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__label__wiki	0.757645	0.757645	"Come Home To Cradock" Archives History of Cradock Cradock High Alumni (who have registered with this site) Reunion Bulletin Board Looking for Classmates for a Reunion or a Reconnection? Classmate's Message Board Cradock Yearbooks A Trip Down Memory Lane Cradock Memorabilia "The Cutchins' Epistles" Cradock in the Thirties Cradock, Alexander Park, Williams Court, Maps and Local History 1954 Photos of Cradock Cradock Civic League Cradock Businesses Cradock Preservation and Revitalization Come Home to Cradock 2003 DESCENDENT OF CRADOCK NAMESAKE TO ATTEND HOMECOMING Virginian-Pilot, The (Norfolk, VA) - October 5, 2003 Author: IDA KAY JORDAN THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT Corran Cradock Laurens, the great-great niece of the British naval hero for whom Cradock was named, will be a special guest at the community's Oct. 16-18 celebration of the 85th anniversary of the World War I planned community. Built by the federal government to house shipyard workers coming to Portsmouth for defense jobs, it was named in honor of Sir Christopher Cradock , a British admiral who went down with his ship in a 1914 confrontation with the German squadron led by Adm. Graf Spee. Laurens will journey from Cowes in Isle of Wight, England, for the annual gathering known as "Come Home to Cradock ," an event sponsored by the Alumni and Friends of Cradock . Contact with Laurens began when the 55-year-old English woman was surfing the net and discovered there was a Portsmouth in Virginia, said Bev Sell, a Norfolk resident who is president of the alumni group. "She lives near Portsmouth, England, and she contacted the city for more information," Sell said. "Then she found out there was a community named for her ancestor." Becky Myers Cutchins, a Cradock High School graduate who works in the Portsmouth Convention and Visitors Bureau, put Laurens in touch with Sell and they began an e-mail correspondence about six months ago. Laurens, who has a doctorate in contemporary French history from the University of Southampton, has been a teacher and art curator. Among her special interests are maritime history and sailing. That gives her two reasons, in addition to the Cradock celebration, for planning to spend five days in Portsmouth. A reception for Laurens will be held at the Renaissance Portsmouth Hotel and Waterfront Conference Center with city, state and military dignitaries invited to meet the descendent of the community's namesake. While the party is "by invitation only," others who want to attend may ask for a bid. Laurens will be the center of attention on Saturday, when she will cut an 85th anniversary cake, big enough to serve all who show up at the Afton Square party. A paver honoring the special guest will be installed in front of the gazebo by the Cradock Preservation and Revitalization Group. She'll be honored with a mini concert by former Cradock choral members led by Harriett Heath, a retired choral teacher. They'll sing the British national anthem as well as the Star-Spangled Banner and the Cradock alma mater. Laurens, wearing a homecoming mum in the old school colors, also will be the marshal for a homecoming parade down Afton Parkway. The outdoor Saturday celebration on the square will start at noon and continue through the afternoon with Bluegrass music noon to 3 p.m. by Amy Ferebee and Charlie Austin. Tables for each decade will be set up under a tent so it will be easy for those who attended school together to find each other. A Classic Car Show, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., promises much conversation. But, for those not into cars, the committee will display " Cradock trivia" in storefront windows, while exhibits of Cradock architecture and other memorabilia will be set up in the Community Center. The nostalgia will continue Saturday night with a party at the old high school with food from Rodman's, the venerable barbecue vendor with a place in everybody's memory because of its one-time drive-in, a favorite hangout for teenagers. The dinner will feature roasted oysters as well as barbecue and chicken, all with Rodman's corn bread. Gary Lassiter, a local DJ, will be spinning sounds from the past 50 years for dancing. Coach Richard Huneycutt will show old football videos of Cradock games. Party-goers have been encouraged to dress in gold and maroon, the school colors, and a contest to pick those who best display the Cradock Spirit is scheduled at 9 p.m. The committee is pulling out all the stops for this fifth annual homecoming that usually draws hundreds of folks, especially those who graduated from Cradock High. In years past, as many as 1,200 have shown up. "The high school classes plan their reunions around it," Carol Galford Edwards of Virginia Beach said. For instance, the Class of' '53 will have a half-century gathering this year and others with dates ending in three also will be on hand. The ties among Cradock grads are strong, she said. "A lot of us still hang around together," Edwards noted. "This year a group of us have been celebrating every time somebody has a 60th birthday." The old school ties will be most evident at the Friday night event dubbed a "Welcome Pep Rally." Cheerleaders, band members and majorettes of all ages will be strutting their talents. Athletes, class presidents, faculty members and "other notables" will be recognized. The "Dutch treat" party on the second floor of Paddy O'Brian's in Olde Towne will be open to all with ties to the community, not just old grads. All events are open to the public. The committee has emphasized that not only alumni of the school should attend but also everybody who ever lived in Cradock , ran a business there or attended one of the community's five churches, "all who have a connection to Cradock ." "We will honor those who started and have carried on the Cradock Spirit," the invitation reads. Bev Sell President Alumni & Friends of Cradock BevSell@verizon.net	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line388
__label__wiki	0.733847	0.733847	The Kawhi pitch: Toronto's best case to keep its superstar free agent 35dKevin Arnovitz Raptors take Game 6, win first NBA title (2:39) Kyle Lowry, Pascal Siakam and Kawhi Leonard combine for 74 points as the Raptors beat the Warriors in Game 6 to win the NBA Finals. (2:39) Kevin ArnovitzESPN Staff Writer NBA writer for ESPN.com since 2008 Former contributor and editor at NPR Editor's note: This piece has been updated since it was originally published on June 5. What does Kawhi want? This is the essential question that has occupied the Toronto Raptors since their bold trade for Kawhi Leonard last July. Leonard is one of the NBA's most inscrutable superstars, a man of few words and little subtext. He's not uncommunicative, but he is quite literal. When he was asked after the Raptors' Game 2 blowout road loss to the Milwaukee Bucks in the Eastern Conference finals, "Where do you go from here?" Leonard replied, "To Toronto for Game 3." This isn't a player interested in disseminating messages in the media to convey his feelings or leverage his power. For NBA teams, trafficking in superstars is a two-part process -- acquisition, then retention -- and it's that latter stage that presents the greatest challenge. Any front office with the requisite assets can trade for a superstar, but only one skilled at the art of persuasion can keep him. Upon winning the NBA championship Thursday night, the Raptors will soon shift their attention to the retention project they've been planning for nearly a year -- signing Leonard to a long-term contract in free agency to remain in Toronto. How do you sell someone not easily sold? How do you sculpt a pitch about external factors when the target of that pitch is someone so internally focused? What can you really offer that other leading NBA organizations can't? How can the Raptors compensate for their geographic disadvantage to a team like the LA Clippers in recruiting a Southern Californian whose preference for temperate climes is well known? The Raptors executed the trade last summer with the belief that, when it came time to make their sale to Leonard, they'd be a strong incumbent with a track record of competence and achievement. As the reigning NBA champions, this is a case Toronto can make to Leonard with confidence. Kawhi: When we started crafting our pitch to you to make the Raptors your long-term home, we realized that the most important considerations aren't necessarily the things we think we do well as an NBA franchise, but the things you believe are most important as an NBA superstar. This decision is about both your professional and personal lives, and it's the first real opportunity you've had to choose a home with no restrictions. Your honesty is one of the qualities we most admire in you, so in identifying the factors we feel at work in this decision, we'd be smart to take you at your word. We think about your introductory news conference from last September, when you were asked what you want most to accomplish in your NBA career. You responded, "Just be able to be healthy. That's my No. 1 goal -- play a long, healthy career, be able to be dominant wherever I land. That's about it. I want to win championships and get in those record books." Lowe: Can any team possibly replicate what the Raptors just pulled off in the NBA Finals? 2019 NBA mock draft: Last-minute intel on all 60 picks You're a rare breed -- a player who is well aware of his greatness, but who also appreciates the limitations of a human body against the grueling NBA schedule. That's why when you arrived in Toronto, you articulated your expectations clearly: A commitment to your physical health was what you wanted from our organization this season, above all else. That meant a coordinated effort in which every stakeholder -- you, our front office, our coaching staff, our medical team, those you trust to advise you -- would work toward that common goal. Given what we've achieved together over the past year, it's fair to say that Kawhi Leonard and the Toronto Raptors created a new template for the NBA. You know as we do that what was referred to casually -- and often dismissively -- in the media as "load management" was so much more than your finding rest on back-to-back stretches. It was a collaborative and thoughtful process befitting an athlete who plays with uncommon magnitude and force, whose every movement on the court is a portrait of intention. You teamed up with our director of sports science, Alex McKechnie, physiotherapist Amanda Joaquim and others in our organization, and methodically navigated your output to perfection. When you said in March that the NBA's regular season was "82 practices," we fully embraced that characterization, just as we endorsed your larger approach. McKechnie, for years, has been at the forefront of this performance movement, and we consider your partnership with him an achievement. We're a forward-thinking NBA franchise that understands that there are many reasons you've been the MVP of the 2019 playoffs -- your talent, preparation, temperament. But there's also your devotion to best practices. We look at an otherworldly superstar like James Harden and wonder had he not crossed the 3,000-minute threshold sometime during Game 4 of the Rockets' first-round series -- a multiyear pattern for him -- whether we would have faced Houston and not Golden State in the Finals. There are stars, front offices and coaches who reject this thinking, who reside in an old-world sensibility where toughing it out in a "man's league" is the dominant worldview. Not us. Like you, we appreciate that every small decision is part of a much larger whole. There's no one game, single practice or individual workout that stands apart from the greater goal of winning a championship; every choice affects the greater outcome. Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE/Getty Images Watching you go about your business on a daily basis has been a revelation to us. From the moment you arrive at the facility, it's an exercise in machinelike efficiency: weights, shots, medical, film, practice, ice, and whatever else your preparation demands. Not a moment or movement wasted. And it's not simply that we admire how you put in a day's work -- we've learned from it. You made us aware early on that you're a player accustomed to structure, and we listened. As a result, we're a better basketball operation today than when you arrived, something that has been borne out this spring. Our head coach, Nick Nurse, has won at every level throughout his career -- but more important, he's a listener. When you asked questions about defensive rotations or coverage schemes, we explained that our principles of ball pressure and getting in gaps were less specific in their directives, but over the course of the regular season and playoffs, we melded our approaches. In doing so, we extinguished the East's top-ranked offense, rendering it impotent in a six-game series, then upended a dynasty en route to the title. On the other end, we installed an offense that both maximizes the collective intelligence and inherent unselfishness of our unit, but also empowers your exceptional individual skill set. We've worked with you to put you in the best position to succeed on a given possession by furnishing you with the brightest teammates who intuitively understand where, when and how you like the ball. While we respect that you'll survey the field for other franchises with talent, we are steadfast in our belief that you will not find another roster with more professionalism, experience and unselfishness. Nor will you find a collection of teammates with a willingness to defer to your dominance at the biggest moments, while doing all the little things required for you to succeed in those moments. Find everything you need to know about Toronto's first NBA title. • Raptors in 6: News, reaction and more • Can any team do what Toronto just did? • Raps dethrone Warriors \| Kawhi earns MVP • What is Toronto's best pitch to keep Kawhi? • Who is Kawhi Leonard? We have veteran players who still have productive seasons ahead, and young players who are only going to get better, including Pascal Siakam, who is projected to walk away with the league's Most Improved Player award in a landslide. We selected him with the 27th pick, just as we have overperformed with so many of our younger players: We stole Norman Powell from Milwaukee by sending out Greivis Vasquez, found OG Anunoby with the 23rd pick, and picked up off the scrap heap an undrafted Fred VanVleet, who has been crucial in helping you win the biggest games in Raptors franchise history. We could tell you why we think Toronto is the greatest basketball city on the continent, how being the face of a truly national franchise is a privilege, but we also know that you might value the strengths of our market differently than others. We appreciate that peripherals aren't as important to you, but we know that a professional workplace devoid of external noise is. And we present the events of the past 10 months as evidence that, in this respect, the Toronto Raptors are a perfect fit for Kawhi Leonard. An NBA team with a pending free-agent superstar can be beset by intrigue and disruption, but despite the uncertainty about your future, our season together was devoid of high drama. That's a testament both to your character and our commitment to doing things the right way: We didn't succumb to distractions because, together, we simply wouldn't allow it. If there's an organization that has produced a more harmonious season of basketball in recent years with such uncertainty, we haven't seen it. This wasn't a fluke; we believe it is -- and will be -- a fundamental feature of the Toronto Raptors in a Kawhi Leonard Era. But more than anything, our boldest selling point is you -- specifically, our decision last summer to change the course of our franchise in an effort to make you a Toronto Raptor. Our rivals in the Eastern Conference had greater resources and assets necessary to acquire you. We can't say why they didn't. Perhaps they didn't believe you could restore yourself to full health, or you weren't worth their best prospects. Maybe they didn't have sufficient faith that the overall quality of their organizations would be enough to convince you to stay. We took the risk they didn't, not only because we were confident you'd find the conditions for both health and an NBA championship to be present in Toronto, but because we also understood that you would make us a better NBA franchise -- you would make us the kind of organization that would be the best long-term home for Kawhi Leonard. Go here for Part 2: The case for the Clippers	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line398
__label__wiki	0.573652	0.573652	<< page 94 page 93 page 92 >> Grand Jury Alert for West Coast The FBI has launched a largescale dragnet aimed at "ecoterrorism" in California, in the wake of the recent much criticized hearings before the House Environment and Public Works Committee, and various recent FBI setbacks and embarrassments in its touted "War on Terrorism." Numerous prominent grassroots community activists throughout California are being delivered FBI subpoenas to appear before Grand Juries, apparently in connection with various unsolved alleged incidents of "ecoterrorism." For additional stories, see: sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/06/109378.shtml, sfbay.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/1748279.php, and www.fbiwitchhunt.com. The Grand Jury is a controversial tactic that traditionally was reserved for pursuing highlevel government officials, powerful organized crime syndicates, and other high level racketeering cases, often involving cases of official corruption, by offering insiders "whistleblower" protection and legal immunity in exchange for forcing them to waive their Fifth Amendment rights to remain silent and to enjoy legal representation. In such cases, the extreme measure of denying such Constitutional rights has been justified on the grounds that, otherwise, these witnesses will face irresistible pressures from powerful, entrenched government or organized crime figures. But many have criticized the use of such Draconian tactics as the Grand Jury when the targets are people such as grassroots political activists, as being a transparent and totally indefensible tactic for silencing and repressing social movements. Activists such as Craig Rosebraugh have refused to cooperate with Grand Juries on principle. Tre's Father's Day and Summer Solstice Message Despite the brightness during this time of year, the darkness and oppression is growing. The powers that be will do anything and everything to maintain "control" over the illusion of their wealth and power. Their efforts to control the world's resources cause colossal suffering for millions of beings, humyn and nonhumyn. However, the more that each of us takes a stand, seeks justice, and challenges the status quo the more that this light will overcome the darkness and oppression that plagues us. Tre Arrow's Extradition Hearings This hearing, which will last up to three days, will begin the process which will eventually decide whether or not Tre will be extradited to the United States. We encourage anyone who is able, to come out to the hearings and show their support. Vancouver, BC: June 27th, 28th and 29th. The State of Oregon DHS/Child welfare: A rant Why is it that whenever the state intervenes in the care of your children they make you look like the bad guy? They send out these reports to the juvenile court system that state that the parents have said things that really were not said and that they lack certain interests in their own children that actually do exist. Even if those parents strive to participate in their kids' lives by making the regularly scheduled visits and going to their doctors' appointments and what-not, the social workers who draw up these reports still make it look as though said parents are not expressing interests in their children. Wild Oats attacks free speech rights of local activist - and loses I went to the Division St Wild Oats to hand out flyers on Friday evening a little after 5. With only an hour's time before needing to leave, I got right to it, standing out at the curb and handing flyers to people going in and out of the store. It was going well, with a nice percentage of people generally interested and accepting the flyers. I'd been outside for 15, maybe 20 minutes, when someone from the store came out and asked me to move down the street. It seems a customer had complained that they didn't want to be accosted while going into the store. I listened to her request, and said I am just handing flyers to people and declined to move. Portlanders wowed by spectacular storm, sunset & rainbow I stepped out a little while ago to see what was going on, and the first thing I saw was that rainbow. A double rainbow no less. The amazing thing is, the area inside the arch of the rainbow is incredibly illuminated while the area around it is very dark. I've never seen anything quite like it in my entire 34 years, and I've seen some pretty massive storms when I lived on the east coast. Report on the Second Annual Night of Solidarity with Jeff Free Luers in Eugene On Sunday, June 12, 2005, approximately 150 people gathered at Sam Bond's Garage (a local pub/restaurant) for a "Night of Solidarity with Political Prisoner Jeff 'Free' Luers." This was the 2nd year of annual international solidarity actions with Jeff, organized in opposition to his cruel and ridiculous 22+ year prison sentence. He has served five years so far for burning three SUVs in protest of pollution and greed. [ Free 'Free' Now ] "We want anal penetration, not Gay Pride assimilation!" - Queer Revolution and Dyke March crash Gay Pride parade Queer Revolution and the Dyke March crashed the corporate-sponsored Gay Pride Parade day this morning. Carrying pink and black flags, anti-authoritarian signs, and shouting chants, the spirited folks made quite a splash with their alternative message. Many bystanders along the route recognized their complaints and non-commercial pride, and cheered them on. "2-4-6-8! We will not assimilate!", "We're not 'everyday people'", and "No borders, no states! We just want to masturbate" were among the calls raised up. Walk for Truth in Portland: Get Out of Iraq Now! Rural Walkers for Truth met up with Portland supporters in Westmoreland Park on Friday for a boistrous march through SE Portland and downtown to Senator Gordon Smith's office at the World Trade Center. There the marchers met hundreds of supporters for the final rally of the Walk for Truth, Justice, and Community (the crowd estimate was over 400 people). At the rally, the ROP's Cara Shufelt delivered hundreds of signed postcards to Senator Smith's representative Rian Windsheimer, urging the Senator to back a withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, an end to prisoner torture, and re-direction of funds for human needs, not global war. Cara led the cheering crowd in reading the cards' message out loud to a game Windsheimer, who politely thanked people for walking so far to deliver the message. photos >> previous: [ Walk for Truth Takes a 'Leap of Faith' Before Final Rally on Friday (17 June) \| Walk for Truth in Woodburn: 'Viva la Unidad del Todos Pueblos!' (15 June) ] [ Rural Organizing Project \| PCUN ] Seeing Through OHSU Propaganda: Local activist responds with the facts The following reply was sent from OHSU in response to a letter from a citizen concerned about experimentation conducted at their primate center... This letter is a great example of the response you will get from OHSU (or most animal research institutions) if you challenge their use of non-human animals in medical research. The same old unsubstantiated claims and an attempt to make it seem like only animal rights "extremists" oppose animal research. OHSU will buy ads and have their PR person send you a letter and maybe some pamphlets but they certainly wont engage in real debate. Animal research is a multi-billion dollar industry. To keep the money coming in, they frame the issue as animal rights "extremists" vs. scientific reason. Yet it is OHSU who does not back up their claims with clear evidence, who refuses to debate and who, when confronted with solid arguments, falls back on manipulative emotionalism. Do not be satisfied with clever PR campaigns and slick pamphlets. Demand answers and real accountability. Let's look at some of the claims made in this letter >> OHSU's specious science and corporate greed exposed: [ White Coat Welfare ] Reformist organizer attempts to co-opt Dyke March with separate event It looks like the organizer of the SATURDAY Dyke March is a board member of Pride Northwest, the organization that brings us the HUGE Pride Parade (sponsored by hewlett packard, budweiser, and lots of other fun people!) Here she (Stef-Anie, otherwise known as "The New Lesbian Avengers") is quoted on the Just Out website and makes some errors (ie. the Sunday Dyke March is not organized by Queer Revolution, it is organized by former Lesbian Avengers)... also she refers to organizers as "anti-gay pride" (BAH! unless gay pride = mega corporate $$$ event!) and as creating "infighting" (I guess that queers who don't like rampant consumerism should just shut up and stay home. We're just as bad as the right-wing? give us a break!) Well, enjoy reading this! related: [ Sunday Dyke March - Info & Rumor Control ] Management corporation attempting to compel tenant to remove antiwar signs from window in Tigard My wife and I rent an apartment on Bull Mountain Road in Tigard. Since the beginning of the war in Iraq in 2003, we have posted several signs expressing our opposition to the war, in the window of our bedroom, facing our parking area. Today we were told, by a representative of the management corporation that owns the complex, that we "must" remove the signs. We refused, on the grounds that it would infringe upon our moral and constitutional right to free speech. The management representative responded by strongly implying that we would be evicted if we did not comply. NO TO CAFTA! 17.06.2005 12:56 Capitalist Pig on Hawthorne: Creative action opposes CAFTA Walking on Hawthorne Thursday I was offered cake by a group with a huge pig on a stick. They were handing out fliers asking people to call Sen. Wyden about the upcoming(?) vote in the Senate on CAFTA. They explined the situation with CAFTA, how it is similar to NAFTA and serves the interests of the same crowd, and they talked about how the vote hasn't come up because Bush doesn't have the support yet to guarantee its passing. They had cell phones with them, and the Senators phone number, and were helping people make the call. Walk for Truth Takes a 'Leap of Faith' Before Final Rally on Friday On their last night before arriving in Portland, the Walkers for Truth, Justice, and Community spent the evening at the Episcopal Church in Oregon City, experiencing a Leap of Faith. Leap of Faith is an interactive play created by Act for Change as a way for people to explore the issues embedded into the battle for 'gay marriage'. Based on the drama school known as Theater of the Oppressed, Leap of Faith tells a simple story of the damage to close personal relationships that occurs when a lesbian couple decide to get a Multnomah County marriage license, after a close encounter with a medical emergency . They are motivated by their love, and also by lack of health coverage for both partners and the simple ability to be there for each other in a medical situation. The play begins with the couple receiving support from a church friend at the hospital. It ends with this relationship rupturing over religious dogma around marriage. Rally and March for Justice - Friday, 4pm, (March is at 5pm) Jobs with Justice is supporting the Rural Organizing Project's 7 day, statewide, Walk for Truth Justice and Community. The Walk will highlight workers rights, economic justice, civil liberties, and immigrant rights. The walk will end in Portland where we will join with rural and immigrant communities at Senator Smith's office to call on him to support Oregon's needs, not the War. Noisy activists disrupt our peaceful neighborhood again! The animal rights activists are not giving up. A couple nights ago, my neighbor Eliot Spindel (OHSU Animal Researcher) was re-visited by a group of people with a bullhorn. One activist rang Eliot's door bell and I overheard him say, "Hi Eliot, we're here to protest and we're asking that you quit your job." Then the chanting started, which went something like this: Eliot Spindel Don't play God Animal research is a fraud! Then one of the activists started talking about how Eliot injects pregnant monkeys with nicotine to study the effects. Now, that may seem pointless since we already know that smoking is bad given that people die as a result of it - but like Elliot alway says, wouldn't it be great if we could find a way for pregnant women to continue smoking without harming the baby too much?? Elliot is my neighbor and I have to stand up for him no matter how ridiculous his life's work is. previous: [ Cursed Animal Rights Activists Ruin My Evening ] Walmart coming to Sellwood/Ardenwald? Walmart has signed a secret deal with developer Howard Dietrich to build a 150,000 sq ft supercenter, along with 600 enclosed parking spots, at SE Tacoma street and 99E. The lease can only be broken if a city agency decides to buy the property. Is this an attempt to increase his property value and blackmail the city for somewhere in the neighborhood of 17 million dollars? Or does he really intend to build a Walmart on a site that cannot handle the proposed traffic load? What of the businesses in Milwaukie that will be affected by the opening of a big box right in their neigborhood? What about the neighbors who already suffer through frequent traffic on SE Tacoma street? How will this giant store affect emergency services? None of these questions have been addressed, as the plan was hatched in secret and only leaked out this week. Well, it's a secret no more. Several hundred people showed up at a Sellwood-Moreland (SMILE) neighborhood meeting last night, and opposition to this development was unanimous. Also attending were members of the Portland City Council. $28 DOLLARS A DAY NO WAY!!! 15.06.2005 19:12 Justice for Janitors March and Rally High energy shown for jobs with decent pay and benefits at Portland's annual Global Justice Day. About 400 people participated in a high energy rally at Terry Shrunk Plaza for Justice for Janitors. The one hour event featured numerous speakers and signs, after which we went on a snappy 15-minute march. We poured out into the street led by police escort, then the SEIU purple banner, followed by the thunderous No War Drum Corps. There were EIGHT drummers which was more than usual and it really added to the sound. The Global Justice Day was taking place in other cities, Houston, Seattle, Boston and New York. It is a stand against poverty wages and for community values like living wages and access to health care. From a flyer, a worker in downtown Portland said the company he works for, Servicemaster Swan Island, pays him less than $30 a day with no health benefits. Call his boss, Barbara Neyland at Servicemaster: 503-285-5221 and demand decency. This person has a family on these wages! Walk for Truth in Woodburn: 'Viva la Unidad del Todos Pueblos!' The 150 Walkers for Truth, Justice, and Community linked up with over 100 members of Oregon's farmworker union PCUN for a colorful, solidarity march through Woodburn Tuesday evening. The walkers were put up for the night and hosted at PCUN' s labor hall in another astonishing example that another world of unity is possible. After a excellent meal and great dancing from the PCUN children's dance team, two workers from the Three Mile Canyon dairy in Boardman spoke about their three year struggle for union recognition, led by the UFW, PCUN's sister organization. One key organizer told of being isolated, forbidden to speak to anyone on the job, sent out to work alone in isolated fields at the height of Eastern Oregon's summer, without water, food, or facilities. Finally he was fired from the dairy, the third largest dairy in the US, where the concentration of ammonium and methane gas reaches toxic levels. This worker, Alessandro, continues to go door to door in Boardman, organizing for the union. "Slavery exists at Three Mile Dairy," he said in Spanish."If Bush wants to promote democracy in Iraq, he should start right here. And he should know this: We're not going anywhere!" BATTLE OF THE BISCUIT 15.06.2005 08:47 Forest Service Seals Deal to Log Along Wild & Scenic Illinois River Medford, OR - The Rogue River/Siskiyou National Forest sold a logging sale today that would cut forests in the Wild & Scenic Illinois River canyon as part of the massive Biscuit logging project. Located entirely in an Old-Growth Reserve that was supposed to be shielded from cutting as a safety net for sensitive species, the McGuire logging project would also slice into the 3,529 acre Six Mile Creek roadless area - an uninventoried roadless forest near the giant Kalmiopsis wildlands. Though controversial Biscuit logging has been ongoing since March 7th of this year, the McGuire logging sale would be the first to log directly along the Wild & Scenic Illinois River, and may engender even greater public outrage. more indymedia stories: [ Battle of the Biscuit ] Southeast residents gather to mark the passing of beloved neighborhood dog Early on Wednesday, June 2, a dog known as "Mr. Bear" died in Southeast Portland. Mr. Bear was a much-loved resident of the neighborhood, where he was seen on a daily basis with his devoted companion, a human named "Bill". Many were the times when customers of local businesses such as People's Food Co-op or the Red & Black Cafe would have to step around Mr. Bear, as he sat in the doorway, awaiting Bill, who was inside. Mr. Bear was arguably the canine mascot of the neighborhood and news of his death -- at 13 years, from a blood clot -- stirred sadness in many residents. Tonight, the Red & Black Cafe was packed to standing room only for a wake for Mr. Bear, and his life and passing were marked with music, photography, video, testimony, and sacred drumming. Code Pink sails again at the Grand Floral Parade Code Pink Portland first brought out the "Portland Peace Fleet" in June of 2003, as a symbolic protest to the warships' part in Rose Festival. This year we "sailed" again. Wearing pink cardboard "boats," Code Pinkers marched the parade route one hour before the Grand Floral Parade on Saturday morning. Most of the crowd waiting for the parade seemed pleased to have some entertainment; many applauded and cheered us. There were a few hecklers, of course, but the cheers and applause far out-numbered the naysayers. Occasionally an onlooker would call out, "Support our troops." Our spontaneous response, without missing a beat: "BRING THEM HOME!" developed into a lively call-and-response chant. story + photos >> 2003 report: [ Pink splashes disrupt parade-goers' placid gaze ]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line400
__label__cc	0.730936	0.269064	Hot in Herre "The valley, what are you crazy? It's supposed to hit 100 degrees in the city. You know my policy. Except for work I only go to the valley November through March. And even then... only the sushi row." -Johnny Drama My sister just signed a lease on a place in the valley. Why, in the name of everything holy would she want to live there? I don't know. It does have a pool. And central air. And it finally gets her, at 26 years of age, out of my parents' house. Arrested development perhaps, but if you knew the amount of money she's been able to save up and throw into the stock market while living at home, well, it makes my head spin every time I think about it. My father's too. It's 10 degrees cooler here than in the valley and I'm still in a pool of sweat. No A/C in one's car will do that. Driving today was like being strapped into a mobile oven. I understand now why dogs ride around with their heads out the window. I did it myself today on more than one occasion. I said "fuck it" around 5:30 this afternoon and made an appointment to get it fixed tomorrow morning before I go down to Long Beach to pick up Pauly, who is taking a short break from his WSOP coverage to catch a couple of Widespread Panic shows with me this weekend at the Wiltern Theatre. If you haven't been following the WSOP on the Tao of Poker, well, what the fuck is wrong with you? Card Player may have the chip counts, but if you're looking for the real story of the WSOP, go no further than the Doctor. And I don't say that just because he sent me pretty sunflowers. The Doc is also appearing on Bluff Radio every afternoon with another one of poker's brightest journalistic stars, Jason Spaceman. Someone at Bluff clearly had too many cocktails when they agreed to give those two degenerates their own hour of airtime. But at least it's satellite so they won't get fined for swearing. This makes me so sad I don't have Sirius Satellite, but if you're lucky enough to have it, they'll be on Channel 125 at 4 PM PST every day for the remainder of the WSOP. G-Vegas' own Otis is also busting his ass out there in Las Vegas so we can all live vicariously through him. Check out the Poker Stars Blog for updates on all the Stars qualifiers and pros. You'll also get the added bonus of putting a face to many a familiar screen name (e.g. THAT'S the donk who busted me from the Sunday Million?!") Poker's a bit of a grind for me right now, ever since coming back from Tennessee. Lotta tournament finishes within one table of the money. I'll spare the bad beats because I've just gotta believe it'll turn around again. I can say for sure, though that playing an event in the WSOP is off the table for me this year. It's just not the right time for me to be buying into something that big and my efforts in the Full Tilt Bracelet Races have come up short. In a way, it's a relief, so I can spend more of my time in Vegas socializing and meeting people rather than stressing about a huge tournament. Look at me, rationalizing. ;) I'll be back shortly with the final two parts of Bonnaroo. Friday at Bonnaroo began with a ritual we'd continue for the rest of the weekend-- a pre-concert stop for Bacon, Egg and Cheese Texas Toaster sandwiches at the Manchester, TN Sonic. Though I believe Sonic establishments do exist in California, (I've seen plenty of TV spots touting it as "your morning drink stop" though I'm not sure that any the food items in an ever-widening nutritional range that I've at one time or another called "breakfast" ever included a 44-ounce flourescent soda) I'd never had the opportunity to eat there. Yet another first for me on this trip. Now I love those toaster things. I'd totally misunderestimated their flavor power and I plan on actively seeking one out when I go to Vegas in 2 weeks. God help my arteries. The lineup to get in was once again, mercifully short. The Joker brought the heads out in full force as we rolled toward the entrance. The young black man who checked our wristbands at the entrance to day parking got in a hilarious heckling match with the George W. Bush head. "We will smoke them out of their caves!" Bush drawled. "Yeah? Well you'd better bring my boys home soon, you motherfucker!" It was then that I noticed the silver dog tags around his neck. The guy was probably just home from that desert shithole himself. I was glad that our silly clowning at least gave him a good laugh. Our first show of the day was Ben Folds, now a fully functioning solo artist after the disbanding of his former grouping, Ben Folds Five in 2000. I've been a fan of his since spending many a rainy late-nineties afternoon in my dorm room listening to "Brick" on repeat. He played that one, of course, along with several cuts off his new album Songs for Silverman including "Jesusland," and "Landed" along with a song he wrote in a Waffle House and a piece he collaborated on with Dr. Dre. I thought he played a fantastic, energetic set and wondered why I hadn't seen him live before now. Guess it was all those years I spent as a slave to Hollyweird. Next on the day's agenda was a set from Mike Gordon's new project, Ramble Dove. Pauly warned me that they were a little bit country. I'm open to just about all kinds of music, but when it comes to the reaaally twangy country stuff, I can't go there. Give me Johnny Cash, but please no Toby Keith. As Ramble Dove's bluesy country-jam set reached its first cresendo, I recalled the Entertainment Weekly piece on Phish from a few years back. The writer declared that "Phish could urinate in their listeners' ears" and their fans would still show up and buy tickets. While far from aural urine, Ramble Dove was all about bassist Gordon, with disenfranchised Phisheads going apeshit for every solo, though it was far from their usual cup of tea. One redheaded dude likely peaking on his third roll of the afternoon, danced wildly for almost ninety minutes straight. Pauly passed our bowl to a fortysomething guy in jean shorts and he returned from his next beer one with a tall cold one for the Doctor. It's true. People really do just give him things. We moved camp to the main stage for Oysterhead and Tom Petty. The Joker is not only a master of concert props and costumes, but of crowd navigation. He took us around to the far side of the field where we snagged a prime, easy-to-defend spot about halfway between the stage and the soundboard. We took our first dips into the molly as 5:00 rolled around and the sun's punishing heat began to abate. Oysterhead is a supergroup consisting of Trey Anastasio on guitar, Primus' Les Claypool on bass and the Police's Stuart Copeland on drums. The three collaborated for the 2001 album The Grand Pecking Order and a subsequent tour but haven't been heard from much since. I'd seen Primus several times waaayyyyy back in my mid-90's alterna-rock phase (complete with combat boots and brown lipstick) and was, of course a Phish fan (though not quite as "gay for Trey" as some of my traveling companions). However, I'd never heard much of Oysterhead beyond their title track, "Mr. Oysterhead." So I went into the set fairly cold. The molly kicked in about halfway through and I faded in and out of a mini-trip as they played. Their sound was a bit heavy for me but I was too high to care. Claypool went through a couple of costume changes, at times wearing a pig mask or an Elvis wig while Vermont boy Trey sweltered in a longsleeve denim shirt. At the end of the set he had a huge sweat stain where his guitar strap used to be. After a dinner of sketchy chicken pita and losing $5 to BTreotch at gin, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers took the stage for a wicked set. Petty busted out with a ton of crowd favorites including "You Don't Know How It Feels," "Mary Jane's Last Dance," "Free Fallin'," "Won't Back Down," and the Traveling Wilburys hit "Handle Me With Care." My mom loved the Wilburys and that's her favorite tune of theirs. In a moment of drug-induced goodwill, I called her cell phone and left a minute or so of the performance on her voicemail. The second half of the set brought a special guest to the stage. Stevie Nicks emerged from the wings in a flowy black number and joined in for four songs. Stevie Nicks! Stevie Fuckin' Nicks! When I was 14 I wanted to BE Stevie Nicks. Half a lifetime later, I think part of me still does. Tom Petty certainly drew an interesting crowd. More and more random rednecks started showing up as the set went on. A beer-gutted, trucker-capped man chain smoked with one hand and held the waist of his scrawny, methed-out wife with the other while a rowdy, shirtless drunk behind us intermittently shouted toward the stage, "You're still good, you old fuck!" After a smokin' encore of "American Girl," we packed up our camp and made our way through the crowd toward This Tent (or was it That Tent?) for the final set of the day-- a late-night performance from My Morning Jacket. Ten hours of music already and we were still thristy for more. Joker's expert navigation landed us perhaps 20 feet from the stage. Sweet. Pauly had never seen MMJ before and babbled about how excited he was for the set as we took a smoke break on the grass before the boys took the stage. I've been a fan of My Morning Jacket for a couple of years now, ever since picking up their 2003 disc It Still Moves. But I had never seen them live (a running theme to this weekend). Their sound runs the gamut from southern roots-rock tunes like "Golden" and "Dancefloors" to their lush, trippy arrangements of "Wordless Chorus" and "Gideon." This set certainly sent their stock up in my book. I danced like an idiot and jammed out with the crowd for over 2 1/2 hours in a perfect closer to our first day. A sick cover of the Velvet Underground's "Head Held High" was the cherry on top. Pauly was a blithering fanboy as we exited the tent. He had a new favorite band. We chilled out on the grass and smoked behind the tent where the Disco Bicuits were still playing. Passed-out hippies dotted the grassy landscape. I felt like a million bucks compared to the way they looked. And I'd get to sleep in air conditioning tonight instead of having the sun rise on my muggy tent in only four hours time. Two days down. Two big ones to go. It's my last birthday of my 20s and thank God I'm not in a conference room with a cake BG, let's hope our horoscope is right. Today's birthday (June 26). The world longs to be discovered this year, and you're the one to do it. Adventures through August are not far from home, but as wild as any faraway quest. In September, business brings romance into your life. January starts a career transition. Money in October makes you so happy you were tenacious. A Leo or a Pisces appreciates your passionate soul. Your lucky numbers are: 10, 5, 43, 28 and 19. Posted by change100 at 12:50 PM 12 comments: I saw the Trey head before the face of the man holding it aloft. Trey was Phish's Trey Anastasio, of course and our own power trio of The Joker, BTreotch, and Professional Keno Player Neil Fontenot had just touched down at the Nashville airport. As we loaded all the luggage into the back of our rented Saturn SUV, Pauly and I finally discovered what the mystery spray adhesive was for. The Joker is a master when it comes to creating props and costumes for concerts. Pauly told me about his UPS man routine at last year's Vegoose and mentioned The Joker had also run a recent 10K race in a Santa suit. To entertain the wasted hippies at Bonnaroo, The Joker had blown up magazine photos of a dozen celebrities and glued them to foam posterboard. Attaching the heads to wooden rulers was the final step, hence, the spray. Once our little parking lot crafts party was complete Trey, Mike Gordon (Phish), Thom Yorke (Radiohead), Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Phil, George W. Bush, Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Entourage's Turtle and Johnny Drama were all ready to scope out some dirty hippies and party. The drive from Nashville to Manchester only took about an hour. Given my experiences at the Coachella Festival in years past, I'd been predicting a clusterfuck at the entrance to the grounds, but it was surprisingly smooth. Since day parking wasn't open yet, we found a spot on some guy's lawn maybe a mile from the entrance for $20. He had an adorable dog with a lousy disposition named Vicious. Within five minutes of entering the festival, we spotted a completlely wasted shirtless boy of about 18 stumbling around with a plastic gallon jug of cheap vodka in one hand. Not one set of music and the kid was already totally wasted. "Pace yourself!" warned The Joker as he waved Dr. Phil's head at him. Our first order of business at Bonnaroo was locating the Shakedown. It's that long row of vendors you'll find in any festival parking lot where you can pick up veggie pitas, glass bowls, beaded necklaces, and a smorgasbord of mind-altering substances. (As a primer, you might want to check out Pauly's Glossary of Terms and Slang) Navigating Shakedown can be a daunting prospect, but I was lucky. I was traveling with professionals. Pauly and The Joker can sniff out a quality narcotics salesperson from over 50 yards. It took them maybe 10 minutes to find a 16 year old kid with a messenger bag containing enormous stalks of freshly harvested Tennessee homegrown. Pauly followed him to his campsite to negotiate, while the rest of us waited in anticipation. He walked back to our cluster five minutes later with a shit eating grin on his face. "There's good news and bad news," he said. "The good news is we have weed. The bad news is we have nothing to put it in." Pauly reached into the pocket on the right leg of his cargo pants and produced a stalk of weed at least eight inches long. "We'll have to wrap it in something." He tore a page out of the Bonnaroo guidebook we'd received at the entrance and wrapped it around the thick green stalk. "They're gonna pat me down at the entrance. Better put it in your purse." He handed the poorly wrapped pacakge to me and I buried it in the bottom of my hobo bag, beneath the blanket and my hooded jacket. After fetching a few more supplies, we headed for the entrance. Security was a joke. The guy who checked my bag was obviously more interested in busting people for bottles of vodka than the pot farm in my purse. "Smells good in there," he said with a smile as he waved me in. The festival grounds were enormous. At around 80,000 concert-goers, Bonnaroo was almost twice the size of the Coachella festivals I'd attended in 2002 and 2004. Each stage or tent had a flaky hippie monkier. The Which Stage and the What Stage were the two larger venues while This Tent, That Tent and The Other Tent housed the smaller and midsize audiences. In the middle of all of it was an enormous mushroom fountain with a red cap. It seemed like a great way to cool off from the heat until the Joker warned me that all the water was recycled back out. By Sunday it would be a foul gutter brown. I-Nine was playing as we walked around the grounds. We checked out the arcade, which was full of old-school games like Qbert and Ms. Pac-Man. Along the side wall we noticed a guy playing a poker videogame. It was STACKED. "Dude, what are you calling with there?" Pauly chuckled as the kid turned over J8o for no pair no draw. Pauly's phone rang and it was Molly. We headed back to the mushroom to meet up with her. Pauly hadn't seen her since their adventures in Coventry, VT at the last Phish concert two summers ago. They had a very sweet reunion. Molly is indeed very little, very brown, and thoroughly adorable. We planned to meet up at her campsite after seeing a few bands. While the rest of our party temporarily departed in search of a World Cup score, Pauly and I checked out the Wood Brothers, who were playing in one of the three tents. I had only heard a couple of songs from them before this show, though I'm quite familiar with Chris Wood's "other" project, Medeski, Martin & Wood. Later on, we caught a performance of the Hunab Kru Breakdancers on one of the smaller stages while we chilled out on the grass. They were lily white, but a few of them could really move. I hoped that one of them would spin on his head and I got my wish. After discovering that there was a quarter-mile line for Patton Oswalt and Upright Citizens Brigade at the Comedy Tent we decided to head back to Molly's campsite to hang out. That's when we came upon the sonic forest. Imagine a grid of thick steel poles, jutting up from the ground like trees, adorned in blinking white lights. Dozens of tripped-out kids walked between them in a stoned daze as creepy plucking sounds emanated from surround sound speakers. Experience it for yourself on video. The clip arrives somewhere in the middle. We capped off the evening chilling at Molly's campsite. I was impressed, as pitching a tent is not exactly part of my skill set, nor does it look easy. While Pauly, BTreotch and I toked away, the Joker disappeared into the muggy darkness, returning with three cans of Natural Light. "I found a cooler on the side of the road. At least I didn't take the Heinekens." Surrounded by a motley band of professional partiers, I sat back, scratching the reddening mosquito bite on my left shoulder and listened to the sound of distant music as I blew smoke rings into the night sky. We weren't only going to survive this. We were going to shred it up. Posted by change100 at 10:16 PM No comments: D-Whirled I got two strange phone calls this morning. The first was from one of the assistants at my former company calling to tip me off that her boss (a senior executive I essentially slaved my ass off for two years) was pitching me for some new available D-gig. It was nice to hear that she still held me in good regard and my name wasn't totally trampled to smithereens back at the Big Man's. I wanted more specifics and my tipster promised she'd sniff it out. I'm not holding my breath. The thought of going back to D-life still sours my stomach, but if it were an interesting or lucrative enough opportunity, I'd at least take a meeting. Because like most of my generation, I'm just a broke kid collapsing under debt. The second call was from Frankie, an adorable bisexual Queens-to-L.A. transplant whom I've known since our first week of college. We'd climbed the D-ladder together over the last half a decade and she was one of those very few people I knew in the business who remained true blue and honest with me the whole way. I'd picked up a message from her on my way home from Bonnaroo and our phone tag ended this morning. She needed my advice. Frankie wanted to know whether or not she should accept my old job at twice the money I used to make. My stomach fell to the floor as the figure rolled off her tongue. The fact that she was offered my job doesn't bother me in the least. She's an intelligent woman with great taste in material that I'd also go out and party with any night of the week. I'd hire her in a minute. I tried to give her as honest an assessment of life with the Big Man as I could and concluded that it would probably be a great career move for her to take the gig. After all it is a prestigious company. The name carries a lot of weight. It's the second half of that sentence that makes me want to turn on some Death Cab for Cutie and slit my wrists in a warm bath. Just another one of those days I've been having as of late when my jealousy of all the money my peers seem to be making at their various endeavors rears its ugly head before I can talk myself down off the ledge by remembering that my poverty, my debt, my instabilty are all choices I make for myself on a daily basis and that if I really wanted to I could just suck it up and find some bankroll-padding job that could make me breathe easier in the short term but only crush my soul in the end and prolong me once again from doing what I believe more and more with every passing day that I was born to do. It's a choice. A sacrifice. A gamble. A choice. A sacrifice. A gamble... The one thing I can say about hearing things like the Big Man offering Frankie my old gig is that it kicks my ass into a whole other gear. Because, in case you hadn't noticed, I'm an insanely competitive person. And no one puts more pressure on me than me. So I need to write faster and sell this screenplay. Winning another tournament along the way would help too ;) (Stay tuned for more tales of southern-fried hippie madness from Bonnaroo... Part II will appear later today.) "Oh fuck." "I remember sunscreen, aspirin, and an eyeglass repair kit, but you know what I left on my desk?" "My Bonnaroo ticket." "Seriously?" "FedEx it to me at Spaceman's?" "Now I have to fly without Xanax AND worry about this." I'd run out of Xannies the last time I flew, but as I write this, I can't even recall when that was. So I got high with Showcase on the way to LAX instead, ensuring that I would sleep well on my four-hour nonstop flight to Nashville. I hate flying. I hate the way the pressurized air smells, the way my neck feels after being tortured by the seatback, and the well-meaning people that try to talk to you when all you want to do is go to sleep so you can temporarily forget that you are indeed inside a 155,000 ton flying death tube seven miles above the Earth's surface. I'll drive four hours through the desert in my horrible car to Vegas every time rather than take the 45-minute hop on Southwest if only to avoid the stomach-churning, ear-popping, far-too-rapid manual landing at McCarran. It's practically the only thing that'll make me break out in prayer. After running myself through the self-serve check-in and clearing security, I called Pauly from the gate to get Spaceman's address to give to Showcase. I could hear his eyes roll from two thousand miles west and worry seeped from his voice as I confessed my dilemma. Back when I first broached the idea of joining him for this year's Bonnaroo, he wasn't convinced that this Hollywood blonde could hack it. "You'll never survive," he scoffed. Of course, this was when we were thinking of camping, the accomodations of choice for perhaps 90% of the festival-goers. And in that case, he was probably right. I've never camped before in my life, and a four-day music festival/bender in the middle of the sticky Tennessee summer was probably not the place to start. Thank God the Joker stepped in and hooked us up with a motel room. A bed, a shower, and air conditioning go a helluva long way toward preventing burnout at one of these things. That sealed the deal for me. I was on my way to the South. I scribbled Spaceman's address onto the back of my boarding pass and left it on Showcase's voicemail. It was only then that I decided I should ransack my luggage just to make sure I really forgot it. I found the damn thing in about two minutes and called Pauly back. Total false alarm. The first thing I noticed about Tennessee was the green. Wild, velvet canopies over rolling hills. Sparkling rivers cutting through hillisdes and farmland. The most intense, alive shades of green I'd ever seen. I spent four years in the midwest almost a decade ago but the patchwork praries of Illinois that I'd gazed down upon from airplane windows on approach to O'Hare had nothing on the lush postcard Americana that unfolded beneath our 737 as we descended into Nashville. I was seated next to an couple my parents' age who were on their way back home from a vacation in Hawaii. They'd changed planes in Los Angeles. He wore a cheesy Hawaiian shirt and she was decked out in a Waikiki Beach T-Shirt and pink cotton shorts from Wal-Mart's spring line. The man must have seen the way I was looking out the window. "Not from here are you?" "No. I've never been to the South." "Make sure you go to Cracker Barrel. You can get a fine meal for 'bout ten dollars. Chicken. Mashed potatoes. Vegetables. Dinner roll." "I'll make sure to try that." It wasn't Cracker Barrel I was after in Tennessee, however. It was Waffle House. After hearing about several of my friends' tawdry adventures in this establishment, I'd put it at the top of my must-see list. Spaceman, Mrs. Spaceman, and Pauly picked me up at the airport. We drove into the city and had a lovely Italian dinner. I got angel hair pasta with sausage and smoked duck. The sauce was deliciously spicy. I also had my first glass of authentic sweet tea and these amazing fried cheese balls as an appetizer. Shit like that is practically illegal in L.A. After dinner we cruised around Nashville, stopping for a walk in Centennial Park. I even saw a guy in a cowboy hat with a guitar slung over his shoulder crossing the street. Tennessee native Mrs. Spaceman was an excellent tour guide. We checked out the Parthenon, Music Row, and took a loop near Vanderbilt University. The city is new and old smashed right up against each other. Next door to a church dating back to the 18th century, one might find an aluminum-sided warehouse-turned-strip club. There's also a huge art museum named after Bill Frist. Back when he was a doctor, I hear he was kind of a shitty one. The Spacemen live about 40 minutes outside of Nashville in a small town called Ashland City. There aren't really many streets, just twisting state highways that intersect with each other. The hilly terrain is blanketed in lush green vegetation and broken up by small valleys called "hollers." On the way to Spaceman's house we passed a swath of land owned by one of the Mandrell Sisters. I think it was Louise. Her land is marked by a huge glowing white cross easily visible from the highway. Mrs. Spaceman told us that her husband put it up so she could feel Christ's love or something as she came home from her stints on the road. This was only a small preview of the Jesus Freakiness that swarms the state of Tennessee like fireflies. Even in the remotest of areas there always seemed to be plenty of churches. "We get a whole lot of Jesus mail too," Mrs. Spaceman said. Their adorable wooden cabin-style house sits right next to a river on a huge patch of land. I totally understand why Spaceman misses it so much when he's on the road. When we weren't playing team Trivial Pursuit (Spaceman and I defeated Mrs. Spaceman and Pauly) or a 4-handed winner-take all-SNG (I won tough heads-up battles with both Spacemen to win twice), we sat out on that porch, mosquitos and all and drank and talked and I just took it all in as their two dogs chased each other and licked my ankles. One of the pups took quite a liking to Pauly, even walking in on him while he was showering. On the second night, I finally got to experience Waffle House. Spaceman was a little disappointed because the clientele at this particular branch was fairly inoffensive. Mrs. Spaceman's friend Lydia joined us for the meal and indulged in her favorite food (and Daddy's), bacon! I had a pecan waffle and my hasbrowns scattered, smothered and covered. I couldn't believe I could get an entire delicious, satisfying meal for less than $5. A waffle is $2.40 and the hashbrowns, even with all the stuff on them are under 2 bucks. After another late night with the Spacemen on Wednesday, Pauly and I got up fairly early on Thursday to drive back to Nashville and pick up the rest of our crew at the airport: BTreotch, The Joker, and Professional Keno Player Neil Fontenot. As the Joker was boarding his flight in Denver, he phoned up Pauly. He knew we were hitting Wal-Mart for supplies and wanted us to pick him up some 3M spray adhesive. But for what, I had no earthly idea. Showcase and I totally dorked out and watched the Tony Awards together last night, a tradition we've adhered to for more or less the last decade. We set the Tivo, loaded the bong, and I whipped up some bacon-wrapped turkey mignons with a spinach-mushroom saute on the side after I was bounced from a Full Tilt Bracelet race in 30th place of 242. Pauly and Hoyazo got to see me double up with The Hammer vs. AJo after a frisky pre-flop all in reraise. The 7 on the flop saved my ass and left my entire table scratching their heads and muttering to themselves. God bless implied tilt odds. Our first Tonys together was all the way back in 1996, the year Rent came to Broadway. We were both theatre students at a prestigious midwestern private university at the time and I must have had over 300 Original Cast Albums in my collection. It helped me make friends quickly with the other theatre dorks in my dorm because I'd always have great, obscure audtition song suggestions for my peers as well as the corresponding disc to loan them. At least once a week, Showcase would come to my room and we'd have a full-blown musical theatre night, singing along with our favorite showtunes at full volume. We really were that ghey. And we are even gheyer ten years later. I was disappointed that Patti LuPone didn't win her long-deserved second Tony for her performance in Sweeney Todd. Showcase was very happy for LaChanze (The Color Purple), however. She's one of those actors that has been around Broadway forever, as a swing, an understudy, a featured performer, but never really the star. Thank God she remembered to thank Oprah at the end of her speech. Had she forgotten, I'm sure she would have been struck by lightning on her way out of Radio City Music Hall. I had an "eh" week at poker. One finish at the final three tables at the Full Tilt $9K Guaranteed, a crushing near-bubble finish in the Full Tilt $40K when QQ got floooshed by AJh, and my first limit hold'em final table in an $11 multi on Poker Stars where I finished 5th of 180. I also got deep in the Full Tilt 17K twice but no cash. So as I said yesterday, as of tomorrow morning, I'll be unplugged until I return to Los Angeles from Tennessee on the 20th. I'd take my laptop along, but unfortunatley, the LCD is crapping out and I've been working with only 2/3 of a screen for the last couple of weeks. So it's a perfect time to send the thing back to Dell and get it fixed, seeing as I'll probably do little or no writing while I'm away. Those stories will have to wait until I get back to be told. If you're hungry for updates, check the Tao of Pauly and Coventry (Pauly's music blog). Until next week, just pray this Hollywood blonde survives the South. If only I hadn't gone back for sunscreen and the trial-sized bottle of Purell Hand Sanitzier, none of this might of happened. Showcase and I were in line at the local Sav-on around 9:30 on Wednesday night. We'd stopped to pick up Diet Coke and some snacks. As we approached the checkout counter, it dawned on me that there were a couple of things I could use for my trip to Bonnaroo next week and I could save myself a trip back here in a couple of days if I just went back and grabbed my items now. I told Showcase to hang on and that I'd be right back. "Caution" signs were up in every single aisle of the store. The janitorial crew had already begun washing the floors, even though it was almost 30 minutes before closing. The bottoms of my black rubber flip flops slid a little as I carefully navigated my way down the skin care aisle, and I caught my balance on one of the shelves. I selected a bottle of spray-on SPF 50 specially formulated for baby's sensitive skin before grabbing a tiny bottle of Purell. It was the best thing I thought to bring to Coachella two years ago. There aren't exactly tons of places to wash your hands from the filthy ground before shoving food into your mouth at these big music festivals and the Purell was soon envied and borrowed by most of my friends. Turning around to head back to the register, I looked for an aisle that wasn't being mopped down. Every single one had a "caution" sign up. There was literally nowhere to go. So I gingerly tread up the one in front of me toward Showcase, who was now waiting for me by the door. Just as I thought I'd made it to safety, my legs slid from under me, and I made a perfect Hollywood pratfall onto the slick linoleum. Everything I was holding went flying as I landed hard, my right elbow absorbing most of the impact. I'm certain it was hilarious to watch. I know Showcase was cackling until he realized the severity of the situation. The first thing I saw as I looked up from my prone position on the floor was the older Mexican security guard offering me a hand back up. I took his leathery palm and got on my feet. I thought I was OK, until I felt the searing pain in my elbow maybe fifteen seconds later. I grabbed it with my left hand and hissed through clenched teeth at the approaching store manager. "What the hell is wrong with you people? Washing every inch of floor while people are still walking around in here? You couldn't wait?!" Showcase rushed over to see if I was OK. I took my hand off my elbow and it was covered in blood. The shock was wearing off and the pain began to register. I wasn't OK. I wasn't just going to shake it off and be home in fifteen minutes. Pain shot up my arm and I broke down in heavy sobs as the manager, the security guard, and two now-petrified janitors gave me frozen stares while I bled all over my own hand. That's when Showcase took charge. No one was even moving to help me out. The fear of all four of them losing their dead-end $9/hr jobs was painted plainly across their slack-jawed faces. "Can one of you do something and get her a towel? Come on, she's bleeding all over the place! Which one of you is the manager? Is there a SINGLE ONE OF THESE AISLES we can walk down toward the restroom without this happening again!" I threw off my shoes and trudged barefoot and teary toward the back of the store, hanging on to Showcase's shoulder with my good arm. Once inside the restroom, we took a look at the gash on my elbow. It was over an inch long and maybe a half inch deep. I tried to clean it off a little, but yelped in pain as soon as the cool water hit the wound. "You're gonna have to go to the ER. It's pretty bad." "I can't" "You have to. It's way too deep." "But I don't have health insurance anymore!" "You don't?" "It expired 8 days ago. I can't afford a hospital bill." "Doesn't matter. They're paying for this." Showcase got me into a chair at the back of the store and managed to find the only calm, English-speaking employee in the entire place-- a fortysomething Asian pharmacist. He looked at my gash, told Showcase to take me to Cedars-Sinai for stitches, and gave me 800 mg of Motrin to ease the pain and swelling. I sat there, heaving in pain for what seemed like half an hour while Showcase filled out an incident report with the store manager. All the while, the two janitors just stood there, staring at me while I sobbed and bled. On our way out, one of the janitors started speaking to the security guard in Spanish. I took enough Espanol in high school and college to understand what she was saying. She was blaming my fall on my shoes. The black rubber flip flops. "How dare you? This is your fault and nothing to do with my zapatos!" I seethed as Showcase led me to the car. As we drove to Cedars, I started to calm down a little as the shock wore off and my inner degenerate gambler re-emerged. "What do you think's the over-under on when I actually get stitched up? "Midnight." "I'll take the over." Fifteen minutes later, we were in the Emergency Room. Showcase filled out my paperwork since I'm not a lefty. "Date of birth 6-26, right?" "Yes." "Have you ever been treated at Cedars before?" "Were you born at Cedars?" "And... your treating physician may be a part of a cable reality show on hospitals. Do you wish to sign a release allowing your likeness to be used?" "Kidding. But keep your eyes out for Suri Cruise. Perfect time of night for a clandestine celebrity well-baby visit." Kelly, the tall, blonde candy-striper who helped admit me was hot. Showcase doesn't normally go for blondes, but his mouth hung open as she iced my elbow and asked me questions about what happened. There was something familiar about her to me, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Showcase later discovered that she was in a recent credit card commercial. An actress/candy striper. Only in L.A. I was taken back pretty quickly (bleeding and crying a lot helped that along). A sandy haired ex-fratboy type doc came and examined my arm. He was hot too (were there any ugly people in this hospital?) and I could only imagine how shitty I looked with puffy red eyes, a gaping wound, and no makeup. Dr. McDreamy got me a bed with a TV and once he stepped away, I instantly started channel surfing. I was looking for the Travel Channel, since the WPT was on, but had to settle for SportsCenter and a rerun of the National Spelling Bee. One curtain over from me was an enormous black man with an equally enormous boil near his right eyebrow. The doctor was scolding him for having waited so long to get it looked at. He grunted in such terrible pain as the nurse drained it that they had to give him two shots of morphine. I saw her walk away with an entire jar of pus. Kelly came in and checked on me a couple of times, reporting back to a nervous Showcase. You know, I'll just let him tell this part: So the hot blonde girl comes back out of the ER with a strange look on her face. She says "I have some bad news, your friend threw a tantrum and we had to sedate her." I put my hands on my hips, gazed at the floor and muttered "oh, Jesus" as I imagined her hurling insults and four letter words at the doctors. The idea that she was kidding didn't even cross my mind. For me, the worst part of the entire ordeal was the actual numbing and stitching of the wound. I hate blood, I'm a wuss in terms of pain and I avoid doctors whenever I can. I nearly fainted as the enormous needle was pressed into my gaping, bleeding flesh despite the numbing powers the anesthesia promised. I'd heard the boil guy scream and he got morphine. Once the sewing of the flesh began, I got so nauseous I had to turn the other way. I got discharged with a thick gauze bandage around my wound and no good drugs. It was a good thing Showcase had a few spare Vicodins lying around from when he got his wisdom teeth pulled last month. Otherwise I would have never fallen asleep. So now I possibly have to sue Sav-on. Showcase went back there the next day to speak to the manager and he wouldn't even give him a claim form, let alone a copy of the incident report. The stonewalling has already begun. And it's at times like this that I'm incredibly grateful I'm a lawyer's daughter. When I was in grade school, my best friend's mom had a thing for suing people. I swear to God, Linda James must have redone her Cheviot Hills home four or five times over the years with her lawsuit money. Love tap rear-ender on Wilshire Blvd? Out comes the neck brace. Nine months later, there's a pair of $4000 Italian silk couches in her living room. Allergic reaction to the rugs in the Disneyland Hotel? How about a pool and some new landscaping? My family got a kick out of Linda, though I know my father was always a little jealous of the money. Unfortunately, he may be the only lawyer in L.A. County with a moral compass. It also explains why he never got rich. So Dad helped me write a firm yet polite legal letter to the fuckwads at Savon. I'm not looking to soak anyone here. I just don't want to get stuck with a ER bill in the thousands because a couple of minimum wage monkeys wanted to go home early. And an extra grand for that lip from the bitch that caused me to fall in the first place wouldn't hurt. I guess I'm destined to go one more round with bureaucracy. I'm feeling much better now. I couldn't drive for a couple of days, but now I can move it around and I'll be fine for Bonnaroo, though I have to be extra careful to not bump it into anything. I leave in 24 hours and I'll be completely unplugged for the six days I'll be in Tennessee. No email. No poker. Nada. Just friends, music, air, sky, and hopefully good drugs. A few stitches can't wreck that. A ticket, a final table, and... a celebratory altar? At long last, I got my Bonnaroo tickets today via Fedex. When I first saw the uniformed man through the peep-hole in my front door, I momentarily panicked, fearing the police, a summons, or even some bureaucrat coming to take my $1800 away. Nope. Just my passport to four days of music and debauchery in Manchester, TN. I've never been to the South. My sole experiences below the Mason-Dixon line are confined to changing planes in Dallas and Atlanta. Luckily I'll have Mr. and . Mrs. Spaceman to guide me through the land of Waffle Houses, Sweet Tea, and cicadas. Should I pack bug spray? We don't get enough out here to worry about such things. It was a good poker day. Ryan and I made twin sixth place finishes in MTTs this afternoon, he in the Poker Stars $50+5, me in the Full Tilt $6K Guaranteed. I had a nice-sized stack at the final table and felt I was headed for a top three finish had my KK not been cracked by 33. Speaking of Ryan, please do your poker game a favor and check out his recent posts The Suicide Pact, Part I and Part II as well as No Good Deed. I've played a lot with Ryan and I've been sweated by him even more. He's wicked smart, a helluva player and I can't say enough about the good things he's done for my game. Angelina got called back for Rent. The casting directors also wanted to see her on Thursday for Wicked. She stopped by our place for a celebratory smoke with Showcase and I before heading to Burbank for an audition for a tampon commercial. Showcase is hopelessly smitten with her. She's hot and her boyfriend's sort of a loser. I don't blame him. Mercifully, I have avoided having to attend a wedding for a whole 16 months. Almost all of my high school girlfriends have married off in the last four years, at an average cost to me of about $1000/wedding including transportation, hotel stays, awful dresses I'll never wear again, and gift after gift after gift. Bridal shower gifts. Bachelorette spa crap and limos and dinners. Shit off the Williams-Sonoma registry for the actual wedding present. And, of course, my own drug and bar tab for getting through the weekend in a relatively festive mood. Let's put aside for the moment my own personal disgust with the fact that these girls get rewarded with fancy shit simply for making a loose legal promise that she'll only fuck this one guy for the rest of her life. Finding a guy who will make an attractive, educated girl of upper-middle class West Los Angeles breeding that loose legal promise is really not that difficult. And yet our society rewards such a milestone with $399 Kitchen Aid mixers and Krups cappucino makers. But here's the thing. I probably wouldn't be thinking about all this shit if I was even good friends with these girls anymore! Because generosity and celebration of life's great milestones with people I truly care about shouldn't even require a second thought. Somehow, even though I speak to this group of girls I spent age 5-17 with perhaps twice a year these days, I'm still on all the wedding lists. So of course I got invited to Claudia's wedding since I went to the last five or so. And of course it's in fucking BRAZIL during the WSOP. Why on earth should they make it easy on the guests? So clearly, I'm not going. I believe there's no shame or stigma, really in turning down an invitation that requires international travel unless you're exceptionally close to the bride or groom. That, and if I'm gonna spend all that coin go to Brazil, it's not going to be with a bunch of West L.A. country club girls that are slowly turning into their mothers. But there's still the matter of the bachelorette party, which thankfully does not require roundtrip air travel and a Saturday night stay. It also does not include drinking, drugging, gambling, strip clubbing, or anything else fun. I'll let the invitation speak for itself. To make this event as memorable and personal as possible, we are asking everyone to: --bring one special flower to make Claudia a flower crown or a favorite bead to make her a necklace --a special photo, object or poem that reminds you of Claudia to make a celebratory altar to share during our circle...Your memories and sweet self are more than enough too! --and your favorite dish or drink to share (when you RSVP, let us know!) We can't wait to see you there! And of course, we will open presents too! Flowers? Beads? A goddamn celebratory altar? Oh, and don't forget a tastefully wrapped belgian waffle maker! There really aren't enough pills on this earth to sedate me enough to get through this thing with a straight face. I can't even imagine what story I could tell in the "circle" that doesn't involve Claudia and I being eleven years old and at recess and so innocent we couldn't find trouble if it slapped us upside our goody-goody heads. That was a long time ago. More than half a lifetime. They're all schoolteachers and lawyers and mothers and are almost all coupled off. I just can't relate anymore. But no matter how much I try to cut the cord from my past, we still end up hanging on to each other a little. They see my life and get a window into a path of uncertainty they could never choose for themselves but perhaps wanted, or even still long for. And I get a window to my past. The sprawling Holmby Hills properties I played on as a child. The brunches and lunches and country club birthday parties. The Sunday masses where our parents fake-smiled at each other while gossiping out of the sides of their mouths. There's a certain nostalgia to it. But given the choice? I'll still pick my life every single time. It's a small victory over the Kitchen Aid mixers. But a victory nonetheless. Burnt to a Crisp My ass is so sunburnt right now it hurts to sit, and my back so fried to a rosy crisp that the slightest movement feels like a slap. I slept on my side all night it stung so bad. I got up this morning around 8 since that's when Angelina decided to start rehearsing for her Rent audition later this afternoon. "It sounds like our freshman year dorm around here" Showcase remarked as she launched into her fourth straight rendition of Take Me or Leave Me. Bean, my best girlfriend from college, was in town this weekend. Everyone's favorite Pittsburgh fashionista had met Kevin at a wedding a few months ago and the two of them launched into a phone relationship after they finished pawing each other in a dark conference room in a Western Pennsylvania Mariott. She decided to fly out here so they could spend some time together and sort of evaluate where things were going. They had a great date Friday night and she laid it out right at the beginning that she wouldn't be spending the night at his place. And after a lovely dinner and a drink back at his house in Brentwood, he suddenly turned into a big whiny baby when she asked him to drive her the four miles back to my place. The next day they made plans to spend the day together, but when the spending the night question came back up, Kevin needed his rattle and pacifier back when he started whining yet again about making a ten minute drive at the end of the night. She flew across the country but he can't drive from Brentwood to Beverly Hills? Bean had had enough by that point, and was pretty upset that he couldn't respect the boundaries she set. So we spend the remainder of the weekend together. After indulging her passion for fashion at Fred Segal, Lisa Kline, and a score of trendy boutiques that clothe L.A.'s most stylish and starving, we hit Venice Beach for a bit of sun and relaxation. I slathered myself in SPF 30 before even leaving my apartment, but it mustn't have been enough. Then again, merely stepping outside is a sunburn risk for someone with my sensitive alabaster skin. I have one of those spray bottles of aloe vera cooling in my fridge and I've been applying it hourly. At least in a few days the red should be gone and I'll have a bit of that base tan Pauly was telling me to work on before hitting the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2 weeks time. On the poker front, I had a good week, even making a sizable cashout last night. Money is always a good thing for me, especially since I'll have to play a lot less this week. I have to really focus on writing before this trip, where I'll be totally unplugged for 6 days. Charlie and I are talking pretty much daily and I want to give him some pages to look at before I leave. I can't believe the WSOP is almost here! Though I'd really like to play an event or two this year, it's going to have to happen for me via satellite. I got pretty close in one of the $26 Full Tilt Bracelet Races this week, finishing 12th of 243, but so far, no dice. I'm thinking of trying to parlay a few peeps into the $75 satellites for a better shot at a seat. Trying to hit top two of 200+ is just too big a crapshoot. There are also $216 satellites for a $2K prize package running three times a week at 9 PM PDT, but though there are $26 satellites into every other $216 tournament on Full Tilt, there aren't for this one. What's up with that? Meanwhile, check out the 2006 WSOP Preview and whet your own appetite for the Big Dance. My ass hurts. I need to stand up. I just got the result of my appeal hearing in the mail. That was quick. I lost, just like I thought I would. The judge's letter didn't ask for the $1800 back right then and there, but it's just a matter of time before I have to fork it back over to the government, since "the claimant failed to comply with department requirements and has failed to show any good cause for her failure to comply." I also had to read through six pages of legalese to arrive at that statement. God help the 99% of the population that is stupider and less educated than I am as they try to decipher theirs. Additionally, while reading through the five pages of laws I apparently broke by misunderstanding a form, I noticed that somewhere in this process that I "was identified pursuant to an automated profiling system as likely to exhaust regular unemployment benefits." I was trying to think of what could get me profiled in such a way. Until a few months ago I was steadily employed for 12+ years, paid my taxes, had never been arrested, was a college-educated native citizen of this country, and even boasted a moderately good credit rating. Then I figured it out. It had to be a Hollywood thing. Hollywood's a pyramid. All the 22 year old assistants and mailroom kids are on the bottom. Maybe 50% of them quit after the first year and maybe 10% of that 50% make it to the next level. They become d-girls and d-boys. And of the 10% of the 50% that earn their own offices and assistants, maybe 5% of that 10% make VP and grab the brass ring of a six-figure salary and an unlimited expense account. Everyone below that level in Hollywood works a 70-80 hour week for which they are vastly underpaid. So when the 95% of us that don't make VP hit the streets, totally lost after a bomb movie or a falling corporate stock price or a mega-producer's midlife crisis takes away our comfy middle-management jobs, I guess we end up milking the State of California for so much money that as a demographic, we've earned ourselves "risk" status. The Los Angeles EDD must see droves of overeducated kids with Paramount or Warner Brothers as their last job and no other marketable skills except to declare scripts as "derivative," "episodic" or "low-concept" and set off their version of a nuclear fallout warning system as soon as the filing notices arrive in their inboxes. It makes a lot of sense when you think about it. I don't think I know a single D-boy or girl that has rebounded into a quality gig without spending at least 6 months twisting in the wind. Most take longer. After Charlie lost his first D-gig, he was out of work for 8 1/2 months. I even knew I a guy that, before he ended up as a New Line exec., had defaulted on over a year's worth of payments on his NYU loans, had two collection agencies after him, and was living on Campbell's soup and hotdogs toward the end of his 16-month stretch of unemployment. Now he's driving an Audi and sleeps with his BlackBerry on his pillow. I'm glad I have poker in my life to make me a few extra bucks here and there as I navigate these waters "outside the system." My tourney score couldn't have come at a better time, and I've posted a win every day since making that cash. Making a nice cashout and operating with a full bankroll for the levels I'm playing helps tremendously in the confidence department for me. Any remaining fears I might have at the table evaporate. But the thing about having gone broke a couple of times and coming close a couple more times is that I know that the state I am in right now is temporary. I will lose again. The laws of numbers tell me that it is very unlikely I make another major MTT score this month. Which is not to say that I couldn't make one tonight. Simply put, when I play short, I suck. When I play flush, I play goot. I make better decisions. I am not operating out of fear. I do not play to save bets. I play to earn entire pots. Why? Because like most people, money unfortunately still means something to me. Making the score, making observations in my own play following the score across a number of games and situations, and looking back at my play while I was losing a lot in cash games back in March has taught me a tremendous amount about my own poker game (where I make mostly good decisions, at least in NLHE), my bankroll management (where I make some questionable decisions) to my own emotional management (where I probably make the worst decisions of all). All this navel-gazing has helped me begin to identify the Five Biggest Mistakes I've Made Playing Poker. Definitely something I'll expand on in the coming weeks in this space. It's 30 minutes to the 17K, so I'd better get some food in my belly. I'm also watching the Yankees play Detroit and can only imagine how ballistic Derek and Pauly will go if the Yanks do end up giving up their six run lead. Stacee is also supposed to come over sometime tonight to get "her stuff"-- you know, the collection of CDs and thongs that girlfriends leave behind at guys' places to fuck with their heads. I offered to flee the apartment so they could talk, but Showcase wants me here. "Are you kidding? The second she walks through the front door I want you on that couch with four tables open on Poker Stars exhaling a monster bong hit and yelling SHIP IT!" Posted by change100 at 5:06 PM No comments: It's my last birthday of my 20s and thank God I'm ... A ticket, a final table, and... a celebratory alta...