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__label__cc	0.544069	0.455931	Business News›News›International›Business›In the Gulf, there is now a bigger concern than just oil prices In the Gulf, there is now a bigger concern than just oil prices The real concern in the Middle East now is when Iran will walk away from its own nuclear commitments. Indrani Bagchi Shinzo Abe with Ayatollah Khamenei. Well, Iran did do it,” US President Donald Trump told Fox News. “And you know they did it because you saw the boat.” After a Japanese and a Norwegian tanker were attacked in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, the spectre of a world war, an oil shock or, at the very least, yet another Middle East conflict between the US and Iran has kept governments, oil markets and insurance companies on the edge. Coming on the heels of US sanctions on Iran, Saudi Arabia-Houthi misadventures in Yemen, Saudi-Qatar split and the unending war in Syria, many believe the tanker blow-up has the potential of being a Franz Ferdinand-Gavrilo Princip moment. The US is trying to establish — with grainy videos — that Iran, in an act of deliberate sabotage, took limpet mines and stuck them to the sides of two tankers, which frankly, isn’t as simple as it looks. Iran has rubbished the US claim. Meanwhile, to complicate matters, the owner of the Japanese tanker that was hit believes his vessel was attacked by things other than mines or torpedoes. Media reports quoted Yutaka Katada, president of the Kokuka Sangyo shipping firm that owns one of the targeted tankers, telling reporters Friday: “The crew are saying it was hit with a flying object. They say something came flying toward them, then there was an explosion, then there was a hole in the vessel. Then some crew witnessed a second shot.” Oil prices predictably spiked, as markets turned jittery on fears of a Middle East conflagration that would actually be far worse than the US-China trade war. Iran is the obvious suspect here — in May, several vessels were attacked off Fujairah, Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline was hit and a Katyusha rocket landed in the Green Zone in Baghdad, all of which were apparently warning shots by Iran against the “maximum pressure” by the US. Thursday’s attack came when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Tehran, hoping to bring the Iranian leadership around to restart nuclear negotiations with the US. Iranian media showed Abe meeting Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei with an envelope in his hand. Khamenei tweeted, “We have no doubt in @abeshinzo’s goodwill and seriousness; but regarding what you mentioned from U.S. president, I don’t consider Trump as a person deserving to exchange messages with; I have no response for him & will not answer him.” It has been interpreted as a snub to a letter by Trump to restart talks with Iran. “They’ve been told in very strong terms we want to get them back to the table,” Trump said. He has now said it a couple of times that he wants to restart talks with Iran. But despite the economic pressure, the Iranian leadership has only hardened its position. Trump’s walk-back from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or the Iran nuclear deal has only strengthened the positions of the hardliners in Tehran. They have lived with decades of US squeeze, wars and sanctions. They are not likely to bend that easily. In fact, the worry for the US is how Iran can easily turn the tables on them. In the immediate and medium term, oil prices are not really what we should be worrying about. Yes, insurance charges may increase due to the uncertainty in the Gulf or transport costs could rise. But according to the IEA, global supply of oil will far outstrip demand in 2019-20. In its Friday report, it said demand would rise to 1.4 million barrels in 2020, but supply would be a whopping 2.3 million barrels a day, spurred by extra production in the US, Brazil, Norway and Canada. It was telling that the spike in prices after Thursday’s attack was less than the drop in prices in the days prior. The real concern is when Iran walks away from its own nuclear commitments. On May 8, Hassan Rouhani said Iran would no longer send out enriched uranium and heavy water beyond 300 kg, as had been agreed in the JCPOA. From July 7, Iran is expected to walk back from two more commitments — they will enrich uranium beyond the stipulated 3.7%, and restart repair and modernisation of the Arak heavy water reactor. That would truly set the cat among the pigeons. The dangers are becoming apparent. Last week the Israeli foreign ministry tweeted that more sanctions should be imposed on Iran to prevent it from “violating parts of the JCPOA”! Israel was one of the cheerleaders for the US’s walking away from the JCPOA in the first place. Trump has said he wants to get out of Middle Eastern wars and concentrate on the bigger strategic challenge, China. The possibility of accidents in the sensitive Straits of Hormuz and an unintended escalation are now far greater than before, putting at risk the US’s Indo-Pacific strategy. India, like Japan and South Korea is caught between two undesirables. India has stopped importing oil from Iran (and Venezuela). Although Chabahar has been ring-fenced from US sanctions, banking curbs have made it impossible to get any work going there. Iran is vital to India for Afghanistan, connectivity, energy and regional balance. India and Japan now have an opportunity together to play a larger role in averting what could become a global disaster. Chabahar port Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action BC-US--Election 2020-Debates, ADVISORY, US Rahul Gandhi goes to US US oil prices soar 10% in the week on fears of US-Iran conflict The Latest: Iran tried to disrupt US monitoring, US says US-India ties on upward trajectory, says US envoy to India Kerala to US, cartooning is in the crosshairs	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1196
__label__wiki	0.966683	0.966683	The Structural Elements of the Plot of "A Christmas Carol" Written by Christopher Cascio 1 What Character Changes the Most in "The Kite Runner"? 2 What Is the Climax of "The Kite Runner"? 3 Conflict in "Oedipus Rex" 4 Is "Pride and Prejudice" a Cohesive & Narrative Discourse? The structure of any well-laid narrative plot begins with an inciting incident that sends the protagonist upon an emotional journey. At each step of this journey, the protagonist makes decisions and has realizations that change who he or she is; these raise the stakes of the conflict until the climax, when the protagonist either succeeds in overcoming the obstacle or fails magnificently. In "A Christmas Carol," Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes such a transformation. Marley the Incitor The book opens with an introduction to Ebenezer Scrooge. He is shown refusing and refuting the Christmas cheer expressed to him by his nephew. He shuns the opportunity to donate when two charity workers enter his office, and he chastises his assistant, Bob Cratchit, for expecting Christmas to be a paid holiday. Scrooge's comfortably frigid world changes, however, when the tortured, spectral Jacob Marley visits him in his home. Marley informs Scrooge that he is doomed to suffer the same eternal fate unless he changes his ways immediately. Marley can't detail how Scrooge should do this, but explains that Scrooge will be visited in the night by three spirits. The Spirits of Rising Action The first two spirits guide Scrooge through the formative steps of his emotional transformation. The Ghost of Christmas Past helps him reconnect with the feelings of sadness and rejection he felt as a child, and also shows Scrooge the point at which he gave up nobler aspirations for the ruthless pursuit of wealth, born out of a fear of poverty, which inspires Scrooge to resist the ghost until he is returned to his room . Scrooge accepts the Ghost of Christmas Present's initial instruction about being charitable to the poor, but also questions the ghost as to why he would have people close their shops every Sunday in reverent observation, and reduce their income for food. This thought shows that Scrooge has not entirely parted with his worldly ways, and is still in need of further instruction. A Phantasmic Climax While Scrooge's personal developments have been significant up to this point, he undergoes his final -- and most substantial -- transformation during his encounter with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. In storytelling, the climax is when the protagonist's proverbial blinders are finally removed, and he sees the world in a new way that provides the character with a degree of clarity. Scrooge's encounter with the ghost shows him the death of Tiny Tim, his own death and people's responses to his demise, at which point Scrooge finally breaks down and vows to change. The Dickensian Denouement The denouement provides closure and ties loose ends in a story, but also responds to the climax by delivering resolution and satisfaction. Scrooge's meeting with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come doesn't guarantee that he -- or anyone else -- will be saved. Only in the final chapter does he awaken on Christmas morning a renewed man, and begin to put into practice the lessons he's learned. He meets with the charity givers and arranges for a donation. He visits his nephew, arranges for a gigantic turkey to be delivered to the Cratchits and even gives Bob a raise. A Christmas Carol; Charles Dickens Christopher Cascio is a memoirist and holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and literature from Southampton Arts at Stony Brook Southampton, and a Bachelor of Arts in English with an emphasis in the rhetoric of fiction from Pennsylvania State University. His literary work has appeared in "The Southampton Review," "Feathertale," "Kalliope" and "The Rose and Thorn Journal." MJ Kim/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images What Is the Theme of "Shattering Glass"? What Made Gilgamesh an Epic Hero? What Is the Main Conflict in "A Man Named Dave"? Who Are the Protagonists & Antagonists in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"? What Events Helped Solve the Major Conflicts in the Plot of "The Titan's Curse?" What Kind of Conflict Occurs in "Pride and Prejudice"? How Is an Infant a Metaphor to Jonas in "The Giver"? A Character Description of Stanley Yelnats How Does John Proctor's Great Dilemma Change During the Course of the Play "The Crucible"? Central Conflict in the Tragedy of 'Macbeth'	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1201
__label__wiki	0.638776	0.638776	Electric Vehicle Price Guide – best prices for dealers in the US Lucid Motors Alt. Transport Tesla Autopilot Cruise Automation Submit a Tip/Contact Us GM executive takes swipe at the Model 3 and Tesla for all the wrong reasons Fred Lambert - Apr. 13th 2016 4:17 pm ET @FredericLambert While Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn had a welcoming reaction to the unveiling of the Tesla Model 3 and the subsequent storm of reservations for the vehicle, General Motors’ Vice President of Global Propulsion Systems, Dan Nicholson, is not as gracious as his colleague. The GM executive was critical of Tesla’s reservation process, which requires a deposit and wait time for delivery, and he went as far as to imply financial troubles at Tesla as a reason for the deposits. USA Today reported Nicholson’s comments at an engineering conference in Detroit earlier today: “I am very proud of the Chevrolet Bolt that’s coming out, which will be the first to market as a long-range affordable battery electric vehicle. It will have more than 200 miles of range and it will be in production by the end of 2016, so it’s not necessary to put down $1,000 and wait until 2018 or sometime after that.” The executive then added: “GM’s balance sheet is in pretty strong shape, so we don’t need to take $1,000 of your money just to hold a spot,” Of all companies that can taunt having a strong balance sheet, I find it hard to understand why GM would venture into publicly saying something like that in comparison to another car manufacturer, especially when the company itself required a massive government bailout only a few years ago. Although I’m sure Tesla welcomes the ~$325 million in deposits it received so far, the automaker already had over $1 billion in cash on hand after the last quarter and plans to be cash flow positive by the end of the year. The deposits and reservations are part of Tesla’s made-to-order business model, and always have been, unlike GM’s inventory system, which forces the automaker to maintain inventories since it sells through third-party dealerships. 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV Tesla Model 3 promo shot As I have been writing for a while now, and it’s something I argued in my piece The Chevy Bolt is not a “Tesla killer”, the Bolt and the Tesla Model 3 will not compete in the same segment. GM executives shouldn’t try to draw comparisons between the two, even if it’s only about their ordering process. “GM is making a $37,500 car that would sell for $20,000 if it wasn’t electric, while Tesla is making a $35,000 car that would sell for $35,000 if it wasn’t electric.” Interestingly, earlier this month, GM was asked to disclose customer interest during a media briefing, but the company refused to do so citing that they are not taking deposits or reservations for the Bolt. Subscribe to Electrek on YouTube for exclusive videos and subscribe to the podcast. Tesla is a transportation and energy company. It sells vehicles under its 'Tesla Motors' division and stationary battery pack for home, commercial and utility-scale projects under its 'Tesla Energy' division. The Tesla Model 3 is the first vehicle built on Tesla's third-generation platform. It aims to reduce the entry price for electric vehicles while not making any compromise on range and performance. The Model 3 starts at $35,000 in the US and deliveries to employees and company insiders began in mid 2017 - customer deliveries begin in late 2017. Chevy Bolt EV Cars Bolt deposit reservation Fred is the Editor in Chief and Main Writer at Electrek. You can send tips on Twitter (DMs open) or via email: fred@9to5mac.com If you want to help Fred and Electrek, you can contribute to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/electrek Fred Lambert's favorite gear Tesla Amazon shop Get Tesla merch and more directly from Tesla on Amazon Tesla Referral Code Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharger when order a new Model 3, Model S, or Model X Tesla Model 3 is the best road trip car Elon Musk reveals the Tesla vehicles he currently drive... BMW accelerates EV plans, unveils new concepts Tesla's upcoming announcements	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1202
__label__cc	0.586882	0.413118	Home / News / Using Piezoelectric Dispensing Technology To Improve Photovoltaic Flux Application Processes Using Piezoelectric Dispensing Technology To Improve Photovoltaic Flux Application Processes In tabbing and stringing processes in many industries, e.g. in electronics, automotive and solar production the narrow solder-coated copper ribbon used to link the individual cells requires precise flux application to ensure a good connection and prevent discoloration. Piezoelectric dispensing systems provide a way in production to apply flux at high speed with exceptional accuracy – and without the mess, waste and safety hazards of flux baths and similar application methods. Nordson EFD’s PICOTM piezoelectric jet dispensing systems incorporate two piezoelectric actuators composed of stacked ceramic coins that expand and contract in response to changes in voltage supplied from the valve driver. When voltage is applied to the actuators, the rod and sealing ball are raised so the pressurized fluid can flow to the nozzle. When the voltage is changed, the rod and sealing ball descend rapidly to “jet” the fluid out of the nozzle onto the substrate. The extremely fast action of the piezoelectric actuators makes it possible to dispense fluid continuously at speeds of up to 150 cycles per second. Depending on the fluid, the system can produce consistent shots as small as 2 nanoliters, and the high resolution (0.01 milliseconds) of the valve controller (described below) makes it possible to adjust the size of the fluid deposit with exceptional precision. Because the valve nozzle does not contact the substrate, piezoelectric jet dispensing systems are a good choice for applications where controlled amounts of fluid must be applied on surfaces that are not perfectly flat, such as thin photovoltaic wafers. They also eliminate the need for vertical Z-axis movement and precise height positioning, which can significantly increase production speeds on automated production lines. PICOTM Piezoelectric dispense valves are powered by valve drivers that use an amplifier to generate the signal for the piezoelectric actuators. In addition, they contain a temperature controller for a heater integrated into the valve, to keep the fluid at optimal jetting viscosity. EFD PICOTM valve controllers are used to set the fluid dispensing parameters for each valve. Graphical displays and user-friendly menus make it simple to create complex jetting processes on a PC, and then download them to the controller via an integrated SD card slot. Piezoelectric dispensing systems provide a reliable, innovative way for photovoltaic and other manufacturers to improve process control and reduce costs through exceptional accuracy and faster production speeds. EFD’s PICOTM piezoelectric jet dispensing systems are available through Nordson EFD’s worldwide network operating in over 30 countries. Nordson EFD is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nordson Corporation. Since 1963 Nordson EFD has designed and manufactured precision dispensing devices for applying controlled amounts of the adhesives, sealants, lubricants and other assembly fluids used in almost every manufacturing process. Nordson Corporation is one of the world’s leading producers of precision dispensing equipment that applies adhesives, sealants and coatings to a broad range of consumer and industrial products during manufacturing operations. The company also manufactures equipment used in the testing and inspection of electronic components as well as technology-based systems for curing and surface treatment processes. Nordson has direct operations and sales support offices in 32 countries. www.nordsonefd.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1203
__label__wiki	0.504757	0.504757	Business Models for Web TV - Research Report ¿Recomiendas este documento? ¿Por qué no compartes? Web Tv by CmsVideo 1626 views Formation Web TV by Libcast SAS 3606 views Business Models for Web TV - Resea... by Alessandro Masi 4823 views Team D Final Presentation Busn 460 by Mike Stroud 31006 views Innovation to the Core by Innovation Excell... 5217 views Review of "Top 15" MDM Software Sol... by Aaron Zornes 54849 views 10.783 visualizaciones Alessandro Masi , MBA \| Entertainment Business Professional Publicado el 27 de dic. de 2012 The research, final thesis for the MSc in Media Management at Bocconi, aims to define peculiar business models for web TV, still an almost unexplored ground inside the economic theory, despite technological progress and a steady growing audience made it recently so attractive in terms of investments for both entrepreneurs and advertisers. 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Bocconi University Faculty of EconomicsMaster of Science in Economics and Management for Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment Business models for web TV Supervisor: Paola Dubini Examiner: Massimiliano Nuccio Master thesis by: Alessandro Masi 1286053 A.A. 2008/2009 3. To my grandfather“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventuallyyou’ll make progress” – B. Obama 2 4. AbstractThe thesis aims to define peculiar business models for web TV, still an almostunexplored ground inside the economic theory, despite technological progress and asteady growing audience made it recently so attractive in terms of investments forboth entrepreneurs and advertisers.Even though there is not yet agreement on a definition, it is essentially a video boxcontained into a webpage. The audiovisual content can be live or on demand, andwatched for free or by payment, or the user can subscribe to the service. Themajority of the videos on the web are user-generated.Many players entered this market in the recent past, and the figures show that theoffering is growing steadily, supported by an increasing demand. The path seems totake to the result that every website will have audiovisual content and every user willbe able to watch content that is tailored to his taste, according to the “long tail”theory of the infinite market niches.Advertising in the main source of revenues but, according to the strategicpositioning, it can be mixed with or substituted by others. 3 5. ContentsIntroduction1. What is web TV2. The research 2.1 Methods 2.2 Data analysis 2.3 Findings3. Case studies 3.1 Glomera 3.2 ShareMedia 3.3 Google Video – YouTube 3.4 RCS Digital 3.5 Libero Video 3.6 Relevance of the case studies4. Strategic issues and business models 4.1 Economic framework 4.2 Economic structure 4.3 Business modelsConclusionsAcknowledgements 4 6. ResourcesAppendix AAppendix BAppendix C 5 7. IntroductionThe research question on the basis of the present study is whether exists aneconomic reasons for the growth of web TV or not, and what are the businessmodels that make it sustainable in the long term.It will prove the point that there is a solid economic foundation on the ground ofsuch expansion, besides it will identify the business models assumed according to thestrategic variables.The first chapter seeks to provide a definition of what is web TV, why it is differentfrom IPTV, and why it is so innovative and therefore attractive in terms of businessopportunities.Then, a statistical research over 152 websites brings to actually identify peculiarfeatures that characterize web TV, dominant modalities of revenue enhancement,source and characteristics of the audiovisual content, and finally licensing, uploadingand privacy regimes. The analysis focuses on the variables that determine thebusiness model: type of content, operator and source of revenues.In the third chapter, a case study over five different successful instances of web TVis conducted, in order to analyze reasons of such good performance. Case studiesare organized into four main sections: general information about the company (briefhistory, definition of the business line, primary competitors), business strategy(business framework, key points of the offer, market positioning, critical factors ofsuccess), business model, and future scenarios.As a result, strategic issues and business models for web TV are identified. Theobjective is to better understand the dominant models: it can be used as a guidelineeither by present companies or for future business opportunities in this field. 6 8. 1. What is web TV?What exactly is web TV? There is no agreement on a definition. It comes withdifferent names – web TV, IPTV, enhanced TV, personal TV, and interactive TV, forexample – which signify slightly different things. At the lower end of complexity, it ismerely a narrowband two-way Internet-style individualized (“asynchronous”) channelthat accompanies regular one-way “synchronous” broadband broadcast TV or cable.This internet channel can provide information in conjunction with broadcastprograms, such as details on news and sports, or enable transactions (including e-commerce) in response to TV advertisement. This is known as “enhanced TV”. At theother end of complexity is a full asynchronous two-way TV, with each user receivingand transmitting individualized TV programs, including direct interaction in theprogram plot line. In between is one-way broadband with a narrowband returnchannel that can be used to select video programs on demand (VOD).Every new medium starts as a substitute and then evolves into something quite new.Web TV, too, will first be used to access video servers that store existing programs,making them available for viewing at any time. But soon, going beyond theconvenience of viewer choice and control, web TV will enable and encourage newtypes of entertainment, education, and games that take advantage of the Internet’sinteractive capabilities. This assumes, of course, technical capability and economicviability (Ross, 2008).As asserted in a study by Noll (2004), web TV is many things, or even a combinationof things. In its most obvious implementation, web TV is conventional televisionobtained over the Internet. Rather than watching television programs broadcast overthe air or over cable, television programs are accessed over the Internet and thenwatched in real time, using a technology known as video streaming. Not onlyconventional television, but also movies, cartoons, and video shorts.Web TV is the adoption of an Internet-like interface in accessing and watchingtelevision – a new form of video navigation over the Internet. Web TV is a more 7 9. interactive approach to controlling the television experience with the ability to obtainall sorts of ancillary information while watching television, as promoted by WinkCommunications.Web TV is the use of the home TV set to view Internet sites, as offered by WebTVNetworks, perhaps in conjunction with conventional television viewing, the so calledInternet-enhanced TV, which could evolve into Internet-delivered TV on a wide basis.Web TV is the use of the Internet protocol to store and transmit video, both at theTV studio and also to various locations. Rather than storing and transmitting digitalvideo as a continuous stream of bits, the digital video is packetized into packetsspecified by the Internet protocol (Ross, 2008).It is now useful to go more in depth and define clearly the different forms Web TVactually assumes. Basically, a webcast is a media file distributed over the Internetusing streaming media technology, multimedia that are constantly received by, andnormally presented to, an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider.Internet television is a commonly streamed medium. It is a television servicedistributed via the Internet. The two forms of viewing web TV are streaming from asingle or multiple websites and downloading in the form of video podcasts orindividual files. The video may be also broadcast with a peer-to-peer network, whichdoesn’t rely on a single website’s streaming. Peer-to-peer software applications aredesigned to redistribute video streams in real time on a P2P network; the distributedvideo streams are typically TV channels from all over the world but may also comefrom other sources. The draw to these applications is significant because they havethe potential to make any TV channel globally available, because it is not a centralserver to broadcast the signal to every single user, so the flow can spread easier andwith lower infrastructure costs for the broadcaster, eventually higher for the user(Blumenthal, 2006).Internet television differs from IPTV in that IPTV offerings, while also based on theIP protocol stacks, are typically offered on discrete service provider networks, highlymanaged to provide guaranteed quality of service and good bandwidth, and usually 8 10. requiring a special IPTV set-top-box. The official definition of IPTV, approved by theInternational Telecommunication Union focus group (2007) on IPTV is as follows:“IPTV is defined as multimedia services delivered over IP based networks managedto provide the required level of quality of service and experience, security,interactivity and reliability.” It is characterized by single or multiple programtransport streams (MPTS) which are sourced by the same network operator thatowns or directly controls the delivery to the consumer.Compared to IPTV, web TV is a quick-to-market and relatively low investmentservice, since it rides on existing infrastructure including broadband, ADSL, Wi-Fi,cable and satellite, which makes it a valuable tool for a wide variety of serviceproviders and content owners looking for new revenue streams. A web TV providerhas no control over the final delivery and so broadcasts on a “best effort” basis.Elementary streams over IP networks and proprietary variants as used by websitessuch as YouTube are now rarely considered to be IPTV services (Vogel, 2007).The relative ease of establishing a web TV service seems at first a threat to IPTVoperators’ huge investment, but both services do not necessarily compete for thesame customers and there are some synergies between the two such as a commontechnology platform in the form of web-based technologies for content storage anddelivery.Broadcast IPTV has two major architecture forms: free and fee-based. The freesector is growing rapidly and major television broadcasters worldwide aretransmitting their broadcast signal over the Internet. Because IPTV uses standardprotocols, it promises lower costs for operators and lower prices for users: using set-top boxes with broadband connections, video can be streamed to households moreefficiently (Harte, 2007).The IP-based platform offers significant advantages, including the ability to integratetelevision with other IP-based services, like high speed Internet access and VoIP. Aswitched IP network also allows for the delivery of significantly more content andfunctionality: content remains in the network and only the content the customer 9 11. selects is sent into the customer’s home. That frees up bandwidth, and thecustomer’s choice is less restricted by the size of the “pipe” into the home. However,this also implies that the customer’s privacy could be compromised to a greaterextent than is possible with traditional TV or satellite networks, since enables theservice provider to accurately track each and every program watched and theduration of watching for each viewer.Internet allows three different distribution modalities, alternatives and bidirectional:unicast, multicast and P2P.The first one is based on the Internet model client/server: the client asks, the servermanages each single request; such modality is typical of the web TV, and every oneuser more corresponds to higher capacity of the server, and therefore to higherinfrastructure managing costs, that is the opposite of the broadcasting model.The second one does not present such problem, since each source can serve avirtually infinite amount of clients, that are differently from the broadcast model,known to the source; however such structure works only inside private IP networks,closed and controlled, and for this reason this is the protocol on which the IPTV isbased: only telecom operators (Telco) can build a network with a multicasttransmission capacity, so that only authorized users can view that contents.The P2P protocol allows overcoming the unicast paradox without the closed logic ofthe multicast. Each single user of the P2P network becomes also a retransmitter, aserver, for other clients.As a result, business models and offerings change. Both web TV and IPTV ensurethrough the Internet protocol the interactivity and the multimedia capacity, butthrough unicast, multicast of P2P (bidirectional) give to the user the possibility tobenefit in asynchronous or non-linear and off-line ways from the audiovisualcontents, with a step towards a multichannel service: advertisement and VOD sellingbecome the principal streams of revenues. VOD is particularly used as a source ofrevenue for IPTV, whereas for the web TV it is usually free, financed throughadvertisement, and it allows personalization and the possibility to create a personal 10 12. programme schedule, usable whenever the user wants. The limitation for the IPTV isgiven by variety and diversification of contents, based on competition amongproviders (Eastman and Ferguson, 2006).At the beginnings, the term web TV was used particularly referring to broadcastersthat used the Internet as an alternative channel for its programming, and therefore atraditional live television signal distributed through webcasting.New possibilities were then given by the evolution of the streaming towards theprogressive download and the P2P, together with the diffusion of the On Demand.However, it was most of all the technological and economical accessibility toproduction and publishing of contents to shift the role of users from passive toactive. Nowadays, everyone is able to create and edit videos, to publish and sharethem on the web. The Web 2.0 era comes with a revolution and with the expansionof the UGC (User Generated Content) world. Nevertheless, videos can be enjoyedthrough cell phones and iPods, through the podcasting.The explosion of Web 2.0 and UGC brings to the success of On line video companies,such as YouTube, that are video sharing websites that allow the user-producer topublish the content usually for free, being such companies financed by advertising.Such companies offer a wide range of services: video uploading in different formats,licensing of the content through copyright or copyleft licenses, syndication,personalization of the player, pay-per-view contents managed through DRM systems,advertising spaces (Sparrow, 2007).Sometimes programming is not left entirely to the user’s uploading activity, so thatthe transmitter manages a very peculiar business model, where contents are mainlyuser generated but responds to a precise editorial choice.All in all, web TV is all of that, and is characterized by a model that is open towardswhoever is a right holder on the content, is highly diversified and dynamic, since ahuge amount of small and medium producers provide contents.Taking into consideration the definition of “value chain” by Michael Porter (1985), itseems that it may be a useful key to analyze the logic of the web TV, seen as 11 13. subsequent activities, with the principal changes from the traditional televisiondistribution system.Figure 1: comparison between traditional TV and web TV value chains.For web TV, network provider and service provider consolidate into the internetservice provider. As far as the content creation, a transmitter on this platform canbuy contents and formats from outside, but can also produce inside ad-hoc for theweb, can digitalize its programming if coming from other platforms, or open to theUGC; packaging and aggregation of programming has to be intended as a managingactivity of the space available on the server for the contents; publication anddistribution is based on the rent of the on-line band necessary; navigation andselection processes are managed in terms of layout, to allow the client to access tothe diverse collateral services, such as on-line guide, forum, chat, payment ofpremium contents; viewing and consumption experiences imply for the transmitter a 12 14. series of activities such as the running of the band, and the management ofinteractivity and contents and services providing requested by the user.In conclusion, web TV is radically different both from traditional and from IPTV:communication with the user is bidirectional (unicast or P2P); accessibility is at themaximum level both from the transmitter (low investments) and the user (mostlyfree) side; fruition is possible almost everywhere, also off-line; contents are also UserGenerated, On Demand, and channels are virtually unlimited; fruition time is decidedby the user; high interactivity; consuming activity is mainly on a singular base; userhas an active attitude towards the medium; satisfaction is connected to the choiceand not seen just as distraction and recreation.2. The researchThis chapter analyses a whole set of features, the business model, and also thecontent licensing, the uploading and the privacy regimes of 152 websites that can beincluded, following the definition given in the first chapter, into the broad category ofweb TV. The aim of the research is to find out peculiarities, common features anddifferences within the sample, in order to move closer to define which strategicvariables determine the type of business model chosen by each web TV. 2.1 MethodsFirst of all, the sample has been selected starting from the top 200 websites, interms of Unique Visitors for online video distribution, either of user generated orprofessionally-produced content., accessible from Italy and whose main language isItalian or English. A third criterion is the presence at least of two on demand or one 13 15. live channel. The tool used is Google AdPlanner, a database that measures websitesperformance.Data have been then organized into a dataset, using the software Excel 2007,composed of 152 websites and 94 variables, so that the total observation was14,288. The sample has been therefore purified from 48 websites, that had notenough dignity to be included in the sample, or they were not in line with one ormore of the criteria, or their domain had been recently cancelled.The final step of the analysis has been the cluster analysis through Self-OrganizingMaps (SOM) and k-means Algorithms. The software used is MATLAB r2007b.Self-Organizing Maps-SOM (Kohonen, 1995) provides a non-parametric model ofdata mining without hypothesis on data distribution: data are not-supervised and nottarget defined a-priori, and spatial organization of data is given through topologicalmaps. SOM helps to classify and visualize clustering and projection, and therefore itgathers data and helps reduce dimensionality. The cluster analysis involves the 152samples and 44 variables, selected as more relevant for the objective of theresearch. The variables of the dataset have been transformed into binary algorithms,in order to allow to the software to process the data.Afterwards, in order to define better the clustering composition, a two-step clusteringis conducted by using SPSS Statistics 17.0, since the two-step clustering is designedfor hierarchical cluster analysis of large samples with categorical data. The clustershave been also categorized by variable importance. 14 16. 2.2 Data analysisTo begin with, the research considers the figures related to Unique Visitors1 andAverage Stay2 for each web TV. The first measure is also, as just said, one of thecriteria to choose the sample.Such figures have been analyzed on a worldwide base and not on a specific countrybase because, in terms of amount of visitors, and therefore creation of communities,this criterion is more relevant then the country-based one. It is clear that, in terms ofadvertising investments, the specific territory would have to be preferred, particularlyif the advertiser wants to target a specific population. However, the most importantmechanism to advertise on the web today is to be part of the Google AdSensenetwork or alternatively to entrust a media center to plan the advertisementcampaign effectively, and both of them are characterized by a worldwide base.As far as the first class of figures, as shown in the table below, YouTube leads with84 million Unique Visitors worldwide. To be noticed that such figure is quite hard tomeasure, especially on a world scale, it is subject to change month by month andfurther it comes from statistic estimation.However, it gives a general idea of the audience for a particular website. Asexpected, YouTube leads, but it was not expected to find an Italian website, Ansa,within the first fifteen. Taking a look to the rest of the table, Flickr and Metacafe, twosocial networks that include a relevant amount of video content, fill the second andthird position, followed by another giant among the pure video-sharing and filmstreaming websites, which is MegaVideo.1 Unique Visitors (users) is the estimated, unduplicated number of people who visit a site over aspecific month; it gives the idea of the percent of the target that is possible to reach.2 Average Stay is the average time a visitor spends on the site; gives the idea of how much the site isable to attract and then retain the visitor, and therefore for how much time he is exposed toadvertisement. 15 17. Among the top 15, we also find two web TV with mainly live content, Justin TV andUStream TV, respectively with 12 and 6.1 million Unique Visitors a month.Figure 2: top 15 Unique Visitors (Users) and Average StayFinally, the German MyVideo is together with Ansa, the only site whose primarylanguage is not English.Figure 3: top 15 Italian web TVs for Unique Visitors (Users) and Average Stay 16 18. Shifting to the Italian websites, that certainly cannot attempt to the worldwide basefor a problem of scarce spread of the Italian language in the world, we find six webTV with news content, such as Ansa, TGCom, Repubblica TV, Corriere TV, GazzettaTV, Sky TG24, within the top 15 for Unique Visitors worldwide.Internet is first of all a huge network, and therefore the presence of many newsservices with video content is not a surprise at all.The second cluster in the chart above is composed by shifting media, which arealready operating on other platforms, like TV and radio. Those sites are RAI TV,ComingSoon, LA7, Deejay, RTL and RadioRadicale: their main strength is a builtreputation and so a customer base of faithful clients that goes to be an addition tonew clients on the web.The third cluster relates to web portals, which are also Internet Service Providers inItaly, which chose to add a relevant amount of video content in order to increaseusers for the many services they provide. They use web TV as a way to createcommunities, diffuse the brand awareness and eventually retain such customers forother services. Those sites are Libero Video, the first video-sharing portal in Italy,and Yalp, web TV part of Telecom Group and relative to Alice, its Internet branch.The last spot is occupied by FilmGratis, a portal for videogames downloading andfilm streaming, a classic example of entertainment content website.The research also considered, as said above, the Average Stay of visitors: this figureis particularly interesting and useful if compared to Unique Visitors. As a generalunderstanding of the matter, it can be argued that news content, such asBloomberg, websites with live content, such as Justin TV, and film streamingwebsites, such as MegaVideo, besides video-sharing websites that combine a widerange of UGC with professionally-produced contents from partners, such as YouTube,lead this chart.On the contrary, social networks with video content characterized by big amount ofUnique Visitors, such as Flickr, tend to retain visitors for approximately 7-8 minutes,that is more or less the time needed to interact with the other members of that 17 19. community, and pure video-sharing website with mainly funny UGC, such as Break,tend to have an Avg Stay of 5-6 minutes, that is more or less the length of one ortwo videos.Figure 4: top 15 web TVs for Average Stay of usersThe table above shows the top 15 web TV ordered by Avg Stay. First of all, thefigure for web TV is above the average of the generic website, for which the AvgStay is approximately 6-7 minutes. This is due to the strategic role of videos, as anretention element for the visitor: he usually looks at the webpage at the least for thetime the video is shown.The table shows a range from 9,40 for RAI TV to 30 minutes for Bloomberg, and isessentially composed by websites with news content, such as Ansa, live streaming,such as Pandora TV, or film streaming through P2P, such as MegaVideo.As a result, the general finding from this analysis is that brand, reputation andcommunity, influence the Unique Visitors figure, but the type of content, its quality,its uniqueness and its relevance, influence the Avg Stay figure.The second part of the research relies on an analysis of 94 variables (see AppendixB) over the sample of 152 websites (see Appendix A). The following part of this 18 20. chapter will go more in depth over the most important, the ones that are consideredas decisive to the definition of the strategic issues and the business models in the onlast chapter.Taking a look at the foundation year and the registrant country, the bar charts belowshow a peak in the year 2006 and a neat prevalence of US and Italy as registrantcountries, even though the latter is due to the fact that the sample has been picked houghout among websites accessible from Italy, otherwise it would have been unlikely tobe so close to US. Seventy websites have been registered in the US, fifty fifty-five in Italy,and seven in the UK, but worthy to be mentioned is the presence of countries asPortugal, Romania, and even Curacao, in the Holland’s Antilles. Registrant country 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Australia Canada France Germany Hong Kong India Ireland Israel Italy Netherlands Portugal Romania South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland UK USA CuracaoFigure 5: registrant countriesAs far as the creation year, the bar chart shows an upward trend with a sharpincrease from 2003 to 2006, when web TV founded reach the peak at twenty twenty-eight.Then, the trend reverses and drops to just seven in 2008, with a slight recover in2009, when fourteen web TV have been created so far. 19 21. Created year 30 25 20 15 10 5 0Figure 6: year of foundation.The first variable that has been checked over the sample has been called “Contentproduction”. The question was if the web TV content was on professionally onlyproduced, only User Generated, or the web TV had a mix of those two.As the pie chart below shows clearly, the preponderance of web TV with only UGCstands at the 41% of the sample, whereas the remaining 59% is almost equallydivided between only professionally produced and both produced and UG content. Bythe way, this means also that such 59% contains, at least in a part, professionally professionally-produced content.The strategic choice to be done in this case is whether to spend money to involveprofessional partners and enrich the content quality, or otherwise to increase thevalue of the community and push on the viral effect usually provided by UGC. 20 22. Content production FE - both produced and UG content FE - only professionally professionally-produced content FE - only UGC 33% 26% 41%Figure 7: content production source. :As showed in the bar chart below, UGC only web TVs overtook the others in 2005,year of foundation of YouTube, and 2006, but during other years, the amount oftypes of businesses grew almost at the same rate, excepted 2000. To be noticedthat, in the last three years the birth rate for only professionally produced web TV professionally-producedovercomes the others by far: this probably means that strategy is shifting towardshigher quality contents, since clients are more demanding and the Internet is fillingthe gap with TV as the first medium for videos distribution. 16 14 12 FE - both produced and UG content 10 8 FE - only 6 professionally- produced content 4 FE - only UGC 2 0 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009Figure 8: content production source and foundation year. roduction 21 23. As far as the type of operator that is involved directly into the business, the researchidentifies basically four core groups:• The pure players, companies that operates as Internet Service Provider or born with the Internet as core business (Web Editor), or companies that have as core activity the running of a web TV (Online Video Company).• Broadcaster and local TV, companies that have as core business the production and/or distribution through broadcasting, satellite or cable TV, of video contents.• Other media, companies already operating into the media industry, specifically in the publishing industry (News and magazines) or Radio• Public administration (PA) and other companies, which operates a web TV as a public service or as an instrument for internal communication (corporate web TV).The time series below shows the peak in the birth of web TV managed by pureplayers and broadcasters in 2006, that also fluctuate with a similar trend.Despite the few companies coming from other sectors within the sample influencesthe analysis, is worth to mention the slight increase of birth rate between 2008 and2009 for the other groups of companies, especially News and Magazines: this meansthat the barriers to entry for new players are being knocked down, because of thedrop of the costs of infrastructure and the spread of the advertisement among moreactors in order to reach untapped market niches of clients. 22 24. 16 FE - Operator - 14 Broadcaster and Local TV 12 FE - Operator - News and magazines 10 FE - Operator - On-line 8 video company 6 FE - Operator - PA and 4 other companies 2 FE - Operator - Radio 0 FE - Operator - Web 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 editorFigure 9: operator core business industry and foundation year.At this point, crossing the two features, Content production and Operator, through abar chart with the amount of operator on percentage base, we see that about the65% of content is UG only for pure players, whereas the prefer the professionally-produced content at about the same level, that is 65-75%. In particular,broadcasters and radios choose to include in their programming very few UGC, at themost they include a mix of professionally-produced and UG content.This result is could be due either to specific strategies or to the availability, asregards to broadcasters, of content from the traditional television. If the first is true,the most likely reason is the preservation of the brand image, which UGC coulddamage, if not supported by an active community of competent uploaders. 23 25. 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% FE - only UGC 10% 0% FE - only professionally- produced content FE - both produced and UG contentFigure 10: content production and operator. :As far as the flow of the content, it can be divided into Live and On Demand.Technical requirements, costs of infrastructure and, last but not least, availability ofenough programming to fill a programme schedule of live contents, are the reasonsfor the preference for a VOD only web TV. Video on Demand is less expensive to beproduced and distributed, allows the user to watch the video whenever he likes, and ducedUGC can be added to programming.Live content is present in broadcasters’ web TV, because, of course, of availability ofcontents from traditional television, in a small portion in pure players’ web TV, and ata little higher level in radio’s and PA and other companies, the former essentially toattract audience, the latter to provide a better service to the citizen or the employee employee. 24 26. 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 only VOD FE - Content - LiveFigure 11: type of content and operator. :On demand content can be added to the portal randomly, or following a preciseeditorial line, and also it can have a high range in terms of themes, for instancefunny, sport, animals, etc. or a low range. The bar chart below shows a prevalence belowof the on demand programming, and the low range category that overcomes thehigh range within the on demand programming, whereas the opposite is true for theon demand random, essentially because of the potential difficulties in man managing ahigh range of content categories and generally of videos following a given editorialline. Usually, when the range of contents is high, the community auto auto-regulates itselfand chooses which content will have success and which one will fail. 25 27. 90 80 70 60 50 40 FE - Content - On 30 Demand - low range 20 10 FE - Content - On 0 Demand - high range FE - Content - On Demand FE - Content - programming On Demand randomFigure 12: on demand content.As regards to the live content, it can be produced for the web or for other medium,and can be characterized by continuous3 or discrete flow from the broadcaster to theuser. Live events that are webcasted on web TV are usually produced for other webcastedmedium, as showed in the bar chart below. Then, the slight prevalence of continuousflow over discrete flow is the consequence of the diffusion of P2P streaming, whichallows watching live events, especially sport events, on the desktop. sport 40 30 20 10 FE - Content - Live - 0 Discrete flow FE - Content - FE - Content - Live - FE - Content - Live - Continuous flow Live - produced for produced for other the web mediumFigure 13: live content.3 Traditional TV has continuous flow because gaps between two programmes are filled out bycommercials. Therefore a web TV with live contents and continuous flow is the perfect transposition oftraditional TV on the desktop. 26 28. As showed in the percentage chart below, production of live events is madeexclusively for the web by News and magazines web TV, almost exclusively for othermedium by Broadcasters, first of all because of contents availability, secondlybecause of different strategies: building reputation through a format that is specificfor the web and pleasant for surfers for the former, enlarging the audience for thelatter. Pure players choose to not produce that much live events for the web because ayersthey exploit UGC and communities, whereas radios make use of contents producedfor broadcasting TV or satellite like music videos, and PA and companies make use ofa relevant portion of live events produced for the web since this kind of production isusually less expensive. 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% FE - Content - Live - 10% produced for the web 0% FE - Content - Live - produced for other mediumFigure 14: live content and operator. :Moreover, content can be generalist or thematic, with the two categories almost thematic,equally distributed within the sample with a 50% each. Therefore, thematic web TVis as much present as generalist web TV, and this is a result of fragmentation of the ,audience and the searching for new niches. 27 29. With the aim to provide some hints about web TV programming strategies, the barchart below crosses the operator, the flow and the thematic content. The mainresults from this analysis are listed in the following directory:• Broadcasters and local TV: live news and sport, and on demand movies.• News and magazines: mainly on demand news and other type of content (usually reports and interviews).• Online video company: on demand movies, entertainment, sport and scientific content, live music.• PA and other companies: live and on demand science and culture, live news.• Radio: music, mostly live.• Web editor: on demand sport, movies and entertainment. FE - Operato ster and magazin compan compan Operato r - Web only VOD ies r - Radio editor FE - FE - Content - Live only VOD FE - Content - Live FE - Operato Operato only VOD video other Operato Operato r - On- r - PA and FE - FE - Content - Live only VOD FE - r - r - News line y FE - Content - Live only VOD Broadca and Local TV es FE - Content - Live only VOD FE - FE - Content - Live 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 FE - Category - thematic video service - Sport FE - Category - thematic video service - Science and Culture FE - Category - thematic video service - Other FE - Category - thematic video service - News FE - Category - thematic video service - MusicFigure 15: operator, type of content and main theme of the channels. 28 30. In addition, the bar chart below aggregates Radio and News into the category “Othermedia” and crosses the operator and the type of content. This figure will be usefulfor the strategic analysis of the last chapter. 45 40 35 30 25 Live orig. 20 Live transp. 15 VOD produced 10 5 VOD UG 0 Online video PA / TV Web editor Other media companyFigure 16: operator and type of content.There is a particular feature, called “embedding”, that was introduced by YouTube in2006 and allows each web TV to diffuse a video among other websites with thesimple copy and paste of the HTML that localizes the video. Such feature allowvideos to be diffused in a viral way especially among social networks. The relevanceof this feature relies on the fact that the video showed on the other website isbranded, so the source is always recognizable. This has the functionality to diffusebrand awareness and at the same time to enhance the creation of the community.The bar chart below shows that, within the sample, such feature is present whateverthe content production model that is adopted is. Clearly, if a website has UG onlycontent, or a mix of UGC and professionally produced, its strategy is more likely totend towards an increase of the community generated by this mechanism of viraldistribution of the contents. On the contrary, a web TV with only professionally-produced content will tend more towards a valorization of the content, which theembedding feature might instead compromise, in favor of its popularization. 29 31. 90 80 70 60 FE - only UGC 50 40 FE - only professionally- 30 produced content 20 10 FE - both produced and UG 0 content FE – embedding no embeddingFigure 17: content production and embedding feature.Concerning business models, and therefore the way web TV generates revenues, asshowed in the pie chart below, the 2/3 of the web TV in the sample are included inthe model free with advertisement, then the 17% adopt the payment model(subscription and pay-per-view), and the same percentage adopt the free model -view),(composed of free with no advertisement and web TV that accept donation) advertisement donation).To be noticed that more than one model can be adopted at the same time: forinstance, many video-sharing websites has a premium section for which a sharingsubscription and usually a monthly fee has to be paid. Even, many s streamingchannels have both free and pay pay-per-view content. 30 32. Business model PA – donation PA - free (no advertisement) PA - free with advertisement PA - PayPerView PA – subscription 66% 5% 14% 12% 3%Figure 18: business models.To deepen the analysis, the research crosses the business model with the operator.The bar chart below shows that: • Broadcasters and local TV adopt all the models except the pay pay-per-view, a relevant presence in the subscription subscription-based model. • News and magazines adopt the free model only, either with or without advertisement. • Pure players spread their business model choice upon all the differen different categories, with an almost homogeneous distribution, even though a relevant , part of them adopts the pay pay-per-view or the subscription model. • PA and other companies adopt in a significant percentage the free model, even though it is worth to be mentioned that more than 20% of them has that pay-per-view content. view • Radio adopts alternatively the subscription-based subscription based or the free (with advertisement model. 31 33. PA – subscription PA - PayPerView PA - free with advertisement PA - free (no advertisement) PA – donation 0% 20% 40% 60% FE - Operator - Broadcaster and Local TV 80% FE - Operator - News and magazines 100% FE - Operator - On-line video company line FE - Operator - PA and other companies FE - Operator - Radio FE - Operator - Web editorFigure 19: operators and business models. :As far as the content production related to the business model, as showed in the barchart below, every business model is adopted independently from the production ,source of the content.To begin with, the free with advertisement model characterizes a bigger portion ofonly UGC web TV, but nearly the 60% of web TV that adopt this model haveprofessionally-produced content, which could also be sold through a pay model.However, both the pay models are adopted also by web TV with UGC only content,even though at the same time respectively around 60% and around the 50% percentof web TV that adopt the pay model have only professionally-produced content. On producedthe other side, the free model is adopted mostly by web TV with UGC only.As a general consideration, it can be argued that if a web TV has professionally professionally-produced only content, it is more likely to adopt a pay model, then the likelihood thatit will be financed by advertising or by donation grows as the amount of UGC. 32 34. PA – subscription PA - PayPerView PA - free with advertisement PA - free (no advertisement) PA – donation FE - both produced and UG 0% content 20% FE - only professionally-produced 40% 60% content 80% FE - only UGC 100%Figure 20: content production and business models.Finally, the operator’s core business sector, the type of content (Live produced forother medium and transposed to the Internet, Live originally produced for the web ly web,VOD user generated, or VOD professionally professionally-produced), and the business modelvariables are crossed into the graph below.As a results, the business models, as arise from the chart, can be described as ,follows:• Donation and free (no advertisement) this model, not a real business model, is advertisement): , typical of some not for profit companies use donation as the principal way for financing, then the free model seems also to be preferred by web editors, PA and news companies when the content is live.• Free (with advertisement): this is the most diffused business mod over the advertisement): model Internet. The analysis shows that it is the almost exclusive business models used by radios and news, and the prevalent for pure players when the content is user generated. 33 35. • Pay-per-view: this business model seems to be associated with produced video on demand, especially by TV and pure players.• Subscription: this business model seems to be spread over different operators and different contents, due to the existence of premium or upgraded sections even in advertisement financed web TVs. However, it seems to be usually associated with live content produced for the web, or with professionally- produced VOD. Web editor VOD UG VOD produced Live transp. Live orig. VOD UG VOD produced TV Live transp. Live orig. VOD produced Radio Live transp. PA – donation Live orig. PA - free (no advertisement) VOD UG Online video company VOD produced PA - free with advertisement PA / Live transp. PA - PayPerView Live orig. VOD UG PA – subscription VOD UG VOD produced Live transp. Live orig. VOD UG News VOD produced Live orig. 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%Figure 21: operators, type of content and business models.The research shows, in its final part, two different methods for cluster analysisThe first one is made using Self Organizing Maps and k-means Algorithms, over 44variables and 152 samples.The 44 matrixes (Appendix C) show the distribution of each variable within thesample, then the u-matrix, redefined through a k-means algorithm, allows visualizingthe clusters. 34 36. The U-matrix, that is the matrix that gives insights into the local distance structuresof the dataset, and therefore should help to visualize clusters.Figure 22: U-matrix clustering.However, it is not possible to visualize any cluster within the matrix, and that meansthat the variables are distributed homogeneously in the sample.The k-means algorithm helps to visualize a given (maximum) number of clusters, onthe base of k centroids. The figure below shows the matrix obtained through the k-means algorithm, and a scatter plot. They both indicate that the sample is composedof 3 main clusters, even though the scatter plot shows: scattered shape; twodifferent cluster regions, and between them an intermediate distribution on mini-clusters that do not allow a precise individuation of clusters; the spectrum is coveredin every part by the sample. On the base of the p index obtained from the k-meansclustering, it is possible to quantify the composition of each cluster.Figure 23: k-means clustering. Figure 24: scatter plot clustering. 35 37. Cluster 1 Cluster 2 Cluster 3 35 48 70 23% 31% 46%As far as characteristics of the sample, the analysis suggests that the distribution ofthe variables is homogeneous, even if is possible to identify three clusters: thismeans that web TV, if analyzed through a relevant amount of variables, coveringdifferent aspects, such as features, business model, uploading regime and privacyregime, did not assumed any peculiar shape yet, and each one attempts to find itsniche market to differentiate from competitors.The two step cluster analysis over three variables, that are business model, operatorand type of content, provides better defined clusters. The result is a clusterdistribution that is similar to the one obtained through k-means.Figure 25: two step clustering pie chart. 36 38. The bar charts below show the distribution of the single variables within each cluster.Figure 26: content distribution within the clusters.Figure 27: operators distribution within the clusters.Figure 28: business models distribution within the clusters. 37 39. Furthermore, the Bonferroni adjustment4 with the classification by variable says thatthe variable “Content” is more significant (is a larger value) in the cluster 2, thevariable “Operator” is more significant in the clusters 1 and 3, and the variable“Business model” is more significant in the cluster 2 but also in the cluster 3.Analyzing this data it is possible to describe the characteristics of each cluster: • Cluster 1: is composed by web TVs operated by an online video companies, whose content is almost exclusively VOD, more user generated than professionally-produced, that adopt the business model free with advertisement, or in some cases they require subscription and they also have pay-per-view content. • Cluster 2: is composed mainly by web TVs operated by broadcasting companies and radios, with a relevant presence of companies from other industries and PA, whose content is live produced for other medium and sometimes professionally-produced VOD, that adopt the free model, mainly with advertising but can be financed by donations, even though they sometimes offer pay-per-view content. • Cluster 3: is composed mainly by web TVs operated by web editors and companies of the publishing industry, whose content is mainly VOD professionally-produced but also user generated, and often offer live content produced for the web, that adopt the free model advertisement-financed but often require subscription for at least some part of their content.4 In statistics, the Bonferroni correction is a method used to address the problem of multiplecomparisons. It is based on the idea that if an experimenter is testing n dependent or independenthypotheses on a set of data, then one way of maintaining the family-wise error rate is to test eachindividual hypothesis at a statistical significance level of 1/n times what it would be if only onehypothesis were tested. So if you want the significance level for the whole family of tests to be (atmost) α, then the Bonferroni correction would be to test each of the individual tests at a significancelevel of (α/n). Statistically significant simply means that a given result is unlikely to have occurred bychance assuming your hypothesis is correct. 38 40. 2.3 FindingsAll in all, the analysis shows that there are basically two primary variables thatdetermine the business strategy of a web TV: • Business model chosen • Type of content of the web TVThose two variables are inter-dependent, and the choice is also related to the corebusiness of the operator.Then, some secondary variables allow the web TV to differentiate from competitors: • The range of VOD channels • The amount of live content • The role of the community • The type of advertisingThe graph below shows the strategic positioning of the players depending on the twoprimary variables. Such distribution of the different operators will be clarified bysome case studies in the next chapter.Figure 29. Strategic positioning of the players on depending on business model and type of content. 39 41. 3. Case studiesIn order to give an empirical approach to the research, some case studies have beenchosen to provide concrete instances about the analysis. Each of them has specificpeculiarities that will be analyzed and clarified more in depth.Such cases have been discussed following face to face semi-structured interviews tomanagers of that companies in the period September and October 2009.The case studies have been organized into four main sections: general informationabout the company (identity card, brief history, definition of the business line,primary competitors), business strategy (business framework, key points of theoffering, positioning, critical factors of success), business model, and futurescenarios. 3.1 GlomeraWebsite address www.glomera.comLanguages Italian, English, French, Spanish, SlovenianCommercial name GlomeraCreated year 2007Registrant name Dynamic Fun S.r.l.Registrant country ItalyDescription Glomera empowers companies and content owners — from independent producers to major broadcast networks — to virally distribute their content. It aims to help them in the creation of dynamic, connected online communities, whilst retaining ownership and branding control.Unique visitors (users) 8,500Average time on site 7:30 40 42. General information about the companyGlomera.tv, managed by the company Dynamic Fun S.r.l, was founded in 2007 andoperates on packaging and distribution of contents, mainly at a b2b level.The initial project has been split into 2 parts: media platform to create the channel,to give a structure to the programming, and to manage it autonomously;transmission platform to distribute using P2P or unicast protocols according to thekind of partner.Then, the company entered to the b2b market with the brand Glomera. The first on-line programme on streaming was TV SMAU, 44th edition of the Information andCommunications Technology international fair, with the possibility to enjoy the use ofadditional contents, such as interviews to exhibitors, recorded conferences andtechnical deepening.Dynamic Fun is a company whose mission is to create and develop any kind ofwireless communication project, particularly in Entertainment and Business sectors.Glomera is a platform that allows to create and manage, in a totally autonomousway, personalized web TV, and offering to companies (corporate), content provider,and video producers (video blogger), a new way to carry the contents and attractusers’ interest. It is also a marketing instrument and a system for companies tointeract with their clients. It allows also integrating the dedicated channels and theinteractive boxes into other websites.Mogulus and Joost, and ShareMedia in Italy, offer similar services: the first webcastslive events through unicast protocol, whereas the second webcasts both through P2Pand unicast, supporting high investments in terms of infrastructure through venturecapital resources.Business strategyThe consumption of online video contents on the web is growing sharply. Thehighest part of portals that carry video contents does not offer linearity in terms ofuse of the service. 41 43. P2P protocol seems to have at least two advantages: the content provider keeps thecontent since the client does not download the videos, and an unlimited opportunityto exploit economies of scale with lower investments in terms of capacity.Glomera’s management believe that without the use of the P2P protocol, no onemodel of web TV could resist to the growth of its audience. P2P is more complicatedtechnologically, but more efficient economically, even though it is currentlydisfavored because of lower resolution compared to the unicast, given low uploadingspeed of actual connections, and the required installation of software or plug-ins.As regard to premium contents, they don’t see them as appropriate for web TV fortwo reasons: P2P can’t ensure a level of the service that is adequate to expectationsof the clients who pay for the showing; premium videos are created to be shown onHD screens, not on a pc screen.Glomera produces and manages web TV, and provides all tools that are necessary tomanage the programming in autonomous way in a wide range of languages. Itstarget is composed either by whoever has a limited amount of videos or by whoeverdesires a dedicated channel to broadcast 24/7. Furthermore, interactive functionssuch as chat, comment boxes and votes to contents, contextually to the webcastedvideos, facilitate the creation of virtual communities and other forms of interactionthat are typical of Web 2.0The innovative technology is the P2P streaming, that allows the rapid distribution ofhigh quality contents to an unlimited number of users, with the possibility to developnew business and communication models, thanks to the considerable reduction ofbandwidth costs. Videos are legal, safe and protected for the content providerbecause they cannot be downloaded and cannot be copied.Private firms, professional video producers and beginners can easily upload theirvideos and manage a personalized streaming channel, and also integrate it on theirwebsite. Nevertheless, Glomera allows to webcast live events and interviews.Moreover, the possibility to integrate the personalized channel into other websitesand portals, allows partners to increase users and be on the web virally. 42 44. Key points of the offer are as follows:• Creation of a personalized channel: a logo, photos and external links can be added to the channel, which can be embedded on client’s own website, and videos are protected because can’t be downloaded.• Contents can be managed directly through simple tools, and a personalized programming can be created.• Personalized interactive functions, such as descriptions, documents downloading, images and external links.• Social interaction tools, such as chat and comments threads.• Reports about the audience, with the possibility to change the programming on the base of it.• Viral functionalities: Glomera gives the possibility to create a network of members who can diffuse contents on their own portals in a viral way, like video sharing and embedding, and alerts sending to know when a programme is webcasted.• Revenues from advertising videos, which can be added to the programming, and from banners and links to sponsors.In order to enhance the success of its clients, Glomera provides supporting servicesto the production and running of web channels, such as consulting service for thecreation and the start-up of the web TV, technical support to the running of thechannel and the programming, organization and conduct of the videos and thechannel, production and post-production of videos related to events, interviews,conferences and reportage.To be noticed that Glomera offers solutions both for internal and external web TV:the former is used by companies for e-learning and know-how sharing of itsemployees mainly through the unicast, whereas the latter is used to reach potentialclients through P2P streaming with a highly branded medium at a low cost.The market positioning of Glomera starts from the objective to create a projectfounded on a highly sustainable business, since it is not financed by any venturecapital fund as some competitors like Mogulus, Joost and Babelgum, and therefore it 43 45. has the objective of differentiating as much as possible from competitors and createpeculiar marks of distinctiveness.Critical factors of success are:• lowering of bandwidth costs;• no limitations to users simultaneously connected;• integration and personalization of the channel on the company’s website and possibility to embed it into other portals;• highly targeted communication campaigns and e-commerce offerings together with videos;• statistics about audience and click rating;• simple tools for the running and the organization of contents of programming;• differentiation and valorization of various levels of interactions: among users and between users and company.Business modelGlomera offers services to companies for a fee. It is a fixed and all inclusive amountthat is between 3,000€ and 5,000€ a month. However it can be lowered by theinsertion of advertising on the portal Glomera.tv, which contains the videos of thedifferent users of the service. A portion of the revenues from advertising goes to thechannel from which videos come, proportionally to the audience of such channel,with the logic to incentivize the production.The company ensures the webcasting of the channel through P2P streaming, andwith an unlimited base of users.Future scenariosAdvertising is growing steadily and rapidly, and it will converge on videos more thanon banners. This kind of market is still partially undeveloped, and this is neitherresponsibility of the agencies, which could reintroduce at a lower cost on web TV thesame campaigns that runs on other media, nor of the companies that don’t have 44 46. clear media plans. It is responsibility of media centers, which manage investmentsand media planning in a portion that is so high that doesn’t allow to other actors toenter into the market with profit, but only with marginal revenues. The only actorthat is currently able to manage video advertising at a world level is Google, which isa kind of media center for the web, as already did with textual advertising withGoogle Ads.As far as the company, the prevalent plan is to stay into the internet business, forthe confidence into its still untapped potential. They plan to focus on:• optimal management of the contents;• easy interface;• no additional software needed (Glomera works with a plug-in);• light and little intrusive platform.Glomera.tv, the portal dedicated to vehicle the partners’ televisions, enhances usersto enter to a bouquet of thematic channels, while partners can spread theirprogramming and reach new potential users. Within Glomera.tv, advertisement willenlarge revenue streams, because thematic channels will become highly branded andtherefore will attract high investments. 3.2 ShareMediaWebsite address www.sharemedia.itLanguages ItalianCommercial name ShareMediaCreated year 2006Registrant name Unicity S.p.a.Registrant country ItalyDescription Corporate TV, interactive VOD service and audiovisuals production.Unique visitors (users) 7,500Average time on site 5:30 45 47. General information about the companyUnicity S.p.a. arose from the entrepreneurship of a group of communication andsoftware development professionals, with the contribution of Eworks, an Italianventure capital. It is one of the most important Italian web agencies, and it providesintegrated services and solutions for the web. Starting from 2005, they implementeda web TV platform, ShareMedia, realized together with Unidata S.p.a.Unicity operates in the Information & Communication Technology industry, andoffers a wide range of services, such as creation of portals and websites, e-learningand media integration solutions. The web TV platform, ShareMedia, allows to createand run television formats on the web and to create corporate TV for private firms,for e-learning companies, and for the Public Administration.ShareMedia proposes a concept that can be assimilated to Glomera in Italy. Anothercompetitor is Narrowstep, a British company. Different realities exist in the Italianmarket, like TXY Polymedia, that comes from the broadcasting industry. It can beassumed that ShareMedia has features that are peculiar of a system of VideoContent Management.Business strategyShareMedia came into existence within a market with high potential of growth. Theidea has been positively welcomed by big companies and institutions, less by smalland medium companies, because of the difficulties to understand the communicativepotential of integrating a web TV into the company’s website.In addition, ShareMedia found difficult to get in touch with film producers, which themanagement considered as an attractive partner because of the difficulties for smallproducers to distribute to theaters. By contrast, such sector saw web TV more as amenace than as an alternative.ShareMedia provides the technological resource for whoever wants to create a webTV. It enhances the creation of thematic channels and audiovisual formats, with high 46 48. personalization features. The objective is not only to serve as support for suchinitiatives, but also to project them directly: they are also evaluating the creation of aweb TV b2b, as a communication strategy for companies.Corporate TV is a form of communication integrated into the website of companiesand institutions, and has diverse finalities: internal communication, promotion,support and motivation to sales networks, events and presentations, informationservices but also selling of entertainment contents.ShareMedia is also present on the contents side. Unicity S.p.a. owns Blueray, acompany that is specialized on ideation, project and realization of videos forcommunication, training, information and corporate image, which produces mainlytelevision and radio commercials, institutional videos, shorts and formats.Despite this kind of strategy doesn’t bring to great advantages, it shows a kind ofdynamicity because the company proposes itself as able to improve the quality ofvideos owned by clients.In this phase ShareMedia strategy is focused on corporate clients, and it gives themthe possibility to create a Corporate TV. The biggest part of clients are institutionsand big companies, whereas among small and medium companies we can find RaiRadiotelevisione Italiana, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Arma dei Carabinieri, Ministerodella Salute e dell’Ambiente.The collaboration with RAI concerns an experimental project of a format producedfor the web, called “L’Universo della Conoscenza”, in which there is convergenceamong traditional TV, video on demand, a web portal, pay-per-view contents, and anarchive with thousands of hours of programming. The joint venture Rai-Unicityrealized a cultural thematic channel characterized by three elements, such asqualitative and quantitative richness of contents, interactivity and the 80% of videoon demand.However, ShareMedia provides both streaming and downloading services andproducts with different characteristics, inside a unique platform with diverse 47 49. functionalities, as the possibility for the user to choose the way to enjoy thecontents.Business modelThere is not a peculiar business model, since ShareMedia exploits at least three waysto create value and generate revenues:• Premium contents to be downloaded at a price.• On-line training., to be used by companies in addition to traditional training.• Digital advertising: substitution of traditional banners with interactive commercials or other formats that come from traditional broadcasting and are rearranged.The objective is to embed those sources of revenues into the editorial project relatedto corporate communication. However, it has been difficult to monetize in the shortand medium term so far, because clients have mainly institutional, popular orentertainment character.Among his clients, only one is implementing a project financed through banner andinteractive commercials. The scarcity of editorial projects is motivated by theinexistence of clear, defined and sustainable business models.Future scenariosShareMedia management doesn’t believe that web TV can substitute traditional TVbecause of the attitude of people and because of different model proposed by webTV, which is based on the On Demand and is highly “democratic”.The actual scenario is characterized by a transition phase in which also corporatestrategy looks to the Internet as a great opportunity to distribute the contents.As regards to ShareMedia helps companies in this transition to the web, that in thenear future will become a key in terms of marketing. ShareMedia plans to attract, inthe long run, also consumers, in addition to corporate clients. 48 50. In the short and medium term, the attention will focus on b2b, in order to overcomethe actual problems, which are basically cultural and technological, because of lacksof interaction with the new media, and insufficient infrastructure.The biggest challenge is to differentiate from competitors: formats and languageshould change and adapt to the needs of the new platform, a crucial point for webTV to be finally successful. 3.3 Google Video – YouTubeWebsite address www.youtube.comLanguages German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, CzechCommercial name YouTubeCreated year 2005Registrant name YouTube, Inc.Registrant country USADescription Largest video-sharing website in the world.Unique visitors (users) 84,000,000Average time on site 12:00General information about the companyIn September 1998 Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google with the objective ofcreating a service to organize online information on Internet.Google is today the main search engine in the world, with a database of over 8billion of URL, and the possibility to find any kind of website, given some keywords,in a fraction of second. 49 51. Google has also bunch of additional services, like Google Ads, Google Earth, etc. andmoreover Google Video, born as video-sharing website and become, after theacquisition of YouTube in 2006, a search engine for videos, for 1.65 million Dollars.YouTube was founded with financing of Sequoia Capital in 2005 and rapidly becamethe most important video-sharing website in the world. After the acquisition fromGoogle, it has been operating as independent subsidiary of Google Corp.Such success increased after the closing of some partnerships with important contentproviders as CBS, BBC, Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, NBA,Sundance Channel and many others, in order to diversify its offer to consolidate theleadership and attempt to solve the big problems related to copyright.Within the huge amount of video-sharing websites that allow uploading usergenerated videos, it can be distinguished between horizontal and vertical portals: theformer , such as Yahoo!, Libero and Alice Dailymotion, offer a wide range of servicesin addition to the possibility to upload user generated videos; the latter focus onvideo-sharing only.However, the main competitors for YouTube seem to be horizontal portals thatsucceeded in creating wide communities through the collateral services, but nocompetitors succeeded in attracting so many users just through the video uploading.One of the main competitors was Google Video, which after the acquisition ofYouTube became a search engine for videos.Business strategyYouTube is the market leader vertical and generalist video-sharing portal, and itallows watching videos, interacting with other users, but most of all to uploadcontents: with this kind of platform is possible to create a personal TV channel.The offer is dominated by User generated Contents, but its growing success is due toagreements with majors and TV broadcasters, that enlarged the offer with higherquality and longer videos, through which the portal increased its value and assumeda meaning that is different from the simple logic of video-sharing. Concerning 50 52. technical issues, videos uploaded from standard users are limited to 100MB and 10minutes, whereas an official partner can upload 300MB videos.Everyone can create a channel to upload videos and realize an online personalarchive, after free registration and choosing of an account, that can be: standard,director (user can add a logo and some personal elements), musician or comedian(logo, information about the genre or the style and tour dates, links to buy CDs),guru (logo, genre and some links).Inside the official partners category there are companies operating in media, such asbroadcasters and content owners, but also standard accounts that can be awardedfor creativity and success obtained by videos.The layout of each channel can be customized: there are videos uploaded by theuser, the favorite videos, comments from other users, subscribed channels. Partners’pages are different also in the watch page, with a small banner on the right of theplayer that brings directly to the partner channel, and on the right are showed videosuploaded by the same account.Some factors that initiatives from the partners and determined YouTube as analternative platform of communication: a wide community, and the video ascommunicative form. The more the community is big, the more the message from awebsite is effective. This is the main reason for the success of the social networks,such as Facebook and Flickr, but videos are even more powerful and direct means ofcommunication. For instance, the band Red Hot Chili Peppers and Warner Bros Musicasked fans to upload in YouTube a video based on a song that they had just releasedon Amazon and iTunes, and they received more than 400 videos in 70 days: thewinner’s video has been uploaded on their channel and the person won 5,000 Dollarsand a weekend with the band.From that moment, YouTube has a page dedicated to contests that is similar to thepartner’s one, with an interactive window on the top-right with a video that explainthe contest, the possibility to upload the video to participate and to watch other 51 53. participants’ videos. Each organizer of the contest chooses rules and modalities,whereas YouTube offer the service by fee.Born as a “box” for UGC, the portal gives to users a determinant role because of theimportance of social networks in the web 2.0. However, YouTube fronted from thebeginning the problem of control of uploaded contents, both related to ethics and tocopyright protection. The company has protection systems of the rights that allowrecognizing a content that is under copyright law: if removed after a claim of acontent owner, the same file can’t be uploaded again. After then has been built asystem that recognize the ID given to any video, on the base of a series of frames,so neither the publishing of contents realized through the editing of protected framescan be uploaded.Critical factors for the success of YouTube are:• Ease of use.• Quickness of the enjoyment: the video uploaded can be immediately watched.• Community: possibility to comment, vote and share the videos.• Embedding: first website to give the possibility to embed the video into other websites, just through a simple copy/paste of the HTML code, giving viral success and visibility to the videos.Compared to traditional television, YouTube’s role is complementary more than beinga substitute, because traditional broadcasters can upload contents to catch a largeraudience, that otherwise would be impossible to reach, simply creating their partnerchannel on YouTube.Business modelDespite it is the first video portal with an amount of users that is bigger than anyother video-sharing website, YouTube did not generate as much revenue as it could.However, Google purchased it for 1.65 million Dollars. Audience is enormous, buteconomic results have been poor, so it has been necessary to develop a sustainable 52 54. and profitable business model. First profits from the big investment came in 2008,after some instruments able to monetize the huge audience were introduced.There are four advertisement models that constitute the business model of YouTube:• Active display advertising: it is the classical advertisement format, present in each section of YouTube except the homepage. There is the possibility to choose channels of the video platform and the websites on which advertise, with the only condition that such websites are part of the Google content network, so that target can be segmented and the probability of success of the advertising campaign is higher. The contextualization is also a characteristic of Google Ads, but in this particular case the advertiser chooses websites on which put the ad, and not an algorithm.• Sponsor channel: for companies that are not in the media sector, and therefore are not in the category of official partners, but have the use of a big video archive, YouTube gives the possibility to create, by fee, a channel characterized by the same functionalities that a partner channel can have. It is the case of companies that might want to sell its products, promote initiatives, advertise with much creativity, increase the brand awareness and improve the image. Such sponsor channel has not a fixed cost, on the contrary there is a minimum amount in order to generate sufficient traffic towards the client’s channel, and guarantee the success of the client. The display advertising is showed both on the portal and, if requested on the content network of Google, in a way that increase synergies between the two portals and the benefits are more evident. The initiative lasts three months, then there is a down-grade to standard channel, that differently from sponsor and partner channels, can host third parties ads by concession of YouTube: benefits from revenues coming from this banner go both to Google and to the owner of the channel, according to the revenue-sharing model. As regards to the visualization of the page that contains the video, the mechanism works only with clients that previously accepted to insert ad on their videos. 53 55. • PVA (Participatory Video Ads): it is a click-to-play video format that can be found on the right-top of the home page and is usually used to promote a sponsor channel, or a particular film or product. Besides the video, it is allowed to the user to deepen what is proposed through: a small banner on the top of the player that can bring to the related YouTube channel or to the related website, or two links on the bottom of the player that can bring to the same of the homepage but in the related page or to the channel of the uploader.• Transparent banner on the video: it is the most interesting and recent model, that give the possibility to watch, within the 20% bottom of the video, a transparent banner that is contextual to the topic of the video and appears 15 seconds after the starting of it. It can be: clicked, so the video stops and another player opens up inside the principal player, then the video starts again; closed immediately by the user; neither clicked nor closed, so it disappears after a few time and then appears again at the end of the video. Advertising can be included only on official partners websites, included the standard accounts that have been upgraded for creativity and success. Revenues from the ads are shared and such revenue-sharing applied also to basic users pushes towards higher quality productions. Equally to the sponsor channel, the percentage retained by Google is not fixed but depends on the strategic value of the partner.The last thing to be considered about YouTube business model is the completeabsence of advertisement on videos, because formats such as the pre roll damagethe user experience. Moreover, UGC have been considered as not suitable to besource of revenue because of a matter of ethics and also because of protection ofthe copyright, retained by the users.The most part of companies contact YouTube and Google directly without passingthrough media centers, so Google has created an internal structure dedicated tocustomer base and created built-in specialized competences for the planning and thecreation of the ads. 54 56. Future scenariosThe attitude is towards the improvements to the YouTube service, enhancinginnovation and research. A recent improvement has been the possibility to have abigger player in HD to watch the videos.The current objective tends particularly towards the increase of revenues and thestrengthening of the community. As far as the ad formats, particularly the PVA andthe transparent banners will be implemented. It is unlikely that pay-per-viewcontents will be offered, because this would distort YouTube philosophy, on thecontrary the revenue-sharing model will be extended because the catchment area islarge enough to support creativity and share revenues with the users. 3.4 RCS DigitalWebsite address video.corriere.itLanguages ItalianCommercial name Corriere della Sera TV Gazzetta TVCreated year 2005Registrant name RCS Quotidiani S.p.a.Registrant country ItalyDescription Video on demand service of the newspapers Corriere della Sera and Gazzetta dello SportUnique visitors (users) 1,100,000 + 390,000Average time on site 3:30 + 3:10General information about the companyRCS MediaGroup is a publishing group operating in sectors of newspapers,magazines and books, in the divisions of radio, new media and digital TV, as well asbeing among the most important actors of advertising collection and distribution.RCS Quotidiani is the publisher of the daily headings of the Group, in Italy and 55 57. abroad. The company is the market leader for Italy, where detains a market share of21%. In 2008 revenues from newspapers have been around 1.3 billion Euros.RCS Digital is a company, controlled at 100% by RCS Quotidiani, which runs thewebsites Corriere.it and Gazzetta.it and the development of brands and editorialassets of RCS over digital media. The Mediacenter inside the two websites waslaunched in 2005 and has been conceived to be the video box of the two principalwebsites of the group. The ratio for the set-up of the websites derives from theanalysis of some best practices online, such as New York Times and WashingtonPost. The two multimedia sections have been revised more than one time so far, dueto the increase of contents amount and related layout modifications.Contemporary to the born of the Mediacenter, the company created a neworganizational structure, the multimedia offering, composed of multimedia marketingand video production. There are two editorial units, one for Corriere.it and the otherfor Gazzetta.it, composed of journalists focalized on the online. The value of auto-production is guaranteed by the inner production staff, characterized by highflexibility and readiness.RCS Digital S.p.a. is dedicated to the management and the development of editorialactivities of RCS over digital media: Corriere.it, online magazines and thematicchannels, Gazzetta.it, classified offering, mobile and gaming.Corriere.it, more than including a complete overview over the main facts in Italy andin the world, has an offering that is characterized by thematic channels, such asViviMilano, Salute, Viaggi and Casa.Gazzetta.it, the main website for sport news in Italy and Europe, has among recentinnovations, GazzaSpace, the website section that gives voice to readers, where ispossible to comment the articles, participate to the forum and express opinions aboutsport news.Both Corriere.it and Gazzetta.it put at their surfers disposal a rich TV/Video offering,with image galleries, video contents and deepens ad hoc for the web, besides realonline news and many thematic columns by famous Italian journalists. 