit June 3, 2019 The Frog and the Hen, open on Flowing Wells Road for a few months now, is pioneering a new approach to the drive thru window in the CSRA. Owner Sean… EATSFeaturedMusicNews The Hootenanny is Back! by Metro Spirit May 21, 2019 The 10th Annual Papa Joe’s Banjo-B-Que Music Festival, a Kansas City Barbeque Society sanctioned BBQ Cook-Off offering over $40,000 in prizes, is this weekend at Lake Olmstead Park. The impressive… Local Chef Shares Cookbook Love by Joe White April 19, 2019 I enjoyed spending some time with Todd Schafer over the past few months while he oversaw the renovation of his restaurant, Abel Brown Southern Kitchen in Surrey Center. One afternoon… Moonshiners Found in Downtown Augusta by Metro Spirit April 9, 2019 Monday 2nd City Distillery finally opened its doors for a soft opening. The 2:00 get together at the small batch distillery was promptly interrupted by a busted hot water heater,… EATSNews “It’s either now or never. But it’s a no brainer.” The Sno Cap Drive-In, located in North Augusta for over fifty years, and Fatman’s Cafe, located in Augusta for over sixty, have a lot in common. Both have very loyal… Headed Southbound by Metro Spirit March 16, 2019 “You get to see it every day,” says George Claussen, one of the owners of Southbound Smokehouse, as he gestures towards the Savannah River. The view from their newest location…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line338
__label__wiki	0.523368	0.523368	You are here: Home » unity Susan McCabe: On "The Fish" [McCabe quotes the lines that begin "I looked into his eyes" and end "old scratched isinglass."] What she discovers is not identity but difference, the eyes impenetrable and layered – mediated and distanced by the speaker’s language. That she describes his yes as "seen through the lenses / of old scratched isinglass" implicates both her vision and that of the fish as blurred and imperfect. Isinglass, a transparent gelatin from the bladders of fish and used, ironically, as a clarifying agent, only diminishes and reduces her ability to see the fish … [McCabe quotes the last twelve lines in "The Fish."] Only after seeing the fish can she see "the little rented boat," which, like the fish, becomes dynamized, its deficiencies metamorphosing to matter for exultation. The fish is only ugly or grotesque to the untrained or unempathic eye. As the small space of the boat expands, her multiple prepositions override "thwarts" and tie "everything" into relationship. The poem takes us two ways: into recognizing difference and into apprehending unity, into perceiving connection and its frailty. But to comprehend, to totalize would be to underrate. We recall that this is a poem about a visionary moment: it can’t keep, but must be let go. This poem, looser than others in this volume and preferring internal rhymes until its final couplet, highlights how fragile and unpredictable are our joinings and communions. … From Susan McCabe, "Artifices of Independence," Chapter 2 in Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994), 95, 96. Read more about Susan McCabe: On "The Fish" Walter Jost: On "Two Tramps in Mudtime" Like many of Frost's poems, "Two, Tramps in Mud Time" unites divergent lines of thought by placing in tension opposed or contradictory values: the self and the other, the literal and the symbolic, the general and the particular, the straight-forward and the ironic, and so on. It is generally agreed that, at the end of the poem, Frost leaves it to his readers to apply to their own lives, to their "avocations and vocations," the maxim that love and need, work and play, can and should be one. But less agreement exists as to the message and quality of this "editorializing." [. . . .] Regarding the poem's message, critics have focused on whether or not the narrator-author should be understood to have surrendered his job of wood-cutting to the tramps who need the work. The wood-cutting is obviously symbolic, so the matter is usually re-framed as follows: is Frost urging that we sacrifice self for others, or are we to expect those “others” to look out for themselves? Be glad of water, but don't forget The lurking frost in the earth beneath . . . Frost's admonishment to us here not to forget to accommodate antithetical norms illustrates the fact that we do forget, that we normally seek to avoid or escape oppositions of the sort that we find in stanzas one through eight, which are themselves reconciled only in stanza nine: the tension, for example, between the various contradicting images and values in one through five; between pleasures we naturally love and the reasonableness or prudence we know we need; and ultimately between one code of prudence (the tramps') and another (the narrator's). These tensions are so arranged as to climax on an emotional level in the excerpt from stanza five above, with the images of water and frost, the pleasurable preferred to the painful (so the narrator needs to remind us, "don't forget"); and on a more intellectual level in stanza eight, with the logic of the tramps over the weaker right attributed to the narrator—reason over feeling, prudence over pleasure (hence the easy "agreed"). Although diverse, these contrasting images, values, and ideas align in sequences of association summarized in the topics "love," "need," "work" and "play." For instance, love and play first represent the physical delight both in "muscles rocking soft / And smooth and moist in vernal heat," and in the other vernal images as well; and then represent more generally (in stanza eight) any pleasure in life or life of pleasure ("My right might be love . . ."): love-play: narrator, woodcutting, warmth, air, brightness, bird, water, life of muscles, vernal heat—in short, everything in life we are "glad of," symbolized most effectively by the vital water of "brook " and "pond" in five. By contrast, need and work first represent tactics for survival in the marketplace, and then more generally any struggle, difficulty or necessity that "lurks" or "hulks" "out of the mud" or woods, or just out of sight: work-need: strangers, blows, coldness, earth, darkness, silence, frost, tramps, cold logic—in short, everything in life we "dare not speak," "spare to strike," and wish to "forget." Now the point is that these associated images, ideas, and values are arranged and treated by a method of disjunction and subordination, a pattern which structures and determines how we consciously react to the world presented in stanzas one through eight. Here it is not so much that we agree with what the tramps say, as that we see things in the way they do, by division and negation. This is the tramps' own method and modus vivendi—one hardly unfamiliar to us, or opposed to the way we normally act—which Frost exploits in the form of the poem itself. We are all adept enough in life at being "glad of" what gives pleasure and at shunning ills, just as we are, on the other hand, prudent enough to subordinate pleasure to the need to survive. Thus we appreciate what in nature is pleasurable, and tend to avoid what is difficult and associated with struggle and need (the cold, dark, silent, frozen). Rhetorically, this tendency to see things as existing "in twain " (separate in the sense of opposed and contradictory) is the "common place" we occupy at the beginning and throughout most of the poem ("yield who will to their separation"), which Frost explores for its powers and limits. Accordingly he has us identify on the one hand with the narrator and the images associated with him, and to feel reserve toward those "strangers" who "put him off," and caution or fear at the images associated with them (mud, mid-March, frost, teeth). On the other hand he has us agree with the tramps against the pseudo-narrator's sentimentalized love and self-absorbed play. The point is that in both cases the two exist "in twain." As a result, commentators have always seen the tramps and narrator as locked into opposition! And yet, although we don't come to realize it until stanza nine, in stanza eight we don't know what the narrator really believes. Actually he is not opposed to the tramps at all: his "right" only "might be love" (pleasure, etc.), and turns out not to be. Until the last, however, the narrator's true position is subordinated to the one attributed to him (which is subordinated in turn to the tramps' own view). The narrator, Frost himself, is "lurking" behind a second or pseudo-self, momentarily eclipsed by a world-view in which the terms of the debate are set—and more importantly by a worldview whose chief characteristic is that there is a debate at all. In short, Frost achieves his effects by manipulating the point of view from which we see and understand the world of. the poem. This becomes clearer in stanza nine, which not only talks about those preceding oppositions as unities, but which unifies them with various rhetorical devices: paradox ("work is play"), pun ("play for mortal stakes"), simile (''as my two eyes make one in sight"), repetition of the conjunctive "and," unity of idea (the idea of unity itself), and the unifying of form and content of the previous two sections. As a result we learn (or remember) a way of seeing oppositions as unified wholes, which resolves conflict not by avoidance or negation, but by asserting the equal importance of the opposed parts, in nature (cold and warm, water and frost), in self (body and soul, avocation and vocation), in human relations (love and need, narrator and tramps), and in our relations with the transcendent (Heaven and the future's sakes). Again, contrast this view and its methods with our mode of apprehension in the first two sections. Section one (1-5) controls how we evaluate its images by juxtaposing opposites, presenting first what is the more obvious and pleasurable, and then balancing that with the less obvious and somehow more threatening or difficult. Arrangement is crucial, for it suggests the precariousness of our satisfaction with the seemingly self-evident (the "cheery" tramps, the "unimportant" wood, the sun, the bluebird, the water, the "right" of love). It does so by juxtaposing these with the need to provide ("don't forget") for what is no less real for being less obviously pleasant or present. But note that this is accomplished with our attention directed, not to this one-sidedness of ours, but to the emotional pleasure of act and scene—the implications of inadequacy are only "lurking." Similarly, section two (6-8) brings this pattern to its logical conclusion by sharpening the differences between the pseudo-narrator and the tramps, and by sacrificing one of those "sides," love and play, to the need to work. Here again our attention is elsewhere, on the prudential over the pleasurable, and again the explicit view is that these elements are at odds. Hence, throughout both sections elements are joined only by the disjunctive "but": "But if you so much as dare to speak"; "But he wouldn't advise a thing to blossom"; "My right might be love / But theirs was need"; "The sun was warm but the wind was chill." In sum, careful selection and arrangement of images and actions analogically related to each other and connoting good and bad, the separation of emotion and reason, and various syntactical and stanzaic divisions dichotomize the reader's perceptions and responses, leading him to see the world as the tramps do—dualistically. This is so successfully accomplished, in fact, that we have to ask ourselves how it is that we come to find the claims about unity in stanza nine persuasive at all. Why not agree with Cowley that stanza nine is a sententious sermon, or with Poirier that the poem is a "failure?" Surely stanza nine alone does not overcome the world-view enacted in the preceding eight: why then accept it? The answer lies, I think, in the fundamental ambiguity of the poem's images, actions, terms, and methods of dividing and uniting. Frost does counter each of these with its opposite, but he does so ambiguously, encouraging us in effect to see the elements of each pair not simply as separated, but also as united. This means that Frost does not rely in the ninth stanza on abstract sermonizing extraneous to the rest of the poem, as Cowley, Cook and others allege, but simply recommends at the end of the poem what he has been surreptitiously doing all along, uniting opposites. [. . . . ] From this perspective we can now grasp the whole poem as an argument whose conclusion is drawn in stanza nine. Past disjunctive pairs can now be understood as so many examples of unity-in-division, related to each other by analogy, which simultaneously, but on different levels of the reader's awareness, (1) show the powers and limits of the tramps' view, and more importantly (2) prove by inductive generalization the maxim with which the poem ends. We are persuaded, moved to a new "place," by virtue of our having experienced several plausible examples, whose terms then become, in Kenneth Burke's formulation, "equipment for living." And this explains, I think, why Frost refrains from telling us how he responded to the tramps' putative request. It is not that this request is insignificant or irrelevant, since this situation is morally as real as any other we might imagine. Rather, Frost has us answer our own question by requiring us to apply the message we learned from the poem. And we can only answer that the narrator must give the work because, to put it negatively, not to give would be to ignore that "common good" and those "mortal stakes" now before him (and us) in the persons of the needy tramps. To imagine refusing this unity of "self" and "other" in the act of giving is simply to have missed the "message," to have failed to grasp what the poem enacted. To put this more positively, to give the woodcutting is itself a creative "deed" which unites the narrator's love and need just as the woodcutting itself had previously done for him. Indeed, the narrator has been giving (by denying himself) for a long time: The blows that a life of self-control Spares to strike for the common good . . . Furthermore, by giving the job Frost in effect concedes that values do often exist "in twain" (the tramps, for one, simply have no choice about uniting values such as love and need, work and play); the narrator's giving thus signals the fact that his ideal realistically admits the tramps' view, and qualifies it without simply negating it: narrator and tramps are thus unified again in their separation. What Frost has done, then, is to equip us, not with Christian, liberal, or any other kind of determinate doctrine, but with a language and experience requiring innovative thought and feeling, practical "wisdom " which completes and finally becomes our "delight." Applied to poetry itself, then, love and need, work and play signify Frost's ideal of the "philosophic poet" as one who unites knowledge and action in the unity of art and propaganda, poetic and rhetoric. The poet as philosopher is the rhetorician, not in any narrow partisan sense, but as one seeking to stimulate inquiry, to transform commonplaces, and to move to new perceptions of self and world. It is the classical rhetorical ideal of Cicero, Horace and Sidney, for whom the offices of poet, as of orator, were to teach, move and delight. For too long critics have one-sidedly favored the poetic against the rhetorical, and the romantic "I" against the more pragmatic "we," and in consequence have failed to do justice to one of Frost's most representative poems. It is not unlikely that more rhetorical analyses can enrich our sense of Frost as communicator, and of his work as play for mortal stakes. We have not yet found the lurking Frost. from "The Lurking Frost: Poetic and Rhetoric in 'Two Tramps in Mud Time'" in Cady, Edwin H. and Louis J. Budd (eds.) On Frost: The Best from American Literature. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Duke UP. 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__label__cc	0.723499	0.276501	Mary C. Curtis Award-winning columnist, writer, speaker and editor Open Letter to My Congressman, Robert Pittenger: No, We Don’t Hate White People Featured at The Root The congressman’s statements to the BBC were shocking and the last thing needed in a taut atmosphere already filled with hurt. Perhaps a visit to the newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture could help? Read the rest atThe Root Sep262016 TAGS: black history, George W. Bush, John Lewis, President Barack Obama, Robert Pittenger Hollywood Celebrities Show Up in Support of DC Statehood In a room sprinkled with celebrities—and there were quite a few, from Ashley Judd to David Schwimmer—one stood out for reasons other than a starring role on TV or in the movies. 