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line401
__label__wiki	0.678278	0.678278	Home > Lesbian > Lesbian art abstract Lesbian art abstract Catrinel menghia nude The next was to participate in the feminist art movement creating work with and for women. Vintage milf com. As a resultshe often just signed her work with her initials or blended her signature into the painting itself to avoid labelling her work as feminine. Lesbian art abstract. While gay men acted as leaders of the pop art movement lesbian artists were barred entirely. While her actions were inexcusable, Solanas was just one symptom of a larger problem. At the same time, it was strangely familiar in a different way. The limited options of education for women artists, societal expectations discouraging women entering the arts, and a romanticized ideal of the male genius has historically led to the institutional exclusion of women from the ranks of the truly great. Moritz to care for her. It seems that each body of work pushes you toward something slightly new and different, while also echoing or circling back to previous work. National Center for Biotechnology InformationU. Her encounter with Hasegawa also incited her to start thinking of her identity as an Asian woman. But fun to imagine, if only Sonja had thought to fill her boundless Ab-Ex space with columns of numbers and other indices of data Dan Graham's early Conceptual art work, Figurativewhich is basically a column of numbers from a cash register receipt, comes to mind rather than '50s-era signs of cosmic myth and the primitive unconscious, she could have forged a trademark style that the rise of a new corporatist, global art market required. As I mentioned in the introduction, Abstract Expressionism is associated with masculinity, and traits such as rebellion and brilliance. Real escort girls. Parsons did not play favorites, refusing to cave to the demands of the most successful artists at her gallery at the expense of the least successful which in this situation means she did not cave to the privileged straight, white men at the expense of artists who were queer, female, or of colorand at the same time refusing to give unprivileged artists an extra push. She even designed a costume, a kind of coverall painted with Indian-derived signs and motifs, that Cunningham wore in his dance Dromenon. There is a kind of larger flow or cycle to my visual practice. Arising around the same period of time as pop art, the feminist art movement proved very attractive to lesbian artists. My first observation was that a work immediately to our left, The Sun Room, looked like cyberspace as described by William Gibson in his landmark science fiction novel Neuromancerdark and infinite, transected by rays of light and dotted with glowing geometric markers. Their unprivileged perspective would create a sense of political motive, even if there were none. The panel was moderated by Dieter Schwartz, curator of the show, author of its informative catalogue and director of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, where the show originated. Lesbian artists had no foremothers to look to and would have had a difficult time breaking into the pop art scene being both queer and a woman. Out of these three options working within the feminist art movement generally proved to be the path of least resistance. Asian American modern art: The last option was to make lesbianism the decisive subject of their work and demand that their sexuality be seen as a part of their work. Many contemporary exhibitions have started to address this gender imbalance and draw attention to female Abstract Expressionists. So, female Abstract Expressionists were out there and producing some amazing work, but then as now had to struggle with being marginalised or excluded. This masculine expression of pure individuality and energy has for many become emblematic of the movement. Even in minority groups there are hierarchical levels of privilege, and lesbians were solidly lower on the ladder than gay men. Harmony Hammond in her studio, photo by Judith Cooper click to enlarge Hammond has had a pioneering impact on art, in particular through her insistence on feminist and queer content in abstract work. Elaine de Kooning, for example, signed her artworks with her initials to avoid her work being labelled as feminine the J. Of particular fascination is an incident Dieter Schwartz mentions in his catalogue essay. Big tits xxx video Her work Mayacamas, No. Where were all the female Abstract Expressionists? Parsons has a claim towards launching abstract expressionism, starting the careers of Pollock, Rothko, Newman, and Rauschenberg among many others. Following that she was depicted as a forerunner of new expressionism. Nude pics dawn wells. With the heavy use of camp and clever plays on consumerism, gay men were attracted to and very prominent within pop art. The surface texture of each painting is different, but there is a focus on how under-colors are revealed or push up from beneath and through the grommeted holes, disrupting what at first glance appears to be a minimalist monochrome grid painting. Raised in numerous Caucasian foster homes with her sister, Bing also lived in the Ming Quong Home, a girls' custodial home in Oakland's Chinatown, for some time. Clement Greenberg, meanwhile, was an art critic best remembered for promoting the Abstract Expressionist movement and shaping our understandings of it. Encyclopedia of Asian American Artists. Inthe leading male Abstract Expressionists demanded that their dealer, Betty Parsons, focus more on their work, a demand that derived from both esthetic and hard-nosed business considerations. Finally, the making of art is discussed as a supportive and healing activity. As I mentioned in the introduction, Abstract Expressionism is associated with masculinity, and traits such as rebellion and brilliance. Harmony Hammond in her studio, photo by Judith Cooper click to enlarge Hammond has had a pioneering impact on art, in particular through her insistence on feminist and queer content in abstract work. Of particular fascination is an incident Dieter Schwartz mentions in his catalogue essay. Lesbian art abstract. But fun to imagine, if only Sonja had thought to fill her boundless Ab-Ex space with columns of numbers and other indices of data Dan Graham's early Conceptual art work, Figurativewhich is basically a column of numbers from a cash register receipt, comes to mind rather than '50s-era signs of cosmic myth and the primitive unconscious, she could have forged a trademark style that the rise of a new corporatist, global art market required. The surface is similar to earlier works, but there are fewer straps. Backyard pool naked. Depicting women artists as a link between different artistic movements is a powerful way to downplay their worth. After Guggenheim closed her space, Sekula went along with the rest of the Abstract Expressionists to Betty Parsons, where she had several shows over the next decade. Notify me of new posts by email. Once again, with the benefit of hindsight, we see a tantalizing hint of what might have been. Next Academic Art in the 19th Century: While her male peers had no issue finding new representation, Drexler inexplicably struggled. She died in Philo, California in from cancer. Coming from the perspective of a woman artist who would likely have, say, a complicated history with the depiction of women in films the work is suddenly personal and political. Thus we can say the paintings perform queerly. I managed to survive the panel without making a complete fool of myself, no small achievement since I basically didn't know anything about the subject at hand! In this way, they are connected to the material buildup of Bontecou or Burri. They are shown as neither the true innovators of a new movement nor the true giants of the last, merely as something in between. The easiest way to explain Abstract Expressionist art is that it was abstract a. University of California Press; Berkeley: Arising around the same period of time as pop art, the feminist art movement proved very attractive to lesbian artists. Please review our privacy policy. Naked carrot cake. Are there any names we would find surprising? Although Sekula was "out" in a kind of "Weimar" way, to repeat the term that Robert Motherwell used to describe her-- meaning, one should think, that she wore men's clothes--neither Sekula's diaries nor her writing make much mention of her lesbianism. As one of many women artists of the time who are neglected today--a phenomenon that continues to be of considerable interest, even though feminist art history has mapped out the prejudices of a patriarchal art world--Sekula's case is illuminating. When Bing was six, her mother died due to a heart ailment, [4] leaving Bing with limited exposure to her traditional Chinese heritage. The easiest way to explain Abstract Expressionist art is that it was abstract a. A lighthearted comparison, it's true, that says more about the derivation of the graphic image of cyberspace than it does about a certain type of Ab-Ex picture- making. My first observation was that a work immediately to our left, The Sun Room, looked like cyberspace as described by William Gibson in his landmark science fiction novel Neuromancerdark and infinite, transected by rays of light and dotted with glowing geometric markers. All of these artists were included in the 9th Street Art Exhibitionwhich brought together a huge number of Abstract Expressionists for a ground-breaking show displaying the work of the post-war New York avant-garde, which mostly consisted of Abstract Expressionists. Lesbian artists generally had three main options in regards to how they presented—or hid—their sexuality. Xxx big tits mature Julia ann lesbian porn movies Penny taylor nude Dania ramirez nude pics Naked thief movie Hot and mean lesbian free Women jumping naked Fucking dream girl Latina anal big tits Milf holiday sex Tumblr girls nude beach prochazkaasyn.com © 2014-2017 Lesbian art abstract.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line406
__label__wiki	0.774079	0.774079	Follow us via Social Media Meet the team Member companies Policies Ofsted Report Working for Seta Seta provides accredited, industry-recognised training to an advanced level, delivered by highly experienced staff with vast industry knowledge, and we have been playing a key role in developing and transforming workforces in the North East and beyond for more than 40 years. Apprentice Form Current Apprenticeship Vacancies Information for potential apprentices Information for parents Information for employers Mechatronics Maintenance Technician Machinist - Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Fabrication & Welding Business Administration Intermediate Business Administration Advanced Customer Service Intermediate Customer Service Advanced Team Leading Intermediate Management Advanced Warehousing and Storage Intermediate Technical Support Technician Study Programme Our apprenticeships are a launch pad for a career in engineering, manufacturing and related industries. Apprentices initially learn their skills at Seta’s own workshop facilities, where they gain hands on, practical experience for use in the workplace, and train on state-of-the-art machinery. Training your staff with Seta will have real, long-term benefits for your business. Our courses will help your staff become more efficient, productive and innovative in their fields, building a highly skilled workforce and providing the bedrock of future business growth. HNC/HND Overview Course Information The HNC/HND in General Engineering provides a specialist work-related programme of study that covers the key knowledge, understanding and practical skills required in the multi-skilled maintenance engineering sector. Case study - former apprentice How Ashley Wright's apprenticeship with Seta has helped her achieve a First Class Honours degree and launch her career... Home > Case studies > Ashley Wright - former NOV employee and Seta apprentice Ashley Wright - Former Nov Employee And Seta Apprentice National Oilwell Varco (NOV) is an American multi-national corporation which provides complete fluid management solutions for oilfield and industrial applications – these include centrifugal pumps, chokes, manifolds, valves, mud guns and hoppers. NOV Mission Products UK Ltd’s operation on Team Valley in Gateshead, North East England, has worked closely with Seta for many years and in the last four years has taken on more than 30 Seta apprentices. Ashley Wright undertook an initial off-the-job apprenticeship programme at Seta’s facilities, and then started training at NOV at the age of 19. After gaining a BTEC and an HNC in Engineering, Ashley then undertook a part time degree in Management of Engineering Technologies from Teesside University. Successfully completing this programme meant that she gained a full BSc First Class Honours Degree and she now holds a permanent post with NOV as a quality control inspector. Ashley’s career path demonstrates that an apprenticeship can provide an alternative route to obtaining a degree, without accruing the huge student debt which the ‘traditional’ university route can entail. Ashley Wright, formerly of NOV, National Oilwell Varco: “Seta gave me the practical skills and confidence I needed to work in a real-life working environment. “I tried the ‘traditional’ university route but then realised that I wanted my education to be more career-focused, so the apprenticeship programme really appealed to me. “Seta played a huge part in helping me to achieve my First Class Honours degree - and in launching my engineering career.” "Universities aren’t always an option for people – an apprenticeship is a great alternative, as it provides practical experience, life skills – and a qualification too" Rachael Fletcher, HR and Training Officer, Grundfos How a Study Programme with Seta helped Joe Diamond secure an apprenticeship How Seta has helped Chris Woods launch a new business. How Ashley Wright's apprenticeship with Seta has helped her achieve a First Class Honours degree and launch her career Seta's work with metal automotive component specialist Gestamp Washington UK Essentra Filter Products - a major international firm using Seta to train apprentices and deliver courses to its staff. Register for our email newsletter Follow us via social media: Copyright Seta 2019 Website by Horizonworks	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line410
__label__cc	0.616256	0.383744	Primary / Secondary School, School / University Chesterfield, VA – Sprinklers keep fire in check after stolen van crashes into High School January 25, 2015 viking210 1 Comment Fire alarms went off around 1:30 AM, when firefighters arrived at L.C. Bird High School in Chesterfield they found a van on fire that had crashed through the front doors. Officials say the tires were still running and that’s what caused the fire. Chesterfield Police say the van that crashed into the school was stolen. The fire caused smoke to spread throughout the school and the sprinkler system to go off. There were no reported injuries and the fire was contained to the area where the van crashed into the building. “It appears the fire was more than likely caused by the tires continuing to spin as it was inside, and the tires caught fire and spread to the rest of the vehicle,” Lt. Jason Elmore with Chesterfield said. There was no one inside the building at the time of the crash. The school will be closed through Sunday night. The principal sent a note home to parents saying they hope to reopen on Monday. Police are asking anyone with any information on the driver to contact them immediately. Night (9pm-5am)Virginia Previous PostOklahoma City, OK – Sprinklers contain overnight fire at senior living complex to one roomNext PostFremont, NE – Overnight fire in high-rise apartment building contained by sprinkler system One thought on “Chesterfield, VA – Sprinklers keep fire in check after stolen van crashes into High School” Bruce Lecair says: Hey they even work under in automobile accidents!! [—]School / University http://sprinklersaves.com/chesterfield-va-sprinklers-keep-fire-in-check-after-stolen-van-crashes-into-high-school/	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line418
__label__wiki	0.923166	0.923166	LB Shaquil Barrett agrees to contract with Buccaneers TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Free agent linebacker Shaquil Barrett has agreed to terms on a contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Barrett spent the past five seasons in Denver, starting 15 of 61 regular-season games for the Broncos. He has 14 career sacks, six forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries during his career. He also appeared in three postseason games with the Broncos. The Bucs also re-signed defensive tackle Rakeem Nunez-Roches on Friday. Meanwhile, the team said it has finalized previously announced agreements with linebacker Deone Bucannon, cornerback De'Vante Harris, wide receiver Breshad Perriman, and punter Bradley Pinion.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line424
__label__cc	0.686829	0.313171	Festive Rush Hour Xmas breakfast Special Xmas treat for Rush Hour programme participants The end of the year Christmas breakfast hosted by SouthSeas Healthcare, held recently at the Otara Pool and Leisure Centre, acknowledged a fantastic end to the Rush Hour community programme 2018. SouthSeas have been providing a sports platform twice weekly at 6.00am where early birds can pop in and work up a sweat before their work or school day starts. “This was a special Christmas treat where we provided a hearty breakfast for community people who turned up at 6.00 o’clock in the morning to play fun sports in the gym,” says Shaun Tautali SouthSeas Public Health Team Leader. “The Rush Hour community programme was initiated almost 10 years ago by the Otara Blue Light team, which is made up of local police and community volunteers. Now sponsored by SouthSeas Healthcare, the free programme has grown providing fun and interactive activities for all ages.” Shaun says the Rush Hour is a concept where the local community can come together to enjoy fun sports and get a good workout before their rush starts for the day. “The most special thing about the Christmas breakfast is to thank the people who work with us.” “This is a meaningful Christmas catch up for SouthSeas and we were determined to do something that makes a difference and share what we can do,” says Shaun. Given the popularity of the Rush Hour programme with the community, SouthSeas Healthcare is willing to roll over the programme in 2019.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line435
__label__wiki	0.922153	0.922153	सुबह सवेरे राज-काज आँखों देखी कानो सुनी हरियाणा क्राइम बच्चो के लिए शाबाश भविष्य न्यायालयों से खेल-खिलाडी कर्मचारियों की पुकार सेहतनामा हमें शिकायत है ज़िलों से अम्बाला फ़रीदाबाद महेंद्रगढ़ मेवात • अमेरिका के जरिए ड्रोन नष्ट होने की कोई जानकारी नहीं: ईरानी विदेश मंत्री • बिहार में बाढ़ से अब तक 83 लोगों की मौत • दिल्ली: तेज रफ्तार मर्सिडीज और कैब में टक्कर, कैब ड्राइवर समेत दो सवारी गंभीर रूप से घायल • कर्नाटक: आज दोपहर डेढ़ बजे तक सरकार को साबित करना होगा बहुमत • वेस्टइंडीज दौरे के लिए रविवार को 11:30 बजे मुंबई में टीम इंडिया का चयन • मुंबई: एनकाउंटर स्पेशलिस्ट प्रदीप शर्मा ने पुलिस सेवा से दिया इस्तीफा • IN THE GARB OF GURU NANAK DEV EVENT’ 15 Pro-Khalistanis Active in Pak: Indian Dossier to Islamabad • Keep a Close Watch on TikTok, PMO Tells IT Ministry After Complaints PM Nehru Gifted Silver Icon of Shiva, Necklace, his Book for Elizabeth-Philip Wedding COURTESY ET JUNE 26 ARCHIVES OF GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, DATING BACK TO 1947, MADE PUBLIC Govt issued a lot of ‘unofficial notes’. One of them, issued on Aug 10, 1947, said all articles posted at larger post offices from Aug 15 onwards will carry a date stamp with the words ‘Jai Hind’ This resolution, sir, is in simple language...there is no glow or warmth in the words that I have read. Yet I am sure that many in the House will feel the glow and warmth I feel at the present moment: Nehru while moving resolution on National Flag in Constituent Assembly on July 22 Aman.Sharma@timesgroup.com In December 1947, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru got replies from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip thanking him for sending gifts on their wedding, including a copy of his book, ‘The Discovery of India’, an “unusually charming necklace” and a silver icon of God Shiva. “This is indeed an acceptable wedding present,” Elizabeth wrote to Nehru. Nuggets like these have emerged from the archives made public by the Press Information Bureau, dating back to 1947, of all communiqués issued by the information wing on behalf of the then PMO and other ministries. It also includes a press release of Nehru’s entire speech while moving the resolution on the National Flag in the Constituent Assembly on July 22, 1947, in which he described how the flag will be. “This resolution, sir, is in simple language, in a slightly technical language, and there is no glow or warmth in the words that I have read. Yet I am sure that many in the House will feel the glow and warmth I feel at the present moment,” Nehru said, as per the long speech. He said “some people had misunderstood its significance and thought of it in communal terms and believe that some part of it represents this community or that.” When this flag was devised, there was no communal significance attached to it, we thought of a design for a flag which was beautiful, Nehru had then said. The archives also bring to light that a single-line press release was issued on August 23, 1947, to announce Sardar Patel “will be the Deputy Prime Minister of India.” Another press release issued on August 2, 1947, declaring August 15 and 16 that year as a holiday had two corrections marked in pen. The government then also issued lots of “unofficial notes”, the archives show. One such unofficial note issued on August 10, 1947, said all articles posted at larger post offices in India from August 15 onwards will carry a date stamp with the words ‘Jai Hind’. Another such note issued for preparation of the flag-hoisting ceremony that year had specified parking for tongas that people would use to reach the central vista of India gate. “No tongas will be allowed into Princes Palace,” the release said. Have something to say? Post your comment More National News कर्नाटक: आज दोपहर डेढ़ बजे तक सरकार को साबित करना होगा बहुमत मुंबई: एनकाउंटर स्पेशलिस्ट प्रदीप शर्मा ने पुलिस सेवा से दिया इस्तीफा Keep a Close Watch on TikTok, PMO Tells IT Ministry After Complaints Nelson Mandela asked me to be in politics long ago: Priyanka Vadra Kulwant Kohli, owner of legendary Pritam, dies The famed hotelier introduced the city to butter chicken through his Dadar-based restaurant Mention of ‘Ambanis & Adanis’ heats up discussion in Hou 50 YEARS OF BANK NATIONALISATION When Indira banked on socialism and nationalised 14 major banks BJP is becoming another Congress Labour ministry rejects move to lower EPFO rate of interest मुंबई: दाऊद का भतीजा रिजवान गिरफ्तार अंतर्राष्ट्रीय राष्ट्रीय हरियाणा हिमाचल जम्मू कश्मीर पंजाब चंडीगढ़ व्यापार मनोरंजन खेल फोटो गैलरी वीडियो गैलरी हमारे बारे में संपर्क करें सर्वेक्षण संपादकीय खबर संग्रह फोटो गैलरी वीडियो गैलरी संपर्क करें पुरानी खबरें आरएसएस फीड Visitor's Counter : 6,70,37,323 Copyright © 2018, AAR ESS Media, All rights reserved. Terms & Conditions Privacy Policy Desktop Version	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line437
__label__cc	0.620292	0.379708	North Korea Detonates Nuclear Warhead (1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ... by Mike Zazaian October 9, 2006 - 11:10am, 4 Comments White House officials confirmed this morning that the North Korean government has successfully detonated a nuclear warhead in underground caverns beneath Hamgyong Province. Detonation of the bomb was initially reported by an employee at South Korea’s seismic monitoring center. The employee, who chose to remain anonymous, reported a magnitude-3.6 earthquake that was noted not to be a natural occurrence. The official notified the Associated Press of the event, and both the White House and the South Korean government confirmed shortly thereafter that it had been caused by a nuclear detonation in North Korea. The test, which comes just one day after the ninth anniversary of Kim Jong Il’s rise to power, was estimated by a South Korean expert as exerting the force of 550 tons of TNT or a relatively small bomb. According to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, the test was conducted at 01:36 GMT in the the province of North Hamkyung. Players on both sides of the controversy were immediately astir, with both pro and anti-North-Korean parties speaking passionately about the event. North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) described the event as: A stirring time when all the people of the country are making a great leap forward in the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation. It marks a historic event as it greatly encouraged and pleased the…people that have wished to have powerful self-reliant defense capability. It will contribute to defending the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the area around it. On the opposition, Tony Blair described North Korea’s actions as, A completely irresponsible act, while Japanese officials condemed the test as unpardonable. While the White House has yet to officially comment on the matters, Chief North Korean negotiator Christopher Hill was quoted last week as saying, I am not prepared at this point to say what we are going to do, but I am prepared to say we are not going to wait for a nuclear North Korea, we are not going to accept it. It remains to be seen what actions the US will take in the wake of the tests, but even with this morning’s detonation North Korea isn’t seen as an immediate threat. An article in The Economist noted, North Korea’s nuclear capabilities are more likely to pose a greater risk to North Koreans than to the neighbours. While no radioactive leaks were reported by the KCNA in the aforementioned article, it’s entirely possible the radioactive fallout could affect the air and water in areas surrounding North Hamkyung. But even as irresponsible as Kim Jong Il might be in posing a potential threat posed to his own citizens, this morning’s test cement’s his intentions as fully resolute. It’s now up to the US government, which has been most vocal in its sentiments against North Korea’s nuclear progam, to respond. [via The Register] Simple Switches Stop Battery Explosion Issues Skype Wi-Fi Phone Coming From Netgear US Fiber Optics Connections Reach One Million Kite-Powered Generator to Rival Nuclear Plant Output North Americans Can’t Live Without Broadband, Study Says Increasing Diversity Could Fracture ‘Net Infrastructure NTT Sets Download Record at 14 Terabytes Per Second BEAR Robot Would Keep Humans Out of Harm’s Way Ericsson to Power African Phone Networks With Pumpkin Oil Mars Researchers Endure Harsh Winters for ‘Eternal Glory’ [ US Fiber Optics Connections Reach One Million ] [ Wii Console and Accessory Pricing Leaked ] Read more .:kim jong il, north korea, nuclear	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line438
__label__cc	0.571812	0.428188	Home / Tech / News / The new Apple News logo will look very familiar to Dota 2 fans The new Apple News logo will look very familiar to Dota 2 fans admin June 14, 2016 News Leave a comment 1,671 Views It’s not unusual for Dota 2 fanatics like myself to perceive the game’s logo in innocuous everyday objects, but when it comes to the new Apple News logo, I think even laypeople will have to agree that it bears a striking resemblance. Both marks feature a square bisected by a diagonal line descending from left to right. Both have a pair of rough triangles filling the open corners. Both are red! Now, I’m not about to suggest that Apple copied Valve’s global sensation of a video game. As I say, those of us who play Dota are stupidly passionate about it and we’d notice an infraction of this kind pretty much instantly. Much more likely is that Apple simply didn’t know. I guess 12 million active players each month, millions of Twitch viewers, and tournament prizes that overshadow pro sports aren’t quite enough for Dota to register on Apple’s radar. It’s mind-boggling to me, but seriously, Apple works on a scale of billions, not millions, and it’s not like the company has ever shown itself particularly interested in PC gaming. Which is a shame because my dream computer is basically a MacBook that can run all my Steam games as well as a Windows PC. The inspiration for the two logos is rather divergent. Apple’s News app is going for a stylized “N” whereas the Dota 2 mark is a representation of the one and only map on which the game is played: the diagonal represents the river splitting the Dire and Radiant sections and the corner elements are the bases that each team has to defend (the “Ancients” in the original Defense of the Ancients game title). Lest you think that Apple is uniquely ignorant of PC gaming, though, Google didn’t do much better with its Nexus 5X last year, whose packaging looked like this: bhasmithal / imgur Actually, that 5X box looks almost exactly identical to Apple’s new News. So maybe my Dota bias has swayed me to focus on the wrong similarity. Previous God of War's grumpy old Kratos is learning how to be a good dad Next Windows 10 – Deshabilitar el uso obligatorio de controladores firmados Sex toy company admits to recording users' remote sex sessions, calls it a 'minor bug' Will You Upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10? Social Media Helped Make 2018 the Year of the Scammer HTC announces new Vive Pro Eye virtual reality headset with native eye tracking Raspberry Pi’s first official starter kit is ‘unashamedly premium’	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line439
__label__cc	0.603461	0.396539	Follow Treetech news around the world Treetech participates in major event in the electricity sector in Paraguay The month of September marked the participation of Treetech in another big event abroad. On days 6 and 7, the company sent representatives to Asuncion, Paraguay, for the XIII SESEP (Seminar of the Paraguayan Electric… Treetech solution is presented in IEEE PES T & D in the United States Treetech participated, from April 16 to 19, in another important fair of the electric sector in the United States: the IEEE PES T & D, held in Denver, Colorado. Rodrigo Silva and Daniel Pedrosa represented the… A great deal Treetech returned to gain space on TV. The turn-based program is “Pequenas Empresas & Grandes Negócios” (PEGN) [Small Business & Big Business, in free translation]. 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In addition, large projects are a constant in the BM history. In this… Unpublished work and own stand: Treetech’s participation in XXIV SNPTEE From October 22nd to 25th, the city of Curitiba will host one of the most important and expected events of the electric sector in the year: the XXIV SNPTEE (National Seminar on the Production and… Proven pioneerism: the patents of the Bushing Monitor The exclusivity of the Treetech sensor for the real monitoring of the condition of capacitive bushings is valid until 2030. In 2013, the same entity certified Treetech’s ongoing search to develop its product, by granting… How Science explains the success achieved by Bushing Monitor With cases of success accumulated in its history, the efficiency and differentials of the Bushing Monitor became subject of study and demonstrations in the academic universe, with scientific articles and seminars. 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Treetech was one of the sponsors… Treetech sponsors the eighth edition of Workspot Between 20 and 23 November 2016, the entire sales team of Treetech, together with a team of electrical engineers will be in Recife, for the VIII Workspot, the International Workshop on Power Transformers, equipment, substations… Treetech will be in the main event of the electricity distribution sector In pursuit of constant innovation and expertise, Treetech, a pioneer company in the monitoring of electrical assets, confirmed presence in the main national event of the energy distribution sector. The XII National Seminar on Electricity… Treetech boosts trade relations in Colombia with participation in Expo Energía New potential buyers, brand expansion, customer loyalty. 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This is one of the most important events of the industrial… Rio substations involved in the Olympics adopt online monitoring In addition to the Olympic Substation, which was built specifically for the holding of Olympics, all the electricity distribution network in Rio de Janeiro has been modernized, meeting requirements of the IOC (International Olympic Committee)… In Spain, Treetech participates in ARWtr with experts in the energy sector worldwide Together with its representative in Spain - the Krilinex, Treetech participates between 2 and 5 October of the 5th AWtr (Advanced Research Workshop on transformers). The event takes place every three years and is promoted… With sensors and online monitoring software, Treetech ensures stability of the Olympic Energy During the Olympics, Brazil received more than 10,000 athletes, about 25,000 journalists and a large number of fans and tourists from over 200 countries affiliated to the International Olympic Committee (IOC). 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During the event, which again was a success, organizers honored… Indian Global Technology signs partnership with Treetech In order to increase its presence in Asia and to seek new niches in the world market, Treetech has partnered in late August with the Global Technology, which now becomes the representative of the Brazilian… Treetech is present in Substations Course in UFABC On the 5th, 6th and 7th of October, Treetech supported and participated in the “Substations, High and Extra High Voltage Course”. The event was organized by the students of UFABC, in Santo André, who are… Treetech receives patent decentralized architecture for monitoring systems online The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO - US), recognizing the uniqueness and differentiation of monitoring architecture developed by Treetech, granted the patent for the named system: Exclusive Treetech solution in the biggest transmission line in the world Along approximately 2,400 km, the Rio Madeira transmission line (Abengoa) is responsible for connecting the new Jirau and Santo Antônio hydroelectric power plants, in the North of the country, to the southeastern region, the biggest… Temperature Monitor – LaD LAD has Treetech technology to control and thermal protection, with the cost adapted to small applications. Developed for applications in oil transformers, dry-transformers, motors and generators, the IED is prepared to receive up to 06… EDP Bandeirante and Energisa Bragantina perform Treetech training Treetech finalized in July a round of training aimed at technical training of its partners. EDP Baideirante and Energisa Bragantina received at their facilities instrutoresTreetech sharing experiences in command, control and power transformer protection. Including… Brazil produces oil and energy with greater reliability Petrobrás, one of the biggest oil-producing companies of the world, invests in more facility efficiency and reliability. In January 2014, two of its thermoelectric plants started to control and maintain their energy substations using Treetech…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line446
__label__cc	0.676364	0.323636	Beyond My Dreams \| Mel A. Tomlinson Mel Tomlinson’s fascinating true story starts before his birth at his family’s home in the Chavis Heights Housing Project in Raleigh, NC. It starts with the struggles of his parents and grandparents in Jim Crow-era North Carolina and continues with his unexpected and meteoric rise ... Jane Wilson \| Photographs by John Jonas Gruen Jane Wilson: Photographs by John Jonas Gruen, with an introduction by Sam Swasey, is a photographic celebration of the life and work of acclaimed American artist Jane Wilson (1924-2015) by John Jonas Gruen her writer/photographer husband of 67 years. More than 175 evocative and deeply personal images chronicle ... Leonard Bernstein \| An Album of Family & Friends Leonard Bernstein: An Album of Family & Friends by John Jonas Gruen. 176 pages of intimate photos, with quotes by Leonard Bernstein, his family, and photographer/ author John Jonas Gruen. What was it like, people always ask, growing up in that high-energy environment? I look at the ... Saving Radio City Music Hall \| Rosemary Novellino-Mearns The true story of how Radio City Music Hall, Art Deco masterpiece and one of New York City’s iconic tourist attractions and cultural landmarks, was saved from demolition is told at last. Nearly forty years later, Rosemary Novellino-Mearns, Dance Captain of the legendary Radio City ... My New York \| John Jonas Gruen John Jonas Gruen shares his enduring love of New York City in this lavish 275-page coffee table book showcasing more than fifty years of his extraordinary photographs that celebrate every aspect of New York life, from the monumental to the mundane, the anonymous to the ... Sixteen Tons \| A Novel by Kevin Corley Sixteen Tons takes the reader down into the dangerous coal mines of the early 1900s, as Italian immigrant Antonio Vacca and his sons encounter cave-ins and fires deep below the earth’s surface. Above ground, the fiery women join their husbands to battle gun thugs and ... TurningPointPress LLC offers writers the opportunity to tell important stories of transformation and change in personal, social and cultural life that otherwise might go untold. Many titles feature the lives of significant visual & performing American artists, musicians and photographers. Turning Point Press LLC PO Box 81 Teaneck, NJ 07666 TurningPointPress@gmail.com Beyond My Dreams, Professional Ballet Dancer Mel Tomlinson’s Biographical Memoir as Told to Claudia Folts is Now Available!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line447
__label__wiki	0.767929	0.767929	My Weeds: A Gardener's Botany Sara Stein Paper ISBN 13: 9780813017396 - Pub Date: 6/30/2000 Details: 240 pages, 6x9 Subject(s): Floridiana - Gardens Add Paper To Cart "[Stein] knows what has to be done, but she has also shown a new way to do it. Think of the author as a sort of jujitsu gardener; in her hands the very strengths of weeds are turned to her advantage."--New York Times Book Review "In this manual cum philosophical treatise, Stein discloses an amazing amount of information, from anatomy to propagation, about more than 100 species of North American weeds."--Washington Post Book World From the author of the native gardening classic Noah’s Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyard comes My Weeds, a foray into the secret and fascinating lives of the world’s most hated plants. By asking of the common weed, "What kind of plant is this? How does it behave? What is it up to in my garden? Can I thwart its plans?" Stein shows how a thorough understanding of the enemy is the gardener’s best defense. Incredibly adaptive, weeds are also good teachers, and Stein shows us what they tell us about our gardens and the lives of all plants. She entertains with tales of famous—and notorious—weeds of the world, compares weeding tools and methods, and discusses the uses of weeds. Along the way, Stein also explains the intricate workings of photosynthesis, plant anatomy and reproduction, evolution, and the laws of succession by which nature tries to reclaim the land a gardener has disturbed. First published in 1988, My Weeds was among the first generation of books to advocate the use of native plants, and Stein’s discussions of backyard ecology, pesticides, and the threat of exotic species were as groundbreaking then as they are relevant today. A biography of the plant world’s most maligned members and a fascinating primer of the most useful aspects of plant biology and ecology, My Weeds is essential reading even for the gardener who never leaves the armchair! Sara Stein is the author of Noah’s Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards and Planting Noah’s Garden: Further Adventures in Backyard Ecology. No Sample Chapter Available "an extraordinary book full of must-know information" - The Daily Commercial --The Daily Commercial "This is a book you'll want to keep nearby, not specifically for reference, but for the sheer pleasure of reading it. My Weeds was among the first books to encourage the use of native plants and discourage the use of pesticides. But it is much more than that, being packed with information from anatomy to propagation, all presented in a manner that keeps you reading far longer than you intended. If you missed the first printing, pick up a copy now." -Garden Views --Garden Views "This 464-page book is a biography of the plant world's most maligned members, and a fascinating primer of the most useful aspects of plant biology and ecology. My Weeds is essential reading even for the gardener who never leaves the armchair!" - SW FL Papers- Cool Reflections --SW FL Papers- Cool Reflections The Nature of Plants Flora of Florida, Volume VI Flora of Florida, Volume V Native Florida Plants for Shady Landscapes	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line449
__label__wiki	0.805099	0.805099	Why Does Garlic Make Your Breath Smell So Bad? Garlic is tasty, but its flavor comes at the cost of alienating your dinner partners with a distinct odor on your breath—and even your skin—when the meal is done. How do these innocent-looking little bulbs cause so much trouble?... READ ON Recipes from History: Launch Beans Adorable Primate Does an Impressive Impression of a Cobra The Invasive Species That Couldn’t Invade The red shiner is just a few inches long, and has no big scary fangs, no claws, no stinger and no poisonous spines. The little minnow probably isn’t an animal that would ever strike fear in anyone’s heart, but it’s a fierce conqueror.... READ ON Why Don't the Drinks in Outdoor Vending Machines Freeze? What keeps the great outdoors from turning you favorite beverage into an icicle?... READ ON A Tiny Spider’s Secret to Taking Down Big Prey At first glance, the pin head-sized spider Zodarion cyrenaicum seems like its on a suicide mission every time it hunts for a meal. Its preferred prey is a desert ant, Messor arenarius, some three times bigger and six times heavier than itself. But as David and the Red Viper have shown us, size isn’t everything—especially if you’ve got some slick moves and the right tools for the job.... READ ON How Do Fireworks Get Their Colors? It’s all about chemistry.... READ ON How the Canadian Provinces and Territories Got Their Names Who would've thought that "Bob" could've been the actual name of a Canada territory?... READ ON Why Do Seagulls Hang Out in Parking Lots? Ever wonder why Seagulls gather around in the parking lot outside the McDonalds you just ordered from?... READ ON Frogs Use Storm Drains for Better Mating Calls As humans take up ever more space and urbanize the untamed wilderness, the animals that call these places home have a tough choice to make: move on to someplace else or adapt to their new surroundings.... READ ON Why Did the Nazis Hijack the Swastika? Reader Scott from Vermont wrote to ask, “Why did the Nazis adopt the ancient sacred symbol of the swastika as their emblem?”... READ ON Did a Cow Really Cause the Great Chicago Fire? The Great Chicago Fire killed 300 people, left some 100,000 homeless, and destroyed $200 million worth of property. Was a cow really to blame?... READ ON Why Do People Get Ice Cream Headaches? You may know an ice cream headache by one of its other names: brain freeze, a cold-stimulus headache, or sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia ("nerve pain of the sphenopalatine ganglion"). But no matter what you call it, it hurts like hell.... READ ON Extinct Snakes Lead to Better Fakes In North Carolina, a scientist finds snakes dressed as their long-gone neighbors.... READ ON This Assassin Only Kills If Its Victim Strikes First Letting your opponent land the first blow usually isn’t a surefire strategy for winning a fight, but for one insect predator, it’s the only way to come out on top.... READ ON Why Shouldn’t I Mix Batteries? What’s the worst that could happen?... READ ON Gulls Turn Cannibal on Sundays Ah Sunday. The day of rest. A day for sleeping in, having a big brunch and watching bad action movies on basic cable. A day for murdering your own children and consuming their bodies.... READ ON Four Different Species Use the Same Odor to Exploit Each Other Chemical warfare. Hijacked communications. Stowaways. Eavesdropping. Sounds like the makings of a spy movie, but it’s just another day in nature.... READ ON Why Do So Many Churches Have "First Church of" in their Names? And why do we rarely see 'second' or 'third' churches?... READ ON That Time America Attacked the British Isles We usually think of the American Revolutionary War as being fought strictly in North America, but naval battles were also fought in European waters.... READ ON Silence of the Newts Three dead men. No clues. Just a newt. And he wasn’t spilling the beans.... READ ON Galapagos Birds Beat Bloodsuckers with Pesticide-Lined Homes In the 1990s, the fly Philornis downsi was accidentally introduced to the Galapagos Islands, probably in a shipment of fruit. The adult flies are harmless enough as invaders go, but their kids are a real problem for the islands’ native birds, some of which are found nowhere else in the world and a few of which are endangered.... READ ON Why Don't Octopuses Get Stuck to Themselves? Life can't be easy for octopuses. Sure, they're universally loved for changing color, opening jars from the inside, and predicting the winners of World Cup games. But they have eight very flexible arms to keep track of, which aren't even under their full control. Each arm is fairly autonomous, and a lot of the motor control happens in the neural circuitry of the arms themselves instead of the brain.... READ ON What Makes Magic Shell So Magic? Reader (and writer) Stacy asks, “What makes Magic Shell so magic?”... READ ON A Treasure Trove of Parasitic Wasps For the last three decades, scientists in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), a roughly one-thousand-square-kilometer chunk of forest in northwestern Costa Rica, have been inventorying and rearing hundreds of thousands of caterpillars. With the help of local apprentices, they comb the forests for the critters, pluck them from plants and the ground, and then string them up in plastic bags in a barn. Then, they watch and wait while the caterpillars pupate to see what emerges.... READ ON Do Big Cats Bury Their Poop? In the feline world, a poop is not just a poop.... READ ON Some Animals Give Poison Presents The Orange Cave Crocodiles of Gabon In 2010, a group of scientists went on an expedition into the Abanda caves in the rainforest of Gabon. Among the many creatures they found there—bats, snakes, moths, spiders, crickets, scorpions and other insects and arachnids—there was a surprise: An orange crocodile.... READ ON Birds Steer Clear of Invisible Roads Forget about whether the chicken crossed the road or not. The question for some scientists is why other birds won’t even come near a roadway.... READ ON Why Do I Sometimes Scratch One Body Part and Feel It on Another? The phenomenon has been studied for centuries.... READ ON What Do the Ms on M&M's Stand For? And how do they get them on there?... READ ON These Baby Birds Puke on Predators with Third-Hand Weapons When Eurasian rollers feed their babies grasshoppers, centipedes, and other insects, the chicks aren’t just getting the nutrition they need to grow—they’re getting an arsenal.... READ ON Some Birds Benefit From Having Parasites Some Bats Call “Dibs” on Food It’s not just me and my brothers and sisters that warn each other to back off from our food: Scientists now think that bats do it, too.... READ ON The Rise and Fall of the Bullpen Car How Much Pee in a Pool is Too Much Pee? Last week, a study by Chinese and American scientists revealed another reason to not pee in pools, which had more to do with chemistry than good manners.... READ ON What is the Funny Bone, and Why Does Hitting It Hurt So Much? Because there's nothing funny about pain.... READ ON This Carnivorous Plant Uses A Catapult Carnivorous plants are pretty awesome, taking revenge on the animal kingdom for our plant-eating ways, but they lack a certain sense of the dramatic. There’s no comparing the theatrics of a cheetah chasing down an antelope and biting into its neck to a venus fly trap just sitting there and snapping shut around an unsuspecting fly.... READ ON The Curious Case of the Flying Communist Bears There was something off about some of the bears. They didn’t belong there.... READ ON These Spiders Use Unlikely Bodyguards Many ant species are territorial and aggressive. That maybe wouldn’t be so bad if ants were loners, but they tend to stick together in groups, sometimes tens of thousands strong. If you’re a bigger, tougher animal that eats ants, or one that stays safe by mimicking them, or makes your living as an ant parasite, those numbers are great. They make it that much easier to prey on them or blend in with a group.... READ ON Meet the Owl that Fishes with Feces Back in the early 2000s, ornithologist Doug Levey was teaching a course at the University of Florida when he had a weird idea about poop.... READ ON Tape, Glue, and New Kakapo When I wrote about the kakapo—a chubby, flightless parrot that looks like a parakeet crossed with an owl crossed with a Muppet—last year, a group of the birds had recently arrived at their new home on New Zealand’s Little Barrier Island.... READ ON Why Does Inhaling Helium Make Your Voice Sound Funny? Helium's atomic number is 2 and its atomic weight is 4.002602. Its boiling and melting points— -452.1°F and -458.0°F, respectively—are the lowest among the elements. It is the second most abundant element in the known universe (after hydrogen). And it makes your voice sound really funny when you inhale it.... READ ON How Rain Helped the Mongols Conquer Asia Tree rings have many stories to tell... READ ON Do Cows Moo in Different Accents? Reader Erica emailed to say, “I heard on Twitter, from one of those 'amazing facts' accounts, that cows moo in regional accents. Is that true?”... 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__label__cc	0.623762	0.376238	« Desert showdown: Big solar vs. little wildlife Green tech investment plummets » The smart grid is coming…to Australia March 31, 2009 by Todd Woody IBM on Tuesday said it has signed a deal to help build a smart grid for utility EnergyAustralia. Some 12,000 sensors will be installed on the Australian utility’s transmission network around Sydney to monitor electricity distribution and detect outages and other problems. It’s IBM’s largest smart grid project of its type to date. Big Blue will build the software systems to integrate the sensor data into the operations of EnergyAustralia, which runs the country’s biggest electricity distribution network. In dollar terms, the deal is small – just A$3.2 million (U.S. $2.2 million) – but significant in showing the viability of transforming analog electricity distribution systems into an intelligent network, according to Michael Valocchi, an executive with IBM’s (IBM) global energy and utilities unit. “The electricity distribution operator will have a real-time view of the network and will be able to pinpoint outages quickly and reduce their length,” Valocchi told Green Wombat. “What I really like about this deal is that it starts to show and harden the message that smart grid is much more than automated metering. As you see more distributed energy and renewable energy out there, this type of sensor and this type of intelligence on the grid will help manage that.” The sensors will be placed mainly at EnergyAustralia’s substations and around transformers, Valocchi says. IBM had previously rolled out a smaller version of the smart grid system in Denmark. And in February the tech giant announced a deal to build a smart utility and water system for the Mediterranean island nation of Malta. While overseas utilities have been quicker to smarten up their analog power grids, Valocchi says the United States should not be far beyond, especially as federal stimulus money for smart grids begins to flow. Posted in Australia, energy, green grid, green tech, IBM, smart grid \| Tagged EnergyAustralia, IBM, smart grid \| 1 Comment on April 2, 2009 at 7:15 am \| Reply Sunil Seth I think this is excellent!!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line457
__label__wiki	0.648051	0.648051	New Nanomedicine Could Prevent Progression of Pancreatic Cancer Israeli researchers discover survival rates in pancreatic cancer linked to inverse correlation between specific oncogene and tumor suppressant A new study published in scientific journal Nature Communications distinguishes the reason for extended pancreatic cancer survival: an inverse correlation between a known oncogene, a gene that promotes the development of cancer, and the expression of an oncosuppressor microRNA. The study may serve as a basis for the development of a medicine that can treat pancreatic and other cancers. Though 75 percent of pancreatic cancer patients die within 12 months of diagnosis, about 7% survive more than five years. “We thought that if we could understand how some people live several years with this most aggressive disease, we might be able to develop a new therapeutic strategy,” said lead researcher Prof. Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, chair of physiology and pharmacology at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine. She worked with Hadas Gibori and Shay Eliyahu, both members of her laboratory, in collaboration with Prof. Eytan Ruppin of TAU’s computer science department and the University of Maryland and Prof. Iris Barshack and Dr. Talia Golan of Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan. Other authors of the paper include two researchers from The Institute for Drug Research in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s School of Pharmacy. The research team examined pancreatic cancer cells in mouse models and discovered an inverse correlation between the signatures of miR-34a, a tumor suppressant, and PLK1, a known oncogene. The levels of miR-34a were low in pancreatic cancer mouse models, while the levels of the oncogene were high. This correlation made sense for such an aggressive cancer. RNA profiling and analysis of samples taken by the researchers from pancreatic cancer patients revealed the same genomic pattern in humans as was seen in the mouse models. Calling a nano-taxi The scientists then devised a novel nanoparticle that selectively delivers genetic material to a tumor and prevents side effects in surrounding healthy tissues. “The nanoparticle is like a taxi carrying two important passengers,” Satchi-Fainaro explained. “Many oncology protocols are cocktails, but the drugs usually do not reach the tumor at the same time. But our ‘taxi’ kept the ‘passengers’ — and the rest of the body — safe the whole way, targeting only the tumor tissue. Once it ‘parked,’ an enzyme present in pancreatic cancer caused the carrier to biodegrade, allowing the therapeutic cargo to be released at the correct address — the tumor cells.” To validate their findings, the scientists injected the novel nanoparticles into pancreatic tumor-bearing mice and observed that by balancing these two targets — bringing them to a normal level by increasing their expression or blocking the gene responsible for their expression — they significantly prolonged the survival of the mice. Theoretically, the same effect could be achieved in humans. “This treatment takes into account the entire genomic pattern, and shows that affecting a single gene is not enough for the treatment of pancreatic cancer or any cancer type in general,” said Satchi-Fainaro. The study was supported by the European Research Council, Tel Aviv University’s Cancer Biology Research Center and the Israel Science Foundation. By: Rebecca Stadlen Amir (Israel 21c) Advertisement -- National News2 weeks ago US Synagogues, Summer Camps Prep for Active Shooter Scenarios Op-Ed2 days ago My Grandfather’s America New York City News2 weeks ago Bklyn Court Candidate Slams Victor Who Switched to Jewish Surname as ‘Deceptive’ National News4 days ago ANTIFA Radical Killed After Attacking ICE Center in Tacoma With Molotov Cocktails, Sited AOC Rhetoric in Manifesto International latest news2 weeks ago Sarsour Claims Jesus was Palestinian; ‘Are You That Stupid?’ says Netanyahu’s Son Breaking News3 weeks ago Death Threats and Arrests of Palestinians Who Went to Bahrain Fashion2 weeks ago 750 Hamptonites Gather at Fishel Estate for “Social Life” Magazine Party Is it Worth Spending $20,000 for July 4th Weekend in the Hamptons? ONE MONTH FREE At Your Doorstep No more hassles running to the newsstand, as each week for a month, you can now sit back, relax and enjoy the Jewish Voice in the comfort of your own home!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line460
__label__wiki	0.797107	0.797107	Author Archives: Katie Harrison About Katie Harrison 4th year English & Russian student. The Jezabels – The Brink Katie Harrison/ February 23, 2014 Uncomplicated, unaggressive and unexpected The Brink by The Jezabels offers a moment of calm in the storm of recent new releases. The Australian indie Quartet have managed to yet again weave together a number of non-dominating sounds to form a track that offers the perfect soundtrack to an afternoon with good friends and good music. Incredibly popular in their native Augustines – Augustines. Album Review. Augustines’ (formerly We Are Augustines) eponymous sophomore record has one fundamental strength and fundamental flaw. The writing on the album and the quality of the tracks is essentially very commendable and is its strength, yet the quality of the writing suffers the burden of over-production. The craftsmanship on Augustines suffers under layers and layers of different sounds, superfluous guitars, piano, Foy Vance @ Bodega, 24/11/13 Katie Harrison/ November 27, 2013 Northern Irish singer-songwriter Foy Vance came to The Bodega to showcase his new album, Joy of Nothing, during his worldwide tour which has seen him touring widely in America and the UK and onwards to Europe. With a collection of gorgeous tracks which are alternately heart-warming and heart-wrenching, he put on one of the best gigs I have been to The Staves @ Glee Club, 31/10/13 The Staves, known for their gorgeous harmonies and ethereal tones, lived up to expectations, delivering a performance filled with witty exchanges with the audience and making it a simply lovely evening in general. It was Halloween that night, so when they came on stage they had to mention their lack of costumes; ‘Trust me, we feel pretty silly that we’re An Interview with Temples Katie Harrison/ October 31, 2013 After their show at the Bodega in October (read the review here) show I managed to get hold of James Bagshaw and Sam Toms to ask them some questions about their music and live shows… Hey guys! Great gig! The last song you played ‘Shelter Song’ was pretty much everyone’s favourite and yet you could only play half the song! J- Yeah, Temples @ Bodega, 16/10/2013 You know your band is doing well when you’ve been critically acclaimed by the likes of Noel Gallagher and Johnny Marr before even releasing an album. This is exactly what’s happened to the self-acclaimed ‘glam-psych’ band Temples. Hailing from Kettering, the quartet is made up of James Bagshaw (guitar and vocals), Tom Warmsley (bass), Adam Smith (keyboard) and Sam Toms London Grammar @ Rescue Rooms, 22/10/13 In his interview for The Mic’s Freshers Issue, Dot told us that Rescue Rooms was his favourite venue in Nottingham. So, it was fitting that it played host to the band on their return to the city where it all started for them. Since leaving university, the band have really taken off. This summer was crammed with festival appearances, debut album CHVRCHES @ Leadmill, Sheffield 12/10/13 The trio from Glasgow brought their Scottish synth pop sound down to Yorkshire, more precisely to Sheffield’s Leadmill for the second night of touring their debut album, The Bones of What You Believe, which was released on 23rd September. The Leadmill, which somehow reminds me of a smaller Rock City, was already almost crammed full by the time support act Haim – Days are Gone Katie Harrison/ October 7, 2013 There’s always that problem when you’re waiting for a band as painfully cool as Haim to release their debut record – is it going to be a case of style over substance? Since the release of second single Don’t Save Me at the back end of last year, the LA sisters are always on the radio and seemed to play Whack ‘em in Your Diary – Notts Festivals Katie Harrison/ September 21, 2013 So, we’re already well aware that here in Nottingham we’ve got a shed load of venues that provide us with a constant stream of bangin’ club nights and gigs on pretty much every night of the week – pretty good, yeah? However, the city is also home to a few annual events, all of which are little gems, and help	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line461
__label__cc	0.723199	0.276801	ECT: The Freemason and Dispensationalist Connection Thread: The Freemason and Dispensationalist Connection northwye Over 750 post club Ol Misery (Missouri) The Freemason and Dispensationalist Connection In the history of the Southern Baptist Convention - or denomination - during the late 19th century and through the 20th century, many of its male members were both Freemasons and dispensationalists. However, the denomination did not become totally dispensationalist until the sixties when the preacher of the First Baptist Church of Dallas,, W.A. Criswell, led the Convention to become totally dispensationalist. Criswell soon led the Southern Baptist denomination to get rid of its old doctrine of the priesthood of the believer because under dispensationalism, the preacher must rule the members. The Southern Baptists are not the only Evangelicals to follow dispensationalism and to have many male members who are Freemasons. Some of the wives are members of the Masonic women's organization, the Eastern Star. See: https://www.henrymakow.com/2017/03/f...ant-sects.html "Billy Graham, Pat Robertson, Rick Warren, Oral Roberts, Jerry Falwell and Robert Schuller were all high ranking Freemasons as are their present day successors like T.D. Jakes. We know the Catholic Church has been subverted but we need to be reminded that the same applies to Protestants, and especially Evangelicals." Remember that Stephen Sizer wrote a history of dispensationalism which he called Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon,2009, Inter-Varsity Press. Sizer has other writings on the topic of Christian Zionism, such as ."Christian Zionism: The New Heresy that Undermines Middle East Peace". Middle East Monitor. Retrieved 1 August 2013.. "At least one in four American Christians surveyed recently by Christianity Today magazine said that they believe it is their biblical responsibility to support the nation of Israel. This view is known as Christian Zionism. The Pew Research Center put the figure at 63 per cent among white evangelicals. Christian Zionism is pervasive within mainline American evangelical, charismatic and independent denominations including the Assemblies of God, Pentecostals and Southern Baptists, as well as many of the independent mega-churches. It is less prevalent within the historic denominations, which show a greater respect for the work of the United Nations, support for human rights, the rule of international law and empathy with the Palestinians." "The origins of the movement can be traced to the early 19th century when a group of eccentric British Christian leaders began to lobby for Jewish restoration to Palestine as a necessary precondition for the return of Christ. The movement gained traction from the middle of the 19th century when Palestine became strategic to British, French and German colonial interests in the Middle East. Proto-Christian Zionism therefore preceded Jewish Zionism by more than 50 years. Some of Theodore Herzl’s strongest advocates were Christian clergy. Christian Zionism as a modern theological and political movement embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism." "Burgeoning Christian Zionist organizations such as the International Christian Embassy (ICEJ), Christian Friends of Israel (CFI) and Christians United for Israel (CUFI) wield considerable influence on Capitol Hill, claiming a support base in excess of 50 million true believers. This means there are now at least ten times as many Christian Zionists as Jewish Zionists." See: http://fanaticforjesus.blogspot.com/...m-and-its.html "Freemason John Nelson Darby is regarded as the Father of Dispensationalism and its prodigy, Christian Zionism. It was Freemason Cyrus. I. Scofield and D. L. Moody, who brought Darby’s sectarian theology into mainstream evangelical circles. R. C. Sproul stated that dispensationalism is now ‘...a theological system that, in all probability, is the majority report among current American evangelicals." The article with the link shown above refers to this source for the claim that John Nelson Darby was not only a Freemason but also was an agent of the Rothschild-owned British East India Company, is this: John Coleman, How Conspirators Misuse Christian Fundamentalists (white paper) (Carson City, Nev.: World in Review, 2003), 4. John Darby said that the "Church has sought to settle itself here, but it has no place on the earth... [Though] making a most constructive parenthesis, it forms no part of the regular order of God's earthly plans, but is merely an interruption of them to give a fuller character and meaning to them..." John. N. Darby, 'The Character of Office in The Present Dispensation' Collected Writings., Eccl. I, Vol. I, p. 94. "Them" are all physical Israel, or Old Covenant Israel. The church, for Darby exists mainly to "give fuller character and meaning to all physical Israel." John Darby and then C.I. Scofield and Lewis S. Chafer said that when the dispensation of grace is over then God will return to a dispensation of law and again raise up and work with the people of the physical bloodline.- of the Old Covenant. John Darby says, that in dispensationalism the Church is a mere "Parenthesis" and Israel - Old Covenant Israel of the bloodline - is to reign in the future, but II Corinthians 3: 7-11, and Hebrews 10: 9 say the Old Covenant was done away with - and in the Old Testament Haggai 2: 9 says "The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former. saith the Lord of hosts..." See: http://truthseeker-archive.blogspot....eemasonry.html "JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA, 1903, Vol. 5, page 503: "The technical language, symbolism, and rites of Masonry are full of Jewish ideas and terms." In Morals and Dogma,Albert Pike admits that the source of Freemasonry's doctrines ultimately goes back to the Kabbalah, a Jewish book of occult knowledge: "All truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kabalah and return to it; everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of all the Illuminati, Jacob Boeheme, Swedenborg, Saint Martin, and others, is borrowed from the Kabalah: all Masonic associations owe to it their Secrets and their Symbols." (Morals and Dogma, p 744) http://www.cuttingedge.org/News/n1643.cfm "Therefore, the first understanding we want you to grasp is that Freemasonry is absolutely, completely, 100% devoted to the Solomon Temple, without which the entire structure and foundation of Freemasonry would die! Thus does Masonry stand in stark contrast to genuine, Biblical Christianity. In other words, Freemasonry is rooted at its deepest foundation to the First Covenant of the Old Testament, while Biblical Christianity is rooted to the Second Covenant of Jesus Christ as delineated in the New Testament." "Mackey makes this fact quite clear also: "Masonry has derived its temple symbolism, as it has almost all its symbolic ideas, from the Hebrew type ..." [Ibid] Since the Old Testament was written originally in the Hebrew, and the New Testament in the Greek, Mackey is clearly stating that Freemasonry is rooted in the Old Testament!" Yet the admission of top Masons that Freemasonry is under the influence of the Kaballah shows that Masonry is rooted in the Kaballah and in the Talmud. The emphasis in Freemasonry on the rebuilding of Solomon's temple can be seen as a metaphor for building a world wide Masonic kingdom, both political and religious. Rebuilding the temple of Solomon might also be seen to be metaphoric for the rebuilding of the Mason himself along the lines of the Kaballah. But Freemasonry is run from the top, and most Masons in the local lodges do not know much about that top elite of Freemasonry. The Masonic absorption in rebuilding Solomon's Temple as a metaphor for creating a Masonic kingdom, or New World Order, has some roots in the Kaballah. A Kabbalist of the 1500s, Isaac Luria, writes about the olam ha-tohu, or realm of confusion, and the olam ha-tikkun, the realm of restoration, which is the Kaballistic version of the millennial kingdom, the world empire to come ruled by the Kaballists. The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to northwye For Your Post: dodge (May 16th, 2017),Eagles Wings (May 15th, 2017),jsanford108 (May 18th, 2017) Interplanner TOL Legend near Olympic National Park Originally Posted by northwye In Morals and Dogma, Pike admits that the source of Freemasonry's doctrines ultimately goes back to the Kabbalah, a Jewish book of occult knowledge: Thanks for your homework, North. I wonder if there is more about Darby saying that the church would give definition and character to physical Israel; that sounded unusual and almost 180. All Lives Matter --Marcus Sanford, youtube.com That reply was quick - Darby postulated that in the future God would return to the dispensation of law and the church would be raptured off the earth. Maybe what he meant by the church giving fuller character and meaning to physical Israel was that the church under dispensationalism would be a kind of cheer leader for Israel of the physical bloodline, honoring and defining it fuller. Yes, I can see him doing that. Anything that would reverse the 'maturity' motion that was in the works and intended in Christ. George Affleck TOL Subscriber Thanks for this info. Connects some dots doesn't it? Religion is man's attempt to make himself acceptable to God. Christianity is God making man acceptable to Himself. The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to George Affleck For Your Post: dodge (May 16th, 2017),Eagles Wings (May 15th, 2017) Nang IMO, and from what I picked up from Darby, is he considered the NT church to be a type to what he considered the ultimate anti-type: national Israel. A reversed understanding of biblical revelation of the purpose of national Israel being a type of the invisible, spiritual church body of Jesus Christ. "The immutable God never learned anything and never changed his mind. He knew everything from eternity." " The difference between faith and saving faith are the propositions believed." Gordon H. Clark "If a man be lost, God must not have the blame for it; but if a man be saved, God must have the glory of it." The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Nang For Your Post: Eagles Wings (May 15th, 2017),George Affleck (May 15th, 2017) Danoh Originally Posted by George Affleck Matthew 25:24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: 25:25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. 25:26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: 25:27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. 25:28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. 25:29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. I've read and heard enough from the Reformed side of the fence and its' various strains over the years; and have friends and aquiantances who are ever espousing said views' supposed underpinnings, to well know by now that said system's reasoning is severely skewed. Said entire school of thought is based on conclusions allowed to be arrived at despite said school's ever endless "well, perhaps this...maybe that...we can't know for sure on this over here..." and so on. The above posters have done just that once more; as have you. I see no integrity in such a system. It is unreliable as a so called standard for how to get at the intended sense of a thing. No surprise then, all it has had to allegorize due to all it has "perhaps"d, and left unsolved for. It is ever fascinating to me none of your kind ever see such an approach would not be allowed to go far in any other profession relying on some form of scientific (objective) inquiry. Yours is, in short; one mother of an alt-fact. Is it that you and yours are actually rendered that obtuse to an obvious by said system's reasoning after some time in its' darkness that you end up unable to see said huge gaping hole for what it is? Or is it that your kind bring that kind of inability to see a thing for what is to said system's wise in its' own conceits table going in? There is no room within truly scientific inquiry: including the study of Scripture; for the allowing of arriving at conclusions behind a trail of unsolved "well, maybe" this, "perhaps that." 2 Corinthians 4:13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; 4:14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. Last edited by Danoh; May 16th, 2017 at 08:49 AM. The Following User Says Thank You to Danoh For Your Post: steko (May 16th, 2017) If the focus were to be put on the fact that there were many Masons who were members of Southern Baptist congregations back before W.A. Criswell led the complete takeover of the Convention in the 1960's the dispensationists who love to argue might think this can be used to argue against the connection between Freemasonry and dispensationalism-Christian Zionism. Back before all Southern Baptist preachers taught dispensationalism and Christian Zionism, many Southern Baptists were Freemasons and their wives and daughters were members of the Eastern Star. Yet, even before the Convention was entirely dispensationalist, from Freemasonry, there was that emphasis upon things Jewish, especially the Talmud, and the Kabballah, which the Masonic leaders say was behind much of the doctrine and ritual of Freemasonry. There was certainly that stress upon Solomon's Temple and its rebuilding. The Freemasonic emphasis upon things of the Old Covenant, without Christ of the New Covenant, and the Jewish mysticism behind Freemasonry,would lead to the false doctrines in dispensationalism. The influence of Freemasonry in its Jewish derived doctrines and rituals came first, not only for Southern Baptists but for other evangelical denominations in which there were many Freemasons. Dispensationalism became focused on things of the Old Covenant and not only on Jesus Christ in its interest in the Old Covenant and in the Jewish Talmud and Kabballah - both continuations of Old Covenant thought, partly from the Pharisees of Christ's time - Over 4000 post club Good post not that it will be accepted for what it is, which exposes much of Dispensationalism for what it is i.e. error. Anyone that buys into Free Masonry and calls them self a Christian is deceiving them self. Heb 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. The Following User Says Thank You to dodge For Your Post: jsanford108 (May 18th, 2017) patrick jane Originally Posted by dodge them self ? The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to patrick jane For Your Post: jsanford108 (May 18th, 2017),SaulToPaul (May 16th, 2017),steko (May 17th, 2017) Originally Posted by patrick jane Yep, them self ! A lot of folks walking around following every whim Satan throws their way, and claim to be Christians. They only deceive them selves. Yorzhik under dispensationalism, the preacher must rule the members. Could explain why you think this is true? Good things come to those who shoot straight. Did you only want evidence you are not going to call "wrong"? -Stripe The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to Yorzhik For Your Post: 7djengo7 (April 1st, 2019),Right Divider (May 18th, 2017),steko (May 17th, 2017),Tambora (May 16th, 2017) Southern Baptists, before the convention became totally dispensationalist in the sixties,, claimed to follow the doctrine of the Priesthood of the Believer, and taught that all believers are called to be priests. When Jesus died on the Cross,the veil of the Temple was torn from top to bottom - Matthew 27: 51 - meaning that Christ opened the way to God to all people who believed in Christ. No curtain now separates the people from God. No longer do people need a priest to represent them before God. Everyone can go to God directly - Ephesians 2: 17-18. The Old Covenant priesthood was done away with. In a sense the Catholic Church brought it back/. "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." I Peter 2: 5 "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" I Peter 2: 9 "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: 6. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel." Exodus 19: 5-6 Peter in I Peter 2: 9 is almost exactly quoting from Exodus 19: 5-6. Exodus 19: 5-6 was fulfilled in Jesus Christ, who made all who accept him and are born again in him become members of his kingdom of priests. All believers are called to be priestly and holy to serve as examples to lead some to Christ and so they too become his priests. And Peter in I Peter 5: 2-3 says " Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 3. Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock." Each believer is his own priest. Each believer can read the Scriptures for himself and ask God’s guidance in understanding it. He can look in scripture relevant to any other scripture to help him learn the meaning of that scripture he may not fully understand. "But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken." Isaiah 28: 13 Here is where one reason can be seen that answers the question of why dispensationalist preachers may oppose the doctrine of the priesthood of the believer. Dispensationalism is a set of doctrines which starts from what should be called postulates that are not closely or clearly derived from a specific set of scriptures. In fact, it can be shown that the theology called dispensationalism contradicts or opposes a number of New Testament scriptures. If individuals within a congregation are allowed to be their own priests and interpret scripture by other scripture without the influence of dispensationalist doctrines being imposed on that interpretation, then they might come to accept doctrines not in agreement with dispensationalism. According to Martin Luther, “Christ has made it possible for us . . . to be . . . his fellow priests.” So, Luther said all individuals should be able to read the Bible on their own. Everyone should be able to pray to God directly. No person could stand between a person and God. To return to the doctrine that a preacher, acting as a priest, must interpret scripture for his congregation in a dogmatic way is to return to the Catholic type of rule by the clergy class. This is what Peter meant by saying that the preacher must act as an example and not act as a lord over God's inheritance. This does not mean that a preacher should not explain any error in interpretation of scripture by a member of his congregation. But after the falling away of II Thessalonians 2: 3-12 the multitude in the churches are in false doctrines. Luke 13: 20-21, I Timothy 4: 1-2,, II Timothy 3: 5,7-8, II Timothy 4: 3-4, and II Peter 2: 1-3 all talk about a falling away from sound doctrine The remnant is seen in Revelation 7: 2-8, Revelation 14: 1-5 and in Revelation 12: 15-17. The remnant in Revelation 12: 17 has the testimony of Jesus Christ, with the implication being that the multitude does not - it does not have all the testimony of Christ because it tends to reject parts of it. steko Anyone that buys into Free Masonry and calls themselves a Christian is deceiving themselves. I agree with that and have for all my thirty-eight years of Christian life, and I'm a dispensationalist. Jer 23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD[YHVH], that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. Jer 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he[the Branch] shall be called, THE LORD[YHVH] OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to steko For Your Post: 7djengo7 (April 1st, 2019),dodge (May 17th, 2017),Right Divider (May 18th, 2017),Tambora (May 18th, 2017) Originally Posted by steko Personally I self identify as a Christian. Way to many folks out there following every body except Jesus. Quick Navigation Exclusively Christian Theology Top	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line463
__label__wiki	0.706043	0.706043	Part Time Terror Aug 22, 2013 \| Politics \| “Of course I’m sorry that I wasn’t able to make it to Yemen last week to kill infidels at the US Embassy there,” laments part-time Al Qaeda operative Hussein Al Cock in the latest edition of the terror organisation’s in-house journal. “But the fact is that I’’ve got a full-time job with Hezbollah as a suicide bomber. They just can’t spare me for these Al Qeada weekend operations – I’m on call and could have to blow myself and a bus load of Israeli school children to bits at a moment’s notice!” Al Cock is typical of a growing number of the once mighty terror group’s members – reservists committed to only a few weekends of terrorism every year, for which they are paid only a nominal fee. “It’s making it increasingly difficult to mount effective operations,” Al Qeada’s Operational Director for the Arabian Peninsula, Mustapha Crapah conceded in a recent interview on Terror FM – the twenty four hour rant-based radio station for fanatics everywhere. “There’s no way we could organise something like the Twin Towers today – we can only operate at weekends and are lucky if two or three of people actually turn up. It all comes down to money – we just can’t offer their regular employers enough in compensation for them to release our part-timers during normal work time.” Al Cock agrees that the compensation question is a key factor in his inability to commit to more Al Qeada operations. “For my employers it isn’t so much a question of money, as the ability to replace a skilled worker such as myself at short notice,” he told the in-house journal. “Al Qeada simply can’t offer them a like-for-like replacement – their suicide bombers are rank amateurs and are all tied up in Iraq, anyway. Perhaps if they offered to kill a bus-load of Israelis and credit it to Hezbollah, maybe that would be an acceptable level of compensation.” The current situation – of having to effectively rely upon the ‘Territorial Al Qaeda’ to carry out operations – is doubly damaging to the terror organisation’s mission to commit international atrocities, as it seems that its main foes have identified the part-time nature of its current threat. “The American and British infidels know that they are safe during the working week,” admits Crapah. “Just look at that recent terror alert they issued for Yemen – they only closed their Embassies over the weekends, thereby completely neutralising our planned attacks without firing a shot!” Al Qeada’s increasing reliance upon part time terrorists is the result of a number of factors, chiefly its current lack of funds. “It was great when we had Osama’s family fortune backing us, along with all those other wealthy Sheiks who fancied dabbling in terrorism as a hobby. The sky was the limit – we had thousands of full-time fanatics on the payroll,” explained Crapah in his radio interview. “But now Osama’s dead and our other former backers have lost interest and are now buying football clubs instead. It seems that they’d rather win the Champion’s League than see Washington’s streets running with blood!” The Al Qeada leader claims that the terror group’s reorganisation has been inspired by the current UK government’s defence policy. “We saw the way Mr Cameron was slashing his country’s defence spending by laying off those expensive professional soldiers and replacing them with an expanded Territorial Army made up of cheap amateur ‘weekend warriors’,” he says. “It seemed so obvious – there are so many want-to-be terrorists out there who we shunned in the past because of their reliability, But why not use them? Sure, they aren’t as reliable as the professionals, but they are cheap!” Crapah went on to tell listeners of the high regard in which his organisation holds the UK government. “We very much admire Mr Cameron, especially the way he perpetrates a reign of terror against his own people,” he declared. “He subjugates the masses, driving them into poverty and subjecting them to draconian state surveillance, all the while deceiving them into believing it is for their own good!” The problem with Al Qeada’s part-time terror strategy, Crapah admits, is that many of these part-timers find real terrorism far more exacting than they had imagined and often buckle when faced with its realities. “It’s all very well being an armchair terrorist, cheering on the destruction of the Twin Towers from your armchair in front of your TV, but when you are actually faced with having to behead a hostage, it’s a different matter,” he mused. “For these weekend fanatics, it is all a fantasy, they imagine that they will only be involved with the glamourous jobs – hijacking airliners and assassinating heads of state – but the real nitty-gritty of terrorism are the dirty jobs like torturing some infidel’s wife and children for information, or garroting heretics! Many of them just can’t take it and want to go home!” However, not all of Al Qeada’s new ‘Territorial Army of Terror’ are amateurs and fantasists. Some, like Al Cock, remain committed professional terrorists. “I felt I had no choice but to move to Hezbollah for my full-time terror activities,” he told the in-house journal. “It wasn’t about money – the pay is really incidental, I do this job for the love of Islam – but rather the lack of career opportunities in Al Qeada. It seemed that you had to be a Sheik to get on in the organisation. Not only that, but I just felt that, in recent years, Al Qeada has lacked ambition – they’ve been happy to rest on their past glories. Not only was I able to re-train as a suicide bomber when I joined Hezbollah, but they offer better potential targets and opportunities for a glorious martyrdom.” Despite leaving the regular Al Qeada, Al Cock explained that was reluctant to sever his links with the group entirely. “I felt that I still owed them – after all, it was Al Qeada that gave me my first breaks as a terrorist, killing tourists in Yemen – so I didn’t want to turn my back on them,” he told readers. “Being in the new Territorial arm seemed like an ideal opportunity to keep my hand in with the old organisation and have a bit of fun with the boys by engaging in some senseless slaughter a few weekends a year. I just didn’t anticipate how difficult it would be to reconcile with my work and family commitments in between all that bomb-making, training runs and taking the kids to school, I’m just too knackered most weekends to go out and blow up some embassy or other.” Tags: crime, politics PreviousBale Out NextMeaningless Babble Celebrity Autopsy May 1, 2009 Daughter of de Sade September 1, 2016 That Old Black Magic October 2, 2010 I Married a Homosexual From Outer Space (Bardache, 1985) September 21, 2005 Ban the Bounce! April 7, 2016 Winds of War April 14, 2004 When Art Attacks August 10, 2006 Kill the Poor October 8, 2015	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line466
__label__cc	0.54232	0.45768	Victory walker's log Follow the route Next ports of call 5114 miles already walked Victory Log Entry Number 5 Concluding WRNS100 in 2017 At Margate I took myself off the Victory Walk for the final WRNS100 event held in the State Rooms of Speaker’s House, Westminster. A fabulous end to an amazing year, where MPs from all parties came together to say thank you to 100 women who represented women of the past and present Naval Service. It was attended by 50 veterans from each decade since 1940 until the separate Women’s Royal Naval Service was disbanded in 1993, and 50 women serving in today’s Royal Navy. It was uplifting to see the mutual respect between all those women – the changes of the past century would have seemed inconceivable to the first Wrens of 1917. Every woman there was so proud to represent her individual contribution, her era of service and specialisation. The WRNS100 year could not have concluded in a more prestigious venue. © 2018 - 2019 Jane Allen	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line472
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__label__wiki	0.540304	0.540304	Android Apps Inventor 2 Online Course Android Apps Inventor 2 Online Courses in Zimbabwe Everybody has a great idea for an app. The problem is, not many of those people have the skills or knowledge required to make that idea a reality. Building an app, regardless of its simplicity or platform, requires certain technical know-how like coding, UX/UI design, and more. App Inventor 2, however, cuts through all of the smoke and allows anyone - even those with no coding experience - to build Android apps from the ground up. This course will teach you how. 2KO Africa is a professional training company, delivering cutting edge programs in the IT space and in selected business applications. Our training is offered online, live online and also by instructor led classes. 2KO Africa's business courses are available world-wide, many of them leading to European Certification. Build Apps Without Learning Code! Gain a practical understanding of programming basics Navigate and use App Inventor 2 efficiently and effectively Create and build your own apps for Android Test and update your apps after you've built them Learn how to publish your app to Google's Play Store Android Apps in an Instant This course will teach you everything you need to know about building apps - without the complicated coding normally required. If you have a good internet connection, a basic understanding of what an Android app is, and a great idea for an app that doesn't yet exist, then you're the perfect candidate! While the course is aimed at beginner programmers or those with no coding experience whatsoever, experienced app builders who want to learn from a new angle will benefit too. During the 204 lectures and 17 hours of content contained within this course, you'll learn the basics of programming in a fun and practical way, while creating fully fledged, ready-to-use Android apps. You'll start off with setting up App Inventor 2 and choosing the options you'll need for your future apps. Then you'll get to know the interface and tools before diving straight in and creating not one, not two, but TEN apps. These apps will increase in complexity as you work through them, using features such as the component editor and blocks editor. When you've built your ten apps you'll also learn how to test, update, and publish them to the Play Store. By the end of this course, you'll be an advanced app builder using App Inventor 2. App Inventor 2 is an open source web application originally developed by Google and now maintained by MIT. It is aimed at beginner programmers and specially designed to enable them to build Android apps. It turns complicated coding language into visual drag and drop blocks, so there is no need for the user to learn code before building their apps. Introduction and What You Will Learn Working with the Design Elements Looking at the Design Foundation Front-End Framework Custom Stylsheets Logo and Navigation Completing Our Website Top Feature Section Features Section Recent Works Section Fancy Lists Secondary Buttons and Finishing Up	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line495