56 Cómo crear un dossier y una nota de prensa Estrategias de comunicación para startups y pymes CmsVideo Formation Web TV Libcast SAS Business Models for Web TV - Research Presentation Team D Final Presentation Busn 460 Mike Stroud Innovation to the Core Innovation Excellence Review of "Top 15" MDM Software Solutions Aaron Zornes Building an Effective Identity Management Strategy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1208
__label__wiki	0.878971	0.878971	Finalists for 2015 EWA Awards for Education Reporting and Eddie Prize Announced Category Winners Announced at EWA National Seminar March 31, 2016 2015 Finalists for the National Awards for Education Reporting March 31, 2016 (WASHINGTON, DC)—The Education Writers Association is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2015 National Awards for Education Reporting and the Eddie Prize, recognizing the top education stories in print, broadcast, and online media across the country. Thirty-eight entries earned the status of finalist from EWA’s panel of judges, who found much to praise in the work from a diverse pool of outlets that included lean three-person teams, enterprising nonprofits, and venerable news organizations. Winners for each category will be announced on May 1 at EWA’s National Seminar, this year being held May 1-3 in Boston. The following day, May 2, EWA will announce the recipients of EWA’s new Ronald Moskowitz Prize for Outstanding Beat Reporting, which comes with a $2,500 award; the Edwin Gould Foundation’s Eddie Prize, with a $7,500 award; and the Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting, which carries an award of $10,000. More than 250 entrants submitted roughly 365 entries for 16 categories in EWA’s National Awards for Education Reporting, as well as the second annual Eddie Prize, which recognizes the best work on the challenges low-income students face completing college. “This year’s group of finalists is incredibly inspiring,” said Caroline Hendrie, EWA’s executive director. “Deeply reported and expertly presented, these stories show that the state of the education beat is far stronger than many believe. EWA is privileged to share them with the world.” The finalists demonstrated trenchant writing, sophisticated visual displays and a tireless spirit to shine a light on education’s injustices and triumphs. Journalists overcame flawed data, stonewalling officials, and demanding deadlines to produce enlightening stories that genuinely serve the public interest. The awards competition, an EWA tradition stretching back five decades, was independently judged across five rounds by 60 current and former editors and reporters. No judge reviewed an entry submitted by his or her current or recent employers. The EWA Awards Board selected the category finalists, choosing from a short-listed pool of entries picked by judges of previous rounds. The panel of judges includes: Dakarai Aarons, Data Quality Campaign (Formerly of Education Week) Lauren Barack, School Library Journal Kathryn Baron, GreatSchools.org Dan Berrett, The Chronicle of Higher Education Donna Blankinship, The Associated Press Venice Buhain, The Seattle Globalist Sarah Butrymowicz, The Hechinger Report Kim Clark, Money magazine Trisha Powell Crain, Alabama School Connection Julie Deardorff, Northwestern University (Formerly of Chicago Tribune) Laura Diamond, Georgia Institute of Technology (Formerly of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Margaret Downing, Houston Press Danielle Dreilinger, NOLA.com \| The Times-Picayune Phyllis Fletcher, Northwest News Network Jay Goldman, School Administrator magazine (Formerly of Syracuse Herald-Journal) Emma Graney, Regina Leader-Post (Canada) Erica L. Green, The Baltimore Sun Bill Graves, Freelance (Formerly of The Oregonian) Joe Grimm, Michigan State University (Formerly of Detroit Free Press) David Jesse, Detroit Free Press Cindy Johnston, Freelance (Formerly of NPR) Jennifer Jordan, City Year (Formerly of The Providence Journal) Maureen Kelleher, Freelance (Formerly of Catalyst Chicago) Alyson Klein, Education Week Rebecca Klein, The Huffington Post Kit Lively, KERA Justin Murphy, Democrat and Chronicle Dan Mihalopoulos, Chicago Sun-Times Denise-Marie Ordway, Harvard Kennedy School (Formerly of Orlando Sentinel) Brock Read, The Chronicle of Higher Education Alan Richard, Freelance (Formerly of Education Week) Gail Robinson, Freelance (Formerly of Gotham Gazette) Hugo Rodrigues, The Cornwall Standard-Freeholder (Canada) Lauren Roth, Orange County Public Schools (Formerly of Orlando Sentinel) Gabrielle Russon, Orlando Sentinel Stephen Sawchuk, Education Week Kate Schimel, High Country News (formerly Chalkbeat Colorado) Jenn Smith, The Berkshire Eagle Ty Tagami, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Francisco Vara-Orta, University of Missouri (formerly of San Antonio Express-News) Maura Walz, Southern California Public Radio Jason Wermers, Coastal Courier Brendan Williams-Kief, National Center on Education and the Economy (formerly at NBC Washington/WRC-TV) Megan Williams, The News Leader 2015 EWA Awards Board Stephanie Banchero, The Joyce Foundation (formerly of The Wall Street Journal) Daarel Burnette, Education Week Lauren Camera, U.S. News & World Report Sarah Carr, The Teacher Project Martha Dalton, WABE Larry Gordon, EdSource Cathy Grimes, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Formerly of Daily Press, Virginia) Cornelia Grumman, Robert R. McCormick Foundation (Formerly of the Chicago Tribune) Beth Hawkins, Education Post (Formerly of MinnPost) Louise Kiernan, Northwestern University (Formerly of Chicago Tribune) John Merrow, Freelance (Formerly of PBS NewsHour) Christopher Quinn, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Erin Richards, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Ki Sung, MindShift at KQED Peg Tyre, Edwin Gould Foundation (Formerly of Newsweek) Scott Widmeyer, Widmeyer Communications, a Finn Partners Company Tweet #ewaAwards 2015 Finalists for the National Awards for Education Reporting EWA is pleased to announce this year’s finalists for the 2015 EWA National Awards for Education Reporting, as well as the Edwin Gould Foundation’s Eddie Prize. EWA Announces Winners of Top Education Reporting Prizes The Education Writers Association is pleased to announce that “Failure Factories,” an investigative series from the Tampa Bay Times, has won the top prize in the National Awards for Education Reporting. This year’s Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting will go to three writers of the series – Cara Fitzpatrick, Lisa Gartner and Michael LaForgia. 69th EWA National Seminar The Education Writers Association, the national professional organization for journalists who cover education, is thrilled to announce that its annual conference will take place from Sunday, May 1, through Tuesday, May 3, 2016, in the historic city of Boston. Co-hosted by Boston University’s College of Communication and School of Education, EWA’s 69th National Seminar will examine a wide array of timely topics in education — from early childhood through career — while expanding and sharpening participants’ skills in reporting and storytelling.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1215
__label__wiki	0.74154	0.74154	Why Apple Inc. Won't Release an iPhone 9 This Year Ashraf Eassa, The Motley Fool Motley Fool April 16, 2018 It's widely rumored that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) intends to launch three new iPhone models this year. At the bottom of the product stack is supposed to be a device with a liquid crystal display (LCD) that measures 6.1 inches along the diagonal. That device is broadly expected to be the most popular model of the three that Apple intends to introduce this year because it's rumored to bring substantial form-factor innovation at a reasonably accessible price point (between $700 and $800). Apple's iPhones in a There's been a lot of speculation as to how Apple will brand this upcoming LCD iPhone. Amit Daryanani, in a research note seen by Investor's Business Daily, thinks the device could be marketed as the iPhone 9. The thinking behind that potential naming is simple: The LCD iPhone is the direct successor to both the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus, so it makes sense with a branding that suggests this. However, I believe it's highly unlikely that Apple will call it the iPhone 9 and will, instead, simply call it the "iPhone." Allow me to explain. Taking another page from the iPad Today, Apple offers two distinct iPad brands -- iPad and iPad Pro. The iPad comes in a single screen size, 9.7 inches, while the iPad Pro comes in 10.5-inch and 12.9-inch screen sizes. The iPad is Apple's highest-volume iPad targeted at the masses -- it's priced reasonably aggressively but doesn't have all the fancy features that Apple includes in its much pricier iPad Pro product lineup. It's not hard to see that Apple intends to apply this playbook to the iPhone. The LCD iPhone seems to be analogous to the iPad, while the upcoming iPhone X and iPhone X Plus seem to correspond to the 10.5-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pros, respectively. So, if Apple is adopting a product strategy with the iPhone that is similar to that of the iPad, I think it's reasonable to expect similar naming schemes as well. Instead of calling the 6.1-inch LCD iPhone something like "the iPhone 9" (which, frankly, would be confusing since Apple's current flagship phone is the iPhone X, with the "X" being pronounced "ten"), Apple is more likely to simply call this device "the iPhone." The higher-end iPhone models, then, could be referred to as the iPhone X and iPhone X Plus, or both could be referred to as the iPhone X alongside their respective screen sizes (just as Apple does with the current iPad Pro models). The iPad isn't the only product category in which Apple doesn't have distinct brands for different device sizes; Apple refers to both the 13-inch MacBook Pro and the 15-inch MacBook Pro as the MacBook Pro, letting customers choose the screen sizes. The rationale behind such a naming scheme would make the 6.1-inch LCD iPhone not seem like a lesser device -- it's the iPhone. Instead, it would help make the higher end iPhone X models seem like an entirely different (and higher end) brand of Apple smartphones. Moreover, by referring to the mainstream iPhone models as simply the iPhone while referring to the higher end models as the iPhone X, Apple can cleanly sidestep the clear iPhone numbering issue that has plagued its lineup for quite some time. 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs' Passing Bitcoin's Biggest Competitor Isn't Ethereum -- It's This Ashraf Eassa has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Apple. The Motley Fool has the following options: long January 2020 $150 calls on Apple and short January 2020 $155 calls on Apple. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. Apple Stock Upgraded To Buy On Next Year's 5G iPhone Cycle	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1220
__label__cc	0.62394	0.37606	This entry is our analysis of a review or synthesis of research findings added to the Effectiveness Bank. The original review was not published by Findings; click Title to order a copy. Free reprints may be available from the authors – click prepared e-mail. The summary conveys the findings and views expressed in the review. Below is a commentary from Drug and Alcohol Findings. Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: The alliance in child and adolescent psychotherapy https://findings.org.uk/PHP/dl.php?file=Shirk_SR_2.cab&s=dy&sf=rel Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: The alliance in child and adolescent psychotherapy. Shirk S.R., Karver M.S., Brown R. Psychotherapy: 2011, 48(1), p. 17–24. Unable to obtain a copy by clicking title? Try asking the author for a reprint by adapting this prepared e-mail or by writing to Dr Shirk at sshirk@du.edu. You could also try this alternative source. This meta-analytic review commissioned by the American Psychological Association finds that the relationship between therapist and young clients matters about as much as for adults. Practice recommendations will aid counsellors, therapists and mental health teams dealing with young substance users. Summary Updated in 2018. See Effectiveness Bank analysis. [Though not specific to patients with drug and alcohol problems, studies in the analyses described included such patients, and the principles are likely to be applicable to these disorders among others, not least because substance use problems generally form part of a complex of broader psychosocial problems.] This review is one of several in a special issue of the journal Psychotherapy devoted to evidence-based, effective therapist-client relationships. It reports on a research synthesis of the links between outcomes of individual psychotherapy for children under 18 and/or their parents, and the alliance between therapist and client or parent. In child therapy 'alliance' was first seen as an emotional attachment between the young person and the therapist which enables the child to work purposefully on the tasks of therapy – the active ingredients in the outcomes. In other formulations, the alliance itself is seen as the active ingredient. Both perspectives have been criticised for omitting another dimension – the degree to which client and therapist agree on treatment goals and methods, an agreement complicated by the fact that children are generally 'sent' to therapy rather than electing to go. At present it is not clear if agreement between therapist and parent, or between therapist and child, is a better predictor of treatment outcome. A strong alliance with parents may be important for treatment continuation, whereas the youth alliance may be more critical for treatment outcomes. The review incorporated meta-analyses A study which uses recognised procedures to combine quantitative results from several studies of the same or similar interventions to arrive at composite outcome scores. Usually undertaken to allow the intervention's effectiveness to be assessed with greater confidence than on the basis of the studies taken individually. synthesising results from relevant studies to provide estimates of the overall strength of the link between outcomes and alliance, and to be able to probe for influences on the strength of that link. Strength is expressed as effect sizes A standard way of expressing the magnitude of a difference (eg, between outcomes in control and intervention groups) applicable to most quantitative data. Enables different measures taken in different studies to be compared or (in meta-analyses) combined. Based on expressing the difference in the average outcomes between control and experimental groups as a proportion of how much the outcome varies across both groups. By convention, in the behavioural sciences an effect size of the type used in the featured analyses is considered a small effect at 0.10, a medium effect at 0.30, and a large effect at 0.50. using the 'r' metric, which can be squared to calculate how much of the difference in outcomes can be attributed to differences in the therapy dimension being investigated. The assumption was made that there is no single, true strength of the link between outcomes and alliance which appears to vary only because of methodological differences, but that instead the strength really might vary across the studies included in the analysis. Only English-language studies with at least 10 participants were included and then only if they measured alliance before the outcomes in question and followed up the clients to assess the relationship between the two. Sixteen such studies were found involving 658 young clients and 648 parents. All but two assessed alliance between therapist and the young client and six assessed it with the parent. Overall the strength of the link between alliance and outcomes equated to an effect size of 0.22, a statistically significant link representing a moderate relationship which accounts for about 5% of the variance in outcomes, not very different from among adults. In other words, the more solid the working relationship or bond between therapist and client, the better the outcomes. Alliance is an important predictor of youth therapy outcomes and may very well be an essential ingredient that makes diverse child and adolescent therapies work. However, effect size varied substantially across the studies. Possible reasons for this variation were explored by dividing the studies in to different categories based on problem area, category of client, and type of therapy, but there were so few studies in each category that the variations in effect size rarely met criteria for statistical significance. At a non-significant 0.1, the alliance-outcome correlation was lower across the three studies with substance abuse clients than it was in other youth problem areas (primarily internalising problems). It is not clear if this result reflects unique difficulties with alliance assessment with substance abusing teens, or accurately reflects the limited contribution of the alliance to outcomes with these clients. Practice recommendations The alliance is an important influence on child and adolescent therapy outcomes and a good alliance may be an essential ingredient in making diverse therapies work. Alliances with young clients and their parents predict treatment outcomes, so therapists need to attend to both. A solid alliance with the parent may be particularly important for treatment continuation. Parents and children often differ about treatment objectives. Forming a therapeutic alliance with both requires the therapist to attend to several perspectives and develop a treatment plan to accommodate child and parent perspectives. Maintenance of a positive alliance not just early but throughout treatment predicts good outcomes. Therapists are advised to monitor and foster alliances throughout treatment. Youngsters often have little understanding of therapy. Early alliance formation requires the therapist to balance active listening with providing an explicit framework for understanding therapy. Too much of the latter appears to interfere with alliance formation with adolescents. commentary This article was in a special issue of the journal Psychotherapy devoted to effective therapist-client relationships. For other Findings entries from this issue see: Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Psychotherapy relationships that work II Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Alliance in individual psychotherapy Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Alliance in couple and family therapy Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Cohesion in group therapy Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Empathy Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Goal consensus and collaboration Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Positive regard Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Congruence/genuineness Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Collecting client feedback Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Repairing alliance ruptures Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Managing countertransference Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Research conclusions and clinical practices The special issue which contained the article featured above was the second from the task force. The first was a special issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychology. While the second aimed to identify elements of effective therapist-client relationships ('What works in general'), the first aimed to identify effective ways of adapting or tailoring psychotherapy to the individual patient ('What works in particular'). For Findings entries from this first special issue see this bulletin. Both bodies of work have also been summarised in this freely available document from the US government's registry of evidence-based mental health and substance abuse interventions. Last revised 26 May 2011. First uploaded REVIEW 2018 Meta-analysis of the alliance–outcome relation in couple and family therapy REVIEW 2011 Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Alliance in couple and family therapy REVIEW 2011 Evidence-based therapy relationships: research conclusions and clinical practices REVIEW 2018 Meta-analysis of the prospective relation between alliance and outcome in child and adolescent psychotherapy REVIEW 2018 Positive regard and psychotherapy outcome: a meta-analytic review REVIEW 2018 Congruence/genuineness: a meta-analysis REVIEW 2011 Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Cohesion in group therapy REVIEW 2018 The alliance in adult psychotherapy: a meta-analytic synthesis REVIEW 2018 Cohesion in group therapy: a meta-analysis REVIEW 2011 Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Alliance in individual psychotherapy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1222
__label__cc	0.507875	0.492125	Fangasm When academics go to Hollywood! The Books: News & Updates Emotionally Powerful, Just How I like It – Supernatural Byzantium December 12, 2018 December 13, 2018 spnfans I watched last week’s Supernatural episode at a Supernatural convention in Jacksonville with my friend , YouTuber Alana King. That meant we recorded our reactions live for her video, much of which consisted of me making stunned faces and needing lots of tissues, which our helpful friend Christina kept tossing over from off camera. Alana and I were in shock half the time, so there are long stretches of us frozen with our jaws hanging open (which is not very attractive NGL) but when we did get animated, there was a lot to say. I’ll link the video at the end if you’d like to laugh at us. Feel free! Now that the con is over and I’ve had time to do a rewatch, I’ve got some deeper thoughts and some praise for pretty much everyone who had a hand in crafting this episode – and that makes me one happy fangirl! The episode begins with Jack’s three dads sitting at his bedside, doing just what Rowena said – watching over him as he dies. (Cue my first wobbly lower lip). Sam is right there next to him, so much sadness in his expressive eyes. Dean is across the room, struggling to hold it together, hands gripping the sides of the dresser telegraphing all the emotion he’s trying not to show. Cas stands watching over all of them, blue eyes troubled. Jack is the one dealing with his impending death the best, saying that maybe this is how it’s supposed to be and asking his dads not to be sad. Dean: Don’t give me that meant to be crap. Jack starts to cough, having trouble breathing, and Dean walks out, unable to watch someone he loves suffering. He’s angry, as he always is when life hands someone he cares about a raw deal. He punches the wall like he did when Bobby was dying, even as Jack asks Sam to tell Dean that it’s okay. The role reversal here at the end of Jack’s life is painful, Jack trying so hard to comfort the three men who are already grieving him. Jack: Sam, what happens next, for someone like me? Sam says he doesn’t know, but Jack is undeterred even then, saying that it will be an adventure. I think I started to tear up at that point, and Sam looks the same. gif itsokaysammy Meanwhile, Cas tells Dean that he has to go back in there. That it’s not fair, of course, but Jack needs him. Dean goes back, and finds Jack still and Sam at his side. Sam: He’s gone. At that moment, Alana and I kinda lost our shit. He’s GONE??? Just like that??? I did not see that coming so quickly, only a few minutes literally into the episode. I still don’t know if I like it, but it certainly got an emotional reaction out of me! Interestingly, it was more shock than grief, which oddly mirrored the way humans react in real life. Alana and I stared at each other with our jaws hanging open for an alarmingly long time. I also immediately worried for Dean, who must feel so guilty that Jack slipped away before he had a chance to come back. If you’ve ever been by a loved one’s bedside as they died, it’s stressful to leave for a cup of coffee or to make a phone call because you’re always afraid you won’t be there with them when they go, and that feels difficult somehow. The camera goes close on Dean as he processes the information and struggles again with his emotions, and of course Ackles shows us every complicated feeling. Ouch. And we only now get to the opening graphic! What the hell, Show?! The three plan “next steps”, wake and a bonfire, a hunter’s funeral – because that’s what Jack would have wanted. You can see Sam’s anguish, just in the way he can hardly straighten himself up, he’s so overcome with grief. Sam immediately walks off, clearly distraught, and Cas wants to go after him, gently saying “Sam…” as he walks away. Dean holds him back with a pat on the shoulder. Cas: Your brother’s in pain. Dean: Just let him be, he needs his space. We’re gonna give it to him. He knows Sam, and understands the complexity of grieving, that back and forth and push and pull of needing solace from others and needing time to yourself. If anyone has experience with grieving, it is unfortunately the Winchesters. Dean makes the difficult call to Mary, who I had forgotten doesn’t even know that Jack was sick! I can’t imagine Mary’s shock at getting the news that he got sick and oh, he’s already dead – ouch. It’s sort of a sad testament to how much Sam and Dean don’t depend on Mary as a mother that they didn’t reach out to her sooner. Dean finishes the call with a vulnerable sounding “anyway, it’d be really nice to hear your voice,” which threw me right back to that iconic phone call that Dean made to his absent father in season one when we all realized just how tragic it was that John Winchester was not returning his desperate sons’ phone calls. Oh, the pain, Show! When Dean is hurting like that, it’s almost unbearable to hear the vulnerability in his voice. Ouch ouch ouch. Cas watches Sam leave the bunker, head cocked in confusion, but he doesn’t say anything. gif lipglosskaz Next thing we know, Dean is looking for his brother, clearly worried. Uh oh. Dean and Cas set off to look for Sam, who also took the Impala, which looks really weird to see Cas driving and Dean riding shotgun. Dean: How could you just let him leave, you saw what he was like? Cas: Dean, you said to give him space. Dean: Yeah, space – in the bunker with us! I really felt for Cas there, gotta say. Grief is confusing for humans, and for Cas even more! They find Sam sitting on the ground in the nearby woods, leaning up against the Impala, looking heartbreakingly broken. It’s a beautiful shot, but so heartwrenching. Dean, already in a panic about not being able to find Sam, jumps to the very worst conclusion. Dean: Tell me you didn’t make a deal! Sam is totally confused at that – he was trying to build a pyre, not make a deal. We see Sam’s attempts in flashback, angry and chopping so hard at the trees that the axe splits apart and forces him to stop. Sam: I couldn’t…I couldn’t even do that for him. I should’ve done more, tried harder. What good is any of the spells, the lore… gifs sasquatchandleatherjacket Me: Oh my heart! Dean: Sam, at least you were there for him. I love Dean comforting his little brother, and that he said what many of us have been saying, because Sam really was there for Jack, from the beginning. Cas: It doesn’t feel right, it’s not how I thought Jack’s story would end….it’s not right, Jack being taken before me. All three of them are hurting so much, stuck in the wrongness of a death that happens out of time. Meredith Glynn’s script does a brilliant job of exploring grief and how it bowls us over, takes the breath out of us, renders us desperate and helpless and sometimes hopeless. Dean, Sam and Cas all express the common and normal reactions we all have – the feeling that you didn’t do enough, that you weren’t there, that you should have died first, especially when the one you’ve lost is like a child to you. Jared, Jensen and Misha and director Eduardo Sanchez did such a good job of showing us all those emotions that I could feel them all too, in sympathy and in empathy. We have all lost someone, and so those universal feelings hit us deeply. (As someone who both is a mom and has lost a mom, the Buffy episode where her mom died is still unwatchable for me. I watched when it aired and still can’t think about it without sobbing – the Supernatural episode where they lost Ellen and Jo is the same). That’s how powerful media can be in reflecting our own emotions, and Supernatural does that here. “So what do we do?” Sam asks, which is something every bereaved person has felt and has asked, and which again worked perfectly here. Dean, the big brother, steps up with an answer, and it includes Team Free Will’s version of a wake – “Tonight, we get loaded.” “Take one last look before you leave,” the music says as the three toast Jack at the bunker kitchen table. The scene starts out solemn and sad, but as they drink and talk and presumably share what fond memories they did get to have with Jack, they start to smile and then to laugh. I get what they were going for, but Alana and I immediately turned to each other as Castiel chowed down on some nougat and broke into a smile and said “That’s Misha, not Cas!” Clearly the same with Sam and Dean – we were watching Jared, Jensen and Misha goof off and crack each other up as they can do so well (something they confirmed at the convention). That threw me out of the story unfortunately, but it was also really nice to see them having fun together, so I’m ambivalent about its inclusion. Actually I’m not, because some brilliant person managed to remove the music and let a grateful fandom hear a bit of what Jared, Jensen and Misha were actually saying and it is GOLD. Or it was, until it got taken down. Anyway, from a story standpoint though, it was a bit jarring. Maybe because the Winchesters and Cas have NEVER been that carefree and happy! Sam leaves first, then Cas, and Dean is alone, still struggling to believe “we did everything we could, right?” Dean: Here’s to you, Jack, wherever you are. Lovely transition, and we’re with Jack in heaven. He’s on a road trip with his three dads, eating burgers and shakes and all of them teaching him to read an old school map because there’s no cell service. Jack quickly realizes that it’s not real, but it’s a nice moment. He wanders out into the halls of heaven, which we soon see is under attack by an ominous roiling river of black goo that we recognize as the entity from the Empty. Jack runs down the hall Indiana Jones style while Alana and I yell “run Jack run!” Dean wakes up passed out on the kitchen table to Sam and Cas returning – with Lily Sunder! (who was in the opening, so we knew she was coming). After a few staggers, Dean joins them and does a double take when he sees her. Dean: You got old. Way to tell it like it is, Dean. She gave up magic, it turns out. Sam has had the brilliant idea to have Lily look through Kevin’s angel tablet translations. (Yay, Kevin mention!) Dean is skeptical, but Sam and Cas want to try having her help bring Jack back – which, you know, is just SO Winchester! She can’t read the tablet, but offers the use of her magic to draw power from his soul to save him. Sam and Dean are both cautious about losing any part of a soul, which makes sense considering their past experience with soulnessness. Dean calls her on wanting something from all this, and Lily admits that she wants to go to Heaven to be with her daughter . They summon Anubis to see if they can convince him to let Lily into Heaven. Lily: You can summon a god?? Dean: We’ve done it before. Me: Only on Supernatural. Meanwhile, Jack is exploring Heaven – and has found his mother’s. It’s incredibly touching, because Jack never got to meet his mom and she never got to meet him. Kelly says “Jack, it’s you!” and I have to admit I had to grab for the tissues. When Jack tells her that she’s in heaven, she has a horrifying realization – if Jack is there, he’s dead too. (Cue more tears from me) Kelly: No no no, baby no! Jack assures her that Cas and Sam and Dean did their best, that they took care of him. Castiel heads to heaven, which is in distress with all the gates open, even the ones that Metatron closed. Sam and Dean do what they do best, painting sigils and signs to summon a god. Sam leaves the room and encourages Dean to talk to Lily, and when he does, he knows there’s something she’s not telling them. Veronica Cartwright then gives a masterful performance, letting us see all Lily’s pain at the death of her daughter , Mae. She’s in heaven, and Lily desperately wants to be with her, with that sliver of her soul that is left. (Yes, she made me cry – again!) Cas finds heaven full of dead angels dripping black goo. Duma is the only one who wakes up, asking Cas not to leave her and coming with him. Hmmm. Naomi appears, telling Cas that Jack is gone and that the Entity, the shadow that rules the Empty, wants him – and maybe they should give him to them. As they argue, and Naomi points out that millions of human souls will be cast into the wind and Cas still refuses, Naomi is consumed by the shadow and Cas and Duma run. Back at the bunker, Sam recites a lot of Latin, which Jared does extremely well, and Anubis appears – with his abacus. I’m amused that he knows the Winchesters and finds Dean “as snappy as advertised.” You have to wonder how often the supernatural world discusses Sam and Dean and what they say – and how much of it is full of grudging appreciation! Anubis tells Lily that she’s going to hell. The Winchesters try to bind him to make him make an exception, but Anubis insists he can’t so they let him go. Lily is crushed. I feel kinda crushed too, to be honest. Back in heaven, Cas and Duma find Jack and Kelly, who are each trying to protect the other. Cas hugs Jack with such relief and joy, and then Kelly, and goddammit, I’m crying again. Cas: I’m sorry, I failed you. Kelly: You didn’t…Jack, he’s wonderful. Meanwhile, Lily packs up to leave since she couldn’t get what she came for. Sam begs her to try anyway. Sam: He’s our kid! Dean: You know what I think? Burning all that soul, you’re not even human anymore. Otherwise, how could you ever, ever let anyone go through what you went through? The pain of losing a kid – don’t do this to us. gif deanwinchestir How anyone could say no to Sam and Dean saying THAT I have no idea – and Lily can’t. Looking at her picture of her daughter one last time (and I was sure it was one last time), she starts the spell, while Dean and Sam pray to Cas. In heaven, Jack and Kelly are both reluctant to let Lily use a part of his soul, but Cas points out that it’s also the only way to save Heaven, and they agree. And of course that’s when Duma is revealed to be the Entity, lying in wait while Cas led it right to Jack. There’s a fight, but they’re no match for the Entity. Erica Cerra does a kickass job portraying the Entity with all the manic energy that Misha brought to his own portrayal of the creature. The way the Entity is so thoroughly unhinged and so sadistic is frankly terrifying. Castiel, however, hears Sam and Dean’s prayer – and follows the Winchester code and offers to make a deal – he will go back to the Empty in Jack’s place. Misha also kicks ass in this scene, Castiel’s desperation and rage so palpable as he negotiates to sacrifice himself. The Entity agrees, but only if it can make Cas suffer. It will only take him when he gives himself permission to be finally, truly happy. Me and Alana: Urgh. And also in true Winchester fashion, Cas doesn’t want to tell Sam and Dean. Jack reluctantly agrees. Jack: Why? Why did you do that? Cas: Because I made a promise. Because I love you, Jack. Sam and Dean, they love you, and they are fighting for you this very minute. Me: Tissues!!! Jack says his goodbyes to Kelly. Jack: We didn’t get enough time. Kelly: It’s okay, go. Have a great life, I’ll be waiting. I love you so much. Me: OMG more tissues! It’s such a gift to jack, that he got to have that time with his mother, that he got to hear her say “I love you.” Back in the bunker, Jack gasps and sits up. Sam and Dean gasp too, shocked that maybe it worked. Alana and I dab at our eyes. Okay, that was me. Sam and Dean anchor Jack while he reads the spell. Jack seems okay. Lily coughs and sinks into a chair. Dean leans in and hugs Jack, and Sam clasps him on the shoulder, smiling. Sam: It’s good to have you back. Dean turns to Lily. Dean: Lily, thank you….Lily? As I suspected, she’s gone. And damned if I’m not crying again, saying please please please let her see Anubis again, and let him change his mind and let her into heaven. Sure enough, she faces Anubis, and he gets out the abacus. Anubis: Care to try your luck again? She does, and the black and white beads fly, me holding my breath and going please please please! And damn if she doesn’t get in. Anubis: Say hello to your daughter for me. Me: sobs like a baby Naomi stops Castiel before he leaves Heaven, and thanks him for saving them. Naomi: I think that deserves a reward, don’t you? For example, the archangel Michael’s location. Me and Alana: OMG yes! Jack and his three dads share burgers and beer, everyone unable to stop staring at Jack and smiling. They know where Michael is, and Sam, who was so hopeless and broken before, is now back to being the determined Winchester we know and love. They don’t know where Dark Kaia and the spear are, but… Sam: We will. We’ll figure it out. Dean: That’s right. And then Michael, that sonofabitch is gonna pay. They clink their beers and Alana and I suddenly become terrified. Alana and Lynn: Cas! Don’t get too happy! I guess that’s gonna be a nagging anxiety now. Every time Castiel gets too contented, we’re gonna be worried he’s about to be zapped to the Empty. Oh Show, you’re so cruel. When I talked to director Eduardo Sanchez about filming this episode, he mentioned that he really enjoyed it because it was an opportunity to tackle such emotional scenes, and he felt that the actors really brought it – and I have to say, he was so right! All of them – main cast and guest stars – made me feel every emotion, and the writing and the direction was spot on so that those emotions rang true each time. I got lots of Sam and Dean, a brave and determined Cas, more parent-child feels than this parent could handle without LOTS of tissues, and dialogue that felt organic and true in a psychological and emotional sense and in a story-telling sense. I loved the way the episode was filmed, from the beautiful scenes of the Impala in the woods at night to the perspectives on the heartfelt hugs to the gorgeous close-ups that showed us every bit of the characters’ emotions. I loved the realistic way the episode treated grief and loss, which I’m teaching a graduate course on right now. Meredith? You got it right. I also loved the in-depth exploration of parenthood, which is an equally complex and individual personal experience – not just Kelly’s feelings for her son, but Lily’s grief and longing for her lost daughter, and Sam and Dean and Castiel’s love for their son, which strikes me as a wonderfully non-traditional parenting and familial narrative that has a lot to say about found family. This is one of those episodes that will stay with me. Thank you everyone, I’m a happy fangirl! If you’d like to see our real-time reaction, here’s me and Alana watching this episode. With tissues. Supernatural Reaction Video – Byzantium Caps by kayb625 Check out all our Supernatural books and merch for great holiday gifts – including the book the Supernatural actors wrote themselves! Links on the home page! Episode Reviews: Supernatural, Season 14, Uncategorized 14.08, Alexander Calvert, Amanda Tapping, Byzantium, Courtney Ford, Eduardo Sanchez, episode review, Erica Cerra, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Meredith Glynn, Misha Collins, Supernatural, Veronica Cartwright 29 Comments ← Three Men And A Nephilim – Supernatural Unhuman Happy Holidays SPNFamily! → 29 thoughts on “Emotionally Powerful, Just How I like It – Supernatural Byzantium” ana_hunter says: Reblogged this on SUPERNATURAL AND OTHER SHOWS. Kelly Nichols says: I definitely enjoyed this episode more than the last one, even though it had more tears. First thing I noticed? No one else at the bunker! No AU people! Yay!! I hope that’s it for them at the bunker. Second thing, Dean leaving the room. He’s done that same thing so many times when he gets upset. In Celebrating the life of Asa Fox-Mary and the boys talk, Dean leaves. In Ladies Drink Free, Claire is suffering from the possible cure-Dean leaves. It’s Deans way of coping but kind of predictable. Thirdly, the fact that the first thing Dean thinks that Sam might do is make a deal. I thought that was brilliant because that’s what the Winchester’s do. Spot on I think. Bringing up The Empty was a good surprise, usually something gets mentioned once and is never talked of again (anti-Christ or Amy Ponds’ son anyone?) This was a great surprise to see it mentioned. I’m assuming after it let Castiel go back, that it couldn’t get back to sleep and is quite pissed about it? Jared, Jensen and Misha were so good at showing their characters’ pain. Sam trying to chop that tree and his strength and anguish pretty much destroying that axe. Dean holding everything in and Castiel trying to hold everything together. It was a very good episode although seeing everyone happy at the end means a lot of bad next episode. Happy never lasts in Winchester land. spnfans says: That’s so true, happy never lasts for these poor guys! I was also happy that they didn’t just drop The Empty, which sometimes happens in this show and never fails to annoy me. It wasn’t a perfect episode, but the emotional beats did work for me here and I appreciated that. Marilyn Rosenberg says: I loved this episode. It’s made it onto my top ten list for all the reasons you described. The unbridled emotion from team free will was so beautifully acted, directed and lit that I was often in tears. One comment. It was Veronica Cartwright not Angela. Wrong Cartwright lol – edited! Thank you 🙂 Rebecca Manley says: Once again you’ve nailed it, Lynn. I love your insights into the characters, especially Sam and Dean. Thanks. By the way, Lily was played by Veronica Cartwright, not Angela. I get those two sisters confused too. deb167 says: Usually I agree pretty much 100% with you Lynn, but at the beginnng of this ep at least, I just wasn’t feeling it. This season has seemed to have a lot of breaks in the airing schedule, maybe I need to rewatch them all together. But Jacks abrupt death – wtf? – and the scenes with Sam, Dean and Cas standing bedside, in the hallway, around the table – all seemed awkward and out of place. They didnt fit. I had no time to get emotional, the whole thing seemed rushed through, and I thought what the hell are the writers doing? Are they pushing along this plot line to get it out of the way? And why would Cas be grieving, wouldnt he go and check out if Jack was in Heaven immediately? I disagree with them grieving the same as we all would, they KNOW there is heaven and an afterlife, and for the moment at least, they have access. I did love the Jack/Kelly scenes and I agree Erica Cerra was amazing. Anubis was an interesting addition. This season seems to have story lines start up and then disappear into the ether. The AU people? Michael? Mary and Bobby? Now it looks like we have Terminator Luci and The Empty as well. I wish we had Monster of the Week, with one well written plot to follow through all season. On first watch, I felt like that too – Jack’s death happened so abruptly, I didn’t feel anything. On second watch, it seemed almost like that was the shock that one would feel after a sudden death, so I could accept it a bit more. While it doesn’t perhaps make sense that the bunker is suddenly empty, I think I was so happy to have all the AU people out of there that I didn’t even care if I had an explanation! I agree with you tho, this is a very busy season. I think that’s why I appreciated this episode, because it focused on the main characters and their emotional journeys. Such an impact this episode made, I started tearing up again just reading your recap! As for the “wake” scene – I understand what you said about it, but for me – it felt exactly right. It reminded me of my husband’s wake, held at his favorite brewery. It started out somber but the more we drank, the more we remembered all the happy and funny memories, and we were rolling with laughter by the time it was over. Which is why I laughed through my tears during that scene. Excellent recap, thank you for making me cry again! 😀 I do know that’s sort of what a wake is for, I think I’ve just seen Jared, Jensen and Misha laugh so often that it was instantly recognizable as them and not their characters! Glad you enjoyed the review despite the tears, and so sorry for your loss. Ha – I was starting to think this review was going to be late because this episode was such a disaster you couldn’t find anything nice to say about it. Normally I’m with you on your reviews but this episode was just not good. When Jack died five minutes into the show I wasn’t shocked, I went, “Oh, well obviously he’ll be back by the end of the episode, otherwise he’d have died farther in.” Which was frustrating not only because it was so predictable, but because the whole “OMG Jack is dying!” arc was resolved in two rushed episodes (just as I expected it would be), and therefore nothing was at stake. The drinking montage was very poorly done (especially since Cas doesn’t need to eat and basically has to drink a liquor store to get drunk) and did nothing more than eat up valuable narrative time that could have been used to make this episode not feel so slapped together and pointless. Then he ended up in Heaven and the Empty showed up and I went, “EEK!” but that lasted all of five seconds until Mr. Sam Season 9 “I was ready to die and you had no right to save me, we can’t be brothers anymore” Winchester decides that he’ll just go ahead and trade away a piece of JACK’S SOUL to bring him back, without even finding out where he is or if he’s happy or if he’s okay with losing a piece of his SOUL. That, to me, is utter character assassination. How anyone who lived through seasons 8 and 9 can look at what Sam decided to do in this episode and not think he’s a gigantic, raging hypocrite is beyond me – and I don’t want to sit here 14 seasons in looking at one of the boys getting stuck on how he’s suddenly a gigantic, raging hypocrite. Things like this really make me wonder if the writers even like Sam anymore. I understand that the response to this is, “But Jack’s like their son.” Well, Sam didn’t have a problem shooting Dean’s actual, flesh-and-blood daughter square in the chest when she brought a knife to a gunfight and had been alive a shorter time than Jack and hadn’t done anything. Please note, this is not me hating on Sam, this is me sincerely wondering if the WRITERS hate Sam by having him do so many things in a single episode that draw a direct line to some of his more questionable choices in earlier seasons because it now places him in a very bad light when, oh, suddenly he is wiling to do whatever it takes when it’s someone Sam sees as his child and someone Sam loves. How can they do this to one of their two main characters, the one who gets top billing??? What’s next, is a demon going to trick him into thinking the only way to stop Michael is by drinking demon blood?!? And Dean just goes with it. Dean, who at this point absolutely knows better, and had to live with a soulless version of his brother for months, who knows that you shouldn’t mess around with someone else’s soul, and that you sure as hell shouldn’t just go bringing someone back from the dead if they’ve made peace with what’s going to happen to them. The people in charge of this show are just taking a giant sharpie and scribbling over everything that came before them as if there was no Sam and Dean prior to season 12. As if they haven’t learned lessons and grown as people and are still the same stupid, reckless 20-somethings they were at the start of the show instead of freaking adults who know better now. Especially when Jack is with his mother in Heaven and he’s happy. He’s okay with being dead! He doesn’t regret it or feel bad or like he missed anything, he’s looking at it as an adventure! All they had to do to make this not be a 100% selfish move that regressed both main characters would have been for them not to do anything besides starting to build a funeral pyre, and before they can have Cas discover angel radio is sending out a distress signal, go up, discover the Empty, have that whole thing go down, and come back to tell Sam and Dean they have to get Jack out of Heaven. Then it makes the decision not completely selfish and they could have spread the arc over three episodes instead of two and closed it organically instead of sacrificing character integrity to open and then close a MAJOR arc in two episodes. Yes, I realize they have fewer episodes on the roster this season, but if they didn’t have twelve other plot lines running at the same time they would have room for this. And they clearly only got this plot out of the way so they could replace it with another one, the Empty, that I’m sure will be resolved in another single, rushed episode full of character assassination, instead of playing out organically. I mean, at least Sam got to do stuff in this episode and Dean was breathtaking to look at in every single scene, but when the only character consistency they manage to maintain is that Mary doesn’t pick up the phone when her eldest son calls because he’s just not that important to her that’s a pretty serious problem. This episode was a hot mess from where I was sitting, and one I will not look forward to on a re-watch. I do see all your points here. Dean wasn’t okay with the piece of Jack’s soul thing at first, which rang true to me – and Sam didn’t initially get Lily to do anything soul related, but to read the angel tablet. So I can be more or less okay with that part, tho more hesitation on their part would have been in character. The selfishness of wanting to bring Jack back does go against the ‘what’s dead should stay dead’, but the Winchesters have never stuck to that mantra anyway, so it didn’t jar me too much here. It’s that Buffy-esque torn out of heaven thing, but I like that trope most of the time. They did give Jack the choice after an explanation, so maybe they learned a little bit from the Gadreel debacle at least – but you make a good point that they could have had the information about heaven needing Jack not to be dead early on and that would have solved the whole problem! The season as a whole has been rushed and over-crowded, but I think this episode felt good to me because it did such a good job of exploring grief, and I appreciated that. And these actors are all so good at it. Points taken though, points taken. Mer, I feel strangely satisfied after reading your rant! Thanks. 🙂 deb167 it physically pains me as someone who studied both writing and acting to watch this season and see easy fixes to every episode so far that has felt rushed, and know how good this season could be if someone at the helm still cared about telling a good story. There is “good story” potential everywhere this season and they just keep missing the mark. All I want for Christmas at this point is for Davy Perez to be promoted to show runner. Kathy Custren says: Yes, to all your analysis–the many feelings and emotions that go along with this roller coaster of an episode. Literally traveling the journey from death to resurrection, and what happens in-between, as if we might ever get the nerve to experience it. Or, maybe we have experienced this circuitous route many times? It’s something to think about, anyway. Another nonchalant tosser was the matter-of-fact way Dean and Sam talk about summoning a god. [“We’ve done it before.”] Between being in the presence of ‘the’ god/Chuck, his sister, and multiple gods and angels over the years, maybe they do get to wear that “been there done that got the t-shirt” mantle. It sure is a noteworthy blip in the sonar of the story. A bit like the foreshadowing that belies Chuck’s role in things back in “Jump the Shark.” Loved it all, and your digest of it, and will undoubtedly get much from seeing the video of you and Alana when I watch it tomorrow. ~ Blessings! ❤ Added reply that I referenced the incorrect relating to Chuck’s writer-cum-God character, which was “The Monster at the End of This Book.” –“Jump the Shark” related to Adam’s story [S4 was full of good ones!], and in it, Sam does extend the possibility of ‘bringing him back.’ So the Winchesters have learned a bit about what to do with family members from then to now. I laughed out loud at that comment – summon a god? We’ve done it before. Only the Winchesters! lipgloss kaz says: ” but that lasted all of five seconds until Mr. Sam Season 9 “I was ready to die and you had no right to save me, we can’t be brothers anymore” Winchester etc etc” Just have to interject, that it wasn’t that Sam wanted to die, as much as Dean knew that Sam would never have wanted to be possessed by another angel,not after Lucifer, which is why he couldn’t bring himself to tell him. This spell was using a tiny part of Jacks own soul to revive him. I agree with the fact that Jack had made peace with going and they should have had his permission first, although he did seem pretty happy to go back… I didn’t think “the empty” was scary in the slightest, just seemed really annoying and petulant. wonderful performances from team free will 2.0, and i did shed a few tears myself. The Empty was definitely petulant and annoying, but just how unhinged it seemed was scary to me – unpredictable, like a two year old having godlike powers. Now that’s something scary lol! Nope, sorry. After being soulless for a year, using innocent people as bait, trying to kill Bobby, and allowing Dean to be turned into a vampire, I cannot accept that Sam would think just a “piece” of someone’s soul was no big deal. How can they know what piece it will be? Will it be the piece that loves nougat? The piece that enjoys fishing? The piece that recognizes a pretty girl is interested in him? The piece that likes kittens and puppies? The piece that saves a young woman’s life because it allows him to figure out a witch’s curse is linked to a necklace (though anyone with two brain cells saw that one coming)? They could literally be bartering away the piece of his soul that loves whatever it is that brongs him the greatest joy, fundamentally altering who he is. Sam found a way to bring Jack back from the dead without discussing with him first whether he wanted to be brought back and then they sent Cas up to guilt trip Jack into coming back when he was at peace. This is nothing like finding out your brother used extraordinary methods to save you when you were suicidal (as a society we have agreed not to just let suicidal people die) and then using his fear of abandonment against him because you’re upset that the only method available to him was one you wouldn’t have chosen for yourself had you been in your right mind. Which you weren’t. What Sam did with Jack is so much worse and not something I can accept he would ever do, except that they needed to move the plot along and they took the easy out of undermining one of their two leads, which they do all the time now whenever they need to make someone else look good. Want your villain to be scary? Want your teenage girl to look tough? Want your computer nerd to seem savvy? Don’t worry about having to build an actual character, just dumb down Sam and Dean! They’re big boys, they can take it. Plus, the audience loves them so they’ll go through the mental gymnastics required to rationalize away things that are out of character instead of demanding that the writers do their darned job. What they did with Sam this episode is the same level of bad writing as season 8 when he didn’t look for Dean in Purgatory and ignored his phone for a year so they could force conflict between the brothers. Sam never would have done either of those things, but now we have to live with it as canon, just like we now have to accept Sam telling other people not to leave hunting or bartering away someone else’s soul without even considering the consequences. I do not think the writers like Sam, or if they do, it’s some alternate version of Sam that exists on some other show and not this one. I have no idea how Jared Padalecki manages to reconcile these whiplash-inducing character shifts into his understanding of who Sam is. I’d be giving pushback all over the place were I him. debbab says: Wait until you see what they do with Sam in the mid season finally! Maybe it will become clearer by the end of the season. Not sure at this point. As much as it is an on year for Dean, there are changes in Sam as well-not all understandable, but Jared does a solid job with what he is given. Wondering if some of Jack’s consent is lying on the editing floor. Also wonder if Jared wants to be written lighter for time reasons. AlyCat22 says: So let me get this straight. Jack dies and Dean leaves Mary a voicemail. Everything else in the entire episode develops all the way to Jack’s resurrection and then some and STILL NO RESPONSE FROM MARY?!? Where is she? Timbuktu??? I know, I know. Her excuse will be lack of service at the cabin. Or she and Bobby were otherwise too occupied to bother to answer the cell. If they let Mary slide on this one then I’m going to have to apologize to my daughter for getting upset when she doesn’t answer my voicemails/texts within what I consider a more than reasonable length of time. An entire episode and no return call. Not even a call to check in and make sure everything’s fine with her boys and to let them know that they haven’t been eaten by bears. Yes, that phone call was really jarring and so very sad. I don’t want Mary back in every episode, but it’s also often forced when they try to make up reasons she’s not present. Which I guess is a good reason not to bring people back so often! Pingback: Emotionally Powerful, Just How I like It – Supernatural Byzantium \| My Eclectic Writings Not sure if the spell to summon Anubis is in Latin. It sounded as though it had Arabic as part of it. And after all Anubis is Egyptian and the episode is called Byzantium. Writers opening doors to non Judeo-Christian thanatology is a smart idea. While show has gone there before with other lore, this time it is woven in as part of the Heaven/Hell mythology that show has used so much as an exoskeleton. I did not shed tears when Jack’s death was so quick as I felt he would be back shortly and unlike Kevin, we have not had bonding time with him and watched him grow from an advanced placement teenager to a mature prophet who died at Gadreel’s hands. And watching Kevin die with Sam being the physical instrument is far more heart tugging than Jack fading away, and Jack told us not to be sad….so…. The acting and direction are top notch. The script is sensitive to loss as there are many losses in this one episode. And of course, a bad deal is made- seems as if Sam and Dean know better at the moment, so it is Castiel’s turn. Overall, I enjoyed the episode and even more so on a re-watch. It is a quiet episode and paired with “Unhuman Nature” provides insight into Sam. Dean, Castiel, Jack and responsibility for one’s actions in life and death. And now, we are ready for the mid season finale and a hiatus. So far, for me, this has been a mostly enjoyable season. I didn’t react when Jack died so quickly either, but I do feel an attachment to Jack, which surprises me. Nothing like I feel for the others, but it’s there. Maybe because Alex is just that good, or maybe because Sam and Dean and Cas feel so much for him. This season has been hit or miss for me, but this episode definitely made me feel – and I like that about the show! Marion says: Just going to call this the “Kleenex” episode, so much about the story line resonated from the grief laden reactions(or over- reactions) to the reckless but well meaning, foolhardiness of a desperate person,I was totally thrown back to the time of Dean’s original demon deal in season 2. Oh, the things we do for love! Reflecting on this over the last week, I am convinced the deals, both Cas and Jack’s will not be a good thing, but so utterly Winchester and honestly if we all had access to a God, what might we be tempted to do, even if we knew it came at a price? Anubis by the way, is a super cool Dude, for a god he seemed like a good guy! Mary,Mary,Mary, don’t get me started on her absence, not one call to check on Dean when she promised him she would be there for anything he needed? Not one call to Jack,whom she was so worried about last season? Not even a call to Sam whom she was bonding with? Perhaps she and Bobby are on Cruise Ship in a place with no Cell phones….. All in all the episode was well written, well acted and beautifully shot, I thought everyone brought their “A” game and,bonus, Sam and Dean were (mostly) together physically and emotionally this ep,so yay! Agreed, Sam and Dean together on my tv screen (or whatever) is always a good thing. 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__label__wiki	0.758184	0.758184	Gargantuan creatures, Monstrosities, Monstrosities (5e), Titans (tag) Creatures of unaligned alignment Creatures with a 30 challenge rating (5e) Elemental creatures Magical beasts Magical beasts (4e) Colossal creatures Creatures of neutral alignment Large creatures Creatures found in cold climates Creatures found in temperate climates Creatures found in warm climates Creatures found in any terrain Articles in need of citations Abominations 5th Edition Statistics[1] Gargantuan Unaligned Challenge rating Magical beast 3rd Edition Statistics[3] Always neutral 2nd Edition Statistics[4] 1st Edition Statistics[5] Blindsight,[1] Homeland(s) Prime Material Plane Favored climate Any[3] Favored terrain 50 ft. (15.2 m)[1][3] Average length Average weight 130 tons[3] Monster Manual II The tarrasque (pronounced: /tɑːˈræsk/ tah-RÆSK[6][7]) was the most terrible creature known to inhabit the Prime Material Plane. The beast was a full fifty feet tall and seventy feet long[8] quadruped with a long tail, reflective carapace, and two large horns on its head.[9] Supposedly, there was only one tarrasque, which slumbered within the world's core.[9] No one could predict when it would next awake.[8] The tarrasque was irreversibly tied to the Prime by its nature. As a result, the most one could hope to do was put the creature to sleep within the core, holding it off for a while longer. However, ancient texts seemed to indicate that there might be a way to finally and ultimately deal with the creature, if one could somehow deceive it, luring it into another plane and sealing it there.[9] Although the tarrasque was indisputably a force of pure destruction, it was not truly evil or even chaotic by nature, lacking the consciousness necessary for it to take a moral stance. As a result, it was merely neutral in alignment.[9] The tarrasque was an enormous abomination, roughly the size of an ancient dragon, with two long horns extending from its forehead, a thick carapace, mighty tail, and a wide, toothy mouth. The tarrasque also had two small eyes, but it did not rely on these for its primary method of sensory perception—if they were blinded or removed, it was effectively unhindered. The tarrasque was impossible to frighten or charm and had resistances to every kind of damage imaginable. It moved at a speed roughly half again that of a human, either while walking on the surface, climbing a height, or burrowing through the earth.[9] The tarrasque was an eating machine while awake, capable of swallowing creatures of roughly giant size whole. When roused, it would, by its design, eat quite literally the entire world, including plants and animals.[9] Fortunately, it would only be active for a week or two before it returned to its slumber to sleep for five to twenty months, although, once every decade or so, the tarrasque would stay active for several months, after which it would sleep four to sixteen years, unless disturbed.[8] Why it returned to slumber is unknown, though it seemed inevitable that at some point it would try and fulfill its purpose to destroy the world entirely.[citation needed] The tarrasque had many unusual abilities gifted to it by its creators. Among the most terrifying of these was its ability to ignore any natural resistances its victims had, cutting right through them with its deadly attacks. It also had the ability to dramatically hinder the ability of creatures within 200 feet of it to fly, reducing their speed substantially while also bringing them down to a maximum altitude of twenty feet, which put them within the beast's reach. Most dangerous of all, of course, was the tarrasque’s insatiable appetite.[9] The tarrasque had the ability to instill nearby creatures with terrible fear, rendering them incapable of action. It was also immune to the ill effects of fire, poison, or disease.[8] It was generally immensely difficult to injure.[9] The history of the tarrasque was controversial. Most persons were wholly unaware of the tarrasque's existence and those that did know of it were unsure about its origins, which they surmised to be anything from its actual creation to it being the weapon of an ancient and evil cabal of wizards. Most dismissed these theories, however, as unproven musings. More important was that the tarrasque rarely left evidence or witnesses, so dangerous was its nature.[8] Some sages argued that the tarrasque was created by the primordials as a weapon of destruction during the Dawn War, with the purpose of undoing the stability instilled in the world by the gods so that the primordials could remake it. Fortunately, the primordials created only one tarrasque.[9] Another theory was that the tarrasque was but one specimen of an entire population of the creatures living on the planet Falx, which was located somewhere in another crystal sphere. Falx had several hundred creatures that were either the same species as the tarrasque of Toril or else an (unfortunate) example of convergent evolution. According to this view, Toril's tarrasque had simply been transported or summoned to Toril from Falx in ancient past.[10] In the final years of the first Netheril empire, the creature's lair (in what used to be southwest Anauroch) was under heavy guard by Angardt barbarians whose shaman's prophecies told of the beast's imminent awakening. In -339 DR, adventurers hired by the archwizard Karsus came to cut out the tarrasque's pituitary gland, which was to be used as a spell component for the casting of Karsus's Avatar. A gold dragon named Dracolnobalen, who protected the Angardt tribe, provided the adventurers working for Karsus with a liquid that she claimed would keep the tarrasque from waking again once applied to its body.[11] It seemed to have worked, since no gigantic, hungry monsters emerged from the "lair of the sleeping beast" since those adventurers ventured inside. Before the desert was restored to fertile land, the tarrasque's lair still existed and was known to those few who knew of its location as "The Secret Place in the Sands".[citation needed] However, around 1358 DR, a mage summoned the tarrasque through a ritual that required the heads of five adult dragons to complete.[12][13] This article is incomplete. You can help the Forgotten Realms Wiki by providing more information. The tarrasque's first appearance was in Monster Manual II 1st edition (1983), page 117. Forgotten Realms (comic book series) vol. 1, issue 7: "Dragonsmoker" vol. 1, issue 8: "Dragons (and other beasts)" Ed Greenwood and Johnathan M. Richards (September 2007). “The Ecology of the Tarrasque”. In Erik Mona ed. Dragon #359 (Paizo Publishing, LLC), pp. 88–95. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Wizards RPG Team (2014). Monster Manual 5th edition. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 286–287. ISBN 978-0786965614. ↑ Mike Mearls, Stephen Schubert, James Wyatt (June 2008). Monster Manual 4th edition. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 13, 287. ISBN 978-0-7869-4852-9. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook (July 2003). Monster Manual 3.5. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 240. ISBN 0-7869-2893-X. ↑ Doug Stewart (June 1993). Monstrous Manual. (TSR, Inc), p. 339. ISBN 1-5607-6619-0. ↑ Gary Gygax (August 1983). Monster Manual II 1st edition. (TSR, Inc), p. 117. ISBN 0-88038-031-4. ↑ Frank Mentzer (January 1985). “Ay pronunseeAYshun gyd”. In Kim Mohan ed. Dragon #93 (TSR, Inc.), p. 30. ↑ Dungeons & Dragons FAQ (HTML). Wizards of the Coast. (2003). Archived from the original on 2017-07-09. Retrieved on 2018-05-22. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet and Monte Cook (October 2000). Monster Manual 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 174. ISBN 0-7869-1552-1. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 Mike Mearls, Stephen Schubert, James Wyatt (June 2008). Monster Manual 4th edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 13. ISBN 978-0-7869-4852-9. ↑ Template:Ctie book/Practical Planetology ↑ slade (1996). How the Mighty Are Fallen. (TSR, Inc), pp. 34–35. ISBN 0-7869-0537-9. ↑ Jeff Grubb (February 1990). “Dragonsmoker”. In Elliot S. Maggin ed. Forgotten Realms comics #07 (DC Comics), pp. 1–26. ↑ Jeff Grubb (March 1990). “Dragons (and Other Beasts)”. In Elliot S. Maggin ed. Forgotten Realms comics #08 (DC Comics). Anaxim • Astral stalker • Atropal • Blood fiend • Phane • Tarrasque Retrieved from "https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tarrasque?oldid=478695" Gargantuan creatures Monstrosities Monstrosities (5e)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1236
__label__cc	0.590852	0.409148	Results filed under: songs Created as part of Pechawis’ Media Arts Mini Residency that took place during the month of February. The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VIII,… Rattan Mohan Sharma Rattan Mohan Sharma in Concert The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VII, no. 3, p. 13, January/February 1996: Co-presented with the Panjit Jasraj School of Music. Rattan Sharma, a… Irène Aebi Old Flames The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VII, no. 2, p. 9, November/December 1995: The Eminent jazz song duo of sopranist Steve Lacy and vocalist… The Return of the Return of Steve Lacy & Irène Aebi with Nicholas Isherwood The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. V, no. 4, p. 10, March/April 1994: Steve Lacy is one of the most prolific songwriters in all… Lalith Rao Lalith Rao: Singing Workshop The following text is taken from Front Magazine vol. V, no. 1, p. 15, September/October 1993: Lalith Rao is one of the highly respected representatives of the… Concert Residency Artsong Trio in Concert A concert with Irène Aebi, vocals and violin; Petia Kaufman, harpsichord; Carol Robinson, clarinet and bass clarinet. The trio performed works by Steve Lacy and… Lola McLaughlin The Artsong Trio (Irène Aebi, Petia Kaufman and Carol Robinson) performed songs by Mary Frazee, set to music by Steve Lacy, with original choreography and… Anna Homler Direct Sound Compositions and improvisations on voice and instruments by Carles Santos, Anna Homler and David Moss. The virtuoso singers of Direct Sound had been defining the territory… Anita Perry Anita Perry in Concert Composer/performer Perry presented solo piano and vocal ensembles featuring Charlotte Kennedy (alto), Tom Dukowski (tenor) and Howard Meadows (tenor). All compositions by Anita Perry; text… Sung Paintings Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, information on this project is currently unavailable. Joan La Barbara: Concert and Workshop Extended vocal techniques. Joan La Barbara, Voice and Tape Click here for biography. Pieces include: Space Testing (voice) Shadow Song (voice & tape) Circular Song (voice) Klee… Residency Video Tom Dean Fear of Blue Artist-in-residence. Special production. A metaphoric text on the meaning of the colour blue is illustrated with images of sky and sea. The soundtrack includes original… An Evening of Comic Performance Performance includes Busman’s Holiday Reatreat Revue featuring Giddy Up Travel Agent, the three songs ‘Blue Lagoon’, ‘Driving’ and ‘Rap Tune’, and the two segments ‘Mike’… Don’t Take Candy From Strangers An acoustic performance that, for the sake of argument, took place as a concert. It was musical (popular music) but the emphasis was on the… Jill Kroesen The Original Lou and Walter Story and Excuse Me, I Feel Like Multiplying Entry from Acts of Transfer: Duration: 60 min 17 sec Format: ¾” Umatic Jill Kroesen emerged out of the avant-garde music and art scenes in New… Brass Tacks Vocal Co. in Concert A cappella group. Silly Ceremonies Music (songs and chants), tea ceremony, five-finger exercises, tightrope walk, birthday, wank, food and dayglo paint/ink ceremony. Christine Bagley Woody Simmons Patty Venice Woody Simmons (banjo, piano), Christine Bagley, Patty Venice. Other instruments are guitar, bass, saxophone, and vocals, although it is unclear which is played by whom.…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1245
__label__cc	0.71474	0.28526	McHenry, James Washington, George (184) Madison, James (6) Jefferson, Thomas (4) Moylan, Stephen (2) Beatty, John (1) Dickinson, Philemon (1) Johnston, Francis (1) Knox, Henry (1) Washington Presidency (109) Adams Presidency (614) Documents filtered by: Author="McHenry, James" 1To John Adams from John Warren and Others, 4 December 1775 (Adams Papers) As Surgeons of the continental Hospital we take the Freedom to address you upon an Occasion which though it does not immediately Concern our Department, yet as it relates to the Hospital with which we are so nearly connected, we thought called for our Attention, as being a Subject, upon which, we might be able to give some Information, which might perhaps be of some little service in assisting... 2To George Washington from James McHenry, 31 January 1777 (Washington Papers) In consequence of the inclosed application to Gen: Howe the sick privates and those who remained of the well were ordered off on parole under my care as Doctor, and the conduct of a bristish officer &c. But As the officer leaves them here, he gets no receipt. Six have died since our leaving New-York; But I flatter myself, should the weather moderate a little that most of the remainder will... 3To George Washington from James McHenry, 21 June 1777 (Washington Papers) Observing it asserted in Gen. Howes letter to your Excy of the 21st April Ulto that “one half of the sick prisoners were recd into the British Hospitals—that the remainder were attended in their different places of confinement by their own Surgeons—and lastly that these Surgeons, without restriction were supplied with medicines for this purpose until it was discovered that they disposed of... 4To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, [21 September 1778] (Hamilton Papers) In order to get rid of your present accumulations you will be pleased to take the pills agreeable to the directions; and to prevent future accumulations observe the following table of diet. This will have a tendency also to correct your wit. I would advise for your breakfast two cups of tea sweetened, with brown sugar, and coloured with about a teaspoonful of milk. I prefer brown sugar to loaf... 5To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 6 December 1778 (Hamilton Papers) [ Paramus, New Jersey, December 6, 1778 . “… desire Colo. Harrison to write to Genl. Greene on the subject of his Letter respecting a change of ground for hutting. He may tell Genl. Greene, that the situation marked out in the first instance seems to His Excellency the most eligible; but that Genl. Greene must be a more competent judge, to which place the preference should be given.… We are... I have the honor to communicate to your Excellency (in addition to my information through Mr Tilghman of the 21st Instant) by Major General Lord Stirlings particular directions, that on the 17th a detachment of the enemy (of about two hundred men) from New York effected a landing on the Middletown shore (near one Thomas Browers)—But re-imbarked in the night, without penetrating the country, or... 7To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, [18 March 1780] (Hamilton Papers) His Excellency commands me to acknowlege and thank you for the News-papers and your letter of—. The general has the letter, but I believe it wants both date and locality. Meade writes you all that is interesting, and conducts the most weighty matters with a great deal of cunning sagacity. He thrust himself up the chimney this morning, while we were dressing round the fire, in order to be more... 8From James McHenry to Alexander Hamilton, 18 March 1780 (Washington Papers) His Excellency commands me to acknowlege and thank you for the News-papers and your letter of —The general has the letter, but I beleive it wants both date and locality. Meade writes you all that is interesting, and conducts the most weighty matters with a great deal of seeming sagacity. He thrust himself up the chimney this morning, while we were dressing round the fire, in order, to be more... 9From James McHenry to John Moylan, 19 March 1780 (Washington Papers) His Excellency desires that you will be pleased to make an order on Messrs Otis & Henley of Boston, in favor of Col. Crane of the 3rd Regt of artillery, directing clothing for such a number of soldiers as he may enlist, and that an account may be transmitted you, that it may be known what to enter against the regiment. I am Sir DLC : Papers of George Washington. 10From James McHenry to Francis Johnston, 24 March 1780 (Washington Papers) His Excellency is consenting to your sending Lt Armstrong after the deserters to Fish Kill—should you think the object worth the expense but wishes at the same time in order to avoid further expense on this head that you would take proper measures before his setting out to inform yourself whether there may not be deserters from the rest of the line at or near the same place. You will be... 11From James McHenry to John Beatty, 1 April 1780 (Washington Papers) Mrs Auchmuty has solicited of His Excellency an indulgence for a few days for her Son to come into New York, that she may see him before her departure for Europe. The general desires that you may signify, as soon as possible, to Mr Auchmuty, his permission for three weeks residence in New York. You will be pleased to do what is further necessary on the occasion, and inclose him the within... 12From James McHenry to Stephen Moylan, 5 July 1780 (Washington Papers) His Excellency requests that you will without delay take post with your Regiment in a situation near the rear of the army, calculated to afford you a sufficiency of forage. From hence you will detach a commissioned officer with fifteen men, which you will be pleased to relieve as often as you may judge proper, and direct them to patrole the Country from the little falls as far as Aquackanack... I communicated your answer to his Excellency. He thinks the little falls too near the enemy and leaves it to you to take a position within the fork of the river, or on this side—or on the left of the army as you may find it most convenient to the objects which he recommended. You will be pleased to advise this General as soon as you have determined on a position. I am Dr &c. DLC : Papers of... 14To George Washington from James McHenry, 18 July 1780 (Washington Papers) I would beg leave to mention to your Excellency, a matter in which I feel too much to be longer without laying it before you. The approaching campaign opening an interesting field, makes me desirous to appear, in a more military character, than that I now hold. I have also had before me for some time past, a prosect of visiting Europe, and especially those places where our interest is most... 15Poem by Major James McHenry, [14–15 December 1780] (Hamilton Papers) Steiner, James McHenry Bernard C. Steiner, The Life and Correspondence of James McHenry (Cleveland, 1907). , 29–30. Steiner states: “… McHenry went to Albany for the wedding and wrote the following verses to his friend on the morning after the ceremony” ( ibid. , 29). 16To George Washington from James McHenry, 14 April 1781 (Washington Papers) As the within to Col. Tilghman is on business of a public nature, I have taken the liberty to inclose it under cover to your Excellency. I had a letter yesterday from Governor Lee containing the substance of an official dispatch from Governor Jefferson (the date not mentioned) by which it appears that Phillips was still on board his vessels at Portsmouth, but making a large collection of... 17To George Washington from James McHenry, 30 September 1781 (Washington Papers) Having been elected one of the Senate for the State of Maryland I beg leave to resign the rank of Major which I hold in the army of the United States. With the greatest respect I have the honor to be Sir Your Excellency’s most ob. St DNA : RG 93—Manuscript File. 18To George Washington from James McHenry, 3 December 1781 (Washington Papers) I have placed my resignation in the hands of one of the electors but he omitted forwarding it to Congress at the usual time. I now take the liberty to send it to your Excellency as the lateness of the resignation makes it rather improper on my own account for it to go to Congress from myself. I make no doubt but your Excellency when here suggested such measures as you saw necessary to be... 19To George Washington from James McHenry, 20 January 1782 (Washington Papers) I would have thanked your Excellency for your very interesting letter, if I had not waited to render my acknowledgements more valuable by the hand who should present them. It is at least one of the fairest in the world. I need not add that it is Mrs Lloyds. We are just about closing our session. The only novelty which it has given birth to, is a man called an Intendant, whom we have vested... 20To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 31 January 1782 (Hamilton Papers) I reckon, my dear sir, among the contrasted events which have diversified my life, to have been made the confidant of the author of Publius, and as a Senator of Maryland to have been present at Mr Chase’s defence in our house of delegates against charges contained in your pieces. I send you the proceedings which have been published and letters which have been passed between Major Giles and... 21To George Washington from James McHenry, 5 April 1782 (Washington Papers) Doctor Craik gives me but a moment to acknowlege your Excellency’s letter of the 12 of last month. I think precisely with your Excellency in your observations on the war. Its prosecution is certainly intended, and it is our business to bring as early as possible a respectable force into the field. Shall I tell you, that we inlist but slowly, and that I am very apprehensive our Assembly will be... This packet will be delivered you by Mr Lindsay manager of the Baltimore Theatre, who waits upon your Excellency to solicit a change in the parole of the band of musick at Frederick to this place. If this favor can be granted it will be adding essentially to the obligations which this Town is under to your Excellency, by increasing its pleasures. I would suppose the Band can have no objection... 23To George Washington from John Lynch, 20 July 1782 (Washington Papers) I beg the Favour of your Excellencys excusing my taking up your time by interfereing with That multiplicity of Business of a higher nature and purpose. A Mr Kennedy left this town and joined the British at the beginning of those times from whom he received the Commission of Captn—he is nearly relatied to my wife on account of Which he Sent me out in the year 1777 a Deed of Gift wherein he... 24To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 11 August 1782 (Hamilton Papers) If you are not in the humor to read a long letter do, prithee, give this to the child to play with and go on with your amusement of rocking the cradle. To be serious, my dear Hamilton, I have been thinking of late upon my own situation, and this had led me as often to think of yours. Some men, I observe, are so born and tempered that it is not till after long bustling and battling it in the... I am now able to reply to your letter of the 12th instant. I thought to have done it sooner, but I ventured to Annapolis upon a little piece of business before I had quite subdued the remains of a fever, where I had a relapse which confined me once more to my bed. I am at present likely to enjoy better health. You suppose the prospects of peace the order a little further back. I fear this to... 26To George Washington from James McHenry, 10 October 1782 (Washington Papers) I wrote you upon a variety of matters by Major Lynch, and as some of them were interesting I hope the latter has met with no disasterous accident. I am once again a man of health after five fevers; each of which was violent and obstinate enough to have condemned a constitution much stronger than mine; and yet mine does not give any marks of what it has so recently suffered. I am now going to... 27To George Washington from James McHenry, 2 February 1783 (Washington Papers) One of the best old ladies in the world who has one of the cleverest young ladies for a daughter has requested my endeavours for the recovery of a negroe man of hers in your army. I inclose you a note of hers on the subject, and have to intreat your Excellency that you will order an enquiry and have the negroe restored. I recollect to have been told by Major Reed in Virginia something of this... Because I have no reason to believe myself forgotten, notwithstanding you have not written to me for a long time. I would not leave Philadelphia without congratulating with you upon an event the most fortunate for America, and the most glorious for my general. You have carried us through a long war; you have not sunk under the severest tryals; and you live to see a country enjoy the blessings... You will forgive me for not writing to you sooner and attribute it to its real cause, not want of the sincerest inclination, but of Censure. Perhaps before this reaches you the president will have transmitted our resolve for bringing you here and relieving you from that disagreable situation of which you have so justly complained in your letter to Congress. I was chairman of the committee on... 30To George Washington from James McHenry, 11 August 1783 (Washington Papers) I am just now honored with your letter of the 6th. You have indeed gone over a great deal of ground in a very short time. The first motive for bringing you here was to get you out of a disagreeable situation, to one less disagreeable. The second was to get your assistance and advice in the arrangements for peace. It may be necessary besides to consult you respecting promotions, and on a... I am going to receive your thanks for putting it in your power to do good. A Miss Howard, a citizen of Annapolis, of an amiable character and reputable connections married a Capn Le Vacher de Vanbruen, a French gentleman. The Capn served with reputation in our army from the year 1776 til the capture of Lord Cornwallis when he obtained a furlough to visit France. He embarked in the Favorite... 32To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 22[–23] October 1783 (Hamilton Papers) I obey you. The homilies you delivered in Congress are still recollected with pleasure. The impressions they made are in favor of your integrity and no one but believes you a man of honor and republican principles. Were you ten years older and twenty thousand pounds richer, there is no doubt but that you might obtain the suffrages of Congress for the highest office in their gift. You are... 33To George Washington from James McHenry, 1 August 1785 (Washington Papers) Whilst the Marquiss de la Fayette was on his late visit to this country he suggested to me that if I could recollect the train of his military proceedings and commit them to paper, that you would send them to Doctor Gordon who is engaged in writing a history of the revolution; at least so I understood him on this occasion, for the subject being delicate I did not seek explanation. My desire... 34To Thomas Jefferson from James McHenry, 12 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers) Mr. Bentelow who will have the honor to deliver you this letter is a native of France where he goes to forward some merchantile concerns. He has served with honor in our army as Captain, and is a respectable citizen of this place. It being natural for him to wish to pay his respects to the first minister of his adopted country, I have presumed to gratify so laudable a wish by presenting him to... 35To George Washington from James McHenry, 5 November 1786 (Washington Papers) I have just received from L’orient by the Iris, a present from the Marquiss de la Fayette for your Excellency, of a Jack ass two mules some pheasants and partridges, which I shall after some days rest forward to your Excellency. The reason for giving you so early information is to request you send two careful servants to assist in conducting them to your seat. I imagine I must send the birds... 36To George Washington from James McHenry, 13 November 1786 (Washington Papers) I received your letter by Mr Fairfax yesterday noon. The Marquiss who does nothing by halves has paid every expence incurred by his present till its arrival at this place as well as the wages and passage of their conductor, one Campion. While here the asses have been carefully attended by my own servants in my own stable, not caring to trust them to the hostler of a tavern, or from under my... I received your letter of the 16th this evening and am extremely sorry at the loss of the French mans pocket book; but I flatter myself that your name being on the letters will be a means of recovering it. With respect to Campion the conductor of the asses he has no other claim to your consideration than as a faithful servant. I collect from himself that he is an expert swordsman, and that his... 38Establishment of a National Government, [30 May] 1787 (Madison Papers) The delegates were considering in place of the first resolution of the Virginia Plan a substitute offered by Randolph: “that a national Government ⟨ought to be established⟩ consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive & Judiciary” ( Farrand, Records Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (4 vols.; New Haven, 1911–37). , I, 33). Mr. Madison—The motion does go to bring... 39To George Washington from James McHenry, 1 June 1787 (Washington Papers) I have just received an express from Baltimore informing me that my brother lays dangerously ill, in consequence of which I set out immediately for that place. I wish to communicate this circumstance to your Excellency that it may be mentioned to the convention should my absence without leave be taken any notice of. With the greatest respect I have the honor to be your Excellency’s ob. st ALS... Your election for members of convention being over must have furnished data by which to form an opinion of the probable fate of the constitution in your State. I wish you to favor me with a line on this subject, and whether you think an adjournment of our convention would operate with yours against its adoption. Our opposition intend to push for an adjournment under the pretext of a conference... 41To George Washington from James McHenry, 18 May 1788 (Washington Papers) It has not been in my power to acknowlege the receipt of your letters of the 27 Ulto and the 8 inst. before to-day. Immediately on my return from Annapolis I sent the peas by Capn Mann with orders, if the wind would admit, to drop them at Mount Vernon, otherwise, to leave them with Col. Hoe; so that I expect they will have reached you long before this comes to hand. Campion for some time... Captn Barney being the bearer of the present from the merchants of Baltimore would, I am persuaded, be a sufficient introduction, and insure to him without any thing further a favorable reception. I cannot however omit the occasion this offers me of placing it more upon his own merit. Permit me therefore to mention, that the federal cause in this Town is not only greatly indebted to his... 43To James Madison from James Mchenry, 17 June 1788 (Madison Papers) To-nights post has brought me intelligence from your convention which induces me to send you the inclosed authentic information respecting the present state of the opposition to the constitution in Pennsylvania. I find the same misrepresentations have been played upon the uninformed with you which was practised with us. You are at liberty to make them as public as you please. The letter is... 44To James Madison from James Mchenry, 26 July 1788 (Madison Papers) I am just returned from the Eastern shore of this state. I have been in every County save one, and find a laudable determination in each to make a choice of federal representatives for our ensuing assembly. I hope the time for commencing proceedings under the new Congress will favor this intention. If you have any data by which one may judge of the views or plan of the Antifederalists I beg... It is whispered here that some leading characters among you have by no means dropped their resentment to the new constitution, but have determined on some secret plan to suspend the proper organization of the government or to defeat it altogether. This is so serious and alarming a circumstance that it is necessary to be apprised of its truth, and extent that we may be on our guard against... 46To James Madison from James Mchenry, 14 August 1788 (Madison Papers) I thank you for your last letter. Will you be kind enough to favor me with your opinion on the following question. May a State lay a Tax upon transfers of book debts notes &c by their own citizens to citizens of another State or to foreigners? The States have a concurrent jurisdiction over subjects of internal taxation with Congress; but Congress have the power to regulate commerce between the... 47To James Madison from James McHenry, 5 March 1789 (Madison Papers) I did not learn till just now that you lodged in Town last night or I should have taken the liberty to have requested you to have called down, My brothers indisposition confining me almost entirely to his bed chambre. Col. Ballard formerly of your State is desirous of seeing you. He will have some business with Congress in which your good opinion may be of infinite service to him. He is... 48To George Washington from James McHenry, 29 March 1789 (Washington Papers) Tho’ I may be among the last in congratulating my dear general upon his elevation to a rank which few men are born to enjoy, and still fewer deserve, yet I am persuaded you will beleive that I feel as much sincere joy on the occasion as those who may have been earlier in their demonstrations. You are now a king, under a different name; and, I am well satisfied, that sovereign prerogatives have... I have the honor to inclose you, in conformity with the desire of a committee of citizens of this place a copy of an address intended to be presented to you on your way to Congress. It is a small tribute, but I can assure you it contains nothing which every one here does not feel. I recd your letter of the 1st instant. I must confess your reasons are of the most considerate kind, but you did... Baltimore, 17 April 1789. Recommends for office Robert Purviance, Joshua Barney, and Robert Ballard. “Should these persons be found acceptable I can assure you that it will give great joy to the federalists of this town. The cause in this place owes much to them and their friends. I have one other memorandum which I beg to deposit with you. When the inferior federal courts are organised I...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1248
__label__cc	0.707076	0.292924	Documents filtered by: Author="Adams, John" AND Recipient="Jay, John" AND Period="Confederation Period" John Adams to Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, 10 April 1784 To Benjamin Franklin and John Jay The Hague April 10. 17841 Inclosed is Copy of a Letter from the Baron de Thulemeier and Copy of a Project of a Treaty transmitted to me by order of the King of Prussia: I should be glad if your Excellencies would examine it, and write me your Objections, and proposals of alterations, which I shall immediately communicate to his Majesty through his Minister. I presume too that your Excellencies will transmit it to Congress that when they Send a Commission to conclude, they may Send their Instructions concerning any Changes to be made in the Project. Your Excellencies I flatter myself will think with me, that We Should execute the Treaty in our own, as well as in the French or German. I am Gentn, your LbC (Adams Papers); internal address: “Their Excellencies Benjamin Franklin Esq / and John Jay Esq. Ministers Plenipotentiary.”; APM Reel 107. 1. Although dated 10 April, this letter was probably not sent until the 13th. Enclosed with it were copies (not found) of the Baron von Thulemeier’s letter of 9 April and its enclosure, above. It also included a copy of the draft Prussian-American treaty, for which see Proposed Prussian-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce, [9 April – post 5 May], No. I, above. That copy was in JQA’s hand and docketed by him: “À la Haye ce 13: Avril 1784 Copié de l’original et examiné / par J. Q Adams” (PCC, No. 84, V, f. 307–320). Jay, John “John Adams to Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, 10 April 1784,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-16-02-0078. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 16, February 1784–March 1785, ed. Gregg L. Lint, C. James Taylor, Robert Karachuk, Hobson Woodward, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara B. Sikes, Sara Martin, Sara Georgini, Amanda A. Mathews, and James T. Connolly. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012, p. 162.]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1249
__label__wiki	0.830314	0.830314	Documents filtered by: Author="Nourse, Joseph" AND Recipient="Hamilton, Alexander" To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 12 June 1794 From Joseph Nourse Registers Office 12th. June 1794 Provision having been made by law passed the last Session for the payment of Interest on the unsubscribed or registered debt for the current year,1 I am to request that the sum of Three Thousand Six hundred and seventy four Dollars, twenty seven cents, may be issued from the Treasury of the United States upon a warrant to be drawn in favor of John Kean Esqr. Cashier of the Bank of the United States, fore the purpose of paying the Interest on the said Debt, which accrued in the first quarter of the present year. I have the Honor to be Sir, with the greatest respect Your Most Obed. & most humble Servt. Alexander Hamilton Esquire Secretary of the Treasury LC, RG 53, Register of the Treasury, Estimates and Statements for 1794, Vol. “136-T,” National Archives. 1. “An Act further extending the time for receiving on loan the Domestic Debt of the United States” (1 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Boston, 1845). description ends 370–71 [May 30, 1794]). Note: The annotations to this document, and any other modern editorial content, are copyright © Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Nourse, Joseph “To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 12 June 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-16-02-0433. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 16, February 1794 – July 1794, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, pp. 479–480.] From Nourse to Hamilton [28 May 1794] From Nourse to Hamilton [27 June 1794] All correspondence between Nourse and Hamilton	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1251
__label__wiki	0.646045	0.646045	Documents filtered by: Author="Quincy, Josiah" sorted by: recipient To John Adams from Josiah Quincy, 22 September 1775 From Josiah Quincy Sept: 22d: 1775 Under my adverse Circumstances, I stood, and still stand in great Need of your Advice; and am therefore, very sorry I had not an Opportunity to converse with you, before your Return to the Congress. Your kind Letter of July 29th is now before me. Were my Abilities equal to my Inclination, you would be amply assisted, in giving Birth to a Revolution, which, I think with you, “seems to be in the Womb of Providence as important as any that has happened in the Affairs of Mankind.” Agreable to the Old Man’s Sentiments, in this enclosed Paper, “the Sword and not the Quill is now to decide the Controversy;”1 Nothing therefore, could revive my desponding Hopes more, than the assurance you give me, of a sufficient Plenty of Powder against another Year, and of our own make. In my former Letter2 I said, that “the Harbor might be blocked up; and both Seamen and Soldiers made Prisoners at Discretion;” which seems to you incredible. Please, to read at your Leasure this following Explanation. There are but two Channels, through which Ships of Burthen can pass to and from Boston. One of them runs between the west Head of Long Island, and the Moon, (so called) and is about a Mile across. This Channel is too shallow for any Ship of War above 20 Guns. The other runs between the east Head of Long Island, and the south Point of Dear Island; and is about a Mile and half from Side to Side. This, the only Channel through which capital Ships can pass, leads (outward bound) through the Narrows (so called) between Gallop’s Island and Lovel’s Island; where the Channel is not wider than the Length of a 50 Gun Ship. In the opening between Gallops Island and George’s Island is Nantasket Road; where, one, is always, and at present, five Men of War are stationed, to gaurd the Narrows from being stop’d up. Upon the foregoing Facts, I thus reason: The Moon Island communicates with Squantum Neck, at low Water, almost dryshod. A defensible Fort, therefore, upon Squantum, may be so placed, as to secure a Retreat not only from the Moon, but from Squantum to the Main. One upon the east Head of the Moon, and another, if found necessary, upon the west Head of Long Island, secures the Passage between, and covers a Retreat from the Latter to the Former. Another upon the Summit in the middle of Long Island covers the Shore on each Side, so, as that no Force can land without being greatly anoyed, if not entirely prevented. Another strong Battery from 20 to 40 peices of heavy Cannon at the east Head of Long Island, commands, not only the Ship Channel, but the Narrows, and Nantasket Road, so that no Ship can remain there with Safety; and consequently, by sinking Hulks in the Narrows we might prevent any Ship of Force from going out or coming in. If the Passage thro’ the Narrows is not stop’d, I am sensible, a Ship with a fresh Gale of Wind, and flood or Ebb Tide, which is rapid between Long Island and Deer Island, might run through without any great Hazard; but, after the east Head of Long Island is fortified, I can foresee Nothing to hinder, the Narrows being reduced to such a Draught of Water, as that, no Vessel of any considerable Force, can pass through there. This, being effected; as I said above, both Seamen and Soldiers, if they dont escape, by a timely Flight, must become Prisoners at Discretion. I have been told, there is in one of the English Magazines, an accurate Draft of the Harbor.3 If you can procure it, upon Examination, you may determin, the Distance and Depth of Water between the Islands aforesaid with Precision; and consequently, whether such a Scheme is practicable or not. I have thought, and said from the Beginning, that Row Gallies must be our first mode of Defence by Sea; it gives me therefore, Pleasure to hear, our worthy Friend Doctor F——n is employed in constructing some for the City of Philadelphia. I wish I had the same Employment here, for I am very sure, twenty of them, under proper Direction, would have taken or destroyed all those Cruisers and Cutters, that have infested, and done so much Damage, in, the Vineyard and Long Island Sounds in the Course of the Summer past; besides, being a safe Convoy to our Provision Vessels. When I first proposed the Scheme to our Committee of Safety, it was objected, that, we had no Body skilled in the Construction of them. Afterwards I heard of a Ship Carpenter, just escaped from Boston, who had been several Years a Prisoner in a Turkish Row Galley, and had formed a compleat three feet Model of one. It was then objected, that, heavy Cannon, and Powder were wanting. An insuperable Objection, most certainly; which I hope will soon be removed. Several Vessels have lately arrived in Boston from England; but the News they bring is industriously secreted. The sullen Silence, and dejected Countenances of the Officers, give Rise to various Conjectures. God grant the Truth may be a Dissolution of a venal P——t, a disbanded Army, and an Order for the Ships and Troops here to return imediately Home. A few Days since, I received a Letter from my Daughter in Norwich,4 in which is the following Passage: “I have just heard that the Ship in which Mr. —— sailed is arrived in England after 28 Days Passage. I have the Pleasure to hear that there is like to be an Accommodation between Great B—— and America, and that speedily.” By the same Conveyance I received the Resolves Petition and Remonstrance of the City of London to their Sovereign. If such a Spirit of Resentment animates that powerfull Corporation upon the first News of Hostilities, what must be their Indignation, when they come to hear all the Circumstances, that have attended, and disgraced the British Arms, both by Sea and Land! Must not such accumulated Disasters, like so many Flashes of Lightning and Peals of Thunder, penetrate the Hearts of a bloodthirsty Scotch Faction with Dispair of ever enslaving Americans, who have fought with such Valor and Intrepedity as must exclude all Hope of Success in any future Attempt! Where will those Sons of Violence, H——n, S——l,5 and others of the same Complection, hide their guilty Heads, when called to answer, for the insidious Arts they have been practicing, against their native Country; to the Ruin and Distruction, of countless Numbers of their industrious Fellow Citizens, whose Worth compared with theirs, is as Diamonds to pebble Stones! When I contemplate the Conduct of such infamous Parricides, my Nerves are braced, my Hand feels the Impulse of my Heart, is ready to drop the Pen and grasp the Sword of Vengeance! I feel my Self young again, and long to exterpate them, and the Memory of them from the Face of the Earth! “Is there no hidden Thunder, in the Stores of Heav’n, Red with uncommon Wrath, to blast the men, Who owe their Greatness, to their Countrys Ruin?”6 Oh! that kindred Flame, has ere this, inspired the Breast of every true Briton; and their s——d S——n7 made to feel, what it is to alienate the Affections of the greatest Part of his Subjects, to gratifie the insatiable Avarice and Ambition, of those treacherous Sycophants, who wish to see him dethroned; and his royal Diadem encircling the Head of a Caledonian Exile.8 Must the Trappings of a M——h and his Minions, which wou’d maintain a Commonwealth be provided for at such an immense Expence of Blood and Treasure? Forbid it Heaven! Shall not the virtuous Part of Mankind, finally prevail over the vicious, notwithstanding the Numbers of the Latter and the Scarcity of the Former? They certainly will, if upon every Occasion, the Spirit of Party is sacrificed, to Unanimity and Perseverance. But whither does my Zeal transport Me? I forget, I am transmitting Sentiments to One, who anticipates all, and more than all I have said or can say upon such interesting Subjects. I beg Leave, therefore, to conclude, with my ardent Wishes, that, the Success of your Endeavors to restore Peace and Tranquility; the genuine Offspring of Order and good Government, may be equal to your distinguished Abilities! And that you and yours, may live long to enjoy the happy Fruits of your patriotic Exertions; however infinite Wisdom may see fit to dispose of Your affectionate and faithfull humble Servant, P.S. Your good Lady is so well recovered of her tedious Indisposition, as to favour us with a short Visit with your amiable Daughter last Monday. Be so good as to present my Affectionate Regards to good Doctor F——n; and tell him I have wrote three long Letters to him to London, and one since his Arrival at Philadelphia; but, having received no Answer fear they all miscarried. Please to present my Compliments of Congratulations to Colo. Hancock and his Lady to whom I wish mutual and lasting Happiness. RC (Adams Papers); with enclosure, for which see note 1. 