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__label__wiki	0.552372	0.552372	Access Platform Access Platform - a platform mounted on wheels with steps which allows mechanics to gain access to the higher parts of the aircraft. For more aviation vocabulary visit http://aviationenglish.com/learning-zone/aviation-vocabulary/ Automatic Direction Finder: airborne radio navaid tuned to non-directional beacons; the intersection of two bearings provides the aircraft’s position: if the ADF needle points up, the NDB is ahead Flight Management System A flight management system (FMS) is a fundamental component of a modern airliner's avionics. An FMS is a specialized computer system that automates a wide variety of in-flight tasks, reducing the workload on the flight crew to the point that modern civilian aircraft no longer carry flight engineers or navigators. A primary function is in-flight management of the flight plan. Using various sensors (such as GPS and INS often backed up by radio navigation) to determine the aircraft's position, the FMS can guide the aircraft along the flight plan. From the cockpit, the FMS is normally controlled through a Control Display Unit (CDU) which incorporates a small screen and keyboard or touchscreen. The FMS sends the flight plan for display to the Electronic Flight Instrument System (EFIS), Navigation Display (ND), or Multifunction Display (MFD). The FMS can be summarised as being a dual system consisting of the Flight Management Computer (FMC), CDU and a cross talk bus. The modern FMS was introduced on the Boeing 767, though earlier navigation computers did exist. Now, systems similar to FMS exist on aircraft as small as the Cessna 182. In its evolution an FMS has had many different sizes, capabilities and controls. However certain characteristics are common to all FMS. Cumulonimbus is a heavy and dense cloud of considerable vertical extent in the form of a mountain or huge tower, often associated with heavy precipitation, lightning and thunder. The mature Cumulonimbus cloud has a distinctive flat, anvil shaped top. The Cumulonimbus cloud (Cb) forms when three conditions are met: There must be a deep layer of unstable air. The air must be warm and moist. A trigger mechanism must cause the warm moist air to rise: Heating of the layer of air close to the surface. Rising ground forcing the air upwards (orographic uplift). A front forcing the air upwards. The updraft is the large cloud mass at the center of the photo. The anvil is the flat layer at the top. The downdraft is the rainy area to the right Types of Cumulonimbus Convection. Caused by heating of the layer of air close to the surface. This type of Cb commonly forms in the late afternoon after the peak diurnal heating. Thunderstorms of this type are a daily occurrence in many areas of the tropics. The storms are usually single Cb cells rather than clusters of cells and so can generally be avoided by flying around them. Orographic Uplift. Caused by rising ground forcing the air upwards (Orographic Lift). These storms form when a general flow of moist unstable air passes over higher terrain, such as a ridge line or mountain range. Such storms often form in a line along the ground feature and are therefore more challenging to avoid than single cells. Mass Ascent. Caused when a weather front forces the air upwards. As with orographic lift, the Cb cells form in a line along the front, frequently embedded within wider frontal cloud, therefore presenting a challenge to aircraft trying to navigate through the front. Turbulence. Vertical movement within a Cb can be as much as 50kt. The interaction between strong updrafts and strong downdrafts causes wind shear and severe turbulence within the cloud. Strong surface winds, variable in direction and strength, are common at surface level in the vicinity of the Cb. These can be particularly hazardous to aircraft on take-off or landing. In-Flight Icing. Moderate to Severe icing can be expected, especially in the higher levels of the cloud. Electrical disturbance. Aircraft flying in the vicinity of Cb clouds may experience electrical disturbances effecting communications and navigation systems. The electrical phenomenon known as St Elmo's Fire, while not a threat to safe flight, is an indication of nearby Cb activity. Aircraft in the vicinity of a Cb are at risk of being hit by Lightning. Precipitation. Hail can cause significant structural damage to an aircraft. Other precipitation, such as snow, sleet, or rain, can contaminate airfield and runway surfaces creating a hazard to aircraft attempting to take-off or land. Extreme weather. Severe downdrafts, microbursts and funnel clouds such as Tornados are also features of cumulonimbus clouds. Flight into a Cb is highly dangerous. The only sensible defence against the hazards associated with a Cb is therefore to avoid flying into one in the first place. Planning. Predicting an individual Cb cell is difficult but it is possible to predict the conditions which will trigger formation of a Cb. Forecasters are therefore able to advise flight crews and controllers of the likely timing, location, direction of movement, and height of cells and whether or not they may be embedded. Airport authorities can plan aircraft movements to take into account the disruption to operations caused by storms, and approach controllers can consider how they will manage en-route, departing, and arriving traffic when storms are in the vicinity. Flight crews can alter their routings to avoid forecast Cb activity or decide to carry extra contingency fuel in case they have to re-route in flight to avoid the storms or burn additional fuel because of the potential use of aircraft de/anti icing systems. Awareness. Awareness of the conditions which lead to the formation of a Cb, recognition of a developing and mature Cb, and awareness of the signs which indicate the proximity of a Cb will help controllers and flight crews to plan operations to avoid the associated hazards. Weather Radar. In addition to visual recognition, Weather Radar is a particularly valuable aid to avoiding Cb clouds. Airborne weather radar enables the flight crew to identify the areas of the storm cloud which hold the largest water droplets, which indicate the areas with strongest updrafts. The area of the cloud with the most severe turbulence is where the updrafts adjoin the downdrafts; therefore the pilot must avoid flying through the edge of the areas of cloud with the largest water droplets. It should be remembered that a large cloud will absorb a great deal of the radar pulse which may therefore not penetrate all of the way through the storm. This can give a false impression that there are no Cb cells beyond the cell immediately ahead of the aircraft. In flight avoidance. In certain circumstances, navigating through a line of Cb cells may be the only option open to a pilot, either because his destination is beyond the line of cells or because he is unable to climb over them. In such circumstances, the aircraft may have to diverge from track by many, perhaps hundreds of miles, in order to find a gap in the wall of Cb clouds. The aircraft captain will need to judge the least hazardous track to follow through line of cells, something which will absorb the whole crew’s attention. The Weather Radar is invaluable in this situation. If the Cb cell is situated over the destination aerodrome, then the pilot would be well advised to hold off or divert rather than attempt a landing.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line6
__label__wiki	0.889434	0.889434	You are here:Home>>Afripol Presents>>Displaying items by tag: Pope Pope Francis named 19 Cardinals including an African Pope Francis named 19 new cardinal including an African Archbishop Jean-Pierre Kutwa of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. "Pope Francis named his first batch of cardinals on Sunday, choosing 19 men from Asia, Africa, Latin America and elsewhere, including the developing nations of Haiti and Burkina Faso, in line with his belief that the church must pay more attention to the poor. Francis made the announcement as he spoke from his studio window to a crowd in St. Peter's Square. Sixteen of the appointees are younger than 80, meaning they are currently eligible to elect the next pope, which is a cardinal's most important task. The ceremony to formally install them as cardinals will be held Feb. 22 at the Vatican." - AP Pope Francis ALESSANDRO BIANCHI/REUTERS/LANDOV The list of 19 new cardinals appointed by Pope Francis to be initiated in a Vatican ceremony on Feb. 22: Pietro Parolin, Titular Archbishop of Acquapendente, Secretary of State. Lorenzo Baldisseri, Titular Archbishop of Diocleziana, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops. Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, Archbishop-Bishop emeritus of Regensburg, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Beniamino Stella, Titular Archbishop of Midila, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, United Kingdom. Leopoldo Jose Brenes Solorzano, Archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua. Gerald Cyprien Lacroix, Archbishop of Quebec, Canada. Jean-Pierre Kutwa, Archbishop of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Orani Joao Tempesta, O.Cist., Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro. Gualtiero Bassetti, Archbishop of Perugia-Citta della Pieve, Italy. Mario Aurelio Poli, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Andrew Yeom Soo jung, Archbishop of Seoul, South Korea. Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, S.D.B., Archbishop of Santiago del Cile, Chile. Philippe Nakellentuba Ouedraogo, Archbishop of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Orlando B. Quevedo, O.M.I., Archbishop of Cotabato, Philippines. Chibly Langlois, Bishop of Les Cayes, Haiti. Loris Francesco Capovilla, Titular Archbishop of Mesembria. Fernando Sebastian Aguilar, C.M.F., Archbishop emeritus of Pamplona. Kelvin Edward Felix, Archbishop emeritus of Castries. Pope Francis liberalism was lambasted by Nigerian Cardinal Arinze It is not a secret any more that Pope Francis is in a journey to redefine Roman Catholic Church and to make it more inclusive in a likeness of a liberal religious institution. This move by Pope Francis is not going well in the circles of traditionalists and conservatives in the church. Recently Pope Francis criticism on capitalism has raised some eyebrows but his utterances on the just concluded Third Vatican Council he convened to “finally finish the work of the Second Vatican Council,” which was concluded in 1962 was challenged by the conservative Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze. Pope Francis was too radical for Cardinal Arinze to stomach in a speech he made at the conclusion of the Third Vatican Council in Rome. Pope Francis was quoted saying, “All religions are true, because they are true in the hearts of all those who believe in them. What other kind of truth is there? In the past, the church has been harsh on those it deemed morally wrong or sinful. Today, we no longer judge. Like a loving father, we never condemn our children. Our church is big enough for heterosexuals and homosexuals, for the pro-life and the pro-choice! For conservatives and liberals, even communists are welcome and have joined us. We all love and worship the same God.” The Pope Francis further said that , “modern and reasonable religion, which has undergone evolutionary changes. The time has come to abandon all intolerance. We must recognize that religious truth evolves and changes. Truth is not absolute or set in stone. Even atheists acknowledge the divine. Through acts of love and charity the atheist acknowledges God as well, and redeems his own soul, becoming an active participant in the redemption of humanity.” He continued, “Through humility, soul searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a literal hell where people suffer. This doctrine is incompatible with the infinite love of God. God is not a judge but a friend and a lover of humanity. God seeks not to condemn but only to embrace. Like the fable of Adam and Eve, we see hell as a literary device. Hell is merely a metaphor for the isolated soul, which like all souls ultimately will be united in love with God.” On the racism that was ravaging the world especially on the stiff border that Europe setup to stop undocumented migrants into Europe, Pope Francis said, “Racism today is the ultimate evil in the world. When Italians, Spanish or French turn back the boats of African migrants seeking a better life, are they not like the inn keeper who told Mary and Joseph that there was no room for them and the infant Christ? These migrants are children of God and we are commanded to love them!” Then Pope Francis said, “Those who would dare to turn immigrants away, be they legal or undocumented, turn their backs on Christ himself! A racist is not a true Christian. A racist casts aside his humanity to become a beast, a demon! He is the embodiment and personification of evil, a Satan!” Pope Francis further stressed “because Muslims, Hindus and African Animists are also made in the very likeness and image of God, to hate them is to hate God! To reject them to is to reject God and the Gospel of Christ. Whether we worship at a church, a synagogue, a mosque or a mandir, it does not matter. Whether we call God, Jesus, Adonai, Allah or Krishna, we all worship the same God of love. This truth is self-evident to all who have love and humility in their hearts!” Pope Francis dropped the big one, “those who seek to deny a home to the migrant, to the African and the Muslim, risk their membership in the church. We will consider excommunication for those whose souls willingly dwell in the darkness and evil of intolerance and racism. Satan himself is a metaphor or a personification, for the collective evils of mankind. Today, these evils manifest foremost as racism, intolerance, religious persecution and bigotries of all kinds.” Many conservative and traditionalists did not lie low and allow the Pope Francis to have the global stage by himself. Powerful cardinals and top leaders in the church spoke up and lambasted Pope Francis on his progressivism. Cardinal Arinze of Nigeria was in the vanguard of the rebuttal to the pope’s speech. Cardinal Arinze of Nigeria questioned, “What do we stand for if we declare that truth is relative? On the contrary, truth exists independently of our personal feelings. All of this talk of love and tolerance is hollow if we have no identity of our own, if we stand for nothing. I charge that Francis has become a heretic, and that he is not a valid Pope. Indeed, Francis is no longer even a Catholic. The seat of Saint Peter is vacant. I am now a Sedevacantist. I should have become one long ago. The Vatican has embraced ecumenism in the past, but worse than that, it has now embraced moral relativism on abortion and homosexuality. At the same time it is embracing moral absolutism in favour of illegal immigration and cultural genocide against Europe.” Cardinal Arinze was vehement in his rebuttal and he said “Islam has overrun my own country, and now it threatens to overrun Europe. Some parts of Nigeria now live under Islamic Sharia law. Catholics there are no longer free to practice their faith publicly. Francis is a fool if he thinks that his liberal immigration policy will end well. He has betrayed western civilization. Vatican City will one day become a giant mosque if things continue in Europe along their present course. Those in the West who ignore this truth, do so at their own peril.” With logic and calculation, Cardinal Arinze even supported Europe’s immigration policy and said, “There is nothing wrong with Europeans who want to protect their borders. The problem is that there is not enough border control and the immigration policies are far too lenient in Europe. Is it racist to desire to preserve one’s own home? Why is it racist to want to preserve your own culture and a future for your people and your children? Have white people gone stupid today?” PhotoNews: Top 5 contenders for the office of Pope "The resignation and final farewell of Pope Benedict XVI leaves unanswered questions about the future leader of the Catholic Church. Several church leaders from nations around the world are being called likely successors. One of those possible pontiffs comes from Nigeria. Benedict's decision to resign due to failing health came as a surprise to the more than 1.1 billion Catholics around the world. The Vatican says it hopes to elect a new pope by Easter and the question on everyone's mind is, "where will he come from?" The growth of the Catholic Church has slowed in Europe and the United States but beyond western shores, Catholicism is expanding. That has many speculating that the next pope may hail from South America, Asia or even Africa, where there are over 185 million Catholics. Two of the frontrunners are Cardinal Peter Turkson from Ghana and Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria." - CNN 1. Cardinal Francis Arinze Photo:CNS/Paul Haring Title: Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri-Segni Arinze was another popular candidate in 2005, who some think might be too old for the position now. The Nigerian was born into the Igbo tribe but converted to Catholicism at age 9 after attending an Irish missionary school. 2. Cardinal Angelo Scola Photo By Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images Titles: Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli; Archbishop of Milan Scola is one of the front-runners to be selected, after many considered him a candidate following John Paul II's death in 2005. More academic than pastoral, Scola has published over 100 articles in journals of philosophy and theology and is the founder of Oasis, an organization that seeks to bolster the relationship between the Western and Muslim worlds. 3. Cardinal Peter Turkson Photo By Max Rossi/Reuters Title: Cardinal-Priest of S. Liborio Another favorite of the oddsmakers and prediction markets, Turkson was born in Western Ghana but studied at St. Anthony-on-Hudson Seminary in New York. His uncle is Muslim, and Turkson has been a leader in smoothing Catholic-Muslim relations across Africa. 4. Cardinal Marc Ouellet Photo: Ralph Orlowski/Getty Images Titles:Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Traspontina; Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops As the head of the Congregation for Bishops, the Canadian-born Ouellet has the advantage of strong relationships with many of those involved with the conclave. If selected, he would be the first North American pope. 5. Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco Photo By Valerio Pennicino/Getty Images Titles: Cardinal-Priest of Gran Madre di Dio; Archbishop of Genoa Bagnasco is another Italian candidate, and is considered to be a potential compromise choice between the different voting factions. Bagnasco studied metaphysics and contemporary atheism at the University of Genoa.... Catholic Church after Pope Benedict XVI The search for a new pope begins as former Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger steps down as the head of Roman Catholic Church by 8 pm today. Pope Benedict XVI, who will be 86 years in April, was elected into the throne of St. Peter in 2005. He announced his intention to resign on February 11, citing ill-health and old age. The Pope told the cardinals that his age had deteriorated “to the extent that I have had to recognise my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me”. At 86, Pope Benedict is unarguably the oldest pontiff in recent time. His predecessor, Pope John Paul II died at the age of 84. He was 58 years when he was elected pope in 1978 and ruled for a little over 26 years. Pope Benedict XVI on the other hand was elected pope at 78 years of age and has been in office for only eight years. The Pope’s resignation was the first since 1415 when Pope Gregory XII resigned his papacy to end the western schism in the church. During Gregory’s papacy, there were three claimants to the throne – himself who was the Pope in Rome, Avignon Benedict XIII and Pisan John XXIII. The two last popes were called Antipope. Pope Gregory XII convened the Council of Constance and authorised it to elect his successor before he resigned from office. Apart from Pope Gregory XII, eight other popes before him had abdicated their papacy. There were also reports that Pope Benedict XVI’s predecessor, John Paul II in February 1989, wrote a letter of resignation to the Dean of the College of Cardinals. In the letter, the Pope said he would resign “if he had an incurable disease that would prevent him from exercising the apostolic ministry, or in case of a ‘severe and prolonged impairment’ that would have kept him from being the Pope”. Fortunately, none of these happened and John Paul II remained as Pope till death. Pope Pius VII, who ruled between 1800 and 1823, was said to have signed a document of resignation should he be imprisoned in France where he had gone to crown Napoleon Bonaparte king in 1804. And during the World War II, Pope Pius XII signed a document indicating that he should be considered to have resigned from office if he were kidnapped by the Nazis. The Pope instructed that the College of Cardinals should be evacuated to Portugal to elect his successor. The Canon law makes no provision for a Pope to resign from office either due to old age or on health ground, unlike the case of bishop. Catholic scholars, however, were of the opinion that John Paul 11did not consider throwing in the towel, even when his health failed him, because of possible schism this might cause within the church. And in the case of Pope Benedict XVI, it was a commendation because he has been able to separate the holder from the office. Stephen White, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Centre in Washington DC, said the Pope had demonstrated that the primary role of the holder of the office is service. “The papacy, in other words, was not given him for his sake, but for the sake of the church’s mission,” White was quoted in The Huffington Post. Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation is raising some concerns. Some observers argue that the old age and health conditions he cited as the reasons were not cogent enough. His predecessor, Pope John Paul II, despite his age, suffered from Parkinson disease for many years, which even distorted his speech, yet he held on till death. A report credited to an Italian newspaper, La Repubblica linked Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation to a 300-page report submitted to the Pope on December 17 last year, which exposes some scandals going on at the Vatican. The report, which was said to have been prepared by three cardinals – Julián Cardinal Herranz, (a Spanish), Jozef Cardinal Tomko (a Slovak) and Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi, who was former Archbishop of Palermo, mentioned of “a secret gay conclave at the Vatican being blackmailed over acts of a ‘worldly nature’ with laymen”. The authors were commissioned by the Pope himself to carry out the investigation. But the Vatican dismissed such insinuation, and said it is an attempt to influence the Cardinals in their choice of a new Pope. The Vatican secretariat in a statement said the report is “unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories that cause serious damage to persons and institutions”. The report is to be presented to the next Pope. There have been calls that the Cardinals who will be in the Vatican for the conclave should be availed of the content of the report, to enable them think of the direction of where Pope Benedict’s successor will come from. Whatever is the situation, the Catholic Church will not be the same again. As the 116 Cardinals (now bring down to 115 after Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s resignation) who are eligible to elect Pope Benedict’s successor gather in Rome for the conclave, it will be a battle line between the conservatives and liberals. The two groups clashed at the election of Pope Benedict in 2005 with the conservatives having the upper hand. And there is no indication that the liberals will win this time. Like his predecessor, Pope Benedict, an unapologetic conservative, appears to have made more conservatives Cardinals than the liberals. For instance, the last six cardinals he appointed late last year are mainly from Africa, Asia and Latin America. These are continents where the church is not yet caught up with the wave of liberalism. Cardinal Keith O’Brien, former Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh gave an insight of what might dominate debate among the Cardinals when they go into the conclave to elect Pope Benedict’s successor. Cardinal O’Brien mentioned the issue of celibacy, abortion and euthanasia. Although he said abortion and euthanasia were “basic dogmatic beliefs” of “divine origin” which the church could never accept, he noted that many priests struggle to cope with celibacy, and should be able to marry and have children. Cardinal O’Brien was obviously expressing the liberal views. He, however, came under heavy attacks for expressing such view. The cardinal will therefore be cut in between electing a Pope who will lift the celibacy ban or the one who will maintain the status quo ante. The Cardinals will also consider where the next Pope will come from. For many centuries now, Europe (mainly Italy) has been producing the head of the church. Will the Cardinals therefore be disposed to a Pope from Africa, Asia or Latin America? Pope Benedict was elected at the age of 78; will the Cardinals go for a younger Pope this time? After today, Pope Benedict XVI will retire to a life of prayer and study in a monastery behind the Vatican walls. He said he would not participate in the conclave that will elect his successor. Benedict, who was described when he was elected in 2005 as “an introvert in an extrovert world,” will fade into obscurity. Cardinal Arinze Reacts to Pope’s Resignation Francis Cardinal Arinze Reacts to Pope’s Decision To Resign, His words: VIDEO:Cardinal Arinze reacts to pope's resignation “For us it was a surprise, like thunder that gives no notice of it’s coming… We love you Holy Father, we know you’ve done this because of your love for the Church… If anyone is confused, it’s on the side of that person not on the side of the Pope… God is always there, the Holy Spirit does not go on holidays… So there will be another Pope, he will be elected in two weeks or so. There is no danger that Pope Benedict will become a problem for that Pope. Certainly not! Perhaps if he were a politician who was removed by maneuvers, his successor might be afraid. In this case, not so. Some people may be so shaken that it might shake their perception. but my hope is that it will make many more mature in our faith. Our faith is not on the Pope. It’s on Christ who is the foundation of the Church. Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever. We all are servants, we come and go. Christ does not come and go. He stays on forever… The Pope is a servant. Indeed one of his titles is the Servant of the Servants of God… So Pope Benedict may be teaching us many more important things than we realise…” - Francis Cardinal Arinze (Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation of Divine Worship) VIDEO:Cardinal Arinze reacts to pope's resignation PhotoNews:Pope Benedict XVI with World Leaders The Vatican announced that Pope Benedict XVI will resign on Feb. 28, and below are his pictures with other world leaders. The Roman catholic pope is both a political and a religious leader. Pope is the head of Vatican City, the smallest city state in the world and also pastor over one billion flocks. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama meet with Pope Benedict XVI, July 10, 2009, at the Vatican. AP President Barack Obama meets with Pope Benedict XVI, Friday, July 10, 2009, at the Vatican. AP Pope Benedict XVI and President George W. Bush walk down the Colonnade of the White House, April 16, 2008, following an arrival ceremony on the South Lawn. AP New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (second left), talks with Pope Benedict XVI as he arrives at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral, April 19, 2008. Cardinal Edward Egan of New York is at right. AP Pope Benedict XVI and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II speak at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sept. 16, 2010. AP German President Christian Wulff (right) and Chancellor Angela Merkel (center) welcome Pope Benedict XVI, right, as he arrives at Tegel airport in Berlin, Sept. 22, 2011. AP King Abdullah II of Jordan (center) and Queen Rania of Jordan (right) receive Pope Benedict XVI on his arrival in Amman, Jordan, May 8, 2009. AP Pope Benedict XVI (right) visits the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City May 12, 2009. Reuters words by Emily Homes Pope Benedict’s Resigns: Full Statement on his Resignation Pope Benedict XVI to resign at the end of February 2013 Below is the official Vatican translation of Pope Benedict’s statement on his resignation: I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfil the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is. Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer. From the Vatican, 11 February 2013 BENEDICTUS PP XVI Pope Benedict names 6 cardinals, including a Nigerian Pope Benedict XVI named six new cardinals including Archbishop of Abuja, Nigeria, John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan Pope Benedict XVI named six new cardinals on Wednesday, adding prelates from Lebanon, the Philippines, Nigeria, Colombia, India and the United States to the ranks of senior churchmen who will elect his successor. Among them is Archbishop James Harvey, the American prefect of the papal household who was the direct superior of the pope's former butler, Paolo Gabriele. Gabriele was convicted Oct. 6 of stealing the pope's private papers and leaking them to a reporter in the greatest Vatican security breach in modern times. Harvey will now become archpriest of a Roman basilica. The Vatican spokesman denied he was being removed because of the scandal. Benedict, 85, announced the new cardinals during his weekly general audience and said they would be formally elevated at a consistory Nov. 24. The nominations help even out the geographic distribution of cardinals, which had tilted heavily toward Europe in general in the last few consistories and Italy in particular. With the new cardinals, there will be 120 cardinals under age 80 and thus eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a new pope. Europe still has the most, with 62. But with the new additions, the College of Cardinals is a tad more multinational: Latin America will have 21, North America 14, Africa 11, Asia 11 and Oceana one. Aside from Harvey, the new cardinals are: Archbishop of Abuja, Nigeria, John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan; Archbishop of Bogota, Colombia, Ruben Salazar Gomez; Archbishop of Manila, Philippines, Luis Antonio Tagle; Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites in Lebanon, His Beatitude Bechara Boutros Rai; and the major Archbishop of the Trivandrum of the Siro-Malankaresi in India, His Beatitude Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal. Harvey, a native of Milwaukee, became prefect of the papal household in 1998 after serving for less than a year as a top administrator, the assessor, in the Vatican's secretariat of state. His office organizes the pope's schedule, and one of his most visible duties was to escort visiting dignitaries through the Apostolic Palace to the pope's library. Gabriele, 46, worked as an usher in the Vatican's secretariat of state before coming to work for Harvey. In 2006, Gabriele was named Benedict's butler, replacing Pope John Paul II's longtime butler, Angelo Gugel. In announcing the new cardinals, Benedict said he was naming Harvey, 63, archpriest of St. Paul's Outside the Walls, one of the Vatican's basilicas in southern Rome. Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi denied any connection between the leaks scandal and Harvey's new posting, saying it was "more than normal" that after 14 years as prefect, Harvey would be named a cardinal. That said, Harvey's predecessor, Cardinal Dino Monduzzi, retired as prefect after reaching 75 and was named a cardinal. Harvey, 63, is well shy of the normal retirement age for bishops. The timing of the move is also remarkable. Just Tuesday, the Vatican tribunal that convicted Gabriele issued its written explanations for reaching its verdict, saying the theft caused "reprehensible" damage to the pontiff, the Holy See and the entire Catholic Church. The Vatican has taken such actions in the past. Last week, Benedict transferred to the United States the No. 2 official in the Vatican's office for religious orders, Archbishop Joseph Tobin, who had spoken out in support of American nuns in the wake of a Vatican crackdown. Last year, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the then-No. 2 administrator of the Vatican City State, begged the pope not to be transferred after exposing corruption that cost the Vatican millions of dollars. He was named the pope's envoy to Washington soon thereafter. Lombardi said he "never would have imagined" that a face-saving promotion was behind Harvey's move to St. Paul's Outside the Walls. Sunday, 27 May 2012 16:20 Pope's Vatican in chaos after butler arrested for leaks Vatican in chaos after butler arrested for leaks The Vatican's inquisition into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope's butler, but the investigation is continuing into a scandal that has embarrassed the Holy See by revealing evidence of internal power struggles, intrigue and corruption in the highest levels of the Catholic Church governance. The detention of butler Paolo Gabriele, one of the few members of the papal household, capped one of the most convulsive weeks in recent Vatican history and threw the Holy See into chaos as it enters a critical phase in its efforts to show the world it's serious about complying with international norms on financial transparency. The tumult began with the publication last weekend of a book of leaked Vatican documents including correspondence, notes and memos to the pope and his private secretary. It peaked with the inglorious ouster on Thursday of the president of the Vatican bank. And it concluded with confirmation Saturday that Pope Benedict XVI's own butler was the alleged mole feeding documents to Italian journalists in an apparent bid to discredit the pontiff's No. 2. "If you wrote this in fiction you wouldn't believe it," said Carl Anderson, a member of the board of the Vatican bank which contributed to the whirlwind with its no-confidence vote in its president, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi. "No editor would let you put it in a novel." The bank, known as the Institute for Religious Works, issued a scathing denunciation of Gotti Tedeschi in a memorandum obtained Saturday by The Associated Press. In it the bank, or IOR by its Italian initials, explained its reasons for ousting Gotti Tedeschi: he routinely missed board meetings, failed to do his job, failed to defend the bank, polarized its personnel and displayed "progressively erratic personal behavior." Gotti Tedeschi was also accused by the board of leaking documents himself: The IOR memorandum said he "failed to provide any formal explanation for the dissemination of documents last known" to be in his possession. In an interview with the AP, Anderson said the latter accusation was independent of the broader "Vatileaks" scandal that has rocked the Vatican for months. But he stressed: "It is not an insignificant issue." Gotti Tedeschi hasn't commented publicly about his ouster or the reasons behind it, saying he has too much admiration for the pope to do so. He also hasn't been arrested, avoiding the fate that befell Gabriele. The 46-year-old father of three has been in Vatican detention since Wednesday after Vatican investigators discovered Holy See documents in his apartment. The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Gabriele had met with his lawyers and that the investigation was taking its course through the Vatican's judicial system. Gabriele, the pope's personal butler since 2006, has often been seen by Benedict's side in public, riding in the front seat of the pope's open-air jeep during Wednesday general audiences or shielding the pontiff from the rain. In private, he is a member of the small papal household that also includes the pontiff's private secretaries and four consecrated women who care for the papal apartment. Lombardi said Gabriele's detention marked a sad development for all Vatican staff. "Everyone knows him in the Vatican, and there's certainly surprise and pain, and great affection for his beloved family," the spokesman said. The "Vatileaks" scandal has seriously embarrassed the Vatican at a time when it is trying to show the world financial community that it has turned a page and shed its reputation as a scandal plagued tax haven. Vatican documents leaked to the media in recent months have undermined that effort, alleging corruption in Vatican finance as well as internal bickering over the Holy See's efforts to comply with international norms to fight money laundering and terror financing. The Vatican in July will learn if it has complied with the financial transparency criteria of a Council of Europe committee, Moneyval — a key step in its efforts to get on the so-called "white list" of countries that share financial information to fight tax evasion. Anderson acknowleged that the events of the last week certainly haven't cast the Holy See in the best light. And he said the bank's board appreciated that the ouster of its president just weeks before the expected Moneyval decision could give the committee pause. "The board considered that concern and decided that all things considered it was best to take the action at this time," Anderson said. "These steps were taken to increase the IOR's position vis-a-vis Moneyval." The Vatileaks scandal began in January when Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi broadcast letters from the former No. 2 Vatican administrator to the pope in which he begged not to be transferred for having exposed alleged corruption that cost the Holy See millions of euros in higher contract prices. The prelate, Monsignor Carlo Maria Vigano, is now the Vatican's U.S. ambassador. Nuzzi, author of "Vatican SpA," a 2009 volume laying out shady dealings of the Vatican bank based on leaked documents, last weekend published "His Holiness," which presented a trove of other documents including personal correspondence to the pope and his secretary — many of them painting Benedict’s No. 2, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, in a negative light. Nuzzi has said he was offered the documents by multiple Vatican sources and insisted he didn't pay a cent € to any of them. Gabriele was in Vatican custody and unavailable for comment. No known motive has come to light as to why Gabriele, if he is found to be the key mole, might have passed on the documents. Nuzzi declined to comment Saturday on whether Gabriele was among his sources. Bertone, 77, has been blamed for a series of gaffes and management problems that have plagued Benedict's papacy and, according to the leaked documents, generated a not inconsiderable amount of ill will directed at him from other Vatican officials. "For some time and in various parts of the church, criticism even by the faithful has been growing about the lack of coordination and confusion that reign at its center," Cardinal Paolo Sardi, the former No. 2 official in the Vatican secretariat of state, wrote to the pope in 2009, according to the letter cited in "His Holiness." Anderson, who heads the Knights of Columbus, a major U.S. lay Catholic organization, said he was certain the Holy See would weather the storm and that the Vatican bank, at least, could move forward under a new leader with solid banking credentials as well as a desire to show off the bank's transparency. "I hope this will be the beginning of a new chapter for the IOR and part of that chapter will be restoring the public image of the IOR," he told AP. "I think we have a good story to tell." Sunday, 25 December 2011 16:08 Pictures - Nigeria's Christmas attacks claims 25 Nigerian Blasts Mar Pope's Christmas Peace Appeal Pope Benedict XVI's Christmas pleas for peace around the world were brutally ignored in Nigeria, where an explosion Sunday claimed by Muslim extremists ripped through a Catholic church during Mass. Authorities say at least 25 people were killed by the explosion at the St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, near the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Boko Haram, a radical Muslim sect waging a sectarian fight claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos. The locations of the bomb blasts in Nigeria. A crater left by the blast on Christmas Day AJE A victim is tended to by medics in an ambulance following a blast at a Catholic church near Nigeria's capital Abuja, December 25, 2011. credit VOA Police bomb experts gather around the car used in the explosion at St. Theresa Catholic Church at Madalla, Suleja, near the capital Abuja in north central Nigeria, December 25, 2011. Islamist militant group Boko Haram said it planted bombs that exploded on Christmas Day at churches in Nigeria, one of which killed at least 27 people on the outskirts of the capital. AP A car destroyed by the explosion in Madalla, near Abuja AJE The St Theresa Church where the attack killed at least 25. AJE A burnt police truck in north-eastern Nigeria, next to a road sign reading 'Allah the Eternal'. It was destroyed by a bomb during a series of attacks in November claimed by Islamist group Boko Haram. Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images Pope Benedict XVI kneels in prayer as he celebrates Christmas Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. AP The assaults come a year after a series of Christmas Eve bombings in Jos claimed by the militants left at least 32 dead and 74 wounded.Benedict didn't refer explicitly to the bombings in his Christmas Day survey of the world's trouble spots, delivered from the sun-drenched loggia of St. Peter's Basilica. But the Vatican issued a statement denouncing them as a sign of "cruelty and absurd, blind hatred" that shows no respect for human life. Elsewhere, Christians braved lashing rains and wind to celebrate Christmas Mass in Jesus' traditional birthplace on Bethlehem's Manger Square. St. Catherine's Church is attached to the smaller Church of the Nativity, which is built over a grotto where the faithful believe Jesus was born. "We wanted to be part of the action," said Don Moore, 41, a psychology professor from Berkeley, Calif., who came to Bethlehem with his family. "This is the place, this is where it all started. It doesn't get any more special than that." The holy town of Bethlehem is no stranger to violence. Like the rest of the West Bank, it fell on hard times after the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation broke out in late 2000. Although civil affairs in the biblical town on Jerusalem's southeastern outskirts are run by Palestinian authorities, security control remains in the hands of Israel, which built a barrier around three sides of the town to keep Palestinian attackers out. Palestinians say the barrier has badly hurt the local economy, which depends heavily on tourism, by severely restricting movement in and out of the town. But as the violence has subsided, tourists have returned in large numbers. On Saturday, turnout for Christmas Eve festivities in Bethlehem was at its highest since the uprising began driving tourists away. An estimated 100,000 visitors streamed into Manger Square on Christmas Eve, up from 70,000 the previous year, according to the Israeli military's count. The Holy Land and the entire Mideast were very much on Benedict's mind as he delivered his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" speech (Latin for "to the city and to the world"). Speaking just a few hours after celebrating a late-night Christmas Eve Mass, Benedict said he prayed that the birth of Jesus, which Christmas celebrates, would send a message to all who need to be saved from hardships. He said he prayed that God would help the Israelis and the Palestinians resume peace talks and "bring an end to the violence in Syria, where so much blood has already been shed." He called for international assistance for refugees from the Horn of Africa and flood victims in Thailand, among others, and urged greater political dialogue in Myanmar, and stability in Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa's Great Lakes region, which includes Congo, Uganda and Rwanda. Published in Archive	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line8
__label__cc	0.735409	0.264591	The Enchiridion Part Fifty-One http://amoletters.com/wp-content/uploads/AMOL1651-Enchiridion-Part-Fifty-One.mp3 We spend all our time on justifying ourselves, and employ all our diligence to justifying ourselves, and entirely neglect the principles we justify. I am A Man of Letters. I’ve been reading lately, and I have found some words I would like to share. Today, “The Enchiridion” by Epictetus. Part Fifty-One… The first and most necessary topic in philosophy is principles (for example, we ought not to lie). The second most necessary topic in philosophy is the demonstration of principles (for example, why we ought not to lie). The third most necessary topic in philosophy gives strength and logic to the first two (for example, why what I do is a demonstration of my principle). For what is a demonstration? What is consequence and what is a contradiction? What is truth and what is falsehood? Strength and logic are necessary for demonstrations, and demonstrations are necessary for principles. But the most necessary, and that which we must stand on, is principles. But we do just the opposite. We spend all our time on justifying ourselves, and employ all our diligence to justifying ourselves, and entirely neglect the principles we justify. We lie, then we immediately say that lying is wrong. In “The Discourses,” Epictetus has this to say about principles. Study and hold in readiness these principles by which you may determine what those things are with reference to which you ought to have confidence, and those things with reference to which you ought to be cautious: courageous in that which does not depend on your will; cautious in that which does depend on it. If you hear someone ask who is the best philosopher and the answer is yourself, your little soul (which was only a finger’s length) stretches out to two cubits. But if you hear someone contradict them and say: “You are mistaken; that man is not worthwhile to listen to, what does he know? He has only the first principles, and no more!” – then you are confounded, you grow pale, and you cry out immediately, “I will show him who I am, that I am a great philosopher.” Philosophy is seen by philosophy: why do you wish to see it instead by the opinion of others? Once, Diogenes distinguished one of the sophists by stretching out his middle finger at him. When the sophist was wild with rage, Diogenes said “This is the great philosopher, I have pointed him out to you.” For a man is not shown by the finger, as a stone or a piece of wood. A man is shown when he shows his principles. Then he shows what sort of a man he is. If you see a man who is busy about things not dependent on his will and subjecting his will to them, you know that this man has ten thousand persons to compel and to hinder him. He has no need of torture to compel him to confess what he knows. The nod of a little girl will move him, a scolding from Caesar’s court, the desire of a magistracy or of an inheritance, and things without end will compel him. You must remember that secret discourses require fidelity and corresponding opinions. But where can we now easily find these? Or if you cannot answer that question, let someone point out to me a man who can say: “I care only about the things which are my own, the things which are not subject to hindrance, the things which are by nature free.” This I hold to be the nature of the good. But let all other things be as they are. I do not concern myself. The material for the wise and good man is his own ruling faculty, as the body is the material for the physician and the land is the material for the farmer. The business of the wise and good man is to use appearances conformably to nature. It is the nature of every soul to assent to the truth, to dissent from the false, and to remain in suspense as to that which is uncertain. It is the nature of every soul to be moved toward the desire of the good, and to aversion from the evil, and with respect to that which is neither good nor bad it feels indifferent. The money-changer is not allowed to reject Caesar’s coin, nor the seller of herbs. If you show the coin, whether he chooses or not, he must give up what is sold for the coin. And so it is also in the material of the soul. When the good appears, it is immediately attracts to itself and the evil repels it from itself. But the soul will never reject the manifest appearance of the good, any more than the money-changer will reject Caesar’s coin. On this principle depends every movement both of man and God. I heard of a man in the third day of starving himself to death. I went to inquire what had happened. “I have resolved,” he said. I asked him to tell me what it was which induced him to resolve; for if he had resolved rightly, I would sit with him and assist him to depart. But if he had made an unreasonable resolution, I told him to change his mind. He said “we ought to keep to our resolutions.” I said, what are you doing, man? We ought not to keep all your resolutions, but to those resolutions which are right. If you are now persuaded that it is right, do not change your mind. If you think fit, persist and say, “we ought to keep to our resolutions.” Still – lay the foundation of your resolution in an inquiry whether the resolution is sound or not sound, and so then build on it firmness and security. If you lay a rotten and ruinous foundation, your miserable little building will fall down more quickly because of the heavy materials you lay on it. Do not withdraw from us the life a man who is a friend, and a companion, a citizen of the same city, both the great and the small city, without a sound foundation. Think: if you are committing murder and destroying a man who has done no wrong, would you say that you ought to keep to your resolutions? And if it ever came into your head to kill me, ought you to keep to your resolutions? Now this man was, with difficulty, persuaded to change his mind. But it is impossible to convince some persons to change their mind. That is why they say you can neither persuade nor break a fool. May it never be my lot to have a wise fool for my friend. Nothing is more stubborn than a wise fool. “I have resolved,”” the man says. Madmen are also resolved. But the more firmly they resolve problems which do not exist, the more help they require. Here again is Part Fifty-One of The Enchiridion… Cliff Edwards – Singin’ in the Rain The Enchiridion Part Fifty \| The Enchiridion Part Fifty-Two	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line9
__label__wiki	0.819485	0.819485	Societe de Constructions Panhard et Levassor Wheeled armoured personnel carrier The VCR (Véhicule de Combat à Roues) range of 6 × 6 armoured personnel carriers was developed by Panhard as a private venture from 1975 for the export market. The range was first shown in 1977 at the Satory Exhibition of Military Equipment and entered production at Panhard's Marolles factory the following year. Although the VCR range was developed as a private venture, it has recently been disclosed that it was originally designed specifically for the Iraqi programme to find a platform for the 100 Euromissile UTM-800 four-round HOT anti-tank guided missile turrets ordered in September 1974. Early in 1975, an international competition was held by Iraq to find a chassis suitable for the Euromissile UTM-800 HOT turret following which the Panhard VCR was selected. The suspension system was taken from the existing Panhard M3 (4 × 4) APC fitted to a new chassis, the front part of which was very similar to the existing Panhard M3. From the VCR family evolved the Panhard ERC (6 × 6) armoured car. This has been built in large numbers for the French Army and export customers and additional details are given in a separate entry. There has been no recent production of the ERC armoured car and it is no longer being marketed. First production VCR vehicles, equipped with the one-person Euromissile UTM 800 turret, were completed in 1979. The VCR range of armoured personnel carriers uses 95 per cent of the automotive components of the Panhard ERC range of 6 × 6 armoured cars which was also shown for the first time in 1977. Late production Panhard VCR (6 × 6) vehicles had a redesigned hull, a troop compartment roof 400 mm above the commander's position, external stowage boxes, more internal hull space, twin doors at the hull rear and petrol fuel tanks repositioned from inside the troop compartment to under the floor. In June 1983, Panhard issued new specifications for the VCR range of 6 × 6 APCs. These showed that there had been slight changes to the vehicle with the wheelbase increased from 1.425 + 1.425 m to 1.66 + 1.425 m. This has made the hull slightly longer and increased the overall weight of the vehicle. The specifications for the VCR/TH anti-tank version remain unchanged except for an increase in loaded and empty weights. By mid-2007, production of the VCR range of 6 × 6 APCs amounted to 262 vehicles, all for export. As far as is known, there has been no recent production of the VCR series of 6 × 6 vehicle. Recent information has indicated that Gabon has taken delivery of 10 VCR/TT (6 × 6) armoured personnel carriers. Description The all-welded steel hull of the VCR/TT (Transport de Troupes) protects the crew against small arms fire and shell splinters. The floor of the hull consists of two plates welded together to form a flat 'V', which helps the vehicle to slide off obstacles and also offers resistance to damage from mines. The driver sits at the front of the hull in the centre and has a single-piece hatch cover that opens to the right with three integral day periscopes for forward observation, the centre one replaceable by an image intensification periscope for driving at night. The commander sits to the rear of the driver on the left side at a higher level and has a single-piece hatch cover that opens forwards and seven day periscopes around his position. The Peugeot engine is to the rear of the driver on the right side and power is transmitted through the single clutch plate to a transversely mounted Panhard gearbox (as fitted to the Panhard AML armoured car and Panhard M3 APC) with six forward and one reverse gears and incorporating a limited slip differential. Drive from the bevel gears to the road wheels is by a train of gears housed within trailing arms, which independently locate the wheels. The front and rear wheels are sprung by single coil springs with telescopic hydraulic dampers. The centre wheels, which are raised off the ground when on roads, are sprung by hydropneumatic units. The centre wheels are powered even when raised clear of the road surface. All wheels have disc brakes. Only the front wheels are steered, and steering is hydraulically assisted. The low-pressure tyres are fitted with Hutchinson cellular inner tubes, which enable the vehicle to travel for at least 100 km at 30 km/h when the tyres have been punctured. The 10 infantrymen are seated on bench seats: five along each side of the hull facing each other. They enter and leave the vehicle by a large door in the rear of the hull, which is hinged on the right side and has a single firing port. Two observation/firing hatches in each side of the troop compartment open upwards and can be locked open. The VCR/TTs built for the United Arab Emirates have a wider hull with double doors at the rear to give increased leg room. The armament is mounted to the rear of the commander's position in the roof. When armed with a 7.62 mm machine gun the VCR/TT can carry nine men plus its crew of three (commander, driver and gunner, who sits on one of the bench seats when not manning the machine gun) but when heavy armament is installed, such as a 20 mm cannon, only six infantrymen can be carried plus a crew of three. The VCR/TT can be fitted with a variety of armament installations including: a TRW BTM 263 turret with a 60 mm mortar and a 7.62 mm machine gun; a Nexter Systems (previously Giat Industries) STB ring mount with a shield (which forms the hatch cover when not in use) and a 7.62 mm machine gun; a Nexter Systems CB rotating gun ring with a 7.62 mm machine gun; a Nexter Systems turret with twin 7.62 mm machine guns; a Nexter Systems gun ring Model CB 20 with a 20 mm cannon; a Nexter Systems gun ring with a TDA 60 mm breech-loaded mortar; a Nexter Systems one-man turret armed with a 20 mm cannon; and a 7.62 mm machine gun. There is also a single-piece hatch cover in the roof of the troop compartment at the rear, which opens towards the front. A 7.62 mm machine gun on a Nexter Systems STR rail mount can be mounted behind it. Two electrically operated grenade dischargers can be mounted on either side of the hull if required. The VCR is fully amphibious being propelled in the water by its wheels and steered by turning the front road wheels as for land operations. Optional equipment includes a front-mounted winch with 60 m of cable and a capacity of 3,000 kg, NBC system, air conditioning system and passive night vision equipment. Variants VCR/AT repair vehicle The VCR/AT (Atelier Véhicule) is the basic vehicle modified to undertake repairs in the field. It has no recovery capability although it can tow other vehicles. Equipment installed includes a generator, tools, workbenches, an inspection lamp, towbars and tow cables. A penthouse can be erected at the rear to enable repairs to be carried out in bad weather. A block and tackle can be erected at the rear allowing the VCR/AT to carry out engine and other component changes. This model is used by Argentina and the United Arab Emirates. VCR/AA anti-aircraft vehicle This was unveiled in 1984 and is fitted with the now SAAB Bofors Dynamics RBS 70 surface-to-air missile system. The VCR/AA weighs 7,500 kg and has a crew of three. Mounted in the rear troop compartment is the RBS 70 missile launcher with one missile ready to launch and a further eight in reserve. This model has yet to enter production. VCR/TH (Tourelle HOT) anti-tank vehicle This is the basic VCR/TT fitted with the Euromissile UTM 800 HOT turret mounted on a raised plinth to the rear of the commander's position. The turret has four ready to launch 4,000 m range HOT missiles and another 10 missiles carried in reserve in the hull are loaded via a hatch in the right rear of the roof, which opens to the right. The turret has an optical sight with a magnification of ×3 (18° field of view) and ×12 (5° field of view), elevation being +22°, depression -10° and turret traverse 360°. Mounted on the roof at the rear on the left is a Nexter Systems Mascot remote-controlled 7.62 mm machine gun which can be elevated from -10 to +50° and traversed through a full 360°. There are 200 rounds of ready use ammunition provided for this weapon. Two grenade dischargers are mounted on the front of the hull at either side. Panhard has delivered 100 of these vehicles to Iraq. Following the 2003 Middle East conflict it is assumed that none of these systems are operational and the HOT missiles have now expired their shelf-life. VCR/IS (Intervention Sanitaire) ambulance The VCR/IS (Véhicule Blindé d'Intervention Sanitaire) is the ambulance member of the family and has a much higher hull behind the commander than the basic VCR. The vehicle has a crew of three (commander, driver and orderly) and can carry four stretcher patients or six sitting and two stretcher patients. The casualties enter the vehicle through a door at the rear of the hull that opens to the left and has a single vision port. Unlike the basic APC, there are no observation flaps in the sides of the hull. Equipment carried includes folding stretchers, cupboards and instrument storage lockers, a water tank, a refrigerator and breathing and blood transfusion equipment. If required, a tent, which is stowed in boxes on either side of the hull, can be erected at the rear. This model is used by the United Arab Emirates. VCR/PC (Poste de Commandement) Command Vehicle This is basically the VCR/TT adapted for use as a command vehicle with map boards, tables and additional communications equipment. This model is used by Argentina and the United Arab Emirates. VCR/TT (4 × 4) This was developed to meet the requirements of the Argentine Marines and is essentially the 6 × 6 VCR/TT with the central roadwheel either side removed and a waterjet installed in its place. This gives the VCR/TT a maximum water speed of 7.2 km/h. Before entering the water, the bilge pumps are switched on and a trim vane with transparent upper part for forward observation is erected at the front of the vehicle. VCR APC upgrade Panhard General Defense have developed an upgrade package for their Sagaie (6 × 6) armoured car. This is also applicable to the Panhard General Defense VCR (6 × 6) APC. Panhard VCR TT 2 (6 × 6) APC This never entered production and is no longer being marketed. Panhard VCR-2 (8 × 8) APC This was a project only and is no longer being marketed. Number of drive wheels Number of wheels Power-to-weight ratio (h.p./t) Ground clearance (mm) Track (mm) Max. road speed (km/h) Max. water speed (km/h) Max. road range (km) Fuel capacity (l) Gradient (%) Side slope (%) Vertical obstacle (mm) Trench (mm) Engine power output (h.p.) Has folowing part: HOT (Anti-tank guided missile launcher) VCR quantities:	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line16
__label__cc	0.51814	0.48186	THE ARTS SOCIETY Visits/Events Future Tours Previous Tours Young Arts Heritage Volunteers 12 February 2020 Passion and ideas: the battle between colour and line in Western European Art 11 March 2020 Treasures of the Fan Museum: an introduction to the world's first fan museum and its extraordinary collections 08 April 2020 Art & Architecture: estranged bedfellows 13 May 2020 The Art of Dance 10 June 2020 A brief story of Wine 09 September 2020 Dickens, Lawrence & Zhivago: David Lean's art of cinema 14 October 2020 Raphael of Urbino: artist and architect 11 November 2020 Two women who scandalised the art world - Suzanne Valadon & the Divine Marchesa Luisa Casati 09 December 2020 George Chinnery, the greatest artist of British India & the Far East Passion and ideas: the battle between colour and line in Western European Art Andrew Spira Wednesday 12 February 2020 Throughout the history of art, artists have debated whether line or colour was the more important. In Renaissance Florence, artists maintained that line should take precedence because it controlled the subject matter of a picture, and that colour was a mere enhancement. In 18th century France, artists maintained that colour was more important. This lecture will explore the changing fortunes of line and colour and show how they reflect changing attitudes towards thinking and feeling in European art as a whole. Andrew Spira worked at the Temple Gallery, London, before becoming a curator at the V&A and then a Programme Director at Christie's Education. He is now a freelance art historian, lecturing, writing and curating exhibitions and has published two books. THE ARTS SOCIETY WIMBLEDON Privacy Policy	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line18
__label__cc	0.638454	0.361546	Blu Tuesday: House of Cards and More Posted by Jason Zingale (07/05/2016 @ 9:00 am) Every Tuesday, I review the newest Blu-ray releases and let you know whether they’re worth buying, renting or skipping, along with a breakdown of the included extras. If you see something you like, click on the cover art to purchase the Blu-ray from Amazon, and be sure to share each week’s column on social media with your friends. “House of Cards: The Complete Fourth Season” WHAT: With their marriage on the rocks, Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) is forced to go on the campaign trail alone while Claire (Robin Wright) starts to make big moves concerning her own political ambitions. But in order to beat young Republican candidate Will Conway (Joel Kinnaman) in the upcoming presidential election, Frank needs Claire by his side more than ever. WHY: The third season of “House of Cards” was a slight disappointment compared to the show’s excellent first two years, and sadly, that trend continues with Season Four, which really pushes the limits of suspension of disbelief. This isn’t the first time that the Underwoods have found themselves backed into a corner, but the storytelling has become so ridiculous that it simply isn’t as captivating as it once was. With that said, Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright deliver such great performances in the lead roles that it papers over a lot of the cracks, demonstrating yet again why the characters are more interesting when working together than apart. The rest of the cast isn’t as effective with the limited screen time they’re given, but Joel Kinnaman’s JFK-like governor at least proves a worthy adversary for Frank. Though “House of Cards” remains one of the better dramas on TV, it’s obvious that the show is beginning to run out of ideas, as evidenced by creator Beau Willimon’s decision not to return next season, and if Netflix was smart, they wouldn’t drag it out any longer than necessary. EXTRAS: Sadly, there’s no bonus material included. FINAL VERDICT: RENT Posted in: Entertainment, Movies, Television Tags: Blu Tuesday, House of Cards, new Blu-rays Bullz-Eye’s 2015 TV Power Rankings It’s another clean sweep for cable and streaming outlets for our annual list of the best shows on television. Netflix alone has four shows on our list, despite “House of Cards” dropping off. With so many outlets battling to create original content, the old TV networks just can’t compete when it comes to producing the best of the best. Fortunately, in today’s world, if you’ve been missing out on some of the best shows, you can always find a way to binge watch and catch up. We’ve kept the spoilers to a minimum, but you might want to skip over some of the write-ups if you’re behind on a particular series, as we naturally refer to recent events. 