__label__wiki	0.826354	0.826354	Mary J. Blige and Nas Team Up for North American Tour The co-headlining trek will hit Toronto this summer By Brock Thiessen Mary J. Blige and Nas are teaming up for a co-headlining North American tour. The trek is features a long string of dates this summer, with it all kicking off in mid-July. From there, the pair will hit up various U.S. cities together before capping off the run with a sole Canadian date in Toronto on September 10. You can see the full list of dates down below. Tickets are set to go on sale for most shows on Friday (April 19). Blige's last full-length album was 2017's Strength of a Woman, though she did recently serve as an actress on Netflix's The Umbrella Academy. As for Nas, he last released Nasir last year. 07/11 West Palm Beach, FL - Coral Sky Amphitheatre at the S. Florida Fairgrounds 07/13 Tampa, FL - MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre at the FL State Fairgrounds 07/14 Jacksonville, FL - Daily's Place ^ 07/16 Atlanta, GA - Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park 07/20 Atlantic City, NJ - Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena ^ 07/21 Virginia Beach, VA - Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater 07/24 Charlotte, NC - PNC Music Pavilion 07/25 Raleigh, NC - Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek 07/28 Detroit, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre 07/31 St. Louis, MO - Hollywood Casino Amphitheater 08/02 Houston, TX - The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion 08/03 Austin, TX - Austin360 Amphitheater 08/06 Kansas City, MO - Starlight Theatre 08/09 Phoenix, AZ - Ak-Chin Pavilion 08/14 San Francisco, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre 08/16 Las Vegas, NV - The Joint ^ 08/20 Albuquerque, NM - Isleta Amphitheater 08/22 Dallas, TX - Dos Equis Pavilion 08/25 Tuscaloosa, AL - Tuscaloosa Amphitheater 08/31 Syracuse, NY - St Joseph's Health Amphitheater 09/01 Boston, MA - Xfinity Center 09/10 Toronto, ON - Budweiser Stage ^ Mary J. Blige only More Mary J. Blige Sep 10 @ 7:30PM - Mary J. Blige / Nas Toronto @ Budweiser Stage (formerly Molson Canadian Amphitheatre) Nas \| Mary J. Blige The Internet Is Confused About Nas' New Single "Jarreau of Rap" Nas is a week away from delivering a load of unreleased material with The Lost Tapes 2, but his first single from the forthcoming effort has... Nas Details 'The Lost Tapes 2' Nas recently teased that The Lost Tapes 2 was on its way, and now he's made good with the full album info. The rapper and fledgling child... Nas Wrote a Children's Book Nas recently announced plans to release The Lost Tapes II for all the adults that love his music, but the rapper has thought of the children... Nas Announces 'The Lost Tapes II' As promised, Nas has announced he will deliver The Lost Tapes II. Today the hip-hop figure took to Instagram to make the reveal, posting... Wu-Tang Clan Detail 'Of Mics and Men' Soundtrack, Share New Track Wu-Tang Clan are about to be the subject of the new Showtime documentary series Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, and to go along with it, the... Mary J. Blige Gets Nas for New Single "Thriving" Ahead of teaming up for a co-headlining tour later this year, Mary J. Blige and Nas have joined forces on a new single. Titled "Thriving,... Q-Tip Is Working on an Album with Danny Brown Though new material from A Tribe Called Quest is out of the question, Q-Tip is still at work on a host of different musical projects, includ... Inside the World of 'The Umbrella Academy,' Netflix's New Family Drama Masquerading as a Superhero Show You'd be forgiven for thinking that Netflix's upcoming series, The Umbrella Academy, was yet another entry in the ever-expanding superhero g... Watch the "Best Original Song" Nominees Perform at the Oscars The Oscars were handed out in Hollywood tonight, and as promised, all of the Best Original Song nominees are present to perform their nomina... Sufjan Stevens, Mary J. Blige, Miguel to Perform at the Oscars The Oscars will be handed out in Hollywood in just a over a week, and the list of musical performers has just been confirmed. Amongst th...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line501
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That's fantastic, but it has also lead to a certain amount of similarity between queens and their acts. The question remains: how does a performer go beyond a sickening lip synch or a fierce lewk, and reach for something deeper? Luckily for Sasha Velour — crowned winner of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9 — depth is not an issue. Velour's (first ever) one-queen show, Smoke & Mirrors, which debuted this past Thursday at New York Live Arts, presents a new way to couple drag with true conceptual performance art. The intensely personal production shows what a top-of-her-game queen Velour really is, both as an artist and as a storyteller. She takes her rapt audience through her experiences as a creative young person in New York City, determined to find peace, equilibrium, and freedom. Playing out over two hours, two acts, and 13 distinct musical numbers, Smoke & Mirrors features enough technical wizardry and visual art to satisfy even the most invested diehards. Velour's roster of artists on her playlist are as eclectic and endearing as the queen herself: Le Tigre, Judy Garland, Céline Dion, Nina Simone, and more make sonic appearances. Each number, coupled with the excellent production value from the House of Velour (the Brooklyn-based queer artist collective Sasha and her partner Johnny Velour lead) feels like a journey through a piece of Velour's psyche — a glimpse into her dreams, into her memories. At times, Smoke & Mirrors is lively and irreverent, like when Velour tells her haters to get lost with an '80s music video-themed rendition of Le Tigre's "Deceptacon," complete with digital Sasha Velour backup dancers. Yet instances of poignancy abound, as when Velour lip syncs "If You Go Away" by Shirley Bassey, while an illustrated apple decays before the audience's eyes, only to be reanimated back to health with the help of some stage magic; Velour originally performed the piece for her ailing mother in 2015 before she passed away. Smoke & Mirrors will make you laugh, make you jump out of your seat, and, certainly, it will make you cry. But ultimately it leaves you loving Sasha Velour, somehow, more than when you entered the theater. PAPER spoke with Velour about Smoke & Mirrors, her inspirations, and her hopes for the future. Tickets for upcoming show dates can be purchased here. What's behind the name Smoke & Mirrors? I have lots of reasons! My favorite being that smoke and mirrors refers to the earliest forms of theatrical trickery... magicians and early cinematic projection utilized literal mirrors to make their audiences see things that weren't really there. That's similar to drag but the difference is that queens pull back the curtain, so to speak, on the tricks. While we're making the audience's sense of reality unstable, we're showing them how it's done and giving them the tools to do it themselves. This show is a very emotional endeavor for you. What's it like putting this much of yourself into your own show? It feels natural, really. I consider drag to be very personal. There's always an element of deep confession in drag, and it's why I feel so comfortable telling my story via Smoke & Mirrors. I get to confess my truth through artifice, fantasy, and out of this world surrealism. The show retains layers of ambiguity and construction, just like real life. You've been on quite a trip since the debut of 2015's Nightgowns, the acclaimed drag show produced by Velour, which ran in New York, London, and Los Angeles. How does it feel seeing your art evolve into something bigger? It's humbling. I didn't necessarily plan all of this, I'm just really passionate about putting on shows and performing. I have moments when I'm like, I can't believe we've arrived at this place so quickly and at such a huge scale. Johnny (Velour), my partner, has been helping me make costumes and design sets since the Nightgowns days, and I'm proud of us because we learned how to do all that with the purpose of achieving a project like this some day. We pulled this off with our own hands and the help of our loving friends. So this one-queen show is really a community effort? Absolutely! There's no way that this could truly have been done by one person. It's the result of collaboration amongst a group of passionate people. Music is the cornerstone of Smoke & Mirrors. How did you go about choosing your setlist? I feel like a good drag number uses familiar songs so that people can connect to the performance with their own experiences. I love music that queer people have historically listened to, so for me that means Shirley Bassey, Celine Dion, Annie Lennox, Judy Garland. I look [for] emotional songs, songs that are happy, ecstatic, sexual, thoughtful. As long as there's real emotion in the voice, it makes a dynamic lip sync. And then I tried to change the meaning of every song, of course... that's my special project. Make every song less heterosexual! Smoke & Mirrors is dedicated to your parents, and you give a touching monologue about losing your mother to cancer a few short years ago. You also perform "If You Go Away" by Shirley Bassey, which you originally performed for your mother before she passed. What's it like reliving that moment every night? I hadn't really given any thought to that when I signed myself up for this! I'm used to doing a number just once, so getting to workshop these sets again and again has actually been one of the biggest unexpected elements of this show for me. I now have a deeper relationship with all of these numbers, and that's exciting because it gives me the opportunity to shift them a bit each time I perform them. My relationship with my mom inspired that piece ("If You Go Away"), and then informed the reason why I never wanted to perform it ever again... and she's now the inspiration for bringing it back to life for Smoke & Mirrors. Putting this show together is as much therapeutic as it is entertaining. My ultimate goal is always to put on a good show, and I never lose sight of that. That's what allows me to go to these places when I perform. You mention in the show that life is more like a mandhala, or the wheel of Samsara, than linear. How do you think linear thought patterns in contemporary culture is hurting us? I have been thinking a great deal about this recently. I think linearity goes hand in hand with fixed identities for gender. Like, the idea that you have to be all in for one specific state is unsustainable. The notion that you need to conform to an idea of masculinity or femininity which is so limited and binary... it's really an impossible burden for most people. And in terms of linear thinking, the idea that we should be able to completely leave behind our hurt for success, or completely rid ourselves of bitterness for happiness... I don't know if that's useful. We all flow in and out of many different ways of dealing with things. "Finding new ways of celebrating growth without being linear has been the real journey of my life." Humans are more complicated than that. Smoke & Mirrors was also inspired by the experiences I've had with success over the last two years. I am part of an enormous phenomenon, Drag Race, but I also recognize that it's not completely free of its problems. I've had opportunities handed to me that I've dreamt of my whole life, but I'm also dealing with mental illness and anxiety in ways that I never have before. So my story is far from a clean cut linear one, you know, going from a 'bad place' to a 'good place.' I don't think that's how it works. Finding new ways of celebrating growth without being linear has been the real journey of my life. And what are your hopes for the future of Smoke & Mirrors? I'm hoping to take it out on tour in the rest of the US and in Europe. Creating a successful drag tour is a massive challenge, but one I'm excited to face head on. Sasha Velour will also be performing at Frankie Sharp's soiree Godmother at 3 Dollar Bill in Brooklyn on April 5. Get your tickets to that here. Photos courtesy of Sasha Velour Kanye West Sells 'Church Clothes' at a Steep Price Assless Chaps Are the New Flower Crown at Coachella Don't Cry For Me Valentina LVMH Acquires Iconic Luxury Hospitality Brand 广西快三计划精准公式福彩3d跟随分析器下载广西快乐十分开奖结果查询结果双色球基本走势图表图片七星期开奖直播 3d5码组三多少钱河北十一选五任五冷号甘肃11选5走势图表江苏7位数最新开奖说明极速时时彩75秒开奖准确判断组三吉林十一选五直选连线福彩3d字谜图谜总汇易点彩票网澳门赌场什么样多多乐彩泥50136	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line506
__label__cc	0.657707	0.342293	Hatchet Job By Lauren Wise Splitting Timber Axe Range brings a new recreational activity to town While experiential entertainment isn’t a new concept – immersive museum exhibits and activities like paintball have been around for years – the market for new entertainment is at an all-time high. Lately, virtual reality simulations, “rage rooms” where people pay to smash items and, of course, the “Escape Room” experience that exploded into the market are just a few ways people are discovering new entertainment. The latter has an impressive reputation in Arizona. Escape Room Tucson opened in 2013, and it quickly became one of the premiere escape rooms in the country. Now the owner of Escape Room has opened up a new type of experiential hot spot in Phoenix: Splitting Timber Axe Range. Imagine it like an industrial-sized dartboard, where you aim with an axe instead of a dart, or maybe lumberjack-designed bowling. And the motto of “Now there is a new bad axe in town!” is an understatement when you compare it to the mainstay recreational outings of the last several decades. While axe-throwing might be an intriguing concept in larger urban cities, it’s been an international sport for quite some time. In Canada, indoor axe throwing has been a popular pastime for over 12 years. So in January 2017, AJ Hughes, owner of Escape Room Tucson and co-owner of Splitting Timber, flew to Canada to learn how to axe throw. “Before flying out, I met with my good friend Larry Scaringelli and asked if he’d like to partner with me,” she explains. “At first, he thought I was nuts! He then saw my excitement and passion for the sport and business and he was fully on board.” Hughes opened a Tucson location with her daughter in November 2018, and shortly thereafter, she and Larry opened the Phoenix location in December. “After opening Escape Room Tucson, I wanted to create another fun thing for people to do, to interact together and have a blast doing it,” Hughes adds. As the largest axe-throwing range in Arizona, the 26 “lanes” are spread over more than 8,200 square feet. In the lobby area, channel your inner lumberjack – or get ready to “kick some axe,” as Hughes says – with Instagram-worthy costumes and pun-riddled gear. Before you begin, the resident “Axeperts” spend about 20 minutes showing you the basics of axe-throwing, going over safety (closed-toe shoes are mandatory, for instance), and offering tips on how to land that bullseye 12 feet away with your new 1.5-pound metal and wood accessory. Hughes revels in the reactions of people when they hit their first bullseye: “The ‘axe’-citement and pure joy is outstanding. They jump, cheer and scream. The look on their face is just priceless!” At Splitting Timber, batting cage-style fencing separates the lanes, and cozy tables with barstools are perfectly situated for viewing the action and recharging with some snacks and beverages (bringing your own refreshments is encouraged here, but there are vending machines). Once you get started, the Axeperts will make sure to keep score and offer assistance as needed. Finally, you’ll square off in a tournament that will result in the crowning of an Axe Throwing Champion. Ideal for families, groups of friends or a corporate outing – or even events like birthdays, bachelor or bachelorette parties – the axe-training and -throwing experience lasts about an hour and a half. “It’s a high energy and an adrenaline-filled hour and a half. You laugh, cheer and have a fun filled competition,” she says. As a female business owner (and axe-thrower), Hughes also stands strong that the sport is great for women; it isn’t tailored to men and offers a lot of empowerment. “Women do extremely well at axe-throwing. This is a sport and there’s a technique to it; it’s not about strength. Sometimes women tend to be a bit apprehensive, thinking it’s a ‘dangerous’ thing to do,” she explains. “It’s much like any target sport; it’s a controlled environment and we teach you how to properly throw and are with you every step of the way.” But like any recreational activity, there are a few things to remember. Lanes hold four to six people, so if you show up with fewer than that, you’ll likely be paired with others already onsite. For daytime events, be sure to book in advance; walk-ins are welcome after 6 p.m. It’s customary to tip your Axepert – they are the ones coaching you for an hour and a half, and keeping you safe. Wear comfy closed-toe shoes and clothes; you’ll be throwing the axe over your head. And participants must be 14 and over. As far as tips go, Hughes says, “Breathe. Relax. Have fun. Don’t try to throw too hard. Follow through and listen to your Axepert; they’re there to help you. Most of all, have fun. Did we say have fun?” For those looking for a consistent dose of Splitting Timber, enthusiasts can check out the official league, which starts in January “Our Axe Throwing League starts the week of the 14th of January. We have three nights to select from: Sundays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays,” Hughes says. “We’re members of the World Axe Throwing League, so when you compete locally, you also compete nationally. You could even advance to the national playoffs or championships – which were aired on ESPN this past December.” Teams will compete against teams in an 8-week battle for less than $200 per player. Hughes suggests grabbing 4 to 6 of your friends for one of Splitting Timber’s League nights, elect a team captain and pick a name, show up on league night for the next eight weeks, and perfect your art of whirling sharp metal and wood through the air. With a history of successful experiential entertainment ventures, Hughes admits there are other ideas in the mix. “We will be expanding to more locations,” she says, “and there are some other things in the works… but we’re not releasing that information just yet.” Splitting Timbers is located at 2005 W. Deer Valley Road, Suite 104, in Phoenix. For more information, call 602-622-0065 or visit splittingtimber.com/axe-throwing.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line507
__label__cc	0.685358	0.314642	Winter Park Gears Up for Electric Vehicles May 7, 2019 /12 Comments/in Headline, News, Opinion anne mooney /by Anne Mooney Guest Columnist Sheila DeCiccio The City of Winter Park looks toward the future of transportation as discussion revs up at the April 23 Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Board regarding a proposed Electric Vehicle (EV) ordinance. The purpose of the ordinance is to bring forth regulations for EV charging, infrastructure and ways to handle development projects that were already in process prior to the EV ordinance. FL Ranks in Top 5 for EV Sales Florida ranks within the top five states for sales of electric and hybrid vehicles. In fact, a majority of buyers for electric and hybrid vehicles are located right here in Central Florida. By the year 2030, estimated annual national sales of EV’s will exceed 3.5 million vehicles, accounting for more than 20 percent of vehicle sales in the U.S. Vehicles Running on Gas are 2nd Greatest Cause of Carbon Emissions Currently, vehicles that burn fossil fuel – gasoline – are the second greatest cause of carbon emissions. Their replacement by electric cars will result in a reduction in the city’s carbon emissions, quieter and more livable streets and improved air quality. WP Already Has 6 Charging Stations Since 2011, Winter Park has installed six electric charging stations. Each charging station can charge two cars, one on either side. Stations are available to everyone, free of charge. Electric Utility Companies Face Greater Demand for Power For the sake of our state’s economy, infrastructure, and air quality, Central Florida must not only prepare for electric cars, but must be a leader in setting the stage for parking lots full of EVs. Utility companies, for example, will have to prepare for the increased demand for power as consumers charge their car batteries at home, at work or while shopping. Florida Power has already begun by increasing their capacity with solar panels, but there is more work to be done. WP Ordinance Will Affect New Construction The proposed Winter Park ordinance will require builders and developers to provide at least two electric charging stations in commercial parking lots that have more than 50 spaces. The ordinance also requires new residential and multifamily homes to include wiring built into the garage or common-use parking lot. Incentives Are a Possibility There may be incentives to help with the cost of wiring, such as a rebate from the utility company. An exact amount has not been determined but is under consideration. Some counties and cities provide rebates as high as $500. WP Maintains Vision of Healthy, Sustainable Future The above are just a few of the opening ideas which will go through much discussion. The good news is that the process has begun, and that Winter Park is staying consistent with its vision of promoting a healthy and sustainable future for all generations. Sheila DeCiccio is an attorney with DeCiccio & Johnson. She has served on the Planning & Zoning Board for the past six years. She and her husband have been Winter Park residents since 1982. Their two children were born here and are being raised here. Turn the Page says: How will this reduce traffic congestion on Winter Park streets? Did any of these people get the memo telling them that traffic congestion is Winter Park’s major problem? People buy electric cars so they will always get a parking space close to wherever they are going. Doesn’t matter if their car is already fully charged up. They just park in the electric spot and pretend they are charging it, and laugh while everyone else circles the block a few times before they find a parking space for their gas car. If you notice, the electric spaces are always either empty or occupied by someone pretending to charge their car. John Skolfield says: It’s great to see you taking this lead. I purchased a 2 year old Nissan Leaf a couple years ago and will never look back. Putting $40 of gas in my wife’s cars may lack the visceral pain of lighting two $20’s on fire but is the same result. The leaf is fun, quick, and inexpensive. Randy Vance says: Car makers will have dozens of EV’s to offer in the next two years. I think the real benefit in carbon reductions on EV’s is dubious at best, shipping the pollution to different resources and different countries where the dirty battery equipment is mined. Adding to the burden, vehicle makers say the batteries, which are not recyclable, have a life of about 100,000 miles. They cost about $5000 to replace meaning a car that cost 30k and is worthless and become disposable when that day comes because their value is not high enough to warrant new batteries. Who will pay for the electricity of these public power stations? ellie warner says: This is great as long as taxpayers are taken off the hook for the “free” charging stations and tax payer funded subsidies. Are these technologies sustainable on their own? No. When they are, THEN they will be ‘sustainable’ in a meaningful way for taxpayers. Please leave us out of the virtue signalling experiments. Bill Deuchler says: Thanks Sheila for passing along this information via The Voice. I’m sympathetic to the general idea of building out more infrastructure to support electric vehicles. It is a definite reality that there will be more on the road and there should be accommodations to “fuel” these vehicles. However, I’m more sanguine regarding projections for the growth of EVs. This article is a good assessment of the current state, and interestingly growth is projected to slow in 2019. https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/20/forecast-2019-us-ev-sales-growth-will-drop-to-12/ The bigger question to ponder is who is or should be responsible for charging infrastructure? Should this be a government mandate or should we rely on market forces? I think that many take it for granted that we should mandate charging stations, but I think it bears some thought. EVs are and will be for some time a significant minority of vehicles. So would mandates essentially be fostering conveniences for a minority of vehicles? Tesla clearly understood that without a network of charging stations, it wasn’t going to sell cars. That was a very appropriate market response to a future need. We need to think critically regarding infrastructure investments and be good stewards of the public resources we have. I’m not saying no, just that we should think hard about these questions. Denise Hammond says: Nice work Sheila – thanks for your efforts to make our community sustainable and livable! Realist says: Anybody want to take a guess how much of our power comes from coal? Big ships filled with South American coal use fossil fuel to transport it here to Florida to be burned up into “clean” electricity. Bet none of the green people want you to know that dirty little FACT. The Art of Parking in WP says: Will there be electric car parking spaces at the new MLK Park art museum being constructed with library bond money? Let's Think About This says: People charge their electric cars at home – over night So the only people who will use these charging stations are: 1) People who forgot to charge their car at home over night, and 2) People who drive their car more during the day than an overnight charge will cover Ergo, these charging stations subsidize: 1) Absentmindedness, and 2) More traffic congestion Is that what we really want? Electric Car "Gas" Station says: Electric cars are fine for people who can get by on the number of miles their car will run after they charge it up at home for the day. If they can’t, they really should get a gas motored car or hybrid instead. Rather than requiring property owners to install electric car spots, why not simply allow electric car “gas” stations in the zoning code? Anyone could install one or more electric car “gas pumps” and electric car owners would then pay the owner for the charge, and they could Uber (or walk if close enough) where they are going until it is charged up. That makes a whole lot more sense than saying OK you have 50 parking spaces, you have to make 2 electric car spaces. What if nobody drives electric cars to that building? Then you effectively have reduced the parking code for that building from 50 spaces to 48 spaces. Why would you want to do that? Jim Fitch says: Let’s Talk About Money… Electric Vehicles (EVs) cost about $8 of electricity to fully charge. If an EV owner charges at home. Fine, they are paying for it. If they charge at a ‘Free’ station, we, the taxpayers, are paying for it. I don’t get any money for my gasoline. Why should EV owners ride FREE on my nickel? EV charging stations should have a Credit Card slot to pay for their electricity… Pat Estes says: I am writing to express my opposition to having FREE charging stations for electric vehicles, as discussed in this Winter Park Voice article. Why should WP tax payers who choose not to have EVs be saddled with paying for fuel (electric) for those who want to have EVs? Even if the charging stations are solar powered, there is a cost for the infrastructure. Another pertinent point about ‘fueling’ EVs is that owners should pay a tax comparable to the tax charged for gasoline – which goes to the state for road building and maintenance. This assumes EVs actually drive on the roads and don’t just hover above them. Pat Estes Libraries — Essential to Community Health Canopy Chaos	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line511
__label__wiki	0.522709	0.522709	XTC (Musical group) Rock music Film soundtracks Punk rock music New wave music Television music Alternative rock music Concert films Documentary films Nonfiction films Reggae music Performer, Instrumentalist, Musician, Originator, Composer, Singer, Lyricist, Other M1630.18, 781.66 Most widely held works about XTC (Musical group) Contemporary musicians : profiles of the people in music by Suzanne M Bourgoin( ) Contemporary musicians : profiles of the people in music by Laura Hightower( ) Complicated game : inside the songs of XTC by Andy Partridge( Book ) XTC : chalkhills and children : the definitive biography by Chris Twomey( Book ) Chalkhills and children : the definitive biography by Chris Twomey( Book ) The XTC bumper book of fun for boys and girls : a Limelight anthology( Book ) Travels in Nihilon 1980 : XTC in New York by Virginia Turbett( Book ) De XTC-mafia by Geert Cortebeeck( Book ) What do you call that noise? : an XTC discovery book( Book ) Most widely held works by XTC (Musical group) Skylarking by XTC (Musical group)( Recording ) 40 editions published between 1986 and 2018 in 5 languages and held by 327 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "***** Out of 5"--Q The perks of being a wallflower : original motion picture soundtrack by Dexys Midnight Runners (Musical group)( Recording ) 2 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 291 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A wide variety of musical styles and artists fills the soundtrack to the big screen adaptation of Stephen Chbosky's popular novel Left of the dial : dispatches from the 80's underground( Recording ) 1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 188 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Oranges & lemons by XTC (Musical group)( Recording ) 13 editions published between 1988 and 2015 in English and held by 178 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Oranges And Lemons is the third in a series of expanded XTC album reissues, including 5.1 Surround mixes, new stereo mixes and High-Resolution stereo mixes by Steven Wilson, along with a wealth of extra audio and visual material. Steven Wilson produced the mixes with the input of founder band member Andy Partridge and the full approval of the band This cd/blu-ray edition is presented in special packaging with an expanded booklet and sleeve-notes by Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding and Dave Gregory. Blu-Ray exclusive material includes: Two separate sets of demo and work tape sessions showing the evolution of the album and associated recordings; one set of pre-recording rehearsals, promos and ID links for radio stations and record companies; a collection of single mixes and XTC's version of Captain Beefhearts Ella Guru. * Promo films for The Mayor of Simpleton (3 versions), King for a Day and a Road to Oranges & Lemons, a rarely seen home-made film by the band explaining the album (and themselves!) to Geffen Records USA. Featuring Pat Mastelotto on drums, 1989's Oranges And Lemons is one of XTC's most vibrant and optimistic albums. A wonderful collection of songs that culminates in one of Andy Partridge's finest ever compositions, Chalkhills And Children Music from Gilmore girls : our little corner of the world( Recording ) English settlement by XTC (Musical group)( Recording ) Black sea by XTC (Musical group)( Recording ) Nonsuch by XTC (Musical group)( Recording ) 9 editions published between 1991 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 121 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Drums and wires by XTC (Musical group)( Recording ) XTC's revolutionary 'Drums And Wires,' from 1979, is the second in a series of expanded album reissues, including 5.1 Surround mixes, new stereo mixes and High-Resolution stereo mixes of the original material, along with a wealth of extra audio and visual material. 'Drums And Wires' was an explosion of complex knotty rhythms and memorable melodic hooks, all colliding with thought-provoking lyrics on an album that established XTC as one of the most inventive bands of the New Wave era. For those already familiar with Drums And Wires, this reissue provides a comprehensively expanded edition of a much loved classic. For anyone fortunate enough to be new to the spiky delights of 'Drums And Wires,' yes, pop music really was this good at one point in time! Steven Wilson produced the mixes with the input of founder band member Andy Partridge and the full approval of the band. This edition is presented in special packaging with an expanded booklet and sleeve-notes by Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding and Dave Gregory. The CD features a stereo mix by Steven Wilson plus 6 additional singles and non-album tracks, whilst the DVD disc features a wealth of music Apple Venus by XTC (Musical group)( Recording ) Urgh! : a music war( Visual ) 3 editions published between 1985 and 2010 in English and held by 87 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Filmed in 1980 at a variety of locations and venues, this documentary presents 30 different performances nonstop, featuring both well-known and lesser-known bands, and captures some of the emerging New Wave and punk acts of the day XTC : song stories : the exclusive authorized story behind the music by Neville Farmer( Book ) The big express by XTC (Musical group)( Recording ) Apple Venus. wasp star by XTC (Musical group)( Recording ) Upsy daisy assortment : a selection of the sweetest hits by XTC (Musical group)( Recording ) New wave hits of the '80s : just can't get enough( Recording ) Carmen Sandiego out of this world( Recording ) Fossil fuel : the XTC singles, 1977-92 by XTC (Musical group)( Recording ) Mummer by XTC (Musical group)( Recording ) Audience level: 0.34 (from 0.20 for Music from ... to 0.91 for What do yo ...) Partridge, Andy Performer Instrumentalist Author Lyricist Composer Sonic Youth (Musical group) Performer Musician Smiths (Musical group) Performer New Order (Musical group) Performer Brook, Michael 1952- Performer Cocteau Twins (Musical group) Performer Galaxie 500 (Musical group) Performer Samples (Musical group) Performer Cracker (Musical group) Performer Dexys Midnight Runners (Musical group) Performer Wikipedia XTC Abdul, Paula AC/DC (Musical group) Alternative rock music Belgium Berigan, Bunny, Bley, Carla Carmen Sandiego (Game) Carmichael, Hoagy, Carter, Betty, Collins, Edwyn Composers Computer game music Connick, Harry,--Jr., Crespo, Elvis Drug abuse--Social aspects Drug traffic England Fan magazines Foster, David, Great Britain James, Harry, Jones, Hank, Jones, Howard, Lennox, Annie Moore, Mandy, Motion picture music Motion picture music--Excerpts Music Musicians Netherlands New wave music New wave musicians Popular music Punk rock music Reggae music Rock concerts Rock groups Rock music Rock musicians Rock videos Shannon, Del Shaw, Woody Sledge, Percy Songs Television music Television music--Excerpts Tweet, United States XTC (Musical group) Yearwood, Trisha Dukes of Stratosphear (Musical group) Extasy Helium Kidz Star Park (Musical group) The Three Wise Men XTC band XTC banda británica XTC britische Band XTC engelsk nyveivgruppe XTC English pop group XTC groupe de musique britannique XTC gruppo musicale inglese XTC乐队英語流行樂隊	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line515
__label__cc	0.623338	0.376662	THE POLE-SITTERS OF THE WSK SUPER MASTER SERIES AT THE 7 LAGHI DI CASTELLETTO (ITALY) ARE DE CONTO (I – CRG-MAXTER KZ), SARGEANT (USA - FA KART-VORTEX OK) AND DE PAUW (B – BIRELART-PARILLA OKJ). CORBERI (I – TONY KART-VORTEX) IS THE FASTEST IN KZ2. ON SUNDAY 6TH AT 11 THE LIVE STREAMING ON WSK.IT HUNT OPEN TO THE TOP DRIVERS IN CASTELLETTO. It is only the first day of the WSK racing weekend in Castelletto di Branduzzo (Italy), but the Super Master Series has already proved that the top drivers will need to do their best if they want to achieve success. Those who have succeeded in this first part of the season – for example the winners of the recent WSK Champions Cup in Adria – are already at the top of the list of the fastest drivers in today’s Qualifying. However, there are going to be rough battles on track, as it is clear from the results in each of the categories admitted to the race. Tomorrow’s heats on the 7 Laghi International Circuit are going to be uncertain until the end. GREAT SHOW LIVE IN STREAMING ON WSK.IT. The 1,256 metre long Italian track offers lots of spots were overtaking is possible: that’s a further reason to follow the race also on the web thanks to the live streaming of the Prefinals and of the four Finals on schedule on Sunday 6th March. DE CONTO IS THE POLE SITTER IN KZ, CORBERI IS THE FASTEST IN KZ2. Among the KZ champions, the Italian Paolo De Conto (CRG-Maxter-Vega) was the fastest. He won the recent event of Adria and, also here in northern Italy, he is still the driver to beat. He stopped the clock at 46”491, beating into second his fellow countryman Marco Ardigò (Tony Kart-Vortex-Vega), who completed his fastest lap in 46”690. Behind them the French Anthony Abbasse (Sodikart-TM-Vega) and the Italian Flavio Camponeschi (CRG-Parilla), fourth. In KZ2, best time for the Italian Luca Corberi (Tony Kart-Vortex) in 46”.750, ahead of another Italian, Giacomo Pollini (CRG-TM). DE PAUW STARTS THE BATTLE IN OK JUNIOR. He wants to dominate in OK Junior, that’s what the Belgian Ulysse De Paw (BirelArt-Parila-Vega) aims at. He set the fastest time thanks to his 48”632. The English Fin Kenneally (FA Kart-Vortex-Vega) is warned: he arrived at Castelletto as the favourite after his victory in Adria, but today he was 53 milliseconds slower than his rival. Good performance also for the Spanish David Vidales (Energy-TM-Vega), third ahead of the Moroccan Sami Taoufik (FA Kart-Vortex-Vega). In the first two heats, which took place in the evening, the first winner was the Swedish Isac Blomqvist (Tony Kart-Vortex-Vega) right ahead of Vidales. The second heat was won by Taoufik, second the Norwegian Dennis Hauger (CRG-Parilla-Vega). SARGEANT GRABS THE POLE IN THE OK. The star spangled banner still flies high in the OK thanks to the American Logan Sargeant (FA Kart-Vortex- Vega), reigning KFJ World Champion. He was the winner of the WSK Champions Cup and he grabbed the pole thanks to his 46”931, the only driver to go under the 47 seconds. The following three drivers are all within 8 undreths of a second: the Spanish Pedro Hiltbrand (CRG-Parilla-Vega), second, the Danish Nicklas Nielsen (Tony Kart-Vortex) and the British Tom Joyner (Zanardi-Parilla). TOUGH GAME ALSO IN THE 60 MINI. With 73 drivers at the start, also the 60 Mini is ready to get on track to conquer the top of the WSK Master Series standings. A large part of today’s programme was dedicated to Free Practice, while Qualifying is scheduled for tomorrow morning. All the young drivers aim to follow the path of the Norwegian Dennis Hauger, winner in 2015 and, today, brilliant protagonist in OK Junior.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line519
__label__cc	0.522074	0.477926	San Mateo County Superior Court Supervisor, District 2 Assessor/County Clerk/Recorder Treasurer/Tax Collector County of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Sonoma and Solano City of Foster City Jefferson Union High School District Belmont-Redwood Shores School District Brisbane Elementary School District Cabrillo Unified School District Millbrae School District Pacifica School District Ravenswood City School District Las Lomitas Elementary School District Judge, Office 2 — San Mateo County Superior Court Superior court judges preside over trial court cases, both civil and criminal. They hear witnesses' testimony and other evidence and decide cases by applying the law to the relevant facts. #1 -- change is needed in this judicial office, it... #2 -- work toward and promote improved efficiency... #3 -- increase information and transparency. The public... Gerald J. Buchwald Gerald J. Buchwald's priorities are not yet available. 35,010 votes (26.81%)Check #1 -- change is needed in this judicial office, it is time. Top priority is to restore respect and proper application of the law with fairness and equity to all. This can't wait. #2 -- work toward and promote improved efficiency and accessibility in court processes and services, reducing barriers, delays and associated expense and frustration for those who must use the court or participate in court proceedings. #3 -- increase information and transparency. The public and those using court services can benefit from accessible information about judges, their backgrounds and performance, appointments and elections. Senior Counsel, Litigation -- Professional Liability Program, The Regents of the University of California, Office of General Counsel (2004–2017) Senior Counsel, Litigation, The Regents of the University of California, Office of General Counsel -- a California public entity — Appointed position (2004–2017) Staff Counsel/Litigation Management Attorney, Judicial Council of California, Administrative Ofice of the Courts (2000–2004) Staff Counsel - Litigation Program Attorney, Judicial Council of California, Administrative Office of the Courts -- a California Public Entity — Appointed position (2000–2004) Partner--Litigation and Trial Practice, Hassard Bonnington LLP San Francisco (1985–2000) Partner, Litigation and Trial Practice, Hassard Bonnington LLP (1988–2000) University of Minnesota Law School — Juris Doctor, Law (1979) University of Minnesota Law School — JD - Juris Doctor, Law (1979) I am seeking this office to fulfill an ultimate goal to serve as a superior court judge, coming off years at the University of California (UC) and Judicial Council of California, Administrative Office of the Courts (JCC/AOC) overseeing litigation around the state. I want to promote awareness and discussion of issues and help effect positive change at the court. There are times when change is appropriate and healthy. I believe that stepping up -- as I am doing -- can help constructively accomplish that. My experience in private practice and in public employment, and the roles I have served, provide clear pictures of good and poor in judicial performance and court services. They also give me a passion for process improvement, efficiency, and consistent quality that I will bring to our court. This election is nonpartisan, and I embrace that classification. For this and other reasons, I am not seeking political endorsements or special interest support. My sense is these are out of place in this race for judicial office. I think it is healthy, however, to talk about issues. I would be pleased to hear about issues that are important to you, your area of practice, and the community. In running, I am pointing out a systemic issue. Superior court judges serve six-year terms by Constitutional design in California and continue in office by retention elections. In practice, most never really face the electorate. They are appointed and, when their term is ending, are unopposed and their names do not appear on a ballot. The system we have favors this pattern of unopposed incumbency. Judges get accustomed to this and continue on, sometimes too long. Voters get no information and remain largely uninformed without any contested election. If you haven’t seen it, please read the working paper I wrote about this, posted at our website, richardwilsonforjudge.com. My background is on the website and my LinkedIn profile at https://linkedin.com/in/richard-wilson-6845781. Briefly stated, my wife, Marie, and I have lived in San Carlos for 30 years and raised our children here. Marie is an attorney, making her career in-house at technology companies on the Peninsula. We love the dynamic quality and diversity of San Mateo County and have lived it as a multiracial family. As a partner at Hassard Bonnington in San Francisco, I litigated and tried cases throughout Northern California including San Mateo County. I left the firm to work for the JCC/AOC to help implement a new litigation management program for the court system. This was successfully established. I was then hired by the UC for a systemwide role as senior counsel overseeing a large litigation program. These positions brought me to courtrooms, mediation offices, and proceedings in countless cases around the state. I aim to apply this experience and the perspectives and skills it provides to this office as judge and to the court to help with the services the court provides. I ask for your support and vote. Richard W. Wilson Candidate for Judge of the Superior Court Working Paper on Appointment and Election of Superior Court Judges This paper briefly describes the process of appointment and election of superior court judges. Arguments against and in favor of increased elections are presented. The system has evolved to favor successive terms, if a judge desires, with no opposition and therefore no election. This has become the pattern -- perpetual unopposed incumbancy. The result is the public and voters have little or no knowledge about judges, judicial elections, or how this system operates. There is also an effect of diminished accountability Re: WORKING PAPER ON APPOINTMENT AND ELECTION OF SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES This paper briefly explains how superior court judges (also referred to as trial court judges) gain office in California and some of the opinions expressed in writings on how the judicial election system operates. Each of California’s 58 counties has a superior court. The legislature determines the number of judges in the courts. As explained below, judges serve their terms subject to reelection. The issue being highlighted here is retention elections and the always present ─ but seldom occurring ─ possibility of opposition. My perspective is outlined in Section III, below, based on experience and observation from 30 years of litigation practice. The information in this paper will help provide background for the June 5 election in San Mateo County where the contest will play out for the office occupied by Judge Gerald Buchwald.[i] I. How Superior Court Judges are Appointed and Elected ● Terms are set at six years by the California Constitution, incorporating a democratic element by requiring reelection to continue in office. Judges are thereby faced with at least the possibility of being challenged. ● A vacancy due to resignation, retirement, or death is filled by appointment of the governor through an application and selection process. The appointed judge then is subject to election when that term expires. ● If an incumbent judge decides not to seek reelection, qualified attorneys can run for the open seat. ● If an incumbent is unopposed in an election, she or he does not appear on the ballot. ● Superior court judgeships are overwhelmingly uncontested. Reelection bids by incumbents are therefore not on ballots, and there is no information or opportunity for voters to participate in the process. II. Views and Perspectives A. In Support of the Way the Process Operates, Including Predominantly Unopposed Incumbency ● Retention elections expose judges to the possibility of political pressure or reacting to public crises and demands for change. Elections open the possibility of attacks by partisan and special interests, presenting a threat to judicial independence and impartiality. Although judges are subject to reelection, the pattern of unopposed incumbency protects trial court judges from such forces. ● The threat of losing retention elections might influence behavior, attitude or morale. Facing actual challenges exposes them to the burden of defending their position, campaigning, and related costs. ● The “merit-based” selection and appointment process maintains a superior bench overall. Those appointed as judges are qualified and should continue, if they choose, without facing election challenge. ● Voters do not know the judges or their records, and most have little interest. B. In Support of Increased Judicial Elections on Ballots ● The claim that the merit-based selection and appointment process ensures quality is untested. It suggests those who challenge an incumbent are suspect or less qualified. ● Insulating judges and their selection from voters prevents knowledge of judges and their views and records on important issues. It is almost impossible for the public to get information unless someone runs for their seat. This eviscerates voter participation and democratic accountability envisioned by the Constitution. ● The existing appointment process does not ensure judges are chosen for their qualities and abilities without influence of political views, ideology, connections, or other agenda. ● Some judges exhibit bias, partiality, or ideology. In some cases, this is persistent. Behavior in this regard may be apparent to attorneys and litigants, but local options for relief are unsatisfactory. ● The judicial system’s disciplinary procedures are ineffective where behavior is not of a type, or sufficiently egregious, to cause imposition of sanctions.[1] III. Personal Experience and Comments The following comments come from thirty years of experience handling and overseeing cases of various types in public employment and private practice. These positions required contact with courts, judges, attorneys, and parties in proceedings around the state. My perspective is both from working for the courts and from the outside based on different roles over the years. ● Quality and performance of judges distributes along a bell-shaped curve. By far, most judges are competent, well-motivated, and perform within expected standards. These are the judges in the center of the curve and right tail. Arguments summarized above disfavoring retention elections and risk of opposition have most credibility with respect to them. These judges do have the possibility of challenge, however, and this may provide at least a background sense of public accountability and some opportunity for discussion of issues. ● There are judges who fall in the left tail of the curve and can be a problem. The lawyers and parties who regularly use the court know it. The option of disqualifying a judge under section 170.6 is always there for the individual case. However, there are reasons why this is not always a good option in practice. Also, entities that are involved in or are behind litigation like the JCC/AOC and UC, or perhaps the public defender’s or district attorney’s office, are reluctant to play that card. ● Performance issues likely will not be addressed or treated effectively by the disciplinary system. Incumbents continue along, successive terms without opposition. ● Retention elections are one way to seek improvement and accountability, and to address significant issues. They also allow the public to have a role and receive information. This is consistent with the Constitutional design. Candidate for Judge of the San Mateo County Superior Court [1] Statistics and decisions on disciplinary matters are available on the Commission on Judicial Performance website (https://cjp.ca.gov/). [i] We are in a strange season on the San Francisco Peninsula. There are judicial election challenges in San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties (and one in Alameda County). Other metro counties in the state also have contested elections, though reelection challenges against incumbents are very few. Ths paper explains how superior court judges attain office by appointment or election. Although the California Constitution sets terms of six years, subject then to retention election by the ovters, the system has evolved where the democratic element has been largely eliminated and judges rarely face opposition when seeking to serve another term. This bigger picture issue in our campaign can be called the question of perpetual unopposed incumbancy, which effects accountability and the information--or lack of information--available to the public and electorate. The paper also explains observations and perspectives from 30 plus years of litigation practice around the State of California with respect to judicial perfomanc and court operations. Based on that experience, the perspective explained in this paper is that there are times when change is appropriate and healthy for the court and public. Candidate Experience Podcast posted May 4, 2018 -- interview of Richard Wilson — May 5, 2018 Michelle Dragony, reporter and podcast producer at CoastsideBUZZ This podcast is an informal question and answer session with Richard Wilson covering a range of topics, described by the reporter as informative and "fascinating." Website: richardwilsonforjudge.com Judge, Superior Court 95,595 votes (73.19%)WinningCheck	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line524
__label__cc	0.572368	0.427632	Ballot and voting information for Inyo County. This is an archive of a past election. Ballot: Overview —November 6, 2018 —California General Election Senator, United States Senate 6,019,422 votes (54.2%) Kevin de León More election results More candidates Compare candidates District 8, U.S. House of Representatives 102,415 votes (60%) 68,370 votes (40%) There may be more contests here than on your official ballot. Enter your full address to show only the contests on your ballot. Governor, State of California Lieutenant Governor, State of California Eleni Kounalakis Ed Hernandez Secretary of State, State of California Alex Padilla Mark P. Meuser Controller, State of California Betty T. Yee Konstantinos Roditis Treasurer, State of California Fiona Ma Attorney General, State of California Xavier Becerra Steven C. Bailey Insurance Commissioner, State of California Ricardo Lara Steve Poizner Superintendent Of Public Instruction, State of California Tony K. Thurmond Marshall Tuck Member, District 1, California Board of Equalization Ted Gaines Tom Hallinan District 8, California State Senate Andreas Borgeas 202,741 votes (59.6%) Paulina Miranda District 26, California State Assembly Devon Mathis 62,629 votes (57.9%) Jose Sigala Justice, California Supreme Court Leondra R. Kruger Carol A. Corrigan Review candidates Justice, District 4, Division 1, California State Court of Appeals Judith L. Haller Patricia D. Benke Cynthia Aaron Patricia Guerrero Joan Kathleen Irion Richard D. Huffman William S. Dato Douglas P. Miller Marsha G. Slough Art W. McKinster Richard T. Fields David A. Thompson Raymond J. Ikola Thomas M. Goethals 1,492,202 votes (63%) Candidates are rotated and randomly ordered based on how much information they have supplied. Proposition 1 — Affordable Housing Bonds Passed6,751,018 votes yes (56.2%)5,258,157 votes no (43.8%) Authorizes $4 billion in general obligation bonds for existing affordable housing programs for low-income residents, veterans, farmworkers, manufactured and mobile homes, infill, and transit-oriented housing. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging about $170 million annually over... Proposition 2 — Mental Health Housing Program Amends Mental Health Services Act to fund No Place Like Home Program, which finances housing for individuals with mental illness. Ratifies existing law establishing the No Place Like Home Program. Fiscal Impact: Allows the state to use up to $140 million per year of county mental health funds to repay... Proposition 3 — Water Bonds Failed5,879,836 votes yes (49.3%)6,034,991 votes no (50.7%) Authorizes $8.877 billion in state general obligation bonds for various infrastructure projects. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging $430 million per year over 40 years. Local government savings for water-related projects, likely averaging a couple hundred million dollars annually... Proposition 4 — Children’s Hospital Bonds Authorizes $1.5 billion in bonds, to be repaid from state's General Fund, to fund grants for construction, expansion, renovation, and equipping of qualifying children's hospitals. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging about $80 million annually over the next 35 years. Proposition 5 — Property Tax Rules Removes certain transfer requirements for homeowners over 55, severely disabled homeowners, and contaminated or disaster-destroyed property. Fiscal Impact: Schools and local governments each would lose over $100 million in annual property taxes early on, growing to about $1 billion per year. Similar... Proposition 6 — Transportation Taxes and Fees Repeals a 2017 transportation law's taxes and fees designated for road repairs and public transportation. Fiscal Impact: Reduced ongoing revenues of $5.1 billion from state fuel and vehicle taxes that mainly would have paid for highway and road maintenance and repairs, as well as transit programs. Proposition 7 — Daylight Saving Time Gives Legislature ability to change daylight saving time period by two-thirds vote, if changes are consistent with federal law. Fiscal Impact: This measure has no direct fiscal effect because changes to daylight saving time would depend on future actions by the Legislature and potentially the federal... Proposition 8 — Kidney Dialysis Clinics Requires rebates and penalties if charges exceed limit. Requires annual reporting to the state. Prohibits clinics from refusing to treat patients based on payment source. Fiscal Impact: Overall annual effect on state and local governments ranging from net positive impact in the low tens of millions of... Proposition 10 — Local Governments and Rent Control Repeals state law that currently restricts the scope of rent-control policies that cities and other local jurisdictions may impose on residential property. Fiscal Impact: Potential net reduction in state and local revenues of tens of millions of dollars per year in the long term. Depending on actions... Proposition 11 — Ambulance Employee Breaks Law entitling hourly employees to breaks without being on-call would not apply to private-sector ambulance employees. Fiscal Impact: Likely fiscal benefit to local governments (in the form of lower costs and higher revenues), potentially in the tens of millions of dollars each year. Proposition 12 — Farm Animal Cages Establishes minimum requirements for confining certain farm animals. Prohibits sales of meat and egg products from animals confined in noncomplying manner. Fiscal Impact: Potential decrease in state income tax revenues from farm businesses, likely not more than several million dollars annually. State... Polling Location & Hours Open from 7 a.m. - 8 p.m. on Election Day, November 6, 2018. No polling location information is available on a county search. Try searching for your street address. Check your polling location with your county elections office. Get info on when, where, and how to vote. Contact election office Review candidates and measures, then mark your choices. Find other elections for this area. Look up ballot for another address. Look up archived elections by area.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line525
__label__wiki	0.71709	0.71709	“Parallel Play” Available at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Publisher Winner of the 2016 Agatha Award for Best Short Story Winner of the 2017 Macavity Award for Best Short Story Finalist for the 2017 Anthony Award for Best Short Story Finalist for the 2017 Thriller Award for Best Short Story Wildside Press, 2016 “Parallel Play” may be among the darkest stories I’ve yet written and almost certainly the one closest to being a thriller. I’m honored to have it appear in Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning, the latest volume of the award-winning anthology series, from the Chesapeake Chapter of Sisters in Crime and Wildside Press. Also appearing are stories by Donna Andrews, Tim Bentler-Jungr, Shaun Taylor Bevins, Carla Kaessinger Coupe, Maddi Davidson (Mary Ann Davidson and Diane Davidson), Linda Ensign, Barb Goffman, Kim Kash, Adam Meyer, Lauren Silberman, Alan S. Orloff, KM Rockwood, Marianne Wilski Strong, and Robin Templeton. The collection was edited by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman, and Marcia Talley, and it features an introduction by Hank Phillippi Ryan. Stories were selected by David Dean, Sujata Massey, and B.K. Stevens through a blind submission process. “Art Taylor has won practically every award possible for his short stories and he might want to rearrange his shelves to make way for another statue for this story. Taylor once again excels at delving into the mind of his female protagonist. But this time, Art has also crafted a particularly devious and evil villain. This tension filled story of a mother who will go to any lengths to protect her child unfolds like a mini-movie on the page – both touching and terrifying.” — Kristopher Zgorski, BOLO Books “I was blown away by the descriptive writing, the ability to create tension and the character studies. I also recommend it for book clubs due to the wealth of issues to be discussed.” — Lynn Farris, The Examiner Book categories: Anthologies	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line526
__label__wiki	0.520662	0.520662	LFW 09 – Osman, the White collection Somerset House, London Written by Satu Fox I’ll put up my hands and admit that as a girl, health medications not yet a quarter of a century old, remedy talking about music is utterly intimidating. Yet I try. At some point in my life I’ll make a concerted effort to dance about architecture too. There is an endless wealth of information on bands that have already been, that I am never, ever going to be able to catch up on. Yet I try. As a music fan (enough to write about it), I’m embarrassed to admit that I only really discovered my, now, all time favourite band, Talking Heads within the last five years. I know, shoot me down. My convoluted point is that, as much as I try and piece it together, I can only imagine what The Slits releasing ‘Cut’ meant to the females and general youth and music fans of 1979. Yes there was a sex bomb fronted Blondie, intriguingly androgynous Patti Smith and unconventional Kate Bush, but an all female, punk rock band that posed naked on their album sleeve and generally didn’t give a f***. No one saw that coming and their influence has reverberated ever since. Fast forward then 30 years and their new album, Trapped Animal, has been unleashed to a society that is certainly far from sorted. But can the music still have the same punch? The garage approach of Cut has inevitably given way to a slicker product all round. That same mixture of reggae rhythms, scratchy guitars, anger and mischief abounds. Rather than sounding like a band thirty years past their prime, as could be said of many a reunion album, there is a freshness that means you could be mistaken for thinking you’re hearing the latest South London council estate collective. This could be explained by the new multi-generational line-up that features Sex Pistol Paul Cook’s daughter, Hollie. You also get the impression that frontwoman Ari Up has as much energy as her fourteen year old self that met original member, Palmolive, at a Patti Smith gig. Lyrically, the album doesn’t stretch the boundaries of the concept of rhyming but you wouldn’t hear Girls Aloud bemoaning of “Men who want us to be their mother/Men who hate us because of their mother.” Where the Pop Idol-ers are concerned with their “cappuccinos to go-o”, Up and her girls are hollering about ‘Peer Pressure’, “issues with child abuse” and eschewing the shackles of a nine to five: “We don’t pay rent with a passion, and we don’t wanna follow fashion.” The fact that foul-mouthed Lily Allen launched her career on the wave of reggae-tinged pop is no accident. The Slits invented the model for anti-establishment, men-bashing, unselfconscious pop and even though this new offering will never live up to Cut standards, it’s a welcome return of punk’s finest. Helping to keep the pressure on governments across the world, health activists in Australia held a mass action last week against Hazelwood Coal Power Station, erectile one of the dirtiest in the world. The climate camp held a day of planning and workshops, nurse followed by the day of action where a group of over 500 people placed a ‘Community Decommission Order’ on Hazelwood to switch on the renewable energy transition. Images from Hazelwood Flickr Twenty-two people were arrested on the day and, with the Governments lack of conviction, it seems many more are ready for the same sacrifice. As one secondary school teacher put it, “not such a big sacrifice in the scheme of things.” Looking at pictures and reports as well as listening to the radio report, it looks like a well planned day of disobedience. Affinity groups such as the Wombat Warriors, Radical Cheerleaders and Climate Clowns show great initiative. Apparently the police wouldn’t let “bikezilla”, a massive 8-person bike, join the protest though. Shame. I caught up with Louise Morris, one of the organisers of the action to get her account of the action and see what’s in store for climate action in Australia. How long have you been involved in the protest movement in Australia and was there a catalyst for getting involved? I’ve been involved in campaigning in Australia for over a decade, starting off with the campaign to stop the Jabiluka Uranium mine in Kakadu National park and spending many years as a forest activist and blockader in Tasmania (as a result now one of the Gunns 20) and Western Australia. I decided to devote my time to climate campaigning in 2006, as the realisation set in that no matter how many pieces of forest we saved through campaigning and blockades etc – if climate change is not dealt with, the climatic conditions forecast will spell the end for all the places we have campaigned for and protected over the years. I grew up in mining towns in Western Australia, so am very aware of the sort of environmental and social scars the mining and logging industry inflict. My decision to work on climate issues has been heavily based on the mitigation angle. I am a strong believer in trying to solve a problem, rather than trying cope with the problem as best we can through adaptation measures. This has led me to focus strongly on coal issues and to work within the grassroots realm of climate campaigning. I really do think it’s in the grassroots community movement that we have the most power. What was your personal experience on last weeks action? I was one of the key organisers of the Switch off Hazelwood – Switch on Renewables weekend. My experience ranged from having to deal with the police in the lead up to the event and during the event with their complete over-reaction to the whole affair, talking with people who were prepared to be arrested and acting as media spokesperson for the group. My experience of the action and watching other peoples reaction to the day was extremely positive. This action was the first of it’s type for the Victorian Climate Movement. For the past few years people have lobbied, rallied in cities etc but never actually taken action at the site of the pollution and been prepared to be arrested. We had 500-plus people from all possible walks of life turn up. A lot of families, older folk and a massive representation from the quite mainstream ‘Climate Action Group’ demographic that is strong in Australia. We had 22 people manage to scale the security fences and police lines that were put up prior to our action. In that list of arrestees are doctors, teachers, electricians, stay at home mums… the list goes on. Our state government tried to label us as eco-terrorists in the lead up to the event. This failed dismally, as our lead up media campaign was very solutions focused (just transition to renewable energy) and we were very open in our aim of civil disobedience… this combined with images of the people who were at the action, got out to the wider world of so many kids, families, professionals and respected members of the community were taking action. We have had a lot of support from the public and arms of the mainstream media. The feeling post this action is that people are ready for more peaceful community driven direct action, and more people are prepared to get arrested to push the government into some real action on climate change. How did the mainstream media and the public react? There has been a noticeable shift in public and media attitudes to people taking action on climate change, post our federal Government’s pathetic announcement of 5% emission reduction by 2020. In the lead up to this event we put a lot of thought and energy into talking about our message of switching on a transition to renewable energy and switching off coal. Part of this outreach included a public meeting at the town of Morwell, which is the heart of coal country in our state. This was a ‘robust’ meeting but we got great feedback from everyone who came about the transition message and we were supported by unions representing coal workers that we were pushing for a just transition to renewable energy. In terms of media – we ran a pretty tight messaging strategy around the fact that this is a community driven event that is calling for a switch from renewable energy and this requires that we switch off coal. At first we got very little interest, but as the word that people were going to partake in peaceful mass civil disobedience got out, the interest grew. On the whole, we got a pretty fair run in the media in the lead up to the event. A lot of time was spent explaining what civil disobedience was, as Australia has not had a strong activist culture in recent years. Once again the core message that we were calling for a switch from coal to renewables, with a just transition was central in a lot of the willingness of commercial media to hear us out. Obviously on the day of the action some of the conservative media ran the ‘rowdy protester’ line and showed the fence shaking but considering the sort of coverage we usually get in the mainstream Australian press, I think we have seen a shift in how community protest and civil disobedience is being covered. That said, the large representation of families and ‘ordinary looking folk’ really did help that. Do you think Australia is ready for a broader movement relating to climate change and what do you think the comparison is to movements across the world? Yes. We had our first climate camp last year in Newcastle [NSW] and from this it was decided that in 2009 we would have state based events, of which the Switch off Hazelwood event was one. The reasons for this were many, including the fact that Australia is so geographically large that it’s not feasible (financially or environmentally) for people to trek across the country to come to a single climate camp. For the next 3 months there will be Climate Camp style events across the country from South Australia, New South Wales to Western Australia. The interest and willingness is there for a movement that is prepared to take action at the site of the big polluters and put some targeted pressure on government and the big polluters who are shaping the climate policy. In terms of the broader movement relating to climate change there is definitely a lot more scope for more varied forms of action and campaigning. We are currently organising a bunch of movement building events and workshops using the lessons learnt from many countries and campaigns, including elements of the Obama community mobilisation strategy. Comparisons are hard to make as we live in a massive continent with quite a sparse population, in comparison to many other countries who have strong climate movements. We also have a populace that has been alienated from the concepts of protest, civil disobedience and strong social movements from previous (and still current) governments who have demonised such things as ‘Anti-Australian.’ As one of the organisers of the action, what have you learnt from the process? Honestly, the importance of networks, community and talking to people face-to-face to get them involved and part of creating the event they want to be a part of. Another lesson we always learn from these events is that people need to have fun organising and being part of events like this – best way to keep them coming back and get more people involved. The Affinity Group and Working Group model was central in making a lot of elements of this event work. From the public meeting, the promotions, independent media to the action itself. What’s next for Climate Camp in Australia? There are still a number of state based Climate Camps to come in the next few months across Australia after the ‘Switch off Hazelwood – Switch on Renewables’ event. The next immediate one is in South Australia and after that is the one at the Helensbugh coal mine in NSW. So much more Climate Camp action is on the cards. And here in Victoria we are looking ahead to what is next in the lead up to Copenhagen as a national climate event. Looks like a lot going on in Australia, shame it would have to be a carbon intensive flight away, that or a 6 month cycle mission, hmmm.. now thats an idea. MATT AND KIM are a destructive dance duo hailing from Brooklyn, pilule NYC. There are very few bands that can always guarantee you a real good time with one single push of a button, but Matt & Kim never let me down. Ever. We caught this Brooklyn duo live back in June and they knocked our socks off. Yeah, there are tons of happy-go-lucky bands with that high-energy, high-on-life exuberance, throwing shapes and keeping their toothy smiles fixed, verging on the robotic and the slightly scary. But there’s always the inevitable grating after a few listens as the cheer morphs into a cheesy mess of slobbery, over-enthusiastic group hugs and high-fives that leave you backing away into the safety of Morrissey‘s comforting drones, vowing never to venture away again. Promise. The weird thing is, Matt & Kim are super cheesy, but they seem so genuinely fun and unaffected that it’s tough not to abandon any self-concious hang-ups and just leap along with their carefree charm. And if their new tracks are anything to go by, they show no sign of quietening down and getting all mature on us. As the jaunty keys and sharp, tapping sticks that start ‘Daylight”s introduction trip and pop, the call and response of “We cut the legs off of our pants/Threw our shoes into the ocean/Sit back and wave through the daylight/Sit back and wave through the daylight” gets louder and fuller, there an immediate hit of teenage nostalgia. It’s a reminder to never grow up too much and when that alarm rings to get you out of bed in the morning – it’s time to wake up. Watch the duo having fun in their DIY-esque video here: ‘Daylight’ is out on 28th September on Fader Label/Nettwerk. Obstinately avoiding the typical artistic “nude” and the potential sexist connotations of the form, medicine Sheila Wallis’s Threadneedle Prize-winning “Self-portrait” does feature the artist without clothes, medical but avoids rendering herself as a sexual object. Instead the artist describes herself as appearing to be a “small, look naked creature” rather than a coquette. The painting feels very real as opposed to a being a fantasy of female sexiness. She gazes back at the onlooker with a slightly knotted brow but, despite being aware of the attention, doesn’t seem either to play up to it or to be exploited by it. She is vulnerable but remains in control through the action of painting herself. Perhaps a deciding factor in seeing the painting without sexual connotations as a female viewer is knowledge of the gender of the artist and that she is also the subject of the painting; it’s easier to enjoy a nude for what it is without the overtones of an artist/muse relationship. The prize is voted for online by visitors to the exhibition, at the Mall Galleries. This year’s exhibition was strong and there was a theme of interaction between man-made structures and nature. For example, Jennifer Godlieb’s eerie “Lurker” (below) seems to depict a gasometer set in a future time when cities are devoid of people and all is overgrown and transformed into a spookily beautiful Scandinavian forest. The message could be an environmentalist one: despite the messages about “saving our world” from climate change, eventually Mother Nature will reclaim all our efforts. In contrast to the fairy-castle appearance of Godlieb’s post-human architecture, Zachary Peirce’s painting of “Pripyat, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 1” bleaches the colours out of the natural landscape, leaving washed-out pinks, bruise purples and a colour the same yellow tone as human skin. A slight touch of green appears murky and poisonous. In the background there is a building that appears to be melting: the black outlines drip down the canvas into the overgrowth. Here the impact of humanity’s failings on nature has created a dirty, deserted area without any of the peace of Godlieb’s twilight scene. Peter Wylie’s brutalist tower block “Goldfinger four (with Le Corbusier flaking paint from Villa La Roche)” is actually still occupied but the exterior of the worn old concrete monster offers little comfort. The golden windows that presumably inspired the title do seem to imply little pockets of cosy humanity lurking within. Dotted across the image are pieces of flaking paint taken from a Le Corbusier building – perhaps the remains of a previous, shining image, gradually chipped away to reveal the reality of high-rise communal living? Le Corbusier’s use of concrete has led to some grim surroundings for those living there and it has been noted that as a material it wears much worse in the wet conditions of Britain compared to the sunnier climes of the South of France. The buildings in “Goldfinger” block out any glimpse of sky and look like they belong in the pages of “1984”; but it’s unclear what commentary Wylie is making beyond the appearance of the building. How do these designs impact of the lifestyle of those who live in them? As in the other works, people are invisible but here they are not absent. I didn’t feel comfortable making assumptions about whether this represented a dystopian future or present because of the possibly classist assumptions – these buildings are usually destined for lower-income people. Can high-density urban estates ever live up to the utopian dreams of those who design them? The exhibition overall was extremely thought-provoking and varied, from the landscapes to the portraiture. A large-scale religious painting of the crucifixion of Saint Peter, by Louis Smith, was among the most physically imposing of the works on display along with a knitted bear and a huge photo-real “forensic examination” of a bespectacled man, painted in minute gory detail by Oliver Jones. The Ethical Fashion Forum has been popping up all over the place at here at Amelia’s Magazine. Back in June we covered the first section of their biannual competition established to reward good deeds regarding sustainability in Fashion. Titled PURE, cialis 40mg the winners – South African designer Lalesso and Malawi designer MIA- would display their designs at the PURE tradeshow. Yesterday in the rather lovely setting of the Hospital Club, the EFF announced the second half of their competition, the Esthetica awards. Judged by Dolly Jones from vogue.com. As the crowd waited perched on sofas, leaning against walls as we huddled round the catwalk Dolly Jones announced the winners: Mark Liu, Henrietta Ludgate (who was championed by Amelia’s Magazine earlier this year as a one to watch), MIA and Lalesso (both of whom you will have noticed were mentioned earlier in reference to winning the PURE awards in June). After the announcements, the catwalk begin to sounds of bouncing pop and the models began to work the room. Each designer sent two designs down the catwalk, as teasers for their entire line. I would have loved to have seen more of the collections. Especially as the majority, if not the entirety, of what was sent down the Innovation catwalk was jump-off-the-catwalk-and-onto-my-back wearable. To accompany the catwalk, the Ethical Fashion Forum provided recycled cardboard handouts detailing the reasons behind each designer’s selection. Mark Liu for developing a pattern cutting process that minimizes the amount of waste material produced by each garment, helping to “pioneering Zero Waste Fashion”. This made me think instantly of the “A-POC” line by Issey Miyake or taking it out of the acronym; the A piece of cloth project. From which the wearer is able to create endless items out of a single well-cut piece of fabric. Myakke is said to be continuing to develop this idea after becoming concerned about the impact of textile waste on the environment. It’s great to see young and established designers tackling the industry’s waste problem and turning it into a conceptual wearable idea. To compliment Liu’s pattern cutting he uses organic fabrics, low impact dyes and water based pigments. The two dresses, sent down the catwalk, were reminiscent of Peter Pan or an elfish child as they hung playfully off the models. Perfect for a summer’s day in the park. Henrietta Ludgate worked with Osman Yousefzada after graduating from St. Martins and is now starting her own label. Ludgate’s philosophy lies in the maintenance of British craftsmanship. All the materials are sourced from British Mills and the collection is made entirely in a traditional Scottish crofting village. Her dresses really intrigue me being a combination of what appears to be felt and fleece. The pieces (not shown on the catwalk, but worn by members of the audience) had a similar feel in their shapes as Matthew Williamson’s graduate collection at St Martins. The new collection contained a wearable jersey dress with interesting piping detail to structure the back. Alongside a maxi dress which appeared to be an extended bankers shirt. Lalesso creates women’s wear out of traditional East African Fabrics, which translate perfectly for a Saturday spent walking around town and sitting in parks. The bold floral patterns were instantly eye catching. MIA’s recycled fabrics and traditional Malawain textiles produced a refreshing take on up-cycling old urban sportswear into summer dresses. The Innovation competition is importantly drawing attention to the numerous ways new designers are tackling challenges of sustainability that the fashion industry faces as a whole. Henriette Ludgate MIA is tackling craftsman’s jobs lost through the abundance of cheap second hand clothes on Malawi’s market stalls by employing local people in the process of up-cycling. All profits are put back into the community support, as well as buying equipment and training to maintain market access and community livelihoods. Furthermore (thanks again to the cards handing out by the Ethical Fashion Industry at the show), Lalesso recently founded SOKO – an ethical and eco fashion production plant in Kenya. Offering opportunities for other design companies to produce collections with the profits and increased job market to benefit communities in Kenya. Mark Liu The Ethical Fashion Forum and Innovation are proving not only that designers are environmentally aware when making their clothes and considering waste. But importantly they are using their businesses to recreate jobs and a skill based workforce in local communities effected by both the waste and desire for Fast Fashion. The 25th London Fashion Week began yesterday in its new haunt of Somerset House. Turning up to register, stuff there was the expected photo crush as numerous street style photographers selected those most fashionably dressed to stand before their lens. Not surprisingly London Fashion Week has been a lesson on how to be scarily on trend. Leather studded Jackets check. Harem pants in black and multiple prints. Check. Statement shoes check.check.check. Big Power Shoulders. Check. The most amazing outfit –outside the catwalk- was on the front row at Ashley Islam (more to come on this collection later). Sitting next to Michelle Williams from Destiny’s Child immaculat in Vivienne, what is ed was a rather beautiful man with an Anna Wintour bob, complete with a dress made from nails. This often disregarded material was transformed into the ultimate disco dress, that tinkled out of shows. On\|Off presents their off schedule designers at 180 the Strand. Down in the industrial stylebasement, the catwalk appeared from behind plastic sheets and the ever ready crowd of journalists, photographers and buyers took their seats to view collections from Prose Studio, Yang Du, Michela Carraro and Joanna Vaderpuije. The Prose Studio Collection of bold oil slick printed dresses was first down the catwalk. The feminine fluent dresses billowed around the models, falling down from the neck, along the arms and tacking tightly in at the waist to fall once more to the knees. Remember blowing paint across water’s surface to create marbling patterns when pressed onto paper? Prose Studio’s harem pants felt as if the fabric had been dipped into the solution and hung out to dry. The drapes of the pants were delicately covered leaving the leg fabric bare. The collection finished with a free flowing printed white tunic over white marbled dripped leggings. Next up were Michela Carraro’s deconstructed geishas complete with rags tied into bondage shoes, big 80′s shoulders remain on the catwalk alongside constructed sheer blouses. The shapes and layering were reminiscent of John Galliano’s personal style and diffusion line with an injection of Vivienne Westwood’s pirate’s collection. As the light blue piece sashayed down the catwalk, it suddenly struck. What was being offered was a re-invention of a feminine suit, capable of expressing personality rather than smothering it underneath a shapeless blazer. This was a collection representing the intriguing daywear as represented with the gallantly bold, bordering on the garish printed trousers, under tucked beneath the swashbuckling floating blouses held together at the front with delicate stitching. Completed with the bandaged shoes, the piece formed an illustrious silhouette when framed by photographers. Third was Joanna Wanderpuije’s elegant collection of modern shapes complete with the return of the perspex stars from the A/W collection, for S/S the stars are attached to the hips of the cotton skirt. Plenty of well cut shorts and printed tanks for effortless lux. Leather bra tops – continuing previous seasons’ trends for underwear as outwear- hardened the collection appearing under a cropped print jacket nestling above the high-waisted cream trouser. A splash of colour was provided with the up-pleated tunic dress. The collection was incredible wearable with Wanderpuije’s prints elegant in their application and beautifully sculpted from material. Fashion provides the opportunity to dive into new worlds, peer into another’s imagination. It can function similarly to illustration and convey a sense of being in the world and by being idiosyncratic tap into the public consciousness. The last piece from Yang Du‘s collection was one distinctive outfit from the Louis Vitton-esque rabbit ears combined with bold blue and white striped constructed-to-be-slouchy oversized dress. The outfit instantly burned into the retina, this was something to wear as unemployment rates soar, it’s warm and it’s bright. This was fun fantastical fashion and I loved the oversized knitted bag that followed the models down the catwalk as if a rather petulant child. As with all three previous