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__label__cc	0.682765	0.317235	Abandon tradition of murdering prophets November 26, 2018 Matters India By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Nov. 26, 2018: The show-cause notice served to Father Augustine Vattoly by the Administrator of Ernakulum-Angamaly Archdiocese is a blunder that exposes intellectual, professional and above all spiritual bankruptcy. The allegations against the activist priest expose the worldly ways religious leadership acts when challenged. It is worth reflecting on the basis and implications of this issue. With the patronizing of Roman Emperor Constantine, the spiritual movement which Jesus started drifted away from His Way. With unlimited and unquestionable power, leaders of the Church abandoned the role of Good Shepherd and adopted the style of kings and emperors. Prophets who questioned the drift from Christ’s way were considered heretics and punished by excommunication or burning alive. The Jewish tradition of murdering prophets returned to the Church. Gradually man-made canon law and dogmas replaced the Gospel of Christ. With the patronage of kings and emperors the institutional Church was expanded to all parts of the world. Fortunately God raised prophets and saints at different times to cleanse the Church and rebuild it. Francis of Assisi and Martin Luther were some of them. However, the materialistic forces did not allow these renewals to last long. The crisis which the Church faces today because of the divisions and scandals within and the threats from outside forces could be met effectively by returning to the Christocentric way of life. Each time the Church faces a crisis its members — bishops, priests and lay people — should ask themselves, “What would Jesus do if He were here today?” Sincere reflection over the issues would help the Church solve all its current crises. It is a pity that the Church leadership, especially the Syro-Malabar hierarchy, does not want to confront such a question. The root of the problem is our failure to understand the call of Christ to be prophets. “I have chosen you to be a prophet to the nations”. A prophet is the conscience of society. The horizon of prophetic mission is unlimited. Wherever human life is oppressed or justice is denied, a disciple of Christ has to speak and act without bothering about the consequences. Unfortunately Church in India has not acted as prophet. It has taken the shortcut of being a welfare agency. The institutional interest and fear have always made the Church leadership to remain silent on injustices happening in the Indian society. The priests and nuns are trained to engage in charity and routine social works. Whenever government tried to control the Church institutions, bishops had asked priests, nuns and lay people to come to the streets to protest and shout slogans. The same hierarchy forbids when people to act as prophets and protest against injustice and oppression inflicted by someone in the Church leadership. Father Vattoly, right from his early years of priesthood, has opted to follow Christ who called him to be a prophet to the nations. Hence he has participated in many struggles of people. The Church authorities did not have any problem with such activities. Now when he joined the struggle of the oppressed nuns for justice against a bishop, they want to control and silence him. If the Church leadership is afraid of being prophetic it should be happy and proud that a priest is living true to his vocation. Labeling this authentic priest as part of terrorist groups and anti-Christian forces exposes the spiritual and intellectual impoverishment of those who try to control him. When the Church is plagued by scandals and public opposition, issuing a show cause notice with baseless allegations is untimely and unprofessional. The show cause notice speaks of offering daily Holy Mass as the way for a priest to grow in spirituality. Jesus lambasted the Jewish priestly class who promoted a cultic religion with rituals for the salvation of people. He violated all the Jewish laws and rituals which did not make people spiritual. Cultic religion is preserved for the vested interest of the priestly class. It appears that all focus of the Syro-Malabar hierarchy is to keep the Church as a cultic sect and exploit the people without helping them to experience spirituality. Father Vattoly was offering living Eucharist when he fought for the rights of the poor and the marginalized. When he was imprisoned for seven days because of his prophetic mission he was offering a better Eucharist than the elaborate cultic Holy Mass which the bishops and priests offer in the security of their churches. It is important for the Church leaders to understand that Jesus had promoted spirituality of values instead of religiosity of rituals. He was more concerned about reconciliation, forgiveness, loving one’s enemies, doing justice and working for the liberation of the oppressed than performing complicated rituals which did not make people spiritual. It is important to be a disciple of Christ by following his example than worshiping him. Father Vattoly follows the example of Christ who liberated the oppressed and exploited. It is more genuine than sitting in church for many hours worshiping God with long and loud prayers, which Jesus Himself had condemned. The Church leaders and priests have to meditate the call of Christ to be salt of the earth and light of the world. If the leadership fails to follow the example of Jesus, the Good Shepherd, and fail to be salt through its integrity and credibility, it has no right to preach. Instead of trying to silence and suppress genuine prophets like Father Vattoly the leaders in the Church should present themselves as role models for others to follow. It is better not to further mess up the matters which are already messy. Instead of following the tradition of murdering the prophets let us follow the legacy of Christ. Tags: Father Augustine Vattoly, Father Varghese Alengaden, Syro-Malabar Church Previous End violence against women now Next It’s ‘Vot(a)e Saranam,’ not ‘Swamiye Saranam’ Church turmoil in perspective Qualifying for the World Cup Finals 2019 Should the Church in Kerala fall apart? CBCI protest for Rape victims	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line342
__label__wiki	0.773465	0.773465	You are here: Home / Sport / Rugby / Blow to Kings as Jaer Ruled out of Reds Game Blow to Kings as Jaer Ruled out of Reds Game 13 April 2017 By Alan Straton Leave a Comment Malcolm Jaer The Southern Kings suffered a blow with the loss of fullback Malcolm Jaer ahead of their Vodacom Super Rugby match against the Queensland Reds in Brisbane on Saturday. Kick-off is at 07h05. The 21-year-old Jaer was one of the star performers with a hat-trick of tries for the Southern Kings last weekend as the side narrowly went down 41-46 to the Western Force in Perth in their first of three tour matches in Australia. However, the elusive back sustained a knee injury in the build-up to the Southern Kings’ second match Down Under which has put his tour to an abrupt end, team doctor Konrad von Hagen confirmed on Thursday. Jaer will be travelling back to South Africa where he will see a specialist in Port Elizabeth and undergo further scans to ascertain the nature of the knee injury. Southern Kings head coach Deon Davids expressed his disappointment with the loss of the fullback. “Unfortunately we have also lost a star player from last week, Malcolm Jaer, with a knee injury. He will be returning to South Africa to be properly assessed,” Davids said. The injury to Jaer has given an opportunity for another elusive fullback, Masixole Banda, to return to the starting XV after missing out on a spot in the team last weekend against the Force. “We are lucky to have Masixole Banda in the squad, who can replace him (Jaer),” the head coach said. “He has been exposed to this level of rugby in the first few weeks of the competition. He is looking forward to regain that opportunity at No15.” Banda’s inclusion in the team is the only change Davids has made to the backline after last weekend’s thrilling performance. In the forwards pack, the head coach has made three rotational changes to the side that squared up against the Force in Perth. In the front row, Chris Heiberg gets his first start of the season as he exchanges spots with Schalk van der Merwe at tighthead prop. In the second row, Mzwanele Zito will be getting a starting berth at No4 with Irne Herbst going to the bench. Tyler Paul will also start in the No7 jersey, replacing Andisa Ntsila who will be on the bench. Justin Forwood, who was a late inclusion last weekend following the neck injury to Ross Geldenhuys, will again be afforded an opportunity to start while Geldenhuys continues to receive rest. “At this stage of the tournament it becomes important that you manage the load of the players effectively,” Davids explained the changes. “It’s been a tough week for us, with the players suffering from sore bodies, bumps and bruises as a result of the tough encounter against Western Force last week. Therefore, we need to rotate our players in certain positions, which is what we have done.” The head coach admitted that his side was expecting another tough encounter against the Reds this weekend while also acknowledging the positive improvements he has witnessed in his own side this season. “The Reds are a quality side with a lot of international players in their squad. It is going to be important for us to minimise our mistakes and use our opportunities much more effectively against them on Saturday,” he said. “Last week there was much improvement in certain areas of our game. Unfortunately, close decisions and our inability to use our opportunities better cost us that game. We are a team that is still learning, eager to learn and we are very excited to get an opportunity to play a quality side like the Reds on Saturday here in Brisbane.” The Southern Kings team to face the Queensland Reds is: 15. Masixole Banda 14. Yaw Penxe 13. Berton Klaasen 12. Luzuko Vulindlu 11. Makazole Mapimpi 10. Lionel Cronje (c) 9. Louis Schreuder 8. Ruaan Lerm 7. Tyler Paul 6. Chris Cloete 5. Wilhelm van der Sluys 4. Mzwanele Zito 3. Justin Forwood 2. Michael Willemse 1. Chris Heiberg REPLACEMENTS: 16. Martin Bezuidenhout, 17. Schalk van der Merwe, 18. Dayan van der Westhuizen, 19. Irne Herbst, 20. Andisa Ntsila, 21. Johan Steyn, 22. Wandile Mjekevu, 23. Pieter-Steyn de Wet. Previous: #TBD2017 – Kings offer Tickets for Blankets Next: Davids Speaks Ahead of the Southern Kings Waratahs clash Filed Under: Rugby Tagged With: malcolm jaer	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line347
__label__cc	0.541906	0.458094	Global Missiology English, Vol 1, No 3 (2005) Home > Vol 1, No 3 (2005) > K. Dream Encounters in Christian and Islamic Societies and Its Implications for Christian Ministry and Mission John K., Th.M. Christian Missionary Leader for Muslims Published in Global Missiology, Contextualization, October 2005, www.globalmissiology.org An Introduction to the Nature of Dreams An historical overview An anthropological and sociological overview A Biblical view Figure 1: A classification dreams in the Biblical genre Dream encounters in Christian societies Christian psychologists and the dream Charismatic/Pentecostal views of the dream Dream encounters in Islamic societies Implications for Christian missions and ministry Dreams as a form of evangelism Dreams in discipleship Dreams are commonly experienced by people in every society, but how they are perceived differs according to a persons perspective. Ones education, socio-cultural and religious backgrounds all influence the way dreams are viewed (Bulkeley 1995:9). Phenomenologically, a dreamer is aware of certain events during this altered state of consciousness. They may be achieved through incubation, drugs or mere somnolence. For this discussion, I focus on dreams encountered in the natural course of sleep. The loss of self-awareness and control experienced when a dreamer dreams is sometimes more pronounced than encountered in a vision or a trance. However, such loss is not necessarily total. One may suddenly awake in a parallel physical enactment of the dream in the real world like dreaming of free-fall from a cliff only to be awakened by the fall from ones bed! Though the example appears trivial, the subject is more serious. I will broadly survey the nature of dreams in its historical, anthropological and sociological contexts. We next examine how Scripture informs us about dreams to gain a Biblical framework to judge its ontology and validity. Dream encounters in Christian and Islamic societies will be examined, especially cases of dream conversions among Muslims, the chief aim to answer why are dream experiences so significant and common among Muslims but not among most Christians? Finally I will draw some principles from this discussion and its application to missions, evangelism and discipleship as well as assessing potential benefits but some cautions along the way. Dream encounters and their acceptance by ordinary people are not new in history. Greek literature yields many references to dreams from Plato, Homer, Socrates and others (Kelsey 1991: 57-79). Besides Christian literature, such as Augustines Confessions (1961:68), every major church father of the early church from Justin Martyr, Iranaeus, Tertullian, Origen to Cyprian accepted dreams as another mean of communication in which God could speak to humans (ibid. 1991: 104-114). In the Middle Ages, writings on dreams become increasingly absent in Christian literature. However they grew in Arabia with Islams ascendancy during the tenth to thirteenth century (ibid:143). Meanwhile, in Christian societies, the revival of Aristotalian philosophy during this time that emphasized logic diminished dreams as a source of possible divine communication. If they occurred, they were likely thought of as aberrations of the human mind. The Enlightenments emphasis on the mind and reason also disregarded dreams as a way for God to speak to man. The twentieth century scientific-materialist worldview that traces its roots from this period still pervades our understanding of dreams (Sanford 1989:44). For example, modern science understands dreams solely as bio-electrical impulses of the neurons, occurring during rapid-eye movement sleep. There is little consideration of possible external divine stimuli. The Enlightenments influence on the religious nature of dreams also informed psychologys beginnings. Freud (1952:11) stated that dreams were simply ingenious mythology and that only a small minority of educated people doubted that dreams were a product of the dreamers mind. Even if one did not hold to Freuds view, for most modern Westerners a dream is a byword for flight, fantasy, imagination or fiction (Musk 1988:163). Where they have some bearing affecting reality, little attention is paid to it. Such reasoning has so strongly affected modern Christians that some doubt that God has communicated with men by dreams since the close of the canon [of Scripture]. (Ruble 1968: 364) Do dreams have any relevance or merit serious examination by us today? If they are studied today, it is mostly among secular or Christian psychologists. However, interest in dreams not only survives among psychologists. With the rise of post-modern philosophy and interest in things spiritual, its skepticism of scientific progress and absolute knowledge, interest in dreams has resurged and made a comeback in the West. In societies little touched by the Enlightenment however, dreams are considered as sources of mystery, hidden knowledge or divine guidance requiring oneiromancy (dream divination and interpretation). For example in Africa, there are numerous documentation on the pervasive nature of dreams (Jedrej 1992). In Islamic societies, the importance of dreams and visionary experience there has been continuous from the tradition of Muhammad up to the present (Hermansen 1997: 2) Islamic literature lists over five thousand references alone devoted to dream interpretation. No wonder dreams continue to be highly respected as a means of divine communication among folk Muslims. Dreams continue to be important in many societies worldwide for a number of reasons (Charsley 1992; Curley 1992; Jedrej 1992). A.F.C. Wallace (1967:190) notes that dreams may be an escape valve for individuals to relieve social tension within. For example, wet dreams fulfill this function for sexually frustrated males in American society. Dreams are also useful for the mind to work out certain problems encountered in the day as the dreamer role-plays imaginative scenarios in the recess of sleep. Dreams may also surprise a person into corrective behaviors (Musk 1988: 167) or used to seek ancestral guidance of the unknown by communicating with the dead (Lehmann 1985:81). Among Muslims, dreams are thought to warn against impending danger, guide him to a saint, solve judicial problems or interfere with political decisions (Schimmel 1980:123). Dreams are also used to explain felt needs of suffering in society, providing answers and release anxiety in a world of questions to relieve tensions between an individual and society at large (Curley 1992:150). They may also reinforce certain local customs and mores (Musk 1988:166), empower socially outcast groups by according their practitioners powers and revelations (through oneiromancers or diviners) (Jedrej 1992:169). Whatever functions dreams satisfy, most people perceive them as either real (i.e. supernatural encounters/out-of-this world experiences) or unreal (i.e. figment of the imagination or childish fantasies). The former view prevails in African, American Indian and most Muslim societies, incorporated within a worldview that sees no dualism of the natural and supernatural. Rather, life is looked at holistically (Hiebert 1999:16-17). In The latter view is seen in the modern, Western mind, conceived as a separate part of reality, by-products of a primitive belief (Freud 1952:11). The Bible views dreams as ontologically real. They are mentioned numerous times throughout (Hubbard 2000: 41). The Bible distinguishes between a dream and a vision (ibid: 182-184). Visions are often sought, while a dream may come unbidden (ibid: 114). Dreams may be classified in various ways. According to Hubbard (ibid: 184), two types of dreams may be observed in Scripture: (1) ordinary dreams that all people occasionally have during sleep due to natural causes. It is believed that these sometimes have religious significance. (2) revelatory dreams in which God conveys information to man. They may have clear, direct meanings or be symbol-laden. A dream was not considered to contain divine truth unless a person or prophet could show credentials which could then make the dream credulous. Musk (1988:167) notes that [t]here is no sense, in the Scriptures, of such dreams being second-class forms of communication between God and man. They are both natural and acceptable. Husser (1999: 23) classifies dreams found in Biblical genre as these: Symbolic dreams (dreams that transmit a message from the gods but by means of images, pictures and events whose significance escape the dreamer) Message-dreams (dreams are marked by unexpected appearances of a divinity or of someone who communicated a message, the contents which are immediately intelligible to the sleeper) Josephs dream (Gen 37) The Egyptians dreams (Gen 40-41) The Midianites dream (Judg 7:13-15) Nebudchanezzers dream (Dan. 2 and 4) Abimelechs dream (Gen 20:3-7) Jacobs first dream (Gen 28) Jacobs second dream (Gen 31:10-13) Solomons dream (1 Kings 3) Of dreams (and visions) in the New Testament, Padwick (1939:206) classifies them into three types based on several passages: (1) moral warnings (Matt 27:19; Acts 9:4) (2) guidance (Matt 1:20; Acts 10:3) and (3) encouragement (Acts 18:9; 23:11). In many narrative passages of the Bible, dreams are described as historical, matter-of-fact instances of life (Musk 1988:163). For example, dreams occur in the night (Gen 28:11,12; Job 33:15). They may warn of dangers (Matt 2:12,13), rebuke unbelievers (Gen 20:3,6; Matt 27:19), foretell the future (Gen 37:5-10), announce Gods presence (Gen 31:11) or provide comfort and encouragement (Gen 40:9-11; Acts 18:9; 23:11). Scripture also warns of possible encounters with false dreams and false interpreters of dreams (Jer 23:32; Ecc 5:7; Zech 10:2) while guiding us to deal with such counterfeit phenomena and false prophets (Deut 13:1-5; Jer 23:25,28; 29:8). Demons may also speak through dreams to mislead (Deut 13:1-5). On the other hand, non-believers may also experience dreams whose source is from the Lord (Gen 20:3-7, Dan 2, 4). Some dreams are clear while others need to be interpreted. It is God who gives the interpretation of dreams (Gen 40:8; 41:25,32; Dan 2:28). Dreams are considered a normal mode in which God could communicate to his people (1 Sam 28:15). However valuable dreams were, they were just a mediating channel. Instead of speaking through dreams, God could also speak to his prophet directly (Num 12:6). Just as dreams can be a legitimate form of communication that God uses to speak to humans, the phenomenon by itself does not indicate the credibility of the source. It must be tested. How does a person practically test if dreams are from the Lord or another spirit? Two passages are insightful: Gen 28:12 and Jn 1:51. In the latter, Jesus is the fulfillment of Jacobs dream as the Ladder to heaven. All dreams then that purport to signify Christ must in some way testify to him as the only way to heaven (Jn 14:6) if it is to come from the Lord. Oepke (1967:236) states that [a]ll the records of dreams in the New Testament are properly only variations on the one theme of Christ. Any spirit that manifests itself in a dream to a person must also testify that Jesus is God (1 Jn 4:2,3). Augustines Confessions (1961:68) records how his mother had a dream concerning his own salvation. Jerome encountered a conversion dream in the midst of his struggle to decide between his Christian family upbringing and his education. (Bulkeley 1995:8-9) Every major church father of the early church considered dreams as another means of communication in which God could speak to man (Kelsey 1991: 104-114). Today, where documented, analysis of dream encounters occur in five areas: (1) the New Age (Gray. 1994) (2) anthropological studies (Lehman and Myers 1985) (3) missionary accounts (Padwick 1939) (4) counseling/psychological literature (secular or Christian) (Bulkeley 1995) or (5) Charismatic/Pentecostal circles (Oss 1996). Christian psychology that has focused on dreams and its interpretation, draws its roots from psychoanalysis. Established by Freud (1952:15) as a specialized field his work on dreams was significant because it broached an area considered private and unscientific by many. By researching and writing of it scientifically, he gave its study credibility. However, his conclusions were based on an evolutionary, atheistic worldview. For Freud (1952:12-16), dreams arose out of biological and mental phenomena of the dreamers own doing. Thus, dreams could not come from any supernatural influences. Thus, its interpretation and meaning were purely for the benefit of the dreamer. However, if certain dream images were thought to be significant to the dreamer, psychoanalysts could help interpret these images for the dreamer. Carl Jung understood dreams in another way. In his book Dreams, Jung (1974) thought these symbols represented universal meanings or archetypes that any society expressed its deep hidden meanings in. Though neither a Christian like Freud, his view of dreams expanded the emphasis on a symbolic interpretation of dreams. Instead of its meaning anchored solely in the subjective and interpretive mind of the individual, Jung thought that an intensive study of symbols in cultures around the world would unlock universally common meanings in dreams. Both Freud and Jungs understanding of symbols in dreams were distinctly Saussarian (i.e. a theory of semiotics by Ferdinand de Sausser that stated a symbol represents an absolute known meaning perfectly in the mind of the observer). Jungs thinking influenced Morton Kelsey and John Sanford, predecessors who studied at the Carl Jung Institute. Both Kelsey and Sanford promote a Saussarian interpretation of dreams. Their approach is mostly individualistic, encouraging the dreamer to record their private dreams and seek for interpretations within known parameters of ones knowledge or setting. In general, while Christian psychologists appreciated that dreams may impart meanings, Kelsey and Sanfords approach lacks strong biblical guidelines to determine the validity of dreams in emphasizing the dependence of the dreamer as the self-authenticator to the meaning of his or her own dreams. Scripture is used to authenticate and give meaning to symbols found in the dreamers mind. Caution must be exercised here for dreamers often dream dreams that are reflective of many things found within their culture (Bulkeley 1995:9) and symbols found in the Bible may not impart similar semiotic equivalents. Charismatic and Pentecostal formulation of systematic theology has favored the subject of dreams. In emphasizing that the outpouring of the Spirit and his work at Pentecost in Acts 2 is ongoing and continual even for today (Oss 1996: 247-8, 266-7), the prophecy of Joel 2:28-29 is key (see also Acts 2:17). Certain Charismatics and Pentecostals may understand the gift of discerning of Spirits in 1 Cor.12:10 to even include the interpretation of dreams (Jackson 2002). While the interpretation of dreams may or may not be a necessary gifting of the Spirit, it is definitely a revelation from the Divine that God reveals to the hearer according as He wills (Gen 40:8; 41:25,32; Dan 2:28). For purposes of discussion on dreams, I will use Hussers definition (see earlier Figure 1) especially in examining dreams in Islamic societies. Dreams are central to an understanding of Islam as great credence is given to it in Islamic societies. It is found in Muhammads life, the Quran and the Hadith (Kelsey 1991:144). Ibn Ishaq, a renowned Muslim commentator, believed that Muhammads first signs of prophethoodwere true visionsshown to him in his sleep. (Peters 1994:147). Dream passages in the Quran are found in Surah 8:43; 12:36,41; 12:43-49; 21:5; 37:102 and 48:27. Surah 12 is notable for the fact that Islamic tradition considers the prophet Joseph to be the foremost interpreter of dreams. (Renard 1998: 345). The surah is also the most beautiful story in the Quran (Sachiko 1994:222). Many Hadiths also show Muhammads expertise at dream interpretation. Good dreams are attributed to Allah but bad ones to Satan (Parshall 1994:154). Whoever claims to see a dream which he did not see will be punished in hell (ibid:138). Interestingly, the Messiah is also described in a dream in the Hadith. He is pictured as a Muslim in a dream by Muhammad walking around the Kaabah assisted by two men (ibid:161). One of the traditions records Muhammad having a dream or visionary experience where he encounters the prophets of Islam, including Jesus, on his way to heaven. (Peters 1994: 146). In another Hadith, an Indian Muslim recounts a mysterious dreamlike vision where Jesus appears stating that he is a Son of God. (Lawrence 1998: 349). Among the three major Muslim sects (i.e. the Sunnis, Sufis and Shiites), the Sufis, are notable for their dream experiences. They [are] in a unique position within Islam in regard to interpreting their dream and visionary experiences since they are able to exercise an element of interpretive control conveyed by their claim to superior spiritual status and training. This both privileges their interpretive authority and allows them to apply the significance of their interpretations to realms beyond individual concerns. (Hermansen 1997:4) This emphasis on such oneiric experiences occurred at about the end of the eleventh century (Lewis 1976:119). Theological grounds for full acceptance of such experiences were laid by the Sufi theologian Muhammad al-Ghazali (ibid). He writes: The rational soul in man abounds in marvels, both of knowledge and power. By means of it we master arts and sciences, can pass in a flash from earth to heaven and back again, can map out the skies and measure the distances between the stars. By it also we can draw out the fish from the sea and the birds from the air and can subdue our service animals like the elephant, the camel and the horse. Our five senses are like five doors opening on the external world; but more powerful than this, our heart has a window that opens on the unseen world of spirit. In the state of sleep, when the avenues of the senses are closed, this window is opened, and we receive impressions from the unseen world and sometimes foreshadowings of the future (added). Our hearts are like a mirror that reflects what is pictured in the Tablet of Fate. But, even in sleep, thoughts of worldly things dull the mirror, so that the impressions it receives are not clear (Fadiman 1997:104-105). These experiences gained in importance as symptoms of the students inner state and of his psychic progress. The teacher interpreted his dreams and visions for him, and the first steps were taken towards a system of interpretation. (ibid.) Dreams were one of the means in which the mystics ultimate longing for union with Muhammad could be achieved (ibid: 123). Thus Sufis found this significant as it answers the question of guidance in seeking supernatural knowledge (Hiebert 1999:189). Muslims also related dreams to sleep and death. Sachiko (1994:223) explains that all Muslims knew that dreams were not to be taken at face value. Dreams had to be understood in terms of some appropriate correspondence between the image and the meaning that had become embodied through the image. And everyone knew that sleep and death were somehow similar in their characteristics. Hence, to many Muslims thinkers, it was self-evident that we can throw light on the nature of experience after death by investigating the nature of dreams and the correspondence that exist between the perceived images and the meanings that appear in the images. Among Shiites, intiatory dreams are experienced among some followers into their calling to the point even doctrines developed later in many writings are inseparable from teachings received in dreams (Corbin 1966: 403). It is thus unsurprising to find Shite works on ethics and moral counsel replete with dream citations. Such dreams answer ordinary Muslim concerns of the good life and search for blessing (ibid:134-5). Dreams are still central to folk Muslims today (Musk 1988:164). Musk records of how a Muslim acquaintance foretold an illness by a dream and another where a Turkish man had first been awakened to interest in Christianity by two dreams. (ibid: 166-168) Padwick (1939: 206) notes of Muslims converting to Christianity through dreams. In one account a Muslim dreamed Christ appearing in green robes (the Muslim sacred color) and ordered the man in question to read the gospel and follow his way. In Pakistan, Sheik (1980:35-45) has told of dreams influencing her conversion to Christ. Why do dreams exert such strong influences among Muslims? The fascination of Jesus images among folk Muslims (and possibly in dreams) may be understood in that Jesus is always identified as a Muslim prophet and this must be constantly borne in mind, for he is after all, a figure molded in an Islamic environment. As if to emphasize the fact, several [Muslim] stories depict him reciting the Quran and explaining it, praying in the Muslim manner and going to pilgrimage to Mecca Traditions from the time of Muhammad stress the special closeness with Jesus[and] even if we think of him as an artificial creation, he seems to be an unusual instance of the way in which one religion reaches out to borrow the spiritual heroes of another religion in order to reinforce its own piety (Khalidi 2001:44). Musk (1988:167) summarizes the Muslim attitude concerning dreams, noting that [i]n the full and complex cosmological world of popular Islam, dreams are of central importance, especially with regard to religious activity. Concepts of causality, as defined within popular Islam, come to the surface in the practice, for example, of divination by dream. As far as the concept of personal force is concerned, appropriate powers are fixed upon and even activated in dream/trance state by qualified practitioners. The natural and supernatural worlds coalesce as part of the one reality: the dreamworld unites them. In consequence, dreams are highly motivational within the worldview of popular Islam. When people convert to another spiritual worldview, they do so in the context of some kind of disequilibrium, such as crises within ones sphere of understanding (Bulkeley 1995:8). In virtually all cases of conversion dreams among Muslims, some sort of crisis has occurred within their scope of thinking as part of their turning to Jesus Christ as Lord. When Muslims dream of Jesus directing them to read the Bible, turn to the gospel (Padwick 1939:206), or find peace and comfort (Sheik 1980:52-56), they also experience cognitive dissonance in the process. Some psychologists remark that a primary function of dreams is to help people adapt to and to overcome crises of various sorts. (Bulkeley 1995:8) In this respect, conversion dreams are crisis-resolving dreams par excellence.