1. “The Walking Dead” After the gruesome confrontation with the Terminus cannibals, Rick and the gang were tired and ragged without an obvious destination, so the introduction of the Alexandria safe zone offered an interesting twist to the story. Here the group suddenly found some much-needed normalcy in terms of their surroundings, while it was just a matter of time before the awkward interaction between Rick’s battle-tested crew and the clueless and sheltered inhabitants of Alexandria would lead to real conflicts. This year offered some interesting character developments as they got a much-needed though temporary reprieve from the daily battles with the walkers. “The Walking Dead” seems to get more interesting each year as the writers explore how humans deal with a post-apocalyptic world both on an individual and tribal level, so it remains our choice as the best show on television for 2015. Posted in: Entertainment, Television Tags: best shows of 2015, best TV shows of 2015, Daredevil, Fargo, Game of Thrones, Homeland, House of Cards, Jessica Jones, mad men, Making a Murderer, Mr. Robot, Narcos, The Americans, The Walking Dead, True Detective, TV Power Rankings Drink of the Week: Basil Hayden’s Power Play Posted by Bob Westal (03/13/2015 @ 12:00 pm) This week we finally come to the end of a cycle of posts featuring a number of good-to-fantastic cocktails, all courtesy of the gods of booze publicity and the free bottles of booze they are kind enough to occasionally send me. This week’s drink is a very tasty way to end the series and is intended as a sort of salute to the relatively new season of what I imagine has to be the most popular of all web-only television series, Beau Willimon’s bass-heavy, caustically compelling “House of Cards.” Basil Hayden’s Power Play caught my eye not so much because of the promotion tied in with the latest adventures of the ultra-ruthless Democratic pol-on-the-rise played by the great Kevin Spacey, but because of one very unusual cocktail ingredient. You see, we’re actually a week late for the premiere of the new season and I’m only just now caught up with season one. However, the combination of one of the USA’s great bourbons and the inclusion of root beer was the grabber. I’ve often wondered why, unlike ginger ale/ginger beer, cola, and 7-Up/Sprite, root beer and cream soda never seem to make an appearance in cocktails. And, yes, these are easily my two favorite sodas. Let’s give it a try. Basil Hayden’s® Power Play 1 1/2 ounces Basil Hayden’s Bourbon 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice 3/4 ounce simple syrup 2 drops of vanilla extract 2 splashes of root beer 1 lemon rind slice (highly advisable garnish) Combine the bourbon, lemon juice, simple syrup, vanilla extract and one splash of your favorite root beer in a double sized rocks/old fashioned glass with plenty of ice. Pour into a cocktail shaker, mixing glass, or really any receptacle large enough to hold the entire drink. Do not shake, but instead pour directly back into your double rocks glass. Add another splash of root beer and your lemon rind garnish for a bit of additional ruthlessness. Toast the fact that you are almost certainly a much nicer and/or less broken person than Frank Underwood or almost anyone he knows. It might be fun and, sadly, educational, to watch political thrillers about conscience-challenged humans, but niceness is underrated! First of all, I usually hesitate to actually include the names of booze brands — no matter how excellent — in the names of the cocktails we use here, even if that’s the name I’m given by its purveyors. However, there’s already another drink called the Power Play, which is very different from this one. Also, as is my usual practice, I tried this with a good Brand X bourbon and it was disappointing. Stick with the call brand this time. Justifying it’s super-premium price tag, Basil Hayden’s is one of the very few bourbons I’ll drink semi-straight (on the rocks, say) by choice. It’s got a Scotch-like astringency to it and is less sweet than a lot of other bourbons. That’s important because, between the simple syrup and the root beer, this is a pretty sweet concotion and sweeter bourbons are a real problem here. I also typically like to give readers an option to switch out simple syrup with suger as a way to may life easier. That substitution didn’t work either. You can always simply combine a heaping tablespoon of easily dissolved superfine sugar with an equal amount of water and mix them together for simple syrup on the fly. Finally, I wish I could report you to you how this drink worked with various brands of root beer. I love root beer at least as much as I love my favorite cocktails and there are a number of brands I like more than the others. Still, the stuff is, to me, far more addictively irresistible than booze, and I feared the impact on my blood sugar if I bought more than one brand. I fortunately found a half-size six pack of my beloved ultimate default root beer, A&W, and stuck with that. It was mighty good as long as I didn’t overdo the splashes. And one last thing. I know, I know, this post has nothing to do with St. Patrick’s Day this Tuesday. I’m sorry…I failed to give the calendar a look before it was too late. Frank would try to capitalize on my weakness, but I hope you’ll be more forgiving and not try to blow my house down. Posted in: Food & Drink, Lifestyle, Vices Tags: Basil Hayden's Bourbon, Basil Hayden's Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, Basil Hayden's Power Play, Beau Willlimon, cocktails, Drink of the Week, Happy Hour, House of Cards, Kevin Spacey, Power Play, Robin Wright With “Breaking Bad” wrapping up after five brilliant seasons, the top spot in our annual TV power rankings has finally opened up for the rest of the field. But AMC gets the nod for the best television show again this year as “The Walking Dead” edges out HBO’s “True Detective” on our list. The list is dominated again by cable TV dramas, which seem to have surpassed movies in popularity. Streaming and binge watching have contributed to this trend, but it all starts with the quality of the programming. You’ll find some of the best writing, directing and acting talent on television these days, and often the quality of the storytelling surpasses the best that a film industry obsessed with blockbusters, superheroes and sequels can muster. Some fans have complained about the deliberate pace of this show when the gang sought temporary refuge at the farm and prison, but the tension built during these lulls always led to a bigger payoff when all hell inevitably broke loose. In the current fifth season, that payoff came quickly with jarring episodes that kicked off with the battle at Terminus and the confrontation with the hunters. The end of the world offers countless opportunities to explore how survivors might deal with a zombie apocalypse, and the writers have done a great job telling this story over the first five seasons. It’s currently the best and most consistent show on television. 2. “True Detective” This was by far the most intriguing and talked about show of 2014, featuring epic performances by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. It also didn’t hurt to have sexy and provocative turns by beautiful actresses such as Alexandra Daddario, Lili Simmons and Michelle Monaghan. The dark tone was set in part through the use of flashbacks to a 1995 serial killer investigation framed in the context of interviews with the two primary detectives, with McConaughey’s intense Rust Cohle looking and acting like a burned out alcoholic as he told his part of the story. Yet after so much tension and anticipation was built up through the season, the ending was surprisingly predictable in some ways and incomprehensible in others. Still, the letdown at the end didn’t diminish the creepy and fascinating ride along the way. This show pretty much has everything, including great action, intrigue, sex and dragons. Our only quibble is the sheer number of characters and storylines, leaving less screen time for favorite characters like Tyrion and Arya. Bran’s character, for example, went from fascinating to boring pretty quickly. All the supernatural stuff surrounding his character will no doubt be important in the long run, but the road to wherever he’s going has been a snoozer of late. Fortunately, there are reports we won’t be seeing him in the upcoming Season Five, though we’ll get a heavy dose of Cersei instead. Tags: best TV shows, best TV shows of 2014, Episodes, Fargo, Game of Thrones, Homeland, House of Cards, mad men, Masters of Sex, The Americans, The Walking Dead, True Detective, TV Power Rankings 2013 Holiday Gift Guide: Television Television fans must love the holidays, because it’s the one time of year when studios unleash a host of massive box sets collecting their favorite dramas and comedies. This year is no different, with several critically acclaimed shows getting the complete series treatment. But while we like to devour an entire TV show just as quickly as the next person, sometimes a little self-discipline is required, which is why we’ve also included some less time-consuming (and more affordable) suggestions as well. Click on the image next to each item to purchase it online, and for more gift ideas, check out the other categories in our Holiday Gift Guide. Breaking Bad: The Complete Series Is there anything more to be said about the late, great “Breaking Bad” at this point, other than the fact that it was one of the greatest TV series of all time and that, although it went out in a blaze of glory, it’s left a vacuum that’ll be damned hard to fill? Nah, that about sums it up. But if you’re a fan and you’re continuing to mourn, then Sony has put together a set that’s so awesome that it’s almost too much to handle… but not quite. The 16-disc set includes all 62 episodes and more than 55 hours of special features, including an all-new documentary which chronicles the making of the final season, and, of course, all of the bonus material from the previous season sets remains intact too. The whole thing comes packaged in a barrel, as well a series about a meth manufacturer should, along with a Los Pollos Hermanos apron, a collectible booklet featuring a letter from Vince Gilligan and a commemorative Breaking Bad challenge coin. We don’t actually know what a challenge coin is, but we do know that it was designed and created by Gilligan himself, and dammit, that’s good enough for us. Dexter: The Complete Series Loosely based on Jeff Linsday’s popular series of crime novels, “Dexter” is probably the biggest hit in Showtime’s history, which only makes its steady decline over the years that much more maddening. Though the last four seasons were incredibly uneven compared to the show’s first four years, “Dexter” continued to be appointment television every week thanks to Michael C. Hall’s brilliant, Golden Globe-winning performance as the titular antihero. It also featured an excellent rotating cast of guest stars that included John Lithgow, Keith Carradine, Jimmy Smits, Julia Stiles and Jonny Lee Miller, and at times, some of the best writing on TV. It’s actually quite amazing that a show with a serial killer as its protagonist was able to last as long as it did, and though it faltered a bit in the end, there are plenty of diehard “Dexter” fans that would kill to own this complete series set. Designed to look like the character’s iconic blood slide box (with every Blu-ray case featuring a blood drop on the bottom), the 25-disc set – which features all eight seasons and a bonus disc filled with over five hours of never-before-seen extras – is definitely one of the cooler collector’s items on the market. Weeds: The Complete Collection HBO has long been considered the undisputed leader of premium cable, but without shows like “Weeds” and “Dexter,” Showtime never would have become the worthy competitor that it is today. Though Jenji Kohan’s dark comedy series suffered a drop in quality during its later seasons, it delivered more than its share of subversively funny moments (as well as those of the WTF variety) over the course of its eight-year run. Constantly reinventing itself after Season Three’s game-changing finale, “Weeds” may not have always succeeded in the risks that it took with the storytelling, but it’s one of the few shows with the kind of punk-rock attitude to even consider taking such risks. And throughout its numerous highs and lows, the core cast never faltered, especially star Mary-Louise Parker, who made “Weeds” must-see TV for her crazy/sexy performance alone. For those that haven’t yet seen the series, or just never got around to picking up each season individually, now is the perfect time with this complete series set, which comes packaged in a nifty, translucent green box and features new bonus material like a cast roundtable, interviews with fan-favorite recurring characters and more. 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__label__wiki	0.705281	0.705281	Music on the 4th The first thing I did after I first landed on the East Coast in 1998 was attend the July 4 celebrations. I was just about to embark upon a fellowship year at Harvard and I have dim memories of standing on the banks of the Charles River listening to the Boston Pops Orchestra, eating hotdogs and seeing the lights. I've celebrated many Independence Days since, eating burgers, drinking beer and watching fireworks in the San Francisco fog, mostly. I've always found the experience to be pleasant enough, but I never felt particularly strongly about this holiday. I have always liked Thanksgiving much more. Yesterday's July 4 experience was a little different however. For one thing, it was my first Independence Day as an American citizen. For another, it was my first in the nation's capital. Best of all, though, was the music. I spent a few hours late in the afternoon in the company of By & By, a Washington DC-based bluegrass band. The band was playing a concert on a temporary stage set up in Rose Park and I was transfixed. It was hot as a geisha's kimono, but the band performed with verve and energy. I particularly enjoyed Elise Smithmyer's singing. I gather By & By is the vocalist's first bluegrass group -- she was mainly a soul songstress before joining the band. As such, Smithmyer has the high notes of a diva -- she shoots straight from the hip. But she keeps the sound straight and unadorned, in the traditional folk style. At one point, an audience member asked the group to sing a patriotic song for holiday. By & By obliged with a rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" that was clean and strong and proud. Smithmyer didn't need Christina Aguilera's melismas to make her point.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line21
__label__wiki	0.648266	0.648266	Graduate Catalog 2015-2016 > College of Health Sciences Nursing (M.S.N.) Master of Science in Nursing: Nurse Educator Master of Science in Nursing: Family Nurse Practitioner Master of Science in Nursing: Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Post-Masters Certificate in Family Nurse Practitioner Doctor of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.) Teaching (MAT): Kinesiology/Physical Education Health and Human Performance (M.S.) with Specialization in Health Promotion or Human Performance Master of Science (M.S.) with a Major in Health and Human Performance: Human Performance Master of Arts (M.A.) with a Major in Art Therapy Music Therapy (M.M.T.) Sandra Gangstead, Dean Judith Malachowski, Associate Dean The mission of the College of Health Sciences is to provide undergraduate and graduate programs in disciplines that emphasize health education, promotion, maintenance, and restoration. Liberal arts constructs permeate the health science curricula thereby enhancing an understanding of the diverse, changing and complex health needs and values of society. As an academic entity within a public liberal arts university, the College of Health Sciences seeks national recognition for its exemplary preparation of health sciences professionals. Our graduates will be empowered leaders committed to improving the health and well-being of individuals, communities, and global society through lifelong learning and service. The College of Health Sciences has identified six goals for moving forward our mission and vision. These goals are: Sustain and enhance distinctive, outstanding undergraduate health sciences education in order to meet current and future needs. Sustain and enhance distinctive, outstanding graduate health sciences education in order to meet current and future needs. Increase community-based engagement. Increase the capacity for collaborative research and scholarship. Identify diverse revenue sources to ensure financial sustainability. Sustain and enhance a culture of wellness through continued leadership on campus. The College of Health Sciences encourages the University community to embrace the concept of health as multidimensional and to respect and understand the unique role holistic health plays in the quality of individual and community life. Holistic health is viewed as an integrated method of functioning, which incorporates the physical, psychological, spiritual, cognitive and sociocultural well-being of an individual or community. Optimal health is oriented toward maximizing the potential for which an individual or community is capable. The College of Health Sciences is committed to contributing to the optimal health of those who live and work in the University environment and to community partnerships that strive to ensure health. By engaging in the University’s liberal arts experience, College of Health Science graduates attain intellectual integrity, appreciation of diversity and commitment to the best for self, family, society and the world. In response, students emerge with a more comprehensive world view that promotes leadership, initiative, accountability, stewardship and ethical respect for self, others, and the ability to effect change in a dynamic society. Program Admission Admission to some programs in the College of Health Sciences is highly competitive and may be limited based on availability of qualified faculty and maintaining student to faculty ratios required by accreditation standards. All students may not be admitted. Specific guidelines for individual majors follow in each major program's overview. Many agencies where clinical and practical experiences take place require students to undergo a criminal background check, urine drug screens and to meet the CDC standards for immunizations for health care professionals. Students desiring to enter a College of Health Sciences' major should consider these requirements. Agencies may refuse any student based on failure to meet these guidelines or other agency guidelines. Refusal of an agency to accept a student may delay or prevent a student from completing a program. Professional licensing boards may also refuse to license individuals who have committed certain criminal acts or other acts of moral turpitude. Directing Inquiries Regarding Graduate Education in Health Sciences • Inquiries concerning admission to graduate work in the University and majors in the health sciences should be directed to the Graduate Admissions Office, Georgia College, Campus Box 107, Milledgeville, GA 31061. E-mails can be sent to grad-admit@gcsu.edu. • Inquiries concerning graduate programs in the School of Nursing should be sent to the Interim Assistant Director, Graduate Programs, of the School of Nursing, Georgia College, Campus Box 063, Milledgeville, GA 31061. Contact the Director at 478-752-1074 or send e-mail to debby.macmillan@gcsu.edu. • Inquiries concerning graduate programs in the School of Health and Human Performance should be sent to the Director, School of Health and Human Performance, Georgia College, Campus Box 112, Milledgeville, GA 31061. Contact the Director at 478-445-4072 or send e-mail to lisa.griffin@gcsu.edu. • Inquiries concerning graduate programs in Music Therapy or Art Therapy should be sent to the Chairperson of Creative Arts Therapies, Georgia College, Campus Box 067, Milledgeville, GA 31061. Contact the Chairperson at 478-445-2645 or send e-mail to chesley.mercado@gcsu.edu. • Inquiries concerning financial assistance, described in detail elsewhere in this catalog, should be directed to the Director of Financial Aid at 478-445-5149. • Inquiries concerning availability of graduate assistantships should be directed to the appropriate department chair or school director.