designers, at Yang Du it was all about the detailing; tunic dresses were altered with cut away bra holes overlaid with fringing. Grinning cartoon faces contrasted wide blue knitted stripes, tight tight dresses were sent down with bold geometric black and white prints. Not forgetting the head adornments. A great start to London Fashion Week, a mix of eccentricity and wearable shapes with most importantly the clothes bringing a smile to one’s face. the depths of 180 The Strand, dosage where this year’s On\|Off catwalk be, Bernard Chandran is about to present his S/S2010 collection. I’m excited. I saw Chandran’s A/W collection back in February. It was incredible, and I was concerned that this season’s couldn’t live up. I need not have worried. Yet another diverse and inspired collection, the first model appeared wearing a silk muzzle with a graphic pattern. These unusual face decorations featured prominently in the show. Printed, bejewelled, moulded from the shape of the face – it was clear they were making a statement. “It’s my reaction to climate change,” Bernard told me afterwards. It’s a provoking image we’re accustomed to seeing – during the SARS crisis and more recently with the swine-flu pandemic. Chandran has translated this evocative image and created masks of beauty. Dresses were striking, bold statement pieces, in hues ranging from ochre to pewter. Folds and flaps created geometric silhouettes, showcasing Chandran’s skills as a craftsman, and revealing a possible Hussein Chalayan influence. Other pieces consisted of simple shift dresses enveloped by folded, dynamically-cut fabric, creating exaggerated shoulders and wing-like forms, apposing the contours of the female form. I loved this glittered interpretation of the bustier. Fashion-forward women only, need apply: Patterns on masks and clothing had been translated directly from objects that surround Bernard in his day-to-day life. A stunning linear print in amber and black had been taken directly from “a basket that people give [Bernard} flowers in!” Bernard recalled. Looking again at the print makes sense of it – it appears almost photographic. Another key look was the Chinese coolie hat, worn by a handful of models. Bernard in interesting in their form. “I like the way they fold, the way they are created – which can be said for a lot of my work,” Bernard told me. “The way an envelope folds, for example – like here,” as he gestured to a photograph on the wall backstage of a structured, geometric dress. The more feminine consumer need not worry, as the show also included elegantly draped smock dresses and sumptuous blouson skirts, in chiffon, with organic, natural prints. These pieces were the most surprising considering his A/W 09/10 collection was so bold and striking. “Sometimes you just have to,” Bernard laughed. There were so many different looks in this collection. It may sound as if the pieces were too disparate but this was not the case, as one after the other complimented each other, almost magically. Take the structured dress with exaggerated hips, fast becoming Bernard’s signature, juxtaposed with the softer sheer fabric pieces draped effortlessly over the models; juxtaposed with the hooded smock reminiscent, again, of an envelope; the prints and tones of each piece somehow beautifully transforming into the next. Soul singer Estelle is a huge fan of Chandran’s work, shunning major fashion houses to wear his looks at awards ceremonies, so it was no surprise to see Destiny’s Child’s Michelle Williams and Beverley Knight wide-eyed on the front row. A Bernard Chandran woman is a glamorous, confident, ostentatious creature. It’s time this design hero took centre stage on-schedule. Sort it out, BFC! All photographs and text by Matt Bramford In the uninspiring BFC tent situated in the beautiful Neoclassical courtyard of the totally inspiring Somerset House, click Turkish-born Bora Aksu presented his Spring/Summer 2010 collection yesterday. He drew a huge turn-out, website like this and the buzz surrounding this designer is palpable. It’s easy to see why. Bora’s style is elegant meets grunge, viagra buy decorative meets diverse. Inspired by a children’s story, Bora’s was a collection of confident charm. Monochrome, sequinned leggings were semi-concealed by free, floating lace dresses, making use of a pale pink palette. Ostentatious, almost cape like billowing sleeves, complimented basic mini dresses, and garments were accoladed by additional design quirks such as the bow and pussy-bow ties. Tailored shrunken jackets with exaggerated shoulders (fast becoming a LFW S/S 2010 trend) were embellished with lace and severe gold appliqué, creating mysterious shapes off-set by neutral shirts and tulip skirts in pale tones, bordering on white. Bora’s inspiration was most apparent through his use of romantic baroque prints in light pink and black. Used on accessories and corseted belts, these were married with softer fabrics such as organza. Dramatic, high necklines gave a nod to the Victorians whilst the hair was reminiscent of the French Revolution through delicate braiding and extravagant backcombing. The collection grew in confidence, beginning with the aforementioned, almost apologetic pale hues and climaxing with more provocative pieces in black and silver. The air sizzled as these structured pieces, with the reappearance of the shoulder-enhancing blazer, had real sex appeal. Vests and trousers were teamed for a sharper, masculine look, and featured organic and interesting knitted shapes, as if torn or ripped. These additional adornments hung between the modal’s neck and chest evoked images of the human anatomy. The model and designer laid bare for all to watch. Bora Aksu’s signature style is ‘romanticism with a darker edge,’ which pretty much summarises this unique and considered collection. All text and pictures by Matt Bramford Nova Dando designs are and for theatrical performance – as well as being a DJ, pill stylist to many of music’s finest, ailment including La Roux, order a creative fashion designer and a burgeoning music director. Dando is high achieving at 26. So, on the first evening of LFW, we are treated to a peak at her eagerly awaited Rainbow Collection in true party style, away from the confines of a straight and restrictive runway. Fun and frollicks was the theme down at The Hospital Club amongst an audience of the UK’s music glitterati. And for me, the whole evening encapsulated our fashion capital – music, creativity and wanting to be seen or scene in London. First off was the video portrait series by music video director, Saam Farahmand, showing an assortment of Boombox types cutting loose to their favourite tracks. Don’t ask me how, but this was mixed live before our very eyes. After that, The House Of Dangerkat sprung onto the stage to liven things up. Wearing items from the Rainbow Collection, that included long tassled pom poms for sleeves and colourfully layered crop tops, the dance collective gratingly displayed the versatility and excitement of Nova’s dramatic garments. The aforementioned flame-haired one, all over our fashion pages and radio airwaves, provided the musical entertainment. With a skyscraper quiff, gelled to cartoon proportions, thrusting out of her fedora and technicolour glitter accessorising her eyes, it’s no wonder the synth club kid and Nova have made such a winning team. Shout outs to the designer abound La Roux’s performance and the audience whooped. After bouncing to some hits, there was nothing else for it but to view what we were all there for, Nova Dando’s Rainbow Collection. Ever unconventional, the pieces were displayed in a film, directed by Saam Farahmand. With the strobe lighting and the latent sexiness of the short, you could have easily mistaken the model for a gothed up Britney Spears. The downside of a film projection is that, you are left not totally sure what the clothes looked like – there were characteristically big shoulders, theatricality, black, lace and possibly leather. The upside, it leaves you so intrigued yet impressed by the ingenuity of the collection’s presentation. That the name, Nova Dando, will no doubt be reverberated throughout the remainder of London Fashion Week and a few music videos too. Nova Dando is currently a Creative In Residence at The Hospital Club. See picture’s of the rainbow collection on Twitter and watch Nova’s designs on film here: So it’s the first day of London Fashion Week 2009 and beady-eyed Amelia’s Magazine have already spotted Joan Collins at the top of a ramp doing a royal wave, viagra buy Boris Johnson looking a bit shifty, buy more about and various T4 presenters looking undeservedly pleased with themselves. The circus aside, there’s also the opportunity to see some exciting fashion. That’s what we’re here for after all, and this year’s hosting venue is Somerset House, which really is as grand and fabulous as the city itself deserves, especially as last year LFW was nearly munched by the beastly New York fashion week. My first show of the week was courtesy of London-based Korean designer Eun Jeong, who after completing the MA at Central St Martins went on to win last year’s Fashion Fringe with a collection of draping, tailoring and Grecian gowns. Building on the same aesthetic this year, Jeong’s wholly feminine designs were intricate and weightless, with a cream and ivory colour palette that seemed to be out of somebody’s naughty bedroom up in castle of clouds, and was accompanied by a soundtrack of twisted baroque guitar. Treating her fabrics to beading, ruching, pleating, and folding with oodles of lace and delicate foil appliqués, the collection practically had the word bridal scrawled over it in gigantic neon letters. Yet with sharp tailoring and consistently lighter-than-light fabrics it was beautifully modern, with the big-barneted models sporting ankle socks and pairs of bright white trainers with satin bows. Sex (as with any righteous honeymoon) was on the agenda, with the pyjama-esque looks and draping often reminiscent of a girl wrapped in a lover’s bed sheets, making it a collection dressed in intimacy. As with last year (and with about a million other designers) some big old power shoulders were on show, with Amelia’s Magazine’s particular favourite a fabulous blazer with a jagged foil print – with Jeong proving that her woman can bloody well be a business-bride if she wants to. Whilst – generally speaking – I enjoy fashion at its biggest and weirdest, Jeong’s dreamy vision was gloriously inviting and is the sort of thing to sell like hot cakes. A great first show, thanks for having us. The new collection from Osman Yousefzada (whose label is now called just “Osman”, for sale possibly because the fash industry was incapable of saying his Afghan surname) felt short and sharp, hospital possibly because the clothes were all riffs on the theme of white, viagra approved and although inspirations from around the globe seemed to abound, the supremely restrained colour palette held it together. Against the background of completely pure white, even the patches and splashes of glimmering gold looked muted and discreet. In some ways this show felt like a polite refusal to join in with the other children. While fashion gets into its 80s swing and the shoulder becomes king, Osman sent a deeply 90s slinky maxi dress down the catwalk, with one white, square pocket and one gold one. Some garments featured a cut-out where the shoulder should be, which my next-door neighbour at the show, Debbie from Tank magazine, whispered was like the “anti-shoulder”, a snub to Balmainia. This was certainly not a blingy collection despite the gold, and the 90s reminders persisted with capri trousers, crinkle blouses and nautical rope details. As for silhouettes, as well as chic Orange County grandma, there were prim Park Avenue princesses in coats and polo shirts, as well as the hint of the Middle East and North Africa in the beaten quality of the gold, in rings around models’ ankles and necks and in the undone shapes of tunics and long dresses. Osman’s inspiration was in fact Wallis Simpson, the woman who lured away a king, visiting President Nixon. It’s hard to imagine that meeting in general, let alone occurring in these clothes, but perhaps this is the wardrobe of a worldly American in the Henry James vein, a far cry from the brash stereotype of the American tourist and instead beautiful, charming, interested in the world and yet conservative in comparison to her European cousins. The strength of this collection was in its refusal to follow current manias and it felt a step apart from the recent explorations into the dark and the gothic by many designers. Quietly confident shapes and the use of soft but resilient-looking fabrics, which looked much prettier and more wearable away from the harsh flashes of the professional photographers. The fabrics were made possible by Osman’s collaboration with a new Italian fabric company and the quality shows in a collection that resists either sexiness or girly prettiness and instead prefers to be worn by women who make history. Written by Satu Fox on Sunday September 20th, 2009 11:23 am lfw, LFW 09, London Fashion Week, Osman Yousefzada London Fashion Week A/W 2011 Catwalk Review: Osman (by Amelia) Osman: London Fashion Week S/S 2013 Catwalk Review Fashion in Motion at the V&A: Osman Yousefzada London Fashion Week A/W 2011 Catwalk Review: Osman (by Naomi) Orla Kiely AW15: London Fashion Week Presentation Review	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line534
__label__wiki	0.741846	0.741846	XXX Fanzine Issue 16: New York's Hardest May 10, 2019 ryan boone xXx Fanzine issue #17 has been fully digitized! Read the full “New York’s Hardest” issue in it’s original form HERE. Below are some words from author Mike Gitter: ”With its eye-grabbing Bruce Rhodes shots of Agnostic Front and the Cro-Mags adorning the cover, xXx# 16 was nothing short of a turning point in the then-snowballing saga of the Boston area zine. Not only was it one of the most successful issues sales-wise in the zine’s 20 issue run; moving nearly 2500 copies through mail-order; legendary and long-gone distribution houses like San Francisco’s Rough Trade and stores like California’s Zed Records and New York’s See-Hear, it remains a fan-favorite 33 years later! Most in-the-know types are quick to admit that the still-enduring sound that is synonymous with 90% of hardcore itself was the product of a scene that didn’t fully explode until the mid and late 80’s: New York Hardcore. New York was a late-bloomer. A scene that didn’t fully stage its takeover until Boston’s first wave had petered out, DC was having its Revolution Summer and the Midwest was getting into “artier” territory with the rise of bands like the Laughing Hyenas and The Necros’ move into dirty Detroit Boogie. In 1986, things were changing: Black Flag was on the verge of packing it in only to see Rollins coming storming back with The Rollins Band a year later and Greg Ginn exploring decidedly eclectic turf with his SST Records empire. Danzig was deep into Samhain, Kevin Seconds was developing a Bono thing. You know most of the rest… In the Big Apple the stage was set. By 1986, NYHC was exploding with a new vigor. While the seeds of “Youth Crew” were sprouting up in nearby Connecticut with Ray Cappo & Co. repurposing Urban Waste and SSD riffs in Youth of Today, vets like Agnostic Front, Murphy’s Law and relative newcomers like the Crumbsuckers were taking major steps forward. Be it crossover thrash, no-wave noise, pig-fuckery, old time hardcore; the concrete pot was about to boil over. New York had the bands, the labels and five boroughs (plus Long Island) of kids knowing that (to paraphrase Antidote) something was about to change. Onto our cover stars. While their sophomore slab certainly sounds like a band in transition – and in many ways was largely the product of a studio band that never fully congealed live – Agnostic Front’s Cause For Alarm upped the ante for NYHC’s flagship band. They had already made a helluva statement in 1984 with Victim in Pain. Aside from Kraut’s Product of Society, VIP was the first great New York Hardcore album. By the time I was thinking of putting them on the cover, Cause For Alarm had already garnered its share of controversy with its hallmark song, “Public Assistance”. Penned by none other than Carnivore’s Peter Steele, “Public Assistance” was a decidedly blue collar screed decrying the welfare state. Despite ruffling feathers at Maximum Rock N Roll (who gave AF the sort of notoriety and free publicity you can’t buy) and polarizing a few fans, Cause For Alarm was the record that cemented Roger and Vinnie’s spot as scene fixtures for decades to come. With Age of Quarrel (which it can be argued lacked the intensity of the band’s demo recordings), the Cro-Mags not merely put an exclamation point on hardcore’s first generation, but stepped up an already Trump Tower high standard in terms of fusing the musicality and intensity of the Bad Brains, the songwriting and swagger of Motorhead and the sheer over-the-top-ness of early Venom. AOQ was a quantum leap that still sounds as essential today as it did when rap standard-bearers, Profile issued it on their newly formed Rock Hotel label. Yes, the same Rock Hotel label spearheaded by Cro-Mags manager and local promoter, Chris Williamson. So, in the dead heat of the New York Summer, Bruce Rhodes and I drove down to the city in Bruce’s car to witness the legendary five-piece Cro-Mags lineup simply devastate the Ritz and upstage headliners, GBH. The photos that came out of a photo session that afternoon and the live shots from that evening capture the energy, intensity and sheer vibe of five explosive personalities pushing themselves into the red-zone. Call it the storm before the real storm or the squall before the quarrel. It’s no surprise that this many “Alphas” couldn’t remain in the same band together. It was just that intense. The other interviews and pictures that made up #16 are both diverse and show the sea-change that was going on in the underground at that time. Tesco Vee and his Meat-Crew (boasting one ex-Minor Threat-er, Lyle Preslar and Negative Approach bassist Graham McCulloch) came swinging through town pimping their Rock N Roll Juggernaut elpee at TT The Bears. JJ Gonson’s pics of that afternoon totally convey the low-budget spectacle of The Meatmen as they continued their quest to basically become a cartoon version of Judas Priest (or was it the other way around?). xXx regulars, Corrosion of Conformity checked in for that issue during their underrated Simon Bob Sinister-fronted Technocracy era after a sweaty afternoon at The Rat -- made even more blistering by the Beantown debut of Santa Cruz Black Flag/SSD worshippers, Bl’ast! on the same bill. Even now, these binary volume dealers: COC and Bl’ast!, are still active and embraced as a huge influence. Just ask Dave Grohl, Josh Homme or the Fu Manchu dudes Also in the issue, Greg Turner of The Angry Samoans articulated what was becoming many veteran bands’ frustration with hardcore’s homogeneity and how it jibed with The Samoans’ unstoppable irreverence. While not in the xXx book, rounding out #16 was an interview with a very far from superstardom Soul Asylum who were more notable at the time for being cross-town friends and rivals with Minneapolis legends like Husker Du or The Replacements than hit songs and dalliances with Hollywood starlets. Bruce Rhodes pics of Dave Pirner & Co. from TT the Bears are as furious as any post-hardcore-pre-grunge ensemble out there. Oh, if we only had 50 more pages! Still working from my Boston University dorm room, xXx #16 was also a standout in terms of the high quality of photos and a very clean layout. Both of which were complemented by a very good print job at Larkin Printing, a South Shore printing house who mostly cranked out fashion magazines: our guy there – who also printed Al Quint’s Suburban Voice zine - literally running the presses for beer money! Flipping through the reviews: between 86 era classics like Dag Nasty’s Can I Say, Crippled Youth’s Join the Fight and even Discharge’s ill-advised Led Zep romp, Grave New World as well as a metal reviews section that included the likes of Cryptic Slaughter, Onslaught and Voivod, it’s clear just how explosive a year 1986 really was. The ads in the issue also tell the story: labels like Homestead, Taang!, Touch & Go or Toxic Shock advertising new releases from Slapshot, Raw Power, The Butthole Surfers and a recently gone-solo Nick Cave. The next generation was in full swing. Hardcore’s second generation had come of age.” Tags xxx, agnostic front ← Slapshot announce European summer tour dates War On Women to support Bad Cop/Bad Cop this month →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line543
__label__wiki	0.643602	0.643602	Uncle Bob: C- \| Grade It Now! A Big Mac, Large Order of Fries and a Big Ol' Can of Whoop Ass, Please By Uncle Bob \| Season 1 \| Episode 19 \| Aired on 05.01.2001 No time for yuks a-plenty...let's kick this recap Warren Cheswick-style and get it underway. The show opens with Mike, Nancy, evil baby Sara, and Carol sitting in a booth at Stuckey Bowl. Ed walks up with his hands behind his back and a look on his face like Satan has taken up habitat in his jockeys. "Mike," Ed leers. "Guess what I've got behind my back?" Mike thinks for a second and guesses, "Jell-O?" Ed's more excited than a puppy in a roomful of fire hydrants, and brings his hands out in front of him: it's the ugliest bowling ball you'll ever lay your hands on. Yet, Ed calls it his "lucky" bowling ball. Mike refers to it as his "fruity" bowling ball. Ed had been searching all around Stuckey Bowl for this ball ever since he bought the joint, and has finally found it. Mike says it's a woman's bowling ball -- not because it's pink, but because it has the name "Fran Jesperson" engraved on it. Ed points out that they decided a long time ago that the name "Fran" was gender ambiguous. Maybe it is. But personally, I'd have to be pretty damned drunk to name my little boy "Fran." All of a sudden, applause breaks out in the alley, and the table's inhabitants get up to see the reason for the ruckus. Phil explains that a young man has just told his girlfriend that if he bowls a strike on his next ball, he's going to ask her to marry him. Carol finds this terribly romantic (yet...when Ed tried to use a skywriter to write his love for her in the sky, she found that stupid...go figure) and tells Ed that he should let the kid use Ed's lucky ball for "lady luck." Mike chimes in, "Emphasis on the word 'lady,'" like a real friend. Ed approaches the kid and offers him the use of his hideously ugly lucky ball. The kid agrees to use it, and bowls a strike. His girlfriend gasps like Satan has taken up habitat in her jockeys. Everyone applauds, he asks the girl to marry him and she says "yes." Ed looks like this is some kinda joke that he's not in on. It's basically the same face I wear when I watch ABC's Friday night line-up. Commercials. Guess what? Some ugly little British lady swears up and down that I am The Weakest Link. I assume she means I'm the weakest link at MBTV. I assume she's reached this assumption after seeing the pitiful response Ed gets on the boards. I'm so humiliated. ["Yeah, y'all -- go post if you don't want Ed to go the way of Third Watch and NYPD Blue." -- Wing Chun] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10Next	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line545
__label__wiki	0.909842	0.909842	The factory is a sophisticated facility Quiet success for Campco: How areca nut farmers built a chocolate company The aroma of chocolate wafts past as you drive into Koornadka, a suburb of Puttur, a town 52 km from Mangaluru in Karnataka. Follow your nose and you will arrive at the source of this seductive redolence — the Campco Chocolate Factory. Though unknown in the north, Campco is the third biggest producer of chocolates in India after Cadbury and Nestle. Its history is most unusual. Campco is a cooperative of areca nut farmers and stands for Central Areca Nut Marketing and Processing Cooperative. In 1986, the farmers decided to set up a chocolate factory with an investment of Rs 12 crore. The farmers knew absolutely nothing about making chocolate in those days. Yet today their factory makes over a dozen brands of chocolate. It also manufactures chocolates for companies like Milma, KMF, Luvit and Nestle. Campco’s bestseller is a drinking chocolate which it exports majorly to Africa. In India, this drink is sold under the brand name of Winner. Campco is also a market leader in semi-processed cocoa products which it supplies to the biggest names in the food industry — Amul, ITC, Britannia, Lotte India, Hershey’s, Baskin Robbins, Vadilal, Unibic, and the Himalaya Drug Company, to name a few. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that there is a bit of Campco in nearly every biscuit, ice-cream or chocolate-infused product you bite into. The chocolate factory did face tough times. But its parent, the areca nut unit, gamely absorbed the early setbacks. No minimum support price was required. Now the chocolate factory makes a profit and adds to Campco’s bottom line. “Our founder president, the visionary Varanashi Subraya Bhat, understood the importance of value addition three decades ago. Farmers investing in a mammoth chocolate factory and steering it to success is an amazing initiative. There is no other industry in India that buys cocoa beans from farmers, converts it into chocolate products and markets it,” says S.R. Satishchandra, president of Campco. Importantly, Campco plays a key role in regulating the price of cocoa beans. “Before our factory started, multinationals would reduce cocoa prices according to their whims and fancies. Whenever global prices came down, they would slash prices. This sort of irregularity stopped once we entered the market. Other companies can’t offer farmers less than what we offer. We can control the market,” says Suresh Bhandary, managing director of Campco. Campco is today a multi-state farmers’ cooperative with a turnover of Rs 1,800 crore. Out of this the bulk comes from areca nut, but the chocolate factory contributes a significant Rs 300 crore. The factory is a sophisticated facility. Machines have been imported from Italy, Denmark, West Germany and Switzerland. Chocolates are made without any human handling. The factory is also a tourist attraction. People come to take a look at it. COCOA IS ADDED So how did an areca nut cooperative of farmers get into the complex business of making chocolate? To understand that we have to first turn the pages of Campco’s history. Campco was set up in 1973 when prices of areca nut touched a record low. It was the late Varanashi Subraya Bhat, an agriculturist, who started Campco to ensure price stability for distressed areca nut farmers. Bhat repeatedly warned the farmers not to depend only on areca nut. His suggestion was to grow intercrops like cocoa and pepper. Areca nut farmers began to grow cocoa under the shade of their areca trees. At that time the Kerala government and Cadbury were promoting cocoa cultivation by offering plants for free. In the late 1970s, Cadbury and Amul, in a small way, were the only buyers of cocoa. In May 1980, when international prices of cocoa collapsed, Cadbury, all of a sudden, stopped buying cocoa without forewarning farmers. In 1979, wet cocoa seeds were being bought for Rs 13.65 per kg. The next year prices slumped to Rs 5.30. After a while, buyers disappeared. The loss to the farming community was significant. At this juncture, Campco stepped in. It began buying cocoa beans to help out farmers. But it didn’t know what to do with the huge quantities of wet cocoa beans it had bought. Campco had entered unknown terrain. Drinking chocolate does well in India and as an export to Africa \| Photograph by Apul Alva Between 1980 and 1985, Campco bought 337 tonnes of cocoa beans and paid Rs 9.25 crore to farmers. It tried to sell the beans in the domestic market without much success. At that time, entrenched business interests created an impression among farmers that Indian cocoa beans weren’t good enough for making chocolate and had to be blended with imported beans. Bhat got the beans analysed at an independent lab in France. The lab’s report clearly said that the Indian beans were on a par with international standards. This endorsement helped Campco export 164 tonnes of its beans and earn Rs 3.64 crore. “This was the first ever export of Indian cocoa beans. It helped wipe out the wrong notion internationally that our cocoa beans were inferior,” recalls K. Ganapathy, deputy general manager, accounts, at Campco. It then occurred to Campco that the best way of doing justice to its beans was by starting a chocolate factory. No one in the cooperative knew anything about making chocolate. But the board and a few farmers endorsed the decision though Bhat was being severely criticised for venturing into uncharted waters. In 1986 Campco’s chocolate factory was inaugurated by the then President of India, Giani Zail Singh. With its investment of Rs 12 crore, Campco’s factory at that time was the biggest chocolate factory in Asia. “Campco learnt everything the hard way,” says A.S. Bhat, former managing director. “The institution had to undergo hardship and losses to support cocoa farmers. Overcoming all technical problems, Campco exported dry beans in those years, a testimony to its dedication and hard work. In fact, after Campco ventured into cocoa it never ever let the farmers down.” Campco was again tested two years ago when the international market crashed due to over-supply of cocoa beans. Buyers vanished. But not Campco. The price of cocoa beans nosedived to around Rs 35. Before the crisis Campco was buying beans for Rs 50 to 60 per kg. It stuck to Rs 50 and ended up buying 3,000 tonnes in two months, a quantity it would have bought in an entire year under normal circumstances. Processing and drying mountains of beans was tough. The wet beans had to be rushed to Darapuram in Tamil Nadu and Sira in Tumkur for drying. Around three kg of wet beans are required to make one kg of dry cocoa beans. But Campco’s farmer-friendly stand turned out to be a boon. The very next year global prices touched Rs 73 per kg. Campco had a stock of 1,200 tonnes of dry beans which it had bought for Rs 50 per kg as wet beans. The company made money thanks to this stockpile. The profit helped its financials for two years. “During our meetings with cooperative societies, many farmers openly acknowledge that it is only because of Campco’s support that they have retained cocoa cultivation,” says Bhandary. NESTLE PACT Bhat’s tenure ended in 1990. But before he left, he signed a 10-year agreement with Nestle under which the multinational would manufacture its chocolates at the Campco factory. Many old-timers say this was another visionary step he took. “By using the factory’s surplus capacity, it was steered to viability,” says S.R. Rangamurthy, former president of Campco. Between 1987 and 1990, Campco was manufacturing its own products but it had surplus installed capacity at its factory. To augment revenue, in 1990, Campco offered their facility on lease to Nestle. At that time Nestle wasn’t producing chocolates in India but it was planning to. The Nestle team surveyed the Campco factory and signed a 10-year lease. The agreement was wisely drafted. It said that if Nestle did not use the entire stock it had agreed to lift, it would have to pay a commitment charge to Campco. Secondly, Nestle had to buy cocoa beans only from Campco. “If these two clauses had not been included, Campco would not have gained so much. Nestle could have imported cocoa,” says Bhandary. From 1990 to 1997, Nestle produced all their chocolates at the Campco factory. Later they started their own unit at Ponda in Goa. Yet, the goodwill between the two is such that Nestle still gets some products made at Campco. Both the Kerala and Karnataka governments had invested Rs 37.5 crore in Campco’s areca nut wing in 1973. Therefore, the managing director was nominated by Karnataka and the secretary by Kerala. The downside was that taking timely farmer-friendly decisions became difficult for the board. So, in 2005, Campco repaid the share capital of both state governments and nominated their own managing director. The first to be appointed in this way was Madhusoodan Rao Perodi. “It was during my tenure that the Campco chocolate factory began making a profit,” he says. At that time Campco was under considerable pressure to sell its loss-making chocolate factory to an MNC. Members were worried that money from areca nut was being used to fund the chocolate factory. S.R. Rangamurthy, president of Campco, appealed to the board to give him a year to find a solution. Demand for semi-processed cocoa products — cocoa mass, cocoa butter and cocoa powder — was rising. After brainstorming it was decided to prioritise production and marketing of semi-processed cocoa products. This decision turned around the fortunes of the chocolate factory. The semi-processed chocolate products bring the most business to Campco. The chocolates it sells as its own brands are secondary. In the past five years the company has sold semi-processed products more than double the weight of its chocolates. In 2017-18, for instance, it sold 1,683 tonnes of its own branded chocolates valued at Rs 48.65 crore while sales of semi-processed products touched 6,352 tonnes and were valued at Rs 134.66 crore. In addition it produced 5,666 tonnes of chocolates for other companies as job work. Totally it produced 13,701 tonnes of chocolate, earning a profit of Rs 2.72 crore. The chocolate factory’s account is finally clubbed with the accounts of the acreca nut, pepper and rubber divisions. Taken together, Campco’s turnover in 2017-18 was Rs 1,743 crore and its profit was Rs 46 crore, which includes the Rs 2.72 crore from chocolates. Till 2007, Campco was content with average sales of Rs 5 crore from semi-processed cocoa products. But it noted that use of chocolate was increasing by 25 percent every year and the demand for customised cocoa products was also going up. “Apart from our three basic cocoa products we now make at least 50 cocoa products. We have seven to eight types of chocomass which is used in ice-cream. In dark chocomass we make eight types. And we have seven types of milk chocomass,” says Prabhakara Holla S., product manager for planning and semi-finished products. Campco provides semi-processed cocoa products in specific customised form to the food industry. For instance, it makes chocolate in liquid form for Lotte, an MNC which manufactures Choco Pie, a biscuit coated with chocolate. Cocoa in slab form would cost the company Rs 4 more per kg. Campco also makes white chocopaste for chocolate paan, a new innovation that’s now popular in Mumbai and Ahmedabad. A paanwallah from Mumbai buys five tonnes of white chocopaste every month from Campco. He gets orders in advance for chocolate paan for weddings in rich families. Another product Campco retails is industrial chocolate in half-kg and one-kg slabs. Most clients are artisanal chocolate makers in Madikeri, Ooty and other tourist areas. They melt the slab, mix their own additives, reshape the chocolate and sell locally. Campco also makes chocolate chips. It recently imported a cocoa chips making machine from Turkey. The machine can churn out seven tonnes of chips per day. Explains Anitha Jesumas, AGM, Industrial Cocoa Products, “South India is our main target for semi-processed products. Transportation costs to north India are very high. About 175 institutional buyers buy different types of semi-processed products from us. Trends are changing. Earlier, industrial slabs were much in demand. Now everyone wants this too in further ready form. That’s how the biscuit industry started preferring cocoa chips.” MARKETING SNAGS Campco has 12 brands of chocolates. It has an annual turnover of Rs 36 crore out of which 60 percent comes from the four south Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. The general impression is that the chocolates are good but they are not promoted aggressively. Campco hasn’t been able to enter the premium chocolate segment. Their main market is farmers and rural areas. In the chocolate industry, marketing centres are divided into A, B and C class outlets. Big cities and malls are considered A class outlets. Bakeries are categorised as B class while C class denotes rural areas. “We could reach only B and C class outlets. In fact, most of our clientele is in C class,” explains Bhandary. “This is because no other company has reached out to this class. We reached the B segment only after a series of advertisements in the media.” Out of the dozen chocolates it makes, Campco Bar, Turbo, Cream and Melto are fastmovers. In fact, the credit for introducing Cream, a white chocolate, to India goes to Campco which introduced it in 1987. Till then, white chocolates were imported. Campco has made attempts to enter the A class market. Last year it introduced Dietier, a sugar-free dark chocolate for diabetics, made with maltitol, a sweetener which doesn’t raise blood sugar level. “Health-conscious women generally restrict eating chocolates and ice-cream. Dietier doesn’t cause weight gain. Whoever tastes Dietier asks where it is available in the city. But it isn’t available at all outlets. Though it has potential, unfortunately, we couldn’t market it at that level,” says Bhandary. Another interesting chocolate that Campco invented in partnership with the Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI) in Kasaragod is called Kalpa. It is made with sugar called Kalpasara which is extracted from coconut palm. Kalpasara has low glycemic index and is suitable for diabetics. The chocolate has a slight caramel taste. “People liked the taste. But we could not continue producing it. The supply of Kalpasara is erratic and its price is high so the production cost goes up. Customers find Rs 100 for a 60 gm chocolate too expensive. We had to create consumer awareness about the chocolate’s health aspects. We couldn’t place it in our normal retail market. So we have temporarily discontinued making it,” explained Bhandary. Another dark chocolate called Fun Tan has also been well received. These three chocolates are all premium ‘pure chocolates’ say insiders in Campco because cocoa butter is used. They are also more expensive since cocoa butter costs Rs 550 per kg. Most of Campco’s inexpensive chocolates use vegetable fat and are called ‘compound chocolates’. Vegetable fat costs around Rs 120 per kg. Another reason for using vegetable fat is that chocolates with cocoa butter melt easily but those with vegetable fat don’t. “Our major setback is that we don’t get the top retailers to stock our chocolates. We have to settle for next in line professionals,” says Bhandary. “We also realised that we have made some mistakes. We sold chocolates worth Rs 36 crore this year. Three years ago, we sold chocolates worth Rs 67 crore. We upgraded our products. Yet our turnover went down. Why?” A GREEN FACTORY Campco realised the importance of green energy early on. For over a decade it has been generating electricity from windmills located hundreds of kilometres away in north Karnataka’s Hoovinahadagali and Chikkodi districts. Through a wheeling arrangement, Campco is able to use wind energy in its Puttur factory. Out of its annual requirement of 68 lakh units, 75 percent is met by wind energy. The rest is drawn from KSEB. Suresh Bhandary, managing director, says Campco saves `10 lakh per month by using wind energy. It costs `3.40 per unit whereas conventional electricity from KSEB costs double at `6.80 per unit. Campco requires about 40 to 60 tonnes of steam per hour. Steam generation is very expensive. Conventional furnace oil was being used for the boilers. The price of furnace oil fluctuates, depending on the international price of crude oil. In 2000, Campco changed to bio-fuel boilers which run on briquettes, then priced at `3 per briquette. Now briquettes cost `5. Switching to bio-fuel boilers is saving the company `1.2 crore annually. Campco was also paying a lot for electricity for its air conditioners. The company switched to VAM — Vapour Absorption Mechanism — which creates air conditioning by using steam. Now their entire air conditioning requirement is met by two VAM units installed three years ago. The company saves `1.38 crore per annum on electricity charges. The chocolate industry needs lots of water too. Campco’s daily requirement is 300,000 litres. For over a decade they faced acute water stress. Each bore well would run for two or three years and then go dry. Only three bore wells out of the 13 they had yielded water. They were afraid they would have to stop production. A tanker was bought and kept ready to ferry water from outside. In the past four years the story has changed. In 2015, they dug a large pit and diverted all rooftop rainwater to it. The results were positive. So they intensified their groundwater recharge efforts. M. Avinash Rai, AGM, engineering, explains, “We now have four rainwater percolating points. Two are huge ponds. Rainwater doesn’t flow out of our 13.5 acres. Rain falling on our 8,500-square-metre roof area is also channeled for recharging. Water from the rooftop alone yields 30 crore litres which meets our needs for 100 days.” Now the tanker is diverted for other work. Many small industry owners have visited Campco and adopted some of their green technologies. Three years ago the company spent Rs 1.5 crore to advertise its chocolates on TV channels which children watched like Pogo and Disney. Then issues of cost control cropped up. It was decided that the company would spread their advertisements across regions, a move that proved counterproductive. The second mistake was to stop giving credit to retailers. Due to the credit facility, sales representatives promoted Campco products, showcasing them prominently to get the money back. That facilitated better sales. “We have to advertise strategically and develop our brand by employing impressive brand ambassadors,” says Francis D’Souza. It is surprising that Campco hasn’t been able to create a stronger brand identity. The company has only three kiosks, one each on the factory premises at Puttur, Puttur city and Bengaluru. The kiosks offer 20 percent discount and are earning Rs 5 to 6 lakh per month without publicity. Campco also hasn’t capitalised on its popularity among the farming community. It was only after farmers complained they weren’t being able to buy Campco chocolates that the company installed refrigerators with chocolates at 22 retail stores. Recently, in a single day, Rs 35,000 worth of chocolates was sold from a store. So Campco could tap into the rural market and offer to supply chocolates to farmers for weddings and other functions. It is tapping a marketing opportunity at its factory premises. Campco now charges Rs 50 per visitor and gives a Rs 50 pack of chocolates to each person. In this way, the company’s products reach households. Campco employs a dedicated staff of 250 including about 150 ITI graduates. Another 350 work on contract basis in the packaging section. “The ITI graduates were unemployed. We trained them and put them to work. They wouldn’t have got this opportunity in Bengaluru,” says Bhandary. So far Rs 89.77 crore has been invested in the factory. Around Rs 65.88 crore was spent buying machinery. Out of its total crushing capacity of 4,200 tonnes of dry cocoa beans per annum, the factory is now grinding 3,600 tonnes. In the last 10 years, Campco made an average profit of Rs 3.89 crore per annum. They made a loss only one year. “We shouldn’t forget that Campco’s sole objective isn’t only to make profits,” clarifies Rangamurthy. “We have to see to the interests of our farmers and stabilise cocoa prices. This is what makes Campco’s job more challenging.” Satishchandra says the success of the chocolate factory has given them confidence. They are now planning to venture into coconuts. “We will start a coconut factory shortly. Our plan is to utilise 100,000 coconuts per day in three shifts. We intend to make a big range of products, out of which 60 percent will be for export,” he says. Contact Campco Chocolate Factory: (08251) 230207; email: camchoc@gmail.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line553
__label__wiki	0.735128	0.735128	Home Energy A’Ibom to establish modular refinery A’Ibom to establish modular refinery The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr .Udom Emmanuel has assured citizen of the state on government readiness to commence building of modular refinery which will help to absorb some trainees who have completed their training in various fields. Emmanuel who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Sir, Etekamba Udo Umoren, gave the assurance at the ongoing 7th practical Nigerian Content, organised by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDBM) in Uyo. This year themed is titled “Nigerian Content – The Next Frontier’’ The governor said that plans are also on the way to upgrade the Peacock Paint Industry at Ikot Ekang, Etinan, to produce anti-corrosive paint of international standard for use in the oil and gas industry. He said that government has great interest in peace and security, adding that the state have a robust mechanism that provides a platform for oil companies and their host community to interface and dialogue on mutual interest and co-exist. According to him, this is to promote peace and provide conducive environment for oil companies to operate. It has also provided room for companies to sign Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with their host communities. He said that however, out of 13 Oil Producing Companies operating in the state, only five have signed MOU with their Host Communities in compliance to Government directive. It is good for us to be proactive. I therefore urge companies who are yet to sign MOUs to contact the State Ministry for this. “There is no doubt that Akwa Ibom State is the highest producer of crude oil and the most peaceful in the Niger Delta Region. In spite of this, the State has few oil and gas and service companies established in it. “This is unacceptable. However, since the inception of this administration conscientious effort has been made to build capacities, develop manpower and provide infrastructure to enable the State reposition itself and take its pride of place,’’ he said Emmanuel said that in line with the DAAKADA Philosophy of this government which has aroused the interest of the citizens into entrepreneurship and self-actualization, the State has through its various agencies trained some youths and graduates in pipeline welding, electrical and instrumental engineering, mechanical installations, information communication technology, etc. He said that this is to provide employment and local content in the oil and gas industry, adding that government have also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Halliburton to build a Skill Training Centre in the State. “ I wish to call on NCDMB to develop the site of the Skill Acquisition Centre allocated to them by the State to boost manpower development for the industry. In his remark, the executive secretary, NCDMB, Mr Simbi Wabote said that within the next one year, the board targets to ensure that the Nigerian Content Intervention Fund becomes fully operational and provide statistics of service providers and community contractors who have benefited. Wabote said that the board is also planning to organise the Judges sensitization workshop on the NOGICD Act as a prelude to prosecution of non-compliant cases in the courts. According to him, we will sharpen our inter-agency collaboration with Customs, Nigerian Immigration Service, PTDF, PTI, NNPC-NAPIMS, and others “We will also strengthen the Sectorial Working Groups under the Nigerian Content Consultative Forum (NCCF) as a credible platform to get regular feedback from industry practitioners. “We will set up the R&D Steering Committee and deliver R&D roadmap for the industry. In addition, we will give traction to our on-going initiatives such as the R&D Centers of Excellence and the ‘Adopt a Faculty’ program,’’ he said. The Es said that about this time last year, “We had the Practical Nigerian Content in Abuja when I was barely three weeks in office as the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board. “At the end of that conference, certain actions were generated some of which were given to NCDMB. “In line with my commitment to ensure value is derived from conferences rather than just used as talk shops, I have decided that we will utilize the forum like this to provide update on any action we have agreed to take onboard to deepen local content practice Wabote said that one of the first directives he gave upon resumption is that operators can assume they have received our consent if they did not get feedback from us within 15 working days. He said that beyond this, the board has also streamlined our internal processes at the Board such that NCDMB is now positioned to review contracts within 100 days provided submitted documents are in line with the NOGICD Act. ` I am happy to note that we have demonstrated this in the last one year as evidenced in the unprecedented completion time of tendering process for the Zabazaba project. “We are bold enough to jointly develop and sign Service Level Agreements with some of our critical stakeholders such as NLNG – a first by any government agency. “ We have written to OPTS to jointly draw up similar agreements to ensure NCDMB’s role in contracting process is clear and transparent in line with the Executive Order on Ease of Doing Business. “ We have systematically commenced expansion of operation to cover midstream and downstream sectors of our industry. “In the last one year, we have launched the $200mln intervention fund for our Nigerian oil and gas service providers that are contributors to the Nigerian Content Development Fund. “The intervention fund has all-in single digit interest rate of 8% for loans extended to Nigerian Oil and Gas Service providers and all-in single digit interest rate of 5% for loans extended to community contractors. For a better society. Budget GDP, oil output targets unrealistic -Expert Efficient seaport, a channel to global industrialization -NPA MD Oil Czars identify cybersecurity as threat to business NOSDRA raises alarm over oil theft, urges marking to end theft	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line555
__label__wiki	0.767973	0.767973	Cleveland Stage Alliance Reviews and Previews‎ > ‎ Tomorrow Morning Gets a Smart and Well-Sung Production at Western Reserve Playhouse Western Reserve Playhouse Review by: Kevin Kelly Not many people may know this hidden treasure of a show by Laurence Mark Wythe, but it has had quite a ride so far. The musical was first seen in London in 2006, then traveled to Chicago in 2009 and won a Jeff Award for Best New Musical, and landed off-broadway in 2011, earning a nomination for Outer Critics Award for Best Musical. Tomorrow morning is the brainchild of British Wythe who provided the Book, Music, and Lyrics. So bringing this musical to the Western Reserve Playhouse was a well-played selection. The musical is not often produced, hence the Regional Premiere, but interestingly enough, Michael Snider, who plays Jack in the production, was lucky enough to be in a production in Indiana a couple of years past, so luckily it is our region's turn to bring it to life. Director Ian Atwood has the privilege to helm this production, along with musical director Bryan Bird, both accomplished performers. The story concerns the relationships of two couples separated by a decade of life. The older couple, Jack (Michael Snider) and Catherine (Dawn Sniadak-Yamokoksi), are getting divorced. They navigate through a discretion that rips their trust apart and presents some very tough questions that a lot of couples have to face sometimes. How do you apologize? How do you forgive? The Younger Couple, John (Tony Heffner) and Kat (Madeline Krucek), are getting ready to be married. Before the big day, the stick turns blue, and reality becomes reality. Growing up sucks, but higher responsibility is not always a welcome gift. Three is company. and stressful. They have their own questions. Are we ready for this? Do we love each other enough to get through this? As we meet the couples, each has their conflicts established, and we watch as both couples work at it, and work through it. And the importance of the bond with a child provides the answers to the most difficult questions. Director Ian Atwood has put together a strong cast of endearing actors and vocalists. As the older couple, Sniadak-Yanmokoski and Snider are given the emotional heavier roles to play. They both are grounded in character and certainly create a depth of despair and regret that each has to accept. It will be enjoyable to continue to find that line between angst and introspection. Both have beautiful voices and connect well with the storyline, even when it calls to be disconnected. As the younger couple, Krucek and Heffner get to play around a little more, and they work beautifully together. They both pack formidable voices and quite frankly, are charming as hell. They handle the touching moments well, especially after their playful moments which are really enjoyable. You just want to give them a savings bond and say "You'll be alright!" Don't get me started on "The Pool Boy" number. Heffner has more humps than a herd of camels. The good thing is you care about these two couples, and that is an important quality to crystalize. Also, each actor has poignant musicals moments. My favorites for each are Catherine's Self Portrait, Jack's Autobiography, John's Every Day, and Kat's Girl in the Mirror. Each song owned as if a part of their DNA. Beautiful, touching, and sometimes funny adept choices of performing gold. Madeline Krucek, Dawn Sniadak Yamokoski, Michael Snider, and Tony Heffner Atwood keeps the pace flowing, and does a nice job of working the two sides of the stage in tandem to keep the stories separate, but also connected. At times, there does seem to be a repetitive staging group sing position, and some songs are blocked with upstaging with distracts a bit. But the good thing is this is original work, and Atwood is bringing this show to life with his own themes and execution, and that is to be applauded. Bryan Bird does a wonderful job playing the score, although I wish the piano had more of a sharpness out in the house in the sound system. But Bird accents and joins the characters in performance seamlessly. Stage Manager Whitney Miller called a great show. Atwood designed a solid set to highlight both families and lives. Luke Scattergood did another solid costume design. The Lighting Design seemed a bit weak though. Something about the blend of color and stark white, seemed muddles at times, and to be honest, I don't know if that is unfocused, a choice, or a lack of instruments. The Sound design was clear, however, Snider's mic was off for a large part of act one. But, the balance in the house was good. Western Reserve Playhouse is on a mission. This season was expanded to include an enhanced offering of plays and musicals to push the theatre to grow and assimilate itself to a variety of audience members. Artistic Director Sniadak-Yamokoksi and Co-Artistic Director Brian Westerly are doing a wonderful job of expanding the vision and the offerings to the theatre community, and as a result, the audience members. Bringing in talent to direct, such as Atwood, and performers with enticing production choices is definitely a plan for success. Cleveland Stage Alliance Thru March 24 3326 Everett Rd Richfield, OH 44286	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line566
__label__wiki	0.565377	0.565377	Want to work in Canada? Not everyone needs a work permit to work in Canada. If you are thinking of working in Canada, it is important to know whether you need a work permit, and if so, how you can possibly get one. Generally speaking, you will require the support of an employer to obtain a work permit to work in Canada. Although we cannot assist with the job hunt, Caron & Partners can help you with all aspects of the immigration requirements. Depending on the circumstances, your employer may need to obtain permission to hire a foreign national for a particular position. This is called a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA), and requires an employer to demonstrate that there are no Canadians available to fill the vacancy. There are also many LMIA-exempt categories under which you may be eligible to get a work permit. These include the International Experience Canada (IEC), International Agreements (eg. NAFTA), or those who can demonstrate a Significant Benefit to Canada. Finally, there are a few categories of applicants who qualify for "open" work permits, that are not employer-dependent. Open work permits allow the holder to engage in almost any occupation for any employer across Canada. Individuals who may qualify for such work permits include: spouses of certain foreign workers, some spouses of Canadians during a sponsorship, students who have graduated from a Canadian post-secondary program, and those whose permanent residence applications have reached a certain stage of processing. Contact one of our immigration lawyers to help you navigate your situation and help you work in Canada: Peter W. Wong, Q.C. Jean Munn Rekha McNutt Amanpreet Grewal Lucinda Wong Bjorna Shkurti Request an Immigration Consultation Current country of residence Subscribe to the C&P Immigration Blog Sign up with your email to receive regular updates on Canada’s immigration laws, policies and programs. Admissibility 2 Appeals 5 Canadian Experience Class 2 Detention 1 Enforcement 3 Express Entry 2 Federal Court 3 Permanent Residence 19 Provincial Nominee Progra 3 Refugees 6 Removal 1 Representatives 1 Skilled Worker 2 Sponsorship 8 Temporary Residence 3 IMMIGRATION TWITTER FEED Was your application refused? Maybe the Federal Court can help! https://t.co/Ar21CzoSRQ Ottawa warns against use of immigration agents in India https://t.co/cH7LEpc12b GENERAL TWITTER FEED	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line571
__label__cc	0.545869	0.454131	A Salvaging of Ghosts By Aliette de Bodard Issue #195 - Science-Fantasy Month 3, March 17, 2016 (Finalist, WSFA Small Press Award, 2017) Thuy’s hands have just closed on the gem—she can’t feel its warmth with her gloves, but her daughter’s ghost is just by her side, at the hole in the side of the ship’s hull, blurred and indistinct—when the currents of unreality catch her. Her tether to The Azure Serpent, her only lifeline to the ship, stretches; snaps. And then she’s gone, carried forward into the depths. On the night before the dive, Thuy goes below decks with Xuan and Le Hoa. It’s traditional; just as it is traditional that, when she comes back from a dive, she’ll claim her salvage and they’ll have another rousing party in which they’ll drink far too many gems dissolved in rice wine and shout poetry until The Azure Serpent’s Mind kindly dampens their incoherent ravings to give others their sleep—but not too much, as it’s good to remember life; to know that others onship celebrate surviving one more dive, like notches on a belt or vermillion beads slid on an abacus. One more. Always one more. Until, like Thuy’s daughter Kim Anh, that one last dive kills you and strands your body out there, in the dark. It’s a diver’s fate, utterly expected; but she was Thuy’s child—an adult when she died, yet forever Thuy’s little girl—and Thuy’s world contracts and blurs whenever she thinks of Kim Anh’s corpse, drifting for months in the cold alien loneliness of deep spaces. Not for much longer; because this dive has brought them back where Kim Anh died. One last evening, one last fateful set of drinks with her friends, before Thuy sees her daughter again. Her friends... Xuan is in a bad mood. No gem-drinking on a pre-dive party, so she nurses her rice wine as if she wishes it contains other things, and contributes only monosyllables to the conversation. Le Hoa, as usual, is elated; talking too much and without focus—dealing with her fears through drink, and food, and being uncharacteristically expansive. “Nervous, lil’ sis?” she asks Thuy. Thuy stares into the depth of her cup. “I don’t know.” It’s all she’s hoped for; the only chance she’ll ever get that will take her close enough to her daughter’s remains to retrieve them. But it’s also a dangerous dive into deep spaces, well into layers of unreality that could kill them all. “We’ll see. What about you?” Le Hoa sips at her cup, her round face flushed with drink. She calls up, with a gesture, the wreck of the mindship they’re going to dive into; highlights, one after the other, the strings of gems that the scanners have thrown up. “Lots of easy pickings, if you don’t get too close to the wreck. And that’s just the biggest ones. Smallest ones won’t show up on sensors.” Which is why they send divers. Or perhaps merely because it’s cheaper and less of an investment to send human beings, instead of small and lithe mindships that would effortlessly survive deep spaces, but each cost several lifetimes to build and properly train. Thuy traces, gently, the contours of the wreck on the hologram—there’s a big hole in the side of the hull, something that blew up in transit, killing everyone onboard. Passengers’ corpses have spilled out like innards—all unrecognisable of course, flesh and muscles disintegrated, bones slowly torn and broken and compressed until only a string of gems remains to mark their presence. Kim Anh, too, is gone: nothing left of Thuy’s precocious, foolhardy daughter who struggled every morning with braiding her hair—just a scattering of gems they will collect and sell offworld, or claim as salvage and drink away for a rush of short-lived euphoria. There isn’t much to a gem—just that familiar spike of bliss, no connection to the dead it was salvaged from. Deep spaces strip corpses, and compress them into... these. Into an impersonal, addictive drug. Still... still, divers cannibalise the dead; and they all know that the dead might be them, one day. It’s the way it’s always been done, on The Azure Serpent and all the other diver-ships: the unsaid, unbreakable traditions that bind them all. It didn’t use to bother Thuy so much, before Kim Anh died. “Do you know where she is?” Xuan asks. “I’m not sure. Here, perhaps.” Thuy points, carefully, to somewhere very near the wreck of the ship. “It’s where she was when—” When her suit failed her. When the comms finally fell silent. Xuan sucks in a sharp breath. “Tricky.” She doesn’t try to dissuade Thuy, though. They all know that’s the way it goes, too. Le Hoa attempts, forcefully, to change the subject. “Two more dives and Tran and I might have enough to get married. A real couple’s compartment, can you imagine?” Thuy forces a smile. She hasn’t drunk enough; but she just doesn’t feel like rice wine: it’ll go to her head, and if there’s any point in her life when she needs to be there; to be clear-headed and prescient... “We’ll all get together and give you a proper send-off.” All their brocade clothes retrieved from storage, and the rice wine they’ve been saving in long-term compartments onboard the ship taken out, sipped at until everything seems to glow; and the small, round gem-dreams dumplings—there’s no actual gems in them, but they’re deliberately shaped and positioned like a string of gems, to call for good fortune and riches to fall into the newlyweds’ hands, for enough that they can leave the ship, leave this life of dives and slow death... Kim Anh never had a chance for any of this. When she died, she’d barely begun a relationship with one of the older divers—a fling, the kind that’s not meant to last onboard The Azure Serpent. Except, of course, that it was cut short, became frozen in grief and regrets and recriminations. Thuy and Kim Anh’s ex seldom speak; though they do get drunk together, sometimes. And Cong Hoan, her eldest son, has been posted to another diver-ship. They talk on comms, and see each other for festivals and death anniversaries: he’s more distant than she’d like, but still alive—all that matters. “You’re morbid again,” Xuan says. “I can see it in your face.” Thuy makes a grimace. “I don’t feel like drinking.” “Quite obviously,” Le Hoa says. “Shall we go straight to the poetry?” “She’s not drunk enough,” Xuan says before Thuy can open her mouth. Thuy flushes. “I’m not good at poetry, in any case.” Le Hoa snorts. “I know. The point isn’t that you’re good. We’re all terrible at it, else we would be officials on a numbered planet with scores of servants at our beck and call. The point is forgetting.” She stops, then, looks at Thuy. “I’m sorry.” Thuy forces a shrug she doesn’t feel. “Doesn’t matter.” Le Hoa opens her mouth, and then closes it again. “Look...” she says. She reaches inside her robes and withdraws something—Thuy knows, even before she opens her hand, what it will be. The gem is small, and misshapen: the supervisors won’t let them keep the big, pretty ones as salvage; those go to offworld customers, the kind rich enough to pay good money for them. It glistens like spilled oil in the light of the teahouse; and in that light, the dumplings on the table and the tea seem to fade into the background; to recede into tasteless, odourless insignificance. “Try this.” “I—” Thuy shakes her head. “It’s yours. And before a dive...” Le Hoa shrugs. “Screw tradition, Thuy. You know it’s not going to change anything. Besides, I have some stash. Don’t need this one.” Thuy stares at it—thinking of dropping it in the cup and watching it dissolve; of the warmth that will slide down into her stomach when she drinks; of the rising euphoria seizing all her limbs until everything seems to shake with the bliss of desire—of how to step away, for a time; away from tomorrow and the dive, and Kim Anh’s remains. “Come on, lil’ sis.” Thuy shakes her head. She reaches for the cup of rice wine, drains it in one gulp; leaving the gem still on the table. “Time for poetry,” she says, aloud. The Azure Serpent doesn’t say anything—he so seldom speaks, not to the divers, those doomed to die—but he dims the lights and the sound as Thuy stands up, waiting for words to well up from the empty pit in her chest. Xuan was right: you need to be much drunker than this, for decent verses. Thuy knows where her parents died. The wreck they were scavenging from is on her ancestral altar, at the end of the cycling of holos that shows First and Second Mother go from newlyweds flushed with drink and happiness, to older, greyer women holding their grandchild in their arms, their smile cautious; tentative; as if they already know they will have to relinquish her. Aboard The Azure Serpent, they’re legends, spoken of in hushed tones. They went deeper, farther into unreality than anyone else ever has. Divers call them The Long Breathers, and they have their own temple, spreading over three compartments and always smelling of incense. On the temple walls, they are depicted in their diving suits, with the bodhisattva Quan Am showing them the way into an empty cabin; where divers leave offerings praying for good fortune and prosperity. They left nothing behind. Their suits crumbled with them, and their bodies are deep within the wreck of that mindship: two scatterings of gems in a cabin or a corridor somewhere, forever irretrievable; too deep for anyone to survive retrieval, even if they could be located anymore, in the twenty-one years since they died. On the altar is Bao Thach: her husband, not smiling but stern and unyielding, as utterly serious in death as he was mischievous and whimsical in life. She has nothing left of him, either. Kim Anh... Kim Anh is by her father’s side; because she died childless and unmarried; because there is no one else who will mourn her or say the prayers to ease her passage. Thuy isn’t the first, or the last, to do this onboard the ship. There’s a box, with enough space for a single gem. For what Thuy has earned the right to salvage from her daughter’s body: something tangible, palpable that she can hold onto, not the holos or her own hazy-coloured and shrivelled memories—holding a small, wrinkled baby nursing at her breast and feeling contentment well up in her, stronger than any gem-induced euphoria—Kim Anh at age ten, trying to walk in a suit two sizes too big for her—and a few days before her death, the last meal she and Thuy had in the teahouse: translucent dumplings served with tea the colour of jade, with a smell like cut grass on a planet neither of them will ever live to see. Kim Anh isn’t like Thuy’s mothers: she died outside a different mindship, far enough from the wreck that it’s possible to retrieve her. Tricky, as Xuan said; but what price wouldn’t Thuy pay, to have something of her daughter back? In the darkness at the hole in the ship’s hull, Thuy isn’t blind. Her suit lights up with warnings—temperature, pressure, distortions. That last is what will kill her: the layers of unreality utterly unsuited to human existence, getting stronger and stronger as the current carries her closer to the wreck of the mindship, crushing her lungs and vital organs like crumpled paper when her suit finally fails. It’s what killed Kim Anh on her last dive; what eventually kills most divers. Almost everyone on The Azure Serpent—minus the supervisors, of course—lives with that knowledge, that suspended death sentence. Thuy would pray to her ancestors—to her mothers the Long Breathers—if only she knew what to ask for. Thuy closes her hand over the gem. She deactivates the suits’ propulsion units and watches her daughter’s remains, floating beside her. Gems and more gems—ranging from the small one she has in her hand to the larger, spherical ones that have replaced the organs in the torso. It’s a recent death compared to that of the mindship: the gems still form something vaguely like a human shape, if humans could be drawn in small, round items like droplets of water; or like tears. And, as the unreality readings spike, the ghost by her side becomes sharper and sharper, until she sees, once more, Kim Anh as she was in life. Her hair is braided—always with the messy ends, the ribbon tied haphazardly; they used to joke that she didn’t need a tether, because the ribbon would get caught in the ship’s airlock in strands thick and solid enough to bring her back. Her eyes are glinting—with tears, or perhaps with the same oily light as that of a gem. Hello, Mother. “Child”, Thuy whispers, and the currents take her voice and scatter it—and the ghost nods, but it might as well be at something Thuy can’t see. They’re drifting apart now: hurtling down some dark, silent corridor into the wreck that dilates open like an eye—no no no, not after all of this, not after the certainty she’ll lose her own life to the dive—and Thuy shifts, making the propulsion units in the suit strain against the currents, trying to reach Kim Anh; to hold her, to hold something of her, down there in the dark... And then something rushes at her from behind, and she feels a sharp, pressing pain through the nape of the suit—before everything fades away. When Thuy wakes up—nauseous, disoriented—the comms are speaking to her. “Thuy? Where are you?” It’s Xuan’s voice, breathless and panicking. “I can help you get back, if you didn’t drift too far.” “I’m here,” she tries to say; and has to speak three times before her voice stops shaking; becomes audible enough. There is no answer. Wherever she is—and, judging by the readings, it’s deep—comms don’t emit anymore. She can’t see Kim Anh’s body—she remembers scrabbling, struggling to remain close to it as the currents separated them, but now there is nothing. The ghost, though, is still there, in the same room, wavering in the layers of unreality; defined in traceries of light that seem to encompass her daughter’s very essence in a few sharp lines. Thuy still has the gem in her hand, tucked under the guard of her wrist. The rest of her daughter’s gems—they’ve fallen in and are now floating somewhere in the wreck, somewhere far away and inaccessible, and... Her gaze, roaming, focuses on where she is; and she has to stop herself from gasping. It’s a huge, vaulted room like a mausoleum—five ribs spreading from a central point, and racks of electronics and organics, most of them scuffed and knocked over; pulsing cables converging on each other in tight knots, merging and parting like an alchemist’s twisted idea of a nervous system. In the centre is something like a chair, or a throne, all ridges and protrusions, looking grown rather than manufactured. Swarms of repair bots lie quiescent; they must have given up, unable to raise the dead. The heartroom. The centre of the ship, where the Mind once rested—the small, wilted thing in the throne is all that’s left of its corpse. Of course. Minds aren’t quite human; and they were made to better withstand deep spaces. “Thuy? Please come in. Please...” Xuan is pleading now, her voice, growing fainter and fainter. Thuy knows about this too: the loss of hope. “Thuy? Is that your name?” The voice is not Xuan’s. It’s deeper and more resonant; and its sound make the walls shake—equipment shivers and sweats dust; and the cables writhe and twist like maddened snakes. “I have waited so long.” “You—” Thuy licks dry lips. Her suit is telling her—reassuringly, or not, she’s not certain—that unreality has stabilised; and that she has about ten minutes left before her suit fails. Before she dies, holding onto her daughter’s gem, with her daughter’s ghost by her side. “Who are you?” It’s been years, and unreality has washed over the ship, in eroding tide after eroding tide. No one can have survived. No one, not even the Long Breathers. Ancestors, watch over me. “The Boat Sent by the Bell,” the voice says. The walls of the room light up, bright and red and unbearable—characters start scrolling across walls on all sides of Thuy, poems and novels and fragments of words bleeding from the oily metal, all going too fast for her to catch anything but bits and pieces, with that touch of bare, disquieting familiarity. “I—am—was—the ship.” “You’re alive.” He... he should be dead. Ships don’t survive. They die, just like their passengers. They— “Of course. We are built to withstand the farthest, more distorted areas of deep spaces.” “Of course.” The words taste like ashes on her mouth. “What have you been waiting for?” The ship’s answer is low, and brutally simple. “To die.” Still alive. Still waiting. Oh, ancestors. When did the ship explode? Thirty, forty years ago? How long has the Mind been down here, in the depths—crippled and unable to move, unable to call out for help; like a human locked in their own body after a stroke? Seven minutes, Thuy’s suit says. Her hands are already tingling, as if too much blood were flooding to them. By her side, Kim Anh’s ghost is silent, unmoving, its shape almost too sharp; too real; too alien. “Waiting to die? Then that makes two of us.” “I would be glad for some company.” The Boat Sent by the Bell‘s voice is grave, thoughtful. Thuy would go mad, if she were down here for so long—but perhaps mindships are more resistant to this kind of thing. “But your comrades are calling for you.” The comms have sunk to crackles; one of her gloves is flickering away, caught halfway between its normal shape and a clawed, distorted paw with fingers at an impossible angle. It doesn’t hurt; not yet. “Yes.” Thuy swallows. She puts the gem into her left hand—the good one, the one that’s not disappearing, and wraps her fingers around it, as if she were holding Kim Anh. She’d hold the ghost, too, if she could grasp it. “It’s too deep. I can’t go back. Not before the suit fails.” Silence. Now there’s pain—faint and almost imperceptible, but steadily rising, in every one of her knuckles. She tries to flex her fingers; but the pain shifts to a sharp, unbearable stab that makes her cry out. Five minutes. At length the ship says, “A bargain, if you will, diver.” Bargains made on the edge of death, with neither of them in a position to deliver. She’d have found this funny, in other circumstances. “I don’t have much time.” “Come here. At the centre. I can show you the way out.” “It’s—” Thuy grits her teeth against the rising pain—”useless. I told you. We’re too deep. Too far away.” “Not if I help you.” The ship’s voice is serene. “Come.” And, in spite of herself—because, even now, even here, she clings to what she has—Thuy propels herself closer to the centre; lays her hand, her contracting, aching right hand, on the surface of the Mind. She’s heard, a long time ago, that Minds didn’t want to be touched this way. That the heartroom was their sanctuary; their skin their own private province, not meant to be stroked or kissed, lest it hurt them. What she feels, instead, is... serenity—a stretching of time until it feels almost meaningless, her five minutes forgotten; what she sees, for a bare moment, is how beautiful it is, when currents aren’t trying to kill you or distort you beyond the bounds of the bearable, and how utterly, intolerably lonely it is, to be forever shut off from the communion of ships and space; to no longer be able to move; to be whole in a body that won’t shift, that is too damaged for repairs and yet not damaged enough to die. I didn’t know, she wants to say, but the words won’t come out of her mouth. The ship, of course, doesn’t answer. Behind her, the swarms of bots rise—cover her like a cloud of butterflies, blocking off her field of view; a scattering of them on her hand, and a feeling of something sucking away at her flesh, parting muscle from bone. When The Boat Sent by the Bell releases her, Thuy stands, shaking—trying to breathe again, as the bots slough away from her like shed skin and settle on a protuberance near the Mind. Her suit has been patched and augmented; the display, flickering in and out of existence, tells her she has twenty minutes. Pain throbs, a slow burn in the flesh of her repaired hand; a reminder of what awaits her if she fails. On the walls, the characters have been replaced by a map, twisting and turning from the heartroom to the breach in the hull. “Thirteen minutes and fifty-seven seconds,” the ship says, serenely. “If you can propel fast enough.” “I—” She tries to say something, anything. “Why?” is the only thought she can utter. “Not a gift, child. A bargain.” The ship’s voice has that same toneless, emotionless serenity to it—and she realises that The Boat Sent by the Bell has gone mad after all; cracks in the structure small and minute, like a fractured porcelain cup, it still holds water, but it’s no longer whole. “Where the bots are... tear that out, when you leave.” “The bots could have done that for you,” Thuy says. If the ship were human, he would have shaken his head. “No. They can repair small things, but not... this.” Not kill. Not even fix the breach in the hull, or make the ship mobile. She doesn’t know why she’s fighting back tears—it’s not even as if she knew the ship, insofar as anyone can claim to know a being that has lived for centuries. She moves towards the part the bots have nestled on, a twisted protuberance linked to five cables, small enough to fit into her hand, beating and writhing, bleeding iridescent oil over her fingers. The bots rise, like a swarm of bees, trying to fight her. But they’re spent from their repairs, and their movements are slow and sluggish. She bats them away, as easily as one would bat a fly—sends them flying into walls dark with the contours of the ship’s map, watches them bleed oil and machine guts all over the heartroom, until not one remains functional. When she tears out the part, The Boat Sent by the Bell sighs, once—and then it’s just Thuy and the ghost, ascending through layers of fractured, cooling corpse. Later—much, much later, after Thuy has crawled, breathless, out of the wreck, with two minutes to spare—after she’s managed to radio Xuan—after they find her another tether, whirl her back to the ship and the impassive doctor—after they debrief her—she walks back to her compartment. Kim Anh’s ghost comes with her, blurred and indistinct; though no one but Thuy seems to be able to see it. She stands for a while in the small space, facing the ancestral altar. Her two mothers are watching her, impassive and distant—the Long Breathers, and who’s to say she didn’t have their blessing, in the end? Kim Anh is there too, in the holos—smiling and turning her head to look back at something long gone—the box on the altar awaiting its promised gem; its keepsake she’s sacrificed so much for. Someone—Xuan, or Le Hoa, probably—has laid out a tray with a cup of rice wine, and the misshapen gem she refused back in the teahouse. “I didn’t know,” she says, aloud. The Azure Serpent is silent, but she can feel him listening. “I didn’t know ships could survive.” What else are we built for? whispers The Boat Sent by the Bell, in her thoughts; and Thuy has no answer. She fishes inside her robes, and puts Kim Anh’s gem in the palm of her right hand. They allowed her to keep it as salvage, as a testament to how much she’s endured. The hand looks normal, but feels... odd, distant, as if it were no longer part of her, the touch of the gem on it an alien thing, happening to her in another universe. Her tale, she knows, is already going up and down the ship—she might yet find out they have raised her an altar and a temple, and are praying to her as they pray to her mothers. On the other side of the table, by the blind wall that closes off her compartment, her daughter’s ghost, translucent and almost featureless, is waiting for her. She thinks of The Boat Sent by the Bell, alone in the depths—of suits and promises and ghosts, and remnants of things that never really die, and need to be set free. “Hello, child,” she whispers. And, before she can change her mind, drops the gem into the waiting cup. The ghost dissolves like a shrinking candle-flame; and darkness closes in—silent and profound and peaceful. © Copyright 2016 Aliette de Bodard Read Comments on this Story (15 Comments) Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Obsidian and Blood trilogy of Aztec noir fantasies, as well as numerous short stories which have garnered her two Nebula Awards, a Locus Award and two British Science Fiction Association Awards. Her space opera books include The Tea Master and the Detective, a murder mystery set on a space station in a Vietnamese Galactic empire and inspired by the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Recent works include the Dominion of the Fallen series, set in a turn-of-the-century Paris devastated by a magical war, which comprises The House of Shattered Wings (Roc/Gollancz, 2015 British Science Fiction Association Award, Locus Award finalist) and its standalone sequel The House of Binding Thorns (Ace, Gollancz). Visit her at aliettedebodard.com for writing process and Franco-Vietnamese cooking. “The Breath of War” by Aliette de Bodard “The Book of Locked Doors” by Yoon Ha Lee Return to Issue #195 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 Leave a comment on “A Salvaging of Ghosts” Black Gate » Articles » Beneath Ceaseless Skies 195 Now Available \| March 31, 2016 at 4:01 pm […] “A Salvaging of Ghosts” by Aliette de Bodard In the darkness at the hole in the ship’s hull, Thuy isn’t blind. Her suit lights up with warnings — temperature, pressure, distortions. That last is what will kill her: the layers of unreality utterly unsuited to human existence, getting stronger and stronger as the current carries her closer to the wreck, crushing her lungs and vital organs like crumpled paper when her suit finally fails. It’s what killed Kim Anh on her last dive. 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__label__wiki	0.715863	0.715863	Volunteering with BPPP Desiree Alliance Conference NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US Media and Analysis Gabriela Leite Farewell Robyn Few Stand with Monica Jones: November 24, 2014 November 21st, 2014 · bppp · Campaigns No comments - Tags: Monica Jones, Phoenix, policing On Monday November 24th, Monica Jones and her defense will present the oral argument for her the next step in her appeal process. During the Project ROSE stings in May 2013, after speaking out against the ASU School of Social work led diversion program that criminalizes sex workers, Monica was targeted and arbitrarily arrested under a vague anti-prostitution “manifestation” statute. Monica, with the support of her defense team and support teams, including the ACLU of Arizona, the national ACLU LGBT Project and SWOP Phoenix, continues to stand up for her rights in court. The Best Practices Policy Project is encouraging advocates to join with us in support of Monica Jones and her fight for human rights. Monica shared with BPPP by telephone today that people in Phoenix are able to attend the court date in person and those outside of the city should seek out information about her case on social media. “Use the hashtag #standwithMonica,” she said, “This law is unconstitutional and places a heavy burden on minorities. I was wrongfully convicted and my conviction should be overturned.” Monica also explained to the Best Practices Policy Project that we should not expect any definitive statement on her case on Monday. “The oral arguments provide a chance to explain the key issues in the appeal,” she explained, “but the process is ongoing.” Guilty Verdict for Monica Jones Reveals Broken Legal System: Urgent Need For Action April 11th, 2014 · bppp · Campaigns, Press Release No comments Contact: Margie Diddams, 480-553-3777, swop.phx@gmail.com PHOENIX— Over 50 supporters rallied in front of the Phoenix Court house this morning in support of ASU student and anti-1062 activist Monica Jones. Ms. Jones was facing unjust charges of “manifestation of intent to prostitute,” a vague and discriminatory law that criminalizes activities like waving at cars, talking to passersbys, and inquiring if someone is a police officer. The ACLU of Arizona joined Jones’ lawyer in contesting the constitutionality of the manifestation statute. Dan Pochoda of the ACLU explained in his arguments, “The statute eviscerates first amendment rights.” In a packed courtroom filled with supporters wearing “I Stand With Monica Jones: Stop Profiling Trans Women of Color” t-shirts, the judge found Ms. Jones guilty based solely on the statements of the police officer who targeted for her race and gender. Supporters across AZ and the nation are in an uproar about the injustice of this ruling. In Arizona and across the country, trans women of color like Ms. Jones are routinely profiled and swept up in the criminal justice system on prostitution-related charges, due to a phenomenon many call “Walking While Trans”—a widely held belief by law enforcement and others that all transgender women are criminals. Because of the injustice that leads people to take pleas against their best interest due to lack of community support, Ms. Jones decided she was going to fight the charges, so that no more trans women, sex workers, or people profiled as sex workers would have to face these injustices. Ms. Jones has remained adamant about her innocence, and that sex workers need rights, not arrests. Ms. Jones stated after the verdict, “As an African American and as a woman, the justice system has failed me.” In light of this devastating ruling, SWOP Phoenix (Sex Worker Outreach Project) and Monica Jones will fight the case in an appeals process, while building national and international momentum against unjust policies that target trans women, people of color, and sex workers. SWOP Phoenix is calling on people from around the country to keep demanding justice for Ms. Jones. Meanwhile, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders is monitoring the trial as an example of discriminatory policing and retaliation on activists organizing for human rights. Ms. Jones states, “I am saddened by the injustice that took place at my trial this morning, but we are not giving up the fight. It’s time that we end the stigma and the criminalization of sex work, the profiling of trans women of color, and the racist policing system that harms so many of us.” Monica Jones Fights Back April 11th, 2014 · bppp · Campaigns No comments [View the story “Monica Jones Fights Back” on Storify] JOIN MONICA JONES ON APRIL 11: TAKE ACTION FOR THE RIGHTS OF TRANS PEOPLE AND SEX WORKERS April 4th, 2014 · bppp · Campaigns, Uncategorized No comments - Tags: diversion programs, Human Rights, LGBTQI, Monica Jones, Phoenix, SWOP PHX, trafficking The Best Practices Policy Project, the Desiree Alliance, Global Action for Trans* Equality and INCITE! are calling for US-wide and international action on April 11, 2014 to support Monica Jones’ campaign for the rights of transgender people and sex workers. Monica Jones, a human rights defender in Arizona and an advocate for the rights of transgender people and sex workers, was profiled and wrongfully arrested for “manifestation of prostitution” by a police sting operation and anti-prostitution diversion program known as “Project ROSE”. Ms Jones had been a speaker at a rally protesting Project ROSE—which is run by Phoenix police and Arizona State University’s School of Social Work—the day before. At the time of her arrest, she was not engaging in sex work, but was in fact walking down her street to the local bar. On April 11 at 8.30 am (US Mountain Standard Time) Monica’s case will go to trial at Phoenix Municipal Court. She will plead not guilty and an action is planned outside the court to show the City of Phoenix Prosecutor that we won’t tolerate the systematic profiling and criminalization of transgender people of color and sex workers. The court date was postponed after Monica’s defense filed a motion challenging the constitutional basis of the manifestation law, and Monica promised to return with “twice as many people.” Last month, two sex worker rights advocates went to the United Nations in Geneva to bring international attention to Monica’s trial and the ongoing human rights violations occurring in Phoenix and across the United States. We call on people and organizations across the United States, in the region and internationally to show your support for Monica Jones and the issues she cares about. We encourage individuals, organizations, and communities to acknowledge the day in whatever way they feel safe in doing to raise awareness, to learn and share about the issues (it could be through social media action, by sharing a meal, organizing a public action, writing a letter to the press, through art and so on). Please email us at bestpracticespolicyproject @ gmail.com and director @ desireealliance.org to tell us about the action you plan and if you would like us to highlight your action on our websites. If you wish to add your organization’s name to this call, email us and we would be happy to do so. More information about the case, Monica’s trial can be found at: http://www.swopphoenix.org/monica/ http://www.bestpracticespolicy.org/2014/01/10/phoenix-calling-the-united-nations-new-iccpr-report/ Since refusing to plead guilty to the charges she is innocent of, Ms. Jones has been targeted four additional times by police officers while walking around her neighborhood carrying out everyday activities such as bringing groceries home or heading to her local bar. Each time, the police use insulting and transphobic language and threaten her with arrest, despite the fact that she is doing nothing more than simply walking outdoors. Across the U.S. and in Phoenix, transgender people of color are routinely targeted for harassment and hate-motivated violence, by both police and the public, and are frequently profiled as sex workers by police. Transgender people are also targeted for cruel treatment in prisons, including by guards. Ms. Jones states, “I believe I was profiled as a sex worker because I am a transgender woman of color, and an activist. I am a student at ASU, and fear that these wrongful charges will affect my educational path. I am also afraid that if am sentenced, I will be placed in a men’s jail as a transgender woman, which would be very unsafe for me. Prison is an unsafe place for everyone, and especially trans people.” Monica Jones should not have to go to court to fight wrongful charges resulting from a discriminatory and arbitrary arrest stemming from a department in which she studies. Sign the petition to have the charges against Monica dropped. Twitter: btriplep @EmilyDWarfield https://t.co/ql85b2ne20 about 6 days ago from Twitter for iPhone in reply to BtripleP @btriplep Don’t forget to… APPLY for a scholarship to attend AIDS WATCH by November 1, 2018 SIGN the Call for UN Women to Meaningfully Consult Sex Workers as they Develop Policy on Sex Work READ about why sex work diversion programs don't work Useful Resources and Networks ☂ The Outlaw Project ☂ The Black Sex Worker Collective ☂ A Kiss for Gabriela ☂ GLITS ☂ Red Umbrella Project ☂ Desiree Alliance ☂ BAYSWAN ☂ Different Avenues ☂ We Are Dancers ☂ eminism.org ☂ SWOP and Chapters ☂ WWAV What have we been talking about? 