(ibid.) If this is so, then missionaries may note two potential means of utilizing this understanding in Muslim evangelism: (1) awareness of possible crisis events which might trigger dreams in the Muslim (e.g. natural disasters, family crisis, physical or financial hardships, presentation of the gospel) and (2) preparedness to enter in and offer oneself as an interpreter of their dreams. When message dreams are triggered by a crisis that testify of the Christ of Scripture or the gospel especially, missionaries become oneiromancers in that they have the full revelation of the gospel as found in the Bible as the key to unlock these dreams. Musk (1988: 168, 170) states that [I]t would seem that dreams of guidance have frequently (added) been part of the process of movement toward Christ for those coming from a Muslim background. In such dreams, angels, or Jesus himself, have appeared, urging the person concerned to seek Christ. the world of dream life [appears to provide] an entre to the center of the folk-Islamic worldview. That medium is already functioning within the context of folk-Islamic belief and practice. History records the central importance of dreams in evangelism of ordinary Muslims where care has been taken to note the reality and significance of such phenomena. If a Muslim has a dream that no one in their community is able to interpret adequately, Christians might seek the Lord for possible in-roads or a sign to confirm the significance of these dreams for them. Dreams, if and when properly interpreted for the Muslim who receives them, may thus open doors for the gospel to penetrate their hearts. In light of this, it is therefore not impermissible to pray for God to speak or reveal himself to the Muslim through dreams. It is only one kind but not the only means of evangelism among them. This may be especially so among folk Muslims, Sufis and certain African societies where dreams are considered superior to reality. A missionary who listens to the dreams of the unsaved may also understand much better the deeper thoughts and concerns of a person. Missionaries should also consider that a dream they encounter in their very own sleep be possible prompters from the Holy Spirit to pray for certain individuals or situations realized in the dream. Because dreams have been a part of Gods people in the Bible and in the early church, we must not rule out this mode of communication where God still speaks through dreams through certain people today (Barfoot 2002). If a person comes to Christ through dreams, the work of discipleship must begin. However dreams are experienced by the person during the conversion process, we may not be able to determine whether there is some ontological reality to it. However, Bulkeley (1995:4) notes that one can determine that dreams do have a powerful capacity to transform a persons spiritual life and that a developed, solid, well-reasoned understanding of that capacity can be formulated. The need for discernment, correction and instruction are important (Hiebert 1999:190). The Bible must increasingly become the newborns surest guide to revelation and understanding of who God is. Their dreams must not take precedence over Scripture but rather the Bible must inform and transform their thoughts (Rom 12:1-2). If this does not occur, syncretism may creep in. Interestingly, nowhere in the Bible is the saved believer encouraged to seek God in dreams. This is because Jesus has already shown us who God is (Jn 1:18). He who has seen Jesus has seen the Father (Jn 14:9). His presence is here with us in the person of the Holy Spirit (Jn 15:26). There is thus no need for an intermediary medium where one is unnecessary. This does not mean that a Christian should seek to deny dreams as a part of their life, only to note of dangers in seeking dreams as an end by themselves. Any attempts to seek meaning or guidance in dreams for personal, magical or manipulative use may cross over into divination. A believer should be cautious of any recommendations to seriously seek dreams and find personal meaning in them. Besides evangelistic opportunities, disciplers must be open if given an opportunity or ability to continue interpreting dreams of the saved person. In doing so, they must also note that a persons dream experiences and the dreamers culture exert a mutual influence on one another (Jedrej 1992) as the influence of culture and the dream is reflexive both ways (Bulkeley 1995:9). Viewed in this way, Muslims thus may dream of Jesus because he is among their Quranic prophets which in turn reinforces or reshapes their internal worldview. However, in instances where external and inexplicable dream images are found (i.e. supernatural elements angelic, demonic or otherwise) such influences exerting their presence into the dreamscape of the dreamer may be a likely explanation. We must not be trapped in the naturalistic-materialistic worldview of society. Just as the Lord can speak through dreams, so can Satan and his demons (Hiebert 1999:193). Where the phenomena are not spiritual, one must note that not all oneiric manifestations may be significant. Some may arise as random, spontaneous, unmeaningful collections of thoughts the mind plays during sleep. Undue preoccupation or repeated attempts to read meanings into every dream may be unfruitful. When dreams are experienced as real and considered significant by the dreamer (and ontologically proven so by those whom God has given insights into the dreamers life and can verify to real signifiers in a persons life), we must also not deny their reality as reported by the dreamer. Doing so will lead to a split-level Christianity that affirms Biblical truths on one level but conceal deep and private beliefs on another (ibid:15). Where it is tested ontologically against Scripture and found real, Christians should affirm this mode of communication that the Lord has apparently chosen to speak to the dreamer. Where there are avenues of providing reliable means of interpretation (such as a gift of interpretation or wise Christian counselor or pastor that is able to shepherd and counsel the dreamer in assessing its credibility and relevance), we must not ignore it nor dismiss it. A proper methodology and understanding in how one interprets dreams merits further careful study among Christians. A Jungian view that dreams signify fixed universal symbols that are inherently identifiable with clarity to the dreamer is not always true (Bulkeley 1992: 200). This is similar to a Saussarian understanding of signs that there is a one-to-one correspondence that a symbol signifies a fixed mental image. Dreams have some form of reality to them that is not always clear to the dreamer. However, these oneiric symbols are also influenced largely by the dreamers socio-cultural background. Besides a possible ministry of dream interpretation (i.e. Joseph or Daniel of the Bible), Padwick (1939:205-7) points out some benefits of keeping a diary on the mission field as a means of recording dream stories shared by the locals. They may provide key insights into the lives and concerns of ordinary people, serving to form deeper understandings and relationship with those who take the time to listen and share out of their innermost thoughts. This also enables Christians to be better ministers of the gospel. Only recently have social anthropologists categorized dreams as a social phenomenon having effects being felt by the people, society and culture of the dreamer rather than as individualistic preoccupation that relegates them to private thoughts and emotions in the realm of psychology (Jedrej 1992:6). They also have continuing relevance to the lives of ordinary people even today. If Joel 2:28 still awaits its complete fulfillment, then we have reason to take the study of dreams seriously. Stories of people who have had dreams or visions of someone bringing them Gods word still abound (Hiebert 1999:131). The Bible also informs us capably of the efficacy and possibility of dreams as a valid form of divine communication. However, much is still unknown to us such as our understanding of what constitutes reality, and the relationship between the soul and dreams. Musk (1988:170) asks, if dreams are a part of reality, can our horizons of what constitutes reality expand toward a more biblical norm? In light of the above, what are some broad missiological lessons we can learn from and apply concerning dreams? Besides some specific examples already discussed in evangelism and discipleship, I suggest the following for further engagement concerning: (1) The influence of the Enlightenment and its emphasis on logic and rationalism in ministry. For missions to be more effective, we must guard against a mindset that splits the supernatural and the natural that produces an excluded middle (Hiebert 2000:418) (a worldview that distorts a recognition of unseen, spiritual realities that our rationalistic emphasis dismisses easily). Additionally, we should not overemphasis human logic while minimizing divine mystery in our witness. For example, much Muslim-Christian discussion (and evangelism) on God has centered around logical (as much as possible) explanations of the incarnation and the Trinity, overemphasizing logic while minimizing the mysteries of these concepts. This produces a thorough-going rationalistic approach to evangelism in expositing the Bible and Christianity that leaves Muslims cold. Instead, might missionaries ask Muslims to pray about these matters and ask for God to reveal these mysteries to them (by dreams or otherwise?) instead of relying wholly on our theological outlines and apologetics memorized from seminary days? (2) Our understanding of how God works in missions, with regard to the Holy Spirit and our theology of missions. If the Holy Spirit is rightly accorded his place in evangelism and discipleship, we understand his role in the convicting, converting and sanctification process of the unbeliever and in the empowerment and gifting of the believer for the ministry. However, less stressed is his role in making the presence of God known to unbelievers in illuminating Gods mystery and revelation through the Bible, signs (i.e. miracles), creation (i.e. nature) and through dreams. To what extent is our under appreciation of the Holy Spirits role in these aspects of ministry a blind spot in allowing us to be flexible and open to the various ways in which God reaches out to people? If missionaries are susceptible to this, then it may be greater among theologians, much less systematic theology treatments of it. (3) The phenomenon of dreams among American Indians, New Agers, and psychologist to mention a few. Because they are taken seriously among such groups of people, fruitful means of evangelism may be yet unexplored by Christians among these audiences. After all, if we can understand better how folk Muslims view the world and experience it through their dreams and evangelize to them, how much more among others who reckon dreams seriously? An intriguing question to consider is if God may capably witness to Hindus (entrenched in a worldview that considers the world as a dream) through dreams as well? Further anthropological studies combined with missiological strategies engaged in people and cultures whose see the dream as continuing significance still await us all. Augustine. 1961 Confessions. New York: Penguin. Barfoot, Deanna 2002 Private conversations. Bulkeley, Kelly 1992 Dreams, Spirituality, and Root Metaphors. Journal of Religion and Health, 31 (3): 197-206. 1995 Conversion Dreams. Pastoral Psychology, 44 (1):3-11. Charsley, Simon 1992 Dreams in African Churches. In Dreaming, Religion, and Society in Africa. Jedrej, M.C. and Rosalind Shaw, eds. Pp.153-176. Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill. Corbin, H. 1966 The Visionary Dream in Islamic Spirituality. In The Dream and Human Societies, von Grunebaum, G.E. and Roger Callois, eds. Pp.381-408. Berkeley, CA: University of California. Curley, Richard T. 1992 Private Dreams and Public Knowledge in a Camerounian Independent Church. In Dreaming, Religion, and Society in Africa. Jedrej, M.C. and Rosalind Shaw, eds. Pp.135-151. Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill. Fadiman, James, and Robert Frager 1997 Essential Sufism. San Francisco, CA: Harper San Francisco. Fisher, Humphrey 1979 Dreams and Conversion in Black Africa. In Conversion to Islam. Nehemia Levtzion, ed. Pp.217-235. New York: Holmes and Meier. 1952 On Dreams. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc. Gray, Wallace 1994 Dreaming as a Theological and Ecological Stimulus. Quarterly Review, Spring, 83-88. Hermansen, Marcia 1997 Introduction to the Study of Dreams and Visions in Islam. Religion, 27(1):1-6 Hiebert, Paul, Shaw, R. Daniel and Tite Tinou 1998 Understanding Folk Religion. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books. Hiebert, Paul 2000 Flaw of the Excluded Middle. In Perspectives on the World Christian Movement. Winter, Ralph and Steven Hawthorne, eds. Pp.414-421. 3rd ed. Pasedena, CA: William Carey Library. Hubbard, Perry J. 2000 Understanding and Responding to the World of the Spirits: A Study of the Old Testament View of Spirits and Their Power. Kearney, NE: Morris. Husser, Jean-Marie 1999 Dreams and Dream Narratives in the Biblical World. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press. Jackson, John Paul 2002 http://www.streamsministries.com/ Jedrej, M.C. and Rosalind Shaw, eds. 1992 Dreaming, Religion, and Society in Africa. Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill. Jones, Russell 1979 Ten Conversion Myths in Indonesia. In Conversion to Islam. Nehemia Levtzion, ed. Pp.129-143. New York: Holmes and Meier. Jung, Carl 1974 Dreams. R.F.C. Hull, trans. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Kelsey, Morton 1991 God, Dreams, and Revelation. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress. Khalidi, Tarif ed. 2001 The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Lawrence, Bruce B. 1998 Gezu Darazs Vision of Jesus. In Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality and Religious Life. John Renard, ed. Pp.347-350. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Lehmann, Arthur and James E. Myers 1985 Magic, Witchcraft and Religion. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield. Lewis, P. 1984 Pirs, Shrines, and Pakistani Islam. Al-Mushir, 26 (1):1-22. Mbiti, John 1997 Dreams as a Point of Dialogue between Christianity and African Religion. Missionalia, 25 (December): 511-522. Meier, Fritz 1976 The Mystic Path: The Sufi Tradition. In Islam and the Arab World: Faith, People, Culture. Bernard Lewis, ed. Pp. 117-128. New York: Knopf. Musk, Bill 1988 Dreams and the Ordinary Muslim. Missiology 16 (2):163-172. Oepke, Albrecht 1967 Onar In Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. G. Friedrich, ed. Pp.220-238. Vol. V, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdsman. Oss, Douglas 1996 A Pentecostal/Charismatic View. In Are Miraculous Gifts for Today? Four Views. Wayne Grudem, ed. Pp.239-283. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. Padwick, C.E. 1939 Dream and Vision: Some Notes From a Diary. International Review of Mission, 28 (110): 205-215. Parshall, Phil 1994 Inside the Community. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker. Peters, F.E. 1994 Muhammad and the Origins of Islam. New York: State University of New York Press. Renard, John, ed. 1998 Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality and Religious Life. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Rippin, Andrew 2001 Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. New York: Routledge. Ruble, Richard L. 1968 The Doctrine of Dreams. Bibliotheca Sacra 125 (500): 360-364. Sachiko, Murata 1994 Vision of Islam: Reflecting on the Hadith of Gabriel. New York: Paragon. 1989 Dreams: Gods Forgotten Language. New York: Harper & Row. 1980 Islam in the Indian Subcontinent. Netherlands: Leiden Koln. Sheik, Bilquis 1980 I Dared to Call Him Father. Waco, TX: Word. Von Grunebaum, G.E. and Roger Callois, eds. 1966 The Dream and Human Societies. Berkeley: University of California Press. Wallace, Anthony F. C. 1967 Dreams and the Wishes of the Soul: A type of Psychoanalytic Theory among the Seventeenth Century Iroqouis. 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__label__wiki	0.884959	0.884959	Home of Metal: Hand of Doom 8 Jun 2019 — 1 Sep 2019 mac birmingham Hand of Doom features a collection of portraits of Black Sabbath fans wearing the ubiquitous battle jacket. The jackets are embellished, handmade and embroidered by the fans themselves, and worn to tell the story of their fandom and gig-attending history. The photographs were created with Black Sabbath fans from across the globe and show the diversity of the fan base for the influential music genre that originated in Birmingham. Submit event or opportunity Subscribe to our newsletter About New Art West Midlands New Art West Midlands info@newartwestmidlands.co.uk New Art West Midlands is funded by Arts Council England and we are hosted by our lead partner Birmingham City University. We are supported by our project partners Coventry University, University of Wolverhampton and University of Worcester. New Art West Midlands Exhibition 2017 is led by Birmingham Museums Trust with support from participating host venues. It is funded by Arts Council England alongside Birmingham City University, Coventry University, Hereford College of Arts, Staffordshire University, University of Wolverhampton and University of Worcester. New Art West Midlands Engine is led by The New Art Gallery Walsall. It is funded by Arts Council England, and delivered with support from Walsall Council and our programme partners. © 2019 New Art West Midlands. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our website. By using this site, you agree that we may store and access cookies on your device. Find out more about Cookies and our Privacy Policy.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line353
__label__wiki	0.904914	0.904914	PM: 'Terrorist' Killed Soldier 'In Cold Blood' First a soldier guarding a hallowed war memorial was gunned down in Canada's capital. Then shots erupted in the halls of the country's Parliament minutes later. The two shootings in Ottawa Wednesday left lawmakers barricaded inside offices and parts of the city on lockdown for hours as police searched for suspects. Ottawa Police lifted the lockdown Wednesday night and said there was no longer a danger to the public. But many questions remain about the shootings: Who was the gunman? Why did he open fire? And was he acting alone? Posted by Ashley Fantz, Catherine E. Shoichet, Josh Levs Filed under: News • Videos • World News Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, shown here in 1988 military ceremony, says a video game damaged his reputation. Manuel Noriega Sues Over 'Call of Duty' Video Game Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega has a message for the publishers of a popular video game that features a mission to capture him: You owe me money. In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday, the 80-year-old once known as one of Latin America's most powerful strongmen accused the Activision Blizzard video game company of harming his reputation with "Call of Duty: Black Ops II." Noriega - convicted of drug trafficking, money laundering and killing political opponents - is serving out a prison sentence in Panama,where he was extradited in 2011. He argues in the lawsuit that his portrayal "as a kidnapper, murderer and enemy of the state" in the 2012 video game damaged his reputation. The company used his image and name in order to make make money, the lawsuit says, therefore he's entitled to a share of the profits. "Plaintiff was portrayed as an antagonist as the culprit of numerous fictional heinous crimes, creating the false impression that defendants are authorized to use plaintiff's image and likeness," the lawsuit says. Activision Blizzard did not immediately respond to a request for comment. MORE on CNN.com Posted by Catherine E. Shoichet Filed under: News • World News How Do You Spell T-I-E? National Spelling Bee Has Two Winners Sriram Hathwar and Ansun Sujoe correctly spelled so many words Thursday that the Scripps National Spelling Bee had to declare them both winners. Why? Because there weren't enough words left on the competition's list for them to keep facing off until only one was left standing. In the bee's final round, Hathwar, a 14-year-old eighth-grader from Painted Post, New York, correctly spelled the word "stichomythia" - dialogue especially of altercation delivered by two actors. Sujoe, a 13-year-old seventh-grader from Fort Worth, Texas, correctly spelled the word "feuilleton" - part of a European newspaper. It's the first time the bee has ended in a tie in more than 50 years. The last time there were co-champions was in 1962, organizers said. Ties also ended the bees in 1950 and 1957. "I think we both know that the competition was against the dictionary, not against each other," Hathwar said on ESPN after the win. "I am happy to share this trophy with him." Filed under: Interview • News Magic Johnson in CNN exclusive: I'm Going to Pray for Donald Sterling Magic Johnson has some advice for Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling: Sell the team, take the money and enjoy the rest of your life. A day after Sterling appeared on CNN slamming the NBA legend's character, his battle with HIV and his community outreach efforts, Johnson said Tuesday that he feels sorry for the 80-year-old billionaire. "It's sad. It really is. I'm going to pray for this ... man," Johnson told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview. Sterling's explosive CNN interview that aired Monday night was the first time he had spoken publicly since audio recordings surfaced last month of him making racist remarks. Reaction to the taped remarks came fast and furious, and the NBA responded with a lifetime ban for Sterling. Johnson became an involuntary figure in the controversy after Sterling named him in the leaked recording. "Admire him, bring him here, feed him, f**k him, but don't put (Magic) on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me," Sterling is heard telling friend V. Stiviano. Johnson told Cooper he is still waiting for an apology from Sterling for getting roped into Sterling's fight with Stiviano, and Johnson called the Monday interview - in which Sterling directed another tirade at the NBA legend - "disturbing." "What's really sad is, it's not about me," Johnson said. "This is about the woman you love outing you and taping you and putting your conversation out here for everybody to know. ... This is between you two, but then he wants to include me." Johnson said he had only met with Sterling three or four times, and most of those discussions had focused on basketball. Johnson couldn't say if the Clippers owner has slipped mentally. Sterling "seems like he's all there," Johnson said. "But the problem is, he's living in the stone ages." Watch "New Day" at 6am ET for highlights from the interview. Posted by Catherine E. Shoichet, Steve Almasy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line354
__label__wiki	0.722096	0.722096	Zika caused health problems for one in seven US babies About one in seven babies exposed to Zika in the womb had health problems caused by the virus — including some medical complications that were not evident at birth and were identified only as the infants grew older, the US nation’s top health agency reported. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the health issues possibly caused by Zika included birth defects — such as a small head size, brain and eye damage — and nervous system problems including seizures and vision and hearing loss, bradenton.com reported. “The Zika story is not over,” Peggy Honein, director of the CDC’s Division of Congenital and Developmental Disorders, said during a conference call with reporters. Zika emerged in Miami in the summer of 2016, the first place in the continental US to report local spread of the disease. By the summer of 2017, though, there were just two cases. No local Zika cases have been reported in 2018. Honein said the CDC cannot say with certainty how many neuro-developmental problems, such as brain and eye damage, were caused by Zika infections in 2016 and 2017. But she added that the incidence of brain and eye damage was about 30 times higher in babies born to mothers who had Zika during pregnancy than it was in those babies who were not exposed to Zika in the womb. “What makes this report unique,” Honein said, “is we’re looking at the health of these babies beyond what was observed at birth.” The CDC report released is the largest to date involving long-term health outcomes in babies born to mothers who had laboratory-confirmed evidence of Zika during pregnancy. To conduct the study, the CDC examined 1,450 infants who were at least one year old by Feb. 1, 2018, and had some follow-up care. All of the children in the study were born in US territories with local spread of Zika in 2016 and 2017, including Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the US Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Marshall Islands. No states were included in the study. The new findings underscore the need for follow-up care of babies exposed to Zika before birth, said CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield. “We are still learning about the effects of Zika, and it might be years before we fully understand the full spectrum of health outcomes,” Redfield said. “We do know that some babies may appear healthy at birth but may develop long-term health problems as they grow.” But follow-up care has been spotty for children born to mothers who had Zika during pregnancy, said Dr. Ivan Gonzalez, director of the Zika Response Team at the University of Miami Health System, a group of medical specialists who coordinate care for infants exposed to the virus before birth. Gonzalez said the team monitors about 65 children born between 2016, when Florida began to monitor Zika infections, and 2018. Ideally, Gonzalez said, the group should be tracking more children given the number of pregnant women with laboratory-confirmed Zika infections in Florida: a total of 479 since 2016, according to the Florida Department of Health. That number includes women who contracted the illness while traveling outside of Florida. But persuading parents and pediatricians to follow CDC guidelines for follow-up care is proving difficult, said Gonzalez, who also serves as medical director of Florida’s Zika Referral Center, a statewide program that connects infected patients to doctors. “Because Zika has become last year’s thing,” he said, ‘nobody cares’. Gonzalez said parents and pediatricians who ignore follow-up care for children possibly exposed to Zika before birth risk missing early detection and interventions that could minimize the long-term effects of developmental problems, such as problems with vision, hearing and movement of their arms and legs. Coaching parents may reduce child’s obesity Changing the way that parents interact with their infants could help combat child obesity, a US study suggested. New mothers were offered ways of responding to babies’ needs, including avoiding comforting with food, BBC wrote. By the age of three, children exposed to so-called ‘responsive parenting’ had lower body mass index (BMI). A UK child health expert said the study showed a small, early intervention could have long-term benefit. ‘Tough nut’ Eating and sleeping behaviors are established early. And if food is used to soothe or reward in infants, rather than just when they are hungry, that child may then use food to soothe their distress in later life and it could lead to them being obese. In the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), nurses advised 279 first-time mothers — in their homes in the first six months after birth, and at a clinic at one and two years — on how to respond to their child’s needs. The team focused on mothers because they tend to have the leading role in caring for infants in their first months and years, The advice included instructions on: ● Sleep routines ● Alternatives to feeding for calming a fussy infant ● Recognizing signals from the child of being hungry or full ● Focusing on physical activities The children were then checked at the age of three. Those whose mothers had been coached in responsive parenting techniques were found to have lower BMIs. Girls were affected more than boys by the intervention. Researchers will continue to monitor them up to the age of nine. Ian Paul, from Penn State University, who led the study, said it was about coaching the mother to ‘recognize their child’s cues and needs’, and respond with a ‘developmentally appropriate response in a prompt fashion’. “With such high rates [of obesity] already among toddlers, it made sense during such a developmentally important time of infancy to begin to establish healthy behaviors. “Based on our growth charts, 20-25 percent of two- to five-year-olds are already overweight or obese. It’s a major problem, a tough nut to crack. “Children who are overweight or obese at an early age have a much increased risk of staying overweight or obese as they get older.” But a ‘lifelong approach’ was needed to break the obesity cycle. “Overweight children become overweight parents who have overweight children … so where in the cycle do you intervene? “In our current environment, there needs to be a lifelong approach”. Figures in the UK show a similar problem. Nearly a quarter of children in England are obese or overweight by the time they start primary school and a third by the time they leave aged 11. Professor Neena Modi, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), said: “This shows that you can achieve small but sustained impact from an intervention that starts early in infancy, and that the effect carries through to three years. “The real question for policy makers is what can you do to sustain this? “We know that the power of an early intervention is going to decline with time. “How can we reinforce the good beginning?” Drive for selfie perfection may be bad for health Photo-editing tools that make people look more perfect online than in real life may be a health threat, medical experts warn. The tidal wave of altered photos on social media is changing perceptions of beauty. And that can trigger a preoccupation with appearance that leads to risky efforts to hide perceived flaws, researchers suggest. Those efforts include behaviors like skin altering and even plastic surgery, UPI wrote. This condition — called body dysmorphic disorder — affects about two percent of people, research showed. Studies have found that teen girls who alter their social media photos tend to be more concerned with their body appearance, and those with dysmorphic body image use social media for validation, according to the authors of a report published Aug. 2 in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery. Other studies have found that 55 percent of plastic surgeons have seen patients who want to look better in selfies. “A new phenomenon called ‘Snapchat dysmorphia’ has popped up, where patients are seeking out surgery to help them appear like the filtered versions of themselves,” said the new report’s coauthor, Dr. Neelam Vashi. She’s director of the Ethnic Skin Center at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine. The authors of the report