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line25
__label__cc	0.729855	0.270145	Posts Tagged: food conservation It's time to get serious about food waste Here's my take on food waste. It goes back in part to lessons I've learned from studying World War I, when the American government set food conservation goals (along with goals for local food production via Liberty - later Victory - Gardens). I'm a big proponent of both reducing food waste and producing more food in communities via school, home and community gardens. Big point: the World War I poster included in this post has advice we'd be well served to heed today. "Food waste is both an ethical and environmental issue. It should concern us that we waste nearly 40 percent of the food we produce and purchase in this food-abundant nation. For an interesting comparative statistic, consider this: our nation produced nearly 40 percent of the fruits and vegetables we consumed on the American home front during World War II in school, home, community and workplace gardens." Poster from the collection of the Museum of Ventura County. (Credit: Aysen Tan) Period piece or photoshopped image? It's an iconic poster from World War 1. Food...don't waste it. The image is regularly shared on Twitter and Facebook. The original was produced in 1919 by the United States Food Administration, under the direction of the newly appointed food "czar" - Herbert Hoover. The poster was reissued during World War II. It's been revised in recent years, by individuals and organizations interested in encouraging an ethos incorporating local foods and sustainability. While I'm the UC Food Observer, I also dabble in the history of wartime poster art. I'm often asked if this is a contemporary mock-up made to look and feel vintage. It's not a mock-up. It's the real deal, produced 95 years ago, with messages we should embrace today. History of poster art The First World War marked the first large-scale use of propaganda posters by governments. Posters, with easy-to-understand slogans and compelling images, made powerful propaganda tools. The government needed to shape public opinion, recruit soldiers, raise funds and conserve resources and mobilize citizens to important home front activities ... including gardening, food conservation and food preservation. In an era before television and widespread radio and movies, posters were a form of mass media. And they appeared in windows and were posted on walls everywhere, in as many languages as were spoken in this nation of immigrants. If you want to dig a little deeper, the poster art of WWI was influenced by the La Belle Epoque - the beautiful era - named in retrospect, after the full horror of WWI had been revealed. The Art Nouveau movement in France and the rise of modern advertising were also important in shaping how posters were used during wartime. Technical improvements in printing, including a process called chromolithography, facilitated mass production of posters. The original poster: Yes: 'buy local foods' is rule 4 The original poster has six rules that we'd be well served to follow today. The fourth rule - buy local foods - is somewhat of a surprise to people today, because the notion of buying local seems somewhat modern. But in WWI, the U.S. government encouraged the local production and consumption of food, in part, to free trains to more effectively ship troops and war materiel. Tackling food waste through preservation: today's Master Food Preserver Program UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) hosts a UC Master Food Preserver Program. The program teaches best practices on food safety and preservation to volunteers. The extensive training program prepares the volunteers to work in their community educating others on the safe practices of food preservation, including pickling, drying, freezing, canning and fruit preserves. Thinking about gardening? Do we have resources for you! UC ANR also has the UC Master Gardener Program, which fields more than 5,000 volunteers in communities across the state. The Master Gardener Program is a national program, housed at the land grant institution in each state, but it's also connected to the USDA. Free gardening resources are available here. Advice to grow by...just ask. This is an excerpt of an article from a post on the UC Food Observer blog, used with permission. Posted on Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 11:01 AM Author: Rose Hayden-Smith Tags: #foodwaste (1), EPA (1), food conservation (1), poster art (1), UC ANR (4), UC Master Food Preservers (1), UC Master Gardeners (1), USDA (10), World War 1 (1)	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line27
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__label__cc	0.542717	0.457283	Politicians with their own views, whatever next? The normally excellent Tim Worstall (who is a UKIP supporter, see comments) succumbs here to one of his party’s central idiocies: That it is the job of the politician to reflect the views of the electorate. I’m pretty sure, in this democracy thing, that a political leader is supposed to reflect the desires of the electorate, not mold them. This is, for example why Douglas ‘Judas’ Carswell voted against gay marriage, despite being personally in favour. I am not accusing UKIP here of hypocrisy, just being wrong. Running a country is complicated. The control levers available to Government are only loosely connected to the machine of Government. Much of the day to day control is in the hands of a cadre of long-term civil servants, whose job is to implement policy and who act as dampers on any control input. I think of it like a rowing galley, where the tips of the oars are hidden from the captain’s view. He’s trying to steer the galley by guessing the movement through the soles of his feet. Some of the the galley’s rowers can’t be bothered, and many of the rest, don’t want to go where it’s going, and so pull in the direction of where they want to go anyway, and the other half who are pulling in the direction the captain wants to go, aren’t much good. Ultimately the captain can barely see what difference his changes to the beat of the drum and nudges to the tiller make (especially as everyone’s free to choose their own tom-tom drum, and progress through the water is barely steering-way) until long after he’s been ousted by mutiny. I like this metaphor, because the command economy, where the rowers are chained and incentiveised with whips, go much faster through the water to some direction chosen by the management, but the Captain still can’t see to the tips of the oars, and they inevitably hit the rocks. Sometimes the people on the watch-tower (think-tankers, philosophers, policy analysts, economists) see a looming shape in the fog off the prow of the galley. They shout to the captain who’s only just in earshot. If he’s lucky, the captain can, with almighty heaves of the tiller and a bit of cajoling of the rowers down below (those who can be persuaded to agree with him anyway) avoid the rocks (Thatcher) Sometimes not (Blair). This metaphor can be extended indefinitely. Politicians are the people to whom we outsource political economy. This is every bit as sophisticated, with arcane knowledge as being a Gas engineer or Lawyer. And when a Gas Engineer starts looking at political economy, he’s staring at a fog of unknown-unknowns at least as complete as were Ed Miliband to have a go at servicing his own boiler. The difference is Ed Miliband KNOWS he doesn’t know what he’s doing. But EVERYONE thinks they’ve got the political answers. Everyone thinks their politics are “common sense”. But if you don’t know what’s been tried, you’re going to come up with some ‘common sense’ which is already proven wrong. Rent control, for example which is the great, unflushable turd of political ideas, or Free Parking. There is a particularly UKIPish line of thinking which runs thus: I am reasonable Therefore my views are shared by reasonable people Everyone I know thinks [x] Therefore everyone who doesn’t think [x] is by definition, not reasonable A not reasonable belief can only be held for malign reasons Therefore the Government fails to agree with me because of conspiracy or incompetence. Go on. Go to a pub in London, and ask the punters whether rents should be controlled or whether parking should be free. Then go and find an economist who agrees. Everyone think’s they’re reasonable, but not everyone’s got the same information to be reasonable about. Even twins disagree on stuff. People seek out like-minded souls and avoid controversial subjects such as politics with people who’s views you don’t already know. Tories particularly sociable around the “sound”. This is called selection bias. This is an incorrect but common logical inference (the mistake, if you will in this chain of reasoning) Attribution of motive is pure projection, and particularly common on amongst the stupid, particularly by Labourites, who cannot grasp the more subtle cause and effect of ‘right wing’ economics, and by UKIPpers who cannot grasp the right end of a shit-stick, let alone a political argument. This is the crowning idiocy of UKIP the sheer lack of belief that a reasonable person might not be in a frothing frenzy about EU fish quotas or the Bulgarian who moved in next door. The belief that policy is run for “their mates in big business” or the despicable EU cabal. But there is no British Political Elite. It’s true the sons of politicians find it easier through name-recognition and nepotism to get a foot in the door, but they also have the benefits of experience gained through osmosis in how the controls to the galley work. This is why people from all walks of life often end up doing what their parents did. But if you really, really want to be Prime Minister, you need the talent, luck, charm, skill and so forth, and you go for it. No-one will stop you. It’s easier for sure, if you read PPE at Oxford, but there are plenty of MPs who didn’t. If there was a British Political establishment, you’d expect to see it represented at the top. David Cameron’s dad wasn’t an MP he was a stockbroker. Neither was Gordon Brown’s who was a minister of religion. Nor, for that matter Tony Blair’s who cavorted in fire with little horns on his head, a black cape and goat’s feet (Leo Blair was an actor – but he may have been cuckolded by Belezebub). Or John Major’s who was also on the stage. Margaret Thatcher’s dad was a Grantham shop-keeper. Jim Callaghan’s dad, also Called Jim, was a Chief Petty Officer in the Royal Navy. All of these people entered politics, not because they wanted to join a self-serving elite (anyone think someone like Cameron would settle for a measly £142,500 a year in any other job?) but because they thought they could do it, it interested them, they got the skills and qualifications and they took their chances. They sought a safe-seat. Then they waited for an opportunity, building a reputation, getting to know the means to climb the greasy pole, until there was a leadership election in their party. Then they went for it. Then we voted for them by the million. That’s not to say everything’s perfect. I even agree with your average UKIPper on many individual issues. But the job of the Politician is to apply his judgement, experience and knowledge of his electorate, to try to be a man FOR them in the job, even if he doesn’t always do what a simple majority of the noisiest ones want. Representative democracy isn’t a tribal headcount, and it is not majoritarian tyranny. It’s at least as much about what the majority can’t do to a minority as it is reflecting 50%+1’s views. Worse: there was no local referendum that say Carswell vote against equal marriage rights for homosexuals, but rather by his own admission, a look the contents of his letter bag, from a collection of angry, poorly educated bigots living in his god-forsaken, depressing retirement home at the end of the line, and who’ve now gone over to UKIP with him. The people who write letters are not the cheerful, sound fellows you sometimes meet down the pub, but the sour and bitter old bags who complain about the noise. Is that who you want running your country, or do you want to have people who’ve at least tried to work out cause and effect before they pull on that tiller? 2nd January 2015 /6 Comments/by Malcolm Bracken Tags: Left-wing Lunacy, Politics, UKIP http://bracken.uk.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/logo-2.png 0 0 Malcolm Bracken http://bracken.uk.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/logo-2.png Malcolm Bracken2015-01-02 13:43:002017-07-21 01:43:08Politicians with their own views, whatever next? Jonathan May-Bowles The Al Madinah School "In Chaos" Why our Leaders are Pygmies. Protest in Parliament Square. The American Culture Wars. The Filthy Engineer says: 2nd January 2015 at 7:56 pm "from a collection of angry, poorly educated bigots living in his god-forsaken, depressing retirement home at the end of the line, and who've now gone over to UKIP with him. The people who write letters are not the cheerful, sound fellows you sometimes meet down the pub, but the sour and bitter old bags who complain about the noise." I'm a voter who is fed up with a political class who seem to think that we should be beholden to them, and that they know best. I want to see change. All I see is the same Blue, red, yellow bunch riding roughshod over the calls of ORDINARY people to have some control of their lives. The mould (sic) of British politics needs to be broken. We need to have change. "Tim Worstall (who is a UKIP economics advisor) " No, no I'm not. I am a party supporter, I have worked for the party, been a candidate for it, even, yes, in the psat advised upon economics. But I have no formal nor informal position in the party at all at present. This is not, of course, to deny three times before the cock crows or anything. Just a matter of accuracy. david morris says: Content of your 2nd & 3rd paras can't be disputed. Not sure Farage et all are the answer, but perhaps they deserve a chance on the basis that they can't possibly deliver as bad a service to the country as the recent previous incumbents. 'I even agree with your average UKIPper on many individual issues.' What a lame thing to say considering how you've been bitching about UKIP for as far back as I can remember. I am intrigued as to where your rowing/galley metaphor goes. Are civil servants the rowers/galley slaves, or the population at large? Anyway, as someone who has done a bit of rowing (Merton 2nd VIII) and a bit of Ancient History, I feel bound to add to it. Consider the battle of Salamis. The Persians had galley slaves; the Greeks (basically the Athenians -Spartans were crap at naval stuff) had free citizen rowers. The Persian galleys relied on speed and manoeuvrability. The Athenians went for big solid heavy galleys. They then manoeuvred the Persians into fighting in a confined space where speed and agility didn't matter. So the battle was basically a scrum/rolling maul without the backs getting involved. The Athenians won. So democracy won by intelligent use of brute unthinking force, while autocracy failed by trying to be too clever. Make of this what you will. (PS, read Herodotus, a roughly contemporary source, not Plutarch, who wrote much later and started the myth that the Athenians were some kind of twinkle toed Jonathan Davies/Arewel Thomas, not the crash-balling Manu Tuilagis/Jamie Roberts that they really were.) Key Jackart you are a cunt. 2015 Is Going to be the Best Year in Human History Charybdis and Scylla	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line32
__label__wiki	0.917394	0.917394	Rose Caiola Rose Caiola is the Founder and Executive Artistic Director of Manhattan Movement & Arts Center (mmac), a state-of-the-art dance and movement classroom, studio and performance facility near Lincoln Center, and Manhattan Youth Ballet, one of the country’s premier classical ballet academies. At mmac, Rose has produced a variety of concerts and benefits over the last 15 years including “Hope for Haiti” and “The Knickerbocker Suite”. Rose conceived, co-wrote, and produced the Off-Broadway premiere of Freckleface Strawberry The Musical, based on Julianne Moore’s children’s book, which premiered at New World Stages and is currently being licensed worldwide by Music Theatre International. Rose is also a co-bookwriter and lead producer of Rock and Roll Man — The Alan Freed Story, which had its world premiere at Bucks County Playhouse in 2017 and is in development for Broadway and a national tour. A five-time Tony Award® winning producer, Rose made her debut as a Broadway producer in 2011 with the historic revival of Godspell by Stephen Schwartz. Since then, partnering with her brother Luigi Caiola, Caiola Productions has won five Tony Awards® and and two Drama Desk Awards – their award-winning productions include Once on this Island (Tony Award® for Best Revival of a Musical), Dear Evan Hansen (winner of 6 Tony Awards® including Best Musical), The Color Purple (winner of 2 Tony Awards® for Best Musical Revival and Best Leading Actress), All The Way starring Bryan Cranston (winner of 2 Tony Awards® for Best Play and Best Leading Actor, Drama Desk Award Outstanding Play), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (winner of 3 Tony Awards® for Best Revival of a Play, Best Director, and Best Leading Actor). Upcoming Broadway productions include Pretty Woman the Musical and Lifespan of a Fact starring Daniel Radcliffe and Cherry Jones. Past Broadway productions include Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, Fiddler on the Roof, An Act of God, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Natasha Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Sunday in the Park with George, Significant Other, Sylvia, On Your Feet, China Doll, and Spring Awakening, You Can’t Take It With You, The Elephant Man (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play), It’s Only A Play, An American in Paris,The Realistic Joneses, The Bridges of Madison County Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Glengarry Glen Ross starring Al Pacino, The Heiress, Macbeth starring Alan Cumming, The Anarchist starring Patti LuPone and Debra Winger, and Godspell. Off-Broadway, Caiola Productions has been represented by Daddy Long Legs and Nevermore — the Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe. On tour, Caiola Productions has been a co-producer of Porgy & Bess, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Fiddler on the Roof, others. Rose was the executive producer of the award-winning 2012 documentary First Position, a property she is currently developing for the musical stage. Rose began her career as a dancer and actress, and is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is the devoted mother of Sasha and Benny Mermelstein, the adoring wife of Edward Mermelstein, and the proud daughter of Bettina Caiola and the late Benny Caiola.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line35
__label__wiki	0.8961	0.8961	By Alex Altman Friday, Sept. 12, 2008 Chuck Klosterman, author of Downtown Owl. The author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Fargo Rock City, Chuck Klosterman is one of America's foremost authorities on pop culture. The Esquire columnist's first foray into fiction, Downtown Owl, hits stores Sept. 16. Klosterman talked to TIME about shifting to fiction, his best celebrity interviews and why Paris Hilton will one day define this strange era. Tell me about the evolution of Downtown Owl. How did the book emerge? If you'd asked me when I was 18 what I'd like to do with my life, I'd have said I'd like to write a novel at some point. But then I sort of fell into journalism. I guess sometime after Killing Yourself to Live, I kinda wanted to write long form fiction, and I had an idea for a story and I decided to try. This is retrospective: I've been asked this question many times, and I keep coming up with interesting ways to make up answers. How difficult was it to transition from non-fiction to fiction? It was harder than I anticipated. I can write non-fiction much, much faster. Other than speed, how did your writing process change? The thing about journalism and non-fiction is it's ultimately reactive work: you're reacting to something someone said or did, or placing something in a context for other people. In fiction, you're inventing everything. The creatively exhaustive part isn't the big stuff — having to coming up with the people, or the town — but the really detailed stuff. You're creating a table, and so you have to say how many glasses are on the table, and you have to build the glasses in your mind. In journalism the details are what jump out at you: the strange way somebody buttons their coat, or a weird way someone has of standing. In fiction those are by far the most difficult things to fabricate because it's hard to make those things seem real. Since you're shifting to a new medium, will you take reader feedback into account more than usual? I'd say less. Of course I want people to like the book, but at the same time, that matters less to me than it did in the beginning. You write the first book and it's just exciting that the book exists. The only people who talk about your first book are people who like it; no one's going to review a book they've never heard of to say it's bad. You write the second book and everything is different. At first, you'd think, if nobody buys this book, nobody will ever publish me again. Now that I don't worry about that as much, you're kind of writing for yourself. Here I just tried to write a book that I'd like to read. Who are your three favorite contemporary writers that people may never have heard of? One is Jon Ronson, a British guy who wrote a book called The Men Who Stare at Goats, which George Clooney is making into a movie. He's a documentarian, but a really good writer, too. There's a sportswriter called Michael McCambridge who wrote a really great history of the NFL called America's Game. I'd never heard of him till recently. I like Seth Mnookin, who wrote Hard News, a history of the New York Times [during the Jayson Blair era]. As a journalist, who has been your best profile subject? Donald Fagen of Steely Dan was probably the best interview. I didn't talk to Gilbert Arenas [of the NBA's Washington Wizards] that much, but he was the greatest subject. Considering I talked to that guy for a total of 12 minutes, it was probably the easiest feature I ever wrote. Of anyone I ever interviewed, Bono loved the process the most — he actually laid down on a couch like he was in a psychiatrist's office and wanted me to ask questions where he could analyze his own iconography. The person who's consistently the best interview is Marilyn Manson. He's almost more intellectually designed to be an interview subject than a musician. You wrote a piece in 2004 about not being able to stand the Olympics. Did the Beijing Games cement that view or turn you around? I actually didn't watch much. I don't feel like it's interesting to watch alternative sports like fencing. I also just feel weird rooting for people because they're Americans. I know basically nothing about these people. What I was really criticizing is how the Olympics affects television audiences. I don't like nationalism. Things like the Olympics sort of foster problematic qualities in people. In the same article you said that as you grow older, you're less prone to having opinions. This struck me as an interesting statement, since you're someone whose success as a columnist depends on your ability to voice strong opinions. I realize there's a contradiction in that. Unlike the vast majority of critics, I don't want to affect people's opinions. Take a George Will column or a Maureen Dowd column. I don't see either as having any benefit whatsoever to anyone. I think they're actually trying to stop people from thinking critically. I'm interested in hearing every side to an issue, but it's strange when somebody seems to be working from a position of certitude. It bothers me how — and now more than ever — that's rewarded by the media. When I got into journalism, one of the biggest things I focused on was overcoming biases. Now people seem to want biases — they're only looking for information that validates what they already believe. The most successful media now — Fox News, the Huffington Post — are designed for people who already believe they're right. What current pop culture phenomenon will be most shocking when we look back in 10 years? That's a really interesting question. What cultural phenomenon from 1998 seems most ridiculous now? People thought electronica was going to be the new rock music. Death in Vegas and The Chemical Brothers were going to be the new Beatles and Stones. That never happened. Now? The biggest phenomenon, in a way, is the widespread [idea] that all these things people used to pay for should be free — information, music. It's overlooking the fact that there's a cost of construction for these things. It'll be strange look back at this period and say, remember when we thought music was going to be free forever? I guess the easy answer to the question is something like, "Wasn't it ridiculous when Paris Hilton was so famous?" But I think people will remember Paris Hilton. She'll be a lasting figure because people will use her as a way to understand this weird time period.