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__label__wiki	0.992036	0.992036	Amy Schumer > Amy Schumer Buys Back Her Dad's Old Farm By WENN in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20 December 2016 Follow Amy Schumer Comedienne Amy Schumer has made Christmas come early for her father after buying back his old farm. The Trainwreck star took to Instagram on Monday (19Dec16) to share the news of her thoughtful gift for her beloved dad Gordon Schumer, who learned about the big surprise in a FaceTime call with his daughter. "Today I bought my fathers (sic) farm back," she wrote beside a snap of their video call. She then shared footage of herself as a child on the farm, and reminisced about the memory in the accompanying caption. "Video from the farm when I was running away in the cornfield and my dad was taunting me because I wanted him to come with me," she recalled. "We lost the farm when we lost everything else. But today I got to buy it back for him." Amy's dad owned a successful baby furniture company in New York while the actress was a kid, but the family went bankrupt when the star was nine and things went from bad to worse as Gordon was later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and he subsequently split from his wife, Amy's mum, Sandra. The 35-year-old previously opened up about her dad's illness in 2013, admitting it's been tough to watch his health deteriorate. "It's the most painful thing in the world to just watch this person that you love ultimately just digress and kind of decompose," she told Morning Edition's David Greene for NPR. "And it's too heavy and you have to find a way to laugh at it. "I will on stage go to a very dark place and make light of things that are painful," she added. "And it makes me feel better to hear about other people's struggles, so I like to share mine." Amy Schumer shares new photo of son Gene New mum Amy Schumer can't watch Handmaid's Tale Amy Schumer has 'best birthday ever' Amy Schumer laughs off being mom-shamed Amy Schumer returns to stand up comedy 2 weeks after giving birth Amy Schumer shares breast pumping snap Amy Schumer praises women as 'warriors' after childbirth Amy Schumer's ex Ben Hanisch says she will be a 'great mother' Amy Schumer reveals son's name Amy Schumer has given birth to a baby boy Amy Schumer is having a boy Amy Schumer 'conscious' about what beauty products she uses Amy Schumer confirms she is 'still pregnant and puking' Amy Schumer feeling strong and beautiful Thank You For Your Service Trailer Adam Schumann was part of one of the first Infantry Battalions to head into the... Snatched Movie Review It doesn't really matter that the script for this lively action-comedy is paper thin: teaming... Snatched Trailer Emily is left completely broken-hearted when her musician boyfriend breaks up with her in favour... Trainwreck Movie Review Amy Schumer makes her big screen debut with a script that feels like a much-extended... Trainwreck Trailer Amy enjoys her life in the big city with her comfortable apartment, wacky friends and... Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World Trailer Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World One night, Dodge and his wife...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line584
__label__wiki	0.879238	0.879238	Ben Whishaw > Ben Whishaw wants bigger Bond role By Bang Showbiz in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 04 July 2018 Follow Ben Whishaw Ben Whishaw Daniel Craig Danny Boyle Ben Whishaw wants his James Bond character, Q, to become the focus of the franchise when Daniel Craig leaves the series. Ben Whishaw wants his James Bond character, Q, to become the focus of the franchise. The 37-year-old actor will return as the tech expert for the third time in the next installment of the spy saga - which will be Daniel Craig's final outing as Bond - and hopes his part will get progressively bigger in the future. Asked what he'd think if Q was the next 007, he said: ''Oh, yeah! I'd only do it if I could be Q, though, doing it. I don't want to jinx anything, but I'm definitely up for being more active.'' Though Ben is expecting to start work on Bond 25 later in the year, he admitted the project is so secretive, he hasn't even had his casting confirmed yet. Asked by Vulture if he is officially returning for the next movie, he said: ''That's my understanding. I believe we're starting in December, so I haven't read anything or talked to anybody yet. But that's quite normal. It's all incredibly secretive until the last moment.'' The 'A Very English Scandal' actor seeks out roles that offer him ''complicated psychologies'' and he particularly likes playing ''clever'' characters. He said: ''I'm interested in interesting behaviour and complicated psychologies. I love ambiguity in characters or ambivalence. ''I like characters who are clever, who've got some kind of energy, some kind of survival instinct. I like using narrative comedy and darkness.'' While he's still being kept in the dark about Bond 25, Ben recently admitted he's looking forward to working with director Danny Boyle on the film. He said: ''I just think it's really exciting to have Danny Boyle on board for Bond. I was thrilled when I read that he was going to be doing it, I can't think of a better or more exciting fit for Daniel [Craig] and the direction he's taken the character of Bond. ''I'm just really excited to work with him, I've been such a big fan. It seems weird to talk about it because I've not had a conversation with him but it's exciting.'' Ben Whishaw is single? 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__label__wiki	0.990455	0.990455	Dua Lipa > Dua Lipa's chart topping single was inspired by Tumblr By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 24 February 2018 Follow Dua Lipa Dua Lipa has revealed her worldwide hit 'Hotter Than Hell' was inspired by a post she saw on blogging website Tumblr during a spell of writer's block in the studio. Dua Lipa has revealed her huge hit 'Hotter Than Hell' was inspired by Tumblr. The 22-year-old singer reached number 15 in the UK singles charts with the breakthrough track, and she has admitted the song was influenced by a post she saw on the microblogging site. Speaking to Rolling Stone magazine about a recording session she was doing with fellow Brits Ritual, she said: ''I was going through a tough breakup. Someone who made me feel like I wasn't good enough. ''But when I wrote this song, I wanted it to seem like he couldn't get enough of me. [The song] was good, but the chorus wasn't quite there. We were like, 'Let's scrap it.' ''And I was scrolling through Tumblr, and I see the words 'Hotter than Hell' in red on a black background. And I go, 'That's cool!' What if he thought I was hotter than hell, and I just didn't want him?'' The track has since gone gold in the UK, and Dua has become a star across the world following the release of her self titled debut album in 2017. However, the star - who hosted 'Saturday Night Live' earlier this month - has been caught up in controversy thanks to her higher profile, particular after upsetting Taylor Swift fans by choosing Kanye West over their hero in a lighthearted quiz from 2016 which was recently unearthed. Defending herself, she added: ''I wasn't thinking about their beef. I was thinking about their music, and Taylor is amazing, but I'm such a hip-hop fan that I would probably choose Kanye over anyone... ''[The fans] were sending me snake emojis for, like, three days straight. They're like, 'I hope you die.' I'm like, 'Yo! I literally didn't say anything.' '' Dua Lipa and Anwar Hadid bond over love of music Dua Lipa: I feel in touch with myself Dua Lipa: My new album feels like dancercise class Dua Lipa has designed own collection for Pepe Jeans Dua Lipa slams trolls accusing her of editing her lips in baby photo Dua Lipa splits from Isaac Carew Dua Lipa announced as ambassador for YSL Beaute Dua Lipa: Katy Perry told me not to Google myself Dua Lipa working with Nile Rodgers on new album Dua Lipa won't play festivals in 2019 Dua Lipa just wants to have 'fun' on new album Dua Lipa hits out at hypocritical stars calling for equality Dua Lipa wants to make fashion 'accessible' to all Dua Lipa wants a rapper for new album	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line586
__label__cc	0.670621	0.329379	Klopp slams ‘senseless’ Nations League after City draw Manchester City manager Josep Guardiola, right, and Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp talk during the English Premier League soccer match between Liverpool and Manchester City at Anfield stadium in Liverpool, England, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira) A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on October 08, 2018, on page 15. Jordan Henderson Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp took aim at UEFA's new Nations League, labeling it "senseless," after his side headed into the international break with a home draw against Premier League leaders Manchester City Sunday. The Nations League competition was introduced this year by European football's governing body UEFA largely to replace friendly matches with competitive games in a minigroup format. The German coach was pleased with a point from Sunday's top of the table clash with City, which left the pair level with Chelsea on 20 points and ahead of Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur. Guardiola acknowledged that his side had chosen to lower the tempo in the game to limit the potency of Liverpool's attack. Guardiola defended Mahrez, who missed a great chance to win the game when he blasted an 86th minute penalty over the bar.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line592
__label__cc	0.528593	0.471407	Interiors • sneak peeks A Reimagined Life And Home In The Bay Area by Liberty Lausterer If you could completely reimagine your life, unbeholden to your past, what would it look like? When Sarah Reid’s son Zane turned 18, she experienced a “what am I doing with my life?” moment. She’d been working in non-profit administration but had always wanted to do interior design for spaces that served low-income communities. Thus was born her business, Small Victories Design. A move from Massachussetts to California facilitated this transformation. In the move, Sarah left behind thrifted finds that filled her attic, basement, and garage. As a “borderline hoarder,” leaving them behind proved difficult. But in having the courage to let go of one incarnation of herself (and most of the objects that made up that life) she embraced another. Sarah and her husband Matthew Latkiewicz, a television host, writer, and producer, arrived in Oakland with only what they could squeeze into their Honda Fit. This included Sarah’s grandparents’ coffee table, Matthew’s two favorite chairs, some art, and their clothes. After weeks scouring Craigslist and thrift stores, Sarah realized the best place for reasonably priced home goods was estates sales. “That is how the best stuff gets into the bloodstream of the Bay Area. That and the Alameda Flea Market.” From her estate sale and flea market explorations she began assembling a collection of what she calls “soulful objects.” It took about three years before Sarah felt like she had made a cohesive and comfortable space of their 1920s Art Deco apartment. And comfy it is. The living room is the most inviting space to unwind and imbibe in style. “Matthew has been writing about booze and drinking culture for 14 years (culminating in his book You Suck At Drinking) so we have to have a good bar!” They also have a side table in the living room with whiskey on it for those occasions when they are “too lazy to get up and walk to the bar.” Contentment, Sarah reminds us, is often found in the small, thoughtful details. It would be the perfect home for Sarah were it not for the fact they can’t have cats. “I have offered bribes and contracts and everything I can think of to our landlord but we just can’t have a cat.” Luckily, Cat Town Cafe, America’s first permanent cat cafe, is within walking distance. It also happens to be one of several non-profit groups where Sarah has volunteered her design work. Other than the lamentable absence of a cat, I can imagine that an ideal evening would be spent in Sarah and Matthew’s gorgeous home, listening to their records, sipping Matthew’s flawlessly mixed cocktails, all while coveting that unbelievable crown molding. And, of course, toasting Sarah on her courageous and inspired decision to reimagine her life. —Liberty Photography by Esteban Cortez Image above: Sarah put together her half of the office in a fit of energy over the course of one day. Since they can’t paint their apartment, Sarah relies on punches of color, such as the “Oh What Fun!” art she found at a thrift store. “It says how I feel about my work.” The desk was cobbled together with IKEA pieces. The chair was a gift. "That rug. Oh that rug. When Matthew's aunt passed we were heartbroken. The cousins were allowed to choose a few items of hers so we chose this. She was an artist and I love the idea that she and I walked on this rug while doing our work." You can peek through from Sarah's office to her dressing room. The dressing room "fulfills some strange little-girl fantasy I didn't even know I had." And check out the vintage beaded door curtain Sarah transformed into a clever bulletin board. A shelf in Sarah's office holds a collection of thrifted finds she uses in her design and styling work. "I do not apologize for the amount of cat art and objects in the apartment!" When looking for an apartment in the Bay Area, Sarah saw an ad for an apartment in Oakland near Lake Merritt, though it only had one photo of the exterior; a gorgeous pink and red stucco Art Deco building. She thought, "Whatever is inside that thing is going to be awesome." It is awesome, in part, because of Sarah's creative touch. A corner of the office with a sleeper sofa, shown here, doubles as a guest room. The large painting is by Federico Saenz-Recio as seen on Design*Sponge. "It sounds hokey but I tend to ask a room what it wants and it tells me. The neutral, textured, comfortable vibe in the living room was really clear to me. I think I channeled what I imagined my mom in the 70s would do now, and with a little money." Can you find the TV? In an effort to reach a marital compromise (Sarah didn't want it above the fireplace and Matthew wanted it in the living room), they placed it in front of the fireplace. "Most people think it's the fireplace until we point it out, thank god." The feather art on the mantel belonged to Sarah's grandparents. They got it in Mexico on a Quaker service mission in the 1950s. Her mother carved the wooden doll as a girl. Sarah likes to walk in the door and see flowers. They're "the cheapest medication I know of." She also keeps a thrifted tray in front of the the West Elm sofa for handy items such as quarters for laundry and parking. The photo is of her and Matthew, taken by friend Jessica Eve Rattner, before they walked to town hall and got married. Behold the to-die-for crown molding! Sarah was raised surrounded by house plants, so she has them in every room. Here they are nestled in a corner of the living room around thrifted items and an IKEA floor lamp. Sarah calls the sculpted deer Sophie and pets her when she sits in the chair. (It's nice to have something to pet when one's heart pines for a real cat.) The living room table is a very special family artifact. It was handmade and inlaid by prisoners in Kansas and given to Sarah's great-something grandfather who was in government. If the apartment was on fire, the living room coffee table is the one thing Sarah says she'd save. Matthew, she adds, would probably save his bike. The painting was the first piece of art Sarah and Matthew ever spent money on. It's by their friend Amy Borezo. "The first piece of art we hung after moving in was this old school wall map of New England. I love Oakland but New England is deep in my bones." The church chair has a sibling in the bedroom. The lamp and table were found thrifting. The ropes hanging along the living room wall were the result of a painful time in Sarah and Matthew's relationship. "We almost left each other but when we decided to stay together I strung up these pieces of rope and every night we would tie a knot in one of them, together, and say, 'I had you in my heart all day today.' We stopped tying them when we tied the actual marriage knot." It's such a moving and honest example of the work and resiliency that it takes to make love last. Matthew and Sarah are no strangers to little acts that add up to something bigger. Matthew's habit of collecting change (filling the jar) often ends up with the two of them doing something special, like taking a vacation. In the corner of the living room, Sarah has placed a dollhouse on a bench, right at child's height, for their friends' children. It's a thoughtful act of hospitality and yet another example of Sarah's consideration for comfort. The embroidered pillow was hand stitched by Sarah and Matthew's friend Melissa and is based on a drawing Melissa's son Enzo made of the couple. "We named our wedding 'The Yes Party' after this drawing!" Sarah and Matthew in a light-filled corner of their living room next to a fiddle leaf fig. "The windows in this apartment are unreal. I love this corner and so does my fiddle leaf fig. I don't care if the design community is over figs, I love them so much." Of all the rooms Sarah has designed thus far, the living room is by far her favorite one. The tray next to Matthew is from Urban Outfitters and holds whiskey, an extension of the couple's impressive bar cart. Sarah used the move to California to embrace more white and light in her spaces. To that end, she chose a mostly white dining table from CB2 and paired it with vintage chairs she found at Alameda Flea Market. She also switched out the dining room light. "There had been a terrible Home Depot boob light. This acrylic chandelier cost me forty dollars at the Flea and I love it SO MUCH." The rest of the lighting in the apartment is original. Her goal, Sarah says, is to honor the Deco style of the apartment without bowing down to it. The photograph on the wall is a Polaroid collage by Star Drooker and features Matthew and Sarah in The Lady Killigrew cafe, which they owned together for three years in Montague, MA. The rug is from Rugs USA. The gallery wall in the dining room highlights a collection of Sarah and Matthew's art. The wall tells their story, which is exactly what Sarah strives to do in her design work. "I really believe that the space you live in should be an extension of some core truths and beliefs of your being, of your relationship (if you're in one), and of your history." "When we moved in, I just started taping little mementos to the wall with washi tape because I didn't know where else to put them and then never moved them." Nearby shelving is home to extra barware. Sarah says she cannot resist a good decanter. The bar area, also in the dining room, consists of a Treasure Island Flea bar cart and vintage sconce. In contrast, Sarah opted for a modern piece of art above it. It's a refined little corner to go with Matthew's refined palette. For Matthew, a classic Martini (not dry), up, with a twist. And for Sarah, an old fashioned Old Fashioned, no cherries or oranges. Cheers! In the bedroom, Sarah used a West Elm table runner to cover the non-functioning air conditioner. The collapsible clothes valet was a $10 find at Thrift Town. "It made my heart sing when I saw it." The curtains are from IKEA. The bedroom combines special handmade pieces with thrifted finds. Sarah made the brass tie display, reflected in the mirror, for Matthew's birthday one year. Her grandfather made the leather satchel hanging on the mirror when he was a teenager. A quilt from Anthropologie and bedding from Target are paired with an antique runner textile and handmade decorative pillow. A gifted tassel garland hangs above the CB2 bed, flanked by two Salvation Army lights. In her design work, the floor plan is one of Sarah's favorite things to sketch. "In general, everything has its place; it's comfortable and makes my heart and eyes happy." Photos highlight Sarah and Matthew's Lake Merritt neighborhood. "Its proximity to the BART, the Lake, tons of local shops and eateries, and the fact that Oakland is sunny and warm all the time makes it just absolutely perfect. We pinch ourselves every day." Before & After: From Eyesore to Eye-Catching in Scotland In Atlanta, Watchman’s Brings the Coast to the City Elizabeth Shannon says: Apr 6, 2017 at 1:47 pm Sarah’s grandparent’s coffee table is just stunning! Great business concept, too! Am glad that she was able to follow her dream. What Mum Loves says: amazing place! these homeowners seem to be fantastic people! x Apr 7, 2017 at 10:32 pm Such a lovely home! All the special mementos makes this home so lively. Congratulations and all the best with your new business….it’s such a wonderful idea. Every room is lovely! Where did the art print above the bar cart come from? Love it! Oh dear! We’ve had it for years and I have no idea where it came from! What a lovely and warm home. Thank you so much for doing away with slideshows! I had stopped visiting as much because I found them so frustrating. This was a pleasure instead of a chore. I loved the great photography that makes these spaces look even more spectacular than they already are. The emotional and lifestyle descriptions helped me appreciate each space even more. Great writing. Great piece. essay writer says: Every single part of the rooms is amazingly warm and sweet! I just adore the design. Love it immensely! justine says: I would love to know about her career change to interior design? I am interested in the same and would love any “getting started” tips! Hi Justine! Just seeing this now! Email me and ask me questions? sarah@smallvictoriesdesign.com xoS Hello, could you please tell me where you got that ‘Oh What Fun’ print from? It’s gorgeous!! In a Out of the Closet in Berkeley! No idea who made it originally :( thefolia says: Oh what fun! Happy Nesting.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line593
__label__cc	0.746918	0.253082	5 Neighborhoods of New Orleans: View From the Streets This is an introduction to New Orleans from the perspective I saw it: From the streets! Aptly named the Big Easy, I comfortably explored the majority of downtown New Orleans by foot and street car last month. Jono and I were staying in an Airbnb that put us right at the cross section of several different neighborhoods within walking distance of the famous and lively French Quarter district. Historic black culture, hurricane damage, enormous mansions, blaring brass instruments, drunken tourists and beignets—each of these characteristics define at least one of five neighborhoods in New Orleans. Faubourg Tremé or simply Tremé is a neighborhood that is uniquely historic because it was the main neighborhood where free people of color resided in the late 1700s/early 1800s. Before the Louisiana Purchase, Congo Square was where slaves gathered to dance on Sundays. Congo Square is found today within Louis Armstrong Park in Tremé . The rhythms from the Congo Square dances have evolved into modern brass band parades called Second Lines seen marching through the streets on a regular schedule from August to June. Since we visiting in July, we obviously missed these parades, but the spirit was alive all the same. Jazz Funerals, the Mardi Gras Indian parades, and brass music around New Orleans also reflect the music from those historic gatherings. Tremé has always been a racially mixed neighborhood. It remains primarily African-American and Creole, as reflected by Dooky Chase, a landmark Creole restaurant and African American Art gallery in Tremé. It is owned by civil rights movement leader and esteemed chef, Leah Chase, who is known as the "Queen of Creole Cuisine." Dooky Chase is an icon of Tremé and a must visit when in the neighborhood, if for no other reason than to taste Leah's deliciously moist fried chicken. For a good overview of Tremé, try watching the television series of the same name which is all about post-Katrina life in this neighborhood. Bywater/The 9th Ward Possibly the most well-known area of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the 9th Ward experienced some of the most flooding damage putting it in the spotlight on national news. Almost everyone we spoke to—black or white, local or tourist—told us not to hang around the 9th Ward because of bad crime in the area. We opted to walk through a safer section of the 9th Ward called Bywater during the daytime at the urging of several locals who demanded we at least try the BBQ cuisine at a hole-in-the-wall called The Joint. It was worth the 30 minute walk there from the French Quarter. On the way we spotted lots of excellent street art and a few other delightful little land marks. There was great street art, Dr. Bob's quirky gallery/shop, the bright and bold Elizabeth's real food done real good (apparently the praline bacon is a must), and an epic record store that had listening stations with local music at the ready. In short, we were happily surprised by all the fun distractions we found walking along Chartres Street to the Joint in Bywater. Bywater also has some important historical roots. Homer Plessy's famous act of civil disobedience defying segregation law in rail cars on the East Louisiana Railroad took place there. There's a marker in Bywater at the exact location where he was removed from the car and arrested (the corner of Press and Royal Streets). While I didn't spot it on my walk through there, I did have the opportunity to visit Plessy's tomb in nearby Tremé. The French Quarter Vieux Carré, meaning Old Square, is known today as the French Quarter. My absolute favorite part about walking this section of New Orleans was the Creole townhouses with their second and sometimes third story balconies up above. The intricate, wrought-iron railings and hanging plants set against brightly painted siding was so incredibly satisfying to look at. I never tired of this New Orleans architecture and still gawk at the photos I snapped. There are many notables around the French Quarter. There is St. Louis Cathedral and Jackson Square for local art and fortune tellers. Voodoo and witchcraft shops with kitschy, spookified knick-knacks. Cafe Du Monde has their famous beignets and cafe au lait to try. Then there's Delphine LaLaurie's home, famous for its 19th century murder mystery which was featured in season 3 of American Horror Story. The Gumbo Shop has traditional Creole cuisine. Also, partiers can traipse around Bourbon street and experience all kinds of drunken shenanigans. They shut down the whole street at night so you can walk bar to bar, drink in hand, as if you're in Vegas. Frenchman Street/Marigny Faubourg Marigny, or simply Marigny, is a cute little neighborhood that used to be the plantation of Bernard de Marigny, a wealthy Creole political leader. He eventually divided up his property into the neighborhood. Today, there are lots of Creole cottages in the area. They are one-story homes some of which are over 100 years old. I loved the ones that were painted in bright colors. Frenchman street runs through the area and is what locals call the new Bourbon Street. The neighborhood has more of an authentic, local crowd and it's much calmer than the loud, raucous beer fest that Bourbon Street tends to be. But don't get me wrong, Frenchman Street is loud in its own way. There's tons of popular live music venues, little coffee shops, mom and pop bars and restaurants, bookstores, and artists markets to keep this place lively. Brass bands will stand on street corners at all hours into the night blaring away into the street and strolling out into gathering crowds for tips. Pop into a venue like the Spotted Cat and you'll see live, local acts put on an eargasm of a show. We were lucky enough to be there on a night when a bunch of social swing dancers showed up creating natural two-for-one entertainment. Jono and I took the St. Charles street car through this wealthy neighborhood one morning. From our window, we could admire all the extravagant homes lining both sides of the road. In the 19th century, affluent newcomers to the New Orleans area started building ostentatious homes mansions just outside the French Quarter. The area rests where plantations used to be. After the Civil War, wealthy Americans bought pieces of the plantations to build their homes so they could avoid the other neighborhoods where Creoles resided. Each block of homes was surrounded by a garden but these gardens would diminish over the years as New Orleans was urbanized. Those large gardens are what originally gave the Garden District its name. Personally, I found the area to have beautiful gardens despite the urbanization. Each home had impeccable curb appeal—just check out some of those sculpted shrubs out front! There are some notable mansions in the district, such as Beyonce and Jay-Z's home on Harmony Street off St. Charles. My favorite was spotting MTV's Real World Season 9 location at the Belfort Mansion. Every neighborhood I came across in New Orleans was rich in its own unique culture, history, and atmosphere. I fell in love the most with the architecture and colors and the stories and famous landmarks found in each location. I can't wait to share more about this incredible American city—like that they bury their dead above ground, but now they are sinking into the earth anyway! No wonder voodoo, ghost stories, and other spooky tales make up a huge part of this city's character! I'll share more about the spooky side of New Orleans in a future post. 13 To-Do's in Montreal On A Summer Day 3 Surprisingly Awesome Things About Nashville Couchsurf fail turns into making new friends at Berlin’s Festival of Lights Posted in Cities, Deviating Stateside, Domestic travel, Local Culture, New Orleans, USA tagged with neighborhoods, city streets, city, history, local culture, new orleans, USA, louisiana, florida	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line594
__label__cc	0.655562	0.344438	Home Footy Gists Liverpool Versus Real Madrid: My Take Liverpool Versus Real Madrid: My Take The biggest game in European football is upon us as Real Madrid square up against Liverpool in the UEFA Champions League final which takes place in Kyiv, Ukraine. Both sides deserve to slug it out for the trophy at stake as they have had a wonderful run in the competition. Most of my friends have asked where my allegiance lies and without mincing words I said it is with Real Madrid. They are the 5th best team in the world for me just behind Manchester United, Aston Villa, Newcastle, Juventus and ahead of Aberdeen, Kano Pillars and CBS FC. So I clearly don’t need to spell out who I would be supporting on this big night. You will also realize that I have Manchester United listed above so why would supporting Liverpool be an option. As a Man Utd fan the hatred I have for Liverpool knows no bounds and please spare the story of Liverpool is an English side so it’s only fair to support them. There is a history of rivalry between both United and Liverpool and tonight is the night I show my hatred for Liverpool is eternal. So without further ado, I am going to be rooting for Real Madrid. Key Players (Liverpool): They have a fearsome three upfront in Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mo’ Salah who wrapped up the English Premier League season as top scorer with 32 goals breaking the 31 goal record previously held by Alan Shearer (31 goals for Blackburn), Cristiano Ronaldo (31 goals for Manchester United) and Luis Suarez (31 goals for Liverpool). In as much as Liverpool have the firepower going forward their defense is where the worry lies. They have a chance to win a 6th Champions League trophy no doubt. Other players to look out for in the squad are James Milner, Jordan Henderson and Trent Alexander-Arnold. Key players (Real Madrid): There’s no denying the fact that Cristiano Ronaldo has been a marvel to watch for the Spanish giants. He has 15 goals to his name in the competition this season not forgetting he has scored a staggering 121 goals in 156 European ties. Through the course of the season has been supported with the creative spark of Luka Modric, Isco, Asensio (when called upon). Karim Benzema also put in good work a few times for this Real side. Sergio Ramos has been a mainstay in the side on the way to the final just as in seasons past and with Casemiro being the link between attack and defence, you cannot help but think Madrid has the a better chance of nicking this. Oh did I forget to mention Marcelo? Helluva a great player. My verdict: I have seen Liverpool play in 2 Champions League finals and they faced A.C Milan in both finals losing one and winning one but their win in Istanbul, Turkey was clearly a game I will never forget. They came back from losing 3-0 to tying the game 3-3 and going on to win on penalties. A great win it was on that night in 2005. On the other hand, I have never seen Real Madrid lose a Champions League final before and I have seen them play in 5 finals (2000, 2002, 2014, 2016 and 2017) and if I could add that I keenly followed the 1998 final (Real Madrid vs Juventus) via sports news on radio that makes it 6/6 from my point of view. Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp has never won the trophy before while Zinedine Zidane who is at the helm with Real is the first manager to have won the trophy back to back since it was renamed UEFA Champions League in 1992 and is on the brink of making it 3 trophies consecutively. Zidane was also assistant to Carlo Ancelloti when Real won it in 2014. I am tilting Real Madrid’s way for this for obvious reasons, I prefer Real Madrid because I have been following them actively since the year 2000. Even if I wasn’t following Madrid, I have stated above I am a Man Utd fan who hates Liverpool and I expect Liverpool fans to feel same way about Manchester United. Real Madrid to win this and I see goals in this one. How many? Maybe it will end 3-2, 4-3 or even 4-1, all in Real’s favour. Bite me. Thanks for your time guys. Do have a lovely weekend. Previous articleChelsea beat Man United to win the 137th FA Cup Final Next articleThe final that never was: Brazil versus Netherlands (France 98) All England Club in the Champions League Final International Break: March 2019 The Kepa Saga Top Sporting Moments of 2012 dipoogun - January 2, 2013 Top 10 Performance in a movie (Male) De Gea is the man in United’s triumph over Spurs	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line597
__label__cc	0.609609	0.390391	536 Fairlane Drive David Oakleaf and the Open Road David Oakleaf is a singer/songwriter from the Flint Hills of Southeast Kansas. Oakleaf has spent the last 15 years in Nashville, Tennessee, performing and touring the country. His family recently moved back to the Midwest and now calls Oklahoma home. Years on the grind in Nashville proved to be a rewarding for Oakleaf. Oakleaf and his band, The Open Road, were regularly featured at the world famous “Wildhorse Saloon,” in the heart of Music City. In addition to live performances at venues throughout the country, Oakleaf’s music has also been featured on CMT and the A&E network. He has shared the stage with artists such as Pat Green, John Michael Montgomery, Jamey Johnson, Chris Young, Randy Houser, Big and Rich and many more. Oakleaf has also shared a memorable car ride down honky tonk row with Dierks Bentley and Sheryl Crow on an episode of “Car Pool Karaoke”. For booking information, contact: Bookings@davidoakleaf.com Set your sights on Saturday! Joins us on the patio bluerosecafetulsa tomorrow night from 7-9pm! https://t.co/Pyu3NOfVFm UPDATE!! Our July 20th acoustic set themayopenthousebar is going to be rescheduled. New date soon to come! Stay tun… https://t.co/ySlIRUlrq4 Playing a little Thursday night acoustic set on the patio societyburger on June 20th, 7:30-10:30! Tulsa, OK https://t.co/MqgckLNsDe The Mayo Penthouse Bar - Tulsa, OK	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line602
__label__cc	0.549376	0.450624	WELCOME TO KOLLAPSNIK.COM GLOBAL KOLLAPSNIK MAP More Diner: Blog Newz Facebook Twitter Soundcloud You Tube Quote of the Decade: Quote from: Eddie on December 05, 2017, 05:59:33 AM The Book of the Diner is well worth preserving. I only wish it had reached a broader audience when it might have mattered more. That is a testament to the blindness of our culture. If there is a future to look back from, one difficult question historians will have to ask is how we let this happen, when so many saw it coming. This site has certainly aggregated enough information and critical thinking to prove that.[/b] DD-Blog Doomstead Diner Menu » Tariffs, not slavery, precipitated the American Civil War AuthorTopic: Tariffs, not slavery, precipitated the American Civil War (Read 459 times) Arthur Hirsch's recent article about the Battle of Gettysburg reveals a disturbing ignorance of the political dynamics that brought this nation to a war that 150 years later remains the most cataclysmic event in our history ("A defining day relived," July 2). It accepts the shallow but unchallenged premise that the Civil War occurred because slavery was practiced in the South, and that righteous resolve to abolish the institution left the U.S. with no option other than a resort to arms. This is a myopic view with which many historical facts simply cannot be reconciled. The war resulted from causes unrelated to slavery and abolition. It was entirely a consequence of the Southern states' secession, which occurred despite the undeniable fact that the slave states could not have hoped for better protection of slavery than that afforded by the U. S. Constitution — provided they remained in the Union. Both Lincoln and the slaveholders well knew in 1860 that a constitutional amendment ending slavery would never be mathematically feasible. But Lincoln further understood that the South was gravitating toward secession as the remedy for a different grievance altogether: The egregiously inequitable effects of a U. S. protective tariff that provided 90 percent of federal revenue. Foreign governments retaliated for it with tariffs of their own, and payment of those overseas levies represented the cost to Americans of their U. S. government. Southerners were generating two-thirds of U. S. exports, and also bearing two-thirds of the retaliatory tariffs abroad. The result was that that the 18.5 percent of America's citizens who lived in the South were saddled with three times their proportionate share of the federal government's costs. Campaigning At New York's Cooper Union, Lincoln, arguing for unlimited federal control of slavery in America's territories, seduced his audience with research disclosing how 21 of the 39 Signers of the Constitution, by joining elsewhere in various other acts of legislation that awarded this territorial authority to the U. S. government, revealed that delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention included a clear majority whose intent had in fact been that this authority be granted to the federal government. But in 1860, the overriding issue of the day was not slavery in the territories: it was secession. And when addressed in this latter context, Lincoln's same research undeniably proves there had been majority intent among delegates to the 1787 Convention that each state was to retain a permanent right of exit. Ten of Lincoln's foregoing 21 Signers represented slave states. Absent a retained secession option, not one of them would have signed a Constitution that empowered the U. S. to prohibit territorial slavery. Alone, the Northwest Territory represented the potential in 1787 for five new non-slave states, which would promptly have reduced the Old South to just one-third of eighteen total states: and the Constitution they were crafting was to permit any amendment that was opposed by only one-quarter of the states — including one that could abolish slavery if six more non-slave states were thereafter admitted. Lincoln could not have failed to recognize that the Signers had been in agreement upon a right to secede, without which no constitution would have gelled at all. Accordingly, secession remained in 1860 a right both legal and honorable. In the face of all these considerations, Lincoln could have proposed a Southern slave emancipation reciprocated by sweeping federal fiscal reform that would replace the protective tariff with a nationwide income tax. Instead, Lincoln's remedy was the catastrophic one that denied Southerners their exit by military force: which represented exercise of a federal authority conspicuously absent from the all-inclusive list of powers granted by the Constitution to the U. S. government. Such a transformative quid-pro-quo may or may not have proven achievable. But in as much as it was not even attempted, no Gettysburg visitor should ever be led to believe that the Civil War objective of the U.S. was anything other than preservation of its protective tariff in the Old South. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-07-06/news/bs-ed-gettysburg-20130706_1_slavery-constitutional-convention-secession HUMANS ARE STILL EVOLVING! 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__label__cc	0.618839	0.381161	Entries in Nicolas Zambrano (2) After RICO trial win, Chevron demands $32 million from plaintiffs lawyer Donziger for attorneys fees By Richard L. Cassin \| Friday, March 21, 2014 at 2:28AM Chevron Corporation asked a federal court Tuesday to award it $32 million for attorneys fees it incurred during a successful fraud and racketeering trial against U.S. lawyer Steven Donziger. Comments Off \| Email Article \| Permalink Print Article tagged Chevron, Chevron Corp., Ecuador, Extortion, Fraud, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Huron Consulting, Merrill Communications, Nicolas Zambrano, RICO, Steven Donziger, attorneys fees \| Judgment against Chevron in Ecuador tainted by bribery By Julie DiMauro \| Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 2:08AM U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York said he found "clear and convincing evidence" that a two-decade legal effort to punish Chevron for polluting the Ecuadorean rain forest was tainted by corruption. tagged Chevron Corp., Ecuador, Judge Lewis Kaplan, Nicolas Zambrano, Steven Donziger, Texaco, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York \|	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line613
__label__cc	0.655509	0.344491	Auberge de l'Ill, three Michelin stars in Illhaeusern Some Michelin-starred restaurants in France are true family businesses. Auberge de l'Il in the charming village of Illhaeusern is one of them. It is a 4th generation restaurant that has been run by the Haeberlin family for 130 years. The restaurant was established as a country inn called l'Arbre Vert in 1882 by the current patron Marc Haeberlin's great-grandparents. The original inn was destroyed in a bombing raid in WWII in 1945. Marc Haeberlin's father and uncle Paul and Jean-Pierre Haeberlin built a new restaurant on the same site after the war. The restaurant opened in 1950 and was renamed Auberge de l'Ill. It was during the reign of Paul (executive chef and Jean-Pierre (Maitre d'Hôtel) that the restaurant rose to the highest level of culinary excellence and recognition. Auberge de l'Ill was awarded a Michelin star in 1952 and a second one in 1957. The coveted third star followed in 1967 and has been retained ever since. In 2008 Paul Haeberlin passed away at the age of 84 and was succeeded officially at the helm of the kitchen by his son Paul who had been working in the Auberge de l'Ill kitchens since the mid seventies. Paul's sister Danielle and her husband Marco Baumann are also active in the family business. Danielle is the manager of the restaurant and Marco is the manager of Hotel des Berges. The hotel, built in 1992 right next to the restaurant, has 4 suites and 8 rooms. Auberge de l'Ill is open for lunch and dinner Wednesday till Sunday. The restaurant offers a 5-course Menu Tradition (€121), a 7-course Menu Haeberlin (€165) and an a la carte menu. I had lunch with my husband at Auberge de l'Ill on Wednesday 6 June 2012 and we both had the Haeberlin menu. With our aperitifs three appetizers arrived (from left to right in the photo): (i) fantastic crisp cheese sables with puffed rice - (ii) lovely moist and tasty courgette and grey shrimp cakes - (iii) Delicious fresh salmon rilettes. Next, an amuse bouche: Fish soup, Parisienne potatoes and poached gamba accompanied by a croustillant topped with rouille. Delicious fish soup with wonderful, concentrated fish flavours, a hint of orange and cayenne pepper. Well-made rouille, nice and oily. An excellent amuse bouche with a wonderful build-up of flavours. First of course of the Menu Haeberlin was Ocean perch, langoustine sandwich, confit tomato sauce, samphire, chickpea puree. Lightly marinated ocean perch which had a wonderful delicate softness to it and combined well with the samphire and chopped nuts salad. With the ocean perch came this very satisfying langoustine sandwich: crispy bread with a fantastic langoustine filling. The chickpea puree had a lovely smooth consistency and nice, subtle, nutty flavours. Nice touch of heat from the confit tomate sauce. A light and well-executed starter but not necessarily a very memorable dish. Second course, Sea bass, buckwheat risotto, squid, summer vegetables, sweet red pepper sauce. Perfectly cooked moist and succulent sea bass and lovely tender pieces of squid, served with the most divine, creamy, sweet red pepper sauce which had the perfect touch of acidity. Excellent fresh and tasty summer vegetables like courgette, red pepper, tomato and potatoes all cut in brunoise. Delicious rich and creamy buckwheat risotto with some lovely stringy cheese in it. A wonderfully comforting dish with fabulous textures and very precise flavours. Auberge de l'Ill is worth a special journey for this dish alone. On to the third course, Lobster ragout, white port bisque, citrus fruit foam, green beans, yellow beans, mangetout. The white port bisque was delicious and had a lovely richness to it. Hidden underneath the sweet and sharp citrus fruit foam was a gorgeous sweet and succulent piece of lobster. The intense sweetness from both the white port and the citrus fruit foam didn't overpower the lobster but on the whole the dish was a bit sweet for my taste. Nice freshness and texture from the crunchy beans however. Fourth and main course, Fillet of veal, foie gras, truffle, 'biscuit de pommes de terre', mushrooms, Perigueux sauce. A stunning piece of veal that was full of flavour and covered with a sensational foie gras, breadcrumb and truffle crust. Beautifully made 'biscuit pommes de terre' with a delicious mushroom, green cabbage and pine nut filling. All this was served with a superb Perigueux sauce which had an amazing depth of flavour. Perhaps not the most beautiful presentation but the flavours were unbelieveable. Fifth course, Les Fromages. A wonderful selection of (local) French cheeses. Sixth course, Apricot poached with rosemary, sheep's yoghurt smoothie, almond cake. A gorgeous juicy apricot with lovely subtle rosemary flavours accompanied by a wonderful fresh sheep's yoghurt smoothie and an almond cake. Seventh and last course, 'Feuille à feuille' with seasonal red fruits (blueberries, raspberries, strawberries), fennel ice cream, lemon crème. Lovely fresh berries which went surprisingly well with the fennel ice cream. The ice cream was nice and creamy and had a wonderful, profound fennel flavour. Nice sharp lemon crème and gorgeous crisp wafer-thin pastry. A lovely dessert that was executed very well. Auberge de l'IIl is a legendary restaurant. Only Paul Bocuse has had his three stars longer (since 1965). The restaurant, with its magical riverside location, stands out with its welcoming charm and its authentic hospitality. The ambiance is chic but not stuffy, the service is very professional but not formal, the quality of the food is as excellent as it is reliable. Auberge de l'Ill unquestionably lived up to my high expectations. Marc Haeberlin presides over an impressive culinary legacy and who delivers classic dishes with the occasional modern touch with fantastic flavours. As befits a great chef, the sauces in particular were done to perfection; both the sweet red pepper sauce and the Perigueux sauce were absolutely brilliant. Auberge de l'Ill is a restaurant with a soul like only family restaurants have and I trust that, as it continues to evolve, it will remain true to what it is in essence.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line617
__label__cc	0.671277	0.328723	Home > About Us > Adviser Profile – Financial Planning Expert Trent Alexander – Independent Financial Adviser Trent served his apprenticeship as a financial planner working for Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) and then for a boutique financial advice firm in Melbourne. After several years of providing conflicted financial advice, Trent decided that his clients deserved advice that was free of influence. But this would not be possible if he remained affiliated with an institution. The answer was to establish an independent financial advice business; Financial Planning Expert. Financial Planning Expert remains one of the few independent financial advice groups in Australia today and is testament to Trent’s commitment to providing financial advice to the highest of standards. Trent’s professional standards are further illustrated by his rank of CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® (CFP®) with the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA). The CFP® mark is the highest rank attainable for a financial planner and requires that recipients undertake rigorous ongoing education requirements every year to remain at the peak of professional advice standards. Only 30% of licensed financial planners in Australia hold CFP® certification. Trent is recognised as a financial advice expert and is regularly quoted in the media and has appeared on Today Tonight on Channel 7. Trent is also passionate about maintaining a high level of industry education and holds a Bachelor of Business (Financial Planning) from RMIT and an Advanced Diploma in Financial Services (Financial Planning) from Deakin University. Trent is also a member of the SMSF Association where he holds SMSF Specialist Advisor certification. To contact Trent Alexander, please complete the short form here or phone (03) 5974 4350.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line618
__label__wiki	0.957405	0.957405	England / Players / Jason Roy Complete list by match NORTH-SOUTH SERIES Championship Div 1 MCC University Matches Women's Super League Second Eleven Championship Second Eleven Trophy RL Women's One-Day Cup M.C.C. Eoin Morgan Joe Root Chris Woakes Jos Buttler Full name Jason Jonathan Roy Born July 21, 1990, Durban, South Africa Major teams England, Chittagong Kings, Delhi Daredevils, England Lions, Gujarat Lions, Lahore Qalandars, Quetta Gladiators, Surrey, Surrey 2nd XI, Sydney Sixers, Sydney Thunder ODIs 84 81 2 3381 180 42.79 3148 107.40 9 18 390 68 31 0 T20Is 32 32 0 743 78 23.21 512 145.11 0 4 75 35 5 0 First-class 81 132 11 4645 143 38.38 5657 82.11 9 22 618 72 73 0 List A 180 172 8 6441 180 39.27 6001 107.33 16 34 769 120 69 0 T20s 192 188 9 4882 122* 27.27 3349 145.77 4 31 531 193 83 0 ODIs 84 - - - - - - - - - - - - T20Is 32 - - - - - - - - - - - - First-class 81 25 712 495 14 3/9 4/47 35.35 4.17 50.8 0 0 0 List A 180 1 6 12 0 - - - 12.00 - 0 0 0 T20s 192 2 18 39 1 1/23 1/23 39.00 13.00 18.0 0 0 0 ODI debut Ireland v England at Dublin (Malahide), May 8, 2015 scorecard Last ODI England v New Zealand at Lord's, Jul 14, 2019 scorecard ODI statistics - Statsguru ODI analysis - Player analysis menu/filter ODI match list --------------------------------- Batting career summary Batting innings list High scores Batting series averages --------------------------------- Fielding career summary Fielding innings list Most catches in an innings Fielding series statistics T20I debut England v India at Birmingham, Sep 7, 2014 scorecard Last T20I Sri Lanka v England at Colombo (RPS), Oct 27, 2018 scorecard T20I statistics - Statsguru T20I analysis - Player analysis menu/filter T20I match list --------------------------------- Batting career summary Batting innings list High scores Batting series averages --------------------------------- Fielding career summary Fielding innings list Most catches in an innings Fielding series statistics First-class debut Leicestershire v Surrey at Leicester, Aug 24-27, 2010 scorecard Last First-class England Lions v Pakistan A at Abu Dhabi, Nov 18-21, 2018 scorecard List A debut Surrey v Yorkshire at Guildford, Jul 20, 2008 scorecard Last List A England v New Zealand at Lord's, Jul 14, 2019 scorecard T20s debut Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval, Jun 27, 2008 scorecard Last T20s Chittagong Vikings v Sylhet Sixers at Dhaka, Feb 1, 2019 scorecard 17 England v New Zealand Lord's 14 Jul 2019 ODI # 4192 85 England v Australia Birmingham 11 Jul 2019 ODI # 4191 60 England v New Zealand Chester-le-Street 3 Jul 2019 ODI # 4183 66 England v India Birmingham 30 Jun 2019 ODI # 4179 - England v West Indies Southampton 14 Jun 2019 ODI # 4158 153 England v Bangladesh Cardiff 8 Jun 2019 ODI # 4153 8 England v Pakistan Nottingham 3 Jun 2019 ODI # 4148 54 England v South Africa The Oval 30 May 2019 ODI # 4143 89* England v Afghanistan The Oval 27 May 2019 Other OD 32 England v Australia Southampton 25 May 2019 Other OD The swaggering strokeplay of Jason Roy became a central feature of England's limited-overs cricket after their miserable display in the 2015 World Cup insisted that a more adventurous approach was essential. For Roy, a Surrey opener of dashing disposition, such a change of emphasis was ideal. Under the leadership of Eoin Morgan, adamant that England must play free-spirited cricket, Roy found his voice, making his maiden ODI hundred in the UAE in late 2015 before adding two more at home to Sri Lanka the following summer - including 162, at the time the second-highest ODI score made by an England batsman, in front of his adoring home crowd at The Oval. There was even better to come. In banishing the blues of an Ashes Test thrashing in 2017-18, Roy surpassed Alex Hales' record one-day score for England of 171 (Hales had himself gone past Robin Smith in 2016) with 180 in Melbourne as Australia recognised an England one-day side performing with a freedom of expression that surpassed anything they could muster in response. This was far removed from the batsman who had endured such a dud season in Australia's Big Bash competition. Born in South Africa, Roy came to the UK aged 10 and soon started to move through the system. He was a hugely successful schoolboy cricketer for Whitgift, and made his Surrey debut as a 17-year-old in 2008 during the Twenty20 Cup and his fielding talents were noticed by England, who used him as a sub later that summer against South Africa. It wasn't until 2010 that he broke into the first team again. He promptly thumped 101 off 57 balls against Kent at Beckenham, Surrey's first T20 hundred. Later in the summer he struck an unbeaten 76 from 65 balls against Leicestershire on Championship debut. England's selectors gave him a place on the Performance Programme tour to India before the England Lions tour to Sri Lanka in early 2012. Roy's obvious ability in the shorter formats led to him twice winning T20 contracts in the Bangladesh Premier League but he struggled to build on a quietly impressive role in Surrey's 2011 promotion campaign, when he made his maiden first-class hundred. In 2013, he made two YB40 centuries - doubling his List A tally - but struggled badly in Championship cricket, scoring just 49 runs in seven innings. It was in 2014 that Roy made the leap from a prodigiously talented but erratic young cricketer to a consistent match-winner. The transformation was particularly evident in the NatWest T20 Blast, where he struck 677 runs at 48.35 apiece - the highest tally in the competition. England's T20 competition had undeniably produced an exciting batsman of international quality. Roy's uncomplicated clean-striking became as much a feature of Friday nights at The Oval as the beer-snakes and streakers. With his breathtaking power down the ground and penchant for switch-hitting - not to mention the fact he was born in South Africa - he was frequently compared to Kevin Pietersen, not least by Pietersen himself. His brilliance did not achieve the same levels in the following two summers - how could it? - but a destructive hundred against Somerset in 2015, and against Kent the following year, was a reminder of his unfettered talent. After working hard on pacing his innings in four-day cricket, Roy also blossomed in Championship cricket in 2014, hitting 1078 runs, the highest at the club, at an average of 50-plus without reigning in his destructiveness: his strike rate was still 84. He also averaged 47.65 in the Championship in a promotion year in 2015, his strike rate even higher. By the summer's end, he was rewarded with a T20 international debut against India and in 2015 he became a fixture in England's limited-overs formats, building on a couple of promising 60s against Australia with a maiden ODI ton against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi, an innings that was rarely fluent - and that was entirely overshadowed by Jos Buttler's dash to his own hundred in record time - but one that provided proof of a growing survival mentality. After a breakthrough year in international cricket, which included helping England to the World T20 final, he won a maiden IPL contract for the 2017 tournament. But spending most of his time sitting in the dugout for Gujarat Lions was not productive and his form faltered ahead of the 2017 Champions Trophy. He had failed to pass 20 in nine ODI innings and was eventually dropped from England's side for the semi-final (which they lost), but he rebounded well in the late-September ODIs against West Indies after Hales' night out in Bristol cost him his spot. The crowd-pleasing innings soon began to occur with increasing regularity, as one half of a prolific opening partnership with Jonny Bairstow that embodied the devil-may-care approach of an exciting England side that found itself top of the ODI rankings. As well as the Melbourne 180 (which also included a record-breaking 221 stand for the third wicket with Joe Root), there were further hundreds against Australia in Cardiff and Chester-le-Street in 2018; followed by two more, against West Indies and Pakistan, in the lead-up to the World Cup, pushing his average above 40 and leading to increased calls for him to be considered for the Ashes to follow later in 2019. Jason Roy rides World Cup fast-track to Ashes (Jul 17, 2019) Starc, Archer, Ferguson, Bumrah in ESPNcricinfo's 2019 World Cup XI (Jul 17, 2019) World Cup over, England's cricketers to head for Ashes training camp (Jul 15, 2019) Jason Roy knows he's one for the big stage (Jul 13, 2019) Kumar Dharmasena to umpire final despite Jason Roy controversy (Jul 12, 2019) Jason Roy news and articles » Jason Roy walks off after being dismissed for 17 Matt Henry leaps for joy after dismissing Jason Roy Jason Roy gets nutmegged by a Trent Boult yorker Jason Roy cricket photos	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line620
__label__wiki	0.660944	0.660944	Vol 18 No 14 Murder sequel has charm galore Halligan, Marion: Murder on the Apricot Coast. Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest, 2008. RRP $21.95. ISBN 978 1 74175 384 4 Marion Halligan has a fine appreciation of the literary process linking author and reader. She begins her latest novel as Jane Eyre ends: 'Reader, I married him'. She then teases the reader with a critique of sequels and argues that only the reader's imagination can extend the lives of literary characters. Narrator Cassandra Travers met 'him', Al Marriott, the eponymous Apricot Colonel (Marion Halligan, 2006), when editing his Iraq War memoir and they solved a murder mystery set among Canberra's café society. Cassandra and the Colonel have complementary skills. He is an enigma with secrets and he refers to his past career only obliquely. Cassandra uses her knowledge of words and characters to solve mysteries. A couple of their acquaintance lose their daughter Fern, who struck Cassandra as 'beautiful with a ... mass of dark hair and huge dark eyes. The maiden in the wall painting, picking flowers in a field. Graceful. A bit melancholy.' These brief, sometimes verbless 'sentences' convey a narrator's thoughts and speech well, although the decision to eschew quotation marks grates sometimes. Cassandra lives for literature. Her late father introduced her to the delights of reading and she enriches reality with remembered themes, plots and snippets of prose. When editing a messy manuscript she says that 'a book is about language as well as its subject' and that 'unless the words delight us there is no charm in reading it'. Fern's death was apparently due to an accidental drug overdose, but she was studying creative writing and left behind a laptop with a memoir suggesting she paid her uni fees with sex work. When Al wonders whether it is fact or just fiction Cassandra laughs and objects, 'Just fiction'. She reminds him of literary hoaxes in which authors feigned experiences to boost sales: 'I'm a fiction person remember. I accept the truth of fiction. When it's honestly told.' Cassandra is so calm and contented that no grizzly discovery disturbs her sunny outlook. The memoir's revelation that Asian children are imported and used horrifically fails to shock and when some students kidnap Cassandra believing she has the laptop, she finds that her kidnapper is a frustrated novelist and advises him to read more. Perhaps it is all the green tea with lemongrass and ginger, or else the fine Riesling Cassandra consumes. Perhaps narrator Cassandra cannot dislike people or speak negatively about them, so not even the villains appear repulsive. On the available evidence Marion Halligan enjoys her work so much that her writing has charm galore. Murder on the Apricot Coast (Allen and Unwin) Tony Smith holds a PhD in political science. He has taught at several universities, most recently at the University of Sydney. Recent articles by Tony Smith. A life in song for the working class Market thinking is not the way to improve prison education Rise of the corporate cowboys Australia's ten wasted years of war Trust is shot for cynical NSW Premier Topic tags: Tony Smith, book review, Murder on the Apricot Coast, Marion Halligan, ISBN 978 1 74175 384 4 SUPPORT RESPECTFUL CONVERSATIONS IN A TIME OF DIVISION If there's one thing that the recent election campaign and its outcome demonstrated, it's the depth of the divisions that exist in our Australian community. Our politics is focused on point-scoring, personalities, and name-calling across party lines. The media, for the most part, don't help, driven by the 24-hour news cycle and the pursuit of advertising dollars into a frenzy of click-bait and shallow sensationalism. What does it mean to be an Australian in times like these? What are the values that unite us? Eureka Street offers an alternative. It's less a magazine than a wide ranging conversation about the issues that matter in our country and our world; a conversation marked by respect for the dignity of ALL human beings. Importantly, it's a conversation that takes place in the open, unhindered by paywalls or excessive advertising. And it's through the support of people like you that it is able to do so. Word Count: 0	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line622
__label__wiki	0.545035	0.545035	› Connecting The Dots - Spotlight on Myanmar Mission Trip Connecting The Dots - Spotlight on Myanmar Mission Trip Ashley Westbrook When Mandy Lester came to Emmanuel College in January 2018 as the Director of Campus Life and Student Conduct, her role overseeing IPHC World Missions trips to Asia changed. Confused at what her new role would look like, Mandy looked for a way to allow her two worlds to merge while giving Emmanuel College students the opportunity to be exposed to a new culture and hopefully gain a new perspective on the world. With the help of Mr. Russell Board, World Missions Regional Director over Asia, Mandy’s dream became a reality. In May she led several Emmanuel students to Myanmar for two weeks where they served on a team with several traditional, short-term, and career missionaries from the IPHC. Although there was hesitation at first on what the dynamics of the team would be like, Mandy could not have been more pleased with how well the group came together. “It was like they had known each other forever,” Mandy said. “The traditional group took the EC students under their wing, and they just poured into them. The EC students superseded all expectations. They were flexible, moldable, respectful, and just in awe.” On the trip from Emmanuel were Hope Forrester, Sarah Curtright, Matthew Mills, Maria Moyano, Rebekah Lester, and Daniel Gooden. For many of these students, this was their first missions trip experience. With several student-athletes making up the team, the group was diverse and made up of students from different backgrounds and experiences. While in Myanmar, the group led a medical clinic, pharmacy, and children’s ministry. “We had three pre-med biology students from EC on the trip,” Mandy said. “Maria, Hope, and Sarah, who graduated with a double major in Math and Biology, sat at a table with the two nurses and a doctor and rotated clinics with each to get different experiences.” Dr. Erick Ocala Chucuen, Pediatrician; Missy Feather, BSN, MBA-HCM, RN-BC; and Kelly Bird, VMT worked directly with students training and teaching them as they served the patients. For Sarah, her time in Myanmar allowed her to clearly see God’s purpose for her life. “My favorite memories were made at the medical clinics,” she said. “Being able to help with the clinics and working with the medical team there helped me see that God has a plan for me in medicine and a plan for me to be in medical missions.” This was Hope’s first missions trip and she’s confident that she left Myanmar with a changed perspective. “One thing I took away from this trip is how often we take things for granted,” Hope said. “We don’t think twice at home before filling up our water bottles in the sink or drinking from a hose but having access to water is such a blessing.” Another group of Emmanuel students worked in a pharmacy under experienced TEAMS missionary, Jamie Crowder, Career missionaries Deborah Crook, Marlene Soriano, and Russell Board, World Missions Ministries Regional Director over Asia. “Mr. Russell not only came on our trip, but he worked in a way that you never would have known,” Mandy said. “He set this beautiful example for our students that it doesn’t matter what your title is, you serve with humility.” Mandy, as a licensed minister through LifePoint Ministries and a short-term missionary through World Missions, led a group of EC students in Children’s Ministry. “We had representation of the youngest possible Emmanuel students and graduate students, all athletes except for Rebekah from different sports, experiences, and relationships with the Lord,” Mandy reflected. “I can’t think of anything that would have made this trip more successful than it was.” For Mandy, her hope was to connect the dots between her two worlds, merging her passions together. “Our World Missions Career Missionaries are some of the most beautiful people I know,” Mandy said. “They are some of the humblest people and they pour their lives out. We do our students a disservice not to expose them to people like Deborah Crook and Russell Board. Our students need to see that there are everyday people who just said Yes to God’s will and that’s what it looks like – a practical application.” As the team leader, Mandy spent much of her trip observing the group, especially the students, and seeing how the trip impacted them. “You could see with some of the students that it went beyond an emotion,” Mandy said. “There were statements made about how much they take for granted, and there were moments where I witnessed their world going from small to big, like their perspective was expanding. Without a doubt, they were each touched in some way and they touched the lives of others.” What was her favorite moment from the trip? “We always have a team meeting at the beginning of our trip and a debrief at the end where each team member gives their take away,” Mandy said. “That meeting solidified the feeling of it being a success. In that meeting there were tears, laughter, joy, and encouragement. You had traditional team members encouraging the EC students and the students sharing how the traditional team members made an impact on their life through the example they set for them." In this meeting, Mandy sat back in awe knowing that God had a hand in putting this group together and that she was being used to facilitate those connections. “I could care less if anyone remembers my name,” Mandy said. “But if those moments happen because we were able to connect the dots, we just served the kingdom.” Mandy felt in her heart that this pilot trip was the beginning of something important, and she wasn’t the only person to feel this way. “The traditional, experienced team members decided after our trip that they’d adjust their schedule this upcoming year to accommodate Emmanuel students,” Mandy said. “Typically, our teams go in February and in September or October because it is so hot is Southeast Asia. They decided that it was enough of a reward and worth the investment to beat the heat and go in May so Emmanuel students can go with them.” What advice would Sarah and Hope give to other students interested in going on their first missions trip? “Just do it,” Sarah said. “Don’t let excuses stop you from going. If God wants you to be there money won’t be a problem. If you’re having doubts, talk to your trip leader. Don’t fight your doubts alone. There are so many people ready to support you if you just say yes to God.” “Don’t be scared,” Hope said. “I’ve never been on a trip, you may think it’ll be scary, but you’ll have so much love and support from your team members and the people around you. If you’re still doubtful, I encourage you to pray about it and if you’re intended to do this, the Lord will work His ways and make sure you end up wherever he’s calling you.” When Mandy arrived at Emmanuel in January of 2018, her hope was that one day her two worlds, EC and World Missions – Asia, would merge. In May, when she led a group of Emmanuel students to Myanmar to serve with a group of traditional missionaries, the result was more successful than she could have imagined. This group built friendships, encouraged each other, and served God’s kingdom, all because they connected the dots.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line630
__label__wiki	0.688885	0.688885	http://appserver-16914d9a/content/epa-accused-making-promises-it-cant-keep EPA Accused of Making Promises It Can't Keep Letters have been dispatched from the desk of Environmental Protection Agency administrator Carol Browner in a last-ditch effort to garner support for the agency's proposed National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone and particulate matter, according to Citizens for a Sound Economy, a Washington-based free-market advocacy group. "Given the enormous unpopularity of the proposed regulations, Administrator Browner has found it necessary to make promises of leniency -- promises that could very well be illegal," said CSE vice president Matt Kibbe. CSE cited a June 5 letter in which Browner told Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman that farming would not be targeted under EPA's stringent proposed air-quality standards. The letter refers to a growing concern among agricultural organizations and members of Congress over reports that federal and state regulators enforcing new standards would tell farmers how and when to plow, cultivate and harvest as a way of reducing dust kicked up by farming activities. Wrote Browner, "Recently, there have been a number of reports mischaracterizing the effects these proposed (rules) would have on agriculture." "EPA will work with states to focus any ozone emissions reductions strategies on sources located in urban and highly populated areas including power plants, motor vehicles, and large industrial facilities. Ozone control strategies will not focus on agricultural sources," she wrote. Continuing with promises to Glickman, Browner wrote that "if EPA does add a PM 2.5 standard, I intend to issue guidance to the states to ensure that in meeting that standard they focus their control strategies on sources of fine, rather than coarse particles. Thus, if we establish a new PM 2.5 standard, EPA would not focus regulatory attention on farming and tilling." A June 11 letter by Rep. John Dingell, ranking member of the U.S. House Commerce Committee, and Rep. Ron Klink detail how the EPA, in an effort to bolster support for proposed revisions to the NAAQS, reassured certain mayors and other local officials that the agency would not require jurisdictions to take any additional steps even if an area were found to violate the new ozone standard, CSE revealed. The Congressmen cite a letter from EPA assistant administrator Mary Nichols to Rep. Dennis Kucinich asserting that an automobile manufacturing plant and an automobile casting plant in his Ohio district would not have to put on additional controls even if the plants are located in counties found to be violating any new ozone standard. Dingell and Clink wrote in their letter to Browner, "We are concerned with these assertions both because we question EPA's legal authority to suspend Clean Air Act requirements and because of the appearance that EPA is seemingly trying to win support for its proposals through extra-legal promises of leniency for selected areas during implementation of the standards." Citizens for a Sound Economy, which opposes the proposed air quality standards, advocates the collection of more data before implementing new standards. "The EPA should not be in the business of making sweetheart promises it cannot hope to keep," Kibbe concluded.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line634
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__label__cc	0.571213	0.428787	The Biker Scout Helmet Project is Coming to Star Wars Celebration London Dave's Cultamania: Marvel Movies - the B-Movie years Game of Thrones: The Door by Hani Fearon on 23/05/2016 After last week’s episode brimming with girl power and general female badassery, we all knew that something truly harrowing was in store for us this week. Game of Thrones has been good to us lately, too good. Sure, we briefly mourned the loss of Osha and poor Shaggydog, but in return we received Jon being reborn, which resulted in Ollie and Alliser finally getting their comeuppance (I’m still singing ‘fuck you Olly’ in my head). Arya got her sight back, Sansa escaped the Bolton Bastard and was reunited with Jon last week, whilst Dany reprised her role as the Unburnt and won the loyalty of like, a bazillion Dothraki followers. Then comes ‘The Door’. That bloody door. First things first, Littlefinger is back to his slimy ways and trying to worm his way back into Sansa’s good books. Seriously, that man sure can move across the Seven Kingdoms with some speed. After meeting with him in secret, she discovers that her Uncle Brynden, of House Tully, has gathered those still loyal in Riverun and may be able to assist in retaking Winterfell. Known as ‘the Blackfish’, Brynden hasn’t really been mentioned since his last appearance, at the Red Wedding. Sansa is quick to dismiss Littlefinger’s attempt at earning her trust, asking him if he knew about Ramsey and what he did to her. Despite his pleading, Petyr doesn’t seem all that sincere in his apologies, but offers to beg for his life after Sansa threatens to set Brienne on him. I certainly don’t trust him trying to weasel his way back in with Sansa and I was glad to see her stand up for herself. However, we know that he’s still a master manipulator and is currently working his magic with little Robben Arryn. Part of me also questions Ramsey’s letter to Jon, goading him into marching on Winterfell. Could Littlefinger have forged the letter? It might be a stretch, but it’s entirely possible. I’d have thought Ramsey would be more likely to send little Rickon’s right arm or Shaggydog’s head on a spike rather than a taunting letter. Arya is still training and has been given a final test to prove her worth. She must poison Lady Stork, a member of a theatre troupe who are currently performing a show which is essentially the first season of the show. Poor Arya is forced to watch Ned Stark portrayed as a Northern fool (with a cameo from Kevin Eldon), along with seeing Sansa exploited on stage. The theatre troupe also brings a cameo from none other than Richard E. Grant, who I’m assuming we’ll see more of over the next couple of episodes in this new little story arc. Bran and the Three-Eyed Raven travel back in time once again, but we’re not treated to more of the Tower of Joy sequence. This time we see how the White Walkers were introduced, with the Children of the Forest creating them to defend themselves from the First Men. Foolish tree folk, don’t you know that zombies are pretty terrible too? Now it’s time to revisit Pyke, where the search for the new ruler of the Iron Islands has began. Yara claims the Salt Throne with the support of Theon, who many feel should sit on the throne himself as the true heir. Theon’s speech continues to redeem him a little, as he declares Yara as the true Queen and brings about the support of the rest of the gang. Enter Euron, who we saw murder Balon Greyjoy earlier in the season and actually admits to it when Yara accuses him. Euron makes a claim for the throne, mocking Theon in the process, suggesting that his lack of man-parts has made him believe that a woman should rule. His speech isn’t quite as good as Theon’s, mostly referring once again to the lack of man-parts, but is well received by the people. Euron suggests that the Iron Islands should form an allegiance with Daenerys, by offering up the Iron Fleet and he himself wedding the Mother of Dragons. I’m not too sure she’ll take his offer of his ‘big cock’ too well (seriously, this guy’s obsessed), but we know that she’s been more than happy to make deals in the past to add to her army. As Euron goes through some sort of coronation ritual, Yara and Theon have the bright idea to escape, along with the Iron Fleet, which was definitely a good plan as the new ruler had plotted to have them both killed. He vows to make a thousand ships, or at least have his new subjects make them, and set sail for Meereen. This conveniently moves us over to Dany and a touching scene with Jorah. He shows his Queen the greyscale and reveals his stoney fate, finally declaring his love for her. Despite Daenerys ordering him to find a cure and return to her, his goodbye feels like a death sentence, ‘I love you. I’ll always love you. Goodbye Khaleesi’. Yeah, he’s dead. I was slightly heartbroken watching this scene, I bloody love our besotted Lord Friendzone. It will never be… We’re back to Meereen now, where nothing too exciting is really going on. The deal with the Masters has created temporary peace, but not everyone is sure that it’s enough. We’re introduced to Red Woman 2.0 who we briefly encountered on Tyrion’s journey to Meereen many moons ago. She believes that Daenerys is the one that was ‘promised’ and that the Dragons are a gift from the Lord of Light, there to ‘purify’ and non-believers. Varys isn’t convinced, he’s heard it all before and questions the Priestess’ beliefs. However, he’s soon silenced when she speaks of his past and for the first time in forever, Varys is lost for words. Bran decides to do some more exploring using the Raven’s mojo and gives the White Walker’s a visit. Bad move bro, but we don’t realise quite how bad just yet. As he walks through the army of zombies unseen, he encounters the Night’s King, who of course turns and looks straight at him. The horde all turns to gaze upon Bran as the King lays his hand upon him, jolting him awake. As Bran confesses to the Raven, we learn that the Night’s King will now come for him and be able to gain entry after leaving his mark. Bran, you bloody idiot. There’s a final trip to Castle Black before all hell breaks lose, where Jon is preparing his army, doubtful of being able to fight both the Bolton’s and the Walkers. Those formerly loyal to the Starks have joined Ramsey, but Sansa believes that some of them may be converted now that they know there is another choice, uttering the famous words, ‘the North remembers’. Brienne doesn’t like that Sansa didn’t tell Jon about Littlefinger and worries for her safety, but she delivers two of the best lines in the show. Firstly we get her description of Jon which is spot on, ‘bit brooding perhaps, suppose that’s understandable really’. Finally we get a mention of the smitten Tormund, who Brienne seems suspicious of, referring to him as ‘that Wilding folk with the beard’. Ahh Brienne, give in to the beard! What a beautiful romance that would be. Finally, it’s time. Bran, you absolute bloody idiot. After a cute moment with Meera and Hodor, who is excited at the prospect of bacon, we realise that the White Walkers have arrived. It’s pretty inconvenient mind, as Bran and the Raven are stuck in the past, having a jolly old time watching a young Ned. Meera and the Children attempt to hold off the Walkers, but Hodor is sat terrified in the corner, unable to fight without Bran. Meera attempts to wake Bran, who can hear her plea for help but does sweet f all about it. Summer is the latest Direwolf to meet her horrible yet brave demise, bringing about my first tears. Leaf follows, along with the Three-Eyed Raven who is killed by the Night’s King, yet Bran is still stuck in the past. Bran manages to reach out to Hodor who helps Meera to escape the cave, but that’s as far as our gentle giant gets. Here we’re finally given the origin of Hodor’s behaviour and it’s absolutely heart-breaking. As Meera and Hodor exit the cave, she calls out to him to ‘hold the door’. In the past, we hear ‘hold the door’ echoing, which is not only heard by Bran, but appears to be heard by a young Hodor. The poor boy, Willis, hears the phrase over and over again and appears to have some sort of breakdown or fit. He begins shouting out ‘hold the door’ over and over again and we see where this is going. As present Hodor continues to hold the door, he is being torn apart by the horde, whilst a young Hodor continues to shout the phrase, which eventually becomes ‘Hodor’. The tears stream and the screams continue in my head long after the credits begin rolling. Bran, I hate you. It appears that Hodor has been living the moment of his death since he was a child, unable to speak up for himself or have any control over what is to come. This is all Bran’s fault and I knew I’d have a reason to hate him soon enough. Well, here it is, in all its harrowing glory. Hodor’s death is without a doubt up there with some of the worst and it was absolutely heartbreaking. Sleep well my friend, your gentle comic relief will be greatly missed in an otherwise hopeless world. Bran’s impact on the past could be a sign of things to come, with theories flying around then he was the one who sent King Aerys mad and has been affecting events in Westeros since before he was even born. Regardless, you’re on my list Bran Stark. For now, enjoy some of Hodor’s best moments from earlier in the show, I’m off to weep into oblivion. 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__label__cc	0.543412	0.456588	The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a frightful nightmare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed with thick black bars. I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow sound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water: agitation, uncertainty, and an all-predominating sense of terror confused my faculties. Ere long, I became aware that some one was handling me; lifting me up and supporting me in a sitting posture, and that more tenderly than I had ever been raised or upheld before. I rested my head against a pillow or an arm, and felt easy. In five minutes more the cloud of bewilderment dissolved: I knew quite well that I was in my own bed, and that the red glare was the nursery fire. It was night: a candle burnt on the table; Bessie stood at the bed-foot with a basin in her hand, and a gentleman sat in a chair near my pillow, leaning over me. I felt an inexpressible relief, a soothing conviction of protection and security, when I knew that there was a stranger in the room, an individual not belonging to Gateshead, and not related to Mrs. Reed. Turning from Bessie (though her presence was far less obnoxious to me than that of Abbot, for instance, would have been), I scrutinised the face of the gentleman: I knew him; it was Mr. Lloyd, an apothecary, sometimes called in by Mrs. Reed when the servants were ailing: for herself and the children she employed a physician. “Well, who am I?” he asked. I pronounced his name, offering him at the same time my hand: he took it, smiling and saying, “We shall do very well by-and-by.” Then he laid me down, and addressing Bessie, charged her to be very careful that I was not disturbed during the night. Having given some further directions, and intimates that he should call again the next day, he departed; to my grief: I felt so sheltered and befriended while he sat in the chair near my pillow; and as he closed the door after him, all the room darkened and my heart again sank: inexpressible sadness weighed it down. “Do you feel as if you should sleep, Miss?” asked Bessie, rather softly. Scarcely dared I answer her; for I feared the next sentence might be rough. “I will try.” “Would you like to drink, or could you eat anything?” “No, thank you, Bessie.” “Then I think I shall go to bed, for it is past twelve o’clock; but you may call me if you want anything in the night.” Wonderful civility this! It emboldened me to ask a question. “Bessie, what is the matter with me? Am I ill?” “You fell sick, I suppose, in the red-room with crying; you’ll be better soon, no doubt.” Bessie went into the housemaid’s apartment, which was near. I heard her say— “Sarah, come and sleep with me in the nursery; I daren’t for my life be alone with that poor child to-night: she might die; it’s such a strange thing she should have that fit: I wonder if she saw anything. Missis was rather too hard.” Sarah came back with her; they both went to bed; they were whispering together for half-an-hour before they fell asleep. I caught scraps of their conversation, from which I was able only too distinctly to infer the main subject discussed. “Something passed her, all dressed in white, and vanished”—“A great black dog behind him”—“Three loud raps on the chamber door”—“A light in the churchyard just over his grave,” &c. &c. At last both slept: the fire and the candle went out. For me, the watches of that long night passed in ghastly wakefulness; strained by dread: such dread as children only can feel. No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room; it only gave my nerves a shock of which I feel the reverberation to this day. Yes, Mrs. Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did: while rending my heart-strings, you thought you were only uprooting my bad propensities. Next day, by noon, I was up and dressed, and sat wrapped in a shawl by the nursery hearth. I felt physically weak and broken down: but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind: a wretchedness which kept drawing from me silent tears; no sooner had I wiped one salt drop from my cheek than another followed. Yet, I thought, I ought to have been happy, for none of the Reeds were there, they were all gone out in the carriage with their mama. Abbot, too, was sewing in another room, and Bessie, as she moved hither and thither, putting away toys and arranging drawers, addressed to me every now and then a word of unwonted kindness. This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace, accustomed as I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and thankless fagging; but, in fact, my racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excite them agreeably. Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege. This precious vessel was now placed on my knee, and I was cordially invited to eat the circlet of delicate pastry upon it. Vain favour! coming, like most other favours long deferred and often wished for, too late! I could not eat the tart; and the plumage of the bird, the tints of the flowers, seemed strangely faded: I put both plate and tart away. Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver’s Travels from the library. This book I had again and again perused with delight. I considered it a narrative of facts, and discovered in it a vein of interest deeper than what I found in fairy tales: for as to the elves, having sought them in vain among foxglove leaves and bells, under mushrooms and beneath the ground-ivy mantling old wall-nooks, I had at length made up my mind to the sad truth, that they were all gone out of England to some savage country where the woods were wilder and thicker, and the population more scant; whereas, Lilliput and Brobdignag being, in my creed, solid parts of the earth’s surface, I doubted not that I might one day, by taking a long voyage, see with my own eyes the little fields, houses, and trees, the diminutive people, the tiny cows, sheep, and birds of the one realm; and the corn-fields forest-high, the mighty mastiffs, the monster cats, the tower-like men and women, of the other. Yet, when this cherished volume was now placed in my hand—when I turned over its leaves, and sought in its marvellous pictures the charm I had, till now, never failed to find—all was eerie and dreary; the giants were gaunt goblins, the pigmies malevolent and fearful imps, Gulliver a most desolate wanderer in most dread and dangerous regions. I closed the book, which I dared no longer peruse, and put it on the table, beside the untasted tart. Bessie had now finished dusting and tidying the room, and having washed her hands, she opened a certain little drawer, full of splendid shreds of silk and satin, and began making a new bonnet for Georgiana’s doll. Meantime she sang: her song was— “In the days when we went gipsying, A long time ago.” I had often heard the song before, and always with lively delight; for Bessie had a sweet voice,—at least, I thought so. But now, though her voice was still sweet, I found in its melody an indescribable sadness. Sometimes, preoccupied with her work, she sang the refrain very low, very lingeringly; “A long time ago” came out like the saddest cadence of a funeral hymn. She passed into another ballad, this time a really doleful one. “My feet they are sore, and my limbs they are weary; Long is the way, and the mountains are wild; Soon will the twilight close moonless and dreary Over the path of the poor orphan child. Why did they send me so far and so lonely, Up where the moors spread and grey rocks are piled? Men are hard-hearted, and kind angels only Watch o’er the steps of a poor orphan child. Yet distant and soft the night breeze is blowing, Clouds there are none, and clear stars beam mild, God, in His mercy, protection is showing, Comfort and hope to the poor orphan child. Ev’n should I fall o’er the broken bridge passing, Or stray in the marshes, by false lights beguiled, Still will my Father, with promise and blessing, Take to His bosom the poor orphan child. There is a thought that for strength should avail me, Though both of shelter and kindred despoiled; Heaven is a home, and a rest will not fail me; God is a friend to the poor orphan child.” “Come, Miss Jane, don’t cry,” said Bessie as she finished. She might as well have said to the fire, “don’t burn!” but how could she divine the morbid suffering to which I was a prey? In the course of the morning Mr. Lloyd came again. “What, already up!” said he, as he entered the nursery. “Well, nurse, how is she?” Bessie answered that I was doing very well. “Then she ought to look more cheerful. Come here, Miss Jane: your name is Jane, is it not?” “Yes, sir, Jane Eyre.” “Well, you have been crying, Miss Jane Eyre; can you tell me what about? Have you any pain?” “Oh! I daresay she is crying because she could not go out with Missis in the carriage,” interposed Bessie. “Surely not! why, she is too old for such pettishness.” I thought so too; and my self-esteem being wounded by the false charge, I answered promptly, “I never cried for such a thing in my life: I hate going out in the carriage. I cry because I am miserable.” “Oh fie, Miss!” said Bessie. The good apothecary appeared a little puzzled. I was standing before him; he fixed his eyes on me very steadily: his eyes were small and grey; not very bright, but I dare say I should think them shrewd now: he had a hard-featured yet good-natured looking face. Having considered me at leisure, he said— “What made you ill yesterday?” “She had a fall,” said Bessie, again putting in her word. “Fall! why, that is like a baby again! Can’t she manage to walk at her age? She must be eight or nine years old.” “I was knocked down,” was the blunt explanation, jerked out of me by another pang of mortified pride; “but that did not make me ill,” I added; while Mr. Lloyd helped himself to a pinch of snuff. As he was returning the box to his waistcoat pocket, a loud bell rang for the servants’ dinner; he knew what it was. “That’s for you, nurse,” said he; “you can go down; I’ll give Miss Jane a lecture till you come back.” Bessie would rather have stayed, but she was obliged to go, because punctuality at meals was rigidly enforced at Gateshead Hall. “The fall did not make you ill; what did, then?” pursued Mr. Lloyd when Bessie was gone. “I was shut up in a room where there is a ghost till after dark.” I saw Mr. Lloyd smile and frown at the same time. “Ghost! What, you are a baby after all! You are afraid of ghosts?” “Of Mr. Reed’s ghost I am: he died in that room, and was laid out there. Neither Bessie nor any one else will go into it at night, if they can help it; and it was cruel to shut me up alone without a candle,—so cruel that I think I shall never forget it.” “Nonsense! And is it that makes you so miserable? Are you afraid now in daylight?” “No: but night will come again before long: and besides,—I am unhappy,—very unhappy, for other things.” “What other things? Can you tell me some of them?” How much I wished to reply fully to this question! How difficult it was to frame any answer! Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words. Fearful, however, of losing this first and only opportunity of relieving my grief by imparting it, I, after a disturbed pause, contrived to frame a meagre, though, as far as it went, true response. “For one thing, I have no father or mother, brothers or sisters.” “You have a kind aunt and cousins.” Again I paused; then bunglingly enounced— “But John Reed knocked me down, and my aunt shut me up in the red-room.” Mr. Lloyd a second time produced his snuff-box. “Don’t you think Gateshead Hall a very beautiful house?” asked he. “Are you not very thankful to have such a fine place to live at?” “It is not my house, sir; and Abbot says I have less right to be here than a servant.” “Pooh! you can’t be silly enough to wish to leave such a splendid place?” “If I had anywhere else to go, I should be glad to leave it; but I can never get away from Gateshead till I am a woman.” “Perhaps you may—who knows? Have you any relations besides Mrs. Reed?” “I think not, sir.” “None belonging to your father?” “I don’t know. I asked Aunt Reed once, and she said possibly I might have some poor, low relations called Eyre, but she knew nothing about them.” “If you had such, would you like to go to them?” I reflected. Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children: they have not much idea of industrious, working, respectable poverty; they think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes, scanty food, fireless grates, rude manners, and debasing vices: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation. “No; I should not like to belong to poor people,” was my reply. “Not even if they were kind to you?” I shook my head: I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind; and then to learn to speak like them, to adopt their manners, to be uneducated, to grow up like one of the poor women I saw sometimes nursing their children or washing their clothes at the cottage doors of the village of Gateshead: no, I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste. “But are your relatives so very poor? Are they working people?” “I cannot tell; Aunt Reed says if I have any, they must be a beggarly set: I should not like to go a begging.” “Would you like to go to school?” Again I reflected: I scarcely knew what school was: Bessie sometimes spoke of it as a place where young ladies sat in the stocks, wore backboards, and were expected to be exceedingly genteel and precise: John Reed hated his school, and abused his master; but John Reed’s tastes were no rule for mine, and if Bessie’s accounts of school-discipline (gathered from the young ladies of a family where she had lived before coming to Gateshead) were somewhat appalling, her details of certain accomplishments attained by these same young ladies were, I thought, equally attractive. She boasted of beautiful paintings of landscapes and flowers by them executed; of songs they could sing and pieces they could play, of purses they could net, of French books they could translate; till my spirit was moved to emulation as I listened. Besides, school would be a complete change: it implied a long journey, an entire separation from Gateshead, an entrance into a new life. “I should indeed like to go to school,” was the audible conclusion of my musings. “Well, well! who knows what may happen?” said Mr. Lloyd, as he got up. “The child ought to have change of air and scene,” he added, speaking to himself; “nerves not in a good state.” Bessie now returned; at the same moment the carriage was heard rolling up the gravel-walk. “Is that your mistress, nurse?” asked Mr. Lloyd. “I should like to speak to her before I go.” Bessie invited him to walk into the breakfast-room, and led the way out. In the interview which followed between him and Mrs. Reed, I presume, from after-occurrences, that the apothecary ventured to recommend my being sent to school; and the recommendation was no doubt readily enough adopted; for as Abbot said, in discussing the subject with Bessie when both sat sewing in the nursery one night, after I was in bed, and, as they thought, asleep, “Missis was, she dared say, glad enough to get rid of such a tiresome, ill-conditioned child, who always looked as if she were watching everybody, and scheming plots underhand.” Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes. On that same occasion I learned, for the first time, from Miss Abbot’s communications to Bessie, that my father had been a poor clergyman; that my mother had married him against the wishes of her friends, who considered the match beneath her; that my grandfather Reed was so irritated at her disobedience, he cut her off without a shilling; that after my mother and father had been married a year, the latter caught the typhus fever while visiting among the poor of a large manufacturing town where his curacy was situated, and where that disease was then prevalent: that my mother took the infection from him, and both died within a month of each other. Bessie, when she heard this narrative, sighed and said, “Poor Miss Jane is to be pitied, too, Abbot.” “Yes,” responded Abbot; “if she were a nice, pretty child, one might compassionate her forlornness; but one really cannot care for such a little toad as that.” “Not a great deal, to be sure,” agreed Bessie: “at any rate, a beauty like Miss Georgiana would be more moving in the same condition.” “Yes, I doat on Miss Georgiana!” cried the fervent Abbot. “Little darling!—with her long curls and her blue eyes, and such a sweet colour as she has; just as if she were painted!—Bessie, I could fancy a Welsh rabbit for supper.” “So could I—with a roast onion. Come, we’ll go down.” They went.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line648
__label__wiki	0.880048	0.880048	just millennial things June 19, 2019 Inside the Dinner Party That Uses Pasta to Build New Friendships Bronwen Kinzler-Britton and Meryl Feinstein (right) shortly before a recent pasta dinner. Photo: Scott Heins Meryl Feinstein was unhappy with her job in PR, so she did what many disaffected young professionals do: She turned to comfort food. Specifically, she traded her job for a new one, heading to culinary school and eventually turning out lots of pasta in New York restaurants before launching her own stand-alone dining project, the Pasta Social Club. “A lot of people tell me they identify with my story,” she says. “They’re in corporate life and they’re like, ‘Oh my God, you changed the course of your career.’ But it’s not that hard. You just have to do it.” Now, along with Bronwen Kinzler-Britton, Feinstein hosts regular gatherings — for $100 or $150 per person, depending on the night and the venue — where the focus is on carbs and comfort. “Going to an event for the purpose of eating pasta and meeting people,” says Emi Boscamp, a food editor for the Today show’s website and a recent PSC attendee, “that’s what people want to do.” It’s also what Feinsten wants to do. “I can’t believe I’m getting paid to make pasta and do whatever the fuck I want,” she says. “This can’t be real.” Photo: Scott Heins In the run-up to each event, Feinstein and Kinzler-Britton pickle vegetables, prepare pizza dough (a nod to Kinzler-Britton’s days at Paulie Gee’s), culture yogurt and ricotta, cure egg yolks, and make ice cream. “We prep as much of everything as we can, and then the only thing we have to do on the actual day of the dinner is to make all of the pasta, because we have six pastas on the menu,” Kinzler-Britton says. “They’re all different, and we have to make four different doughs.” From left: pezzetelli, the base for a vegetarian ragù made with faux meat, and discs of nutty orecchiette made with semolina and einkorn flours. Photo: Scott Heins Feinstein and Kinzler-Britton met while working in the pasta production room at Missy Robbin’s Misi, where the two helped make thousands of pasta pieces each day. “I felt like I needed a focus as a chef,” Feinstein says, “and pasta was the thing I loved doing the most. On my days off, I would make pasta at home. Pasta feels like an art, like a craft.” Pasta Social Club attendees are a diverse bunch, counting food editors, corporate types, and IT specialists among their ranks. “I just never had success meeting people outside of work other than my co-workers and my husband’s co-workers,” Feinstein says. She hopes people will come to the dinner club as much for the food as for the opportunity to meet new people. “It’s about fostering that connection and saying, ‘Oh, I ate an incredible meal, but more important, I met somebody new,’” she adds. “Restaurants are not really the place for that.” Photo: Scott Heins. The women break up the pasta deluge with seasonal appetizers, such as (pictured clockwise from above, left) miniature pizzas with fresh ricotta and salsa verde; a pleasantly salty spring-pea-and-asparagus dish sprinkled with ricotta salata and Marcona almonds; and a rustic griddled Caesar salad drizzled with yogurt, Italian fish sauce, and cured egg yolks. The first pasta dish at a recent event featured the ricotta-filled “Beginner’s Tortolloni” (pictured above, left) drizzled with balsamic vinegar and brown butter. It was inspired by Feinstein’s honeymoon in Modena, where she made pasta for the first time. The mezzaluna (above, right) is a nod to Kinzler-Britton’s Texas roots and is stuffed with spicy brisket that is slow-cooked sous-vide-style for 26 hours. Before it goes out, the pair tops it with barbecue sauce, brisket jus, and escabeche relish. With every event having sold out so far, Kinzler-Britton and Feinstein have decided to pursue pasta full-time, relying on a chef residency with the supper-club service Resident. “When all these things started to unfold for us, it just seemed too big to pass up,” Kinzler-Britton says. “It was very tough to quit for me, but I’ve had no regrets whatsoever about it.” Everyone Should Host a ’70s Dinner Party at Least Once Why Are Instagram-Famous Recipes So Impossible to Resist? pasta social club meryl feinstein bronwen kinzler-britton nomadic gathering just millennial things Inside the Dinner Party That Uses Pasta to Build Friendships	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line651
__label__cc	0.704257	0.295743	Around the World on a Moto Guzzi Guzzi Overland Maps / Routes « Blog 277 Whitehorse to Mayo 21st – 23rd June 2013 Blog 279 Arriving in Dawson City 25th June 2013 » Blog 278 Keno City 24th June 2013 Current News – We have just had a fabulous ride down the Oregon and Northern Californian coast on Highways 101 and 1. We are now just north of San Francisco and are about to ride into the city tomorrow across the golden gate bridge. Can’t wait. Meanwhile back to summer in the Yukon and the silver mines of Keno. This region was Canada’s largest silver mine for many years and the ore mined in the Keno-Elsa area was unusually high grade which made it commercially viable to ship it despite the distances and difficulties. Between 1919 and 1942 $23,000,000 worth of silver was extracted. Even today Keno is off the beaten track, there is no paved road it is still a dirt road to reach Keno from Mayo. We ran into three Irish guys in Keno who were replaying their youth. After graduating from University the three of them did a trip on dirtbikes across this area. Now 20 or maybe 30 years later they were doing it again on hired KLR650′s, this time they had a backup 4WD and trailer but they were doing it again for real. One of them said I’ve got something you will recognise and after some rummaging in the truck appeared wearing a plastic English policeman’s helmet and proceeded to tell Kev off which made a funny photo. We were told we should ride the very rough 10.5km road to the top of Signpost hill, they weren’t kidding the road was super rough caused by the rivulets running across it in all directions. It was also really steep and we bogged down a few hundred feet from the top necessitating Karen jumping off and giving Kev a push to finish the last bit while she walked the last 100feet. It was worth it for the 360 deg view over Faro Gulch and was a great lunch and photo spot. We were at 1,848m. The signposts were erected by United Keno Hills mines after the company hosted visiting scientists in 1956 during International Geophysical year. The signs all point to the cities represented by the delegates, the first signpost was wooden this steel replacement was added in 1989. This cairn at the summit of signpost hill was dedicated to Alfred Kirk Schellinger a mining engineer and geologist who staked the Keno vein on this location on 29th July 1919. Despite the fact that we were close to longest day there were still large areas of snow at the summit. The door knob is a remnant of an old cabin, a reminder of times past. The door to nowhere The Yukon Gold co. established Keno Hill Ltd in 1920. Keno Hill Ltd shipped the ore that winter and the silver mine was called the richest in Canada. The ore was hauled the 40miles to Mayo where it was loaded onto the steamers. Down below Keno City came to “be” when John Kinman staked his claim at the bottom of Keno hill in 1919 which became a staging area for loads to be pulled up the hill. Cabins, shacks, stables and a hotel were knocked together. Nearly all the old 1898 placer miners’ cabins were recycled to build the new town. The population grew to 300 and by WWI Keno was a lively town of 800. As we said Keno is remote now but back in the early part of the century it was really remote. It cost a lot of money to get anything shipped in or out so people had to be resourceful as this picture shows. It is built from parts of other machines and powered by an early ford auto-mobile engine. Keno’s winter population these days is only about twenty, it has few streets but it is a place full of character and characters and we were glad we took the detour to see it. In the short summer the population swells a fair bit, there is a campsite and a hotel/bar. Beer anyone Like our bike many things had more than one purpose this quaint little church also doubled as the library and meeting hall, heated by a great boiler inside. Also the library This cabin belonged to one of Keno’s most renowned “seamstresses” it seems the miners had a lot of socks that needed darning as there were quite a lot of seamstresses listed on the early census records when the mines were booming. Hidden away in the backwaters of Keno was a house which was entirely surrounded in brown beer bottles. The home of the local hotelier, it was a lot of work to carry them all out so the barman thought he would find a use for them as insulation. Apparently it worked to as this house was reputed to be the warmest in town. The bottle house Keno had a great museum dedicated to all things mining or Keno. There was great sign in the museum saying if “If Elsa is a hamlet, then Keno must be a piglet”. The mining museum housed a great collection of artifacts from the era. Here was a display showing the miners hauling out the ore, some of the typical equipment they would use and the inside of a cabin. The eccentric looking tool chest was the work of a mining engineer who either had a bit too much time on his hands or was a bit frustrated at work. Either that or it was just a bit of fun to brighten up his day. I bet someone’s going to comment “it looks a bit like your bike” ha, ha. Here’s Karen tempting the bear with food smells. You lookin at me There were also barns outside with mining equipment. First up a rock drilling machine then Kev trying the all terrain tractor out for size. We can go anywhere The Keystone punch drill was used to prospect. It hammered down a hollow tube to grab a core sample to see what lay beneath. The levers within reach of the of the rear engineer were all used in the mining process while the controlling levers for the machines movement were up the front. When people see the chains on our bike they think we are breaking new ground but it’s all been done before. Here is an old photo of a motorcycle with chains and skis fitted. Ski’s on a motor cycle – been there, done that. Until fairly recently, the largest consumer of silver was the photography industry, silver halide was used as the light reactive chemical on negative film for a century. A replacement substance has now been found and the move to digital imaging has reduced the demand for chemicals for film photography even further. Silver is popular in jewellery and is also used in minting coins and dentistry. The total district production up to 1972 was about 175,000,000 ounces over a 59 year period, making Keno/Elsa one of the world’s greatest silver camps. The town of Elsa just down the track was named after Charlie Brefalt’s sister, it came about in 1924 after he staked a claim, in 1949 it became the administration centre for the united Keno hill mines with a population of 700 until it shut down in 1989, a small maintenance and exploration crew still remain there. Next Up – Dawson city here we come. Share It \| Bookmark It \| Post It This entry was posted on December 3, 2013, 5:59 pm and is filed under On The Road. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Follow Guzzi Overland Guzzi Overland ADVrider Profile Guzzi Overland Facebook Profile Guzzi Overland RSS feed Guzzi Overland Twitter Profile Guzzioverland is grateful for the support of: Liquid Containment Fuel Bladders Thunderbikes, Perth Corsaitaliana Diesel Bikes Horizons Unlimited Motorcycle Travellers' Bulletin Board: Motomecca Thunderbikes of Perth Australia Special Thanks To... 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__label__wiki	0.599743	0.599743	Food: AN ODE TO TOSHAI Published: May 16, 2011 - 14:29 Updated: June 16, 2015 - 15:28 Celebrate the delicious kaleidoscope of the eternal 'madrasi' dosa in a million reincarnations across the Indian landscape of taste, delicacy and insatiable elementary desires Ratna Raman Delhi Toshai amma toshai Naiyil shutta toshai Arisi mavum ullundu mavum kalandu shutta toshai Appavikku naalu, ammavukku moonu, akkavikku rendu, thambikku onnu! (Amma, I want toshai, ghee-roasted toshai, roasted toshai made by mixing rice and urad batter. There will be four for father, three for yourself, two for big sister, and one for the little brother) This popular and oft-repeated childhood ditty was accompanied by the drawing of imaginary circular toshais on the extended palms of little children. The refrain ended with the fingers walking up the child's arm and enveloping it with a hug. While a squealing or giggly child looked forward to the promised toshai, the (dosa-making) simulator, usually an older woman, moved towards the kitchen to turn out yet another delicious meal of lentil crepes. The rhyme records for posterity the basic ingredients which go into the making of dosas; the arisi (rice) and the ullundu (black gram lentil, completely divested of skin, and pale cream in colour) is ground into maavu (wet batter). It documents the possible number of dosas made in a nuclear family and their distribution on the basis of some ancient BMI calculations. Coincidentally, the same number of dosas can be made out of packaged, freshly ground batter, marketed currently for busy households in metropolitan cities, so the toshai ditty should be around for a while. Toshais have featured on culinary agendas for a long, long time. The ancient granite aaatukallu (grinding stone) has now been replaced by new-age, electrically powered stainless-steel drums, but a substratum of stone still forms part of the new grinding machine, ensuring traditionally prescribed stone-ground textures of rice and lentil. The batter once ground is allowed to breathe for an hour and a concave toshai kallu (iron skillet) is greased and placed on the flame. When the skillet is sufficiently warm, batter is poured into the centre and then spread out into a large circle. Amazing feat of geometry this, unaided by any compass, just a clenched fist and a swivelling arm wielding a flat, deep serving spoon and moving in concentric rounds to create a two-dimensional edible circle. On grandma's kerosene stove, toshais, eight or nine inches in diameter, were regularly turned out on the skillet. Soft white toshais, stacked up beside the stove on a serving plate, were carried out to the dining area where everyone sat cross-legged in front of individual plates. Coconut chutney or sambaar or, famously, molahapodi, were the singular accompaniments to the dosas. Of all these, the molahapodi was a perennial favourite. Stored in recycled Horlicks glass bottles, this combination of dry roasted lentils ground with red chillies and toasted sesame seeds, provided an amazing meeting point for the palate. Eating a toshai is a skill perfected over years of practice. One edge of the toshai is pressed down by the thumb, while four looped-over fingers provide back-up assistance to detach a morsel in a semi-twirl tactile movement that users of forks and knives remain unacquainted with. The extricated piece, dipped into the heady molahapodi mixed in ghee or gingelly oil (undoubtedly the most underrated oil in India) is then transferred to the mouth and the sequence continues till the replenished food supplies are eventually exhausted. Toshais were once major participants in tiffin-box barters at school. One side of each toshai was smeared with molahapodi and oil, or lemon and mango pickle, and was folded twice over to sit snugly in a small stack inside the tiffin box. When the box was opened, releasing the toasted aroma of rice, lentil and spice, eager enquiries from nearby desks filled the air. The reign of the dosa in north India was made possible by the march of young men from the south who arrived in New Delhi in the 1940s, found lodgings at the Madras Hotel in Connaught Place, and the South India boarding house, Ramanujam Mess and Srinivasan Mess in Karol Bagh, and moved on with their lives. The messes catered to the influx of South Indians by serving them food laced with flavours from homes in the southern states of India. These original foster homes of the dosa were the new breeding grounds of heterogeneous community among the Andhraite and the Malayalee, the Palghat resident and the Iyer and Iyengar. All these new residents were collectively dubbed as "madrasi" by the rest of India residing in Delhi. In turn, all of them were collectively referred to as "Punjabis" by the equally insular South Indians. From being a comfort food for the homesick South Indian, the toshai expanded its food quotient over the decades, and went public in the age of domestic gas cylinders, reinventing itself as the dosa. No longer quaint "madrasi" cuisine, the dosa has forged stable alliances with all manner of "non-madrasis" and commands national standing as the Masala Dosa. It has its own special performing stage; the heavy, oversized, flat iron griddle. Dosas have travelled the length and breadth of the county, and can be eaten in tiny wayside cafeterias and at street food corners all over India. You can find dosas on Shimla's Mall Road, at Midway resorts between all premier cities, at the canteen in Jhunjhunu's Rani Sati temple, at Vaishno Devi and Tirupathi, and in Saharanpur and Palaghat. In fact, the dosa is a tangible presence in cities across the globe and on popular international cooking shows. Today, innumerable masala options come enveloped in dosas. The potato-onion-tomato stuffing, the dosa's constant companion, was arguably invented by commercial eateries, before homes adopted it. An eatery in RK Puram in south Delhi introduced the 'diplomat dosa' - comprising a generous addition of carrots and beans to the original potato masala. Yet another eatery smeared the undersides of dosas with green coriander or red chilly chutney before smothering it with potatoes. The D-School canteen at Delhi University probably owns a patent for 'Mince Dosas', wherein a moderate amount of meat replaces the regular potato masala. The imagination and the palate have now stretched to incorporate cottage cheese, egg, fish and chicken fillings into the dosa shell. Truth be told, the dosa is an indigenous alternative, far more nutritious than the pancake and the crepe. It lends itself easily to a range of stuffings. A soft dosa roll made of lentil and cereal, with sweet or savoury fillings, provides a superior combination of carbohydrates and proteins besides being easy to make and consume. Having evoked the dosa, one needs to place on record for posterity the range of variations that form part of the orthodox dosa chronicles. Dosas are made in various combinations of cereal and lentil within little-known kitchens. Channa and moong dal in full or half measure often replace the urad component. Dosas are also made with rice and okra, with wheat flour and jaggery, with rice and coconut, or wheat flour and onions, and in as many combinations as the continued ingenuity of its traditional and experimental chefs can display. It is possible to grind all the millets that we have reworked into mainstream cooking in recent years, such as the ragi, bajra, nachni, jaun, red rice, rice flakes, brown rice and oats, with urad dal, and turn out delicious dosas that score high on nutrition as well. A combination of rice flour, semolina, white flour and buttermilk forms the basis of the famed Rava Dosa for which Sona-Rupa at Janpath in the heart of Delhi was justly acclaimed in the 1970s. Rava Dosas operate rather in the manner of accomplished maestros holding court. Embellished with a garnish of cumin seeds, onions and green chillies, their fragrant ghee-coated flamboyance is known to induce compulsive consumption even among taciturn eaters. Nowadays, the dosa is a team player. In the age of collectives, it has its own public relations unit. A dosa at Saravana Bhavan in Chennai, Delhi or Singapore is accompanied by a retinue that boasts of sambaar, molahapodi, and offers tricolour temptations in green coriander, white coconut and red tomato chutneys. The dosa has several rich provincial cousins - the adai, the patral and the pesarat - all of them originating south of the Vindhyas, and made with coarsely ground lentils and a smaller portion of rice to which finely chopped onions, spinach, carrots and cabbage can be added. In the 1980s, the adai and patral were stellar performers on a popular menu at Dasaprakash, located at the Ambassador Hotel in Sujan Singh Park. When Dasaprakash shut down, these culinary ambassadors were forced into untimely superannuation within private homes. The adai, made by coarsely grinding four portions of different lentils with one portion of rice, besides ginger, chillies and asafoetida, is a high-protein food that improves with fermentation and is traditionally hand patted on a hot skillet. Little holes are incised with a tiruppi (a flat spatula-like turning implement) on the body of the adai and filled with oil, which seeps down to coat the undersides of the adai. Adais, being thicker than dosas, must be evenly cooked on both sides, before they can be consumed. The patral lentils are usually intermixed with a generous sprinkling of chopped cabbage. The pesarat, native to Andhra Pradesh and made mostly from whole green moong dal, has a body and a flavour that is further enhanced by the upma filling that substitutes for the potato mash and is eaten along with sambaar and coconut chutney. The famous Andhra Bhavan canteen on Ashoka Road in Delhi still serves this for breakfast. Uttar Pradesh is also home to the moong and besan chilas, that share raw material affinity with the adais, pesarats and patrals, although the inclusion of small quantities of rice in the coarsely ground adais and patrals gives them a texture, flavour and crispness that lingers on, memorably. The nicest chilas that Delhi offers today are to be found at the food stalls at the baada on the Ramlila Grounds during the Dusshera festival. Stuffed with a chunky paneer filling and accompanied by sharp chutneys, these are undoubtedly one of Purani Dilli's most fulfilling and nourishing fast food items. Despite innumerable household recipes for making dosas, some perennial favourites remain. There is, for instance, the oothappam - a thick, plumped-up dosa with abundant vegetable toppings and no cheese - which is poised to take over as the new-age, low-calorie anti-pizza option. There are also the chirpy 'Set Dosas', which always arrive in a group and work as bite-sized nibbles. Dosas can be eaten soft or crisp, shaped like a roll or like a giant upside-down waffle cone, spreadeagled on a plate or folded demurely in half. Lace-edged, soft-white, bowl-shaped aapams (mutant cousins of the dosa) are formed by pouring batter (made with rice and coconut, and tempered with fermented coconut water) into hot, greased, deep iron chattis (pans) that are swirled around by their ears and then covered with a lid. This steam- and oil-cooked delicacy, native to Kerala and Sri Lanka, can be wolfed down with stews made of vegetables, whole lentils and meat, fish sambols and egg curry. Aapams make great desserts when paired with steamed bananas, jackfruit jam or honey. Their melt-in-the mouth rice base exponentially surpasses the pleasure quotient mapped by French crepes and American pancakes with chocolate, maple or honey toppings. Delhi's best aapams are served at the Habitat Centre and the Sagar Ratna restaurant at Hotel Ashoka. The 'Butter Masala Dosa' and the 'Family Dosa' are perennial favourites. Anointing itself lavishly, the first offers seduction on par with the Rava Dosa. One illustrious ancestor from this lineage, the Davanagare Benne (benne in Kannada means butter) from Karnataka is now a Wikipedia icon. The Family Dosa makes it imperative for the entire family to assemble around it, endorsing the belief that families which eat together, do stay together. Made across a rectangular iron griddle, this humungous dosa invariably draws people out into the public sphere since normal households do not possess the equipment requisite to its creation. It is, therefore, an important cultural marker in an age where differing meal schedules are followed by different folks. Yet, for a small private individual seeking sustenance on a solitary train journey, the unwrapping of a banana leaf packaged dosa with potato masala and coconut chutney, from any of south India's dimunitive railway stations, releases a cloudburst of savoury expectation, hunger and nostalgia that is always adequately assuaged. Celebrate the delicious kaleidoscope of the eternal ‘madrasi’ dosa in a million reincarnations across the Indian landscape of taste, delicacy and insatiable elementary desires Read more stories by Food: AN ODE TO TOSHAI Toshais, Food, Dosa Read more stories from the Issue	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line658
__label__wiki	0.527244	0.527244	Joomla jQuery Slideshow About Hin Nam No Organisation / Project Team From the Units Database Unit Area Management Unit Research & Patrolling Unit Outreach Unit Eco-tourism Unit Xe Bangfai River Cave Natural trials in Hin Nam No Mu Gia Pass & Ho Chi Minh Trail Livelihoods Unit Natural trials in Hin Nam Nor Since villagers are regularly monitoring wildlife and threats inside the Hin Nam No National Protected Area (NPA), arrests of poachers are becoming more frequent. On Monday 28 July 2014, a team of 8 villager rangers from Ban Dou village were doing their regular forest patrol when they came across a team of five Vietnamese poachers in the Kuan Nong area. This location is roughly at one day walking distance from the village and three days walking distance from the Vietnamese border. [Figure 1: Poachers being arrested in the Hin Nam No National Protected Area, Khammouan, Lao PDR, 28 July 2014] These illegal immigrants were found to have a lot of motorcycle brake wire cables which are a popular material to make traps as well as explosives and digging equipment. They were looking to dig for the roots of a valuable rosewood type of trees and expecting to trap monkeys and other wildlife to eat. The village rangers arrested the poachers, tied them up with their own wire cables and led them back to the village. The poachers were handed over to the border military station in Ban Dou who kept them for three days. [Figure 2: Motorcycle Cables used to make snare traps] Relevant authorities were called in and a meeting was held to judge the case. The judgment committee decided on a fine to the equivalent of US$3,000, considering that the poachers were caught in the act, but had not collected any illegal timber or wildlife that could be confiscated. The poachers were warned that they were lucky to get the case resolved at the village cluster level, if the case would have been transferred to the province level, the process would have been much longer and the fine at least three times higher. Relatives of the poachers on the Vietnamese side of the border were informed that the poachers were arrested and that they would only be released once this fine was paid. The relatives arrived within one day and paid the whole fine in cash. The poachers were then released and returned the same day to their hometown. The poachers were residents of the town of Phong Nha in neighboring Quang Binh Province. The entire process took 4 days: one day to arrest the poachers and take them to the village: day 1 arresting poachers and taking them back to the village, day 2 to call relevant authorities, day 3 to agree on the fine and to call the relatives of the poachers and day 4: payment of fines and release of poachers. [Figure 3: A rare red-shanked Douc Langur looking on] The fine of $3,000 was distributed among the various law enforcement stakeholders. The ranger team who found and arrested the poachers were given a reward of $124 per arrested poacher, totaling $620 (roughly 20% of the total fine). Another $200 was spent on "sin peuan", the costs of feeding the rangers and their prisoners. The remaining sum of $2180 was divided equally between officials of the local village cluster of Ban Dou and the District Park Authority (the District Office for Natural Resources and the Environment). The cluster authorities divided their share of $1090 (36% of the total fine) using $200 for "sin peuan", transport costs and meals of their members joining the event, $250 for the border military and $250 for the cluster police force who took responsibility for guarding the poachers. The remaining $390 were divided between the cluster chairman, the village heads of three villages involved and the village militia (village police) in the three villages. These three groups used some of this money for "sin peuan" to support eating and drinking of their members over the four day evenly. The park authorities received 36% of the total fines. They used around $190 for "sin peuan" their costs of transport and food to join this event. The remaining sum of $1,000 will be used to implement future conservation activities such as national conservation day celebrations and costs of future law enforcement and patrolling work. Mr. Bouakeo Soulivong, Head of Bualapha District's Unit for Forest and Water Resources Management, congratulates the rangers and village cluster authorities with this first successful case of villagers enforcing the law inside Hin Nam No NPA. However he points out that the costs of "sin peuan" taken together amount up $590 (20% of the total fine). This is understandable as it was the first time, but in the future maybe ways could be explored to reduce the high number of stakeholders involved in the jurisdiction as well as the length of the process. He also advocated that village rangers should be equipped with proper law enforcement materials such as handcuffs to facilitate the arrest of poachers. This is a case of co-management in action, where local communities are taking an active role in law enforcement and receive a fair share of the benefits occurred from fining poachers. The process of developing sustainable systems for co-management of Hin Nam No NPA is supported by a technical assistance project funded by the German Government. Villagers learn about HNN NPA by-laws Win-win for people and ecosystem in HNN NPA Raising Environmental Awareness for young students How a school garden can contribute to nature conservation Awareness campaign about biodiversity conservation in Nongping village Awareness Raising Unit of Hin Nam No NPA supports the ProCEEd Tour in Khammouane province Hin Nam No team receives JOOMLA training Awareness Raising Unit contributes to National Tree Planting Day 2015 Participatory Zonation and Boundary Delineation in Hin Nam No Capacity development and co-management lead to more effective management of Hin Nam No Contact: Provincial Office of Natural Resources and Environment of Khammouane Province Forest Resource Management Section Anouvong Road, Laoh Phoxai Village, Thakhek District, Khammouane Province Tel/Fax: +856 – 51 – 213 344 www.hinnamno.org © 2014 Hin Nam No \| created by insmai.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line665
__label__cc	0.69824	0.30176	Horology Middle East Articles, news, reviews and much more Contact HME Dubai Watch Week 2016 grows significantly in stature November 17, 2016 JaseArticlesAhmed Seddiqi & Sons, Dubai Watch Week, Event, Haute Horology Following its first successful run in 2015, Dubai Watch Week (DWW) 2016 is officially underway, and runs from November 16 to 19 at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). DWW is the Middle East’s most prominent horological event, and for 2016 event organiser Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons – the Middle East’s largest watch retailer – has upped the scope of the event significantly. The region’s preeminent horological event is underway. This year the list of participating brands has grown considerably, and includes independents such as Bovet, F.P. Journe, HYT, Moritz Grossmann, MB&F and others. The independents are joined by established staples including Baume & Mercier, Bvlgari, Corum, IWC, Panerai, and Vacheron Constantin. This is one area where the 2016 event differs from its predecessor – the 2015 extravaganza focused almost exclusively on independent brands in terms of products that were showcased. As a result of the larger brand participation, products are now displayed across two galleries within DIFC. You could spend all your time looking at watches or attending panels. DWW has been significantly scaled up for 2016. Over the last couple of days a handful of brands unveiled new timepieces, some designed specifically for Dubai. These weren’t soft launches either, working samples or in some cases retail product were on hand for visitors to experience. The fact that more brands are participating this year, as well as launching product adds significant weight to Dubai Watch Week in terms of its position, and status as a global horological event. Besides being able to experience timepieces, another significant draw of Dubai Watch Week is that it brings together an incredible list of industry insiders. This year more than 40 international industry veterans are attending including Maximilian Büsser, Philippe Dufour, Stephen Forsey, Jean-Marc Wiederrecht, Stephen McDonnell, Aurel Bacs and others. Middle East industry veterans included members of the Seddiqi family, and collectors such as Claude Sfeir and Abbas Behbehani. One of the best things about DWW is that you will bump into industry insiders everywhere. In the foreground, MB&F’s Maximilian Büsser talks to H. Moser & Cie’s Edouard Meylan. The 2016 edition of DWW follows a similar format to its predecessors, and gives visitors (registration is free but mandatory) the opportunity to attend watchmaking master-classes, attend panel discussions, and deep-dive into brands and their products via focused ‘creative hubs’. Visitors also have the opportunity to get up close with the winning watches of the 2016 edition of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie De Genève (GPHG) (our story here). In addition to the vast number of programs scheduled to take place in DIFC, Dubai Watch Week has also taken up more real estate in the nearby Dubai Mall. Two different exhibitions are open to the public – The Mastery of Time and 24 Hours in the life of a Swiss Cuckoo Clock. The former focuses on the history of timekeeping and highlights dozens of rare and exquisite pieces (including pieces from the Seddiqi private collection), while the latter presents some truly interesting, and odd timekeeping devices for your home. The DWW horological panels have been fantastic. We tried to be first in line for each one. Keep up with Dubai Watch Week on Instagram and other social media channels via #DubaiWatchWeek. To learn more about Dubai Watch Week, click here. Howdy! Want to discuss something? Leave us a comment. Cancel reply Subscribe to Horology Middle East Enter your email address and receive notifications about new posts by email. Enter your email address and receive notifications of new posts by email. Copyright 2017 Horology Middle East. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line671
__label__cc	0.663528	0.336472	THE OSTOMIES IN PATIENTS WITH NONMETASTATIC COLON CANCER. A QUALITY OF LIFE PROSPECTIVE STUDY Paula Popa (1,2), C. Pleşa (2), C.N. Neacşu (2), D. Vintilă (2), T. Ţăranu (2), Liliana Forţu (2), Şt. O. Georgescu (2) (1) PhD student, „Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iaşi (2) Second Surgical Clinic, „St Spiridon” University Hospital Iaşi „Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iaşi Jurnalul de chirurgie 2011; 7 (2): 178-187 Full text: Format PDF (Română/Romanian) Background. Colorectal cancer has a high incidence and 20% from these cases are admitted with complications. Unfortunately, these complications constrain frequently the surgeon to making a stoma. Material and method. During three years, between 2008 and 2010, we performed a prospective cohort study on 43 consecutive patients with nonmetastatic colon cancer surgically stomized in two surgical departments from University Hospital „Sf. Spiridon” Iaşi, Romania. The documented nonmetastatic colon cancer prior to surgery was the main selection criteria. Preoperatively the subjects answered to the items of the EORTC QLQ-C30 version 3.0 questionnaire. The stomized patiens with nonmetastatic colon cancer remained in study. A new interview based on EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire after three months from the initial surgery represented the recruitment endpoint. There were 31 men (72.1%) and 12 women (27.9%) with mean age 64.8±9.34 years (range 47 to 85 years). The reconstructive surgery was performed in 12 patients. The quality of life (QoL) of these subjects was measured again after three months from the reconstructive procedure. We assessed the following independent variables: gender, age, comorbidities, time between hospital admission and surgical procedure, tumor site, surgical procedure, ostomy type and chemotherapy. Results. After three months from the ostomy we registered a significant increase in global health status (QL), physical functioning (PF), role functioning (RF), emotional functioning (EF) and cognitive functioning (CF). Only social functioning remained insignificantly changed. A comparison between the registered QL and functioning scales with the reference scores showed the significant lower levels of the QoL after ostomy, excepting the CF. The symptoms scale was significantly improved after surgery with no significant differences from the EORTC reference values. The unresectable tumors and the ileostomy were the main variables correlate with a decrease in QoL status. In our sample, the EF and SF were the most affected functions. The statistical analysis on the patients with reconstructive surgery showed a significant increase in QoL status and the compensation of the previous lower levels of the EF and SF. Conclusions. The ostomies save the life of the patients with nonmetastatic complicated colon cancer and lead to the symptoms remission, but some problems regarding the adaptation at this undesired condition remain outstanding. Especially the patient with fixed ostomies requires the help from a psychologist and stomatherapist. KEY WORDS: QUALITY OF LIFE, COLON CANCER, ILEOSTOMY, COLOSTOMY Correspondence to: Dr. Paula Popa, Second Surgical Clinic, „St Spiridon” University Hospital Iaşi, B-dul Independenţei nr. 1, Iaşi, România, 700111	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line678
__label__wiki	0.5947	0.5947	In Tune > Arts > Composers and Their Poets: Hector Berlioz by Maureen Buja \| February 24th, 2017 standard Composers and Their Poets: Hector Berlioz February 24, 2017 By Interlude0 Comments Drawing of Berlioz conducting a choir, by Gustave Doré, 1850 Hector Berlioz ((1803-1869) is known for his monumental orchestral works, for his utter command of orchestration, and for his gothic horror in the Symphonie fantastique. We often forget, however, that he was also known for his songs. In a rare case where the writing of the song was contemporary with the appearance of the poetry, we have Berlioz’ Les nuits d’été (The Nights of Summer). The poet was his friend and neighbour, Théophile Gautier, and the songs were made from poems chosen from the collection La comédie de la mort (The Comedy of Death). The poems were published in 1838 and the songs in 1841, but it is thought that Berlioz had already begun working on the songs before the poems were published, having seen them in manuscript. Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) came to Paris in 1814 from southwestern France. Illness kept him out of school and he largely was educated by his father, becoming a Latin scholar. While in school, he became a life-long friend of the poet Gérard de Nerval and, through him, met the leading dramatist of the day, Victor Hugo. Hugo remained a great influence on Gautier. Gautier’s writings were also influenced by his love for travel, and in addition to his poetry and journalism, he was also known for his travel writing, it being considered some of the best from the nineteenth century. Théophile Gautier, by Nadar c1856-1 In his La comédie de la mort collection, Gautier takes on the theme of death. Although the Romantics viewed death as a chance to begin a new life, for Gautier, death was the ultimate finality. The poems that Berlioz chose, however, are not all about death as the ending. The first poem, Villanelle (Quand viendra la saison nouvelle – When the new season comes), is a song of love and spring – a night of summer, indeed. The second song, Le spectre de la rose, is about death, but that of a rose, who threatens the woman who carried it with haunting her with its scent – it’s really, however, about love, for the rose is proud to have died to be carried by HER. Berlioz: Les nuits d’été: No. 2. Le Spectre de la rose (Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; James Levine, cond.) And so we go, each song a bit more serious, a bit darker. In the end, we have a boat song, a Barcarolle. Since the boat has only angels for sailors, we must assume that this is the young woman’s funeral barge. She is asked where she wants to go – and all the world is a possibility: the Baltic or the island of Java? She however, asks to go only to the unknown island: the Land of Love. No. 6. L’île inconnue When Berlioz discovered Romanticism, he started with, of all people, Shakespeare. He moved through the English Romantic, including Lord Byron, and from France, he took up Victor Hugo, Gérard de Nerval and their friend Théophile Gautier. Arts, In tune, Spotlight Composers and their Poets: Schubert I Composers and their Poets: Schubert II Composers and Their Poets: Schubert III Composers and Their Poets: Schubert IV Composers and Their Poets: Schubert V Composers and Their Poets: Schubert VI Composers and their Poets: Beethoven I Composers and their Poets: Beethoven II Composers and their Poets: Schumann I Composers and Their Poets: Schumann II Composers and Their Poets: Wolf I Composers and Their Poets: Wolf II Composers and Their Poets: Wolf III Composers and their Poets: Amy Beach Composers and Their Poets: Debussy I Composers and Their Poets: Debussy II Composers and their Poets: Schoenberg I Composers and their Poets: Schoenberg II Composers and their Poets: Schoenberg III SQUIRE, W.H.: Miniatures for Cello and Piano From war zones to slums, meet the orchestras without borders	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line679
__label__wiki	0.834592	0.834592	Published: 0149 GMT July 01, 2019 Iran exceeds uranium stockpile limit under nuclear deal president.ir Zarif: European plan to bypass US sanctions falls short Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Monday that Iran has exceeded a limit on its enriched uranium reserves set by a 2015 nuclear deal with major powers. "Iran has crossed the 300-kilogram limit based on its plan," Zarif said. "We have clearly said what we will do and we will act accordingly. We deem it as part of our rights under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action," he added, referring to the official name of the nuclear deal. “If Europeans do what they have to do, our measures are reversible,” Zarif said. The International Atomic Energy agency (IAEA) said that its inspectors were verifying whether Iran had accumulated more enriched uranium than allowed. Last Wednesday, the IAEA verified that Iran had roughly 200 kg of low-enriched uranium, just below the deal’s 202.8 kg limit. A quantity of 300 kg of UF6 (uranium hexafluoride) corresponds to 202.8 kg of low-enriched uranium. Under terms of the nuclear deal, Iran agreed to have less than 300 kilograms of uranium enriched to a maximum of 3.67%. Previously, Iran enriched as high as 20%. It also held up to 10,000 kilograms of the higher-enriched uranium. Zarif also said that Iran remained on track to raise its enrichment if Europe did not take any additional steps toward saving the accord. “The next step is about the 3.67% limitation, which we will implement too,” he warned. The deal between Iran and six world powers lifted most international sanctions against Iran in return for restrictions on its nuclear work. Iran says its nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes, including generating power. After talks on Friday in Vienna, Iran said European countries had offered too little in the way of trade assistance to persuade it to back off from its plan to exceed the limit, a riposte to US President Donald Trump’s decision last year to quit the deal and reimpose economic sanctions. In response to the US measures, Tehran announced in May it would abandon some of the limits on its nuclear activities imposed under the deal, threatening to give up two others by July 7 if the other signatories to the accord do not help it break the US embargo. The EU said Friday after a crisis meeting aimed at salvaging a landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers that the INSTEX payment mechanism was finally "operational" and that the first transactions were being processed. Trade channel not enough ILNA Zarif said Monday that the mechanism set up by European powers to help Iran skirt US sanctions will be of limited use but it has highlighted a welcome distance between Washington and its allies. "Although it does not meet the demands of the Islamic Republic, (or) Europeans' obligations... it has a strategic value (in showing) that the closest allies of the United States are distancing themselves from America in their economic relations," Zarif said. "This will certainly have long-term effects," he added, during a speech broadcast on Iranian television. Britain, France and Germany launched the special payment system in late January to support transactions in the pharmaceutical, medical and agricultural-food sectors. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Sunday that another seven European countries will also join the non-dollar trade channel. INSTEX is seen as key to EU efforts to preserve the deal but its promise of easing the bite of sanctions, which have cut Iran off from the international financial system and decimated its oil exports, has been slow to materialize. In May, Washington piled pressure on Tehran by ordering all countries to halt imports of Iranian oil, and tensions have been growing in the Persian Gulf ever since. Washington has dispatched extra forces to the Middle East, and US fighter jets came within minutes of conducting airstrikes on Iran last month after Tehran downed an unmanned American drone. Zarif reiterated that Iran would not bow to foreign pressure. “Iran will never yield to pressure from the United States ... If they want to talk to Iran, they should show respect … Never threaten an Iranian ... Iran has always resisted pressure, and has responded with respect when respected,” He said. Trump has called for negotiations with Iran with “no preconditions”, but Tehran has ruled out talks until the United States returns to the nuclear pact and drops its sanctions. Reuters, AFP and AP contributed to this story. nuclear deal Mogherini: Preserving Iran nuclear deal ‘joint responsibility’ UK ‘piracy’ won’t go unanswered: Leader Zarif: Door 'wide open' to negotiation if Trump lifts sanctions Rouhani: Iran ready to talk 'right now' if US lifts sanctions President: We are always ready for talks EU supports Iraq-proposed regional conference on US-Iran tensions US sanctions: Threat or opportunity for Iran? Fareed Zakaria: Trump's Iran policy has killed far beyond 150 Iranians EU: Non-EU states to join Iran trade system	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line684
__label__wiki	0.928434	0.928434	Rouhani warns Britain about 'consequences' of Iranian tanker seizure President: Iran’s nuclear responses gradual but exponential President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday Britain would face “consequences” over the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker. Iran has demanded the immediate release of the Grace 1, which British Royal Marines boarded off Gibraltar last week and seized on suspicion that it was breaking European Union sanctions by taking oil to Syria. Iran condemned the illegal seizure as “maritime piracy” and summoned the British ambassador on three occasions to convey its protest at the confiscation. “You (Britain) are the initiator of insecurity and you will realize the consequences later,” Rouhani said at a cabinet meeting. Rouhani called the action “very juvenile, heinous, and wrongful” and “to their [Britain’s] detriment,” noting that all international efforts should instead be focused on ensuring maritime security. “Now you are so hopeless that, when one of your tankers wants to move in the region, you have to bring your frigates (to escort it) because you are scared. Then why do you commit such acts (seizure)? You should instead allow navigation to be safe,” Rouhani said. Rouhani further said the British forces took the move “on someone else’s behalf,” referring to various accounts, including a statement by Spain’s Foreign Ministry, which have revealed that the UK carried out the confiscation at the United States’ behest. He noted that the UK seized the vessel inside a territory, which itself has seized from Spain, adding that the people of Spain had deplored the move, too. Iran nuclear reactions Rouhani said Iran’s decision to increase uranium enrichment would produce fuel for power plants and serve other peaceful aims, and that it was within the framework of Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. He was speaking a day after European powers accused Iran of “pursuing activities inconsistent with its commitments” under the nuclear deal and called for an urgent meeting of the parties to the agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). “You (Europeans) do not need to worry about Iran, your concern must be over the United States, which has violated this whole commitment and undermined international obligations,” Rouhani said. Britain, Germany, France, Russia, China and Iran are the remaining parties to the deal as the United States abandoned last year. Iran initiated the countermeasures in May in reaction to the US withdrawal from the 2015 agreement. The responses were also meant to prompt the European parties to the deal to fulfill their side by offsetting the US bans. The countermeasures have seen Tehran surpassing the 3.67-percent cap set by the deal on the level of its uranium enrichment, and the 130-ton ceiling placed on its heavy water reservoir. Iran accepted the limits voluntarily as part of the deal, despite not being obligated by the UN nuclear watchdog to commit to any such restrictions. “They do not provide any reason why Iran should not engage in enrichment. They just say it is bad or Iranians’ intention is bad,” Rouhani said. He also raised questions about the claim that enrichment — which carries a multitude of peaceful medicinal and technological benefits — is “bad for Iran and good for others.” The president also said Iran’s responses to others’ refusal to honor their nuclear commitments “will be gradual, but exponential.” He, however, said the primary objective sought by the countermeasures is to invite others to preserve the agreement and respect international conventions, referring to the fact that the deal has been approved in the form of a UN Security Council resolution and has to be abided by accordingly. Rouhani further referred to Israel’s “concerns” about the agreement. He cited Tel Aviv’s own admission that it had pressured Washington into leaving the JCPOA. “If an agreement should worry the regional Muslims’ worst enemy, namely the Zionists, it must be a powerful agreement.” Reuters and Press TV contributed to this report.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line685
__label__cc	0.519557	0.480443	Education CBD Society of Cannabis Clinicians My CBD Store Sourcing CBD: Marijuana, Industrial Hemp & the Vagaries of Federal Law Marijuana Not Monoculture! Dr. Bonni Goldstein: Cannabis Therapeutics Published by Michael at May 9, 2017 By Martin A. Lee on March 28, 2016 What are the best plants for extracting and making high quality CBD-rich oil? Marijuana, industrial hemp, both? Let’s cut through the legal mumbo jumbo, the obfuscating nomenclature, and the marketing hype and let’s look at what’s really out there for sourcing CBD-rich oil. In the cannabis world there are two types of plants, broadly categorized—hemp plants and drug plants. Hemp plants include plants grown for fiber and plants grown for seed oil. Drug plants include euphoric THC-rich plants and non-euphoric CBD-rich plants. The key difference between hemp plants and drug plants is resin content. Most hemp plants are low-resin plants. Drug plants are high-resin plants. Industrial hemp varieties are typically a low-resin agricultural crop, grown from pedigree seed, with about one hundred tall, skinny plants per square meter, machine harvested and manufactured into a multitude of products. Drug plants are a high-resin horticultural crop, typically grown from asexually reproduced clones, 1 to 2 plants per square meter, hand-harvested, dried, trimmed and cured. Resin Rules Federal law originally defined marihuana in terms of resin content. Resin was mentioned no less than three times in the definition of “marihuana” encoded in the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, which was lifted word-for-word from the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act: The term “marihuana” means all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L. [sic], whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resinextracted from any part of such plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such plant, its seeds or resin. Such term does not include the mature stalks of such plant, fiber produced from such stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of such plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such mature stalks (except the resin extracted therefrom), fiber, oil or cake, or the sterilized seed of such plant which is incapable of germination. In plain English, this says that certain parts of the plant (“mature stalk” and “sterilized seed”) are exempt from the legal definition of marijuana. But not included in this exemption are the flowers, the leaves, and the sticky resin wherever it is found on the plant. Federal law was unequivocal on this point: the resin from any part of the marijuana plant, or any “preparation” made from the resin, is strictly out of bounds. Fiber produced from hemp stalk and oil pressed from hempseed got a legal pass, but not the resin. The Feds didn’t want anyone messing with the resin. As far as medicinal and recreational cannabis goes, the resin is where the action is. The resin contains THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (cannabidiol), along with dozens of other secondary plant metabolites (primarily other cannabinoids and terpenoids) that augment human brain chemistry and alleviate physiological and psychological distress. The sticky, gooey cannabis resin is sequestered within the heads of tiny, mushroom-shaped trichomes, found mainly on the plant’s odiferous female flowers (the buds) and to a lesser extent on the leaves. There are also the measly sessile trichomes, which dot the stalk of the hemp plant, but these contain hardly any resin. Non-glandular hairs shaped like tiny inverted commas also cover the plant’s surface. Among low resin hemp varietals, dioecious oilseed plants (for making nutritional oil, body care and industrial products) have a higher density of trichomes than monoecious fiber hemp plants. Hempseed oil is not the same as CBD-rich oil extracted from the flowers and leaves of the plant. Oil pressed from hempseed contains no CBD, no THC, no plant cannabinoids to speak of, but it’s excellent for making varnish, paint, soap, nutraceuticals, and much more. HEMP SOWN FOR FIBER HEMP SOWN FOR SEED OR GRAIN KENTUCKY CBD: HEMP OR MARIJUANA? HIGH-RESIN DRUG PLANTS The THC Trap Right from the start, the Feds assumed that resin content was the key factor that distinguished marijuana from industrial hemp. Today, however, federal law includes a recently added caveat that officially characterizes industrial hemp as having no more than 0.3 percent THC by dry weight. Such a tiny amount of THC would not have a euphoric (or dysphoric) effect. Where did the 0.3 percent THC figure come from? It stems from a 1976 taxonomic report by Canadian plant scientists Ernest Small and Arthur Cronquist, who never intended for 0.3 percent THC to function as a legal demarcation between hemp and other forms of cannabis. But that’s exactly what has happened. The Drug Enforcement Administration opened this can of worms when it tried to ban hemp food products, including nutrient-dense hempseed oil, even though these products are about as psychoactive as a baked potato. On October 9, 2001, the DEA published an “Interpretative Rule,” which stated that “any product that contains any amount of THC is a schedule I controlled substance.” But this ungainly attempt to destroy hemp food commerce in America would falter thanks to the efforts of the Hemp Industries Association (HIA), which engaged in protracted litigation against the DEA. The HIA scored a major victory in February 2004 when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the DEA’s hemp food ban on substantive grounds. The legal status of CBD was not affected by this court decision. The Controlled Substances Act remained the law of the land. Yet CBD hemp oil purveyors would often cite the Feb 2004 court ruling as the basis for asserting that their products are “legal in all 50 states.” This court decision, however, never mentions CBD, and the HIA and Joe Sandler, the HIA’s lead attorney in the case, maintain that this ruling did not legalize CBD. The Farm Bill Nor did the 2004 court decision (HIA, et al. v DEA, et al.) mention a specific percentage of THC as a determinative factor regarding what’s permissible in industrial hemp. It wasn’t until ten years later with the passage of the Federal Farm Bill, otherwise known as the Agricultural Act of 2014, that the ‘0.3 percent THC or less’ qualification for hemp was enshrined into federal law. Section 7606 of the Agricultural Act defined “industrial hemp” for the first time in U.S. history and distinguished it from marijuana. Cannabis was hemp, not marijuana, as long as no part of the plant (including the leaves and flowers) exceeded a THC concentration of “more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.” Resin was not mentioned in Section 7606 of the Farm Bill, which also carved out a legal exception for growing industrial hemp in the United States under the auspices of state-approved pilot research programs. This loophole opened up huge opportunities for industrial hemp advocates and entrepreneurs. Whereas previously only products made from hemp grown abroad could be marketed in the United States, for the first time in many years American farmers were allowed to cultivate industrial hemp on domestic soil, albeit on a provisional basis. But only states that legalized industrial hemp farming could opt into this federally sanctioned agricultural experiment. Growing industrial hemp outside the parameters of state-sanctioned pilot research is still forbidden under federal law. Bluegrass CBD Kentucky, an early 19th century hemp-growing bastion, was the first state to launch a multifaceted, federally approved pilot program to study the feasibility of farming fiber hemp and hemp for seed oil, as well as farming CBD-rich plants for medicinal oil extraction. It is currently legal under state and federal law for certain licensed Kentuckians to breed, cultivate, and harvest industrial hemp, formulate products, including CBD-rich oil concentrates, and ship these products across state lines. Because Kentucky chose to operate within the context of a federally sanctioned agricultural program, local hemp farmers could access certified, pedigree seed stock from official European and Canadian sources after obtaining a Controlled Substances Import & Export Permit from the DEA. A pedigree seed supply is crucial to maintain the uniformity and consistency of a large-scale, machine-harvested crop. Today there are hundreds of cultivars available to meet the global demands for many industrial hemp products. But industrial hemp varieties are not optimal for extracting CBD-rich oil. So Kentucky farmers sought out high-resin, CBD-rich drug plants from sources in states where cannabis is legal for therapeutic use. Bluegrass ambassadors visited CBD-rich clone repositories in Northern California and returned to Kentucky with cuttings of high-resin cannabis strains, including “ACDC,” which tips the scales at twenty percent CBD and roughly one percent THC by dry weight. By comparison, some oilseed hemp varieties weigh in at about 3.5 percent CBD max with hardly any THC, while low resin fiber hemp has even less CBD. ACDC is the prototypical high-resin, non-euphoric, drug-type cannabis plant. It’s an excellent source of CBD-rich oil, far more prodigious than any internationally certified industrial hemp cultivar or hemp/marijuana hybrid. But ACDC does not legally qualify as industrial hemp because it slightly exceeds 0.3 percent THC by dry weight. Colorado Cowboys ACDC and a number of other high-CBD/low-THC cannabis strains are also being grown in Colorado under the guise of that state’s putative industrial hemp program. But Colorado’s fledgling hemp industry is not compliant with Section 7606 of the Agricultural Act of 2014. Instead of growing hemp for research purposes as part of a federally sanctioned pilot initiative, Colorado leapfrogged official protocol and went straight to large-scale commercial cultivation. Thus, while it’s legal under state law to grow industrial hemp, make hemp products, and distribute these products within Colorado, federal law prohibits the cross-border transport and sale of Colorado hemp oil products. CBD is not legal in all 50 states, but that hasn’t stopped several Colorado start-ups (and others) from marketing CBD-rich “hemp” oil to all 50 states and beyond. Some farmers in Colorado are actually growing high-resin, CBD-rich drug plants and calling it hemp. These “hemp” growers typically harvest their crop several weeks before maturity (i.e., before peak resin content) to keep the THC level at 0.3 percent or less. But sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. Last year, Ryan Loflin, a Colorado farmer, was forced to destroy his entire crop because it tested at 0.5 percent THC, a smidgen over the arbitrary legal limit. This tragicomic episode underscores the folly of defining hemp, as distinct from marijuana, according to a precise THC percentage. Whether ACDC or any other high-resin, non-euphoric, CBD-rich cannabis strain measures slightly above or slightly below the 0.3 percent THC limit won’t make any appreciable difference in terms of the quality of the CBD-rich oil extract or its therapeutic impact. Industrial Hemp Revival Joy Beckerman, president of Hemp Ace International, a Seattle-based consulting firm, teaches a class for law students on “The Curious Legal Status of CBD and Industrial Hemp-Derived Cannabinoids.” An industrial hemp entrepreneur and advocate for the past 25 years, Beckerman recognizes that cannabidiol has played a key role in jump-starting the creation of new infrastructure for hemp’s vast oilseed and fiber industries. Simply put, huge interest in CBD’s medicinal potential is the main reason why industrial hemp is growing again in the United States. “I see the revenue that can be immediately generated by the hemp CBD market as leading to the funding of an extensive domestic infrastructure for processing hemp fiber and seed into tens of thousands of natural and manufactured products, as well as CBD oil,” says Beckerman. Project CBD applauds the fact that cannabidiol has helped to liberate industrial hemp from the confines of the drug abuse paradigm. Catalyzed by CBD, today’s industrial hemp revival in the United States is a major step forward that bodes well ecologically and economically. But it also highlights ongoing problems related to cannabis prohibition. CBD has undoubtedly helped to loosen federal law with respect to industrial hemp. But current federal law prohibits American farmers from growing high-resin CBD-rich drug plants that narrowly exceed the 0.3 percent THC limit, even though these high-resin cannabis plants are much better suited for extracting CBD-rich oil than low-resin industrial hemp. Cannabis oil should be safely extracted without using toxic solvents and it should be formulated into high quality products with no artificial ingredients, chemical preservatives, poisonous thinning agents, or corn syrup. If a large CBD-rich oil yield is the goal, then it makes little sense to decide whether a plant qualifies as a worthy source of CBD on the basis of THC content. To be clear: The best source of whole plant, CBD-rich oil is high-resin, CBD-rich cannabis—regardless of minor THC variations—that is sustainably grown without the use of pesticides or plant growth regulators. Bottom-line economics, however, may argue in favor of massive acres of seed-germinated, machine-harvested industrial hemp with 3.5 percent CBD, rather than a much smaller number of high resin cannabis plants, grown from clones, with 20 percent CBD by dry weight. Unlike with medicinal cannabis gardens, there are no plant limits for industrial hemp. For many hemp farmers around the world, CBD oil is actually a co-product or byproduct of industrial hemp grown primarily for another purpose. Farmers can make additional money if they sell their unused hemp biomass to a business that wants to extract CBD from the leftovers. This ‘dual-use’ practice is widespread among large-scale hemp growers in Canada, for example, but it’s technically illegal, entirely unregulated, and the hemp biomass sold via underground channels is often tainted with pesticides and requires toxic solvents to extract the CBD. Hemp Oil Issues If grown outdoors in tested soil and carefully processed, industrial hemp can be a viable source of CBD. But it is not an optimal source of CBD-rich oil for several reasons. Industrial hemp typically contains far less cannabidiol than high-resin, CBD-rich cannabis, and huge amounts of skimpy hemp foliage are required to extract a small amount of CBD. This raises the risk of contaminants as hemp is a bio-accumulator, meaning the plant draws toxins from the soil. That’s an excellent property for phyto-remedial purposes, but it’s not so great for making ingestible medicinal oil concentrates. Heavily refined CBD paste derived from industrial hemp foliage is poor starter material for formulating CBD-rich oil products. Both the imported hemp paste and the products infused with “pure” hemp-derived CBD powder that proliferate online typically include a thinning agent, which dilutes the oil that is heated and inhaled by vape pen users. Medical patients should beware of vape pen oil that contains propylene glycol as a thinning agent. When overheated, this chemical additive produces formaldehyde, a carcinogen, as a byproduct, according to a 2015 report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Why do so many vape oil products contain this thinning agent? It’s because of the dubious quality of the extracted material from which these unregulated vape oil products are made. Products with heavily processed “pure” CBD derived from industrial hemp lack the full spectrum of aromatic terpenes and other cannabinoids found in high-resin drug plants. These compounds interact synergistically with CBD and THC to enhance their therapeutic effects. Scientific research shows that whole plant CBD-rich cannabis oil has a broader range of therapeutic attributes and greater therapeutic efficacy than single-molecule CBD. As far as current federal law goes, any CBD-rich plant that exceeds 0.3 percent THC is considered marijuana and is therefore off limits for growing and extracting. But the Feds are much more lenient when it comes to pharmaceutical THC. Single-molecule THC (sold as “Marinol”) is a Schedule III drug available by prescription in all 50 states, even though it makes one as high as a kite. Schedule III is reserved for therapeutic substances with low abuse potential. Whole plant cannabis, meanwhile, continues to be classified as a dangerous Schedule I drug with no medical value. Single-molecule compounds are the preferred domain of Big Pharma, which favors patentable isolates over “crude” whole plant synergies. It’s only a matter of time before the Food and Drug Administration gives a thumbs-up to synthetic, single-molecule, pharmaceutical CBD. The FDA, however, is generally not in the business of approving plants as medicines (though there are a few exceptions). The FDA’s single-molecule tilt reflects a cultural and political bias that privileges corporate pharmaceuticals. Single-molecule medicine is the predominant corporate way, the Big Pharma way, but it’s not the only way, and there’s scant evidence that it’s the best way to benefit from cannabis therapeutics. The FDA Chimes In On February 4, 2016, the FDA issued warning letters to eight CBD hemp oil retailers for making unproven medical claims about 22 different hemp-derived CBD products. The FDA also tested these products for CBD content and found some that contained no cannabidiol. This was the second round of FDA warning letters sent to CBD hemp oil businesses for product mislabeling. Some of the same products that had been previously identified as containing no CBD were still being hawked by unscrupulous internet storefronts. Exposing fraud is necessary and laudable on the part of the FDA. That’s what a regulatory agency should do to protect vulnerable consumers. Over the years, however, the FDA has undermined its own credibility by marching in lockstep to the drug war drumbeat. On April 20, 2006, for example, the FDA dissed medical marijuana by issuing an advisory memo, which repeated the official fiction that cannabis is both dangerous and therapeutically useless. Under the current regulatory regime, a product can’t be marketed as a medicine unless the FDA approves it as safe and effective for a specific condition. But FDA approval is no guarantee of safety or efficacy. Big Pharma, like Big Tobacco, routinely falsifies studies by hiding clinical trial data about adverse side effects and negative outcomes. And all too often, the FDA handles corporate criminals with kid gloves. Limited by single-molecule dogma and allergic to plant compounds that can’t be patented, Big Pharma is way behind the curve with respect to cannabis therapeutics. For all its billions, Big Pharma hasn’t done much for children with intractable epilepsy. Little Charlotte Figi in Colorado, featured on CNN, wasn’t helped by Big Pharma. It was oil from a resinous CBD-rich cannabis plant that stopped her chronic seizures and saved her life. The Seven Percent Solution Charlotte’s Web, the CBD-rich strain that does wonders for children with Dravet’s Syndrome, isn’t a FDA-approved pharmaceutical. It came from marijuana growers in Colorado, where medicinal cannabis is legal. A lab analysis of Charlotte’s Web from ROC [Realm of Caring] Labs, dated October 16, 2013, reports the total CBD content at 7.28 percent and THC at 0.24 percent. These numbers suggest that Charlotte’s Web might be a cross between high-resin cannabis and industrial hemp. For marketing purposes, however, Charlotte’s Web was promoted as hemp and nothing but hemp. Rumors abound regarding the origins of this strain. Its CBD content is about the same as CBD levels in certain offshoots of ‘Finola,’ a leading industrial hemp cultivar bred for nutritional seed protein and seed oil by Jace Callaway, an American medical chemist who lives in Finland. “We reliably measured CBD in ‘Finola’ samples up to eight percent in open pollinated field conditions (individual plants), but the field average is just between 3-4 percent,” Callaway told Project CBD, adding: “’Finola’ typically has a 1:15 ratio of THC to CBD. Some individual plants can be isolated and cloned from ‘Finola’ with much higher ratios . . . These are now all over the place.” GW Pharmaceuticals, a British firm at the forefront of developing cannabis-based medications, utilizes a proprietary cultivar known as ‘Grace,’ which measures around seven percent cannabidiol and sub-0.3 percent THC. ‘Grace’ is grown outdoors in the United Kingdom. Bucking the Big Pharma trend while establishing a foothold in that sphere, GW is researching whole plant CBD-THC combinations, as well as cannabis-derived isolates. Seven percent CBD is not nearly as attractive as twenty percent CBD (the California standard) if the goal is to grow and harvest cannabis for maximum CBD-rich oil production. European and North American botanists, accordingly, have set their sights on breeding a stable politically correct seed line with a CBD level that tops the charts and barely any THC so that it technically qualifies as industrial hemp under federal law. When it comes to CBD-rich oil production, the 0.3 percent THC legal limit is an absurd, impractical, resin-phobic relic of reefer madness. It has become the lynchpin of cannabis prohibition, a venal, dishonest policy that impedes medical research and blocks patient access to valuable therapeutic options, including herbal extracts with various CBD:THC ratios. For patients struggling with a wide range of conditions, CBD and THC work best together, enhancing each other’s beneficial effects. Thus far, twenty-three U.S. states have enacted medical marijuana laws and 17 states have passed versions of ’CBD-only’ laws that ostensibly permit the therapeutic use of high CBD/low THC products. None of the ‘CBD-only’ states, except for Kentucky, are in compliance with federal law regarding industrial hemp. There’s no consensus as to the proper THC limit for industrial hemp: North Carolina puts it at 0.9 percent; in Texas, it’s 0.5 percent. Each state government sets its own dysfunctional rules. Some states limit the sources of CBD-rich products and specify a narrow range of conditions for which CBD can be used; others do not. Leading advocates for ‘CBD-only’ laws have argued that this legislation is a crucial first step toward full-fledged legalization of medical marijuana. Thus far, however, there have been no such advances in any states that passed ‘CBD-only’ laws. Most patients are not well served by ‘CBD-only’ laws. They need access to a wide spectrum of whole plant cannabis remedies, not just low THC products. Confucius once said that to change society one must start by calling things by their real names. If maximizing CBD-rich oil output for product formulation is the objective and the best plant sources are federally illegal because of a minuscule amount of THC, then perhaps it’s time to call things by their real name. It’s not industrial hemp that’s growing when American farmers harvest their cannabis crops before full maturity to minimize THC content. These are high-resin, CBD-rich drug plants, albeit the non-euphoric kind—in essence, marijuana that doesn’t make you feel high. And marijuana is still prohibited under federal law. Martin A. Lee is the director of Project CBD and the author of Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana—Medical, Recreational and Scientific. Sourcing CBD — Summary: 1. Huge interest in the medicinal potential of CBD has catalyzed a rebirth of industrial hemp in the United States. 