warn that surgery may worsen, not improve, body dysmorphic disorder in such patients. Mental health treatment is a better remedy, they advised. “Filtered selfies can make people lose touch with reality, creating the expectation that we are supposed to look perfectly primped all the time,” Vashi said in a medical center news release. “This can be especially harmful for teens and those with body dysmorphic disorder, and it is important for providers to understand the implications of social media on body image to better treat and counsel our patients,” she said. New sensors to help doctors select effective cancer therapy MIT scientists have developed new sensors that could help them analyze cancer cells and to check whether the cells are responding to a particular type of chemotherapy drug. The sensors work by detect hydrogen peroxide inside human cells. The sensors could likewise be adjusted to screen individual patients’ tumors to foresee whether such medications would be successful against them, techexplorist.com wrote. Hadley Sikes, an associate professor of chemical engineering at MIT said, “The same therapy isn’t going to work against all tumors. Currently, there’s a real dearth of quantitative, chemically specific tools to be able to measure the changes that occur in tumor cells versus normal cells in response to drug treatment.” Existing hydrogen peroxide sensors depend on proteins called transcription factors, taken from organisms and built to fluoresce when they respond with hydrogen peroxide. Scientists endeavored to utilize these in human cells however found that they were not delicate in the scope of hydrogen peroxide they were attempting to identify, which drove them to look for human proteins that could play out the assignment. Scientists identified an enzyme called peroxiredoxin that dominates most human cells’ reactions with the molecule. One of this enzyme’s many functions is sensing changes in hydrogen peroxide levels. Scientists then changed the protein by adding two fluorescent particles to it — a green fluorescent protein toward one side and a red fluorescent protein at the opposite end. At the point when the sensor responds with hydrogen peroxide, its shape changes, bringing the two fluorescent proteins closer together. The specialists can distinguish whether this move has happened by sparkling green light onto the cells: If no hydrogen peroxide has been identified, the gleam stays green; if hydrogen peroxide is available, the sensor shines red. While experimenting with the sensor on two different types of cancer cells, scientists found that precisely disclosed that hydrogen peroxide levels were unchanged in the resistant cells but went up in the susceptible cells. Sikes said, “There are two major uses for this sensor. One is to screen libraries of existing drugs, or compounds that could potentially be used as drugs, to determine if they have the desired effect of increasing hydrogen peroxide concentration in cancer cells. Another potential use is to screen patients before they receive such drugs, to see if the drugs will be successful against each patient’s tumor.” She said, “You have to know which cancer drugs work in this way, and then which tumors are going to respond. Those are two separate but related problems that both need to be solved for this approach to have a practical impact in the clinic.” Sleeping more than eight hours a night may be deadly warning sign It’s well known that getting enough sleep is vital for staying healthy, but excessive snoozing looks to be linked to a higher risk of heart problems and even a higher mortality risk, according to new research. That’s not to say too much sleeping will directly kill you — but if you’re spending a long time in bed it could be a sign or a symptom of an underlying health problem, or there’s a chance it could be making existing issues worse, sciencealert.com wrote. Now a team of researchers says we should pay more attention to oversleeping: Cutting it down to the recommended seven to eight hours a night might end up significantly reducing the risk of health problems later in life, they say. “Our findings have important implications as clinicians should have greater consideration for exploring sleep duration and quality during consultations,” said one of the team, Chun Shing Kwok. “If excessive sleep patterns are found, particularly prolonged durations of eight hours or more, then clinicians should consider screening for adverse cardiovascular risk factors and obstructive sleep apnea, which is a serious sleep disorder that occurs when a person’s breathing is interrupted during sleep.” In other words, if doctors find their patients are spending a lot of time sleeping, that could be something worth looking into — particularly if the sleep isn’t refreshing. The researchers analyzed 74 previous studies that logged self-reported sleep duration and quality, as well as mortality and cardiovascular health. In total, the studies covered more than three million participants. They found that an average sleep duration of 10 hours a night is linked with a 30-percent increase of premature death compared to getting seven hours a night. An average of 10 hours of sleep also equated to a 56-percent increase in stroke mortality risk, and a 49-percent increase in cardiovascular disease mortality risk. Meanwhile, poor sleep quality was linked to a 44 percent increase in coronary heart disease rates. Even across three million people, the study does have some limitations: Sleep habits were self-reported rather than measured in a lab, so may not be fully accurate. Plus, there might be underlying physical or mental conditions, not recorded in the studies, that had an effect on sleep patterns or risk patterns. As a result, the researchers can’t say more than eight hours of sleep causes an early death — just that it’s something we should be watching out for as a potential warning sign. Increases in life expectancy in the UK have stalled and the slowdown is one of the biggest among 20 of the world’s leading economies, the country’s Office for National Statistics data shows. Zarif: World not interested in abiding by US anti-Iran sanctions Official: Pistachio exports earned Iran $1b last year China, Germany defend business with Iran in face of US threats North Korea raps US restoration of sanctions on Iran Iran’s Vaezi: Media’s role crucial in promotion of transparency UN urges Myanmar to pave way for Rohingya returns Pakistan’s opposition parties protest alleged vote fraud Iran labor minister fails to secure vote of confidence Abadi: Iraq opposes US sanctions on Iran but will abide by them Iran’s Vaezi: Media’s role crucial... China, Germany defend... Clever diplomacy can secure Iran’s interests Congratulatory message President to attend Caspian Sea Summit in Kazakhstan Over 200 sickened by dust storm in southeastern Iran Canada to ask allies to help cool Saudi dispute; US offers no aid Ryanair strike widens as German pilots join Friday stoppage Zimbabwe opposition to challenge election result in court America addicted to sanctions; time for intervention Quake casualties and damage Iran: OPEC may need extraordinary meeting on output changes Iran’s annual steel output to hit 35m tons Kabul-Tehran trade not affected by sanctions: Official Turkey says committed to business with Iran despite US sanctions Iran’s non-oil three-month exports to Indonesia up 86% Construction equipment exports China’s investors being offered cheapest money in years RBI will need to tighten monetary policy to counter inflation: IMF South Korea’s domestic supply Small indoor greenhouses let apartment dwellers grow veggies Native Americans engaged in trade more extensively than thought Forests must be preserved to meet climate change targets Ancient Roman library discovered during parking lot construction Ancient shipwreck Vice president: 3,700 NTBFs operating in Iran Electric car covered with 330 solar panels can recharge as it drives Advocates condemn psych techniques used to keep kids online NASA poised to launch first Sun-skimming spaceship Nanotechnology for wastewater treatment Despair as crippling drought hammers Australian farmers Commuting has neglected benefits Czech unemployment rate rises, but so do job vacancies US police find body of boy at raided camp Cave captive Beaches closed after ‘Volkswagen’ sized shark sighting Builder’s legs dangling through bedroom ceiling Reported alligator was remote-controlled head Iran’s Mes Sungun storms into Asian futsal club semifinals Hughes, Asher-Smith complete European 100m double for Britain Chelsea activates world-record €80m release clause for Kepa Pogba keen to leave United for Barcelona Lopetegui avoids Bale, Ronaldo comparisons Former world 400m hurdles champion Bett dies aged 28 Croatian commitment David Wilkerson: Iranian film gets Italy’s nod from ‘Whole to Part’ Academy reelects Bailey as president Diplomat: Popularization of Persian literature a response to Islamophobia Art installation in Canada helps rebuild burnt-out library in Iraq	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line355
__label__wiki	0.559022	0.559022	Your Democratic Leaders NDCC Meeting Minutes Nashua Democratic City Committee (NDCC) Minutes 7:10 – 8:10 p.m. Nashua Public Library – NPL Theater Chairman Dave Tencza called our June Meeting to order at 7:10 p.m. Those in attendance introduced themselves to others in the Theater room, and we even had two Hudson Democrats in attendance! Slate Goodwin, Political Director with NHDP, and former Congressman Paul Hodes, was also there. The program that Dave had for all of us, were introductions from several campaign staffers, who were with us, updating us about the campaigns they were working with. Candidate for President, Maryann Williams is scheduled to be at Rep. Latha Mangipudi’s home tomorrow evening (June 3rd). Contact: Maryann2020.com for more information about the event. Campaign staffers in attendance, who gave brief introductions about themselves and their candidates, included: Nick Paul (Amy Klobuchar); Blake Tyler (John Delaney); Soham Pandit (Beto O’Rourke); Doris Donelan, Manny Espitia our NDCC Vice Chair , and Noah Telerski ( Julian Castro); Joseline Mata, Cassidy Ballard and Lili Welch (Elizabeth Warren); Mackenzie Murphy (Eric Swalwell); Will Bateson (Bernie Sanders); Paul Hodes (Maryann Williams); Vincent (Tulsi Gabbard); Rep. Cole Riel (Goffstown) (Pete Buttigieg); and Emma (Cory Booker). It was great to see all the enthusiasm that these campaign staff people brought to our meeting, on behalf of their respective candidates! Slate Goodwin, from NHDP gave us an update on the NH Dems’ interns, and reminded us all that the State Convention is scheduled for September 7th. Watch for email to register to attend the Convention – where ALL the candidates will be with us! Dave told us all about a July Nashua Silver Knights’ game at Holman, and that all candidates and campaign people would be invited to attend, (schedules permitting). Maybe there will be a candidate who will throw out a ‘first pitch’! Dave encouraged those in attendance to get involved with a campaign, and that are and will be plenty of opportunities – both with local campaigns and Presidential campaigns, to help out with phone calling, canvassing, etc. Rep. Suzanne Vail reminded us all to be very aware of how we are using social media. Sites should be promoting events, and informing people about city committee events, etc. She reminded everyone to post responsibly and to use our social media sites in ways that best serve our NDCC. Deidre reminded us all that there would be Visibility on Friday – Wear Orange – MOMS Demand Action – 5-6 p.m. City Hall Plaza. There was a motion made by Bette that we adjourn, and all were in favor. Meeting adjourned at 8:10 p.m. Respectfully submitted by, Sue Newman, NDCC Secretary Nashua City Democratic City (NDCC) Minutes Monday, May 6th, 2019 Note that the April NDCC meeting was the bi-annual election conducted by the state party. Dave Tencza, Chairman, called our meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. He welcomed everyone in attendance, and asked that people introduce themselves — a really nice, welcoming touch! The featured speaker for tonight’s meeting was Executive Councilor, District 2, Andru Volinsky. Councilor Volinsky had been the lead attorney in the Claremont case, from several years ago, which dealt with school funding in NH. Councilor Volinsky was with us, to speak about how school funding ‘works’ in New Hampshire. Suffice to say, there are still persistent school funding issues in this State. Councilor Volinsky’s point is that the way New Hampshire funds our public schools, continues to be unfair. Councilor Volinsky had several graphics showing revenue distribution. More than 70% of the cost of educating our children is paid by local property taxpayers at tax rates that are “wildly disproportionate” from town to town. While the state average spent per pupil is $15,865 – the average spent per pupil, in Nashua, is $13,127. Manchester and Nashua, have the lowest per- pupil spending in the State, and there are huge disparities within our State, i.e. with issues of poverty and diversity, within school districts. Councilor Volinsky’s opinion is that, over the years, BOTH political parties have failed to meet OUR NH kids’ needs. Consequently, there are significant differences between the ‘property rich’ and ‘property poor’ towns, as evidenced by what they are able to spend on their schools, and what their tax rates are. The NH Constitution sets two core requirements for K-12 public education: The State has a duty to pay for the cost of a constitutionally adequate education for every K-12 public school student; and the taxes that the State uses to pay for this education must have a uniform rate across the state. Councilor Volinsky suggests that a specific Commission needs to be set up, to actually evaluate the NH school funding ‘mechanisms’ currently in place, and how we can get more funding for our public schools. We are required to get our kids prepared for the ‘marketplace of ideas’; our school funding issues (and disparities) continue to exist (the Claremont suit was filed in 1991!), and the “Pledge” to raise NO NEW TAXES, is an ever-present election reminder of the challenges facing people running for office in New Hampshire. If you believe that “Education is a tool of opportunity” – then NH can do a lot better for our students. Councilor Volinsky urged people to use school funding talking points when evaluating candidates for office, urge them to NOT “take the pledge”, and to demand ‘leadership’. There was recognition and introductions from other guests in attendance: Amy Bradley from LEAD NH, a new organization that is helping identify and train people running for office – they are having a candidate training in Concord on May 18-19. Emma from Sen. Cory Booker campaign said they will be opening a Nashua campaign office at 83 West Pearl St; Cassie from Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign asked us to keep “Pints and Policy” in mind at Martha’s Exchange, and an upcoming “Potluck”; Jeff Taylor, was with us from Sen. Kamala Harris’ campaign — Sen. Harris will be in Nashua in the next week. In the month of June, maybe, there could be something like a “Candidate Fair” – with representatives from all the campaigns available. Latha reminded us of an upcoming Yoga presentation, focusing on stress reduction and mental health/wellness. And, today being May 6th, it’s Nurses Appreciation Day. Hug a Nurse! Our meeting was completed, and Dave motioned for adjournment at 8:15 p.m., and all were in favor. Chairman Skip Cleaver called our March NDCC Meeting to order at 7:15 pm. Skip’s first order of business was to remind everyone about the Nashua Special Election scheduled for the next day. Our Democratic candidate for the vacant Alderman-at-Large seat is Ben Clemons, who not only got the ‘nod’ from the Nashua Democrats, but also got the ‘nod’ from our Nashua Telegraph newspaper! Our NDCC elections are coming up in April, and will be conducted by the NHDP at our monthly NDCC General Meeting, which is scheduled to be held on April 1st, at the Nashua Senior Center; we have rented the cafeteria room there from 6:30 until 9:00 that night. Our NDCC Nominating Committee is led by our current NDCC Vice Chair, Mike Pedersen, along