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line40
__label__cc	0.567471	0.432529	March 24, 2015, 8:00 pm ET - March 24, 2015, 8:00 pm ET - Senate amendment submitted March 25, 2015, 8:00 pm ET - Senate amendment proposed (on the floor): Amendment SA 759 proposed by Senator Enzi for Senator Lee. March 25, 2015, 8:00 pm ET - Amendment SA 759 proposed by Senator Enzi for Senator Lee. (consideration: CR S1979-1980; text: CR S1979-1980) To establish a spending-neutral reserve fund relating to clarifying Federal jurisdiction with respect to intrastate species. March 26, 2015, 8:00 pm ET - Proposed amendment SA 759 withdrawn in Senate.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line43
__label__wiki	0.533597	0.533597	For best viewing experience, please tilt your phone to landscape view Cult Artists Politics Store Radio TV Upcoming Shows Street Team My Cart ← Show Cult Artists Store Radio TV Upcoming Shows Contact Current Cult Artists Promiseland Surfbort Catalog Cult Artists Exclamation Pony Albert Hammond Jr. Reputante The Growlers Jehnny Beth & Julian Casablancas Rey Pila Har Mar Superstar Cerebral Ballzy Listen To Cult Radio The Coup Going On Right Now In Brazil, Explained: (by Glenn Greenwald) right-wing corrupt forces hijack public anger for their own agenda Brazil is facing its worst political crisis in over two decades as opponents of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff attempt to impeach her on corruption charges. But Rousseff is refusing calls to resign, saying the impeachment proceedings against her amount to undemocratic attempts by the right-wing opposition to oust her from power. On Wednesday, former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called the impeachment proceedings against Rousseff an attempted "coup d’état." We speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald. His piece, "Brazil Is Engulfed by Ruling Class Corruption—and a Dangerous Subversion of Democracy," recently was published by The Intercept. AMY GOODMAN: In a moment, we’re going to be talking with Glenn Greenwald about the attacks in Brussels, as well as the presidential elections here in the United States and the battle between Apple and the U.S. government over encryption. But right now we’re starting with Brazil. Glenn, there is very little attention in the United States in the mainstream media about what’s taking place in Brazil. President Obama is right next door in Argentina, but can you talk about what is happening in the country you live in, in Brazil? GLENN GREENWALD: Definitely. It is a little odd that such extreme levels of political instability have received relatively little attention, given that Brazil is the fifth most populous country in the world, it’s the eighth largest economy, and whatever happens there will have reverberations for all sorts of markets and countries, including the United States. The situation in Brazil is actually fairly complicated, much more so than the small amount of media attention devoted to it in the U.S. has suggested. The media attention in the U.S. has suggested that it’s the people, by the millions, rising up against a corrupt government, and sort of depicting it as the heroic population against a corrupt left-wing, virtually tyrannical regime. And in a lot of ways, that’s an oversimplification; in a lot of ways, it’s simply inaccurate. So let me just make a couple of key points. First of all, it is the case that the Brazilian political class and its—the highest levels of its economic class are rife with very radical corruption. That has been true for a really long time. And what has happened is that Brazil’s judicial institutions and police agencies have matured. Remember, Brazil is a very young democracy. It only exited military dictatorship in 1985. And so you finally have the maturation of these institutions applying the rule of law. And so, for the first time, political and economic elites are being held accountable for very serious political and economic corruption. The corruption is pervasive in essentially every influential political faction in Brazil, including all of its political parties. That includes the Workers’ Party, the left-wing party of Lula and Dilma, the current president, but also, even to a greater extent, the opposition parties on the center and the right that are trying to replace it. So corruption is very real. There is a very—there’s been a—what has been, until recently, an impressive judicial investigation that has resulted in the arrest and prosecution of some of the country’s richest and most powerful figures—something that you would never see in the United States—billionaires being hauled off to jail for bribery and money laundering and tax evasion and corruption, and sentenced to many years in prison. And virtually every political opponent of President Rousseff is implicated by this corruption, and many of the people in her party are, as well. The irony of this widespread corruption is that President Rousseff herself is really the only significant politician, or one of the only significant politicians, in Brazil not to be implicated in any sort of corruption scheme for the—with the objective of personal enrichment. Everyone around her, virtually, including those trying to bring her government down and accuse her of corruption and impeach her, is implicated very seriously in schemes of corruption for personal enrichment. She’s essentially one of the only people who isn’t implicated that way. The problem is that there—at the same time as you have this massive corruption investigation, you also have an extremely severe economic recession, as the result of lowering gas prices and contraction in China and a variety of other factors. And up until very recently, up until 2008, 2010, Brazil’s economy was booming. The people of that country, including its poorest, have been—thought that their prospects were finally improving, that the promise of Brazil, the long-heralded promise of Brazil, to become this developed power in the world was finally coming to fruition. Millions of people were being lifted out of poverty. And what this recession has done has been essentially to reverse all of that and to reimpose huge amounts of suffering, borne primarily by Brazil’s lower and working classes. And so there’s an enormous amount of discontent and anger towards President Rousseff and towards her Workers’ Party over the suffering that the people in Brazil are experiencing. And so, what you have is this corruption scheme and corruption investigation and scandal at the same time as great economic suffering. And in Brazil, there are really rich and powerful factions, who have long hated Lula and Dilma and the left-wing Workers’ Party, who haven’t been able to defeat them at the ballot box. The Workers’ Party has won four straight national elections, going back to 2002 when Lula was first elected. And so, what they are doing—and they’re using their extremely powerful media institutions, beginning with Globo, which is by far and away the dominant, most powerful media institution in Brazil, run by, like all Brazil’s significant media outlets, extremely concentrated wealthy families—are using this corruption scandal to—or using the anger towards the government to try and rile up people and essentially remove the Workers’ Party and President Dilma Rousseff from power, really because they can’t beat her at the ballot box. But they’re trying to latch on this corruption scandal to the discontent that people feel because of the economic suffering. And so there is a validity to the corruption scandal and to the investigation, even aimed at the Workers’ Party, but at the same time what you’re now seeing is, unfortunately, the judiciary, which has been pretty scrupulous until now about being apolitical, working with the plutocrats of Brazil to try and achieve a result that really is a subversion of democracy, which is exploiting the scandal to remove President Rousseff from power through impeachment, even though there really are no grounds of impeachment that would be legal or valid as a means of removing her from office. Originally published on democracynow.org HERE Julian Hosts New Radio Show on SiriusXM! Brazil's New Government Is Already Planning to Balance the Budget on the Backs of the Poor Cult Records is an independent record label and online record store founded by Julian Casablancas. Demos/Music Internships Careers Frequently Asked Questions Customer Service Vendor Submission ©2020 Cult Records — All Rights Reserved. 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__label__wiki	0.538711	0.538711	connecting collections Tell us your email address and we'll send you a new password groups&orgs Filters ˆ search courage: Memorandum sent by Bishop Friedrich Müller to the Ministry of Religious Affairs, 1949 http://courage.btk.mta.hu/courage/individual/n13577 During the first decade of the communist regime, the educational system in Romania was fundamentally reformed in accordance with the Education Act of 3 August 1948, which imposed – among other things – the nationalisation of denominational schools. Faced with this difficult situation, the leadership of the Evangelical Church asked pastors to teach confirmation classes in clergy houses, churches, or state schools. Starting from the end of 1948, the local authorities received instructions to obstruct the teaching of any confirmation classes. In reaction, the leadership of the Evangelical Church sent numerous memorandums to the Ministry of Religious Affairs. Bishop Friedrich Müller did his best to tackle this kind of interdiction, which he had already faced when Episcopal vicar in 1941. At that time, he had opposed the taking-over of denominational schools by the local Nazi organisation, the German Ethnic Group, which controlled the German minority in Romania. The confirmation classes were very important for the Evangelical Church, because without attending these classes, young people could not have been able to pass the confirmation examination and become full members of the religious community. However the state authorities considered the confirmation classes to be a tool for preserving the Church’s influence in society. Particularly interesting is the memorandum sent by the High Consistory of the Evangelic Church A.C. in Romania to the Ministry of Religious Affairs on 28 February 1949. In this memorandum, Bishop Müller criticises the measures taken by the Securitate and Militia against the practice of confirmation classes in the village of Brădeni/Hendorf (Sibiu county). This document is remarkable for the complex theological argumentation concerning the significance of confirmation classes for Evangelical young people. In the first part of the memorandum, Bishop Müller argues that the instructions sent to local Militia stations by the Securitate Directorate of Sibiu violated the laws of the communist state, including the Constitution of 1948 and section 7 of Decree no. 177 of 1948 regarding the activity of religious denominations in Romania. In the latter text, the Bishop explains, it is plainly stated that “denominations are free to organise themselves and practice their religion if these practices do not contradict the Constitution, the security of the state, or public order.” Bishop Müller also emphasises that the banning of confirmation classes violates the basic rights of citizens, which are guaranteed by article 27 of the communist Constitution of 1948. He goes on to invoke the speeches of the minister of education, who had stated in the official newspaper Scânteia that religious denominations were free to teach the principles of their faith to the young generations of their communities. In addition, the minister had alluded to the fact that insults to “religious feelings” helped only the “enemies” of the new regime. Pursuing this official declaration, Bishop Müller ends his argument by saying that “there is no worse insult to religious feelings than banning the religious education [...] of young people.” He thus asks the Ministry of Religious Affairs to urge the leadership of the Securitate to stop the persecution against confirmation classes. In this way, Bishop Müller tried to take advantage of the inconsistencies in the policies of the communist regime, which intended on the one hand to limit the influence of the churches among young people, but on the other, to co-opt the local protestant churches. Müller, Friedrich Featured item of High Consistory Collection at Teutsch Haus Sibiu Author(s) of this page Pintilescu, Corneliu Teutsch Haus Archives Sibiu, High Consistory Fonds, File K 469/1949 Last edited on: 2019-01-20 20:42:31	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line48
__label__cc	0.504501	0.495499	Rosie Lang Assistant Coach - Women's Senior program Rosie Lang is a very experienced player hailing from the east (Toronto Scottish) and has lived on the west coast for the last number years where she has played for Westshore and represented British Columbia at a number of CRC competitions. Joining us last year as a player, Rosie has brought a strong forward skill set to the team and is now excited to contribute to the defensive and forward structures of the team as a coach. Rosie brings coaching experience from a number of high schools in the Toronto area. In addition to her contributions to the team as a player and now as a coach, Rosie has contributed in championing a club social event. It is called the Pint Club and it is a tradition that she has brought from her home club - Toronto Scottish. It has brought men's and women's teams together after Thursday practices at our local sponsor pub, Penny Farthing in Oak Bay. Well done Rosie and look forward to your contributions to the team as an assistant coach ! Lauren Sargent Caitlin McNally Jess Dovanne	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line49
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__label__cc	0.506477	0.493523	ElsaMarie D'Silva to Chair Women in Business Company/Organization Categories Jury Posted by Michael Gallagher on Wed, Sep 06, 2017 @ 02:00 PM ElsaMarie D’Silva, Founder & CEO of Red Dot Foundation (Safecity) in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, has been selected to chair the jury for the Company/Organization categories of the 2017 Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the world's top honors for female entrepreneurs, executives, employees and the organizations they run. The final entry deadline for the awards is September 20. Complete details are available at www.StevieAwards.com/Women. In December 2012, ElsaMarie D’Silva founded Red Dot Foundation (Safecity), which is a platform that crowdsources personal experiences of sexual violence and abuse in public spaces. Since Safecity started, it has become the largest crowd map on these issues in India, Kenya, Cameroon, and Nepal. ElsaMarie is an alumni of the Stanford Draper Hills Summer School, the US State Department’s Fortune Program, and the Commonwealth Leadership Program. She is also a fellow with Rotary Peace, Aspen New Voices, Vital Voices, and a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader. She is listed as one of BBC Hindi’s 100 Women and was named a Female Entrepreneur of the Year by Dusan Stojanovic of True Global Ventures. She also received the Government of India NITI Aayog’s Women Transforming India Award, and was a Digital Women Awards in Social Impact winner, hosted by SheThePeople.TV. Recently, ElsaMarie was awarded a Global Leadership Award by Vital Voices in the presence of Hillary Clinton; and in 2016, she won the Gold Stevie Award for Female Executive of the Year-Government or Non-Profit (10 or Less Employees). She has penned articles that have appeared in CNN and the Huffington Post, and has spoken about her work at the Aspen Ideas Festival and at TEDx MidAtlantic, UN Women, and at Vital Voices South-to-South Leadership Summit. She has been a panelist for NDI, USIP, and SheThePeople.TV, and hosted a roundtable at the Bloomberg CityLab London in 2015. Prior to Safecity, ElsaMarie was in the aviation industry for 20 years where she worked with Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines. Her last portfolio was Vice President Network Planning & Charters where she oversaw the planning and implementation of 500 daily flights. “I am honored to be a Chair for this year’s Stevie Awards for Women in Business judging panel,” ElsaMarie told us. “These are prestigious awards that endorse the credibility of the organization or entrepreneur and set a high benchmark for others to match up to. I look forward to contributing to the process of identifying the next set of world class businesswomen and entrepreneurs.” Judging & Awards Process Apply to Be a Judge Company/Organization Categories Judging Committee Individual/Entrepreneur Categories Judging Committee Individual/Executive Categories Judging Committee New Products & Services Categories Judging Committee PR, Marketing & Media Categories Judging Committee <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="//stevie.nui.media/pipeline/479906/0/vj?z=stevie&dim=479656&kw=&click=&abr=$scriptiniframe"></script><noscript><a href="//stevie.nui.media/pipeline/479906/0/cc?z=stevie"><img src="//stevie.nui.media/pipeline/479906/0/vc?z=stevie&dim=479656&kw=&click=&abr=$imginiframe" width="125" height="125" alt="" border="0"></a></noscript> Tags: Awards for Women, Awards for Women in Business, 2017 Stevie Awards for Women in Business Rebecca Flood to Chair Women in Business Individual Executive Jury Rebecca Flood, CEO of New Directions for Women, in Costa Mesa, California, USA, has been named the chair of the jury for the individual Executive categories of the 2017 Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the world's top honors for female entrepreneurs, executives, employees and the organizations they run. In her nearly four decades of experience in the health care industry, Rebecca J. Flood has demonstrated expertise in program development, implementation, and evaluation. She was with Seabrook House in Seabrook, New Jersey, for over 25 years. As Vice President of Treatment Services, she oversaw the organization’s residential treatment programs and the planning of specialized treatment for women, adolescents, and individuals with co-occurring disorders. She has also distinguished herself in the areas of marketing, fundraising, technical assistance and board development. As CEO of New Directions for Women since 2004, her expertise has been applied exclusively to issues relating to women of all ages, pregnant women in any trimester, and women with dependent children affected by addiction. Rebecca has always been committed to giving back and has given of her time, talent, and treasure by serving on international, national, and local boards, providing training at national conferences, and serving as a CARF surveyor. She is currently a member of the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP) Board and of the Seabrook House Board, and is President of the Association of Intervention Specialists (AIS). She is also a member of the TRIAD Board and the Advisory Committee for Limen House in Wilmington, Delaware; and of the Sober Living Coalition Board for the State of California. Rebecca attended Johns Hopkins University and obtained a Master’s Degree in Human Services from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. She is a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LCADC) in the state of New Jersey; a Nationally Certified Drug & Alcohol Counselor (NCAC II); and is certified in California, Delaware, and New Jersey as a Drug & Alcohol Counselor (CADC II). Rebecca tells us: “The old saying that ‘you always get more than you give’ has certainly come true for me in my life. Being able to Chair the 2017 Individual/Executive Judging Committee is a great example of that. I am honored to share some of my time in recognizing incredible, visionary women all over the world that are impacting our communities for the better.” Marlene Fox-McIntyre to Chair Women in Business New Products and Service Jury Posted by Michael Gallagher on Mon, Sep 04, 2017 @ 03:16 PM Marlene Fox-McIntyre, Principal of Athene Solutions LLC in Coral Springs, Florida, USA, has been named the chair of the jury for the New Product and Service categories of the 2017 Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the world's top honors for female entrepreneurs, executives, employees and the organizations they run. Marlene Fox-McIntyre has over 30 years of engineering and management experience in the government, private industry, and non-profit sectors, and she proudly served as a Captain in the United States Army Reserve. Marlene recently started her own high-tech business, Athene Solutions LLC. The company specializes in the development of unique technologies to make aviation safer, and to deliver quality-of-life technologies for the home. According to Marlene: “We are currently developing several 'secret sauce’ technologies that will be announced as soon as patent applications have been filed. Stay tuned!” In 2016, Marlene won the Stevie Award for Woman of the Year – Technology for her leadership role at Hilton Software LLC as Program Executive and head of business operations, responsible for the success of all Hilton Software programs, and ensuring client and end-user satisfaction across all company products. According to Dr. Hilton Goldstein, CEO and Chief Architect of Hilton Software, “Marlene provided stability to our company. She has proven to be invaluable in the management of our government and commercial software programs. Not only did she bring her expertise in technology into the firm, but many years of experience in the public sector. I am very proud of her achievements and privileged to have her run our incredible line of products.” Marlene earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Chemistry from the University of Texas, a Graduate Certificate in Engineering from the Army Materiel Command, and a Master’s Degree in Technical Management from Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, where she also lectured for several years. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and earned her Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) in 2006. Marlene is honored to have been selected to Chair the 2017 New Product/Service Awards Judging Committee. “Our committee is looking forward to the exciting challenge of choosing the best new products and services from an incredibly talented pool of nominees,” said Marlene. “Good luck and best wishes to all the outstanding nominees!” Tags: Awards for Women, 2017 Stevie Awards for Women in Business, women in busines	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line53