1. From an enclosure, a letter printed in the New England Chronicle, 24 Aug., and signed “An OLD MAN, from my cottage near Boston.” Probably written by Josiah Quincy himself, it dealt with the exchange of letters between Gen. Burgoyne and Gen. Charles Lee that occurred in July. 2. Of 11 July (above). 3. Probably “A Plan of the Town and Chart of the Harbour of Boston, Exhibiting a View of the Islands, Castle Forts, and Entrances into the Said Harbour,” which originally appeared in the Gentleman’s Magazine for Jan. 1775 (vol. 45: facing p. 41). This map is reprinted in reduced size in Adams Family Correspondence description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 1: following p. 240, No. 9. JA refers to the map in a letter to James Warren, 8 Oct. (below). 4. Abigail Phillips Quincy, widow of Josiah Quincy Jr. (Josiah Quincy, Josiah Quincy, Jr. description begins Josiah Quincy, Memoir of Josiah Quincy, Junior, of Massachusetts: 1744–1775, 2d edn., ed. Eliza Susan Quincy, Boston, 1874. description ends , p. 288–289). She may be referring to the arrival in London on 14 Aug. of Richard Penn, who carried the Olive Branch Petition from the congress. 5. Thomas Hutchinson and Jonathan Sewall. 6. Written in the margin and its place in the text indicated by an asterisk, this is a quotation with slight modifications from Addison, Cato, Act I, scene i. 7. Sacred sovereign. 8. The Young Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart, grandson of James II. Quincy, Josiah “To John Adams from Josiah Quincy, 22 September 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-03-02-0080. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 3, May 1775 – January 1776, ed. Robert J. Taylor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979, pp. 163–168.] From Adams to Quincy [29 July 1775] From Adams to Quincy [6 October 1775] All correspondence between Adams and Quincy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1252
__label__cc	0.722998	0.277002	Documents filtered by: Recipient="Hancock, John" AND Date="1777-07-07" sorted by: author From George Washington to John Hancock, 7 July 1777 To John Hancock Head Quarters Morris Town 7th July 1777 I was this morning honored with yours of the 5th with sundry Resolves of Congress to which I shall pay due attention. No change has taken place in the Situation of the Enemy upon Staten Island since I wrote to you on the 5th But I have this morning recd an account from Elizabeth Town which mentions that a person had just come from the Island who informs that small Craft are constantly plying between N. York and the Fleet laden with Officer’s Baggage and Stores put up in packages and marked with their Names and Regiments—and that Transports are fitted up with Stalls over their main Decks for the Reception of Horses. This looks as if a longer Voyage was intended than up the North River. I have given Notice to all the Eastern States to be upon their guard should the Fleet put to Sea and steer that way; and I think the Works upon and obstructions in the Delaware should be carried on with Spirit and compleated as far as possible lest they should visit that quarter. I think the Southern States should also be advised of the uncertainty of the next operation of the Enemy that they may also be making such preparations as they may judge necessary. I shall make enquiry into the Number of Arms at present at Springfeild and if any can possibly be spared to the State of Connecticut; they shall have all or part of those requested by Govr Trumbull. Genl Knox expects the Return on Saturday from Springfeild and I can then determine the Matter.1 I am pleased to hear that a supply of Money is upon the Road as there is two Months pay due to the Troops. I have the Honor to be with great Respect Sir Yr most obt Servt Go: Washington P.S. The inclosed piece of information is just sent to me by Genl Forman, which is confirmed in several particulars by two deserters from The Fleet, who left it Yesterday Morning.2 LS, DNA:PCC, item 152; Df, DLC:GW; copy, DNA:PCC, item 169; Varick transcript, DLC:GW. Congress read this letter on 8 July (JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends , 8:538). 1. At this point on the draft the following paragraph has been struck out: “I know not what is become of all the new Arms imported within six Months. The two great importations to Philada and Boston exceed the Number of Continental Troops at present in the feild, and yet there is an universal Complaint of the scarcity and badness of Arms especially from the Northern Army. They must therefore either have been delivered out to Militia & never collected again, or the States must have appropriated them to their private Magazines and furnished Troops with old and indifferent ones.” 2. For the enclosed intelligence, see David Forman to GW, 6 July, n. 2. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-10-02-0206 Washington Papers Hancock, John “From George Washington to John Hancock, 7 July 1777,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-10-02-0206. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 10, 11 June 1777 – 18 August 1777, ed. Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000, pp. 215–216.] From Hancock to Washington [5 July 1777] All correspondence between Hancock and Washington	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1253
__label__cc	0.61855	0.38145	Documents filtered by: Author="Grand, Rodolphe-Ferdinand" AND Recipient="Franklin, Benjamin" AND Date="1782-01-22" To Benjamin Franklin from Ferdinand Grand, 22 January 1782 From Ferdinand Grand LS:2 American Philosophical Society Paris Jany 22nd. 1782 Herewith I have the honour to transmitt you the Extract of your Account current with me, by which I owe you a Ballance of £19542.17.3 which I have carried to your credit in a fresh Account;3 When examined, if found right, I shall be glad to have your Approbation to the Same. That of the United States is now a makeing & shall also be given in very soon.4 Craving a few lines answer to that Paragraph of my last,5 concerning Mr. J. Adams, I have the honour to be most respectfully sir Your most obedient & most humble servant His Excellency Mr. Bn. Franklin, Passy. 2. In the hand of his son Henry. 3. This is the amount remaining as of Jan. 19 in BF’s personal account with Grand, Account XVII (XXVI, 3). 4. Account XXVII (XXXII, 4), which Ferdinand Grand submitted on Jan. 28; see our annotation of JA’s Jan. 25 letter. 5. Henry Grand to BF, Jan. 19, above, written on behalf of his father. Grand, Rodolphe-Ferdinand “To Benjamin Franklin from Ferdinand Grand, 22 January 1782,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-36-02-0319. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 36, November 1, 1781, through March 15, 1782, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001, p. 462.] From Franklin to Grand [18 January 1782] From Grand to Franklin [24 February 1782] All correspondence between Franklin and Grand	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1254
__label__wiki	0.50041	0.50041	Documents filtered by: Author="Jefferson, Thomas" AND Period="Adams Presidency" AND Period="Adams Presidency" Design for Chimney and Flues, [1797] Design for Chimney and Flues the base of the chimney is 6 1/2 bricks wide and 5. deep the hearth is 4. br. wide in front, 2. bricks wide in back, & 1 1/2 brick deep the back 2. bricks thick. the opening of the chimney 32. Inches high. the flues are each 1. brick by 2 1/2 the external of the flues is 3 1/2 bricks square all the figures express measures in bricks. MS (DLC); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated, being assigned on the basis of an endorsement on verso in an unidentified hand: “Plan of Rumford Chimney 1797” (and see below). See Nichols, Architectural Drawings, description begins Frederick Doveton Nichols, Thomas Jefferson’s Architectural Drawings, Compiled and with Commentary and a Check List, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1978 description ends No. 434. Although an American edition of the Essays of Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson), which included descriptions of shallow fireplaces similar to those depicted by TJ above, was not published until 1798, remodeling notes for Monticello that TJ evidently began in November 1796 contained drawings and dimensions for “Count Rumford’s fire places in the square rooms” (remodeling notebook in MHi, No. 149b in Kimball, Jefferson, Architect, description begins Fiske Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect, Boston, 1916 description ends 162; Nichols, Architectural Drawings, description begins Frederick Doveton Nichols, Thomas Jefferson’s Architectural Drawings, Compiled and with Commentary and a Check List, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1978 description ends No. 147b; see also Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends No. 1182). A letter from TJ to Wilson Cary Nicholas on 2 May 1799 included diagrams and specifications of Rumford-style fireplaces. “Design for Chimney and Flues, [1797],” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-29-02-0486. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 29, 1 March 1796 – 31 December 1797, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002, p. 605.]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1256
__label__cc	0.630876	0.369124	Mozeliak confirms Tommy John Surgery for pitcher Hicks Posted 3:58 pm, June 25, 2019, by Kevin S. Held ST. LOUIS – St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Jordan Hicks may miss the rest of the season after suffering a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his throwing arm. Hicks, 22, was pulled from the June 22 game against the Angels in the ninth inning with pain in his right elbow. An MRI revealed the torn ligament. Hicks was in his second year with the Cardinals. He leads the team in saves (14) this season in 29 games pitched and has recorded 31 strikeouts in 28.2 innings. Tommy John Surgery is typically required to repair a torn UCL. Recovery time can be anywhere from 9 months to a full year following the surgery. ST. LOUIS – St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Jordan Hicks will require Tommy John Surgery to repair an injured elbow and miss the remainder of the season, general manager John Mozeliak said Tuesday. Hicks, 22, was pulled from the June 22 game against the Anaheim Angels in the ninth inning with pain in his right elbow. An MRI revealed a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his throwing arm. Hicks was in his second year with the Cardinals. He leads the team in saves (14) this season in 29 games pitched and has recorded 31 strikeouts in 28.2 innings. Recovery time for Tommy John Surgery can be anywhere from 9 months to a full year following the surgery. Topics: sports, St. Louis Cardinals FOX 2 News is Everywhere You Go! Streaming TV, podcasts, FREE apps, social media and much more! Click HERE to CONNECT with FOX 2 News. Cardinals closer diagnosed with torn UCL in throwing arm Pujols concludes STL return with 2 hits, Molina jersey swap Wainwright heats up, Cards beat Brewers 5-2 for 3-game sweep Rangers score 2 runs in 10th, rally past Cardinals 5-4 Sports St. Louis Cardinals Ozuna, Martinez power Cardinals past Dodgers Stephen Piscotty gets salute from Cardinals fans in Busch Stadium return Yadier Molina placed on Injured List as Second Half of Cardinals Season begins Mikolas, Carpenter lead Cardinals to win over Marlins Pujols saluted after HR for Angels vs hometown Cards in loss Ozuna, Carpenter homer, Cardinals split DH with Royals 10-3 Cardinals send struggling pitcher Alex Reyes to Triple-A Cardinals’ Alex Reyes breaks left pinkie punching wall Wacha Wins in Return, Cardinals Double up Nationals 6-3	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1258
__label__cc	0.580276	0.419724	You are at:Home»Reviews»Tablet Reviews»Nexus 9 Review: Tablets have never been sweeter! Nexus 9 Review: Tablets have never been sweeter! By Matt Kinne on November 18, 2014 Tablet Reviews 8.3 Above Average The Nexus 9 was the first device to ship with Android Lollipop. While it is made by HTC, it defintiely doesn't feature a top of the line build construction. It is a fast and powerful tablet, but it is only powered by 2 GB of RAM. When it is put into action, battery life suffers. Display 8.5 Battery 7.8 User Ratings (1 Votes) 8.7 Google has taken both their tablets, the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10, and combined them into a single powerhouse. The Nexus 9, which Google debuted on October 15th alongside the Nexus 6 and Android 5.0 Lollipop, is a top of the line device due to its killer hardware and build quality. The Nexus 9 doesn’t have all the extra features, but it does come with Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box, the 64-bit NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor, and 2 GB of RAM to power it all. Let’s jump right into the Google Nexus 9 review. The Nexus 9 has three color options available: indigo black, lunar white,and sand. It also has two storage options: 16 or 32 GB. There is an LTE version available, but it is only available in indigo black with 32 GB of storage. The device I have is the 16 GB indigo black version. This Google tablet is constructed by HTC, who is well-known for their premium design quality on their One series. With a first glance at this device, you can tell that it is made by HTC, but it still has the familiarity of a Nexus device. The Nexus 9 comes with an 8.9 inch display in a 4:3 ratio, that I think makes the tablet easier and more enjoyable to hold. The Nexus 9 is a very solidly built device, and that is due to the surrounding chassis that is constructed of metal. It is squared off, yet slightly angled towards the display away from the back of the device. Coming in at 7.8 mm thick, it gives enough real-estate to rest your fingers on comfortably without touching the bezels and accidentally touching the display. On the right side of the frame are both the power button and volume rockers. HTC did a great job of hiding the buttons, and it makes the edge look seamless. This is both good and bad. While it makes the device look as sleek as ever, it also is a chore to find which button to press. Since the buttons are near flush with the chassis of the device, it tough to know if you are on the volume rockers or power button until you press them. The back of the device has the classic Nexus soft-touch feel that can be seen on previous Google devices. While it is a fingerprint magnet, it is definitely worth it. The soft-touch back makes the device very easy to hold without the fear of dropping it. Google has stepped up their display quality in 2014. The Nexus 9 packs an 8.9 inch IPS display with a resolution of 2048 x 1536. The ppi for this device comes in at 281, which is higher than Apple’s iPad Air 2 at 264 ppi The display which is a 4:3 ratio, looks its best when it is showing dark content, especially while watching movies. Since the device doesn’t have a 16:9 ratio, videos will naturally have black bars on the top and bottom of the video to compensate for the extra space. Darker games and movies look amazing on the Nexus 9, but once content has brighter and flashier graphics, the display doesn’t pop as well. Aside from content, Android 5.0 Lollipop takes full advantage of the display and everything Google branded looks great and very crisp. You can tell that the Google-based apps are optimized for the 4:3 ratio. While the Nexus 9 excels at displaying darker content and its own operating system, it also is very good at displaying text. The IPS display isn’t very bright or saturated, so it makes it easier on the eyes while reading. This category is just for this device, since the Nexus 9 is HTC made. The Nexus 9 features HTC’s own BoomSound speakers on the front panel of the device, one on the bottom and one on the top to create a stereo effect. Front-facing speakers have been one of the more popular features to come on devices since HTC made it popular, and for good reason. Front-facing speakers is a feature I think all devices, especially tablets need to have. I am glad Google included this, and they are loud. The sound is very crisp, even at loud volumes. Mids and highs come through very well, and low-end/bass is better than average. When bass gets too low, it drones out, but that is expected from such small speakers. My only complaint about the speakers on the Nexus 9 is that they are sunk down into the front of the device. As you can see in the picture, it leads to dust being caught in the speaker grill. This tablet sports top-notch specifications that render the device ‘future proof’. Google went with the 64-bit NVIDIA Tegra K1 dual-core processor that is clocked at 2.3 GHz. It’s supported by 2 GB of RAM and the all-new Android 5.0 Lollipop. This is a stock-Android device, so there is no bloatware, just pre-installed Google apps. There is nothing this device can’t handle. On all my previous Android devices, I always tend to modify the animations speed in the developer options and set it at .5x, but this is the only device I decided against it.With the updated Android OS, navigation is as smooth as ever and transitions are always at a high frame rate. I found myself using the multitasking button more than ever due to how smooth Android 5.0 Lollipop is on the Nexus 9. It is quick and painless switching between apps, and like I stated earlier, the animations and transitions make it everything more enjoyable. The device does take a little longer to open and close heavier apps/games such as games like Leo’s Fortune. When more screen-intensive apps are open, expect the processor to get warm. It isn’t anything too outrageous. The Nexus 9 sports a modest 6700 mAh battery that can travel the distance, but it also can be underwhelming. The battery life will definitely be determined on how you use this device, which can be said for all devices. One thing the device has going for it in the battery department is the excellent standby time. While I consistently use my tablet, it is left to idle the majority of the time during my busy schedule (working, sleeping, and going to school). I will lose around 1-2% over a 8-10 hour period, which is very good. While the standby time is great, I expected more optimization due to the new ART run-time and the latest 5.0 update. I will give Google a beak on the Nexus 9, due to the fact that Lollipop just got released, and more updates will ensue. Not only did battery life not live up to my expectations, the charging time is the worst part. It regularly takes hours to charge the device, especially if you are down on the 10-15% range. I can expect around 4-6 hours of screen on time with normal to heavier usage on one charge. Once I start pushing the Tegra K1, there is a steep drop in battery life. Below are some battery statistics screenshots from my device. Overall, this tablet is one of the best Android tablets I’ve seen, and is the only one to offer a pure Android experience. If you are an Android-enthusiast there is no question; this is the device you want. Between the awesome Tegra K1 processor and prompt updates, you can’t go wrong. There is not an area that the device falls behind the competition, and the majority of things that are wrong with it are very fixable via software updates. Android 5.0 Lollipop brings the ultimate Android experience with some bugs, but it is still fairly new. I expect the performance of the Nexus 9 only to improve. Google has brought me back into the tablet world with how well this device performs and I would definitely recommend the Nexus 9 to anyone. If you are in the market for a tablet, this one won’t come at the cheapest price. The 16 GB version is $399.99, the 32 GB version is $479.99, and the LTE version is $599.99. Smart Battery brings more accurate battery estimates to Pixel devices	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1260
__label__wiki	0.974688	0.974688	The King of Fighters Neowave SNK Playmore, Sammy Corporation 8-way Joystick, 5 Buttons Arcade, PlayStation 2 and Xbox Retail Features Play Information Player(s) European Release Date(s) Xbox and PlayStation 2 North American Release Date(s) Australian Release Date(s) Japanese Release Date(s) The King of Fighters Neowave is a 2004 2D competitive fighting game produced by SNK Playmore and originally released as a coin operated arcade game for Sammy's Atomiswave hardware. It was the first game SNK Playmore produced for the Atomiswave. Although a part of The King of Fighters series, it is not counted in the numeral progression established in the following game in the series, The King of Fighters XI (with KOF 2003 being the actual tenth game in the series). The game was ported to the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The PS2 version was released only in Japan and the PAL region, while the Xbox version was the only home version released in North America. The character artwork was done by Tomokazu Nakano (of Power Instinct fame). The game reverts back to the 3-character elimination system from KOF '94 to KOF '98, ignoring gameplay features from later games such as the "Striker" system used from KOF '99 through KOF 2001 and tag team system in KOF 2003. The game's graphics consist of 2D character sprites overlaid over polygonal 3D backgrounds (similar to the 3D stages featured in the console versions of previous games in the series such as the Dreamcast versions of KOF '98). With the change of hardware from Neo Geo to Atomiswave, the number of buttons is now increased to five. In addition to the standard four attack buttons used in the previous games, a fifth button is now added which is used to activate the Heat Mode. Heat Mode will cause the character to blink red and increase their offensive strength, with the side effect being that the character's health will begin to gradually decrease. The player will return to normal after getting hit by the opponent or by pressing Heat Mode button again to deactivate it, and the player must wait awhile to activate it again. The player cannot use Heat Mode when the life gauge is in critical level. The player can select their own playing style similar to KOF '97 and KOF '98, from three different styles, which affects the techniques available to the player and the length of their Power Gauge. In Super Cancel Mode (SC Mode), the player has a three stock Power Gauge. The player can use Super Special Moves (which requires one Power Gauge stock) and MAX Super Special Moves (which requires two). With one Power stock, the player can cancel a regular move into a Special or Super Special move, and a regular Special into a Super Special. The player can also use one Power stock to cancel a guard into a Knockdown Blow or an Emergency Escape, or do a Quick Emergency Escape during a normal or command move. In Guard Break Mode (GB Mode), the player has a two stock Power Gauge. Like in SC Mode, the player can perform Super Special (one stock) and MAX Super Special Moves (two stock). The player can parry an opponent's attack using the "Just Defend" technique, guarding against an opponent's attacks at the precise moment it makes contact with the character, allowing the player to follow it up with a counterattack. Using one Power stock, the player can guard cancel into an Emergency Escape or do a Quick Emergency Escape. The player can also perform a Guard Break attack with one Power stock, which is an unblockable version of a character's Knockdown Attack. In MAX2 Mode (M2 Mode), the player has a single stock Power Gauge. The player can perform Super Special Moves with one stock, as well as MAX Super Special Moves. However, MAX moves can only be perform when the player has only 25% of their life gauge remaining. Additionally, an exclusive MAX2 move can be perform as well under these conditions as well. In M2 Mode, the player can guard cancel into a Knockdown Attack. Characters[edit \| edit source] Main article: List of characters in The King of Fighters series Like KOF '98 and KOF 2002, Neowave has no actual storyline, but is instead a "Dream Match" which gathers numerous characters from various past KOF games, regardless of their status in the over-arching storyline. The character roster of the arcade version is similar to the Neo Geo version of KOF 2002, with a few differences in the team placement. The KOF 2000 Team and the KOF 2001 Team are eliminated from the lineup, and a Mixed Team is introduced, composed of Saisyu Kusanagi, Kula Diamond, and Shingo Yabuki. King replaces May Lee in the Women Fighters Team, while Jhun Hoon replaces Kim Kaphwan in the Korean Team. Kim, along with Vanessa and Ramon, are still featured in the arcade version as hidden characters, along with the Orochi versions of the KOF '98 Team. Geese Howard appears in the game as the main boss character, with this incarnation of the character being based on his younger self from Art of Fighting 2. The PlayStation 2 version of the game brings back five characters from KOF 2002: Seth, May Lee, Angel, the Kusanagi clone, and Omega Rugal (with K9999 being the only character from KOF 2002 missing in this version). The Xbox version, due to licensing issues with Eolith, includes all the characters from the PS2 version with the exception of Angel and May Lee.[1] Japan Team Kyo Kusanagi Benimaru Nikaido Goro Daimon '99 Team Yashiro Nanakase Shermie Fatal Fury Team Terry Bogard Andy Bogard Joe Higashi Psycho Soldier Team Sie Kensou Chin Gentsai Ryuji Yamazaki Blue Mary Billy Kane Art of Fighting Team Robert Garcia Takuma Sakazaki Ikari Team Ralf Jones Clark Still Mixed Team Saisyu Kusanagi Kula Diamond Shingo Yabuki Korea Team Jhun Hoon Choi Bounge Chang Koehan Women Fighters Team Mai Shiranui Yuri Sakazaki Orochi Yashiro Orochi Chris Orochi Shermie Kim Kaphwan Geese Howard (based on the younger version from Art of Fighting 2) Console versions additions May Lee (PS2 version only) Angel (PS2 version only) Omega Rugal Reception[edit \| edit source] Please help improve this article by expanding this section. Further information might be found on the talk page. (June 2009) Aggregate scores IGN 6.8/10.0[6] ↑ Sashimi. KOF XII ＆ KOF2002UM 開発者インタビュー. Front Fighters Line. Retrieved on 2009-01-20 ↑ Game Rankings: The King of Fighters Neowave (PS2). Game Rankings. Retrieved on 2009-06-08 ↑ Game Rankings: The King of Fighters Neowave (Xbox). Game Rankings. Retrieved on 2009-06-08 ↑ Metacritic: The King of Fighters Neowave (PS2). Metacritic. Retrieved on 2009-02-16 ↑ Metacritic: The King of Fighters Neowave (Xbox). Metacritic. Retrieved on 2009-02-16 ↑ Onyett, Charles (2006-04-12). IGN: The King of Fighters Neowave. IGN. Retrieved on 2009-02-16 The King of Fighters Neowave at the official Japanese website of SNK Playmore The King of Fighters Neowave link to the official European version for the PS2 by Ignition Entertainment Retrieved from "https://gamicus.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=The_King_of_Fighters_Neowave&oldid=732699" Sammy Corporation ESRB-T	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1262
__label__wiki	0.550472	0.550472	by Madeleine Schwartz Mar 17 2018, 5:06pm Nose Jobs Have Declined 43% Since 2000. We Sniffed Out Why. The rhinoplasty's telling beak of bandages was once a badge of honor, but today, an imperfect nose is the real symbol of self-possession. Whatever happened to the nose job? The post-op bandages used to be everywhere, little white flags of surrender to conformity. Rachel from Friends had one written into her past (to make her more relatable, a show writer said), and George’s girlfriend on Seinfeld went under the knife to please him. But noses are making a comeback, with rhinoplasty down 43% since 2000, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Is it the financial crisis? Is it the ghastly parade of celebrity cosmetic surgery gone wrong? American women no longer wish for noses that remind them of “piglets and kittens,” as Diana Vreeland once said. They’d rather flare their nostrils than fit in. Over the past decade, beauty trends have moved toward a slippery definition of natural beauty and self-acceptance, granting us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change and the courage to change the things we can with endless hours at the gym. Photo by Richie Talboy The modern nose job was born in the 1920s. Art collector Peggy Guggenheim had one of the first, and it was said that her new nose would swell and shrink according to the weather. Nose jobs became a rite of passage among Jewish girls: “You had your bat mitzvah and you got your nose done,” a plastic surgeon told the New York Times in 1999. Any woman with a nose bigger than a button might be pressured to get it lopped off. Even Sophia Loren was threatened with a nasal updo when she moved to Hollywood. She refused. “They were saying that my nose was too long and my mouth was too big. It didn’t hurt me at all because when I believe in something, it’s like war,” Loren told the Hollywood Reporter. Things were different in ancient times. As the 17th-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal remarked, “If Cleopatra’s nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.” The smell of change is once again in the air. Hollywood starlets have begun apologizing for their rhinoplasties. (Who knew so many actresses had sinus problems that required surgery?) An imperfect nose has become a badge of artistic gravitas: sweet-faced Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron might not have won their Oscars without prosthetics — temporary nose jobs in reverse. Historians of the nose job (they exist!) point to the slump in surgeries as a sign of the growing acceptance of diversity. You no longer need a small nose to make it big in America. With this comes the whiff of another advance: the realization that there’s beauty in difference. While every perfect nose is the same, at least within its category —like “Barbie,” “Aquiline,” or “Duchess” — every imperfect nose has its own mesmerizing flaws. It’s a pleasure to notice the bump that makes one woman friend look experienced and thoughtful, the proud beak that gives another an air of perfectly pronounced judgment. A good nose is like a horn announcing one’s entry into battle. A bold lip or thick liner projects sexy aggression, but by the end of the day it wears off. Could Marina Abramović have spent 736 hours looking at visitors at MoMA if she didn’t have such a magnificent schnoz to guide her gaze? A face with an uncommon nose is a face to be reckoned with, a profile worthy of an ancient coin. And that’s nothing to sniff at. A version of this story first appeared in GARAGE No. 14, available to buy here.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1265
__label__cc	0.726666	0.273334	Search in titles only Search in Long Leasehold Questions only Long Leasehold Questions pinathecat I have posted about this before I live in a block of (11) privately owned flats in Teignmouth, Devon I am a resident and a director of the flats maintenance company. I/we are experiencing problems with our current agent. (ie he will not let me view ANY company documents.) The agent has/is clearly not fulfilling his part of the contract as he has stated that i need to pay him for his time, to view and discuss elements of the maintenance company, when in the contract it states that he is freely available! There are other elements of the contract that he has not adhered to. The thing is, he just ignores any correspondence. I can't sue for 'Breach of contract' as there is no financial loss. He is just breaking the terms of the contract. So what can I/we do? You can request an injunction for specific performance (but not as small claims). If the agent is appointed by the management company, give him notice to terminate the agreement and appoint someone who will follow your instructions and comply with the agreement. Secret commissions The issue of freeholders and managing agents fiddling insurance commissions at leaseholders’ expense was raised in the Times earlier this month. Sir Peter, 74, said that secret commissions were part of a broader pattern of mistreatment of leaseholders. “Those receiving cowboy commissions... Channel: Long Leasehold Questions Reply to Secret commissions fos333 Are we only concerned with insurance here? On recently becoming a director of our RMC and finally having sight of the financial statements it has become apparent that our outgoing managing agent actually acquired 52% of the money paid into our service charge account over... I own the whole building freehold but a management company exists, Who has control? megaspooner1 I own the whole buildings freehold and one of the 4 flats. There is a management company which the 4 leaseholders are members but the building is not being managed properly. Items such as repairs and communal areas are in poor condition and the other leaseholders are not very cooperative.... Reply to I own the whole building freehold but a management company exists, Who has control? All RTMs have to have essentially the same articles: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2...ulation/2/made The actual articles are in the schedule. Even companies formed before this SI must now use the articles it contains.... It's true and also difficult to prove especially if they own their own insurance broker as well. Also will cost you if you have been added to a multi block policy where some of those properties are considered risky for a variety if reasons. My F/H was found guilty of running an unauthorised... Section20z Hi megaspooner, i am the freeholder from the other thread and I think you need to look to replace the directors of the RTM with people with more of a responsible attitude to maintenance. Check the articles of association of the RTM (from companies house) for details of how directors should be appoi... Disputes with present freeholder hexu It's really a nightmare if the freeholder is bad enough! When I purchased the property in 2006, the freehold was held by the Council. In August 2007, the Council sold the freehold of the building to a housing association. Major works of the building were planned... Reply to Disputes with present freeholder The reason I keep mentioning a notification of change of freehold, it's because I could question the stock transfer cap with the housing association (former landlord) before they started the selling process. No one needs to suffer the costs, it's the housing association's duty. But now, resident leaseholders... New landlord being awkward. petworld123 We currently own a flat above a takeaway which we are trying to sell. There is a current 80 year lease on the flat. The previous owner of the shop downstairs sold it on last year. The new owner of the freehold is unwilling to give us a copy of the landlords lease and refusing to give his solicitors... Reply to New landlord being awkward. No sorry you are correct 64...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1271
__label__cc	0.632376	0.367624	Golf › Golf ‹ Back Golf Coaching Centre Golf Course › Golf Course ‹ Back Club House › Club House ‹ Back Events ‹ Back 0 › Shopping Cart ‹ Back Lorem Nibh Home / Lorem Nibh BOOK DINING The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. Our standard quality construction Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. The standard chunk of Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form accompanied English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham Literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics very popular Client : Tyler Inc. Location : California City FL 23059 Area : 1.690 m2 Finished On : September 17, 2014 Value : $789.000,00 Remarks : The project was completed under the budget, with the savings returned to the owner. Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32. The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham. The Chalenges The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, Quam temere in vitiis, legem sancimus haerentia. Phasellus laoreet lorem vel dolor tempus vehicula. Nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum Accordion Title 2 * Note: Your Email Will be kept Safe and Sound Corner of Nerang Broadbeach Road and Alabaster Drive, Carrara QLD 4211 PO Box 2285 Nerang East QLD 4211 Copyright © 2016-2018 Emerald Lakes Golf Club. All Rights Reserved Site by Cooper Westwood	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1276
__label__wiki	0.699191	0.699191	17:35 - Feb 10 2019 Iranian Animation Films to Compete at FluXus in Netherlands TEHRAN (FNA)- Three Iranian short animations have made it into the competition section of the 1st edition of the FluXus Animation Film Festival in the Netherlands. France's Clermont-Ferrand to Market 8 Iranian Animations TEHRAN (FNA)- Eight Iranian short animated pieces, produced by the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, are offered at the Clermont-Ferrand film market in France. Iranian Short Wins Best Award at Rosarito Film Festival in US TEHRAN (FNA)- A short film made by Iranian director Ali Shoorvarzi won two prestigious awards at the 3rd edition of Rosarito International Film Festival in California, the US. Iranian Short to Compete in Finland’s Tampere Film Festival TEHRAN (FNA)- Short Film ‘Pedovore’ directed by Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Mahdi Kart has found its way to the competition section of the 49th Tampere Film Festival in Finland at its first international screening. Iran’s Prestigious Film Festival Kicks off in Tehran TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Fajr Film Festival officially started its 37th edition with a star-studded opening ceremony in Tehran. Iranian Feature Wins Best Award at India’s Arthouse Asia Festival TEHRAN (FNA)- The 3rd Arthouse Asia Film Festival in India awarded Iranian feature film ‘Kupal’, directed by Kazem Mollaie, as its Best Fiction Feature pick. Iranian Animation to Vie at India's Chennai Int’l Festival TEHRAN (FNA)- ‘The Chair’, an animation film directed by Iranian veteran cartoon maker Mohammad Feizabadi, has made it to the competition round at the Chennai International Film Festival (CIFF) in India. Dhaka Int’l Festival Awards 2 Iranian Films TEHRAN (FNA)- The 17th edition Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) wrapped up on Friday, awarding 'Dressage' and 'The Return', two Iranian films, respectively for Best Director and Best Short Film. Tehran Cancels Polish Film Week over Warsaw’s Anti-Iran Conference TEHRAN (FNA)- A Polish Film Week event slated to be held in Tehran was canceled by Director of the Cinema Organization of Iran Hossein Entezami on Sunday, in protest at Warsaw’s decision to host an American-brokered anti-Iran conference. 3 Iranian Shorts in Final at Turkey’s Int’l Film Festival TEHRAN (FNA)- Three Iranian short films have found their way to the final round of competitions at the 5th ‘Alemlere Rahmet’ - Mercy to the Universe- International Short Film Competition in Turkey. «1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8 9 10 »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1282
__label__wiki	0.715795	0.715795	Main Gaming Thronebreaker: The Witcher series is coming back big Thronebreaker: The Witcher series is coming back big Jonathan Mendelson The Gwent card game, which started as a nice marginal addition, becomes the center of a whole new title - and gets great praise Have you missed the world of Grallet kills the monsters? Although the central trilogy has come to an end with Wild Hunt and its add-ons, it seems that the entire brand is not supposed to disappear from the landscape in the near future - and alongside the free Gwent that offers players to indulge in Altnertiva for Hearthstone we now get the Thronebreaker, With a princess called Meve based on card battles as his base, instead of the three-dimensional real-time battles we have become accustomed to. Can a game in the world of the Witcher succeed even without the main characters we all know and love? Very soon we will find out Use Gwent's card battles In a game with a price tag of 30 dollars May sound like a convenient and accessible idea for quick profit at the expense of the popularity of the name Witcher, but to our delight the reviews of Thronebreaker make it clear that this is not really the case and praise the product which is a combination of mature and intriguing plot and attractive game world that includes a few other different elements that add depth to the base Relatively simple. With an average score of 85 from 100 based on 18 reviews Metacritic site, It seems that the new chapter can certainly be cited as another success of the Project Red CD studio, which will probably also be commercially successful (when it becomes available for everyone) Through the GOG store On 23 in October) and could become the basis for a whole series of games in a similar style that tell tales surrounding the actions of Gralett himself, under the name The Witcher Tales, which appears here as the sub-title of the game. Given that a real role-playing game from The Witcher is not really in sight While the developer is working on Cyberpunk 2077 - We will be happy to see an alternative development of the world with more works like Thronebreaker Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales is designed for single players and will reach PCs in a little less than two days, Sony And Microsoft at 4 in December 2018. Planning to try it or give up the offer? Let's talk about it in reactions! Introducing the Nintendo Switch Lite - Is It Worth Buying It? Who wants an 24,000 smartphone? On the way to 450 a million dollars in three days: The Lion King returns to the big screen The Xiaomi Mi A3 was exposed with the Android One system - and without a reduced version Last Read: Hardware Specials for Latecomers (Updated)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1283
__label__cc	0.639741	0.360259	Benjamin Vautier in 2013 Benjamin Vautier Lettrism, Performance art Fluxus, zero Everything is Art, Ben "écriture" of 1961. Ben Vautier (2007) I will have liked to be this cactus in the ass of art... Ben Vautier (born on July 18, 1935 in Naples, Italy), also known simply as Ben, is a French artist. Vautier lives and works in Nice, where he ran a record shop called Magazin between 1958 and 1973. He discovered Yves Klein and the Nouveau Réalisme in the 1950s, but he became quickly interested in the French dada artist Marcel Duchamp, the music of John Cage and joined the Fluxus artistic movement in Octobre 1962. In 1959, Vautier founded the journal Ben Dieu.[1] In 1960, he had his first one-man show, Rien et tout in Laboratoire 32. He is also active in Mail-Art and is mostly known for his text-based paintings or « écritures » begun in 1953 with his work "Il faut manger. Il faut dormir". Another example of the latter is "L'art est inutile. Rentrez chez vous" (Art is Useless, Go Home). A notable work made for Harald Szeemann's Documenta 5 exhibition in 1972 shouts “KUNST IST ÜBERFLÜSSIG” - or “Art is Superfluous”, and was installed across the top of the Fridericianum museum in Kassel.[2] He has long defended the rights of minorities in all countries, and he has been influenced by the theories of François Fontan about ethnism. For example, he has defended the Occitan language (southern France). In 1981 he coined the name of the French art movement of the 1980s Figuration Libre (Free figuration). Benjamin Vautier by Olivier Meyer in 2019 3 Internal link 4 Official website ‹See Tfd›(in French) a French Wikipedia article to understand what is ethnism ^ Réédition de Ben Dieu (1963) ^ Documenta Retrospective: Documenta 5 (1972) Internal link[edit] Anti-art Official website[edit] ‹See Tfd›(in French) Official website Fluxus artists Ken Friedman and musicians Richard Maxfield Flux-works Topographie Anécdotée du Hasard Poème symphonique Water Yam Fluxus 1 Spice Chess Fluxus at Rutgers University Neo-Dada Something Else Press Critics and historians NKC: av2017956610 SIKART: 4000360 SNAC: w68p66j4 This article about a French artist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ben_Vautier&oldid=885485450" French mixed-media artists French contemporary artists People from Naples 20th-century French painters French male painters 21st-century French painters French artist stubs Pages using infobox artist with unknown parameters Wikipedia articles with PIC identifiers Wikipedia articles with RKDartists identifiers Wikipedia articles with SIKART identifiers Wikipedia articles with ULAN identifiers	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1287
__label__wiki	0.96652	0.96652	Victoria Mitchell For the broadcaster and poker player, see Victoria Coren Mitchell. Mitchell in the 2016 Burnie Ten (1982-04-25) 25 April 1982 (age 37) Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia[1] University of Ballarat 1.64 m (5 ft 4 1⁄2 in) 3000m steeplechase Coached by Peter Good Victoria Mitchell (born 25 April 1982) is an Australian long-distance runner who specializes in the 3000 metres steeplechase. Victoria took part in the World Student Cross Country Championships in 2002 and finished in eleventh place. Victoria won two Horizon League Cross Country Championships in 2004 and 2005 as a Butler University student-athlete. Victoria finished fourth at the 2005 NCAA Women's Division I Cross Country Championship[2] as a Butler University[3] senior in a time of 19:50.4. Mitchell won the 2005 NCAA Division I steeplechase national championship, while competing at Butler.[4] Her first international medal was a silver at the 2005 Summer Universiade. She was the 2007 winner of the Great Ireland Run.[5] She represented Australia at the Olympics at the 2008 Beijing Games. 1.1 Personal bests 1.2 International competition 1.3 National competition Achievements[edit] 2005 Universiade Izmir, Turkey 2nd 3000 m st. 2006 World Cross Country Championships Fukuoka, Japan 33rd Short race 34th Long race Commonwealth Games Melbourne, Australia 4th 3000 m st. World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 7th 3000 m st. World Cup Athens, Greece 4th 3000 m st. 2007 World Cross Country Championships Mombasa, Kenya 37th Senior race World Championships in Athletics Osaka, Japan 14th (heats) 3000 m st. 2008 World Cross Country Championships Edinburgh, Scotland 54th Senior race Summer Olympics Beijing, China 13th (heats) 3000 m st. 2015 World Championships Beijing, China 26th (h) 3000 m st. Personal bests[edit] One mile - 4:38.05 min (2006) 3000 metres - 8:58.42 min (2006) 3000 metres steeplechase - 9:30.84 min (2006) 5000 metres - 15:36.15 min (2006) International competition[edit] 2002 World Student Cross Ctry Cross Country (6 km) 11/57 11th 20:50 2005 Universiade 3,000 metres Steeplechase 2/15 2nd 9:47.54 2006 Commonwealth Games 3,000 metres Steeplechase 4/15 4th 9:34.24 2006 World Cup 3,000 metres Steeplechase 4/9 4th 9:36.34 2006 World Cross Ctry Cross Country (8 km) 34/99 34th 27:12 2006 Short Course XC (4 km) 33/92 33rd 13:36 2007 World Championships 3,000 metres Steeplechase 35/54 Ht3 14th 10:06.61 2007 World Cross Ctry Cross Country 37/94 37th 29:48 2008 Olympic Games 3,000 metres Steeplechase 32/51 Ht1 13th 9:47.88 2008 World Cross Ctry Cross Country (7.905 km) 54/99 54th 27:57 2014 Commonwealth Games 3,000 metres Steeplechase 9/11 Final 9th 9:49.05 2015 World Championships 3,000 metres Steeplechase 2016 Rio Olympics 3,000m steeplechase National competition[edit] 2000 Aust. Junior Cross Ctry Junior XC (6 km) 2 23:05.0 2000-01 Aust. Junior T & F 2,000 metres Steeplechase 1 6:50.90 2001-02 Aust. T & F 3,000 metres Steeplechase 2 10:36.98 2003 Aust. U23 Cross Country Cross Country (8 km) 4 (3rd Aust.) 29:48 2005-06 Aust. T & F 3,000 metres Steeplechase 4 (3rd Aust.) 9:44.06 2013-14 Aust. T & F 3,000 metres Steeplechase 1 9:42.01 2014-15 Aust. T & F 5,000 metres 4 (2nd Aust.) 15:45.72 ^ "2018 CWG bio". Retrieved 29 April 2018. ^ http://www.und.com/sports/c-xc/recaps/112105aaa.html ^ http://www.butlersports.com/sports/c-xc/mtt/mitchell_victoria00.html ^ http://www.butlersports.com/genrel/070108aaa.html ^ Race History. Great Ireland Run. Retrieved on 2010-04-25. Victoria Mitchell at IAAF Profile at Athletics Australia IAAF: 186363 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victoria_Mitchell&oldid=899398876" Sportspeople from Melbourne Australian female steeplechase runners Australian female long-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Australia Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games World Championships in Athletics athletes for Australia Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade silver medalists for Australia Use dmy dates from April 2018 Use Australian English from April 2018 All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English Wikipedia articles with IAAF identifiers	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1288
__label__cc	0.539567	0.460433	The Rooney Question tags: Barcelona, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Sir Alex Ferguson, Wayne Rooney Wayne Rooney's life has drawn a Mature rating after he installed that Hot Coffee modification. Even after a thrilling weekend of Premier League action that saw every game except the Merseyside derby go right down to the final whistle, all anyone in England seems to be talking about right now is a guy who hasn’t scored a goal in open play since March. The £44,000 question is how the showdown between Wayne Rooney and Sir Alex Ferguson will resolve itself. When United stars like David Beckham, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Gabriel Heinze, Roy Keane, Jaap Stam, and Paul Ince crossed the boss in the past, they were quickly shown the door at the club, and the consensus seems to be that Rooney’s time at the club is nearing an end, too. I’m not entirely convinced that things are irreparable quite yet. Until Rooney actually does leave Old Trafford, I tend to view this as a negotiation tactic to get a better deal from his employers. Not that the childhood Everton fan suddenly bleeds red, but rather simply because I’m sure Rooney would much rather avoid becoming a hate figure in Stretford, London, and Asia if he can earn close to what he wants at his current club. However, should things be headed for an acrimonious split, there’s plenty of debate over where Rooney will land. On the surface, it would seem there are really only four realistic options with the financial resources to afford a transfer fee expected to start around £50m: City, Chelsea, Barcelona, and Real Madrid. While there are those who think Rooney would love to escape the magnifying glass of the intrusive UK media with a move abroad, he doesn’t exactly come across as the worldly type who would enjoy living in a foreign land — especially one where another language is spoken. And while Barcelona have been linked with a move for the Englishman in the past, the Catalan giants already are feeling the effects of a giant wage bill, taking out an emergency loan a few months back just to pay wages. Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid would make more sense if they hadn’t come out this week and poured cold water on the prospect. That seems to leave the two English clubs with the deepest pockets. Interestingly, UEFA Financial Fair Play regulations that don’t go into effect until 2012 are being cited as arguments against both clubs making a move for Rooney. This despite the fact City already are expected to to splash out for a big-name striker either in January or next summer, and the fact Chelsea’s aging roster is going to need some additional infusion of younger talent at some point in the next few years and it’s foolish to think their youth setup can provide all of that. The Independent raised a very interesting point this morning by pointing out that the Webster ruling applies to Rooney, and that accordingly he could essentially opt out of the remainder of his contract with United this summer by buying out the remaining year of his contract with a repayment of any wages due him (a mere £5m) plus “a relatively small compensation figure.” The two problems with this possibility are a) the complication of the transfer fee compensation; and b) the fact this has never happened with a megastar or big clubs. The move that has captured the imagination of the papers and the public the most would be the one into Manchester. If you thought the capture of Carlos Tévez from the exurbs stirred the pot between these two rivals, that’s nothing compared to what you would see should City repeat the trick with United’s top player and fan favorite. Rooney would probably need police protection from the apoplectic red third of Manchester. As a City fan, I’m torn on the idea of Rooney in sky blue. While there’s no doubting his talent and the off-the-charts schadenfreude we would enjoy from causing United and their fans this kind of historic angst would be absolutely priceless, I’ve never been a big fan of Rooney’s personality. For all the jibes about mercenary players coming to City for the money, the fans want to cheer for likable players, and for all his ability, Rooney just doesn’t strike me as a very likable player. In any case, this whole Rooney saga looks like it will sell plenty of newspapers and keep Sky Sports News ratings high for the foreseeable future, as I expect this to drag on until at least the summer. What will happen then is really anybody’s guess. from → News ← A mixed bag (Blackpool 2, City 3) Week 8 Power Rankings →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1293
__label__cc	0.748509	0.251491	by Andrew Young \| Mar 5, 2013 \| Comics Welcome to another edition of New Comics, where we give our suggestions on what books to pick up when perusing the comic shelves this week. As always, I am joined by Kris Johnson of Bizarre Comics Entertainment. Read on to find the best of what the comic shop has in store for you this week. Here we go. HELLBOY IN HELL #4 $2.99 (Dark Horse) – Revelations have been the order of the day with the latest HELLBOY mini and last issue provided a great many whoppers. Apparently, ol’ Mikey Migs has one more card to play in what promises to be a spectacular final issue of a pretty great series. PLUS, even more info on the origin of Big Red is in the offing. Sign me up! (Kris Johnson) STEVE DITKO MONSTERS HC VOL 01 GORGO $34.99 (IDW) – For the Ditko fans out there, this 224 page, large format hardcover has all of the amazing adventures of Gorgo, the Godzilla-like monster, in all of his resplendent glory. Check out this amazing art from Ditko’s prime as Gorgo destroys London, New York and Hollywood. Nothing can stop the Gorgo, not even the British Navy, Aliens or even an Atomic Bomb! With scripts written by Joe Gill, these fully reproduced and restored comic tales are ready to be enjoyed by a new generation of readers. Check it out and watch Gorgo destroy EVERYTHING! (Andrew) A PLUS X #5 $3.99 (Marvel) – I scoped out the first issue of this comic featuring team-ups between various members of the Avengers and X-Men, and unfortunately, it didn’t really work for me. I disliked it so much that I haven’t bothered with a single issue since. Why then, would I be suggesting you pick up the seemingly random issue 5? Iron Fist. Doop. Team-up. I believe that’s your cue to buy 5000 copies. (Kris Johnson) VALIANT MASTERS NINJAK HC VOL 01 BLACK WATER $24.99 (Valiant) – I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know shit about Valiant but the collected edition of this 1994 series about a sophisticated British gentleman who also happens to be a super spy trained in the world’s most dangerous fighting techniques sounds like a winner. From Mark Moretti and Joe Quesada, Ninjak must stop the mastermind known as Dr. Silk from unleashing a weapon known as Black Water through his WEBNET terror network. Take one part Batman, two parts James Bond and just a pinch of Hackers, mix together and shake well. (Andrew) GREEN ARROW #18 $2.99 (DC Comics) – After floundering under the stewardship of JT Krul and Keith Giffen, GA has been rescued from the island of mediocrity via the super-powered pen (word processor… whatevs) of Jeff Lemire. Issue 17 was an excellent read, resetting Ollie’s status quo and giving readers a Green Arrow that has more in common with the version seen weekly on the ARROW television series than the cheesebot we’ve been reading about in the new 52 up to this point. I’m sure that’s no mistake. Now, with no money, no allies, and a new villain whose trained his sights on the Emerald Archer, Ollie has found himself on the top of my “read first” stack. Lemire’s work is proof positive that all it takes is a well-crafted 20 pages to turn even the worst book into a must-read. You got that? Read. This. Book. (Kris Johnson) NO PLACE LIKE HOME TP VOL 01 $9.99 (Image) – Collecting the 5 issue mini series, No Place Like Home tells the story of Dee, a girl who’s parents are killed in a freak tornado in Emeraldsville, Kansas. She returns to the town for funeral after 5 years in L.A. and finds that things have gotten a little bit freak due to some murders and what not. It all leads to a portal to another world of horror that happens to have a yellow brick road. I don’t know about you but maybe Raimi should’ve made this story into a flick instead of that Great and Powerful thing. If the Lollipop Guild ends up dealing smack in this, it will be my new favourite comic. (Andrew) ROCKETEER CARGO OF DOOM HC $24.99 (IDW) – If you missed the original monthly incarnation of this awesome book here is your second chance, dear reader. IDW has collected all four issues of the acclaimed mini-series in a bad ass hardcover for your convenience! Yes, they are very considerate. They also enjoy money. Seriously though, Mark Waid and Chris Samnee bring it like never before in the first Rocketeer series since the passing of Dave Stevens and you’d be doing yourself a disservice by not scoping it out. Action, adventure, rocket pack fuelled buckling of swashes… It’s all right here. Strap in and take off. (Kris Johnson) R.I.P. $17.95 (IPG) – Come visit St. Stool Cememtary, a place where there’s no fear of waking the dead because they’re already up….and pretty busy by the looks of it. The comical book of tales reveals some of the cementary’s residents like a teenage ghost who’s dreaming of living, an unemployed vampire and even a stir crazy zombie. A fun and crazy book with bold illustrations, this is the perfect humourous distraction for all those craving more “un-dead” stories. It’s always fun to read a story where the Grim Reaper is only stopping by because he’s lonely. (Andrew) AGE OF ULTRON #1 $3.99 (Marvel) – Another day, another Event Comic. This time, it’s Bendis bringing the thunder in a story that he’s been laying the groundwork for for a very long time. Issue 1 showcases art from the (mostly) always awesome Bryan Hitch that is sure to immerse us in a Terminator-esque near-future in which the very lame Ultron has seemingly enslaved us all. That’s right, I said Ultron is lame. Never cared for the character and I probably never will, BUT I would very much like to be proven wrong. Prove me wrong, Bendis. Show me the awesome that I’m blind to and everyone else seems to see. Be my Annie Sullivan… That’s right, that was a MIRACLE WORKER reference. Booyah. (Kris Johnson) THE WIZARD’S TALE TP $19.99 (IDW) – Okay, if you’re gonna reference the MIRACLE WORKER, the first thing you should remember is that Helen Keller wasn’t just blind. She was also deaf and dumb. Kris sound pretty dumb when he says there’s no good Ultron Stories. Ultron Unlimited by Kurt Busiek and George Perez stands as one of the Greatest Avengers stories EVER! Busiek knows how to make any story a rocking good time. Whether it’s a un-killable robot bent on human destruction or an evil Wizard that’s just not that good at being evil, Kurt’s got you covered. In this paperback edition of The Wizard’s Tale, we meet Bafflerog Rumplewhisker, a wizard who comes from a long line of bad guys. But he just can’t get it together because everything bad he sets out to do ends up being good for everybody. In a last ditch attempt to correct this, he goes out in search for the long lost Book of Worse. Will this finally help him in his quest to be truly evil? And will Kris ever get his head out of his ass and admit he don’t know shit about Ultron? Only time will tell. (Andrew) So there you go. Check these books out and let us what you thought. We’ll be back again next week with more choice cuts of comic goodness! If you’re gonna geek out, GEEK HARD! No Place Like Home Trade Paperback	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1295
__label__wiki	0.737547	0.737547	Marvel Now and Again: My Review of Daredevil #1 (An All New Marvel Now Title) by Andrew Young \| Mar 20, 2014 \| Comics Hey Kids, remember back in the Fall of 2012 when Marvel started rolling out new #1 Titles that gave a number of characters in the Marvel U a “Soft Reboot” under the banner MARVEL NOW? Guess What? They’re doin’ it all again, Baby! It’s the ALL NEW MARVEL NOW! Over the next few months, I’ll be taking a look at the first issue of each new title as it hits the comics stands. (This only applies to REAL #1 Titles – None of this .Now stuff.) Wanna know if this series seems like a keeper or is destined for the quarter bin of our interest? Sit back and enjoy my analysis. You just might learn something. When it comes to second string heroes breaking into the big time, there’s no greater success story than Daredevil. Nobody bounces back like Daredevil. In the late nineties, when the chips were down for ol’ Marvel, Joe Quesada, Jimmy Palmiotti and Kevin Smith saved him from mediocrity and placed him at the top of the comics food chain as the flagship series of the Marvel Knights Brand. DD was riding high for a long time after that with fantastic runs with creators the likes of David Mack, Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev, Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark. Then Andy Diggle came along to ruin the party with his Shadowland shitstorm. So The Man Without Fear had to go away for awhile. When he returned, he bounced back again in the hands of veteran writer Mark Waid who was just coming off a hot streak at Boom and was ready to get his hands dirty again on the mean streets of Hell’s Kitchen. With great artists like Paolo Rivera and Marcos Martin, he reinvigorated the character, marrying the fun and fancy free sixties Matt Murdock with the dark past and storytelling of the eighties to present. Eventually, he was joined by artist Chris Samnee and the two became the Creative Team Without Fear taking Daredevil on some of his more daring and heroic adventures. But all that came before. Now we turn a new page in the story of ol’ Hornhead where he’s now openly known to be Daredevil, is living in a new city (San Francisco) and has a brand new #1. Is this new Daredevil #1 a continuation of the fantastic run Waid and Samnee have been delivering issue after issue? You damn right it is! Origins are relived in a timely fashion. Our story begins in a police station. It looks like the start of an episode of Elementary or The Mentalist as the SFPD have called in a consultant to look over the evidence of a recent kidnapping. A slow reveal shows us that, surprise surprise, Matt Murdock is said consultant. Looking over the ransom note and child’s doll that the kidnappers have sent and listening to the recording they’ve provided, Matt’s able to pinpoint a location to where they’re holding a little girl captive. Cue the superheroic race to the roof/quick change into the tights and we’re off. We then get treated to a brief history lesson of not only Murdock’s origin as Daredevil but also a quick recap on why he is once again calling San Fran his home. Then we’re dropped back into the action a bit further down the line. DD has rescued the girl and is on the run from the kidnappers who’re not your average hoods. They got body armour and what looks like Goblin-gliders. So the race is on through the city with Matt’s “friend” and new law partner Kirsten McDuffie (a carryover from the last series) in his ear via bluetooth, directing him through the landscape. It’s a rough go as the cityscape is different from New York and it’s been quite a few years since Daredevil called this town his home. As the chase progresses, DD figures out it’s a setup and the planned climax of our antagonists has some very disasterous repercussions in store for not just Matt but the city aswell. So Daredevil moves into plan B. He diffuses the problem with some quick thinking and takes the fight to the kidnappers. In the end, Matt and Kirsten set up shop in their new offices where they’re met by the deputy mayor who’s very open to having a superhero in her city. The last page reveals a new mystery involving a former partner. The terrain’ll take some getting used to. Well, if you weren’t sure if the changes to the Daredevil status quo would work, this issue will put your mind at ease. Waid hasn’t missed a beat with this issue, setting the table for this new chapter in Matt Murdock’s life while giving everything needed for a new reader to jump on board. The new dynamic between Matt and Kirsten is an interesting one that I can’t wait to see further explored. Kirsten as a poorman’s Oracle works as she’s just there to provide basic support as Matt familiarizes himself with the city. What’s great is that he finds her equal parts help and hinderance. It’s adds both tension and a playfulness that raises the stakes in every panel. I also like how the whole terrain of the city is throwing Matt off his game. New challenges are always welcome in a superhero comic and when they come out of logical problems such as this, even better. There was a lot of mystery in the issue as well. Who were the kidnappers? Where did they get their tech. What’s going on at the end? For a fan who’s kind of gotten used to the rhythm of the series, this added a lot of new bumps in the road that made me sit up and take notice. While we’re getting the same flavour of Daredevil that Waid and Samnee have been provideing, this is definitely a whole new ballgame for the Man without Fear. Daredevil’s got the moves. So do Samnee and Rodriguez, but you already knew that. The artwork by Samnee and Javier Rodriguez is topnotch as always. We see the emotions on Matt’s face as he makes the big realization in the third act. We see some fantastic action beats and feel them come alive in the gutters of our imagination. The art continues to hold up and it’s no wonder why Daredevil remains a classy book. If you want a superhero romp that’s got great character beats but keeps a fast pace, this book is for you. If you’ve been loving Waid and Samnee’s Daredevil, you will not be dissapointed with this new chapter. If you’re checking the book out just because it’s a number #1 issue, I believe you will be intrigued enough to want to pick up issue #2. So go out and buy this book already! Check back here for more ALL NEW MARVEL NOW first issue reviews. Until then, stay in the NOW! If you’re gonna geek out GEEK HARD! High action and strong character abound in the new Daredevil #1	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1296
__label__cc	0.585177	0.414823	savanages Movie review: The Shallows I’m more than a month late to review this film, but you can blame foreign release schedules for that. Without further ado, let’s talk about The Shallows – that small Blake Lively thriller . IMDb summary: A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills. I have seen this movie being described as a sum of a few already made films. Some said it was 127 hours in water with sharks, others that it was Shark Week: the movie. Personally, The Shallows reminded me a bit of Soul Surfer (the family drama, the surfer being attacked), Jaws (similar filming techniques from the shark’s perspective so as not to show the shark) and Piranha (the horror elements in the few scenes). The main thing that attracted me to this film was the fact that I really want to learn how to surf. I already spend a lot of time in the water since I am a competitive swimmer (or used to be one), so transitioning from swimming to surfing would not be that big of a stretch. Anthony Jaswinski wrote The Shallows’s script and did a good job. I really liked the way he presented the main character’s backstory – the viewer found out all he/she needed to know in 3 dialogue scenes: the one with the driver, the phone conversation and during the small talk with the other surfers. I also liked her backstory by itself – she was a medicine student so her knowledge of that field helped her survive – she was resourceful and quick-witted. The writing for the big finale was a bit weak though – for such a realistic movie, I had a hard time believing that the shark would meet that kind of an end. Jaume Collet-Serra, a mainly thriller director, did not disappoint with another project in his preferred genre. To begin with, the filming locations really helped him – the beach and the ocean were magnificent. Also, the beauty of nature was effectively contrasted with the terror of the situation that the main character was in. The photos that would pop-up on-screen were also a great tool for backstory, so as to make those 3 scenes of dialogue more visual. The effects, mainly the shark CGI or a model, also worked – he did seem real. The glowing jellyfish were also gorgeous. Those seagulls that were keeping Blake Lively company really reminded me of the seagulls that live in Aberdeen, Scotland (my second hometown) because they weren’t afraid of people and seagulls in Aberdeen can literally attack anyone that is passing them by. The handheld camera was also good (and that’s coming from a person who hates shaky cam) – the mobile frame and the close-ups depicted the fact that our character was alone on a sea really well. This feeling of fear and loneliness together with the sense of suspense made watching the movie an engaging but not a comfortable experience. The hardest scenes to watch where the actual shark attack sequence and the ‘surgery’ scene. The Shallows also had a couple of jump scares that were effective. If we would have gotten more jump scares I would accuse the film of going the easy cliche route, however, since the picture had just the right amount of jump-scares, I was okay with them. The technique that I thought was a bit overused was the slow motion – it overdramatized an already dramatic and scary situation and pushed it towards a cliche, over-the-top cartoon level. The surfing montage at the beginning was cool but the music choice was a bit cheesy – Trouble by Neon Jungle, really? The other song that I remember from the film was Sia’s Bird Set Free. It was a good song for the credits. Sia’s music have been featured in at least 4 films this summer, she is really making her mark in Hollywood. The Shallows instrumental score was great too – it helped a lot to build an anxiety-inducing atmosphere. Blake Lively starred as the lead, named Nancy, and did an amazing job. She basically carried this whole movie. She was believable as a sporty surfer and was amazing in all the suspenseful scenes. I especially liked that close-up reaction shot where she supposedly saw the shark attacking that drunk guy. Lively just starred in the new Woody Allen film Cafe Society. She was also really good in last year’s Age of Adaline (that picture have been doing great on streaming). Lively has definitely shed her Gossip Girl persona and is probably doing the best out of all her former castmates. A few unknown Spanish actors, as well as a few familiar faces from TV, played a couple of small supporting roles but, honestly, none of them had enough of screen time for me to talk about them. In short, The Shallows was an unexpectedly entertaining film, one of the hidden gems of this summer. Blake Lively shined and finally proved herself to be a great actress. The writing and directing were also good for the most part. Trailer: The Shallows trailer August 18, 2016 Lou Tagged 127 hours, age of adaline, blake lively, cafe society, cast, film, film review, film reviews, filming, films, gossip girl, jaws, mexico, motion picture, motion picture review, motion pictures, movie, movie film, movie preview, movie review, movie reviews, movies, music, piranha, run all night, savages, savanages, score, shallows, shark, shark week, sia, soul surfer, spannish, surfer, surfing, swim, swimmer, swimming, the shallows, the shallows review, thriller, tv, woody allen, writing 8 Comments	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1297
__label__cc	0.583228	0.416772	GemuBaka The writing of D.J. Tatsujin About GemuBaka You are here: Home » Interview with Squid in a Box’s Robert Hale December 19, 2011 \| 0 Comments Interview with Squid in a Box’s Robert Hale A developer recently made waves on Steam – literally. Squid in a Box, headed up by an industry veteran, recently gave a go with the arena shooter genre and has crafted Waves, which is available for $9.99 on Steam. The studio is comprised of one person, Rob Hale, and he was kind enough to talk to us about his most recent game release. IndieSnack: Can you start by introducing yourself and explaining how Squid in a Box started and what its mission is? Rob Hale: Hi I’m Rob Hale and I am Squid In A Box. All of it. I started Squid In A Box for one reason really – So I could make the games I wanted to make rather than the games I was told to make. In the last couple of years working in the games industry had moved from being a dream job I was passionate about to being just a job. I’d burnt out on AAA console action games and just wasn’t enjoying making them. It was around this time that Epic released UDK so I figured I should take all my experience working with Unreal and try and make a game that I would enjoy making and playing. Hopefully I’ll be able to make a living at it. IS: Your first game release, Waves, landed on digital distribution recently. With the number of “twin-stick” games available on the independent level, what made you target this genre and what did you look to add to it? RH: It was largely an accident. I was messing about with Unreal over a weekend and ended up with this really simple ball rolling game wher eyou collected dots and there was water you could float in. Basic physics puzzle stuff. At first I thought I could make a physics puzzle game with it but soon got very bored with the idea and it quickly started to feel like I was pushing myself in a direction I thought was profitable rather than fun (for me). So I added a gun to the player and a bunch of tiny balls that you could shoot. Instantly I was enjoying working on this thing far more and I decided to stick with it and see where it took me. The thing is there are a lot of twin stick shooters and the vast majority of them are rubbish. I think that since Geometry Wars 2 there have been maybe three or four twin sticks released that have been good – not great just good. I hear it alot on forums or in comment threads “Oh another twin stick. Pass.” there is a huge amount of genre apathy now with twin-sticks because of the hundreds of really bad ones that have been released. Making a twin-stick shooter is really easy. Making a good one is really hard. Convincing people that yours is one of the good ones is even harder. I am a Score Attack shooter fan. I’m not quite so into the Bullet Hell or Story driven shmups that are out there but I love playing Score Attack games – especially everything by Kenta Cho (ABA Games). When I looked at what was available on Steam and elsewhere I noticed that there isn’t actually a good highly polished and strategically deep Score-Attack shmup out there. The PC doesn’t have Geometry Wars 2 and the original Geo Wars doesn’t have any online leaderboards on PC. So because a game that I wanted to play didn’t exist I decided I’d try and make it. IS: With a demo and the full game available, how have players been responding to Waves? RH: Players have responded really well to the game. There is this moment after about ten or twenty minutes where players grok the scoring mechanic and they relise that actually the game is far deeper than they orignally thought and that tends to be the point where they get hooked. I’ve heard alot of stories about people playing the game far longer than they meant to and it’s even caused marital tension between my Sister and her husband. She’s much better at it than he is. Mostly because she actually read the instructions. IS: What would you say is the biggest design challenge in crafting a shooting title? RH: The basic mechanics of shooting is easy. Really easy. For Waves the hardest part was trying to find the scoring mechanic that suited the enemies. In most shooters all you have to do is stay alive longer than the other guy to get a better score. It’s very shallow and far more about reflexes and reactions than strategy. I wanted Waves to require players to be aggressive and take risks. If you watch videos of people playing Geometry Wars then the highest scoring players tend to play very defensively – they hug the wall and kite huge blobs of enemies behind them just carving their way around the edge and surviving. I wanted to try and “solve” that problem so there was more than one way to get a good score. So with Waves the Combo system was born – The system was designed to encourage players to let the Arena fill up while they just dodged around enemies before opening fire and trying to rack up lots of kills in a short time. The result is that you get this kind of ebb and flow between playing defensively and aggressively. A Player that just tries to kill everything straight away won’t get big combos and neither is a player who hugs the wall. This ended up working well with the Slowmo and Bomb mechanics. Slowmo lets you dodge around the arena and Bombs let you rack up huge combos. IS: Some of Waves’ modes has the player trying to survive as long as possible. How does a developer have to approach a game differently when there is no true “ending?” Also, this genre of game tends to have adaptive and gradually-increasing difficulty. How hard is this to program and what does a developer have to keep in mind when crafting such a feature? RH: It’s a similar problem to making a multiplayer game like Counterstrike. Why does everybody keep playing a game that they can’t ever “Complete”? The answer is very simple – because the act of playing the game itself is fun. I think a lot of PC gamers have been through a period where they spent every night for months just playing de_dust over and over again without the promise of achievements or unlockable hats. The fact is that every time you played a game you could feel yourself getting better at it. Each time you died you’d learn a little lesson about how to do better next time. I could bang on a lot about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Flow but there is a simple set of rules to follow: If something is too easy then it’s boring, too hard and it’s frustrating. But when you’re in that sweet spot where something is just a little bit harder than you have the skills to handle and you have to really push yourself to keep up and get better – that’s where the fun is. Trying to code a system to automatically keep a player in that spot all the time is very hard though! You have to find ways to evaluate how good a player is based on what they just did so things like surviving a long time or keeping the arena clear of enemies indicates that a player is doing well and is probably going to get bored if you don’t make things tougher while dying and getting overwhelmed means you need to tone things down to avoid frustration. It took a lot of trial and error and tweaking but I think I ended up with a good balance. IS: Waves features an online leaderboard, which encourages players to go for the best scores. What design mechanics does a developer have to keep in mind in order to keep a leaderboard balanced and fair? RH: All of them. Seriously the last few months of development were spent going through every single idea I’d implemented and deciding if it was beneficial to leaderboard play or not. If it wasn’t then I either had to work out a way to make it beneficial or scrap it. Power-ups got dropped because in order to have them I had to do two things: Make the players normal weapon suck and make all of the power-ups equivalent to each other. Power-ups just didn’t add anything tactical to the game (which isn’t to say they don’t in other games that are power-up led) and took a lot of the control out of the players hands and turned it into a dice roll. At one point the level ups would give you an upgrade which would let you move faster or have more slowmo and again the problem with these was that I had to make the normal speed and slowmo worse to make the upgraded versions worth having. It also didn’t flow well with the gameplay and in the end didn’t affect your score so I dropped the feature. IS: How important is the presentation in a game like Waves? How much of your development time was spent deciding on items such as what colors to use, which music to implement, etc.? RH: A lot of the colours are actually defined for gameplay reasons rather than aesthetic ones. There is a certain shade of blue that gets used for the player and all of the things that can’t hurt him as well as the HUD. Blue was chosen for that in order to aid people who are red-green colour blind so even if they have trouble with the different colours of enemy they should always be able to identify where the player is in the arena. My brother-in-law is actually red-green colour blind so I did a lot of testing with him to make sure the game was playable. The enemy colours were all decided based on tones that you could quickly identify. For some reason you seem to be able to detect more tones in the magenta/violet area than in the red/yellow area and yellow enemies were always hard to spot for some reason compared to making them slightly more red or slightly more green. I don’t know why this is but it’s something I experimented with by doing things like taking screenshots and blurring them massively or increasing the bloom to ridiculous levels and seeing if you could still tell the difference between enemies. Overall I wanted the game to look good and feel polished. It’s purely because I would work on an effect until I was happy with it and I’m something of a perfectionist when it comes to particle effects and shaders. I also was very aware that I couldn’t model or texture worth a damn and I was trying to hide all the coder art behind shaders. The music came about because I happened to be going through a chiptune phase and I stumbled across a few tracks that I really liked on 8-bit collective. They ended up suiting the gameplay and visuals really well and it was mostly luck in the end. I didn’t set out to find some chiptunes for the game I just set out to find some chiptunes to listen to. IS: Looking back, is there anything you would have done differently in Waves or is there anything you would have liked to add? What did you learn from developing Waves that you are looking to carry forward to your future games? RH: Finishing things is hard work. I’ve always known that but it’s even harder when the only person working on the game is you. When you’re part of a 100 man devteam it’s much easier and you’re only responsible for a tiny part of the overall game. On the other hand it was far easier to fix bugs and polish the game up when you work alone. Staying motivated is the hardest part and I found that posting regular work in progress videos of the game helped with that. I would have liked to add some more meta elements like being able to customise your ball in some way (possibly with hats) but overall I got everything into Waves that I wanted. Adding anything else would have turned it into a different game. If I do add any more content to the game it will be as completely separate game modes so I don’t upset the leaderboards. IS: Where do you see Squid in a Box five years from now? Where do you see the video game industry as a whole five years from now? RH: I’d like to see myself being able to earn a decent living from my games. Most importantly I’d like to be moved out of my parents spare room! I don’t have plans to try and turn the company into a full studio with multiple employees or anything like that. I want to keep it small and focused with a selection of trusted contractors. IS: Any advice for aspiring video game developers? RH: If you want to get a job in the games industry then the most important things is to always be making games. The guys that get hired are the ones that would be making games even if they didn’t get the job. My advice therefore is to make as many games as you can and make sure you learn something with each one. Tags: Indie Game Interviews Categories: IndieSnack Author:indiesnack Indie Snack is a video gaming Web site focusing on independent developers and game releases. Indie Snack will also soon have services made available to independent developers to include tools aiding them in public relations and game marketing. View all posts by indiesnack → ← Interview with Mattrified Games’ Matt DeLucas Developers Halfway to IndieCity Goal → GemuBaka Feature GemuBaka Interview GemuBaka Preview GemuBaka Random GemuBaka Review IndieSnack D.J.’s Twitter GemuBaka	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1299
__label__cc	0.626735	0.373265	Digitally Transformed World AI in Cancer Detection and Diagnosis The implementation of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, in particular deep learning, into clinical practice has the potential to propel forward the field of oncological radiology and ultimately improve patient treatment. We are currently witnessing a big advance in the ability of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, in particular deep learning, to interpret sensory information, enabling machines to better recognise and represent complex patterns in imaging data. This progress means that certain AI algorithms are now able to match or in some cases, even outperform humans in narrow tasks. Within radiology, trained physicians visually evaluate medical images in order to detect, diagnose and monitor cancer in patients. Such evaluation is frequently based on experience and can, on occasion, be subjective. Hugo J.W.L. Aerts and colleagues suggest that integrating advanced AI into clinical practice could be a paradigm shift supporting radiologists in cancer detection and diagnosis by providing quantitative and automated assessments of medical images and ultimately improving patient treatment. In this Opinion article, “Artificial Intelligence in Radiology,” in Nature Reviews Cancer, the authors discuss the application of AI to image-based tasks in the field of oncological radiology and consider the advantages and challenges of its clinical implementation. By Anna Dart, Nature Reviews Cancer Source: https://rdcu.be/OJca Image credits: Hosny et al. Nature Reviews Cancer (2018) doi:10.1038/s41568-018-0016-5 Indonesia tops open-access publishing charts Singapore passes ‘fake news’ law following researcher outcry AI can now defend itself against malicious messages hidden in speech Facebook gives social scientists unprecedented access to its user data	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1308
__label__wiki	0.828194	0.828194	Headlines Nigeria Home Technology Lyft pulls electric bikes in three US cities after complaints about braking Lyft pulls electric bikes in three US cities after complaints about braking Lyft is removing several thousand electric bikes from service in its bike-share program in New York, Washington and San Francisco because of a braking problem, the ride-hailing company said on Sunday. The post Lyft pulls electric bikes in three US cities after complaints about braking appeared first on TODAY.NG. Subscribe now for weekly news headlines roundup delivered directly to your inbox. Headlines brings you breaking news headlines in Nigeria, spanning from politics, business, entertainment, technology and more, all in one place! Our mission is to connect people with relevant news, helping them to keep up-to-date so as to be able to make informed decisions, while also sending quality traffic to news publishers. © Headlines.ng - All rights reserved. All publications and trademarks remain the copyright of their respective owners.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1313
__label__cc	0.665245	0.334755	How to Lower Ferritin Levels Serum Ferritin Vs. Serum Iron What Are the Functions of Iron in Metabolism? What Are Normal Iron Levels for Women? How to Test Your Iron Level at Home List of Foods & Drinks High in Iron How Is Iron in the Blood Measured? By Brady Williams ; Updated August 14, 2017 Iron is one of the essential minerals and it is used by your body for a variety of important functions. Therefore it is important to have iron in your diet and in your blood. There are several blood tests that are used to detect the amount of iron in your blood. These are most commonly performed to prevent or diagnose an iron deficiency. Iron Blood Tests The essential tests that check blood iron levels include a hemoglobin test, a serum iron test, a total iron-binding capacity test and a serum ferritin test. Your doctor may order one or more of these tests as part of an iron panel. Each test has normal and ideal ranges, but in general the ideal Iron level should be 60 to 170 mcg/dL. Other key iron ranges include total iron-binding capacity of 240 to 450 mcg/dL and a transferrin saturation of 20 to 50 percent, according to PubMed Health. Both hemoglobin and serum ferritin tests have ranges for both male and female. Hemoglobin is ideal for a male if your level is 13.8 to 17.2 gm/dL and 12.1 to 15.1 gm/dL if you are female. The ideal ranges for ferritin are 12 to 300 ng/mL for males and 12 to 150 ng/mL for females. Low levels of iron in your blood can be caused by blood loss, poor diet or a problem with your body's ability to absorb iron from food. Low levels lead to iron deficiency anemia and can include symptoms such as brittle nails, a decreased appetite, fatigue, headaches, irritability, shortness of breath, a sore tongue, unusual food cravings and weakness. Iron deficiency can also cause your skin to become pale and the whites of your eyes to become blue. Importance Of Iron One key area that iron is very important in, is in the production of proteins. Your body uses iron to make two very important proteins called hemoglobin and myoglobin. Both of these are important for the transport and storage of oxygen in your body. In addition iron is also used in the production of enzymes that are used in the thousands of chemical reactions that take place every day. Most blood tests are performed to see if your iron levels are too low, but too much iron in your blood can also be a problem. In fact, high levels of iron in your blood are toxic. For this reason, a daily intake upper limit has been set at 45 mg per day. If you are concerned about your iron levels and whether you are consuming the proper amount, you should talk with your doctor about having your blood levels checked. MedlinePlus: Iron MedlinePlus: Minerals Iron Disorders Institute: Tests To Determine Iron Levels Oregon State University: Iron PubMed Health: Iron In Diet PubMed Health: Iron Deficiency Anemia Brady Williams is a third-generation chiropractor who has been writing and lecturing on topics in health, nutrition, chiropractic, sports medicine and wellness since 2006. He holds a Bachelor of Science in general science and a Doctor of Chiropractic from Palmer College of Chiropractic. He also holds a Master of Science in sport science and rehabilitation from Logan University. Zinc Deficiency in Women From a Menstrual Cycle What Are the Symptoms of Protein or Iron Deficiency? Cranberry Juice & Iron Chelated Iron Vs. Regular Iron Tablets Iron Levels in Whole Grains Crohn's Disease & Iron-Deficiency Anemia	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1317
__label__cc	0.532038	0.467962	Posts Tagged With: Court What’s Going On? What’s Not Going On? Too much going on, but not enough, of what’s not going on. That statement may seem somewhat odd, but I assure you it is not. I can show you a million things, that’s, going on today. Let’s see, here’s some examples: 1. The trial of Major Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people and wounding dozens more in a Fort Hood shooting rampage, was temporarily halted today when a lawyer objected that Hasan was putting up no defense in an effort to get himself executed. 2. Python That Killed 2 Boys Was Kept in House, Not in Pet Store – The python that strangled two young boys this week did not escape from the pet store below the apartment where the boys slept, as previously believed, but was a house pet kept inside the apartment where they were visiting friends, authorities in Canada said. 3. US Consumer Borrowing Rose $13.8 Billion in June – Americans borrowed more in June to buy cars and attend schools. But they were frugal again with their credit cards, indicating many are still wary of taking on high-interest debt. 4. Cash-strapped Greek Animal Shelter Lets Online Users Kill Animals -The current financial crisis in Greece has wide-ranging consequences for everyone, including their animal population. 5. Vandals Mark Racial Slurs, Images On Jackie Robinson Statue — Vandals defaced a statue of Jackie Robinson outside the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball stadium, marking racial slurs and symbols on it, park and police officials said Wednesday. 6. Ex-madam, seeking New York City office, faces prescription drug charges – A self-described “ex-madam” who claims she supplied fellow city comptroller candidate Eliot Spitzer with escorts several years ago is facing charges of illegally distributing prescription drugs, authorities said. 7. What do pope’s remarks on gays mean? – Pope Francis ignited a firestorm on the Internet with a few words about gay and lesbian people that seemed to suggest a new church position on homosexuality. I say “seemed to” because it would only appear new to someone who was unfamiliar with the old position. 8. Over 48 years, GOP Strays Far From Voting Rights – “Our country has changed,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts on June 25, 2013, when five of the nine Supreme Court Justices dismantled the historic Voting Rights Act. 9. Castro a psychopath who will never feel remorse – “There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.” — James Baldwin 10. Yemen foils a plot to attack ports, oil and gas facilities, official says – Why is Yemen a focus of terror threat? 11. Sun’s magnetic field about to flip, causing “ripple effect” – You won’t be able to see it, but it might affect the Earth’s climate — the sun’s magnetic field is going through a big change. 12. North Korea expanding Yongbyon nuclear complex, U.S. Institute says– A U.S.institute tracking North Korea’s nuclear weapons program says recent satellite photos show Pyongyang is doubling the size of its uranium enrichment plant, jibing with the country’s announced plans to expand technology that can be used both to create energy and the core of nuclear weapons. 13. Cyclospora outbreak may have multiple sources – The number of cyclospora cases has risen to over 400, as the FDA says it believes at least some of the cases may have been caused by a salad mix from a Mexican processing plant. What caused the widespread outbreak remains a mystery. Carter Evans reports. 14. How did low-level employees access national secrets? – Whatever the motives of whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning, the obvious question that both these cases raise is how is it that an Army private and one of the guys on the National Security Agency’s IT help desk could wind up with access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded secrets? 