with Dave Lisle and Ben Telerski. (Thank you Mike, Dave and Ben!) IF you are interested in becoming even more involved with our NDCC, please consider signing up to run for a position, and see and/or speak with Mike, Dave or Ben. We will be electing: Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, Secretary and four At-Large positions. These 8 people are the Primary Officers for our NDCC. There will be a second election, held the same evening that elects Ward Chairs and other Ward Officers, from each of Nashua’s 9 Wards. Ward Chairs are also voting members on the NDCC Executive Board. The other Ward positions are important as they also are ALL Delegates to the annual NH State Democratic Convention that is scheduled to be held on September 7th, 2019. (There will be 100 delegate positions for Democrats from Nashua, to fill at the convention!) Our NDCC Executive Board is also having a Special Executive Board Meeting on March 18, to go over unfinished business from the meeting the Board held just before this meeting. The NHDP State Committee Meeting is set up for this coming Saturday, at St. Anselm’s. Our NDCC four officers and our four At-Large members, are voting members. Bette Lasky is running for one of the State Positions, as well as Nashua’s Maitri Chitidi. Manny introduced Lauren Reyes, an Organizing Director here from North Carolina, and with the Castro campaign. Cindy introduced Jocelyn, here from Arizona, who is here with Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign. Mike spoke about encouraging people to get involved with our NDCC, and to run for one of the available spots, at our April election meeting. Each of Nashua’s Wards has a Chair position that will be voted for, at this meeting. Our Ward Chairs are also members of our Executive Board, which has generally been meeting on the First Monday of the month. Ben Clemons spoke about the election tomorrow. He’s put in a lot of hard work and has had lots of help from volunteers, also. It is expected that all of Ben’s and his supports’ efforts will pay off tomorrow! If you can hold a sign for a shift at one of the polling places tomorrow, please see Ben. And…. While we’re (always it seems!) speaking about elections, remember that our Nashua Municipal Election will be coming up in November. We will be electing and re-electing offices for: Mayor, Alderman-at-Large, Board of Education, Ward Aldermen, and Ward election officers Nominating Petitions will be available soon. Skip reminded everyone in attendance about the cost of elections. Our NDCC has a TERRIFIC ‘track record’ of getting our Democrats elected, and we are optimistic about doing it again in the municipal election! Folks were/are encouraged to consider being a DEM — Donate every Month — go directly to our website: www.nashuademocrats.org — and you can check out the Act Blue link, so that donating directly to our NDCC is facilitated. Our meeting was short, due to the election the next day, and the fact that our Nashua election officers have to be at the polling places very EARLY! Get out and vote tomorrow! Motion made to adjourn at 7:50 p.m. – and ALL were in favor. Respectfully submitted by: Sue Newman, Secretary Skip called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. He reminded everyone in attendance that this was our first regular monthly meeting since the Election, where we Nashua Dems worked exceptionally hard, and saw BIG WINS! (Look for those Nashua 27 pins that Jan Schmidt designed!). Skip also reminded everyone that we’ve got a Special Election coming up on March 5th, to fill the vacancy left by the passing of Brian McCarthy. Then, in November, we’ll be having our Municipal elections, and Mayor Jim Donchess will be up for re-election. There will also be several positions on the Nashua Board of Education that need to be filled. Mayor Donchess was introduced. His remarks included how important and effective it was to have strong candidates run and be supported by us, in the last election, and how successful we were. Many of our current Aldermen are also current State Reps. and he spoke about the much better possibility Nashua now has, to get passenger rail here. In taking questions from attendees, Sherry brought up the condition of the voting machines in Ward 3, specifically, and also suggested that some actual hands-on training would be very useful for new ballot inspectors. The Mayor said that approval for the ‘next generation of ballot machines’ is needed, and that he will look into the issues that got raised. Under the topic of School Board, the Mayor emphasized how important those positions are, and that the School Board in Nashua needs to return to focusing on the needs of our kids. There were also comments about the traffic congestion down at Exit 1, the possibility of an on/off ramp into Gateway Hills on the southbound side, and the potential benefits that the net metering bill could make. He also spoke about the possibility of a joint city/State solar array project at the Gilson Road hazardous site. He concluded his remarks by speaking about property assessments in Nashua, and that an audit is currently being done in the Assessing Dept. Ben Clemmons was introduced to speak with us. He told us how he worked in the financial industry, moved back here in 2004, ran for Alderman at Large in 2007, and that after some time off, he ran in 2015 for Ward Alderman. Ben is well aware that our municipal elections are non-partisan, but, also knows how important it is for Nashua’s City Government to maintain its ‘super majority’ , in order to keep moving Nashua forward, in areas such as our schools, the proposed downtown Arts Center, and development of commuter rail. Ben will be a strong candidate, and we will be working to help get the vote out for this Special Election. Skip took a few moments to remember our beloved friend and colleague, Vivian McGuire, as well as former Senator Mary Nelson’s husband, who also had recently passed. Manny spoke about preliminary planning for November – we will be working to support Jim Donchess, and to get our Aldermen re-elected. This municipal Mayoral election will, as always, require planning, work, volunteers and fund-raising efforts. Amelia Keene introduced herself as Exec. Director of the NH Young Democrats, and Allison sent in a Finance Report, that Skip reported. Sue commented that the General Monthly Meeting Minutes get posted on our Dems website. Skip commented that Candidates for President will and have been coming through Nashua. So far, Mayor Bloomberg, Sen. Jeff Merkeley, Congressmen Delaney and Swalwell have been here. In April, our NDCC will be having elections of its own, run by the NHDP, and there should also be By-Law updates to vote on. John reminded people about the importance of ward officer positions; By-Law proposed changes should be available for review between February and March. There was a Motion to adjourn at 8:25 p.m. made by Deb, seconded by Dave. ALL were in favor! Submitted by: Sue Newman, Secretary Next NDCC Monthly Meeting: Monday, February 4th, 7 p.m. How YOU can support the NDCC Check out Our Calendar Get on our mailing list today! Donate Through ActBlue Your NDCC web team The NDCC website is maintained by the following volunteers: Rich Green – Webmaster. Software Project Manager by trade. Jan Schmidt – Technical consultant and former webmaster. Web Designer by trade. Michael Pedersen – Caretaker of the calendar and NDCC First Vice-Chair Cat Tanguay – Web Assistant Who do you like for 2020? Check for local candidate visits in the calendar! Cory Booker was the 1st candidate to announce a Nashua office! 83 W. Pearl St. Elizabeth Warren Nashua office – 60 Main St. Bernie Sanders Nashua office – 77 Derry Rd – Hudson 1-7 are the leaders based on a NH June poll (>1% polling) 1. Joe Biden (DE) – former Vice President 2. Bernie Sanders -VT Senator 3. Elizabeth Warren – MA Senator 4. Pete Buttigieg – IN – Mayor of South Bend 5. Kamala Harris – CA Senator 6. Beto O’Rourke – TX – former US Representative 7. Cory Booker – NJ Senator And the rest …… (1% or less) Amy Klobuchar – MN Senator Kirsten Gillibrand – NY Senator Andrew Yang – NY – Entrepreneur – Founder of Venture for America Julian Castro – TX – Former HUD Secretary John Delaney – MD – Former US Representative Tulsi Gabbard – HI – US Representative Marianne Williamson – CA – Entrepreneur John Hickenlooper – CO – former Governor Jay Inslee – WA Governor Tim Ryan – OH – US Representative Michael Bennet – CO Senator Seth Moulton – MA – US Representative Wayne Messam – FL – Mayor of Miramar Bill De Blasio – NY – Mayor of New York City Steve Bullock – MO Governor Mike Gravel – AK – former Senator Joe Sestak – PA – former US Representative Tom Steyer – CA – Entrepreneur Eric Swalwell – CA – US Representative (July 2019) PFAS and your drinking water PFAS contaminants have recently been found in local NH drinking water supplies (wells and reservoirs). Please see the notice (in the calendar) about the film series The Devil We Know concerning the ongoing contamination of community water supplies with PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances). The showing is sponsored by the NH Safe Water Alliance. It is the story of contamination in a West Virginia community caused by a synthetic chemical used in Teflon and research that has taken place since. See: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/index.html to learn more. Learn more about this local organization – Bridges Domestic & Sexual Violence Support Bridges has been serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in the Greater Nashua area since 1977. In addition to supporting women and families as they transition out of abusive relationships and households, they run a crisis line that relies heavily on volunteers to both field calls and accompany victims to the hospital to help provide resources and information about Bridges Services. To learn more about how you can make an impact–– go to http://bridgesnh.org/ State Convention Delegate Openings NDCC is looking for Nashua Democrats to fill 17 openings for delegates to the NHDP State Convention on Saturday, September 7th. If you live in Wards 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 and would like to be a delegate to the convention, Contact Us from the web site. NH Grassroots Newsletter – July 8 This newsletter is updated weekly year round. It is prepared by the NH Democratic State Committee. City of Nashua Home Page Our current (and next) Mayor Donchess is doing great things for our city. Click here to check out the city home page! The Mayor is running for re-election unopposed! Drop us a line via our new mailing address: Nashua Democratic City Committee Nashua NH 03061 Copyright NDCC - This site is paid for and maintained by the Nashua Democratic City Committee, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. 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__label__wiki	0.502316	0.502316	Citizen soldiers? Masculinity and politics in the Georgian Militia McCormack, M. (2014) Citizen soldiers? Masculinity and politics in the Georgian Militia. Paper presented to: Leadership, Power and Masculinity: From Antiquity to the Contemporary World, University of London Institute in Paris, 06-07 September 2014. (Unpublished) This paper forcuses on a key military institution in eighteenth-century Britain - the New Militia - and argues that it was of fundamental political and social importance as well. The militia was the product of a republican political culture that distrusted 'standing armies' and instead placed its faith in armed citizens for home defence. As well as being safer (and cheaper) than professional armies, the militia was lauded in terms of masculinity and domestic feeling: a citizen soldier would be more motivated than a mercenary, as he was fighting for family, property and country. Indeed, the New Militia was formed during a panic about the state of the nation's men and morals in the Seven Years War. The resulting institution, however, was very different to this vision of citizen soldiers: effectively a conscript force drawn from the poor that was led by local elites, where military rank mirrored social and political standing. This paper therefore thinks about how far the idea of the 'citizen soldier' survived in practice in the militia between the 1750s and the 1810s. Looking at the life writings of privates and officers alike, it will explore political and national identities in terms of gender, suggesting that there is an important martial strain in political masculinities. Masculinity, soldiers, politics, citizenship, Britain D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain > DA505 George III, 1760-1820 H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Women > HQ1088 Men Funders or Sponsors: Sorbonne, Universite Paris I University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > School of Social Sciences (to 2016) Leadership, Power and Masculinity: From Antiquity to the Contemporary World University of London Institute in Paris	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line364
__label__wiki	0.599697	0.599697	Batman & Robin #16 By Spaceman Spiff 3178 days ago Wow. This was what I’d been waiting for… since taking over the Batman universe in 2006 we finally get a conclusion to Grant Morrison’s first over-arching run with the Dark Knight. Did we get answers to all of the questions Morrison has raised over the years? Probably not, but in the last few months—and in this issue especially—I got answers to all of the ones I cared about, and some more will most likely be coming in the final issue of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne next week. And more importantly, Morrison tied up those loose ends in such a way that still left me excited for whats to come by dropping a major bombshell at the end of this issue. To summarize, this issue starts off with a flashback to the 1700′s as the origin of Dr. Hurt/Thomas Wayne’s supernatural powers and long life are explained in a scene that’d even make Ozzy Osborne blush. From there we jump back into the present as we find out, yes, Bruce Wayne has indeed returned in the mantle of the Batman. On a side note I find it more than a little ironic that with all the similarities that the Batman storyline has had with Captain America over the last few years that the returns of both of their respective titular characters were in effect somewhat spoiled by missed deadlines and late issues. I’ll bet dollars to donuts that the original calendar at DC did not have Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne coming out a week after this issue. There’s an excellent scene of Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson and Damian taking on Dr. Hurt’s 99 Fiends with artwork that’s incredibly kinetic and detailed. I found myself looking over those two pages several times. Bruce Wayne’s initial reaction to seeing Damian in the Robin costume was pitch-perfect as was the praise he later hands to the boy. I’m among one of the legions of fans who hated Damian when he first appeared and I’ve got to say he is now my favorite character in comics. The way Morrison allowed this character to evolve every month has been nothing short of masterful while at all times feeling completely natural. The scenes where Damian expresses concern over the fate of Alfred and then later where he voices his worries that him and Dick won’t be able to continue their roles as Batman & Robin were fitting capstones on this characters growth. And I’m not even mentioning the cavalier manner in which the young Robin faces down a nuclear bomb… Oh man, but I haven’t even mentioned Professor Pyg yet! Or the final showdown between Joker and Dr. Hurt. Wow… I definitely did not see the latter coming nor would I have expected it to unfold so brilliantly. As for the former, there’s no doubt that Professor Pyg will be around to stay, especially after he squeals out the line, “I’m not wearing protection, my darlings!” Have we actually seen the last of Dr. Hurt? Being that we’re talking about comic books I’d say probably not. But I do think that Grant Morrison has taken this character’s arc to its logical conclusion. But what everyone will be talking about—indeed, the chatter has already started—is the last two pages of this issue. Bruce Wayne is back, that’s no surprise and if you didn’t see that coming well, then