2. There are two types of cannabis plants, broadly speaking — low resin hemp plants and high resin drug plants. Low-resin industrial hemp includes plants grown for fiber and for seed oil. High resin drug plants include euphoric THC-rich plants and non-euphoric CBD-rich plants. 3. Industrial hemp is not an optimal source of CBD-rich oil. 4. Federal law prohibits American farmers from growing high-resin CBD-rich drug plants that narrowly exceed 0.3 percent THC, even though these high-resin cannabis plants are much better suited for extracting CBD-rich oil than low-resin industrial hemp. 5. The 0.3 percent THC federal legal limit for industrial hemp is an aribitrary, impractical, scientifically baseless distinction designed to maintain marijuana prohibition, a disreputable policy built on a mountain of lies. 6. American farmers in Colorado and elsewhere are growing high resin CBD-rich marijuana and calling it hemp. These “hemp” growers typically harvest their crop early to minimize THC content. 7. Colorado start-ups are marketing CBD-rich oil to all 50 states, despite the fact that federal law bans the cross-border transport and sale of Colorado cannabis oil products. CBD is not legal in all 50 states. 8. The Federal Farm Bill of 2014 carved out an exemption for growing and marketing industrial hemp under the auspices of state-approved pilot research programs, but only one state thus far implemented such a program. Licensed farmers in Kentucky are currently allowed to breed, cultivate, and harvest industrial hemp, formulate products, including CBD-rich oil concentrates, and ship these products across state lines. 9. For many hemp farmers in Canada and Europe, CBD oil extraction is actually a co-product or byproduct of industrial hemp grown primarily for another purpose. Farmers earn extra money by illegally selling their leftover hemp biomass to businesses that want to extract CBD. 10. CBD and THC enhance each other’s therapeutic effects. Most medical patients need access to a wide spectrum of whole plant cannabis remedies, not just low THC products. Copyright, Project CBD. May not be reprinted without permission. Is CBD Really Non-Psychoactive? KEEPING AMERICA HIGH INC 675 N. 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__label__wiki	0.903575	0.903575	Petra Kelly (1947 – 1992) < Willy Brandt \| Enemy list \| Olof Palme > Source: PETRA KELLY : Profile of a Political Whore (New Solidarity, June 3, 1985) from lyndonlarouchewatch.org (D. King) "In 1982-83 the ELP went after Petra Kelly, leader of Germany's Green Party and a strong advocate of removing U.S. missiles from German soil. Various smear articles called her a Communist, a terrorist, and sexually promiscuous. An article entitled 'Did You See This Whore on Television?' described her alleged affairs with married men. She sued the LaRouchians for libel in New York federal court. Her attorney, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, said the LaRouchians had engaged in a 'vicious campaign that made it difficult for her to appear in public. The campaign became physical at times. They cornered her on a train, they shoved her grandmother around....They abused her most fundamental rights of privacy, dignity, physical integrity, and reputation.'" From PART FIVE: LaRouche's Private CIA at lyndonlarouche.org (Dennis King) "Another target was Petra Kelly, the late Green Party leader in Germany. Sensing that Kelly was psychologically fragile, the LaRouchians made a serious attempt to invade her personal space and create the desired aversive environment. Among other things, this included the distribution, at public meetings she attended, of smear articles calling her a Communist, a fascist, a terrorist, a witch and a "whore," and describing her alleged love affairs in lurid language. LaRouche's followers even published in 1982, in the German language edition of New Solidarity, a journalistic version of their Petra Kelly psychological profile. The article speculated that her alleged relationships with older men were the psychological result of her abandonment in childhood by a supposedly "shiftless" father. Mirroring the LaRouchian articles on Kissinger, the profile of the Green Party leader claimed that she suffered from a "heart condition," with the implication that the harassment campaign would hopefully worsen this health problem. Kelly sued the LaRouchians in U.S. federal court. Her attorney, Ramsey Clark, said they had engaged in a "vicious campaign that made it difficult for her to appear in public. The campaign became physical at times. They cornered her on a train, they shoved her grandmother around. . . . They abused her most fundamental rights of privacy, dignity, physical integrity, and reputation." At Kelly's deposition, the LaRouchians took delight in asking all about her sex life, then published an article based on her responses, boasting that she had been "reduced to a frightened infant" and "seized by prolonged fits of paranoia." Although the LaRouchians did not, in the articles I have examined, suggest that Kelly take her own life, they were clearly out to psychologically destroy her—and if they had succeeded, the outcome might well have been more serious than a brief stay in a mental hospital. In 1992, several years after the LaRouche campaign against Kelly had ended, she and her longtime partner Gert Bastian were found dead in their home of gunshot wounds: the German police concluded it had been a double suicide. The LaRouchians quickly tossed their hostility to Kelly into an Orwellian memory hole (just as Ramsey Clark had vaporized his own past support of Kelly and become a LaRouche defender). The line now was that Kelly and Bastian had been murdered by nefarious forces and that the German authorities should be pressured to conduct a more thorough investigation. This would not be the last example of LaRouchian dodging and weaving on the issue of life and death in contemporary Germany: When Jeremiah Duggan, a Jewish university student from the U.K., died while attending a LaRouche cadre school in Wiesbaden in 2003, the LaRouchians claimed it was just a suicide and strongly opposed the Duggan family's efforts to trigger a criminal investigation." From Lyndon Larouche and the art of inducing suicide (note 8) at lyndonlarouchewatch.org (Dennis King) Helmut Lorscheid & Leo A.Muller have written a book entitled Deckname: Schiller which gives background information on the Schiller Institute. The authors describe numerous Incitement Campaigns, misleading news coverage and a history of Psycho-terror. The book mentions how defamatory telephone calls and other intimidation were the norm. The Green Party was singled out for attack by the LaRouche organization. Petra Kelly (Green Party) was subjected to psycho-terror. After a meeting a woman came up to her and said "your speech was good I will kill you!" Petra Kelly was delivered with a box. Inside she found the head of a dead animal. Another time a bra dipped in blood. Petra Kelly was subjected to oppressive attacks and asked at public meetings by many people: "Did you like your present?” Petra Kelly received nightly phone calls and was constantly subjected to harassment. Further examples of harassment and attacks were described. This referred to how the LaRouche organisation placed several advertisements in prominent places after criticism was made of the Schiller Institute. Click here for extracts of the book in English. In October 1992, according to police, Petra Kelly was shot dead in Bonn while sleeping by her partner, ex-general and Green politician Gert Bastian, who then killed himself. After her murder some suspicions were raised against LaRouche/ELP (EAP) and their smear campaign against her, somewhat similar to their campaign of hatred against Olof Palme prior to his murder in 1986. Here is LaRouche's statement: EUROPEAN OPERATIONS BULLETIN FOR SATURDAY, OCT. 24, 1992 Patriots for Germany Press release MYSTERIOUS DEATHS OF KELLY/BASTIAN RIGOROUS INVESTIGATION DEMANDED Mainz, Oct. 23, 1992 — In a release. Anno Hellenbroich, member of the board of the Patriots for Germany, demanded a fast and thorough investigation of the background which led to the death of Petra Kelly and Gert Bastian. "It is unacceptable that the state attorney or the police investgators declare only hours after the corpses were found, that any outside participation could be definitely excluded. Without even waiting for the results of the long-term forensic examinations, the thesis of a suicide—for whatever motive—is supposed to be established." In this sense, the demands of several Green deputies were right, to insist on a comprehensive investigation of all possibilities which could have led to ttie violent death. Hellenbroich strongly criticized some "sufficiently known sensation-makers-like RTL-Explosiv and Radio FFH", which allowed interviewees to express liberally invented, deep suspicions regarding the EAP, without having taken the necessary journalistic precautions, to check the veracity of the claims. "I cannot accept the outrageous lie of a Mr. Dering, who presented himself as an assistant of Kelly, and spoke about murder threats of the EAP against Petra Kelly in the past, in order to thus insinuate possible perpetrators. I cannot understand how Baerbel Bohley, can spread the same lie further. Has she not had enough personal experience with the Stasi, to know better than to simply take over uninvestigated psychological warfare lies? I have already experienced a similar hate campaign once before, after the murder of Olof Palme. Since then, the responsible Stasi officer has confessed to having channelled the lies into Swedish police circles," said Hellenbroich, who was a member of the board of the EAP in 1986. "Just as we have always insisted on the need for a conclusive, thorough explanation of the circumstances which led to the death of Uwe Barschel, now every possible aspect of the criminal case regarding Kelly and Bastian must be thoroughly investigated," Hellenbroich said, "since everybody knows by now from the Stasi files to what extent secret services and political interests operating on the international plane were involved in the anti-nuclear movement." On March 29, 1985, a group of parliamentarians, including some from Die Grünen, sent the German government fifteen written questions about the EAP (ELP) and the organization's activities in Germany. More: The German government’s answers to questions about the German EAP at leopoldreport.com More: LaRouche's harassment, smear campaigns and violence... Page last modified on July 21, 2012, at 03:58 PM	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line699
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__label__wiki	0.659273	0.659273	LWE’s Top 10 Albums of 2013 10. Jonsson/Alter, 2 [Kontra-Musik] (buy) It can be difficult not to have sky high expectations for artists after their debut blows you away. That was certainly the case for Jonsson/Alter, the Swedish duo whose 2011 LP, Mod, was as captivating as it was fully formed. How could the pair not only recapture but also build upon their exceptionally dreamy take on house music without crushing the lithe simplicity that was among its greatest charms? This year’s 2 proved it was not only possible but well in Jonsson/Alter’s reach to do so, firming up and gently embellishing their fundamentals with stellar results. Tracks like “En Melodi” and “Truffa Sig” offered the deep, hypnotic warmth we’ve come to love from the pair, while the thrumming, nerve tickler “Jimi” and “Svalor”‘s graceful dramatics make crystal clear how much beauty they can bring working with more ornate arrangements. Not only is 2 a magnificent step forward for Jonsson/Alter, it’s easily one of the year’s most accomplished albums — one that has earned its place in my heart alongside its predecessor. (Steve Mizek) 09. Huerco S., Colonial Patterns [Software Records] (buy) With there being an incredible amount of high quality issues across a large spectrum of electronic music, it really seemed like 2013 was the year of the artist album. Huerco S.’s Colonial Patterns may have only come out in the last quarter of the year, but its effect was immediate and arresting. Huerco S. managed to make his debut album sound like he had spliced together a bunch of found soundtrack reel to reel tapes and dotted in the details with half-buried drums and sonic dust. Treacle thick washes of faded synths and pulsing, sidechained melodies ventured through beatless vignettes and drugged out basements, giving Colonial Patterns a hazy, dreamlike quality that few other albums could touch. (Per Bojsen-Moller) 08. Oneohtrix Point Never, R Plus Seven [Warp Records] (buy) Dan Lopatin has firmly established himself as one of those artists whose fascination with texture verges on sonic fetishism. His albums are like time capsules of numb cultural dislocation, containing found sounds or carefully curated memories, and in that aspect, R Plus Seven on Warp isn’t all that different from its predecessors. But this time, his focus are software patches and MIDI in a carefully assembled, complex attempt of a discrete mnemonic whiteout. Familiar preset instruments, choral washes, anthemic organ stabs and broken-up exotic samples are proportionally organized between bursts of silence, denuded of the narrative provided by the songs. Like a video game designer, Lopatin manipulates them away from the protective gloss of their specific past, revealing them as unbearably vulnerable, exposed, like sea creatures lured out of their virtual shell. Listening to his oeuvre, it’s been all too easy to dismiss this approach as purely gestural, and one whose effectiveness has worn thin through overuse, but quite how he makes his music sound so wonderfully alien with such simple intervention still remains a mystery as deep as ever. There’s no holding back here, no hint of compromise, and while the results often may not be pretty, there’s no doubting his commitment to a singular vision. (Dino Lalic) 07. Function, Incubation [Ostgut Ton] (buy) Easily the most eagerly awaited techno LP of 2013, Incubation saw Dave Sumner unleash his debut solo album after nearly 20 years in the game. Given Sumner’s hand in now-classic albums from Portion Reform and Sandwell District, expectations were high, and Incubation most certainly delivered. Function’s music has gotten much more cinematic over the years, a quality reflected in the record’s filmic structure and nailed with both “Voiceprint” and its reprise. The Reich-ian tones and hypnotic textures of “Counterpoint” sounded like an artist fully realizing a mature, signature sound, while the album version of “Inter” seduced with its rimshots and echoing melody. Yet fans of the rough stuff were certainly not forgotten, both with the rolling low-end and synthscapes of “Incubation (Ritual)” and the absolute monster of “Against The Wall.” Incubation‘s greatest achievement was folding it all into a memorable whole. (Chris Miller) 06. DJ Koze, Amygdala [Pampa Records] (buy) I can’t remember any album taking as long to grow on me as Koze’s Amygdala. I probably would have given up on it, in fact, were it not for my car’s CD changer, which kept sneaking the German’s bizarre ditties into my brain. And once there, they just didn’t want to leave. “Royal Asscher Cut,” and its weird hyperventilating synths, “Homesick”‘s sweet and comforting take on hip-hop, and “Das Wort,” with its elegant yet indecipherable German lyrics. I have no idea what they’re talking about, but I sing along anyway. And that’s a pretty fair metaphor for Koze’s charms as a whole: the world he inhabits is totally foreign, but he makes it seem so damn enticing that you can’t help but want to take a look, then visit regularly, then stay forever. (Nick Connellan) 05. Lawrence, Films & Windows [Dial] (buy) For a while there, it seemed like Peter Kersten’s Lawrence alias was rather adrift, lost in a sea of melancholy he’d once harnessed so thoroughly. Things started to turn around last year with the Etoile Du Midi single, but it’s his 2013 album Films & Windows that confirms Kersten is back at the top of his game. With melancholic elements brought to heel by firmer, singular grooves, Lawrence is free to paint affecting soundscapes with cinematic scopes that could command dance floors and fill a living rooms with equal ease. The strongest tracks balanced a need for aural breathing space and shifting swells of shaded synth pitches, yielding highlights like “Marlen,” “Lucifer,” and “Har Sinai” that immediately grabbed listeners’ attention. Other tracks repaid close listeners with a wealth of gorgeous details; like the way the melodies of the title track trickle down the scale like rain cascading down glass, or the slippery synth timbres of “Angels At Night” and tinkling sleighbells of “In Patagonia” that enrich the flowing motifs around them. Films & Windows would be an excellent album for any producer to release, yet its important place as a turning point in Lawrence’s discography makes his sixth album an essential slice of 2013. (Steve Mizek) 04. Marcel Fengler, Fokus By common conception, Berghain and its label arm Ostgut Ton are a dichotomy, divided into dark, pounding techno, and bright, jaunty house. That’s a reductive point of view, really, but it works well enough. So when it came time for Marcel Fengler to release an album, most of us probably expected him to follow the rules established by fellow tech-heads like Ben Klock, Marcel Dettmann and Planetary Assault Systems. But he didn’t. Sure, Fokus held a few brutal monochromatic tracks, like “The Stampede” and “Sky Pushing.” Overwhelmingly, though, the crew’s long-time dark horse used his debut long-player to air his influences, from British IDM (“High Falls”) to German trance (“Jaz”) and modern classical (“Liquid Torso”). And while these beautifully-composed trend-buckers were thrilling enough as mere ideas, it was the way Fengler threaded them all together coherently, as if they belonged, that made Fokus one of the year’s most compelling albums. (Nick Connellan) 03. Donato Dozzy, Donato Dozzy Plays Bee Mask [Spectrum Spools] (buy) Bee Mask’s Vaporware/Scanops is such a staggering achievement that tampering with it seems like a bad idea, at least at first. Granted there is some leeway when the remixer is Donato Dozzy, but cursory listens to Dozzy Plays Bee Mask reveal little of the original’s majesty. Dozzy pushes his trademark subtle repetition to the limit here, eschewing beats almost entirely (we’ll count some of his pulses as beats) and keeping the original motifs intact. Repeat listens, though, find those seemingly simple loops stealing their way into your head, and it becomes apparent what the artist is doing: holding a microscope to the original “Vaporware,” paying tribute to its smallest fragments, adjusting, caressing, and magnifying its tiniest aspects. Given the quality (and length) of the source material, he could probably do 20 more of these. (Steve Kerr) 02. Steven Tang, Disconnect to Connect [Smallville Records] (buy) Much was made about how Steven Tang took 14 years to release his debut album, and for good reason. A person’s preferences can really change in that time, so it’s surprising how well Disconnect to Connect fits together. Its avoidance of the trends of the last decade-and-a-half is less surprising. Tang spoke to LWE about how some of its tracks were left off prior EPs for not being marketable, but the record’s easy flow attests to the contrary. Tracks like “Some Solace” and “Interstice” are perfect house “album cuts,” ultra tranquil but not without a pulse; Tang easily merges them with more jacking, uptempo material like “Sunspot,” which still reclines upon placid pads. It’s undoubtedly a conservative record, but it makes a great comfort blanket. (Steve Kerr) 01. John Roberts, Fences Fences isn’t a huge leap forward from John Roberts’s sublime debut, Glass Eights. It delivered on the promise of the transitional Paper Frames EP, shedding the earlier album’s overt nods to Chicago house in order to more fully inhabit the producer’s unique sound world, one where samples ebbed and flowed between tense, heated friction and relaxed, crumbly ambience. Just when things seemed too lean to heavily on the latter, the album corrects its course, taking us in a wide arc through shuffling boogie of “Plaster” to a corker like the title track. The club hasn’t entirely disappeared from Roberts’s work, but Fences seems to make room for his new role as the jet-setting editor of The Travel Almanac, trying to create livable, domestic spaces in between time spent in transit. While Dial boss Lawrence’s Films & Windows conveyed a lucid, hardware-driven mastery of patient deep-house tropes, Fences ventured deeper into the label’s predilection for wintry, classical music–indebted timbres in an inimitable way. Rather than a total overhaul, Roberts opted for manifold small calibrations, and listeners were rewarded with his most fully realized and free-standing work yet. (Brandon Bussolini) » littlewhiteearbuds \| December 23rd, 2013 Tags: bee mask, chart, dj koze, donato dozzy, function, huerco s., john roberts, jonsson/alter, lawrence, marcel fengler, oneohtrix point never, steven tang Shawn on December 23, 2013 at 9:07 AM Thanks guys one of the best lists as always. I can’t believe it has been 5 years already since I’ve been a regular reader of LWE. Thank you all for shaping my ears to quality electronic music – I appreciate it immensely. It looks like I have to listen to that Lawrence again and I need to give the Fengler more of a try. I’ve got something like this so far (still waiting to get the Traumprinz album so I might bump one out): 25. Special Request – Soul Music [Houndstooth] 24. Steven Tang – Disconnect to Connect [Smallville] 23. Jonsson/Alter – 2 [Kontra-Musik] 22. Horror Inc. – Briefly Eternal [Perlon] 21. Cosmin TRG – Gordian [50 Weapons] 20. A Sagittariun – Dream Ritual [Elastic Dreams] 19. Matias Aguayo – The Visitor [Cómeme] 18. The Mole – Caregiver [Maybe Tomorrow] 17. Axel Boman – Family Vacation [Studio Barnhus] 16. Huerco S. – Colonial Patterns [Software] 15. Omar-S – Thank You for Letting Me Be Myself [FXHE] 14. Ñaka Ñaka – Juan Pestañas [Opal Tapes] 13. Ukkonen – The Ancient Tonalities Of… [No Pain In Pop] 12. Prince of Denmark – The Body [Forum] 11. Sven Weisemann – Inner Motions [Mojuba] 10. Function – Incubation [Ostgut Ton] 09. Patricia – Body Issues [Opal Tapes] 08. Laurel Halo – Chance of Rain [Hyperdub] 07. Gunnar Haslam – Mimesiak [L.I.E.S.] 06. James Booth – Reunion [100% Silk] 05. Blondes – Swisher [Rvng Intl.] 04. The Smoke Clears – Listen [Further Records] 03. TM404 – TM404 [Kontra-Musik] 02. Vakula – You’ve Never Been to Konotop (Selected Works 2009-2012) [Firecracker Recordings] 01. Stellar Om Source – Joy One Mile [Rvng Intl.] hs236589 on December 23, 2013 at 9:29 AM Where is Omar S ?? Tail Press on December 23, 2013 at 10:16 AM Yo where is Omar S ? from very far the best album this year. Kinovjews on December 23, 2013 at 11:41 AM Why Omar S & Kyle hall are not in the contest ??? I am surprised you did not put Richie Hawtin in your ranking…so disapointing!! My sist is a better blogger than you guys Kinovjews You can delete my post or you can just admit that this top 10 is an epic fail, Where is Omar S and Kyle Hall The Boat Party ? FUCK POLL 2013 on December 23, 2013 at 11:56 AM No doubt about it, again, these end of the year poll are a completely joke. You guys forget the 2 best LP’s of 2013 so far. But you didn’t forget Huerco S the hypster who dunno about beat matching. Never forget that people don’t give a shit about what you want them to like. Alfonso on December 23, 2013 at 12:03 PM I thought I was the only one to love Fences so much, definitely the best album of the year… I’m sure all the people complaining in the comments, or asking for Kyle Hall never took the time to hear this album… absolutely brilliant! littlewhiteearbuds on December 23, 2013 at 12:06 PM Except you, “Fuck Poll,” who cares so desperately about what we “want you to like” that you had to comment about it. #trollfail FUCK POLL 2013 on December 23, 2013 at 12:12 PM WOOOOOO You’re so quick on the draw Instead of talking about, start doing something you wanker. You’ve never went across any machine. You’re just good to talk. aa on December 23, 2013 at 3:40 PM Wait, why does a producer have to know anything about beat matching? That doesn’t seem like a particularly necessary tool in the studio, is it? James on December 23, 2013 at 4:00 PM Its the Holiday season people! Let the love in!!!!!! Good list and happy 2014 xx peter_pwn on December 23, 2013 at 5:20 PM minilogue – blomma Henderick AKA Thelonious Funk on December 23, 2013 at 9:59 PM Huerco S album is a good call along with the beauty of the John Roberts LP. Respectfully I have to say that one album that absolutely should have been mentioned should have been the Prince Of Denmark’s “The Body”. I also feel you guys should show some love to some of the albums on Opal Tapes like Patricia’s Body Issues as well. Well you will not sleep on it soon since there will be a vinyl release on the Vinyl only Black Opal imprint… Just sayin… Don’t sleep. Otherwise not a bad list. Not so sure about the allure of the Oneohtrix Point Never LP. I guess I should give it a good listen… Again… Veloziped on December 24, 2013 at 3:27 AM kyle hall is already in the top five of the best tracks. they didn’t forget him Pinker than thou on December 24, 2013 at 5:46 AM With you all the way on John Roberts. I think “fully realized and free-standing” is absolutely on the money, but seems it passed a lot of critics by for whatever reason. On the other hand I found the Function album pretty boring, but seems to have impressed quite a few heads. Hey Fuckpoll, wouldn’t you be more comfortable in the youtube comments section? You’d find a lot of like minded souls there. Comrad on December 24, 2013 at 2:41 PM I love LWE, think its one of the strongest blogs out there. I have discovered so much music from this blog so thank you. In terms of those speaking about Omar-S and Kyle hall and speaking as someone who loves both those albums, stop being little bitches!! its an opinion list, LWE can choose whoever they want and in my opinion its a solid list. If you dont like it, read something else. and beat matching has nothing to do with producing an album. One love. ATB on December 25, 2013 at 12:51 PM I like all the music here but what a sausagefest. Do women not make good music or something? Icke on December 25, 2013 at 5:49 PM Function is One of my Alltime Favs but Yeah unfortunately i didnt understand bis Album too. Good to See dozzy again in the List. And fengler. watermill village on January 5, 2014 at 5:04 PM I am so sick of the whole ‘where’s this album and that album?’ thing. there are 10 slots up there and a shit ton of amazing albums came out this year…daniel avery, axel boman, floorplan, akkord to name a few…and guess what? they’re on plenty of other lists out there! and so are kyle hall and omar-s for that matter. just be thankful daft punk isn’t up there. sheesh, people! also, glad to see lawrence get some love. that album is top shelf. LWE’s Top 10 Albums of 2013 – Littl... on December 23, 2013 at 5:24 AM The Best Music of the Year Lists from Music Blogs and Press \| That Eric Alper on December 24, 2013 at 10:08 AM […] Little White Earbuds’ Top Albums of 2013 […]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line710
__label__wiki	0.885326	0.885326	You are here: Home / Archives for Syrian Electronic Army Sky hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army May 28, 2013 by Ethical Hacker (LiveHacking.Com) – Several apps belonging to British Sky Broadcasting (Sky) have been removed from Google’s official Android app store following an attack on Sky by the Syrian Electronic Army. The SEA also hacked into one of Sky’s Twitter accounts where it urged readers to download the new defaced apps. The SEA aligns itself with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but denies they operate under the orders of his government. As part of the hack six of Sky’s Android apps where defaced by having their logos replaced with the SEA logo. Also the descriptions of the apps, which included the company’s Sky News, Sky Sports News, Sky Sports Football, Sky WiFi, Sky+ and Sky Go apps, were altered to read: “Syrian Electronic Army Was Here”. The screenshots for the apps were also replaced. The attack of a Google Play account is something new for the SEA which until now focused on breaching social media accounts of various media companies and western politicians. Normally once an account was hacked the SEA would publish false information. Last month the SEA launched an attack on AP’s twitter account and published a false tweet about the White House being bombed and President Barack Obama being injured. The tweet led to a multi-million dollar drop in the Dow. According to another Sky account: “Due to a security breach Twitter has locked down @skyhelpteam & we are currently unable to tweet from it.” A Sky spokesman told the BBC it was working to reinstate its apps now that they have been taken offline. Over the weekend, it was also reported by the Israeli press that the SEA had mounted a failed attempt to disrupt the water supply in the port city of Haifa. The Jerusalem Post said that the chairman of the Science Ministry’s National Council for Research and Development – Prof Yitzhak Ben Yisrael – revealed that earlier this month the hackers tried to damage the computers controlling the city’s infrastructure . Filed Under: Attacks, News, Security Tagged With: British Sky Broadcasting, BSkyB, SEA, Sky, Syrian Electronic Army	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line711
__label__wiki	0.668966	0.668966	Chapter 17: Punishment and Reward of Kali (1) Sûta said: "There [at the Sarasvatî river] the king observed how a s'ûdra who was dressed like a king was beating a cow and a bull with a club, as if there was no one to protect them. (2) The bull, that was as white as a lotus, terrified of being beaten by the s'ûdra urinated and trembled out of fear, standing on one leg only. (3) The cow also, on itself a religious example but now rendered poor and distressed because of the s'ûdra who beat her legs, was without a calf and had tears in her eyes while she in her weakness hankered for some grass to eat. (4) From his with gold embossed chariot Parîkchit, well equipped with bow and arrows, asked with a thundering voice: (5) 'Who are you to think that you in this place can violently kill the helpless who fall under my protection! As an actor you make a powerful appearance dressed up like a God-conscious man, but you behave like someone who never saw the light of civilization [of being twice-born]. (6) Do you think that because Lord Krishna and the carrier of the bow the Gândîva [Arjuna] have disappeared from the scene, you can secretly beat an innocent cow? Being a culprit that way you deserve it to be killed!' (7) 'And you', he said turning to the bull, 'are you just a bull that, as white as a lotus, moves on one leg and has lost three legs or are you some demigod who in the form of a bull makes us sad? (8) Except for the case of you having tears in your eyes because of someone else, under the protection [of the arms] of any of the kings of the Kuru dynasty there has never been such grievance on earth. (9) Oh son of Surabhi [the celestial cow], in my kingdom there will be no lamentation and therefore do not fear the s'ûdra, and dear mother cow, do not cry. As long as I am alive as the ruler and subduer of the envious you will fare well! (10-11) Oh chaste one, he in whose state the living beings are terrified because of miscreants, will lose his fame, longevity, fortune and good birth. It is certainly the supreme duty of the kings to subdue in order to put an end to the misery of the ones who suffer and therefore I shall kill this most wretched man who is so violent with other living beings. (12) Who is the one who has cut your three legs, oh son of Surabhi? What happened to you has never happened before in this royal state of kings who live in respect of Lord Krishna. (13) Oh bull, you are honest and without offenses, tell me therefore about him who mutilated you and tarnished the reputation of the sons of Prithâ. (14) Those who make the sinless suffer may fear me wherever they are, for I will curb the actions of the miscreants and restore the welfare of the ones who are honest. (15) The upstart who offends innocent living beings I shall forthwith defeat, whether he is a demigod from heaven with armor and decorations or not. (16) It is certainly the holy duty of the head of state to always protect the ones who faithfully perform their duty and, safely according to the scriptures, chastise those in this world who have strayed from the path.' (17) The personality of religion said: 'All you said speaking for the sake of the freedom from anxiety of those who are suffering is befitting for someone of the Pândava dynasty, the dynasty of which the qualities led Lord Krishna to behave like a servant and such. (18) Oh greatest among the human beings, because the person is bewildered as a consequence of all the differences of opinion, we cannot tell who [or what] would be the cause of all human suffering. (19) Some declare in defiance of all duality that one suffers because of one's own actions, others speak of supernatural causes, while still others say that it is all due to the operation of material nature or the consequence of accepting outside authorities. (20) Some also conclude that it is a matter which defies explanation and comprehension. Who of them would be right in this matter oh sage amongst the kings, is left to your own power of judgement.' " (21) Sûta said: "Parîkchit, who attentively had followed what the personality of religion had to say, oh best among the brahmins, mindfully replied. (22) 'You oh knower of the duties, oh dharma in the form of a bull, speak this way [of the unknown cause] only because you know that [just as it is with a guru who pointing out the karma takes the karma upon him] he who points out the culprit ends up in the position of doing wrong himself. (23) In other words: the Lord His ways with the material world cannot be put in words nor be conceived by living beings. (24) Penance, cleanliness, compassion and truthfulness [tapas, s'auca, dayâ, satya] are the legs that established the age of truth [Satya-yuga, the 'old days'], but because of irreligiosity three of them have broken in conceit, clinging to intercourse and intoxication. (25) At present, oh personality of religion, you are hobbling along on the one leg of truthfulness while quarrel personified [Kali] who flourishes on deceit, irreligiously tries to destroy that leg too. (26) Through the actions of the Supreme Lord personally mother earth has been relieved of a great burden. His all-auspicious footprints brought good fortune everywhere. (27) Lamenting with tears in her eyes the unfortunate and chaste one [mother earth] who was deserted by Him is now enjoyed by lower-class people who, devoid of the culture of learning, pose as rulers in my place.' (28) Thus the personalities of religion and mother earth were pacified by the great warrior who took up his sharp sword in order to kill Kali, the root cause of irreligion. (29) Realizing that the king wanted to kill him, Kali, stressed from the fear, abandoned his royal atire and in full surrender bowed his head down at the feet. (30) Out of compassion he who is kind to the poor and capable of handling worship with a smile refrained from killing the one who had fallen at the feet of the hero that he was, he, the hero of whom one says that he is worthy of being glorified. (31) The king said: 'Do not fear, for you have surrendered yourself with folded hands. We certainly inherited the fame of Arjuna, but that does not mean that you can be allowed to stay in my kingdom. You are a friend of irreligion after all. (32) With you physically present as a god of man, everywhere the irreligion of greed, falsehood, robbery, incivility, treachery, misfortune, cheating, quarrel and vanity and all of that will be abound in the masses. (33) For that reason, oh friend of irreligion, you do not deserve it to remain in the vicinity of those places where the experts of religion and the truth duly and expertly are of worship with sacrifices for the Lord of Sacrifices. (34) In such sacrificial ceremonies the Supreme Personality of God, the Lord, is worshiped as the Soul of all worshipable deities. In that form He spreads welfare, for He is the to all desires inviolable Supersoul who is present both inside and outside, just like the air is for all that moves and does not move.' " (35) Sûta said: "That way being addressed by king Parîkchit, the personality of Kali seeing him ready with a raised sword speaking like Yamarâja, the Lord of Death, trembled. (36) Kali said: 'Wherever I may live under your order, oh Emperor, I will always have to face the reign of your bow and arrows. (37) Therefore please, oh chief of the protectors of the religion, allot me a place where I may count on a permanent stay under your rule.' " (38) Sûta said: "Thus being petitioned, he gave Kali permission to dwell in places where the four sinful activities of gambling, drinking, prostitution and animal slaughter [dyûtam, pânam, striyah, sûnâ] were taking place. (39) Next to that the master, upon his insistent begging, allotted him the place where there is gold, for gold by passion is the fifth sin bringing falsity, intoxication, lust and enmity. (40) Thus under the direction of the son of Uttarâ the five dwelling places were given to Kali where irreligion is encouraged. (41) For that reason a person desiring his well-being should never resort to any of these places, especially not those persons who follow the path of liberation, the royalty, the state officials and the teachers. (42) By encouraging activities that restored the bull's three lost legs of austerity, cleanliness and compassion, the earth was perfectly improved [by King Parîkchit]. (43-44) The present rule we have of him; the throne that was handed over by the king, grandfather [Yudhishthhira] when he wished to withdraw into the forest. From that rule that sage among the kings and chief of the Kuru dynasty is now known in Hastinâpura as the most fortunate and famous emperor. (45) Because of this experience of the son of Abhimanyu the king, thanks to his rule over the earth, you may all now have the initiation of the performance of sacrifices like this one."	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line715
__label__wiki	0.876353	0.876353	Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s top moments, from steamy Oscars performance to ‘A Star Is Born’ audition Home 2019 February 26 Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s top moments, from steamy Oscars performance to ‘A Star Is Born’ audition admin, February 26, 2019 February 26, 2019 , Celebrity, 0 Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s chemistry is undeniable. In fact, their performance of their hit song “Shallow” from “A Star Is Born” at the Oscars was so steamy it left fans questioning whether there was potential the pair could be more than friends — a rumor the famous duo has frequently laughed off. While there may not be a romance brewing, the costars are clearly quite fond of one another. “From the moment we met, I felt a kindred spirit in him,” Lady Gaga has gushed to TIME. LADY GAGA, BRADLEY COOPER’S STEAMY OSCARS PERFORMANCE GETS REACTION FROM ACTOR’S EX-WIFE JENNIFER ESPOSITO And Cooper can’t stop singing Lady Gaga’s praises, both as a singer and an actress. He also admitted there was an instant connection, which made him feel comfortable enough to reveal his voice to the fifth highest-paid female singer in 2018, according to Forbes. “She entrusted me with giving herself so she could reveal herself to be the actress that she is … and I entrusted her that I would be able to become the musician that I was terrified to be,” Cooper explained to TIME. Here’s a look at some highlights from one of Hollywood’s most beloved friendships. First sight Cooper revealed he didn’t meet Lady Gaga until 2016 but he did come close to meeting her before then. “I never met her before. We had passed each other .. I was doing [“Weekend Update: Get in the Cage”] on “Saturday Night Live” and she was the musical guest,” Cooper told Conan O’Brien in September 2018, adding they were like “five feet from each other” years ago. Lady Gaga first caught Cooper’s eye at a cancer benefit in Los Angeles, where she performed “La Vie en Rose.” Cooper, who co-wrote and directed the remake of the 1937 film “A Star Is Born” instantly thought about “Ally,” his love interest in the movie. After the event, Cooper made a call to Lady Gaga’s agent inquiring about an impromptu audition for the part and the singer agreed, according to W Magazine. “The second that I saw him I was like, ‘Have I known you my whole life?’ It was an instant connection, instant understanding of one another.” — Lady Gaga “The second that I saw him I was like, ‘Have I known you my whole life?’ It was an instant connection, instant understanding of one another,” she told Vogue in September 2018. Lady Gaga then led Cooper to her piano and, for the first time, the two sang together. After hearing Lady Gaga sing, Cooper was convinced she was the ideal female lead and he let her know it. LADY GAGA UNRECOGNIZABLE IN ‘A STAR IS BORN’ TRAILER WITH BRADLEY COOPER Afterward, Lady Gaga offered to make Cooper spaghetti and meatballs — like a true Italian, the singer has joked in the past. No doubts Oscar nominees Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in “A Star Is Born” (AP) In November 2018, Cooper told Fox News that he had no doubt Lady Gaga would give a “brilliant” performance. We had to fight to get this movie made and so I felt early on that she was ready to put the work in to be great and to give an incredible performance,” Cooper told Fox News. “When I decided that I wanted to do the film, we hadn’t created Ally and created Jack, and really you go on an instinct — and then you hope that the work ethic is there so that you can see that instinct come to life and fruition and it can grow. She did all those things,” he added. An emotional Lady Gaga graciously accepted her second Golden Globe for best original song in January for co-writing “Shallow.” The actress later took to Instagram to extend thanks to her costar. “I didn’t get to say everything I wanted to say last night when we won, I was so overcome with emotion and of course wanted to share the mic with my co-writers. We are all so grateful Bradley loved “Shallow,” sang his heart out live, and truly the song would not be revered as it is without the brilliant film and moment Bradley created and the way he directed the moment and collaborated with us on how it would eventually be given to the world. Thank you B, and thank you Warner Bros. Thank you HFPA, we are beyond grateful,” she captioned the post. Oscars night Lady Gaga and Cooper entered the stage at the 2019 Oscars to perform their popular (now Academy Award-winning) song “Shallow” wearing the outfits they arrived in. 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__label__wiki	0.883366	0.883366	Welsh Motoring Writers Audi Q5 2.0 TDI 190 S Line S-Tronic Audi’s new Q5 is set to have a tougher time than its predecessor which was launched back in 2008. Then the only other premium SUVs of equivalent size (in the UK, at least) were the BMW X3 and Volvo XC60. The new model, which will arrive in the UK in spring 2017, will also be facing competition from the Mercedes-Benz GLC, the Lexus NX and Jaguar F-Pace, while a new X3 and XC60 are on the horizon. Although it has come to dominate this premium SUV segment globally, the Audi needs to be particularly good to maintain its desirability and popularity here. It shares a platform with the latest A4 and A5 range, which brings with it more efficient engines and new safety and connectivity technology. The Q5 has also slimmed down and, despite being slightly larger than its predecessor, it is up to 90kg lighter. SE and Sport models come with xenon headlamps, while the S-Line has LED ones. All models are available with optional LED ‘matrix’ headlamps (which can adjust the main beam and avoid dazzling road users ahead) and ‘dynamic’ LED indicator lights. A power-operated tailgate is also standard, as well as Audi Drive Select (where the driver can choose different throttle, steering and – with optional adaptive suspension – ride settings), plus front and rear parking sensors. Sport and S-Line models come with sat-nav as standard. Production of the new Q5 has been moved from Ingolstadt in Germany to a sophisticated new plant at San José Chiapa, making it Audi’s first Mexican-built model. Even in the pre-production models we drove there, everything looks and feels better than before. That said, many might be hard pushed to identify it as all new. There’s a little more space inside, and the luggage compartment is also slightly larger. The rear bench is split into three, and customers can choose optional rear seat adjustment, including the base and seatback angle. Audi’s ‘Virtual Cockpit’ 12.3-inch configurable instrument display is an option. The car is also compatible with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone systems, and can be specified with Audi ‘phone box’ which boosts network reception by using the car’s antenna, and also has an inductive charging pad for suitable phones. Driver assistance and safety systems (all optional) include predictive efficiency assistant, which pre-empts the road ahead according to a selected route in the navigation and optimises fuel efficiency, adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping assistance. The latter two also combine in ‘Traffic Jam Assist’ to enable hands-free and feet-free travel in stop-start traffic. Rear cross traffic alert, exit warning system, collision avoidance and traffic sign recognition are also available to help avoid collisions and improve safety. Initially available with the 190PS 2.0 TDI or 252PS (22PS more than before) 2.0 TFSI engines, the range will later be joined by a 286PS 3.0-litre V6 diesel. For ultimate pferdestärke (PS), it is likely that we’ll see a high-performance SQ5 at some point in the model’s lifecycle, but the bulk of sales, especially to businesses, will be the 2.0-litre diesel. The cars we tried on the launch were fitted with optional adjustable air suspension (a first for the Q5), while it’s also possible to choose adaptive damping with steel springs as an option. But Audi expects 96% of UK models to be fitted with standard suspension. The effect of the car’s reduced weight, and new chassis components, certainly make it feel nimble for an SUV, if perhaps lacking the slightly more connected feel of the Jaguar F-Pace. Improved noise insulation leaves occupants feeling happily remote from the outside world. The seven-speed S-tronic automatic transmission is slick and a new on-demand quattro four-wheel drive system, which leaves the rear axle uncoupled when extra traction is not required, helps improve fuel efficiency. CO2 emissions now start at 132g/km for 2.0 TDI SE and Sport models on standard wheels, with 133g/km for the S-Line. Our test route included a 30-minute stretch of a sandy gravel track, which allowed the quattro system to be deployed full-time, giving no cause for concern about the responsiveness of the on-demand system. However, other manufacturers have been using four-wheel drive in this way for quite some time. The Q5 is a remarkable improvement over its predecessor, and comfortably bests most of its rivals in terms of ability. Perhaps its main challenge, like many Audis, is not appearing sufficiently ‘new’ alongside the likes of desirable recent rivals, such as the F-Pace and GLC. By Simon Harris First published in Fleet News. 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__label__wiki	0.692688	0.692688	04/27/17a Bankrate overhauls multiple on-premise systems with NetSuite OneWorld Replaces Sage ACCPAC and QuickBooks to Improve Controls, Financial Consolidation, and Recognition of Complex Revenue Models SUITEWORLD 2017, LAS VEGAS, Nev.—April 27, 2017—Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit (GBU), the industry’s leading provider of cloud financials / ERP, HR and omnichannel commerce software suites, today announced that Bankrate, Inc., a leading online publisher, aggregator and distributor of personal finance content, has replaced multiple on-premise financial systems including Sage ACCPAC, QuickBooks and numerous Excel spreadsheets with one single instance of NetSuite OneWorld in less than three months. Bankrate runs its mission-critical business processes on NetSuite OneWorld, including accounting, financials, fixed asset management, revenue recognition, multi-currency management and multi-subsidiary management for three subsidiaries—Bankrate.com, CreditCards.com and Caring.com. With NetSuite OneWorld, Bankrate now has a better understanding of its financial health and has been able to reduce monthly close times while accelerating growth without adding more headcount. Founded in 1976 as a traditional print media company specializing in financial information, Bankrate has transformed over the past 40 years into a market leading digital publisher and online destination. When a new financial team took over, one of their top priorities was to replace the company’s outdated manual processes and inefficiencies with automated, robust financial controls. Bankrate also wanted to take the opportunity to standardize on a modern, flexible and scalable cloud platform. After considering multiple solutions, Bankrate selected NetSuite OneWorld for the agility, scalability and flexibility needed to fuel its business growth. "NetSuite OneWorld has the flexibility to let us build financial controls over the way we do business, instead of trying to mold our processes to inflexible software," said Eric Luehmann, Bankrate’s Senior Director of Financial Systems. "We’re not bound to the system or how a software vendor wants to do things—the system conforms to the way we want to run Bankrate." Bankrate is now a social media publisher as well as a traditional website operator. Tracking revenue and conversions through more complex relationships with advertisers and visitors is important to future success. The company has much greater drill-down insights from invoices and transactional reports than with its previous ERP system. "NetSuite OneWorld gives us the velocity to make changes more quickly as the business landscape changes, without expensive professional services engagements," Luehmann said. NetSuite OneWorld supports 190 currencies, 20 languages, automated tax calculation and reporting in more than 100 countries, and transactions in more than 200 countries. NetSuite delivers the following features and benefits to Bankrate: Real-time global financial consolidation. NetSuite OneWorld provides Bankrate with a scalable, low-maintenance way to enable financial consistency across its numerous media brands, sites, and destinations through a single financial system of record that provides real-time visibility into financial performance. Data-driven decisions. With a unified platform, Bankrate has real-time access to a single source of data across its entire enterprise to make better informed decisions and capitalize on new and existing business opportunities. Native cloud solution. Version lock, painful upgrades and maintaining on-premise systems are now a thing of the past. Rapid implementation and time to value. Implementing the first stage of NetSuite OneWorld in less than three months helped Bankrate improve its financial control structures and future-proof its business rapidly. Real-time business visibility and business intelligence. With NetSuite, Bankrate gains real-time insights into key business performance indicators for a unified view across its head office and subsidiaries with a single version of truth. A flexible and agile platform. The NetSuite SuiteCloud Platform easily enables Bankrate to customize NetSuite to meet its business requirements and needs, and to integrate with other systems. As Bankrate continues the evolution that has already taken it from a media publisher focused on mortgages and deposits into the additional verticals of credit cards and senior living, NetSuite OneWorld’s flexibility is essential to staying current in a rapidly changing digital media landscape. A scalable system. NetSuite’s scalable infrastructure enables Bankrate to easily expand to support growing business volumes across new website launches and acquisitions without incurring significant incremental expenses. Bankrate CFO Steve Barnhart is sharing Bankrate’s story at SuiteWorld 2017, the number one cloud ERP event of the year, this year being held in Las Vegas from April 24-27. Watch him and all SuiteWorld 2017 keynotes live here. About Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit pioneered the Cloud Computing revolution in 1998, establishing the world's first company dedicated to delivering business applications over the internet. 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__label__wiki	0.591724	0.591724	Landrace Yeast From Milk The Funk Wiki Although landrace is a term used in many areas, this page will be using it as descriptors of a yeast or mixed culture that derives from a traditional farmhouse/landrace brewing cultures from around the world. This term was first used to describe yeast by Tyrawa et al. (2018) to describe traditional Norwegian kveik yeast [1], and to distinguish them from Saison yeast, which are also sometimes referred to as "farmhouse yeast" [2]. The exact definition of the word "landrace" is debated in the Plant Sciences, and is therefore outside the scope of this wiki [3]. The term "landrace" should not be equated to "kveik". Kveik has been suggested to be a subtype of landrace yeast, but "kveik" is a term used specifically for Norwegian farmhouse brewing yeast and mixed cultures. More information on Norwegian kveik can be found on the Kveik page. 1 Commercial Availability 2 Specific Culture Information 2.1 Simonaitis 2.2 Jovaru Alus 2.3 Rima and Marina 2.4 Bjarne Muri's Olden Farmhouse Yeast 3.1 Additional Articles on MTF Wiki 3.2 External Resources Commercial Availability Registry Num Yeast Lab Muri 4 Mainiacal Yeast Dried Kveik - Muri The full, unpurified (no microbes isolated or removed) culture. Limited availability. Muri 4 White Labs WLP6788 Norwegian Farmhouse Ale A single strain from a farm called Muri in Olden, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway (6788 is the zip code). It was used in traditional farmhouse brewing up until 1990, then left in dried form in a building on the farm. The son on the farm revived it with difficulty last year and has been using it in modern home brewing since [4]. Purchase from Bryggselv.no. US customers send an email to post @ bryggselv.no. See source information on Lars Garshol's blog for brewing notes. Species currently unknown, but most closely related to bayanus / pastorianus / uvarum / arboricolus [5]. Simonaitis 16 The Yeast Bay Simonaitis Lithuanian Farmhouse Single strain isolate kindly provided by Julius Simonaitis via Lars Garshol. Across a wide temperature range this culture will throw a mix of orange, tropical fruit and stone fruit esters that is reminiscent of POG Juice (passionfruit, orange, guava), and produces distinct spicy/earthy/herbal undertones. While not a “kveik” strain, it handles high temperatures and high gravity worts well, with an upper fermentation temperature of 95ºF and a high alcohol tolerance (>10%) [6]. Jovaru 32 Omega Yeast Labs Jovaru™ This strain tests positive for the STA1 gene, an indicator of Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. diastaticus. This strain may have the ability to metabolize dextrins over time, resulting in higher than expected attenuation. JOVARU™ is an ALDONA UDRIENĖ™ yeast strain that originates from the famous JOVARU™ Brewery that has been in operation since the mid-19th century [7]. Specific Culture Information Until the introduction of Emil Chr. Hansen's pure-yeast system in 1883, all yeast was treated in effectively the same way as kveik. However, pure lab yeast generally replaced the ancient cultures all over the world. In farmhouse brewing, the old practices continued until quite recently in several Nordic and Baltic countries. Farmhouse brewing still continues in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. As far as is known, Lithuania is the only country other than Norway in which the old yeast cultures are still alive, and used in the same way as they were in the past. See Lithuanian beer - a rough guide for more information. Genetically speaking, these yeast cultures are generally not in the same family as kveik, and thus are not referred to as "kveik". The alternative nomenclature of "Landrace yeast" has been suggested by Richard Preiss. Below are the listed known Farmhouse cultures and information we've been able to compile on them. Simonaitis One yeast has been collected from farmhouse brewer Julius Simonaitis in Joniškelis, Lithuania. It's a communal yeast that's been shared with the neighbors since time immemorial. NCYC says the yeast consists of 5 different strains of S. cerevisiae [8]. Four of these are closely related, while the fifth is quite different, and is probably a completely different strain. All seem to be Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Technically, this culture is not considered to be "kveik" because it genetically falls outside of the kveik families and because it is POF+ (phenolic producing) [9][10]. Julius pitches the yeast at 35C and top-harvests it. He ferments 12-16 hours, depending on activity. People trading this culture have reported that there are lactic acid bacteria present in the culture. It is not known if this lactic acid bacteria was present from the source, or if it was introduced during trading. Julius Simonaitis's beers are reported to not be sour, but he uses a lot of hops in his beer and his beer is reportedly fairly bitter. DeWayne Schaaf reported that the lactic acid bacteria present in the culture he was given produced a favorable acidity. Lars Garshol is waiting on lab results to see if the lactic acid bacteria were present in the original culture [11]. See this MTF thread by DeWayne Schaaf for tips and experiences with brewing with this culture, as well as links to more information about Lithuanian farmhouse brewing. Simonaitis "Data Collection" thread by Zach Taggart, gathering experiences with this blend from MTF'ers. See this MTF thread for culturing and trading project. Jovaru Alus This is another Lithuanian strain from the Jovaru Alus brewery in the small community of Jovarai. The brewer, Aldona Udriene, discusses the history of this true farmhouse brewery in this article. She expressed in the article that she was reluctant to give up the yeast, but Omega Yeast Labs reached an agreement with her to bank the culture and offer it for sale as the product OYL-033. Omega Yeast Labs describes the yeast as, "citrusy esters and restrained phenols..." and having the "character of lemon pith, black pepper, and a soft mouthfeel." The Omega Yeast Labs culture is a single isolate, and Lance Shaner says that there was no evidence of more than one strain of S. cerevisiae in the culture that they received, although there was a Lactobacillus contamination which they removed from the commercially offered Omega Yeast Labs product [12]. Some DNA analysis shows that this strain has a similar degree of separation from S. cerevisiae that other Saccharomyces species included in the analysis do, indicating that this might be a new or different species of Saccharomyces [13][14] (~1:01:30 min in). (Fast forward to 19:40): Rima and Marina Two strains of landrace farmhouse yeast cultures from Chuvashia, Russia were analyzed by Richard Preiss of Escarpment Laboratories referred to by the family names "Rima" and "Marina" (see this tweet and this tweet by Lars Marius Garshol, and the full blog post by Lars). The lab performed ITS sequencing, PCR fingerprinting, and mini 7 day ferments with these strains. Both of the strains were S. cerevisiae, and they were both POF+ (phenol producers), which is distinct from Norwegian kveik strains which are POF- (do not produce phenols). Russian farmhouse yeast that remains unpurified by a lab is called "zakvaska" [15]. According to the PCR fingerprinting, Rima contained at least two strains of S. cerevisiae but maybe more, as well as a strain of Pichia kudriavzevii (a fairly common beer contaminant). The first strain of S. cerevisiae was described as "fruity, relatively clean, and fermented similar to WLP001". The second strain of S. cerevisiae produced high amounts of diacetyl and under attenuated. The Pichia was described as "pretty gross and didn't attenuate much (on its own)". Marina contained what appears to be three closely related S. cerevisiae strains. They all showed pretty low attenuation after one week, but subsequent fermentations can be carried out longer. The flavors were described as "pretty neutral". There is a fourth yeast strain in the Marina that has yet to be identified [16]. These landrace cultures are listed in the farmhouse registry as #39 and #40. Propagate Lab and Mainiacal Yeast offer Marina commercially. They are being traded by homebrewers and single isolates are available from the NCYC (NCYC 4247 is Marina and NCYC 4263 is Rima). Full blog post by Lars Garshol on "Brewing in Chuvashia". Bjarne Muri's Olden Farmhouse Yeast "Muri is an interspecies hybrid between S. cerevisiae and S. uvarum. Hybrids of this combination have previously been isolated from wine fermentations, but there are limited reports of any from brewing environments. S. uvarum is closely related to S. eubayanus, one of the parents of lager yeast (which is also a hybrid). Phylogenetic analysis of the two parental genomes of Muri revealed that the S. cerevisiae parent appears to belong to the Beer2 group, and is most closely related to various English ale strains. The parent strain was therefore not related to any of the other (sequenced) kveik isolates. It is not included in the paper, but Muri is also different to e.g. the S6U S. cerevisiae × S. uvarum hybrid that was isolated from wine, where the S. cerevisiae parent groups in the Wine clade. The S. uvarum parent was most closely related to Central European S. uvarum strains used for cider making (unfortunately S. uvarum strains haven't been sequenced as much as S. cerevisiae strains). The S. uvarum genome of Muri also contains a lot of introgressions from S. eubayanus. This is common in domesticated S. uvarum strains. Muri, for example, appears to have a chimeric chromosome 7, where half is from S. uvarum and half from S. eubayanus. We then obtained some of the closely related S. cerevisiae and S. uvarum strains, as well as some other hybrids, and compared their phenotypic properties (with focus on those related to brewing). Muri is POF+, diastatic (STA+), has a wide temperature range of growth, good flocculation and good ethanol tolerance. The S. cerevisiae and S. uvarum strains that were genetically most similar to Muri also were the most similar phenotypically. These are named A241 and C995 in the paper, respectively. We then attempted to recreate the Muri hybrid by creating new hybrids between A241 and C995. We then compared the newly created hybrids with Muri, and found that the new hybrids were more similar to Muri than either of the parent strains. However, they still differed in some respects (e.g. low temperature wort fermentations). There are several potential reasons for this, e.g. the heterozygosity of the parent strains, the sequence divergence between Muri and the parent strains, the effect of the S. eubayanus introgressions, and the mitochondrial inheritance. This approach of creating new hybrids that mimic an existing one might not be very valuable for the average brewer, but it is something that could be useful in researching how yeast hybrids adapt and change. For example, one could try to recontruct lager yeast in a similar fashion, and see what kind of conditions give rise to similar genetic changes that have occured in the lager yeast during the hundreds of years the hybrids have existed. So to sum up, Muri is a hybrid and is not related to other kveik strains (there is the possibility of contamination when Bjarne tried to revive his kveik culture, but the strain is nevertheless interesting and unique). The S. cerevisiae x S. uvarum combination is rare in brewing. Muri is POF+ and diastatic, so might work well for saisons or other beer styles where 4VG and a dry finish is desired." ~ Kristoffer Krogerus summary of his published study [17], A Unique Saccharomyces cerevisiae × Saccharomyces uvarum Hybrid Isolated From Norwegian Farmhouse Beer: Characterization and Reconstruction. NCYC 4045 - One strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Also packaged by White Labs as WLP6788 and available from Bryggselv.no. US customers can send an email to "post @ bryggselv.no". See source information on Lars Garshol's blog for brewing notes. Species currently unknown, but most closely related to bayanus / pastorianus / uvarum / arboricolus [18]. As noted above, this strain is genetically not related to the other kveik strains, and thus arguably is not actually classified as "kveik" [9][10]. The "Norwegian Farmhouse Ale" strain from Brewing Science Institute is likely Muri, but this has not been verified [19]. Additional Articles on MTF Wiki MTF thread discussing the usage of the word "landrace" for these farmhouse yeasts. Traditional farmhouse brewer, maltster, and Gotlandsdricke from Gotland. "How to Brew Keptinis", a Lithuanian style of farmhouse ale using baked bread our of mash grains. See also this MTF thread on experiences of MTF members brewing this style of beer. ↑ Traditional Norwegian Kveik Are a Genetically Distinct Group of Domesticated Saccharomyces cerevisiae Brewing Yeasts. Richard Preiss, Caroline Tyrawa, George van der Merwe, Kristoffer Krogerus, Lars Marius Garshol. 2018. ↑ Richard Preiss. Milk The Funk Facebook thread on the various definitions of the term "landrace". 11/30/2018. ↑ Toward an Evolved Concept of Landrace. Francesc Casañas, Joan Simó, Joan Casals, and Jaime Prohens. 2017. ↑ Conversation with Lars Garshol. 6/4/2015. ↑ Accugenix Report from White Labs on WLP 6788. Posted by Eskild Alexander Bergan on Milk The Funk. 6/4/2015. ↑ Simonaitis Lithuanian Farmhouse. The Yeast Bay website. Retrieved 07/06/2019. ↑ Jovaru Lithuanian Farmhouse Yeast. Omeaga Yeast Labs website. Retrieved 05/16/2019. ↑ Lars Marius Garshol. Milk The Funk Facebook thread on the number of strains in Simonaitis. 01/18/2019. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Lars Marius Garshol. Private correspondence with Dan Pixley. 07/11/2018. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Richard Preiss. Family tree diagram of kveik cultures (Simonaitis is called "Joniskelis" in the diagram). Retrieved 07/11/2018. ↑ Lars Garshol, James Thor, and DeWayne Schaaf. Milk The Funk facebook group. 06/22/2017. ↑ Lance Shaner. Milk The Funk thread about the Jovaru yeast strain from Omega Yeast Labs. 09/26/2018. ↑ "Lithuanian Countryside Yeast Tales". Tikras Alus blog. 05/01/2012. ↑ Lance Shaner. Yeast presentation/MTF Live. 04/16/2019. ↑ Lars Marius Garshol. "Brewing in Chuvashia". Larsblog. 02/04/2019. ↑ Richard Preiss. Milk The Funk Facebook group thread update about Russian landrace farmhouse yeast. 09/21/2018. ↑ Kristoffer Krogerus. Milk The Funk Facebook group post on the whole genome sequencing results for Muri. 09/24/2018. ↑ Allen Stone. Milk The Funk Facebook group thread on BSI Norwegian Farmhouse Ale strain. 02/01/2019. 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__label__wiki	0.87849	0.87849	Home Blac Chyna Celebrity News and Gossip Blac Chyna may face a lawsuit over her assistant's death Blac Chyna's house manager died Thursday morning (May 17) after her family made the decision to take her off life support and Chyna may be getting sued! According to TMZ, Lorena "Patty" Hernandez, who also helped run Chyna's clothing line, suffered a stroke in July 2017 but continued to work afterward. She fell into a coma in December due to bleeding on her brain. Patty then recently suffered a third brain bleed and was declared brain-dead. She was only 34. Blac Chyna may be facing a lawsuit from Patty's family. Sources close to Patty tell Page Six that Patty’s husband is planning to sue the reality star for alleged abuse and not providing workers' compensation. “Remember when the news broke and she said she was helping [Hernandez] and she was helping the kids and everything? She never did,” the source said. The unnamed source referred to Chyna’s January statement when Hernandez first fell ill. While the fathers of Chyna’s children cumulatively donated $15,000 to a Go Fund Me account, Chyna did not offer financial assistant but said she was watching Hernandez’s children “at her house just to help out.” “I mean all she pretty much did was spread the word and reach out to her baby daddies, so she felt like, that’s how I helped.'" Patty reportedly suffered a seizure at Chyna’s Los Angeles Lashed salon at the beginning of the year. According to the source, Chyna visited Patty in the hospital only to instruct hospital personnel to not divulge any information. Allegedly Hernandez’s own husband was left in the dark. According to reports, Chyna did attempt to work something out, but her legal team advised her not to give up any cash and let them handle it.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line754
__label__wiki	0.526271	0.526271	Home Unlabelled Prohibitions on women working at night has been removed, approved at the Senate Prohibitions on women working at night has been removed, approved at the Senate MANILA, Philippines - A bill seeking to amend the Labor Code to remove prohibitions on women working at night has been approved at the Senate. Senate Bill 2701 aims to repeal Articles 130 and 131 of the Labor Code. Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada, the bill's principal author and sponsor, accepted the arguments of Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago and amended the committee report to recommend the removal of all night work prohibitions on women. "Initially, we wanted to expand the exceptions prescribed by our Labor Code on women workers on night work since it is our aim to level the employment field for men and women while maintaining protection for women workers," he said. "But after hearing the invaluable inputs of Sen. Miriam Defensor- Santiago, we decided to go all out in dismantling the discriminatory provisions in our Labor Code against our women workers." Estrada said these stipulations prove oppressive when looking at the call center industry, which operates 24 hours a day. "Before women workers can actually work, they have to suffer a burdensome process of securing paper work and permits," he said. In her comments to the original bill, Santiago said one of the most blatant examples of protective but discriminatory laws was the prohibition of night work for women. "Today, in the age of gender equality and gender balance, night work prohibition for women is an obsolete concept. This concept, being useless and discriminatory to women, should be completely abolished," she said. Santiago said the bill is obsolete because it reinforces the provisions of International Labor Organization Convention No. 89 of 1934 or the Women Night Work Convention, which paved the way for the prohibition of night work for women in the Labor Code. The supposed harmful effects of night work on women have been largely exaggerated, she added. Santiago said under the law, women's access to specific jobs, certain occupations, higher wages and premium payments was restricted. "The prohibitions therefore contravene the principle of equality as they prevent women from exercising their right to equal access to jobs," she said. Article 130 of the Labor Code prohibits night-time work (generally between midnight and 6 a.m.) for women in industrial, commercial and non-industrial undertakings (other than agricultural). SOURCE : http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=693157&publicationSubCategoryId=63 Inside a Balut - Embryo and Yolk Binay gives Aquino a rating of 9 for first-year pe... Marriages are for men, women -Bishops Though I walk through the valley of the shadows of... Dark Creation Painkillers can kill children, warns EcoWaste Aquino's only achievement? Rainy Days and Reading Won't Let You Down Mountain Sunrise Landscape Oil firms roll back prices Falcon' exits Philippines 'Phl heavy in debt when GMA left' -TESDA chief Judas, The Man Who Never Knew If you are a Filipino, I'm sure that you will reac... Taylor Lautner's reported endorsement for Bench "N... No trees - No marriage license Teachers bring hope to Aetas Heroine Filipino Nanny Died in Hognkong Will 2011 MMFF hit P600M target? Where Are You Now Today I Will Make a Difference No anti-China policy Let's Ask God THE GRACE OF GIVING The Harmful Effects of Masturbation on Men South China Sea is now West Phl Sea - Pagasa PNoy vows New Graft-free Chapter in Philippine His... No to Mining in Palawan! The Wedding Prayer Philippine Independence celebration RH Bill is PRO-Youth By Rep. Raymond Palatino, Kab... Yao Jiaxin reportedly handed himself in, but that ... Winners of the 2011 MTV Movie Awards are: A Cheap Seat Prohibitions on women working at night has been re... Touch of Glory, Prayer Mountain Doctors back anti-smoking campaign LRT, MRT fare hikes suspended! Good News for Students : No tuition hike for state... Smoke-related illnesses kill 240 Pinoys a day	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line756
__label__cc	0.707922	0.292078	National statistical institute HomeStatistical dataProducts and Services Release Calendar List of the Standard Statistical Indicators INFOSTAT - Information System for online requests for statistical information Information Request IS Foreign trade Digital library Statistical Classifications and Registries Metadata and Methodology Quality reports Publications ESDS Help Desk User satisfaction Dissemination DataBase - SDMX 2.1 Referent InfrastructureLegal Basis Bulgarian Legal Basis European Legal Basis Strategies and Assessments Access to Public Information Protection of Statistical SecrecyAbout NSI Information Security Management Policy Statement of the NSI NSI in Brief National Statistical System Structure Quality International Cooperation Statistical data › Business statistics › Short-term Business Statistics › Monthly data › Construction Production Indices › Seasonally unadjusted (2015 = 100) Use IS Infostat for preceding years Metadata and methodology Pressreleases CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTION INDICES IN MAY 2019p Non-adjusted data Eurostat code Index 2015=100 Previous month=100 The same month of the previous year=100 Construction - total F 91.7 99.4 102.7 Building construction F_CC1 102.9 98.6 106.4 Civil engineering F_CC2 79.2 100.7 97.8 P - preliminary data Sales in industry, construction, trade and services - Construction Production Indices Contact organisation Contact organisation unit "Short-term Business Statistics and Statistics of Transport" Department Adelina Terezova, Olga Kostadinova Contact person function Junior expert, Chief expert Contact mail address 2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria +359 2 9857 454, +359 2 9857 165 Contact fax number Metadata update Metadata last certified Metadata last posted Metadata last update Statistical presentation Construction Production Indices is an important short-term economic indicator of business, which purpose is to measure the monthly changes of the construction production between two comparable periods. This information can be used to analyze the current state of the construction activity in the country, as well as short-term forecast for its future development. The indices - total and separately for building construction and civil engineering are calculated on the base (2015 = 100) and information on actually hours worked in the construction. The rows of data are non-adjusted and seasonal and working day adjusted. Seasonal adjustment of monthly indices is a statistical method, which eliminates the seasonal component and working day adjustment is an adjustment for variations in monthly data, caused by calendar effects, different number of calendar and working days in the months, national holydays and outliers. Classification of Economic Activities (CEA-2008, for international use NACE.BG -2008); Classification of types of constructions (CC) - the building construction includes construction of residential and no-residential buildings and civil engineering - infrastructure construction of roads, bridges, pipelines, power lines, telecommunication and other construction equipment. Sector coverage Production Indices in section F of NACE.BG-2008, Construction - total and separately for building construction and civil engineering, according Classification of types of constructions (CC). Statistical concepts and definitions The purpose of Construction Production Indices is to show changes of the production in section Construction - total and separately for building construction and civil engineering, calculated on the base of hours worked, directly employed with construction works. Indices are calculated according to the regulations EC about Short Term Statistics. Statistical unit The enterprises of section Construction, according to classification of Economic Activities (NACE.BG -2008). Statistical population The sample used is formed on the base of the information from annual reports of all construction enterprises which are observed exhaustively. The survey population includes the construction enterprises with more than 4 persons employed. The sample of the surveyed enterprises is formed 75% from turnover in construction. Reference area National level: Data are aggregated and published total of R Bulgaria. EC level: Eurostat are aggregated and published total of EC and by Member States. The indices are published from January 2000 to the last month of the reference year. Base period All indices are calculated on the base 2015=100. Indices, percentage changes (%). Institutional mandate Legal acts and other agreements National Legal Basis: The Law on Statistics (Article 20) states that all persons that manage or present legal persons, are obligated to provide the National Statistical Institute and the Bodies of Statistics with reliable data when filling-in forms and questionnaires on surveys included in the National Statistical Programme, for which mandatory participation is provided. The survey is included into the National Statistical Programme and it is compulsory for enterprises which are included in the sample of survey. The Law on Statistics includes provisions relating to fines, which can be imposed for refusal, non-response and delay. They are laid down in specific Chapter 9 "Administrative and liability provisions" in Article 52. EU Legislation: COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1165/98 of 19 May 1998 concerning short-term statistics; REGULATION (EC) No 1158/2005 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics; COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1503/2006 implementing and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards definitions of variables, list of variables and frequency of data compilation; REGULATION (EC) No 1893/2006 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains; COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 472/2008 of 29 May 2008 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards the first base year to be applied for time series in NACE Revision 2 and, for time series prior to 2009 to be transmitted according to NACE Revision 2, the level of detail, the form, the first reference period, and the reference period. The data are transmitted to Eurostat together with the national publication. Confidentiality - policy Law on Statistics; Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society. Confidentiality - data treatment Article 25 of the Law of Statistics defines the criteria by which can not be distributed or published statistical information. Statistical information which aggregates data about less than three statistical units or about a population in which the relative share of the value of a surveyed parameter of a single unit exceeds 85 percent of the value of such parameter for all units in the population. Confidential data, accordance with the Law of statistics not publish. In order not to identify individual data using the method of suppression or aggregation of information disclosed. The date for publication of statistical information is given in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute, which is available on NSI website. The indices of construction production are published 37 - 40 days after the reference month. Release calendar access The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480 User access The data are published on the NSI website, section Business statistics - Short-term Business Statistics - Monthly date in accordance with the Law on Statistics and the European Statistics Code of Practice respecting the professional independence and aimed at objectivity, transparency and equal treatment of all consumers. Frequency of dissemination Every month. Accessibility and clarity Press release of Indices Production Construction are published 37- 40 days after the end of the reference month on the NSI website. Brochure 'Bulgaria' On-line database Data on indices of construction production are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Statistical data - Business statistics - Short-term Business Statistics - Monthly data - Construction Production Indices: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/6813 or on-line database INFOSTAT https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=99 Micro-data access Documentation on methodology Eurostat Methodology of short-term business statistics. Interpretation and guidelines: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/short_term_business_statistics/documents/KS-BG-06-001-EN.pdf Methodology 'Construction Production Indices': http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/ConstructionMethod_1_1_en.pdf Quality documentation Regulation (EC) № 1165/98 and amending Regulation (EC) № 1158/2005 Short-term statistics obligate the European Commission (Eurostat) regularly (every three years) to report in the Parliament of Europe applicability of short-term data quality and revisions of the data. Quality report of Eurostat from 2008 Principal European Economic Indicators (PEEI in focus), containing information on the calculation of Indices Production Construction in European countries. The legal framework which regulates the production of data from Short-term business statistics states that statistical data compiled within the EU system must be of satisfactory quality and produced data are comparable between Member States. Verification of data is done through the process of conducting a statistical survey - from respondents, from experts in the regional statistical offices and from national experts in NSI. Identified inaccuracies and errors are removed timely and provide comparable data of good quality. The quality of the short-term indicators is measured by each Member State in accordance with the general criteria. Calculation of the variables is carried out in accordance with EU Regulations on Short-term business statistics. User needs Eurostat, the state governing bodies, associations, businesses, media and others users. Internal users - Department 'Macroeconomic statistics'. The necessary statistical data are provided on the required level of detail, accordance by the relevant STS Regulations. Accuracy and reliability Overall accuracy The general population includes about 21 000 enterprises, of which is formed survey population of more than 6 000 construction enterprises, with more than 4 persons employed. Monthly sample includes about 2 150 enterprises, which formed about 75% from the turnover of construction enterprises. The sample method used is Stratified Random Sample. Criterion for stratification of the enterprises is 'number of persons employed'. First enterprises are stratified by groups (2-nd digit level of NACE.BG 2008) and then in each group they are stratified by number of persons employed. Enterprises with 30 or more persons employed are surveyed exhaustively. The enterprises with employed from 5 to 14 and from 15 to 29 employed are randomly sampled. Is ensured a maximum accuracy and reliability of the data from the enterprises included in the monthly sample in section Construction. Common errors are errors in the measurement data, the respondent misunderstanding what information is required or incomplete performance. Most measurement errors are detected and corrected by arithmetic and logical controls embedded in Information System "Short-term business statistics" (On-line information system for collection, verification and processing of data from short-term business statistics). The system performs mandatory and planned control and warning in case there are errors, it displays a warning dialog inconsistencies found. The system does not allow the completion of the report until all outstanding correct mandatory controls. In the sample of construction firms use the method of 'Stratified random sampling'. To ensure the accuracy of the sample is calculated coefficients of variation and the standard errors are within acceptable limits. Non-sampling error Using programs SPSS, Excel and thorough analysis of the data did not allow the emergence of problems such as excessive coverage, inadequate coverage and repeated entries. For non-response methods are used to update the sample - like editing and imputation data. Actions for non-responders include: informing and sending reminders, when no-responding company may follows a phone call and / or direct contact to collect the data. The responding rate is average approximately 90%. Timeliness and punctuality The indices of construction production are published 37 - 40 days after the reference month. All data rows, tables, and press releases are prepared and submitted for publication, accordance STS Regulations and within the deadlines specified in the calendar for publication of data. NSI sent data to Eurostat on the day of national publication. Coherence and comparability Comparability - geographical Construction Production Indices are representative for the whole country and have no representation by regions. The implementation of the EU requirements and national methodology for calculating the Indices of Production in Construction ensures data consistency between Bulgaria and other European countries. Comparability - over time Time series published from 2000. Coherence - cross domain Data from the monthly statistical survey about hours worked, which is used to calculate the indices of production in construction, are checked with other variable - data for sales (monthly and quarterly) from construction enterprises. Coherence - internal Comparisons are made with the final figures for construction production from the Annual Business Statistics. Cost and burden No information on the relationship between cost of production of statistics data and user satisfaction. The purpose to reduce response burden is created on-line information system 'Short-term business statistics' (IS STS). Data revision Data revision - policy Construction Production Indices usually suffered two revisions. Each month data for the reference month are published as a preliminary and data for the previous month as a final. At the beginning of the year, the indices for the previous year are reconciled on the basis of exhaustive annual data from Annual Business Statistics. Data revision - practice Minor changes are made at the time when the revision is introduced and they are marked in footnotes in the relevant published tables. The revised data are published on the NSI and transmitted to Eurostat. Statistical processing Source data Information for calculating the indices of construction production - total and separately for building construction and civil engineering provides from 'Questionnaire about hours worked from directly employed in construction enterprises', included in the monthly report 'Main short-term indicators'. Frequency of data collection For the convenience of respondents and getting better and timely information is created on-line information system (IS STS). The system controls are set to ensure the accuracy of the information. Possibility remains that the respondent submits monthly report and a paper in the relevant regional statistical office. Delay on the part of businesses IS STS send reminders. Experts from RSOs phone calls to provide timely information or clarification of the data. Validation data starts from the filling of reports by respondents. Control of the data can be accessed from both the regional statistical offices and from experts in the National Statistical Institute. An information system 'Short-term business statistics' significantly contributes to the validation of the data submitted by set arithmetic and logical controls. Subsequent analysis of the experts, a phone call for further clarification of data and elimination of disparities, minimize errors in the raw data and ensure accuracy of outputs at national level. Data compilation Construction Production Indices are calculated based on the information of construction businesses total hours worked and separately for building and civil engineering on paper or on-line via the information system 'Short-term business statistics'. After validating the data by the regional statistical offices, then the deadline for entry, by experts in the NSI, the data from construction enterprises in the sample are extrapolated and calculated indices of construction production on the national level. In accordance with Regulations concerning STS, the Construction Production Indices are to be seasonally and working day adjusted. The software used for seasonally and working day adjustment is JDemetra +. The method used is TRAMO-SEATS. The purpose of working day adjustment is to check and eliminate the significance of the calendar effects as the results from the difference in the number of working days and holidays in the national calendar. The purpose of seasonal adjustment is to remove ordinary seasonal variation. The series of data are checked for outliers of different types and typical calendar effects on the dynamics of a given indicator. Usually seasonal fluctuations are those changes that are repeated seasonally each year. Time series the indices of building construction and civil engineering are seasonal and working day adjusted, and time series of the indices of construction - total obtained by applying the indirect method. Revisions of seasonally and working day adjusted data are published in accordance with accepted revision policy and release calendar for the unadjusted data. Download in SDMX 2.1 file format: Sales in industry, construction, trade and services - Construction Production Indices Metadata Structure Definition in SDMX 2.1: ESMS_MSD+BNSI+2.0+SDMX.2.1.xml Construction Production Indices in May 2019 Tuesday, 9 July 2019 - 11:00 According to the preliminary data, in May 2019 the index of production in section ‘Construction’ calculated on the base of seasonally adjusted data was 0.4% below the level of the previous month. In May 2019 the working day adjusted index of production in construction increased by 2.6% in comparison with the same month of 2018. STR_SAWDA_2019-05_en_FZKC1KE.pdf Construction Production Indices in April 2019 Friday, 7 June 2019 - 11:00 According to the preliminary data, in April 2019 the index of production in section ‘Construction’ calculated on the base of seasonally adjusted data was 0.4% above the level of the previous month. In April 2019 the working day adjusted index of production in construction increased by 5.8% in comparison with the same month of 2018. STR_SAWDA_2019-04_en_U60F73P.pdf Construction Production Indices in March 2019 According to the preliminary data, in March 2019 the index of production in section ‘Construction’ calculated on the base of seasonally adjusted data was no change the level of the previous month. In March 2019 the working day adjusted index of production in construction increased by 8.4% in comparison with the same month of 2018. STR_SAWDA_2019-03_en_SSTANJP.pdf Construction Production Indices in February 2019 Tuesday, 9 April 2019 - 11:00 According to the preliminary data, in February 2019 the index of production in section ‘Construction’ calculated on the base of seasonally adjusted data was 1.5% above the level of the previous month. In February 2019 the working day adjusted index of production in construction increased by 9.2% in comparison with the same month of 2018. STR_SAWDA_2019-02_en_PJN2TWP.pdf Construction Production Indices in January 2019 Friday, 8 March 2019 - 11:00 According to the preliminary data, in January 2019 the index of production in section ‘Construction’ calculated on the base of seasonally adjusted data was 1.5% above the level of the previous month. In January 2019 the working day adjusted index of production in construction increased by 0.9% in comparison with the same month of 2018. STR_SAWDA_2019-01_en_QAROJSF.pdf Construction Production Indices in December 2018 Friday, 8 February 2019 - 11:00 According to the preliminary data, in December 2018 the index of production in section ‘Construction’ calculated on the base of seasonally adjusted data was 2.4% below the level of the previous month. In December 2018 the working day adjusted index of production in construction decreased by 1.4% in comparison with the same month of 2017. STR_SAWDA_2018-12_en_O4VP1EX.pdf Construction Production Indices in November 2018 Thursday, 10 January 2019 - 11:00 According to the preliminary data, in November 2018 the index of production in section ‘Construction’ calculated on the base of seasonally adjusted data was 1.2% below the level of the previous month. In November 2018 the working day adjusted index of production in construction decreased by 1.8% in comparison with the same month of 2017. STR_SAWDA_2018-11_en_A8NZAQM.pdf Construction Production Indices in October 2018 Monday, 10 December 2018 - 11:00 According to the preliminary data, in October 2018 the index of production in section ‘Construction’ calculated on the base of seasonally adjusted data was 3.3% above the level of the previous month. In October 2018 the working day adjusted index of production in construction increased by 1.8% in comparison with the same month of 2017. STR_SAWDA_2018-10_en_RDREF83.pdf Construction Production Indices in September 2018 Thursday, 8 November 2018 - 11:00 According to the preliminary data, in September 2018 the index of production in section ‘Construction’ calculated on the base of seasonally adjusted data was 2.0% below the level of the previous month. In September 2018 the working day adjusted index of production in construction decreased by 4.0% in comparison with the same month of 2017. STR_SAWDA_2018-09_en_FPBFB82.pdf Construction Production Indices in August 2018 Tuesday, 9 October 2018 - 11:00 According to the preliminary data, in August 2018 the index of production in section ‘Construction’ calculated on the base of seasonally adjusted data was 0.6% below the level of the previous month. In August 2018 the working day adjusted index of production in construction decreased by 1.1% in comparison with the same month of 2017. 