15. Study finds modern word choices reflect a more self-centered culture Does anyone ever use the word “oblige” anymore? The way in which the English language and word use changes over time says a lot about how Americans and Britons have become more self-centered, according to a new UCLA study released Wednesday. I think you might have gotten the idea about all the things going on around us daily… But, we need to know some very important things about what’s not going on! When I say “what’s not going on, I mean: The things that should be important to us, that we give the least attention! We often neglect the things that should have a major hold on us. Rather it’s seen today or unseen today. Things in the natural realm or things in the spiritual realm. Things that have a major effect on our lives, right now today or in the distant future. Let me help you with that.. Say for instance a great storm came today, tomorrow or this week. Some of us will be prepared, but most of us won’t. Just say you have an underground tunnel built somewhere hoping to be saved. But let’s say the storm was so major that it destroyed everything, and I mean everything! What can you do? What can you say? After all the preparation, you still didn’t survive. Then What? So may I ask, how are you with Jehovah Elohim? How are you with God our Creator and Saviour? How have you stood up for Him? How have you served Him? How have you lived for Him? How have you honored Him? How did you worship Him? How ? How? Did you try to lead other to Him as their Saviour? Did you consider Our Lord being someone of interest and importance? Did you make time for Him, daily? How did you honor Him? Well you kinda get the idea. Well the simplest way to honor God Yeshua is by, getting you a Holy Bible, studying it and living it on a daily basis. That’s the basic step. Next find you a serious church, that teaches the principles and concepts of God and Jesus Christ. If the church is the real church, and not one of the false churches, then you will grow in Christ. Now if the church asks for money all the time, for unnecessary reasons, and tells you gonna get rich, then I’d think twice. Before the riches, money and fame, there has to be Christ Jesus. If it is teaching, that wealth comes before Christ, then run! First, Isaiah 55:6-7 “Seek the Lord while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near. v.7 Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon. Second, Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. v.8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who knocks it will be opened. v.9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son or daughter asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? Third, Luke 19: 10 for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. Fourth, John 7:34 “You will seek Me, and not find Me, and where I go you cannot come.” Fifth, Philippians 2:21 For all seek their own, not the things which are of CHRIST JESUS. Biopsychologist Says Religion Could Disappear by 2041 Because People Will Have Replaced God with Possessions – Dr Nigel Barber’s book debunks the popular belief that religious groups will dominate atheistic ones because they collectively have more children He said the market for formal religion is being squeezed by modern substitutes such as sport and entertainment in more developed countries Added that atheists are heavily concentrated in richer countries and religion will decrease as individuals’ personal wealth increases Religious people in many developed countries will be a minority by 2041, according to one Irish biopsychologist. A study into the beliefs of people living in 137 countries, which forms the basis for a new book, found atheism increases in more developed places as people become increasingly materially rich. Army Chaplain’s Assistant Accused of Creating a “Hostile and Antagonistic” Environment After Calling Homosexuality a Sin An Army chaplain’s assistant said she was accused of creating a “hostile and antagonistic” environment after she posted a message on her personal Facebook page calling homosexuality a sin. Case of Two Christians Who Were Arrested for Reading the Bible In Public Goes to Trial The men were arrested when they went to their local DMV in Hemet, Calif., and read from the Bible aloud as people stood in line for the DMV to open. When the first California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer arrived on the scene, he grabbed the Bible away from the man reading it and said he could not “preach to a captive audience.” Brian Welch: A Rock Star and Drug Addict Finds Answers in the Bible and Gives his Life to Christ He is an American musician best known as the former guitarist and co-founder of the nu metal band Korn. He is ranked at No. 26 of Guitar World’s 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time and his work has resulted in over 50 million albums sold. By 1995, his band was earning $25 million in royalties and performing in sold out arenas. By 2003, he had become addicted to drugs and would prepare for tours by stashing as much methamphetamine as he could in vitamin capsules, deodorant containers, and his clothes. His life began to spin out of control when his wife, who was also on drugs, left him taking their daughter with her. Kenyan Lawyer Sues Israel and Italy In the Supreme Court of the World to Overturn the Conviction of Jesus Christ The conviction of Jesus by Pontius Pilate may be the most famous court verdict ever–and perhaps the most consequential, since it led to Christ’s crucifixion and the founding of a global religion. Here is some things that should be going on: Here is a short media clip that may help you relate to what I ‘m saying What we should start doing http://151312.sites.hubspot.com/video-devotional-from-tony-evans-08072013? Act today, tomorrow may just be too late View this Declaration http://www.manhattandeclaration.org/? Pray Today, Now http://commit2pray.com/at-the-courtside-colorado-springs-co/ Hey, we have got to stand for something, so I’m standing for Jesus Christ!!! I am standing by His side to declare righteousness! I am standing by His side asking Him to heal our Land and Nation. Not only the United States but all the other countries and Nations, as well! Especially the Nation of Israel and the israeli people that are praying to Christ Jesus/ Messiah Yeshua, to also heal their land and cut down their enemies. On which several occasions God did and will do it again! 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__label__wiki	0.621677	0.621677	Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. — Vladimir Lenin Page—Esquire—Knight - Marion Lansing The Order of St. George How the order came to be For two hundred years the knights of Christendom made the conquest of the Holy Land their goal. Ever and anon as the years went by and one Crusade after another failed in its purpose of driving the heathen forever out of Palestine, a new king or priest or warrior would come forward and summon the knights to join once more in this sacred enterprise. But the time came when the crusading spirit passed, and there was no great mission to unite all men of chivalry and honor. King Edward the Third of England pondered long over this matter, as the chronicler tells us, and then resolved to rebuild the great castle of Windsor, formerly founded by King Arthur, and there in that place, where the Round Table was first established, to create an order of knights, the bravest in the land. They were to be forty in number, and the day when they should be called together should be the feast day of St. George; and because you do not know the story of St. George as it was told to every page in England before ever he became an esquire, I am going to tell it to you now as it is written in the ancient books of England. Then you will see why this new order of knights met on St. George's day and were called by his name, and why the rallying cry of every English army was "St. George of merry England. The sign of victory." How St. George fought the dragon "And by my pen I will recite St. George's deeds, an English knight." Away back in the second century after Christ, many hundred years before the coming of King Arthur, the ancient city of Coventry gave birth to St. George, the first Christian hero of England, who was also the first knight-errant that ever sought adventure in foreign lands. He deemed it dishonorable, when he grew to be a man, to spend his time at home in idleness, and not achieve somewhat by valor and prowess, so he set out from England in search of worthy adventure. After many months of travel by sea and land George came in his journeyings to Egypt, which country was then greatly annoyed by a dangerous dragon. It is a fearsome description of him that the minstrel of that day gives. "Within that country there did rest A dreadful dragon, fierce and fell, Whereby they were full sore oppressed. Who by his poisonous breath each day Did many of the city slay. His skin more hard than brass was found, That sword nor lance could pierce nor wound." This terrible dragon had ranged up and down the country for twenty-four years, killing many and leaving devastation in his path. George, seeking for shelter one night, was told this tale by an old hermit at whose door he knocked. Only on days when an innocent maiden was offered up to be swallowed alive, the old man told him, did the dragon cease to give forth this poisonous breath, against which no man living could stand. But now, alas! all the maidens had been offered up. In all Egypt there was none left but the king's daughter, and on the morrow she must give herself to the dragon unless some brave knight could be found who should have courage to encounter him and kill him. To such a knight the king had promised to give his daughter in marriage and the crown of Egypt after his death. The tale of this terrible monster and the news of the royal reward so fired the English knight that he vowed that he would either save the king's daughter or lose his own life in so glorious an enterprise. He took his repose with the old hermit that night, and at sunrise buckled on his armor and journeyed to the valley where the king's daughter was to be offered up. The bold knight had scarce entered the valley where the dragon had his abode, when the fiery monster caught sight of him and sent forth from his leathern throat a sound more terrible than thunder. George turned and beheld the dreadful sight. The size of this fell dragon was fearful to behold, for his length from his shoulder to his tail was more than fifty feet, and the scales on his body shone like glittering brass. The knight rode against him with all his speed, thrusting his spear straight at the fiery dragon's jaws, but it broke to splinters against those brass-like scales. "The dragon then 'gan him assail, And smote our hero with his tail; Then down before him went horse and man, Two ribs of George were bruised then. Up started George with right good will, And after ran the dragon still. The dragon was aggrieved sore, And smote at George more and more. Long and hard was the fight Between the dragon and the knight." At last George hit him under the right wing, which was the only place where there were no scales. He smote so hard with his sword that it went in up to the hilt, and the dragon fell lifeless on the ground. Thus within the view of the maiden who was waiting to be offered up he slew the dragon. "When as that valiant champion there Had slain the dragon in the field, To court he brought the lady fair, Which to all hearts much joy did yield." When the people of the city saw him coming with the dragon's head upon his spear, they began to ring the bells, and brought him into town with great procession. Not only in Egypt but in all the world he was held in great honor, and was made welcome in every place wherever he journeyed for that brave deed. In those days he was reckoned one of the seven great champions of the world, and so dearly did all knights hold him in remembrance in later days that they called upon him for aid in battle, thinking of him as a saint in heaven; and the story goes, as you have read, that when the knights were in great danger at Jerusalem, he did appear to Godfrey and the army and signed them on to enter and conquer the Holy City. Many times the soldiers returned from battle with the tale of how, when the day was going against them and they had prayed for aid, they had seen St. George appear in white armor, with the blood-red cross on his and the dragon on his shield, and always thereafter the soldiers pushed forward with fresh enthusiasm and won the day, shouting, "St. George of merry England, How the order of St. George was founded Therefore it was that King Edward called his knights together on the day of St. George, when he would found a new order of knighthood, whose members should perform in their day deeds as brave and as needful as those of St. George and of the knights of the Round Table. First he summoned all the earls and barons and knights of the whole realm, and signified his purpose and great desire to form such an order. They all concurred joyfully in this, for it appeared to them an honorable undertaking. Forty knights were elected, who were known and celebrated as the greatest, and they bound themselves by oath and fealty to obey the ordinances agreed upon. For their name they took "The Order of St. George," and for the distinctive garment of the order a blue woolen mantle lined with scarlet (save the king's, which was lined with ermine), and upon every mantle were wrought the arms of St. George. There is a pretty story of the way their motto came to them, and it shows well the knightly courtesy of those days. A few days before the feast of St. George, while the king was still planning the brotherhood, the garter of the queen or one of the noble ladies of the court fell off as she danced. King Edward bent to take it from the ground and, observing the smiles of the courtiers, exclaimed, "Evil be to him who evil thinks," adding that the garter would soon be held in such high estimation that they would count themselves happy if they were permitted to wear it. When the order of St. George was founded, every knight wore upon his shoulder a garter of blue cloth or silk embroidered with gold, and upon it was inscribed the motto of the order, "Evil be to him who evil thinks"; by which the knights meant that only to him who carried evil in his heart would the world be evil. When the forty knights were elected, they sent heralds to proclaim in France and Scotland, Burgundy and Flanders, Brabant and the German Empire, that the order of St. George would hold at Windsor Castle a feast and tourney to which all knights and esquires were invited. To all who should be willing to come a safe-conduct would be granted until fifteen days after the feast, no matter what wars should be going on at the time. There was to be held at this feast a jousting by the forty knights of the order of St. George against all comers, and also by forty esquires. So should they prove their knightly skill to all the world. Moreover, the queen of England, accompanied by three hundred ladies and damsels, was to be present. The king made great preparations for the feast, and for fifteen days the tourney was held at Windsor Castle. Many knights crossed the sea to be present, and there was great feasting and much skillful tourneying. Thus King Edward renewed in those later days the order of the Round Table, making St. George the patron thereof. In every land like orders of knighthood were founded, and for the time the glory of chivalry was renewed. Page, Esquire, and Knight The Drawing of the Sword Founding of the Round Table Gawain and the Green Knight The Passing of Arthur Roland, A Knight of France The Battle of Ronceval A Steed! A Steed! Godfrey, Crusader Knight The Troubadour Chevalier Bayard	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1329
__label__wiki	0.539863	0.539863	Which countries could have realistically moved their capitals in the late 19th or early 20th centuries? Thread starter Futurist MAGolding Chalfont, Pennsylvania In the US Civil War Washington DC was just across he river from Rebel territory at first until they began conquering parts of the CSA. Washington was very heavily fortified to resist possible Rebel attacks. If Maryland had joined the CSA Washington wold probably have had to be abandoned. If the Civil War ended with a Rebel victory would Washington have been abandoned as the capital and a new capital selected? Likes: Futurist Emperor of Wurttemburg 43 Futurist said: Which countries could have realistically moved their capitals in the late 19th or early 20th centuries? Russia would be an obvious example because its Tsar had absolute power until 1905-1906 and a lot of (albeit no longer absolute) power even after 1906. However, what other countries could have realistically qualified for this? I mean, Italy moved its capital to Rome in 1870, but would there have ever actually been the desire to move the Italian capital out of Rome and into a different city? Somehow, I strongly doubt it due to the historical importance that Rome had and still has for Italians and also due to the fact that Italy wasn't an absolute monarchy like Russia was. Anyway, what are your thoughts on this and on this question of mine? Well important to note that Italy wasn't really Italy in the beginning the same way Germany wasn't really Germany. It was Sardina and Prussia. With the Germans with no ancient universally recognized German capital, today Prussia's old capital is the German capital. While the Italians had Rome which makes for a nice unifying capital, it could have been Turin. But that just reinforces the(accurate) perception that Italy is really the Sardinian Empire not a unified Italy. And seeing the Pope didn't want the Italians in Rome, I'm guessing this scenario would be most likely to pass if the Italians respect the Pope's wishes and do not seize the city. Interestingly Peter's capital change served a similar function as Rome despite St Petersburg not existing before. Moscow's importance is as the capital of Muscovy which unified Russia, St Petersburg, like Rome, is a neutral capital that isn't associated with the one duchy. This seems to be a relatively common theme for capital changes. The US originally had it's capital in Philadelphia then NYC but both of those aren't neutral sites, they are in individual and important states(which in a Republic is inherently an unfair advantage) so Washington D.C. was created as it's own city for the sake of being a capital. Civil wars where territory changes hand can also force a countries hand if a capital is occupied or a capital isn't as secure such as we saw with the Chinese civil war. My opinion is that all countries can change if the purpose is running the government rather than a status symbol for most important city in which case it can't. Logistically it makes sense to have a capital be it's own city rather than just be the most important city. In US states you see a trend where a state has major cities yet the capital is usually in some relatively minor town that's only important because it's the capital. For example in NY you have NYC, capital is Albany. Pennsylvania has Philadelphia yet the capital is Harrisburg. Incredibly neither former US capital is the capital of it's own state. This trend continues with most other major US cities. In California you have Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose,San Francisco, Oakland.......and the capital is Sacramento. Illinois has Chicago.....capital is Springfield. Florida has Miami, Jacksonville, Orlando and Tampa Bay, capital is Tallahassee, Texas it's Austin despite Houston, Dallas and San Antonio being larger. You can keep going on and on but the largest city in the US tends to not be the house of government, nor the second for that matter. By the American practice anywhere can be capital. In Europe(and most of the remainder of Earth) though they don't do things this way(unless forced by circumstance such as the Vichy) and the capital is almost without exception a countries most important center. My guess explanation is since a capital used to mean where a King was located, the fanciest city clearly is most appropriate while in a Republic hosting a state legislature is a different concern. But it's not a practical limitation, they could change the location they just don't want to. One exception I noticed is Turkey where Ankara not Constantinople is capital. The change technically happened when you point out, as the Ottomans had Constantinople I'm thinking that might be symbolic or something. Per the European/Middle Eastern standard, not the American standard, capitals changed due to a King preferring another location. Examples are Charles IV and Prague and Charlemagne and Achaean. In the Middle East the Assyrian Empire and Persian Empires are great examples of empires where a new ruler could mean a new capital if they want to build their own city. Typically though in Europe capital is the rulers family's original home. Paris is the French capital because the Capetians came from Paris and by the time they came out of power Paris was the only rational location. Before then though the capital was Achaean because Charlemagne liked it. Once absolute monarchy ended like you mentioned, a King's authority to unilaterally change the capital's location died. I think the Tsar would have had that freedom though still. MAGolding said: Obviously the US couldn't have helped that DC was close to the CSA border but I've never understood why the CSA thought it was a good idea to make Richmond the capital. If Washington fell, it's more likely the US makes a settlement and the USA gets it back. It would need to occupied for an extended period of time for their to be a permanent change. But if this didn't happen guess it would go back to NYC, because that was the previous location(and Philadelphia would be close to the Confederacy). In the names of keeping the new capital even further away from the border Boston could be a choice(though NYC is quite far for the CSA to have made it even in their wildest scenarios) but NYC seems the logical choice since it was the capital before D.C. Emperor of Wurttemburg 43 said: Wasn't Virginia the most industrialized part of the Confederacy? If so, maybe that explains why they made Richmond their capital. Likes: Emperor of Wurttemburg 43 New Orleans was the CSA largest and biggest city. Know they produced the ironclads there, guessing but don't know that it was the industrial heart of the CSA(until it fell). Then again the Union captured that in about a year so maybe that wouldn't have been a great choice. Don't know why industrial capacity would make a place a good house of government. Another good one by that standard would have been Jackson in Mississippi. Issue with Richmond is it's location and the fact assuming the war didn't end right away the Virginians(who even without West Virginia were technically in the CSA as a show of support to the original 7 rather than cause they wanted to secede on their own) knew the product of that decision would be a bloodbath in that small geographic area. Just don't know why they would have agreed to that. Not sure how Virginia's industrialization compared to other states maybe supply lines was a factor but just under the impression it was the largest and oldest state besides Texas which was a relative baby at this point. Perhaps a different capital location would have seen much smaller armies like we saw in the West and less bloody battles(Shiloh one of the West's record breakers was nowhere close to the most deadly battles in the East). Seeing the South had less people, fighting a war where the incentive was always for the Union to march a massive army to seize the capital and win the war in one stroke doesn't make any sense from their perspective. A war where the main Union objective was not the capture of Richmond just a few miles from D.C. would have been much harder for the Union to win. Should have been easy regardless but still. LatinoEuropa Matosinhos Portugal 5 cities that could be the capital of Portugal (if not Lisbon) Cities ( Guimarães 1 ) ( Porto 2) ( Braga 3 ) ( Viseu 4 ) Coimbra 5 ) LatinoEuropa said: Which of these cities was the most likely alternative Portuguese capital, in your opinion? I will give my opinion the alternative capital for me was Coimbra, first has the oldest university in Portugal where helped the evolution of the Portuguese language. Today everyone knows that Lisbon is the capital of Portugal. But for many Portuguese consider that the real capital of Portugal is the city of Guimarães was there that was born the kingdom of Portucalense that today is Portugal Aqui Nasceu Portugal --- Portugal was born here City of Guimarães YungTea Saint-Petersburg, Russia . Moscow's importance is as the capital of Muscovy which unified Russia, St Petersburg, like Rome, is a neutral capital that isn't associated with the one duchy I disagree this idea. To my mind, this is an example of what I've said in this topic before: a one big reason to move country's capital is big social and political changes. So that's what we face while learning Peter I's reign: big changes need to be done in neutral city, far away from center of old aristocracy. Problem that you've mentioned (association with any Duchy) had been solved in 16th century by Ivan IV's reign. YungTea said: Well to be fair the other countries in that situation don't typically create neutral cities. Russia and the US have(it's a US staple at every level, build a specific city for governing that is relatively small). I'm saying that's why Moscow was the capital pre St Petersburg. Muscovy conquered Russia and Muscovy's capital remained until St Petersburg. If some other duchy had unified Russia Moscow would not have been the capital until Peter the Great decided to change it or again during the Soviet era until now. It'd be just another major city. That's what I meant by it being given it's importance by being the capital of Muscovy. Even if the people there or leaders didn't care about that, that's why it was capital, same with Paris or Berlin. Over generations it just became the capital. I was not referring to a "problem" tbh think you're referring to something else, I wasn't referring to any events from Ivan IV's time just why Moscow became capital. Russia is one of the only countries to create a "government city for government city" though. Almost all of the major cities of the old world besides St Petersburg were founded MUCH earlier because almost no one else did that. Italy moved towards an ancient already existing city and the Germans and French kept their non neutral capitals and they became neutral over the passage of time(Berlin much more recently than Paris obviously). Most countries just waited for that association to fade away and if it didn't oh well. Feel Europeans and Asians see their biggest cities as appropriate capitals because it puts on the most impressive show for diplomats and before that because government=King and government city was going to be fancy as a result. St Petersburg differs from Washington though in that you guys were trying to build an opulent showpiece city, and were replacing the importance of Moscow(in ancient history a lot of examples of this, in modern history it's unique though). Also unique in that most replacement capitals were pretty close to the old ones, cause that was usually the desirable region. St Petersburg was very far from Moscow. Washington was just a neutral site and in the beginning Washington was basically hell on earth(people joke about "cleaning the swamp" well it was literally a swamp). All it's importance comes from history and tourists wanting to see that but it's like the 19th or 20th biggest city or something like that aside from political stuff there's very little to do there and the same is true of most American state capitals. St Petersburg was built as a new neutral capital but it fit the profile of an old one. How would the Eastern Front of World War II had turned out had the Baltic countries not been invaded by the USSR in 1940? Speculative History Jul 10, 2019 When did the concept of countries first come about? General History Jul 5, 2019 Which other countries could have realistically permanently become Protestant? Speculative History Jun 18, 2019 Countries that could have realistically been significantly larger Speculative History Mar 3, 2019 How would the Eastern Front of World War II had turned out had the Baltic countries not been invaded by the USSR in 1940? Started by Futurist When did the concept of countries first come about? 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__label__cc	0.747601	0.252399	Tag Archives: Slipknot Hesta Prynn likes to run. Seriously, she told us so. Lila, of course, confessed that she listens to Hesta’s music while running. I copped to listening to it while walking, seeing as it was winter and my desire to run in the winter doesn’t exist. The Hesta Prynn Music Obsession is a direct by-product of that now infamous, but yet to be blogged about, NYC No Sleep Required adventure. Although, her Pepper cover was indeed on heavy rotation prior to the Webster Hall show, seeing Hesta Prynn live leaves anyone with half an ear an the ability to hear wanting more. And the more keeps coming, much to my delight. In fact, the Turn it Gold video came out almost immediately after our NYC No Sleep ‘Till Brooklyn (or Jersey) trip. It was like Christmas. Maybe more like finding a Christmas gift that you had forgotten to open a month after Christmas and feeling secret and indulgent delight when you tear into the paper. Almost as much as Hesta Prynn’s music is a delight, her videos add something to the music that I often take for granted with other artists. Unlike my counterpart, Miss Lila, and as we’ve already pointed out here, I’m less of a visual listener. Lila is. But when it comes to Hesta Prynn’s videos, I do have voyeuristic tendencies. More on those videos later. Yesterday a new video was released. Seven Sisters. Lila and I have been anticipating this release, since we both follow Hesta Prynn and Randy Scott Slavin (director) and noted with interest still shots and talk of the clown from Slipknot. Admission: Seven Sisters wasn’t on my radar from Hesta. I was more of a Can We Go Wrong and Turn it Gold listener. Actually, the CD from the Webster Hall show didn’t have Seven Sisters on it. I was oblivious. Uh, yeah. What was I missing? So, yesterday the video drops. Lila and I immediately notify each other. We watch with interest – this isn’t the Hesta Prynn I’m used to. It’s a bit darker. The video has the hallmarks of a good B-movie thriller. It’s macabre vibe all over. The Clown from Slipknot? He’s creepy in a “I’m edgy at the idea of being alone in any isolated place with you – oh, wait, Hesta Prynn is…” way. But it’s the song that gets me. Perhaps it’s the 90s-Poe-era vibe that is making me nostalgic. But I love this song. Like the video, it seems a darker, lonelier side to Hesta Prynn, letting the listener know that not everything has an up beat when you listen to her. Sidenote: The original Poe album, Hello, was my introduction to independent female musicians. I’ve listened to Poe’s Hello more times than I care to admit. Seven Sisters is reminiscent in vibe to Poe’s Hello, I think. It’s probably just the similarity in notes, but these two songs spent the night intertwining in my head. Note the similarities to the tile track, find Poe’s Hello here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=befAwVNfkj4 Also, kudos to Sean B. for validating the thought that Seven Sisters has the same sound and vibe as Poe. It absolutely made my day after dropping into a chair beside him to have him take a listen to Seven Sisters (since I’m forever shoving music at him), know that he hasn’t heard it before (which is uncommon, since Sean hears everything) and have him give voice to the immediate thought I had a few hours before when I first heard it: Seven Sisters is very Poe-esque. But better, since it leaves out the typical 90s electronica and brings in an edginess that Poe never had. I think Hesta Prynn is like what Poe should have wanted to be. All this aside, the whole point of today is to share the new video for Seven Sisters. Well played, Hesta Prynn (and Randy Scott Slavin for another awesome video and the Clown from Slipknot for giving me good creeps). Click to play (photo courtesy of Hesta Prynn’s FB – go follow her!) Leave a comment \| tags: Clown, Hesta Prynn, NYC, Poe, Randy Scott Slavin, Seven Sisters, Slipknot, video premiere, Webster Hall \| posted in Song For Today, Uncategorized	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1340
__label__cc	0.736889	0.263111	Your Spouse Splashing Out On Lavish Gifts Could Be A Sign That They’re Cheating On You 85% of adulterers admit to spending big on Christmas. Two out of five men opt for designer jewellery as the top gift for women. Top gift for men is new gadgets or tech. Only 49% of adulterers get their extramarital partner a gift. Results come from recent survey of 1000 adulterers on IllicitEncounters.com, the UK’s leading married-dating website Flashy gifts are nice to receive, but they could be a sign that your partner is cheating on you. A staggering 85% of cheaters admit to spending big on Christmas because they feel guilty for their affair. Only 3% of adulterers go all out on expensive gifts because they enjoy it. A recent survey conducted with 1000 members of married-dating website IllicitEncounters.com has revealed the most popular gifts bought by cheaters this festive season. Designer jewellery topped the list of most popular items bought by cheating husbands, followed by designer fragrances, and then designer fashion. Cheating wives favoured new gadgets, with one in three getting their spouse a new tech toy. Designer brand underwear also made the list with 20% indicating they bought their husbands posh briefs. A little under half of those who responded to the survey will get their extramarital partner a gift this year as well. Top Gifts Given by Men Jewellery (36%) Fragrances (14%) Designer Fashion (11%) Handbags/Accessories (10%) Gadgets/Tech (8%) Gifts under £100 (7%) Spa/Beauty gifts (6%) Other (8%) Top Gifts Given by Women Gadgets/Tech (33%) Designer Underwear (20%) Designer Clothing (18%) Grooming Gifts (10%) Fragrances (9%) Jewellery (3%) Robert, 58 from Norwich, a member of IllicitEncounters.com told us, “I do love my wife and getting her something really nice for Christmas makes me feel a bit better about going behind her back to get my thrills.” Spokesperson for IllicitEncounters.com Christian Grant explains: “We wanted to know what kind of gifts cheaters favour this festive season and it turns out that guilty pockets are quite deep.” “Both men and women spend big this season, so if your spouse has got you something you weren’t expecting and they’ve really splashed out, it might be time to dig a little deeper into what they are doing with their spare time.” NOTES TO EDITOR IllicitEncounters.com is the UK’s leading dating website for married people and the leading authority on infidelity. With over 1.2 million genuine UK users since 2004, you’re sure to find your perfect match. Established in 2004, we have been providing a meeting place for like-minded married and attached people for nearly 14 years. Our members have one thing in common – they are all looking for a little romance outside their current relationship. Whether that’s the occasional bit of flirtatious chat, a regular coffee date, or a full-blown affair, that’s up to them. We’re always more than happy to talk about IllicitEncounters.com – please contact Christian Grant through the details below – but we’re not willing to speak publicly about SaraHartley.net at this moment in time. Email: presspr@illicitencounters.co.uk Twitter: @cheatsafer Posted on December 10, 2018 December 11, 2018 by clairepage1Posted in Press ReleasesLeave a comment A third of people have cheated on a partner at Christmas – and the works party is where an affair is most likely to start, according to a new survey * Two-thirds said they were unfaithful because they had drunk alcohol and things had gone too far; * Christmas is the peak period of the year for cheating – ahead of the summer holidays and New Year; * Less than third of cheats (32%) said they had regretted their fling – suggesting they were likely to do it again; * Results are from a new survey of 1,000 people by IllicitEncounters.com, the UK’s leading dating site for married people A third of people have cheated on a partner at Christmas, according to a new survey. It is the most popular time of the year for a new affair to start ahead of the summer holidays and the New Year. The office Christmas party is the most likely place for a fling to happen with more than half of respondents (57%) who had been unfaithful saying it was with a work colleague. Two-thirds of cheats (68%) said they were unfaithful because they had drunk alcohol and things had gone too far as a result. In just over half of cases (54%), the affair did not extend beyond the works party but 46% carried on seeing their colleague after the festive season. The results are from a new survey of 1,000 people by IllicitEncounters.com, the UK’s leading dating site for married people. Slightly more women (35%) than men (31%) have betrayed a partner at Christmas time. The survey found that 85% of people felt more passionate in the run-up to Christmas because they were excited by the holidays and they were partying more with friends and colleagues. Most affairs happened in the three week period between December 3rd and Christmas Eve – the key period for works parties before the holidays start and people stay at home with their families. Three-quarters of people (74%) who cheated with a work colleague admitted flirting with them in the run-up to the party. Seven out of ten cheats (71%) concealed the affair from their colleagues but 29% made no secret of the fact that they had been unfaithful – mainly because they were drunk. Less than a third of cheats (32%) said they had regretted their fling – suggesting they were likely to do it again. Only one in ten Christmas flings (11%) are discovered by the betrayed partner – so nearly all cheats get away with their indiscretion. IllicitEncounters.com spokesman Christian Grant said: “Beware of the Christmas party season because it is a hotbed for affairs.” “Sexual tensions which have been bubbling up over the course of the working year finally explode due to drink and the opportunity to grab a kiss under the mistletoe.” “The good news for cheats is that they are very unlikely to get caught out if they start an affair at this time of year, though they are advised not to flaunt their new love in front of their colleagues.” More than 1 million people have registered with IllicitEncounters.com since it started – and thousands of people begin new affairs each week. The peak time for new registrations is the first two weeks of January when disgruntled spouses return to work after the holidays realising their relationship is unfulfilling and seek someone new. 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__label__wiki	0.914858	0.914858	Students Voice DU Cut-Off Pune: EWS families accuse DPS of discrimination, school says it only took step to help studentshttps://indianexpress.com/article/education/pune-ews-families-accuse-dps-of-discrimination-school-says-it-only-took-step-to-help-students-5227970/ Pune: EWS families accuse DPS of discrimination, school says it only took step to help students School principal Neelam Chakrabarty admitted that a separate section had been created for EWS quota students but claimed it was done for the benefit of the students. Written by Alifiya Khan \| Pune \| Updated: June 22, 2018 3:53:53 am Pune: Govt auctions disputed land in Katraj for Rs 21.25 lakh Pune man arrested for raping woman after promising to cure her husband: police Pune: City units of political parties gear up for Maharashtra polls Another parent, also asking not to be named, said they were apprehensive that this separation was just the “beginning of discrimination”. (Express photo by Oinam Anand/representational) At least 40 parents of children, who got admission under the economically weaker section (EWS) quota of the Right to Education (RTE) Act at the CBSE-affiliated Delhi Public School (DPS) in Mohammedwadi, have complained to the joint director of primary education about the “differential treatment” being given to their children. These parents on Thursday approached Dinkar Temkar, joint director of primary education, Maharashtra, and told him that their children had been put in a separate section of Class I, specially created for EWS students. The school has 60 EWS students in Class I, 40 of whom have been put in Class I (A) and the rest in Class I (B). The school does not allow more than 40 students in a class. “Actually, the school was not happy with the academic progress they were making and felt they could do better. In a class of 30, where only two or three are RTE students, it is not possible to give them special attention and so, we decided to have a separate division for them, where we can cater to their needs. The decision was taken for their benefit and I think that schools must be allowed to make this choice. There is no discrimination whatsoever,” said Chakrabarty. “Parents had come to meet me and I assured them that their fear was unfounded. Also, if we feel that this is not working out, we will revert to a mixed class again,” she said. The parents, however, said their children had been part of mixed classes for the last three years, and this separation was done from April this year. “When my child got admission here in pre-primary, I was extremely happy as this is one of the best schools in our locality. For two years, our children remained part of a mixed class and we never faced any discrimination. In fact, the school authorities treated us very well. My son’s academic performance was also good. His teacher had told me that he is better than most regular students. Therefore, we fail to understand if the principal now says that our children were lagging behind academically and needed special attention. These children are in this school since pre-primary, so why would they lag behind?” one parent, who requested not to be named, said. Another parent, also asking not to be named, said they were apprehensive that this separation was just the “beginning of discrimination”. “Imagine an entire class of only EWS children. How will the other children look at them? When they become a little older and the other students realise the distinction, will they not tease our children and make them feel inferior? A few days ago, we met the principal to voice our concerns and she told us that this was done because our children needed special treatment to cope. But we want to know why is it necessary? We were happy with their progress in a mixed class. She told us to accept the arrangement or withdraw the admission,” said the parent. Meanwhile, Temkar said he had directed Education Officer Harun Attar to look into the issue. “Under the RTE law, no school can differentiate between a RTE student and a regular fee paying student and such acts are not allowed,” he said. 1 DU admission 2018: Some colleges hike fee citing maintenance, hostel costs 2 DU admission 2018: Most colleges to release second cut-off list with marginal dip 3 Madras HC issues notice to MCI, JIPMER	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1348
__label__cc	0.56452	0.43548	Tag Archives: Podemos Media Confirmation about the loss and winning of the center-right ‘s Party on the Spanish Elections June 2016 as predicted by Clairvoyant/Psychic Dimitrinka Staikova in her ebook : Manuel Valls,King Felipe of Spain,Erdogan,US Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti,Devlet Bahçelı,Angela Merkel,Norbert Hofer,Donald Trump,Hillary Clinton,Bernie Sanders and…Clairvoyant/Psychic Predictions Election 2016 in Europe,Middle East and USA By Clairvoyants : Dimitrinka Staikova, Ivelina Staikova, Stoyanka Staikova Media Confirmation about the loss and winning of the center-right ‘s Party on the Spanish Elections June 2016 as predicted by Clairvoyant/Psychic Dimitrinka Staikova in her ebook : Manuel Valls,King Felipe of Spain,Erdogan,US Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti,Devlet Bahçelı,Angela Merkel,Norbert Hofer,Donald Trump,Hillary Clinton,Bernie Sanders and…Clairvoyant/Psychic Predictions Election 2016 in Europe,Middle East and USA By Clairvoyants : Dimitrinka Staikova, Ivelina Staikova, Stoyanka Staikova Buy the Ebook from Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/Erdogan-Scaparrotti-Norbert-Clairvoyant-Predictions-ebook/dp/B01FK08272 Print Length: 59 pages King Felipe of Spain – Negotiations between two parties (groupings) fails before the Elections. Internal war. The future of Spain – procedures about the split (separation) of the independence of one region (area). Health Diagnosis of the King of Spain – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna – May 4, 2016, 10 am. Photo – May 3, 2016 The Elections in Spain will try to unite the nation. I see two teams – both equally strong with influence, power and money, which are going to the Elections. They try to unite twice and the negotiation fails. The decision – Elections – begins internal war. The left grouping – has more luck. It has no law participation on its side, but the emigrants, the refugees and foreigners are in help. I see weaker financing for the campaign (the Elections). Many, many nerves, obstacles – by the Prosecution and the law. They start very strong campaign, then they see that are loosing the interests of the people. Follows a candidacy like a launch into Space, then again lack of interest, until one energy company stays behind them as financing – then, there is a meeting with the king – promises -only promises. The Judiciary stays with them, but it does not remains with them. The good is, that I see, that there will be no court cases against the leaders of the party. The Second party – is staying from the right side of King Felipe. It immediately begins preparations and a fight for the Elections. It does not deal with internal war. Their money are separated between two leaders. They both are for one event – the winning of the Elections – as one whole. Ahead is going this one from left – with a smaller face – oval chin, lightly snub nose, younger. A lot of money are givven by that party, behind them is staying an intelligence service. There is a loss and winning of the Elections. For now, King Felipe is worried by and for the Syrian refugees, he tries to be unifier of the nation. He limits and reduces the resolving of certain tasks for the time after the Elections. I don’t see him to take a position. The separation of two parts od Spain will cause problems in the future. To the one part are givven money, but the smaller one is ahead of procedures for independency. Clairvoyant Health Diagnosis of King Felipe on May 3, 2016 : Pains on the waist, at the right side of the waist and the left side of the pelvis – on the back of the body. A cold muscles on his shoulders. Sick throat, a cold. Flu , which has affected the left lung, the heart, the throat and the urinary tract. In the future, the pains by the waist are going in the right leg and he will treat neurosis in the heart. In the future – Year 2016 – Spain will be subordinated to God (…Allah) and the Climate Change – the Summer, November and December 2016. World \| Sun Jun 26, 2016 10:55pm EDT Related: WORLD Spanish vote delivers more uncertainty for Europe after Brexit http://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-election-idUSKCN0ZB0XY “Acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s center-right People’s Party (PP) again emerged with the single biggest bloc of seats but fell short of a majority, leaving the euro zone’s fourth-largest economy at risk of another lengthy political stalemate or even of a third general election.” Manuel Valls,King Felipe of Spain,Erdogan,US Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti,Devlet Bahçeli,Angela Merkel,Norbert Hofer,Donald Trump,Hillary … Election 2016 in Europe,Middle East and USA Paperback – May 12, 2016 https://www.amazon.com/Erdogan-Scaparrotti-Bahçeli-Norbert-Election/dp/1533229619 This entry was posted in Ankara, billionaires, BRUSSELS ATTACKS, business, Clairvoyant, Confirmation, Cyprus, Davutoglu, Donald Trump, Erdogan, Health diagnosis, Hillary Clinton, Manuel Valls, MH370, migrant crisis, Money, Nicos Anastasiades, Peace, Politicians, President Barack Obama, Psychic, royal family, Syria, terrorism, Turkey, Uncategorized, Us Elections 2016, War, Washington, World predictions that came true and tagged "Together We Can", #26J, #EgyptTurmoil, #ELPAIS26J, #IslamicState, #madrid, #SyriaWar, #ThirdIntifada, #TurkeyChooses, 2015 Bangkok bombing, Abdullah Çatlı, ADÜTDF), Ahmet Davutoglu, AKP, AKP deputies, AKP leaders, AKP officials, AKP’s congress, Alexander van der Bellen, Ali al-Naimi, Alparslan Türkeş, Angela Merkel, Ankara, 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__label__wiki	0.681196	0.681196	Caddo Magnet Caddo Magnet Kiihnl-Lawrence Neg Last modified by Austin Kiihnl on 2019/07/07 23:35 Round Report Edit/Delete Barkley Forum 2 Meadows NS Lane Bearden Barkley Forum 4 St Marks SV David Heidt Barkley Forum 6 St Andrews Episcopal JL Tim Freehan Caddo 1 Airline CC Omar Guevara Caddo 4 Airline CL Jake Crusan Caddo Finals Airline BT Omar Guevara, Jonathan McCartney, Sam Crichton Colleyville 2 Crossings Christian QR Aly Mithani Colleyville 3 Jesuit AK Gabe Sanchez Colleyville 5 Reagan GP Jason Sykes LHSSL State 1 Airline AB Olivia Berry LHSSL State 3 Isidore Newman HV Lay Judge NDCA Nationals 2 Shawnee Mission East RS Tommy Snider NDCA Nationals 4 Shawnee Mission East AW Lincoln Garrett NDCA Nationals 6 Newark Science AS DAngelo Oberto-Besso NSDA Districts 1 Isidore Newman DQ Bob Alexander NSDA Districts 4 Baton Rouge Magnet CH Cassie Rebeor NSDA Nationals 1 Houston Memorial AD Kun Hu, Minha Jutt NSDA Nationals 4 Canyon Crest GY Denise Grisham, Tamera Yost NSDA Nationals 7 Eagle BG Tina Dimitriou, Maryanne Pasiewicz, Jack Tuckness NSDA Nationals Doubles Stuyvesant CN Yao Yao Chen, Robert Clayton, Anirudh Prabhu NSDA Nationals Octas Green Valley LS Brendan Dimmig, Phillip DiPiazza, Vani Balram Sophomore Hoedown 2 Anderson CJ Sarah Roberts Sophomore Hoedown 4 Westminster LY AJ Byrne Sophomore Hoedown 5 SLC West GR Sam Grimsley Sophomore Hoedown Semis Westminster KP AJ Byrne, Mark Little, Caitlin Walrath Sophomore Hoedown Finals Carrollton Sacred Heart BD Josh Gonzalez, Mitch Hagney, Cody Morrow University of Houston 2 Elkins CP University of Houston 3 Westwood BG Eric Schwerdtfeger University of Texas 2 Heights CG Julia Daniel University of Texas 3 Jesuit GN Sophie Wilczynski University of Texas 6 Kinkaid PP Alex Stransky Wake 2 Alpharetta JS Michael Callahan Wake 4 Baltimore City College GP Aaron Vinson Wake 5 Lexington FK Ben Morbeck Wake Octas Strath Haven DP Shree Awsare, Pablo Gannon, Lauren Ivey Barkley Forum 2 Opponent: Meadows NS \| Judge: Lane Bearden 1AC - T Visas - T LPR - T Tassoff - DOS Trade-off DA - Base DA v2 - Parole CP - Raise Quota PIC - Case 2NR Opponent: St Marks SV \| Judge: David Heidt - Weed - T Reduce - T AOS - Shutdown DA - Pardon CP - HRIA CP - DHS Turn Opponent: St Andrews Episcopal JL \| Judge: Tim Freehan - Asylum - T Humanitarian - Base DA - Courts CP - Canada CP Caddo 1 Opponent: Airline CC \| Judge: Omar Guevara - South Sudanese Refugees - Wall DA - Wages DA - Heg Bad Opponent: Airline CL \| Judge: Jake Crusan - Domestic Violence - Midterms DA - Temporary Protection CP - Refugees Bad Turn - Refugee Exploitation Turn Caddo Finals Opponent: Airline BT \| Judge: Omar Guevara, Jonathan McCartney, Sam Crichton - Trafficking Colleyville 2 Opponent: Crossings Christian QR \| Judge: Aly Mithani - TPS - Dedev - Condo Opponent: Jesuit AK \| Judge: Gabe Sanchez - Open Borders - Consult NATO CP - Porn PIC Opponent: Reagan GP \| Judge: Jason Sykes - HSI (China Rise Cyber) - Auctions CP LHSSL State 1 Opponent: Airline AB \| Judge: Olivia Berry - USMCA DA Opponent: Isidore Newman HV \| Judge: Lay Judge - Blood Quantum NDCA Nationals 2 Opponent: Shawnee Mission East RS \| Judge: Tommy Snider - National Interest Waivers - Domestic CP Opponent: Shawnee Mission East AW \| Judge: Lincoln Garrett - ASPEC - Espionage DA - Advantage CP - Prolif Good Opponent: Newark Science AS \| Judge: DAngelo Oberto-Besso 1AC- Haitian TPS - Necropolitics K - Remittances Bad Turn NSDA Districts 1 Opponent: Isidore Newman DQ \| Judge: Bob Alexander - Public Charge - Mass Immigration Turn Opponent: Baton Rouge Magnet CH \| Judge: Cassie Rebeor - IIRIRA - IIRIRA PIC - Terror Turn - Backlash Turn NSDA Nationals 1 Opponent: Houston Memorial AD \| Judge: Kun Hu, Minha Jutt - EB-5 - Fraud DA - Housing Bubble Turn Opponent: Canyon Crest GY \| Judge: Denise Grisham, Tamera Yost - H1-B - Medical Brain Drain - Biotech Bad - Chinese Modernization Good Opponent: Eagle BG \| Judge: Tina Dimitriou, Maryanne Pasiewicz, Jack Tuckness - Disabled Immigrants - Tariff DA NSDA Nationals Doubles Opponent: Stuyvesant CN \| Judge: Yao Yao Chen, Robert Clayton, Anirudh Prabhu - Double Turn on USMCA DA NSDA Nationals Octas Opponent: Green Valley LS \| Judge: Brendan Dimmig, Phillip DiPiazza, Vani Balram - T Only Congress Sophomore Hoedown 2 Opponent: Anderson CJ \| Judge: Sarah Roberts - Venezuelan Refugees - NAFTA DA Opponent: Westminster LY \| Judge: AJ Byrne - Translators - T Restrictions - LPR Spec - Terror DA Opponent: SLC West GR \| Judge: Sam Grimsley - Syrian Refugees - Settler Colonialism K Sophomore Hoedown Semis Opponent: Westminster KP \| Judge: AJ Byrne, Mark Little, Caitlin Walrath - Consult EU CP - Fiat Abuse Sophomore Hoedown Finals Opponent: Carrollton Sacred Heart BD \| Judge: Josh Gonzalez, Mitch Hagney, Cody Morrow - Refugees University of Houston 2 Opponent: Elkins CP \| Judge: Tommy Snider - Settler Colonialism - T USFG - Statephobia K Opponent: Westwood BG \| Judge: Eric Schwerdtfeger - Inhuman - Migrant PIC University of Texas 2 Opponent: Heights CG \| Judge: Julia Daniel - ESports - Disclosure Theory - Farm Bill DA -Case - High Magnitude Impacts Bad K Opponent: Jesuit GN \| Judge: Sophie Wilczynski - Open Borders (Migrant Deaths) - CAFTA Conditions CP Opponent: Kinkaid PP \| Judge: Alex Stransky - Self Petition Wake 2 Opponent: Alpharetta JS \| Judge: Michael Callahan Opponent: Baltimore City College GP \| Judge: Aaron Vinson - Undercommons Opponent: Lexington FK \| Judge: Ben Morbeck - HSI (Tech Leadership Econ) - State Visas CP Wake Octas Opponent: Strath Haven DP \| Judge: Shree Awsare, Pablo Gannon, Lauren Ivey - MAVNI - ESA CP To modify or delete round reports, edit the associated round. CP - Advantage vs National Interest Waivers Tournament: NDCA Nationals \| Round: 4 \| Opponent: Shawnee Mission East AW \| Judge: Lincoln Garrett The United States Federal Government should repeal the Budget Control Act, substantially increase funding for readiness specifically in the context of naval units, and implement the National Security Strategy, the National Defense Strategy, and the Nuclear Posture Review. CP solves By Jim Banks represents Indiana's third congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives.. February 9, 2018 "We Must Improve Our Military Readiness". https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/military-readiness-improve-it-increase-funding-stabilize-defense-budget-control-act/ America's military must be ready to fight and win on every battlefield, in every never fail us. The American people demand nothing less than the best. CP - Auctions Tournament: Wake \| Round: 5 \| Opponent: Lexington FK \| Judge: Ben Morbeck The United States federal government should establish an independent Standing Commission on Immigration of nonpartisan economists charged with the mandate to set up and administer a quarterly, sealed bid auction with a price band and a resale market that replaces visas for employment-based legal permanent residents. The number of permits issued to employers to sponsor employment-based legal permanent residents should be adjusted quarterly based upon the price at auction. The number of visas issued should initially stay within existing caps but in the subsequent quarter should be adjusted up or down depending upon the auction price. If the allocation of permits disproportionately favors large companies, the United States federal government should set aside an adequate number of permits on which for small companies to bid. Auctioning visas is more efficienct, creates political constituencies. David Gauvey Herbert 2010, (David Gauvey Herbert is a writer covering crime and security for Businessweek and Quartz. He has appeared on Bloomberg TV, MSNBC and CBS Radio. David graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Journalism), 5-28-2010, "Cap-And-Trade For Immigrants?", National Journal, http://go.galegroup.com.turing.library.northwestern.edu/ps/i.do?id=GALE7CA227666628andv=2.1andu=northwesternandit=randp=AONEandsw=w, TJ-TD Pia Orrenius, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas, and that brings down wages for all workers. We're open to all ideas." CP - CAFTA Conditions Tournament: University of Texas \| Round: 3 \| Opponent: Jesuit GN \| Judge: Sophie Wilczynski Text: The United States federal government ought to remove all qualitative and quantitative restrictions on the United States' borders in return for elimination of the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The counterplan solves U.S. interventionism and exploitation of involvement with CAFTA —- the AFF doesn't Tseng-Putterman '18 (Mark, PhD student in Public Humanities at Brown University, "A Century of U.S. Intervention Created the Immigration Crisis", https://medium.com/s/story/timeline-us-intervention-central-america-a9bea9ebc148, Caddo Debate ~SG~) A national spotlight now shines on the border between the United States and Mexico, . Indeed, it might be better described as a matter of reparations. CAFTA allows for the exploitation of workers —- it allows countries to use their own labor laws even if they're inadequate —- termination is key Human Rights Watch 05 (Human Rights Watch is a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization made up of roughly 400 staff members around the globe, "DR-CAFTA Falls Short on Workers Rights", 7-26-05, https://www.hrw.org/news/2005/07/26/dr-cafta-falls-short-workers-rights) ~AK-Caddo~ The U.S. House of Representatives will likely vote before the end of that the region's workers will be the big losers under DR-CAFTA. CP - Canada Tournament: Caddo \| Round: 4 \| Opponent: Airline CL \| Judge: Jake Crusan Text: The Canadian government should substantially increase its intake and resettlement of refugees Prime Minister Trudeau is open to refugees—Canada solves Maloney 17 (Maloney is a senior politics editor at HuffPost, "Trudeau Stands By ~#WelcomeToCanada Tweet Amid Flood Of Asylum Seekers, But Touts 'Rule Of Law'", Huff Post, 9/08/17https:www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/09/08/trudeau-stands-by-welcometocanada-tweet-amid-flood-of-asylum-seekers-but-touts-rule-of-law_a_23201839/) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he stands behind his tweet to refugees heard round the is calling on the government to designate illegal entry points as official crossings. CP - Canada vs Open Borders Text: The Canadian government should Remove all restrictions on legal immigration Substantially increase its intake and resettlement of immigrants Fully fund and guarantee their transit to the US-Canadian border. Fully fund and endorse linguistic, economic, and legal refugee assistance programs Canada's ability to provide leadership on resettlement makes it comparatively best – pluralism as soft power ensures global responses to refugees – resolves root causes of displaced populations and expands the definition of refugee Stirk, 16 – Jillian Stirk is a former Canadian ambassador with more than thirty years' experience in foreign affairs and a focus on the intersection between human rights and peace and security. Until 2013, Stirk was Assistant Deputy Minister-Strategic Policy, Global Issues, and European Affairs at Global Affairs Canada. She is a Mentor with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, where she is co-leading a project on Diversity, Pluralism and the Future of Citizenship. ("Pluralism and Foreign Policy: An Opportunity for Canadian Leadership," Canadian Global Affairs Institute, September, 2016, https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/cdfai/pages/1085/attachments/original/1473704507/Pluralism_and_Foreign_Policy_-_Jillian_Stirk.pdf?1473704507, SRA) Global migration is a long-term trend and an intrinsic feature of globalization. policy that would define who Canadians are and what they aspire to be. CP - Canada vs South Sudan Refugees Tournament: Caddo \| Round: 1 \| Opponent: Airline CC \| Judge: Omar Guevara Text: The Canadian government should substantially increase it's intake and resettlement of South Sudanese refugees Canada's immigration reform has influence—spillover more likely Keung 16 (Keung writes about immigration, refugee and diversity issues. "Canada an 'inspiration' on Syria refugee resettlement", The Star, https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2016/03/29/canada-an-inspiration-on-syrian-refugee-resettlement.html) As world leaders converge on Geneva Wednesday seeking inspiration to resolve the Syrian refugee crisis My hope would be that European leaders do look more to Canada's example." CP - Canada vs Translators Tournament: Wake \| Round: 2 \| Opponent: Alpharetta JS \| Judge: Michael Callahan Canadian government's promotion of private sponsorship solves nativism and enhances resettlement Keung 16 — Keung writes about immigration, refugee and diversity issues (Nicholas, "Canada 'an inspiration' on Syrian refugee resettlement", The Star, 03/29/16, https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2016/03/29/canada-an-inspiration-on-syrian-refugee-resettlement.html) ab CP - Canada vs Venezuela Refugees Tournament: Sophomore Hoedown \| Round: 2 \| Opponent: Anderson CJ \| Judge: Sarah Roberts Canada can start the global follow on process Nazanin Ash and Cindy Huang 17 ~Nazanin Ash is vice-president for public policy and advocacy at the International Rescue Committee. Cindy Huang is a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development., "Refugee crisis: Canada can take the lead on long-term solutions", Globe and Mail, 6-13-2017, accessed 7-21-2018, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/refugee-crisis-canada-can-take-the-lead-on-long-term-solutions/article35296794/ ~ In the face of unprecedented need, Canada is already recognized as a champion for , transformative solutions the world needs to effectively address the global refugee crisis. CP - Consult EU Tournament: Sophomore Hoedown \| Round: Semis \| Opponent: Westminster KP \| Judge: AJ Byrne, Mark Little, Caitlin Walrath Text: The United States federal government should initiate binding and genuine consultation with the European Union over the migration of legal immigration for nationals of Iraq and Afghanistan who have been employed by, or on behalf of, the US led Iraq and Afghan coalition, adjusting for the employing nation and national quotas The UN has established the EU is necessary to advance the rights of translators internationally Estospace 3/7 Eden Estopace is an IT journalist and online editor at Slator. March 7th, 2018. "EU Parliament Endorses UN Protection of Interpreters and Translators in Conflict Zones". Slator. https://slator.com/industry-news/eu-parliament-endorses-un-protection-of-interpreters-and-translators-in-conflict-zones/ A coalition working to promote the safety of translators and interpreters in conflict zones is Linda Fitchett, Former President of AIIC, stressed during the EU hearing. US-EU cooperation key to Central Asian stability Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, 2-17-2005, U.S.-EU Cooperation on Reform in Eurasia, http://www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/fs/42562.htm The United States and the European Union (EU) share a common goal of needed training, equipment, physical infrastructure, and more effective government institutions. Central Asian instability leads to global nuclear war Tsepkalo 1998 (Valery V., Belarussian Ambassador to the U.S., Foreign Affairs, March/April, Lexis) But abetting the continuing destabilization of Eurasia is not in the West's interests. NATO disorder and conflict from spilling out of the region and setting the globe ablaze CP - Consult NATO Tournament: Sophomore Hoedown \| Round: 4 \| Opponent: Westminster LY \| Judge: AJ Byrne Text: The United States federal government should propose that it will lessen restrictions on legal immigration for nationals of Iraq and Afghanistan who have been employed by, or on behalf of, the United States government as translators in a genuine, bilateral, and binding consultation process with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for 60 days —-and support the proposal throughout the consultation process. The counterplan is legitimate – 'resolved' and 'should' imply immediate, unconditional adoption of the plan The key sticking point between the US and NATO is immigration policy – Prior consultation resolves that Porter 6/19/2018 (Tom P. is a staff writer for News Week who writes about politics, crime and extremism, and has been interviewed about his work on BBC World News, RFE/RL, and Radio New Zealand. "The end of NATO? Leader warns of alliance split amid Trump-Europe tensions," News Week, https://www.newsweek.com/nato-leader-warns-alliance-split-after-trump-immigration-attacks-983864, -CR) The head of NATO has warned that splits between the U.S. and U.S.-Mexican border and holding them in mass detention centers. The counterplan is a stepping point for the US to cooperate on international migration policies – That's key to manage terrorism, maritime trade, and the Turkish economic crisis Drent 2018 (Margriet Drent is Senior Research Fellow at the Security Unit of the Research department. She specialises in security and defence with a specific focus on the EU as a Security Actor and the Common Security and Defence Policy. She is also a member of the Peace and Security Committee of the Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV). "Militarising migration? EU and NATO involvement at the European border," Clingendael Spectator, Vol. 72, https://spectator.clingendael.org/pub/2018/4/militarising-migration/ -CR) EUNAVFOR Med – European Union Naval Force Operation Atalanta Mediterranean In 2017, President NATO's naval operations will not be winding down soon.~14~ CP - Consult NATO v2 Tournament: Wake \| Round: Octas \| Opponent: Strath Haven DP \| Judge: Shree Awsare, Pablo Gannon, Lauren Ivey Text: The United States federal government should propose that it will ~DO THE PLAN~ in a genuine, bilateral, and binding consultation process with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization US leadership ensures NATO says yes – Trump's perspective doesn't matter Webber 9 (1/21, "NATO: The United States, Transformation and the War in Afghanistan," http://www3.interscience.wiley.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/cgi-bin/fulltext/121645457/HTMLSTART, Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies, Loughborough University, UK ), No one would deny the reality and significance of American dominance within NATO. There and the 'Berlin-plus' mechanism agreed at NATO's Washington summit in 1999. US-NATO relations are key to counterbalance Russia- that escalates Majumdar 17 (Dave Majumdar is the Defense Editor of The National Interest, "NATO vs. Russia: Why Europe's Greatest Risk for War Is in the Baltics," 10-18-17, https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/nato-vs-russia-why-europes-greatest-risk-war-the-baltics-22787)~~AK-Caddo~~ Since 2014, the NATO alliance has made numerous posture changes on its eastern flank likely to be locked in a new Cold War far into the future. CP - Courts Tournament: Caddo \| Round: Finals \| Opponent: Airline BT \| Judge: Omar Guevara, Jonathan McCartney, Sam Crichton The United States Supreme Court should rule that human trafficking visas should be given to those previously excluded based on the law enforcement cooperation requirement or a narrow definition of human trafficking . Courts can solve the aff – Judicial review makes immigration reform better and checks circumvention. Slocum '17 ~Brian is an Assistant Professor of Law, Florida Coastal School of Law. J.D., Harvard Law School, "Courts vs. The Political Branches: Immigration "Reform" and The Battle for the Future of Immigration Law," 7/21/17, d.m., Pacific McGeorge School of Law, https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1153andcontext=facultyarticles~~ EC The concept of "reform" typically connotes an improvement, or at least an in sharp contrast to the prevailing view of the judiciary as meekly deferring. Establishing an independent judiciary is key to prevent authoritarianism Gibler and Randazzo 17 (Douglas M. Gibler is a professor of political science in the Institute for Social Science at the University of Alabama. He is the author of several books, including "The Territorial Peace: Borders, State Development, and International Conflict.", Kirk A. Randazzo is a professor of political science at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of several books, including "Defenders of Liberty or Champions of Security? Federal Courts, the Hierarchy of Justice, and U.S. Foreign Policy." "Can the courts protect democracy? Yes, but they need these three supports.", Published February 17, 2017, Accessed July 12, 2018, Online, Washington Post)SMSUSVA Why is an independent judiciary important? One reason is that a majority of any will examine partisan gerrymandering in 2017. That could change the voting map.~ Great Power War Azar Gat 11, the Ezer Weizman Professor of National Security at Tel Aviv University, 2011, "The Changing Character of War," in The Changing Character of War, ed. Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers, p. 30-32 Since 1945, the decline of major great power war has deepened further. Nuclear , they may vary less than seemed likely only a short while ago. CP - Domestic vs National Interest Waivers v1 Tournament: NDCA Nationals \| Round: 2 \| Opponent: Shawnee Mission East RS \| Judge: Tommy Snider Text: The United States federal government should Increase its funding for Artificial Intelligence research between industry, academia and the government, including expanding access to data. Support key AI organizational outputs Accelerate public sector adoption of AI Spur AI development and adoption in industry Support digital free trade policies Foster innovation-friendly regulation Provide workers with better tools to manage AI-driven workforce transitions Increases in funding and national steps to promote domestic industry are key to beat China New 18 (Joshua New is a policy analyst at ITIF's Center for Data Innovation. He has a background in government affairs, policy, and communication, "Why the United States Needs a National Artificial Intelligence Strategy and What It Should Look Like", 12-4-18, http://www2.datainnovation.org/2018-national-ai-strategy.pdf)~~AK-Caddo~~ The United States is the global leader in developing and using artificial intelligence (AI , policymakers need to modernize workforce training and worker dislocation policies and programs. The United States federal government should - Substantially increase its funding of research and development in STEM sectors to be equal to or more than that of the People’s Republic of China - Increase military ESAs to increase retention and prevent aging workforces - Begin transitioning the USFG away from nuclear power to wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources RandD is uniquely key – firms can’t access the same benefits and it’s key to catch up with China Foote and Atkinson 18 (Caleb Foote is a research assistant at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Prior to joining ITIF, Caleb graduated from Brown University with a concentration in Economics, founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), recognized as the world’s top think tank for science and technology policy, “Dwindling Federal Support for RandD Is a Recipe for Economic and Strategic Decline”, 12-21-18, https://itif.org/publications/2018/12/14/dwindling-federal-support-rd-recipe-economic-and-strategic-decline)AK-Caddo Public expenditures in RandD are critical for increasing the total level of research being conducted, because RandD has spillover effects that firms cannot capture, which causes them to invest less than is societally optimal, and because government research incentivizes higher levels of private RandD. When companies invest in RandD to develop a product or a production process, they can almost never retain all the benefits of that research, even if they patent their discoveries. Competitors and others learn about the research and discoveries and can capitalize on them. In other cases, the benefits to society are much greater than the revenues firms are able to earn. These external benefits to producers or consumers are called spillovers. To maximize societal welfare, firms should continue to expand investments in RandD until the marginal total benefits (the benefits to the firms conducting research, to other firms, and to society at large) equal the cost of capital. But because firms rightly don’t take into account external benefits, they underinvest in RandD from a societal perspective. Further, rather than crowding out private research, government RandD often “crowds in,” leading firms to invest more than they would otherwise when the government does the same. Unlike sectors where government action would undercut or drive out private firms, public investments in research make private investments more lucrative. Discoveries increase the public knowledge base, providing more lines of research that firms can turn into innovative products and allowing researchers to execute their own projects more efficiently. For example, the development of the Internet not only spawned countless commercial opportunities for businesses, it also allowed other research to be more productive by providing much greater access to academic databases and by facilitating greater collaboration. Public RandD is also crucial for the United States’ position in the global economy, because many of the benefits of innovation are concentrated domestically. Federal RandD funding makes it more likely that U.S. firms are the first to leverage new discoveries, giving them advantages over international competitors. Thus, anemic government RandD spending is particularly concerning in the light of increases by other nations around the world, especially adversaries. Note that China increased public RandD by 56 percent between 2011 and 2016, and Russia increased its RandD by 13 percent, but U.S. investment in the same period fell by 12 percent in absolute terms. That is recipe for decline, economically and strategically. CP - ESA Counterplan: The United States federal government should amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow parents of eligible military dependent children to establish Military Education Savings Accounts —-and fast track current linguistic training at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. Lack of educational choice for military families crushes retention rates and is the largest internal link to readiness Burke and Ryland 17 (Lindsey M. Burke, Will Skillman Fellow in Education and Director of the Center for Education Policy, of the Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity, Heritage Foundation; and Anne Ryland, Research Assistant in the Center for Education Policy, Heritage Foundation; "A GI Bill for Children of Military Families: Transforming Impact Aid into Education Savings Accounts," Heritage Foundation, 6-2-2017, http://www.heritage.org/education/report/gi-bill-children-military-families-transforming-impact-aid-education-savings)KMM A strong national defense depends on a well-supported military. Members of the are limited, either in terms of student eligibility or aggregate funding caps. Retention outweighs lapses in recruitment CBO 6 (CBO, Congressional Budget Office – Congress of the United states, October 2006, "Recruiting, Retention, and Future Levels of Military Personnel", https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/76xx/doc7626/10-05-recruiting.pdf) JPARK Quantity The active Army states its retention goals in terms of the number, not , 2002, and again in 2005 (see Table 1-7). CP - HRIA The United States Federal Government should initiate a binding impact assessment regarding the consequences of ~Insert Plan Mandates~ and adopt such measure only if it can be made consistent with human rights obligations acceded to by the United States. Human rights review will approve the plan. Lesley Wexler, 2008. Assistant Professor, Florida State University College of Law. Thanks to Steve Gey, Curtis Bridgeman, Robin Craig, Brian Galle, Gerald Neuman, B.J. Priester, Jim Rossi, J.B. Ruhl, and Andy Schoenhoeltz for helpful suggestions. 4/6/08, last revised 5/12/12. Georgetown Immigration Law Review, Vol. 22, p. 285, 2008. "HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT STATEMENTS: AN IMMIGRATION CASE STUDY" p. 6-8 https://ssrn.com/abstract=2035471 Accessed 7/17/17 WR-NCP To develop a sense of how human rights review would operate in practice, this the domain of "immigration policy" would be subject to automatic assessment. Binding human rights review is key to reinvigorate U.S. credibility and protect rights which deters immigrants—-independently solves terror and climate change. B. Why a Human Rights Strategy? The development of a human rights strategy hand, provides a less developed canvas for domestic actors to flesh out. Climate change is real and causes extinction Zach Ruiter 17, environmental reporter for Now Toronto and Torontoist, citing 15, 364 scientists from 184 countries in 'World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice', 11-22-17, "Are we headed for near-term human extinction?" https://nowtoronto.com/news/are-we-headed-for-near-term-human-extinction/ A "warning to humanity" raising the spectre "of potentially catastrophic climate change rule out the possibility of human extinction in the coming decades or sooner? CP - Pardon Tournament: Barkley Forum \| Round: 4 \| Opponent: St Marks SV \| Judge: David Heidt The United States Supreme Court ought to pardon immigrants from restrictions on legal immigration imposed by marijuana-possession grounds of inadmissibility for those seeking admission to the United States as lawful permanent residents. Inadmissibility grounds can be pardoned – it solves them from being barred from LPR PETER L. MARKOWITZ AND LINDSAY NASH 18, Markowitz, Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Nash, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, "PARDONING IMMIGRANTS," https://www.nyulawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/NYULaw-93-1-MarkowitzNash.pdf In sum, although the bar to adjustment set forth in § 245(a a) and § 212(a)(6)(A) . Pardon power for immigrants is a constitutional gray-area – it'll get challenged but durable fiat means it gets upheld, resolving questions about the balancing between physical liberty and separation of power concerns At the outset, it is important to recognize that, in examining the structural of liberty protection, separation-of-powers concerns are somewhat mitigated. Current ambiguity regarding "physical liberty" in constitutional law creates the conditions for incarceration, detention, and deportation Michael Kagan 18, Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, "CHEVRON'S LIBERTY EXCEPTION," https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=270087070007121065004069069018015026019020004044012020102112085077080096074005093087126002106037044112055114070006118115028067030009070086068020110110028082073016091073066035120113110106071004070004112088081007064015068093021075101030113091110025121087andEXT=pdf Second, this pattern of avoiding deference in deportation and detention cases makes normative sense claim that the rule of lenity should govern interpretation of certain immigration statutes. CP - Parole Text: The Executive branch of the United States should indefinitely grant parole and issue employment authorization documents to a substantial number of persons who the United Nations recognized as a refugee. Executive parole solves the case – it is distinct from "legal immigration" and avoids political ramifications. Endelman and Mehta '9 (Gary - J.D., University of Houston, Board Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law. Cyrus D. - graduate of Cambridge University and Columbia Law School, Managing Member of Cyrus D. Mehta and Associates, Chair of the Committee on Immigration and Nationality Law for the NYC Bar, Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, "The Path Less Taken: Is There An Alternative To Waiting For Comprehensive Immigration Reform?" 2009, http://www.ilw.com/articles/2009,0225-endelman.shtm) The use of parole by the Executive acting sua sponte in such an expansive and act. However important CIR remains, it is not the only way. CP - State Visas Text: The United States federal government should establish a state-based visa program to give states statutory authority to create guest worker programs State based visas solve and are politically salient Fuller and Rust 17 — deputy director of the Marron Institute at New York University; attorney and partner at Rust Real Estate, LLC in Philadelphia (Brandon and Sean, "Why letting states sponsor immigration visas should satisfy everyone," The Federalist, May 31, 2017, http://thefederalist.com/2017/05/31/letting-states-sponsor-immigration-visas-satisfy-everyone/) With President Trump's executive orders on immigration stalled out in federal court, Washington could based visa programs that can generate jobs and growth in their home states. CP - Temporary Protection The United States Federal government should expand refugee criteria to include the category of gender as a protected ground for granting temporary status to refugees The CP solves- Temporary protection is an effective alternative to expanding refugee status Fitzpatrick 2K(Joan, Joan Fitzpatrick was a human rights scholar and had a J.D from Harvard Law School, "Temporary Protection of Refugees: Elements of a Formalized Regime," April 2000, p. 287-288, https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2555293.pdf?refreqid=excelsior3A1eab9077a54da49e1fa65dac8933de00)~~AK-Caddo~~ TP= Temporary Protection of Refugees At least four motivations influence the participants in to non-Convention refugees implies the existence of an international legal obligation. Case - Backlash Turn Tournament: NSDA Districts \| Round: 4 \| Opponent: Baton Rouge Magnet CH \| Judge: Cassie Rebeor Turn- loose asylum restrictions incentivize false claims that harm legitimate asylum-seekers and endanger national security Rush 18 Nayla Rush is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Immigration Studies, focusing on refugee and asylum policy. She holds a Ph.D. in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex in the UK, a Maitrise in Sociology from Sorbonne University in Paris, and a B.A. in Sociology from the American University of Beirut. June 20th, 2018. "This World Refugee Day, Let's Address Fraudulent Asylum Claims That Are Detrimental to Legitimate Asylum Seekers". https://cis.org/Rush/World-Refugee-Day-Lets-Address-Fraudulent-Asylum-Claims-Are-Detrimental-Legitimate-Asylum But these migrants choose to come straight to America because it was all along a fraudulent claims that harm genuine refugees, at least refrain from encouraging them. Case - Biotech Bad Tournament: NSDA Nationals \| Round: 4 \| Opponent: Canyon Crest GY \| Judge: Denise Grisham, Tamera Yost Biotech destroys genetic diversity Rifkin, 98 - Senior Lecturer Executive Education Wharton School of Business and president of The Foundation on Economic Trends (Jeremy-, E: The Environmental Magazine, May-June, Advisor to the EU and architect of its "Third Industrial Revolution", http://www.emagazine.com/view/?632) Ironically, all of the many efforts to reseed the biosphere with a laboratory- can compensate for the loss of the genetic material crop breeders depend upon." That kills ag Lucas 02– 88 JD @ University of Oregon ~SCOTT C. LUCAS, "Halting the Downward Spiral of Monoculturization and Genetic Vulnerability: Toward a Sustainable and Biodiverse Food Supply," Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Spring, 2002, 17 J. Envtl. L. and Litig. 161~ Genetic Diversity in Food Sources Genetic diversity is crucial to a ~ of the species and its availability as a food source for humans. GMOs increase antibiotic resistance – causes super diseases Smith, 10 – Executive Director of the Institute for Responsible Technology (Jeffrey, STATE-OF-THE-SCIENCE ON THE HEALTH RISKS OF GM FOOD, http://www.responsibletechnology.org/docs/145.pdf) FDA scientists were also quite concerned about the possibility of inserted genes spontaneously transferring into our own DNA, within the cells of our own organs and tissues. ABR causes extinction Geltman 15 ~Andrew Geltman (JD, focus in Health Law—UMaryland Francis King Carey School of Law), Defusing the Bug Bomb: Legal Strategies to Combat Antibiotic Resistant Infections, 18 J. Health Care L. and Pol'y 115 (2015)~ Antibiotics are truly a miraculous class of drugs1 that have saved many lives.2 sudden outbreak of an antibiotic resistant infection would lead to catastrophic results.217 Case - Chinese Modernization Good China's modernization is focused on deploying and improving subs Zachary Keck 17, Wohlstetter Public Affairs Fellow at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, 6-2-2017, "The Big China Nuclear Threat No One Is Talking About," National Interest, https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-big-china-nuclear-threat-no-one-talking-about-20983 This smaller arsenal is consistent with China's different perspective about the nature of deterrence, based deterrent will account for at least 75 percent of its entire stockpile. Noisy submarines are the reason for controlling the SCS which creates a flashpoint for conflict Roman Madaus 16, Office of the Shadow Assistant Minster of Defence, 7-26-2016, "Nuclear Dimensions Of The South China Sea," Foreign Brief, https://www.foreignbrief.com/asia-pacific/china/nuclear-dimensions-south-china-sea/ An important part of this strategy involves improving China's nuclear-armed submarines. China additional motivator for Beijing to extend its control over the South China Sea. Causes war with the US Tong Zhao 18, fellow in Carnegie's Nuclear Policy Program based at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, 10-24-2018, "Tides of Change: China's Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines and Strategic Stability," Carnegie-Tsinghua Center, https://carnegietsinghua.org/2018/10/24/tides-of-change-china-s-nuclear-ballistic-missile-submarines-and-strategic-stability-pub-77490 BASTION STRATEGY AND SEA CONTROL For China, establishing an SSBN bastion in the fiercely attempting to repel foreign ASW platforms, could precipitate confrontations. Modernization is about second strike, not changing overall posture. David Logan 17, PhD student in Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a Graduate Fellow and Deputy Director of the Strategic Education Initiative at Princeton's Center for International Security Studies., 11-8-2017, "Hard Constraints on China's Nuclear Forces," War on the Rocks, https://warontherocks.com/2017/11/china-nuclear-weapons-breakout/ While China is indeed in the midst of a significant modernization effort, the changes hopes to enhance its ability to penetrate U.S. missile defenses. Only Chinese second strike capability can consolidate perceptions of mutual vulnerability—-that solves war. Oriana Skylar Mastro 18. Georgetown University and AEI. 11/21/2018. "In the Shadow of the Thucydides Trap: International Relations Theory and the Prospects for Peace in U.S.-China Relations." Journal of Chinese Political Science. Crossref, doi:10.1007/s11366-018-9581-4. Nuclear Weapons The fact that both the United States and China possess nuclear weapons means greater economic interdependence, or attempt to expand the power of international institutions. Case - DHS Turn DHS is bloated, disorganized, and doesn't have the resources to achieve all ideal proposals Cindy Williams is a Principal Research Scientist, MIT Security Studies Program. March 19, 2008"Security Studies Program Seminar: Planning and Resource Allocation for Homeland Security". http://web.mit.edu/SSP/seminars/wed_archives08spring/williams.htm What about success at identifying and allocating risks? Usually discussion of risk is how studies. (Need someone who knows policy and someone who knows money.) DHS has a laundry list of priorities they haven't got to yet-the plan shifts their priorities- turns case Camila Domonoske and Joel Rose are reporters from NPR. 2/22/17 "What's New In Those DHS Memos On Immigration Enforcement?"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/22/516649344/whats-new-in-those-dhs-memos-on-immigration-enforcement Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race, his comments on illegal immigration have S. for the department to use in other "priority" cases. Case - Dedev Tournament: Sophomore Hoedown \| Round: Finals \| Opponent: Carrollton Sacred Heart BD \| Judge: Josh Gonzalez, Mitch Hagney, Cody Morrow We'll concede the aff causes global econ decline – that crisis sparks transition Loorbach, et al, 16—DRIFT, Erasmus University, Rotterdam (Derk, with Flor Avelino, DRIFT, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Alex Haxeltine, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Julia M. Wittmayer, DRIFT, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Tim O'Riordan, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Paul Weaver, LUCSUS, Lund University, and René Kemp, ICIS, Maastricht University, "The economic crisis as a game changer? Exploring the role of social construction in sustainability transitions," Ecology and Society 21(4):15, dml) Meanwhile, many political and public debates seem to be primarily concerned with standard, ) vis-é-vis the restorative dynamics associated with incumbent regimes. Growth is terminally unsustainable – biophysical limits ensure extinction – a transition to a degrowth paradigm is key Alexander and Rutherford 14—lecturer at the Office for Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne, Australia, and author of Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation, PhD AND Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Middlesex (Samuel and Jonathan, 2014, "The Deep Green Alternative: Debating Strategies of Transition," pp. 19-20, http://simplicityinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/The-Deep-Green-Alternative.pdf, Accessed 6/3/17, HWilson) As industrial civilisation continues its global expansion and pursues growth without apparent limit, the one might say, if not inevitable, then perhaps much more likely. Economic downturn solves war—-best data Clary 15 – Christopher Clary, PhD in Political Science from MIT, M.A. in National Security Affairs, Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, 2015 ("Economic Stress and International Cooperation: Evidence from International Rivalries," April 25th, Available Online via SSRN Subscription) Do economic downturns generate pressure for diversionary conflict? Or might downturns encourage austerity detail, while also providing historical examples that these mechanisms recur in practice. Case - Heg Bad Primacy causes nuclear war—-creates a moral hazard for allies to start wars, and creates a security dilemma that causes prolif Christopher Preble 16, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. PhD in History from Temple University. With William Ruger. 2016. "The Problem With Primacy." In "Our Foreign Policy Choices, Rethinking America's Global Role" https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=741072022102024090075118113101083026016056000029024069069123111076082080009064093108016120111006027011049007074022115108007102123042042011081092085100005025006088070001052041101115092080116097001012108114029011071004086091092118120095090091004096029029andEXT=pdf Another key problem is that primacy inadvertently increases the risk of conflict. Allies are interventions were counterproductive and have failed to make America safer and more secure. Unipolarity is responsible for global terrorism – those continuted assymmetric responses make it unsustainalbe Ibrahimi 18 a researcher and instructor of political science. Ibrahimi received his PhD from Carleton University. His research interests include international relations, international security, terrorism, conflict Analysis, political development in the Middles East and South Asia, and Afghanistan. His articles have appeared in Small Wars and Insurgencies, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, and elsewhere. (2/19/18; S. Yaqub Ibrahimi; "Unipolar politics and global peace: a structural explanation of the globalizing jihad"; taylor and francis https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17467586.2018.1428763?needAccess=true) Three conclusions can be drawn from this paper. First, the peacefulness of the disrupt peace and security at all domestic, regional, and global levels. Pursuit of hegemony through "spread of democracy" causes mass industrial killing of millions of innocents- turns the case Kelly 13 (Kieran Kelly, Master's candidate studying history through Aotearoa/New Zealand's Massey University as of 2012, "The United States of Genocide: Putting the US on Trial for Genocide Against the Peoples of Korea, Laos, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Iraq, and Elsewhere," Global Research, September 30, 2013, https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-united-states-of-genocide-putting-the-us-on-trial-for-genocide-against-the-peoples-of-korea-laos-viet-nam-cambodia-iraq-and-elsewhere/5352227)//glen* The United States of America was built on a foundation of genocide against the Indigenous these were large scale systematic and intentional genocides which you can read.1 Its unsustainable – income inequality, manufacturing outsourcing, populist backlash, shift to Asia Layne 18 ~{ Christopher Layne is University Distinguished Professor of International Affairs, and, Robert M. Gates Chair in National Security, at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas AandM University. His fields of interest are international relations theory, great power politics, US foreign policy, and grand strategy. Professor Layne has written two books: The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present (Cornell University Press, 2006), and (with Bradley A. Thayer) American Empire: A Debate (Routledge, 2006). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the editorial boards of Security Studies and International Security. He is a contributing editor to the American Conservative. He is a member of the Governing Council of the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association. In May/June 2014, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. , January, 2018, "The US–Chinese power shift and the end of the Pax Americana" pg. 89-92, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iix249 ~} Donald Trump's election in November 2016 sent a shiver down the collective spines of the given these big, impersonal forces of history a powerful shove forward.9 Trump makes the pursuit of leadership Unsustainable – volatile powers, single issue focus, international turmoil Klare 17 ~{ Michael T. Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and the author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil. Consider this essay a preview of his newest book, Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy, which has just been published by Metropolitan Books. A brief video of Klare discussing key subjects in his new book can be viewed by clicking here. "America Third Donald Trump Is Giving the Phrase "Multipolar World" New Meaning ", April 2017, http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176243/tomgram3A_michael_klare2C_a_22china_first22_and_22russia_second22_foreign_policy ~} Given 19 months of bravado public rhetoric, there was no way to imagine a weaken the strongest alliance in the Pacific will see opportunity in this moment." Multipolarity is net-better in resolving existential risks Burrell 18 - Montague Burton Professor of International Relations and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford (Andrew Burrell; "Ethics and International Affairs, 32, no. 1"; "Beyond the BRICS: Power, Pluralism, and the Future of Global Order"; Cambridge Council for Ethics in International Affairs; pgs. 93-94; Accessed 7/9/2018)TS Seen in this way the challenges to global order coming from the Western core reinforce . Nothing has happened since the 2008 financial crisis to change this picture. Case - Housing Bubble Turn Tournament: NSDA Nationals \| Round: 1 \| Opponent: Houston Memorial AD \| Judge: Kun Hu, Minha Jutt Increasing Chinese Investors risks north American Housing Bubble- turns econ Noah Smith 18, ~Noah Smith- assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University, "China Sends Real-Estate Bubbles to North America: Noah Smith", National Real Estate Investor, 7-20-2018, http://www.nreionline.com/investment/china-sends-real-estate-bubbles-north-america-noah-smith~~ Valiaveedu But at the same time, what will be the result of all that Chinese while, but ultimately it wouldn't end any better than the last two. Trump and CIFUS crackdown on FDI Thumps investment Jethro Mullen and Kevin Liptak 18, ~Jethro Mullen and Kevin Liptak- staff writers at CNN "Chinese tech investment in US is next target in Trump's crackdown", CNNMoney, 6-25-2018, https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/25/investing/chinese-investment-in-us-restrictions/index.html~~ Valiaveedu The Trump administration is set to announce measures this week cracking down on Chinese investment has bipartisan support in Congress and the backing of top Trump administration officials. Case - Medical Brain Drain The aff causes medical brain drain which crushes the health care systems of developing countries—-turns the case Kate Tulenko 10, M.D., MPH, MPhil, deputy director of CapacityPlus, the U.S. Agency for International Development's program addressing the global health workforce shortage, "Countries Without Doctors?" 