__label__wiki	0.634821	0.634821	American Business Awards Name Committee Chairs for 2013 Final Judging Posted by Liz Dean on Thu, Apr 04, 2013 @ 01:34 PM The Stevie® Awards today announced the nine executives who will chair and form specialized final judging committees for its 11th Annual American Business Awards, the top business awards competition in the USA. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. - public and private, large and small, for-profit and non-profit - are eligible to submit nominations to The American Business Awards. April 24 is the last day that late entries will be accepted with payment of a late fee per entry. (If you haven't yet done so, you can request your entry kit here and it will be emailed to you right away.) The nine committee selections are based on the categories that will be judged. The appointments are as follows: Company Awards / Organization Awards: Craig Lund, CEO, SecureAuth Corporation, Irvine, California Corporate Communications, Investor Relations, & Public Relations Awards: Michelle Gilbert, Public Relations Manager, Michigan/Indiana/Kentucky Region, Verizon Wireless, Southfield, Michigan Customer Service Awards & Support Awards: Dawn Stevenson, Manager, Customer Retention, Customer Service & Inside Sales, Stamps.com, Los Angeles, California Human Resources Awards: Dave Craig, Vice President of Human Resources, Fazoli's Italian Restaurants, Lexington, Kentucky Marketing Awards: Carmen Yazejian, President, Network9, New York, New York Management Awards: Joe Gillette, Owner/CEO, Stage 2 Networks, New York, New York Media Awards / Creative Awards: Otto Bell, Creative Director, Ogilvy Entertainment, New York, New York New Product Awards & Product Management Awards and Information Technology Awards: Jesse Rothstein, CEO and co-founder, ExtraHop Networks, Seattle, Washington Website Awards: Josh Kelly, Managing Partner, FINE Design Group, San Francisco, California Finalists in The 2013 American Business Awards will be determined in preliminary judging to be conducted through early May by volunteer professionals nationwide. Final judging, to be conducted by panels that will be formed by the newly appointed committee chairs, will take place from late May through early June. In total, more than 200 executives across the U.S.A. will participate in the judging process to determine the 2013 Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners. ABA Stevie Award winners will be announced at two award banquets: the first will take place on June 17 at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago, Illinois; and the second will be held on September 16 at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco, California and will honor Stevie Award winners in all tech-related categories. Details are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA. Tags: judging, business awards, app awards, marketing awards, PR awards, American business awards, stevie awards, product awards Posted by Liz Dean on Mon, Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:02 AM April 25 Final Entry Deadline for Tenth Annual Program The Stevie® Awards today named the 10 executives who will chair and form specialized final judging committees for its 10th Annual American Business Awards. All organizations and individuals operating in the U.S.A. - public and private, large and small, for-profit and non-profit - are eligible to submit nominations to The American Business Awards. Details are available at http://www.StevieAwards.com/ABA. The final entry deadline is April 25. The 10 committee selections are based on the categories that will be judged. The appointments are as follows: Company/Organization Awards: Doron Reuveni, CEO & Co-founder of uTest, Southborough, MA Corporate Communications, Investor Relations, and Public Relations Awards: Alison Graves, WW Influencer Relations, Printing of Hewlett Packard Company, Escondido, CA Creative Awards: Stafford Kendall, Principal of Covalent Logic, Baton Rouge, LA Customer Service Awards: Anita Samojednik, VP Customer Operations of TheLadders, New York, NY Human Resources Awards: John Hovnanian, Senior VP of Human Resources & Chief Talent Officer of Williams Lea, New York, NY Support Awards: Jerry Weinberger, Senior Director, Customer Service and Retention of Webs, Inc., Silver Spring, MD Information Technology Awards: Elizabeth Redding, President of Tellago, Schaumburg, IL Management Awards: Therese Tucker, CEO of BlackLine Systems, Los Angeles, CA Marketing Awards: Charles Kirby Wadsworth, VP of Global Marketing of F5 Networks, Seattle, WA New Product Awards & Product Management: Mike Oeth, CEO of OnSIP Business VoIP, New York, NY “The executives who will chair the final judging committees for the 2012 ABAs are all past Stevie Award winners and are leaders of their industries,” said Michael Gallagher, president of the Stevie Awards. “Having a deep involvement and understanding of their respective industries and changing landscapes, these individuals possess the insight to recognize success factors for this year’s nominees.” Finalists in The 2012 American Business Awards will be determined in preliminary judging to be conducted through May 6 by volunteer professionals nationwide. Final judging, to be conducted by panels that will be formed by the newly appointed committee chairs, will take place from late May through early June. In total, more than 200 executives across the U.S.A. will participate in the judging process to determine 2012 Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners. ABA Stevie Award winners will be announced at two award banquets: the first will take place on June 18 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York; and the second, a new event, will be held on September 17 at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco, California and will honor Stevie Award winners in all tech-related categories. For more information on The American Business Awards, visit: www.StevieAwards.com/ABA. About the Stevie® Awards Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com/, and follow the Stevie Awards on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube. Sponsors and partners of The 2012 American Business Awards include American Support, Business TalkRadio Network, Callidus Software, Citrix Online, Dynamic Research Corporation, iolo technologies, John Hancock Funds, LifeLock, PetRays, Primus Telecommunications Group, SoftPro, and VerticalResponse. Last-minute Tips for Entering The 2012 American Business Awards Posted by Michael Gallagher on Thu, Apr 19, 2012 @ 11:57 AM The final entry deadline for The 10th Annual American Business AwardsSMis April 25, and while the competition is on track to attract a record number of entries, several categories and a people’s choice competition present special opportunities for aspiring Stevie® Award winners. Widely recognized as the premier business awards program in the U.S.A., The American Business Awards honor organizations and individuals in a wide variety of categories, from management awards and public relations awards to technology awards, human resources awards, new product awards, and more. “Historically, 20% of the ABA's categories receive 80% of the entries and this year is no different,” said Michael Gallagher, president of the Stevie Awards, organizer of the ABAs. “Certain categories are extremely popular and have stiff competition, but there are others with fewer entries that we encourage potential entrants to look at.” Gallagher recommends that organizations consider entering the following categories: New Product Awards: there are 46 new product awards categories in this year's ABAs Marketing Awards: there are more than 40 categories for marketing campaigns of every type. Web Site Awards: there are also more than 40 categories for online media App Awards: there are 18 new categories to recognize smartphone and tablet apps of all kinds PR Awards: there are 13 categories for all types of communications campaigns This year’s ABAs will bring the fourth edition of the People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products, in which the general public will vote for their favorite new products of the year in a variety of categories. Gallagher recommends that organizations nominate their new products and services in the ABAs, because they’ll have the opportunity to win two awards: a Stevie Award in the peer-reviewed categories, and a people’s choice award in the publicly voted competition. The entry kit for The 2012 American Business Awards is available at www.stevieawards.com/aba. The 2012 awards will honor achievements since January 1, 2011. The final entry deadline is April 27, 2011. Final results will be announced at ceremonies in New York on June 18 and in San Francisco on September 17/ More than 200 professionals nationwide will participate in the peer-review judging process this year. Last year’s winners of Stevie Awards in the ABAS included American Express OPEN, Blackboard, EmpowHER Media, ESPN, Hewlett-Packard, Kwittken & Company, Millennial Media, Overstock.com, Red Frog Events, and Tesla Motors, among others. Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at http://www.stevieawards.com, and follow the Stevie Awards on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube. Tags: business awards, app awards, marketing awards, PR awards, stevie awards, product awards New Product Awards Categories in The 2011 American Business Awards Posted by Michael Gallagher on Mon, Oct 25, 2010 @ 06:22 PM These are the new product awards categories in The 9th annual American Business Awards, which opened for entries last week. The first early-bird entry deadline is November 17. (The letter/number combinations are our internal category codes.) Read the rest of this article... Tags: product of the year, product awards, new product awards, awards new product	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line54
__label__wiki	0.672243	0.672243	Girls (Aloud) On Film by Mike Diver November 21st, 2003 Girls Aloud are planning a spoof-style horror movie along the lines of Scary Movie, and they're writing it themselves! The group's Nadine Coyle (the Irish one that does the lion's share of the singing) told a popular tabloid newspaper: "We're all very big horror fans. But we can't actually do a real horror film as it would be an 18 certificate and a lot of our fans wouldn't be able to watch it." Ginger minx Nicola Roberts added: "The script is still in the early stages but one of the most important ideas is that Girls Aloud are not portrayed as mindless bimbos. In our film the girls will come out on top but there will be a twist." Mindless bimbos or not, what we want to know is if there will be any scraps set in toilets, and if the filming counts towards Cheryl Tweedy's community service?	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line64
__label__cc	0.73649	0.26351	Medical Dictionary Definitions A-Z List Medical Dictionary Definitions A - Z - «R»: Page: < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 > Last › Raynaud's phenomenon: A condition resulting in discoloration of fingers and/or toes when a person is exposed to changes in temperature (cold or hot) or emotional events. The skin discoloration occurs because an abnormal spasm of the blood vessels causes a diminished blood supply. Initially, the d... RBC: Short for red blood cells, the cells that carry oxygen and carbon dioxide through the blood. This rather remarkable feat is thanks to hemoglobin, the pigment that makes red cells (and blood) look red. The red blood cells are also known as red corpuscles or erythrocytes (literally, red hollow v... RCT: Randomized controlled trial.... RDA: Abbreviation for the Recommended Dietary Allowance. Or, popularly, the Recommended Daily Allowance.... RDIs (Reference Daily Intakes) RDIs (Reference Daily Intakes): A set of dietary references based on the Recommended Dietary Allowances for essential vitamins and minerals and, in selected groups, protein. The name "RDI" replaces the term "U.S. RDA."... RDS (respiratory distress syndrome) RDS (respiratory distress syndrome): Formerly known as hyaline membrane disease, a syndrome of respiratory difficulty in newborn infants caused by a deficiency of a molecule called surfactant. RDS almost always occurs in newborns born before 37 weeks of gestation. The more premature the baby is, th... Re-uptake: See: Reuptake.... Reabsorption Reabsorption: Absorbing again. For example, the kidney selectively reabsorbs substances such as glucose, proteins, and sodium which it had already secreted into the renal tubules. These reabsorbed substances return to the blood. ... Reactant, acute phase Reactant, acute phase: See: Acute-phase protein.... Reaction kinetics: Kinetics (with an "s" at the end) refers to the rate of change in a biochemical (or other) reaction, the study of reaction rates. Kinetics is a noun. It is distinct from "kinetic" (an adjective) meaning with movement. The opposite of kinetic is akinetic which means without mo... Reaction, allergic Reaction, allergic: A reaction that occurs when the immune system attacks a usually harmless substance (an allergen) that gains access to the body. The immune system calls upon a protective substance called immunoglobulin E (IgE) to fight these invading allergic substances (allergens). Even though e... Reaction, chemical Reaction, chemical: A process in which one substance is transformed into another. Thousands of different types of chemical reactions occur in the body and are essential to its structure and function.... Reaction, desmoplastic Reaction, desmoplastic: This term refers to the growth of fibrous or connective tissue. Some tumors elicit a desmoplastic reaction, the pervasive growth of dense fibrous tissue around the tumor. Scar tissue (adhesion) within the abdomen after abdominal surgery is another type of desmoplastic reactio... Reaction, hibernation Reaction, hibernation: See: SAD.... Reaction, polymerase chain Reaction, polymerase chain: See: PCR....	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line65
__label__cc	0.689729	0.310271	Dudurudh STORIES, OPINIONS AND MORE Posted on November 9, 2017 December 26, 2018 by Dudurudh Poorna Swaraj: Why the roaring success of demonetization isn’t economics at all How many times out of 10 would you listen to a politician asking you to physically go to a bank to either deposit your cash or exchange it for new currency notes, failing which any currency you hold would not only be worthless but also illegal? Until exactly a year ago I would’ve, in arrogance, vehemently ruled out the possibility of anybody in India ever agreeing to such a seemingly absurd arrangement. What I’d severely under-estimated was the value of two things: 1) Narendra Modi’s reality distortion field and 2) the extraordinary spirit in our people to contribute to social good in our country. This post is about the latter because the former, with no disrespect, is merely a spark- not the fuel or the flame which will carry India into the 21st century and beyond. Demonetization’s success as a financial policy move has been the subject of intense debate between some of the leading economists around the world. But whether Narendra Modi and his government eliminated corruption, black money, terrorism and, most recently, prostitution in one swift blow is not what interests me. The fact that nearly every cash-wielding Indian cooperated in this massive experiment is infinitely more interesting to me. While one of the drivers for this level of compliance was obviously the fact that no one had a choice in the matter- you needed the new currency to sustain survival- I want to venture out and make a claim with limited evidence- there wasn’t widespread resentment of the move among the vast majority of the population. Why didn’t India take to the streets on November 9th and revolt in many fragmented voices like she always does and force the government to withdraw its announcement? Did the prime minister, in his 30 minute address, manage to teach 1.2 billion Indians the nuances of monetary economics? I remember blogging impatiently 4 years ago when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance minister Chidambaram appealed to the nation to “control our appetite for gold” in a desperate bid to curb the rising current account deficit at the time. Disillusioned by the extraordinary amount of pushback that plea received from various quarters, I wrote in my blog: “Does it ever anger you that the government is increasing fuel prices? THINK. It’s YOUR country. It runs using YOUR money. They buy crude oil using YOUR money. It’s a government not an MNC. Their revenue is YOU. Not buying gold and paying more for fuel won’t solve this almost-crisis. But it’ll certainly help. This isn’t to say that government should wait for your help. They can do plenty that they haven’t done already. But what kind of sleepy democracy only wakes up ( partially) every 5 years only to vote and then sits back and hopes for the best? Don’t vote for someone who claims he’ll bring petrol prices down. He won’t. Don’t boo someone who paints a realistic picture. Encourage them. Bite the bullet. Swallow the bitter pill.” In hindsight the UPA government by that time had lost nearly all of its political capital and that was evident in the elections that followed and I’m inclined, now, to put down our complete and deliberate denial of our own roles in, what is now being called. “nation building” to that lack of trust in government. It wasn’t always that way. OECD’s trust in government stats which recently showed that over 70% of Indians trust the present government to do the right thing, also showed that in 2007, a whopping 82% of Indians trusted the then government to do the right thing. In a world where those numbers are constantly declining, we have chosen to believe in the leaders we elect. We’re proud of our democracy and we expect our representatives to do right on our behalf. We’ve been taught to look at government in India as though it were a service. The administration, including the politicians, bureaucrats and every “sarkaari employee”,provides us services that we’re entitled to. We vote in the elections to pick the people who run this establishment and we pay our taxes to fund the services they provide. In return for devoting all their time to serving us, we let them have certain privileges- red beacons atop their tax-payer funded cars, tax-payer funded homes in the capital city, tax-payer funded flights and offices and the perks and vices of being “in power”. But democracy isn’t a service. Its a partnership. It is, as that cliched quote goes, a government, “for the people, of the people and by the people”. We’re a lazy democracy. When we’re called to action by big issues that are close to our hearts, we have shown that we are willing to engage and, when necessary, to resist. Through popular movements we have forced both UPA and NDA governments, in the last 5 years alone, to do things like taking stern action for women’s safety, enacting anti-corruption legislation, protecting net neutrality, abandoning an anti-environmental steel flyover project and, now, rejected great sufferings in the hope that it would end black money, corruption and terrorism in our country. But our participation in democracy can not be reactive. We need to be more proactive and governments must enable that. We need to have well structured processes to make sure that it doesn’t take an Anna Hazare shouting with thousands of people in Ramlila maidan for our voices to be heard in the corridors of power. We’re a country of argumentative Indians, as Amartya Sen famously said. Everyone has an opinion and an idea to solve every public problem. Walk over to a breakfast spot like SLV or Adigas in Bangalore and there you’ll see it: The extraordinary sight of sweaty middle-aged gentlemen in trackpants and running shorts, just back from their morning walks, sipping hot filter coffee and belting out idea after idea for what the Prime Minister should do to end corruption, fix the roads, reduce traffic, solve air pollution and many other critical issues- all before the coffee goes cold. These random ideas are seldom useful to anyone. The question is this: are you willing to put in your expertise and your time to make some suggestions to government on the basis of which they can take some action? Maybe you’re willing to take that action yourself. Groups like the ugly Indian are good examples of the community taking responsibility to pick up the trash in their neighborhoods to keep it clean. But maybe YOU know exactly why the trash piles up there in the first place and know how to fix that problem? How would you tell government about this? Do the mechanisms exist? Are there people who will listen to you? Are there people who will actually implement it? Are we willing to get involved in that process? Or are we going to say “Its THEIR job. Not ours”? Clearly, the government and we, as a society, have to answer these tough questions to bring real change to our local communities. This modern day “panchayati raj” is what, I think, will carry India forward and it can only be powered by, as I mentioned at the start of this piece, the extraordinary spirit in our people. We don’t need to fight for Independence but maybe its time to pursue true swaraj and demand the right to make our own contributions to nation-building (beyond beating up people who don’t stand up for the national anthem in a movie theatre). Jai Hind. Image source: Mellisa Anthony Jones via Wikimedia Commons Previous PostPrevious The Nation Wants to Know Next PostNext The Other India	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line66
__label__cc	0.735657	0.264343	Newburgh teens attend SUNY summer program By: NEWSDAY.COM Source: Newsday Summer was a learning experience for 34 Newburgh students who had completed 7th or 8th grade and attended a weeklong science, engineering and math enrichment at the University at Albany, according to a news release from the Newburgh Enlarged City School District Wednesday. The Title 1 School Improvement grant-funded Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Summer Enrichment Program from July 8 to 14 was a result of a partnership between the district and the Center for Urban Youth and Technology/College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany, the release said. The students, accompanied by three teachers from the district, participated in the program which focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, through project-based activities in nanotechnology. Students also learned about multimedia design, video production and character education. The goal of the program was to help participants gain an understanding of the STEM topics and to help them explore career options in the fields of science, engineering and nanotechnology, according to the release. At the conclusion of the program, parents were treated to a Nano Expo featuring the projects created by the student teams, the release noted.