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__label__wiki	0.704803	0.704803	Home About us Editorial board Ahead of print Current issue Archives Instructions Submit article Search Subscribe Contacts Login Year : 2019 \| Volume : 6 \| Issue : 1 \| Page : 4-8 Current understanding of lichen planus pigmentosus, erythema dyschromicum perstans (ashy dermatosis), and idiopathic eruptive macular pigmentation Michelle Rodrigues1, Amit G Pandya2, Marcel Bekkenk3, Davinder Parsad4, Sujith P Kumarasinghe5 1 St. Vincent’s Hospital; The Skin and Cancer Foundation; The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2 Department of Dermatology, Fiona Stanley Hospital and University of Western Australia, Perth, Western, Australia 3 Department of Dermatology, Netherlands Institute for Pigment Disorders, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4 Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India 5 Department of Dermatology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA Date of Web Publication 4-Jul-2019 Dr. Michelle Rodrigues Department of Dermatology, 41 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy 3065, VIC DOI: 10.4103/Pigmentinternational.Pigmentinternational_ Lichen planus pigmentosus, erythema dyschromicum perstans and idiopathic eruptive macular pigmentation are the three most commonly accepted subtypes of acquired dermal hyperpigmentary disorders. While some patients fit easily into one of these subtypes, others do not. Overlapping features of several subtypes may also be seen in the one patient. This paper covers these three entities in detail and highlights the diagnostic and classification challenges. Keywords: Erythema dyschromicum perstans, hyperpigmentation, idiopathic eruptive macular pigmentation, lichen planus pigmentosus Rodrigues M, Pandya AG, Bekkenk M, Parsad D, Kumarasinghe SP. Current understanding of lichen planus pigmentosus, erythema dyschromicum perstans (ashy dermatosis), and idiopathic eruptive macular pigmentation. Pigment Int 2019;6:4-8 Rodrigues M, Pandya AG, Bekkenk M, Parsad D, Kumarasinghe SP. Current understanding of lichen planus pigmentosus, erythema dyschromicum perstans (ashy dermatosis), and idiopathic eruptive macular pigmentation. Pigment Int [serial online] 2019 [cited 2019 Jul 19];6:4-8. Available from: http://www.pigmentinternational.com/text.asp?2019/6/1/4/262043 This article describes the three most commonly accepted subtypes of acquired dermal hyperpigmentary disorders. Although some patients easily fit into one of these subtypes, others do not. The overlapping features of several subtypes may also be seen in one patient. Postinflammatory hyperpigmentation, especially in those with skin of color, presents another challenge for the treating clinician who must exclude this diagnosis. Histology of late-stage lesions of these conditions shows similar patterns, making distinction even harder. Lichen planus pigmentosus (LPP), erythema dyschromicum perstans (EDP), and idiopathic eruptive macular pigmentation (IEMP) often cause confusion, even among experts dealing with pigmentary disorders. The term “ashy dermatosis” (AD) is also used to describe what is agreed by most authorities to be the same condition as EDP. Therefore, in this article, EDP will be used synonymously with AD. To date, the medical literature has not clarified the differences between these entities, with the descriptions of LPP being referred to as EDP or vice versa. In addition, cases reported as IEMP have not always fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for this condition. Experts in pigmentary disorder have formed an international consensus group. The group is still vigorously debating what, if any, clinical and histological differences exist between these conditions and are formulating methods by which disease patterns can be recorded and clinical differences can be refined. This review aims to summarize our understanding of the presentation of these three conditions and how they clinically and histologically differ to help identify problems in the nomenclature, diagnosis, and treatment of this confusing group of pigmentary conditions. Lichen planus pigmentosus There are only a few features that have been described to distinguish among LPP, EDP, and IEMP [[Table 1]]. LPP tends to be seen in the middle-aged people of South Asian and Middle Eastern origin.[1] EDP, on the contrary, mostly occurs in those with skin phototypes II to IV (e.g., Latinos and Asians) in the 2nd to 3rd decades of life. This observation is based on the number of reports from various regions of the world, which unfortunately have ascertainment or sampling, bias, which can be corrected with larger, global epidemiological studies. LPP presents in both photoexposed and photoprotected areas with brown–gray macules without erythematous borders. The lesions are usually on the head, neck, axillae, and upper and inner thighs. EDP, in contrast, usually presents predominantly on the trunk as asymptomatic blue–gray discrete macules, sometimes with erythematous borders, especially in early lesions [[Figure 1] and [Figure 2]]. Table 1 Comparison of lichen planus pigmentosus (LPP), erythema dyschromicum perstans/ashy dermatosis (EDP/AD), and idiopathic eruptive macular pigmentation (IEMP) Figure 1 LPP affecting the face, neck, and chest Figure 2 LPP of the face and neck Histopathological evaluation reveals superficial dermal melanin and melanophages in LPP, whereas EDP usually has deep dermal melanophages, giving rise to the characteristic brown–gray color in LPP and the bluish-gray hue in EDP.[1] LPP also reveals epidermal atrophy, and in early lesions, basal layer vacuolation with a perivascular lymphocytic infiltrate is seen on biopsy. However, histopathology alone does not distinguish the three conditions as the older lesions of all three clinical patterns of acquired macular pigmentation can have similar pathology of dermal melanophages with sparse dermal lymphocytic infiltrate without active basal cell vacuolar changes or active interface dermatitis. LPP is thought by many authors to be a rare variant of lichen planus. Although the exact etiopathology of LPP remains elusive, the presence of lesions on the head and neck region has led some to believe ultraviolet light may be implicated.[2] However, as lesions occur in sun-protected areas such as the submental region, eyelids, retro-auricular skin, and axillae, this argument is unsustainable. In addition, mustard and amla oil have been reported as possible causes.[3] Such oils are frequently found in over-the-counter products such as massage oils, cooking oils, and hair care preparations in India. Allyl thiocyanate is a known photosensitizer in mustard oil and may be a pathogenic agent in LPP. However, most patients with LPP, even in South Asia, do not have any history of exposure to the above agents. LPP is frustrating for the patient and clinician alike, with pigmentation persisting for years and even decades in many patients despite the use of various medical and physical therapies. The importance of photoprotection cannot be underestimated in attempting to blur the difference between affected and unaffected skin. Patients should be encouraged to seek shade and utilize a broad-brimmed hat, especially when solar radiation is at its peak. The application and reapplication of broad-spectrum sunscreen every 2 h with a sun-protection factor of at least 30+ should be routine. Given visible light has demonstrated a greater ability to cause a sustained darkening in those with skin phototypes IV to VI, sunscreen with a visible light blocker such as iron oxide should also be encouraged in this group.[4] Various small studies reveal that topical tacrolimus (0.03% twice per day), topical and systemic corticosteroids, and topical vitamin A may be helpful in LPP.[5] Combinations of the above-mentioned therapies have also been used to prevent the progression of LPP. Anecdotal reports of oral isotretinoin and phototherapy have been described for treatment of this condition, and recently, Muthu et al.[6] reported above 50% improvement in 21.8% of patients treated with 20-mg isotretinoin daily for 6 months. Further studies, however, are needed to find better treatments for LPP.[8] Erythema dyschromicum perstans/ashy dermatosis EDP (also known as AD) was first described in the 1950s by Ramirez in El Salvador.[7] It is most commonly seen in women in Latin America and Asia.[8] Although most studies cite onset in the 2nd to 3rd decades of life, a recent Korean case review revealed a slightly later onset (3rd to 4th decades).[1] EDP usually presents with nonpruritic widespread well-demarcated bluish-gray macules. In the initial inflammatory phase, an erythematous border that slowly expands may be noted. The involvement of the face, neck, limbs, and trunk has been described. EDP involves the trunk most commonly unlike LPP in which the involvement of the trunk is less common [[Figure 2] and [Figure 3]]. Although “unilateral” EDP has been reported,[9] it is unlikely that this diagnosis is correct, as many skin lesions can cause acquired hyperpigmentation on one side of the body, including lichen planus and postinflammatory hyperpigmentation. Figure 3 EDP of lower back and buttock The timing of the skin biopsy is important, as the histological features of EDP vary depending on the age of the lesion. Initially, papillary dermal edema and basal layer vacuolation with a perivascular infiltrate can be seen. Later, the density of the inflammatory cell infiltrate decreases with a concomitant increase in melanin incontinence and melanophages in the dermis.[2] Many drugs can induce patchy macular skin pigmentation that is almost clinically indistinguishable from EDP/AD picture. It is known that even commonly used drugs, such as omeprazole, can cause AD-like acquired macular pigmentation.[10],[11] As such, a careful drug history is essential. If a drug is suspected, it should be avoided. Unfortunately, as the name suggests, EDP is chronic, progressive, and a challenge to treat. Unsurprisingly, although hydroquinone and tretinoin are helpful in pigmentary conditions such as melasma and postinflammatory hyperpigmentation, they have not demonstrated significant lightening in EDP, where the pigment resides in the dermis.[12] Dapsone (100 mg daily), for 8 to 12 weeks, has been reported to lighten pigmentation and even cause complete resolution.[13],[14] Clofazamine (100 mg daily) demonstrated efficacy in a small study, but the anecdotal experience among experts of pigmentary disorders globally has not been so positive.[15] Although many other treatments have been evaluated, including topical steroids and chloroquine, none of them have resulted in appreciable lightening. Laser treatment has recently been studied by a group in the Netherlands who concluded that fractionated laser was unsuccessful for the treatment of EDP.[16] Idiopathic eruptive macular pigmentation IEMP is a rare pigmentary disorder of children and adolescents initially described by Degos et al.[17] The first report of IEMP in English was in 1996 by Sanz de Galdeano et al.[18] who reported a series of five cases. Multiple well-defined asymptomatic brown–gray macules and slightly raised plaques are most commonly seen on the face, trunk, and proximal extremities in those affected by IEMP [[Figure 4] and [Figure 5].[19] No preceding inflammation, erythema, scale, or itch is noted by the patient. After a variable period of time, the lesions spontaneously resolve without permanent sequelae.[19] Again, increased melanin and melanophages are seen in the dermis. In some patients with IEMP, there are raised velvety thickened plaques. This subset, described by Joshi et al., is known as IEMP with papillomatosis, because epidermal papillomatosis is a characteristic histologic finding. Figure 4 EDP of the neck Figure 5 IEMP of the trunk Sanz de Galeano et al. proposed the following diagnostic criteria for IEMP: Eruption of brownish-black discrete, nonconfluent asymptomatic macules on neck, trunk, and proximal extremities in children and adolescents Basal-cell hyperpigmentation of the epidermis with dermal melanophages without any basal-cell damage or lichenoid infiltrate Absence of preceding inflammatory lesions No previous drug exposure Normal mast cell count In 2015, Joshi et al.[20] proposed slight modifications to criterion points 1 and 2: Eruption of brownish-black discrete, nonconfluent asymptomatic macules and/or slightly raised plaques that resemble acanthosis nigricans and involve the face, neck, trunk, and proximal extremities, with complete resolution after months or years Affects mostly children and adolescents, that is, the first 2 decades of life Epidermal hypermelanosis with or without papillomatosis as the main histological finding with the absence of dermal inflammation According to Joshi et al.,[19] numerous dermal melanophages and the presence of interface changes should not be observed on biopsy, and if observed, are considered to be against the diagnosis of IEMP. In a commentary published in the same issue of the journal, Kumarasinghe[21] pointed out that although there is no doubt that some cases of acquired small macules of hyperpigmentation have some raised lesions with histopathological features of papillomatosis, the vast number of cases do not have raised lesions at all. Therefore, it may not be prudent to change the diagnostic criteria established by Sanz de Galdeano. Furthermore, many cases of IEMP have melanophages in the dermis. Therefore, the absence of dermal melanophages cannot be an exclusion criterion for IEMP. This confusing nomenclature coupled with contradictory clinical and histological criterion between authors highlights the need for consensus on what constitutes the diagnosis of IEMP. In general, IEMP tends to affect children and adolescents more than LPP and EDP, manifests as smaller lesions than EDP, predominantly occurs on the trunk and proximal extremities, unlike LPP, and spontaneously resolves in most cases, unlike both EDP and LPP. Examination of the literature reveals the confusion between these conditions and highlights the need for consensus on the clinical, morphological, and histological features to define these entities. Once this is performed, the evaluation of treatment modalities can also be studied.Lichen planus, fixed-drug eruption, and postinflammatory hyperpigmentation, among others, have been confused as IEMP in the literature. LPP and EDP are terms that have been used to describe variable morphological entities over time, but there are many overlapping features. This has created blurred lines between these entities. A global forum on AD, EDP, and LPP has been established to arrive at a consensus on the terminology of these types of acquired macular pigmentations of uncertain etiology and encourage further research.[14],[21] There is a clear need for a large-scale, multicenter worldwide study to further delineate these two conditions etiologically, morphologically, and histologically. The second step will be large, double-blinded randomized studies to accurately assess the efficacy of various treatments for these acquired dermal melanoses. Chang SE, Kim HW, Shin JM, Lee JH, Na JI, Roh MR et al. Clinical and histological aspect of erythema dyschromicum perstans in Korea: A review of 68 cases. J Dermatol 2015;42:1053-7. Rieder E, Kaplan J, Kamino H, Sanchez M, Pomeranz MK. Lichen planus pigmentosus. Dermatol Online J 2013;19:20713. Kanwar A, Dogra S, Handa S, Parsad D, Radotra BD. A study of 124 Indian patients with lichen planus pigmentosus. Clin Exp Dermatol 2003;28:481. Mahmoud BH, Ruvolo E, Hexsel CL, Liu Y, Owen MR, Kollias N et al. Impact of long-wavelength UVA and visible light on melanocompetent skin. J Invest Dermatol 2010;130:2092-7. Al-Mutairi N, El-Khalawany M. Clinicopathological characteristics of lichen planus pigmentosus and its response to tacrolimus ointment: An open label, non-randomized, prospective study. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2010;24:535-40. Muthu SK, Narang T, Saikia UN, Kanwar AJ, Parsad D, Dogra S. Low-dose oral isotretinoin therapy in lichen planus pigmentosus: An open-label non-randomized prospective pilot study. Int J Dermatol 2016;55:1048-54. Ramirez CO. Los cenescientos: Problema clinic. Proceedings of the first central American congress of dermatology. San Salvador: El Salvador, 1957; 122-30. Chang SE, Kim HW, Shin JM, Lee JH, Na JI, Roh MR et al. Clinical and histological aspect of erythema dyschromicum perstans in Korea: A review of 68 cases. J Dermatol 2015;42:1-5. Imanishi H, Tsuruta D, Kobayashi H, Ishii M, Nakagawa K. Two cases of unilateral ashy dermatosis. Case Rep Dermatol 2011;3:1-4. Chua S, Chan MM, Lee HY. Ashy dermatosis (erythema dyschromicum perstans) induced by omeprazole: A report of three cases. Int J Dermatol 2015;54:e435-6. Kumarasinghe SP, Chandran V. Ashy dermatosis or ashy dermatosis-like pigmentation due to omeprazole? Int J Dermatol 2016;56:e29-30. Stratigos AJ, Katsambas AD. Optimal management of recalcitrant disorders of hyperpigmentation in dark-skinned patients. Am J Clin Dermatol 2004;5:161-8. Bahadir S, Cobanoglu U, Cimsit G, Yayli S, Alpay K. Erythema dyschromicum perstans: Response to dapsone therapy. Int J Dermatol 2004;43:220-2. Kontochristopolus G, Stavropoulus P, Panteleos D, Aroni K. Erythema dyschromicum perstans: Response to dapsone therapy. Int J Dermatol 1998;37:790-9. Global Forum on Ashy Dermatosis. Lichen planus pigmentosus, Erythema Dyschromicum Perstans, Eruptive Macular Pigmentation, Vancouver, Canada. June 2015. Kroon MW, Wind BS, Meesters AA, Wolkerstorfer A, van der Veen JP, Bos JD et al. Non-ablative1550 nm fractional laser therapy not effective for erythema dyschromicum perstans and postinflammatory hyperpigmentation: A pilot study. J Dermatol Treat 2012;23:339-44. Degos R, Civatte J, Belaiche S. Idiopathic eruptive macular pigmentation. Ann Dermatol Venerol 1978;105:177-82. Sanz de Galdeano C, Léauté-Labrèze C, Bioulac-Sage P, Nikolic M, Taïeb A. Idiopathic eruptive macular pigmentation: Report of five patients. Pediatr Dermatol 1996;13:274-7. Joshi R. Idiopathic eruptive macular pigmentation with papillomatosis: Report of nine cases. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 2007;73:402-5. Joshi RS, Rohatgi S. Idiopathic eruptive macular pigmentation: A critical review of published literature and suggestions for revision of criteria for diagnosis. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 2015;81:576-80. Kumarasinghe SP. Understanding macular pigmentation of uncertain aetiology. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 2015;81:581-3. Rodrigues M Pandya AG Bekkenk M Parsad D Kumarasinghe SP Erythema dyschromicum perstans Printed 2 © Pigment International \| Published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow Online since 10 April, 2014	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line759
__label__cc	0.679767	0.320233	Mars from VMC, February 29, 2016 ESA / Emily Lakdawalla After a long hiatus, Mars Express' Visual Monitoring Camera returned to work on Leap Day, 2016, taking a photo of Mars in late northern summer. The bright feature at the top is the north polar cap. At center right is the Elysium volcanic complex. Gale crater, home to the Curiosity rover, is visible to the south of Elysium. This is a stack of three VMC images, enlarged to 150% of the original size. A few of the visible features: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For uses not allowed by that license, contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder: Emily Lakdawalla Original image data dated on or about February 29, 2016 Explore related images: pretty pictures, Mars Express, Mars, global views Home > Multimedia > Space Images > 4 Mars Aldrin deploys Passive Seismic Experiment Gene Shoemaker OGLE-2016-BLG-1195 Lb Artist's concept of OSIRIS-REx flying past Earth on September 22, 2017 Arecibo radar view of asteroid 1998 QE2 on June 7, 2013 Lutetia in stereo (3D anaglyph)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line760
__label__cc	0.674884	0.325116	US-1,009,8270 Methods for mitigating arc flash incident energy in motor control devices Industrial motor control apparatus and techniques are presented for mitigating incident energy associated with an internal arcing. Interior enclosure surfaces... US-1,009,8269 Manufacture work machine for controlling a plurality of work-element performing apparatuses by central control... A manufacture work machine for preforming a manufacture work, including: work-element performing apparatuses each configured to perform one of work elements of... US-1,009,8268 Electromagnetic wave shielding tape using nanomaterials An electromagnetic wave shielding tape using nanomaterials includes a carrier substrate, a first nanostructure, a second nanostructure, and an insulating... US-1,009,8267 Housing for a camera and method of manufacture An electronic device includes a housing, a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed in the housing, and electronic components that are supported on the PCB. The... US-1,009,8266 Deionized-water cooling system for electrical equipment Provided is a deionized-water cooling system having a main circuit for cooling electrical equipment. The system includes a deionizer circuit including (i) a... US-1,009,8265 Cooling system with desiccant dehumidification A system for removing heat from electrical systems includes a dehumidification device including a desiccant, an evaporative cooling device, air moving devices,... US-1,009,8264 Air-conditioning apparatus An air-conditioning apparatus is an air-conditioning apparatus, for an air-conditioning target space in which a rack including a device as a heat-producing... US-1,009,8263 Inflatable data center A data center can include an inflatable enclosure in which rack computer systems can be installed and can provide computing capacity. The inflatable enclosure... US-1,009,8262 System with rack-mounted AC fans A computer system includes a chassis, one or more hard disk drives coupled to the chassis, and one or more air passages under at least one of the hard disk... US-1,009,8261 Double insulated heat spreader An apparatus for thermal management for an electric device. In one embodiment the apparatus comprises a primary heat spreader disposed within an enclosure that... US-1,009,8260 Thermal management systems for electronics A refrigeration system for electronics includes a compressor disposed on a main line and configured to compress a refrigerant in the refrigeration system and a... US-1,009,8259 Heat dissipation in electronics Heat dissipation configurations and methods are described herein. A heat dissipation apparatus may include an individual piece of metal having a thermally... US-1,009,8258 Minimizing leakage in liquid cooled electronic equipment An apparatus for minimizing the volume of coolant leaked in liquid cooled electronic equipment, the apparatus including a server rack, a plurality of closed... US-1,009,8257 Device for signature adaptation and object provided with device for signature adaptation The invention pertains to a device for signature adaptation, comprising a surface element arranged to assume a determined thermal distribution, wherein said... US-1,009,8256 Electronic device An electronic device includes a sealable housing, constituent surfaces of which are configured by a conductor, a plurality of heat generating components... US-1,009,8255 Vent control apparatus and method A ventilation closure device for a telecommunication equipment enclosure includes opposed planar panels and aligned openings through each of the panels for... US-1,009,8254 Method of manufacturing semiconductor device A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including preparing a heat-dissipating base, performing a first initial warping or a second initial warping of... US-1,009,8253 Apparatus, system, and method for aligning and supporting line cards within telecommunications systems The disclosed apparatus may include (1) at least one receptacle that (A) is coupled to a line card that facilitates communication among computing devices and... US-1,009,8252 Hinge device and display apparatus with a hinge device using a sliding position A display apparatus which enables a display to rotate with a tilting angle across a large range is provided. This allows a user to, conveniently use the display... US-1,009,8251 Cable management lacer bar The present disclosure provides example cable management tools, e.g., lacer bars, as well as systems and methods for manufacturing the same. An example cable... An electronic device includes a casing, a first power housing and a second power housing. The casing is equipped with a main board. The first power housing is... US-1,009,8249 Cable assembly management elements and fixture A fixture for temporarily mounting connectors of a plurality of cable assemblies is provided for use while replacing an electronic component having a plurality... US-1,009,8248 Server rack anchoring system for datacenter A datacenter may include a server rack supported on a floor that is supported over a subfloor. The server rack may be anchored through the floor to the subfloor... US-1,009,8247 Electric connection box and wire harness An electric connection box includes a rib that partitions an internal space portion of a casing into a first housing region and a second housing region, a water... US-1,009,8246 Display system and method of use A retractable display configured as a plurality of interlinked display subassemblies or panels, a transport box having a lid configured to enclose the display... US-1,009,8245 Display assembly, electronic device and method for assembling the same A display assembly is provided. The display panel may include a bottom frame, a display panel, a cover plate, a side frame and a connecting member. A bottom... US-1,009,8244 Image display apparatus and image display apparatus manufacturing method An image display apparatus includes: a display unit which includes a display panel that displays an image on a front face, and a chassis disposed on a back face... US-1,009,8243 Printed wiring board and semiconductor package A printed wiring board includes a core laminate body including insulating layers, conductor layers including first and second conductor layers, and via... US-1,009,8242 Double-sided circuit board and method for preparing the same A method for preparing a conductive circuit can begin with the preparation of a non-conductive substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, and then... US-1,009,8241 Printed circuit board with edge soldering for high-density packages and assemblies The present invention is notably directed to a printed circuit board, or PCB. This PCB has two main surfaces, each delimited by lateral edges, as well as... US-1,009,8240 Electronic control module and method for producing an electronic control module An electronic control module includes a printed circuit board and an electrical component. The circuit board has a contact area arranged on a component side.... US-1,009,8239 Apparatus for assembling light-emitting diode lighting fixtures An apparatus for assembling a LED lighting fixture contains a power cable, an elongated coupler, a base plate, a protruding terminal, a receiving terminal, and... US-1,009,8238 Method of manufacturing resin multilayer substrate A method of manufacturing a resin multilayer substrate is provided in which a component (3) is incorporated in a stacked body obtained by stacking a plurality... US-1,009,8237 Printed circuits with laser ablated conformal coating openings Electrical components may be mounted on a printed circuit or other substrate. The electrical components may be covered with a conformal coating containing a... US-1,009,8236 Use of combined masking techniques and/or combined material removal techniques to protectively coat electronic... Processes for masking electronic devices, including, but not limited to, electronic subassemblies, prior to the application of protective coatings to the... US-1,009,8235 Tamper-respondent assemblies with region(s) of increased susceptibility to damage Tamper-respondent assemblies and methods of fabrication are provided which include a tamper-respondent electronic circuit structure. The tamper-respondent... US-1,009,8234 Manufacturing method of circuit board A manufacturing method of a circuit board and a piezochromic stamp are provided. A circuit pattern is formed on a dielectric substrate. A dielectric layer... US-1,009,8233 Substrate or panel with releasable core Generally discussed herein are systems and apparatuses that can include a base with one or more recesses therein. The disclosure also includes techniques of... US-1,009,8232 Embedded board and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed is an embedded board and a method of manufacturing the same. The embedded board may include an insulating layer a first circuit layer formed inside... US-1,009,8231 Integrated electronic assembly for conserving space in a circuit An integrated electronic assembly including a first electronic component defining a receptacle and at least a second electronic component wherein at least a... US-1,009,8230 Memory module and method of manufacturing the memory module A memory module and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The memory module includes a substrate, at least one memory, a mask film and at least one... US-1,009,8229 Module, module component composing the module, and method of manufacturing the module To provide a compact module that is capable of achieving a low profile and that has excellent high-frequency characteristics, a module includes a parent board;... US-1,009,8228 Electronic component device and method for manufacturing the same An electronic component device includes a cored wiring substrate, an electronic component, a reinforcing layer, a connection terminal, and sealing resin. The... US-1,009,8227 Support structure for lighting devices and corresponding method A support structure for lighting devices, the support structure includes a ribbon-like support member with electrically conductive lines with mounting locations... US-1,009,8225 Flexible electronic module and manufacturing method thereof A flexible electronic module including a patterned flexible substrate, a stretchable material layer, and at least one electronic device is provided. The... US-1,009,8224 Reinforcement components for electrical connections with limited accessibility and systems and methods for... Reinforcement components for electrical connections with limited accessibility Shield structures with reduced spacing between adjacent insulation components and... US-1,009,8223 Sensor device with a flexible electrical conductor structure A sensor device for integration in an electrical circuit, including a support layer (12'), which is formed with a release layer; at least one flexible... US-1,009,8222 Patterned substrates with darkened multilayered conductor traces The present disclosure provides an article having a substrate having opposing first and second surfaces. A conductor micropattern is disposed on the first... US-1,009,8221 Heat transfer assembly providing heat transfer from a module mounted on a circuit board through the circuit board A heat transfer assembly may be used to provide a thermal conduit from a module mounted on a circuit board through the circuit board, allowing a thermal path... US-1,009,8220 Electronic device heat transfer system and related methods Electronic device heat transfer technology is disclosed. In an example, an electronic device package can include a substrate. 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__label__cc	0.719105	0.280895	Reef Central Online Community > General Interest Forums > Reef Discussion View Full Version : Reef Discussion Pages : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 [289] 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 597 598 599 600 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 615 616 617 618 619 620 621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 648 649 650 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 662 663 664 665 666 667 668 669 670 671 672 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 680 681 682 683 684 685 686 687 688 689 690 691 692 693 694 695 696 697 698 699 700 701 702 703 704 705 706 707 708 709 710 711 712 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 720 721 722 723 724 Some new pcis of my 125! Catching watchman goby and pistol shrimp wild chaeto ??? Seachem Pearl Beach Aragonite Rose Anemones hard to keep as everyone says? will this substrate be better then Playsand for DSB which ballasts do you guys reccommend? BareBottom / Volume / Stock / Pics Okay found my water param problem, what else should I fix? MJ Mods on a timer? Could a cat scratch the glass What Temp is ur Tank at??? Barebottom guys, please look DSB question. Sea Hare vs Anenome!! advise please. Reef shape for tall tanks? Move Tanks lDEAS!! LR Rubble/Substrate? Do triggerfish eat astrea snails?? Hitchhikers... so yeahh..... What kind of algae is this? Removing rocks to scrub Looking for help Quick cycle Looking for RO unit Reefkeerer2/AC.jr Concept Aquarium's Ã�Ã°ÃÃ²Ã¢Ã Ã¯Ã«Ã¨Ã§ Ã¯Ã®Ã¬Ã®Ã£Ã¨Ã²Ã¥! Anyone ever see a pulsing leather? cheato worth all the detritus it holds? Neptune AquaController I.D.('s) Please? area people ID this algae please bluethroat trigger in reef? AGE link diatom algae problem ozone or UV, pros and cons? sea cucumber spawning bad? How to quiet down flow into the sump Red flatworm cure? Pump selection question... How to test Alkalinity? any one heard of this brand Question about zero edge tank Viewing from the Top fish load with a 30 gal with 10 gal fuge What is "Armor of God"? SPS/LPS coral keepers: how often do you check your calcium level? little accident Anyone used the 5 gallon box oceanwater from petco yet? Any Good? Let's see the aquascaping on your 120g Best tempreture for reef tank? Algae ID Please difference between zoos, zoas, and palys? Best T5 fixture to buy Marinedepotlive - Whats going on? Feather Duster-Glue What fish do you have in your 120g? dd sulphur nitrate filter Live Rock from the backyard??? 90 cube, bottom pane cracked How "GHETTO" are you? Red serpent star...fish eater? Bryopsis and Mag. What Will Eat Red Fuzzy Algae? My master, show me the light Red worm ID - PICS Tank + Sump - Do you overflow often? Starting with Bulk Reef Supply Rock - How soon till I add critters Dosing? Upgrading tank Natural Looking Aquascaping - where is that thread? water clearity light question. Sand bed getting nasty, 20 year old acrylic tank Scratched Glass Emerald crab question? engineer (convict, eel) goby yelow, blue and powder blue, all ok together? Pistol shrimp Calcium Supplement? The Best Moving my tank? selcon users -- how much are u in debt frm reefing? -- Redtail trigger not eating best way to ship livestock Where is the new TOTM? Mushrooms not doing so well reef lighting question ballast question Vinegear and Reef mixing salt how long does a glass tank last or can last? Sigh, Too much flow? Dirty Aged Salt Water cooking live rock green hair algae Direction of flow OK? i think i have to much korali fans in my 75g tank, would 2 vortechs be good enough? Purple UP?? sump sponge in or out? 2' Cube? Silicone Question brown film algae growing on makeup water container Phos reactors... help me decide whether to get What test kit is telling the truth Virgin shark gives birth! An argument for diversity Leaky connection?? t5 bulb combo ??? how much have you spent in the last year Mysis vs. homemade food Totm For Oct. ATO water container? Flatworms ID this Blenny please. Fast Coralline Growth? Favorite thread... thread Skimmer PROB! Aiptasia Question Acro near Apstasia How much can you water down vinegar and it still cleans pumps? To filter sock or not? How much skimmate is appropriate for a 46 gallon tank Porcelain crabs apstasia-x Dual filtering? A.G.E vs Miracles in Glass Aqua controller Program Help. How do you get a cleaner shrimp interested in cleaning your fish? sand cleaning need help please Oceanic Salt, Review? Ultimate Budget Reef Build with some DIY Cheap octopus glass tanks Please see my Long-spined Sea Urchin on "new to Hobby" Sand Bed Stirring? 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T5s and heat Who Has Buckets of Reefcrystals on sale this month butterfly videos Compatable fish for Clown Anemone tank? search for porous fuge/sump rock My 120g thanks to ReefCentral would this sump/fuge setup work? lights blinking... here's my aquascaping, all suggestions/comments welcome I just killed my fish :( 96 gal with many pics Getting stable alk with a kalk reactor. What is this??? ID with pics Getting My Sump and Pump Tonight! Buying new tank lfs in/around Dallas Cycled tank water - new tank are you ready for some.....NEW BUILD????? I wish my tank looked like... Question regarding nassarius snail (vibex) babies... my copperband and morrish idol There such thing as 100% reef safe angel? Sick Fish? Is this Oenone fulgida worm reef safe? can some one i.d. please.. Stray Voltage in Tank!?? My 90g tank Got new fish today and not getting along =/ Mixing Euphyllia Metal Halide! Someone who actually knows, please... Hofer Gurgle Buster 29 gal low tech Anemone tank Sand clumped together forming rock tips for taking care damage bubble coral Algea Id in fuge ? red hairy looking worm...size app 2 cm which one fowlr or reef? Question about removing sand from my new 120 Show Me Your DIY T5 Only Light Hood Economy... Anyone have smaller lights on a bigger tank? Bubble Coral Vomiting Red Particles Orange Montipora Capricornis Pictures Two dwarf angels need how big of a tank? Newly introduced base rock - still purple on it Filter feeding Phyto, marine snow??? sump and chaeto ?? Candy cane corals Leak in my glass tank ! Costly Mistake Moving from a 37g to a 90g. Any tips/suggestions? Can you identify these? Frag Corals Touching? TOTM October Linear blenny nipping at SPS? Can I feed snails algae wafers? Any Aquarium builders in Oakville Ontario cleaner shrimp died Reef Advantage Calcium? Soaking Eco Rock/Base rock?? Aiptasia out of controll Worry about base rock I want the drugs this guy is on trying to sell this animal for $5,000 Ati Vs Aquactinics Acessories Needed? Extreme Phosphate	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line777
__label__cc	0.658134	0.341866	'Tiptoe thru the Tulips' with John Kerry, Jimmy Carter and Uncle Joe Biden "Knee deep in flowers we'll stray, we'll keep the showers away, and if I kiss you in the garden, in the moonlight, Will you pardon me? And tiptoe through the tulips with me" – Tiny Tim "It is the United States' Biblical "responsibility" to "confront climate change," including to protect "vulnerable Muslim majority countries." – John Kerry After viewing Dave Huntwork's article on Canada Free Press, I knew I could add very little to Dave's coverage, but I was haunted by the words of Tiny Tim's 1968 classic "Tiptoe through the Tulips." There isn't a single direct correlation between the two ideas, but there is no masking the naiveté and raw stupidity in both. Kerry has revived echoes of William Howard Taft's proclamation that the people of the Philippines were our "little brown brothers" who would need years of our benevolent supervision to help them to morph into something akin to Anglo Saxon politically skilled and useful followers of democracy. If Kerry is going to play the role of the new Don Quixote of global warming, he may want to check the rest of the Bible as it pertains to abortion, homosexuality and corrupt government leaders. The bible has plenty to say about these matters, but to be honest the term 'global warming' and anything only tacitly related to it, are not in the bible. Not even an extravagant interpolation, much less and erroneous interpretation can be found about rising temps or the man-made destruction of the planet is found in the pages of writ. No John – we will not waste our time checking our bibles or tip toeing through the tulips. You may want to check with your boss on your view of scriptural mandates, Barack has already relegated some passages, like Romans chapter one, to the distant hazy land of obscure sayings. Since the bible says nothing about warming, Barack may want to place you on his list of obscure things. Dave Huntwork used terms like, crackpot agenda and pandering I prefer the term hypocrite. We have children being slaughtered and Christians being hunted down like they were unwanted vermin and Kerry's best is his concern about the temperature! If global warming had all the scientists onboard and if it were anything more than the make believe cause of the liberals we might forgo the harsh criticism. But Kerry has earned this gold medal for goofballs award – hands down. Jimmy Carter stuck on – "The Religion of Peace" The next prize for unmitigated liberal nonsense goes to former President Jimmy Carter. In Detroit only last week, while addressing the Islamic Society of North American, (ISNA) Carter said "the principles of Allah will benefit the whole world." With the anniversary of 9/11 only days away and 23,000 terrorist attacks later does anyone with half a brain still think Islam is a religion of peace. Apparently, there is at least one. Duped by the idea that Palestine ever had any centrality or desire to become a nation before the return of the Jews to their homeland in 1948, Carter has proven time and time again that whatever he was missing in his administration is second only to the deficit in his knowledge of modern history concerning the Palestinians and now pretty much all of Muslim history. It would be too much to hope that Carter knew before his address to ISNA that the FBI has long ago put ISNA on the list of groups directly connected to the infamous Muslim Brotherhood. Crusader Biden rides out in front of Barack to "Storm the gates of hell." Last but not least, along comes the next liberal to use a passage from the bible to punctuate their exuberant, howbeit, ridiculous rhetorical hyperbole. Jesus said, "...upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." (Mt 16: 18) Since Joe's connection to the church is highly suspect and Obama can hardly be thought of as 'the rock' especially as it pertains to ISIS we are forced to conclude that Uncle Joe was functioning once again as the king of gaffes and not so much as the vice president. Vowing retaliation for James Foley and Steven Sotloff who were executed by ISIS Muslims, Biden not only promised to follow the executioners to hell, but he declared that hell is where they will end up anyway. Judge, jury and executioner Biden forgot to mention that even as he spoke, boss Obama was still soft pedaling a response to ISIS by saying he had no policy or plan as yet. One commentator on Fox News was heard Thursday night saying that Biden may follow them to the gates of hell, but Obama, to date, has not been able to follow them across the Syrian border Are liberals now using their bibles as a road map? Bluegrass music's aficionados Mac Wiseman, Reno and Smiley and a host of other are still bellowing out the words to the much beloved gospel song still sung by Appalachian folks to this day. It is entitled "I'm Using My Bible for a Roadmap." I'm using my Bible for a road map Ten Commandments they tell me what to do The twelve disciples are my road signs And Jesus will take me safely through We have little to fear, the dem's liberals and left wingers now holding power in this nation are not finally submitting to the Lord or the wisdom of the bible. They are using it to add credence to their rhetoric however obviously shallow that may appear. As mentioned if they took any or all of the bible seriously then abortions, gay agenda and government corruption and scandal would end overnight. Jesus said ... "And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" (Lk 6: 46) Kerry, Carter and Biden have about as much import when it comes to the bible and the destruction of the ISIS threat as the three pigs did in keeping the big bad wolf away – no wait – the pigs were successful. Are the lib's returning to the bible just in time for the mid-term elections? If so, that should be proof enough that hypocrisy on the left – knows no boundaries.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line779
__label__wiki	0.689798	0.689798	Classics on the Common RiH Area Job Specs Old docs The winners are…… Probus Secundus! The triumphant Probus Secondus team with Town Mayor Cllr David Heritage and Rotary in Harpenden President Liz Jack. A new name now appears in the list of winners of the long-running Harpenden Quiz of Quizzes – the Probus Secundus club. They pipped past winners Goldenball by two points, with Witless taking third place. Thirty teams packed St George’s School hall for this, the 24th Quiz of Quizzes, organised by Rotary in Harpenden. Event manager David Nye said: ‘We were delighted to have such strong support from the community. It was also encouraging to have with us our Town Mayor, Cllr David Heritage, who presented the winner’s cup - and helped sell raffle tickets. We thank everyone who took part, who enjoyed a fun evening together and raised nearly £4,000 for charity. ‘The principal charities this year are Harpenden and Wheathampstead Scouts and Polio Plus, the international Rotary charity aimed at eliminating polio from the world.’ The 25th Harpenden Quiz of Quizzes will be held on Friday, 6 March 2020 Battle royal for public speaking Twenty-four students making up eight teams guaranteed a battle royal at the Harpenden heat of Youth Speaks, the national Rotary public speaking competition. The event, organised by Rotary in Harpenden, was held at Harpenden Indoor Bowls Club. Beechwood Park School, Markyate, saw off stiff competition from Roundwood Park and Sir John Lawes schools to lift the Intermediate cup (ages 11-14) with their topic ‘The World’s Greatest Invention’. Roundwood Park, whose topic begged the question ‘Does Truth Exist Anymore?’ came out winners in the Senior section (ages 14-18). Beechwood Park School’s winning team of Joshua Griggs, Jonathan Webb and Freddie Williamson with Rotary in Harpenden President Liz Jack and Harpenden Town Mayor Cllr David Heritage Roundwood Park School’s winning team: Alastair Holmes, Tyler Birkwood and Emma Carney The judges were distinguished toastmasters Elizabeth Jordan and Richard Rutty, both from the Hertfordshire Circuit of Toastmasters. They were joined by Harpenden Town Mayor Cllr David Heritage. Senior judge Elizabeth Jordan commended all the teams for their strong teamwork and for their inspirational, powerful and engaging talks. Lottie’s Blog A former student at St George’s school, 19-year-old Lottie Apsey is spending eight months in Malaysia as a volunteer, teaching English at a secondary school. Of the £5,500 she needed to raise to cover flights, other expenses and basic overseas living costs, £1,000 came from grants by Rotary in Harpenden and Rotary Lottie is sending us reports and pictures of her experiences. Here is the first ‘Lottie’s Blog.’ Lottie (in blue) with Lara and the art class, pictured with the striking mural designed and painted by the students I can’t get over how friendly everyone here is! Most days my fellow volunteer Lara Burdorf and I are invited for breakfast, lunch or dinner by various teachers and students. We have just started teaching our own English lessons. We’ve also been busy helping preparations for a big language week competition between all the schools in our area. We’ve assisted with the drama performance, public speaking, poetry slam and story telling, trying to build confidence in the students and helping with pronunciation. At the host school we enjoyed two days jam packed with competitions. Our school didn’t win anything but we were so proud of their performances. It also helped us to really get to know some of the students and better understand what it’s like to grow up in Malaysia. Sharpening students' interview techniques Few school leavers seeking a university place or a job will have experienced the all-important face-to-face interview. This is why, each year, Rotary in Harpenden offer local students the opportunity to go through a 'mock interview'. Working in pairs, our members draw on their own experience of being interviewed and, in the course of their careers, interviewing others. This year 52 students from Roundwood Park, St George's and Sir John Lawes schools grabbed the chance of a 20-minute mock interview, followed by a 10-minute review of their performance. Feedback every year confirms how much students come to value this experience. New challenge for young photographers Budding young photographers have been given the opportunity to enter their work in a new competition. Rotary in Harpenden have initiated a Harpenden heat in the nations-wide Young Photographer Competition, run by Rotary International in Britain and Ireland (RIBI). The competition is split into three age-defined sections: junior, intermediate and senior. The judges, who had no knowledge of the identities of the competitors, were the chairman of the Harpenden Photographic Society, Peter Stevens, and the society’s external competition secretary, Torben Cox. Highly placed entries in the local heats can progress to district and national levels of the competition. The theme for photographic entries in 2017/18 was "A Different Perspective" For Harpenden Village Rotary Club website click here Rotary in Harpenden is a charity that runs community events in Harpenden and surrounding villages, with help from Rotary Club members and others. Ten regular events are pictured below. For more details click on any picture, or on "Events and Activities" in the menu above. Rotary Shoe Boxes Santa's Float Christmas Carol Concert Youth Speaks Young Photographer Awards Technology Tournament Quiz of Quizzes Young Citizen Awards Rotary in Harpenden CIO is a charitable incorporated organisation, Registered Charity No.1163420	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line780
__label__wiki	0.991687	0.991687	Home > Uttar Pradesh > UP polls: 44 pc voting in 40 seats till 1400 hrs UP polls: 44 pc voting in 40 seats till 1400 hrs Lucknow: An estimated 44 per cent of the total 1 crore and 41 lakh electorate exercised their franchise in the first seven hours of polling in 40... newseditor \| Updated on:8 March 2017 12:58 PM GMT Lucknow: An estimated 44 per cent of the total 1 crore and 41 lakh electorate exercised their franchise in the first seven hours of polling in 40 Assembly seats covering seven districts of Poorvanchal in Uttar Pradesh today. Except for some EVM glitches, the voting was peaceful, claimed UP Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) T Venkatesh here. He said that till 0900 hrs, the voting percentage on an average was 10.43 per cent which increased to 22.84 per cent till 1100 hrs and at 37.68 per cent at 1300 hrs. He said at 1400 hours, the polling percentage was around 44. Though the polling began on a dull note, it picked up as the day progressed and people were seen queuing up in front of their booths. With this, voting in all the 403 Assembly seats would be completed today except for one of Alapur seat in Ambedkarnagar district where the polling has been deferred to tomorrow due to sudden demise of the SP candidate. The polling, which started in all the 40 seats at 0700 hrs, will end at 1700 hrs except for three Naxalite-infested constituencies of Chakia in Chandauli district and Dudhi and Robertsganj in Sonebhadra district where it will end at 1600 hrs. According to some reports, voting started at booth numbers 269 ad 260 in Chandauli (Sakaldiha Assembly constituency) one hour late due to technical glitch in the EBMs. Meanwhile, Apna Dal (Sonelal) president and Union Minister Anupriya Patel cast her vote at polling booth no. 335 of Mirzapur, claiming that the BJP and its alliance partners would win all 40 seats in this phase. Senior BJP leader and MP from Kanpur, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi has cast his vote in Varanasi. Congress leader Ajai Rai, who is contesting from Pindra seat has cast his vote at polling booth no. 389 of Varanasi South. Union minister of state for railways and telecommunication Manoj Sinha, who exercised his franchise in Ghazipur, said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rallies in Varanasi had made the difference for the party and they will get absolute majority in the elections. Meanwhile at 1300 hrs, the voting percentage were: Bhadoi- 37.37 per cent , Chandauli 36.50 per cent, Ghazipur- 35.57 per cent, Jaunpur- 37.43 per cent , Mirzapur- 38.04 per cent, Sonebhadra- 42.50 per cent and Varanasi- 37.88 per cent.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line781
__label__cc	0.645795	0.354205	sepheronx on Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:39 pm [Photo taken by Me] OK. So I was being a total loser and decided to wait in line at Futureshop here in Calgary AB, Canada for the midnight release of MW2. So while waiting in the cold (-5 or so), and in a large lineup, I get to witness some of the game while standing. The Playstation bandwagon with hot chicks dressed in military getup, where handing out these tickets. I grab the ticket and go into the bus to play. Kinda cool I suppose (killing the civilians was kind of fun), but was it worth the wait? I head back out and low and behold............the line did not move an inch. So I continue waiting and I have some people behind me talk about why they shouldn't be in line but are too scared to be at home alone (they are with their boyfriends) because they just watched that horrible movie called "Paranormal activity" (Might I add the movie was crap and was not even scary at all. Actually, I think Polterguist scared me more then that trash movie). I turn around and use my whits to make everyone else look like douche's and or tools. Yeah, I'm cool. So it was around 0002h on Tuesday morning and the line started to move a bit. I found out from a local spy (whom might I add should be asleep cause he has school in the morning and he is only 14 years old), that they where only letting in 5 people at a time. So after waiting 25min, I get in. I then wait in line at the counter behind 3 other people. I finally get up to the lady at the country at approximately 2 mins wait, and I ask "Do you have the PC version?" Cashier chick replies "No, we did not get any copies of the PC version". I was furious. I wanted to jump over the counter and punch her face. But, I cannot hit a woman (cause its wrong guys, unless she looks like a man and she hits first), and it was not her fault. So, to make my evening at least somewhat successful, I bought the PS3 version. Just to throw it out their, I hate playing First Person shooters on a console. The Controllers suck just as hard as a native hooker with no teeth. I get back home, throw the disk into my PS3 and away I go. The game starts off showing a bunch of Afghanies being trained on how to use a rifle. Your character then shows them how to use the rifle. Then it moves on further into the conflict in Afghanistan. After that, you play the mission about killing civies. And blah blah blah (I wont ruin the game for you). But here is what I am going to get into. It was not worth the wait for 30 mins in the cold, or the 60 bucks it cost me (damn I am stupid and now poor). The game has a good premise and some missions are fun. But it was short and not all that sweet. I mean, I expected at least more then a stupid cliffhanger ending that means absolutely nothing for me other then the fact that the developers are going to create a 3rd Modern Warefare just to milk the *F&!@1 series (sorry for my rude language). Not just that, my internet provider (telus) is a douchenozzel and now it is difficult to even connect to the PSN network just so I can play the game online. But, once you beat the game, there is an unlock-able. Some stupid special forces mode that I did not even bother to play, as it sounds gay. But you do get to play Co-op on it with a buddy, so unless you got friends (I think I do), then it may be fun. The graphics of the game are nice. I the blood splatter to the fire and water effects are nice. Kind of like in Bioshock (if anyone of you here has played that), would know your vision can get clouded by the water. Cool eh? Anyway, this game is worth a purchase, unless it is for less then 60 bucks (less then 50 would be better). But just wait, there will be another one for a milking good time. Stealthflanker Re: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Stealthflanker on Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:26 pm One thing i'd like to ask Is "Martyrdom" Perks still around in this game's MP modes ? if yes.. ain't going to waste my 60 bucks for that . Vladimir79 on Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:13 pm Why can't I play the Russian invaders? Why would I want to play a game where I kill my own country? sepheronx on Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:21 pm Stealthflanker wrote: One thing i'd like to ask No. It is not in the game. Vladimir79 wrote: Why can't I play the Russian invaders? Why would I want to play a game where I kill my own country? They are getting rid of that mission. As it was offensive in my opinion, it is just a video game. Face it, like most western movies, Russians are mostly the bad guys (or the germans) and a lot of them get killed off. I played online today, kind of boring to be honest. milky_candy_sugar Location : Switzerland milky_candy_sugar on Sat Nov 21, 2009 4:34 am for more fairness, Battlefield 2 is da best.... Sukhoi37_Terminator Location : Saint Petersburg Sukhoi37_Terminator on Sat Nov 21, 2009 8:44 pm I have already played a cracked copy on my PC, wich I downloaded using Bitorrent gameplay is good, but the entire storyline makes nonsense. To be honest I prefer COD4. Everything was more realistic, exept for the stolen Russian warheads. Infinity Ward dosen`t even have the minimal idea about what Spetsnaz are. Serbia Forever Serbia Forever on Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:03 pm Stupid game, should be outlawed. There is a level in it could "No Russian", you play as a terrorist and kill everybody at an airport. They don't even throw any cops at you really till the last part, OMON came. I found it offensive, I am not even Russian [ethnic Serb living in America ] but I found ti sickening. The entire world would never allowe a game to come out if you flew planes into an American building, but they allow you to play terrorst killing Russians. There country to this day deals with terrorsim, their people experniced it much more than Americans. Yet, did they care? No, of course not. Russia should make game just like this, but turn it around. Stalingradcommando Stalingradcommando on Thu Jun 03, 2010 9:40 pm Why you guys can`t just enjoy a good game? (this one is not a good game though and it`s not worth 60 bucks either) Who cares if you`re "killing" russians or americans, if the gameplay is enjoyable, the graphics are superb and the plot is good (and the game must be as close to reality as possible, as long as this does not affect the gameplay). Modern Warfare 2 was not the best game I`ve played but it was a good one. (I am talking about the PC version) Ace on Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:45 pm Personally, I think the Battlefield franchise is better than Call of Duty. IronsightSniper on Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:54 am Call of Duty: Black Ops portrayed Spetsnaz a bit better (they apparently recruited a former Spetsnaz to do all the stunts), but if you're looking for an unrealistic story line, look there, apparently Spetsnaz were issued AK-74s in 1968 xD GarryB on Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:26 am Better than most computer games that don't seem to realise there are any Russian rifles other than the AK-47. I still like the old Operation Flashpoint Red Hammer game, and Crysis is fun with all the weapon modifications though the AK is a North Korean weapon it is still fun. nightcrawler on Mon Dec 13, 2010 4:35 pm why don't Russia join this game developing community?? GarryB on Tue Dec 14, 2010 12:43 am Well they do have some game developers of their own. GSC is Ukrainian but there are Russians working for them, and you might have heard about their old game called Outbreak... which I thought was very underrated. They have also done the Stalker series but that is set in the Ukraine. ...the number of walk throughs I have read for STALKER that talk about the military soldiers in the game as being Russian is amusing and a little sad. Also there was talk of the Russian government spending money on a game to promote the Russian Armed forces a bit like "Americas Army". Personally I think such a game would be very useful if you made it accurate enough that you could use it for training as well as recruitment. Obviously a cut down version available free, with a more complicated and in depth simulation including artillery and airpower etc etc for military use.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line784
__label__wiki	0.535859	0.535859	Website Enquiry Regarding Item: San Giorgio in Alga, Venice I am writing to enquire about the following item, which I saw on your website: 'San Giorgio in Alga, Venice' EDWARD WILLIAM COOKE SAN GIORGIO IN ALGA, VENICE EDWARD WILLIAM COOKE RA (1811-1880) Pencil and watercolour Signed, inscribed with title and dated Sep 22 1859 9.00 x 17.00cm (3.54 x 6.69 inches) GBP - Pound Sterling USD - US Dollar EUR - Euro AUD - Australian Dollar ----------------------------------- BRL - Brazilian Real CAD - Canadian Dollar CZK - Czech Koruna DKK - Danish Krone HKD - Hong Kong Dollar TRY - New Turkish Lira NZD - New Zealand Dollar NOK - Norwegian Krone ZAR - Rand RUB - Russian Ruble SGD - Singapore Dollar SEK - Swedish Krona CHF - Swiss Franc JPY - Yen PLN - Zloty Payments can be made by cheque, bank transfer or Paypal. We do not accept credit cards. Please contact me to arrange a purchase. Quotes for shipping, delivery or collection can be obtained on request Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville, London, the son of the engraver George Cooke and nephew of the engraver, William Cook. A precocious draughtsman he became an accomplished engraver at an early age, showing a great fondness for marine subjects. On the encouragement of Clarkson Stanfield and David Roberts he began to paint in oils from the early 1830s, taking formal lessons from James Stark and first exhibiting at the Royal Academy and Royal Institution in 1835. He travelled widely on the Continent, most notably to the Netherlands and Italy. He also had a serious interest in natural history and geology, being a Fellow of the Linnean Society, Fellow of the Geological Society and Fellow of the Zoological Society and of the Society of Antiquaries. In 1863 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Royal Academician in the following year. Request Details Send to a Friend Print Details Il Vesuvio WILLIAM SHACKLETON Sky Study for The City of the Golden Gates HENRY CHARLES BREWER LEDA GRANT Muriwai, Auckland, New Zealand JOSEPH ARTHUR PALLISER SEVERN CLAUDE MUNCASTER On Board "Favell" MARIE PALMER-SMITH The Reef - Tropical Fish ALFRED WILLIAM HUNT HENRY HOLIDAY A Rocky Shore Deck of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Line's S.S. Don en route to Demerara Tropical Fish - Design for a Playing Card	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line787
__label__wiki	0.698663	0.698663	(No.246) "Are cruise ships killing Venice?" (No.245) About the Economical Insurance Co.: is Ri... (No.244)"Cable news: home of the callow & the sanc... (No.243) "The Shaw Festival, drama critics & stoat... "Are cruise ships stopping in Venice hastening the destruction of the historic city? " Is the magnificent city of Venice dying? Many people think so. That area constituting the historic city of Venice in a northern Adriatic lagoon has a population of only 60,000. Most of the city's working life is carried on by commuters. The deputy mayor of Paris, the most visited city in the world, recently told Le Parisien that "we don't want to become like Venice, a city devoid of inhabitants due to tourism." Venice's high waters, getting higher steadily, have resulted in an average of 100 floods a year. The so-called Great Flood of 1966 destroyed $6 billion of artwork. The subsequent Italian government plan to protect the city is still incomplete after the expenditure of more than $7 billion. If global warming and rising sea levels and associated floods don't finish off this Italian city (and the still incomplete flood defences don't) then visiting cruise ships and their passengers likely will. The Venice Port Authority, among other Venetian vested interests, want even more huge cruise ships to visit the city each year, to be pulled by tugs toward the Doge's Palace then down the Guidecca Canal. Why does this matter to the survival of Venice? Here are a few indices of the magnitude of the problems faced by this major tourist destination: -- In 1997 Venice was visited by 206 cruise ships; in 2011 by 655; the latter number means 1310 passages in the same canal, polluting the air, shaking the houses with their backwash, displacing water up into the canals off the Guidecca. --The number of berths in the Venice port has been increased so it can handle 8 giant cruise ships at the same time. -- In 1990 200,000 tourists disembarked from cruise ships in Venice; by 2000 this figure had increased to 337,000; in 2007 the total was 1 million and in 2011 1.8 million. -- On one day in July 2011 6 cruise ships put 35,000 tourists ashore in Venice at the same time, a human total equalling more than half the city's residential population. -- It is worth noting that cruise ships disembark mainly single day visitors to the city who are not even counted in compiling Venice's 6.3 million visitors a year (i.e., those counted as 'visitors' in this total are those who stay over at least one night). -- Most of Venice's tourists, like first time visitors to the Louvre in Paris who head straight for the painting of the Mona Lisa, want to see St.Mark's Square. It used to be called the drawing room of Europe and is today likened -- because of the crush of tourists now overwhelming Venice -- to the crowded concourse of a major railway station. After the cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on the island of Giglio on Jan. 13, 2012 an Italian government decree banned ships of more than 40,000 tons from sailing down Venice's Guidecca Canal. [Most of the modern cruise ships are more than this tonnage, often much more.] The decree has been ignored. UNESCO reports predict that as sea levels continue to rise Venice will flood twice a day every day in the spring of the year because of tidal ocillation. Buildings in the city have already been seriously degraded by periodic flooding and the 'rising damp'. Can the death of Venice be far behind? previous columns/blog archive: to access previous columns go to the blog archive the links to which appear chronologically in the margin beside each column as it appears on the RickardsRead.com website -- and use the links. to set a Google Alert in order to receive automatic notice by email of new columns as they are posted to RickardsREad.com, go to www.google.com/alert	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line789
__label__wiki	0.726044	0.726044	Home / 2016 Chase / 2016 Chase for the Sprint Cup / Carl Edwards / chase / Chase Coverage / Joey Logano / Kevin Harvick / Martin Truex Jr. / NASCAR / Rookie Stripe / Rookie Stripe: The Chase for the Sprint Cup — a Refresher Rookie Stripe: The Chase for the Sprint Cup — a Refresher Logan Stewart Photo credit: Logan Stewart for Skirts and Scuffs The Chase is mind-boggling all around. NASCAR’s championship includes four elimination rounds that lead to one winner of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. In the throes of the Chase, there's an elevated level of competition — bordering on the savage — that keeps you on the edge of your seat or screaming at your TV. It’s an addictive, manic, feverish thrill. As a rookie fan, the Chase can be utterly confusing. “I have news for you: there is no plan. Expect the unexpected.” – Kevin Harvick, Chase Media Day, September 15, 2016 The odds of making it in A driver must qualify for the Chase to have a shot at winning the title. Drivers who fail to qualify will still run each week and can still win a race, but they aren’t eligible to win the championship. Some of the toughest days for drivers are after the Richmond race when they don't make the Chase at all, or when they're eliminated during Chase rounds. Some drivers may spend their entire Sprint Cup careers struggling just to make the Chase. The full Rookie Stripe guide to the Chase explains the nuts and bolts of the pathway to the championship — including how drivers qualify based on wins and points and how waivers work — and gives you a brief history of the Chase itself. Evenly divisible If you need something simpler, here’s my advice. Remember that there are 16 drivers who make the NASCAR Sprint Cup Chase Series, which has four rounds to determine the series champion. During the Round of 16, all of the drivers are still in contention to win. After each round, the four drivers at the bottom in points are eliminated. So, for the Round of 12, a dozen drivers are in contention to win, and so on. The champion is determined at the final race at Homestead–Miami each year. These are the tracks that host each round: Round of 16 – Chicagoland, New Hampshire, Dover Round of 12 – Charlotte, Kansas, Talladega Round of 8 – Martinsville, Texas, Phoenix Round of 4 – Homestead-Miami Make sure to check out NASCAR’s 2016 Chase Grid , which offers a visual look at how the Chase plays out, and an update on current standings. “This is the Chase; anything can happen. By this time next week we could be at each other’s throats.” – Carl Edwards, Chase Media Day, September 15, 2016 Rookie Stripe: The Chase for the Sprint Cup — a Refresher Reviewed by Logan Stewart on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Rating: 5 Tags 2016 Chase X 2016 Chase for the Sprint Cup X Carl Edwards X chase X Chase Coverage X Joey Logano X Kevin Harvick X Martin Truex Jr. X NASCAR X Rookie Stripe Rookie Stripe	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line800
__label__wiki	0.581624	0.581624	Why Marin needs to approve Measure A Posted by DavidMitchell under agriculture, General News, West Marin nature, Wildlife With the quality of county parks, open space, ranchlands, and water on the line, Marin voters on Nov. 6 need to approve a quarter-cent increase in the county sales tax. A two-thirds majority is required for passage. County Open Space and Parks Director Linda Dahl spent months preparing the tax proposal, Measure A, which the Board of Supervisors on Aug. 7 agreed to place on the November ballot. If approved, the tax is expected to bring in $10 million annually over its nine-year lifetime. Dahl’s department would get 65 percent of the revenue, which would be used for maintenance and repairs at parks, as well as buying land easements and trail connections in natural areas, as my partner Lynn Axelrod reported in The West Marin Citizen. Cities, towns, and special districts that oversee parks and recreation would receive 15 percent, which they could use to maintain and expand parks, as well as reduce the risks of wildfires. The remaining 20 percent would be allocated to a Farmlands Protection program for — among other things — buying conservation easements on farms and ranches. Here is how revenue from the tax measure would be allocated, according to the measure. Additional maintenance at White House Pool, a county park along Papermill Creek, would be eligible for funding under Measure A. Parks and Open Space Program: Eighty percent of this program’s annual amount will be used to protect and restore wetlands along the coastline and bay shoreline to protect wildlife habitat; to protect water quality and fish habitat by reducing erosion and sedimentation; to reduce the risk of wildfire, enhance biodiversity, and control invasive, non-native weeds; to repair, maintain, and/or replace deteriorating facilities in open-space preserves and parks; to prevent slope instability and flooding; to build new or modify existing trails, entering into arrangements with private landowners for trail connections; to augment visitor services. Preserving natural lands would include purchasing land or conservation easements from willing sellers. To the extent possible, tax revenues would be used to leverage matching funds from public and private ‘partners.’ These might be considered “sacred cows” because ranching is what keeps much of West Marin in open space. If ranching gets too tough here, subdividing might replace much of it; Measure A, however, would help buy from ranchers easements that lock their land into agricultural uses in perpetuity. Farmland Preservation Program: The purpose of this program is to protect county farmland at risk of subdivision and development and to preserve working farms and ranches. Money could be used to buy perpetual agricultural-conservation easements and to buy additional real-property interests on lands now covered by such easements. Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) already buys and holds such easements, and the program’s 20 percent of tax revenues could be used to provide matching grants to ‘qualified organizations’ (e.g. MALT) to buy and support purchase of more easements. Up to 5 percent of the Farmland Preservation Program’s allocation would be used for monitoring and enforcing easements. And up to 5 percent of the allocation would be shared with the Marin Resource Conservation District to assist ranchers on easement-protected properties. City, Town, and Applicable Special-district Program: This program would provide local governments with funds to maintain and restore existing parks and recreational facilities; to acquire new parks; to carry out vegetation management. This program is expected to be allocated more than $13.5 million over the life of the measure. The county Parks and Open Space Commission will conduct an annual meeting to gather public opinions as to what projects should be funded. No more than 5 percent of the Parks and Open Space allocation can be used for administrative expenses by the county. The same is true for the Farmland Preservation Program. MALT, which helped Parks and Open Space director Dahl prepare the ballot measure, is expected to be put in charge of acquiring agricultural easements. Bolinas resident Cela O’Conner, who bitterly opposed Supervisor Steve Kinsey’s reelection, criticized the board’s allocating money through MALT since it is a private nonprofit; however, the organization’s executive director Bob Berner told county supervisors, none of the tax money would “stick” to MALT or be used for salaries. It would all go to acquiring and maintaining easements. Berner said MALT has already spent $54 million acquiring easements that protect 44,000 acres. Half of the money has come from public funds, he noted, but money from those sources — especially the California Coastal Conservancy — is “about exhausted.” Affordable-housing advocate Dave Coury told the supervisors the ballot measure is “a pig in a poke” because the county has not yet decided what additional land might be purchased for open space. The Marin County League of Women Voters, while not taking a stand on Measure A, pointedly asked Supervisor Kinsey in writing: “Is it wise to put the proposal on this November’s ballot when the governor’s tax plan will also appear? We’re concerned that Marin’s competing proposal may serve to generate stronger opposition to that plan in Marin.” Kinsey responded, “We understand the dire needs in our community that the state measure would address. We support the state measure, and would not be proposing our local measure unless we were confident that it would not affect the statewide one.” The league also asked, “What are the thoughts of the supervisors on other potential revenue sources that may be less regressive and fairer? In particular, have fees or parcel taxes been considered? These more closely tie those paying for the services to the benefits.” Kinsey’s response: “Sales tax is a broad-based tax, so it doesn’t create a burden for one segment of our community. Our parks are used by all residents of our community, not just property owners, so there is a nexus between who pays and who uses our parks and open space. Sales tax may actually be fairer since it includes all residents (park and open space users) not just homeowners, and especially since visitors from out of the county who use our regional, state and national parks also pay a portion of the sales tax collected in this county.” Speaking in favor of the tax proposal during the supervisors’ hearings were ranchers Dominic Grossi, Rick and Scott Lafranchi, Sam Dolcini, and Loren Poncia. Another supporter, rancher Ralph Grossi, former head of the American Farmland Trust headquartered in Washington, DC, told the supervisors he expects federal matching grants will be available from the current Farm Bill. Also testifying in favor of Measure A, The West Marin Citizen reported, were the Marin Conservation League, Marin Audubon Society, the Marin Bicycle Coalition, Access 4 Bikes, and Conservation Corps North Bay. Measure A’s benefits for Marin County are substantial, and I urge readers to wholeheartedly support it. « Tomales Founders Day parade bigger than ever \| Typical-graphical errors and other journalistic confusion » No Responses to “ Why Marin needs to approve Measure A ” Tuesday, Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:02 am agriculture and General News and West Marin nature and Wildlife MALT, Marin County Parks and Open Space, Measure A	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line807
__label__cc	0.741667	0.258333	By Doug Garry Doug Garry Doug GarryPoint Breakfilmreview What made the original Point Break great? It was simple, and most importantly fun. Who wouldn’t love a surfer/heist movie starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, with Anthony Kiedis hanging around in the background with stupid hair? It didn’t try to be gritty or high art; it was a film that knew exactly what it wanted to do and then did it. Point Break the remake, however, is about as fun as being smacked in the face with the blandest novelisation of an Inconvenient Truth. In the interest of fairness I will say there is some good to be found. Ray Winstone is in it. That’s it. It is in the writing that we find the biggest faults of the film. The movie succeeds in creating the world’s most boring collection of ‘extreme’ clichés. The dialogue of the entire film can be summed up thusly: If it is someone not in the FBI talking it sounds like the poorly written, pointless waffle of a Fast and Furious fan-fiction. If it is someone in the FBI, dialogue is used exclusively to fulfil the tired clichés of the police genre. I’ve never seen a movie so hypocritically preachy. The philosophy of these criminals, endlessly repeated throughout the near two hour runtime, is to save the environment through a series of extreme ordeals that will make them spiritually ‘one with the earth’. In practice this becomes stealing from US global interests while doing extreme sports. We constantly find our ‘anti-heroes’ partying on luxury super-yachts and in mountain chalets surrounded by scantily clad women (with stereotypically gratuitous ass shots in tow). The movie tries to excuse this by saying they all hate it, but surely then the question becomes; why are they there in the first place? The one word summary of this movie would be ‘dumb’. The characters are dumb, their tattoos are dumb, their ideology is dumb, the plot is dumb, the use of CGI is dumb, and when the movie isn’t dumb it’s boring. In the end, I had to laugh at how Darwin Award-esque it all was. Image: Bill Brown; Picasa Web Albums, Creative Commons. The one word summary of this movie would be ‘dumb’. The characters are dumb, their tattoos are dumb, their ideology is dumb, the plot is dumb, the use of CGI is dumb, and when the movie isn’t dumb it’s boring. Parents in pyjamas set a bad example Don’t Play The Imitation Game Cult Column: Plein Soleil (1960) Stream, Heav’nly Muse: Alternative Streaming Services in the UK MORE IN Film In praise of God’s Own Country – the year’s most overlooked LGBT+ film	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line808
__label__wiki	0.74629	0.74629	Henfield, (West Sussex) OPC for Henfield is : Nobody yet! Why don't you volunteer? Email: Nobody yet! Why don't you volunteer?. Web site: index.php?no=25&cf=volunteer. Henfield Church stands at the highest point in the village, on a sandy ridge above the River Adur. The earliest part of the present building is six or seven hundred years old, but a church was on this site at least the same period before that. In 770 fifteen hides of land were granted by Count Warbald and his wife Tidburga "for the endowment of the Church of the blessed Apostle Peter at Hamfelde". The name of the village is Anglo-Saxon, and describes its position on the high open space - the sandy ridge between the forest on the north and the wet lands of the Adur, still flooded in winter, to the south and west. The evangelical free church stands in the main street. Places of worship: Church details, together with baptism, marriage, monumental inscription & burial records can be accessed by clicking on the church name. Congregational Church (now Free Evangelical) Former Chapel Census returns: The OPC Database has no census returns for people residing in this parish yet. People born in this parish but residing elsewhere: 9 individuals in the OPC Database for the 1851 census. 1 individual in the OPC Database for the 1901 census. Grid reference: 521500, 116500 ~ View on: Google Maps, Open Street Map, Streetmap, National Library of Scotland Map or Oldmaps. Other links relating to this parish: Henfield Parish Council has an excellent site which has links to a Photo tour of the village and much more Poll Registers: The OPC database contains 87 poll register entries for people entitled to vote in this parish. 1641 Protestation Returns: There are 164 protestation returns for this parish in the OPC database. Gazettes: The OPC database contains 32 entries for people associated with this parish mentioned in Gazettes. Parish histories: Henfield Museum have a website There are 148 images depicting this parish in the OPC database. Henfield Virtual Tour by Dave Parker Postal directories: The OPC database contains no postal directory entries for this parish. Kelly's 1867 Directory for Henfield is available on the GENUKI site 1840 Pigot Directory for Henfield 1851 Post Office Directory for Henfield There is 1 book about this parish in the Sussex OPC Bibliography. There are 2 articles about this parish in the OPC Sussex Archeaological Collections Index. There are 12 people from this parish in the OPC Sussex Archeaological Society Members Index. Wills: The OPC database contains 2 wills of people who lived in this parish. The OPC database contains 3 wills which mention this parish. Interest in this parish: No registered users have badged this parish yet. To share your interest with others, why not register as frequent use of this site? Please contact the OPC co-ordinator if you have information or links you would like to contribute. Remember that OPCs are volunteers and are unlikely to have information not listed on this page. Please be courteous and patient - they, like you, have busy lives and will try and respond as quickly as they can.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line814

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