6/11/10, http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/06/11/countries-without-doctors/ Forget about all the members of Congress who are supposedly about to suffer from " was one of the main barriers to training more health workers in Africa. Case - Prolif Good Proliferation dampens conflict -~-- only our evidence does a statistical, controlled study. Akisato Suzuki, June 2015. Akisato, Researcher at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, MA in Violence, Terrorism and Security at Queen's University, “Is more better or worse? New empirics on nuclear proliferation and interstate conflict by Random Forests,” Research and Politics, SagePub Given these conflict-reducing/provoking effects of nuclear proliferation, what overall effect would nuclear proliferation have on a systemic propensity for conflict? This is difficult to answer, not only due to the controversy over whether nuclear states are more or less prone to conflict, but also because the existing theories do not explain whether those conflict-reducing/provoking effects are large enough to influence a systemic propensity for interstate conflict, given the ratio of nuclear states to non-nuclear states in the system. This challenge motivates the empirical examination of the relationship between nuclear proliferation and a systemic propensity for conflict. Empirical investigation by Random Forests The interstate–systemic year data are used here to investigate the relationship between nuclear proliferation and a systemic propensity for interstate conflict. The dependent variable is the number of militarized interstate dispute onsets (Palmer et al., 2015; version 4.01 is used) per systemic-year, standardized as the ratio to the number of states in the interstate system (Correlates of War Project, 2011) – hereafter, the ‘dispute–state ratio’. Observations one year ahead (t+1) are used to make sure that causal effects precede a variation in the dispute–state ratio.2 Two regressors are used to examine the effect of nuclear proliferation: the number of nuclear states in the interstate system; and a count of the years since the number of nuclear states changes (hereafter ‘nuclear year counter’), measuring the effect of new nuclear states (Horowitz, 2009). The data about nuclear states are from Gartzke and Kroenig (2009); additionally, the current paper codes North Korea as a nuclear state since 2009 (Table 1).3 The model also includes the number of democratic states (Polity2 score ⩾ 6 in Marshall, 2013) in the interstate system, the gross world product (Earth Policy Institute, 2012), and the binary variable of unipolarity (coded zero until 1989 and one from 1990; see Monteiro, 2011/2012); these three variables control for democratic peace (Russett and Oneal, 2001), capitalist peace (Gartzke, 2007), and polarity (Monteiro, 2011/2012) respectively. The number of nuclear states and these control variables suffer from multicollinearity (see Table A-9 in the online appendix), and this paer later explains how to resolve this problem. A lagged dependent variable is also included to address the temporal dependence of time-series data. The temporal scope is 1950–2009 (i.e. N=59) due to the data availability and the use of the dependent variable at t+1. The descriptive statistics of all variables are displayed in Table 2.4. As mentioned in the introduction, this paper uses the machine learning, non-parametric method Random Forests for the empirical investigation.5 Although it is unfamiliar to most political science and international relations analysts, Random Forests has been widely used in numerous scientific studies (Strobl et al., 2009: 324; Strobl et al., 2008). The popularity of the method is also apparent from the fact that Breiman’s (2001) original paper has been cited 12,721 times in the literature.6 Random Forests generates two useful analytics: first, ‘conditional variable importance’ measures how ‘important’ each regressor is, conditional on the remaining regressors (Hothorn et al., 2006; Strobl et al., 2007, 2008). This is analogous to statistical significance in conventional regression models. The significance threshold proposed by Strobl et al. (2009: 343) is whether the importance score of a regressor is negative, zero, or lower than the absolute value of the lowest negative score. If none applies, the regressor is considered as important; and the second relevant analytic is a partial dependence plot (Friedman, 2001). This estimates the marginal effect of each regressor on the dependent variable while taking the remaining regressors into consideration. Random Forests has three attractive and distinctive characteristics for the purposes of this paper: first, the estimation of conditional variable importance and partial dependence plots enable conventional applied researchers to interpret non-parametric analysis in an intuitive way; second, Random Forests can examine non-linearity (Strobl et al., 2009: 339–341), which is desirable because, as already noted, some theories expect non-linearity between nuclear proliferation and a systemic propensity for conflict; and finally, it can cope with potential interactions and multicollinearity between regressors (Strobl et al., 2009: 339–341; Strobl et al., 2008). As noted before, most of the regressors here are highly correlated, and also it is plausible to anticipate some interaction effect between them (e.g. the number of democratic states and the gross world product). The specific capabilities of Random Forests are therefore essential. The estimation of conditional variable importance shows that the nuclear year counter has a negative importance score.7 Thus, the nuclear year counter is not important in explaining the dispute–state ratio. This suggests that the optimist theory is supported. The remaining regressors have an importance score higher than the absolute value of the importance score of the nuclear year counter, meaning that they are all important. Controlling for democratic peace, capitalist peace, and polarity, the number of nuclear states is still a significant predictor in explaining a systemic propensity for interstate conflict. Figure 1 presents the partial dependence plots of the model.8 First, on average, a larger number of nuclear states is associated with a lower dispute–state ratio, although the changes from two nuclear states to three and from six to seven increase the ratio instead. Thus, the relationship is empirically non-linear, as Bueno de Mesquita and Riker (1982) and Intriligator and Brito (1981) expected in part. Overall, however, the optimist theory is supported, and the change from two nuclear states to nine nuclear states decreases the dispute–state ratio approximately from 0.228 to 0.18. This means that, if there are 194 states in the system (as there were in 2009), the number of militarized interstate dispute onsets per system-year decreases approximately from 44 to 35. This is a substantively significant decline. Second, the nuclear year counter shows a concave relationship with the dispute–state ratio, suggesting that new nuclear states are less prone to conflict than middle-aged nuclear states. Thus, the pessimist theory finds no support from either the variable importance estimation or the partial dependence plot. Finally, as for the control variables, the number of democratic states and the gross world product have a complex non-linear relationship with the dispute–state ratio, but if the number of democratic states and the gross world product are sufficiently large, they tend to decrease the dispute–state ratio. Their substantive effects are also significant, though not as much as the number of nuclear states. When comparing the effect of their lowest and highest values (23 and 94 in the number of democratic states and 7 and 71.2 in the gross world product), the number of democratic states decreases the number of militarized interstate dispute onsets per system-year approximately from 40 to 37, and the gross world product from 44 to 37. Unipolarity is also associated with a decline in the dispute–state ratio, suggesting that unipolarity is better than bipolarity in terms of a systemic propensity for interstate conflict; however, its effect is negligible, as it reduces the number of militarized interstate dispute onsets per system-year from 39 to 38. One caveat is, as explained in the online appendix, that the results of the number of democratic states and unipolarity are significantly sensitive to a parameter setting. Thus, these predictors are less robust, and the aforementioned points about them should be treated with caution. Discussion and concluding remarks The main findings reveal that the optimist expectation of the relationship between nuclear proliferation and interstate conflict is empirically supported:9 first, a larger number of nuclear states on average decreases the systemic propensity for interstate conflict; and second, there is no clear evidence that the emergence of new nuclear states increases the systemic propensity for interstate conflict. Gartzke and Jo (2009) argue that nuclear weapons themselves have no exogenous effect on the probability of conflict, because when a state is engaged in or expects to engage in conflict, it may develop nuclear weapons to keep fighting, or to prepare for, that conflict. If this selection effect existed, the analysis should overestimate the conflict-provoking effect of nuclear proliferation in the above model. Still, the results indicate that a larger number of nuclear states are associated with fewer disputes in the system. This conclusion, however, raises questions about how to reconcile this study’s findings with those of a recent quantitative dyadic-level study (Bell and Miller, 2015). The current paper finds that nuclear proliferation decreases the systemic propensity for interstate conflict, while Bell and Miller (2015) find that nuclear symmetry has no significant effect on dyadic conflict, but that nuclear asymmetry is associated with a higher probability of dyadic conflict. It is possible that nuclear proliferation decreases conflict through the conflict-mitigating effects of extended nuclear deterrence and/or fear of nuclear states’ intervention, to the extent that these effects overwhelm the conflict-provoking effect of nuclear–asymmetrical dyads. Thus, dyadic-level empirics cannot solely be relied on to infer causal links between nuclear proliferation and a systemic propensity for conflict. The systemic-level empirics deserve attention. Limiting prolif raises the transaction costs and causes a de-fact shift to CBWs. Neil Narang, 4/6/2016. Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy on a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship. “All Together Now? Questioning WMDs as a Useful Analytical Unit for Understanding Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation,” The Nonproliferation Review. Volume 22. Issue 3-4. pp. 457-468. Taylor and Francis. The first inference that one may be tempted to draw from past findings is that a policy focused on achieving reductions in the global nuclear stockpile could cause a rise in chemical and biological weapons proliferation as more states view them as a “poor man's atomic bomb.” As noted above, our findings suggested that states appear to seek chemical and biological weapons for many of the same reasons as they pursue nuclear weapons. Furthermore, our findings also indicate that states that do not possess nuclear weapons appear to be systematically more likely to pursue chemical and biological weapons than states that do possess them. When combined, it may seem reasonable to suppose that, conditional on some level of demand for one of these types of weapons, reductions in the global supply of nuclear weapons could cause some states to pursue chemical and biological weapons as “imperfect substitutes” for the deterrence and compellence benefits of nuclear weapons. A second inference that one may be tempted to draw is that a strengthened NPT may increase the risk of chemical and biological weapons proliferation. Understood in the terms of our study, policies and institutions designed to monitor and sanction the unilateral pursuit or dissemination of nuclear weapons material and technical expertise—like the NPT or the Nuclear Suppliers Group—might be understood as supply constraints that effectively increase the transaction costs of nuclear weapons acquisition. Furthermore, previous research has shown that the supply of sensitive nuclear assistance and civilian nuclear assistance are both positively associated with the risk of nuclear weapons pursuit and acquisition across states and over time.17 When combined, it may seem reasonable to suppose that, given some demand for a “weapon of mass destruction,” chemical and biological weapons could seem like relatively cheaper pursuits under a more robust global nuclear nonproliferation regime that further regulates the supply of nuclear weapons. A third inference that one may be tempted to draw is that reductions in the global supply of nuclear weapons and a strengthening of the nuclear nonproliferation regime could increase the risk of chemical and biological weapons pursuit by terrorist groups. If one is willing to assume terrorist groups aim to influence governments by threatening to impose costs in order to achieve concessions— whether this be through strategies like coercion, provocation, spoiling, or outbidding—then it may seem reasonable to suppose that limiting the availability of nuclear weapons might shift the demand to other coercive instruments such as chemical or biological weapons.18 Extinction- Outweighs nuclear war. Clifford Singer, Spring 2001. Director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign. “Will Mankind Survive the Millennium?” The Bulletin of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 13.1, http://www.acdis.uiuc.edu/research/SandPs/2001-Sp/SandP_XIII/Singer.htm In recent years the fear of the apocalypse (or religious hope for it) has been in part a child of the Cold War, but its seeds in Western culture go back to the Black Death and earlier. Recent polls suggest that the majority in the United States that believe man would survive into the future for substantially less than a millennium was about 10 percent higher in the Cold War than afterward. However fear of annihilation of the human species through nuclear warfare was confused with the admittedly terrifying, but much different matter of destruction of a dominant civilization. The destruction of a third or more of much of the globe’s population through the disruption from the direct consequences of nuclear blast and fire damage was certainly possible. There was, and still is, what is now known to be a rather small chance that dust raised by an all-out nuclear war would cause a socalled nuclear winter, substantially reducing agricultural yields especially in temperate regions for a year or more. As noted above mankind as a whole has weathered a number of mind-boggling disasters in the past fifty thousand years even if older cultures or civilizations have sometimes eventually given way to new ones in the process. Moreover the fear that radioactive fallout would make the globe uninhabitable, publicized by widely seen works such as “On the Beach,” was a metaphor for the horror of nuclear war rather than reality. The epidemiological lethal results of well over a hundred atmospheric nuclear tests are barely statistically detectable except in immediate fallout plumes. The increase in radiation exposure far from the combatants in even a full scale nuclear exchange at the height of the Cold War would have been modest compared to the variations in natural background radiation doses that have readily been adapted to by a number of human populations. Nor is there any reason to believe that global warming or other insults to our physical environment resulting from currently used technologies will challenge the survival of mankind as a whole beyond what it has already handily survived through the past fifty thousand years. There are, however, two technologies currently under development that may pose a more serious threat to human survival. The first and most immediate is biological warfare combined with genetic engineering. Smallpox is the most fearsome of natural biological warfare agents in existence. By the end of the next decade, global immunity to smallpox will likely be at a low unprecedented since the emergence of this disease in the distant past, while the opportunity for it to spread rapidly across the globe will be at an all time high. In the absence of other complications such as nuclear war near the peak of an epidemic, developed countries may respond with quarantine and vaccination to limit the damage. Otherwise mortality there may match the rate of 30 percent or more expected in unprepared developing countries. With respect to genetic engineering using currently available knowledge and technology, the simple expedient of spreading an ample mixture of coat protein variants could render a vaccination response largely ineffective, but this would otherwise not be expected to substantially increase overall mortality rates. With development of new biological technology, however, there is a possibility that a variety of infectious agents may be engineered for combinations of greater than natural virulence and mortality, rather than just to overwhelm currently available antibiotics or vaccines. There is no a priori known upper limit to the power of this type of technology base, and thus the survival of a globally connected human family may be in question when and if this is achieved. Case - Refugee Exploitation Humanitarian workers sexually exploit refugees while they try to leave their home countries Ferris, 07 (Elizabeth, Elizabeth Farris is a research professor with the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, "Abuse of Power: Sexual Exploitation of Refugee Women and Girls," 3-1-2007, https://www.brookings.edu/articles/abuse-of-power-sexual-exploitation-of-refugee-women-and-girls/)~~AK-Caddo~~ The fact that refugee and displaced women and children are particularly vulnerable to violence has enter sexually exploitative relationships in order to secure relief items for the family. Case - Refugees Bad Large influxes of refugees lead to disease, econ decline and war- turns the case Shellito, 16 (Kevin, Kevin Shellito was a law student at the University of Pennsylvania, "The Economic Effect of Refugee Crises on Host Countries and Implications for the Lebanese Case," 4-27-16, p. 16-18, https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022andcontext=joseph_wharton_scholars)~~AK-Caddo~~ First, refugees can strain the services systems of host countries. These strains occur fairly homogeneous nation—through the torching of refugee shelters (Traub 2016). Pandemic diseases cause extinction Piers Millett 17, Consultant for the World Health Organization, PhD in International Relations and Affairs, University of Bradford, Andrew Snyder-Beattie, "Existential Risk and Cost-Effective Biosecurity", Health Security, Vol 15(4), http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/hs.2017.0028 Historically, disease events have been responsible for the greatest death tolls on humanity. , and available vectors, could be modified as well.19-2 Case - Remittances Bad Tournament: NDCA Nationals \| Round: 6 \| Opponent: Newark Science AS \| Judge: DAngelo Oberto-Besso Families see emigration as an investment and remittances as returns—this means they'll spend money on consumption instead of further investment CHAMI et al 2003 (Ralph Chami is a deputy division chief in the IMF Institute. Connel Fullenkamp is Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Duke University. Samir Jahjah is an economist in the IMF Institute; "Are Immigrant Remittance Flows a Source of Capital for Development?" September, http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2003/wp03189.pdf) The prospect of converting remittances to development capital is even more daunting if we think in a model of migration. This is a task for future research. Remittances create a moral hazard by breeding dependence and raising the reservation wage—the result is long-term economic decline KAPUR 2004 (Devesh, Harvard University and Center for Global Development, "Remittances: The New Development Mantra?," G-24 Discussion Paper No. 29. http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/gdsmdpbg2420045_en.pdf) In communities heavily dependent on remittances, a culture of dependency often sets in. course this is moot if most people leave the community in any case. Remittances remove pressure on governments for reform—this guarantees structural imbalances in the economy A further sobering realization about the moral hazard problem discussed in this paper is that decreased effort on the part of domestic workers, firms, and entrepreneurs. Case - Terrorism Turn The IIRIRA was created to prevent large-scale terrorist attacks and disincentivizes asylum-seekers Maura Ewing 16 is a Brooklyn-based journalist. She is a Western Massachusetts native and a proud graduate of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. December 15th, 2016. "20 years ago, asylum seekers were not automatically put in immigration detention". https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-12-15/20-years-ago-asylum-seekers-were-not-automatically-put-immigration-detention. EL On February 26, 1993, a group of Islamic extremists parked a rental van view asylum seekers more suspiciously than they would other immigrants," she says. Trump makes retaliation guaranteed—-psychology proves and their defense is wrong Gartner 16 (John Gartner Et. Al, 3-31-2016, John Gartner is a private-practice psychologist, part-time assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University Medical School and author of In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography. "9/11: What Would Trump Do? ," POLITICO Magazine, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/donald-trump-2016-terrorist-attack-foreign-policy-213784 ) "Trump, a thin-skinned malignant narcissist who can leave no slight unavenged the celebrated war hero's dismissal by President Truman. But that was then. DA - Base Trump's base support is high now Grace Sparks 6/7/18, Associate Producer, CNN Politics, "Trump approval ticking up in new poll", CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/07/politics/trump-approval-nbc-wsj/index.html Washington (CNN) – President Donald Trump's approval has moved to 44 among garnering stronger support from the same people, not necessarily adding new voters. the plan causes total revolt and immediate base defection Jason Silverstein 17, national politics reporter covering the Trump administration and related stories, "Trump base in Congress and right-wing media panic over his softer stance on immigration and border wall", nydailynews, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-base-congress-media-panic-softer-immigration-views-article-1.3495942 President Trump's softer stance on his border wall is cracking his base. Die- has been barely any action to begin its construction or secure full funding. The impact is lash-out – causes 4 major wars a year Dennis Foster 16, professor of international studies and political science at the Virginia Military Institute, "Would President Trump go to war to divert attention from problems at home?," https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/12/19/yes-trump-might-well-go-to-war-to-divert-attention-from-problems-at-home/?utm_term=.cc7194c00f20 If the U.S. economy tanks, should we expect Donald Trump to with Trump's psychological traits would initiate more than one major conflict per quarter. DA - DOS Trade-Off Tournament: University of Texas \| Round: 6 \| Opponent: Kinkaid PP \| Judge: Alex Stransky Cultural exchange programs are on the chopping block – drastic cuts undermine the program and kill long-term viability, which guts global diplomacy. Isenson 18 (Nancy, staff writer for Deutsche Welle, "Fulbright exchange program battles White House antipathy," 3/16/2018, https://www.dw.com/en/fulbright-exchange-program-battles-white-house-antipathy/a-43008933) Bill Clinton gave it a shot, and so did Barack Obama. Now it's has other funding sources, would be cut by at least 25 percent. Visas are issued by State Department consulates – regulatory changes cause massive resource drain that trades off with funding and personnel needed for other programs. Carpenter, 03 – J.D., University of Tulsa College of Law (Leah Phelps, Spring. "COMMENT: THE STATUS OF THE H-1B VISA IN THESE CONFLICTING TIMES." Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law. 10 Tulsa J. Comp. and Int'l L. 553.) Due to the delay in processing, employers are utilizing alternative avenues to bring workers priority shifts create frustration and a decline in morale in agency employees. n209 US leadership solves World War III- extinction Brzezinski 12 ~Zbigniew Brzezinski, former presidential national security advisor, 1-3-2012, "After America," Foreign Policy, http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/01/03/after-america/~~ Not so long ago, a high-ranking Chinese official, who obviously had policy — or start bracing itself for a dangerous slide into global turmoil. DA - Farm Bill Farm bill will pass now- the majority leader wants to get it done- food stamps don't thump Cameron 10/18 Daniel Cameron of Frost Brown Todd, the Roundtable's lead DC lobbyist and the former General Counsel to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. October 18th, 2018. "2018 FARM BILL UPDATE" US Hemp Roundtable. https://hempsupporter.com/2018-farm-bill-update/. EL Of course, there are four other critical partners to the Farm Bill negotiations: reauthorization over the finish line, despite difference on food stamp work requirements. New, unexpected legislation sets-off partisan fights that de-rail other legislation and take up floor time Madonna et al 12 Anthony Madonna is an Assistant Professor University of Georgia. Richard L. Vining Jr. is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia and James E. Monogan III is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia. October 5th, 2012. "Confirmation Wars and Collateral Damage: Assessing the Impact of Supreme Court Nominations on Presidential Success in the U.S. Senate," pg online @ http://spia.uga.edu/faculty_pages/ajmadonn/Presidential20Capital.pdf The amount of time and political capital spent on a Supreme Court nominee is largely of judicial nominations, moving cloture on all or many of them is untenable Farm bill is key to RandD that spurs global competitiveness and research that combats future food crises Flowers 4/9 Kimberly Flowers is director of the Global Food Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. Kelsey Bachenberg was a junior researcher with the CSIS Global Food Security Project. April 4th, 2018. The 2018 Farm Bill, Agricultural Research, and Implications for Global Food Security Center for Strategic and International Studies. https://www.csis.org/analysis/2018-farm-bill-agricultural-research-and-implications-global-food-security This year Congress is expected to pass a piece of legislation that deeply affects the lower-income people to feed themselves at home and around the world. Food insecurity-driven crisis is the most likely scenario for conflict- Egyptian instability proves- the impact proves alt causes to all the conflicts they identify Lehane 17 Sinéad Lehane is research manager for Future Directions International's Global Food and Water Crises Research program. February 2nd, 2018. "Shaping Conflict in the 21st Century—The Future of Food and Water Security". Hydropolitics Academy. http://www.hidropolitikakademi.org/shaping-conflict-in-the-21st-century-the-future-of-food-and-water-security.html Food Security Most food motivated conflict between now and 2050 is likely to take the the world affects everyone. What is ultimately required is unprecedented international cooperation. DA - Fraud EB-5 is fine now but further openings risk exponential increases in fraud Rebecca Gambler 16 ~Rebecca Gambler - Director Homeland Security and Justice, "IMMIGRANT INVESTOR PROGRAM Additional Actions Needed to Better Assess Fraud Risks and Report Economic Benefits", GAO, February 11, 2016, https://www.gao.gov/assets/680/675138.pdf~~ Valiaveedu In August 2015, we reported that USCIS had identified fraud and national security risks to both the investors and regional centers, such as the following.15 Unchecked Fraud feeds into Criminal and Terrorist organizations John A. Cassara 14, ~John A. Cassara- U.S. intelligence officer and Treasury special agent, "The Symbiosis: Terror, Organized Crime And Fraud", Acams Today, 10-16-2014, https://www.acamstoday.org/the-symbiosis-terror-organized-crime-and-fraud/~~ Valiaveedu Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a dramatic decline in billions of dollars' worth of fraud against banks, businesses and governments."9 Alternative is WMD use and institution collapse Robert Mandel 11 ~Robert- Professor of International Affairs at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He has published ten books and more than 40 articles and book chapters dealing with global security and conflict issues. His special continuing interest is in reconceptualizing the prevailing international security environment and the challenges it poses. He has a background in government intelligence work and has testified before the United States Congress, "Dark Logic: Transnational criminal tactics and global security", Stanford Security Studies, 2011, P.62-64, OCR With Abby FineReader~ Valiaveedu Moving to state security, transnational organized crime poses a direct top-down challenge of the international system with integrity following the dictates of global civil society. DA - Midterms Dems win now- Texas proves Wheeldon 9-14-18 (Tom Wheeldon is a writer for FRANCE 24, "In Texas midterms, left-wing Democrat 'absolutely could beat Ted Cruz'," 9-14-18, https://www.france24.com/en/20180914-texas-midterms-left-wing-democrat-beto-orourke-elections-beat-ted-cruz-trump-gop-usa)~~AK-Caddo~~ Senator Ted Cruz is facing an unexpectedly tough re-election race against left- a Republican strategist and former 2016 campaign adviser to Cruz, told AP. The plan rescues the GOP from their disastrous hardline stance on immigration Shesgreen and Collins 5/29 (Deirdre Shesgreen and Eliza Collins, USA TODAY. "Exclusive: Immigration dominates GOP candidates' TV ads in House contests across the country", https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/29/immigration-dominating-gop-tv-ads-house-contests/638063002/ , May 29, 2018 WASHINGTON – House Republican candidates are blanketing the airwaves with TV ads embracing a hard (in Congress), they'll get hurt on Election Day," he said. Major Dem gains key to constrain Trump's foreign policy Kounalakis, 11/9/17 – Ph.D., senior fellow at Central European University and visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution (Markos, "2018 could lock-in Trump privilege, power in foreign policy." http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/article183516126.html~~#storylink=cpy) Without the present and vibrant check Corker and McCain provide on Trump's instincts and inclinations . Instead of king, Trump could become an emperor with no clothes. Unrestrained Trumpian foreign policy causes multiple scenarios for nuclear war Rotner, 17 – attorney and an engaged citizen who has spent over 40 years practicing law (Philip, 8/4. "Trump's Foreign Policy Is A Disaster." https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trumps-disastrous-foreign-policy_us_5981e471e4b0b35d274c5f02) For all the dysfunction at home, it is Donald Trump's ad-hoc, House in chaos would turn out to be the least of our worries? DA - Midterms v2 Dems will win- fundraising, geography, generic ballot- but it isn't a sure thing Schoen and Pramuk 10/19 John W. Schoen and Jacob Pramuk are writers for CNBC.com. Fri, 19 Oct 2018. "Cash blitz could boost Democrats' House chances, but their hopes of taking the Senate remain slim". CNBC.com, https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/19/democrats-look-to-win-house-in-midterms-but-senate-chances-are-dim.html As voters prepare to cast their ballots in pivotal midterm elections in 18 days, be "reading a bit too much" into the fundraising "bonanza." A republican controlled Congress destroys the health care system Oliver Willis 7/5 – Former research fellow at Media Matters for America who has been blogging about politics since 2001. "GOP threatens to kick 21 million off health care if they win midterms" Shareblue Media. July 5, 2018. https://shareblue.com/gop-threatens-kick-21-million-off-health-care-win-midterms//RP The Republican National Committee is threatening to strip health care insurance away from over 21 than in non-expansion states (from 19 percent to 15 percent). Strong rural healthcare is key to prevent pandemic flu and bioterror Meit and Knudson 9 (Michael Meit, MA, MPH, is Deputy Director, NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis, Bethesda, Maryland, part of NORC at the University of Chicago. He also serves as Chair of the NRHA Rural Public Health Interest Group. Alana Knudson, PhD, is Associate Director for research at the University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health, Grand Forks, and also with Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center. "Why Is Rural Public Health Important? A Look to the Future," Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Volume 15. Number 3. p. 185-190. 2009. http://worh.org/sites/default/files/Why20is20Rural20Public20Health20Important.pdf)//Bennerz It is noteworthy that the history of governmental rural public health can largely be encapsulated public health system with an adequately educated and trained rural public health workforce. DA - NAFTA New NAFTA will pass now without modifications- Trump's pol cap is boosted by the rebranding Partington 10/1 Richard Partington is an economics correspondent. October 1st, 2018. "Trump hails 'wonderful new trade deal' with Mexico and Canada". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/01/trump-hails-wonderful-new-trade-deal-with-mexico-and-canada. EL The US, Canada and Mexico have was seen as a key barrier to a deal. NAFTA renegotiations disproportionately affect immigration policy any change in the latter effects the politics of the former O'Gorman 10-2 (Angie O'Gorman practiced immigration law for 25 years and is now a freelance writer focusing on issues of economics and immigration. \| "NAFTA belongs in the border wall debate," 10-2-2018 \| https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/columnists/nafta-belongs-in-the-border-wall-debate/article_27451d36-62a9-50eb-8eca-1f7b484eea5f.html) ~NJ~ Missing from President decreasing illegal immigration to the United. New NAFTA's border-security debate surges towards protectionism —- that causes economic imbalances and negatively affects trade efforts Lang '17 (John Lang, contributor to Global Risk Insights \| "NAFTA renegotiation: exercise in protectionism or opportunity for modernization?" May 25, 2017 \| https://globalriskinsights.com/2017/05/nafta-renegotiation-exercise-protectionism/) ~NJ~ President Trump will pursue would revert to higher levels. Pazner 8 /Michael, Faculty @ the New York Institute of Finance, "Financial Armageddon: Protect Your Future from Economic Collapse," p. 137-8/ The rise in isolationism and protectionism the beginnings of a new world war. DA - Shutdown There's a 3-week deadline to find a bipartisan agreement on border security — keeping Trump happy staves off another shutdown CNN 1/25/19, "Donald Trump caved. And now the government is going to re-open," https://kbzk.com/cnn-us-politics/2019/01/25/donald-trump-caved-and-now-the-government-is-going-to-re-open/ The parameters of that deal are this: The government will re-open for I will use the powers afforded to me … to address this emergency." ====Conservatives are divided on the short-term deal now- a liberal immigration policy is the last straw- they'll sabotage any attempts at a deal post-plan==== Josh Voorhes is a writer for Slate. 1/25/19 "How Right-Wing Media Reacted to Trump Caving" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/bill-oreilly-ann-coulter-trump-shutdown-reaction.html. EL And now for the backlash. After Donald Trump caved on Friday, agreeing to , like conservatives in general, are divided," she observed on Twitter. Shutdown 2.0 is indefinite Dylan Scott 1/25/19, "Is the government going to shut down again in February? Here are 4 scenarios." https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/25/18197710/government-shutdown-over-trump-border-wall-deal If Trump doesn't get the immigration deal he wants, he could do the same talked before about a shutdown that lasts for months, maybe even years. The shutdown has far-reaching effects on the economy that increase exponentially as time goes on Megan Cerullp is a reporter for CBS. 1/21/19. Shutdown's damage to economy could exceed $5.7 billion cost of Trump's border wall. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdowns-damage-to-u-s-economy-to-soon-exceed-5-7-billion-cost-of-trumps-border-wall/ The government shutdown — the longest in U.S. history — is estimated to the federal government could lose a cumulative $200 million a day. Economic slowdown causes great power conflict – slow growth undermines interdependence and makes reforms impossible Daniel Drezner 16, Professor of International Politics, Tufts; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings, May 2016, "Five Known Unknowns about the Next Generation Global Political Economy", Project on International Order and Strategy at Brookings, http://www.anamnesis.info/sites/default/files/D_Drezner_2016.pdf A slow-growth economic trajectory also creates policy problems that increase the likelihood of else equal, this increases the likelihood of great power conflict going forward. DA - Terror The SIV program is ripe for terrorist infiltration—100 attempts prove community ties put these immigrants at risk. Garner 10 (Godfrey, PhD, a retired Special Forces officer, provided counterintelligence services in Afghanistan as a contract employee, 7-8-2010, "Special Visas Open Door to Danger," https://www.hstoday.us/columns/guest-commentaries/special-visas-open-door-to-danger/, MSCOTT) Abdul Ahamad sat outside the offices of the Bagram Afghanistan counterintelligence support team. He however, laid the groundwork for a much more costly and disastrous mistake. Causes Trump lashout. Byman 17 Daniel, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy, 5/3/17 ("Trump and the next terrorist attack", https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/05/03/trump-and-the-next-terrorist-attack/, Brookings, Accessed 6/30/18)DG Trump's response, however, will tell us a great deal. The best response as a hostile government. It's just the American people who would suffer. DA - USMCA USMCA won't pass Congress now, but could get traded for liberal immigration policies like the plan Morrow 12/3 Adrian Morrow is a U.S. coorespondent for The Globe and Mail. December 2nd, 2018. "Trump threatens to 'terminate' NAFTA to press Congress to approve USMCA". The Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-trump-threatens-to-terminate-nafta-if-congress-does-not-approve/. EL Mr. Trump signed USMCA, which retains most of NAFTA's text but makes a on unrelated policies, such as an infrastructure-building package or immigration. "China clause" in USMCA decks US-Sino relations Blanchfield 10/5 Mike Blanchfield is a reporter for the Canadian press. October 5th, 2018. "Beijing attacks USMCA clause seen as blocking efforts to expand trade with Canada, Mexico". CBC Radio Canada. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/usmca-nafta-china-trade-1.4852269. EL China says it deplores a controversial new clause in the United States-Mexico- Friday. "It literally makes us a vassal state of the Americans." US-Sino ties key to de-escalate tensions in the South China Seas Shambaugh '15 David Shambaugh is a professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University, as well as a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. David is regarded inside and outside China as an authority on China's foreign policy, military and security issues and Chinese politics, and has been cited in the state media. He is a regular media commentator, and has acted as an advisor to the United States government and several private foundations and corporations. He was formerly the editor of the China Quarterly, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations –"Sino-US relations: Divorce is not an option" – Straits Times - June 12th - http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/sino-us-relations-divorce-is-not-an-option Despite this overall macro climate in the relationship, the US and China still have of the spectrum, while trying to expand the zone of practical cooperation. SCS conflict causes huge death tolls. Wittner '11 (Lawrence S. Wittner, Emeritus Professor of History at the State University of New York/Albany, Wittner is the author of eight books, the editor or co-editor of another four, and the author of over 250 published articles and book reviews. From 1984 to 1987, he edited Peace and Change, a journal of peace research., 11/28/2011, "Is a Nuclear War With China Possible?", www.huntingtonnews.net/14446) While nuclear weapons exist, there remains a danger that they will be used. —destroying agriculture, creating worldwide famine, and generating chaos and destruction. DA - Wages Labor market is tight now—-companies are responding with recruitment through higher wages and worker training—-new immigration trades off Rachel DiCario Currie 6/1 experience working at the intersection of communications and public policy, worked for the U.S. Senate leadership as chief speechwriter for Senator Jon Kyl, June 1 2018, "The Benefits of a Tight Labor Market", Independent Women's Forum, http://www.iwf.org/blog/2806651/The-Benefits-of-a-Tight-Labor-Market Why aren't wages growing faster? After all, unemployment has fallen to 3. every member of Congress should ponder before supporting massively higher levels of immigration. Increased immigration collapses wages because of labor oversupply Borjas 16 – George J. Borjas, professor of economics and social policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Oct-2016, "Yes, Immigration Hurts American Workers," POLITICO Magazine, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinton-immigration-economy-unemployment-jobs-214216 KKC Here's the problem with the current immigration debate: Neither side is revealing the whole immigrants to those who use immigrants—from the employee to the employer. Predictions show wage inequality driving down economy – compensating mechanisms that offset loss will fail soon – raising wages are crucial to prevent collapse Bivens 17 – Josh Bivens, Director of Research @ Economic Policy Institute, Ph.D., Economics, New School for Social Research B.A., Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, 12-12-2017, "Inequality is slowing US economic growth: Faster wage growth for low- and middle-wage workers is the solution," Economic Policy Institute, https://www.epi.org/publication/secular-stagnation/ KKC This new attention to the crisis of American pay is totally proper. The failure in the future, constantly pulling down growth unless macroeconomic policy changes dramatically. Economic growth is key to solve global disease outbreaks—-best optimizes use of resources. Hanna Samir Kassab 17. Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northern Michigan University, Prioritization Theory and Defensive Foreign Policy. Springer International Publishing, 2017. CrossRef, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-48018-3. The second vulnerability that must be prioritized is economic. As of writing (February is the root of any state's success in the face of systemic vulnerability. DA - Wall No border wall now – dem support is impossible to mobilize without broader immigration reform Bresnahan and Everett 6/17 (John Bresnahan is a senior congressional reporter for POLITICO. He comes to us after more than a decade covering Congress, most recently as a reporter and editor for Roll Call. He is one of the most well-sourced journalists on the characters, history and procedures of Congress. John Burgess Everett is a congressional reporter for POLITICO. He previously was a transportation reporter for POLITICO Pro, Web producer, helping run POLITICO's Twitter and Facebook accounts, and a contributor to the On Media blog., "Congress may snub Trump on wall, risking shutdown", 6-17-18, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/17/trump-border-wall-congress-funding-bill-snub-649563 Trump is increasingly frustrated with Congress' failure to fund the wall — his No. a compromise bill written by GOP leaders, conservatives and more moderate Republicans. The aff causes the wall – the only way to mobilize the votes for reducing immigration restrictions is to fulfill Trump's core campaign promise Waldman 18 (Paul is an opinion writer for the Plum Line blog. Before joining The Post, he worked at an advocacy group, edited an online magazine, taught at university and worked on political campaigns, "Trump is obsessed with his border wall. Here's how Democrats can exploit that," 1-9-2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/01/09/trump-is-obsessed-with-his-border-wall-heres-how-democrats-can-exploit-that/?utm_term=.733c59c94174 Which means that, as long as Trump is involved in the negotiations, a means they can attract significant concessions, it could be well worth it. Border wall triggers global trade war Cassella 17 (Megan, a trade reporter for POLITICO Pro, worked for Reuters based out of Washington, covering the economy, domestic politics and the 2016 presidential campaign, "How Trump's wall could beckon a global trade war", 1/27/18https:www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-mexico-wall-trade-war-234255) President Donald Trump's plans to pay for a Mexican border wall could trigger the global Small businesses are in the center of the bulls eye in this law." K - Necropolitics The aff is a project of humanitarian welcoming of Haitians into the fold of the US nation state. The aff incorrectly assume that power operates through exclusion, which ignores the violence of necropolitical incorporation that occurs as a result of the plan. The alternative: Reject the optimistic narrative of neoliberal inclusion that the 1AC perpetuates and instead investigate the metaphysical forms of violence that the plan can never address. Agathangelou '13 (Anna, PhD from York University, "Outbreaks of Cholera, Capitalism, and Humanitarianism: Power Grabs and the Unmaking of Corporeality in Haiti and the Dominican Republic", The Greek Review of Social Research 2013, ~SG~) As the materialist complexities of such disasters overflow the "explanations" provided by theorisations fungible and not contingent, whereas the violence used between humans is contingent. K - Settler Colonialism Tournament: Sophomore Hoedown \| Round: 5 \| Opponent: SLC West GR \| Judge: Sam Grimsley Immigration policy is coded by an amnesia of settler colonialism. Jurisdiction of who is or isn't a citizen under the US nation-state necessitates binaries of inclusion and exclusion that create assimilatory practices and indigenous dispossession. Volpp 15 (Leti, Professor of Law in access to Justice at UC Berkeley, "The Indigenous As Alien", UC Irvine Law Review 5(289) pp. 289-293, 2015) https://scholarship.law.uci.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1195andcontext=ucilr /Drapes Immigration law, as it is taught, studied, and researched in the United to govern one group of individuals understood—and understands—another.22 Settler colonialism makes the life fungible forms of exchangeable waste, where beings are anatomized into parts to be stored, sold, or eliminated. Settler colonialism positions its fungible objects as already in a state of living death. paperson 17 la, also K. Wayne Yang, an associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego. "A Third University Is Possible" June 2017. Land Is the Biopolitical Target Biopolitics is normally conceptualized in terms of how "life be regenerated. This is a decolonizing land biopolitics, so to speak. Vote negative to endorse a cartography of refusal Day 15 Iyko, Associate Professor of English. Chair, Critical Social Thought. "Being or Nothingness: Indigeneity, Antiblackness, and Settler Colonial Critique." Source: Critical Ethnic Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 2015), pp. 102-121 And so the potential relations that Wilderson sets up through a critique of sovereignty are states unambiguously, "For Indigenous nations to live, capitalism must die." K - Statephobia vs Inhuman Tournament: University of Houston \| Round: 3 \| Opponent: Westwood BG \| Judge: Eric Schwerdtfeger We should imagine a future state that extends care to all entities, human and non-human, present and future—this imagination is a necessary transformation to resist oppression and ecological destruction. Don't accept failure—rather imagine that we can transform democracy through statism so radically that violent exclusion is eliminated Eckersley 4 (Robyn Eckersley, 3/5/04, Professor and Head of PoliSci at University of Melbourne, "The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty", MIT Press, p.118-119) SJK It was the bourgeoisie who in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries served as the vanguard State theory is potentially to change the character of our social existence."5 State centered efforts are critical and necessary to win the transition to communism – Their refusal to engage destroys that potential shift and guarantees ecological crises Parenti 2016 (Christian P. is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies at New York University. "Environment-Making in the Capitalocene Political Ecology of the State," Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism, pp. 181-183, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301301869_Anthropocene_or_Capitalocene_Nature_History_and_the_Crisis_of_Capitalism recut -CR) The unacknowledged centrality of the state to the functioning of capitalism is especially relevant today a different question: sometimes it fails, but always it is called. The alternative is to affirm the form of the party—against the subjective atomization of contemporary politics, only a vertical form of organization aimed at transformation of constituted structures of power can actualize change Dean and Mertz '16 (Jodi and Chuck, Donald R. Harter '39 Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences @ Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Host at This is Hell!, "The JFRP: For a New Communist Party," aNtiDoTe Zine 1/23/16, https://antidotezine.com/2016/01/23/for-a-new-communist-party/) CM: Great to have you on the show. Let's start with Occupy. to change. We don't need that kind of sectarian purity right now. K - Statephobia vs Settler Colonialism Tournament: University of Houston \| Round: 2 \| Opponent: Elkins CP \| Judge: Tommy Snider Their wholesale rejection of the state and pragmatic anti-colonial action reifies colonial power and flattens difference which makes solvency impossible Snelgrove, MA Candidate, Indigenous Governance, University of Victoria, 14 (Corey, Unsettling settler colonialism: The discourse and politics of settlers, and solidarity with Indigenous nations, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society Vol. 3, No. 2, 2014, pp. 1-32) Corey: This relational, interdependent focus is also important amongst settlers ourselves – perhaps actually sustaining colonial power by failing to attend to its conditions and contingency. K - Statephobia vs Survival Strategies Tournament: Wake \| Round: 4 \| Opponent: Baltimore City College GP \| Judge: Aaron Vinson Survival strategies foreclose the potential of collective action while causing individualized efforts to be coopted Papantonopoulou 2014 (Saffo is a dual PhD student in the Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies departments. Their research is focused on the intersection of LGBT issues and the politics of Ottoman heritage in the Balkans and the Middle East, with a geographic focus on the city of Thessaloniki and northern Greece. Their methodological framework is informed by the intersections of history and anthropology. "'Even a Freak Like You Would Be Safe in Tel Aviv': Transgender Subjects, Wounded Attachments, and the Zionist Economy of Gratitude," Women's Studies Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 1/2, pgs. 291-292, https://www.jstor.org/stable/24364930?seq=1~~#page_scan_tab_contents recut –CR) The renaturalization of capitalism within late twentieth-century identity politics is both a happen through a structural and material transformation of the world we live in. PIC - IIRIRA Plan: The USFG should substantially reduce restrictions on legal immigration by repealing The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 except for sections 15 and 16. The IIRIA provides criminal prosecution for those attempting to gain access to the country who have preformed female genital mutilation and mail-order brides IIRIRA 96 – A SUMMARY OF THE NEW IMMIGRATION BILL Posted on: November 30th, 1996. http://www.visalaw.com/iirira-96-a-summary-of-the-new-immigration-bill/~~#topical 15. Female Genital Mutilation Provisions After a great deal of media publicity surrounding the on the study must be submitted no later than September 29, 1997. PIC - Migrant We endorse the entirety of the 1AC without the term "migrant." The term "migrant" implies an illegitimate motive and assumes that migration is always a choice, and not coercion, which trivializes experience and turns the impacts of the aff Lind 15 (Dara Lind is a senior reporter at Vox and a fellow with John Jay College's Center for Media. "Migrant vs. refugee: what the terms mean, and why they matter" https://www.vox.com/2015/9/14/9319695/refugee-migrant-difference Sep 14, 2015) Almost everyone agrees that the tens of thousands of people fleeing into Europe from Syria making choices, but that those choices are always at least partly coerced. PIC - Porn Tournament: Colleyville \| Round: 3 \| Opponent: Jesuit AK \| Judge: Gabe Sanchez The United States federal government should reduce all restrictions on immigration but exclude candidates who were terminated from government employment for using pornography at work or on work-issued equipment. Pornography at work has become a massive pandemic in governmental agencies – that includes child pornography MacFarlane et al 17 (Scott MacFarlane joined the News4 I-Team after a decade of work unearthing government waste, fraud and abuse as a Capitol Hill reporter, Rick Yarborough is a reporter for Washington News4 I-Team, Jeff Peter is a reporter for Washington News4 I-Team, "Dozens of Federal Employees Watched Abundance of Porn on the Job in Recent Years", 2-27-17, https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/Dozens-of-Federal-Employees-Watched-Abundance-of-Porn-on-the-Job-in-Recent-Years-414743293.html)~~AK-Caddo~~ Almost 100 federal government employees have admitted to or been caught viewing copious amounts of one single agency. We're starting to find it across almost every agency." The acceptance and normalization of porn leads to justification for rape culture and sexual violence as well as the idealization of sexual activity with minors FTND 18 (Fight the New Drug is a non-religious and non-legislative organization that exists to provide individuals the opportunity to make an informed decision regarding pornography by raising awareness on its harmful effects using only science, facts, and personal accounts, "Exploitation Sold As Empowerment: Does The Porn Industry Care About Fighting Abuse?", 2-22-18, https://fightthenewdrug.org/does-the-porn-industry-care-about-fighting-abuse/)~~AK-Caddo~~ One of the biggest misconceptions about pornography is that it's only a "guy issue up and we see how this isn't true. Don't buy the lies. ====Reduce means to make less==== The Free Law Dictionary no date, "reduce," https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/reduce//HM reduce verb abate, abbreviate, abridge, attenuate, bring low, compact, , make smaller, minimize, narrow, shorten, shrink, thin. New 2AC specification is a voter – makes the aff a moving target and any additional specification beyond the plan or solvency advocates or CX is entirely unpredictable and destroys 1NC strategy for DAs and CPs and is a voter for fairness and equity because they can always spec out of our args in the 1AR. PIC - Raise Quotas Tournament: Barkley Forum \| Round: 2 \| Opponent: Meadows NS \| Judge: Lane Bearden Text: The United States federal government should remove the cooperation and severe form of trafficking requirements for obtaining T-visas, and expand access to lawful permanent resident status with expedited application processing. 1AC evidence indicates 75 percent of those who apply to the visa get approved- means not that many people want the visas 1AC Smith 13 (Stacie Reimer, Executive Director of Amara Legal Center, J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, "UNDERUTILIZATION OF THE T-VISA: COMPARING THE T-VISA TO SIMILAR TEMPORARY RESIDENCE PROGRAMS AROUND THE WORLD", Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Issue 3, page 719, 2013, accessed via HeinOnline,) The T-Visa is not a widely applied visa in comparison to the potential ,000 T-Visas will be granted in the 2012 fiscal year. The CP removes the law enforcement cooperation requirement and expedites the process, just not the cap as a whole T - AOS Interpretation and violation—-immigration is the act of entry into the US with the intent to resettle permanently. Changing the status of migrants already in the US doesn't meet. Elisabeth J. Sweeney Yu 14. Lisa Yu, a J.D. candidate at Notre Dame Law School (2006), received her B.A. in Political Science and Spanish from Indiana University-Bloomington and her Master's Degree in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from Queen's University-Belfast. February 2014. "Addressing the Economic Impact of Undocumented Immigration on the American Worker: Private Rico Litigation and Public Policy." 20 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics and Pub. Pol'y 909. Issue 2, Article 17. https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1189andcontext=ndjlepp This discussion is complex, as it involves political, social, ethical, and particularly charged and is felt in a number of socio-economic ways. Prefer it—-the core of the topic concerns demographic trends. Allowing AFFs to legalize those already present voids econ, environment, and welfare state DA links about the US population. T - Humanitarian Interpretation: Refugees and immigrants are distinct. Refugees are not considered immigrants Iwanenko, no date (Alexandria Iwaneko, Summer Institute of Buffalo for Human Rights and Genocide Studies, Refugees are NOT Immigrants, No Date, http://www.iamsyria.org/refugees-are-not-immigrants.html ) Refugees are not immigrants. An immigrant is someone who chooses to resettle to another they have no choice but to be here if they want to live. Violation: The Aff only affects refugees, not immigrants. Vote Neg: Predictable Limits – refugee leadership is an entirely different set of immigration arguments. Ground – they spike out of core neg generics like the refugee counterplan and links to topic disads like politics. Topicality is a voter for fairness and education. Default to competing interpretations because it's necessary to preserve debate and ensure competitive equity. T - Humanitarian v2 Interpretation and Violation- Legal immigration refers to permanent admissions for employment, family and diversity applicants. It's one of three subsets of immigration policy and humanitarian admissions are governed by an entirely separate set of restrictions Passel and Fix, 94 - Jeffrey S. Passel is Director, Program for Research for Immigration Policy, The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.; Michael Fix is Director, Immigrant Policy Program, The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C ("Immigration and Immigrants: Setting the Record Straight" 5/1, http://webarchive.urban.org/publications/305184.html~~#II italics in original MAKING SENSE OF IMMIGRATION POLICY Making policy sense of the widely varying types of action adopting a national identity card, which further complicated enforcement (Fix 1991). Voting issue for limits and ground – including refugees or the asylum massively explodes the topic – they are both separate bodies of literature involving hundreds of possible affirmatives and thousands of hours of research that make preparation impossible T - LPR vs ESports Tournament: University of Texas \| Round: 2 \| Opponent: Heights CG \| Judge: Julia Daniel Interpretation—-legal immigration means admission of people for lawful permanent residence Anthony Cheng 4, Social Security Administration, "A Stochastic Model of the Long-Range Financial Status of the OASDI Program," September 2004, https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/pdf_studies/study117.pdf ~Italics in original~ Legal immigration is defined as persons lawfully admitted for permanent residence into the United States , net other immigration includes unauthorized persons and those not seeking permanent residence. P1A Visa is not an example of legal immigration Foreign Affairs Manual, 5/25/18 ("9 FAM 502.1 IV CLASSIFICATIONS OVERVIEW," 9 FAM 502 IMMIGRANT VISA CLASSIFICATIONS, (CT:VISA-593; 05-25-2018) (Office of Origin: CA/VO/L/R), https://fam.state.gov/FAM/09FAM/09FAM050201.html, accessed on 7/4/18, AB) Symbol Class Section of law A1 Ambassador, Public Minister INA 101(a)(15)(A) . A2 Other Foreign Government Official or Employee, or Immediate Family INA 101(a)(15)(A)(ii). A3 Attendant, Servant, or Personal Employee of A1 or A2, or Immediate Family INA 101(a)(15)(A)(iii). B1 Temporary Visitor for Business INA 101(a)(15)(B). B2 Temporary Visitor for Pleasure INA 101(a)(15)(B). B1/B2 Temporary Visitor for Business and Pleasure INA 101(a)(15)(B). C1 Alien in Transit INA 101(a)(15)(C). C1/D Combined Transit and Crewmember Visa INA 101(a)(15)(C) and (D). C2 Alien in Transit to United Nations Headquarters District Under Section 11.(3), (4), or (5) of the Headquarters Agreement INA 101(a)(15)(C). C3 Foreign Government Official, Immediate Family, Attendant, Servant or Personal Employee, in Transit INA 212(d)(8). CW1 Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Transitional Worker Section 6(d) of Public Law 94–241, as added by Section 702(a) of Public Law 110–229. CW2 Spouse or Child of CW1 Section 6(d) of Public Law 94–241, as added by Section 702(a) of Public Law 110–229. D Crewmember (Sea or Air) INA 101(a)(15)(D). E1 Treaty Trader, Spouse or Child INA 101(a)(15)(E) . E2 Treaty Investor, Spouse or Child INA 101(a)(15)(E)(ii). E2C Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Investor, Spouse or Child Section 6(c) of Public Law 94–241, as added by Section 702(a) of Public Law 110–229. E3 Australian Treaty Alien coming to the United States Solely to Perform Services in a Specialty Occupation INA 101(a)(15)(E)(iii). E3D Spouse or Child of E3 INA 101(a)(15)(E)(iii). E3R Returning E3 INA 101(a)(15)(E)(iii). F1 Student in an academic or language training program INA 101(a)(15)(F) . F2 Spouse or Child of F1 INA 101(a)(15)(F)(ii). F3 Canadian or Mexican national commuter student in an academic or language training program INA 101(a)(15)(F)(iii). G1 Principal Resident Representative of Recognized Foreign Government to International Organization, Staff, or Immediate Family INA 101(a)(15)(G) . G2 Other Representative of Recognized Foreign Member Government to International Organization, or Immediate Family INA 101(a)(15)(G)(ii). G3 Representative of Nonrecognized or Nonmember Foreign Government to International Organization, or Immediate Family INA 101(a)(15)(G)(iii). G4 International Organization Officer or Employee, or Immediate Family INA 101(a)(15)(G)(iv). G5 Attendant, Servant, or Personal Employee of G1 through G4, or Immediate Family INA 101(a)(15)(G)(v). H1B Alien in a Specialty Occupation (Profession) INA 101(a)(15)(H) (b). H1B1 Chilean or Singaporean National to Work in a Specialty Occupation INA 101(a)(15)(H) (b1). H1C Nurse in health professional shortage area INA 101(a)(15)(H) (c). H2A Temporary Worker Performing Agricultural Services Unavailable in the United States INA 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a). H2B Temporary Worker Performing Other Services Unavailable in the United States INA 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b). H3 Trainee INA 101(a)(15)(H)(iii). H4 Spouse or Child of Alien Classified H1B/B1/C, H2A/B, or H–3 INA 101(a)(15)(H)(iv). I Representative of Foreign Information Media, Spouse and Child INA 101(a)(15)(I). J1 Exchange Visitor INA 101(a)(15)(J). J2 Spouse or Child of J1 INA 101(a)(15)(J). K1 Fiance(e) of United States Citizen INA 101(a)(15)(K) . K2 Child of Fiance(e) of U.S. Citizen INA 101(a)(15)(K)(iii). K3 Spouse of U.S. Citizen awaiting availability of immigrant visa INA 101(a)(15)(K)(ii). K4 Child of K3 INA 101(a)(15)(K)(iii). L1 Intracompany Transferee (Executive, Managerial, and Specialized Knowledge Personnel Continuing Employment with International Firm or Corporation) INA 101(a)(15)(L). L2 Spouse or Child of Intracompany Transferee INA 101(a)(15)(L). M1 Vocational Student or Other Nonacademic Student INA 101(a)(15)(M) . M2 Spouse or Child of M1 INA 101(a)(15)(M)(ii). M3 Canadian or Mexican national commuter student (Vocational student or other nonacademic student) INA 101(a)(15)(M)(iii). N8 Parent of an Alien Classified SK3 or SN3 INA 101(a)(15)(N) . N9 Child of N8 or of SK1, SK2, SK4, SN1, SN2 or SN4 INA 101(a)(15)(N)(ii). NATO 1 Principal Permanent Representative of Member State to NATO (including any of its Subsidiary Bodies) Resident in the U.S. and Resident Members of Official Staff; Secretary General, Assistant Secretaries General, and Executive Secretary of NATO; Other Permanent NATO Officials of Similar Rank, or Immediate Family Art. 12, 5 UST 1094; Art. 20, 5 UST 1098. NATO 2 Other Representative of member state to NATO (including any of its Subsidiary Bodies) including Representatives, Advisers, and Technical Experts of Delegations, or Immediate Family; Dependents of Member of a Force Entering in Accordance with the Provisions of the NATO Status-of-Forces Agreement or in Accordance with the provisions of the "Protocol on the Status of International Military Headquarters"; Members of Such a Force if Issued Visas Art. 13, 5 UST 1094; Art. 1, 4 UST 1794; Art. 3, 4 UST 1796. NATO 3 Official Clerical Staff Accompanying Representative of Member State to NATO (including any of its Subsidiary Bodies), or Immediate Family Art. 14, 5 UST 1096. NATO 4 Official of NATO (Other Than Those Classifiable as NATO1), or Immediate Family Art. 18, 5 UST 1098. NATO 5 Experts, Other Than NATO Officials Classifiable Under NATO4, Employed in Missions on Behalf of NATO, and their Dependents Art. 21, 5 UST 1100. NATO 6 Member of a Civilian Component Accompanying a Force Entering in Accordance with the Provisions of the NATO Status-of-Forces Agreement; Member of a Civilian Component Attached to or Employed by an Allied Headquarters Under the "Protocol on the Status of International Military Headquarters" Set Up Pursuant to the North Atlantic Treaty; and their Dependents Art. 1, 4 UST 1794; Art. 3, 5 UST 877. NATO 7 Attendant, Servant, or Personal Employee of NATO1, NATO2, NATO 3, NATO4, NATO5, and NATO6 Classes, or Immediate Family Arts. 12–20, 5 UST 1094–1098. O1 Alien with Extraordinary Ability in Sciences, Arts, Education, Business or Athletics INA 101(a)(15)(O) . O2 Alien Accompanying and Assisting in the Artistic or Athletic Performance by O1 INA 101(a)(15)(O)(ii). O3 Spouse or Child of O1 or O2 INA 101(a)(15)(O)(iii). P1 Internationally Recognized Athlete or Member of Internationally Recognized Entertainment Group INA 101(a)(15)(P) . P2 Artist or Entertainer in a Reciprocal Exchange Program INA 101(a)(15)(P)(ii). P3 Artist or Entertainer in a Culturally Unique Program INA 101(a)(15)(P)(iii). P4 Spouse or Child of P1, P2, or P3 INA 101(a)(15)(P)(iv). Q1 Participant in an International Cultural Exchange Program INA 101(a)(15)(Q) . R1 Alien in a Religious Occupation INA 101(a)(15)(R). R2 Spouse or Child of R1 INA 101(a)(15)(R). S5 Certain Aliens Supplying Critical Information Relating to a Criminal Organization or Enterprise INA 101(a)(15)(S) . S6 Certain Aliens Supplying Critical Information Relating to Terrorism INA 101(a)(15)(S)(ii). S7 Qualified Family Member of S5 or S6 INA 101(a)(15)(S). T1 Victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons INA 101(a)(15)(T) . T2 Spouse of T1 INA 101(a)(15)(T)(ii). T3 Child of T1 INA 101(a)(15)(T)(ii). T4 Parent of T1 INA 101(a)(15)(T)(ii). T5 Unmarried Sibling under age 18 of T1 INA 101(a)(15)(T)(ii) T6 Adult or Minor Child of a Derivative Beneficiary of a T1 INA 101(a)(15)(T)(ii) TN NAFTA Professional INA 214(e)(2). TD Spouse or Child of NAFTA Professional INA 214(e)(2). U1 Victim of criminal activity INA 101(a)(15)(U) . U2 Spouse of U1 INA 101(a)(15)(U)(ii). U3 Child of U1 INA 101(a)(15)(U)(ii). U4 Parent of U1 under 21 years of age INA 101(a)(15)(U)(ii). U5 Unmarried Sibling under age 18 of U1 under 21 years of age INA 101(a)(15)(U)(ii). V1 Spouse of a Lawful Permanent Resident Alien Awaiting Availability of Immigrant Visa INA 101(a)(15)(V) or INA 101(a)(15)(V)(ii). V2 Child of a Lawful Permanent Resident Alien Awaiting Availability of Immigrant Visa INA 101(a)(15)(V) or INA 101(a)(15)(V)(ii). V3 Child of a V1 or V2 INA 203(d) and INA 101(a)(15)(V) or INA 101(a)(15)(V)(ii). Prefer our interpretation: Limits—-allowing temporary visas explodes the topic by allowing tiny changes to any visa category—-that makes neg research unmanageable since the aff can always read the new "visa of the week" aff Ground—-allowing tiny changes to visa categories means that the aff can make tiny changes to the status quo without affecting the larger structure of immigration to the United States—-all disad and counterplan ground is based on large, structural changes to US immigration policy And at the very least they're X-T- which is a voting issue for limits and ground—allowing affs to be able to do action outside of granting LPR explode limits on the topic and allows afffs to spike out of predictable neg ground based on granting LPR T - Reduce Interpretation: The Affirmative must remove a restriction. Substantial relates to quantity Merriam-Webster, no date ("substantial," https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/substantial, accessed on 7/7/18, AB) b : considerable in quantity : significantly great earned a substantial wage Reduce is to minimize a number Oxford English Dictionary 89 (Second Edition 1989, "Reduce") 26. a. To bring down, diminish to a smaller number, amount, extent, etc., or to a single thing. Restrictions means plural Collins Dictionary No Date (accessed online 7/7/18 at https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/restriction) EG restriction (rɪstrɪkʃən ) Word forms: plural restrictions 1. countable noun A restriction is an official rule that limits what you can do or that limits the amount or size of something. That means more than one Collins Dictionary No Date (accessed online 7/7/18 at https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/plural) EG The plural form of a word is the form that is used when referring to more than one person or thing. Violation: The Aff only tinkers with a preexisting restriction. Predictable Limits – they open the floodgates to all of the possible modifications that could be made in immigration policy – creates an unreasonable research burden for the negative. Ground – makes winning disad links impossible because they are all contingent on significant changes to status quo immigration T - Restrictions Interpretation- Restrictions are quantitative Chiswick and Miller 15 (~Barry R., George Washington University and IZA – Institute for the Study of Labor~, ~Paul W., Curtin University~, "Handbook of The Economics of International Migration", 2015, Volume 1B – The Impact and Regional Studies)rj 2.2.3 Restrictive immigration policies Modern migration is characterized by fears of " For the EU, the figure is estimated at $4 bn. Violation- the aff is a qualitative restriction Prefer it for limits —- including qualitative affs explodes the topic to infinite topic areas that all change a minor part of our visa system —- that's wrecks negative preparation and core disadvantages that rely on some perceived change to immigration T - Tassoff Interpretation – "Restrictions on legal immigration" are either quantitative or qualitative – reducing quotas or changing eligibility criteria for lawful permanent residence – eligibility affs must be contained with Section 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act Tasoff 16 - Certified Specialist in Immigration Law (State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization) since 1985 and has exclusively practiced immigration law for over 40 years. He was a past chair of the S. Calif. Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and is a partner in the Law Firm of Tasoff and Tasoff ("Immigration Law After Trump" https://www.tasoff.com/Immigration-Information/Immigration-Law-After-Trump.pdf A Short Overview of Immigration Law. The Immigration and Nationality Act1 (the " or renewal of their green cards which like passports expire every 10 years. The aff is neither – it doesn't change a quota and isn't listed in Section 212 of the INA as a condition of "inadmissibility" Clear Limits – there are a finite number of affs – they can adjust overall quotas for family-based immigration, employment-based immigration, or change the overall country quota allowing any "barrier" to immigration waters down the topic – it means whatever Trump does that impacts immigration is topical, makes the literature impossible to keep up with and destroys neg ground. Extra-T is a voting issue- justifies infinite add-ons that skew neg prep and kill predictable limits- an independent voter for fairness and education T - USFG v1 Interpretation and violation - the affirmative should defend the hypothetical implementation of a topical plan – they don't. The text of the rez calls for debate on hypothetical government action Ericson, 3 (Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater's Guide, Third Edition, p. 4) The Proposition of Policy: Urging Future Action In policy propositions, each topic contains compelling reasons for an audience to perform the future action that you propose. "Resolved" means a legislative forum – the resolution is a yes/no question that they haven't answered Parcher, 1 (Jeff, Fmr. Debate Coach at Georgetown University, February, http://www.ndtceda.com/archives/200102/0790.html) Pardon me if I turn to a source besides Bill. American Heritage Dictionary: . One affirms a resolution. Affirmative and negative are the equivalents of 'yes' The aff fails to specify beyond "substantially," which avoids core controversies of immigration IBD 13 (Investors Business Daily, "No Immigration Reform Without Border Security First", https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/no-immigration-reform-without-border-security-first/ , 6/10/2013, Accessed 5/22/18) Immigration: With the debate growing noisy, the Senate is taking up a sweeping "substantially" closed. Who defines "substantially"? It's not clear. Legal immigration is legal permanent residence granted by the USFG to noncitizens Yakushko 9 (Oksana Yakushko University of Nebraska - Lincoln, oyakushko2@unl.edu, "Xenophobia: Understanding the Roots and Consequences of Negative Attitudes toward Immigrants", The Counseling Psychologist 37:1 (January 2009), pp. 36-66) Legal immigration refers to the process by which noncitizens are granted legal permanent residence or United States have entered the country legally (Pew Hispanic Center, 2006). Vote neg— 1. Fairness – debate is fundamentally a game and requires effective competition between the aff and the neg—-the only way for any benefit to be produced from debate is if the judge can make a decision between two sides who have had a relatively equal chance to prepare for a common point of debate. 2. Limits—specific topics are key to reasonable expectations for 2Ns – open subjects create incentives for avoidance – that overstretches the negative and turns participation. 3. Topic Precision — Framing the immigration debate around policy-relevant outcomes is important to solidify the bond between public opinion and legislation, which is key to effective mobilization of their politics Tan '13 (Felicity P. Tan, MSc in Politics and Communication, "Immigration Policy Narratives and the Politics of Identity: Causal issue frames in the discursive construction of America's social borders," http://www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/research/mediaWorkingPapers/MScDissertationSeries/2013/98-Tan.pdf) ~NJ~ Frames in culture The meaning-making power of issue framing can be expounded by ) as competing frameworks reify pre-existing interpretations (Mouffe, 1992). The resolution asks a question concerning institutional change that the affirmative ought to answer with an instrumental reform - keeping debate within a limited range fosters agonistic democracy which their interpretation undermines by tearing down the foundations of the political prior to engaging it. 4. They have no offense because agonistic democracy does not require uncritical embrace of hegemonic attitudes or ideologies, the foundations legitimacy can be called into question, but the infrastructure of the resolution cannot be discarded as a starting point Wingenbach, Notre Dame Government and international studies PhD, 2011(Ed, Institutionalizing Agonistic Democracy, pg 190-198) Third, because Knops ignores the situated source of antagonism and the persistence of hegemony opened up to greater contestation, generosity, and active re-constitution. 5. Black Switch Side Debate is key to all your offense – Conviction Based Debate (CBD) results in debates where the debaters have already decided their position in debate and the world such that we do not consider our relationship to Others. It produces insular debates that destroy education, ethics and reproduces anti-blackness Evans 12 ~Rashad, JD., Black debate extraordinare and JD, "The 1NC," Nov 20, http://www.rwesq.com/the-1nc/~~ Now, the debate! First, let me look at Casey Harrigan's ("CH an image of themselves. This requires that they theorize their Blackness across topics Theory - ASPEC Interpretation —- the affirmative has to specify that they provide legal permanent residence in the plan text Violation —- they don't —- and they don't meet the most recent DHS definition DHS 18 (Department of Homeland Security, 3-16-18, https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/data-standards-and-definitions/definition-terms~~#8) Immigrant - See Permanent Resident Alien. Permanent Resident Alien - An alien admitted to permanent resident status by the Department of Homeland Security in the United States. Voting issue for ground —- allows the aff to shift out of arguments based on the aff being permanent residence, like TPS, Brain Drain, and O-Pop debates which are the core of the topic and key controversial issues of discussion Also key to limits —- allows for all temporary affs to be included in the topic which creates new distinct lit bases outside of LPR because they can always say that they aren't LPR after the 1NC is read Extra-T- they allow immigrants in and change the definition of a particular social group which isn't LPR- it's a voter: Limits- destroys aff limits because they can add infinite tangentially topical advantages making anything to do with immigration topical Predictability- destroys predictability when they can add on anything to a plan text there's no predictable debates which are the crucial internal link to clash and turns all of their ground claims. Theory - Disclosure Theory Interpretation- The affirmative should upload previous versions of non-new affs to the wiki before the round starts Disclosure good- 3 reasons Prep and clash- undisclosed affs kill neg ability to debate well- pre-round prep makes debate more educational because they're more able to clash with the 1ac in its entirety, not just reading crappy impact df Makes neg debate impossible- greenhill teams can have an army of coaches write a new aff for them every tournament- kills the ability of small teams to win neg rounds Explodes neg research burden- can't research the specific agency actions and laws the aff deals with- reduces debate to generics Voting issue for fairness and equity- vote negative to endorse a model of debate that allows for more disclosure Theory - Fiat Abuse Fiat Abuse: The affirmative fiats transportation for translators who do not otherwise have the resources to travel and other solvency deficits Interpretation- the affirmative can fiat the actions described in the plan text and identified solvency advocate, not solvency deficits identified by cross-ex Predictability- late-breaking aff fiat leads to unpredictable solvency mechanisms that kill predictable neg debate because ground against an aff in one debate disappears Ground- Aff fiat abuse leads to fiated links on Das and CP solvency that kills neg ground to debate the affirmative and disincentivizes smart 1AC CX arguments Voter for fairness and education- if you reject the argument, it indicates the solvency deficit they can't solve for Theory - LPR Spec Add/Modify Entry Modify a Round Add a New Round Select a currently entered round to modify: Barkley Forum Round 2 vs Meadows NS Barkley Forum Round 4 vs St Marks SV Barkley Forum Round 6 vs St Andrews Episcopal JL Caddo Round 1 vs Airline CC Caddo Round 4 vs Airline CL Caddo Round Finals vs Airline BT Colleyville Round 2 vs Crossings Christian QR Colleyville Round 3 vs Jesuit AK Colleyville Round 5 vs Reagan GP LHSSL State Round 1 vs Airline AB LHSSL State Round 3 vs Isidore Newman HV NDCA Nationals Round 2 vs Shawnee Mission East RS NDCA Nationals Round 4 vs Shawnee Mission East AW NDCA Nationals Round 6 vs Newark Science AS NSDA Districts Round 1 vs Isidore Newman DQ NSDA Districts Round 4 vs Baton Rouge Magnet CH NSDA Nationals Round 1 vs Houston Memorial AD NSDA Nationals Round 4 vs Canyon Crest GY NSDA Nationals Round 7 vs Eagle BG NSDA Nationals Round Doubles vs Stuyvesant CN NSDA Nationals Round Octas vs Green Valley LS Sophomore Hoedown Round 2 vs Anderson CJ Sophomore Hoedown Round 4 vs Westminster LY Sophomore Hoedown Round 5 vs SLC West GR Sophomore Hoedown Round Semis vs Westminster KP Sophomore Hoedown Round Finals vs Carrollton Sacred Heart BD University of Houston Round 2 vs Elkins CP University of Houston Round 3 vs Westwood BG University of Texas Round 2 vs Heights CG University of Texas Round 3 vs Jesuit GN University of Texas Round 6 vs Kinkaid PP Wake Round 2 vs Alpharetta JS Wake Round 4 vs Baltimore City College GP Wake Round 5 vs Lexington FK Wake Round Octas vs Strath Haven DP Auto-detected rounds: Please edit the information below if the auto-detected info is wrong, weirdly capitalized, etc. Tournament: Round: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Quads Triples Doubles Octas Quarters Semis Finals Opponent: Please fill out a round report below. 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__label__cc	0.640844	0.359156	Tag Archives: North Ferriby A Little Jaunt West to East- Day 2 We set off in very good spirits on Sunday morning, excitement about getting home later in the day obviously mixed with the familiar excitement that we all get on match day anyway. After a while walking on the Trans Penine Trail we could see the Humber Bridge in the distance, seeing our first glimpse of home seemed to increase our pace despite our inevitable tiredness. This time we were accompanied by sheep on the trail and, although there wasn’t as much as the previous day with the cows, there was still a significant amount of the smelly stuff for us to dodge round while keeping up our tremendous pace. Finally we reached Brough and were only too happy to leave the trail behind for a while and walk on a harder surface which made the walking so much easier. Thankfully during the early morning the weather was a little bit cooler than it had been the day before but it didn’t last terribly long and we were soon taking fluids on board to cool down. You remember I said early in part 1 that carrying your supplies in a rucksack on your back could make you ache, well it also causes you to sweat down your back a lot too but I decided to keep my tee shirt on because I know I’m still a bit too fat to show my torso in public although I am getting into better shape at the gym now so maybe next year 😉 We kept walking at a very good pace and we were soon through Melton and then most of the team decided they needed to check the plumbing at a garage so we were delayed for about half an hour because said garage only had 1 toilet so they all had to take it in turns. We went through North Ferriby, which needs saving, at a good rate of knots and Alison’s sister met us and brought supplies of Haribo Starmix and bottles of water which were soon, very gratefully, snapped up. We reached Home Farm at Hessle much earlier than had been anticipated so this gave us time to have a very nice and very welcome long break to go to the toilet and have food and drink. Whilst we were there Darren and Jodee turned up in the minibus and said we needed to not walk so fast because they were falling behind because of a problem with packing away one of the tents. Being only 5 miles from where we needed to be we were in the mood to take it a little bit easier but we also wanted to finish quite soon and have plenty of time to recover before the match. Having stopped at The Fiveways pub we then started again and next stopped at The Three Tuns on Boothferry Road and received some donations in the buckets that were being carried. As our bucket collection carried on to Silver Cod, The Three Crowns and the Albert Hotel we were chased down Anlaby Road by two Castleford fans so they could put money in the bucket for us, showing the true colours of all genuine rugby league fans as they did so. Eventually I had to leave my fellow walkers in the Albert Hotel and head to the media suite at the KC Stadium to get logged on the WiFi ready to write my match report. As I had promised I met the rest of them for a photo opportunity outside the main reception at the stadium as we finally basked in the glow of the summer sunshine and our achievement. The fun and games didn’t finish there for us though, I made my way painfully to the press box at the very top of the West Stand and started reporting on the Super League game Hull FC v Castleford Tigers but had to be down at the North West corner of the stadium just before half time. In that corner I saw Tom Lineham denied what looked like a legitimate try and the lads trudged off trailing 6-14 at half time, then came our moment as we were introduced to the crowd and the picture of us outside Castleford Tigers home ground the day before was flashed up on the scoreboard as we started our lap of honour. As we walked around the stadium we had Hull FC and Castleford Tigers fans applauding us, shaking our hands and hugging us and even giving us a standing ovation showing us how much this remarkable band of people had achieved since the day before, making the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. To complete a perfect day my beloved Hull FC came back and secured a stunning 21-18 victory in quite dramatic style. I’m never going to forget this challenge and, indeed, look forward to doing it all over again hopefully next year. The friendships that have been built during this weekend will, I’m sure, last for a lifetime. I am proud to say I did this and even prouder to say that everybody involved in this genuine adventure are all very good friends, the once in a lifetime kind of people.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1356
__label__wiki	0.51243	0.51243	Tourists killed as Cuba bus crashes in wet weather – Brits among injured Seven people are dead and five are in a critical condition after a bus carrying tourists crashed in Cuba. Two Britons – a couple understood to be in their 70s – are among those injured, the UK’s Foreign Office has confirmed. They are not thought to be seriously hurt. Eighteen Cubans and 22 tourists were on board when it crashed in wet conditions between the eastern cities of Baracoa and Guantanmo. As well as the Britons, passengers’ nationalities are listed as Dutch, French, Mexican and Canadian. The identities of the crash victims have not been released. The driver told Radio Guantanamo he lost control on the wet and winding road. Photographs of the scene show most of the front of the bus has been ripped away. Local newspaper Juventud Rebelde reported the bus overturned after its driver lost control while trying to overtake on a slope. Roads in Cuba are poorly lit, narrow and poorly maintained. Last year, there were 750 deaths and 7,999 injuries from 11,187 accidents on the country’s roads. The latest crash is the fourth major bus accident in a month. A spokesperson for the Foreign Office said: We continue to seek further information from the Cuban authorities following a road traffic accident, and are ready to assist any British people who require our help. We are currently providing assistance to two British nationals who were injured on the bus. (c) Sky News 2019: Tourists killed as Cuba bus crashes in wet weather – Brits among injured Previous articleSearch Continues For Missing Isle Of Wight Woman Charlotte Birch Next articleIsle Of Wight Space Camps Seek Primary School Astronaut Wannabes Iran seizes foreign tanker with 12 crew accused of smuggling oil Hashem Abedi: Brother of Manchester bomber denies 22 murder charges in first court appearance No-deal Brexit would plunge UK into recession, OBR watchdog warns Fire-ravaged Premier Inn hotel in Bristol collapses onto road Video emerges of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein partying in 1992 Found: Briton whose 50-year-old message in a bottle washed up in Australia	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1365
__label__cc	0.536036	0.463964	December 14, 2017 December 21, 2017 / jrmilson / 2 Comments Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Photos, pictures, and works of art frequently inspire me to write stories or poems about them. Such was the case recently when I viewed a wonderful artwork featuring a beautiful blue house in winter. Offering a new little Christmas poem, inspired by the “Dusk” painting by artist Trisha Romance, below. “Blue House on the Hill” Our old blue house sat up high on the hill, Inside warm and safe from winter’s raw chill. Cookies, cakes, and pies all scented our home, None of us a thought to venture or roam. Recalling holidays in memories now, And longing to return, if only somehow. Our Christmas tree twinkling with lights shining bright, We awoke Christmas mornings, filled with delight. Brightly-wrapped packages beneath the tree, We dove in to open them with happiness and glee. Our parents observed (from a safe distance), Unwrapping packages never called for assistance. New clothes and gifts always gave me great pleasure, But now looking back, it’s the memories I treasure. Wrappings, ribbons, bows, and gifts — all works of art, But the thoughts behind them are what truly warmed the heart. Family would visit later to come Christmas Calling, We always shoveled the sidewalk to avoid any falling. Each person bearing gifts, as we had presents for them, too, Every Christmas an over-sized sweater, handmade by Aunt Sue. Gathered at the table for dinner, someone then to say grace, Silent moments, recalling ones now in a Heavenly place. Christmas with roast turkey, dressing, potatoes, hot gravy, biscuits, and more, Grown-ups would then visit and chat, tired children napped — fast asleep on the floor. Desserts, goodies, and treats would all then come later, Even though still full, making waistlines the greater. Spiced punch for adults, eggnog for those not of age, Mother’s spiced fruitcake always taking center stage. I would like to go back to our little blue house, Sneaking in to watch from a corner like a mouse. Again, seeing Christmas thru youthful, wide-open eyes, Knowing now the gifts and presents weren’t really the prize. Oh, the joy-filled Christmases of my past, So many memories, and still they last. As always, Thank You for visiting and spending part of your day with us. Sending the very best wishes your way for a Happy and Healthy Holiday Season! — Jim (and Red!) “When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness.” — Bob Hope “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” — Roy L. Smith “The Adventures of Little Red Bear” Short Stories on Amazon. Old-fashioned, Family-friendly, Multi-generational Stories and Fun for All Ages! ~ About an Uncommonly Special Bear and His Friends ~ Tap Here For A Free Preview! “The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.” — Richard Paul Evans Like and Follow My Writer’s Page on Facebook For Daily Inspiration and More! “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” — Charles Schulz This is a purposefully non-monetized, ad-free site to be able to offer the most enjoyable reading and viewing experience for everyone, with all content freely shared, and generates no income to offset the costs of maintaining and operating. If you enjoy your visits and time with us, Join our new Patron Community today. Patrons help my friend Little Red Bear and me to continue this as an ad-free site, dedicated solely to entertainment and educational purposes. “One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.” — Andy Rooney Christmas Trains — Tracking Memories Beneath the Tree December 8, 2017 December 8, 2017 / jrmilson / 19 Comments Looking back now over Christmases in my childhood, railroad trains were as integral a part and essential to the holiday itself as Santa Claus, Snickerdoodles, and Christmas trees. We are not talking 1940 as in Ralphie from ‘A Christmas Story’, but not far removed, being more early 1950’s for me, being born at the tail end of 1949. Every year my family would devote one December Saturday for an annual pilgrimage to downtown St. Louis to see the big department store window displays with their trains running around and around, shop a bit, crane our necks up at the tall buildings, and have lunch at Miss Hullings’ Cafeteria. It was magical, at a time when all meals were made at home and “going out” was something that just wasn’t done except on rare occasion. The annual Train Window Displays certainly counted as a special occasion. When very young, let’s just say around three to five years old for discussion purposes as memories before that are a bit more foggy, we lived in Kirkwood, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Every year, Santa Claus would arrive at the Kirkwood Railroad Station on a train pulled by a huff-chuffing steam locomotive, complete with whistles and bells. Santa would be greeted by applause and cheers by the crowd, step out of the train, wave, and then come inside the station for each of us to take our turns sitting on his lap for a photo while confiding our seasonal wish list. Memories like that tend not to fade over the years. And I still have the photos of me on his lap. Somewhere. I have not submitted to an official DNA test but would bet the next rent check that I inherited my train-loving gene from my father. Beyond the real world Santa train and department store window displays, my father was as big a train fan as I remain today. My third birthday (yes, I remember because it was that special) brought a Marx Passenger Train set from Santa, just like the one he arrived in at the station each year. Within minutes my father had the little train circling around the base of the Christmas tree. There is no doubt that train logged as many miles circling the tree as Santa’s reindeer that Christmas. For an over-the-road truck driver, my dad made a crackerjack engineer! The following Christmas brought another train, a Lionel Freight Train with a huffing, puffing steam locomotive that actually had a working headlight and put out tiny puffs of smoke as it ran around the tracks. The technology was advancing by leaps and bounds in the early ’50’s! We had two trains circling the Christmas tree that year, in opposite directions so the make-believe engineers could wave at each other as they passed each time around. It was dizzyingly awesome. That was to be my last complete train set package for many years, as each subsequent Christmas brought more Lionel train cars, buildings, tiny people to be painted, bridges, trees, telephone poles, tunnels, and accessories. Adding on to the established base. Before long, my father and I had a complete, working Lionel model train layout going each holiday, complete with plastic buildings, Cowboys and Indians, army men, horses, pigs, and cows. It continued to build and grow for several years. Buildings were lit from the inside. Working switches were added. A new transformer arrived later with a whistle button and a cool, side-mounted throttle. Two pre-fab tunnels were added, one tunnel with a little blue lake painted on top and the other, longer tunnel curved to fit over a matching curve at the far end. A tall tower with a revolving red and green lantern at the top arrived one year, along with crossing gates that blinked red lights and went down and then back up as trains rumbled by. We had a long, silver metal bridge which merely sat on the floor, bridging over nothing, but it was neat to see the train travel thru it. A few years later, a new flat car appeared, which at the push of a button launched a helicopter flying off thru the air in someone’s direction. The future had arrived right in our living room! Meanwhile, apart from the ever-burgeoning Lionel empire, the old Marx passenger train dutifully encircled the Christmas tree on our living room floor each year. I don’t think our Christmas trees would have remained upright without that Marx train holding their roots in place over the years. It had a job and it did it well. At some point around the age of nine or so, my older sister moved out to be on her own, leaving her bedroom vacant. It was just the right size to fit a 4′ x 8′ plywood board atop sawhorses for a permanent set-up, and it wasn’t long before my father and I were hurrying to construct a bonafide model train layout to be ready by Christmas, just a few months away. It was awesome and took up nearly the whole room. But, and please pardon me if I get a little technical here in explanation, it wasn’t long before we reached the inherent problem presented by the old Lionel trains, the point where the train layout reached its limits. There was no more room for expansion. In model trains ‘Scale’ represents the ratio of the model size to the real-life prototype. Lionel trains were ‘O’ scale, modeled on a scale of 1:48, where 1 inch on the model equals 48 inches in real life, making for fairly good-sized model trains which required a goodly amount of space to operate. Especially around curves, since trains do not handle 90 degree turns as well as automobiles and bicycles, having a much larger turning radius. Which in turn limits how much track and modeling can be done in a given space. Still with me? Good — because now we’re getting to the dramatic part. Reaching my eleventh birthday, buoyed by a decent fifth-grade education by this point and having been exposed to Boy’s Life Magazine and the modern world thru the Boy Scouts, I had become aware of the newest, modern new thing in model railroading — ‘HO’ scale — ‘HO’ itself standing for “Half of O” scale. ‘HO’ scale modeling was at a 1: 87.1 modeling ratio, meaning one inch of model equaled 87.1 inches in real life. The decimal point alone made it much more scientific and cutting edge to the knowledgeable fifth-grader. In short, ‘HO’ model trains were about half the size of the old (and “out of date” in my young mind) ‘O’ scale Lionel trains while at the same time being much more detailed and realistic. The early train sets were truly more ‘toys’ while the new ‘HO’ trains were ‘models’, and to me at age eleven and now a Boy Scout, a vast difference. Madison Avenue and the marketers had my full attention. “Models” were for serious folk, while “toys” were for kids. And at age eleven and going on campouts and hikes, I no longer considered myself a kid, already being a Second Class Scout, after all. In addition, it was all supported by the obvious fact that our Lionel train ran around on three silver tracks — Three! — while the new ‘HO’ trains ran on two more realistic, copper-colored rails with faux-wooden ties. Two tracks, like trains in the real world. Not to mention that my best friend down the street had an American Flyer set which ran on two rails like the real trains, which he constantly reminded me of. The new ‘HO’ scale meant that in the same amount of space one could do twice as much modeling, track, and scenery work, with a much more realistic than “toyish” (three rails!) layout. Converting to HO meant that suddenly our 4′ x 8′ layout would not be maxed out, after all. The wonders of the modern age! But, this is where my father and I parted ways. His affection for our early Lionel trains was deep-rooted and his opinions set in stone. I suppose, looking back with an understanding not yet acquired by age eleven, that he was emotionally invested in them. By advocating for the new ‘HO’ model trains, as far as he was concerned my position was pure heresy spoken by a greenhorn still wet behind the ears who didn’t know anything. But, of course, in the fifth grade, if really not quite knowing it all, I was aware of the unfortunate fact that if anything ‘HO’ related was going to appear under the Christmas tree that year, it wasn’t going to be delivered by Santa Claus. I negotiated, bargained, pleaded, and threw myself on the mercy of the court that year to no avail. Ol’ Dad wouldn’t budge. — No ‘HO’ — period. And that’s where it stood for another three years. In my mind, he was being hard-headed and unreasonable, denying modern science. In his mind, I was simply out of mine. The ‘Marx’ train locomotive eventually wore out and was dutifully replaced under the tree by the old Lionel train set each Christmas, no longer running along the rails on the bedroom train layout which had long since been dismantled following the Great ‘O’ vs ‘HO’ debate of a few years past. As well as our having grown bored with it since any more work or expansion was out of the question due to having run out of space. The big Lionel was reduced to annually running its course on the floor, around and around and around beneath the tree once a year at Christmas time. My father and I still had a good relationship, mind you. We just seldom if ever spoke about trains anymore, except in debate. With the determination and fortitude of Ralphie and his “Red Ryder BB Gun With A Compass In The Stock”, each year I would ask, plot, scheme, and maneuver for an ‘HO’ train set for Christmas, only to find myself with a pair of gloves or something else “more my age” now. And then something happened that still to this day I cannot explain. Perhaps it was a Motherly Intervention. I have no idea and can only relate the event as it occurred. One chilly, late October Friday night my Scoutmaster appeared in our home for an inexplicable reason, with three ‘HO’ scale, little ore car kits he was working on and building. He was seated at the kitchen table with my mother and father, explaining all about them, showing a completed model, one in progress about half-finished, and the other in pieces, still untouched in the box. I was called in to see them, and of course, I was mesmerized. The idea of building your own rolling stock from kits was fascinating to someone already loving to do handwork, and this was all being demonstrated by my Scoutmaster, nonetheless. The man who had taught me how to put up a tent, build a fire, and to make a foil pack hamburger dinner in a campfire! If I had ‘HO’ fever already, I popped the top off the thermometer that night. After a while and having talked about all things ‘HO’ over a few cups of coffee, the mysterious discussion was over and he left. None of it ever to be discussed or mentioned again over the following months. I can only compare the strangeness of it all to Thomas Edison suddenly appearing unannounced in a colonial town square, switching on a light bulb, and then everyone going back to their candles and never mentioning it again. And then followed the Christmas of my fourteenth year, two months later. With my birthday on December 16th, nine days before Christmas, one soon gets used to birthday and Christmas presents being combined into one, which worked out well sometimes for a larger gift than one might expect singularly for either event on its own. Other times not. But number fourteen was one of those auspicious times