I just can’t help you, but who would’ve guessed that he’d reveal himself to the general public as being behind all of Batman’s funding. Can’t really call him a liar on that count, can you? I love the door this opens up for the Batman comics in the coming months as Batman Inc. will soon be starting with Grant Morrison behind the wheel. It should be a great ride. And I’ll definitely still be on board with this series to see more of Damian Wayne in action… tags: batman, damian, grant morrison, robin The Great Morrison Bat Study #12.2: B&R 14-16, ROBW 6 The Great Morrison Bat Study #11: RoBW 1-3, B&R 10-12 The Great Morrison Bat Study #10: Batman & Robin 1-9	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line365
__label__wiki	0.74766	0.74766	Home > Kazakhstan > Tinkering with Wikipedia part of Kazakh government’s PR strategy? Tinkering with Wikipedia part of Kazakh government’s PR strategy? The Kazakh government has long been known to spend millions abroad to improve its international image, hiring prominent public relations firms like BGR Gabara, Portland Communications, Tony Blair Associates, and Media Consulta. But EurasiaNet reports that some of those companies appear to have gone beyond arranging the typical infomercials on big international channels and similar strategies. The website has uncovered several examples of alleged manipulation on Wikipedia entries related to Kazakhstan officials and government interests. Noting that Wikipedia registers all changes made to its pages’ content and the IP address of those who edit entries, EurasiaNet has identified that someone from a Media Consulta IP address apparently made several changes to the Wikipedia page of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev in 2010. Among other things, that individual added the positive-sounding sections “Dialogue Between Religions” and “Preventing Global Nuclear Threats” to the president’s profile. Edits to the Kazakhstan page also came from the same IP address. IP addresses linked to Portland Communications are registered on the Wikipedia page for Mukhtar Ablyazov, a former chairman of the Kazakh government-controlled BTA Bank. Currently living in London, Ablyazov is involved in an expensive legal battle with BTA in a British court over charges that he defrauded the bank. According to EurasiaNet, a user with an IP address linked to Portland has deleted all references to a possible political motivation for Ablyazov’s 2002 arrest and conviction in Kazakhstan for abuse of power. The company’s representative confirmed that Portland “was engaged by BTA Bank in May 2010 to support [its] communications around the large-scale litigation against its former chairman” and said the firm “provides factual, public, and sourced information about the court case.” Tags: Internet, Politics Post a Reply to Esperance cancel Last reply was January 25, 2012 View January 25, 2012 I found this because I was wondering why the Wikipedia page for Kazakhstan contains an absurd amount of links to a picture of autofellatio right now. Huh.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line366
__label__wiki	0.908128	0.908128	All Quiet on the Western Front/ 1930 (cached) US, 1930, 130 minutes, Black and White. Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres. Directed by Lewis Milestone. All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the earliest sound films and some of its techniques resemble silent films use of faces and setting of scenes. However, the film transcends any limitations of primitive sound techniques to offer us a strong anti-war experience that is all the more effective for being made in the early 30s. The enthusiasm, the drudgery, the disillusion of war are all effectively portrayed in a story of World War I where the American actors portray losing Germans. One wonders why the film was made this way in 1930 and what impact it made on the public. One indication is that it received the Oscar for the Best Film of 1930 and Best Director. Director Lewis Milestone continued to make films into the 60's: A Walk in the Sun (a very fine World War II film), Les Miserables, Ocean's Eleven, Mutiny on the Bounty. For historical, educational and personal enrichment values, this classic should be seen. 1. This film was made in 1930. How relevant is it today? How 'modern' is it in its presentation of the issues of war? 2. What was the importance of setting the story on the German side of World War I? What would have been the impact in 1930? (Did the fact that Americans with American accents and some American comic style, affect the impact much?) 3. Was this an anti-war film? Why? 4. What was the effect of the Professor's fatherland, iron men speech? Was there any truth in it? young men did enlist with those sentiments on both sides in 1914. How was this possible? 5. Were the young men typical? How did their imaginings during the speech show this? How was the shock of entering army life shown - the postman officer, the training, their leave and beating the officer? 6. How realistic were their ideas of war - e.g. when they arrived at the front and were hungry? The first mission with the barbed wire, the first death? 7. Comment on the effectiveness of the first battle sequence - the trench living, nerves, cards, continual bombardment for so long, then the trench fighting? Waiting for attack, the attack and the hand-to-hand fighting. Did this give an accurate picture of and feeling for the nature of war? 8. What was the significance of the rest sequence after combat - the remarks of the cook and his squabbling over rations, the contentedness of eating? 9. Why was the visit to the sick comrade effective - the discussion of the boots, his death, its effect on Paul? What comment did this make on war? 10. How effective were the sequences of the boots in the wav - the content on the face of the weavers, combat, deaths? 11. What points were made about the nature and origins of war in the conversation under the tree? The conversation was partly comic, yet it contained much of the 'message' of the film. 12. How were the effects of war highlighted in the bar where Paul and his companion admire the girl on the poster, in the swimming scene and the visit to the French girls? What effect does war have on behaviour, sense of reality, longings, principles? 1Z. What was the significance of Paul's fighting in the cemetery battle, the fear in the hole, the advance and retreat over his head, his reaction to killing a soldier close to him? 14. What did the hospital sequences show about war - the removal to the death roam, Paul's friend's amputation, Paul's return? 15. How unreal did the reaction of the civilians seem to Paul on leave, to the audience - his mother, father and friends, the professor's speech and the boys in the class? Why did Paul want to go back when he did not like or understand the war? 16. How strongly was the theme of comradeship presented - especially in the company? 17. Were you moved by Katcsinsky's disease? Why? 18. Was Paul's death and the ending of the film convincing and effective? What did the butterfly and Paul's reaching for it symbolise? 19. Do you think the message of this film about a war of the early 20th century is still valid and relevant? Created by: malone last modification: Sunday 15 of November, 2009 [21:51:19 UTC] by malone < May > < 2020 >	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line368
__label__cc	0.730418	0.269582	Home › Word Processing & Publishing MacWrite Word Processing & Publishing Author: Randy Wigginton Don Breuner Ed Ruder Publisher: Apple MacWrite.sit (3.26 MB) For System 1 - 5 - Mac OS 8 - 8.1 macwrite_4_6.zip (1.15 MB) This app works with: Basilisk II, Mini vMac MacWrite, along with MacPaint, originally were packaged along with the Macintosh operating system. This heavily promoted the image that Macs are easy to setup and use--a reputation that Apple still relies upon. By the end of the 80s, MacWrite was becoming a victim of its own success. It had shown the world that typesetting need not be any more complicated than typing. Software developers scrambled to write applications that could support the growing desktop publishing industry. Caught between complaints that the software was not evolving, and that it stifled competition by being bundled with the Mac, MacWrite produced a series of maintenance releases that left consumers uninspired. MacWrite II, published by Apple's software spin-off, Claris, was written from the ground up. For a time, it look poised to take the market lead away from Microsoft Word, but ultimately lost out while waiting for Claris to release their Pro line of applications. MacWrite Pro was released in 1993. First archive contains: MacWrite 1.0, MacWrite 2.2, MacWrite 4.5, MacWrite 5.0, and MacWrite Pro 1.0. Second archive contains MacWrite 4.5 and 4.6, scans of packaging in PDF. by The Lightning S... - 2009, October 24 - 9:31am This used to be on an LCIII at the local library. It was the first good GUI word processor. Sometimes less features is better. Hope it works.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line372
__label__cc	0.737644	0.262356	Katamari Playground The creator of the PS2 cult hit Katamari Damaci (one of the most unique games out there) wants to create children's playgrounds once he's through with the video game industry. Anyone who has played either Katamari game knows just how whacky and fun these playgrounds will likely be. Posted by sedgemonkey @ 11/11/2005 09:47 \| 9 halfliquid (Level 1 Private) @ 11/19/2005 21:15 All these boring playgrounds around my way! More power to him. You have to go for what you love. They just renovated the park that I live right next to. Boy, would it be cool if we had Keita Takahashi over here, I'll tell you what! Monstara (Level 1 Rookie) @ 11/15/2005 06:28 well "Developers want to come up with fun games but ideas are judged by their sales potential" -- The Man says that. DeathByChris (Level 5 Killer Klown) @ 11/14/2005 14:11 i keep playing until i can roll that sucker up to the point were i can roll up clouds and shit on that one level were you talk to the elephant that ones the most fun. Monsoon2D (Level 2 Flatfoot) @ 11/12/2005 08:38 Yeah. I, too, play the games for hours on end. In fact, I just gathered up all of the presents and cousins last night. So, after god knows how many hours, I can say that I am FINALLY done with We <3 Katamari, Think Acid (Level 1 Rookie) @ 11/11/2005 22:19 I find myself playing We love Katamari constantly. The orginal is TONS different from the second. The first has basic missions "You must do this to advance to the next level" As apposed to the second one where you have many more levels, all with a different goal (collecting 1,000 cranes, or collecting money to 'save the pandas', or just rolling up every country into a big katamari ). I got the sequal before I got the original, and I still play the sequal more than the first. Even though the creator isnt happy with the second one I find it much better than the first xD sedgemonkey (Level 11 Master Assassin) @ 11/11/2005 11:42 Wolverine, although I probably enjoy the game more than you I agree with you for the most part -- It's not a game that you can really play for hours on end. But what I find most important about the game is the unique and simplified approach to gaming. We need more games that can't be pegged into a "genre". Carnivac (Level 8 Shodan) @ 11/11/2005 11:24 I still can't get into that game. It's fun for a few minutes but I just really lose interest real quickly. More a game I respect than enjoy. Heh, safety is something I didn't really take into account. Natural selection works best anyway. I'm sure that the playgrounds will be completely unsafe; more power to 'im.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line375
__label__wiki	0.899044	0.899044	Goodman: Answer Comey’s firing with an independent probe into alleged Trump-Russia ties \| Filed in: National, newsfeed, Politics, Scandals In this Wednesday, May 3, 2017, photo, then-FBI Director James Comey pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. President Donald Trump abruptly fired Comey on May 9, ousting the nation’s top law enforcement official in the midst of an investigation into whether Trump’s campaign had ties to Russia’s election meddling.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) UPDATE 12:34 p.m. The New York Times and others are reporting that just days ago Comey asked Justice Department officials for a significant increase in money and personnel to investigate Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. The Times attributes its information to three congressional sources briefed on the request. The timing of Mr. Comey’s request is not clear-cut evidence that his firing was related to the Russia investigation. But it is certain to fuel bipartisan criticism that President Trump appeared to be meddling in an investigation that had the potential to damage his presidency. The F.B.I. declined to comment. But Sarah Isgur Flores, the Justice Department spokeswoman, said “the idea that he asked for more funding” for the Russia investigation was “totally false.” She did not elaborate. (New York Times) President Donald J. Trump’s surprise firing of FBI Director James Comey instantly brings back the sick-to-the-stomach feeling of former President Richard Nixon’s infamous Saturday Night Massacre. Once again, a president under investigation for suspected illegalities in his election has fired the man leading the investigation against him. Once again, an existential question hovers over Washington and the nation at-large: Can the president be above the law? And if not, how is he to be held to account? Trump’s stated reasons for firing Comey, as expressed in a memo prepared by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — that Comey was unfair to Hillary Clinton by discussing her mishandling of emails in a press conference, though he declined to recommend her prosecution — makes no sense. If that were the reason, why now, 100-plus days into Trump’s presidency? And why should Trump, who led avid crowds in choruses of “Lock her up!” fire anyone for any lack of kindness to Hillary Clinton? On the other hand, Trump gave Comey the boot on Tuesday afternoon just hours after CNN learned that federal prosecutors had issued grand jury subpoenas to associates of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn as part of the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Comey publicly confirmed the existence of that probe at a Senate hearing last week, disclosing that the investigation was being led jointly by the Alexandria U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Justice Department’s National Security Division. The subpoenas represent the first sign of a significant escalation of activity in the FBI’s broader investigation begun last July into possible ties between Trump campaign associates and Russia. The subpoenas issued in recent weeks by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alexandria, Virginia, were received by associates who worked with Flynn on contracts after he was forced out as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014, according to the people familiar with the investigation. (CNN.com) The worry now, by some Republicans in Congress as well as Democrats, is whether a Justice Department headed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who concurred in Comey’s firing despite saying he would recuse himself from the both the Russia meddling and Clinton email matters, can be trusted to continue this investigation. The investigation is crucial not for the purpose of damaging the president for partisan purposes, but to understand the depth of a foreign adversary’s interference in the exercise of American democracy. It is imperative now that Congress regain its bearing as a co-equal branch of government and authorize or organize an independent investigation of Russia’s meddling in the election, and the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with those efforts. Anyone out there disagree? Take our poll … Goodman: Up in smoke: Florida Legislature chokes on medical pot Christie: Tough questions may signal tough re-election for Mast Categories: National, newsfeed, Politics, Scandals	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line383

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