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line67
__label__cc	0.725594	0.274406	Cold November Fadil, an archivist, finds himself in a difficult situation: he has to choose between two options - being aware that both of them are wrong. As a consequence of his decision, Fadil involuntarily and unwillingly has to “swallow” the shame and endure the pressure coming from all sides. Director: Ismet Sijarina Producer: Fatmir Spahiu Language: Albanian/Serbian with English subtitles Countries: Kosovo, Albania, Republic of Macedonia Screening Dates Ramallah, Municipal Theater - Ramallah City Hall, Saturday 05.10 20:00 Nablus, Project Hope, Monday 07.10 17:00 Ismet Sijarina is a film director and scriptwriter living in Kosovo. He has directed a number of short films and his documentary film, BEYOND THE RAINBOW, has been greatly accepted worldwide. Ismet’s projects were showcased in various International festivals, namely San Sebastian, Thessaloniki IFF, Zurich IFF, Istanbul Bosporus IFF, Goteborg International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary film fest, Sarajevo Film Festival, RiverRun International Film Festival, goEast-Weisbaden, FobiFest, Crossing Europe, Kosmorama, Tirana Film Festival, Rome International Film Festival, Spokane IFF (USA), Dokufest, and many others. His debut feature film, COLD NOVEMBER, premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and won numerous awards. Ismet currently lectures at Prishtina University’s Film Directing Program, and he is also a Member of the European Film Academy.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line73
__label__cc	0.627691	0.372309	Title 33 Part 45 Title 33 → Chapter I → Subchapter B → Part 45 Electronic Code of Federal Regulations e-CFR e-CFR data is current as of January 16, 2020 Title 33: Navigation and Navigable Waters PART 45—ENLISTMENT OF PERSONNEL §45.1 Enlistment of personnel. §45.2 Records of enlistment of former service members. Authority: 14 U.S.C. 351, 371; Pub. L. 107-296, 116 Stat. 2135. Source: CGD 82-087, 50 FR 13318, Apr. 4, 1985, unless otherwise noted. (a) The Coast Guard is a military service which operates within the Department of Homeland Security. All personnel enlisted in the Coast Guard are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. (b) Any person desiring to enlist in the Coast Guard should apply at a Coast Guard Recruiting Office, or direct inquiries to, Coast Guard Recruiting Center, 4200 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 450, Arlington, VA 22203. Enlistments in the Coast Guard shall be for general service and enlisted persons may be transferred as necessary from one unit to another. Original enlistments will be made only at regular recruiting offices unless otherwise directed by the Commandant. An original enlistment is the enlistment of an individual who has not had previous service in the Regular Coast Guard. In processing an application for enlistment, the Coast Guard will determine the mental, moral and physical fitness of the applicant through reference to local police files, character references, employers, school authorities and physical and mental examinations. Concealment of any fact, circumstance or condition existing prior to enlistment which would render the applicant ineligible for enlistment may subject the applicant to criminal penalties under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and/or administrative separation from the Coast Guard. [CGD 82-087, 50 FR 13318, Apr. 4, 1985, as amended by CGD 96-026, 61 FR 33663, June 28, 1996; USCG-2003-14505, 68 FR 9535, Feb. 28, 2003] Former members who have any questions about their service or who need information regarding their service should contact the nearest Coast Guard Recruiting Office or Coast Guard Recruiting Center, 4200 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 450, Arlington, VA 20203. [CGD 82-087, 50 FR 13318, Apr. 4, 1985, as amended by CGD 96-026, 61 FR 33663, June 28, 1996] © e-CFR 2020 \| Privacy Policy FR \| USC \| CFR \| eCFR	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line75
__label__cc	0.521148	0.478852	California has a gapping hole – their government is much too big and it is sucking the life blood out of the California economy. The budget situation is so bad that they have resorted to issuing I.O.U.’s and using accounting tricks in an attempt to do anything but the right thing which is to shrink the size of government. Even after all their latest tricks, their latest attempts at establishing a sustainable budget are simply falling way short. It’s simple… you must spend less than you take in. That is true for your personal budget, it’s true for a business’s budget, and it’s true for all government budgets despite what idiot Keynesian twisting politicians think or say. California Budget Is Already in the Red 10 Weeks After Passage By William Selway and Michael B. Marois Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will know within a month whether a $1.1 billion drop in revenue collections is part of a growing budget shortfall or an isolated event, his budget spokesman said. Revenue in the three months ended Sept. 30 was 5.3 percent less than assumed in the $85 billion annual budget, state controller John Chiang reported yesterday. Income tax receipts led the gap, as unemployment reached 12.2 percent in August. “The culprit here appears to be estimated quarterly personal income tax statements,” H.D. Palmer, the governor’s budget spokesman, said yesterday. “The numbers are cause for concern, but the issue now for us is to determine if this is a one-time event or whether it has more long-term implications.” The latest figures show that California is facing resurgent fiscal strains brought on by the U.S. recession. Since February, Schwarzenegger and lawmakers have cut $32 billion from spending, raised taxes by $12.5 billion and covered $6 billion more with accounting gimmicks and borrowing. Even with those actions, state budget officials predict an additional $38 billion in deficits in the next three fiscal years combined, including $7.4 billion in the year starting July 1. Schwarzenegger must present a budget for the coming fiscal year in January. The state’s Franchise Tax Board will deliver new data to the governor in November. Debt Sales The budget news comes as the most populous U.S. state prepares to sell as much as $15 billion of bonds in the next nine months to refinance debt and fund public-works projects, and as a surge in fixed-rate municipal issuance sent benchmark rates up by the most in almost four months. California, already the largest borrower in the municipal market, may offer $4 billion of debt during the week of Oct. 26 to refinance the bonds used by Schwarzenegger to cover previous budget deficits. The budget enacted in July would allow the sale of as much as $11 billion more of general obligation bonds through the June 30 end of the fiscal year if financial markets allow, state Treasurer Bill Lockyer said. The exact sale amount hasn’t been decided. “If the market is inhospitable, we won’t go,” Lockyer said in an interview yesterday. “We’ll just have to wait and see how the feelings are when we get ready to think about it again.” Additional bond sales by California would follow an offering of $4.1 billion of general obligation bonds this week. Scaled-Back Offering The state was forced to scale back the size of the deal by almost $400 million as benchmark yields surged. The yields climbed after gains in the tax-exempt market last week pushed them to a 42-year low. California’s sale follows a two-month rally in municipal bond prices, fueled by a record flow of money into mutual funds that outweighed lingering fiscal strains on localities, said Craig Elder at Milwaukee-based Robert W. Baird & Co. U.S. Treasuries also fell, sending two-year notes toward their first weekly loss since the period ended Sept. 18. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank is ready to tighten monetary policy once the outlook for the economy improves. California, a state that’s been among the hardest hit by the recession, had already issued $22 billion of debt since March, including $8.8 billion of notes that provided the state with an advance on taxes collected next year. Even after increasing what it would pay, California still borrowed more cheaply than during previous offerings. A taxable California bond maturing in 2039 yielded 7.23 percent this week, down from a yield of 7.43 percent during a sale in April. “Everybody thinks there’s still an appetite for California bonds,” Lockyer said. “There’s certainly a continuing need for long-term investments in schools, high-speed rail, stem-cell research centers and so on.” There is a limit to how much debt a government can “sell.” California is bumping up against that limit now (California Bond Issuance = FAIL ). Interest rates begin to rise as “investors” begin to see the risk involved. If the risk becomes too high, they will simply stop showing up altogether and then the only solution left will be to either do the right thing and shrink the size of government, or to do the worst thing and that’s fall back on the lender of last resort, the Federal Government who is in worse shape than the State of California, the only difference being their ability to print money and to thus rob the American people of their productive efforts. Printing money is not our government’s latest trick, it’s a time honored tradition that has brought down many governments throughout history… Dire Straights – Your Latest Trick:	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line76
__label__wiki	0.707076	0.707076	Mapping the past to preserve the present First Nations are increasingly using geographical information systems and other cutting-edge mapping technologies as tools in land-use negotiations with government and business Story by Curt Cherewayko, Business in Vancouver, October 21-27. The Lil’wat Nation used to rely on contracted mapping professionals – or failing that, out-of-date paper maps – to gather detailed technical information about its land and resources. Today, Lil’wat – and other First Nations – rely on their own increasing knowledge of sophisticated mapping technologies such as geographical information systems (GIS) to level the playing field during negotiations with government and business. A land-use planning agreement that Lil’wat signed with the province last April was the culmination of negotiations that started three years ago, when Lil’wat first established a GIS program within its land and resource department. In the agreement, six new conservancies totalling an area of 39,000 hectares were created, and Duffey Lake Provincial Park was nearly doubled in size. According to Lil’wat’s GIS program manager, Tracy Howlett, the band couldn’t have entered the negotiations without technical information about its 797,000 hectares of territory that it collected using GIS. “Just watching the past three years how the community has become aware of their own territory – it’s exciting to see the embracing of maps,” said Howlett. GIS is software that translates spatial information – information that is primarily collected in the field by surveyors that use global postioning system (GPS) beacons to bounce signals off of satellites – into maps. For First Nations, spatial information includes not only mountains and roads and rudimentary geography, but culturally relevant information such as traditional hunting and berry-picking areas, archaeological sites and the sites of former aboriginal settlements. A lot of the mapping information that Lil’wat’s GIS program collects is used to respond to land-use referrals from third parties and governments that are interested in using crown land located in the band’s traditional territory. Several court cases in recent years have reinforced the duty of government and business to accommodate and consult with First Nations on land and resource use. As a result, First Nations are inundated with land-use referrals from forestry companies, mountain recreation operations and other businesses. Roughly a dozen Lil’wat members are trained to use a terrestrial ecosystem mapping standard created by the Resources Inventory Committee, which is made up of resource specialists in B.C. from a number of disciplines. The band’s fisheries branch uses GIS to survey watersheds, streams and salmon habitat restoration areas. The band’s GIS program is entirely funded by grants, but in its five-year GIS technology and business strategy, the band is considering collecting fees for GIS services it provides. In August, Maiyoo Keyoh Society of B.C. received funding from Geo-Connections, a mapping agency under the federal government, to assess how the society could use web-based mapping tools to better capture cultural data and better evaluate development proposals on its 22,000 hectares of land in central B.C. The society has also forged a relationship with the largest forest company in the region, Canadian Forest Products to complete a land use and occupancy study that indentifies more than 2,000 locations of traditional land and resource use in the keyoh. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation also known as the Burrard Band has completed a detailed atlas of the Say Nuth Khaw Yum Heritage Park and is using GIS in marine monitoring and watershed planning. What connects the indigenous mappers of various bands is the Aboriginal Mapping Network (AMN), a non-profit organization that was formed in 1998 by the Gitxsan and Ahousaht First Nations and Ecotrust Canada. The network’s mandate is to support aboriginal and indigenous peoples that are facing issues such as land claims, treaty negotiations and resource development using tools such as traditional-use studies and GIS mapping. “These are people who are very focused on collecting that body of knowledge that has been missed by industry and government,” said Greg Kehm, information services manager of Ecotrust, which today hosts the AMN. The AMN has partnered with the Lil’wat and Haida Nation to develop a web-based mapping application, which, when completed this fall, will allow non-technical members of First Nations to view referral proposals. Located on Haida Gwai, the Haida receives dozens of land-use referrals, primarily from forestry companies, each month. Marguerite Forest, the Haida Nation’s mapping co-ordinator, noted that there are trees on Haida Gwai that show evidence of aboriginal use dating back to the 1500s. She said that by using GPS to mark their locations, culturally modified trees that have yet to be felled can be identified and protected. The Haida also use remote sensing information from satellites and aircrafts to interpret aerial footage of Haida Gwai from the 1930s. The data will give the band a glimpse of what Haida Gwai looked like before and after loggers discovered it. “So much information can be gained nowadays from imagery,” said Forest, adding, “It’s a slow process: you have to spend years becoming a certified forest cover interpreter.” cgc@biv.com Cleaning up the Ocean from abandoned fishing gear Prove the possible. Major Report Shows Blueberry River First Nations’ Land Hammered by Non-Stop Provincial Approval of Industrial Development Mapping by Luftballoon Illustrating the conservation economy Celebrating Community Science	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line77
__label__wiki	0.746645	0.746645	«Russian Journal of Astrophysical Research. Series A» – scientific journal. Issued one time a year. Issued from 2015. Peer-reviewing Submitted Manuscripts Journal cover Downloadings rating Journal is indexed by: The «Russian Journal of Astrophysical Research. Series A» receives many more submissions than it can publish. Therefore, we ask peer-reviewers to keep in mind that every paper that is accepted means that another good paper must be rejected. To be published in the «Russian Journal of Astrophysical Research. Series A», a paper should meet four general criteria: Provide strong evidence for its conclusions. Be novel. Be of extreme importance to scientists in a specific field. In general, to be acceptable a paper should represent an advance in understanding likely to influence thinking in a field. There should be a discernible reason as to why the work deserves the visibility of publication in the «Russian Journal of Astrophysical Research. Series A». Manuscripts judged to be of potential interest to our readership are sent for formal review, typically to one or two reviewers. The editors then make a decision based on the reviewers' advice. The primary purpose for the review is to provide the editors with the information needed to reach a decision. The review should also instruct the authors as to how they can strengthen their paper to the point where it may be acceptable. As far as possible, a negative review should explain to the authors the weaknesses of their manuscript, so that rejected authors can understand the basis for the decision and see in broad terms what needs to be done to improve the manuscript. This is secondary to the other functions, however, and referees should not feel obliged to provide detailed, constructive advice to the authors of papers that do not meet the criteria for the journal (as outlined in the letter from the editor when asking for the review). If the reviewer believes that a manuscript would not be suitable for publication, his/her report to the author should be as brief as is consistent with enabling the author to understand the reason for the decision. We do not release reviewers' identities to authors or to other reviewers, except when reviewers specifically ask to be identified. Unless they feel so strongly, however, we prefer that reviewers should remain anonymous throughout the review process and beyond. All contributions submitted to the «Russian Journal of Astrophysical Research. Series A» that are selected for peer-review are sent to at least one - but usually two or more - independent reviewers, selected by the editors. Authors are welcome to suggest suitable independent reviewers and may also request that the journal excludes one or two individuals or laboratories. The journal sympathetically considers such requests and usually honors them, but the editor's decision on the choice of referees is final. «Russian Journal of Astrophysical Research. Series A» editors may seek advice about submitted papers not only from technical reviewers but also on any aspect of a paper that raises concerns. These may include, for example, ethical issues or issues of access to data or materials. Very occasionally, concerns may also relate to the implications to society of publishing a paper, including threats to security. In such circumstances, advice will usually be sought simultaneously with the technical peer-review process. As in all publishing decisions, the ultimate decision as to whether to publish is the responsibility of the editor of the journal concerned. Home Editorial Board Peer-reviewing Indexing Publishing Ethics Statistics Our authors For Authors Example Archives Copyright © 2015-2019. Russian Journal of Astrophysical Research. Series A	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line80
__label__cc	0.649796	0.350204	China’s Belt and Road as Rorschach Test: Perspectives on China’s Global Ambitions Colloquium \| April 13 \| 4-6 p.m. \| 180 Doe Library Speaker: Mary Kay Magistad, Director of Audio Journalism Department, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley Panelist/Discussant: Juliet Lu, PhD Candidate, Department of Environmental Science, Energy & Management, UC Berkeley Sponsor: Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) China’s leaders’ plan to build a ‘community of common destiny’ around the world, through building roads, railways, ports, dams, 5G infrastructure and more, is being read in different ways in different parts of the world. Some 120 of the world’s nations – about 60 percent – have signed on to participate in some way in the “Belt and Road,” or New Silk Road. Some welcome China’s investment as a way to turbo-charge economic growth. Others are less enthusiastic about being pulled into a new world order in which China is the hub, and increasingly sets the standards and rules. Mary Kay Magistad, a former China correspondent for NPR (1995-99) and PRI/BBC’s The World (2003-13), who now heads the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s audio journalism department has, over the past year, traveled to countries around the world for a new podcast series that looks at how China’s global ambitions, investment and outreach are seen from different places and perspectives, and at the impact they’re having and could have in shaping our shared global future. In this talk, she’ll share some of what she’s seen and heard on the ground. Event contact: ccs@berkeley.edu Cambodians displaced from their land by a Chinese port and resort development project in Koh Kong, protest in front of the Chinese embassy in Phnom Penh.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line88
__label__wiki	0.927089	0.927089	Charity Watchdog group BLASTS Barbara Bush Katrina "donation" Houston -- In a city housing thousands of Katrina evacuees, Barbara Bush's donation to a local hurricane relief fund would not seem controversial. But more than a few eyebrows were raised when the former first lady stipulated that part of her contribution was to be spent on educational software purchased from her son Neil's company, Ignite Learning of Austin, Texas. "I would think if she wants to do something beneficial for Katrina victims, she shouldn't be making the decision that the vendor is her son," said Daniel Borochoff, president of the American Institute of Philanthropy, a charity watchdog group.... "If everybody started doing that, it would ruin our whole system for tax-exempt organizations because people would be using them to benefit their business rather than for the public benefit," he said. "That's not why our government gives tax deductions for donations."	cc/2020-05/en_head_0023.json.gz/line91

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