when it did. That birthday was a swing and miss with something I do not recall, being told that we were just exceptionally poor and money was tight that year. I understood as we were admittedly and firmly entrenched in the “middle class — lower third” and subject to its economic ups and downs over the years, never in that “upper class” which we talked about in school. On Christmas Eve, I opened the unusually large package which had been cleverly buried and hidden behind the Christmas tree in utter disbelief and amazement to find a brand spanking new ‘HO’ train set including my favorite — a smoke-puffing steam engine! An exact, half-size version of the old Lionel steam engine! Birds sang — Bells rang — Angels smiled — and I did a Happy Dance! The Universe was once again back in order. Over the next year, my Father and I worked together again, in the basement this time, on a new 5′ x 9′ layout even larger than the old one, with a special “quieter” board he had come home with one day from the hardware store made specifically for train layouts, he maintained. Later as we went along, Dad protested, grumped, and griped all the way in typical fatherly fashion, complaining about the tiny ‘HO’ parts and concept in general to save face, but couldn’t hide the fact that he loved it all every bit as much as I did. We ditched the old, pre-fab Lionel tunnels and constructed towering mountains from screen wire and plaster in their place with cuts and tunnels at two different levels. We sculpted rock cliffs, constructed trestles, built buildings, and formed trees and bushes. We wired automatic switches and every building with lights, had a working sawmill with its saw going up and down on mock logs, and a turning water wheel on a riverside mill. We had a building which “caught fire” (flickering lights, of course) and at the turn of a switch, firemen pumped real water into it to extinguish the “blaze”. To top it off, right before the next Christmas, we added an honest-to-goodness working waterfall behind which the trains passed thru another tunnel while real water drizzled down the mountainside in front. We were back loving our trains. Trains had made us “We” again. A few years later brought the most-prized Christmas present I ever received — ever. Something I had wanted for years and had little hope of affording myself at the time — “The General”. Unwrapping the package, I remember being so excited that my sock-covered feet slipped out from under me on the newly-waxed floor! I hung suspended in mid-air for a moment and then crashed to the floor in a heap, all while carefully cradling the box in my hands to protect my new prize. “The General” was a famed, wood-burning steam locomotive involved in a daring raid in the Civil War, when on April 12, 1862, Northern infiltrators stole the locomotive and headed back north, intent on sabotaging rebel railroad lines and bridges deep behind enemy lines as they went. They were pursued by another locomotive, “The Texas”, and eventually captured before much damage could be done. But, Fess Parker, of Davy Crockett and Walt Disney fame, had made a 1956 movie about it, “The Great Locomotive Chase”, and that was enough to have peaked my interest. “The General” was not cheap, and there it was in my hands! I still have “The General” safely stored in its original box. Best Christmas present ever. Magic under the tree. Nowadays, the old Marx train, worn out as it is but much too valued to be discarded, rests in a box. Emotional investment again, I suppose. The old Lionel train, together with all the attendant pieces and accessories, waits in two boxes on top of it. My collected ‘HO’ trains and materials gathered over the years? They reside in three boxes alongside. Boxed treasures of Christmases and times past. I cannot think of Christmas without thinking about trains. And cannot think of trains without recalling the times with my father. And perhaps my mother’s inserted influence. Hopefully, all to be resurrected and shown the light of day again soon following another move in the coming year, even if inoperable. Memories on display and stories yet to be told. Memories. And stories. That’s what holidays and Christmases are all about, aren’t they? The cherished memories we build together in our families and with our friends over the years? Most are good. Others maybe not so much, sometimes. That’s the way life is. But, some of them are outstandingly special that remain with us forever. My fondest family traditions and Christmas memories seem to run thru tunnels, over bridges, and along train tracks thru the years. What memories of Christmases and family do you hold close to your heart? What are your most-treasured holiday traditions and stories? Please feel free to share them in the ‘Comments’ section with us! And, I encourage you to visit my wonderful author and blogger friends listed below as they each share their cherished holiday traditions and reminiscences with us, as well. Cat Michaels — “Holiday Traditions To Ring In Our Season” Sandra Bennet — “Tis The Season For Holiday Traditions” Rebecca Lyndsey — “Let’s Talk Holiday Traditions” Rosie Russell — “Holiday Traditions Blog Hop” K. Lamb– “The Smell of Christmas” Thanks as always for visiting and spending part of your day with us! Your visits here are special to us, and we hope that in some way we help to make your day special, too. Wishing you and yours a very Happy, Healthy, and Safe Holiday Season from Little Red Bear land! — Jim (and Red!) “From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas brings us closer to each other.” — Emily Matthews “Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.” — Mary Ellen Chase “My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?” — Bob Hope “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” — Burton Hillis “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ” — Norman Vincent Peale	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1367
__label__wiki	0.781292	0.781292	By Debs Goodwin in Trailers 1 year ago Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin and writer Taylor Sheridan return for the follow-up to the highly acclaimed 2015 cartel crime thriller Sicario, in the new trailer for Sicario: Day of the Soldado. While many of the same cast and crew have returned, it is not a direct continuation from the plot of the first film, but remains set in the same world focusing on the ongoing war between the CIA and the Mexican drug cartels. After discovering that drug cartels are now smuggling terrorists across the US-Mexico border, the CIA’s Matt Graver re-teams with former undercover operative Alejandro to eliminate the problem. Josh Brolin reprises his role as federal agent Matt Graver and has a new superior at the CIA played by Catherine Keener. Benicio Del Toro, who received a BAFTA nomination for his role in the original film, returns as violent gun-for-hire Alejandro Gillick along with Jeffery Donovan as DEA agent Steve Forsing. Stefano Sollima takes over the directing duties from Denis Villeneuve, who was otherwise occupied with Blade Runner 2049 (2017). Sollima is a worthy replacement given his extensive experience with this genre after directing 10 episodes of the Italian mafia television hit, Gomorrah, and gangster film Suburra (2015). Critically acclaimed writer/director Taylor Sheridan resumes his role as scriptwriter and judging from the trailer, the sequel retains the same gritty feel and moral ambiguity portrayed in the original. For the non-Spanish speaking population – Sicario translates as “hitman” with the term most frequently used to describe the hitmen associated with the Mexican drug cartels. Soldado is the Spanish word for “soldier”, and the film again mixes English and Spanish to add to the authentic feel and fit with the current trend popularised by the TV series Narcos. Josh Brolin has described Sicario: Day of the Soldado as a ‘more severe and bigger film’ than the first, but audiences will have to wait until it is released in cinemas on 29 June to see if they agree. Until then check out the trailer below and let us know your thoughts in the comments. Debs Goodwin Melbourne’s newest & possibly only South African film reviewer who has left behind the grey skies of London in the pursuit of sunshine and good coffee! When I am not busy keeping up to date with the latest films, I am supporting my passion by working as TV producer for the Discovery channel. Deserted Island Movie Collection: The work of David Fincher preferably including his TV work too so that I can keep up to date with Mind Hunter. Best Movie Snack: Total traditionalist with popcorn (and only salted, none of the crazy sweet stuff they give you in Europe!). Latest posts by Debs Goodwin (see all) Young-Adult Love and Survival on the Seas in ‘Adrift’ – Review - 29/06/18 ‘Gringo’ Review – A Convoluted, Entertaining Mess - 05/06/18 Charlize Theron Delivers Powerful Performance in ‘Tully’ – Review - 10/05/18 First Trailer for ‘Sicario 2: Soldado’ Starring Josh Brolin The Violence Remains, But Heart Refrains in ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ Video Featurette Highlights the Film’s Plot Final Trailer for New Mob Movie with a Twist – ‘The Kitchen’ Mobster Wives Rise to the Top in New Crime-Drama ‘The Kitchen’ Trailer Olivia Wilde Serves Vigilante Justice in Trailer for New Film ‘A Vigilante’ Categories:Trailers Crime Films Stefano Sollima Previous Post ‘A Plastic Ocean’ – Review Next Post ‘Pacific Rim Uprising’ – Review ‘Office Christmas Party’ – Trailer ‘Breaking a Monster’ – Trailer Nicole Kidman Like You’ve Never Seen Her Before in ‘Destroyer’ Trailer See Uncharacteristic Vince Vaughn in Teaser for ‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ ‘Robocop’ Reboot in the Works with Neill Blomkamp Set to Direct ‘Filth’ – Review	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371
__label__cc	0.540266	0.459734	The Digital Economy Act 2017- Key Provisions Posted by Matthew Green \| May 14, 2017 The Digital Economy Act 2017 will bring in new measures affecting the world of intellectual property. Whilst not yet in force, the aim of the provisions within are to improve internet connectivity and further protect online users. Matt Hancock, Minister of State for Digital and Culture, stated how the advancements in broadband rollout, rebuffed consumer support and protection for children online will ultimately improve the British economy. Some of the key provisions are outlines below: Online Copyright Infringement One particularly contentious measure is to introduce a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment (under clause 26). The current maximum sentence under s.107(2A) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA) is 2 years. Under the new legislation a person will be liable should they (1) know or have reason to believe that they are infringing a work’s copyright, and (2) intend to make a personal gain for themselves or another, or know or have reason to believe that communicating work to the public will cause loss to the owner of the work, or expose that person to a risk of loss. Such a measure is controversial as although aimed at preventing the distribution of copyright protected work, there is an increasingly grey area as to an end user’s liability in streaming illegal content. Under the InfoSoc Directive, making reproductions of protected work can infringe rights holder’s protections. Since streaming content requires such a copy to be made, ultimately users may well in breach of the Directive. The recent Filmspeler case notes the potential issue for users, and with the circulation of Kodi boxes, liability could fall on far greater numbers than originally indended. Whilst the Government has stated that the maximum penalty will be reserved for the most serious offenders, the position is far from binary. Broadband Becomes A Universal Service The Secretary of State is required to publish a universal services order stating what facilities are available to all citizens. Section 65 of the Communities Act 2003 (CA) will be amended under the new act to include the right to access broadband. Currently, the CA makes no provision for broadband as a universal service and such an amendment will likely provide for the right to demand a 10Mbps connection. Retransmission of Broadcasts An exception exists under section 73 and 73A of the CDPA which states that the retransmission of wireless broadcasts by cable does not amount to copyright infringement. Under the new legislation this exception is to be abolished. Now regarded as defunct , the measure was originally intended to help broadcast analogue transmissions in remote areas. The exception was exploited by online providers looking to monetise as they retransmitted content from elsewhere onto their websites. The now infamous TVCatchup case is a good example of this, as the site rebroadcast what was essentially Freeview television via their website. This change bolsters the InfoSoc Directive which allows broadcasters to prevent retransmission of their work via the internet. PreviousIn the Aftermath of “WannaCry” What are the Lessons to be Learnt? NextGoogle Study States YouTube Is Force For Good In Music Industry Copyright Protects Musical Style Following “Blurred Lines” Appeal Uber Suffers Über Data Breach Landmark Ruling Boosts Writers and Publishers’ Streaming Royalty Rates McDonald’s Loses BIG MAC Trade Mark: A Lesson In Evidence Marc Jacobs Faces US Copyright Claim For Instagram Post of Bella Hadid Adidas’s Three Stripe Trade Mark Lacks Distinctiveness Gigi Hadid in Instagram Copyright Dispute Protecting Consumers From IOT Security Risks: The New Government Consultation Neymar Jr Wins Trade Mark Dispute On Grounds of Bad Faith AG Considers SKYKICK’s Bad Faith Query In KOTON Trade Mark Case Facebook Will Have More Deceased Users Than Alive Ones By 2070 Facial Recognition Technology Reveals Bias in Artificial Intelligence Facebook Admits To Mining Email Contacts of 1.5 Million Users Social Media Code Of Practice Introduced By Home Office	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1374
__label__wiki	0.808822	0.808822	Raymond Todd has written 70 work(s) Search for other authors with the same name at beginning \| displaying 1 to 25 \| next 25 > Jump to start at \| 1 26 51 show results in order: alphabetically \| oldest to newest \| newest to oldest Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers Product Description: Before the team headed to Los Angeles in 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers were one of the most colorful and beloved teams in baseball. Even today, they remain ingrained in the fabric of our national pastime. In Bums, bestselling author Peter Golenbock has compiled a fascinating oral history of the Ebbets Field heroes with recollections from former players, writers, front-office executives, and faithful fans...read more By Raymond Todd (narrator) See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed) CD/Spoken Word: 9781470891473 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 30, 2014), cover price $39.95 \| About this edition: Before the team headed to Los Angeles in 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers were one of the most colorful and beloved teams in baseball. The Eagle Heist Product Description: An Eagle Security armored truck carrying sixteen million dollars worth of diamonds and three million in cash disappears in Washington, DC. Days later, the harpoon-impaled body of one of the guards floats to the banks of the Potomac River...read more 9781470890919 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 30, 2014), cover price $29.95 \| About this edition: An Eagle Security armored truck carrying sixteen million dollars worth of diamonds and three million in cash disappears in Washington, DC. The God of Second Chances: The Remaking of Moses Product Description: [Read by Raymond Todd] This is a book for the hurting and the heartbroken. The Bible says that no prophet emerged from Israel like Moses. Called a ''friend of God,'' he knew God face-to-face. He earned this status through trial and error, through his failures and God's forgiveness...read more 9781470891206 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2013), cover price $19.95 \| About this edition: [Read by Raymond Todd] This is a book for the hurting and the heartbroken. Thuvia, Maid of Mars 9781470890575 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2013), cover price $24.95 Joshua: The Homecoming Product Description: Nearly two decades earlier, the tiny town of Auburn was transformed by the presence of a quiet, humble carpenter named Joshua. With gentle actions of love and words of peace, this mysterious man had a profound influence upon everyone he met...read more 9781470890506 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2013), cover price $29.95 \| About this edition: Nearly two decades earlier, the tiny town of Auburn was transformed by the presence of a quiet, humble carpenter named Joshua. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe Product Description: This classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened when the universe began, and how we know. According to the latest cosmological knowledge, Weinberg describes the universe as originating in fractions of a second...read more 9781470890544 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2013), cover price $29.95 \| About this edition: This classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened when the universe began, and how we know. The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI Edison: A Life of Invention 9781470889531 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 1, 2013), cover price $39.95 The Land That Time Forgot Product Description: When adventurer Bowen Tyler is taken aboard an enemy submarine, he never dreams that his voyage will end in a land where time itself is prisoner. But in the uncharted seas at the bottom of the world, Tyler and the crew of the U-33 discover the mysterious forgotten continent of Caspak, where the savage denizens of a thousand lost ages roam vast primeval jungles...read more 9781470890193 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 1, 2013), cover price $19.95 \| About this edition: When adventurer Bowen Tyler is taken aboard an enemy submarine, he never dreams that his voyage will end in a land where time itself is prisoner. An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland Product Description: [Read by Raymond Todd] Today, Grover Cleveland is chiefly known as the only president to have been elected to two non-consecutive terms. But in his day, Cleveland was a renowned reformer: an enemy of political machines who joined forces with Theodore Roosevelt to fight powerful party bosses, a moralist who vetoed bills he considered blatant raids on the Treasury, and a vigorous defender of the Monroe Doctrine who resisted American imperialism...read more 9781470837297 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 2013), cover price $29.95 \| About this edition: [Read by Raymond Todd] Today, Grover Cleveland is chiefly known as the only president to have been elected to two non-consecutive terms. The Deerslayer Product Description: Set during the French and Indian Wars, The Deerslayer vividly captures the violence and rugged beauty of the American frontier. In the wilds of New York, where tensions rage between tribal Indians and white pioneers, a white hunter known as Deerslayer is initiated into the moral codes of wilderness society...read more 9781470887490 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 2013), cover price $44.95 \| About this edition: Set during the French and Indian Wars, The Deerslayer vividly captures the violence and rugged beauty of the American frontier. A Portrait of Jesus Product Description: There are countless paths to follow when seeking spiritual guidance, but thousands of years of theology and religion cannot replace the premier example that Jesus himself set for us. In A Portrait of Jesus, bestselling writer Joseph Girzone recaptures the truth of Jesus that is presented to us in the Gospels and gives a compelling vision of the person Jesus' contemporaries must have known...read more 9781441700612 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2013), cover price $29.95 \| About this edition: There are countless paths to follow when seeking spiritual guidance, but thousands of years of theology and religion cannot replace the premier example that Jesus himself set for us. Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban Product Description: [Read by Raymond Todd]For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan served as a crossroads for clashes between civilizations. Today it is essential to understand the military history of this blood-soaked land. 9781470847975 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2012), cover price $32.95 \| About this edition: [Read by Raymond Todd]For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan served as a crossroads for clashes between civilizations. Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences Product Description: [Read by Raymond Todd] Are boys and girls really that different? Twenty years ago, doctors and researchers didn't think so. However, an avalanche of research has shown that sex differences are more significant than anybody guessed...read more 9781470848026 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2012), cover price $29.95 \| About this edition: [Read by Raymond Todd] Are boys and girls really that different? Morgette and the Shadow Bomber Product Description: [Read by Raymond Todd]If he can't find a way to straighten things out fast, Dolf might get blown sky-high, in this exciting combination of mystery and Western. -- Dolf Morgette, legendary gunfighter and lawman of the Old West, is in Alaska when he first hears about a series of mysterious bombings in Pinebluff, Idaho...read more 9781433216800 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 31, 2012), cover price $29.95 \| About this edition: [Read by Raymond Todd]If he can't find a way to straighten things out fast, Dolf might get blown sky-high, in this exciting combination of mystery and Western. Morgette and the Shadow Bomber: Library Edition Product Description: Dolf Morgette, legendary gunfighter and lawman of the Old West, is in Alaska when he first hears about a series of mysterious bombings in Pinebluff, Idaho. At first, it sounds like the bombings are being directed at mine owners, probably by disgruntled miners who are unhappy about recent cuts in wages...read more See complete details on each edition (3 editions listed) 9781433216787 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 2009), cover price $69.00 \| About this edition: Dolf Morgette, legendary gunfighter and lawman of the Old West, is in Alaska when he first hears about a series of mysterious bombings in Pinebluff, Idaho. 9781433216817 \| Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 2009), cover price $29.95 \| About this edition: Dolf Morgette, legendary gunfighter and lawman of the Old West, is in Alaska when he first hears about a series of mysterious bombings in Pinebluff, Idaho. Cassette/Spoken Word: Finally Alive Product Description: Why is the church so ineffectual and characterized by the mosaic generation as unchristian? The term born again has been devalued both in society and in the church. Recent social studies surveys have shown that those who regard themselves as born again Christians have the same tendency to divorce as people who aren't Christians at all! In these surveys, being born again is defined by what people say they believe...read more 9781596447288 \| Mp3 una edition (Hovel Audio Inc, March 1, 2009), cover price $19.98 \| About this edition: Why is the church so ineffectual and characterized by the mosaic generation as unchristian? Let the Nations Be Glad Product Description: Why do we do missions? We are told, by Jesus, to preach the gospel and make disciples of all nations. So missions is duty, right? Wrong. If you do missions purely from a sense of duty you will not honor those you are reaching out to, nor will you truly honor God...read more 9781596446229 \| Mp3 una edition (Hovel Audio Inc, September 30, 2008), cover price $19.98 \| About this edition: Why do we do missions? Product Description: Thomas Edison, historys most prolific inventor, was a man of genius and astounding foresight who established the prototype for todays think tanks and research firms. In this peerless biography, Paul Israel exposes for the first time the man behind the inventions. 9781433245770 \| Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 1, 2000), cover price $44.95 \| About this edition: Thomas Edison, historys most prolific inventor, was a man of genius and astounding foresight who established the prototype for todays think tanks and research firms. 9781433245763 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 1, 2000), cover price $130.00 \| About this edition: Thomas Edison, historys most prolific inventor, was a man of genius and astounding foresight who established the prototype for todays think tanks and research firms. Point Man: How a Man Can Lead His Family Product Description: The bestselling classic Point Man encourages and equips Christian men to lead their families successfully through hazards and ambushes like divorce, promiscuity, suicide, and drug addiction. Men will find practical insight on topics such as a father's influence, maintaining purity, and husband-and-wife teamwork...read more 9780136210207, titled "Practical Business Math: An Applications Approach" \| 7th edition (Prentice Hall, August 1, 1997), cover price $48.00 \| also contains Practical Business Math: An Applications Approach \| About this edition: This valuable learning tool applies the principles and practices of basic math to everyday business problems and situations. 9781596445819 \| Unabridged edition (Echristian, April 30, 2008), cover price $26.98 \| About this edition: The bestselling classic Point Man encourages and equips Christian men to lead their families successfully through hazards and ambushes like divorce, promiscuity, suicide, and drug addiction. Lords of the Earth Product Description: From the author of Peace Child, Don Richardson, comes Lords of the Earth, an unforgettable story of missionary tenacity and zeal that sold over 100,000 copies in the hardcover edition. // Engulfed in the darkness of Irian Jayaâs Snow Mountains live the YaliÂnaked cannibals who call themselves Âlords of the earth...read more 9781596445598 \| Unabridged edition (Hovel Audio Inc, February 28, 2008), cover price $28.98 \| About this edition: From the author of Peace Child, Don Richardson, comes Lords of the Earth, an unforgettable story of missionary tenacity and zeal that sold over 100,000 copies in the hardcover edition. The Light and the Glory: Library Edition Product Description: [Read by Raymond Todd]Did Columbus believe that God called him west to undiscovered lands? Does American democracy owe its inception to the handful of Pilgrims that settled at Plymouth? If, indeed, there was a specific, divine call upon this nation, is it still valid today? Was this continent the stage for a new act in the drama of redemption? 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The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-scientist, Library Edition In a series of lectures given at the University of Washington in 1963, one of the century's leading physicists reveals his thoughts on religion, life, politics, and science. 9781433202841 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2007), cover price $22.95 \| About this edition: In a series of lectures given at the University of Washington in 1963, one of the century's leading physicists reveals his thoughts on religion, life, politics, and science. Stealing Your Life: The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan, Library Edition Product Description: When Frank Abagnale trains law enforcement officers for the FBI's National Academy about identity theft, he asks agents for their addresses and nothing more. The next day, he returns with everything he would need to steal their lives: Social Security numbers, dates of birth, current salary, checking account numbers, the names of everyone in their family, and more...read more By Frank W Abagnale and Raymond Todd (narrator) 9780786169184 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 2007), cover price $55.00 \| About this edition: When Frank Abagnale trains law enforcement officers for the FBI's National Academy about identity theft, he asks agents for their addresses and nothing more. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, Library Edition David Brion Davis is recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western world. His books have won such awards as the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight, beginning with the dramatic Amistad case. He looks at slavery in the American South, describing black slaveholding planters; the rise of the Cotton Kingdom; the daily life of ordinary slaves; the highly destructive internal, long-distance slave trade; the sexual exploitation of slaves; the emergence of an African-American culture; and much more. A definitive history by a writer deeply immersed in the subject, Inhuman Bondage links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism. 9781433201363 \| Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 2007), cover price $29.95 \| About this edition: David Brion Davis is recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western world. 9781433201349 \| Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 2007), cover price $85.95	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1377
__label__wiki	0.507995	0.507995	Allison Heishman ’03 is the artistic director for Simpatico Theatre, programming consultant and former associate artistic director of Azuka Theatre, and a recent nominee for the F. Otto Haas Barrymore Award for an Emerging Theatre Artist. She has directed more than 15 mainstage professional productions in Philadelphia. (Theatre) Heishman ’03 Bradley Long ’18 is a first-year student in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy, where he’s pursuing his PharmD and a master’s degree in public health. He worked as a pharmacy tech while completing his undergraduate studies. (Biology Major, Chemistry Minor) long ’18 Anna Windle ’16 is a master’s student studying coastal environmental management Windle ’16 at the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment, She recently was awarded a NOAA/North Carolina Sea Grant fellowship to assess oyster reef health to evaluate impacts of commercial harvest. (Environmental Science Major, Biology and Anthropology Minors) Washington College Admissions Washington College International Viewbook 2018-2019 Washington College knows that when it comes to education, one size doesn’t fit all. That’s why we have so many options for you to create you... washcolladmissions	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1378
__label__cc	0.631318	0.368682	« USA: Peanut burrower bug First bumblebee to be designated as an endangered species in the United States » Emerald ash borer invades Virginia Tech campus January 11, 2017 by IAPPS Alumnus discovers invasive insect on campus, launches efforts to protect trees Alumnus Michael Webb, a plant health care specialist with Bartlett Tree Experts in Roanoke, found evidence of emerald ash borer, an invasive insect, in trees on the Virginia Tech campus. America’s urban forests are under attack. Since 2002, millions of native ash trees across the nation have died and been removed. The culprit, an invasive beetle about as big as a thumbnail, is spreading across North America at an alarming rate and has recently been discovered at Virginia Tech by a graduate of the College of Natural Resources and Environment. The emerald ash borer has caused significant damage to many of the country’s urban forests already. Ash trees that have stood for decades are found dead with intestine-like paths burrowed under their bark where the borers chewed through the trees’ water and nutrient conducting tissues. Such damage has led large cities to set aside significant funds to prevent further destruction as well as to cover the costs of removing and disposing of dead trees. Recently, arborists were distressed at finding exactly that infestation in ash trees of the New River Valley. When Michael Webb, who graduated with a bachelor of science in forestry in May 2016, heard about the encroaching infestation, he began studying the insect in hopes of identifying any other infestations. While there are limited means of preventing infestation, it is still crucial for arborists to have data on the trees in order to track the borer’s spread. Having been provided with an in-depth understanding of urban forestry, soils, and pest management by his studies at Virginia Tech, he was up for the task. Webb is a plant health care specialist for Bartlett Tree Experts in Roanoke and encountered emerald ash borer for the first time in early May 2016. His first discovery of the insect was in Roanoke, where he identified the borer’s signature D-shaped emergence holes in an immature ash tree on a client’s property. He also discovered an infestation in Salem. These discoveries inspired him to do further research and inspect similar ash trees in the area for infestation, including in Blacksburg. “I discovered emerald ash borer on ash trees located on a greenway beside Blacksburg Christian Fellowship on North Main Street,” Webb said. “This led me to investigate ash trees on the Virginia Tech campus.” Upon inspection, Webb found emerald ash borer infestations on ash trees near Norris and Cheatham halls. Webb contacted his former advisor Eric Wiseman, associate professor of urban forestry and arboriculture in the College of Natural Resources and Environment, for advice. At Wiseman’s recommendation, Webb contacted Eric Day, manager of Virginia Cooperative Extension’s Insect Identification Lab in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Department of Entomology, who confirmed that what Webb found was, in fact, emerald ash borer. Day promptly reported the infestation to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, which is the lead agency tracking the insect. Wiseman then passed the information to James Bock, a plant health care specialist with Virginia Tech’s building maintenance and grounds unit in the Facilities Department. Bock and his unit took immediate action, beginning with an inventory. They found that every one of the ash trees on campus had been infested to some degree. On seven ash trees where adult borers were found active, insecticide was applied to the bark and branches to reduce the adult population available for breeding. Trees with minor degrees of infestation were treated with systemic insecticide via soil drench or trunk injection — environmentally friendly options that are preferred over aerial sprays. Despite all efforts, 35 ash trees had to be removed. Fortunately, the number and diversity of trees on campus means that Virginia Tech’s overall landscape is not significantly affected. “The criteria for removal was more than 25 percent crown loss, as this is effectively the point of no return,” Bock said. “Unfortunately, this is not a pest that can be treated one time to solve the problem; preventing future infestations requires annual or biennial treatments for the foreseeable future. The final number of trees to be preserved long term is approximately 30, and these are of varying species, age, and size.” When it comes to the protection of ash trees, Webb and Bock emphasize the importance of catching the borer early on, as preventative treatments are far more effective than restorative ones. Thanks to Webb’s identification of the borer on campus, many trees will be saved. For more information on the emerald ash borer, refer to the Virginia Cooperative Extension publication ENTO-76NP, “Emerald ash borer control for foresters and landowners.” Written by Megan Maury Church of Fredericksburg, Virginia, a sophomore majoring in communication studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. Follow Virginia Tech Architecture and life intersect for Moss Arts Center’s newest exhibition Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientist awarded $2.1 million to fight heart disease Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists: Witnessing fear can physically change the brain Posted in Emerging/invasive pests, Insects \| Leave a Comment	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1383
__label__wiki	0.814934	0.814934	Ariana Grande cancels concert due to health issues Saturday, 29 December 2018 16:22 Published in Music Singer Ariana Grande has cancelled her New Years Eve weekend concert in Las Vegas due to “health issues”. The singer shared the update on Friday. “Vegas, I’m currently working through some health issues and am beyond sorry I won’t be able to see you this weekend,” she wrote on her Instagram story. “I love you and so look forward to seeing you and making it up to you next year.” Grande was scheduled for perform on December 29 at the Cosmopolitan’s Chelsea Theatre — her first full performance since both the death of former boyfriend Mac Miller and her break-up with Pete Davidson. TMZ was first with news of the cancellation, reporting that she had been battling bronchitis all week and was not expected to recover in time for the show. The Cosmopolitan also confirmed in a statement that the concert was off “due to unforeseeable health reasons”, adding that they expected to reschedule the date but were offering full refunds in the meantime. sug/vm More in this category: « My dancer is okay: Iggy Azalea Camila Cabello finds skiing challenging »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1384
__label__wiki	0.60243	0.60243	Woman Walks Ahead (2018) November 11, 2018 November 11, 2018 ~ idrawonmywall Directed by Susanna White Woman Walks Ahead has good intentions, but it tries to push upon us a story we’ve seen before. The specifics of Catherine Weldon’s (Jessica Chastain) journey out west to paint a portrait of a Native American Chief (Michael Greyeyes) might be unique, but the movie boils it all down into the story of another ‘white savior.’ Weldon arrives with a particular goal in mind, finds the people there oppressed and then makes it her mission to help them take back the land from the military forces holding them down. In doing so the movie shows the parallels between the mistreatment of Native Americans and of women at this time, but it is very heavy-handed, romantic and unearned. Characters behave in ways expected of a conventional plot structure, but those changes show up without the accompanying character growth. In one moment Weldon looks alarmed, and in the very next shot she is dancing in the rain like in The Shawshank Redemption. Because we never see that change in her, even just a subtle smile before the new shot, the moment feels absurd. There are many moments like that. Characters approach each other with hesitation or suspicion, and then they’re having a friendly chat. This uneven camaraderie mostly deals with Weldon and the Native American Chief Sitting Bull (Greyeyes). He is cold towards her, seemingly on principal, but when she meets his price demands to paint him, he becomes the friendliest guy in the world. Soon they develop a friendship that townsfolk whisper about, believing it to be romantic (the movie teases this), and later Sitting Bull’s nephew (who took the initiative to introduce the two of them) chastises his uncle for abandoning their cause. I wanted to grab the nephew by the shoulders and say “but mothercker you started this.” Characters just don’t seem consistent from moment to moment and certainly scene to scene. They behave the way the story demands. If one scene is meant to be ‘fun,’ then the characters are having fun. Then when things get serious they get very grave. In this way the plot mechanisms and conventions dictate character behavior, not the other way around. When we finally get to the movie’s climax it never feels like it’s because characters and antagonists have no choice but to come head to head. Instead this moment is there only because the runtime demands it. There is a good cast of actors here, including Chastain, Sam Rockwell, Bill Camp and Ciarán Hinds. They do their best with the material, but the script is formulaic, the dialogue uneven, and what should be compelling character moments suddenly fall flat because we didn’t experience the intended journey to get to such a moment. So to backtrack, this is a story of Weldon traveling out west following the death of a husband she never wanted to marry. As a woman she is expected to stay where she is, probably to remarry and certainly not to pursue any kind of artistic passion. She says fck it, takes the train out west and is immediately accosted by a soldier, Silas Groves (Sam Rockwell, playing a version of the same character from Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri). He will continue to hound her throughout the film, but eventually his antagonism just kind of burns out in an unexpected, unearned way. He’s a problem until the story says he’s not. Weldon wishes only to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull. He and the people who look up to him are impoverished and oppressed. There has been a drought and rations are dwindling. This becomes clear to Weldon who decides to help inspire them to push back against their white oppressors. See they never would’ve done it without her intervention. I’m not sure what the true story is here and how much this abides by or undermines it. I’m sure Weldon had something to do with this, but I doubt she was the sole reason, the sole muse for Sitting Bull and the people he in turn inspired. Weldon faces a whole lot of backlash simply for being in this part of the country. She is assaulted and in some sense black listed. Her determination to march on sure is nice, but her value as a character is undermined by her familiarity as a character type. Woman Walks Ahead feels important, the story and what it represents surely, but it has little character development and seems to cut storytelling corners at every turn. Character ‘growth’ is hurried and thus feels insincere. That being said it sure looks nice, a similarly beautiful cinematography as other recent movies set in a similar part of the country, The Rider and Lean on Pete, not to mention Terrence Malick’s Badlands. Up Next: Starman (1984), Trees Lounge (1996), Patriot Games (1992) a24badlandsbill campCatherine weldonCiarán HindsdakotaJessica chastainlean on peteMichael greyeyessam rockwellsitting bullSusanna whiteTerrence malickthe riderthe shawshank redemptionwoman walks ahead < Previous Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018) Next > Starman (1984)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1392
__label__cc	0.516762	0.483238	Home » Library » Modern » Science » Creationism » Creationist Debates Is Creationism Science? (Gish-Zindler Debate) (1990) [ Index ] A debate between Duane Gish and Frank Zindler that was aired on a radio program hosted by Jim Bleikamp. Zindler tries to get Gish to move beyond merely attacking evolution and provide positive evidence for creationism. E-mail Conversation with a Creationist (Alan Hale vs. Anonymous) (1997) Astronomer Alan Hale answers questions from a creationist who has concerns about the big bang theory and wonders if the speed of light is a constant. How Did We Get Here? (Johnson-Miller NOVA Debate) (1996) [ Index ] (Off Site) A written debate between creationist Phillip Johnson and biologist Kenneth Miller. The Saladin-Gish II Debate (1988) [ Index ] by Ken Saladin A creationism versus evolution debate held at Auburn University between biologist Ken Saladin and creationist Duane Gish. Response to Feedback (1996) on the Saladin-Gish II Debate by Ken Saladin Ken Saladin answers questions that arose as a result of his debate with Gish. Should Both Sides of the Debate on Evolution be Included in Textbooks? (2008) by J.E. Hill and Seth Cooper In January 2004 the Spring Hill Review: A Journal of Northwest Culture published a written exchange between J. E. Hill and Seth Cooper (of the Discovery Institute) over whether creationism should be taught in public schools. In his opening statement Seth Cooper not only deviated from the topic at hand by presenting a laundry list of "problems with various aspects of Darwin's theory," but managed to avoid presenting even a single argument for why creationism should be included in science textbooks. Moreover, he never addressed how teaching creationism would provide "balance" to scientific accounts, or whether creationism itself is even a scientific theory. Though there is no debate among biologists about whether evolution best explains the progression of life on Earth, a small group of religious conservatives want their religious worldview promoted in public schools, and thus have taken their views to the arena of public and political opinion rather than peer-reviewed scientific journals. The Question of Noah's Flood (Morris-Zindler Debate) (1989) John Morris and Frank Zindler debate whether or not Noah's flood actually occurred. Morris argues that theories about the past cannot be properly tested and must therefore be taken on faith. Zindler argues that hypotheses about the past can be scientifically tested and that geological evidence indicates that Noah's flood never actually happened.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1395
__label__wiki	0.50472	0.50472	Inside the Ordinary NYT Sunday Book Reviews Poetry & Science Inside the Ordinary \| Reviews Donald Hall, Naked without Poetry 13 November 2014 By darkviolin Leave a Comment Donald Hall: Essays after Eighty Essays read elsewhere delivered (“nothing but elegy”) a sense for what Hall’s life became after Jane Kenyon. I knew what I was in for. Or so I thought. Fifty four pages into the book, there’s no poetry but a snip from one of hers. There are references to a Donald Hall poetry line now and then, and sometimes a title is given out. But this essay collection – a near-autobiography — is about a life seen almost exclusively from its current vantage point. After a puzzling bit of naturalist monologue which serves to frame the start and end of this project, Hall wastes no time before announcing that he is no longer writing poetry. He offers tips on writing, revising, on personal pronouns. He casually considers editors past. They seem to have what is now only a distant relevance. “In my best poems and prose I’ve become steadily more naked, with a nakedness that disguises itself by wearing clothes.” Naked or not, his antiquity screams from the cover photo. But when I read that a National Gallery of Art security guard said to him, “Did we enjoy our din-din?” the humiliation was thorough, humorless. Hall was there in 2011 to receive the National Medal of Arts. (“Wracked with antiquity” or not, at least he fared better when recognized by Philip Roth outside White House security.) Hall gives us glimpses of other poets of his era — Adrienne Rich and John Ashbery were “classmates at Harvard.” But he dismissively mentions his year as Poet Laureate, “which allowed me more of Washington’s museums.” Poetry is as much profession as art. As he had written elsewhere, he was a freelancer, not a college professor in an MFA program. His essays never veer far from the concrete. There is a chapter on smoking. Truly. An extended riff on beardedness, and its lack.His New England residence is described in detail, the barn . . . and so on. It’s skippable description, save mention of pre-eBook four hundred feet of bookshelves. A mostly plainspoken Hall is content to reduce poetry to “content,” and to write dispassionately about rejection slips. For him poetry sparks, but it is an obvious combustion. “Really, content is only an excuse for oral sex. The most erotic poem in English is Paradise Lost.” Hall weighs in on the reading styles of Stevens, Elliot, Moore, WC Williams, Dylan Thomas. He talks about being at the Dodge Poetry Festival, which this reviewer attends religiously. He notes with slight interest at the waning reputations of Lowell, Roethke, MacLeish. At times he does so with distressing dispassion. This is likely intentional. “Nothing in human life is unmixed.” The self-described antiquity, we learn a few chapters later, was a sturdy 6 foot two when he married a shy 6 foot one Kirby. He could have started with that, of course, but something of the poet remains as he arranges scenes for the reader. Finalities carry their necessary – in Hall’s case, unvarnished — burden: “I survive into my eighties, writing, and oddly cheerful, although disabled and largely alone.” The book catalogs the frailties, inconveniences, and not only his own. “Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.” What about avid listeners at poetry readings? “They heard lines that resembled poetry.” Rather they had mistaken the tracings and retracings of this first poetry editor at the Paris Review who had sketched out so many versions of his New Hampshire Ragged Mountain that it became poetic. Advance review copy provided by publisher Houghton & Amazon Vine. Follow me \| Filed Under: memoir, poetry Tagged With: book reviews, nonfiction, poetry, poets Parul Sehgal Reprises Louis Menand on Diarizing 31 August 2013 By knowlengr Leave a Comment James W. Pennebaker Credit: Wikipedia Commons This week’s New York Times Young Adult and Children’s list includes three different titles involving diaries. But, Parul Sehgal wonders, are we serious about diaries? Or is it an anachronism we are afraid to admit has run its course? In his rumination, he quotes Louis Menand. “But how many people actually keep diaries anymore? It’s an odd impulse, as Louis Menand noted in The New Yorker in 2007: ‘Most people don’t confess; they repress.” Still, we idealize the practice; we imagine it to be “a natural, healthy thing,’ in Menand’s words, ‘a sign of vigor and purpose, a statement, about life, that we care, and that non-diarizing or, worse, failed diarizing is a confession of moral inertia, an acknowledgment, even, of the ultimate pointlessness of one’s being in the world.'” As with tweets and status updates, mediocrity often rules the day, but there still be a place for the diary. In the frenetic world of startup coaching, Laura Pepper Wu says every entrepreneur should write every day. She even cites three psychology studies (albeit all with a James W. Pennebaker as author or coauthor) that showed some benefits. One of these is worth a closer look: “Forming a Story: The Health Benefits of Narrative.” Read the entire “Inside The List” column by Sehgal. Filed Under: memoir, NYT Book Review Quotes Tagged With: journal Beautiful Places of a Little World 8 August 2013 By knowlengr Leave a Comment Howard Norman’s readers owe a debt to both his journal- and letter-writing habits, which have aided him in bringing to life events so well that they seem tantalizingly abridged. Readers of a certain age may find themselves bemoaning lapses in their own past note-taking. In I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place, Norman the novelist is able to draw sharp character and scenic detail that work especially well because these details play out as short stories carried in memoir form. More than other forms, the traditional memoir is expected to follow a linear sequence. Indeed, Norman’s stories are mostly chronological. Likely most memoirs often depart from this, but the expectation is great. On the other hand, Norman makes occasional and dramatic use of jump cut. E.g., . . . So now I was a floor polisher. The Cross of Lorraine tells the tragic story of the capitulation of the French Army . . . This technique, coupled with non-chronological sequences, has the effect of keeping the reader off-guard. Readers should be off-guard as this memoir unfolds. A single memoir, for instance, is expected to include a courtship story of a spouse or two. That expectation is dashed here, one suspects intentionally, as there is no mention of Norman’s spouse Jane Shore or daughter Emma until practically halfway through the text. One has the impression that these two are fellow travelers between the “beautiful places,” rather than the transformative presence that they more likely became. The descriptions of place — flora and fauna, to be clear — are not always in the forefront of the storytelling, but they are thematically crucial to giving the arc of the memoir a pleasing shape. At times this gives the writing a didactic tone, albeit a gentle “you need to know this.” About the ornithological arts, the results can be unpredictable. When writing about his connection to a particular swan, or his penchant for purchasing “bird art” he can’t afford, this is engaging. When it’s on background, such as a glancing reference to an owl conference, it drifts toward nature writing. Norman is a careful writer, but he is not a science writer. He is relying on a tacit relationship between writers in the humanities and their audience: that features and forces of nature are intrinsically poetic or symbolic. I suspect most readers drawn to this memoir won’t mind, but there is so much of that in his storytelling that this assumed connection is tested repeatedly. I woke up, put on the BBC, and stepped out onto the dirty road at five a.m. Crows calling and the scuffle of deer in the direction of the trout pond, hummingbirds at the fuchsia, Gertrude was just returning to the barn. Can you imagine what comprises an owl’s night? Already things I love most every day had happened. It was a departure from the norm to read Beautiful Place in a single sitting. One reason was coincidental: the mentions of Jim Morrison, Joni Mitchell, rural Vermont, Western Michigan University, Lennon’s murder, Woodstock, garage bands, the multi-city continuity of NPR — most of all, Merwin’s Carrier of Ladders (1970), which I bought and read around the same time. As one who began writing on a typewriter, I recognize that the tradition of manual typewriter-wielding naturalist-writer is venerable. There is mention of Norman shopping for typewriter ribbons and working in a writer’s cabin. I did not find this anachronism endearing, though it deserves a certain respect for steadfastness of purpose. More effective was a narrative that finds a way to cite Saigyo, Denise Levertov, W.S. Merwin, Robert Frost, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon, Hayden Carruth, Rita Dove, Rilke, W.H. Auden, Borges, spouse Jane Shore and Robert Hass. Another reason for a single-sitting read was the crescendo of melancholy, which started early with Norman’s estrangement from his father, and moved steadily from unhappy to tragic. The last chapters of Beautiful Place try to resuscitate readers from the emotional catastrophes that ricochet through the narrative, but the pall of dread remains fixed. I unconditionally recommend this work to the literary-minded. When Norman quotes Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (“What good is intelligence if you cannot discover a useful melancholy?”) and Nabokov (“memory perfume”) he could well be describing his own memoir. Readers will find much melancholy in his memories. Yet somehow Norman’s world, despite his diligent ruminations, seems cramped. It pains one to say this. The places Norman has visited have been brought to life with tenderness and, in the case of the tragic circumstances in Norman’s D.C. area (one thousand book-containing) residence, agonizing. Still, so much of importance — so many places of importance — are omitted during that span of years. In fiction, this is by design. In memoir, the act of thoughtful autobiographical exposition creates an expectation of even greater perception. What Norman writes of here are exquisite, dark little places. Share book reviews and ratings with DV, and even join a book club on Goodreads. DarkViolin Readings » Follow DarkViolin at GoodReads Filed Under: memoir, review Tagged With: book review, literary, memoir The Unceasing Wail (And Barb Would Like Her CD Back) 29 August 2009 By darkviolin Leave a Comment In the echo chamber of pain and tears Robin Romm @RobinRomm inhabits in The Mercy Papers (Scribner, 2009), there are other characters: father Richard, boyfriend Don and a mother, Jackie, “who was the first to notice when the crocuses bloomed each spring,” even after she had been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. And other characters, too. But Ms. Romm’s shrieks are so piercing, so monstrously realistic that nearly all other voices are drowned out in this narrative. This is as it should be. Readers should be prepared for plainly difficult passages such as: On very bad days, Mom will look up at me, fear and pain staining the brown in her eyes, and she will say, ” I want to go home.” “You are home, Mom,” I say, holding her hand, which is hard as plastic from edema. “I know, ” she says, her face pleading, “but I want to go home.” My dad says I’m attaching meaning to this when it’s nonsense. At other times, The Mercy Papers’ rant achieves more. This is where Romm is at her best, craft giving lift to the despair where nothing else could. That lift — one is reluctant to use a more demonstrative expression — is very much in need. Legacy.com operates a hosted for paid obituary notices for 275 national newspapers, including the New York Times (not to mention Gadzoo, a pet finder service, perhaps suited to the sensibilities of the Company) . As fate would have it, I’ve had occasion to sponsor a legacy.com post / guest book and to visit three others since January. A casual visit to most guest books on legacy.com confirms Romm’s perception that outside the small world of those directly affected by the loss, an abundance of platitudes and poorly reasoned sentimentalities serves to create a sense of isolation. In Papers, this plays out in many scenes. One that comes to mind comes after Jackie asks the rabbi what happens in Judaism after people die and the rabbi offers up that “there is a great energy in the universe . . . and when you die you rejoin this great energy.” Little wonder the sense of estrangement deepens as this memoir continues: We could get a cup of coffee. But who wants coffee? Who wants to see anyone in the outside world? The outside world has gotten increasingly foreign. People smile for no reason, purchase sugary snacks, worry over leaky roofs out loud to strangers. Who needs this? No one in this house wants to talk about leaky roofs. We want to sit quietly and be known. We want to be soothed by quiet warm hands. We want to be passive, have the world come to us. If we are going to use our tiny reserve of energy to strike up conversation with a stranger, well, it might as well be with God. No one else is useful. Not that God is being very useful — up there punching buttons on his death remote, smirking away. Or, as Romm writes elsewhere, having nine years to prepare for the coming death still left her ill-prepared, and she works to convince the reader that this is as it should be. . . . the changes won’t be hopeful — like the clarity of vision I sometimes feel when I’m in my bedroom after crying and the lines of the windows and slatted doors all look too sharp, hyper-sharp, and all people seem tragic and plain to me, easy to understand. Some of the changes will be only pain. Pain when I see babies, pain when my friends go to lunch with their mothers, pain on my birthday, on her birthday, on every birthday of every person I know. Pain and a deep, toothy hollowness inside me that will go on grinding forever. There’s some transference/substitution wound in the author’s psyche, as there’s far too much narration about pets. Even though the comings and goings, food ingestion and waste discharging of the beasts lends a certain authenticity to the story, this may appeal to only to inveterate animal lovers. On the other hand, had Ms. Romm not been an only child, descriptions of siblings might have been no less meaningless. When the reader arrives tearful and bloodied (and the blood will not all be your own) on page 194, Ms. Romm gifts the purchaser of this volume twelve Six Feet Under-esque blank journal pages (imagine the conversations with the publishing house over this decision). Loss doesn’t end. It goes on and on and on, written on every day that will follow. There you have it. Twelve blank pages for notes, after 194 pages of meticulous coaching. Preparatory notes, should it not yet be your time for such loss. Or, if your time has come, as it has for me and my mother (www.billieunderwood.com) only three months ago, then twelve blank pages just to gather up the bits of memory that loss has tried its best to obliterate. Ultimately, there is no making sense of it, but we are each judged — perhaps by someone much like Robin Romm — by the character of our wail. When the wailing ends, probably through mere fatigue, prepare to be instantly teleported back to that other place you live, the one where Barb would like her CD back. (c) 2009 by Mark Underwood Filed Under: memoir, review Tagged With: book reviews, memoir, reviews career Two Women Take Stock of Two Losses 9 April 2009 By knowlengr Leave a Comment Meghan O’Rourke’s Slate series of reflections on the loss of her mother provides, in a complementary way, some other ways to look at death and grieving. Romm’s memoir was fresh in my mind when I read the seven parts to O’Rourke’s pieces from start to finish. After all, there must be other interpretations, other aspects to adjustment, to acceptance — both by the dying and by their survivors. But I was not persuaded (and O’Rourke is not after any mind-changing; the grief-striken are in a far different place) of the potential for anything short of the angry, wounding ricochets of loss Romm documented. Filed Under: memoir, review Tagged With: grief, O'Rourke, Romm 7 April 2009 By knowlengr 1 Comment In the echo chamber of pain and tears Robin Romm inhabits in The Mercy Papers (Scribner, 2009), there are other characters: father Richard, boyfriend Don and a mother, Jackie, “who was the first to notice when the crocuses bloomed each spring,” even after she had been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. And other characters, too. But Ms. Romm’s shrieks are so piercing, so monstrously realistic that nearly all other voices are drowned out in this narrative. 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__label__wiki	0.811311	0.811311	Actor, Actor Profile, Reviews, Interviews & Features! Pushing His Craft to the Limit, Actor Leandro Simozza Shines in Drama September 3, 2016 Scott Prewitt Leave a comment Actor Leandro Simozza shot by Lishabai Yi For some, the drive for creative expression is instinctive. Just as a person may inherit their father’s eyes or their grandmother’s nose, so too can they inherit a passion for the arts. That couldn’t be more true than it is for Venezuelan-American Leandro Simozza, who comes from a family rich with creative talent. His incredible skill as an actor is due in no small part to the inspiration and encouragement he’s received from his mother, an accomplished painter, and his uncle, a virtuosic musician. Simozza has been acting on screen and stage his entire life, and the combination of that experience and his innate gift for performance shines in every one of his roles. Moreover, the impact of his work is made all the more powerful by his penchant for frequently addressing social issues in his projects. “I like to make something that has a strong message to society and the world,” Simozza says of his wide range of roles. “It is so important to do something one feels passionate about and I am grateful to have been able to portray many different kinds of roles.” To call Simozza’s list of credits diverse isn’t an exaggeration, but an understatement. The Venezuelan tour de force has embodied everything from a family man struggling with alcoholism in “Regrets” and an American crack fighter pilot in “The Second Coming of Christ” to a modern day cartel mobster in “The Head of The Mouse.” In addition to being the writer and editor of the film “Regrets,” Simozza also starred in the tragic drama as Emiliano, a father determined to drink himself to death after the loss of his daughter. “He tries to destroy his life, but thanks to his nurse and professional help he realizes all the damage he’s caused and tries to overcome the situation,” Simozza said. “He wants his daughter to be able to look down on him and be happy about the fact that he’s changed his life and quit drinking.” Because he was so thoroughly involved in every part of the production, Simozza went to great lengths studying and researching both the subject matter and the script. That research even included attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and hearing the true stories of real people who have lived the similar substance abuse nightmares as his character Emiliano in the film. When he wrote the script for “Regrets,” Simozza was determined to shine a light on the iron grip of alcoholism and on the life-shattering toll this insidious disease can take on not only the afflicted, but on their families and loved ones. Leandro Simozza (left) & Christos Tsiloglanidis (right) in “Beaten” shot by Domingo Santay That drive to tell compelling stories with powerful messages is what led Simozza to play the racist antagonist in the film “The Murder of Tasneem Ali.” The film follows the titular character Tasneem, a young Muslim girl, as she is relentlessly harassed and derided by Simozza’s character. Filmed in black and white, “The Murder of Tasneem Ali” is a gripping examination of Islamophobic abusers and their victims. Simozza once again portrayed an addict in “Escaping the Gang Life.” His character, Luke, is a criminal hardened by years of drug abuse. Audiences soon see that beneath the surface of his sordid lifestyle lies a good, albeit flawed man. Luke’s friend and fellow gang member Luan, played by Klement Tinaj (“Furious 7”), struggles to leave the gang alive. “His exit is violent, and the surviving gang members will not allow Luan to get away without a massive blood bath,” Simozza said. “My character is one of the members of the PMW Gang and he helps Luan find out who killed Luan’s sister, Angela, and get revenge for their loss.” Whether explosive and action-packed or heartfelt and dramatic, Leandro Simozza’s works are almost always centered around issues of social strife. Like his mother and uncle, he recognizes the uniquely powerful role of the arts as a mirror for humanity. Addiction, prejudice and violence are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the scope of subjects examined in Simozza’s work. Brilliant and unrivaled not just as an actor but as a writer, editor and producer, Simozza’s long and ever-growing list of credits continues to amaze critics and audiences alike. Actor FeatureActor Leandro SimozzaActor ProfileBloody Hands filmKlement TinajRegrets filmThe Head of the Mouse filmThe Murder of Tasneem AliThe Second Coming of Christ filmVenezuelan Actors Previous PostANA ROZA CIMPERMAN IS THE DEFINITION OF A DREAM GIRL IN EIGHT AND A HALF CIRCLESNext PostA DECADE AFTER THE RELEASE OF 300, MICHAEL CHUTE REMINSCES ON THE MOST UNIQUE JOB IN HIS ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1402
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__label__cc	0.654589	0.345411	Jonathan L. Simon Mobile Strategist \| Digital Marketer \| Educator Digital Marketing Tools Not Using Mobile Ad Mediation? I Know You Are Missing Out On Money by Jonathan L Simon Mobile Gaming, Mobile Monetization, Mobile Strategy ad networks, android, ios, mobile ad mediation, Mobile strategy, monetization Are you a mobile developer looking to monetize your app by showing ads to your users? If so, you should be using mobile ad mediation. What is mobile ad mediation? Mobile ad mediation is an ad serving technology that allows devs to work with many mobile ad sources at the same time. Ad mediation layers are able to send ad requests to multiple mobile ad sources who compete to fill your ad inventory at the highest price. Mobile ad mediation allows a dev to monetize their ad inventory and maximize revenue. Where do the ads come from? Using ad mediation gives devs access to three types of mobile ad sources. The first ad source comes from programmatic buyers who use a Demand Side Platform (DSP). DSPs use bidding technology to access ad inventory through the ad mediation exchange. The exchange contains hundreds of partners competing to fill your ad inventory. DSPs integrate through a server-to-server connection. This means there is no need to integrate their individual software development kits (SDKs). However, DSPs usually pay lower eCPMs (revenue earned per 1000 impressions) when compared to other ad sources. The second ad source are direct ad networks. All ad mediation layers come with a few of these partners whose SDK works with the mediation layer. These SDK(s) can be part of a dev’s integration into the mobile ad mediation layer. It is not mandatory to integrate these extra SDKs. But, these integrated partners usually offer higher eCPMs and ad fill, thereby increasing competition for your ad inventory. They can do this because the SDK integration gives them more information on how their ads are performing in your app. Direct ad network partners also rely on building relationships with devs to understand the demand for your app. Doing this keeps eCPMs high. The third ad source comes directly from advertisers. This source is more relevant to devs who have a direct sales team. The dev can build relationships with advertisers, ad agencies, and trading desks. They can then receive direct ad campaigns for specific budgets at negotiated prices. These are generally the highest eCPMs a dev can receive because they remove any middlemen such as ad mediation exchanges or ad networks. Devs should allow direct campaigns to serve ads before ad networks and DSPs to drive revenue. All mobile ad mediation layers work the same. When an ad request is made, there is a waterfall system, which gives the first opportunity to fill the request to the ad source with the highest eCPM. If the ad is not sent for any reason, such as a connection error, loss of internet connection, or hitting an impression limit; the request falls to the next ad source in the waterfall to fill the request. The waterfall system ensures that every ad request has multiple chances to be filled by competing sources. Having this system increases ad fill rate and revenue. Each time an ad network has the chance to fill an ad request in the waterfall, hundreds of DSPs in the ad exchange bid to beat the eCPM of the ad source trying to fill the request. The DSPs in the ad exchange compete with the ad networks and direct campaigns, increasing competition and revenue for the developer. A good rule of thumb is the more DSPs in the mediation layer, the better. This ad mediation waterfall system can either be automated, self-serve or both. Choosing one option over another comes down to a question of availability. Since eCPMs are constantly changing, waterfalls must be updated with the latest eCPMs frequently or devs risk losing money. Devs who have the time to build relationships and optimize the waterfall closely should choose self-serve. This strategy can be time-consuming but offers more control over the types of ads shown. Devs who are short on time can opt to automatically update waterfalls, but that leaves an algorithm responsible for maximizing your revenue. Also, in addition to automated or self-serve waterfall systems, mobile ad mediation layers offer dedicated personal account managers. They can be helpful for technical assistance and waterfall optimizations. What’s the ROI? It is hard for devs to understand which ad networks, DSP exchanges, and direct ad campaigns are best to integrate into their app. A mobile ad mediation layer simplifies that process by allowing instant access to hundreds of ad sources. The exact ROI will depend on a number of factors such as the type of app, the target audience, and the ad formats being used (banners, static interstitials, video interstitials, etc.) For more information, check out my complete guide to mobile ad formats. Also, using an ad mediation layer will reduce a dev’s cost by only having to integrate a few SDKs at once. It costs less than integrating ad network after ad network to find the one that works best. That process could take months and cost precious time. Also, by integrating an ad mediation layer, devs will gain access to hundreds of ad sources which will drive competition, increase ad fill and revenue. The mobile landscape is always changing so it is best to go with a solution that will give you the most flexibility to grow revenue. When monetizing mobile ads, ad mediation is vital to success. This is FREE content. I will never force you to give me your email or buy a some product. I just love teaching people. If you learned something please share on your social media accounts and check out my other posts. Choose the Best Mobile Ad Mediation Partner October 18, 2017 by Jonathan L Simon Mobile Gaming, Mobile Monetization, Mobile Strategy ad monetization, ad network mediation, ad networks, Mobile strategy App Store Optimization Guide: iTunes App Store July 31, 2017 by Jonathan L Simon Mobile Strategy app store optimization, apple search, apps, aso, ios, itunes, mobile About the Jonathan L Simon \| Mobile Strategist \| Marketing Director @Magmic \| Mobile Gaming (18) Mobile Monetization (11) Mobile Strategy (17) Champions Final ⚽️ preparations underway. #youwillneverwalkalone @liverpoolfc https://t.co/3t7trAQRHS Started ⚽️ season 35 with a 4-1 win and 0 injuries. Not sure I’ll keep the no injuries part going. https://t.co/vGiVA8GmBB Tessa 🎳 her way to 5 years old 🦄 #cantbelieveshes5 https://t.co/FOcAMAtBSH Jonathan L. Simon © 2019.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1412
__label__wiki	0.564766	0.564766	plos.org Revising Your Manuscript Best Practices in Research Reporting Disclosure of Funding Sources Licenses and Copyright Materials and Software Sharing Ethical Publishing Practice Downloads and Translations Manuscript Review and Publication Criteria for Publication Editorial and Peer Review Process Editor Center Article-Level Metrics Discover a faster, simpler path to publishing in a high-quality journal. PLOS ONE promises fair, rigorous peer review, broad scope, and wide readership – a perfect fit for your research every time. Learn More Submit Now Why Publish with PLOS ONE Staff Editors Find and Read Articles Browse Subject Areas Click through the PLOS taxonomy to find articles in your field. For more information about PLOS Subject Areas, click here. Loading metrics Article metrics are unavailable for recently published articles. Total Mendeley and CiteULike bookmarks. Paper's citation count computed by Scopus. Sum of PLOS and PubMed Central page views and downloads. Sum of Facebook and Twitter activity. The Influence of Vibratory Courtship on Female Mating Behaviour in Orb-Web Spiders (Argiope keyserlingi, Karsch 1878) Anne E. Wignall , * E-mail: anne.wignall@mq.edu.au Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia Marie E. Herberstein Anne E. Wignall, Anne E. Wignall Marie E. Herberstein <% if(figureList.length > 1) { %> All Figures Next Previous Show in Context Web-building spiders are important models for sexual selection. While our understanding of post-copulatory mechanisms including sperm competition and cryptic female choice is considerable, our knowledge of courtship and how it influences male and female mating decisions is still extremely poor. Here, we provide the first comprehensive description of male courtship behaviour and vibrations generated in the web by the orb-web spider, Argiope keyserlingi – a recognised model species. We identified three main elements of male courtship: shudders, abdominal wags and mating thread dances (including both plucks and bounces). The vibrations generated by these behaviours are described in detail. Male shuddering behaviour appears to have a strong influence on female latency to mate acceptance, with males that shudder at high rates without compromising shudder duration being preferred. Shuddering behaviour may also mediate female aggressive behaviour, with males that generate long shudders less likely to be cannibalised after copulation. Male abdominal wagging behaviour, however, appears to have only limited influence on female mating decisions. This study provides avenues for future work that synthesises pre- and post-copulatory mechanisms in web-building spiders to generate an all-encompassing model of how sexual selection operates. Citation: Wignall AE, Herberstein ME (2013) The Influence of Vibratory Courtship on Female Mating Behaviour in Orb-Web Spiders (Argiope keyserlingi, Karsch 1878). PLoS ONE 8(1): e53057. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053057 Editor: Jan M. Hemmi, University of Western Australia, Australia Received: July 27, 2012; Accepted: November 27, 2012; Published: January 16, 2013 Copyright: © 2013 Wignall, Herberstein. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: This study was supported by the Australia & Pacific Science Foundation (APSF 11/5) and a Macquarie University Research Fellowship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The value of spiders, particularly web-building spiders, as model systems for sexual selection is becoming increasingly evident [1], [2]. For example, one of the first pieces of evidence for cryptic female choice comes from an orb-web spider [3], [4]. Similarly, work with a range of spider species (e.g. Linyphia, Latrodectus, Nephila and Argiope) has made significant contributions to our understanding of patterns of sperm competition [5]–[9]. While we now have a detailed account of post-copulatory mechanisms in web-building spiders, we still understand very little about pre-copulatory courtship, its function, mechanism or evolution [10]. This represents a significant gap in our understanding. Courtship in many species of spiders, such as in the genus Argiope, often lasts an order of magnitude longer than copulation itself [11]. Therefore, courtship is of potentially significant importance for female choice and the resulting post-copulatory mechanisms. Popular general hypotheses about the function of courtship include: stimulation of females to mate [12]–[14], species recognition [10], [14], [15], suppression of female aggression (particularly in species with sexual cannibalism [14], [15]), assessment of male quality [16] and synchronisation of mating behaviour [14]. Generating and testing functional hypotheses however requires a comprehensive description of courtship behaviour, which in web-building spiders is currently lacking. Web-building spiders tend to have poor vision, but excellent sensitivity to vibrations [17], [18], [19]. Courting web-building spider males often engage in behaviours that involve bouncing, plucking, tugging or manipulating the silk of the female's web [14]. These behaviours generate vibrations that may provide signals or cues to the female about the presence, identity and quality of the male. To date, only a few studies have attempted to record male courtship in a female spider's web [13], [15], [20], [21], and of these only one to our knowledge has recorded courtship vibrations directly from the web (see [21]). Recordings of male funnel-web spiders were conducted using a galvonometer, a contact recording method, which may affect vibration transmission due to the weight of the stylus on the web [21]. Thus the primary aim of our study is to provide a method for the quantification and detailed descriptions of courtship vibrations in a well-studied orb-web spider. Furthermore, we identify relationships between male vibratory courtship and female behaviour as a way of developing potential functional hypotheses for future studies. In this paper we provide the first comprehensive description of the vibrations generated during courtship of male Argiope keyserlingi using a combination of non-contact digital laser vibrometry with synchronised video footage and high-speed video recordings. We describe in detail individual courtship elements and present preliminary evidence for how male courtship performance may influence post-copulatory processes. No specific permits were required for the described field studies. No specific permissions were required for these locations or activities. The collecting location is a public park. This location is not privately owned or protected in any way. The species used in these experiments (Argiope keyserlingi) is not an endangered or protected species. Study animals We collected 21 sub-adult male and 21 sub-adult female Argiope keyserlingi from Bicentennial Park, West Pymble, Australia in October 2010. Individuals were collected as sub-adults to ensure they were virgin for our experiments, as mating status is known to influence both male and female behaviour in A. keyserlingi [3], [9], [22]. Males were maintained in individual, upturned plastic cups (300 mL) with a mesh top for airflow. Females were maintained in Perspex frames (50×50×10 cm) that provided space to build natural orb-webs in which we could record courtship interactions. All spiders were housed in a temperature-controlled room (25–27°C) on a 12∶12 hour Light∶Dark cycle. Females were fed weekly on crickets (Acheta domestica), vinegar flies (Drosophila melanogaster) and Queensland fruit flies (Bactrocera tyroni). Male spiders were fed weekly with D. melanogaster. All spiders were watered daily. Courtship and copulation in Argiope keyserlingi Orb-web spider courtship (Types A, B and C) is defined according to whether courtship occurs on or off the female's web, and whether a mating thread is involved or not. Courtship in A. keyserlingi progresses in a fairly stereotypical manner according to ‘Type B courtship’ [14]. In Type B courtship, courtship occurs on the female's web, and males build a mating thread on which copulation occurs [14]. Male Argiope keyserlingi enter the female's web via the frame threads around the edges of the orb-web (Phase 1 to 2, Figure 1). The male then slowly approaches the hub at the centre of the web where the female is located (Phase 2, Figure 1). At the hub, the male ‘tastes’ the female by walking around her while contacting her legs and abdomen with his first and second pair of legs then passing his legs through his mouth (during Phase 3, Figure 1). The male spends some time at the hub engaged in this behaviour (from several minutes up to an hour or more), punctuated by short rests (often for several minutes at a time). The male then proceeds to cut out a small section of the orb web slightly above and to one side of the female at the hub. The male builds a mating thread across this space, a single line of silk that he may reinforce by laying several draglines. The male then hangs upside down from the mating thread and generates vibrations by plucking and bouncing (Phase 4, Figure 1). The female responds by moving onto the mating thread and entering a characteristic ‘copulatory position’ or ‘acceptance posture’ that exposes her genital opening, the epigynum [11], [14]. There is no evidence of copulatory courtship in A. keyserlingi. PowerPoint slide Figure 1. Sequence of male A. keyserlingi courtship. Proportions of males making transitions between each behaviour are shown beside flow arrows. Mean duration (s) (± sd) of phases 2–4 are shown. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053057.g001 Courtship recordings High-speed video footage of male courtship behaviours were recorded at 300 fps using a Casio Ex-F1 digital camera (Casio America, Inc., USA). Courtship vibrations were recorded using a digital laser vibrometer (Polytec PDV 100, Germany), digitized to a Digital Rapids DC 1500 A to D board using Stream 1.5.23 (Digital Rapids, Canada) recorded at 44.1 kHz/16 bits on a Windows computer (Dual 3.0 GHz Xeon, 4 GB RAM). Video footage was recorded using a 540TVL GoVideo camera (25 fps, Digital Products International Inc., USA). The AES output of the laser vibrometer was converted to EBU (CO3, Midiman, M-Audio, USA) and synchronised onto the audio track of the video. This allowed us to observe the behaviour of the spiders during the generation of vibratory stimuli. Within the web, we placed up to four Bactrocera tyroni wings, painted silver, at even intervals around the hub of the web. These silver wings were used as focal points for the beam of the laser vibrometer, providing a wide focal area while minimising the weight added to the web that may distort vibrations [23], [24]. This method measures transverse vibrations within the web. Longitudinal vibrations tend to travel with less attenuation than transverse vibrations in orb-webs [23]. However, measuring longitudinal vibrations using laser vibrometry is currently not possible as the movement of silk threads during male courtship is too great for the laser vibrometer's focal range. While we cannot exclude the possibility that some information about male courtship has not been captured by measuring transverse vibrations, we hope to have minimised this risk by combining our vibrational analyses with video analyses. To monitor and focus the laser vibrometer, we monitored trials using headphones connected to the laser vibrometer's analogue output from a Eurorack UB 802 soundboard (Behringer, Germany). To commence a courtship recording, an adult male was placed at the bottom of a Perspex frame with a female in her web and allowed to make his own way into the web. If males did not enter the female's web within 30 mins, the trial was aborted. We recorded trials from when the male first made contact with female's silk, to 5 mins after copulation ended. Male courtship was analysed using Adobe Soundbooth CS4 v2.0.1 (Adobe Systems Incorporated, USA), and statistical tests performed using JMP v5.0.1.2 (SAS Institute, Inc., USA). Behaviours were identified from video footage, and duration and inter-element durations were calculated from the synchronised waveform. The mean peak frequencies of individual courtship elements were calculated from a randomly selected example within an interaction. All descriptive values indicate mean ± standard deviation unless otherwise indicated. Data were checked for normal distribution (Shapiro-Wilk test) and transformed where appropriate. To estimate the relative body condition of males and females, we calculated the residuals from a regression of weight on carapace width (males: F1, 15 = 38.95, R2 = 0.72, p<0.01; females: F1, 15 = 13.19, R2 = 0.47, p<0.01) [25], [26]. Copulation success in the laboratory for virgin male – virgin female pairings is 100%, hence copulation success was not included in the analyses. While we have as yet little information on male copulation success in the field, there are indications that females are remarkably accepting of courting males [11]. We analysed male shudder and abdominal wagging behaviour for effects on female latency to move onto the mating thread (which can also be considered as latency to copulation) and copula duration, both measures that are commonly used as proxies for female preference for the male [3]. Female latency to move onto the mating thread may also be a useful proxy for female assessment of male quality due to the potential costs involved in delayed mate acceptance. Females that take longer to assess and accept a mate may reduce their prey capture rate and be at an increased risk of predation due to the presence of the male on the web [11]. We also measured the time that females spent pumping, a behaviour that indicates female disturbance in anti-predator contexts that can also be used as a measure of female ‘irritation’ during male courtship [11], [27]. Pluck rate of mating thread dances was calculated by scoring videos using JWatcher 1.0 [28]. We did not include analyses of frequency or duration for the individual elements of the mating thread dance as behaviours overlapped with each other, making individual elements difficult to analyse accurately. Sample sizes for individual analyses varied slightly according to whether a particular statistic could be calculated from each male's courtship. Our standard model for all analyses included the predictors: vibration rate, vibration duration, and the interaction between rate and duration. Total courtship duration including time the male spent resting (defined from when the male first made contact with female silk to the start of copulation, including the mating thread dance) ranged from 11 to 96 minutes (mean = 39.51±20.78 minutes, N = 21). When we excluded male resting time, total courtship time ranged from 8 to 54 minutes (mean = 25.31±11.17 minutes, N = 21). Three main elements to male vibratory courtship were identified: shudders, abdominal wagging and mating thread dances (comprising a combination of plucks and bounces). These elements were stereotyped and easily identified. The sequence of male courtship behaviour in Figure 1 shows the probability of each transition between behaviours. Shudders comprised males rocking (anterior-posterior) in the web several times, with each rock appearing to be driven by flexion of the first and second pair of legs, although this is difficult to confirm (Table 1; see high-speed video footage, Video S1). Shudders were the first vibratory courtship element to be observed within interactions. Males continued to shudder at intervals throughout the interaction until they began courtship on the mating thread (Table 1; Figure 1; Figure 2a,b). The interval between shudders was significantly shorter during the males' first approach to the female at the hub compared to the interval between shudders after reaching the hub (paired t-test: t17 = 4.86, p<0.01). Figure 2. Shudder courtship vibrations of A. keyserlingi. (a) Waveform of a bout of shuddering by male Argiope keyserlingi. The apparent amplitude difference between the two shudders is due to the male approaching the female (and hence also approaching the laser vibrometer focal point), rather than a difference in courtship effort; (b) detail waveform of a single shudder from waveform (a). Shudders are performed from first contact with female silk, to commencement of courtship on the mating thread. Table 1. Vibratory courtship behaviours of Argiope keyserlingi. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053057.t001 Abdominal Wag Abdominal wagging (as defined by [12]) comprised males rapidly bobbing their abdomen dorso-ventrally (Table 1; Video S2). Abdominal wagging tended to occur in bouts of several wags close together (Table 1; Figure 3a,b). Throughout the entire interaction, males performed on average 42.14±48.92 bouts of abdominal wags (range: 0 to 222 bouts, N = 21). Only one male never performed any abdominal wagging. All the other males performed a bout of abdominal wagging immediately prior to attempting to copulate on the mating thread (Figure 1, Phase 4). Figure 3. Abdominal wagging vibrations of A. keyserlingi. (a) Waveform of a bout of abdominal wagging by male Argiope keyserlingi; (b) detail waveform of a single abdominal wag from waveform (a). Abdominal wags are performed intermittently throughout courtship and immediately prior to a copulation attempt. Male courtship behaviour and female mate choice Total male courtship time (excluding ‘rest’ periods in which the male did not move) did not relate to female latency to move onto the mating thread (F1,19 = 0.50, R2 = 0.03, p = 0.49) or copula duration (F1,19 = 1.22, R2 = 0.06, p = 0.28). Male shuddering behaviour was significantly related to female latency to move onto the mating thread (whole model: F3,17 = 5.60, R2 = 0.50, p<0.01). The higher a male's shudder rate, the longer a female took to move onto the mating thread (shudder rate: F1,1 = 12.49, p<0.01), with a strong interaction between shudder rate and shudder duration (interaction: F1,1 = 6.64, p = 0.02). Females appeared to delay their move onto the mating thread when males with a high shudder rate consequently reduced their shudder duration. Male shuddering behaviour did not influence copula duration (whole model: F3, 17 = 0.76, R2 = 0.12, p = 0.53). However, males that generated longer shudders were less likely to be cannibalised by the female after copulation (whole model: χ23 = 10.73, p = 0.01; shudder duration: χ21 = 6.49, p = 0.01; shudder rate: χ21 = 0.23, p = 0.63; interaction: χ21 = 4.90, p = 0.03). While shudder rate alone did not seem to affect the probability of cannibalism, there was again an interaction between shudder rate and shudder duration, with males that shuddered at a higher rate decreasing their shudder duration, which increased their probability of being cannibalized. Females that pumped more were not more likely to cannibalise males (χ21 = 0.53, p = 0.47), but males took longer to begin building the mating thread when courting females that pumped more (F1,19 = 10.09, R2 = 0.35, p<0.01). However, males did not adjust their shuddering behaviour when courting females that pumped more often (whole model: F3,17 = 0.16, R2 = 0.03, p = 0.92). Male abdominal wagging did not influence the latency of females to go onto the mating thread (whole model: F3,16 = 2.42, R2 = 0.31, p = 0.10). Similarly, abdominal wagging did not influence copula duration (whole model: F3,16 = 0.18, R2 = 0.03, p = 0.91) or time the female spent pumping (F3,16 = 0.63, R2 = 0.11, p = 0.60). Similar to shuddering behaviour, males that abdominal wagged at higher rates tended to have shorter abdominal wag durations (F1,18 = 6.75, R2 = 0.27, p = 0.02). Interestingly, males that shuddered at a higher rate, tended to abdominal wag at a lower rate (F1,18 = 7.00, R2 = 0.28, p = 0.02). We found no evidence that male or female body condition correlated with male shuddering or abdominal wagging behaviour, female latency to move onto the mating thread or copula duration (Pearson correlations: all p>0.22). Mating thread dance Males hung upside down from the mating thread and used their legs to strum the silk (plucks), interspersed with violent dorso-ventral and antero-posterior bouncing on the thread (bounces). Males continued to dance until the female moved onto the mating thread to adopt the copulatory position (Table 1; see Video S3). The precise sequence of the mating thread dance tended to vary between males. The mating thread dance usually commenced with several plucks by the legs on the silk thread, often the 3rd pair, but sometimes also the 1st or 2nd pair of legs. After several plucks, the males began interspersing plucks with bounces on the mating thread (see Videos S3 and S4). Males continued to pluck and bounce on the mating thread, with the proportion of bounces tending to increase as courtship progressed. Some males commenced bouncing almost immediately on the mating thread, while others plucked for some time before the commencement of bouncing. The mating thread dance lasted on average 63.12±38.58 seconds (range: 6.73s to 128.92s, N = 21; measured from the male's first pluck on the mating thread, to when the female was in position on the mating thread, excluding rests). If the female decided to accept the male as a mate, the female responded to the mating thread dance by approaching and hanging from the mating thread with her epigynum facing the male (all females in this study accepted the male as a mate). Sometimes it took several bouts of movement for the female to move into the correct ‘copulatory position’ on the mating thread. During these female movements, males tended to briefly cease the mating thread dance. The durations of vibrations generated by individual plucks on the mating thread were not possible to calculate, due to the substantial overlap with subsequent plucks by alternate legs (Figure 4a,b). This also interfered with calculation of the interval between plucks. Similarly, bounces were difficult to analyse as they also overlapped with plucks (Figure 4c). The amplitude of vibrations generated during the mating thread dance tended to increase as courtship progressed (Figure 4a). Figure 4. Mating thread dance vibrations of A. keyserlingi. (a) Waveform of the mating thread dance by male Argiope keyserlingi; (b) detail waveform showing several plucks from waveform (a). Some bouncing occurs simultaneously during these plucks; (c) detail waveform showing bouncing from waveform (a), including simultaneous plucks. Plucks in the waveform are indicated by arrows. Female preference for a mate in orb-web spiders is often measured by latency to move onto the mating thread (as an indication of willingness to mate) and copula duration (under female control, with the potential to limit the amount of sperm males can transfer) [3], [11]. Our results indicate that the duration of male courtship time alone does not influence female preference behaviour. This appears to contrast with Argiope bruennichi, in which males with a short courtship duration had a significantly reduced paternity share compared to males that courted for longer durations [29]. Male redback spiders, Lactrodectus hasselti, with short courtship durations also have lower paternity compared to males with longer courtship durations as females prematurely cannibalise males that invest little in courtship duration [30], [31]. While our study did not assess paternity in relation to male courtship effort, our results suggest that, in A. keyserlingi, individual elements of courtship quality, rather than courtship duration per se, influences female choice behaviours. Male shuddering behaviour appears to have a strong influence on female latency to mate acceptance. The higher the male's shudder rate, the longer a female will take to move into the characteristic acceptance posture on the mating thread. This appears to be due to males with very high shudder rates compromising their ability to generate shudders of a ‘reasonable’ duration. It is unlikely that males increase their shudder rate (and hence reduce their shudder duration) in response to female reluctance to mate, as female reluctance is mostly assessed by the male once on the mating thread (Phase 4), and not during Phases 2–3 (see Figure 1). Female reluctance to mate is exhibited by either a long latency to move onto the mating thread, or possibly through aggressive behaviours such as pumping. However, our results show that males do not appear to adjust their shuddering behaviour when courting highly aggressive females. While shudder duration per se does not appear to influence female assessment of males, it appears that females will take longer to assess and accept as a mate those males that allow their shudder duration to drop below a threshold level when shuddering at higher rates. Courtship and copulation can be very dangerous for web-building spiders, with many females from diverse species attacking and often cannibalising males before, during or after copulation [32]–[35]. It has been suggested in several spider species that courtship displays may help lower female aggression [20], [36], [37]. In A. keyserlingi, male courtship was not directly influenced by female aggressive pumping behaviour. However, males that courted females that pumped at a high rate took longer to begin building the mating thread. It would be interesting to discover whether males increase their courtship duration (Phases 1–3, Figure 1) to ameliorate the risk of cannibalism by these females. Male shuddering behaviour may also be important in regulating female aggressive behaviours after copulation. Males with longer shudders appear to have a reduced risk of post-copulatory cannibalism, which in turn increases their potential for a second mating and higher reproductive fitness than males with shorter shudders (that shudder at higher rates). Male abdominal wagging appears to have only limited influence on female latency to move onto the mating thread, copula duration and pumping behaviour. However, abdominal wagging is a common element of spider courtship behaviour, and has been observed in diverse spider families [20], [37]–[39]. Interestingly, all males that performed abdominal wagging completed a bout immediately prior to approaching the female for a copulation attempt. One potential function of abdominal wagging may be to increase haemolymph pressure in the pedipalps prior to insertion for sperm transfer [40]. Therefore, while this behaviour is performed during the courtship phase, it may have no function in female mate assessment. There is little evidence from the current study to suggest that male courtship effort is condition dependent. However, males were maintained in similar laboratory conditions under a high quality diet, which may provide only limited scope for investigation of condition-dependent signalling behaviours. Previous work on wolf spiders has indicated that male courtship vibrations vary when male diet is manipulated during development [41]–[43]. This provides an avenue for future research concentrating on diet manipulations of individual males through development and their effects on courtship behaviour and female preference. Understanding courtship behaviour in male orb-web spiders such as A. keyserlingi provides a unique opportunity to formulate a cohesive theory underlying the evolution of mating systems. A wealth of information has been collected about post-copulatory mechanisms in A. keyserlingi and closely related species. 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__label__wiki	0.757759	0.757759	Electro Pop, experimental electronica, Indie Electro Pop, Indie Synth Pop, New Audio, New Single, Single Review, Synth Pop Video by William Ruben Helms January 25, 201919:00 January 25, 2019 New Audio: Good Fuck Returns with an Atmospheric New Single Late last year, I wrote about Good Fuck, a self-described exploration of experimental literary techniques and adventurous production and beats, comprised of Tim Kinsella, a Chicago, IL-based musician, author and film director, who’s best known for stints in a number of bands, including Cap’n Jazz, Joan of Arc, Make Believe, Owls, Friend/Enemy, Everyoned and others, and for an extensive solo career, releasing material under the name Tim Kinsella(s) and Jenny Pulse an electronic music producer and artist, who has released two full-length albums — 2017’s Spa Moans/Obedient Vibrations and Marmalade, which was released last year. Seeking an intimate creative environment to develop their aesthetic and sound, the duo decided that they needed to be in total isolation. “We packed the car and drove 13 hours to The Millay Colony in upstate New York: an artist’s colony in The Berkshires, miles down a private road, next to 100,000 acres of national forest,” Kinsella says in press notes. As soon as they arrived, the couple devised a unique artistic process to work from. Described by Kinsella as a “collaborative conscious alignment,” lyric writing was centered around 12 books, including Don Quixote, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and others that the couple felt were relevant. Then they came up with various systems to collapse and collage them into each other in different combinations. The result was a sort of literary mash up in which content and structure were scrambled into a totally new product. “We might take the form of an Eskimo genesis myth, but use words from Anaïs Nin,” Kinsella explains. Sonically speaking, the project draws from Kinsella’s extensive background in genre-pushing rock and Pulse’s ear for minimalist electronic sounds — and interestingly enough, they managed such an artistic symbiosis together that “To a large degree we don’t even know who programmed what beat, and who programmed what synth line,” Kinsella reflects. According to Kinsella, he and Pulse were “stunned” by what they had created, the entire process was far from perfect. “Of course there were snags, technological and psychological. And of course we threw a good amount away. But what was left was not the result of trying to write songs, but the effortless evidence of what emerged when we got clear in our intentions and then just let it out,” Kinsella says. Now, as you may recall, the self titled album’s first single “Secret Meetings” was centered around a minimalist electronic production featuring whirring, buzzing and industrial clang and clatter, brief blasts of arpeggiated synths, chanted lyrics and a sensual and sweaty groove — with the end result being a track that was esoteric and cryptic, wildly adventurous and yet accessible. Interestingly, “Jenny Dreams of Pies,” the self-titled album’s second and latest single is a slow-burning, atmospheric track with thumping beats and glitchy electronics. Sonically speaking the song nods at The Fragile-era Nine Inch Nails and The Beat Escape‘s Life’s Short The Answer is Long — but while superficially placid, the song possesses a tense and anxious undertone, that gives the song a nightmarish feel. The members of Good Fuck are embarking on a tour with El Ten Eleven to build up buzz for their self-titled debut, slated for a release next month, and it’ll include a February 7, 2019 stop at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Check out the tour dates below. 1/25 – Tampa, FL – Crowbar* 1/26 – Atlanta, GA – Aisle 5* 1/28 – Columbia, SC – New Brookland Tavern* 1/29 – Charlotte, NC – The Milestone Club* 1/30 – Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle* 1/31 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle* 2/1 – Charlottesville, VA – The Southern* 2/2 – Washington DC – Union Stage* 2/5 – Lancaster, PA – Lizard Lounge 2/6 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore* 2/7 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg* 2/8 – Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall* 2/9 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair* 2/10 – Rochester, NY – The Bug Jar 2/11 – Hamilton, ON – Casbah 2/22 – Chicago, IL – Open House Contemporary (GF album release show – tickets) 3/11 – 3/15 Austin, TX – SXSW * = w/ El Ten Eleven Tagged with: Cap'n Jazz Chicago IL El Ten Eleven electro pop Everyoned experimental electronica Friend/Enemy Good Fuck Good Fuck Jenny Dreams of Pies Good Fuck Secret Meetings indie electro pop indie synth pop Jenny Dreams of Pies Jenny Pulse Jenny Pulse Marmalade Jenny Pulse Spa Moans/Obedient Vibrations Joan of Arc Make Believe Music Hall of Williamsburg New Audio New Audio: Good Fuck Returns with an Atmospheric New Single New Single Nine Inch Nails Nine Inch Nails The Fragile Owls Single Review Single Review: Good Fuck Jenny Dreams of Pies Single Review: Jenny Dreams of Pies singles synth pop The Beat Escape The Beat Escape Life's Short The Answer is Long The Joy of Violent Movement: New Audio: Good Fuck Returns with an Atmospheric New Single Tim Kinsella	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1416
__label__cc	0.605263	0.394737	See the Best Junior Eurovision photos of all times! In the lead-up to this year's Junior Eurovision Song Contest we thought that one of the best ways to get you and ourselves in the mood, is to dig up memories that make our hearts beat. These memories include especially the photos taken during the past years. It's exciting to see how it was then and imagine, what it'll be next week. So here, goes, check out the first photos now! This year's Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place on the 3rd of December in Yerevan, Armenia. The rehearsals of our 13 contestants will begin next Tuesday and we'll bring all of it to you from the spot! tags 2008 2009 Kyiv 2010 2011 Lemesos Minsk Yerevan blog Sirusho says Eurovision 'could happen' again Remember last year's Junior Eurovision Song Contest? Check Junior 2010 like it's never been seen before	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1420
__label__cc	0.531375	0.468625	Stable Cottage Blacksmiths Cottage Little Galey Cottage Woodmans Cottage Walking in the Lake District Access Statements Bluebells put on a stunning show The bluebells are always spectacular at Thornthwaite Farm, and this year is no exception. The Lake District is renowed for its bluebell woods, these photos were taken at the farm, much of which is classified as ancient and semi ancient woodland. Up to 50% of the world’s population of bluebells are found in the UK, they are now a protected species. Here are some interesting bluebell facts: In folklore, bluebells are also known as ‘fairy flowers’. It was believed that fairies used bluebells to trap passers by. Other folklore tales would have us believe that by wearing a wreath made of bluebell flowers, the wearer would be compelled to speak only the truth. Or that if you could turn one of the flowers inside out without tearing it, you would eventually win the one you love. Bluebell plants are poisonous. The chemical that makes them poisonous was used in alchemy and is being researched by modern day scientists for medical use. Bluebells can also be white. These rare plants lack the pigment that gives bluebells their distinctive colour. 71% of native bluebells are found in broadleaved woodland or scrub. The biggest threats to bluebells are habitat loss and uprooting of the bulbs for gardens. The bulbs produce an extremely sticky substance which was once used to stick the pages in books and the feathers on arrows. The bluebell’s scientific name (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) comes from a Greek myth. When the Prince Hyacinthus died, the God Apollo’s tears spelled the word ‘alas’ on the petals of the hyacinth flower that sprang up from his blood. Non-scripta means unlettered and tells readers that the bluebell is a different species to the similar looking hyacinth. It takes at least five years for a seed to grow into a bulb, and the bulbs can remain dormant for upto 100 years. Bluebells are an important early food flower for bees, hoverflies and butterflies which feed on nectar. Thornthwaite2017-05-16T08:58:36+01:00May 11th, 2017\|Environment, The Farm\| About the Author: Thornthwaite The Lake District UNESCO World Heritage Site The Lakes and Dales Loop – Cycling route Adventure for all in the Lake District Autumn is on its way in the Lake District It’s Haytime in the Lake District Winter in the Lakes Winter Adventure Itinerary Autumn in the Lake District Ideas for Eating Out in the Lake District Broughton-in-Furness Cumbria LA20 6DF Contact page > See what our customers are saying: Guestlink reviews... Perfectly Placed We are perfectly situated as a base to your Lake District visit. With easy access to all the main attractions in the Lakes, enjoy the sights by day or night and retire to the comfort of our cottages. © Copyright 2019 Thornthwaite Farm \| Website by Pixel Smith, Cumbria Websites	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1424
__label__wiki	0.798558	0.798558	Terror – Hard Lessons/Only the Devil Knows 18.01.13 \| BENJAMIN.MUIR Hard Lessons/Only the Devil Knows Reaper Records First Blood - Madball - Outbreak Consistent act remains consistent - short, but quality. There have been an awful lot of long albums that have come to attention. Very rarely, no matter the quality or stature of the arist, does a long album not contain filler. That is what makes it nice to kick back and listen to a quality 7 inch every now and then. Something short and sweet. Terror is now more than a decade old, and while that’s made them a veteran band by modern hardcore stadards, they’re not showing any sign of slowing down. It’s almost problematic how formulaic their work is… but if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The first track, ‘Hard Lessons’, is probably the stronger of the two. It gets metallic towards the beginning with the almost galloping double-kick, but it soon kicks into the trademark hardcore that we’ve come to know and love from the band. The second track, ‘Only The Devil Knows"’ follows a more traditional riff structure, but somehow lacks the punch and catichiness of ‘Hard Lessons’. Still an enjoyable track, however. For only two songs the analysis isn’t going to be as severe, but this two track offering ultimately revels in its punch and overal impact. Terror are iconic. Their name is dropped as soon as someone says "hardcore". With these expectations in mind, and five minutes to work with, it would have to be a quality five minutes. Indeed, it doesn’t disappoint. Neither of these tracks are a modern classic, nor do they have the potential to be the first songs that pop into your head when you hear the band’s name. But for what it is, a limited 7 inch release, it’s pretty damn good. 1. Hard Lessons 2. Only the Devil Knows	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1433
__label__wiki	0.851877	0.851877	[FOUND SAFE!] Where is Missing Carlie Trent of Tennessee? Post submitted by SteelersPA4VR UPDATE 5.12.16: Detectives hunting for a 9-year-old Tennessee girl allegedly kidnapped by her uncle have investigated more than 500 tips but have verified no credible sightings, officials said late Monday. Agents and intelligence analysts worked to co-ordinate and verify the tips, but Carlie Trent’s whereabouts remain unknown, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in an update on the Amber Alert. They believe the pair may be out of view in an isolated area “such as a campground or park,” the TBI said, adding that the focus of the search shifted Monday to Upper East Tennessee. An Amber Alert has been issued for Carlie Trent, who was allegedly picked up from school by her uncle Gary Simpson (right) on May 4. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Authorities say Carlie was picked up Wednesday from an elementary school in Rogersville by Gary Simpson, an uncle by marriage. Simpson, 57, previously had custody of Carlie and her younger sister, but they had since been returned to the biological father, James Trent. James Trent, who is a single parent, told NBC’s Dateline that Simpson regularly helps out by picking his daughters up from school for appointments or events if he had to be at work. However, there were no plans for Simpson to collect Carlie on Wednesday. Surveillance images show the pair inside a grocery store Wednesday evening stocking up on non-perishable items and treats. “I have to be strong for my other daughter and for Carlie,” Trent told Dateline. “But as the days keep passing, it’s getting harder.” Carlie’s pediatrician is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to her safe recovery and the U.S. Marshals Service has also announced a $5,000 reward. The Tennessee Highway Patrol is aiding the effort by conducting helicopter searches. Simpson was last seen driving a white 2002 Dodge Conversion Van with Tennessee registration 173GPS. Gary’s white 2002 Dodge Conversion Van with Tennessee registration 173GPS “There are so many places he could be,” Trent said. “I don’t know what story he’s told her, because there is no doubt she wants to be home. This whole thing has puzzled our whole family because everything about that morning was normal.” He added: “I want her to know that she’s loved. That she shouldn’t believe whatever he’s telling her. She should get out, run, scream, do whatever she has to do to get away, because there are so many people looking for her. We’ll never give up.” Carlie is described as: She was last seen wearing a black and grey tank top with blue jeans. Gary Simpson was last seen wearing a brown cap, dark colored shirt and blue jeans. Anyone with any information regarding Carlie or Simpson’s whereabouts is urged to call the Rogersville Police Department at (423) 272-7555 or the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-TBI-FIND. Save-A-Lot shopping center, Park Boulevard, Rogersville, TN Save-A-Lot - Rogersville, TN 420 Park Boulevard Amber Alert, Carlie Trent, Gary Simpson, Rogersville Police Department, Rogersville TN, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation [UPDATE] Herndon Police Need Help Finding Missing Teens Juana Delgado and Fany Gonzales Have You Seen Nancy Lux, Missing in Potomac, MD? Please Help Us Find William Chris Hensley of Farnham, VA Teen Leanna Walker of Milford, PA is Missing and Endangered, Please Help Have You Seen Missing Teen Bianca Villafaña of Houston, TX?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1436
__label__cc	0.567697	0.432303	Gov. Nixon Discusses Medicaid at Bothwell Regional Health Center Sedalia, Mo. – Gov. Jay Nixon visited Bothwell Regional Health Center in Sedalia today (April 9) to call on legislators to prevent further damage to the economy and stop flow of taxpayer dollars to other states as a result of the General Assembly’s inaction on Medicaid. Townsquare Sedalia Health Care Website Stumbles on Last Day WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says a new technical problem briefly prevented last-minute users from signing up on the government's health insurance website. The new problem comes as traffic is surging on deadline day. Missouri Lawmakers Hear Pleas for Medicaid Expansion JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are hearing pleas from low-income workers, business leaders and pastors to expand Medicaid coverage. UCM Hosting an Affordable Health Care Act Enrollment Fair The University of Central Missouri will host the Affordable Health Care Act – Health Insurance Enrollment Fair 3 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 13 and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 15 at the James C. Kirkpatrick Library, located at the corner of Maguire and Clark streets in Warrensburg. Derrick Gill Missouri Speaker Plans Health Care Conscience Bill JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones plans to file legislation that would let health care workers refuse to participate in procedures that violate their ethical or religious beliefs. House Passes Bill Targeting Health Care Law WASHINGTON (DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press) — The House has passed a bill that would impose new security requirements on the Obama administration's implementation of the health care law. Government Diagnosis: HealthCare.gov On the Mend WASHINGTON (PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press) — Computer crashes should be giving way to insurance coverage — if the government's diagnosis of its health care website is correct. Health Insurance Policy Cancellations: Obama Will Allow Old Plans WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he hears Americans who are upset about losing their health insurance "loud and clear" and is offering a fix. McCaskill: Public Will Eventually Like Health Law JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Sen. Claire McCaskill says she's "embarrassed and angry" about the rollout of a key part of the new federal health care law. But the Missouri Democrat believes people will eventually come to like it. Columbia Conference Examines Health Reform COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Health policy experts from across the state were gathering Friday in Columbia to discuss the future of national health care reform.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1438
__label__wiki	0.780544	0.780544	Retail › Service Centre Service Centre: Jac Roper on forecourts boycotting The Sun and how to build a business Total eclipse of The Sn: That's not my headline it belongs to Liverpool. There is currently one helluva campaign going in the Speke area in Liverpool to boycott The Sun newspaper. If you want to see some colourful comments have a look at the public Facebook group called Total eclipse of the Sn which has gained some 13,000 members in just a few weeks including 10 major petrol stations in the area. The forecourts, along with newsagents and convenience stores are exhibiting signs (We sell newspapers, we don't sell The S*n) and pubs, clubs, barber shops and taxis are not allowing people into their businesses with copies of the paper. In fact, the taxis, which are pretty important in the area (it's near Liverpool John Lennon Airport) were refusing to use any service stations which did continue to sell what the district is calling 'the rag'. Many Liverpudlians have never forgiven The Sun for its coverage of the Hillsborough football disaster 27 years ago when it blamed the fans in banner headlines. When the inquest jury cleared the names of those 96 fans who were killed The Sun neglected to put the result on its front page, hence the campaign. Three Gulf sites, a couple of BPs, a Euro Garages and a Morrisons site are among those refusing to sell the tabloid. Morrisons had at first refused to heed the pressure group's warning that its petrol station would be picketed, with the manager blaming a head office decision to continue to sell the tabloid. This decision was reversed after the picket took place on a busy Saturday. The activists who set up the pressure group hope it will spread to other parts of the city. But there is one main problem here and it is the wholesaler Smiths News, which seems to be disregarding requests to stop supplies, so its retailer customers are having to fillet the bundles of papers each morning and go through the fag of sending back their copies of The Sun. Mubs Mohammed, manager of a Shell Euro Garages site, says: "Our customers don't want it and our customers come first, so we take supplies and then send them back. I believe head office is negotiating with Smiths to stop supplying it. We get good support from head office." Mark Anderson, who runs Speke Hall Service Station, stopped sales of The Sun 27 years ago. As he says: "I'm not a Scouse, I'm 'adopted', but I didn't want to upset my customers. I have another site up the road that was selling just a couple of copies from the bottom shelf but the campaigners came in and put up a sign, so I've cancelled them now." Clare Collins, whose company Gateacre runs three Gulf sites in South Liverpool, says it took her eight goes before Smiths listened to requests to stop. She believes that's where the campaign should really direct its ire rather than picketing shops that have found themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place. "I have two heads on this," she says, "I'm from Liverpool and I agree with the campaign but I'm also a business woman and they should be petitioning Smiths not picketing the shops." Exploring all the sales opportunities When Waristreet Singh rang, he was due to take over his uncle's business, Winlaton Garage in Blaydon near Newcastle, at the beginning of July in partnership with a pal. He said he could see that improvements were necessary as it had been run as a "traditional independent" and could be better organised. He was looking for recommendations on the supply front. Health & Safety had also visited and told him he needed a risk assessment. He contacted Suresite which did the assessment and I pointed him at the Brand Watch feature that was currently running in Forecourt Trader's June issue. It was all about the forecourt packages various symbol groups have been developing, so it was right up his street. I also recommended talking to as many symbol groups as possible. You can learn a lot from reps who will discuss what possibilities there might be where a coffee machine might go, the best layout and range and all the other 'solutions' the marketeers like to promote these days. It is obviously a small shop as a once-weekly visit to the Bestway cash and carry was all that was needed to stock it. When I checked back with Waristreet to find out how he had made out, he said he liked the look of Nisa but that all of them were too expensive at the moment so it was going to be little steps. I then suggested that Bestway Group would be a good starting point for him as its Best-One fascia has different forecourt packages depending on the sort of site it is and the business is already using the cash and carry for supplies. All he needed to do to start the process was to have a word with the branch manager. He may certainly find that, if business improves from a fresh approach, a once-weekly visit won't be enough and that it would be easier to have the stuff delivered, in which case there are other options. Palmer and Harvey is the largest delivered wholesaler in the UK, with a range of over 12,000 products and knows its way around a forecourt or two. I also suggested that Waristreet contact the PRA about the possibility of membership. It isn't free but they have a lot of expertise and could advise him on many aspects of the fuel industry (there is a member's helpline), plus they can get him deals on cards and banking rates. And for anyone else who isn't a member, have a look at their website (http://www.ukpra.co.uk). Service Centre: Jac Roper on technical misery for one retailer and no cash for another Service Centre: Jac Roper on more complaints about epos and the ATM minefield Service Centre: Jac Roper on irksome ATM deal; and flower shortage for Nisa stores Service Centre: Jac Roper on more epos woes, late newspapers and court update Service Centre: Jac Roper on a big system error plus more support for subpostmasters	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1439
__label__wiki	0.638657	0.638657	Home Louisiana Allen Parish Oakdale Nicholas John Guarisco Nicholas John Guarisco Oakdale Attorney at Richardson & Guarisco, LLC Immigration Law, Family Law, Entertainment & Sports Law (taken from firm website: RichardsonAndGuarisco.com): Nick graduated from St. Paul’s High School in Covington, Louisiana, in 2008, before earning a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication, with a concentration on Public Relations and Journalism, as well as a minor in Business Administration, at Louisiana State University. He was a Cum Laude Honors Graduate who finished third in his graduating class at LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication in December 2012. While attending Tulane University Law School, Nick was elected as the Senior Managing Editor of The Sports Lawyers Journal, Vol. 23. He graduated in 2016 and was admitted to the Louisiana Bar in October 2016. Soon after, Nick interned with the Louisiana State Court of Appeal, 1st Circuit, assisting the Honorable Page McClendon with research and writing. He was then hired as an insurance defense lawyer by a prestigious firm, in Covington, LA, becoming the youngest associate at the firm at the time. At Richardson & Guarisco, L.L.C., Nick’s primary focus includes Family law and Immigration law (bond hearings). He also assists his clients in matters relating to Constitutional law and the First Amendment, Intellectual Property law, and Sports and Entertainment law, among others. Aside from practicing law, Nick has made waves on several media outlets as a Fantasy Football expert and NFL Draft analyst. In 2015, he was a weekly guest speaker on ESPN New Orleans Radio, and he still occasionally appears on television as a guest on Prime Time Sports with Scott Alexander (WLAE-TV/CST) J.D. (2016) \| Sports Law Honors: Senior Managing Editor for The Tulane Law School Sports Lawyers Journal B.A. (2012) \| Mass Communications Honors: Cum Laude Honors Graduate Porteous, Hainkel, & Johnson Research Attorney Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal Served under the Honorable Judge Page McClendon Sports Law Certificate Louisiana State Bar Association Free for prospective bankruptcy clients, $30 for other areas of law ThinkRG.com Richardson & Guarisco, L.L.C. 344 E. 6th Ave. Oakdale, LA 71463 Email Nicholas John Guarisco Tiffany L Ratliff Leesville, LA Howell Davey Jones IV Stephen Spurgeon Lauren Coleman Bhyllie Mouton Abbeville, LA	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1443
__label__cc	0.702046	0.297954	Home New Mexico Bernalillo County Albuquerque Amber L. Weeks Amber L. Weeks Noble & Vrapi, P.A. Amber Weeks is a Partner at Noble & Vrapi, P.A. Ms. Weeks is passionate about breaking barriers and changing the lives of immigrants, lifting the fear from her clients' shoulders so that they can walk down the street, care for their families, and live their lives without fear. She is experienced in cases involving family petitions, permanent residence, naturalization and citizenship, waivers, removal proceedings, U visas for victims of crimes, vacating criminal convictions, and other immigration matters. One of her most notable cases was the first impression published case successfully challenging mandatory detention of immigrants in Melero Valdez v. Terry, 874 F. Supp. 2d 1262 (D.N.M. 2012), which she handled as co-counsel with Olsi Vrapi. At the immigration detention center, Ms. Weeks is referred to as “La Perrona” (the badass) as a result of her reputation for getting clients freed from detention. Ms. Weeks is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and has presented at national and regional AILA conferences. Ms. Weeks has presented and written practice advisories regarding marriage-based immigration cases and complications, naturalization, waivers, motions to reopen, travel, representation of immigrants in removal proceedings, and other topics. Ms. Weeks is currently the AILA-ICE Liaison for New Mexico and also serves on the AILA Distance Education Committee. Ms. Weeks is based in the firm's Albuquerque, NM, office and is proficient in Spanish. In addition to representing clients before U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services and all immigration-related agencies, Ms. Weeks practices before the El Paso Immigration Court and other nationwide immigration courts, New Mexico state courts, U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico and the Western District of Texas, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Administrative Appeals Office, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Plea Withdrawals There is a consultation fee, but if the client retains Noble & Vrapi, the fee is applied to the case so that the consultation is effectively free. 10th Circuit Spanish: Spoken, Written Judicial Law Clerk New Mexico Court of Appeals Fellowship Recipient Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services, Inc. Catholic Charities Immigration Services AmeriCorps VISTA Whitney Buchanan, P.C. Computer Analyst Advanced Systems Technology, Inc. J.D. 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Website Albuquerque Office 5931 Jefferson St. NE, Suite A El Paso Office 221 N. Kansas St., Suite 1207 Email Amber L. Weeks Mary Ann Romero John Walter Lawit Carolina Martin Ramos Monica Newcomer Miller James S Hassan	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1444
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He uses this information to prepare stronger cases for his injured clients. His legal success and commitment to his clients have gained him inclusion in organizations such as the Georgia’s Bar Workers’ Compensations and Litigation... Tami Wells Thomas (404) 260-7449 2385 Wall Street Free ConsultationBankruptcy Bankruptcy Attorney Chapter 13 Chapter 7 Stop Garnishments Repossesions Foreclosures Ricardo Javier DeMedeiros (888) 995-7425 951 Railroad Street, NW Georgia State University College of Law Rick J. DeMedeiros is the sole member of his own firm in Conyers, Georgia. Serving clients throughout the Atlanta metropolitan area, he exclusively focuses his practice on the representation of people who have been injured in workplace accidents or as a result of the negligence of others. Before starting his firm, Mr. DeMedeiros was associated with two law firms that represented employers and insurance companies in workers' compensation matters, and he draws from his rich background in that field to each client's advantage. He has handled workers' compensation cases involving work-related deaths and catastrophic injuries, including severe spinal cord damage,... Richard Lee Free ConsultationCollections and Consumer John Marshall L.S. (Atlanta) Admitted to the Georgia Bar 1979.. Derrick Alexander Pope Decatur, GA Lawyer with 26 years experience (404) 241-8501 The Pope Law Companies International Loyola University (LA) DERRICK ALEXANDER POPE is Chairman of The Pope Law Companies International, where he oversees the development and operations of The Law Clinic, The Law Review, CounselDirect, and DA Pope Properties. The primary mission of the company is to enhance the service capacities of the legal profession and to promote a sense of the law’s “higher purpose” among those it serves. Born in Atlanta, Mr. Pope holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana, earning distinction in the Loyola Law Clinic, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Morris Brown... Howie Slomka Decatur, GA Attorney with 24 years experience (678) 971-2781 1 W Court Sq., Ste 750 Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Divorce, Family and Personal Injury Founding Partners, Adam Slipakoff and Howard “Howie” Slomka have both worked in large and small law firms and with high-end clients as well as small. Quickly, they both came to realize that working with smaller clients gave them a sense of connected purpose and satisfaction that goes with helping people on a personal level. Using their experience to simplify needlessly complex processes, they found a love for guarding clients, from further trepidation and strife. There will always be a place in the world for traditional “by the book”, black and white, logic-driven law firms. Adam and Howie simply believe their clients... Darrell Burrow (678) 301-1081 989 Green Street SE Bankruptcy and Personal Injury University of Alabama School of Law Darrell was raised in Northern Virginia, where he completed his Bachelor’s Degree in 1989. In 1992, he completed his Doctorate of Jurisprudence at the University of Alabama. Darrell clerked for the Honorable John Bush, Circuit Court Judge in Wetumpka, Alabama after graduation and gained valuable experience in research and brief writing. He then moved to South Georgia to be closer to his family, who had previously moved to the area. Darrell began practicing law with the law firm of Lissner, Killian, Cunningham and Boyd in Brunswick before moving to Atlanta to open his own practice in... Mr. John F Geraghty Jr. (404) 660-2740 1775 Parker Rd. Bldg C, Suite 210 Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Domestic Violence Atlanta's John Marshall Law School I have represented clients in Divorce cases involving minor children and those without minor children. I work to protect your exposure for those who have assets and income that want to preserve what they can. I have represented both Plaintiff's and Defendant's in change of custody cases. I have represented step parent adoption cases. I have represented DUI defense cases, various traffic cases and personal injury cases. I have represented Visa applicants and Deportation defense/ Family Immigration applications. Sharline Green Attorney Sharline S. Green’s estate planning practice focuses on providing quality and targeted solutions to individuals and families planning their lives and securing their futures. She specializes in guiding her clients with compassion and respect, honoring the differences in each person, while providing them with critical information to make the financial and legal decisions necessary to create plans that will protect their loved ones and accomplish their desired goals. Whatever your story, Sharline will help you capture it and preserve it for the next generation. Sharline received her Juris Doctorate degree from Emory University School of Law in 2002.... Caroline Roney Stone Mountain, GA Attorney with 27 years experience (678) 585-3951 5141 Stone Mountain Highway Hwy. 78 Bankruptcy, Estate Planning, Personal Injury and Probate David Allen Wood DUI & DWI, Personal Injury, Probate and Real Estate Maureen Wood (678) 509-1191 1070 Iris Dr SW, Ste A. Bankruptcy, Divorce and Family Samuel Jay Crowe (770) 929-3100 942 Green St Theresa Karem "T.K." Read Conyers, GA Lawyer (770) 929-8644 915 Commercial Street Emory University School of Law and University of Louisville Attorney at The Read Law Firm, PC, working with her husband, former District Attorney Richard Read, primarily in the areas of personal injury, victim advocacy, criminal defense, premises liability, and complex criminal investigations. Court registered mediator with experience exceeding several hundred cases. Writer: Published, "Pushing the Advertising Envelope, Building Billboards in the Sky Along the Information Superhigh" in 1996. Co-Author of "100 Small Fires To Make Your Book Sales BLAZE!" on sale at Amazon now. Award winning artist of portraiture and architecturally related works. My goal is to be in some small way a cornerstone upholding the law on behalf... Warren Scott Summers Sr Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Family and White Collar Crime Former prosecutor, detective, police Chief now safeguarding your Constitutional rights. Serving Rockdale, Newton, Walton, Henry, Dekalb, Fulton and East Metro Atlanta. If the State is going to interfere with your liberty, make them prove their case. Thua G. Barlay (770) 602-9924 1805 Overlake Drive, SE Business and Real Estate Indiana Univ (Indianapolis) Steftia Richardson (678) 569-3463 Route 987 WIlliam Gilmore Gainer (770) 929-3100 942 Green St. George Chadwell Creal Jr. Atlanta, GA Attorney with 26 years experience (404) 333-0706 480 John Wesley Dobbs Ave. NE Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp The University of Georgia School of Law and University System of Georgia - University of Georgia George C. Creal, Jr., P.C. is a law firm concentrating in DUI Defense and Personal Injury and Work Injury Prosecution. We have represented thousands of individuals arrested for DUI, secured over 100 not guilty jury verdicts for our clients and secured millions of dollars in settlements and judgments for those injured at work and through the negligence of others. As reflected in our 5 star client reviews across the internet, our dedication to customer service and the well-being of our clients are second to none. Rated AV Preeminent on Martindale.com and 10.0/10.0 on Avvo.com. If you are in Metro Atlanta... Tony A. Taylor Lawrenceville, GA Attorney with 32 years experience (770) 604-1397 390 W Crogan St Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Family Atlanta Law School Mr. Taylor has a reputation for integrity and leadership among Gwinnett County Judges. He has assembled a team of expert lawyers who will represent your family confidently and win your legal battles. The readers of Gwinnett Magazine voted his firm, Daniels & Taylor, as the "Best of Gwinnett" in 5 categories. --Best Full Service Firm. --Best Criminal Defense Firm. --Best Bankruptcy Advisers. --Best Personal Injury Firm. --Among the Best Business Law Advisers. Whether you are fighting for Divorce, Custody, Legitimation, or Child Support, Tony and his team will give you strategic advice based on... Robin Frazer Clark Atlanta, GA Lawyer with 31 years experience (404) 873-3700 101 Marietta St Free ConsultationInsurance Claims, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability Robin Frazer Clark is the owner and founder of the law firm of Robin Frazer Clark, P.C., and has practiced law in Georgia for 31 years. Ms. Clark devotes her practice exclusively to plaintiff’s personal injury. Her motto is “A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats.” Ms. Clark was sworn in as the Fiftieth President of the State Bar of Georgia on June 2, 2012, only the second woman ever to serve as President of the State Bar of Georgia and served as President of the 45,000-member association in 2012-2013. One of Ms. Clark’s initiatives she created... Karen Weinstock (770) 913-0800 1827 INDEPENDENCE SQUARE The Hebrew University Karen Weinstock is the managing attorney of Weinstock Immigration Lawyers, the premier immigration law firm in Atlanta, Georgia. With over 19 years of experience, she has developed expertise representing U.S. and international companies in securing global talent and ensuring the employees and their families have a good experience in immigrating to the United States. Karen was born and raised in Israel and immigrated to the United States in 2000. Her genuine passion for immigration law is a direct result of her personal experience as an immigrant. This ability to identify and empathize with immigrants, and her commitment to excellence in... Ryan Locke Atlanta, GA Attorney with 8 years experience (404) 900-5672 1355 Peachtree Street NE Suite 1800 Free ConsultationAppeals, Criminal Defense and Personal Injury University System of Georgia - University of Georgia Ryan Locke represents people who have been injured and people who have been unfairly convicted from his office in Atlanta. Formerly a public defender, Ryan uses the same passion and relentless advocacy for his clients today. Ryan is also an adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law; hosts a podcast about appellate practice called Georgia Appellate Review; and maintains comprehensive legal resources on his website for lawyers and the public, such as his guide for using the HITECH Act to get cheap medical records and his guide for people to change their name and gender in Georgia government documents. P. Charles Scholle (866) 972-5287 160 Clairemont Avenue University of Georgia School of Law As the founding partner at Scholle Law, Charles Scholle has practiced law in the Atlanta metro area and throughout Georgia, for nearly three decades. He has recovered millions of dollars for his clients. He has also earned the highest preeminent ratings from his peers for both excellence in legal practice and ethical standards. Scholle Law is dedicated to injury practice areas including, serious personal injury, traumatic brain injury, wrongful death and motor vehicle accidents. We have a reputation for excellence and dedication to our clients which is backed up by their reviews of their experience with our firm. We approach... Casey W. Stevens (678) 240-2498 9 Lenox Pointe NE Free ConsultationAsbestos, Insurance Claims, Medical Malpractice and Nursing Home After earning his Bachelor of Science degree in 1989, Casey W Stevens worked in the insurance claims industry for several years. In his late twenties, he decided to return to school to receive his law degree. Subsequent to graduating from Georgia State and passing the Georgia Bar, Casey worked for a large insurance defense firm. He moved to a smaller insurance defense firm briefly, before starting his own firm in 2001. The Law Office Of Casey W. Stevens solely practices personal injury and wrongful death law. Jeb Butler (678) 940-1444 10 Lenox Pointe We handle serious personal injury and wrongful death cases. We take only a small number of cases so that we can provide exceptional services to the clients we take on. Our results include a jury verdict of $150 million. We don't work like most personal injury firms. We believe in doing the hard work--calling and tracking down witnesses, digging through boxes of old files, and connecting with our clients to understand what happened and how it has affected them. We believe in attention to detail. You'll never see our firm on a billboard or a daytime television ad.... John Seay Atlanta , GA Attorney with 8 years experience Atlanta , GA 30318 We represent musicians, producers, record labels, filmmakers, and artists. Our founder, John Seay, is an artist with a decade of experience in the entertainment industry as a musician, writer, and former tour manager. John is formerly Of Counsel in the entertainment practice group at Loeb & Loeb's Nashville, Tennessee office, one of the largest and most comprehensive such practice groups in the world. John is a 2016-2018 Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star in Entertainment & Sports Law, a distinction awarded to only 2.5% of attorneys in Georgia. In 2017, he was named a Legal Elite in Entertainment Law by Georgia... Regina Irene Edwards (770) 854-0777 38 Old Ivy Rd NE Appeals, Divorce and Family Welcome to Elovitz, Edwards, O'Nan and Buerlein - Family Law Attorneys. We are happy to help you. I have been practicing family law since 2001. Our firm is noted for our aggressive representation and I charge fair, flat fees. Potential clients can be assured that I have the necessary experience and dedication to family law, and will give each and every client the personal attention that their case requires. I have been practicing for 18 years, so I am considered an expert in my field and well regarded by... Ellaretha Coleman (404) 998-8807 101 Marietta Street NorthWest Divorce, Family and Insurance Claims Howard University School of Law Ellaretha Coleman is an accomplished litigation attorney with experience defending the rights and best interests of individuals throughout the Atlanta-metropolitan area, as well as the state of Florida. Ms. Coleman has substantial experience in the areas of Family Law, Divorce Law, and Custody. Ms. Coleman has been widely applauded by both clients and peers for her written and oral advocacy skills, but it is her genuine and personable approach towards client relationships which has most distinguished her. A talented and business-savvy entrepreneur, Ms. Coleman continues to diversify her practice to ensure the fulfillment of every client's needs. Ms. Coleman... Henry Barnett (800) 786-8851 315 W. Ponce De Leon Avenue Free ConsultationSocial Security Disability and Workers' Comp Attorney Hank Barnett graduated in 1983 from Emory Law School in Atlanta, Georgia, and has devoted his entire legal career to helping workers who have suffered on-the-job injuries obtain medical care and money benefits. Mr. Barnett gives clients the legal service they need and the respect that they deserve. We know the stress and frustration that can be involved in the workers’ compensation claims process. We provide experienced legal advocacy to injured workers in Georgia. Learn more about workers’ comp lawyer Hank Barnett by clicking on the link below. Homer P Jordan IV Atlanta, GA Attorney (404) 620-1558 100 Hartsfield Center Pkwy Free ConsultationDivorce, Domestic Violence and Family Legal Solutions for a Brighter Tomorrow! We can assist you with your divorce, custody, and child support Needs. Call for a free consultation. Homer's practice focuses exclusively on family law, including adoption, child support, child custody, divorce and separation. He serves clients in Cobb, Fulton and Paulding counties, as well as the surrounding areas. Homer is originally from Orlando, Florida. Before earning his J.D. from Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, Homer received an MBA from Stetson University and three Bachelor's Degrees in Finance, General Business Administration and Organizational Communication from the University of Central Florida. When Homer... Max Ruthenberg-Marshall Decatur, GA Lawyer with 8 years experience (678) 435-9069 708 Church Street Divorce, Domestic Violence and Family Max Ruthenberg-Marshall practices Family Law for the Modern Family®, working with families whose needs are not well served by traditional law firms. Max advocates for clients of all identities and family structures in divorce, custody, child support, legitimation, prenuptial and postnuptial agreement, adoption, contempt, and temporary protective order cases. Max also serves as a court-appointed Guardian ad Litem, representing the best interests of children in contested custody cases, and is a registered domestic relations mediator. Max maintains a strong commitment to pro bono work, taking cases through Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation (AVLF), DeKalb Volunteer Lawyers Foundation (DVLF), and Atlanta Legal... Sydnee Mack (770) 686-7342 384 Northyards Blvd Bldg 100 Ste 190 Business, Entertainment & Sports, IP and Trademarks Sydnee Mack Attorney at Law is a boutique law firm that specializes in Sports & Entertainment, Small Business and Trademarks. Attorney Mack is highly experienced in the areas of contract drafting, review and negotiation, risk management, business formation/compliance and trademark filing/portfolio management. She is committed to helping athletes, entertainers, creatives, side-hustlers, dreamers, sports businesses and small businesses build and protect strong brands and companies. In addition to her work as a law firm owner and operator, Attorney Mack is an author and law professor. She is author of 10 Steps to StartUP, a fun, easy-to-read, legal and business strategy... Attorneys in Nearby Cities Ellenwood Attorneys in Nearby Counties The OneCLE Lawyer Directory contains lawyers who have claimed their profiles and are actively seeking clients. 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__label__cc	0.564897	0.435103	Home Patents Virginia Virginia Patents Lawyers Find Virginia Patents Attorneys by City Find Virginia Patents Attorneys by County Virginia Beach City Arlington County Chesapeake City Hampton City Newport News City Roanoke City Spotsylvania County David Ludwig Leesburg, VA Patents Attorney with 12 years experience (800) 747-9354 211 Church Street, SE Patents, Business, IP and Trademarks I am a partner at Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC. My practice focuses primarily on civil litigation in the areas of patent, trademark, copyright, internet / domain names, commercial transactions, government contracts, community associations, and bankruptcy law / creditor's rights, as well as trademark and copyright prosecution. I have represented local and national clients in federal and state court litigation matters, as well as in bankruptcy proceedings. I have represented manufacturing companies in complex patent infringement matters, technology companies in trademark infringement matters, and copyright holders in infringement actions against the likes of Disney and ABC. In 2012, I made... Clifford Daniel Hyra Reston, VA Patents Lawyer with 12 years experience (866) 913-3499 12120 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 600 Free ConsultationPatents and IP George Mason University School of Law Darrin A. Auito McLean, VA Patents Attorney with 14 years experience (571) 933-6437 1765 Greensboro Station Place Free ConsultationPatents, IP and Trademarks I am an intellectual property attorney with over 14 years of experience focused on strategic counseling, patent prosecution (mechanical, electrical, software, design), IP litigation, counterfeit, unfair competition, licensing, branding, and corporate due diligence. I am registered to practice before the United States Patent Office (USPTO) (Reg. No. 56,024) and admitted to practice in the State of Michigan, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Over the years, I have prepared, filed and prosecuted thousands of U.S. and foreign patent applications in fields such as automotive, autonomous vehicles,... Ryan Edward Alley Arlington, VA Patents Attorney with 12 years experience (571) 335-7300 PO Box 3698 Alexandria, VA Patents Lawyer with 17 years experience (703) 791-9055 2121 Eisenhower Avenue Free ConsultationPatents, Business and IP I help individuals and businesses create and protect their intellectual property. I also work with international law firms to help their clients obtain intellectual property rights in the United States. We are a fixed-fee, value-oriented law firm whose strength is intellectual property law, in particular patents, including international patent applications, trademarks, and copyrights. My firm is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). Timothy J. Maier Alexandria, VA Patents Lawyer (703) 740-8322 345 South Patrick Street Todd Juneau (703) 548-3569 1727 King Street, 3rd floor Patents, IP and Trademarks Todd Lee Juneau Alexandria, VA Patents Attorney (703) 548-3569 1727 King Street Suite 300 Michele Mayberry Blacksburg, VA Patents Attorney with 18 years experience (540) 605-8070 1750 Kraft Dr Blacksburg, VA 24060 Patents and IP Bambi Faivre Walters Williamsburg, VA Patents Lawyer (888) 388-9614 1201 Jamestown Road Patents, Entertainment & Sports and IP Tulane Law School Bambi Faivre Walters is committed to protecting and promoting of the ideas, products, logos, services, creative works and other assets of each client. Ms. Walters serves on the Board of Directors for the United Inventors Association, a nonprofit organization with over 10,000 innovative members and on the Board of Directors for several nonprofits working with rising entertainers and artists. As an attorney, Ms. Walters believes that law is only part of the equation for success and that building a credible support network and identifying reliable resources is another part of the equation. Ms. Walters is a registered patent attorney... Robert A Matthews Jr Forest, VA Patents Attorney with 26 years experience (434) 525-1141 P.O Box 22 Forest, VA 24551 Showing Patents lawyers for Ashburn. Show all Patents lawyers in Virginia. The OneCLE Lawyer Directory contains lawyers who have claimed their profiles and are actively seeking clients. Find more Virginia Patents Lawyers in the Justia Legal Services and Lawyers Directory which includes profiles of more than one million lawyers licensed to practice in the United States, in addition to profiles of legal aid, pro bono and legal service organizations.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1446
__label__wiki	0.565974	0.565974	Nigel Rose (MS) Ltd Products Associated Products Love Locks R.R.P £3.80 – £4.00 Type ? Choose an optionBrass 40mm PadlockBrass 40mm Long Shackle Padlock Clear Engraving details … Please fill in the box below.. (+£5.00) Love Locks quantity A love lock or love padlock is a padlock which sweethearts lock to a bridge, fence, gate, or similar public fixture to symbolize their love. Typically the sweethearts’ names or initials are inscribed on the padlock, and its key is thrown away to symbolise unbreakable love. Since the 2000s, love locks have proliferated at an increasing number of locations worldwide. They are often treated by municipal authorities as litter or vandalism, and there is some cost to their removal so please act responsibly when finding a location. 40mm Brass Padlocks: • Body: Solid brass. • Arch: Chromate reinforced steel. • Safety lock: Simple. • Opening mechanism: Key-hole lock with brass pins. • Keys: 3 chromate keys, simple jagged flat. • Safety level: Basic. The history of love padlocks dates back at least 100 years to a melancholy Serbian tale of World War I, with an attribution for the bridge Most Ljubavi (lit. the Bridge of Love) in spa town of Vrnjačka Banja. A local schoolmistress named Nada, who was from Vrnjačka Banja, fell in love with a Serbian officer named Relja. After they committed to each other Relja went to war in Greece where he fell in love with a local woman from Corfu. As a consequence, Relja and Nada broke off their engagement. Nada never recovered from that devastating blow, and after some time she died due to heartbreak from her unfortunate love. As young women from Vrnjačka Banja wanted to protect their own loves, they started writing down their names, with the names of their loved ones, on padlocks and affixing them to the railings of the bridge where Nada and Relja used to meet. In rest of Europe, love padlocks started appearing in the early 2000s. The reasons love padlocks started to appear vary between locations and in many instances are unclear. However, in Rome, the ritual of affixing love padlocks to the bridge Ponte Milvio can be attributed to the 2006 book I Want You by Italian author Federico Moccia, who made a film adaptation in 2007.[ Brass 40mm Padlock, Brass 40mm Long Shackle Padlock SKU: Love Locks Categories: Associated Products, Brass Padlocks, Engraved Items, Padlocks, Physical Security	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1456
__label__wiki	0.804731	0.804731	Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Berlin by train © Michal Bednarek Travelling from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Berlin by train Fast trains from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Berlin take around 5 hours and 44 minutes, covering a distance of approximately 583 kilometres. There are frequent services on the rail route between Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Berlin. 1. Are there direct trains from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Berlin? Journeys between Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Berlin usually involve one change of train. We usually find around 11 departures on the route from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Berlin every weekday that leave enough time to change trains without waiting around for longer than necessary. 2. How long is the train journey from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Berlin? The Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Berlin train travel time is normally about 5 hours and 44 minutes, whatever time you make the journey. 3. What are the Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Berlin train times and schedule? On weekdays the earliest train to Berlin is usually scheduled to depart Garmisch-Partenkirchen around 05:59 and the last train is around 23:07. At weekends the first train of the day leaves Garmisch-Partenkirchen around 05:00, and the last at 23:07. When to book Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Berlin train tickets? Trains in Germany usually open for booking around 6 months in advance. If booking is not yet open for your dates then you can set a booking alert to receive an email on the day that the cheapest tickets are released for your journey from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Berlin by train. Which train companies operate between Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Berlin? More than one train company operates on the route from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Berlin, so you’ll be travelling with one or more of the following rail operators: Intercity-Express (ICE) Regional-Express Regionalbahn Berlin to Garmisch-Partenkirchen by train Other journeys to Berlin View all journeys to Berlin From London From $76.43 From Paris From $50.75 From Brussels From $34.46 From Bath Spa From $107.13 From Brighton From $179.68 From Cologne From $21.93 From Amsterdam From $34.46 From Mannheim From $23.18 From Munich From $23.18 From Karlsruhe From $23.18 From Düsseldorf From $22.55 From Zurich From $31.95 Blog posts featuring Garmisch-Partenkirchen or Berlin European high-speed train tickets released Tickets released today for international high-speed trains from France throughout mainland Europe. Sleeper trains - it’s a love thing The best sleeper trains to whizz you through Europe, and the night. Where is your happy place? Most people have a place they love to visit where, when they arrive, all worries seem to disappear. The Loco2 team shares some of theirs.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1457
__label__wiki	0.947629	0.947629	Tag: divison BMW M2 is the latest MotoGP safety car BMW continues its 17-year partnership with the series, unveiling its latest M2 in full Safety Car specification Yamaha might have dominated last season’s MotoGP championship, but another brand had an equally strong presence on the grid at the start of every race. Not arch-rivals Honda, but BMW, which has long supplied the series with its safety cars. From 2016, that safety car will be a BMW M2, replacing the BMW M4 used during last year's season. BMW first partnered with the MotoGP circus in 1999, and since 2006, BMW M Division vehicles have been the official cars of the series, serving as both safety and medical cars. Cars as diverse as the Z4 M Coupe, M5 and M6 Gran Coupe have taken to the grid, with X5s, BMW motorcycles and more acting as support and medial vehicles. The latest M2 will be as striking as its forebears, presented in M Divison’s tri-colour stripes on a white body. Not an easy colour scheme to miss, and even less so once a roof-mounted flashing light bar is fitted and LED lights installed in the lower grille. BMW's signature halo headlights also flash, all operated with a bank of switches in the cabin. The 272kW, turbocharged inline-six remains standard, though engineers have improved the car’s cooling to deal with the demands of fast track use. A series of BMW M Performance parts have also been fitted – from exhaust systems to carbon side skirts, a carbon rear wing and carbonfibre interior trim. Recaro racing seats take the place of the M2’s usual pews, and there’s a roll cage to enhance the Safety Car’s safety. Certain components – including the wing supports and the alloy wheels – are painted gold, further distinguishing the car from its roadgoing cousin. This season, the M2 will be supported by a BMW X5 M and M550d xDrive Touring as medical cars, while the series’ safety officer will drive a BMW M5. Two BMW S 1000 RR motorcycles will serve as safety bikes. The 2016 MotoGP season begins with a floodlit night race in Qatar on March 20th. Antony Ingram View More BMW M2 is the latest MotoGP safety car	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1465
__label__wiki	0.851472	0.851472	> Go back home > BLOG > News Rhythmic Gymnastics Debuts in 2017! 09 Apr 2017 at 20:05 Numerous retirements were announced. One of them was connected with Yana Kudryavtseva. Skillful and talented gymnasts leave letting new stars appear in the world of rhythmic gymnastics. This weekend’s World Cup turned out to be a debut for several gymnasts. Challengers for the podium included younger Olympic holdovers Katsiaryna Halkina (BLR), Neviana Vladinova (BUL), Kseniya Moustafaeva (FRA), Kaho Minagawa (JPN), Sabina Ashirbayeva (KAZ), Shang Rong (CHN) and Ana Luiza Filiorianu (ROU). All competed in Rio, but only Halkina, Vladinova and Moustafaeva made the final, where they finished sixth, seventh and 10th, respectively. The Russian front, always strong in Rhythmic Gymnastics, was led by emerging star Dina Averina, who captured the national title last month, and the graceful Aleksandra Soldatova, who after two years as the youngest on the team at the World Championships, was suddenly its most experienced member. A host of usual suspects, beginning with Italy’s famed “Farfalle” (“Butterflies”) challenged for the podiums in Group competition. Though the flag they competed under didn’t change, the Italian, Russian, Spanish and Bulgarian Groups - the latter three having made up the podium in Rio - were populated with several different faces compared to a year ago. One who had retained her place was Russia’s Anastasia Bliznyuk, a gold medal-winning member of the Russian Group from the London and Rio Games. One of only four Rhythmic gymnasts to hold two Olympic gold medals, Bliznyuk travelled to Pesaro with more titles in mind. If you want to look unique, order bespoke tailoring of acro leotards with skirts. < Aleksandra Soldatova performed successfully at Pesaro World Cup! Challenges just make you stronger! > China impressed everyone at Suzuki World Cup 2016! New "Bubble gum" collection of covers! Baltijskij Obruch 2015 10 Mar 2015 at 07:00 Like it? Tell your friends	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1476
__label__wiki	0.894866	0.894866	NextMadFriars Q&A: Tom Cosgrove MacKenzie Gore gets remarkable extension in his delivery. (Photo: Jerry Espinoza) Chihuahuas off day El Paso enjoyed their first day of the season. The club opens a series at Las Vegas Wednesday. Sod Poodles 9, Springfield Cardinals 6 Key Stats: RHP Andres Muñoz IP, 2 K; RF Edward Olivares 2-4, 3 RBI, 2B; SS Owen Miller 2-6, R, RBI; 3B Hudson Potts 1-5, HR (2), 2 RBI; LF Jorge Oña 2-3, 2B, 2 R, 2 BB; 2B Chris Baker 2-3, 2 R, RBI, 2 BB Prospect Watch: Amarillo came into their series with a sub-.200 team batting average on the road, but they are feasting on a Springfield staff that has allowed the most runs, hits and walks in the Texas League. Hudson Potts hit his second home run and made it through a game without striking out for just the third time on the year The highly-regarded prospect had struck out 14 times in his previous seven games. In 40 Double-A games between last year and this, he has struck out in 37 percent of his plate appearances while managing an IsoP below .080. … Jorge Oña continued his season-opening tear, reaching base four times to raise his OBP to .457. Oña has reworked his set-up at the plate this year, and it has shown up as he’s hit the ball consistently harder. … RHP Andres Muñoz threw his first 1-2-3 inning in 2019, striking out two. Muñoz, who continues to hit triple digits, has struck out 15 in seven innings but has allowed as many baserunners. Storm 3, Lancaster JetHawks 1 (10 innings) Key Stats: LHP MacKenzie Gore 6 IP, 3 H, ER, BB, 9 K; SS Gabriel Arias 2-4, HR (2), 2 RBI; DH Luis Campusano 1-4, 2B, RBI Prospect Watch: The Storm walked off the JetHawks, thanks to a blast by SS Gabriel Arias. The walk-off wasn’t close to the biggest highlight of the game though as Padres #2 prospect MacKenzie Gore was on the mound. Gore struggled to locate his fastball in the first, and it took him 25 pitches (15 balls) to get through the inning, giving up one run. Then he found his feel and faced just one batter over the minimum while striking out eight across the next five innings. He threw only a handful of changeups (his third best pitch), and they were unhittable. In 22 High-A innings, Gore has allowed just 15 baserunners (0.68 WHIP) while striking out 27. Encouragingly, after needing 90 and 84 pitches to get through five innings in his first two starts, Gore has used 75 and 77 to throw six innings in his last two outings. Just as in his last outing when he faced off against veteran Rich Hill, as much as Gore impressed, he was outdueled. The Rockies’ first-round pick last year, Ryan Rolison, allowed just two baserunners in six innings while striking out seven in his Cal League debut. Rolison was drafted out of high school by the Padres in 2016 but opted to go to Ole Miss. The Storm capitalized when he exited the game. DH Luis Campusano, who returned from a brief stay on the injured list for a contusion, hit a game-tying RBI double. The club will ease him back into catching after a concussion ended his season last year, but are glad to have him and his .422/.491/.622 line, back. The game remained scoreless until the 10th when Arias clubbed his walk-off homer. The slick-fielding shortstop could be a big league regular with even league-average offense, and he has been hitting this year. He didn’t collect his second home run last year until July 27. … Taylor Kohlwey made his first ever start at first base for the Storm. Not ‘first as a professional,’ or ‘first since high school.’ First. The lefty from Wisconsin handled all six of his chances. TinCaps 8, Bowling Green Hot Rods 7 Key Stats: LHP Ramon Perez 4IP, 5 H, 4 ER, 2 K, 2 BB, 2 HBP; RHP Henry Henry 3 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 2 K (W, 4-0); LF Grant Little 2-5, RBI; 2B Tucupita Marcano 1-5, 2B, 3 RBI; RF Agustin Ruiz 3-5, RBI; C Juan Fernandez 3-3, 2 R, 2 RBI, BB Prospect Watch: The TinCaps have done a decent job getting on base this year, ranking in the middle of the 16-team league in on-base percentage, but came into the day 15th in slugging. They only got one extra-base hit Tuesday, but it was a big one as Tucupita Marcano collected a bases-clearing double. The 19-year-old infielder is off to a slow start in full-season ball, but he’s still walking plenty and not striking out much. Marcano later lost a pop-up by top prospect Wander Franco in the sun, allowing the ball to land ten feet behind him for a double. That miscue cost Henry Henry, as three runs came around to score with two outs in the frame. The big righty still collected his MiLB leading fourth win. … C Juan Fernandez had an inauspicious start to the season, going hitless in his first five games (0-for-17) and had just three hits in his nine starts entering the day. He came through for three hits and drew a walk Tuesday, raising his OPS from .310 to .491. Injury and Roster Updates The Padres finally released word that Anderson Espinoza‘s long trek back to health took another unfortunate detour as the talented righty underwent his second Tommy John surgery Monday. While the organization was optimistic after we reported he left his third spring training start, the attempt to get him back on a mound was unsuccessful. At best, he’ll be back in competitive action in late 2020, four seasons after he last appeared in a regular season game. While he’ll still be only 22 years old, there’s little precedent for a player returning after such an extended layoff. … Pedro Avila, who hit Amarillo’s disabled list Monday morning, was in San Diego to get forearm soreness examined by the big league club’s medical staff. Adrian Morejon, who left Monday night’s start after just one batter, was added to the DL with vague shoulder and back soreness Tuesday morning. The talented lefty had his spot in the Lake Elsinore rotation skipped once last May when he felt tightness in his neck warming up, but returned quickly from that issue. A series of minor injuries have sidelined him for stretches in each of the last two seasons. … In Peoria, Osvaldo Hernandez is getting stretched out in preparation to join the Lake Elsinore Storm rotation. He likely has three or four more starts in extended before he’d be ready to head out, which would put him on track for mid-May. … Michel Baez has made two one-inning appearances in the desert as he makes up for lost time after a back injury sidelined him in spring training. The big righty would head out to Amarillo about two weeks behind Hernandez’s departure if all stays on track. … Javy Guerra could be on schedule to leave the complex before either of them. Once seen as the club’s future at shortstop, he agreed to move to the mound this spring. He should make his first appearance in a game Thursday after success in a series of live batting practice sessions. Tagged in: Adrian Morejon, Anderson Espinoza, featured, javy guerra, jorge ona, Luis Campusano, MacKenzie Gore, Osvaldo Hernandez, tucupita marcano MadFriars Q&A: Tom Cosgrove	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1485
__label__cc	0.716989	0.283011	Faith & Life > Views > From CCMBC executive film/theatre Obituary submission Family life announcements Multiply releases multi-denominational church planting Creating courageous conversations in congregations Who is the NMT? – Summer 2019 Four Ps for transition #MBThrowback – Summer 2019 Worship takes shape Just worship Songs that Shape Us – Summer 2019 Transitions – Summer 2019 A little more light Home Tags Posts tagged with "Old Testament" Tribute: Elmer Martens “In everything, educator” Scholar, teacher, administrator, pastor – but, in everything, educator – Elmer Martens’ life was a testament to faith and knowledge. Martens, 86, died suddenly Sept. 21, 2016, of… Arts & CulturebooksCrosscurrents Old Testament prophets confront today’s problems Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks Walter Brueggemann Eerdmans Publishing As one of the world’s most prolific and significant Old Testament scholars, Walter Brueggemann continues to do what he… Scholarship honours Elmer – and God The Old Testament in the Life of God’s People: Essays in Honor of Elmer A. Martens Editor: Jon Isaak Hebrews 13:7 tells us to “remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you.” This volume does exactly that, honouring a significant Mennonite Brethren teacher and leader. JOBS.MBHERALD.CA MB HERALD PODCAST READ ON ISSUU [social Tweets by MB_Herald Looking for your next ministry role? Post and search ministry-related jobs in evangelical-Anabaptist organizations throughout North America at jobs.mbherald.com. [recent comments John C Swallow on Creating courageous conversations in congregations Chipper Block on On climate: the global church needs to CHANGE Rudy Hiebert on Creating courageous conversations in congregations Rick Block on Diversity and unity Henry Regehr on Reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians [archives [archives Select Month July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 September 2007 June 2007 April 2007 March 2007 December 2006 November 2006 September 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 November 2005 September 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 January 2005 November 2004 July 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 October 2003 September 2003 May 2003 June 2002 May 2002 March 2002 January 2002 December 2001 November 2001 October 2001 August 2001 March 2001 December 2000 September 2000 July 2000 March 2000 February 2000 January 2000 October 1999 November 1998 December 1997 August 1997 September 1996 December 1995 November 1994 May 1994 April 1992 April 1990 May 1989 May 1988 March 1983 December 1981 November 1981 February 1981 April 1978 May 1972 [categories [categories Select Category Anniversaries Appointments art Arts & Culture Bible study books Columns Crosscurrents feature articles Features film/theatre From CCMBC executive From the community From the editor Homepage inspirational Letters to the editor Life & Faith MB Herald music News People People and Events podcast Views [subscribe to blog via email © Mennonite Brethren Herald, 2018	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1495
__label__cc	0.643569	0.356431	MCI TEQ: Medical Mscs can be appointed as, promoted to post of Assistant Professors without PhD: Health Minstry clarification Editors pick, Government, Medical Education New Delhi: Writing to the Principal Secretaries, Health/Medical Equation of all the state, the Union Health Ministry recently issued a clarification on the MCIs Minimum Qualification for Teachers in Medical Education Regulations 1988 (MCI TEQ Rules) for the appointment of non- medical teachers in medical colleges. Responding to the representation submitted by the National MSc Medical Teachers Association (NMMTA) regarding appointment of non-medical teachers in medical colleges, the Union Health Ministry clarified PhD degree is necessary for promotion from Post of Assistant Professor onwards, implying that Medical Msc are eligible to join as lecturers and promoted to the post of AP with PhD. …it is informed that Clause 2 at Medical Council of India’s Minimum Qualifications, for Teachers in Medical Education Regulations, 1998 provides that in the departments of Anatomy, Physiology Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Microbiology, non-medical teachers may be appointed to the extent of 30% of the total number of the posts in the department. Such candidates after appointment as Assistant Professor may be promoted to a higher teaching post, subject to the condition that they possess the PhD degree in the subject, In the Department of Biochemistry, non-medical teachers may be appointed to the extent of 50% of the total number of posts in the department. Further, the said regulations also prescribe that in the paucity of teachers in non-clinical departments relaxation up to the head of the department may be given by the appointing authority to the non-medical persons if suitable medical teacher, in the particular non-clinical speciality is not available tor the said appointment. However, such relaxation will be made only with the prior approval of the MCI. The Health Ministry while communicating the clarification to the various state secretaries also asked for their feedback in the matter It is, therefore, requested to take note of the above for complying with the provisions of the said regulations of MCI. It is also requested that the matter may kindly be examined to furnish your views/comments in the matter to this ministry at the earliest. Speaking to Medical Dialogues team, Dr. Sridhar Rao, President NMMTA stated “This communication is significant as some prejudiced elements had attempted misinformation propaganda regarding the eligibility and continuance of non-medical teachers in medical colleges”, said Dr. Sridhar. “Several medical colleges and the Department of Medical Education (DME) of the state governments were denying appointment or promotion as Assistant Professor to the non-medical teachers who did not possess Ph.D”, he added “In a written reply to the Lok Sabha in December 2018, MoHFW had stated the same, yet it was not being honored by some medical colleges and DMEs because of disparity between the qualifications mentioned in the schedule-I and Table-I of the TEQ guidelines”, said Mr. Arjun Maitra. “We had requested the ministry to put an end to this confusion by editing the Table-I of the TEQ guidelines via a gazette notification or letters to the concerned”, he added. “All those have now been laid to rest”, he added while thanking the Health Ministry for being responsive to their demands. “In February 2019, the honorable High Court of Punjab and Haryana had ruled that the non-medical teachers who were Professors in the non-clinical departments of the medical colleges could be appointed as Head of the Departments. We have requested the health ministry and MCI to honor this judgment and amend the TEQ accordingly”, added Mr. Arjun. Non-medical teachers are clinical scientists possessing medical M.Sc/Ph.D degree in the subjects of Anatomy, Biochemistry, Physiology, Pharmacology and Microbiology. These 3-year courses are imparted to the science graduates mostly in the medical colleges based on similar curriculum and syllabus as MD courses, and the degrees are awarded under the faculty of medicine by the health universities. As per MCI’s TEQ, they can be appointed to an extent of 30 % (50% in Biochemistry) of the teaching faculty in these five non-clinical subjects. NMMTA claims that around 13% of the teaching faculties in the non-clinical subjects of the medical colleges across India are ‘non-medical’. “We have also requested the health ministry to create a council to regulate medical M.Sc courses and to register the persons with these degrees. This will enable us to render our services effectively in the diagnostic laboratories”, said Dr. Sridhar Rao. Source: self 86 comment(s) on MCI TEQ: Medical Mscs can be appointed as, promoted to post of Assistant Professors without PhD: Health Minstry clarification rajitha July 3, 2019, 3:42 pm To get rank to study MBBS for middle class students its very much..hard work is needed..after for MD ..once they come & join as assistant professor….to see the non medico as collegue.as assistant professor….then v feel like whats the use of that much hard work is the point of frustration… When come to teaching MBBS students..MD pharmacologist knows & they seen all the clinical features…their explanation about any disease condition..automatically very much different Msc can no reach that..i dont know how people thinks and decides Venkanna June 23, 2019, 1:20 pm Its always good for MBBS students if they are guided by those teachers who passed MBBS. Otherwise its just like going with a teacher who doesnot walked the MBBS way at all……. Dr.Alka June 19, 2019, 11:05 pm Now,that the new MBBS curricula is being introduced,are the NON-medicals fit to teach the future doctors. Why 50 percent reservation in biochemistry. We have so many MDs in biochemistry nowadays. Dr SANDHYA June 19, 2019, 2:50 pm Expecting an MSC holder who has never seen a patient in their life to be adept at teaching future doctors is equivalent to saying that one is qualified to teach at the NDA after playing flight simulator games. These students need to know the clinical relevance of what they are learning and seeing, so that they can apply it to their patient care. And that aspect can only be taught by a doctor who has completed their MBBS. Honestly, our future medicos deserve better. DR PRALHAD S PATKI June 19, 2019, 9:43 am	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1501
__label__wiki	0.568956	0.568956	More Essentials Transhumanism and Its Critics Indic Visions in an Age of Science Disciplines in Dialogue Intelligent Design and Its Critics Visual X More Visual X Opportunities and Challenges in Teaching Big History Beyond Intelligent Design: Evolution and Culture Wars Conversations with Philip Clayton Higgs Data Reveals Fundamental Structure of Matter By the Editor on December 13, 2012 in Around_the_Web The 12 matter particles we know about are all the types there are, according to researchers analysing CERN data. Matter particles, also called fermions, are the elementary components of the universe, making up everything visible in the universe. “For a long time, however, it was not clear whether we know all components,” says Professor Ulrich Nierste of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The standard model of particle physics puts the number of fermions at 12 and, based on their properties, they’re divided into three generations of four particles each. Only the first generation – the electron, the electron neutrino, the up-quark and the down-quark – is found in any appreciable quantity outside of particle accelerators. Tags:BIG History, BIG Questions, Complexity, Cosmology, Elements, Hierarchies, Mathematics, Quantum Mechanics, Stages, Universe @metanexus Follow @metanexus. ©2019 Metanexus: Creative Commons-Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivative 4.0 International · Privacy policy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1506
__label__wiki	0.600091	0.600091	MoviePass Is Raising Prices to $14.95 and Blocking Blockbusters; Is It Still Worth It? Somehow, MoviePass isn’t dead yet. After hitting rock bottom last week when the ticking service ran out of cash, the company was forced to borrow a $6.2 million loan to turn the app back on. Things only got worse from there as the service outages continued into Monday evening with even more issues – as of last night, there were apparently zero movies playing in the whole of New York City according to my app. Not great, Bob! As much as it’s seemed like these are final days of MoviePass, the company is still alive and kicking, and making some major changes to stay afloat. If you have a MoviePass and are wondering whether it’s worth keeping your red card or canceling, perhaps the latest announcements will help. On Tuesday, Helios & Matheson, the company that owns the ticketing service, announced new measures they’re taking to make the service sustainable (via Yahoo). The biggest change is an increase in price: the current $9.95 standard monthly plan will increase to $14.95 a month. Current subscribers can expect this to take place within the next 30 days. But users won’t be able to see blockbusters with their MoviePass anymore. According to the release, “First run movies opening on 1,000+ screens will be limited” in availability for the first two weeks of release, except those made available on a promotional basis. It’s unclear what “limited in availability” means; will these movies be completely removed from the app for the first two weeks, will it depend on location, or what? Based on what happened with Mission: Impossible – Fallout last weekend, which was completely unavailable to subscribers on the app and the first film included in this new change, it sounds like limited means totally blocked. As Business Insider revealed, this weekend’s Christopher Robin and The Meg won’t be available either – and by the way, both of those movies are currently featured on the MoviePass app’s “Coming Soon” section; perhaps they ought to fix that. The company claims that limiting access to blockbusters is an effort to drive more audiences to smaller films and “bolster the indie film community.” That’s a great idea, but then why this past weekend were indie titles like Sorry To Bother You, Three Identical Strangers, and Blindspotting unavailable in multiple theaters on my app? And what happens when indie titles expand to wide release, as Blindspotting is next weekend? Oh, and if you’re hoping the new surge pricing feature will go away, don’t get your hopes up. The company says there will be a “continued rollout and refinement” of Peak Pricing. It sounds absurd that users will still need to pay up to $8 extra to see supposed “in-demand” showtimes when the biggest in-demand titles won’t even be accessible to subscribers. There will likely be more changes on the way as well, as the release notes there will be an “implementation of additional tactics to prevent abuse of the MoviePass service.” How, exactly, are people abusing MoviePass when they can no longer see repeat viewings or even access the app properly, beats me. That said, while I was considering canceling my subscription amid the recent madness, I’ll probably keep it to see how these changes pan out. I’m certainly willing to pay a higher monthly price to keep using MoviePass – even a monthly plan as high as $30 is worth it for an avid moviegoer living in an area like New York City, where the plan pays for itself after two films. That said, limiting wide releases is certainly going to upset many users, and if the app doesn’t iron out the kinks soon, more people are bound to flock to alternatives, like AMC’s new Stubs A-List or Sinemia. Will you keep your MoviePass? Let us know in the comments. Gallery - Ticket Stubs You Can Randomly Buy on eBay: What Caused MoviePass’ Recent Outage? Source: MoviePass Is Raising Prices to $14.95 and Blocking Blockbusters; Is It Still Worth It?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1510
__label__cc	0.728477	0.271523	JustJamaal: An Interview with Spoken Word Poet Jamaal Jackson Rogers Spoken word poet Jamaal Jackson Rogers. Courtesy of Jamaal Jackson Rogers Written by Muslim Link Published in Stories Like this? Tweet it to your followers! Jamaal Jackson Rogers is a Black Muslim Canadian Spoken Word poet in Ottawa. He has coached and supported several of the city’s up and coming Spoken Word poets. Muslim Link interviewed him about his personal journey as an artist. Tell us about yourself. I am of Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Canadian descent. My father is from Guyana and my mother is from Toronto with roots coming from America as slaves mixed with the native Cherokee tribe. Also on my mother’s side, my great grandfather, Albert Jackson, an escaped slave child, 134 years ago, was given permission to become Canada's first Black postman by the Senate through the petition of the Black community in Toronto. There is a lane way named after him in Toronto, there is a movement to have his image on a Canadian stamp. I was born and raised Muslim by my parents. I was schooled early in Guyana, but completed elementary, middle, high school and college degrees here in Ottawa. You grew up in Ottawa Community Housing. How has that experience informed your life and your poetry? It’s a part of me that I cherish. In the “projects”, as we call it, we had to make ends meet on very little. Times were hard, and so it made me understand how to survive on minimal provisions. I have fond memories of having to do things not even my peers in the neighbourhood had to do to get by, but I appreciate the lessons it taught me. The most important of these is to always remember the less fortunate. When did you first start getting into Spoken Word poetry? I first got involved in 2010. It was through strong recommendation from my cousin. He brought me out to a couple open mics and encouraged me to share my work. He then introduced me to slam poetry and since then I was hooked with the idea that poetry can be performed and delivered in a manner that was as entertaining as other performance arts genres. How do you feel you have evolved as a poet since you started out? I feel [and] I think about aspects of art that I never thought before as a writer and performer. I used to think about writing and performing, and that was the beginning and end of being a spoken word poet or rap emcee. Now I concentrate on the purpose, the reasons and the science behind artistic expression. Before it used to be, ‘How art?’, now it is more about ‘Why art?’ You also teach and coach Spoken Word poets. Why is this important for you? This is the most important part of my work as an artist. I do this because support is such a necessary component to helping create unity and [in] empowering people. I also believe that as an active working artist, coaching and mentoring helps build the foundation for the spoken word community to thrive and creates future opportunities for artists to find work as creators. As a Muslim artist, you have worked and performed in spaces run by various branches of Islam. Why has this been important to you? I have had the opportunity to work with diverse Islamic groups, mainly the Sunni, Shi’a, and on a few occasions, the Ismaili groups. I have experienced nothing but positive exchanges from all of them, and benefited from learning about the differences between these groups either culturally or religiously. Being a Muslim that uses art as a way to communicate I believe one of my tasks is to help unite the larger Muslim community with my actions and words, this is why I refuse to segregate myself from working, teaching, or learning from one group alone. The more knowledge and experience I have from these groups, the better I can come to understand how to unite us on our commonalities rather than remain divided based on our differences. You had the opportunity to travel to Goa. Tell us about that experience. Truly life changing. I went to mentor young adults from all parts of India in a two week spoken word retreat. I learned so much about art, community, and the power of self-expression. I also learned plenty about myself. Personally, I needed to get away, as I was searching for answers to deep questions about myself as an artist, and if I can achieve my goals as a poet. That trip was a great reminder that life is short, so I might as well spend my time doing what I do best, creating art. Your poem Husniyah, for your daughter, was turned into a short film. What was that experience like and what was the impetus for that poem? The film was an opportunity presented to me by Craig Conoley, a local film maker who took interest in my poetry after seeing me perform in my first year of slamming poetry. He asked if I would allow him into my home for over a period of three months and take documentary style footage in order to create a cinepoem of a piece I had dedicated to my daughter. It was transforming in that it provided direction in how I can continue to showcase my skills as an artist. It was a very vulnerable project for me because up until the filming of that piece I was a very private person. I had to allow Craig and the world into my home to see how I was living and existing. I really had to allow the love of the work move me to feel comfortable with an all-access view of my life. Since then I have come to accept that my life does not need to be so private and that at times, allowing people to know more about who I am personally can help others in their personal lives as well. You recently emceed the Ottawa Police Service's First Human Rights Forum. Tell us about that experience and any concerns you first had about working with police. That was the first time I was asked to emcee for an event for such a large organization of the public sector. I have emceed for many community based events, but when the police asked me to work with them I was apprehensive. I come from a place where collaboration with the police in any form can be seen as a threat to many of the people I grew up with. It is taken as a form of treason or betrayal. I made sure that a few of my closest friends knew of the offer and consulted [with] them for their advice. I also consulted some elders, people we call, “O.G’s”, and they gave me their interpretations of my decision to work with them. Although I was sure I was going to take the contract, I wanted to be transparent to my friends who have prior traumatic experiences and injustices done to them by the police. This way they would see that I don’t disregard the history I have with them and the knowledge shared about how they view cooperating with police. In the end, they understood the work I was doing as important and the event left me feeling fulfilled and I hope to work more with the police and community in bridging the gaps of understanding and solidarity. You recently organized a successful show with two US poets. What skills have you had to develop in order to be an event curator and promoter? The event THE REVOLUTION WILL BE LIVE with Jalal Nuriddin of The Last Poets and Malik Al-Nasir of Malik & The O.G’s was the first challenge of 2016 that I was literally afraid to take on. When I was presented with the request to host an event with these two legendary poets, I did not believe I had what it takes to pull off the event in such a short time frame. Time management, asking for help, recognizing my limitations and most important, doing away with fear, were some of the most important lessons I learned from this experience. So far I have created over ten different events in the city, and some have been successful, some not so much, but I am content with the journey so far because when I look back I can say, at least I tried. What was your most memorable performance? For my most memorable performance it is hard to point to one single event, but the time I stepped on stage and felt the most pressure to deliver something of value that would leave a lifetime impression on my audience would be my recent performance for the Senate of Canada in Parliament Hill. The diversity committee in the Senate contacted me and asked me to perform 15 minutes of spoken word for a Black History Month presentation. They also asked me to curate the artists for the event and leading up to showtime all I could think about was my ancestors and the legacy they have created through their survival, perseverance and sacrifice. I was also conflicted on which poems to recite, as I wanted to speak my truth while also opening the audience up to a new way of viewing Black artists. On the day of, I decided to go with four poems dealing with solidarity, white privilege, my father and my mother. While I noticed the white privilege piece made some listeners uncomfortable, I do not regret the set I chose because I felt that it would have made my ancestors proud. Based on your own journey as a Spoken Word Artist, what advice would you give to young aspiring Spoken Word poets? Do not let your mind convince your heart that you can’t do it. Artists operate and sense the world through their emotions. As a poet, channeling the senses so that it can be expressed with our emotions is the key to self-actualization. It is important for Spoken Word poets to be resilient in the face of their logic, because if we allow our mind to control the heart of what we feel and experience, doubt and fear will usually hold ourselves back from writing, creating, and performing the subjects that truly matter to ourselves and that give us life and purpose. My advice to aspiring poets: Never back down. This article was produced exclusively for Muslim Link and should not be copied without prior permission from the site. For permission, please write to info@muslimlink.ca. 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__label__wiki	0.601662	0.601662	Emergency Suspension Of Parking - Spittal Street, Stirling Spittal Street, Stirling From the junction of Bank Street to No 58 Spittal Street from 11-07-19 until 22-07-19 due to wash out from heavy rain. Parking will be suspended from the junction of Bank Street to No 58 Spittal Street for the duration of the footway closure. Emergency service access will be maintained. Alternative Route: via the junction of Bank Street to the south west footway outside No.33 and then north west to the north west footway at the junction of Academy Road and then returning to the footpath opposite outside No.56 and vice versa. NOTICE IS GIVEN that, under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (as amended), Stirling Council will close the following footpath and suspend the parking on this street as an emergency. Created : Thursday 11 July 2019 Last Updated : Thursday 11 July 2019	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1515
__label__cc	0.665401	0.334599	MOSES Organic Farmer of the Year This award recognizes organic farmers who practice outstanding land stewardship, innovation, and outreach. The MOSES Board of Directors selects the farmer/farm family to honor from submitted nominations. They present the award at the annual MOSES Organic Farming Conference. Nominate a Farmer Congratulations to the 2019 Organic Farmers of the Year: Jim Riddle and Joyce Ford of Blue Fruit Farm, Winona, Minn. See their story below. Daniel, Ellen, Maria, & Ron Rosmann Dave, Hans, and Katie Bishop Steve Pincus, Beth Kazmar, and their children, Ari and Sophie Mary and Greg Reynolds The Podoll Family Francis and Susan Thicke The Vetter Family The Fisher-Merritt Family Tom and Irene Frantzen The Zimmer Family Dave and Florence Minar Stan Schutte Carmen and Sally Fernholz Martin and Atina Diffley Linda Halley and Richard de Wilde 2019 MOSES Organic Farmers of the Year Blue Fruit Farm Jim Riddle & Joyce Ford Jim Riddle & Joyce Ford have had a profound impact on organic agriculture, not just as farmers, but also as educators, policy advocates, and advisers. They have worked at local, state, and national levels to promote organic agriculture, and helped shape the country’s founding organic standards in the 1990s. In truth, they’ve been front and center in nearly every aspect of the organic world. Riddle served on the USDA National Organic Standards Board, the body responsible for shepherding what can and can’t be used in organic production. He supported research on organic practices when he worked for the University of Minnesota and later at The Ceres Trust. He helped launch the Land Stewardship Project, a farm advocacy organization based in Minnesota, and the Organic Farmers Association, a national group that provides a strong, unified voice for organic producers. He also served nine years as the elected supervisor of the Winona County Soil and Water Conservation District. Ford has extensive leadership experience as well. She served two terms on the MOSES Board of Directors in the early 2000s, and was on the board of the Organic Growers and Buyers Association. She was on the steering committee of the Minnesota Healthy Food Charter, and currently serves on a committee for the International Organic Accreditation Service. She also co-wrote the Organic Trade Association’s manual Good Organic Retail Practices. The couple started growing vegetables near Winona, Minnesota in the early 1980s as Wiscoy Organic Produce. They used cover crops from the get-go, including innovative applications such as interseeding winter rye into standing sweet corn during the last cultivation. They were certified by the Organic Growers and Buyers Association, before the existence of the USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP). Long before organic and local food were mainstream terms, this was their approach to farming and marketing. They grew their produce organically and marketed it locally through a home delivery subscription program when no one had even heard of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). To reach more consumers, they helped found the still-thriving Winona Farmers Market. They recalled the early 1990s as a sort of “Wild West” in the organic world, without uniform national standards for organic farming and little training or oversight of organic certification inspectors. Their response was to help create an organization that would train inspectors and standardize the organic certification process. They ran the International Organic Inspectors Association (IOIA) for its first eight years out of their home office, and shifted their focus from farming to conducting organic inspections. When they were inspecting farms—and listening to farmers complain about the cost of organic certification—they had an “aha!” moment that led to the Organic Certification Cost-Share Program. “This idea just happened at a good time,” Riddle explained. “I was asked by a state senator for ideas about how to encourage more organic in Minnesota.” He thought about the cost-share program he had used to help with conservation work on his farm. Then he testified before both state houses, explaining the need for the program. In 1998, the state’s budget bill included funds for organic certification cost-share, making Minnesota the first state in the country to offer that. Riddle then worked with Senator Paul Wellstone’s staff and got organic certification cost-share in the 2002 Farm Bill. Now any certified organic operation nationwide can get 75% of their certification costs back each year. Riddle and Ford returned to farming in 2009, finding a new niche by growing nutrient-rich “blue” fruits—blueberries, black currants, aronia berries, elderberries, honeyberries, juneberries, and plums. They aptly named their new business venture “Blue Fruit Farm.” While their property already had a 5-foot high deer fence, they had to add netting, irrigation, and other infrastructure to make the new venture work. They paid close attention to soil tests to decide how to amend the soil for their various fruit crops.Riddle’s advice to new growers is to start by building the soil— “it’s going pay off forever,” he added. They market their fruit fresh and frozen, mostly in bulk 5-lb boxes and bags, along with smaller amounts in clamshells. Two-thirds of their sales are wholesale, mostly to restaurants and breweries, with the remainder being sold directly to consumers at the farm or through pre-arranged deliveries. They also make jams and juices and sell them under Minnesota’s Cottage Food Law, which allows individuals to sell up to $5,000/year worth of processed goods made in a home kitchen. Their farm is certified organic by MOSA. As exemplary organic farmers, they have surrounded their orchard with habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects. Beyond the native insectary plantings, they established prairie. As fruit harvest winds down, they divert their energy toward collecting seed from these native plants. They are lucky to have a ready market just down the road at Prairie Moon Nursery, which sells native seeds and transplants. Riddle and Ford share a commitment to teaching others how to grow “blue” fruits, especially the more unusual varieties like aronia and honeyberries. They frequently host tours and field days on their farm, and have created an annual event, the Blue Fruit Fest. They’ve learned a lot about growing berries, and have had to change direction when some varieties either succumbed to powdery mildew or produced bitter-tasting fruit. Pest and disease pressure must be managed organically. “For plum curculio (PC), we’ve gone to planting garlic at the base of the trees and then using a garlic foliar spray when traps show that the PC is present because the plum curculio doesn’t like garlic. It’s a very integrated approach. With all that Riddle and Ford have done in the organic community, they are most proud of their work as farmers. “It makes it all real,” Riddle said. “I’m not just talking about something I’ve read in a book. I’m out there doing it.”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1526
__label__wiki	0.897176	0.897176	Monster Energy Cup Indy Pro 2000 Cooper Tires USF2000 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Driver Columns Past Driver Columns Pato O’Ward Matt Tifft Zach Veach Takuma Sato Ryan Reed Race In Pictures Remembering a Champion Throwback Thursday Theater Megadeth, Gimme Radio Joins Reddick’s Ride at Loudon Vargas to Make Xfinity Series Debut at Iowa Daly, Karam to Race for Carlin at Iowa DEHARDE: Pagenaud No Longer Overlooked TORRES: Kurt Busch Is Far From Reaching His Climax Pagenaud Dominates Honda Indy Toronto for Third Win of Season Power, Rahal Clash, Power Finishes 18th Askew Extends Indy Lights Points Lead with Fortuitous Toronto Win Juncos Racing on Hunt for Indianapolis 500 Sponsorship Photo: Chris Jones/INDYCAR Christopher DeHarde May 15, 2019 By Christopher DeHarde, Staff Writer INDIANAPOLIS — Juncos Racing had two sponsor deals fall through on them very recently before practice began Tuesday for the 103rd Running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge. Ricardo Juncos’s team has expanded operations in the last few years. They compete in the Road to Indy in Indy Lights and Indy Pro 2000 which has been their primary operation for the majority of their existence but last year ran the majority of NTT IndyCar Series races. The team expanded to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with a Cadillac DPi entry this year, but the Indianapolis 500 remains their crown jewel. Which is why, despite not having sponsors, the team is committed to the month of May with a car that for the moment is all-white. Alarm bells may not be ringing, but the situation isn’t ideal. “The financial situation is all set regardless of the sponsorship situation so we’re going to race no matter what,” Juncos told Motorsports Tribune. “Maybe we’ll race with a white car or maybe something will be on it but that’s already set, that’s why we’re here. Yes, two deals that we had in the last two weeks failed, that’s why the car is all white and not even with Juncos colors because we were thinking it would happen but it’s okay, we’re going to keep pushing.” The team has a couple of small deals together that are not decal-placement deals, but the hunt is still on for more money and other cost-cutting measures have been used. “I still have something going on on the table so maybe with a last minute deal we can have some logos on the car,” said Juncos. “If not, we will race like that. We do have some sponsors with no logos on the car, some small backings for this year. We’ll try to save money so I bring the people from other teams that I have so we try to make it as cheap as possible. That’s one way to do it which is not the best way but we should be okay.” Kyle Kaiser is the team’s driver and raced for the squad in Indy Lights when he won the 2017 championship. He qualified 17th for last year’s Indianapolis 500, but dropped out with mechanical trouble. The California native isn’t letting the sponsorship situation change his procedure. “From my mindset, it doesn’t change no matter what’s on the car, if there’s nothing on the car, if the car is covered in sponsors, which obviously is what we’d love,” said Kaiser. “But for now, I go out there and I drive the car as best I can and put the car at the front every chance we can. Hopefully if we perform the way we’re supposed to perform, then we’ll have people coming in to get on the side of the car.” Juncos came to the United States in 2002 after the Argentinian economy collapsed with nothing more than $400 and a backpack. After working for another karting team, he found the money to start his own, which eventually morphed into Juncos Racing. The organization grew to the point that a new race shop was needed and was opened in December 2016 ahead of buying the cars KVSH Racing were selling as part of their liquidation. Provided that Juncos makes the race and a full-time entrant does not make the race, the he is open to a deal with putting sponsors from another team on his car if the price is right. “I will be open, yes, of course,” said Juncos. “If that circumstance came, first of all I have to make sure we qualify, but if that’s an option, it’s welcome.” Tags : Indianapolis 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Juncos Racing, Kyle Kaiser, NTT IndyCar Series, Ricardo Juncos Share this ! About Christopher DeHarde A 2012 graduate of LSU, Christopher DeHarde primarily focuses on the NTT IndyCar Series and the WeatherTech Sports Car Championship. DeHarde has actively covered motorsports since 2014. Related Acticle Photo: Logan T. Arce/ASP, Inc. 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__label__wiki	0.546216	0.546216	Chanakya Chanakya (IAST: Cāṇakya; pronunciation ; 350–275 BCE) was an Indian teacher, philosopher, economist, jurist and royal advisor. He is traditionally identified as Kauṭilya or Vishnu Gupta, who authored the ancient Indian political treatise, the Arthashastra. As such, he is considered the pioneer of the field of political science and economics in India, and his work is thought of as an important precursor to classical economics. His works were lost near the end of the Gupta Empire and not rediscovered until 1915. Originally a teacher at the ancient university of Takshashila, Chanakya assisted the first Mauryan emperor Chandragupta in his rise to power. He is widely credited for having played an important role in the establishment of the Maurya Empire. Chanakya served as the chief advisor to both emperors Chandragupta and his son Bindusara. Chanakya Quotes Chanakya #Beauty #Power The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. <blockquote><q>The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/beauty">#Beauty</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/power">#Power</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Best #Time Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends. <blockquote><q>Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/best">#Best</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/time">#Time</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Death As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do? <blockquote><q>As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/death">#Death</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Failure #Work Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. <blockquote><q>Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/failure">#Failure</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/work">#Work</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Family As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. <blockquote><q>As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/family">#Family</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Fear As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. <blockquote><q>As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/fear">#Fear</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Friendship #Happiness Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. <blockquote><q>Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/friendship">#Friendship</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/happiness">#Happiness</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Good If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation? <blockquote><q>If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/good">#Good</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Happiness #Peace The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. <blockquote><q>The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/happiness">#Happiness</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/peace">#Peace</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Beauty #Best #Education <blockquote><q>Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/beauty">#Beauty</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/best">#Best</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/education">#Education</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #God God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple. <blockquote><q>God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/god">#God</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Alone #Good A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode. <blockquote><q>A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/alone">#Alone</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/good">#Good</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Happiness There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. <blockquote><q>There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/happiness">#Happiness</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Knowledge One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. <blockquote><q>One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/knowledge">#Knowledge</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Knowledge #Time The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability. <blockquote><q>The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/knowledge">#Knowledge</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/time">#Time</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Friendship #Truth There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. <blockquote><q>There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/friendship">#Friendship</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/truth">#Truth</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Life The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects. <blockquote><q>The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/life">#Life</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Power #Truth The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth. <blockquote><q>The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/power">#Power</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/truth">#Truth</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Good #Morning A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. <blockquote><q>A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/good">#Good</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/morning">#Morning</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Work Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead. <blockquote><q>Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/work">#Work</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Great A man is great by deeds, not by birth. <blockquote><q>A man is great by deeds, not by birth.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/great">#Great</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Fear #Future #Men We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment. <blockquote><q>We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/fear">#Fear</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/future">#Future</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/men">#Men</a> </cite></blockquote> Chanakya #Family #Fear He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy. <blockquote><q>He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.</q><cite title="Chanakya"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/chanakya">Chanakya</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/family">#Family</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/fear">#Fear</a> </cite></blockquote>	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1530
__label__cc	0.712129	0.287871	2005 July Rare Movie Poster AuctionAuction #617 Le Testament d'Orphee (Les Editions Cinégraphiques, 1960). French Poster (15.5" X 24.5"). Jean Cocteau was not only an influ... Le Testament d'Orphee (Les Editions Cinégraphiques, 1960). French Poster (15.5" X 24.5"). Jean Cocteau was not only an influential filmmaker, but also a diversely talented artist, enjoying success as a poet, novelist and illustrator. "The Testament of Orpheus" was his final film, where Cocteau casts himself as an aging poet, recounting his own life as an artist. There are pinholes in the corners and the top center border, slight edge wear and one chip on the lower left corner. The poster was restored on paper, minimizing these defects. Very Fine on Paper. Bids + Registered Phone Bidders: 10	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1532
__label__cc	0.515312	0.484688	What caused Sylvester Stallone to get into a fight with Richard Gere? Originally Richard Gere was cast into one of the four lead roles for the 1974 film, The Lords of Flatbush. During filming he and Sylvester Stallone got into a fight which turned into a shoving match. Consequently, Stallone refused to work with him and Gere was fired. What was the fight over? casting the-lords-of-flatbush Tyler DurdenTyler Durden Wikipedia wasn't of help? If not, then where did you have the information about them getting into a fight from in the first place? And does that source say anything more about it? – Napoleon Wilson♦ Nov 7 '16 at 1:54 @NapoleonWilson The wikipedia does not explain what they were fighting about. – Tyler Durden Nov 7 '16 at 2:04 Not even that quote from Stallone about the particular fight they got into? – Napoleon Wilson♦ Nov 7 '16 at 2:07 I missed that part of the article. That would seem to answer it. The mustard did it. – Tyler Durden Nov 7 '16 at 2:16 I always assumed it had something to do with a gerbil. – sanpaco Nov 7 '16 at 8:47 Apparently what happened is that Gere got too into character during the filming and repeatedly irritated Stallone. This came to a head when Gere, carrying a sandwich, got into a crowded car with Stallone despite Stallone's objections. Gere then proceeded to spill mustard out of the sandwich onto Stallone while eating and that was it for Stallone. He elbowed Gere out of the car and made an ultimatum to the director which resulted in Gere being fired. Some of the information contained in this post requires additional references. Please edit to add citations to reliable sources that support the assertions made here. Unsourced material may be disputed or deleted. Where did you get the info? Would appreciate a reliable source. – user33741 Nov 8 '16 at 16:02 Supposedly, it was Stallone that started the rumor about Gere and the gerbil as a result of this as well. Not sourced, just a comment – m1gp0z Dec 12 '18 at 19:21 Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged casting the-lords-of-flatbush . Is it possible to get an A-lister into a big-budget movie without anybody knowing? Why is Raymond K. Hessel an Asian man with an accent in Fight Club? What does Sicario have to do with Sabrina the Teenage Witch?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1534
__label__wiki	0.608195	0.608195	The Offspring Host Heavy-Hitters Dead Sara and Neon Trees on the Jersey Shore October 1, 2012 Filed under: Concert Reviews,TNT Concert Calendar — NVMP @ 10:45 PM Tags: Chris Null, Dead Sara, Emily Armstrong, Neon Trees, Sean Friday, Siouxsie Medley, The Offspring, The Stolen, The Stone Pony Asbury Park September 9, 2012. The Stone Pony Summer Stage Review by Angela Blasi As the summer tapers to a close The Offspring settle into a night of rock n’ roll to light up our own historic Asbury Park. Being a Sunday show, doors opened at 5pm with a special indoor performance by Old Bridge Twp locals, The Stolen. A pop punk quintet just getting their feet wet, they were surprisingly easy to listen to. Still a little awkward on stage with a fan base composed of primarily family and friends, they proved confident, appreciative and best of all, catchy. You can give them a listen here. First up on the summer stage we have Dead Sara, the Los Angeles based, female-fronted quartet catching fire as they tour in support of their self titled, debut album. Though they were only given 30 minutes on stage, vocalist Emily Armstrong, bassist Chris Null, lead guitarist Siouxsie Medley, and drummer Sean Friday made every minute count. Stepping to their respectful places with a quiet, seamless presence, they broke the silence with the steady groove of Medley’s distorted guitar on “Whispers & Ashes.” After a pleasant introduction, the rock got underway with “Test on my Patience.” There is one thing I have to tell you about singer Emily Armstrong- she does not merely sing. Instead, she opens her mouth and lets the music pour out with unabashed passion. A voice that has been unparalleled in recent time, or at least in the twenty something years I’ve listened, she is the physical embodiment of the thumping bass drum and the richness of bass guitar. Music has been devoid of stellar vocalists who understand the instrumentation of the voice for far too long. I loved “Lemon Scent” – matching vocal melody to the squealing allure of Medley’s instrument, yet gravely growls in all the right places. I had the opportunity to interview Dead Sara and learn more about their music. From their love of the road to the creative process, Dead Sara is all about doing what feels right in order to create pure rock n’ roll as they see fit; casting off the music industry machine in their early trials and distributing their music via their own label to maintaining complete creative control over their art. I hope they realize how much faith they have restored in rock n’ roll fans as they spread their refreshingly raw sound across the nation. Ironically enough their fame is almost accidental, as a radio disc jockey discovered the hit single “Weatherman” and simply started playing the powerhouse of a song out of enjoyment. A fitting beginning for a band that exudes humble passion, displaying modesty and compelling honesty in personality and musicianship. When I asked Armstrong where exactly a voice like that comes from, she simply looked me in the eye, laughed a little and replied, “I wish I knew.” But please, do not underestimate the rhythm section of this band. Songs like “Weatherman” are accented poignantly with rolling snare and punchy bass lines that resonate inside your chest. Behind a screaming front woman is a mess of arms, hair and sticks thrashing away like a rock God. Interestingly enough, Dead Sara only took form into the current line up a few short years ago, as Medley and Armstrong went through a few drummers and bassists before recruiting Friday and Null. It seems to have been a wise decision, as the group explains their creative process as a natural, flowing entity conceived in the meddling of the studio and fostered by the eagerness and excitement of finding a riff and expanding on it. Though quiet on stage, backstage finds them relaxed and mellow, more like a group of old friends than rock stars who seemed very nonchalant about the being interviewed endlessly thing. Fresh off of Van’s Warped Tour (where they had to cancel the last leg of the tour due to Medley’s fractured ribs) and bouncing around the U.S., fans can catch them on the bill for ShipRocked 2012 along with heavy hitters Godsmack and Korn. Keep an eye on this band; before you know it they’ll be headlining major tours and selling out venues. I wish them well in their endeavors and hope they find rising fame kind. Second to the stage representing the alternative genre with their energetic, bouncy vibe and electrified music was Neon Trees. Personally, I was only familiar with their radio singles, “Animal” and “Everybody Talks.” However, I was impressed with the vocal clarity, as lead singer Tyler Glenn is just as clean and crisp as he appears on studio recordings, often bending his voice into interesting pitches while adding colorful tones. Neon Trees offered a slightly longer set, featuring an electric light display that matched their fun sound. I was pleasantly surprised as the band played as tight as a drum and executed it with flawless presentation. Glenn also offered witty banter between songs, keeping the crowd entertained on multiple fronts. Something of a contrast to the grit of the previous set, the audience slipped into the bouncing tunes with ease. They even launched into a cover of “State Trooper.” And what is a summer show in Asbury Park without Bruce Springsteen? Overall, the band that has been called an evolutionary step in the glam rock scene proves this is no misnomer. Which leads us to our main event, The Offspring. Having been a fan since childhood, this was my first time seeing the group live. Let me preface by first saying I have heard for many years that Dexter Holland cannot hit certain recorded notes live. That being said, I took this as an opportunity to see for myself. Regardless of that, they played an amazing 19 song set complete with two encores. The Offspring opened with “Hurting As One,” a track off their latest album Days Go By. Though the new album clearly had its place in their set list, performing the current single “Days Go By” early in the night, they also played every song I wanted to hear. When the bass line to “Bad Habit” kicked in, older fans in the crowd began to cheer. Singing along, loud and proud, the group paused just before launching into a cadre of swear words energetically backed by Noodles distorted guitar. Another highlight was the slow piano introduction of “Gone Away.” As it crept to a head, Dead Sara’s own Emily Armstrong took to the stage once more to join Dexter on the chorus, adding an even more haunting effect to the overall emotion of the song. As for the vocals mentioned earlier, I am sad to report that the rumors were true. During one moment of the night when the main vocals fell out of rhythm for a brief second, I was able to hear a pre-recorded audio track played underneath. I was a little disappointed when I realized Dexter was either shortening the length of, or unable to hold out, all the characteristic long phrases heard so often on their records. However I am a forgiving fan, dismissing his vocal shortcomings and simply singing even louder, because after all they still put on one hell of a show. The music rocked, the energy was buzzing and the crowd was an eclectic bunch of punk rockers and rock n’ rollers (that could have used a lesson in proper moshing/skanking). Honestly, this is probably the most fun I’ve had at a concert in a long time. I was thoroughly engaged and entertained from start to finish and highly recommend catching this specific line up before the last date of the tour. You won’t regret it, even if it takes a road trip.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1536
__label__wiki	0.730442	0.730442	Video: How to Destroy a Boat httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDPjwjMuFdY On July 11, 2011, I got to witness the demolition of the Miss China, a 67-foot former commercial fishing boat with an interesting history. In 2010 the disabled wood-hulled former shrimper was being used as the floating home of Nantucket scalloper Joe Dooley and his 4 dogs, until it broke free of its mooring in Nantucket Harbor in a December gale and grounded in front of Brant Point Light. The Miss China at Steamboat Wharf in Nantucket Harbor after being towed from Brant Point. Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class James Rhodes, U.S. Coast Guard. The Miss China beached at Brant Point after the December gale. Photo courtesy Jim Powers, Staff Photographer/Inquirer and Mirror. Since Dooley apparently didn’t have the funds to pay for the removal of the ship, the town of Nantucket took possession of the vessel and paid Fairhaven, Massachusetts-based Tucker Roy Marine Towing and Salvage to tow the ship to New Bedford. The Miss China sat on a mooring in New Bedford Harbor for the next 7 months while any fuel, oil and pollutants, along with salvageable rigging and other items, were removed the ship. The Miss China is lifted from the water at Fairhaven Shipyard. Photo by ##http://newenglandboating.com/author/tom## Tom Richardson## In mid-July the 180-ton Miss China was towed to Fairhaven Shipyard, where it was lifted from the water on a 400-ton TraveLift and lowered into a hopper barge. Once the ship was secured with boat stands, the barge was moved via tug to a location just north of the Rte. 6 swing bridge on the New Bedford side of the harbor. Workers place stands under the Miss China after the ship was lowered into the hopper barge at Fairhaven Shipyard. Photo by ##http://newenglandboating.com/author/tom## Tom Richardson## The next day I visited the site and watched as Jonny Roy expertly dismantled the ship with the excavator equipped with a massive pair of hydraulic shears, assisted by his older brother, Conrad Jr. While I’ve seen numerous boats being constructed, this was the first time I’d witnessed the “de-struction” of a vessel. Roy was amazingly skillful, carefully ripping open the side of the ship and plucking fuel tanks, a generator and even the ship’s wheel with the shears. Conrad Roy Jr. displays the ship's wheel, its spokes badly chewed by the former owner's dogs. Photo by ##http://newenglandboating.com/author/tom## Tom Richardson## It was all very interesting, although I have to admit to feeling a twinge of sadness as the Miss China was reduced to scraps of lumber in a matter of hours. After all, a boat is more than just the sum of its parts—it contains the experiences and memories of those who crewed aboard the vessel, as well as storms endured and various ports of call. Then again, maybe it was just an old rustbucket that smelled of dog. An excavator armed with giant shears rips into the Miss China as the demo begins. Photos by ##http://newenglandboating.com/author/tom## Tom Richardson## Sign up to win a NEW REEL from Okuma. Check out the details here! Follow New England Boating: Like New England Boating on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Receive our Daily RSS Feed. Planning for a trip to one our New England states: Travel New England Unmanned Boat Corralled on Waquoit Bay, MA Video: A Visit with Moby Dick Video: How to Sharpen a Hook Video: TrawlerFest Comes to Warwick, Rhode Island	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1538
__label__wiki	0.845236	0.845236	Technology » Science These 'Eggs' Are Spying on Whooping Cranes to Boost Survival by Janet McConnaughey . Friday Apr 12, 2019 In this March 6, 2018 photo provided by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, a data logger egg is seen at left and a real whooping crane egg at right, in Allen Parish, La. (Source:Eva Szyszkoski/Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries via AP) Scientists are using fake eggs to spy on whooping cranes in hopes of learning why some chicks die in the egg, while others hatch. Data gathered by the spy eggs could help biologists in Louisiana and Canada preserve the endangered long-legged birds, which have made a tenuous rebound after dwindling almost to extinction in the 1940s. "It's a fascinating way of spying on endangered species' reproduction in a way that allows us to assist in the recovery," said Dr. Axel Moehrenschlager, the Calgary Zoo's director of conservation and science. The Calgary Zoo lent eight of the spy eggs, more properly known as "data loggers," to Louisiana researchers. The Louisiana wildlife biologists swap the egg-shaped data loggers, which Moehrenschlager said are encased in a plastic polymer, for one of the two eggs that many cranes lay. The real eggs come to Audubon Nature Institute 's Species Survival Center in New Orleans, where they're incubated until they're nearly ready to hatch ... or not. Then the biologists in Louisiana swap the real eggs back into the nests . The electronic data loggers use infrared connections to transfer information to nearby computers. It's sent for analysis to scientists in Calgary, where the only remaining wild natural flock of whooping cranes is based. Whoopers are the tallest birds and rarest cranes in North America. They stand about 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall, with black-tipped wings that span nearly 7 feet (2.1 meters). Overhunting and habitat loss cut their numbers to 21 in the 1940s, but with some help from humans the number had risen to about 850 at the end of 2018. Louisiana is home to 74 whooping cranes in the wild. "We've got some pairs that haven't been successful, and we want to see if we could see what might be going on with them," said Sara Zimorski, a biologist with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries . "In the bigger picture, we don't know a lot about wild nest incubation," she said. The new information may help improve provisions for captive pairs and settings for incubators. Richard Dunn, curator at the Species Survival Center, says he hopes to learn if he needs to tweak incubator settings to more closely mimic Louisiana's climate, which is hotter and damper than the northern settings where previous studies were done. A researcher who's not affiliated with the Louisiana effort said those are entirely reasonable aims. Scott A. Shaffer, a San José State University professor, has been working with data logger eggs since 2010 to study a variety of birds in a number of places. He said the tiny, low-power sensors that reorient tablet and smartphone displays as the devices are moved have helped drive technology that checks for egg turning, allowing second-by-second studies of eggs. The whooping crane data logger eggs record temperature, humidity and position once a minute. They can also detect when eggs are turned — an important part of keeping developing birds healthy. They were developed by a team of Canadian and U.S. scientists who compared nests of captive whooping cranes and sandhill cranes at the Calgary Zoo's Devonian Wildlife Conservation Centre to incubators, hoping to improve the hatching rate of incubated eggs. Their study, published in 2012, helped people raising the cranes in Canada and the U.S. to adjust incubator temperature and humidity settings, Moehrenschlager said. The Species Survival Center on New Orleans' west bank houses 36 of the 163 whooping cranes currently living in captivity, including 10 destined for a new facility under construction by the Dallas Zoo . None of the birds at Audubon has yet begun nesting, Dunn said. Zimorski and fellow Louisiana wildlife biologist Phillip Vasseur put a few data loggers out last year to be sure the birds would tolerate the intrusion of eggs being swapped in and out. Zimorski said the birds decide much of the wild deployment, since many this year are nesting in inaccessible swamps where biologists keep tabs on them through airplane flyovers. Both Zimorski and Dunn said there's nowhere near enough data yet for any conclusions. "We need a couple more years so we can get additional pairs and some years of repeat data," Zimorski said. Popular Stories in Technology Smarter Siri, Better Battery Life in Apple Software Update Apple's iPhones and iPads have gotten free software updates, including battery improvements and a smarter virtual assistant. The new features and capabilities in the update, iOS 9, are primarily refinements rather than anything transformative.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1539
__label__wiki	0.763068	0.763068	Research, Science & environment Spider webs more effective at snaring electrically charged insects By Robert Sanders, Media relations\| July 4, 2013 June 29, 2015 July 4, 2013 June 29, 2015 Robert Sanders Flapping insects build up an electrical charge that may make them more easily snared by spider webs, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists. High-speed video captures the silk deformation as a charged bee is dropped into a spider web. Video by Victor Manuel Ortega-Jimenez, UC Berkeley. The positive charge on an insect such as a bee or fly attracts the web, which is normally negatively or neutrally charged, increasing the chances that an insect flying by will contact and stick to the web, said UC Berkeley post-doctoral fellow Victor Manuel Ortega-Jimenez. He also suspects that light, flexible spider silk, the kind used for making the spirals built on top of the stiffer silk that forms the spokes of a web, may have developed because it more easily deforms in the wind and the presence of electrostatic charges to aid prey capture. “Electrostatic charges are everywhere, and we propose that this may have driven the evolution of specialized webs,” he said. Ortega-Jimenez, who normally studies hummingbird flight, became interested in spider webs while playing with his four-year-old daughter. A dead bee that is electrostatically charged deforms the web as it gets close, eventually pulling flexible silk out of the web in the same way that a staticky balloon attracts hair. Photo by Victor Manuel Ortega-Jimenez, UC Berkeley. “I was playing with my daughter’s magic wand, a toy that produces an electrostatic charge, and I noticed that the positive charge attracted spider webs,” he said. “I then realized that if an insect is positively charged too, it could perhaps attract an oppositely charged spider web to affect the capture success of the spider web.” Insects easily develop several hundred volts of positive charge from the friction of wings against air molecules or by contacting a charged surface. This is small compared to the several thousand volts we develop when walking across a rug, giving us a shock when we touch a doorknob, but is sufficient to allow a bee to electrostatically draw pollen off a flower before landing. To test his spider web hypothesis, Ortega-Jimenez sought out cross-spider (Araneus diadematus) webs along streams in Berkeley and brought them into the lab. He then used an electrostatic generator to charge up dead insects – aphids, fruit flies, green-bottle flies, and honey bees – and drop them into a neutral, grounded web. A cross-spider, Araneus diadematus, in its orb web. Like many spiders, this species produces several types of silk: a stiff kind for the radial spokes of the web, and a more flexible kind for the spirals. The flexible silk is easily attracted to the electrostatic charge of nearby insects, increasing the effectiveness of the web at capturing prey. Photo by Victor Manuel Ortega-Jimenez, UC Berkeley. “Using a high-speed camera, you can clearly see the spider web is deforming and touching the insect before it reaches the web,” he said. Insects without a charge did not do this. “You would expect that if the web is charged negatively, the attraction would increase.” Ortega-Jimenez plans to conduct further tests at Berkeley to determine whether this effect occurs in the wild, and find out whether static charges on webs attract more dirt and pollen and thus are a major reason orb web weavers rebuild them daily. Ortega-Jimenez — who is currently finishing a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, before returning in September to UC Berkeley — and Robert Dudley, Berkeley professor of integrative biology, report their findings July 4 in Scientific Reports, an open-access, rapid-publication website operated by the publishers of the journal Nature Additional YouTube video of charged honeybee, green bottle fly, aphid and water droplet falling into a web Spiderweb deformation induced by electrostatically charged insects (Scientific Reports, 7/4/13) Animal Flight Laboratory, UC Berkeley Topics: biology, energy, press releases Investment in renewable energy could save tropical rivers David Presti on the ritual use of psychoactive plants	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1540
__label__wiki	0.88928	0.88928	Home WORLD NEWS ‘Drunk Ukraine police’ accused of killing boy, five Two Ukrainian policemen have appeared in court accused of murdering a five-year-old boy. Investigators say Ivan Pryhodko and Volodymyr Petrovets were drinking while off duty and shooting at cans when a stray bullet hit the boy. The suspects made no comments during the court hearing, their lawyers say. The death has focused attention on Ukraine’s much criticised police after initial police statements said the boy had died after falling on a rock. The two men have been denied bail at a hearing in the capital, Kiev. The shooting took place on Friday when the two patrol officers were drinking together in the courtyard of an apartment building near Kiev, officials said. In hospital, the initial police version of events was disproved when fragments of a bullet were found inside the head of the boy, named as Kyrylo. The head of the Kiev police region has submitted his resignation, and there are mounting calls for Ukraine’s interior minister to do the same. Previous articleChina fines Ford’s Changan JV $24 million for violating anti-monopoly law Next articleU.S. charges ex-CEO of cryptocurrency company Longfin with $66 million fraud Photo of drowned migrants triggers fight over Trump asylum clampdown Pressure builds on Hong Kong leader as democracy activist vows to... Colm O’Rourke: ‘I’m a school principal – but even I can’t... Mario Balotelli celebrates Marseille goal by going live on Instagram England v Afghanistan: Eoin Morgan hits record 17 sixes in World... Like father, like son: a new face of terror	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1543
__label__wiki	0.963952	0.963952	10 new Irish songs you should hear this week Featuring Maverick Sabre, Side 4 Collective, Little Butler, Lű Tysky & more. Metropolis Festival add Friendly Fires, Booka Brass, David Keenan to Saturday lineup Published on 19 September 2018, 10:08 Europe/Dublin Ruth Cronin All Tvvins, Arvo Party, Awkward Z., Greg Tisdall, Rosie Carney, The Henry Girls, Toshín, Wastefellow Irish Music, A lot of Irish music comes Nialler9’s way and there’s little time to feature everything we think is worthy of a thumbs up or more ears. Every week, we collate the songs that pass our writers that deserve to be heard by you. For more extensive Irish coverage, follow our Spotify playlist or hit up the Irish section. Greg Tisdall, Alex Rhodes A nineteen year old from Dublin, Greg Tisdall teamed up with friend Alex Rhodes to create new single ‘Haze‘. The song is a mid-tempo bop, sonically reminiscent of The 1975 with bright guitar lines, airy vocals and an irresistible chorus melody. Thanks to the uncharacteristically high temperatures in Dublin this year, the summer was the best in a long time for a lot of people, and the songwriters drew on these high spirits as inspiration for the track. Listen to this on a Sunday morning. All Tvvins Hell Of A Party ‘Hell Of A Party’ is the first single from All Tvvins‘ forthcoming second album Just To Exist, and the track gives a good indicator as to what we can expect from it. Produced by James Vincent McMorrow, the song is saturated with luscious synths and All Tvvins’ signature catchy, guitar riffs, driven by a steady back beat of electronic percussion lines. If this track is anything to go by, All Tvvins’ new album will be a feast for the ears. Rosie Carney Taken from her upcoming debut album, Rosie Carney‘s exquisite new single ‘Thousand‘ featuring Lisa Hannigan is delicacy at its finest. Sonically reminiscent of SOAK‘s ‘B a Nobody’, the track features guitar, drums, bass and cello which is a considerable expansion on Carney’s usual sparse instrumentation. Lyrically, the song is a ballad about her grandmother’s struggle with dementia, a narrative that a lot of people can relate to. ‘Thousand’ may be the best three minutes of your day spent. Toshín Boy Listen Toshín is a new six piece pop/funk outfit from Dublin, and ‘Boy Listen!‘ is their debut single. Since their inception in 2016, the band have spent a considerable amount of time translating an eclectic mix of influences ranging from Anderson .Paak to Tank And The Bangas into a cohesive, vibrant sound, and this can be heard clearly here in the track. ‘Boy Listen!’ is a sassy rhetoric to a lover who took the song’s protagonist for granted, and comes complete with a tasteful arrangement of brass lines and syncopated guitar riffs. We’re excited to hear more from them. Awkward Z. Wildin’ Awkward Z. is the moniker of new Irish hip-hop artist Zandi. Originally from Johannesburg in South Africa, Zandi moved to Ireland and settled in Wexford at the age of five. His new single ‘Wildin” is a slice of pure hip-hop goodness, complete with syncopated percussive beats and a potent chorus melody. Catch him at Hard Working Class Heroes in Tramline on Friday 28th September. Arvo Party D a N S E Arvo Party the alias of synth-wave and ambient experimentalist Herb Magee from Belfast. His latest single ‘D a N S E’ is the second to be released from his forthcoming second album II (we featured the first single ‘D U S T’ here earlier this year). ‘D a N S E’ is synth-wave at its finest, with rich, sweeping chords and arpeggiating arp lines weaving in and out of a relentless drum and bass rhythms. Magee’s self-titled first album earned the artist a Northern Irish Music prize nomination last year, and if ‘D a N S E’ is anything to go by, II is set to be even better. Delorentos ‘SOS‘ is the latest single from Delorentos‘ album True Surrender, which saw release April of this year. The track is a feel good anthem with an uplifting chorus and gorgeous lyrics, “I call out to you, save my soul”. The single is accompanied by an endearing video featuring footage from the band’s set at Electric Picnic and the lead up earlier this month. The band’s close friendship is evident in the footage, which is perhaps the secret as to how they have become one of the longest serving groups in Ireland. be4me Host is a Laois based electro-pop artist who first caught our attention with her debut single ‘Goodbye‘. Her new single ‘b4me‘ is sonically similar with a pulsing bass and hypnotic, swooping vocal melodies. The song is a irresistible slice of left-of-centre-pop, complete with unrelenting drum rhythms and delicious synths that rise and fall in all the right places, acutely embodying the turmoil of longing and lust. The accompanying music video is Paranormal Activity-esque with supernatural, grainy imagery juxtaposed by flashing UV lighting. The Henry Girls Oh Why The Henry Girls are an Irish folk and roots band from Donegal consisting of sisters Karen, Lorna and Joleen McLaughlin. Their latest single ‘Oh Why‘, taken from their 2017 album Far Beyond The Stars, showcases just what the sisters do best in their sublime harmonies and rich instrumental sections. The song is complimented by the gorgeous music video, shot in Wexford by Tristan Shiels, showing lush, green countryside and a quirky narrative. Infinity Gaze Wastefellow, the moniker of rising Dublin based artist and producer Diolmhain Ingram Roche, is no stranger to our recommendation lists. He first came to our attention two years ago with his single ‘Wonder‘ and has been producing music of high calibre ever since. His new single ‘Infinity Gaze’ is a jittery, synth laden track complete with his signature trippy drum rhythms and automated vocals lines. The song is taken from his anticipated new EP Post Human Potential, which will see release on September 28th. Catch him at Hard Working Class Heroes on Saturday 29th in Yamamori Tengu.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1545
__label__wiki	0.955382	0.955382	Amy Farrah Fowler enjoys her some country y’all Broadway February 25, 2014 Shania Twain, Taylor Swift Seems everyone loves country music these days, even those Hollywood types you wouldn't expect! Case in point, Mayim Bialik (Big Bang Theory's Amy Farrah Fowler, Blossom) called the show recently and told us that she loves to sing Shania Twain and Taylor Swift songs while cutting veggies and driving in the car. Click here if the audio below doesn't work. Skip to 1:22 mark RELATED Joe Nichols Answers 10 Random Questions Tags:Big Bang Theory Blossom country music hollywood List of The Big Bang Theory characters Mayim Bialik Shania Twain Taylor Swift Taylor Swift and Ryan Tedder are a match made in music heaven Ryan Tedder, half of One Republic and music producer extraordinaire, spilled the beans that he has worked on a song or two for Taylor Swift's … Hall & Oates legend enlists Taylor Swift and Vince Gill to help him out John Oates of Hall & Oates fame has a new project and he's enlisted the help of two of country's biggest names to help … So apparently Taylor Swift is racist now because people are idiots Okay, I wasn't going to write anything more about Taylor Swift if I could help it. She's decided she wants to go all-out pop and … Taylor Swift apparently had just a tad bit too much patriotic partying Don't know what exactly is going on here (besides some sleeping), but it's cute. Like a patriotic pajama party. Well, @caitlinbird @taylorswift13 and I are … Two-time National On-Air Personality of the Year nominee, Academy of Country Music Awards & One-time National On-Air Personality of the Year nominee, Country Music AssociationBroadway is the Host of The Electric Barnyard heard weekdays on WWYZ, KYWD, and WBCT. Also weekends on WBWL.His charitable efforts include work with organizations that support abused and neglected children in West Michigan, the American Cancer Society, and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. In all, he has helped to raise over 1.5 million dollars.When he's not on the radio, Broadway loves spending time with his wife and 2 boys, working out, running, watching baseball or football, horror flicks, listening to all kinds of music and eating his wife's home-cooking (she's a chef). Kalie Shorr, Kelleigh Bannen & Lindsay Ell Cover “Look What You Made Me Do” Gab’s Countdown to Christmas: Taylor Swift Congratulations to the CMA Award Nominees (Full List Inside) Taylor Swift donates big money to Louisiana … twice Shania Twain’s tour bus sells for big money at Halloween auction He could have been bigger than Garth Brooks… Some friends of mine in the biz told me that before his run-in with the law, Ty Herndon was on…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1553
__label__cc	0.667863	0.332137	Police: Man shot at police while driving with 3-year-old PMN News Baltimore police say a man shot at them multiple times while fleeing in a minivan that had a toddler as a passenger. Citing a police release, news outlets report officers alerted to gunfire Monday night followed a gold minivan speeding away from the scene, and were shot at by someone inside. Officers saw a man jump out, but continued to follow it and again took on gunfire. The minivan eventually crashed, and police say 32-year-old Butch Brandford emerged from the driver’s side with a 3-year-old girl. He was arrested and a handgun was recovered. The girl was taken to a hospital for a precautionary evaluation. No officers were injured. Brandford is charged with assault and handgun violations. It’s unclear whether he has a lawyer to comment on his behalf.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1555
__label__cc	0.513217	0.486783	A wooden pallet donated by Wild Bird and Garden of Wilmington provides shade for an American Oystercatcher chick on a dredged-material island, where there is less vegetation to rest beneath! Photo: Lindsay Addison/Audubon NC Midseason Coastal Nesting Update Rynchops niger http://www.audubon.org/sites/default/files/BLASKI_1.typicalbarksatcolony_VAle.mp... White Ibis Eudocimus albus http://www.audubon.org/sites/default/files/WHIIBI_1.callsthenflight_FLle_1.mp3?s... Least Tern Sternula antillarum http://www.audubon.org/sites/default/files/LEATER_1.typicalshrillcallsnum1_NYle.... Every year, Audubon NC staff works to manage and protect nesting birds around the state in four general areas: the Cape Fear River, barrier islands and inlets in southeast North Carolina, Core Sound, and Ocracoke Inlet. This year began with a cold spring, but has so far been generally successful thanks to the absence of major storms or human distubance events. Over the past two years, with funding from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Audubon NC has worked with NC Wildlife Resources Commission staff to manage vegetation on two dredged-material islands, Ferry Slip and South Pelican, in the Cape Fear River. These manmade islands are made of sand and can provide nesting sites to Royal and Sandwich Terns, which are habitat specialists that require open, sandy spaces to nest. However, dredged-material islands will also become overgrown with vegetation if they are not managed properly or do not receive additional deposits of sand. After a period of overgrowth, Ferry Slip Island is once again in good shape for terns, and a small colony of Royal and Sandwich Terns re-colonized the site, along with about 15 pairs of American Oystercatchers and even one very grouchy pair of Canada Geese! The main tern colony was again on South Pelican Island. The terns’ chicks began fledging in early July and soon they will depart the islands, leaving them quiet in the absence of their raucous calls. Royal Terns brood recently hatched chicks on South Pelican Island. Photo: Lindsay Addison/Audubon NC The silence may be welcome to the 15 or so pairs of oystercatchers that also nest on these islands. Both islands’ oystercatchers have done well, since vegetation managemnet also cuts back on the amount of Laughing Gull habitat available. When too numerous, nesting Laughing Gulls crowd out the osytercatchers and prey on their young chicks. Without these bothersome neighbors, over a dozen oystercatcher chicks are on track to fledge from these islands. Elsewhere on the river, on marshy natural islands, Brown Pelicans, wading birds, and yet more oystercatchers are all doing well. These sites are especially vulnerable to storms and high tides, so the calm season has benefitted them. There is one notable absence this year, though, from the Cape Fear River: White Ibis, which usally call Battery Island home, did not nest there in large numbers this year. Their chicks had been preyed on by two immature Bald Eagles, and they likely remembered that experience this spring and as a result, went elsewhere. In this case, “elsewhere” appears to be nearby freshwater swamps on the western side of the Cape Fear River. Lea-Hutaff Island and Wrightsville Beach Barrier islands are important nesting habitat for terns, skimmers, plovers, and oystercatchers around North Carolina. Audubon NC manages two barrier island sites, Lea-Hutaff Island and the south end of Wrightsville Beach—although it’s heavily developed, it’s still a barrier island. On Lea-Hutaff an early visit from a coyote seemed to spell disaster for nesting success, but it did not return (they can swim between the island and mainland) and the Least Terns (over 400 pairs), American Oystercatchers, and Wilson’s Plovers (over 20 pairs of each) which are the site’s most abundant nesting species rebounded. All three are fledging chicks. Black Skimmer chicks rest in their simple nest on the south end of Wrightsville Beach. Photo: Lindsay Addison/Audubon NC On the south end of Wrightsville Beach, a dredging and beach renourishment project removed much of the nesting habitat that Black Skimmers, Common Terns, and Least Terns depend on. Therefore, no Least Terns have nested there this year. However, the Black Skimmers were able to eke out some space—they prefer open, sandy areas and like to nest in association with the raucous terns—and a small colony of Common Terns joined them. Their nesting was delayed this year as a result. While usually skimmers are fledging chicks in early July, this year they were just beginning to hatch their eggs. In addition to habitat loss, crows predated many of their eggs, so Audubon NC staff and the volunteer bird stewards are still watching and waiting to see how the chick-rearing portion of the season goes. Core Sound and Ocracoke Inlet Islands In the early spring, staff posted Beacon Island, a natural island smack in the middle of Ocracoke Inlet. It’s been battered by storms and erosion, but a living shoreline project has helped to prevent further loss of land—and it’s a good thing too. The posting trip found about 50 Brown Pelican nests in the early stages of construction, and a month or so later, Beacon Island was draped from east to west in nesting pelicans. Joining them were Great Egrets, Tricolored Herons, and even a small colony of White Ibis. All appear to have done well, as large chicks are clambering through the vegetation and their older brethern are already flying. Pelicans dot Beacon Island. Photo: Lindsay Addison/Audubon NC Nextdoor to Beacon lies North Rock Island, a small remnant of what had once been a larger site. But even though it is small, it hosted a delightfully varied colony of wading birds: White and Glossy Ibis; Great and Snowy Egrets; and Tricolored, Little Blue, and Black-crowned Night-Herons all nested there. A Great Egret stands watch over its chick on Beacon Island. Photo: Lindsay Addison/Audubon NC Nesting was minimal on the Audubon NC islands in Core Sound. Wainwright, a dredged material island that was re-built last year, had once again receded under the waves. But, Chainshot Island, a little marsh island that may not be much larger than your living room, is supporting a colony of Great Egrets, as it does almost every year. In such a safe and remote location, the elegant waders usually fledge many chicks, which we hope to see on our next visit. With all these birds at all these sites, staff have been busy monitoring nesting success and maintaining signage; assisting student research projects; working with partners at our sites and theirs to band oystercatchers, terns, and pelicans as well as to collect other data; training volunteer bird stewards; and keeping up with data. All of this hard work, though, is rewarding because we get to look in on these amazing animals and hope that with good management and protection they will be able to successfully raise their young.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1557
__label__wiki	0.642977	0.642977	Protecting Land Birds Across North Carolina Meet Curtis Smalling, Audubon North Carolina's Director of Bird Conservation for North Carolina Audubon North Carolina has an amazing staff across the state dedicating their time and expertise to protecting birds and their habitats, and engaging others to support bird conservation efforts. In this blog series, we will introduce you, our supporters, to the names and faces behind Audubon NC. Curtis oversees our Saving Important Bird Areas, Putting Working Lands to Work for Birds and People and Bird-Friendly Communities initiatives, and works on energy policy issues for our Shaping a Healthy Climate Initiative. He also engages dozens of conservation partners regionally, nationally and internationally to ensure North Carolina’s birds are protected throughout their entire annual life cycle. Describe your job with Audubon NC. I often provide data on a wide variety of bird species to our partners, members, chapters, land managers, property owners, decision makers and regulators. This might be data about where birds occur, how many there are, and scientifically supported best practices to conserve them. Where data doesn’t yet exist, I work to find them or support the work of others collecting this information. Not as much is known about birds as people might think. That is why Audubon’s work as a science organization is so important. We collect and analyze that data through many methods including our citizen science projects like the Great Backyard Bird Count and Hummingbirds at Home. What inspired you to pursue a career in conservation? My grandfather, but I have always liked birds, and from an early age, started to identify them by sight and by ear. Even more, I like to study them. I am really curious why they do what they do and how they do it. What brought you to work with Audubon NC for the benefit of birds? A mentor at Appalachian State University, Dr. Matt Rowe, recommended me to Walker Golder, Deputy Director of ANC, for some survey work on Golden-winged Warblers. I was not working in conservation at the time, and Dr. Rowe felt I could benefit from getting back to what I really loved to do. That part-time work developed into a full-time career studying the birds that I already loved. Why do you feel it’s important to protect and conserve birds in North Carolina? Globally? The basic answer is that we need to do all we can to preserve biodiversity. We have a responsibility to conserve what we have, and work to understand why some species are doing poorly and others are thriving. It gets really complicated really quickly, and having a firm, science-based knowledge of what is going on out there is core to making good choices. Humans are guilty of creating unintended consequences as a result of our actions. Being the voice for the birds that are affected by these actions allows our partners, members and policy makers to make more informed decisions and choices. Because birds move to different areas during the course of a year through migration to nest, and to rest during the winter, we need to follow them where they go, and help our partners protect all the areas the birds need across the globe to be successful. In bird terms, success is measured by having chicks that grow into adulthood to breed more of that species. That is what ensures species survival. We can only accomplish this level of protection by working globally. For example, Audubon North Carolina’s work in Nicaragua is helping to answer basic science questions while at the same time trying to tie those answers to protecting and improving human lives. How is your work with Audubon specifically helping to protect birds in NC? What particular birds does your work help protect? I think my work helps protect birds in two major ways. The first is direct habitat impact. Our programs to protect the Golden-winged Warbler working with private landowners to manage their land help these and other birds through our Working Lands initiative for mature forest. We work with public and private landowners to implement bird-friendly practices on those lands, which results in protection of important bird habitats for the benefit of specific birds. The second area is providing science-based expertise to planning efforts – such as for the state and national parks and forests - and policy efforts like energy siting, In both cases, we identify and work to moderate threats to birds and habitats. I serve on several working groups that advance our understanding of priority species, but I also serve on committees that help shape policy like the state taxa team of the scientific council that sets species conservation priorities for the state of North Carolina. These activities are critical to helping advance sound science and bird protection priorities in the state. What is your favorite bird? Why? Whichever one I am studying at the moment! Right now it would be Golden-winged Warblers, but I am also fond of Wood Thrushes and Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers (which I have also intensively studied). I think the reason for this is that with an intimate knowledge and understanding of their lives I gain real respect for the difficult lives they lead. For example, just think about a bird weighing the same as four quarters that flies a 4,000-mile round-trip migration to return each year. That is a truly phenomenal feat, really spectacular. We don’t appreciate that enough. What is the most exciting bird you’ve ever spotted? What happened? A new lifer (a bird seen for the first time in your life) is always cool and exciting! My most recent lifer was a Stub-tailed Spadebill in Nicaragua. This is a very small, very plain, dense habitat flycatcher. Hard to see and cool to find. I would also say that any bird we band that migrates away, then comes back and is re-sighted is always a thrill. It’s like seeing an old friend. I am fortunate that I work on projects where I get to see that almost every year. While in Nicaragua this year our partners recaptured a Golden-winged Warbler that was banded in Illinois during migration. This was the first foreign recapture of a Golden-winged Warbler ever on the wintering grounds. It was cool to see that bird and know that he connected the dots for us. We have deployed geolocators on him, so we might learn where he is breeding next year as well. Pretty cool stuff. What advice do you have for someone interested in becoming involved with bird conservation efforts? Volunteer. Learn as much as you can about the things that interest you. Become a citizen scientist, and don’t be afraid that you don’t know enough or can’t help. You can. What would you like people to know about birds that they may not already know? Birds are out there living their lives. And they are not abstract lives. They have babies. They migrate back and forth to their homes. They think, they feel pain, and many live longer than you might suspect. This is what makes conservation so important. Our lives intersect with theirs. It is up to us to respect that. For example a Wood Thrush can live to be 10 years old. Every year when it flies back from the tropics, he and his mate have to have a place to raise their young. Much of the time they return to the very same spot. It is truly their home. If we change that home by constructing something or cutting down trees, they have to find a new home. That gives us some responsibility for providing that new home or maintaining the one they are returning to. Curtis is a 1985 magna cum laude graduate of Appalachian State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and in 1996 received a Master of Arts in Appalachian Studies. He is a 2005 National Audubon Society ACE Award winner for outstanding contributions to bird conservation, and is a 2008 Extra Effort Award Winner from North Carolina Partners in Flight. Curtis’ Publications Dolly L. Crawford 1*, Ronald W. Rohrbaugh2 , Kyle R. Aldinger3, Sara Barker Swarthout2, David A. Buehler4, John Confer5, Christian Friis6, Jeff Larkin7, Irby Lovette8, James D. Lowe2, Martin Piorkowski9, Kenneth V. Rosenberg2, Amber Roth10, Curtis Smalling11, Petra Bohall Wood12, Rachel Vallender. 2015. Spatio-temporal variation in the distribution of Golden-winged Warbler and Blue-winged Warbler as a function of climate; implications for management and conservation. In prep. Jones, John A., Anna Tisdale, Curtis Smalling, and Lynn Siefferman. 2015. Ecological and behavioral consequences of sympatry between golden-winged and chestnut-sided warblers in the southern Appalachians. In prep. Theron Terhune II, et al. 2015. Effects of Golden-winged Warbler management on other species. In prep. King, David, Richard Chandler, Curtis Smalling, and Tom Will. 2015. Non-breeding Golden-winged Warbler Habitat: Status, Conservation, and Needs. In press. Studies in Avian Biology. Aldinger, Kyle R., et al. 2015. A BROAD GEOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF FACTORS CORRELATED WITH GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER REPRODUCTIVE PARAMETERS. In press. Studies in Avian Biology Buehler, Dave, et al. 2015. Golden-winged Warbler Nest-site Habitat Selection. In press. Studies in Avian Biology Aldinger, Kyle, et al. 2015. AN ASSESSMENT OF VARIABLES ASSOCIATED WITH GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER NESTING PARAMETERS. . In press. Studies in Avian Biology Chandler, Richard, et al. 2015. CONSERVATION IMPLICATIONS OF GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER SOCIAL AND FORAGING BEHAVIORS DURING THE NONBREEDING SEASON. In press Studies in Avian Biology Contributing author to the Bird Finding Guide to North Carolina (Falcon Press, 2005), Exploring North Carolina’s Natural Areas (Dirk Frankenberg, ed., UNC Press 2000) as well as co-author of the Compact Guide to the Birds of Virginia (Lone Pine, 2006), the Compact Guide to the Birds of North Carolina (Lone Pine, 2006), and the Compact Guide to the Birds of South Carolina (Lone Pine, 2007), and the Illustrated Birds of North Carolina (Rocky Publications, 2011). Curtis serves on the following committees and boards: Elk Knob State Park Advisory Committee Friends of High Country State Parks Golden-winged Warbler Working Group Alianza Alas Doradas Cerulean Warbler Technical Working Group El Grupo Ceruleo Southern Appalachian Yellow Bellied Sapsucker Working Group International Wood Thrush Conservation Alliance Eastern Golden Eagle Working Group Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture Technical Committee Appalachian Mountains Landscape Conservation Cooperative Taxa Rep NC State Wildlife Action Plan Revision Taxa Team Member NC Scientific Council Bird Taxa Team NC Wind Energy Working Group Atlantic Flyway Eastern Forests Project – Forest Block mapping lead Atlantic Flyway Grassland and Shrubland Project NC Bird-Friendly Communities Implementation Team NC Forest Land Bird Legacy Project Want to learn more about the team members of Audubon North Carolina? Click here to continue our staff profile series.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1558
__label__wiki	0.597368	0.597368	Organized Networks invent new institutional forms The Logistical City: Software, Infrastructure, Labour The logistical city is a city of peripheries. These peripheries are occupied by intermodal transport terminals, warehouses, IT infrastructure, container parks and shipping ports.1 The interconnection of peripheries on a transnational scale comprises a special kind of globality, one in which the complex network of distribution systems – roads, rail, shipping, aviation – makes concrete the otherwise mysterious abstractions of capitalist operations. Yet for all this materiality, the logistical city goes largely unnoticed in the metropolitan imaginary precisely because the margins of cities tend to be overlooked and made invisible by more spectacular elements – magisterial feats of architecture, harbour views, cultural festivals and so forth. We long ago resigned ourselves to not needing to know how things work or where things come from. And we are in no rush for a reminder. The logistical city ticks along in the background as we get on with our busy daily lives. The logistical city is distinct from the global city, which is characterised by financial services located in CBDs and cosmopolitan populations whose ethnic peculiarities are integrated more or less seamlessly into the flow of global economies. The logistical city also differs from the industrial city, which is defined by class stratifications across urban spaces and an economy based on the manufacturing of goods. Like the global city, the logistical city is a city of services, but these services are driven by computational systems oriented around managing the mobility of things produced by the industrial city, and servicing the services of the global city. Thirty years ago the L.A. School of planners, geographers, sociologists and historians identified many of the features of the logistical city just described, especially ‘the emergence of information-age “edge cities,” and the hypermobility of international capital and labor flows’, as recounted by Steven Erie in his book Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure and Regional Development.2 The logistical city nevertheless stands out as a new urban form for the ways in which it stitches together diverse cities and regions across the global north and south, continuously reconfiguring connections according to just-in-time demands of supply-chains and contingencies that disrupt their smooth operation. Whenever a new diagram of relations is set into play, a new logistical world is created in which difference must either be displaced or absorbed. This spatio-temporal elasticity and capacity to adapt to changing conditions is perhaps what marks the logistical city as particularly distinct from other urban forms. Always searching for enhanced efficiencies across its circuits of distribution, the logistical city is an urban laboratory ripe in experimentation. The logistical city can also be understood in terms of what architect Reinhold Martin calls an ‘organizational complex’, which consists of technocratic and aesthetic systems designed to modulate the world as ‘an organized, informatic pattern’ in flexible ways.3 Not constrained by sovereign rule or national borders, the logistical city is a recombinatory form that attempts to standardize capital accumulation from the micro level of algorithmic apparatuses to the macro level of global infrastructures. Standards are crucial to the universal logic of interoperability across software platforms and infrastructural components. Without them, cargo containers could not transfer with such ease from ship to truck, software operating systems could not exchange data across platforms, and circuit boards could not be manufactured to fit and function in multiple computational devices. Whoever sets the standard rules the world. Yet standards change and develop over time. New standards are always being established, though only some percolate to the top and become universally adopted. This is where innovation meets political economy. The desire for a trans-scalar smooth world, however, is accompanied by any number of contingencies: labour strikes, software glitches, inventory blowouts and traffic gridlock, to mention just a few that come to mind. In principle, the topological parameter of ‘fault tolerance’ incorporates such disruptions to make anew the seamlessness of logistical worlds. But there can be no denying that contingency is the nightmare of logistics. Logistical nightmares can be found across the cities investigated in the Transit Labour project, which examines how circuits of labour are reshaping the contours of regions while coming up against, testing and transforming a multiplicity of borders. Rajarhat New Town is a development underway since the late 1990s on the north-east fringes of Kolkata, situated between the airport and on the edge of Sector V, an IT park developed in the 1970s as an industrial extension of Kolkata’s Salt Lake township. The government legislation that authorised both of these developments is complex and fraught with political conflicts and social tensions. Chief among these was the West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation’s (HIDCO) invocation of a colonial administrative remnant, the Land Acquisition Act of 1894. When combined with a China-inspired neoliberal legislation, the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Act of 2005, HIDCO was able to legally conjure a zoning technology for Rajarhat designed to attract foreign capital to finance the transformation of fertile agricultural land and fisheries into non-agricultural use. The economic and social displacement of peasant populations numbering in their tens of thousands recalls for Ranabir Samaddar and his colleagues at the Calcutta Research Group the Marxian critique of ‘primitive accumulation’,4 or what David Harvey prefers instead to term ‘accumulation by dispossession’.5 In the case of Rajarhat, the expropriation of land and the partial remobilisation of peasant labour forced by HIDCO into ‘service villages’ are the conditions of possibility for the logistical city and its information economy. Following an initial surge which saw the instalment of fibre-optic cable and a skeletal road system, a number of international and national IT firms opened for business in Rajarhat, including Wipro, Accenture, Unitech, IBM and Tata Consultancy Services. Graduates of computing and IT programs working in these firms are largely undertaking beta-testing of new software or BPO (business process outsourcing) work, doing basic data entry and accounting tasks for financial, medical and insurance companies based in Europe and North America. It is worth noting that a logistical city like Rajarhat registers an uneven geography of information that goes one step beyond the international division of labour running along the global north and south axis. Most of the IT related work in Rajarhat, as well as Sector V, is a secondary form of outsourcing internal to the nation state. Parent firms based in Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad undertake the more interesting R&D and management related work, while IT workers with similar qualifications are lumped with more menial informatic tasks. With India’s elevation in these sort of high-skill sectors of the information economy, it is hard not to assume a substantial loss of similar jobs in the global north accompanying forms of outsourcing internal to the space of the nation within India. In Australia in recent weeks and months, we have heard much about how the aviation and finance industries are also planning to outsource data-entry and general service related work. Whether it is the global or national scale, the key driver behind these decisions is, of course, the lower cost of labour coupled with cheaper land leases for IT service firms located on the peripheries. And this is where logistical cities such as Rajarhat find their rationale for existence. Since 2008, however, the rate of development in Rajarhat has slowed considerably due to the effects of the global financial crisis. Partially built apartment towers stand isolated against a backdrop of now arid land dotted with surveyor’s pegs and the occasional grazing cattle. Many of the complete residential complexes remain empty as investment owners are located in other Indian cities or live overseas. A number of IT firms are operating, but their workers are often commuting from elsewhere in Kolkata, as do many of the owners of the makeshift teahouses and eateries servicing the IT workers during their breaks. As Ishita Dey’s research has made clear, some of the women find employment as domestic labour, but for most of the men security and construction work is considered semi-skilled and usually contracted out to migrant workers residing elsewhere in India.6 Following some initial work filling in the wetlands, this only leaves low-skill construction jobs and teahouses as sources of income for men. No wonder, then, that Rajarhat New Town is the scene of regular acts of infrastructural sabotage, social unrest and political conflict. Not only is the logistical city distant from metropolitan imaginaries, it suffers the intrusion of materiality in ways that unsettle the abstraction of information. The logistical city is also at the cutting edge of labour reform. Technologies of automation are transforming shipping ports across Australia and elsewhere in the world, shifting the work of wharfies from the dockside to the screen where the oversight of robotic operations is duplicated by human labour clicking through the interface of software applications. Whether machine or flesh, performance indicators are finely calibrated against time and volume. The logistical city does away with the biological and social rhythms of urban life so beloved by Henri Lefebvre,7 and instead operates by the cold sword of code that measures productivity and worth in real-time. The year 2009 saw not only the initial peak of the ongoing financial crisis, it also occasioned the entry of Chinese state-owned shipping and logistics company COSCO into a 35 year lease agreement with Greek authorities to access and manage port space at Piraeus, one the largest shipping ports in Southern Europe located 12km outside of Athens.8 Along with upgrading port facilities and apparently dramatic increases in productivity, local Greek workers have found themselves confronted by employers with substantially different ideas about working conditions, pay rates and workplace safety. As Greece cedes its sovereign authority to more powerful economic actors, Greek citizens and organizations such as unions have diminished ground upon which to contest perceived and experienced inequalities. With software programs devised to manage key performance indicators (KPIs) and global supply chains, algorithmic cultures are key agents that govern subjects and things in logistical operations such as those found at Piraeus, among countless other global sites. By way of conclusion, the logistical city is caught between expediency and contingency. The machine dream of absolute efficiency runs counter to the unruliness of labour and life. The elasticity of logistical time and space must nevertheless contend with the materialities of society and place, particles and power. Even if the logistical city could overcome the protocological asymmetries across software platforms that prevent cross-sector and global interoperability, it could never entirely eradicate the constituent power of refusal. The logistical city is cold, and without employment. The work has been done, elsewhere, sometimes hundreds if not thousands of kilometres away. * Paper presented at Cities and Materialities Workshop, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, 11 April 2012. Such logistical facilities do not stand isolated, of course, but are interspersed with suburbs, green belts, roads, railways, water systems and barren land. ↩ Steven P. Erie, Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure and Regional Development, Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2004, 205. ↩ Reinhold Martin, The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media and Corporate Space, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003, 10. ↩ Ranabir Samaddar, ‘Rajarhat, the Urban Dystopia’, Transit Labour: Circuits, Regions, Borders, 29 July 2011, http://transitlabour.asia/blogs/dystopia ↩ David Harvey, The New Imperialism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. ↩ Ishita Dey, ‘New Town and Labour in Transit’, Transit Labour: Circuits, Regions, Borders, 29 July 2011, http://transitlabour.asia/blogs/newtown ↩ Henri Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life, trans. Stuart Elden and Gerald Moore, London and New York: Continuum, 2004. ↩ See, for example, Louisa Lim, ‘In Greek Port, Storm Brews Over Chinese-Run Labor’, NPR, June 8, 2011. See also Ferry Batzoglou and Manfred Ertel, ‘“Good Friends are there to Help”: Chinese Investors take Advantage of Greek Crisis’, Spiegel, November 16, 2011. ↩ Comments closed — Trackback URI RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was posted on Thursday, April 12, 2012, at 8:58 pm by Ned Rossiter. 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__label__cc	0.708938	0.291062	Online Find: I’m Enough The internet is filled with crazy, rude behavior but sometimes you bump into something with the greatest feel good moment. I bumped into this video at The Huffington Post , and I couldn’t resist but to share with you guys. This is what HP had to say: All too often women look in the mirror and think they’re not good enough – previousresearch from Dove has shown only 4% of women around the world would consider themselves to be “beautiful”. But a new campaign is aiming to get more of us loving our reflection. Started by an all-female band from Texas called The Mrs, the #imEnough campaign uses a “magic mirror” to help women see just how fabulous they are, both inside and out. When the women in the above video look in the mirror, they’re asked to describe how they feel about themselves. Most respond with “okay” or “not so hot”. But, not content to accept these negative responses, the mirror transforms into a screen which displays heartfelt messages from the women’s friends and family about how fantastic they are. It turns out these women have been loving mothers, wives, grandmothers and friends who’ve made some seriously beautiful sacrifices to make others happy. By the end of the film, the women have been persuaded that they are “enough”, just they way they are. Grab your tissues, it’s seriously moving stuff…. After watching this video, I have to admit my heart sank a bit, but it wasn’t a bad sinking, it was one of those moments where I was so close to shedding a tear. Don’t laugh at me! See for yourself. Original Post by Cosmopolitan Magazine. Category: Videos Tagged: all girl group, cosmo, cosmopolitan, cosmopolitan magazine, female empowerment, girl group, girls, huffington post, im enough, imenough, tear jerker, women	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1567
__label__wiki	0.64884	0.64884	Insouciant Americans Posted: January 14, 2010 \| Author: nwoobserver \| Filed under: Civil Liberties, Problem Reaction Solution, Totalitarian Tiptoe, War on Terror \| Tags: Al Qaeda, CIA, False Flags, Media, Mossad, Multinational Corporations, Police State, USA \| 5 Comments Published: Jan. 12, 2010 – Information Clearing House The Underwear Bomber case indicates that whoever is behind these bomb scares is laughing at our gullibility. How realistic is it that al-Qaida, an organization that allegedly pulled off the most fantastic terror attack in world history, would in these days of heightened security choose for an attack on an airliner a person who is the most conspicuous of all? Umar Farouk Mutallab had a one-way ticket, no luggage, no passport, and his father, reportedly a CIA and Mossad asset, had reported him to the CIA and Mossad. Does anyone really believe that al-Qaida would choose as an airliner bomber a person waving every red flag imaginable? Operation Enduring Turmoil Posted: December 2, 2009 \| Author: nwoobserver \| Filed under: Imperial Power, New World Order, World Hegemony \| Tags: Balochistan, Blackwater, CIA, CIA Destabilization Operations, Mossad, Obama's Wars, Pakistan, Project for the New American Century \| 15 Comments Pakistan has been labeled the most dangerous country in the world, (a safe haven for terrorists). The leaders of our country are eager to invade and the mainstream media is working tirelessly to create the fear that will allow them do so. The fact that only six corporations dominate our major media outlets, it’s obvious that our information sources serve the interests of the controlling. For that reason, I set out on a trip to Pakistan to find out what is actually going on in that country. What I discovered shocked me. by Saad Ali Published: Dec. 02, 2009 – Pak Alert Press The first stop of my trip was Islamabad, Pakistan, the nation’s capital. Islamabad has been victim to many suicide attacks in recent years. Thousands of people have been murdered by the hands of the terrorists, aka Blackwater. Blackwater has been confirmed by former CIA officials to having over 3,000 operatives present throughout the country. Pakistan’s International News reported on the increasing suspicious movement of foreigners in Peshawar, Pakistan. A local resident stated, “What we have been hearing about the presence of Blackwater or other suspicious foreigners in Peshawar and Pakistan is alarming.” Investigative Journalist, Wayne Madsen, in a Russia Today interview stated, “I’ve been told by private military contract sources that a former British SAS officer is basically putting ads in local newspapers in Pakistan looking to rent compounds for this influx of private military contractors.” Madsen also talked about how three former Pakistani generals have been giving speeches, stating that private military contractors are present in Islamabad and Peshawar. We all know about the ruthless killings of countless innocent civilians Blackwater is responsible for in Iraq and Afghanistan. These murderers are loyal to nothing but a paycheck, and their presence in Pakistan has angered many. I set out to find where I can find these mercenaries, and what their agenda is in Pakistan. By talking to different independent media outlets I was able to locate the area which has been allotted to Blackwater mercenaries in Islamabad (In case you’re wondering, they stay in the F-7 region.) Now it’s not easy getting close to the area because security is extremely tight. Driving by was about as close as I could get. The Illusion of Democracy in the Modern World Posted: November 11, 2009 \| Author: nwoobserver \| Filed under: New World Order \| Tags: 9/11, Bilderberg Group, Bohemian Grove, CIA, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), False Flags, IMF, Mossad, Pentagon, United Nations, World Bank \| 3 Comments by Gregory Fegel Published: Nov. 11, 2009 – Pravda.ru Most of the ‘terrorist’ bomb attacks of the past sixty years have been false-flag attacks that were actually committed by the Israeli Mossad, the CIA, and British intelligence. For six decades the allied Western intelligence agencies have been carrying out an ongoing campaign to frame Muslims for bombings which were actually perpetrated by the Western intelligence agencies themselves. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11/2001 were a joint CIA/Pentagon/Mossad false-flag operation that was intended to provide an excuse for the subsequent US-led Coalition invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. The Western nations are not unique in their use of false-flag bombings to inspire public support for a government policy of aggression. The Russian government blamed Chechen ‘terrorists’ for perpetrating the horrific Moscow apartment bombings of the summer of 1999, but agents of the Russian FSB were seen placing military-grade explosives in the basement of an apartment building in Ryazan, near Moscow. The current US and Israeli belligerence toward Iran is the continuation of a modern Crusade by the USA, Israel, the UK, and their allies to gain control of the Middle East oil fields. NEWS (Last Updated: Oct. 24, 2009) Posted: October 21, 2009 \| Author: nwoobserver \| Filed under: Economy, Illegal Occupation, Imperial Power, Israeli Apartheid, War on Terror, World War III \| Tags: Afghanistan, CIA, FBI, Gaza, IDF, Iraq, Israel, Mossad, Obama, Obama's Wars, Pakistan, US Army, USA \| Leave a comment Obama´s Wars (Last Updated: Sat. Oct. 24) Danish troop falls in Afghanistan Sat. Oct. 24 – A Danish trooper has reportedly died in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, after being fired at by unidentified attackers. Eight years on, US still says Afghanistan ‘a test’ Sat. Oct. 24 – The United States says that the upcoming run-up to Afghanistan’s presidential election is a test for the almost 100,000-strong international forces in the war-torn country. Ex-CIA agent confirms US ties with Jundullah Sat. Oct. 24 – A former Central Intelligence Agency officer has confirmed US’ relations with the terrorist group Jundullah, despite the CIA knowing that the group has close links with the al-Qaeda. Pakistan reports 155 killed in Waziristan offensive Fri. Oct. 23 – The Pakistani army reports killing 155 pro-Taliban militants in the ongoing major offensive in South Waziristan that began Saturday. Another British soldier dies in Afghanistan blast Fri. Oct. 23 – Another British soldier dies in powerful roadside blast in southern Afghanistan, amid rising casualty count among the foreign forces occupying the country. Violence kills 5 people in Iraq’s Mosul Fri. Oct. 23 – At least five people have lost their lives and three others suffered injuries in the latest string of terrorist attacks targeting Iraqi people in the volatile northern city of Mosul. In Pakistan, car bomb rocks Peshawar Fri. Oct. 23 – A car bomb has exploded, in a latest incident of violence, in main Pakistani northwestern city of Peshawar, as a wave of militant attacks in the country kills hundreds in October. US drone kills three people in Pakistan Thu. Oct. 22 – At least three people have been killed as a result of a US drone firing two missiles at a house in the North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Car bomb kills 4, wounds 9 in Iraq Wed. Oct. 21 – At least four people, including two policemen, have been killed in a car bomb blast in the western Iraqi province of al-Anbar. Blast leaves US soldier dead in Afghanistan Wed. Oct. 21 – Amid looming insurgency in Afghanistan, another American soldier has been killed in a roadside bomb attack in the volatile south, NATO says. WFP shuts down food centers in Pakistan Wed. Oct. 21 – Amid rising insurgency in Pakistan, the United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) has shut down its distribution centers in the country’s north-west over security concerns. 18 killed in Waziristan as army foresees lengthy fight Wed. Oct. 21 – At least 15 militants and three troops have been killed during battles in South Waziristan as the Pakistani military admits that its anti-militant sweep in the area has been tougher than expected. Israeli Apartheid (Last Updated: Fri. Oct. 24) Israel urges Ban to stop Goldstone report Sat. Oct. 24 – The Israeli foreign minister has urged UN chief Ban Ki-moon against sending the Goldstone report on Israel’s war crimes in the Gaza Strip to the Security Council or the General Assembly. Israeli blockade denies Gazans basic needs: UNHRC Fri. Oct. 23 – United Nations special rapporteur says Israel is blocking the basic necessities from entering the Gaza Strip, adding that the Palestinians are suffering amid Middle East tensions. Israel to close down main Gaza fuel terminal Fri. Oct. 23 – Tel Aviv is moving towards gradual closure of the fuel terminal at the Nahal Oz crossing along the border with the Gaza Strip which has long been under a tight Israeli siege. Israel pounds more Gaza tunnels Thu. Oct. 22 – Israeli warplanes have struck more Palestinian tunnels in the blockaded Gaza Strip, after a rocket was fired from the coastal enclave. Israel backs ‘carte blanche’ to kill Wed. Oct. 21 – The Israeli war minister advocates operational latitude for its army amid mounting condemnation of the Zionist regime’s massacre of the Palestinians. More News (Last Updated: Sat. Oct. 24) US pressures Iran into accepting IAEA deal Sat. Oct. 24 – After Iran announced that it needs more time to consider an IAEA-brokered draft proposal on nuclear fuel supply, Washington says it “will not wait forever”. Obama’s popularity drop, biggest in 50 years Fri. Oct. 23 – Approval rating of Barack Obama has declined sharply since July, the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years, a new poll shows. US, Poland renew contentious missile pact Thu. Oct. 22 – The United States has encouraged Poland to accept a plan B missile defense shield program following the reversal of an earlier aerial security scheme. Poverty in America revised to 1 of 6 Wed. Oct. 21 – One in six Americans live in poverty, a new report finds, leading to the implication that the US poverty level is even worse than first believed. US, Israel to launch largest war game Wed. Oct. 21 – Israel and the United States plan to begin their largest-ever joint war exercise on Wednesday to simulate possible missile attacks on Israel. FBI arrests US scientist for spying for Israel Wed. Oct. 21 – US officials say they have arrested an American citizen who has been charged with spying for the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. U.S. Attacks Iran Via CIA-Funded Jundullah Terror Group Posted: October 20, 2009 \| Author: nwoobserver \| Filed under: World War III \| Tags: CIA, CIA Destabilization Operations, Iran, Mossad, US Army \| 4 Comments Bankrolling and arming Al-Qaeda offshoot part of 2007 White House directive to destabilize Iranian government by Paul Joseph Watson Published: Oct. 19, 2009 – Prison Planet The U.S. government effectively attacked Iran yesterday after its proxy terror group Jundullah launched a suicide bomb attack against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard at their headquarters in Pishin, near the border with Pakistan. Leaders of the Al-Qaeda affiliated Sunni terrorist group Jundullah have claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Iran that killed over 40 people yesterday. The group is funded and trained by the CIA and is being used to destabilize the government of Iran, according to reports out of the London Telegraph and ABC News. Joseph Moshe (MOSSAD Microbiologist): “Swine flu vaccine is a bioweapon” Posted: September 24, 2009 \| Author: nwoobserver \| Filed under: New World Order, Problem Reaction Solution \| Tags: Big Pharma, Bio-terrorism, Depopulation Agenda, Mossad, Swine Flu \| 21 Comments Published: Sep. 21, 2009 – unfictional.com Today, the MSM are not talking about this case any more. Yesterday, they wanted us to believe that Joseph Moshe was a nutcase and a terrorist, arrested for threatening to bomb the White House. Interesting detail about his arrest (the “Westwood standoff”) was that he seemed to be immune to the 5 cans of tear gas and 5 gallons of law-enforcement grade pepper spray they pumped into his face. He very calmly remained in his car, as the video footage of his arrest shows. Professor Moshe had called into a live radio show by Dr. A. True Ott, broadcast on Republic Broadcasting claiming to be a microbiologist who wanted to supply evidence to a States Attorney regarding tainted H1N1 Swine flu vaccines being produced by Baxter BioPharma Solutions. He said that Baxter’s Ukrainian lab was in fact producing a bioweapon disguised as a vaccine. He claimed that the vaccine contained an adjuvant (additive) designed to weaken the immune system, and replicated RNA from the virus responsible for the 1918 pandemic Spanish flu, causing global sickness and mass death. CIA death squads ‘copied Mossad’… Posted: July 16, 2009 \| Author: nwoobserver \| Filed under: World Hegemony \| Tags: CIA, Mossad \| Leave a comment Former US officials claim CIA was to hire assassination teams modeled after the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad’s targeted killing specialist squads. On Tuesday, Newsweek quoted some former senior officials as saying that in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the former administration approached the Central Intelligence Agency to form the teams. The officials, requesting anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue, said the White House broached the issue with CIA’s espionage wing, the Directorate of Operations. The program was recently exposed by the agency’s director Leon Panetta, who claimed that he had stopped it last month upon hearing about it. Lahore Attack Mossad & Co. strikes again… Posted: May 8, 2009 \| Author: nwoobserver \| Filed under: Problem Reaction Solution \| Tags: CIA, False Flags, Mossad \| Leave a comment “Al-Qaida is the top secret code name of special covert operations of the U.S. CIA, Israeli Mossad, British SIS, Indian RAW. Al-Qaida is a fake name, an imaginary illusion, a deceptive fraud, a fictitious hoax and a fraudulent scam of the unlawful war of terror, which is still being cunningly and clandestinely supported and promoted by the CIA, Mossad, SIS, RAW, and the Corrupt Mercenary Media (CMM) to frame, blame, defame, harm and kill Pakistanis, Kashmiris, Afghans, Arabs, Muslims and other innocent humans by falsely and maliciously labeling them as the Al-Qaida militants, extremists, or terrorists. Actually, Al-Qaida or Al-CIA-da is the CIA. Al-Qaida is the Mossad. Al-Qaida is the SIS. Al-Qaida is the RAW. Al-Qaida is the ISI. Al-Qaida is the CMM. The CIA, Mossad, SIS, RAW, ISI and the CMM are the real Al-Qaida or ‘the Evil 6′. For the sake of international peace, reform or abolish the CIA, Mossad, SIS, RAW and the ISI; oppose and expose the CMM; and end the illegal war of terror now to reduce global terrorism. Indeed, imperialistic military occupation of any country, state, or nation is state terrorism. Civil terror is a natural reaction to government terror.” – Professor Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, president of JUD, Pakistan. Army was the only Pakistani institution which was treated with utmost respect by the great majority of Pakistanis before its top general, allowed Bush Zionist administration to destroy its next-door Muslim nation of Afghanistan, which has many many centuries of political, social and religious relations with the people who call themselves Pakistanis since August 14, 1947. His fatal decision brought the culture of terrorism, bombing and killing of innocents into Pakistan – whose greatest target happens to be Pakistan Army and Pakistan’s security forces. Before 2002 – there is no history of Pakistanis targetting military personnel. So, the question comes to mind: “Why and who are behind this terrorism?” The answers can be found among the world powers and international vultures and national traitors, who doesn’t want the only Muslim nuclear country to become stable, prosperous and its four provinces to stay united – after the fifth province, East Bengal (now Bangladesh), was snatched away through Indian invasion in 1971. All the terrorist attacks blamed on the so-called “Islamist groups”, such as the Lal Mosque Islamabad) carnage; Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing; attack on Sri Lanka’s cricket team; bombing of mosque near Pakistan-Afghan border, and now the attack on Lahore Police Academy – one must remember, who trained and armed these so-called “Islamist terrorists” and use them against Russians in Afghanistan for America to become the ’sole world superpower’? The reality is that behind the smoke-screen of “Islamist terrorism” – it’s foreign intelligence agencies like India’s RAW; Israel’s Mossad, America’s CIA and Britain’s MI6 – which all have the same agenda – to destroy the only Muslim nuclear power by paving the way to install fifth pro-USrael military dictatorship in Pakistan’s 62-year existence. Ahmed Quraishi, a Kuwaiti journalist and host of PTV-News – in his March 30, 2009 column wrote: “A second Mumbai-style attack in Lahore in less than a month, both targgeting Lahore, a city that has tradionally bore the brunt of Indian-inspired terrorism inside Pakistan. The level of training of these people and choice of targets leaves little doubt that someone is trying to teach Pakistan a lesson. It’s baffling to see interior advisor, Rehman Malik, so eager to quickly pin the blame on groups such as Lashkar Tayyeba or Lashkar Jhangvi that were active in Kashmir struggle in the past and are dormant now……Why is Mr. Malik not willing to consider the possibility of Indian involvement? Is he afraid of upetting the Brits or the Americans?…Additionally where are those local agents of Indian intelligence that were arrested from various Pakistani cities in the past few weeks and months near both the Indian and Afghan borders? The only country other than the US that has an elaborate Pakistan focussed intelligence set-up in Afghanistan is India. The Indians are actively using the chaos in Afghanistan to create a wedge between the US and Pakistan by actively supporting terrorist elements in Pakistan…… This is also the time to neutralize elements in Pakistani government such as President Zardari and Rehman Malik, whose assests, lives, and apparently loyalties lies outside Pakistan. Democracy cannot be allowed to become a Trojan horse for foreign powers to meddle in Pakistan.” Jewish Lobby’s puppet, Barack Obama, on Friday threatened Islamabad for more US military strikes inside Pakistan territory unless they keep killing each other for Israel. And if they agree to that – he offered US$1.5 billion per year bribe (matching with Egypt’s to protect Israel from Hamas) for the next five years. Pakistan Army mindset can be judged by Lt. General (retired) Ali Kuli Khan’s interview – taken by Rahimullah Yusufzai, which was published, October 5, 2006. Source: daily.pk Former Italian President: 9-11 terrorist attacks were run by the CIA and Mossad… Posted: April 16, 2009 \| Author: nwoobserver \| Filed under: Problem Reaction Solution \| Tags: 9/11, CIA, False Flags, Mossad \| 1 Comment Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga, who revealed the existence of Operation Gladio, has told Italy’s oldest and most widely read newspaper that the 9-11 terrorist attacks were run by the CIA and Mossad, and that this was common knowledge among global intelligence agencies. In what translates awkwardly into English, Cossiga told the newspaper Corriere della Sera: “All the [intelligence services] of America and Europe…know well that the disastrous attack has been planned and realized from the Mossad, with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part … in Iraq [and] Afghanistan.” Cossiga was elected president of the Italian Senate in July 1983 before winning a landslide election to become president of the country in 1985, and he remained until 1992. Cossiga’s tendency to be outspoken upset the Italian political establishment, and he was forced to resign after revealing the existence of, and his part in setting up, Operation Gladio. This was a rogue intelligence network under NATO auspices that carried out bombings across Europe in the 1960s, 1970s and ’80s. Gladio’s specialty was to carry out what they termed “false flag” operations—terror attacks that were blamed on their domestic and geopolitical opposition. In March 2001, Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated, in sworn testimony, “You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force … the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security.” Cossiga first expressed his doubts about 9-11 in 2001, and is quoted by 9-11 researcherWebster Tarpley saying “The mastermind of the attack must have been a sophisticated mind, provided with ample means not only to recruit fanatic kamikazes, but also highly specialized personnel. I add one thing: it could not be accomplished without infiltrations in the radar and flight security personnel.” Coming from a widely respected former head of state, Cossiga’s assertion that the 9-11 attacks were an inside job and that this is common knowledge among global intelligence agencies is illuminating. It is one more eye-opening confirmation that has not been mentioned by America’s propaganda machine in print or on TV. Nevertheless, because of his experience and status in the world, Cossiga cannot be discounted as a crackpot. Source: http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/9-11_solved118.html	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1576

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